The minister's mansion had hundreds of strong bows and hard crossbows, and the prince's mansion brought a batch of more than 1,000 strong bows and hard crossbows in total. The rebel army besieging the legation had grown from four or five thousand last night to more than eight thousand in the early morning, and had surged to 13,400 after dawn.

At first, I thought I was going to storm it, but later I found that the two groups of rebels who came one after another were not physically strong, especially the more than 5,000 people who came from the south of the city, covered in blood and exhausted, and they were all surrounded by the outermost streets to repair.

So more than 1,000 strong bows and hard crossbows were mobilized, and the front yard was vacated under the command of Bai Liyan, and all the crossbowmen were concentrated in the atrium, the west courtyard, and the east courtyard, and the high projectile trajectory was adopted at a large elevation angle of 70 to 85 degrees to strike at the rebels concentrated at the north gate of the south gate of the legation.

Whether it is a bow or a crossbow, there are two ways to shoot: direct aim and projectile.

Direct aiming is suitable for short-distance targets, and projectile is suitable for attacking targets at a high range, the former has high accuracy, and the latter has poor accuracy, and it all depends on density and coverage.

Among them, crossbows rarely use projectiles, because the appearance of crossbows is to improve the accuracy and lethality of direct aiming, and it is impossible to use projectiles, except for Zhiguo's sky-high crossbow.

In addition to the close-range hard killing, most of the time the bow and arrow use the cluster projectile method to cover a large area of barrage, in order to improve the killing efficiency.

The use of large elevation angle projectile, the result of which will inevitably lead to an increase in the range of the parabola, when the elevation angle is between thirty-seven and forty-three, the parabola increases the straight-line distance is the longest, and conversely, the smaller and larger the elevation angle, the shorter the distance.

It's like firing a gun in the sky, if the bullet is fired perpendicular to the ground, theoretically without being affected by the wind and ballistic accuracy, the bullet will fall on your head, but only theoretically.

The same is true for firing arrows at high elevation angles, by raising the elevation angle and controlling the distance, thousands of arrows can be delivered to the heads of the rebels who are close at hand, through the courtyard walls and buildings.

Of course, this kind of accuracy that is only estimated by manual means is affected by the strength of the bowstring and the distance from the starting point, and it is easy to plant it on one's own head if you are not careful, so it is necessary to evacuate the people in the front yard and the back yard.

However, aren't you afraid that the rebels will come to their senses and mess with you?

This is impossible, first of all, they do not understand how they can send arrows to their heads through the wall within ten or twenty steps.

Secondly, with the conventional elevation angle projectile distance, the arrow is released from outside the south gate, and it is accurate to shoot to the backyard, Bailiyan will withdraw the personnel early, where can this low-level mistake be reversed. Third, after all, this kind of high-throwing arrow with a large elevation angle is not something that anyone can take for granted, and if the angle is not adjusted well, it will fall on their own heads, and the angle is too small to shoot.

In the end, the Legation Mansion covers a large area, with many houses, all of which are tiled houses, which are also thrown at a large elevation angle, and the people in the palace only need to hide in the house, unlike the rebels outside the palace who are exposed to the market. Unless they also hide in the house opposite, if this is the case, Bailiyan will set a fire and burn it to the light.

There were only three bursts of arrows before and after the high throwing arrows, and more than 1,000 people were killed or injured within 30 steps outside the south gate, and some people directly died with a whimper.

Before the rebels could retreat in panic, the forbidden army of the Minister's Mansion came out from the north and south gates, chased the rebels all the way, defeated them, and drove the rebels blocking the north and south streets out of the north and south streets for nearly a mile, and then collected their troops and withdrew to the palace.

"General Wei's plan is really clever, it's only been half an hour, not to mention killing them with death and wounds, fifteen or six hundred people!" It's rare for Dian Kun to boast about anything, but this time it's an exception.

Baili Yanxin thinks that you are happy in your heart, and not all the people who died were from Xianguo.

"The rebels will come back later, and then they will be given two more arrows. However, if they suffer a loss, they will definitely not suffer once or twice, as long as they hide out of range, we can't help them. ”

"Then, according to General Wei's opinion, what should be the next step?" Ji Tong asked.

"If the rebels gather outside again, they might as well put two more arrows, but next time they will definitely carry their shields, so let them carry them first, as long as they don't attack the legation's palace, they will never be able to keep their shields on their heads, and there will always be times when they are tired.

When their hands are sore, there are two more arrows, and then they are caught off guard by concocting and killing one in the same way. After that, the rebels would certainly not easily approach the Legation's Palace, so when the rebels retreated, they first attacked from the west gate, went around behind the rebels to cut off a part of their retreat, and then from the south gate, drove the rebels who cut off the retreat to the west and annihilated them all. ”

Eat a trench and grow a wisdom, the rebels suffer a loss, the second siege of the legation is bound to continue the siege with a shield, but a wooden shield is seven or eight pounds, heavy is more than a dozen, if the copper shield is heavier, it is no problem to lift for a moment and a half, and it will be sour to raise your hands all the time, there will always be a time when you are paralyzed and careless, unless you can get the boxcar to hide underneath.

When the second time they suffered a loss, the rebels would definitely not surround the Legation at close range for the third time, but retreated to the end of the streets, probably far from the range of the Minister's Palace's bow and crossbow, once the rebels retreated into the streets, it would be very difficult to lure them out, so on the way to retreat, they first cut off some of their men and horses, and then cover up and kill.

The palace is full of killing at this moment, the rebels took the lead in breaking through the gate of the inner palace, Luan Chongzheng led the forbidden army to fight a bloody battle, the situation of the temple is not optimistic, the rebels broke through the east and south gates, and entered the front yard of the outer corridor of the temple.

