Chapter 518: The Longbow Reappears
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In fact, the victory or defeat is definitely not determined by the comparison of numbers, especially in this situation.
The 10,000 people Gao Yingxiang took out, in Guangwu's view, are just 10,000 poor people with few knives and guns, most of the clubs, this is no different from the family fight, but it is a change of name, by the way, there is a difference, the family fight, that is after the fight, everyone can clap their hands and go home for dinner, and these people are homeless after the fight, so they must win in order to survive in order to get the spoils of war, so they live.
For the 10,000 displaced people who came out of the battle, Guangwu didn't take them to heart at all except for a burst of compassion, this was just an opportunity for himself to achieve his goal of deterring the other party, and in the face of the 100,000 troops opposite, who were called 300,000 by Gao Yingxiang, Guangwu sneered, not to mention whether he had 300,000, it was there, and the gray hair that flew up in the whistling south wind knew the strength.
Besides, less wins more, is there still a few such examples in the army created by King Chuang? There are too many, my group of brothers seems to have grown up in this kind of battle with less to win more, every battle is a big development, after every bloody battle, there is an open sky, in front of the eyes of these brothers.
This time, it will not be an exception.
At least, Guangwu saw that after the hundreds of thousands of displaced people were captured and surrendered to the base area, the base area could also use these people to plant a stubble of summer grain, and those workshops and factories that were in urgent need of manpower would no longer be in a hurry to get on fire because of the scarcity of manpower.
The drums of war, the enemy's war drums sounded together, the flags were constantly waving in the wind, and tens of thousands of horses shouted together, growing stronger and stronger, demonstrating to the enemy and encouraging themselves.
Guangwu smiled slightly, a bunch of guys who are strong outside, in addition to these imaginary, is there anything real? You see, I'm not like that here, my strength is not shouted out, it's fought, as long as I defeat this one, then I'll take a look at it in the future, which pole dares to hit our base area's crooked ideas?
At that time, as Gao Yingxiang said, there were only two ways for them - surrender, and death, that's all.
The army of 10,000 displaced people, lined up in a front almost two miles wide, thick in depth, began to shout, under the leadership of a small leader, began to roll over, that momentum, in the eyes of the high Guangwu position, is really quite bluffing, but he and his brothers, not scared, blood and fire can really inspire the pride of these brothers.
The rumbling footsteps suppressed all the sounds on the battlefield, the heavy breathing of the 10,000 charging soldiers, suppressed the thunder of the war drums, and the dust raised high completely enveloped the battle formation behind the 10,000 people, making people feel that there is an end in front, but there is no beginning and tail behind, and the enemy army seems to be boundless as if the whole army is dispatched.
"Longbowmen, prepareβ" Guangwu pushed away the innocent-looking captain of the longbowmen, and personally commanded the commander of the dense archery battalions lined up on the city wall.
The longbow is easy to make, the archer is easy to train, it doesn't need to be accurate at all, but just needs enough sharp arrows to cover, as long as you can pull the longbow and shoot the longarrow into the sky, in the right direction instead of the other way around, which made Guangwu change many militia into archers during this period, and changed the rules that King Chuang required them to train as spearmen.
When he reported to Lu Shi that he had changed the way of militia training, he explained that other places would train the militia according to spearmen and sword and shield soldiers, which was quite necessary, and the purpose of those directions was to suppress the poles and landlords who did not obey, that was to attack, and to make reserves for supplementing or expanding the army at any time, and here, according to King Chuang's general policy of attacking the south and defending the north, he needed to garrison the army and horses here, so it was more practical to train the spearmen by himself, and it was more practical to train the longbowmen, and with the fortress to defend to the death, the longbow was more practical than the spearmen and the sword and shield soldiers, especially this easy-to-learn archer. Those old eight squad spearmen who were assigned were used to fight counterattacks.
This simple reason was immediately agreed by Lu Shi, and the soldiers deeply felt that they were correct in using Guangwu, so before Gao Yingxiang arrived, Guangwu had already trained and equipped a full 2,000 militia archers in the countryside near Chenjiabao, so that the captain of the archery battalion, who did not know the fate yet, was complacent and showed off in front of his colleagues.
When Gao Yingxiang invaded the border, Guangwu gave an order, and immediately a thousand militiamen joined the bow and arrow battalion, which greatly strengthened the garrison strength of the fortress.
At the same time, due to the official commissioning of the Huluyu Laoying Iron Mine, the base has its own iron and steel plant, and it is no longer stingy to create a special arrow cluster for longbows that are larger than ordinary arrows.
You must know that in World War II, Stuka, who often lost all his bombs, wandered over the enemy's position and dived a few times, which had the result of scaring the enemy army.
Although the neighing of a single arrow is not as spectacular and terrifying as that of Stuka, hundreds or thousands of arrows roar together, which definitely has the effect of breaking the hostile heart.
