Therefore, in such a situation, this group of strong crossbowmen who are usually rampant have now become a group of lambs to the slaughter. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although it is said that everyone has the habit of wearing a sword, and most crossbowmen are not weak in hand-to-hand combat, this group of crossbowmen is an exception. With the help of the huge power of the Divine Arm Crossbow for a long time, this group of strong crossbowmen has long forgotten how to fight the enemy in close quarters.

Therefore, when they saw Zhao Jiu leading the army to rush over like a desperate rush, this group of strong crossbowmen didn't even dare to resist, but instead threw down the heavy divine arm crossbow in their hands and turned around and ran.

However, how could Zhao Jiu, who was already angry, let them run away, only to see Zhao Jiu, whose eyes were red, lead people to catch up with the group of strong crossbowmen in three steps and two steps.

After catching up, he saw Zhao Jiu roaring, "Die!" "The spear in his hand is like a dragon turning over the sea, and the enemy is killed. Those strong crossbowmen who were scurrying around with their heads were killed by Zhao Jiuyi, who was armed with an iron spear, in just the blink of an eye.

"Kill!" The Red Turban Army behind Zhao Jiu all shouted with red eyes. The counterattack of the officers and soldiers still completely angered them, and now only the blood of this group of officers and soldiers can reduce the anger in them.

Contrary to the monstrous anger of the Red Turban Army, the morale of the officers and soldiers finally dropped to the freezing point after suffering this series of blows.

Those officers and soldiers who were already frightened by the Red Turban Army, when they saw a large number of Red Turban soldiers rushing to kill like a desperate person, under the drive of the surrounding crossbowmen, most of the officers and soldiers had no resistance at all, so they joined the deserters of the crossbowmen.

The deserters in the army were like a plague at this time, spreading ten, ten and hundred, even though there were some war supervisors after the officers and soldiers, how could those war supervisors and war teams be able to stop such a large-scale rout.

Some deserters even made a move against the Overseer after being forced to do so. In this way, those overseers were even more unable to stop deserters who were dozens or several times larger than them.

"Kill!" The escape of the officers and men made the non-commissioned officers of the Red Turban Army chase and kill more and more fiercely, and one after another the officers and men were killed with knives, and the screams again and again also caused the morale of the officers and men of the left wing to completely collapse, and now the left wing of the officers and men has gone in general direction.

"Damn! A bunch of rubbish! Looking at the left flank of the completely defeated official army, Wang Shifeng, who was the chief general of the officers and soldiers of Zhenyang City, couldn't help but scolded angrily.

But as a Wanhu, he also understands that at this time, the left wing has already gone to the general trend, and it is useless to scold, so after scolding, Wang Shifeng couldn't help shouting to the guards: "Mingjin withdraws his troops, while the left wing is not completely defeated, bring the Chinese army and the right wing into the city for me, let's not go to the outer camp!" ”

When the guard heard this, he said "obey", and immediately rang the ringing gold, and the sharp sound of the gold suddenly resounded throughout the battlefield. The officers and soldiers of the middle and right flanks who heard this voice also immediately retreated towards the banner of the Chinese army under the leadership of the officers of each hundred households.

However, the Red Turban Army, which is the enemy of life and death of the officers and soldiers, obviously will not let this group of officers and soldiers easily get their wish.

"I want to go now, huh! It's so easy. Zhang Shihua, who was sitting in the Chinese army and standing on a high slope to take in the overall situation, looked at the army of officers and soldiers who wanted to withdraw and snorted coldly and said: "Order, immediately beat the drum and march, you must not let this group of Tartars run away so easily, even if they want to leave, they must tear off a piece of meat from them." ”

"Yes!" The soldier shouted loudly, and immediately beat the drums of the march.

Wang Xianzhong, who was leading the army to fight on the right flank of the officers and soldiers, heard the sound of war drums, and immediately drew his sword and shouted: "White Lotus protects the homeland!" Brothers, for the sake of bliss in the next life, for the sake of the fathers and elders of the family, kill me! ”

"Kill!" All the Red Turban sergeants shouted.

As Zhang Shihua said, the more firm the faith, the more crazy the battle becomes. Because as long as the war can be won, then this group of fanatical religious believers will not fear death at all.

Under Wang Xianzhong's order, those red turban soldiers who had been infected and brainwashed by him for a long time were like crazy, and they rushed to the officers and soldiers on the right wing one by one without fear of death. In the face of such a frenzied attack, the officers and men of the Chinese army and the right flank could only fight and retreat.

So much so that there were 3,000 officers and soldiers outside the city, and under such a frantic attack by the Red Turban Army, only 1,000 people were brought into Zhenyang County by Wang Shifeng.

