Chapter 123 [Powerful Crossbow Breaking the Turtle Formation]

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The big yellow crossbow, also known as the yellow shoulder crossbow, is the second strongest existence in the Han system bow and crossbow, and belongs to the eight-stone crossbow. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info requires more than 450 catties of strength to pull it apart at a time, and the effective range is 150 steps. Since it is the second strongest, what is the strongest? The answer is the rhubarb force ten-stone crossbow! The rally force is 600 catties, and the effective range is 200 steps.

How lethal is the rhubarb crossbow? There is an example of this that has been passed down through the ages.

One of the most famous generals of the Western Han Dynasty, Li Guang, a flying general, once patrolled the camp on a snowy night, suspected of a tiger, and shot with a crossbow. Searching in the morning, it was known that it was a boulder, and the arrow was not in the stone. The crossbow used by Li Guang is the rhubarb crossbow, and it is the strongest rhubarb crossbow.

If it is a bow, its potential energy will be placed wherever it is, and it will not be greatly increased because of the user's adrenaline surge, and a three- or four-stone bow will not be able to shoot into stones. Only the rhubarb force ten-stone crossbow with penetrating power that is almost perverted has the powerful power of piercing stones at close range.

Ten stone power crossbow, even if you use the strength to eat, there are not many sergeants who can pull it apart, so Du Xun and other strong crossbowmen use the second-class eight-stone rhubarb crossbow. Although it is not the strongest, there are examples of Li Guang's "tigers", who dares to underestimate the power of these strong crossbows?

The Huns behind the tortoiseshell array, through the gap in the shield, also saw the difficulty of the Han crossbowmen winding, and their hearts were faintly uneasy. But when he lifted the half-human-tall shield in his hand and looked at the wall-like shield array formed by his companions on the left and right, the sense of solidity and security overflowed his heart and dispelled the uneasiness.

Du Xun and the strong crossbowmen lifted the crossbow together, and the tail of the crossbow wrapped in soft cloth and thick leather pressed against the shoulders - this is also the reason for the name of the yellow-shouldered crossbow. They all leaned forward, their legs in a lunge shape, even though they were panting, beads of sweat rolling on their foreheads, and sore into the corners of their eyes, but none of them dared to blink. Engrossed in his ears, waiting for the roar of the shot.

Fifty steps, the shield is like a wall, the arrow is like a spear, is the shield broken, or is the arrow broken?

The confrontation between the two sides was very short, and this would lead Yu Lishou to lead the defeated cavalry into the city, and the coalition camp was also opened, and a large number of Han and Hu infantry horses poured out of the gate.

The collision happened at this very moment.

"Shoot-"

There was a cracked roar, and sparks of the arrow and shield collided.

"Stretch—"

A crossbow bolt as thick as a finger, ejecting with strong kinetic energy. At this moment, the strong recoil shook nearly half of the crossbowmen, and several people were cut by the crossbow strings after their operation was not slight, and their blood was dripping, and they lost the strength to fight again.

"Buzz - bang!"

Iron arrows break shields, and sawdust flies. The strong potential energy released by the eight-stone strong crossbow pierced through the cowhide shield fifty steps away, and the broken wooden thorns struck the **** four times, piercing the Huns holding the shield to scream. Several Huns who wailed and fell out of the shield array, their faces covered with wooden thorns and drenched in blood.

There was a commotion in the tortoiseshell array, and the Huns, who were shot out of the gaps, hurriedly gathered left and right to close the gaps. At this moment, the scalp-numbing screams of the second and third rounds of crossbow arrows of the Han army came again......

Bang bang! Puff puff puff!

The sound of breaking shields and broken bodies were mixed, and angry blood and sorrow were intertwined under Zhizhi City.

The Hun defenders in the city and the wooden building were red-eyed, and they desperately shot the arrows in their hands at the Han army.

Due to the long distance, the defenders on Zhizhi City were at the end of the crossbow when the arrows were shot in front of them, and the arrows of the defenders of the wooden building posed a great threat to the Han army.

