Chapter 155: The Battle of Jishui: The Longbow Rises

"Put!" Duan Ziyao couldn't help but wave the long knife with a hint of nervousness. This is due to the fact that the longbowmen did not test fire, which was mainly to give the enemy a surprise attack. Duan Ziyao ordered it based on the crossbow arrow that had been tested before, plus his own estimation. This made Duan Ziyao afraid of shooting out, so he would be too embarrassed.

With Duan Ziyao's long knife swinging, a rain of arrows rained into the sky.

"Fool!" A sneer appeared on Zhu Wen's tense face, his army was still more than ten zhang away from the crossbow arrow that the enemy test-fired, you don't need to shoot so quickly even if you are in a hurry, isn't this a waste of a chance to shoot?

However, Zhu Wen and Xuanwujun slowly felt that something was wrong, originally Xuanwujun was still thinking of watching the other party's jokes, although the pace of progress was a little slower because of the momentum of the rain of arrows in the sky, but there was no shield to protect it. But now it's time for them to devour the evil fruits they have planted, and under Zhu Wen's shocked and Xuanwu army's stunned face, the rain of arrows slammed into the Xuanwu army.

"Ahh Yes! ……”

The screams were repeated, no one thought that the opponent's bow and arrow would really shoot so far, and the arrow was thrown in the air, not only did the strength not decrease much, but because of the gravitational pull of the earth, the strength was not weaker than the strength just shot. What's more, no matter what armor is, the defense above the defense is also much worse than the frontal one.

This is the power of the longbow soldiers to the fullest, and in the midst of a miserable scream, the battle formation of the Xuanwu army was deeply sunk into a large piece. Looking at the army that was in a state of turmoil, Zhu Wen knew that this shooting would cause at least 3,000 casualties, and this casualty number could be even more.

Zhu Hanbin looked at the tragic situation in front of him with a pale face, he couldn't imagine that he had just been about to ambush in front, and he encountered such a thing, and he couldn't help but be glad in his heart. However, he saw the power of this rain of arrows better than Zhu Wen. The long arrows were like weeds growing out of thin air, but they grew on people, and many soldiers who were not killed or seriously injured were nailed to the ground, and the groans of pain spread fear like a plague.

"Forward!" Zhu Wen waved his hand and shouted.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ......" The drums sounded again rapidly, and the soldiers of the Xuanwu Army advanced again, this time raising their shields diagonally, and they also figured out a way to defend themselves against the enemy's cruel longbow.

"Three-stage strike, put!" A sneer appeared at the corner of Duan Ziyao's mouth, and he ordered to change the way of shooting.

The triple hit changes the coverage and power of the arrows, and in order to maintain the power of the arrows, the longbowmen also reduce the coverage to the front of the enemy. However, the continuous attack was even more terrifying, although there was a shield to resist, but the heavy force was as if someone had struck the shield again and again with a laughing hammer, making the soldier's hand holding the shield tremble. On the battlefield, soldiers are constantly being shot without asking for shields and exposing large spaces.

In the continuous blows, the crossbowmen of the Xuanwu Army, who were supposed to go up to suppress the enemy, were also afraid. Without much defense, they knew how many people they would die and injure if they faced the continuous blows. They simply can't afford to spend it with the longbowmen, a skilled heavy crossbowman can shoot two crossbow arrows in a minute, while the longbowman on the opposite side can shoot twelve arrows in a minute at the fastest if he doesn't aim, just cover the shot, which is not at all the rate of fire that the crossbowmen can fight against.

No matter how angry Zhu Wen was, he knew that he couldn't let that crossbowman go to death. After thinking about it, Zhu Wen decided to let the ironclad infantry in the Bianbing come forward, and Zhu Wen believed that with the protection of the ironclad armor, the damned archers on the opposite side would never be able to exert their terrifying power again.

"Take a break and change to the armor-piercing arrow!" Seeing the enemy's ironclad infantry appear, Duan Ziyao was not in a hurry, but asked the longbowmen to rest a little. After a while, the ironclad infantry had advanced more than twenty feet, and they had not yet encountered an attack, which could not help but make them excited. But what made them wonder was why the archers on the other side didn't shoot their arrows, why didn't they go back, and couldn't they stand there waiting for us to slaughter?

Suddenly, the bow and arrows on the opposite side were moved, and a rain of arrows was thrown into the air, although the ironclad infantry was hard enough to hold the iron armor on their bodies, but they would not be stupid to use the iron armor to block the arrow rain, and hurriedly raised the cowhide shield, although the shield made of cowhide was not thick, but it was much lighter, and the defensive power was not too much. The only downside is probably that it's too expensive.

Seeing the cowhide shield held high by the enemy, Duan Ziyao showed a sneer, the armor-piercing arrow was more powerful than ordinary arrows. Cast in pig iron throughout, the arrowheads are made of stainless steel and coated with poison.

In the face of the fierce armor-piercing ability of the armor-piercing arrow, the resistance of the cowhide shield is so powerless, the armor-piercing arrow penetrates the cowhide shield in just one shot, and with the penetration of the cowhide shield, a miserable scream sounded in the ironclad infantry battle array. This was followed by the second round of armor-piercing arrows fired by the second platoon of longbowmen, and the third round ...... When the three rounds of arrow rain passed, the tragic situation of the ironclad infantry simply made Zhu Wen's heart drip blood, it was all his elite soldiers and horses!

"Get the soldiers up and moving forward!" Juwen could no longer bear the feeling of being abused by the longbowmen, and he decided to press it with the superiority of his troops. At the same time, he sent someone to inform Ding Hui, who was stationed in the camp, that he decided to deal with this Lu Long hairy boy who made him feel humiliated no matter what, and even did not hesitate to expand the scope of the war.

In the face of the almost barbaric charge of the Xuanwu army, Duan Ziyao finally had to withdraw from the battlefield in advance and lead the longbowmen to retreat, but he also caused a proud record, according to Li Cunhuan's estimation on the command car, at least more than 13,000 casualties of the Xuanwu army. However, it is a pity that there are more wounded and very few dead, which is estimated to be 14,500 deaths. This is mainly because if the bow and arrow are not smeared with deadly poison or hit the vital point, basically few people will be unlucky to death.

In history, Fu Cunxian once said to his children that he had fought all his life, and he was shot into the bone by an arrow and taken out more than a hundred times, and let people use the arrow to educate their children that wealth was not easy to come by. The lethality of bows and arrows can also be seen from here, and there are people who have been shot into the bones by arrows more than a hundred times, and they have not yet died. Of course, this is due to Fu Cunshen's high status, good physique, and first-class military medical treatment, but the weak killing power of arrows is the most important factor.

ps: Sorry, I forgot to update, sorry! ～

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