At this time, Jiang Jie's heart was beating in shock, and he said in a panic:

"My lord, this is just the blink of an eye, it is more than 1,000 dead and wounded, if there are a few hundred more, if our army encounters it head-on in the future, I am afraid that there will be more than one luck."

Bai Liyan's face was solemn and nodded:

"In the previous battle in the south, our army was not attacked by this beast, but it is said that during the siege of Xiaochi, the Jinxuedi people dispatched no less than four or five hundred heads, and put them into the city through the tower with a trestle bridge, causing tens of thousands of casualties, and its power was extremely huge. If there is a frontal encounter on the battlefield, not to mention casualties, how to stabilize the position is still a problem, not to mention morale. ”

Gong Liangwen had already boarded the ship at this time, and before he went south, he fought with Jin Xuedi's main force in Mingzhou, and Bai Liyan asked him:

"General Gongliang, can the Zhijun Chaotian Crossbow deal with this beast?"

Gongliangwen thought for a moment and said:

"Yes, but the Jin Xuedi people also know that our army's crossbows and arrows are powerful, so they never use fierce beasts to impact our army's formation, so our army has never encountered a frontal attack in a battle."

"In this way, our army only needs to kill them with dense giant arrows."

"But right now, there are a lot of crossbows in the sky, they are no longer usable, and the bed crossbows of the Jin Xuedi people are very simple, mostly on your naval warships, without thousands, or even tens of thousands of giant arrows in salvo, it is really difficult to inflict heavy damage on hundreds of beasts, unless they are set up to sink in advance, so that they will fall into the net."

When Gongliangwen went south, he carried more than 2,000 Chaotian crossbows, most of which have now collapsed, and they have been transformed into bed crossbows and continue to be used. The same is true of the hand crossbows of the Xian army, which have been used for a long time with high intensity, and almost all of the hand crossbows are destroyed and cannot be used. Against a swarm attack of hundreds or thousands of beasts, a high-density heavy arrow is undoubtedly the best choice.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan's eyes lit up, and he said:

"Jiang Jie!"

"What do you command?"

"Bring me a short gun."

"Yes!"

When he was young, Jiang Jie took a short gun, and Gongliangwen was puzzled:

"Yan Gongzi, this is?"

"General Gongliang, what if our army trains a shuttle gun formation?"

"The distance of the shuttle gun is very close, barely half the range of the light bow, it is impossible to form a large depth array, and it takes a while to fly in the air, how can it be used."

"What if you could fly forty or fifty steps?"

"Yan Gongzi learned from Saiqian, and his spear throwing skills are naturally unique in the world, even if he throws forty or fifty steps, it is not surprising, but how can he let everyone throw forty or fifty steps away."

"General Gongliang, rest assured, not only can you throw forty or fifty steps, but sixty steps are also possible."

"Oh, how?"

"How about you and I make a bet, if an ordinary soldier can't throw fifty steps away, he will lose to the general 100,000 silver coins, if he can throw fifty steps away, the general will lose my 100,000 silver coins. This bet was only made in the barbarian land, and was abolished after returning to the north. ”

"Okay, what about 100,000 silver coins, Ben will bet with you. You can all be a witness, if your general loses, don't rely on the debt! ”

Gongliangwen happily agreed to bet, and Bailiyan swore with him a high-five, agreeing on a gambling game.

Forty or fifty steps is about seventy meters, barely enough to reach the distance of a light bow, but the power is much stronger than that of a light bow.

The reason for the gradual decline of the javelin was the development of bows and crossbows. When the advanced armor of bronze and iron equipment appeared, the javelin's piercing advantage over leather and wood was lost, and chain mail and plate armor were not very useful after the appearance.

At the same time, the firing range of crossbows, bed crossbows, strong bows, and compound bows was far higher than that of javelins, and the density and practicality gradually replaced javelins, and the development of cavalry was enough to make javelins, which were generally effective at a distance of only thirty or fifty meters, become the target of cavalry raids.

