As a sharp weapon for ancient siege of cities, the bed crossbow has existed in China for more than a thousand years.

The bed crossbow is the most long-range weapon in the Han army in ancient wars, not only widely used to defend the city, but also widely used in siege, the bed crossbow in the two armies when the power is still second, especially in the siege of the city, equipped with a battering ram is more powerful.

The so-called battering ram is not a sledgehammer, but a thick spear without tail feathers like a spear, which is generally made of fine iron, and the powerful bed crossbow is aimed at the city wall and launched, and shot into the city wall from under the city wall in turn, forming a simple siege ladder, which is used as a ladder for the siege soldiers who are about to launch the ant, because there are a large number of bed crossbows to shoot a large number of battering rams on the city wall, the soldiers who are attached to the ant siege can hold the waist knife in their mouths, hold the shield in one hand, and grasp it in the other. You can move left and right on the city wall to avoid the rolling wood and stones, while climbing upwards, this is better than using the ladder to climb the advantage is that the ladder is fixed in a straight line, the people who climb can not move left and right, the casualties are very large, the second is the ladder is climbed one by one, once the top one is hit, it will be unlucky with the people who follow below, the third is that the ladder is very easy to be pushed down by those guards above with a long pole, so the death and injury is a string of deaths, the most important thing is, There was no need for many soldiers to hold on to the ladder below him and be beaten by the fire oil and the like in the city, which not only reduced the manpower, but also reduced the casualties.

With these benefits, the ancient Han people took very strict care of the construction technology of the bed crossbow, and once the battle array was lost, the first thing the official army was to order the bed crossbow to be burned to prevent him from falling into the hands of the enemy. And once the bed crossbow is discarded, whoever is it will be severely punished. There is also a bed crossbow is very complicated, the operation of a bed crossbow requires many people or even nearly 100 people to cooperate to play an effective role, and it is not something that can be imitated by foreigners who are still in the era of ignorance, but now the bed crossbow is still cumbersome and cumbersome, where is the bed crossbow of the army in Lu Shi using a large number of levers and the principle of fixed pulley moving pulley group under the principle of only a few people can be easily operated?

Now there is no iron battering ram in the Ganquan Guardhouse, which is a luxury, and even if there was one, it was sold by the military or made into a hoe and sickle, where can it be left until now? In fact, this bed crossbow is also because it is too conspicuous, and Shangfeng must have come to inspect it every year to keep it until now, or the iron mechanism above will not be spared, that is, these woods will become firewood.

Since there is no professional battering ram for inserting the city, it is too late to build, so the only way to replace the crossbow arrow is to pierce the gun.

The bed crossbow was already ready, looking at his companions, it was the Tiger Cannon, and it was a hot greeting from the elm spray, the effect was equal to a waste of effort, and he kept laughing at them at that time, and when he got the order, those soldiers who were well fed and drunk rolled up their sleeves one by one to show their skills, so that they could see the power of their only remaining technical troops.

At the same time, I also saw that after the first few attacks, Qianhu also put all his hopes on his own people, especially Zhang Yuan, the big gold owner, who was probing his head into his head, full of eagerness, as long as he made contributions here, then some rewards would fly over, and his family's life would be better for a year.

With the order of Qianhu, the bed crossbowmen who were waiting in front of the battle received the order, spit on their hands and shouted: "Boys, stay away and watch the gentlemen wield." As he spoke, he picked up the big mallet and smashed it into the crossbow of the bed, and with a terrible sound of bowstrings, a row of crossbow arrows tore through the air and flew towards the fortress in the order of high and low.

As the five javelins turned into five black shadows and roared away, everyone craned their necks and stared, hoping for a miracle this time.

Ten thick ones flew towards the fortress with a sharp whistling sound, and stabbed violently into the ice wall, but at the moment when the crossbow arrow touched the ice wall, one by one broke into powder like a hemp rod meeting a steel plate, and none of them were inserted into the ice wall. People can't hurt half a cent of hair in every way you toss, but this is like this?

Zhang Yuan looked at the power of the crossbow arrow with great expectation, and then turned into a huge disappointment, retracted his sore neck, and turned his head to look at Qianhu who was blushing and purple, not knowing what to say. It took a long time to poke out the fat body of the horse, and asked tentatively: "General, this, this, what should I do next?" ”

Before Qianhu could reply, a child of the Chen family behind him sneered in a low voice, "No wonder the dignified officials and soldiers are blocked by hundreds of thieves at home and can't get out, and the feelings are just these two brushes, generations of military households, but they are just the characters who eat dry rice for nothing, it seems that the thieves still have to rely on our bravery." ”

The sound is not loud, but in the ears of a thousand households, it is even more deafening than a thousand shrews blocking the door and scolding the street.

As the saying goes, hitting people doesn't slap their faces, especially being blocked at home, it's really not good to say, no matter what your situation is or what you think.

"Brother Weisho, archer?" The thousand households ordered loudly with red eyes, and in this mockery, they also had a competitive spirit, no longer dealing with Zhang Yuan, but fighting for their own face.

