112 The hideous first ascended to show his might, and the first to break the enemy in the present day.
"Hmph, let you Xiliang barbarians achieve my prestige! Ascend to the army first and listen to the order! 'Thunder and Thunder Four Elephant Array', the Green Dragon Formation is ready, and the enemy shoots after 700 steps!! Lu Yi looked at the cavalry of the Xiliang Army who was getting closer and closer on the opposite side, and shouted with a resolute face.
"No!" Although it has only been a little more than a month since he took over this tens of thousands of crossbowmen, Koji Yi is worthy of being a famous commander in history. Under his careful training, this group of sergeants has been reborn and has the appearance of an elite army.
After receiving the military order from Kojiyi, the military formation of more than 20,000 people quickly spread out in four directions, east, west, south, and north with Koji as the center, forming a rectangular military formation composed of four teams. The 5,000 men at the front of the formation all stretched out their crossbows with their hands and feet, and loaded their precious weapons with a 'sharp tooth'.
"Eight hundred paces from the enemy!" Hundreds of minions in charge of watching the enemy situation shouted loudly.
"Seven hundred and fifty paces to the enemy!!"
"Ready!!" Koji Yi drew the long sword at his waist and shouted loudly.
"Seven hundred steps!"
"Put!!" The long sword in Koji's hand slashed down.
"Buzz !!" More than 5,000 extended crossbow arrows made a dull off-string sound in unison, like a rapidly moving dark cloud, covering the more than 100,000 cavalry troops of the Xiliang Army rushing towards them. After the shooting, the sergeants of the Blue Dragon Formation under the command of Koji Yi quickly marched in the direction of the White Tiger Array, while the more than 5,000 sergeants of the Suzaku Array with good arrows followed the sergeants of the Blue Dragon Array into the position they had just shot and waited for Koji Yi's military order.
"General Fan Chou, look at the sky!!" A sergeant of the Xiliang Army said in a somewhat strange voice.
"What's wrong? Well? So far away the enemy army released arrows? Could it be that this leading general didn't even know that the effective distance of the bow and arrow was 100 to 50 steps? Seeing a dark cloud rising from the military array in front of him, Fan Chou said with some doubts.
"Suzaku Array, let's go!" Under Koji's order, the soldiers of the Suzaku Array immediately shot the arrows that had been brewing in their hands for a long time, and quickly lifted the strong crossbow, just like the last time the Blue Dragon Array had done, freeing up the launching position for the Xuanwu Array behind.
"Buzz !!"
"Xuanwu Array, let's go!" As always, change positions.
"Buzz !!"
"White Tiger Formation, release!" They were replaced by the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Formation, who had already put on their arrows in the back.
"Buzz !!"
After the first battalion of the Xiandeng Army released the crossbow arrows, Koji Yi let the three battalions behind shoot their own crossbow arrows one by one.
At the same time, the dark cloud shot out by the first battalion did not fall early due to lack of power as Fan Chou expected. On the contrary, after drifting two hundred, three hundred, or even four hundred paces at a rapid pace, the dark cloud still shot at the cavalry of the Xiliang Army at high speed.
"This, it's a crossbow bolt! The enemy army is a strong crossbow army! Raise your shield to defend!! Fan Chou finally remembered that there is another one in this world, that is, a strong crossbow that is generally used in siege warfare or defense warfare! Only a strong crossbow can guarantee that after shooting a sharp arrow at a distance of six or seven hundred steps, it can still have the power to pierce through armor!
However, although Fan Chou could see that the attack was a sharp arrow issued by a strong crossbow, the defense ability of most of the cavalry of the Western Liang Army was simply unable to stop the attack of the strong crossbow. With the attack of arrows one after another, the charge of the Xiliang army received a lot of blows.
"Bang, bang, bang."
"Ah!!h
"Help me! Adversity! ”
"My legs!"
"My arm!"
After breaking through the armor, the dull sound of entering the flesh and all kinds of screams made many Xiliang soldiers who escaped frightened. The crossbow arrows not only pierced through the standard uniforms of ninety percent of the Xiliang army, but also shot through some of the self-made cavalry shields of the Xiqiang people! The powerful strength of the crossbow arrows made many of the cavalry of the Xiliang Army (most of them actually people from the Xiqiang tribe) who were poorly equipped. Heavy casualties.
But just as some of the cavalry who were not affected were still secretly rejoicing, the fifth and sixth waves of sharp arrows came one after another. The more than 5,000 crossbow arrows in each wave can basically take away the lives of at least thousands of unlucky Xiliang cavalry, and the short shooting interval greatly changed the image of Fan Chou and others on the long winding time of crossbow arrows. Most of the time, the short interval only allowed the cavalry behind to usher in the next wave of arrows after they had just arrived at the vacuum where the fallen cavalry in front had fallen. The continuous and powerful crossbow arrows made these warriors, most of whom were from the Xiqiang tribe, 'eye-opening', and at the same time, they also left an indelible mark on their hearts.
"General, the enemy army is five hundred paces!" The pawn reported loudly to Yoshiyu Koji. The biggest disadvantage of crossbow arrows, in addition to the long interval between shots, is that they can only be designed to shoot flat at a slight angle, rather than as a bow and arrow. After more than a dozen rounds of intensive shooting, the Xiliang army still used some flying bear heavy cavalry with amazing defensive power as the vanguard, and slowly advanced to a distance of five hundred steps.
"Ascend the army first and listen to the order!! The 'Thundering Three Talents Formation' meets the enemy, the human formation shoots first, and the ground formation prepares to shoot! Koji raised his sword and shouted.
