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With the sound of rolling war drums, the Xuanwu Army's large-scale crossbow machine, which was already in place, slowly began to raise its crosshairs in the sound of "crunching". Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ╔╗

The five thousand foot soldiers holding the giant shield at the front continued to approach Anfeng City.

Anfeng City is actually not very large, with the hundreds of large crossbow machines equipped by the Xuanwu Army slightly dispersed, it can basically cover the entire city wall in the west. However, Weng Zhong did not choose to disperse, but placed all the large crossbow machines behind the five thousand foot soldiers who were about to attack.

The direction that hundreds of large crossbow machines were aiming at was that section of the city wall, which was only more than a hundred zhang long. The ladder is limited, and it is obvious that it can only concentrate on breaking through a little, as long as one or two places can climb the city wall, Anfeng City has basically been taken.

Weng Zhong never thought that Youjin would be able to force the Xuanwu army back. Therefore, he gave a death order to the 5,000 soldiers who were responsible for the siege of the city who were changed from heavy armored cavalry to foot soldiers, that is, at most two hours, he must see the battle flag of the Xuanwu Army and the banner of the word "Qin" planted on the head of Anfeng City, and the casualties should not be too many.

In fact, what happened to the emperor in Chengwu City, although the outside world knows very little, but this matter is not a secret in the Bashang camp. Bi Jing lost thousands of Jing Rui, and it was impossible to hide it. ╔╗

For the sake of secrecy, although none of the soldiers who died in Chengwu had a grand ceremony, all the bereavements had been secretly distributed to the Cāo Office of the Dragon Guard Mansion.

The medals that should have been kept in the treasury of the camp on the bar. Just wait for the emperor to exterminate all the thieves before the official edict is issued.

Although the performance of the Xuanwu Army in that battle was already extremely eye-catching, it was obviously far from the emperor's expected combat strength. All the Xuanwu soldiers, including Weng Zhong, also held their breath.

You must know that the five major legions, the Xuanwu Army was the first to be officially named. Of course, they didn't know about the Xuanniao Army. Similarly, the Xuanwu Army was the first legion to incur casualties.

This, in the eyes of the Xuanwu Army, is not only not a glory, but a shame. Even at that time, the situation was extremely disparity.

The movements of the five major legions, each of which has a special Longweifu carrier pigeon and eagle to inform each other. The battle of the Xuanwu Army should be the first battle except for the Suzaku Army that has been transferred to Jiuyuan.

The five major legions were all established by the emperor, and they were all compiled and trained by the emperor with a lot of effort. ╔╗The commanders of the five major legions are extremely familiar with each other, and they all have a good relationship.

But secretly, the five legions are also secretly competing. This contest had already begun when the Bashang battalion was conducting exercises. However, the exercise is a drill, and the enemy in the exercise is the robe that he will fight side by side in the future, so naturally it is impossible to fight the enemy with real swords and guns, and he will die in the same way.

And now this battle to quell the chaos will really determine which of the emperor's five major pro-armies is the first in Great Qin!

After advancing four hundred steps, the five thousand Xuanwu soldiers holding giant shields were less than a thousand steps away from the walls of Anfeng City. In addition to the soldiers in the first row, the Xuanwu Army infantry still maintained the formation and firmly erected the giant shield in their hands in front of them, starting from the second row, the Xuanwu Army infantry began to slow down, and after pulling the distance, they raised the giant shield above their heads to cover the top of their heads.

The huge shield more than a foot high was enough to cover the heads of the foot soldiers in the first row.

After two hundred steps of continuous progress in this way, the siege phalanx composed of five thousand foot soldiers has completely changed into a huge turtle shell formation completely covered by a giant shield. The Xuanwu infantry carrying the ladder were also hidden under their shields.

The drums of war, which gradually became rapid, stopped abruptly!

"Bang Bang!"

At the moment when the drum stopped, in a series of continuous stiff sounds, nearly 300 large crossbow machines opened their strong bowstrings at the same time, and the crossbow arms with the thickness of the arms were violently slammed out of the six huge crossbow arrows with a length of more than three feet placed on the crossbow groove in continuous tremors. ╔╗

Nearly two thousand giant crossbow arrows with a sharp sound of breaking through the air had already rushed to the city wall before the Chu army on the city wall could react.

In the era of cold weapons, long-range offensive and defensive weapons such as trebuchets and large crossbow machines were like the concept of cannons that appeared in the era of hot weapons in later generations. After the advent of the cannon, it was called the king of war for a long time.

Even in later generations, when a series of high-tech weapons such as tanks, missiles, and airplanes emerged one after another, no country in the world said that it would no longer use artillery, but was still constantly improving the ability of artillery.

Compared with the cāo trebuchet, which is not easy to make and is bulky, the large Lianshè crossbow machine may not be as fearful as the trebuchet, but the reliable Xing and ultra-long range of the large Lianshè crossbow machine seem to have established his supremacy in the era of cold weapons. ╔╗

On the walls of Anfeng City, there was a miserable howl, stone chips flew sideways, and sparks flew everywhere. At least hundreds of Chu troops were pierced through their flesh and blood by powerful giant crossbow arrows that rushed to the city because they couldn't dodge, and they were either nailed to death by long crossbow arrows above the city, or they were directly taken by the crossbow arrows and fell from the city wall to Anfeng City, causing panic all over the city.

