The army assembled under the banner of Su Luding was obviously different from the previous siege army, not only wearing various chain mail, Luo ring armor, and willow leaf armor with silver glitter, but also the dark infantry side cards that each color eye warrior was carrying in his hand.

"Well, isn't it? Iron Shields? ”

The soldiers of the Song army all gasped, and each of them had an iron shield, which was really ...... It's not that iron shields are expensive and difficult to equip on a large scale - although this is true in fact, the reason that directly restricts the armies from equipping iron shields is their weight!

On one side of the standard infantry, the card is five feet long, three feet wide, and five minutes thick, with a pointed trapezoidal shape, and there is a standing log behind the card. Generally, it is made of hardwood, and the better shield surface is covered with a layer of cowhide, which weighs more than 20 catties, and if it is nailed with a layer of iron plate, at least 30 catties or more. It's okay for a person to carry dozens or hundreds of pounds, but how far can he carry more than 30 pounds? In ancient times, fighting a war was a hard work for soldiers, and they spent all their strength on carrying things, and when the two armies were tired of fighting, did they still need to fight this battle?

Therefore, although the iron shield defense is strong, it is not something that any army can play, and it is necessary to form an all-iron shield army into battle.

The Beiting Army happens to be the elite of Ali Hague's personal guards.

Zhao Lie took the scope handed by Ding Xiaoyi, and in the lens, there were stout and burly warriors with colored eyes, all wearing strong armor, holding heavy soldiers, and holding iron shields, and the killing intent formed by the convergence of the torrent of steel could be faintly felt from afar.

The people outside the Seychelles have an innate advantage in physique, and the colored warriors selected by these two teams are obviously powerful warriors in hand-to-hand combat, carrying dozens of pounds of iron shields to play. Of course, no matter how strong they are, they can't "play" for long. However, from the top of the slope to the bottom of the city, it was less than two miles, and before they were nearly two hundred paces, their iron shields were carried behind their backs. Ti Tie Shield rushed to the city of Gaden 200 paces to fight, and these warriors who were shaped like bears and tigers were still competent.

The camera stopped for a while on the iron shield's bright mirror-like iron plate, and Zhao Lie's face was solemn: "It turns out that this is Ali Hague's hole card, this guy, learn smart......"

Ali Hague is certainly not stupid, how could he use his most elite pro-army to hit Zhao Lie's muzzle? Even if you want to hit it, be prepared. During this period of time, he repeatedly attacked Yacheng, repeatedly suffered losses from muskets, and at the same time accumulated some experience in dealing with muskets.

Ali Hague found that the lethality of the Song army's muskets decreased with the protection of the target. For unarmored targets such as followers, auxiliaries, and pikemen in the infantry of the new annex, the musket can be killed at sixty or seventy paces; Gun players, crossbowmen, and sword players who are waiting for targets with short leather armor on their bodies will need 50 steps to kill; As for the Iron Armor, it takes about ten steps to kill. And most of the time, it is not armor piercing, but the strong impact of the lead that causes heavy injuries to the flesh and internal organs under the armor to death.

In the siege of the city a few days ago, Ali Hague deliberately made a test: in the Han army, more than a dozen biao-shaped men were selected, all wearing iron armor and each with an iron shield, to attack with the siege troops. In the end, nearly half of these people came back alive. After an inspection and inquiry, it was found that as long as it was covered with an iron shield, even if it was pierced by a projectile, it would not damage the armor. Only if the shield is not in time, it will cause death and injury if it is directly hit by a projectile.

During today's siege of the city, because of the addition of the Lianzhu musket team and the power of Zhao Hunt to kill the enemy in a hundred steps, Ali Hague asked the craftsmen to make a batch of iron shields, double-layer iron plates, each layer is one point (3 mm) thick, and weighs more than 40 catties, and then sends a group of selected warriors to fight. Although such an iron shield was heavy and could only be used by a small number of elite warriors, the feedback received after the fourth wave of siege warfare made Ali Hague's face open to the fire—the power of the Song soldiers' muskets skyrocketed, and many of the soldiers in leather armor were killed and wounded at seventy or eighty paces, and even several officers in the armor were killed at a distance of twenty or thirty paces. But most of the warriors who had made the double iron shields, even if they rushed to the top of the city, were baptized by the crackling bullets that were close at hand, and finally sounded their trumpets and retreated.

