Chapter 252 of Volume 7 "The Comeback": Backwardness is beaten
"Distant Strike!"
The sound of the bowstring bouncing was extremely sultry, the sharp sound of breaking the air roared away, and the crossbow arrows that broke away from the crossbow rose densely into the sky, they happily rolled in the air, the smooth arrowhead blades reflected the sunlight, and more than 10,000 crossbow arrows were pulled by gravity and finally fell down......
The soldiers on the wall of the Sushen King had never seen such a dense array of arrows, and they looked up and subconsciously opened their eyes wide to see the twinkling sky, until someone reacted and shouted "Arrow attack!! At that time, the soldiers with shields hurriedly raised their shields, and the soldiers who were close to the battlements crowded over, and more of them pulled their legs and ran in the direction of the road to the city. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The first crossbow bolt striking the stone with the sound of iron and gold was heard, and it was so loud that it shook many of the people on the wall; The second crossbow arrow pierced through the human body, and the soldier with the arrow made a muffled sound and looked down mechanically, and he saw a bloody hole in his chest, and before closing his eyes, he turned his head to look back, and saw a man behind him staring at the crossbow arrow stuck in his chest.
Under the first wave of arrow rain, there were many crossbow arrows deep in the ground or human body in the section of the city wall covered by the arrow array, and the soldiers who were hiding in the battlements stared at the blood flowing from the human body, and the red liquid gathered in twos and threes, and then flowed to the colander at the base of the wall......
The tail of the crossbow arrows was still trembling, and before they had stopped, the ears of the cautious soldiers hiding in the battlements blew the same battle cry at once, and it was the Black Flag Army outside the city shouting "Long Strike" in unison. Someone couldn't help but half-crouch up and look down. He saw the enemy army lying on the ground in front of him, loaded with arrows, and his eyes moved to the left, and he saw a large black net rising from the ground. The direction of alignment is a section of the city wall not far from me.
The whistling bolts fall again without any characteristic, they are deadly raindrops, and when they fall, they will ripple, and the red flower bones will bloom, and the process will be bloody and beautiful.
Meng Zhao raised his right arm and put it down, he was in a very happy mood at the moment, this mode of siege seemed to make him go back to more than a hundred years ago. Personally participated in the war of the ancestors to unify the Six Kingdoms, under the fierce arrow attack, the army of the Six Nations cowered in the city and waited for death to resist.
No doubt. Meng Zhao likes to attack the city like this, this siege mode has been fought countless times, as long as there is enough time to break down the morale of the enemy army, it is easy to do so, and his only regret is that there is not much time. This pleasing siege lasted only three days. Three days later there will be a climbing battle.
Judging from the effect of arrow attacks, Su Shen really has no experience in defending the city, they blindly increased their troops, and killed one batch to replenish another batch, the only thing that is a little fresh is that after a few arrow attacks, Su Shen people finally sent shield soldiers, but Su Shen people can only be beaten passively and cannot fight back, all because the range of Su Shen's bows and arrows is too short.
In fact, the weapons of the Prudence were rudimentary, and their bows ranged only about one hundred and thirty paces at most. Since there is no metallurgical technique, there are no iron or copper arrowheads, and their arrowheads are stone ...... that have been polished with venom. The weapons in the hands of the cautious soldiers were also mixed. The army did not provide any equipment, and the wealthy soldiers could buy weapons from neighboring countries, such as Webster Korea, or they could only rely on the battlefield.
Although a little reluctant, Meng Zhao still admitted the fact that if it were not for the fact that the weapons were better than those of the cautious people, the Black Flag Army would not have any advantage at all in the jungle battle.
On the first day of the arrow attack, the Black Flag army plowed the north wall over and over again with arrows, replaced it with rockets at night and continued to shoot non-stop, and when the sky was slightly bright, a hundred crossbows were brought up in the rear.
Nearly 100 crossbows need nearly 2,500 soldiers to operate, this kind of 100 crossbows is actually a large equipment similar to a stone-throwing car, the only difference is that it throws a large crossbow arrow up to one zhang long. It has appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the first country to use this kind of crossbow is not actually Qin, but Zhao, produced in Handan City, was originally used for defensive operations, the capital of Zhao Handan was found by the Qin army at that time to make a blueprint, so it became a good weapon for the Qin army to attack the city at that time, and was used in large quantities.
The winch was rotated by the combined efforts of the six soldiers, and the brass hook hooked the bowstring as thick as a thumb, and it made a 'click-click' sound, until the hook was close to the rear, and the two soldiers pulled down the hook seat and fixed it to a clamp tooth, "Load the arrow!" The heavy crossbow arrows were lifted up and placed in the arrow slot, and after repeating the operation five times, the commander standing in the body of the hundred-man crossbow shouted, "Hey!" The upper layer was held in place by the guards with a splint-like lid, which was said to prevent the bolts from bouncing during firing and as a kind of insurance to enhance accuracy.
