Chapter 27: Defending Shouzhou (2)

"Do you have archers?"

"Could it be that the bows and arrows of the Shouzhou Red Turban Army are all decorations?"

"Let Meng Yuan's Red Horse Exploration Army also try the awesomeness of the archers of the Shouzhou Red Turban Army......"

The feathered arrows shot by the archers on the city wall flew like a slap of a big black cloud, "whooshing" towards the enemy army outside the city,

It's time to give the enemy back the color. Hao 13 couldn't wait to poke his head out of the battlements of the city wall, but the actual effect of the bow and arrow returning fire was shocking.

The feather arrows sent out by the Red Turban Army in the city fell sparsely in front of the cavalry formation outside the city, and only a few arrow feathers were shot into the enemy formation, which was no longer lethal, and had long been separated by the round shield and sword of the Red Horse Exploration Army, and did not pose any threat to the enemy at all.

How so? It's clear how many days I've eaten a full meal, how can it still be like I haven't eaten enough!

Hao 13 was completely disappointed!

This is the difference between the farming nation and the nation on horseback in war, and the arm strength of the bow is not something that can be caught up with a few full meals and a few beef and mutton eats.

There is a difference between the feathered arrows used by the enemy and the enemy.

The Red Horse Detective Army is an armor-piercing arrow with heavy arrows, and its weight is much heavier than the ordinary feather arrows of the Red Turban Army. The bow and arrow shoot from a distance, and the killing depends on the weight of the arrow and the gravitational acceleration when it is in free fall in the air.

The bow is not the same bow either!

The bow of the Red Turban Army is an ordinary wooden tire bow, and the pull is weak and weak, and the full pull force can only shoot the bow and arrow so far. The Red Horse Exploration Army uses a composite bow with ox tendons and iron tires, and the pull of the bow is far greater than the strength of the wooden tire bow at a high place.

One inch long, one inch strong, one inch short, one inch dangerous. The range of the bow and arrow is not as long as that of others, and it can only be beaten passively, and there is no effective ability to fight back.

This has put great pressure on the Red Turban Army in the entire Shouzhou City.

Outside the city, another round of feathered arrows flew from the Red Horse Exploration Army, followed by another round, two rounds, and many archers of the Red Turban Army who had no time to dodge were hit by arrows, fell to the ground and groaned in pain, and the pessimism of fear of the enemy began to spread in the army.

"Don't be afraid, the moat is more than two feet wide, and their cavalry can't cross our moat!" Hao Shisan shouted loudly, cheering up the Red Turban Army around him, and even more so cheering himself up.

Under the absolute pressure of such a powerless counterattack, the Red Turban Army on the city wall did not have a large-scale escape, which stemmed from the combat experience of Wu Liuqi's Han army.

And the Red Turban Army only hid under the battlements of the city wall, holding a shield and praying silently, ignoring Hao Shisan's encouragement, life and death, the whole screen is decided by heaven.

The earth trembled, and Hao Shisan felt that the flesh on his face was trembling slightly by the trembling of the earth, and he didn't know if it was the earth trembling violently, or it was from the panic in his heart.

The Red Horse Expedition has begun to attack!

Outside the city, two-thirds of the Red Horse Expedition Army, divided into four well-organized teams, galloped towards the moat, and the trembling of the earth was due to the resonance brought by the hooves of the vast cavalry.

The horses of the Red Horse Exploration Army did not grow wings, and they did not want to use people to fill the ravines.

Each charging cavalryman carried half a bag of dirt in his hand.

"Archers, release arrows, and fire them at the team of horses that are rushing towards them - shield men, protect the archers!" Hao 13 shouted loudly.

The cavalry of the Red Horse Expedition Army held a round shield to block the rain of arrows, rushed to the moat, and did not entangle, but poured the soil in the cloth bag into the moat, turned around and ran back.

Wu Liuqi's left army has a hundred archers in a thousand households, but the cavalry outside the city is divided into four teams to fill the river, and the archers of the Red Turban Army in the city must be divided into four teams to fight back, Hao Shisan has to reluctantly transfer one hundred archers from his own army to the city, that's it, the archers are still obviously insufficient, and the number of archers is 200:1000.

The Red Horse Expedition Army that filled the river, within the range of the archers of the Red Turban Army, even if the horse moved fast, even if it was covered by a shield, finally the cavalry of the Red Horse Expedition Army fell from the horse with arrows.

Although, the disgraced chatted about it, but it greatly boosted the morale of the Red Turban Army at the head of the city. The red horse detective is not steel and iron bones, and the feather arrows are not useless, and they can also pierce a hole in his leather armor.

The Red Horse Expedition had 1,000 archers in the rear, and did not participate in the reclamation of the river, but only suppressed the archers in the city with bows and arrows, and protected as many horses as possible for the reclaimed river.

The Red Turban Army archers are under the protection of the shield bearer, and the number of people who are injured by arrows is not as many as before, and the Red Turban Army of Shouzhou has gradually adapted to it after the tempering of the war, and once an archer is injured and falls to the ground, the nearby soldiers immediately pick it up and continue to release arrows.

The cavalry archers of the Mengyuan pressure formation adopted the method of salvo fire, and there was a certain interval between the shots, and the new army of the Red Turban Army at the head of the city gradually learned to dodge the salvo of the Mengyuan cavalry archers.