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"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" Wang Shifeng, who entered the city with the remnants of the defeated army, immediately shouted at the remaining fifty godarm crossbow soldiers after seeing that the large army had entered the city.

"Ahh ~~" When the crossbowman of the divine arm heard the order to release the arrow, the screams suddenly rang out, and dozens of red turban soldiers were shot and killed. Seeing this, the Red Turban Army who were chasing and killing couldn't help but stop, and Wang Shifeng also took advantage of the Red Turban Army's stunned kung fu to hurriedly order the city gate to be closed.

Seeing that the city gate was closed and the city gate hole was also blocked by boulders, Wang Shifeng couldn't help but sigh, and then saw him say to Bai Xi, the deputy Wanhu: "Lao Bai, you immediately take the soldiers to the city wall now, and guard it for me, and you must not let them come up." ”

When Bai Xi heard this, he said "obey" loudly and immediately took hundreds of soldiers who could still go into battle to the city wall, but after Bai Xi went up to the city wall, he also found that the Red Turban Army outside the city had also withdrawn.

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An hour later, in the wounded barracks of the Red Turban Army, Zhang Shihua looked at the veterans of the Red Turban Army who were injured by the crossbow of the divine arm, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Tartar of dog day!" Looking at the old brothers lying on the bed, Zhang Mingtong behind Zhang Shihua couldn't help gritting his teeth and scolding.

"General...... General ......" A faint shout came, and when Zhang Shihua heard this voice, he immediately heard the sound and walked over. When Zhang Shihua saw the old inspector Zhou Nineteen, who was lying on the bed and had followed him for the longest time, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but sit on the edge of his bed, holding his blood-stained hand, and whispered to him: "Nineteen, I'm here." ”

Zhou Jiu heard Zhang Shihua's words, opened his eyes with great difficulty, looked at Zhang Shihua and said, "General...... I'm afraid...... Even...... No, but I still have ...... at home There is also an old lady to take care of, so I can only trouble you. After saying this, Zhou Shijiu turned his head to look at Zhang Shihua with great difficulty.

And Zhang Shihua had red eyes, took a deep breath with his nose and said to him: "Nineteen, don't worry, your wife will be my Zhang Shihua's wife from today on." However, don't fucking say such stupid things to me, what's wrong, I promise you, you will definitely survive Zhou 19, and when the time comes, we brothers will kill the Tartars together. ”

When Zhou Shihua heard Zhang Shihua's words, he grinned, his eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "To be a brother with the general, my Zhou 19 is worth ...... in this life" After speaking, Zhou 19 closed his eyes.

"Nineteen, nineteen!" Seeing this, Zhang Mingtong and Zhao Jiu couldn't help shouting.

And Zhang Shihua, who was sitting next to Zhou Shijiu, saw this, and sighed with his eyes closed and trembling. Then I saw Zhang Shihua gently put down Zhou Shijiu's hand, stood up slowly, and said with his back to everyone: "Sijiu, you and Nineteen are of the same clan, you should immediately write a letter to my father now, and ask his old man to take Nineteen's old lady and my godmother from Yangshui Town to his home." ”

"The subordinate obeys." Thursday Nine bowed his head and said.

After Zhang Shihua said this, he raised his head and sighed again, and then saw Zhang Shihua turn to face the generals and said: "Cremate the body of Nineteen, keep the ashes, and take it home." ”

"Yes." Zhao Jiu also said with red eyes and clenched his fists.

Seeing this, Zhang Shihua nodded and walked out of the wounded barracks, but when he went out, Zhang Shihua said solemnly to Xu Gan, the medical officer in the army: "Xu Gan, I don't care what method you use, you must save the other old brothers for me, do you understand?" ”

When Xu Gan heard Zhang Shihua's words, he immediately bowed his head and said, "The lower official understands, the lower official understands." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Shihua nodded, sighed again, and then took Zhao Jiu and them away from this place that made him feel depressed and sad.

……

Another half an hour later, Zhang Shihua was in the big tent of the Chinese army, bowing his head and concentrating on fiddling with this pair of captured divine arm crossbows.

Looking at the ingenious machine gear technology in the divine arm crossbow, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but let out a heartfelt exclamation: "Good thing, really good thing." ”

To tell the truth, Zhang Shihua has heard of the name of the Divine Arm Crossbow even in later generations, and the Divine Arm Crossbow is known as the pinnacle of crossbow arrows in the cold weapon era, with a range of more than 240 steps, about 400 meters. The divine arm crossbow takes the mountain mulberry as the body, the sandalwood as the bow, the iron as the gun breech, the steel as the machine, the hemp rope as the string, and the silk as the string.