The tortoiseshell array of the Huns has been torn apart by the critical attack of the strong crossbowmen, at this time, if the Huns withstand the rain of arrows, lean up, and stick to the strong crossbowmen of the Han army, it will definitely cause a lot of damage. But the problem is that thousands of troops and horses are surging like a huge tide of high tide, and their own soldiers and horses are fleeing back to the city in a hurry.

This well-equipped Hun infantry is the elite of Zhizhi, and it will hurt for a long time to die, how can you do such a stupid thing? Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately shrank backwards - it really shrank.

Under the vigorous cover of the defenders of the wooden building, in the dense sound of tuk-tuk, the Hun infantry finally retracted into the city with a large shield full of arrows.

The thickly covered gates of the city slammed shut.

At this moment, under Du Xun's hoarse command, the strong crossbowmen who withdrew from the shooting range of the wooden building sat on the ground one by one, so tired that they cramped. The eight-stone crossbow was too tiring, not to mention that they had previously defeated a cavalry team with a five-stone crossbow. The physical wear and tear is so great that it has reached the verge of collapse.

Du Xun was panting like an old cow, the sound of hooves behind him was approaching, and a familiar voice came from overhead: "Good job." Du Baijiang, maybe this is the last time he will be called so. ”

Du Xun raised his head and saw a cavalry general leaning over and smiling at himself, it was the old boss, Wu has already captained Guo Xi. But what does this mean?

Looking at Du Xun with an inexplicable face, Gao Zhen, the new tun chief beside Guo Xi, smiled: "Lao Du is happy and confused, after this battle, he will be promoted, and he will no longer call a hundred generals." ”

It turned out to be such a meaning, Du Xun grinned widely, smiled happily, and didn't know what to say for a while.

At this time, there was a loud uproar in front of him, but there was an unexpected situation. Many Hu soldiers who rushed to the city of Zhizhi took the lead, ignoring the cold arrows flying from the wooden building, and impatiently snatched the equipment on the corpses of the abandoned Hun infantry. These Hun soldiers who formed the tortoiseshell formation can be called heavy infantry, and the armor and chain mail they wear are very expensive weapons of war, and they are definitely worth breaking their heads or even risking their lives to fight.

This robbery was chaotic and gave the Huns an opportunity to take advantage of. On the wooden tower and on the top of the city, arrows were thrown down indiscriminately, and many Hu people who rushed out from behind shields, horses, camels and other shelters to grab the spoils of war fell in pools of blood, and all of them became the souls of the battlefield.

The strong crossbowmen of the Han army were all indignant when they saw it, if it weren't for the fact that they were all tired like dogs, they would have jumped up and beat people's hearts.

In this joint operation, there was a charter for the distribution of the spoils of war, and whoever won the battle belonged to whom, half of it was handed over, and half of it was kept for himself, and these captures should have belonged to the strong crossbowmen of the Han army. It's just that the first to rob them was a part of the Hu pawns who covered them, probably they felt that they also had a credit, and then they caused the Hu people who rushed up to grab indiscriminately.

Guo Xi, the commander of the former enemy, was furious when he saw this, and immediately summoned the leader of Zhuhu and reprimanded him. The leaders of Zhuhu also continued to send cadres, and even went down in person, braving random arrows, whipping and kicking, and finally stopped this senseless scramble - and at this time, on the corpses of the Huns, several bodies of the allied troops were densely stacked......

This accident caused a lot of losses to the coalition forces, but with Guo Xi's timely disposal, everything finally got back on track.

Next, the coalition nations have their own tasks. There are those who are responsible for blocking the city gates and blocking the enemy's access to the city; There are those who are responsible for digging trenches; Some took shields in front of them, covering the advance of swords, halberds, and archers; There were also a large number of Hu people who continued to shoot at the head of the city and the wooden buildings. Although the terrain was inferior, with the absolute superiority in numbers, the Huns were firmly suppressed and the initiative was controlled.

By dusk, the 20,000 allied troops had finally completed the siege of Zhizhi City.

Zhizhi's vitality has been cut off by half. (To be continued.) )