The trumpet of the attacking army sounded, and the heavy infantry lined up a few dozen meters in front of the moat, and almost 2,000 of them, with siege shields and 1,500 archers of the defenders, began to move towards the moat, they could not be placed behind the heavy infantry, where they had exceeded the maximum range of the archers, and could not shoot at the top of the city wall.

Wei Gui stood in the rear, Wang Xiansong no longer knew the trace, and now the guards next to him were Zhao Hu and Wang Liuyi, one of his officers, who were also all standing behind Wei Gui, and the Chinese army was about 1,000 people, at the back of the entire position.

The tall building is the most troublesome, more than 40 meters high, and even makes him feel like he has nowhere to start, and the one with a moat is even more troublesome.

Today is just a feint, to see the density of the opponent's defense, and to test the strength of the defense of this fortress, if it can shake the opponent and cause civil strife, it will be better.

Wei Gui asked the whole army to be dispatched, but the main force was only 1,500 archers, and seeing that the archers successfully set up the camp under the escort of 2,000 heavy infantry, he knew that he was half the success.

How much defensive strength the other party has, the Wang family knows, the 800 regiment training, although because the secret agents were cleaned up, I don't know what is being trained, but most of the 800 regimental training is heeled, and the Wang family has no problem investigating.

An honest peasant, who has just lost his first month or two, can become a qualified soldier, and it is acceptable, after all, it is good to wear armor and weapons, and come according to the regulations, but to become an archer, isn't that a fantasy?

Wei Gui didn't realize what kind of opponent he was facing, a weapon that swept the whole of Europe hundreds of years later, suppressed the entire European era and the early days of the appearance of muskets, and made European countries have to restrict the import of raw materials, secretly appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The top of the fortress, after the initial chaos, has gradually become familiar with the battlefield situation, the commanders are right, no matter what, the other party is also infantry, it is impossible for the infantry to fly over the moat, it is impossible to fly over the castle 40 meters high, directly to the fortress to fight them.

Even if they come up, there is a unique arrangement on the fortress, so that the manpower in the area can be used to the maximum, and the fortress itself is a, in the era of cold weapons, the defensive weapon that has developed to the limit, this kind of weapon, the science, the use of manpower to the extreme.

It seems that being besieged by heavy troops should be the people who are surrounded by them being beaten by the group, but in fact, after a unique design, the besieging party can provide limited personnel, but it is more advantageous to defend the city, which is also the fundamental reason for the strong defense of the fortress.

The opponent's archers had already come out of the ranks, standing about 70 meters away from the fortress, surrounded by large shields, but in order to give the light archers a view, the protection of the large shields was not tight.

Relying on 2,000 heavy infantry, 1,500 archers to defend them, and archers are also required to form a certain camp, perhaps on the ground, which is enough, but in the air, especially looking down at a height of 40 meters, there are flaws everywhere.

Even Sun Ji couldn't help but sigh, he was a general, a veteran general in the army, judging from Wei Gui's movements, it was determined that the training of the Yunyi Army was still okay, everything was in accordance with the infantry drill code, and he added his own ideas, which could make the protection more excellent, but there were still such big loopholes.

Perhaps, I have never considered the condescending problem before, and the height of 8 meters is completely different from the height of 40 meters.

However, such a high-altitude angle is really difficult to make up, and it can't be used with a big shield, and even more so with others.

The longbow team began to prepare, but they did not turn on the attack mode, everyone took out a small shield, ready to bear the first wave of arrow rain, the short bow composed of 1500 people, at least in the first wave of salvo, there will be a considerable density, first block this wave, see what the next attack intensity is.

When the lower part was about to be covered with a rain of arrows, the four walls, slowly rising, appeared to be made of bricks, but in fact, they were made of wood, almost a foot thick and 2 meters high, forming a square room, only the top was overhanging.

This arrangement, also to defend against arrows, the longbowman uses a projectile, and there is no 2-meter-high wall in front of him, which has no effect on him at all, but it can defend against horizontal and oblique arrow rain attacks.

The phalanx of archers below, accompanied by the shouts of the squad leader, the archers were ready, and one by one, the archers began to raise their bows.