There were no crossbow arrows left in the shè, and they either fell over the walls and into the city, or they were deeply submerged in the hard walls of Anfeng City. The 100-odd foot city wall, which was originally smooth and difficult to climb, looked like a hedgehog that suddenly grew spikes.

With just a wave of crossbow arrows, the Chu army on the city wall suffered at least nearly a thousand casualties. There were only three or four hundred dead, and many of the rest were injured by the flying stones!

The frightened Xiang Yi touched his face that was scratched by the flying stone chips, and poked his head out to look at the Qin army's crossbow machine phalanx, which was more than a thousand steps away from the city wall, and his eyes showed a sense of surprise!

It's not that he hasn't seen the Qin army's large-scale crossbow machines, and there are more than ten large-scale crossbow machines used by the Qin army with the aid of the South Vietnamese side above the head of Anfeng City. These more than ten crossbow machines were brought by Xiang Liang to Xiang Bo from Shouchun City. Nowadays, there are more than 60 large-scale crossbow machines of the Qin army system above the head of Shouchun City. There were also more than 20 large crossbow machines arranged in Xiang Liang's army. ╔╗

As for Xiang Yu's 100,000 army going north, it was only equipped with 10,000 small hand crossbows, but there were no extra large crossbow machines for him to use.

But those large-scale crossbow machines that are also the standard weapons of the Qin army, in Xiang Yi's opinion, are very different from the large-scale crossbow machines used by these demonic Qin troops in front of him.

Visually, the distance from which the Qin army outside the city issued a large crossbow machine was 1,500 steps away from the city wall.

Fifteen hundred paces away, the crossbow arrows that were sent out were still able to sink into the hard city walls, and they were still raised from the ground. That shows that the large crossbow machine used by the Qin army outside the city should be at least 1,800 paces away in peacetime.

As for the 100 large crossbow machines sent by the South Vietnamese side, Xiang Yi had personally stepped forward to test their power, with a shè range of 1,200 paces and an effective killing of 800 to 900 steps.

Then there are only two possibilities, either Ziying left a hand and gave the Chu State a crossbow machine that cut corners, or the Qin army improved the ordnance again, so that the large-scale Lian shè crossbow machine of the same system has a shè process that far surpasses the crossbow machine of the Qin army in South Vietnam.

If it's the first reason, it's fine. When Bi Jing couldn't support the Chu State, the South Vietnamese side would definitely not sit idly by. But if it is the second reason, then it is obvious that in the time of the confrontation, neither Nanyue nor Chu will be powerless against the large crossbow machines of the Qin army.

You can only be beaten passively!

At this moment, the five thousand Xuanwu Army foot soldiers who were besieging the city were already less than five hundred steps away from the city wall of Anfeng City!

"Quick, give me shè with a crossbow!"

Xiang Yi got up and looked at the soldiers of the Chu army who were so frightened that they shrank under the city wall one by one and didn't dare to show their heads, and suddenly burst into shouting!

Like a thousand Chu soldiers who had just woken up from a dream, they stumbled to cāo to make a large crossbow machine placed on the head of Anfeng City! More than ten large-scale crossbow machines, Xiang Bo originally placed three in each direction on the four city walls for the sake of insurance!

The three large crossbow machines are already the only force that the Chu army can now attack the siege soldiers of the Qin army!

In the crunching sound, the large crossbow machine of the Chu army on the city wall was finally adjusted by the hurried Chu army soldiers, and they didn't even aim and came out directly.

The large crossbow machines used in South Vietnam were still old-fashioned crossbow machines, and only three crossbow arrows could be loaded in one crossbow machine. Three crossbow machines and nine crossbow arrows burst out of the city wall alone, towards the phalanx of Qin army's infantry who crushed up with overwhelming mountains and seas.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel!

The nine crossbow arrows either deviated 108,000 miles to the back of the Qin army, or they were inserted into the ground dozens of steps away from the Xuanwu army's siege infantry, and they didn't even touch a single hair of the Qin army's infantry.

Even in the old Chu that was not destroyed by the Great Qin, the large Lianshè crossbow machine was only equipped with a small amount of equipment, or even no equipment at all. And today's Chu army has no experience in using large crossbow machines at all, although there are soldiers sent by the South Vietnamese side to guide, but it is only Jing Rui in the hands of Xiang Liang.

The Chu army in Anfeng City today was originally either ordinary people, or old and weak, and had not even had formal military training, so how could they have the experience of making a large-scale crossbow machine.

"Idiot!" Xiang Yi can't wait to tear up a thousand Chu troops alive!

Weng Zhong was holding a monocular in his hand, and he could clearly see the movements of the Chu army at the head of Anfeng City.

Soon, more than 2,000 crossbow arrows rushed out from the Qin army's large array, but this time at least dozens of large Lianshè crossbow machines were aiming at the only large Lianshè crossbow machine on the head of the city that could pose a threat to the siege Xuanwu army!

Hearing the sound of banging under the city wall, the soldiers of the Chu army, who had already tasted the power of the Qin army's crossbow machine once, immediately shrank under the city wall at the fastest speed, hugging their heads tightly and shrinking into a ball!

It's not absolutely safe to hide, and the Chu army who was injured by the flying stones just now is a clear example!

In a series of loud clicking sounds, each of the three large crossbow machines on the west city wall was hit with at least five or six crossbow arrows, and the beaten ones became a pile of tattered wood chips on the spot, becoming waste!