269. Repeater crossbow meritorious service
Zhao Yun and Wei Yan finally succeeded in escaping with their people, but only more than 800 of the 2,000 men returned. And Cao Chun took the men and horses to show off his might and turned around a stone's throw away from the army, and then retreated!
This time, Cao Jun returned with a feather, and I believe that even if Cao Cao's family has a big cause, it will hurt for a long time. However, the tiger and leopard rode too many people and horses, such a cavalry Zhao Yun had never seen before, and even the white horse Yicong in his heyday was much worse than it.
Back in the camp, Zhao Yun and Wei Yan came to the big tent to hand over the order, if there was no last moment, in fact, the two of them still completed this task very well. However, because of the emergence of the tiger and leopard ride, the original great change is not so prominent.
Zhao Yun came to the big tent and saluted: "Eldest prince, we are back!" Before Liu Qi could speak, Han Fei opened his mouth first and asked, "Who is chasing you?" ”
"Back to the military division, I only saw a big flag with a leopard word on it!" Zhao Yun replied truthfully. After listening to Zhao Yun's answer, Han Fei nodded, and said to Liu Qi: "My guess is really good, this is the most elite tiger and leopard under Cao Cao's command." ”
Liu Qi's face changed and said: "How many more cavalry Cao Cao has under such a powerful cavalry, if there are tens of thousands of people who are afraid, it will be enough to sweep us!" ”
Han Fei said with a smile: "Don't worry, the eldest prince, this tiger and leopard cavalry is an elite cavalry built by Cao Cao with a lot of money, it seems that it should be divided into tiger cavalry and leopard cavalry, and today there are 1,000 leopard cavalry, presumably the tiger cavalry should be equivalent to the number." In this way, there should be a total of 2,000 people on the tiger and leopard ride. ”
Hearing Han Fei's words, Liu Qi took a long breath and said, "If there are only two thousand, then you can still fight with one!" This time we have beaten Cao Jun back, is it time for us to move on! ”
Han Fei nodded and said, "Cao Cao sent cavalry to stop it, it can be seen that the siege has reached a critical juncture, we have to hurry up." If Cao Cao occupies Wancheng, the significance of this trip will be greatly reduced. ”
Liu Qi thought deeply of Han Fei's words, and immediately gave Wen Ping an order, so that the army could set off and go straight to Wancheng. At this moment, Wancheng is really at the point of life and death.
Liu Ziyang's catapults built a total of five, and under the repeated bombardment of these five catapults, a large hole was smashed into the northern city wall, and Cao Jun followed this big hole into the city.
Unexpectedly, the strong city wall could not block Cao Cao's catapult, Zhang Ji saw that the city was broken and it was like protecting Jia Xu to escape, but Jia Xu shook his head and said: "This Wancheng still has hope to hold at the moment, use that thing!" ”
What Jia Xu was talking about was the repeating crossbow sent by Han Fei, and five hundred pairs had been built under the hassley work day and night. Zhang Ji saw that Jia Xu had made up his mind, and immediately gritted his teeth and said: "Then according to Mr.'s words, but if this thing still can't stop Cao Jun, we must break through." ”
Jia Xu saw that Zhang Ji was resolute, and nodded in agreement at the moment. So Zhang Ji immediately ordered the archers to eat the crossbow and go to the house to prepare, and Cao Jun was just ready to kill it. The leader is Cai Yang, the general of the Cao army, who is good at making the big knife have the courage of ten thousand people. I saw him rush to the city first, slash to death two soldiers who couldn't dodge, and then with a wave of his sword, he made the horses go down the street to the city!
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of breaking the air, but it was a rain of arrows pouring down on these people. Suddenly, his men and horses were overturned by the rain of arrows, and many of them were not dead by the arrows, but rolled on the ground and wailed.
And Cai Yang relied on his martial arts, wielding a big knife and constantly slashing, but he was not shot by the rain of arrows. When the rain of arrows stopped, he turned his head to see that there were few people standing beside him. "What a crossbow bolt!" Cai Yang couldn't help but be taken aback. Just as he hesitated, there was another sound of breaking the air, Cai Yang suddenly felt dead, he didn't care about his subordinates, and he wanted to flee while waving his knife to resist. Who knew that because there were many people just now, the crossbow arrows were shot scattered, and at this time there were fewer people, so most of the crossbow arrows were shot in the spirit of Cai Yang.
Cai Yang's careless big knife in his hand was a little slower, and a crossbow arrow shot through the knife curtain and hit him fiercely in the shoulder. With a sharp pain, the big knife in Cai Yang's hand slowed down, and then he was instantly shot by more crossbow arrows, and before he could even let out a scream, he was shot into a hedgehog by people and horses.
Sergeant Cao, who escaped by chance, fled out of the city with his life, and met Li Dian who led his troops to meet him, Li Dian grabbed a soldier and asked, "Why did you escape from the battle?" ”
The soldier was terrified, and replied in a trembling voice: "Dead, all dead!" General Cai is also dead! Li Dian frowned after hearing this, he raised his hand and slapped the soldier twice, and then asked again: "You have made it clear, what is going on?" ”
The two slaps were extremely heavy, and a wisp of blood flowed down the corner of the soldier's mouth, but by this time the soldier was finally awake, and his voice was still trembling, but he was no longer incoherent. I only heard him say: "General, General Cai and most of the men and horses under his command were all shot dead!" The archers in the city are amazing! ”
"A great archer?" Li Dian was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "Raise the shield!" Everyone raises their shields and marches! Under Li Dian's orders, the soldiers in front took out their shields to protect their upper bodies and continued to kill in the city.
However, this wooden shield couldn't stop the attack of the crossbow at all, Li Dian saw that the soldiers who were advancing with the shield were nailed to the ground by a rain of arrows, and he suddenly felt extremely shocked, what kind of bow is this? When did Zhang Ji's men have such powerful archers? As a result, strong archers are stationed here, and I'm afraid how many people will fill in here!
"No, you have to report to the lord quickly!" While saying that, Li Dian ordered someone to snatch back a few crossbow arrows, and then asked people to quickly go to the camp with crossbow arrows to report to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was discussing with Guo Jia in the big tent at this time about the matter after the capture of the city, and suddenly a soldier came to report that the siege ahead was blocked! Cao Cao was shocked and immediately asked people to come up for questioning. As a result, when the soldiers came to ask, Cao Cao also felt incredible, this Zhang Jishou had never heard of such a strong archer!
At this time, Guo Jia took the crossbow arrow and looked at it carefully and said: "Lord, this is not a bow and arrow, but a crossbow arrow!" ”
"Crossbow bolts?" Cao Cao also picked up an arrow to examine it carefully, and sure enough, this arrow must be broken by a section of the bow and arrow, and the arrow feathers are also a lot less.
At this time, Guo Jia said: "During the Warring States Period, the Mo family invented a powerful weapon called the crossbow, which can fire multiple crossbow arrows in a row, and today this crossbow arrow is afraid that it is issued by the crossbow!" Otherwise, how could so many soldiers be shot to death with just manpower? What I don't know now is how many repeaters there will be in that city, and whether this thing was made by Jia Xu or Han Fei. ”
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