Chapter 447: Giant Crossbow

Among the 20,000 Hun cavalry who rushed over, several 10,000 cavalry commanders who led the troops saw the military formation arranged by Gaoshun in the north of Mayi City at a glance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"This is the soldier and horse of the Rancho?" Hu Yu laughed: "Think that erecting a row of big shields can stop the charge of my clan's wolf riders? I'm afraid he hasn't been on the battlefield, right? That seven-foot shield can also block our cavalry? Let them take a look! ”

"The state belongs to my clan!" Wen Tu's expression was cold, but his eyes revealed fanaticism: "Let's fight today!" ”

Su Li showed a cruel smile on his face: "Rush over, ten thousand arrows are fired together, give an order, kill the shepherd of the state and enter a thousand lengths!" I'm going to make a wine vessel out of the head of the shepherd!" ”

Zhelu yelled even more: "Kill! Rush over and kill all the useless Han soldiers! Grab gold, silver and food, and grab the beautiful Han woman! Grab it! ”

The Huns have a rebelliousness and madness in their bones, just like wolves, the more they are leaders, the more rebellious and ferocious they are, otherwise they will not be able to be leaders.

"Whew!" When a group of Hun cavalry heard the order of several 10,000 cavalry commanders, they immediately shouted wildly: "Rob!" ”

The Huns have a preference for gentle Han women, a group of thousands of chiefs, hundreds of chiefs with their cavalry to speed up the charge, the war horses galloped, one by one the Hun cavalry galloped in the horn bow, the eyes revealed a bloodthirsty light, the frequent battles and annexations of the nomadic tribes, so that these people have long been accustomed to unearned plunder.

The 20,000 cavalry galloped like thunder, and when they approached the Gaoshun army formation of a thousand paces, they were suddenly divided into three roads, with a scimitar and a horn bow in the middle, and a horn bow on the left and right wings.

Unlike the Qianghu soldiers, who like to use long weapons and horses to fight, the most powerful thing for the Huns is to ride and shoot with scimitars.

To deal with the Han cavalry or cavalry of other ethnic groups, they rely on their skillful ability to bow and horse, and if they can fight, they can fight, and if they can't, they will retreat, and against the Han infantry, their most effective means is to rush in the middle, and the left and right roads are like flying kites and galloping, so that the infantry camp is chaotic, and then cut vertically and horizontally, almost invincible.

The distance of a thousand steps is only a matter of an eye for the cavalry rushing quickly, the distance between the two sides is quickly closer, and in the blink of an eye it is nearly two hundred steps, as long as it is within a hundred steps, the Huns will send out the first wave of arrow rain and launch the most ferocious and fierce attack!

In the shield array, fifty crossbows had already been firmly stuck on the ground, separated by a few feet, and there were fifty people on the side of each crossbow, guarded by small shieldmen and pikemen, and the remaining twenty-two people were all operating crossbows.

The seven-foot-long spear was wound before the cart left the city gate, and the spear was sharp, and the back was made of iron feathers, which were equally sharp.

The Hun cavalry entered one hundred and fifty steps!

"Put!" Gao Shun sighed.

"Roar!"

Almost simultaneously, the fifty soldiers in charge of firing the crossbow raised their sledgehammers and slammed them into the crossbow trigger!

Bang! As the trigger was hammered down, the tight crossbow string rebounded violently.

Woo! Woo! Woo!

Fifty giant spears roared sharply, and instantly pierced the military formation from between the arrays, shooting directly at the Hun iron cavalry that rushed over.

At this time, the Hun iron cavalry had not yet released arrows, and they had not yet reached the range of the horn bow.

Fifty giant spears were almost in a row, in no particular order, and pierced towards the galloping Hun iron horsemen.

The leather armor of the Huns had almost no effect, and the Hun cavalry in the front row only had time to show a look of horror in their eyes, and the giant spear passed through their chests, the speed was too fast, the force was too great, and their bodies did not shake at all, and they were penetrated by the giant spear.

Then the momentum of the giant spear did not decrease, and then penetrated the second, third, fourth, and fifth rows......

Some even penetrated the horse's body directly, the same first, second, and third rows......

In the blink of an eye, the Hun cavalry that rushed to the forefront fell hundreds of horses.

Hu Yu, Su Li and others in the team looked horrified, they had seen the crossbow of the Han people, but they had never seen such a powerful giant crossbow!