"What, Ye Xin attacked Simon? Only Simon was beaten! ”

"Back to the teacher, Ye Xin is indeed crossing the moat, and the student has ordered the defenders in the west of the city to fight back against Ye Xin, and will never let him get half a step closer!" Gong Shouqian said quickly, and his forehead was sweating profusely.

"Ye Xin's department only has 20,000 horses, so Zhao Xun's reinforcements have arrived? No, how can it be so fast. At this time, Gongsun Yue was still worried that Zhao Xun was cheating, and deliberately only attacked the West Gate, not the other three gates, and did not do well because he deliberately attracted the troops of the four gates, so that Uncle Guang could take advantage of it. Thinking of this, Gongsun Yue asked again: "How many people are there in Ye Xin?" ”

"At ten o'clock in the morning, another 20,000 cavalry came, and they should be miscellaneous cavalry."

"Only 40,000 people?"

Gongsun Yue breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was only 40,000 people, and it would not be possible to attack the city with all its strength today, at least until tomorrow. But after thinking about it, Uncle Guang has not shown up so far, and if he is taken down by him, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Shouqian, go to the city to recruit troops as soon as possible."

"Teacher, yesterday's conscription was extremely unsmooth, and today's war has not yet ended, and if the conscription is carried out, I am afraid that people's hearts will be unstable."

"It's come to this, it's irreparable."

Without waiting for Gongsun Yue's voice to fall, a general from outside the Chenghong Hall came quickly:

"Report, report to Xiangguo, our army has suffered heavy casualties in the Legation's Palace, the first line of defense has been broken by the Liang army, and General Zhao has asked for reinforcements."

Gongsun Yue's chest jumped wildly when he heard the news, and he only felt that his eyes were black and almost wanted to vomit blood:

"Thirteen thousand, can't even surround five thousand, what the hell is going on!"

The rebel general carefully talked about it before and after, and when he heard that even the tortoise shell array had been broken, Gongsun Yue had only one thought at this moment:

"I really underestimated him!"

The rebels formed a tortoiseshell formation with wooden shields, and surrounded themselves in an airtight airtight front and back, and it is said that the bow and arrow crossbow should be unbreakable, unless it is a high-power battle equipment such as a crossbow cart and a three-bow bed crossbow to break through the tortoiseshell array head-on.

In fact, Baili Yan made sixty holes in the walls of the north and south compounds, cut down the bamboo forest of the Minister's Mansion, the diameter of each hole is just enough to insert a bamboo stem, every three bamboo for a group, a group of bamboo poles of each bamboo spacing two feet, small holes in the bamboo, wear ropes, and form a big net in the city.

Then the removed wooden column is erected on the bamboo, using the toughness of the bamboo, the wooden column is bounced over the wall, and the column over the wall is directly smashed on the top of the head of the rebel tortoiseshell array outside the wall, and two pillars are smashed on the top of the head at a time, and no matter how powerful the tortoiseshell array is, it can't bear such a smash.

Even if the pillars can't kill people, two pillars will smash the top of the head, and the tortoiseshell array will be over, not to mention that there are more than two at all, ten pillars have been thrown on each side, two waves, and they will not wait until the rebels regain their footing, and the rain of arrows in the minister's palace is overwhelming, and the rebels who killed are embarrassed to lose their armor and abandon their armor.

This is not counting, before the rebels retreated, the Legation did not pursue from the south and north gates, but first defeated the rebels besieging the West Gate from the West Gate, and went around to the south gate of the Liang State Legation Mansion and the west side of the rebels at the North Gate, cutting off the retreat route.

When the rebels at the south gate and the north gate were defeated and retreated, the retreat route has been cut off, at this time the minister's palace poured out of the nest, and the two rebels were encircled and captured alive, only in this battle, the rebels suffered 1,2300 casualties, and nearly 1,000 people were captured, and from the beginning of the siege of the minister's palace in the morning, Gongsun Yue only lost more than 5,000 people in the minister's palace with dead and wounded and captured.

Pinching his fingers, it's only been an hour and a half, and at this rate, he can't wait for noon, and the rebels besieging the Legation Mansion may be completely wiped out by Bailiyan.

"Misstep, misstep!" Gongsun Yue regretted it again and again, he really didn't expect Bailiyan to have such a means. "Congratulations, what are the casualties in the Legation's Palace!"

"This ......" Gong Shouqian's face was ugly: "Maybe it's seven or eight thousand." ”

Seven or eight thousand is already overestimated, the Legation is full of elites, and the rebels are defeated in a panic, chasing after them and being killed, where is there still the strength to fight.

"Shouqian, order General Zhao to withdraw to a hundred and fifty steps away from the Minister's Palace, and block all the streets and streets with crossbowmen."

"Teacher, why don't you go into the Legation Mansion in one go."

Gong Shouqian proposed to enter the Legation's Mansion, but Gongsun Yue shook his head with a wry smile:

"It's really so easy, for the sake of the division, let General Zhao besiege the Legation's Mansion."

"Then set it on fire!"

"Set fire?" Gongsun Yue's eyes lit up, and the east of the city was already full of fire, but it seemed that he had never heard of the burning of the minister's mansion, because the southwest wind was blowing, and the fire was blowing in the northeast, not the west.

"Okay, just set it on fire. Remember, you must set fire to the wind from the west, and you must not go against the wind. ”

"No!"

Gongsun Yue pondered that the east of the Minister's Mansion had been burned off by the fire, and at this time, another fire was set from the west of the Minister's Palace, and the east and west sides of the Minister's Mansion were sealed by the fire, and the fire on the west side blew by the wind, and it could be burned into the Minister's Mansion immediately.