Chapter 100: Which is stronger and which is weaker
With fifty scout battalion soldiers coming to the general prison, Master Lu immediately greeted him.
"Your Excellency, the lowly has known His Majesty's will. This is an inspection and evaluation of our equipment institute by His Majesty! Whatever you need, no matter how much, just take it! Master Lu bowed first, and then said.
Zhang Yunwen was not polite, opened the heavy and thick warehouse door, approached the warehouse alone, and picked up the weapon.
I saw that there were all kinds of short weapons such as swords and daggers, as well as long weapons such as spears and lances, and eighteen kinds of weapons on the shelves of the museum in the warehouse.
Zhang Yunwen chose a newly cast horizontal knife, dagger, military thorn, steel crossbow, grenade, short-handled double-edged axe and a four-stone bow, and said to Cang Cao behind him: "Please write down these things, please write down these things, all the fifty pieces in front, the bow, let's get ten!" ”
Cangcao nodded, and went out to order someone to come out with a weapon.
After a while, a pair of weapons were neatly stacked in the small courtyard.
"Come, all of you come and choose your own weapons! Remember, we're probably going to have a few head-to-head fights this time, and we'll have to bring something like a horizontal sword! The reason why he explained this was because he was afraid that some soldiers would think that there were too many weapons and that the weight was too heavy, which was not conducive to rapid maneuvering.
The soldiers immediately circled around the pile of weapons, and finally made their moves in unison, almost at the same time, choosing horizontal swords, daggers, military stabs, and steel crossbows. As for the grenades, more than a dozen people happily picked up two, and when they wanted to take more, they were stopped by Zhang Yunwen. As for the double-edged axe, no one cares. Wu Peng and several other soldiers with good archery skills also chose a big bow.
Zhang Yunwen smiled "hehe" and asked, "You don't choose these?" He pointed to grenades and double-edged axes on the ground.
The soldiers laughed: "Boss, what is this iron lump for?" Smashing people? ”
As soon as he heard the words of these people, Zhang Yunwen knew that they must not have seen the grenade when they were in the Xuanwu Gate. And some of the more clever soldiers hurriedly asked the soldiers who had picked up the grenades. After getting the answer, the people's eyes lit up and they hurriedly went up and picked up two.
As for the double-edged axe......
"Chief, this axe is too small compared to a plate axe, how can it be used as a weapon? Chopping wood is pretty much the same! ”
However, there are also some soldiers who know that Zhang Yunwen must have a deep meaning when he takes out this thing, and he also takes it symbolically.
Seeing that the soldiers had finished picking up their weapons, Zhang Yunwen suddenly waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go!" ”
After speaking, he took the soldiers to the left guard yamen. Wei Chigong and the eldest grandson Wuji waited in the left guard yamen.
As soon as Zhang Yunwen arrived, the eldest grandson Wuji said: "Yunwen, I have sent people to a few Zhichong Mansions to recruit soldiers, I'm afraid I will have to wait for half a day." Now that you're ready, why don't you go first, and the general and I will come later!" ”
Zhang Yunwen nodded: "That's fine, the last general will first find out the truth of Luo Yi, so that the army can prepare!" ”
After speaking, he led fifty people to roar away.
All the way out of the Chongxuanmen, go straight to the north. galloped for a while, seeing that he was about to reach the boundary of Jingzhou, Zhang Yunwen raised his hand, and the knight behind him suddenly stopped.
"A small squad of ten people, scattered into Jingzhou, if it encounters a small force, it will be annihilated, and when it encounters a large force, it will gallop south. Meet here in three hours! Zhang Yunwen commanded.
After speaking, he led Yang Shi and the other nine people to run in one direction.
The rest of the soldiers glanced at each other, and immediately divided into four corners and scattered in all directions.
Zhang Yunwen led Yang Shi and other ten people all the way north for a while, but he didn't see any enemy troops. At that moment, the horses galloped wildly, stirring up smoke and dust, which could be seen from miles away.
The reason why he did this was simply because he wanted to lure out the enemy troops hiding nearby. Of course, it would be better if Yan Yun Eighteen Riders were lured, and he was coming at them anyway.
Finally, shortly after Zhang Yunwen got the smoke and dust, a team of scouts rushed in this direction.
When Zhang Yunwen and the other eleven people saw the scouts coming, they immediately turned over and dismounted, jumped onto a few trees next to the road, and took out a steel crossbow to face those scouts.
These steel crossbows are produced on a standardized assembly line, with uniform specifications, a range of 130 steps, and the arrows used are featherless iron clusters, and the arrows are also engraved with spiral patterns at Zhang Yunwen's insistence, which is full of penetration. The steel crossbow is painted black, so even when the sun shines, it will not reflect light.
Seeing that the scout was slowly entering the firing range, Zhang Yunwen said in a low voice: "Ready-"
Suddenly, the soldiers all became nervous. And the small stone beside him was holding the steel crossbow's hand trembling slightly.
"Put-"
I saw eleven crossbow arrows shoot out at a rapid pace, shooting straight towards the scout one hundred and twenty paces away.
Hearing the sound of strings, those scouts manipulated the reins of the horses to dodge,
But where did it take time, at that moment, half of the scouts were shot and fell from their horses.
After releasing this arrow, Zhang Yunwen and the others quickly filled in the new arrows. By the time he was about to shoot another round, the scouts had turned around and fled north.
Reluctantly, he got down from the tree and came to the horse under the tree.
Just as he was about to turn over and get on the horse, Zhang Yunwen suddenly felt a trace of danger, and immediately said loudly: "Enter the belly of the horse!" ”
As he spoke, he got under the horse's belly first. The rest of the soldiers also burrowed into the horse's belly as soon as possible.