However, the number of archers of the Red Turban Army was not large, and there should be an interval between the two rounds of bow and arrow shooting, and the cavalry of the Red Horse Exploration Army was too fast, and such a sparse bow and arrow could not stop the action of the river-filling cavalry at all, and the width of the moat was gradually shortening.

The enemy braved the rain of arrows to fill the river, and he was determined to win the city of Shouzhou.

The enemy's reclamation could not be stopped, and the archers could only slow down the enemy's progress slightly, and it was only a matter of time before the moat was filled.

But they didn't have siege equipment, so how could they climb the walls? Could it be that they have any secret weapons that they haven't used? Or is it opening the way for the follow-up infantry??

Hao Shisan always felt that there was a conspiracy among the enemy, but he couldn't see through it, after all, this was the first bloody battle he had experienced, except for watching a few movies about ancient wars, he had no experience at all, he always had a cold sweat in his heart, but he couldn't think of a way to defeat the enemy.

All conspiracies will inevitably be revealed when it is time to be revealed. Hao Shisan was completely uncertain at this time, so he could only hit the luck.

It should be dead in the river, but it can't die in the well, it should be dead in the well, and it can't die in the river.

I knew that there was a day when I traveled to ancient times, so why be obsessed with the drama of tearing devils and mortars hitting planes, it is better to watch those classic ancient war movies in advance, at least I can learn something and understand ancient wars.

It's useless to complain!

Hao Shisan can only learn war in war, and gradually grow up in exploration.

The head has fallen off, but it is just a big scar in the bowl, Hao Shisan is not afraid of death! At most, the ball is facing up.

However, Hao Shisan's subordinates still have thousands of patchwork Red Turban Army New Army, as well as a city of people in Shouzhou City.

When the Red Turban Army broke the city, many people in the city gave great support to the Red Turban Army, and spontaneously picked up the hook and iron teeth to kill the soldiers who fled from the imperial court, once the city was broken, 60,000 or 70,000 people in Shouzhou could not escape the fate of slaughter.

This is the consistent way that the Meng Yuan army treats the enemy, and the cold threat just now made people shudder when they think about it.

Many Red Horse Detectives fell from arrows, and there were hundreds of corpses of Mengyuan soldiers on the ground, but seeing the moat being filled inch by inch, Hao Shisan was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and kept hitting his palms with his fists.

Just as he was hesitating, suddenly the monkey Zhang Thirty-one stepped forward and whispered to Hao Shisan: "The artisan camp Jiao Yu and Jiao Lu brothers ask to see!" ”

Hao Shisan slapped his legs and was overjoyed, "Take me to meet them, it must be the artillery I asked for!" ”

"Jiao Yu (Jiao Lu), the centurion (deputy centurion) of the craftsman battalion, knocks on the chief manager."

Jiao Yu, who had just been promoted to centurion by Hao 13 a few days ago, appointed his younger brother Jiao Yu as the deputy centurion.

Hao Shisan hurriedly stepped forward to pull up the two brothers, at this time he was in a hurry, and he couldn't care about his jealous kneeling etiquette, so he hurriedly stepped forward to pull up the two and asked anxiously: "The two brothers are here today, do you want to tell me that our artillery has been built." ”

Jiao Yu rubbed his hands with a difficult face and said: "A large amount of raw copper is needed to make a cannon, copper is used to mint coins, copper is money, and money is copper." There is not so much raw copper in Shouzhou City. ”

After a long time, the money is still poor, to put it bluntly, the cannon still hasn't been built.

"Didn't I tell you, no matter how much money you have, you just go to my housekeeper Mu Youcai to ask for it?" Hao Shisan's heart was not anxious.

"Copper is government-run, there is no copper mine near Shouzhou, and the brother who went to Luzhou to purchase raw copper has already set off, and it is difficult to say whether he can buy raw copper through relationships...... However, the barrels of the pear flower guns mentioned by the general manager were made by his subordinates, and there were hundreds of them! Jiao Yu took out a two-foot-long iron bucket with a fuse.

Hao Shisan's iron pot and iron bucket looked at it, more than two feet long, a two-inch-long fuse at the front end, and there were two clips on the iron bucket, which could be quickly clamped on the barrel of the spear, but the workmanship was exquisite and meticulous.

However, at the moment, this melee weapon Hao Shisan is not needed, seeing that it is suppressed by the archers who also have the advantage of ten thousand households, the Red Turban Army in Shouzhou urgently needs a firearm for long-distance attack at this time, a firearm that has a longer range than the Mengyuan archers, this pear flower gun, but it is not used at the moment.

Hao 13 didn't blame the two newly appointed centurions of the artisan battalion, but just sighed softly.

How can you expect folk craftsmen to make a big killing weapon in a short period of time?

He comforted: "The two brothers have worked hard, give the pear blossom gun barrel to the centurion Li Datong who is defending the city gate......

Before Hao Shisan's command was finished, he suddenly heard a commotion outside the city wall, and Zhang Thirtyyi, the captain of the guards on the city wall, shouted: "Boss, it's not good, the enemy has already crossed the moat?" ”

"Two brothers, stay safe!" Hao 13 gave an order, left the two centurions of Mune, and rushed to the city.

What exactly are the enemy's cavalry going to do? Could it be that the cavalry of the Red Horse Expedition Army has grown wings? Can you fly to the top of the city?