Xu Renjie waved his hand and said loudly to the crossbowmen: "Everyone, listen, Sister Xue Hongqi is the boss of the cavalry, she has always thought that crossbows, a weapon that cannot be used on horseback, are garbage, can you be convinced?" Hey, if you don't want to be underestimated by women, cheer me up and show Sister Xue Hongqi how you play crossbows! ”

"Yes!" The crossbowmen replied and raised their spirits, these days, once something is "underestimated by a woman", it is really a super big hat, and it will be over when it is buttoned to the head, and the man will not be able to straighten his waist for half his life.

Xu Renjie snorted: "Stupid woman, look at it, I'll let you know why our military formation is misplaced!" ”

"Ready!"

"Wind!"

"Hey!"

At the sound of the order, the crossbowmen moved quickly, and it was indeed very troublesome to wind the crossbow, and the soldiers sat flat on the ground and laid the crossbow flat in front of them. The left and right soles of the feet are inserted into the thumbs of the crossbow arm, and then the crossbow is split, and the waist hook is pried up to hook the crossbow string. Pull the waist hook with both hands and push the soles of your feet forward. The splitting body fell backwards and used force together to open the crossbow string and hang it on the machine. Because of their neat movements when they were wound, it looked like hundreds of people were doing a sit-up on the ground to pick up the big back lean iron bridge.

"Hey......" finally pulled the string, and the soldiers' faces turned red.

Xue Hongqi laughed: "I also said that the crossbow is useful, I really laughed to death!" With this winding effort, the mighty archer has already shot two chain arrows. ”

"We're in trouble with this thing." Xu Renjie's face was also slightly red, but he immediately said stiffly: "But when it comes to power, hum...... Bows and arrows can't catch up with crossbows. ”

"Aim!"

"Ready to launch!"

The crossbowmen got up from the ground, raised their wound crossbows, and aimed them at distant targets. At this time, Xu Renjie began to get nervous, and he said proudly: "The advantage of the crossbow is that once the crossbow is wound, the soldiers do not need to maintain the power of the bow all the time, that is to say, they do not have to let their arms bear the pulling force of the bowstring all the time, so that it is much more convenient when aiming, even if they are rookie recruits, they can shoot arrows as accurate as old archers." ”

Xue Hongqi listened to his explanation and took a closer look, this is the truth, the soldiers are holding the crossbow body with one hand, and the other hand is on the bracket, both hands and arms are in a relatively stable state, unlike when the bow is drawn and aimed, the archer's arm has to bear a huge force, in that way, it is difficult for the archer to aim, and some archers with little strength will tremble with their hands after shooting a few rounds of arrows, and they will not be able to shoot decent arrows at all, but on the crossbowman, there will be no problem. In this way, the difficulty of aiming is greatly reduced.

"First row, launch!" Xu Renjie gave an order.

The first row of crossbowmen simultaneously fired their bolts at the distant target...... Sure enough, six or seven out of ten arrows could be shot, and the power of the crossbow machine was so great that all the arrows that hit the target were deeply submerged in the target, which was not the same as the power of the bow and arrow.

This is a matter of course, the crossbowmen use all their strength, hands, waist, and so on to wind up, but the archers only use their arms to wind, and fools know that arm strength is not as strong as leg strength and waist strength.

Xue Hongqi took a breath of cool air: "It's amazing!" ”

"There's more!" Xu Renjie laughed: "Rotation!" ”

He shouted "turn", and the soldiers in the first row threw the crossbows in their hands back at the same time and handed them to the soldiers in the second row, and the soldiers in the second row handed the crossbows that they had already opened to the soldiers in the first row, and at the same time passed the crossbows that had been shot to the third row, and the third row also handed the crossbows in their hands to the second row.

"Huh?" Xue Hongqi Daqi: "Playing acrobatics? ”

I saw that the soldiers in the first row took the crossbow handed by the back, and immediately aimed at the target again. And the soldiers of the third row received the empty crossbow, immediately sat down on the ground, and with the strength of their waists and legs, began to wind.

At this time, the soldiers of the first row had finished the second round of shooting, and they threw their crossbows back, and exchanged them with the soldiers of the second row, and they became well-wound crossbows, and the second row exchanged them with the third row, and they took the well-wounded crossbows, fastened an arrow to them, and rotated with the first row again.

So that's it! Xue Hongqi suddenly realized that the soldiers in the first row were responsible for shooting, the soldiers in the second row were responsible for passing and loading the arrows, and the soldiers in the third row were responsible for winding...... That's why they stood in a staggered formation, which was convenient for exchanging crossbow machines, and it would be inconvenient to stand in a straight line.

Under their rotational firing, the crossbow bolts flew out like rain, and they were so continuous that they could hardly find a gap.

