Chapter 40: The Assassins

When overhanging. The meaning of the suspension car is to say, "stop its daughter, rest its horse, is called to suspend the car" - when the sun reaches the sad spring, let the goddess Xihe who is driving the car stop, let the horse pulling the car rest, and then the car hangs in the sky, before sunset.

Dressed in black, with a crossbow sword in his hand, Zhao Yi was prostrate among the wild grass, looking at the sun that was about to set and was a little confused. He didn't know why the crown prince rushed to build the mansion, but he went to build the mansion before noon and didn't come back yet, so he was a little puzzled. After the suspension is dusk, and the past dusk is dusk, although there is a full moon at night, if you can't see the target clearly, it will be inconvenient to intercept and kill.

'There is no time to slacken, and the time will not come again.' Zhao Di, who insisted on assassinating the crown prince, recited a few times silently in his heart, but before he finished reading, he saw his hand raised in the weeds in front of the left, which meant that there was a car driving in the north, and he was overjoyed, and when he was about to listen, he also stretched out his hand in front of the right ....... The car driver is obviously coming from the north, how can it be that the north and the south are driving at the same time? Zhao Yu changed color a little, and when he half-got up and looked behind him, he saw a white flag fluttering in the wind, getting closer and closer.

The one who came was the Chu Palace, one from the south, one from the north, and one from the west, and there were four soldiers in each direction, in order to drive the assassins in the wasteland to the city wall, and then surround and kill them. The assassins were all dead soldiers collected by Li Yuan from Zhao Qi and other countries, because of the secret, the number was only fifty, and the fifty people were surrounded by 1,200 armor soldiers, and Zhao Yu was also panicked.

Knowing that they couldn't hide, the assassins got up from the grass one by one, they first wanted to rush south, but when they saw that the armorers in the south had already lined up and had to retreat, and then to the north, they were all lined up and marching armor, and finally had to run to the obscene shrine in the middle of the wasteland, so that they could be regarded as having a little dependence. It's a pity that the shrine is just a short wall that can't be shorter, two half-withered and half-glorious curved willows, surrounded on three sides and only one can dodge arrows.

The ears were full of low war drums, and the eyes were full of palace guards lined up in arrays with halberds and berylliums. Looking at the stubborn assassin, on the tall chariot, an abrupt and shrill voice shouted: "Wait until you put down your sword and crossbow and be captured, or you may be spared death." ”

The one who shouted was a temple man, who stood on a chariot with the general who commanded the twelve soldiers, and it seemed that his status in the palace was not low. However, the fifty assassins were all dead, he didn't shout It's okay, as soon as he shouted that they knew that they were going to die and had no place to be buried, they all filled their chests with killing intent, Zhao Ji looked at the assassins behind him, and shouted out a heart-rending sentence of 'kill', and then the crossbow was gone, and he rushed with everyone with swords.

The leader is the general Deng Sui, the thief dares to assassinate the crown prince, according to his meaning, he should kill a lot of clean words, but now the Yin of sanitation is temporarily replaced by the servant Chang Jiang, Chang Jiang's subordinates want to live, he has to be patient to persuade him to surrender. The thieves were rampant, and if they didn't surrender, they dared to attack the military formation, and he was suddenly angry.

"The thief suffers death." He cursed, then waved his hand and shouted, "Shoot!" ”

The palace guards are the king's guards, and their weapons, armor, and training are far superior to those of the king's three armies. The two armies face each other, and then fight, and fight, before the battle, the three columns of crossbowmen in front of the battle will release arrows as usual, and the power of individual crossbows is far inferior to that of bows, but the role of crossbow arrows is not entirely to kill the enemy, but more to disrupt the enemy array that comes from the impact.

Hearing the order to release the arrows, the 100 palace guards in the front row immediately raised their crossbows and released their arrows, and the arrows shot out were like willow leaves in the wind, flying towards the assassins who were rushing at a speed that was unattainable to the naked eye. When the assassins who rushed to the front were all shot by arrows, and when they were still crying out in pain, the armor soldiers, who had long been unable to help themselves, rushed through the gap between the crossbowmen in the front row, and rushed towards the enemy like a tiger.

'Boom——! The two sides collided together like an explosion, the assassin's sword and the armorer's Ge, although the two hit each other violently in the air, but the impact speed was too fast, until the bodies of the two sides were fiercely pressed together, the forward momentum was completely neutralized, and at this moment, the fight officially began.

No matter how high the swordsmanship is, it is impossible to face the columns of armor, and the sword is not suitable for use in military formations. When they collided, Ge's swing was narrowly avoided by the Assassins, but Ke Ge could not only slash, but also hook. Slashed through the enemy behind Goyila, and the assassin who couldn't avoid it immediately opened a blood groove on his body, and even snapped off an arm altogether. This is not the whole of the attack, as the soldier pulls back, the halberd hand behind him begins to stab, the long beryllium (pi) hand sees the gap and stabs wildly, and the last hand raises the copper hand and slams it from above.

Where there are five soldiers, the long is to guard the short, and the short is to save the long. Every weapon in the military formation was exquisite, and four columns of armor soldiers cooperated in battle. The Assassins were the opponents of the Armor Soldiers, and within a few minutes of the two sides fighting each other, most of the fifty Assassins fell to the ground and died, and finally three or five people were surrounded by the Armor Soldiers, and the reason why they were still alive was because the general Deng Sui wanted to stay alive.

"Take it!" Before the Assassins could kill themselves, Deng ordered them to be captured alive, and a battle between lions and rabbits ended.

