Chapter 182: The World's First Divine Crossbow
Thundered~
A team of chariots, horses and cavalry galloped on the plain, grass clippings splashing everywhere, and dust was flying, it was Zhao Hao and his troops.
The seed master is right, the Great Liao River is down, the soldiers and horses are concentrated in the northeast Huanglongfu area, the south is only a symbolic number of soldiers and horses, the hinterland is simply empty, after the Yanjing section, this way to run, no longer need to travel day and night, unimpeded, as long as they do not attack the city, there is no soldiers and horses can stop their peers.
The so-called crossing thousands of miles of Liao Land is just full of danger at both ends and two tails, otherwise how could the Seed Master Dao come up with such a strategy.
Zhao Hao just stared at the Yandi rivers and mountains south of the Great Wall, and the eyes of the generals behind him were full of light, just staring at everything that was unfolding in front of him.
The Swallow Plain unfolded before their eyes, and the land produced almost everything that any powerful nation of this era needed. Abundant grain, enough fish salt, forests, ironstone...... The rich and vast flat land in front of you stretches to the end of the line of sight I don't know how far, the Xiaoxiaogu River in the distance hangs horizontally in the distance like a jade belt, and the city of Jizhou is dotted between the reckless plains, this vast everything, has been away from the Han people for a long time.
Xi Yuyu!
Zhao Hao reined in his horse's feet, pointed to a small river in front of him, and said loudly: "Let's rest for a while." ”
The military order was quickly passed down, and all the soldiers cheered, dismounted and ran towards the river, only a few soldiers who knew Qin dialect were deliberately shouting loudly.
The river was murmuring, and the soldiers untied the water bladder one after another to fill a water bladder, and chewed the bread and jerky in a big gulp of the cool river water, and ate it with relish.
The sun is setting, and the remnant sun is like blood.
Zhao Hao took the beef jerky and water bladder handed by Fang Baihua, and looked at the soldiers bathing in the sunset, unconsciously with mixed feelings.
More than half a month ago, he was still the son of the clan of brocade clothes and jade food, a member of the fourth grade, and the commander of the brocade guard who walked cross-shouldered in Bianliang City, but now he took a group of brothers to sleep in the open, was born and died, and went to Liaodong, the difference is too big, but ...... Lao Tzu likes it!
Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves ahead, which shook like rolling thunder over the plain.
Zhao Hao's heart was excited, and he hurriedly looked up
By the sunset, it can be seen that a dark cloud of black pressure is rushing forward, and when it is closer, it can be seen that hundreds of cavalry are outflanking everyone.
The faces of Zhao Hao, Yang Keshi and the others instantly turned pale.
That's the soldiers and horses of the Liao people!
Five or six hundred cavalry of the Liao army, non-stop, indomitable, came towards Zhao Hao viciously, and saw that they were more than two miles away.
Yang Keshi hurriedly shouted: "Get on the horse!" ”
More than 300 well-trained elite cavalrymen immediately turned on their horses, raised their weapons, and soon entered the battle state. And Fang Baihua, Liang Hongyu and Wu Song led dozens of brocade-clothed guards to crowd around Zhao Hao.
Yang Keshi saw that the enemy army was getting closer and closer, but he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, it is not the cavalry of the Liao people...... Queue up, prepare crossbows! ”
More than 300 elite horsemen immediately lined up in formation under the command of Han Shizhong, Lu Zhishen and others, and raised their crossbows one by one, mounted arrows on crossbows, and aimed ahead.
Divine Arm Crossbow!
Zhao Hao stared closely at the big crossbow in the hands of the three hundred cavalrymen, and his heart became slightly excited.
The Divine Arm Crossbow, also known as the Divine Arm Bow, the bow body is three feet three feet long, and the string length is two feet five, in fact, it is a kind of strong crossbow, the crossbow body hides a mechanism, the range is far more than 340 steps, it is said that the elm wood that is shot more than 240 steps away, can still enter the elm half an arrow, which can be seen its amazing penetrating power, which is far beyond the reach of ordinary crossbow arrows.