The officers shouted in unison "Oil!" With the help of their companions, the soldiers carried the oil canisters and hung them on the arrowheads, but they only hung them on the four crossbows, leaving one crossbow wrapped in strips of rags, and they shouted "light the fire" again, and the torch reached out and lit the crossbow wrapped in rags.
If Lin Bin was here now, he would definitely subconsciously shout when he saw the hundred-man crossbows lined up together, "Rocket artillery car!?" It can be imagined that the manufacturing process of the ancients is really powerful...... It's a pity that they all seem to be buried in the long river of history.
There is a record in "Warring States Policy-Han Ce I": The world's strong bows and crossbows are all from Han, Xizi, Shaofu, Shili, and Yuanlai, all shot 600 steps away.
Now that Korea has long been destroyed, after Qin destroyed Han, of course, he got South Korea's manufacturing technology, and the Black Flag Army, which inherited Qin's craftsmanship, had a range of more than 600 steps in their 20-stone crossbows, so Wei's Yan Dan's guess was not entirely correct. Of course, the range of more than eight hundred meters is used to carry out covered shots, and not to aim at someone to put them to death.
There are only about 3,000 crossbowmen among the 20,000 Black Flag Army bow and crossbow soldiers, and the crossbow in the hands of the bow and crossbow soldiers who are attacked by arrows during the day has a name, it is called the Kick Zhang Crossbow, which belongs to the category of strong crossbows, and the range of the strong crossbow of twelve stones can reach 450 steps, and it is also the longest-range crossbow in the Han army. Only two armies of the Han State were equipped with crossbows, one was equipped with border guards in northern Xinjiang to defend against nomads, and the other was the northern army garrisoning Chang'an.
At this moment, the three thousand crossbowmen gritted their teeth with the help of their companions to pull the bowstring of the crossbow, and this time they would cooperate with the crossbows of the hundred men to attack the Sushen Royal City, and the target of the attack was not the city wall, but the houses behind the city wall, so their arrows wrapped in rags were also lit with flames.
The soldiers above the city of Sushen shouted in horror, and they could vaguely hear "rockets...... Han people want to shoot rockets".
Zhuang Xiao personally stepped onto the war drum platform, he struck the war drum with a drum stick, and the roar of the war drum became more and more rapid, and when it stepped up to a dense rhythm, the drum suddenly disappeared, replaced by a sad horn.
"Hundred-man crossbows-release!"
The hook of the hundred-man crossbow was pulled up by the officer, and the neat 'click' exploded, and the large crossbow arrows installed in the arrow groove shot out with a 'whir', and nearly a hundred flames crossed the pale sky, and after a while, there was an explosion from the inner city, followed by a noisy cry.
"Crossbow Pawn - Release!"
Thousands of times, without the slightest new sound of breaking through the air, they rose into the sky with three thousand crossbow arrows, and the fiery crossbow arrows flew in the sky as if thousands of meteors fell at the same time, and they flew over the city walls to bring death to the cautious soldiers who were panicking to carry water to extinguish the fire.
Zhuang Xiao was very satisfied, he also liked to watch the enemy army being slaughtered without any resistance, this feeling was very wonderful, and people wanted to enjoy it endlessly after enjoying it once.
"The captain has an order: the whole army is equipped with arrows!"
The busy soldiers continued, and of course they also liked to torture the enemy, and they did it cheerfully and excitedly, and everyone seemed to want to vent all the anger they had suffered in the jungle in the city of Solemnity, and it was especially energetic to do it.
"The Prudent must be very angry and decadent?" Zhuang Xiao stared at the city gate in front of him, "It should come out today, right?" ”
The loading operation of the crossbow of 100 people is more complicated, when they load the arrows, the crossbow soldiers repeat the salvo three times, it may be that the arrows are blocked by the Su Shen Wangcheng can not extinguish the fire, from the outside of the city you can see the monstrous fire, when the wind blows, it seems to have a scorching smell.
"The Commander is right, the water source of the Prudent people is indeed limited."
The herald came to report that "the crossbow loading of the hundred people is completed", Zhuang Xiao still beat the drum himself, the sound of the drum and the horn was to see off the poor Shen people, this time the direction of the attack changed, as if it hit some important position of the Su Shen people, attracting a blind counterattack from the Su Shen people on the city wall, and the black flag sergeant saw the arrows shot by the Su Shen people falling lightly to the ground and laughed wildly.
One of the soldiers said, "It's not fun to bully savages." ”
Some people say that naturally someone answers: "They are the ones who bully!" ”
The weak eat the strong, to paraphrase an old saying: if you fall behind, you will be beaten!
Obviously, after losing the support of the jungle, the Su Shen people are nothing to the Black Flag Army, which is extremely good at attacking the city......
Meng Zhao looked at the Sushen Royal City from afar, and he suddenly smiled and said to Ma Lin next to him: "The Sushen people are going out of the city to invite the battle, let them see the sharpness of the Qin army's infantry formation!" ”
Ma Lin nodded and turned......
The ethereal voice, it is very weak, and some people are asking: If it is an attack on the Han State, will the Han defenders have the strength to fight back?
…… (To be continued) (To be continued.) )