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"Could it be that the gods of Lu Guowenshui are doing ......" In the Qi people's military formation, superstitious people said that this rumor spread ten or ten hundred times, and the military formation became more and more scattered, but they still moved forward according to inertia.

Soon, the sound of the catapult with death sounded again, and the hearts of all the people tightened, this time it was no longer a separate test launch, but dozens of them were sent out together. They only felt a ringing in their ears, and then there seemed to be a strong gust of wind blowing overhead, and behind them there was the muffled sound of a stone hitting a human body, and at the same time there was a scream, and it was clear that someone had been hit.

Many people only felt that the stone bullet was almost flying over their heads, and their hands shook involuntarily, and they quickly looked down to see that they were still intact, but there were still bursts of numbness on the top of their heads.

The surrounding Qi people looked at the scene in front of them in fear and paused, and one of them vomited, their military hearts had been greatly shaken by the stone bombardment of these rounds of ballistas.

This meant that they would suffer several flying stone attacks before they could enter the range of the Zhao Army's bow and crossbow, and everyone had a heart hanging from it.

After a few dozen steps forward, a Qi army collapsed, and dozens of companions from those stones came one after another, seeing that their team was about to be blown up by the Qi people who hit. They have forgotten the order, the township party, the military regulations and the promises and rewards of the national summer, and they are drilling around like a nest of headless flies!

In a big battle of tens of thousands of people, the victory and defeat will be tug-of-war for a long time, but the turnaround often begins with the collapse of one corner. Just when the Qi people front was showing an unstable mentality under the attack of the ballista, the military drums of the Zhao army were like thunder, the banner of the Chinese army of Zhao Wuxian was waving, and the soldiers of the Zhao clan began to slowly open out, and the real attack was about to begin......

At the same time, seeing that the situation on the battlefield was extremely bad, Guoxia's brows had been twisted together, and with the bombardment of the enemy's stone shells, it was no longer safe to hide behind the barricade, and his villagers came to complain one after another, saying that his archers refused to enter the barricade, and they felt that they would become targets for the enemy there.

"It's not going to go on like this!"

Guoxia's eyes slowly condensed, and slowly turned into a fierce wolf like a hungry wolf, he raised his sword violently and shouted angrily, letting the emperor drive forward, kicking the soldiers who were scattered and retreating because of the falling stones to the ground, and then followed with his sword and fell, cutting off the head of the Qi pawn.

"We have no way out, only a battle!"

His majestic eyes looked around at his subordinates and asked, "Where is Gao Wupi?" ”

"Only, Wupi is here......" Gao Wupi trembled and came over to receive the order, and he was also frightened by the flying stone for a while.

"The enemy's flying stones seem terrible, but so far, the casualties caused are only more than 100, which is not as many as the pushing and falling injuries in the army, but it has dealt a great blow to the morale of our army. You go down and summon the technical attack, take them to the nearest place, find Zhao Jun's stone machine and destroy it! ”

Just as the Zhao army had to suppress the archers in the Qi people's chariot base in order to advance smoothly, now Guoxia also had to draw a scoop according to the gourd and send people to destroy the enemy's sharp weapons of stones, so that the war could continue.

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Swords are often easy to break, and ballistas can inflict huge psychological blows on enemies at long range, but once they are close to the enemy, the craftsmen are not able to resist at all.

So Zhao Wuxian equipped this sword with the hardest shield......

Below the bank where the ballistas were placed, an army was scattered on the beach under the scorching sun, and it had been almost an hour since the battle, but they did not move, just stayed where they were, as if waiting for something. The soldiers sat cross-legged on the ground in rows and rows, which saved their energy. But they didn't let up in the slightest, their shields resting at their sides, their swords and spears clenched tightly in their hands, and their eyes fixed on the enemy formation in front of them.

A total of 1,000 warriors and armorers, plus 1,500 Zhao soldiers armed with spears and crossbows. Some of the youngest were still hairless boys, but like the others, they sat up straight, motionless, all of them were inhuman stones, and their commander was also a stone.

In command of these people was the tall Musha, Zhao Wuxian's most trusted strong shield, he was nearly thirty years old, and as he grew older and more experienced, he became more and more calm like a rock, and no one could shake the defense line he guarded.

"Here we are." Mu Xia had been standing on the car to observe Zhao Wuxian's flag order and the movement of the enemy, after receiving the signal of the Chinese army, he raised his hand, and all the people under him changed from sitting to standing, the shield was heavily erected to the ground, the tip was inserted into the sand, the crossbow machine was wound forward, and the spear was pointed diagonally forward.

Unlike the middle of the front that was bombarded by ballista and the army's spirit was extremely unstable, the left and right wings of the Qi people were still stable, and after perceiving the location of the Zhao army's stone, Gao Wupi led a Qi army to start to break out of the battle line and rush towards this side.

The road was opened by dozens of chariots, and because the distance was limited, the charge speed was not fast. Followed by the technical attack and the Qi human halberd shield soldiers, the sound of Guoxia's Chinese military drums significantly increased in frequency.

Gao Wupi, the commander of this partial division, had a hideous expression on his face, and he ordered loudly: "Rush away the enemy army in front of you, and the country should be rewarded!" ”

There will be brave men under the heavy reward, and the Qi people, who have no way out, burst out of their wildness, shouting loudly and continuing to advance, and some people are striking the shields in their hands with their weapons, making a neat sound.