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"Your Highness, the villain's status is low, and he doesn't dare to be above the doctor." In the mansion, Xiong Jing was about to get into the carriage and return to the palace, and he seemed to have stayed here for too long. Shao Yan, who was declared to be in charge of the woodwork area, trembled and hoped that he would change the order.

"But the doctor doesn't know how to run water." The appointment of Shaoyan is indeed a bit politically incorrect, he is just the son of a servant, and Xiong Jing can only make a mistake. "Wouldn't it be more convincing for everyone to change the order as soon as it is issued?"

"Dare to ask Your Highness, do you still need to use a belt for the small assembly line?" Shaoyan is a smart person, otherwise he would not be relied on by Xiong Jing, he turned to ask about manufacturing, and he couldn't figure out how to adjust the small assembly line.

"Be sure to produce standard parts according to customization, and be sure to strengthen random inspection. As for the method of small assembly lines...... "Xiong Jinglian said two musts. To be honest, how to change the small assembly line, he didn't know if he hadn't tried it, but he remembered that SC posted an article describing the wartime production of the United States and Japan during World War II.

"Let them figure it out for themselves." Xiong Jing replied. "Pay attention to the versatility of parts and the quality of finished products, and let others go; The second is to find good ways to promote them quickly. Remember not to be their enemy, but to be their friend and respect their will. ”

"Yui." Xiong Jing is giving the guiding principle, keep in mind the words of less salt.

"Okay, I'll go back." Xiong Jing once again saluted Gong Yin Dao, Gong Yijian and others, and then got into the carriage.

"Your Highness, there are assassins on the road, but they were all captured by General Deng." This time, it was Cai Bao himself as Xiong Jing's royal hand, and when the procession back to the palace marched through the wasteland, columns of armor soldiers stood on the side of the road, so as not to salute.

"The Assassin," the sky was dark, and the full moon had come out, faintly like an ink painting. Xiong Jing in the carriage couldn't see the corpses of the assassins one by one on the grass in the distance, and he didn't understand the situation. "Who will assassinate you?"

"I don't know." In addition to the side door of the four-wheeled carriage, according to the tradition of the carriage of the Chu State, a door was also opened in front of the carriage, and Cai Bao knelt at the door to answer. When he left the palace, he felt that something was wrong, but he didn't expect that when he came back, the assassin had already been killed by Deng Sui.

"How far is the palace?" Xiong Jing leaned on a table, his hand stroking a strange pair of harnesses.

"Your Highness, there are still two miles." Cai Bao replied, and then said to the outside world: "Pass the order and return to the palace quickly." ”

"Hurry back to the palace." The order was passed to the front and rear chariots, and the soldiers ran. Watching the crown prince's queue speed back to the palace, Deng Sui, who was standing on the side of the road, was a little disappointed, but the temple man Li Zi was happy, in his opinion, only the palace was safe, and the sooner the crown prince returned to the palace, the sooner the king and the servants were at ease.

The two-mile road is not far, and you only need to pass through the private workshop area to see the east gate of the palace. The speed of the running armor was not slow, and the bell on the flagpole jingled on the speeding carriage. Xiong Jing didn't care about the speed of the team, and his attention was all on the harness on the saddle, which was his last Takahashi saddle, as well as a pair of horseshoes and stirrups.

Although cavalry without stirrups can also charge into battle, after all, the state of Chu is in the south, there are very few people who can ride horses, and horses are mostly used for driving, and there are only 2,000 formal cavalry in the army, and they only have the duty of reconnaissance; In the Zhao Kingdom, there were about 20,000 cavalry, and there were many people who could ride horses; The number of cavalry in the Qin State, like other figures, has never been known, but it certainly will not be less than 10,000.

Compared with Qin and Zhao, Chu needed harness and stirrups for later generations. However, Xiong Jing also knows that the inventor of the technology is not necessarily the beneficiary of the technology. The emergence of stirrups, the most beneficiary is definitely Rong Di Donghu, then Qin Zhao, Han Wei second, and finally Chu State, which is located in southern Xinjiang and has no source of war horses. The horseshoe is nailed to the horse's shoe, the lacquer on the skull is generally invisible, the saddle is placed on the horse's back, which is already somewhat conspicuous, and there are stirrups on both sides, and they can't cover it if they want to.

It is the basic principle that stirrups are used without leaking, Xiong Jing originally wanted to plan a cavalry training ground somewhere in Chu State, but that day he saw that his sister who was learning female red was making a hakama (ku), and he instantly had a whim: Why can't you cover the stirrups with trouser tubes?

A hook is set at a suitable position on each edge of the saddle, which is connected to the ring that connects the upper end of the stirrup rope, but only the ring is outside the trouser tube, and the rope tied to the ring is completely hidden in the trouser tube. The trousers were large and long, long enough to cover the stirrups with boots at the lower ends.

Stirrup pants, this is the name of the bear. Wearing stirrup pants, others can only see the knight's knees close to the saddle, and even if they see the rings on the knees that connect to the saddle, they can't guess that there is a stirrup in the trousers underneath, unless they are both horses and horses. As long as the stirrup cavalry does not fight, or wins the battle and controls the battlefield, no one can guess the mystery inside the trousers.

The only regret is that it is extremely inconvenient to dismount urgently, not to mention the knight's feet in the stirrups, and the calves are also in the trousers, and if you want to dismount, you must tear the trousers, if the trousers are too strong to tear, maybe you will die on the horse.

The car is in a hurry, and the bell is young, and the street scene on the lights makes people feel more warm, but at this moment, 'woo-', the sound of heavy objects breaking through the air suddenly came, and Cai Bao outside the car didn't see what was flying at all, so he jumped into the car and shouted: "There are assassins!" ”