Chapter 81: Foot to Ride

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Although the northwest wind was blowing this morning, it happened that the arrangement of the Hun army camp was southeast and downwind, so the tent they were close to was quickly burned by the fire; But after all, the wind was not strong, and it was not continuous, and the tents of the Hun army camp were not all connected, and there were some intervals in the middle, which gradually blocked those fires, so that a fire did not cause enough losses to threaten the Hun army.

This round of rockets of Lu Bujun's army made the Huns wake up from their sleep faster after being caught off guard, and those generals woke up the fastest, knowing that although it was necessary to rescue the fire now, it was not the most urgent, but the top priority was to first withdraw all the people from the tent and assemble, and then organize an effective counterattack.

The difference between the Xiongnu army and the Lü Bu army is also here, their reaction depends entirely on the reaction ability of their respective generals, not the Lü Bu army's order to implement the whole army, so although some people reacted quickly and rushed to the camp gate to counterattack the Lü Bu army, there were still some people who were still trapped in it and could not extricate themselves.

But in comparison, those who came out to counterattack still accounted for the majority, and there were not too many tents that burned by the wind in that round of rockets, a total of dozens, according to the calculation of about 20 people in each roof, the number of casualties probably did not exceed 1,000, and the rest of the people flocked to the camp tents to meet the incoming enemy.

However, Lu Buben didn't think that this fire would be able to burn the hard bones of the Huns, after all, although the fire attack is a plan, but it also has to pay attention to the right time, place and people, but now is not an appropriate time, just done in a hurry, after all, no one knows when the Huns will attack them next, in this case, it is better to take the initiative to occupy in their own hands. It is more conducive to the next action. Therefore, when more and more Xiongnu soldiers stepped on their war horses and rushed out of the camp with a roar, the first thing to greet them was not the enemy they thought, but the rain of arrows that covered the sky and the sun like locusts flying by.

Shout! Shout! Shout!

The sound of breaking the air sounded one after another, and it was a single one, this was not a simple bow and arrow, but a sharp weapon of infantry against cavalry transformed by Lu Butong Guò Ma Jun, a repeating crossbow that could fire several arrows at the same time.

Many people think that the repeater was made by Zhuge Liang, but in fact, it was as early as the Warring States period. The repeater has already appeared, and in the Western Han Dynasty, the repeater has begun to be used in actual combat, but Zhuge Liang greatly improved the design of the repeater to make it more effective and more powerful, so that the repeater is also known as the "Zhuge crossbow".

Although Ma Jun does not specialize in weapons, he has a bypass. He had a very high talent for craftsmanship and equipment manufacturing, and with those repeaters that Lu Bu specially collected from the Luoyang arsenal as templates, he soon found some things that could be improved, and put them into practice, creating the first batch of his own repeaters in Lu Bu's army.

In fact, Lu Bu didn't know that Ma Jun had improved Zhuge Liang's repeater in history, and Zhuge crossbow was not suitable for individual use because of its large size and weight. It is not suitable for use when attacking. The main role is to defend, and its short range makes the lethality greatly reduced, which is a major flaw. On this basis, Ma Jun created a five-arrow repeater, which made it smaller in size and greatly lighter in weight, even if it could be used by a single soldier, and the range was longer, and the lethality naturally increased greatly, but it was a pity that the process of making zuò was very complicated, and it could not be mass-produced and used in the army, and finally it was lost.

Of course, Ma Jun is still very young now, don't look at him with an adult face, and the children are so old, but in fact, Lu Bu learned that he is only in his early twenties this year after inquiry, so although he is very spiritual, but the experience is still insufficient, and the power of the crossbow that is naturally transformed is not up to Lu Bu's expectations, and he can only fire five arrows at a time, and the range is not long, less than eighty steps, and there are certain problems with the head, but at this time the Hun military camp is a mess, almost an arrow flying over and smashing can also hit a Hun soldier, So the effect was a bit unexpectedly good.

However, because the technology is not yet mature, the number of this batch of crossbows is not very large, only hundreds - it is precisely because of this that Lu Bu did not take them out earlier, but to use them when they are most needed, and these hundreds are all used by the strong arm leading archers, even so, after such a few rounds of shooting, their hands are still numb, and in the end they can only go down to rest first, and at this time, the Hun cavalry finally approached Lu Bu's army after paying a heavy price.

At this moment, there is no need for those generals to agitate anything, and at the same time that the Hun army was disgraced by Lu Bujun's blow, the anger also came up one by one, his eyes were red as if he was burning with flames, and his hands were also slapping the war horses that they usually cherished as partners, just to be able to get closer to their enemies earlier and faster, and then slash and kill for a while, in order to vent their anger.

However, the Lü Bu army will not give them a chance so lightly, as Jia Xu said, the last time they used cavalry to confront the cavalry and the Huns was a big mistake, compared to the Huns, the biggest advantage of the Han army is still in the infantry after all, especially in the contest with the Huns, giving up their own advantages to attack the enemy's strengths with their own shortcomings, it is really stupid.

But it's no wonder that they made such a mistake before, after all, the tens of thousands of cavalry teams of Lu Bu's army are really one of the best in the Central Plains, and they also have a fight with the most famous Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which made them somewhat ignore something, and at this moment they have found it.

In this battle, Lu Bu just wanted to use infantry to break the cavalry, and the first round of crossbows was just an appetizer.

The Hun knights saw that they were finally about to approach the enemy and be able to vent their pain and kill again, and their faces were as bright as flowers, but they soon found that it was a chrysanthemum, and it was white.

Thump! Thump!

There are constantly cavalry falling to the ground, some of the two front hooves of their war horses have been cut off, it turns out that at this time in front of them not only a straight tripwire, but also many short soldiers specially selected by the Lu Bu army to hold machetes, a pair of front hooves of those war horses were cut off is their masterpiece, and because of their short stature, they can dodge and jump, even if the horse starts to go crazy, they can first ensure their own safety, and then move towards the next goal.

The Huns attacked all by the war horses, but now the war horses have become a big weakness for them, many Hun soldiers have not had time to react at all to feel the body suddenly shake, the war horse or most of the front body lies forward, or directly upside down, the whole look of people on their backs, gray faces.

The generals behind were almost so angry that they vomited blood, but they had no good way to do anything but order their subordinates to speed up, and they couldn't let everyone get off their horses and rush into battle, which was tantamount to depriving them of their greatest advantage, which was even more unbearable for them than now. (To be continued.) )