More than 20,000 Xiandeng troops immediately changed their formation after receiving the order from Koji Yoshixin, from a four-column military formation to a three-column military formation. Due to the increase in each column of soldiers, the number of crossbow arrows fired per wave has also increased, and in the face of a distance of five hundred paces, even the Flying Bear Heavy Cavalry, which has the strongest defensive strength under Dong Zhuo, has also suffered casualties that frustrate the cavalry behind, after all, they are not like Lu Bu's Iron Floating Tu, in addition to heavy armor, they are also equipped with a small round shield.
In the face of crossbow arrows shot from various angles, Dong Zhuo's imitation of Lu Bu's 'Tiefu Tu' established flying bear heavy cavalry had hundreds or even thousands of casualties, most of them fell to the ground because the mount's defense was not enough, and were ruthlessly trampled to death by the cavalry of the Xiliang Army behind, after all, no one dared to stop and wait for death in the face of this terrifying dense shooting. (In fact, there were about 110,000 cavalry of the Xiliang Army in total, and after more than a dozen rounds of rounds of shooting by the first dead soldiers, the cavalry that went out to be killed and wounded was now less than 100,000.) )
"General Kojiyi, the enemy cavalry is only three hundred paces away from us!!" The pawn said with some panic, because the enemy army in front of him had at least seventy or eighty thousand cavalry combat strength in addition to the wounded, and there were more than 20,000 people who died first.
"Pass my general order, the first to board the army column thundering and shooting in two arrays! The front army is responsible for shooting, and the rear army is responsible for filling the crossbow arrows! Every ten rounds the front army and the rear army exchange positions!! Koji didn't panic at all, he still calmly issued a new order.
"General Koyi's military order, change the thunder and thunder two ceremonial arrays! Swap positions in front and rear every ten rounds! ”
"No!"
More than 20,000 soldiers were placed in two rows, the front was responsible for shooting and the rear was responsible for winding the crossbow arrows. This method will greatly increase the rate of fire of the crossbow array, but the disadvantage is that it will make the winder a little tired. However, Koji's rotation of ten rounds has temporarily alleviated the problem.
"Buzz!!"
"Buzz!!"
"Buzz!!"
Fan Chou, Li Su and the others, who had stopped advancing as early as the first round of crossbow attacks from the Xiandeng army, couldn't help but frown deeply as they looked at the crossbow formations that were hundreds of paces away on the opposite side and had significantly increased their rate of fire and the number of arrows.
"This crossbow array is only 20,000 people, why can't we rush down this hillside with more than 100,000 cavalry? I don't know where the coalition army got such a batch of 20,000 strong crossbows, and now we have become a difficult situation to ride tigers: if we withdraw the cavalry troops and wait for the arrival of the infantry before attacking, I am afraid that by then Yuan Shao and these princes have already collected hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the back, and we will not be able to ask for any benefit. However, if the cavalry suffered heavy losses and rushed over, I was afraid that I would not be able to break through the faster and faster arrow formation. If it weren't for the fact that I would not be able to replace the main bus when I returned to the customs, I really wanted to leave. Fan Chou said with a sad face.
"General Fan! You see!! Li Su, who was beside Fan Chou, had the heart to listen to Fan Chou's chirping, he was paying full attention to the tense situation ahead, and when he saw the enemy troops on the small high slope changing formations again, he couldn't help but shout loudly with a pale face.
"General Koji, the enemy army and two hundred paces!"
"Hahaha, it's finally here. Pass on my military order to go to the army column first, thundering and long snake formation! Shoot freely at the enemy, and after 30 paces, charge with me with a melee weapon!! Koji Yi was not worried but happy when he heard the pawn's report, and shouted at the pawn's panicked face.
Seeing the confidence and composure on his general's face, the pawn slowly calmed down the panic in his heart, and saluted Koji Yi with a chest-beating military salute and said loudly: "Obey the order!" ”
"General Koji has an order! Thunder and long snake formation scatter freely! Fifty paces of white-knuckle combat with the enemy!! ”
"Phew!"
The first ascenders lined up in a long column on the small high slope, and this time there was no more order to fire a salvo, and all the vanguard troops scattered freely. Although the powerful crossbow arrows did not have the momentum of a salvo, they did not reduce the power contained in it in the slightest. At a distance of less than two hundred paces, even if the heavy flying bear rider wearing heavy armor was hit by an arrow, it would immediately end up being injured by the armor, and if he was unlucky enough to be hit by an arrow in a critical place, the arrow would kill him.
"Do you see it clearly?" Lu Bu, who was watching the situation from a distance, turned his head to Zhang Fei beside him and asked.
Seeing that the heavily armored flying bear heavy rider was shot into honeycomb coal by a mess of crossbow arrows, Zhang Fei, who had always been nervous, said solemnly: "If my Tiefutu encounters 20,000 people, with the small round shield we are equipped with, it will basically cost seventy percent of the casualties to get close to them. ”
Lu Bu smiled slightly, pointed to the battle point on the battlefield and said, "Do you think that this crossbow array can be broken just by being close?" Hmph, look over there. ”
The first battalion of the Xiliang Army gradually stopped shooting after the cavalry of the Xiliang Army approached the crossbow array for thirty steps, and the Xiliang Army over there was just about to cheer that the soul-stirring crossbow array finally stopped, when suddenly a loud roar came from the hillside: "Climb first to break the enemy, just today!" All the soldiers and soldiers will follow me to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!! ”
"Roar!! The deafening roar let the scattered cavalry of the Xiliang Army know that getting close does not mean that everything is over, and a cruel white-knuckle battle is waiting for the Xiliang cavalry who have just encountered countless rounds of intensive shooting.
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