As an ancient weapon, the javelin is generally thrown at a distance of thirty or fifty meters, and the precise throwing distance is only about twenty meters.

The modern competitive javelin, the world record of 890 meters or even 100 meters and 4 meters, is the non-precise distance thrown after long-term training and the use of modern improved javelin, which has no actual combat significance. Therefore, the javelin can only cover the damage in a dense formation, and a simple single-point long-distance throw is almost of no practical significance.

Of course, it was an accident that the referee was unfortunate enough to lie down.

Moreover, the javelinmen could not list the standard formation of conventional crossbowmen, but could only be in a long and narrow vertical formation, because the javelin throwing distance was short, which determined that the depth of the formation could not be too thick, so it was not conducive to dense throwing, and once the enemy infantry or even cavalry rushed through the killing zone, its lethality was zero.

The javelin array had been eliminated in the Central Plains vassal states before the Liang Dynasty, with only a small number of elite troops, which were used as individual weapons and as close-range throwing weapons in hand-to-hand combat. For example, the Guangxin Army has a fishermen's shuttle standard team, and its combat power cannot be underestimated.

In order to make the javelin fly farther, in addition to the strength of the human body itself, the throwing posture is closely related to the mass, center of gravity, aerodynamic shape and head of the javelin.

The modern javelin is pointed at both ends and thick in the middle, and has an elongated olive shape, which is conducive to the aerodynamic layout and allows the javelin to fly farther. Athletes can throw a distance of seventy or eighty meters casually, and it is easy.

At present, the short guns used by various armies do not have a long-range throwing distance of tens of meters away, and the flat diamond-shaped tip of the spear head is not conducive to puncture, and only the relatively slender needle-shaped tip has the highest piercing force.

If the javelin can be sent to a position of 70 meters and 80 meters, it will undoubtedly have a strong combat nature, and at least it can make up for the shortcomings of the lack of short-range weapons in the coalition forces.

Hundreds of corpses were left on the shore, and the coalition forces withdrew all of them to their boats, and some of them were fished out of the water and jumped into the river to escape. This inspired Bai He:

"General, you said that if this beast fell into the water and drowned, it would be successful?"

At this time, Jiang Jie smiled:

"Tigers know how to swim, and they can swim like this!"

Bai Liyan thought for a moment and said:

"This method may be useful, although the tiger knows water, but its combat power in the water is weak, if it can be driven into the water, or it can be stabbed with spears and spears in the warship."

Bai He's proposal is a solution, except for extreme cases such as crocodiles and hippos, most of the ferocious beasts have little resistance when they get into the water, and people can easily kill them in the boat.

But it is clear that the Jinxuedi people are not fools, and it is impossible to drive the beast to jump into the water and let it be slaughtered. Beasts of prey are equally cunning, and it is not easy to achieve what is advantageous and what is unfavorable, and animals have their own instincts to measure, and will not easily fall into the trap that the eye can see.

Back in the cabin, Lu Gao was in poor health and had already fallen asleep, Tian Peng and Fang Liang were still talking, Fang Liang was slashed on his left arm six days ago, and he was hit by two arrows in the abdomen, Bai Liyan checked the wounds, they were not fatal injuries, but his expression was a little trance, Xu was seriously injured for the first time, and people's thoughts would undergo some changes.

The arrow in the abdomen is often better than the middle of the chest, the intestine is softer, the variability is greater, and the repair ability of the intestine is also strong.

Of course, this is only the ideal scenario. In many cases, the intestine will still be pierced, and when the arrow cluster is removed, the secondary destruction of the intestinal tissue by the blades on both sides of the arrow cluster should be avoided as much as possible.

In general, the self-repair ability of the intestine is very strong, even if it is rooted in the kidney, the self-repair ability of the kidney is more tenacious than human imagination, if it is not for arterial trauma, resulting in blood in the abdomen, the fatality rate of abdominal arrow is not high. However, the middle of the chest is more dangerous than an arrow in the chest that pierces the ribcage.