Ali Hague personally inspected all the double-layered iron shields, and although the shield was full of craters, none of the craters formed bullet holes - that is, the Song army's muskets, even if they were face to face, could not penetrate with a single shot!

Ali Hague, Brother Guan, Warm Buhua, Monk and other generals of the Yuan army looked at each other and stroked their palms and laughed. Finally found a way to restrain the musket! No matter how powerful the never-before-seen "spear" of the musket is, in the face of a solid shield, there will be only one way to break the halberd.

Ali Hague was also forced to use such a stupid method, he didn't think of using other tactics, such as the method of intercepting the flow and cutting off the water in Jingjiang Mansion (Guilin). However, the Ningyuan water flowing through Yacheng has a huge water potential, and it is very difficult to intercept the flow. Moreover, Qiongzhou, especially Yacheng, has abundant water, it is convenient to dig wells to get water, and it rains heavily at both ends for three days, so it is not realistic to cut off the water source of the defenders. The method of excavating the earth and cushioning the city is also difficult to implement because the moat leads to the water of Ningyuan. Therefore, there is no other way but to storm it.

It's okay, use absolute strength to crush the Song army and break the city in one fell swoop, just today!

Zhao Lie put down the scope and saw a guard present Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie with an iron shield full of craters left by the Yuan soldiers.

When several generals saw it, they all gasped, the double-layer iron shield, Ali Hague is so big. Such a strong and heavy side card has never been seen before, such a side card, used to defend against knives, guns, axes and hammers is completely overkill or unnecessary, and its use is obviously easy to see - anti-gun bullets.

Wen Tianxiang frowned: "Even the power sub-medicine provided by Ligu can't penetrate it......"

Zhao Lie took the iron shield, carefully checked the thickness of the double-layer iron plate, pulled out the dagger, poked and tested the hardness of the iron plate, and the solemn expression on his face slowly turned into a smile: "Ali Hague is smart, but he still made a mistake, and this small mistake doomed him to failure." ”

Zhang Shijie wanted to ask what the mistake was, but because of his identity, it was naturally not good for him to put on such a low posture, and his eyes glanced at Huang Tiancong.

In fact, even without the hint of his old boss, Huang Tiancong couldn't wait to ask: "What is wrong?" ”

"He doesn't know my hole cards." Zhao Lie motioned for the guard to place the iron shield at a distance of twenty paces, pulled out the five-four pistol, and raised his hand to shoot.

Bang! While! The two crisp sounds were almost in no particular order, and the iron shield shook violently.

All the onlookers were also shocked, so fast! I don't know how much faster this speed than an arrow, people can't dodge at all, and being aimed at by such a muzzle, I'm afraid there is only one way to die.

The iron shield was taken, and when he saw the bullet hole with the thickness of the little finger on the shield surface, Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, Huang Tiancong and other generals were all moved, the projectile fired in this small iron bump was so terrifying!

Zhang Shijie looked at the two-stone strong bow in his hand, and he had an urge to throw it away - twenty steps, whether his arrow could be shot into the iron was a question, not to mention that he had to use the strength to open the bow, and the iron pimple in his hand was just a random blow......

Huang Tiancong's eyes were glued to the pistol that Zhao Lie had inserted back into his waist, and his fanatical eyes ...... If the eyes could turn into hands, I am afraid that they would have reached into the holster and grabbed it.

"Hole iron pierces gold! The end is a strange weapon! With Wen Tianxiang's cultivation, he was inevitably moved, and looked at Zhao Hunt with eager eyes, "If this thing can equip the whole army, how can the Yuan Yu be enough." ”

Zhao Lie didn't say anything, only pointed out of the city: "The Yuan army has attacked." ”

Under the sun, a piece of silver light, like waves fluctuating, like a sheet of scale light on the surface of the sea.

A full one hundred and twenty-eight Beiting heavy-armored iron shield warriors, under the cover of thousands of Han troops and Xinfu sergeants, approached violently.

In the long and desolate sound of bull horns, the fifth wave of the Yuan army's attack began.