More than a dozen black feathered arrows flew from the west, and the arrows hit everyone's horses. There was only a long neighing of horses, and when they saw that the horses were about to fall to the ground, everyone rolled out of the belly of the horses.
I saw the horses fall to the ground. Looking at the position of the arrow, it was clear that it was shot from the side where everyone was standing just now. If he hadn't hid in the horse's belly just now, I'm afraid he would have been pierced by a long arrow at this moment.
Looking further to the west, I saw eighteen black knights standing quietly on a gentle slope. Black armor, black masks, black horses, black bows, black scimitars. Even the more than a dozen feathered arrows stuck in his back are black.
However, what surprised Zhang Yunwen was the eyes of these cavalrymen. Their eyes were full of indifference, as if they had been cold for thousands of years, and even when they faced the result of not shooting Zhang Yunwen and the others just now, their eyes were still so indifferent. Indifferently put down the carved bow, indifferently drew back the feather arrow, indifferently took the arrow and bent the bow, and indifferently shot an arrow.
Yanyun Eighteen Rides!
They are the Eighteen Horsemen of Yanyun! The legendary tool of murder once slaughtered the ranks of a Turkic tribe of tens of thousands of people overnight. Although that honor belongs to their fathers, however, today's Yanyun Eighteen Riders have inherited that spirit intact. Killing people is like mowing grass, whether it is old or young, women and children, they are all killed!
Seeing that another round of arrow rain was about to hit, Zhang Yunwen suddenly retreated towards the big tree behind him, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Retreat-"
Suddenly, all the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion retreated to the side of the big tree, and blocked the more than ten feathered arrows with the thick trunk of the big tree. However, two of the soldiers were a little slower, one was pierced into the arrow by a long arrow, the other was pierced through the thigh, and at the same time fell to the ground.
Zhang Yunwen saw that he was angry, so he asked the two soldiers to help him behind the tree, and then slowly poked his head out and looked out.
I saw that half of the eighteen knights galloped down the slope, and the other nine were armed with bows and arrows.
"When—" A feathered arrow was nailed to the trunk of the tree, and the tail of the arrow trembled slightly.
Zhang Yunwen suddenly retracted his head, took out a grenade from his waist, and looked at the nine knights who were getting closer and closer, calmly measuring the distance.
100 steps, 90 steps, 80 steps......
Seeing sixty steps, Zhang Yunwen suddenly pulled the ring of the grenade open and threw it out at once. The place where he threw it was more than forty paces away from him, and he believed that when the nine knights in the long line arrived there exactly the one in the middle.
However, to Zhang Yunwen's surprise, these knights actually went around a little bit to avoid the grenade when they saw Zhang Yunwen throw the grenade.
"Hmph, you can get away with it this way!" I sneered in my heart.
Sure enough, only a loud "boom" was heard, and the grenade exploded as the third knight passed by, and shrapnel shot everywhere.
The loud noise and the wave of air startled the knights' horses at once. Even the knights' steeds on the hillside nearly fifty paces from the explosion stood up and let out a long neigh.
Three knights were killed by shrapnel on the spot, two were thrown off their horses by the waves, and one of them was unlucky enough to be trampled by a horse. The remaining four were led by frightened horses and fled.
Zhang Yunwen sneered and raised the steel crossbow, aimed at a person on the ground who was trying to get up, and pulled the trigger. A bolt of bolt shot out and stuck in the man's chest.
The man looked at the arrows on his body in surprise, and then at Zhang Yunwen, and fell down with a bang.
The rest of the scout battalion also reacted from the shock, picked up their steel crossbows, and shot at the knights who were being carried away by the frightened horses.
Eventually, after the three men had been killed, only one knight fled back to the hillside, and the rest were destroyed.
At this moment, the knights on the hillside reacted, picked up their carved bows and shot them in this direction. The knights, who had fled back to the hillside, dismounted behind the nine knights and began to pacify the horses.
Zhang Yunwen sneered, picked up a grenade-sized stone, and threw it in the direction of those people.
Seeing that another "grenade" was thrown over, the remaining ten knights hurriedly dispersed in formation, wanting the explosion range of this grenade.
However, the stone fell more than thirty paces away from the knights, and it was impossible to blow them up.
The soldier with a grenade next to him also wanted to learn Zhang Yunwen to throw it out, but he stopped him. There are not many grenades, and they will be useful in future wars.
The Yanyun knight on the hillside was relieved to see that the "grenade" did not explode. Ten knights unleashed their horsepower and launched a short charge. They believed that the only thing they could rely on was something that exploded in their hands, and if they rushed to one place and fought them in close quarters, they wouldn't throw such a terrible thing again.
Seeing the knight rushing over, he saw the black horse pressing towards him, which was very visually impactful. Come to think of it, in the face of knights who reunite at high speed, there are really not many infantry who can maintain their composure.
"Get out the axe!" Zhang Yunwen saw that the soldiers around him were panicked, and shouted loudly on the spot. I think that at the beginning, I had seen tank cluster charges on the battlefield in Vietnam, and these cavalry charges were nothing.
Hearing Zhang Yunwen's words, the four soldiers immediately took out their double-edged axes and looked at the charging knights.
"Listen to my command, spin the axe and throw it out, one target for one person, don't mix it up! Ready—"
Seeing that the knight was less than thirty paces away from the scout battalion soldiers.
"Throw—"
At this point, it is less than twenty steps.
I saw Zhang Yunwen raise his arm and throw it, and an axe whirled and swirled towards a knight.
Then, four axes were thrown at the same time, heading towards the knight at high speed.
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