If it was within sixty paces, the Divine Arm Crossbow could even shoot through three layers of scale armor, and its power was no weaker than that of the rifles of later generations.

Hey, it's just a pity that when the god arm crossbow arrived in the Ming Dynasty, the production technology was close to being lost, and during the second opium war of the Qing Dynasty, the final parts of the god arm crossbow production drawings were also burned by the war, so that such a cold weapon king was completely forgotten in that era.

However, fortunately it is now the Great Yuan Dynasty, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty is different from the Han Dynasty, compared to the Yuan and Mongolian Emperors, who paid more attention to the craftsmanship of craftsmen, such as the Hui people who made the Hui cannon "One Cannon Ping Xiangyang", Ah Lao Wading and Yi Sima, who were directly named the three products of ten thousand households by Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, and it is also a hereditary replacement of ten thousand households, and the weight of the reward is rare in ancient times.

Let's take a look at Li Hong, a Western Xia man who also made a divine arm crossbow, who was only a regimental training envoy by Song Shenzong, a seven-grade petty official who did not enter the stream. It is no wonder that Mao is also a feudal society, but the Western weapon technology will be more powerful than our China in the future, after all, the status of craftsmen in China's feudal society is too low.

However, it is precisely because Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, valued craftsmen and weapon technology, that the production technology of the divine arm crossbow was still well preserved in the Yuan Dynasty, and therefore Zhang Shihua can see such a delicately made killing weapon today.

After playing with the Divine Arm Crossbow repeatedly, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but put down the crossbow arrows, looked up at Zhao Jiu and asked, "Ah Jiu, how many of these Divine Arm Crossbows have we seized in total?" ”

When Zhao Jiu heard Zhang Shihua's words, he hurriedly said to Zhang Shihua: "A hundred pairs of divine arm crossbows are a lot, all of them were collected from the battlefield by the general, but because of the war, eighteen pairs of these divine arm crossbows have been damaged. ”

"If you only damage eighteen pairs, it's not a big deal, so you can bring back all the intact Divine Arm Crossbows now, and select a group of loyal and reliable old soldiers from among your people, and give them these Divine Arm Crossbows to use, understand?"

"The last will understand." When Zhao Jiu heard this, he hurriedly nodded.

Seeing this, Zhang Shihua also nodded, and then waved his hand to let Zhao Jiu and them retreat.

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At the same time, after Wang Xianzhong's camp, Wang Xianzhong was also talking to one of his henchmen.

"General, do you know, I heard that General Zhang snatched back a batch of divine arm crossbows from the Tartars, good guys, that is a god arm crossbow, and they actually let them get it back." Wang Xianzhong's confidant Zhang You said to Wang Xianzhong.

"Oh, yes. It seems that General Zhang's command really deserves to be the first elite soldier of our army, and he can still win in the face of such a sharp weapon as this divine arm crossbow, powerful, powerful. Wang Xianzhong looked at Zhang You and said with a smile.

When Zhang You heard Wang Xianzhong's words, his eyes rolled, and he whispered to Wang Xianzhong: "General, can we exchange a batch of divine arm crossbows from General Zhang's side?" ”

When Wang Xianzhong heard this, he glared at Zhang You and said, "Shut up, what are you changing for the god arm crossbow, what about my old face!" If you're really greedy, you'll get the fuck back a batch from the Tartars too, don't fucking talk this shameless bullshit here! ”

Seeing that Wang Xianzhong was angry, Zhang You hurriedly lowered his head and didn't dare to speak anymore. When Wang Xianzhong saw this, he sighed and looked outside the camp, not knowing what he was thinking.

Towards the evening, the soldiers on both sides had already begun to bury the pot and cook, after all, in this year, for most low-level soldiers, promotion and wealth, return to their hometowns and the like are too far away, and only filling their stomachs is the most practical thing.

Therefore, whenever it is time to eat, it is often the most relaxed and cheerful time for the soldiers. Although it is said that many of their comrades died in battle during the day, but they did not die, not to mention, their side still won the battle, so for these soldiers of the Red Turban Army, this is obviously a happy thing.

After all, life and death have been experienced and seen a lot, and people's spirits have become a little numb.

However, contrary to the cheerful relaxation of the red turban sergeants outside the city, the officers and soldiers defending the city in Zhenyang City are now in a very bad mood, and the defeat during the day has almost broken up all the establishments of these 3,000 officers and soldiers. The death of a large number of backbone veterans and low-level generals caused the rest of the officers and soldiers to fall into a state of panic.

Even though Wang Shifeng reappointed a large number of new generals and reorganized a number of new personnel, this atmosphere of panic brought about by death was still deeply rooted in the hearts of every soldier. (To be continued.) )