"I see, it's amazing!" Xue Hongqi opened his eyes: "There is actually this kind of shooting method of three shifts in turn." ”

"I don't have any knowledge, I don't know how to take turns in three shifts, and I don't know how to choose a nice name." Xu Renjie said proudly: "Let me tell you, this trick is called 'Split Shot', which I learned from the military books of the Song Dynasty, hahahaha." When the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin army fought in the 'Monk Yuan', the Song army used this trick to beat the Jin cavalry to lose their armor and collapse the army, aren't you learning the cavalry tactics of the Jin State? When you run into my generalissimo's crossbowmen, I will make you cry, hahahaha. ”

Xue Hongqi opened her mouth, she wanted to scold back, but after thinking about the momentum of the crossbow team just now, she felt that she was a little lacking in confidence. Come to think of it, there is really no way to win against this kind of crossbowmen who rain arrows.

She turned around helplessly: "Brother Zhu, teach me quickly, how can I win the generalissimo's crossbow team!" I'm going to beat him with the right way! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled bitterly and said: "Don't even think about winning the battle head-on." ”

"Huh? Can't win? Xue Hongqi was shocked: "I remember that Song Guo was beaten badly by Jin Guo......"

"Who told you that wars are fought with dignity? Who told you that cavalry can only be used for frontal combat? Zhu Yuanzhang said helplessly: "The real advantage of cavalry is the ability to move into any position on the battlefield anytime and anywhere, running thousands of miles, disturbing the enemy's rear, and cutting off supplies...... It's not hard to break the crossbowman, you take advantage of the fact that the crossbow bolt is not winding while he is on the march...... Rush over before the soldiers are in formation, and the crossbowmen will be all your dishes...... How can you do it if you have to fight in a dignified manner? You take the cavalry and fight the castle in a dignified way, and I'll see! ”

Xue Hongqi let out a "hey" and was speechless.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang started training for Xu Renjie again: "Didn't I ask you to train the three-stage shooting method?" How did you get it up and down? I've already told you, it's a very backward tactic to shoot in multiple shots, and the three-stage shooting method is even better. ”

Xu Renjie said with a smile: "Don't worry, Brother Zhu, I have already let them practice the three-stage shooting method, but let them practice the shooting at the same time, although this tactic is backward, but it will not hurt to learn it." ”

He turned his head and yelled at the crossbowmen, "Practice again, this time perform a three-stage shooting method!" ”

"Yes!" The soldiers hurried into action and re-prepared.

This time Xue Hongqi didn't dare to laugh, she watched carefully, only to see that after the crossbowmen in the first row shot arrows, they suddenly rolled to the ground, gave up the position of the first row, rolled to the last row, sat on the ground and wound, and the crossbowmen in the second row took a step forward and became the first row, aiming ...... Shoot...... After that, the second row also rolled to the end, and the people in the third row came out to aim...... Shoot...... By the time the soldiers in the third row had finished shooting, the soldiers in the first row had already finished their wounds and returned to the first row.

Really...... Endlessly, endlessly...... The arrows kept shooting, and there was not a single gap to be found.

"Wow, this method is more powerful, more coordinated and faster than the one just now!" Xue Hongqi exclaimed.

"Haha, you know how good I am, right?" Xu Renjie was triumphant and overjoyed: "It's really great to step on the crossbow, hahahaha." ”

"Don't be complacent, if you use this three-stage shooting method to fire in turn, it will definitely be better than your crossbowmen!" Xue Hongqi snorted.

Xu Renjie was stiffened by this sentence, and after a long while, he hung his head and said, "You're right, I also want to play with firecrackers...... But the firecracker is too expensive, our iron is not enough to make the firecracker, and even if it is made, there is a lack of gunpowder and bullets, and it cannot be formed. ”

That's right, sooner or later, the firearm will completely replace the crossbow arrow, but Zhu Yuanzhang's current strength can't do it!

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly looked in the southwest direction, his face thoughtful.

Xue Hongqi said: "Eighth Brother Zhu, what do you think the southwest is doing?" ”

"Hmm...... I'm looking in the direction of Xi'an......"

"Xi'an Mansion? Wow! Xu Renjie was overjoyed: "Brother Zhu, are we going to attack Xi'an Mansion?" Great, let me be a pioneer! ”

"Don't be stupid, wake up, where do we have the strength to attack Fucheng?" Xue Hongqi kicked Xu Renjie's calf.

Xu Renjie sneered: "Oh, I know it too, but Zhu Bugger never does things that he is not sure of, he is eyeing Xi'an, then there must be some clever plan, hehe." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and smiled: "I don't plan to capture Xi'an, I just plan to trade with Xi'an......

"Commerce?"

"Hmm...... Most of the rebel army in western Shaanxi has been suppressed, Hong Chengchou's attention turned to Shanxi, at this time, the merchants of various big cities and towns in western Shaanxi will prosper again, and the caravans that did not dare to run around now dare to run, thinking that Bi'an Mansion will have a large number of people for a long time...... We can take this opportunity to go to Xi'an to find out if there are any business opportunities. Before the attention of the officers and men can be turned back to us, we must seize every bit of time to expand our strength. ”

"To the big city? I really want to go! Xue Hongqi's eyes sparkled.

(To be continued)