The Yunyi Army is the relationship between the regular army, itself, they have 1000 archers, all of them are elite, each person can at least open 2 stone bows, and the later supplement is even more powerful, the Wang family and other families selected the family Ding team, the archers among them, can open more than 3 stone bows, after supplementing them, and remove some of the weaker ones, in the end, they are equipped, all of them are 2 stone bows, each of which is good or above the archer.

There are so many archers, Wei Gui still thinks that it is a bit of a waste to do this, attacking a folk stockade, getting so many archers, it is definitely a waste, no archers, even if it is a heavy infantry, as long as the assault breaks through the wall, you can enter the stockade, archers, I'm afraid you haven't even got a little credit.

But now that I think about it, it's really not, the other party has prepared such a perfect fortress, if there are no archers, it is really painful, siege warfare, archers first, this is clearly mentioned in all the war books.

2 stone bow, about 240 pounds, such a weight, in the modern society of later generations, can already be called a strong bow, about 90 pounds, has been called heavy, of course, that is under the labor-saving device.

2 stone bow, or the elite short bow of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, can easily shoot more than 100 meters, that is, a hundred steps, in order to increase the endurance, this part of the archer just wears leather armor, at most on the outside of the leather armor, add a little bit of iron, against civilian targets, should be no problem.

Zhao Xin was just below the longbowman, and in front of him, a large amount of straw paper and charcoal were placed, and his task was to calculate, in fact, similar calculations, which had been going on for a long time.

In later generations, archery and shooting are both a process of scientific calculation, and the ballistics, curves, and forces used can be incorporated into mathematical formulas, analyzed and compared, and shot and archery can be completed under scientific and technical actions.

Before entering the fortress, Zhao Xin carried out a unified survey and mapping of the surroundings of the fortress, not only forming a real sand table with a range of 3 kilometers around the fortress inside the fortress, but also numbering the data for all longbow ranges.

This is often used in fixed defense, or security artillery defense, and it is also applicable to this longbow offensive and defensive battle.

Put the angle, direction, and strength of the longbow into this formula as a constant light, and then carry out targeted training when training, although the longbowmen don't understand why they are ordered to do this, but they understand the basics of force, height, and angle.

That's the terrible thing about this theory, a good marksman, they need to rely on the instantaneous judgment on the battlefield, discern the azimuth distance of the target, and then according to the feeling of thousands of non-stop hits, through the addition of some factors such as wind speed and other factors, and then hit with one hit.

An excellent archer can do all this in an instant, similar to Sun Ji, similar to Xue Yu.

But this kind of feeling can only be found out step by step in countless shots, and even some feelings are just talents, and they have also been trained for many years, Sun Ji can become a Condor Player, the existence of a reaper on the battlefield, but some people, the fixed target is okay, and the other targets can only be resigned to fate.

Science is to take some things that seem to be unrelated in production and life, and finally correlate them together, just like a longbow, after determining the three basic elements, and then conducting experiments, using these three basic elements, to determine the direction, there will be certain deviations, for example, wind, battlefield conditions, etc., but these need to lead the archer, make slight adjustments, and add some variables.

As for the land beneath the bastion, it seems to be quiet, but in fact, in special places, it has been divided into areas with reflective materials, or arrangements that can only be seen from high places, and the smallest unit in this area is precisely the smallest unit of longbowmen, 500 people.

The method used for artillery positioning in later generations was applied to the longbow salvo, which seemed to be a little incredible, but in fact, it was a perfect match, and Sun Ji even formed a conditioned reflex, seeing that every heavy infantry entered a certain area, no longer looking for a weak link to kill with one hit, but recalling the coordinate location.

"Ready!" A neat voice sounded, and the archers began to take their bows, and the same order sounded in the longbow area, and the longbows were all put away for the time being, except for a small shield, which protected their exposed places, ready to meet the arrows.

"Put!"

At the sound of an order, 1500 short bows were shot out almost simultaneously, and they were also projectiles, because in the face of a 40-meter-high barracks, if they didn't need to be thrown, they would have no effect.

A rain of 1,500 arrows flew towards the fortress 70 meters away, and in a matter of seconds, it crossed the distance between them and finally landed on the fortress.

There was a clanging sound, and not even a single hair was raised, because most of the arrows hit the outer wall of the fortress, less than one-tenth, and flew over the fortress, and only 3 arrows fell into the outer wall of the longbow team, and none of them landed inside.