Almost at the same moment, a thousand honeycomb heavy crossbows suddenly attacked, and the dense locust-like long arrows shot at the dense cavalry strongly, the honeycomb heavy crossbow was a large bed crossbow just invented by the Northern Sui Military Weapons Supervisor. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In fact, it is to use the principle of the repeating crossbow to improve the bed crossbow, increase the winch force, and change the large arrow of the bed crossbow to a small iron arrow, which can shoot 30 armor-piercing iron crossbow arrows at one time, with a range of 400 steps and a killing range of 300 steps, which is a sharp weapon for dealing with dense cavalry.

The craftsman of the ordnance supervision invented the honeycomb quiver more creatively, thirty iron arrows were encapsulated in the quiver, and after the arrow was fired, the honeycomb quiver was directly loaded with a heavy crossbow, and it could be fired again, which greatly saved the time of loading the arrow, and could be compared with the shooting frequency of the rhubarb crossbow.

A honeycomb heavy crossbow is one zhang long, six feet wide, and weighs hundreds of catties, which is generally placed on the city wall, or loaded on wheels and shot into the air, and is operated by a total of six people, four of whom are responsible for winding with a winch, and two are responsible for loading arrows.

This kind of crossbow has a long range, dense arrows, and great lethality, and the only drawback is that it is not accurate, but it is undoubtedly the most suitable for dealing with the dense Turkic cavalry array.

The Sui army installed a thousand honeycomb heavy crossbows in the camp, about thirty steps away from the city wall, divided into three rows, and could shoot 30,000 iron crossbow arrows at one time, which required strong national strength to support, and today was the first time the Sui army used it, creating a powerful killing effect.

Although the Turkic cavalry were well-equipped Khan Guards, with large shields in their hands and strong leather armor, they could not resist the fire of heavy crossbow arrows, which shattered the shield and penetrated the leather armor, and the huge thrust directly shot the cavalry off their horses, and the horses in front of the leather armor were also pierced by heavy arrows, neighing and falling to the ground.

The trebuchet's attack mainly produces a shocking effect, and the lethal effect is not very ideal, but the honeycomb heavy crossbow shoots crossbow arrows, and the killing effect is extremely obvious, and the overwhelming locust-like attack makes it impossible to dodge.

The first round of 30,000 arrows was fired, and most of the more than 3,000 Turkic cavalry galloping in the front were shot down, leaving only more than 1,000 cavalry unharmed, and the ground was full of soldiers and war horses who were howling in pain.

But the Turks did not react immediately, and the casualties could not be seen clearly in the night, and the Turkic army behind was still killing the camp one after another, at this time, the Sui soldiers had quickly replaced their quivers, and in a burst of bangs, the second round of 30,000 iron crossbow arrows rushed towards the running Turkic cavalry like a storm.

Suddenly there were screams, and a large number of Turkic cavalry and war horses were shot down by arrows, like a storm swept by, and there were no cavalry standing within a hundred paces.

After only two rounds of crossbow firing, the 10,000 Turkic cavalry lost nearly half, and the remaining 5,000 cavalry finally responded.

Zhang Xuan, who was watching the battle from afar on the wall, coldly ordered: "Cavalry attack!" ”

"Knock-knock-knock!"

A heavy and slow drum sounded, which was the signal for the cavalry to attack, and the 20,000 cavalry lying in ambush in the north and south directions suddenly moved out, quickly surrounding and closing the thousands of Turkic cavalry that were fleeing.

And the 20,000 main Turkic forces ten miles away did not come to the rescue, but waited for the Khan's orders.

Dozens of generals looked at the khan together, the expression on the face of the Chuluo Khan was very complicated, his eyes were full of hesitation, the fighting spirit in his chest had disappeared, and after a long time, the Chuluo Khan finally gave an order, "Pass the order, the whole army retreats north!" ”

All the generals sighed secretly, and had to gallop back to their own army and shout: "The Khan has an order, the whole army retreats north!" Retreat north! ”

As the bell for the withdrawal rang, the Turkic army turned around and retreated northward, and Chu Luo took one last look at the besieged army to the west, and also whipped his horse and galloped north.

The bell of retreat reached the attacking Turkic army, Wen Mutie led thousands of cavalry to break through desperately, and finally fought a bloody road from the northeast corner, Wen Mutie led more than 1,000 cavalry to break through, Hu Benlang general Shao Yiming saw that the enemy general broke through, and couldn't help but be furious, and ordered the surrounding soldiers to say: "Follow me to chase!" ”

At this moment, a cavalryman rushed forward and shouted: "The commander has an order, don't chase the poor man!" ”

Shao Yiming was so hateful that he stuck the spear on the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "Kill me, don't leave a single one!" ”

Since the marshal did not say that he wanted to accept the surrender, these Turkic cavalry all became his punching bag, and were constantly strangled by 20,000 Sui cavalry, even the wounded soldiers were not spared, and the casualties were extremely heavy, and in the end only more than 1,000 people were captured by the Sui army, and the remaining 7,000 soldiers were all killed, and the 20,000 Sui army also paid the price of nearly 2,000 casualties.