In Gao Wupi's opinion, the enemy's protection of his own stone weapon is too careless, only one division of people treats each other, but he rushed with the right flank of 5,000 Qi troops! This is a big gamble of Guoxia, the huge psychological suppression caused by the ballista cannon on the Qi people made him have to transfer troops to solve it, the front here is relatively weak, once the Qi army breaks in, it can also reverse and attack the Zhao army from the side.

Gao Wupi undoubtedly had this expectation, but when the 5,000 men under his command broke into a hundred and fifty steps away from the enemy, and looked at the spears and oars that were erected diagonally, he suddenly realized that the enemy in front of him could not be described as "weak".

The soldiers in the front row of the opponent were all dressed in heavy armor, and in the face of the surging Qi army, no one was shaken, his pupils contracted, the strictness of this Zhao army even exceeded the Qufu Lu soldiers who had defeated him a few days ago, could it be the legendary Zhao soldiers?

There was another thing that Gao Wupi hadn't noticed yet, and the public brigade on the river bank also noticed that the enemy was approaching, and the craftsmen hurriedly began to adjust the base, so that the direction of the ballista gun was changed from far to close......

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More than 50 one-man-high ballistas were placed in different positions on the riverbank, striking at the enemy in front of them at a slightly inclined angle. Hundreds of apprentices of the baggage division ran around, holding stone bullets in their hands, or pebbles taken from the spot.

Three soldiers were responsible for the menial work of carrying the projectiles, repairing and replacing parts by a craftsman, and each ballista was operated by a mathematics student, who happened to be in a team.

The reason why the mathematics disciples trained by Ji Qiao were allowed to aim and adjust was because simple firing was not difficult to learn, and the accuracy of the attack had always been a problem that plagued them.

Ballista is not much of a threat to moving targets, but no enemy will be stupid enough to wait for them to shoot slowly, and if they miss a few shots, they will already be moved. Therefore, in order to exert its power in the field, in addition to having a certain mobility, the ballista must have a high level of aiming skills, and must blast as many projectiles into the enemy's formation as possible before they can react!

This is not easy, and if you want to operate a ballista well, you must first have a certain mathematical foundation. Only by letting the math disciples calculate the distance, azimuth, wind speed, cannon weight, chord force, angle, and parabola, can they barely reach three or four hits in ten rounds.

Over the past few months, the bus has also been improved to make the ballista easier and more reliable to operate: the slide with a long guide rail on the ballista slides back and forth along the wooden trough, and a clever excitation mechanism behind the slider makes it easy to lock and release the bowstring.

In order to make the operation of the winch not too laborious, the public transport squad also set up metal racks on both sides of the beam, which not only allows the work of opening the bow to be done in one go, but also adjusts the projectile power of the weapon, so as to obtain the required range. He poured almost all of his wisdom into the development of the ballista so that no matter how close the enemy was to break through, he could adjust the direction and angle to fire at them!

Now, the opportunity to experiment has arrived.

By the time the craftsman adjusted the base and angle of the ballista, the Qi people were already very close, and the warriors under the river bank had all stood up, ready to defend against the enemy at any time.

"One hundred and fifty paces from the enemy." A digital disciple from the Chengxiang Dou clan of the Jin Kingdom carefully measured the distance between the enemy, and the brothers and sisters operating the ballista behind him adjusted the angle with the help of craftsmen, put the special spear on the slider, and then pulled the handle, dragging the slider through the rope to move, so that the spring group was tight!

While they were nervously operating, the bus squad was carefully observing, using charcoal to quickly record the data in a booklet, which would be used as the basis for post-war improvements and exercises.

In the eyes of the public loss class, there must be sacrifices for the ghosts and gods to help them, and the first appearance of the ghostly ballista also needs someone to sacrifice. Now that the Qi people dare to choose to attack, the public loss squad feels ridiculous, but also thinks that this is their luck, the ballista will beat them to the ground like a storm, so that these people can become sacrifices to Haotian, and it is also a precious actual combat data, so that he can make greater works in the future!

At this moment of battle, for some reason, the public loss class remembered what Zhao Wuxian had said to him during his chat: "When I was young, I had a long, long dream, in which the world's equipment reached its peak, there were iron birds soaring in the sky, there were sharp weapons that were launched hundreds of miles away to destroy a country, and man-made things could even destroy the heavens and the earth!" He firmly believes in what Zhao Wuxian said, manpower is limited after all, but the power of "technology" is infinite! What makes man different from all things is that he can use tools and create instruments.

"I can remember many of the delicate instruments of my dreams, but I can't, and you, like you, are my hand in making it happen."

The general has never said such a thing to anyone, Lu Ban was flattered, he was originally the son of an ordinary craftsman, it was Zhao Wuxian who found him in the crowd and brought him all the way to his current position, he also lived up to expectations, there are many inventions every year, and the best of these many inventions, the ballista, will definitely become the Zhao clan's powerful force to defeat the enemy!

Excited, after quickly recording the data, he nodded to the military officer next to him.

"Shoot!" With the wave of the flag, with a shout, the spring group tensed and quickly released, and the huge torque pushed the spear on the slider to move. Then, as if a thunderbolt exploded in place, dozens of spears departed from the string.

At this time, the Qi army had already entered within one hundred and twenty steps! (To be continued.) )