Section 22 The Dawn of Black and Red
Indeed, the eastern sky began to whiten, and the stars began to fade, but no one paid attention to such a scene, and when the ground could be vaguely seen a hundred meters away, a few not very loud bangs sounded in the distance, and then a light far brighter than a torch flashed in the morning mist, if the land was full of weirdness and ferocity at night, then at this moment the air began to be filled with the smell of anxiety and irritability......
In the warfare of this era, in a popular parlance, either swords and spears or bows and crossbows were fired at each other, and when it was changed to the grassland, there were just more mounts for walking, and the soldiers rode on horseback and did not care about the sand and dust that rolled up, and then, under the cover of yellow sand and grass clippings, cut off the enemy's head or pierce the enemy's chest - this is the most typical scene of cold weapons and flesh war. In fact, there are very few night raids and arson described in the deductive novels, similar to the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Weishui
Lao Luo's soldiers are very different, they are all armored, although there is no face armor on their faces, but they are covered with black veils painted with various patterns, with Lao Luo's order, they began their own actions again - in fact, they tossed almost the whole night of the garrison camp Those who were busy forming a base, or the soldiers of the garrison camp were targets under the fire, while the guys of the cavalry school and the scout camp were hunters in the dark, that is, they sniped the sentinels who went out to the camp to investigate in the three camps at night, It was also they who made the soldiers in the three camps stay inside the fence and dare not go out.
In the hazy morning light, the creatures that emerged from behind the boulders, from the bushes, and from the barren grass were like beasts that liked to hunt in the morning, but instead of howling and showing their sharp teeth, they were silently adjusting different weapons of war......
Weapons of war, as the name suggests, are things that are entangled with a large number of human lives or blood, of course, not mortars, rocket launchers, missiles and the like in the era of thermal weapons, but ...... Bed crossbows, torque-type stone throwers...... There are also huge rattan balls with a diameter of more than five meters......
The bed crossbow is a relatively common large-scale weapon in this era, at least in the late Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Han and Tang dynasties entered the peak period of use, and the steppe tribes in Central Asia naturally spread, but even if the wars in the East are frequent, there has been no leapfrog improvement, the key is that the way of technology inheritance has limited this development.
After Lao Luo arrived at Sylvan, after seeing the antique bed crossbow of the Tang camp, he made many improvements to this ancient weapon, and now the soldiers on the battlefield have launched a batch of monsters with a mixed structure of steel and wood, with a twisted bowstring with the thickness of a child's arm, a crossbow arm that has been folded and forged many times, plus a giant crossbow arrow that looks like a short spear more than an arrow, and the front end of the giant crossbow arrow is also fixed with a circle of pottery containers, and there are cotton wool pills soaked with fire oil in the corners...... This thing is a classical version of a large exploding incendiary arrow!
Of course, there is not only one kind of "arrow" placed on the bed crossbow, and there is a special one with a strange hook claw with three barbs instead of a sharp arrow in front, and a sleeve at the tail with a thick rope tied to a cowhide strip and ramie twist, and at the other end of the long rope coiled into a coil is ...... Seven or eight strong bulls!
The purpose of this "crossbow arrow" is very simple, it is specially used to dismantle the fence of the three camps!
The catapult is also called a trebuchet, this thing is basically the most powerful long-range attack weapon in this era, it is said that there is a twisted arm trebuchet with a boulder counterweight can throw two or three hundred pounds of stones to two or three thousand meters away, of course, no one can confirm whether it is true or false.
The soldiers of the cavalry school adjusted the stone thrower for most of the night, which was much simpler than that, in fact, it was a complex version of the large slingshot that had been simplified and installed on the side van, Lao Luo did not expect this thing to be able to throw thousands of meters away, as long as he could avoid the enemy camp as much as possible and throw the oil canister in the "slingshot" bag into it, of course, the oil canister used here is more than the canister thrown by the cavalry by hand.
As for the "rattan wooden ball", this thing has been used in the Dhamgan Valley before, and in the winter, the craftsmen who are idle in Kuzak have made more than a hundred, but this time the production is much more than the one used in Damphan, and the guys with a diameter of nearly five meters are assembled outdoors in the cold, of course, it is also thanks to Lao Luo that there is a space to carry, otherwise it is too late to make temporary production in a situation like the one in front of him, and even the time to collect materials is lacking.
The sky was dark, the soldiers of the garrison camp began to stop, and the people in the three camps thought that they could rest for a while and have breakfast, but they stared at the chaotic night all night, and when they were tired, the cavalry academy soldiers who were slowly approaching with bed crossbows or stone throwers were not noticed at all......
When the fastest bed crossbow is fired at an elevation angle, everything is out of control.