This is simply the strongest crossbow in the world, but it is a pity that the production process is too complicated, even if it is a skilled craftsman, it takes several months to make one, so that in the entire Song army, there are only more than a thousand.
More than 300 elite cavalrymen of the Western Army did not seem to take the Liao cavalry in front of them in their eyes at all, and their eyes were full of murderous aura.
The enemy army is getting closer and closer, and gradually the shouts of the Liao cavalry can be heard in Khitan language, and the strong crossbows in the hands of the generals are raised higher.
Three hundred and fifty steps!
Three hundred steps!
Two hundred and fifty steps!
Yang Keshi yelled: "Release the arrow!" ”
Woo Woo Woo ~ The sound of the air being pierced was loud, and three hundred crossbow arrows shot out, shooting fiercely at the enemy cavalry, as fast as a meteor.
For the first time in his life, Zhao Hao saw the power of this world's strongest crossbow.
Puff puff~
The terrifying lethality of the god arm crossbow made the Liao cavalry in the front row fall down from the horse one after another like straw, and many war horses were also shot down by crossbow arrows, this terrifying penetrating power whether people or horses were hit by arrows, either killed or seriously injured, for a time the sound of flesh and bone tearing, screams, and horse neighing were endless, and the formation of the Liao cavalry was in an uproar.
After a round of crossbow arrows, the enemy army has fallen hundreds of people, the front army has been heavily damaged, trampled by the rear army, and affected the formation of the rear army, and the enemy formation has been in chaos.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the leading enemy general hurriedly raised his sword and roared.
Those Liao cavalry who were not afraid of death heard the roar of the enemy general, and their spirits were immediately lifted, and their cries were like thunder, without slowing down their speed in the slightest, and they still rushed forward to kill.
"Reload the arrows!" Yang Keshi roared.
At this time, the enemy still has a distance of more than 200 paces, as long as the speed is fast enough, it is enough to shoot within 100 paces of the enemy, of course, this speed can only be achieved by the elite of the Western army.
Sure enough, when the cavalry of the Liao army approached within 100 paces, the elite of the Western Army had already loaded their crossbow arrows.
Woo Woo Woo ~ With Yang Keshi's order, he shot out again, and the Liao cavalry fell down a large area in the crazy rain of arrows, and lost nearly 100 people.
This time, because the distance is close and the power is even greater, Zhao Hao finally knows what it means to be "broken".
He saw a crossbow arrow enter through the neck of the horse under the crotch of the enemy cavalry, and then burst out again, and after shooting into the chest of the cavalryman on horseback, only the tail of the arrow was left shaking.
There was also a crossbow arrow, which actually pierced the throat of a cavalryman in front of him, and then penetrated the chest of a Liao soldier behind him, and after breaking through the armor and flesh and bones, it could be shot through again.
The divine arm crossbow is indeed the first crossbow in the world, terrifying!
After two rounds of arrow rain, less than 300 of the more than 500 Liao troops remained, and the strength of the two armies was already equal.
Yang Keshi raised a war gun and shouted: "Kill!" ”
Before the words fell, a general took the lead in riding out from his side, the war horse was like the wind, the glaive knife was like lightning, and he rushed towards the rebels, and it was Lu Zhishen.
Returning to the army, Lu Zhishen has also returned to the customs, put on the battle armor, and then use the Zen staff is a bit nondescript, so he returned the sixty-one pounds of water mill Zen staff to the furnace and made a sixty-one pound glaive knife, compared to Guan Erye's treasure knife, only one green dragon is missing.
Lu Zhishen has not been on the battlefield for a long time, especially for missing the battle against Western Xia, and now that he has returned to the battlefield, he is extremely excited, so as soon as he heard Yang Keshi's order, he rushed out impatiently.
Kill!
Kill!
Kill!