Tian Peng is still eating and drinking, his body is more than a circle stronger than back then, and his big arms are thicker than Bailiyan's thighs. The fist is like a twelve-pound sledgehammer, and a single punch can kill a person in minutes, and the heavy armor of ordinary size can no longer cover him. It was still Bailiyan who asked Xishan craftsmen to reprocess and customize a set, and a layer of damaged and repaired chain mail was thickened on the chest and back, so it was really invulnerable.

The fleet arrived at the upper waterfall at dusk the next day, and after the west bank was occupied by the coalition forces, the barbarian cavalry joined the infantry troops who arrived in the middle reaches of the waterfall river, and cooperated with the Jin Xuedi infantry on the east bank of the waterfall, and launched a counterattack, only to be repulsed again.

The fleet unloaded the infantry and supplies, and Bailiyan recovered the soldiers and horses of Fang Liang, Tian Peng, Bai He, and Lu Gao, about 20,000 people, and all the wounded and dead were transferred to the ship. Taking advantage of the fact that the barbarian army on the west bank was dizzy and he had no burden of the wounded, Gongliangwen led the army to the south without stopping.

Bailiyan continued to stay in the Waterfall River for two days, in order to prevent and contain the Jinxuedi people on both sides of the river to erect pontoon bridges and force crosses the river. By the time they caught up, Gongliangwen had already invaded the Central Plains Village.

The news of the coalition forces jumping out of Dranki first reached Temir's camp outside the West Mountain. Due to the unsmooth attack on the western mountains, Temir has been haunted, hearing that the coalition forces have escaped from the Dranki to break through the waterfall river, Temir's heart disease recurs again, he has difficulty breathing, his face is black and purple, and the typical symptoms of hypoxia:

"These rats are too deceitful!"

"Your Excellency, your illness is not easy to get excited, and now that the wood is in the boat, it is too late to chase it!"

Nakikas brought the decoction, which was pushed aside by Temir, and he said:

"Three hundred miles southwest of Ya Ai, but there are more than 200,000 Central Plains people, how can I not be in a hurry, how many cavalry do we have!"

"A total of Yabuk and auxiliaries, there are 60,000!"

"Dispatch all the cavalry in the headquarters, you personally lead the troops to chase after me, go quickly!"

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Nakikas led a large battalion of cavalry out of the camp in a hurry, and the news soon spread to the Gongliang Xiu Xishan camp:

"Cousin, the barbarian army south of the swamp dispatched 40,000 cavalry and suddenly went south." Gongliang Song entered the account and said quickly.

"Oh!" Gongliangsong perked up, put down the scroll and stood up and said, "So, the second uncle and Gongzi Yan have succeeded in IELTS?" ”

"It should be, I'm really anxious to wait, and I thought Gongzi Yan broke his promise!"

"You can't blame him for this, the navy is not easy. Jin Xuedi people know very well that the navy is a sharp weapon of our army, and this month must be surrounded and suppressed by heavy troops, if it is replaced by you and me, I am afraid it will be nothing more than that, maybe not as good as Bailiyan. ”

"Cousin, this will inevitably increase the morale of others and destroy the prestige of your own family!"

Gongliangsong was a little unconvinced, Gongliangxiu put down the book and said with a smile:

"Hehe, it's not my cousin's ambition, but it's actually his talent that is unlimited. The black turban thief rose strongly in the past, and everywhere he passed was like a bamboo, and the prince Yan descended from the sky in the wind and rain of the Xianguo, and turned the tide in danger with the power of one person, and the world is probably unsurpassed.

You and I talk about strategy, and we may be between them, but if we talk about knowledge, courage and ability, I am afraid that it is not half as good. Cousin, I still say the same thing, if I can return to the Central Plains safely this time, I must not be an enemy with him. Unless he dies young, he can swallow the Xian country, and there is no need to think about it for thirty years. ”

(End of chapter)