As the saying goes, people who travel through the successful experience of their previous lives don't have to use it in vain, and they use it in vain, because no one cares if you want a copyright patent.
arrived, and when he was within the range of the longbow, Guangwu decisively waved the broadsword: "Put." β
The longbowmen loosened their bowstrings, and five hundred arrows pounced into the clear blue sky like flying poisonous snakes, and went away with the characteristic sound of poisonous snakes.
When the long arrow reached its highest point, it became lazy, and the speed could make people see the edges and corners of the huge pig iron arrow, and then, as if it paused in the air, it turned down, drew a beautiful arc, slowly fell, slowly accelerated, and finally, depending on the falling feathered arrow, it tore through the surrounding air, and pounced on the enemy group with a sharp roar. The arrow's screech sent every enemy apart.
When that kind of breathtaking scream came all over the world, it made Cao Shen'er's offensive array move forward at a moment's notice, and everyone looked up to the sky, looking for the source of the terrifying sound.
This kind of voice is so terrifying, it is something that I have never heard before, it is definitely not the voice of angels and immortals, it is the evil laughter of the impermanence of hell brought by the demon descending from the sky.
Looking up at the sky, they saw a scene more terrible than impermanence, countless huge clusters of arrows rushed into the battle with a scream, and immediately spread patches of death in the sea of people in the large array.
Everyone's thin body can't stop their killing at all, unlike the light feather arrows in their impression, as long as they don't hit the vital point, there is no danger to their lives, as long as such a giant arrow hits the body, it will be a fatal result.
Shoot the body, the human body under its blow, immediately pierce through twice, without hindrance, even if you are lucky not to be shot in the body, if you shoot the arm, the whole arm is immediately torn out of the body by the huge force, shot in the thigh, then you can only wait for the blood to drain and die.
In just this moment, hundreds of brothers fell to death, and some were nailed to the ground by long arrows, and they did not die for a while, so they wailed and squabbled, making all people's hearts even more afraid.
The effect is very good, very good, Guangwu is very satisfied with the effect of his first arrow rain, the attacking homeless people are two and a half arrows away from their own gun array and the usual bow and arrow, the distance of these two arrows and a half is enough for his brothers to fire ten times, fifteen thousand long arrows down, I really don't know how many can reach the front of the gun array.
Probably, far from where they reached the gunline, the tentative attack of both sides would be over.
Guangwu raised the broadsword again, and before he could give the order, the captain of the bow battalion behind him, who was idle, shouted: "Three consecutive shots, release." β
This sound almost choked Guangwu to death, and he couldn't do this when people took a deep breath and wanted to say something, it would suffocate people.
But no matter what Guangwu thought, rows of giant arrows flew into the sky with a unique scream, flying towards the dense enemy formation, where they created one collapse after another, and one mountain of blood corpses after another.
Cao Shen'er, who was full of confidence, kept staring at the sharp arrows falling from the sky, kept listening to the screams that tore the eardrums, and then looked at the subordinates who kept rushing forward, but were constantly being put down piece by piece, and the whole brain became a blank.
"What is this? Is this the devil? Is this Hades' weapon? With such a sharp weapon, do we still have the strength to fight? β
He watched one of his brothers, pushing a huge opposing shield, facing the giant arrows in the sky, hoping to save a leader who fell in a pool of blood and was pierced by an arrow, but unfortunately, a giant arrow roared down with a scream, as if piercing broken paper, through the huge opposing shield, piercing the brother, right next to the general he wanted to rescue, nailing him to the ground and unable to move for half a minute. In the blink of an eye, nearly half of his 10,000 troops were killed or wounded, and the army was still a long way away from the gun array, and that distance was the end of the earth in Cao Shen'er's opinion.
Defeated, inexplicably defeated.
Gao Yingxiang looked at the tragic scene in front of the formation in a daze, and it took a long time to turn his head and look at the equally shocked non-muddy: "Senior, this is the power of Lu Shi's longbow that you said?" β
I haven't seen it in the mud, I have felt the power of Lu Shi's longbow, but that power can't be compared with now, why, just a few months, Lu Shi has made a more powerful longbow? It's impossible.
Swallowing his saliva, he withdrew his soul from the screams in the sky, and nodded his head with a sigh: "Yes, it's that thing." β
Affirmation that he was not sticky to the mud, Gao Yingxiang didn't care about the casualties in front of the battle, and asked eagerly: "Then is this Lu Shi longbow difficult to make?" β
"It's not difficult, it's incredibly simple."
Gao Yingxiang was suspicious for a while, since it's so simple, why don't you tell me the manufacturing method? Will you also be separated from me? Or is there some other scheme?
"Come to think of it, the old hero's army has already been equipped a lot." Gao Yingxiang asked coldly.
He didn't look at Gao Yingxiang's unkind expression, he still stared at the whistling rain of arrows and muttered, "I'm just equipped with fifty sheets." β
"Why?" Gao Yingxiang wondered, with such a sharp weapon, it is also easy to build, why doesn't he have a lot of equipment if he doesn't get muddy?
"Because, I can't afford to build a cluster of arrows for this giant arrow."