The hundreds of cavalry that fell were nothing to the 20,000 cavalry, but they suddenly messed up the shock formation, and the cavalry who were galloping behind them were tripped and fell, and the people turned over on their backs, and were trampled into meat in the blink of an eye, which frustrated their sharpness even more!

"Kill! Rush over! Hu Yu yelled: "Kill in, shoot those crossbowmen!" ”

He was well-informed, and knew that this kind of giant crossbow was launched at a long interval, and it was usually one or two waves in battle, and as long as the cavalry charged fast, they could not even shoot a second wave.

Moreover, the cavalry rushed and was so close to the enemy that they were not allowed to stop or retreat, otherwise they would have suffered countless casualties if they trampled on each other, and now they could only rush forward with a shout!

"Kill!" After the Hun cavalry was shocked, they became even more crazy in a blink of an eye, and entered a hundred steps in a blink of an eye!

"Put!" In the middle of the military formation, Gao Shun issued a second order.

Airplanes! Under the cover of the shield, a wave of crossbow arrows roared and poured out.

Yes! Whew!

The Hun cavalry, which rushed to the front, fell again.

If the crossbow is a piercing longitudinal injury to the Hun cavalry formation, then this wave of crossbow arrows is a piece wound.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Huyu, Zhelu, Su Li and other ten thousand horsemen were like spitting fire, they never thought that their cavalry would be killed and injured before an arrow was issued, and at least a thousand horsemen fell.

Those crossbow arrows were not necessarily fatal wounds, but the fallen Hun cavalry was trampled to death by their comrades who rushed from behind, which was the deadliest cavalry attack.

You must not fall, for to fall is death!

"Kill!" Hu Yu and other 10,000 cavalry commanders, thousands of Xiongnu army commanders, and 100 zhang roared wildly, they thought that the crossbow arrows of the Han people were these two batches.

But the truth made them angry and desperate.

"Put!"

Gao Shun's orders came one after another.

The crossbow bolts were almost wave after wave, and they didn't stop.

They used the method of stacked shooting, and all the crossbowmen and archers were divided into three columns, the first column was quickly loaded with arrows after shooting, the second column followed closely with the arrows, and then the third column, which did not give the Huns a respite at all.

The range of the Xiongnu's horn bow was short, and the leather armor of the Xiongnu soldiers could not resist the crossbow arrows, and within this one hundred and fifty steps, it became a place of death, and in the blink of an eye, more than 3,000 cavalry were killed, and most of them died from the trampling of the rear horse.

The Xiongnu's fierce offensive was frustrated, and many cavalry actually reined in their horses and slowed down, but were rushed by the rear army.

In the middle of the array, after the first wave of attacks from the fifty crossbows, the soldiers in charge of loading the arrows next to the crossbows quickly hooked the ropes of the winch to the string, and then ten soldiers on each side of each crossbow quickly turned the winch to pull the crossbow string.

The crossbow pushed to the battlefield this time is all two-bow crossbow, equipped with two bows on the crossbow bed, relatively placed, respectively placed in the front and rear of the thick crossbow arm, the middle is connected by a pulley, which strengthens the tension and strength of the crossbow, and the two sides behind the crossbow are twisting shafts, which require twenty soldiers to twist the winding, and there are three-bow crossbows, but it takes hundreds of people to twist the shaft to wind.

It is the crossbow that is strong, so the power is great, the range is long, and the lethality is strong.

Twenty soldiers worked together to wind the crossbow string with a twisted shaft, and the crossbow string was opened and fastened to the teeth, and a soldier next to him quickly loaded the giant spear, and when it was fired, the force of the human hand could not pull the trigger at all.

"Roar!" The crossbowman roared again and slammed the trigger down with a sledgehammer.

Woo! Woo! Woo!

A second wave of spears fired.

This time, the Huns rushed closer, and the lethality of the giant spear was stronger, and almost every spear penetrated more than ten people.

At a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, the Huns left more than 5,000 corpses.

And their horn bows did not form an effective attack at all, and the panicked and scattered firing did not cause any damage to Gao Shun's military formation.

In the Hun array, Hu Yu and other 10,000 cavalry commanders were almost crazy, this result was something they never expected, in a few breaths, their losses exceeded any battle in three hundred years!

"Kill! Slaughter these Han people, slaughter and merge states! The deer hissed and roared.

The huge loss made several 10,000 cavalry commanders lose their minds.