Chapter 119: Eight Stone Accumulation Ox Crossbow
As he was talking, he only heard a loud shout: "General, Meng Fan is here!" ”
I saw that Meng Fan led his troops to rush over the two pontoon bridges respectively, followed by the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who were running at full speed like a long dragon, and on the pontoon bridge behind Mai Mengcai, at the break of the ninth pontoon bridge, there were constantly soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who ran to the front, jumping into the river like dumplings, and then flowing in the waist-deep river, fluttering and rushing to the river bank.
In almost half of the Liao River leaning against the bank of the river, there were such soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army, one foot deep and one foot shallow, walking in the water, one of them threw away the shield and lance in his hand, but he touched the river all the way, and found the iron rod of the wheat iron staff, and now he was holding the staff high, with a happy smile on his face, marching towards the river bank!
This time, the Xiaoguo army that rushed across the river bank had already learned the lesson of the previous time, and as soon as they came ashore, they raised their shields above their heads, and in groups of three, one person used a large shield to defend the front, and two people used shields to block the heads of the three people to prevent the Goguryeo army from hanging shots, and on this basis, they slowly formed a small team, and the team formed a horizontal team, kicking the corpses on the river bank into the river to clear the space, and at the same time began to line up at the fastest speed on the river bank.
In just ten minutes, five or six thousand people lined up in a standard ten horizontal formations on the riverbank, and the five hundred people in the front row held the front with a large shield, forming a line of lance forest, while the soldiers in the rear raised their shields to the sky and covered their heads tightly, looking like an invulnerable steel forest!
On the Yongji Canal, the right Yiwei sailors under the command of Hu Benlang have also been dispatched, hundreds of ships of different sizes set sail, and in the continuous shouting of the sailors, thousands of oars repeated a single action, operating the boats, carrying a boatload of fully armed sailors and soldiers, heading to the opposite shore.
The fence of the Wei army camp on the opposite bank was built on a high ground fifty or sixty steps away from the river bank, and the dense fence was covered with thick black mud, and behind the fence were vertical shields with blue-faced fanged ghost heads, and above these shields, they were also covered with heavy and thick wooden shields, and many of them had been inserted with arrows of the Sui army.
"Heavy crossbow bolts ready, fire!"
With the order of Laicheng, Laiyi, the youngest and tenth son of Laihu'er, quickly raised a red flag and shook it three times, and the soldiers of the Right Yiwei Water Division who were ordered to quickly operate a large-shaped crossbow machine that was half a person high and weighed dozens of catties in a group of two or three people.
The crossbow arm on this crossbow machine is not an ordinary crossbow arrow, but a broken lance more than two feet long, the tip of the spear is like the head of a poisonous snake, spitting a letter, and raising the head that means death in the Goguryeo army formation on the opposite side, these are the big killing weapons developed by the Sui army--- Eight Stone Ox Crossbow!
The sound of the machine spring firing was endless, hundreds of broken lances shot out, and the soldiers who were pulling the strings in the back couldn't stand one by one, and fell backwards, the power of these eight-stone ox crossbows was much stronger than the ordinary two-stone infantry crossbows, and they were close to the Wanjun Divine Crossbow, the big killer weapon of the Qiannan Chen Kingdom, but the stability was much stronger, and it was launched at a distance of twenty or thirty paces, not to mention the wooden shield wall, even if it was an iron shield, it could be shot through!
"Pounce~! Strike~! Strike~! ”
The sound of the broken shield was endless, followed by screams and muffled snorts, behind the shield wall of the Wei army, blood gushed out, and after each trajectory of the broken lance's flight, one or two shields four or five steps wide fell to the ground.
Dozens of lance tips stood straight through the bodies of three or four Wei soldiers, punching terrible blood holes in their chests, and then brought them to the three or four people in the back, strung together, and seven or eight corpses were like dominoes, smashing down the surrounding twenty or thirty people.
The front, which was three or four miles wide, was actually shot at close range by this eight-stone bull crossbow, which was full of holes, and the fence fell to the ground, and the Goguryeo soldiers behind also suffered hundreds of casualties, and the first shield wall defense line collapsed almost instantly!
Seeing that the shield wall of the Wei army was opened one by one, from the fence to the shield wall were all crooked, and a large number of Wei hoplites wearing leather armor, holding spears, and wearing leather helmets were exposed at once, they obviously had quietly changed the formation just now, and replaced the archers in front with lancers to hold the first line of defense behind the fence, and it was precisely because of this that the density of bows and arrows suddenly became much more sparse.
Seeing this, Mai Mengcai quickly judged the situation on the battlefield and decisively ordered: "The whole army is attacking!" Lao Qian, you take 2,000 people to protect the flanks, Lao Meng, you take the shield soldiers and the long lance soldiers to the front, and I take the brothers who lost the long weapons in the Chinese army. ”
Meng Fan raised his arms and shouted, "Brothers, rush with me!" ”
"Rush~! Come on~! Come on~! ”
Under the dispatch of the three main generals, the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who landed on the shore quickly formed their teams and began to attack the whole line!
"Order, the front army retreats fifty paces! Fast! Xu Shiji's face changed when he saw this artifact, but he didn't see this big killing weapon, this kind of thing was placed on the city wall of the eastern capital, Wang Shichong once used this eight-stone bull crossbow to cause considerable casualties to the Wei soldiers in Luoshui.
Shen Luoyan saw that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to him, and he was also anxious: "General Xu, the situation is not right now, your tricks are quickly used!" ”
"Yes, General, let Qiu Xiaogang lead the cavalry to charge now! At least first crush the Sui army registered on the bank of the river! Deputy General Zhang Liang couldn't hold his breath anymore and persuaded.
"Whew~! That... Xu Shiji exhaled quickly, and almost couldn't help but order the cavalry to charge, but in an instant, he looked at the steel forest that Mai Mengcai had already formed and frowned.
"General, give the order!" Adjutant General Zhang Liang pleaded.
Suddenly, Xu Shiji saw a black smoke floating from the upper reaches of the Yongji Canal, this sky-high smoke covered the sky and the sun, covering almost the entire surface of the river, and was sweeping downstream at great speed along the current, as if it was going to devour everything that dared to stop it.
"Hey~! Order, let Qiu Xiaogang continue to standby! Tell the former army commander Guo Xiaoke, give me to resist to the death, and I must not go up to the Sui army to break through the fence of our military camp! Xu Shiji immediately dispelled his impulsive thoughts and ordered categorically.
Seeing this, Shen Luoyan and Zhang Liang were not reckless people, they both looked at Xu Shiji's gaze and asked, "General, what is that smoke?" ”
Xu Shiji smiled slightly and said, "It's the big gift I prepared for Laihu'er!" ”
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