Yang Keshi, Han Shizhong and the elite cavalry of the Western Army behind him also shouted loudly in unison, followed closely behind Lu Zhishen, and rushed away.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Zhishen had already rushed into the cavalry of the Liao army, and with his sword in his hand, he cut down two roadblockers, killing and slashing all the way, as if entering a no-man's land, and went straight to the banner of the rebel army.
Seeing that he was only a dozen steps away from the main general of the Liao army, Lu Zhishen let out a thunderous roar, and the glaive knife in his hand waved like a splash of wind, and the fierce knife momentum frightened the enemy soldiers into dodging one after another, making way for them.
Lu Zhishen rushed towards the chief general of the Liao army who had not yet reacted like a whirlwind, and the sixty-one-pound glaive knife was like thunder, moving forward, and striking with all his strength, the stone was shocked.
The panicked Liao army commander hurriedly stretched out his long knife to block.
As soon as the long knife was stretched out, the unstoppable glaive knife had already slashed his neck, the sharp blade broke down from the neck into the flesh and bones, blood gushed out like a fountain, and the long knife in his hand fell to the ground, killing him instantly.
The glaive sword was raised diagonally, and the body of the Liao army's chief general was suspended in mid-air.
At the same time, Han Shizhong, who was the first to come, also broke into the enemy formation on horseback, roared angrily, and the big flag was also slashed down by Han Shizhong's banner soldiers.
Before the battle, the small half of the soldiers and horses were lost, and now the main general was killed again, and the formation flag was also cut down, where did the cavalry of the Liao army still have the fighting spirit, they all shouted in unison, and they all turned around and ran, and those who ran slowly were squeezed off their horses and trampled to death.
The Liao army came quickly, withdrew faster, and in the blink of an eye, it ran clean.
The red sunset shone on the bones and blood all over the ground, shining brightly, like blood and fire.
In this battle, 245 enemies were killed, 200 horses were captured, one was seriously wounded, and 12 were lightly wounded.
Zhao Hao knew that such a brilliant result was all thanks to the divine arm crossbow, in fact, the two armies did not fight for a long time, although the Song army was elite, in fact, in this short period of time, only thirty or forty people were killed, and more than ten people were injured.
Zhao Hao secretly performed 5 life healing techniques on the seriously injured Bai Qi soldier, so that his injuries could be stabilized, and he vacated four more carriages and let the wounded soldiers lie in them to recuperate, and then led the crowd to meet the bright red sunset and slowly went north.
Zhao Hao is thinking about the Divine Arm Crossbow, his armor shop can also exchange for crossbow arrows, but he can't exchange for the Divine Arm Crossbow, it seems that the system has to be upgraded as soon as possible.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Yang Keshi approaching, and said in a low voice: "Childe, now that our whereabouts have been revealed, the Liao people have been eyeing us, and I am afraid that we will have to travel day and night again." ”
Zhao Hao was taken aback and asked, "How do you know?" ”
Yang Keshi said: "The last general knows Khitan quite well, and the cavalry of the Liao army was shot down by crossbow arrows one after another, and suffered a lot of losses. Originally, it was already in chaos, but because the Liao general shouted, 'Capture the envoy of the Song people, reward millions, and promote the lord to the third level', so everyone rushed forward...... The last general guessed that he was afraid that the people in Beijing who wanted to harm Gongzi had reported the news of Gongzi's entry into Liao to the Liaogou Imperial Court, so he sent a large army to search and pursue. ”
Zhao Hao's expression changed, and he asked in surprise: "General Yang is saying that these Liao dogs are coming directly to a certain person, so won't there be a steady stream of chasing soldiers?" ”
Yang Keshi smiled bitterly: "Shicai is not the elite of the Liao army, if it encounters the distant obstruction of the Liao dog, in this battle, it is not known who will kill the deer...... Liaogou is far away from the courage of the son, not under the white soldiers. ”
Zhao Hao couldn't help but gasp, and said urgently: "In this way, you must hurry up tonight, stay in the early hours of the morning, and then find a hidden place to rest." ”