As soon as the order was issued, those guards had a big accident, didn't they say that we were just helping? Why did you suddenly let us go into battle in person? But it's okay to go into battle, but don't you always know, with our current manpower, how many people can shoot arrows? I just want to release arrows, but what about bows and arrows? Ours have all been sold by you, as long as your own soldiers still have dozens of bows and arrows to decorate the façade, how can you let us release the arrows?

Zhang Yuan looked at the dozens of thousands of pro-soldier archers who hurriedly ran out of the big array, even if he didn't understand military affairs, he also knew that some archers should take the number of coverage to win the fortress, just these dozen people are not worth mentioning at all, this general order is definitely this general listened to his brother's ridicule, and did something willful.

So he hurriedly leaned over again and said: "General, the officers and soldiers are all old soldiers, and they are responsible for supervising and educating us in battle, so we can't go into battle in person, and please mobilize our township brave archers to come forward, and all the soldiers and men will be next to supervise it." This is Zhang Yuan's slickness, finding a step for the annoyed and angry Qianhu.

was said by Zhang Yuanyi, the qi of Qianhu's head immediately dropped, and he also felt that he was too arrogant, as a generation of military households, he also knew that he had committed the taboo of the commander. At that time, he took a deep breath, arched his hand to Zhang Yuan, and said lightly: "Thank you Lord Zhang for reminding me, otherwise I would have committed an impulsive taboo." He said in a deep voice: "Please ask Lord Zhang to mobilize the Xiangyong archers to fight." ”

These thousands of households are so bright and fair, right is right, wrong is wrong, absolutely unambiguous, Zhang Yuan felt good in his heart, and hurriedly said sincerely: "I said that all the townsmen are dispatched by the general." In a blink of an eye, he smiled and joked: "Changing commanders in battle is even more taboo for soldiers." ”

The two looked at each other, laughed together, and all the unhappiness vanished.

The archers in the official army and the archers in Zhang Yuanxiang Yongli, as well as those who were attached to the landlord Haoqiang Xiangyong who were good at using bows and arrows, stepped forward one after another, and were organized by thousands of personal soldiers, and there were about 1,000 people, under the supervision of Shangguan, hurriedly ran to the fortress, lined up a crooked formation in the land of one arrow, and opened the bow and arrow in the face of the fortress, with the herald waving the banner, an order, a storm-like bowstring trembled, and the arrows like dark clouds swooped on the top of the fortress, the heavens and the earth were darkened, and the roaring sound shook the heavens and the earth.

All the archers, no one at this time observed the effect of the bow, but mechanically shot one feather arrow at the head of the city, so that the wasp-like feathered arrows turned the thieves on the fortress into hedgehogs.

When the archers went into battle, Cao Meng ordered the brothers in the city to take off the double layer of rattan armor on their backs and raise them to the side wall, just blocking the gap between the giant wooden roof of the fortress and the side wall.

The double-layer rattan armor on the body of the Chuang army is divided into two pieces before and after, rather than the front and back as the traditional rattan armor, so it is designed by Lu Shi for two purposes, once facing the enemy's arrow rain attack, as long as you take off the back double rattan armor, it can be turned into a rattan brand, the effect is surprisingly good.

The rain of feather arrows flew up to the city, or flew to the top of the cover or pierced on the rattan armor, there was no killing effect at all, only one brother, accidentally let the vine armor wall appear gaps, the dense feather arrows immediately had a few through the gaps, shot the brother's shoulder, but fortunately the front vine armor was still there, those few weak feather arrows were there, the brother snorted and snorted, and struggled to hold the vine armor in his hand steady, and blocked the gap on the top.

Listening to the sound of hitting the rattan armor like a storm, Cao Meng laughed and encouraged his brothers: "Hahaha, Zhang Yuan is so generous, knowing that we lack feather arrows, he sent us so many, in fact, he Zhang Yuan is also stingy, we are subject to his feather arrows, but we don't have a bow yet, you should be a good person to do it to the end, and then send a hundred and ten bows is serious." It caused all the brothers to burst into laughter, and the originally tense atmosphere eased a lot.

More than 100 feathered arrows shot too high, and by chance they fell into the huge skylight in the center of the fortress and fell to the bottom of the fortress.

The skylight was not deliberately left, but the fortress was built to allow 200 people to sit and rest, and it was completely covered with such a large space but not so long of large wood, so a skylight was left.

When Cao Meng saw this, he hurriedly ordered the captain of the sixth team to look at the city, and hurriedly went down the ladder to the bottom of the fortress to check the casualties.

When he went down to the bottom, Cao Meng was also relieved, and it turned out that the people at the bottom also took off their rattan armor and set up a large tent with rattan armor, so none of them were injured at all, Cao Meng inspected and was more relieved, and he was about to go to the city when he raised his feet, and suddenly something made him feel wrong, there should be two hundred people resting at the bottom, it seems that there are dozens of more people? quietly turned around and counted carefully, yes, there were indeed ten more people hiding in the corner with their heads down and not saying a word. Cao Meng was all dead at that time.

Oh no, there are spies involved.