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Although the Turkic cavalry was finally defeated, leaving more than 5,400 corpses, the Tang army also suffered heavy casualties, with nearly 2,000 cavalry casualties, more than 3,000 infantry casualties, and nearly 1,000 casualties of the Sui cavalry who came to the rescue.

The Turkic army has retreated, and thousands of torches have been lit in the Tang camp, illuminating the camp as if it were day, and the soldiers are busy cleaning the camp, repairing the outer walls, and rebuilding tents.

Wang Junkuo was standing in front of the armor pile of the Turkic army with several generals to study the opponent's equipment, when the soldiers from afar shouted, "His Royal Highness King Qi has arrived!" ”

Everyone hurriedly turned around, only to see Zhang Xuan, the king of Qi, walking briskly surrounded by dozens of guards, the soldiers dodged a way one after another, and Wang Junkuo hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "See His Royal Highness the King of Qi!" ”

"See His Royal Highness King Qi!" The generals also saluted.

"Generals, please excuse me!"

Zhang Xuan waved his hand to everyone, and asked Wang Junkuo again, "What are the casualties?" ”

"More than 5,000 people were killed and wounded, including 3,400 killed."

Zhang Xuan nodded, and said with a slightly heavy heart: "This time the Turkic army came to kill completely unexpectedly, and we are not effective in scouting, and we also have a certain responsibility. ”

"Your Highness, don't say this, the two armies are fighting, it is impossible to fully achieve insight, it is normal to encounter a sneak attack, speaking of which, I also want to thank Your Highness for your timely support, if there are no 10,000 cavalry of your army to kill in time, I am afraid that we will have tens of thousands of casualties."

Wang Junkuo was completely telling the truth, they didn't have time to line up the spear array, the soldiers of each battalion were in their own formations, the formation was very chaotic, and they were killed and killed by the Turkic cavalry with superb riding skills and suffered heavy casualties, if it were not for the timely arrival of the Sui cavalry, separating the Turkic cavalry and the Tang army soldiers, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"This time the Turkic cavalry sneak attack on us out of a total of 40,000 troops, the attack on the Tang camp is just a sound of the east and the west, if our army all rush to the rescue, then 30,000 Turkic troops from the east to kill, the outcome will never be optimistic, the Turkic Khan also found that we have been fully prepared, only to give up the idea of continuing the attack, led the army to retreat, although a little nesty, but after this battle, we also personally understand the situation of the Turkic army." Jang Hyun glanced at the piles of armor that looked like a hill and said.

"Your Highness is completely right, this is the equipment we have captured for the Turkic army, we do know a lot about the situation of the Turkic army, please allow me to report to Your Highness."

Zhang Xuan nodded and smiled: "General Wang, please speak, I will listen to you!" ”

Wang Junkuo picked up a shield and said, "Your Highness, please look at this shield, this is actually a copper shield, no wonder our bows and arrows have not worked." ”

Zhang Xuan took the shield, his hand was very heavy, weighing at least twenty catties, he groaned and said: "The Turks do not produce copper, and the output of pig iron is not large, this should be a copper shield from the west, but not all the Turkic armies are prepared, and the Turkic cavalry that attacked us from the east tonight is not equipped, this should be the henchmen of the Turkic Khan's army, and the ordinary guards do not have such equipment as them." ”

"That's true, Your Highness, please look at this leather armor again."

Wang Junkuo picked up another piece of leather armor and said: "This leather armor is actually a double-layer cowhide, sewn finely and densely, very strong and light, and there is no clumsiness of ordinary double-layer leather armor at all, this kind of sewing is the handiwork of Han women." ”

Zhang Xuan took the cowhide, the first feeling is that the tanning is very good, soft and strong, worn on the body than the single layer of leather armor of ordinary herdsmen cavalry, the Northern Sui also bought a lot of leather from the Tiele tribe, including this kind of leather, belongs to the top leather, half a cowhide can be worth ten sheepskin, this is indeed not an ordinary soldier can afford to equip.

Zhang Xuan picked up a spear and a war knife again, both of which were the best standard weapons of the Sui army, he nodded and said: "It seems that the Turkic army attacking the Tang camp is not trivial, and it is also a great achievement for you to be able to inflict heavy losses on the other side." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for the compliment!"

Wang Junkuo was not happy at all, his mood was very heavy, a night attack killed and injured more than 5,000 people, how could he explain to His Royal Highness the Prince? (To be continued.) )