"Hurry up, do your best!"

"Oops!"

"Hurry up, push hard!"

"Oops...... hey"

Luo Gang, who was black and thin, with gaps on his lips and his cheeks sunburned the plateau red, was struggling to urge the soldiers of the Ballista Brigade of the First General Engineer Battalion of the Indoctrination Regiment to push the ballista cart forward, while limping forward with crutches.

His reaction was particularly severe after he went to the plateau, and he fell ill three days later. When others are sick, they can go to the stone town on the mountainside to recuperate, but Luo Gang can't go to recuperate, because he is the only engineer expert from the professional class in the Great Education Regiment, and he also repairs firearms - because cannons and muskets have not yet been invented, there are no independent firearms in the new army of the Song army, but small firearms are distributed to crossbowmen, and large firearms are classified as engineers. Therefore, the engineering department of the Knight Academy is also a major in the use of large firearms.

And the large firearms that are now produced by the Jiehe Shang City Repair Institute are the ballista carts that are now being pushed to the front line by the horse-dragged men. The name of the ballista cart is Wu Hao ancient, in fact, the eight-bull crossbow is equipped with wheels and a tailframe that can be supported on the ground, and this tailframe can be connected to a two-wheeled carriage by hooks, so as to become a ballista cart similar to the modern European bronze artillery "gun carriage".

Because the design is not very reasonable, the structure is neither flexible nor robust. Therefore, these "ballista trucks" were very difficult during the movement, and they were damaged from time to time and needed to be repaired, which made the engineer ballista team of the Great Education Regiment suffer enough.

As the head of the engineer of the Great Education Corps, Luo Gang, who is also the head of the ballista team, naturally cannot leave these dozen ballista trucks down the mountain to recuperate. As long as he gritted his teeth and persisted, he was simply burning his life - he was really miserable as an official! In fact, with his talent, if he studies hard, Zhongjinshi may still be quite big, but he is obsessed with small paths such as construction and equipment. Now I have to be a hard "tech man"...... But the path you choose has to climb to the end!

"Prepare (Luo Gang is still a battalion ready general), the Alai Pass has arrived!"

The escort of the ballista team, who is also his cousin, a black-faced man named Luo Li, came up at this time to help Luo Gang.

Rogan looked up in front of him, and saw only a large group of cavalry and archers marching through the wide valley pass. On the left side of the valley mouth, there is a huge pile of corpses, many feet high, all of them are stacked on top of each other of dead people, and there are some men who should be Kashgar refugees, under the protection of the infantry of the Hexi Army, pulling a cart of dead people from somewhere in the valley. It looks like the battle in the valley is going on very brutally!

Luo Gang, who had seen too much killing, didn't pay much attention to this pile of dead people, just retracted his gaze, and then continued to pant and walk towards the battlefield where the confrontation was taking place on the right side of the valley.

The battlefield on the western shore of Kara Lake was quiet at this time. Sanjar's army was on the defensive, still frozen. And Xiao Heda was also calm. He only mobilized Chen Jian's cavalry to chase down the fleeing armed refugees of the Qarakhanid Dynasty; While asking for help from the Chinese army in the rear, he transferred archers belonging to the seven infantry generals of the Hexi Army.

The seven infantry of the Hexi Army will have a total of forty-two archers (the Hexi Army has no boundary river crossbows), and there are more than 4,000 archers at full strength, and there are still less than 3,300 archers to go into battle. They were not equipped with a stubborn horn bow, but a foot bow with eight or nine buckets or even a stone rally, and they were also equipped with armor-piercing heavy arrows, although not as powerful as the Jiehe crossbow, but at least twice the effective range of the stubborn sheep's horn bow (riding bow, using the horn of the stubborn horn as the main material).

Moreover, these archers were not traditional Song army archers who did not pay attention to the accuracy of archery, but the elite of the Hexi army. Anyone can shoot at close range, and the hit rate is very high - the so-called "invincibility of mounted archery" is actually based on the fact that nomadic cavalry who are good at mounted archery have higher archery skills. If they meet an archer who is also good at archery, it will basically not end well.

Of course, the archers of the Song army were not very accurate. But they have a crossbow! In the Song army, it was usually the Shenjian crossbow that was responsible for accurate shooting, and the archers provided covering firepower. Therefore, the infantry of the Song army was never afraid of cavalry shooting, and if they were afraid of cavalry shooting, the Khitans who had already given the steppe nomadic cavalry would perish.

As the archers of the Hexi Army continued to drive over, Sanjar, who was quite composed, was a little panicked. Originally, there were only more than 1,000 crossbowmen in the Song army's battle formation who were ready to shoot arrows, but now there were more than 3,000 archers. On Sanjar's side, the bows and arrows of the Persian mercenaries were not too powerful. The Western Tajiks, Ghul Knights, and Ghazni Knights were also not very good at using bows and arrows, and only the Ghulam warriors were good at shooting. However, the knights on the Song army's side could also shoot arrows, but they didn't take out bows and arrows.