To be honest, even a crossbow like a short spear is insignificant for a camp of more than a thousand people, and no matter how sparse the three camps are, they can still resist it, but the projectile bed crossbow that does not seek accuracy only seeks distance and a lit canister of fire oil...... This thing will be enough even if it is used against armored vehicles in later generations......
The contents of the burst open tank of fire oil were mixed with coarse phosphosphosyrup frosting and other messy things, broken on the ground or better, but just a large beach, and when thrown onto the tent, it instantly soaked the entire tent, including the crowd inside, and immediately splashed away when it hit the wooden fence, and the sticky oil droplets attached to the soldiers' heads, bodies, and armor with flames...... At this time, if people are calm enough and smart enough to roll on the ground a few times, they can put out the fire, but where is the empty space for people to roll around in the mess in the Sanbu camp?
So the camp, which was first attacked by bed crossbows and stone throwers, was completely chaotic.
It only takes a group of three or four people to cooperate with the operation of the bed crossbow and the canister of fire oil thrown out by the stone thrower, although there is no direct hit rate, but more than 80% of it falls into the camp of the three departments. How many of these bed crossbows and stone throwers are there? There are not many, the total number is less than a thousand, but the efficiency of being able to launch quickly frightens too many people, at least in the hazy morning light, everyone sees the rising and falling fire!
The worst thing was the forward camp of the Dangxiang and the Turks, because of the need to hold on, the gate in the direction of Lao Luo's team was sealed at night, so when the fire oil bombs fell from the sky, their soldiers could only run blindly in the camp, the wooden fence was ignited, the tents were set on fire, the soldiers were shot or burned to death, and the horses were frightened by the flames and began to run and trample in the camp......
The fate of the Qarluqs came later, and the camps they were attacked were by the river at the bottom of a hill, and at night the scout camp guys got a dozen rattan balls to the top of the slope, which took a little time to roll down after being lit, far less swift and convenient than bed crossbows or stone throwers. It's just that once the five-meter-diameter rattan ball rolls up, the momentum caused is very terrifying - like a fireball monster bouncing down the hill from the top of the hill!
When these round and smoking monsters rushed into the Qarluq camp in a rolling or jumping position by a stone, the scout camp who was the initiator began to be dumbfounded, and the Qarluq soldiers were directly stunned when they saw several fireballs rushing down, and then ...... There was no more, those who couldn't shout were directly killed or scorched by the fireballs, and the rest lost their minds, in short, several camps that were raided by Qarluq were directly bombed by the camp.
"This ...... Captain, how will you fight next? Looking at the Qarluqs fleeing at the foot of the hillside, the commander of one of the scout camps came back to his senses and asked Alke, who was standing in front with a telescope in his hand.
"How to fight! Tell the Lord to break down the camps, and take as many prisoners as possible......" replied Ark with some annoyance, hoping that the Qarluqs down the hillside would resist a little, and then kill him, instead of getting some prisoners and bothering to guard them. Just looking at the messy enemy camp, he was a little uncertain, after all, the things that made the main drum out were too powerful.
When he was worried here, the captains of the cavalry school were busy in full swing, and after the straight crossbow with the canister of fire oil was shot out, the camp of the party or the Turks was completely chaotic, they changed the claw crossbow, tied the rope and shot out, and the claw crossbow directly hooked the fence of the enemy camp four or five hundred paces......
"Hurry up, tie the lasso to the cow, and pull the ...... The people of the Fifth Capital have already demolished an enemy camp! "The lieutenant of the third capital is Fischer, and the same as the horseman of Safir in the fifth capital, they are all from the gladiator group, two people, no, it should be said that all the captains of the cavalry school are competing with each other, because Lao Luo, the general, said that after the end of this battle, the cavalry school will be expanded, and which guy's subordinates will be expanded first.
No one answered, but all the warriors began to get busy at a faster pace, the sound of cattle cries and the beeping of flames not far away, followed by the cracking of wooden fences, and then shouts of excitement......
Of course, Lao Luo couldn't wait in the tent to listen to the news at this time, the cavalry school's seven, eight, nine, and four were already prepared as reserves, and Gonzas, who was in charge, stood with him on the top of a slightly higher dirt slope to watch the situation of the battlefield.
The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and the morning glow in the east reflected half of the sky, but no one in the field of vision paid any attention to the sight, because there were raging flames and billowing smoke......
The extra smoke gathers into a thick column of smoke, as if it can climb into the sky......
The red glow and red flames on the eastern horizon and the rich blood color of the ground reflected everyone's faces, but the black smoke and dust were stubbornly thick, and this scenery was particularly dazzling compared with the snow on the high mountains in the south......
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