In addition, Sanjar also knows that professional infantry archers usually have a longer range foot bow! This is something that the Gullam knights cannot compare. And the enemy also has a crossbow with amazing lethality, although there are not many of them, but the armor of the Ghulam warriors can't block the crossbow arrows, and if you shoot one shot, the casualties will be great!

Time passed slowly in Sanjar's hesitation and the confrontation between the two armies. Although the Song army received reinforcements from a large group of archers, it did not take the initiative to launch an "arrow battle", but waited in formation. Just when Sanjar thought the two sides were likely to face off until dark, Rogon's 18 ballistae were finally dragged onto the battlefield.

"What is this?" Sanjar muttered to himself.

"It seems to be a Roman ballista!" The erudite Bukhari replied, "It doesn't seem to be the same......

"Pass my order," Sanjar said, "to make the soldiers of the first ten rows crouch down, and then overturn the wagons to defend against the enemy's ballistas!" ”

At the same time, Luo Gang, who was a little dizzy, was reporting to Xiao Heda.

"Xiao Junji, all 18 ballistas are in place, and each ballista is equipped with 20 burst arrows and 20 ordinary giant arrows. Please give the order to the military aircraft! ”

Xiao Heda nodded, he raised his horsewhip and pointed at the Persian infantry in the center of the enemy formation, "Aim all the ballistas at them, and each ballista will shoot 5 bursting arrows first!" ”

"Whoa!"

Xiao Heda said again: "Order the crossbowmen and archers to follow the ballista forward and line up on both sides of the ballista. After the ballista is fired, they step forward and fire the feather arrows, and each team of crossbowmen and archers fires ten rounds in a volley.

The first and second generals of the cavalry, and the first and second generals of the infantry of the indoctrination regiment were each sent forward to cover the crossbowmen, archers, and ballistas! ”

"Whoa!"

"Whoa!"

The herald rushed away, and Rogan limped to the front to mobilize his eighteen ballista wagons. According to Xiao Heda's order, his ballista was to shoot 90 burst arrows in one go. It's not a lot, but it's a great honor for the Persian infantry, who has never been bombarded!

In later records, they were the first infantry in human history to be bombarded with gunpowder weapons. Before the burst rockets descended from the sky, the Persians crouched comfortably behind the overturned carts. I had no idea how lucky I was!

Click......

The Persians didn't squat for long when the sound of wooden planks shattering was heard. Except for a few burst rockets that flew over the heads of the crouching Persians, and somewhere they landed, most of the eighteen burst rockets fired out in the first wave were inserted into the upside-down cart.

"Haha, stupid heretic!"

"It's all shot on the wood......"

Before the laughter of the Persians reached its climax, a scene of consternation arose. With a shrill roar of unknown reason, the carts that stood in front of them shattered, and there were many broken wooden blocks, planks, and sawdust, which were propelled into the air by some mysterious force, and then fell down again, and some on the heads of the Persians.

What's going on?

It must be black magic!

Pray to the One and One!

The Persians were much more conscious than the Qarakhanids, who had converted to the Celestial Sect for hundreds of years, and of course knew that the correct way to deal with the devil was to pray...... Usually useful, as long as they encounter the real devil.

But this time, I don't know if the Heavenly Sect can't control the devils on the Song Dynasty's side, anyway, their prayers are useless, but the second wave of bursting rockets quickly flew over. Some of them still hit the wooden plank, some of them fell into the crowd, and some of them pierced directly into the human body! The screams rang out immediately, but it was already expected by everyone. So what should be prayed is still praying, but praying is still ineffective...... Boom Boom!

Bursts of explosions were made in the crowd, flashes of fire, and then smoke rose, and cries, screams, and terrible screams followed. Of course, there are many who pray to Allah with more devotion. It's just that they got it wrong, and it's science, not magic, that appears on the battlefield today. So, the third, fourth, and fifth waves of bursting rocket salvos were quickly shot.

"O Allah! Is this black magic?" The erudite Bukhari did not know that there was such a thing as a burst arrow, and thought it was magic, so he hurriedly climbed off his horse, and quickly took out his blanket and spread it on the ground, and was about to pray.

"Bukhari, is it time for prayer?" Sanjar looked a little strange, so he asked.

"Emir, don't you see that the heretics of the Peach Blossom Stone have summoned the devil and are using magic to attack our soldiers? I want to pray to Allah......"

"! That's not devils and magic, it's the weapons of the Upper Peach Blossom Stone, what kind of gunpowder is called, something similar to Roman fire. ”

Similar to Roman fire? Bukhari said in his heart: "It's not good, it seems that we still have to pray......

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