Historically, the fate of the Divine Crossbow was very tragic.

It was invented in the era of Song Shenzong and was heavily equipped in the army, but it began to be lost in the Yuan Dynasty. The Mongols, who are good at riding and shooting, look down on the divine arm crossbow. In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, the divine arm crossbow was completely lost, and it was only described in the "Yongle Canon", and it was a work of art, not a combat tool.

Since then, the Divine Arm Crossbow has completely disappeared.

The disappearance of the divine arm crossbow always makes future generations choke.

At this time, Zhao Pu vaguely understood why the Divine Arm Crossbow disappeared. Weapons that are too advanced are not necessarily a good thing.

The Divine Arm Crossbow, which costs a lot of money to manufacture, is not suitable for cavalry, has a high breakage rate, and lacks perfect repairs, which is destined to be a tragedy.

From this and that, Zhao Pu thought of the secret weapon - arquebus, flintlock pistol.

The fate of these weapons is somewhat similar to that of the Divine Arm Crossbow. The Divine Arm Crossbow has repeatedly performed miraculous feats on the battlefield, but it really has little effect, at least the Liao State, Western Xia, Jurchen, and later Mongolia did not have a large number of Divine Arm Crossbows;

The arquebus, flintlock pistol, is also a large number of equipment in the army, but it does not play a big role, often playing the role of burning sticks, soldiers would rather use knives and guns, rather than use arquebuses, flintlock guns. And the Qing army was not heavily equipped with arquebuses.

The Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty both attached importance to the equipment of advanced weapons, but they neglected logistics and practicality, and they were destined to have advanced weapons that were not as practical as backward weapons.

"It seems that arquebuses, flintlock pistols, at least for a long time, can only be my toys, and not standard weapons on the battlefield!" Zhao Pu couldn't help but think, "Because the logistics can't keep up, the manufacturing industry can't keep up, and the maintenance personnel can't keep up...... These problems are not solved, and the new weapons are more of a trick! ”

Today's battle. Let him understand a lot.

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At the moment when Zhao Pu was thinking wildly, the battlefield had become intense.

The cavalry of the Jin Army repeatedly rushed to kill, fearless of death, wave after wave, like the impact of the tide, continuously. The chariot array was crumbling, facing the verge of collapse again and again, but the soldiers of the Bazi Army still resisted stubbornly, constantly resisting with their lives.

This moment, the so-called strategy, tactics. It is useless at all, only tenacious will, and whoever persists will be the final victory.

In the heat of battle, the frequency of the Divine Arm Crossbow is too high. As a result, most of the Divine Arm Crossbows are going to be scrapped. The soldiers had no choice but to use hard bows to fight back against the Jin army. Significantly reduced in the frequency of firing. Leads to insufficient long-range strikes. The pressure on the front line increased, and the circle like a turtle's shell was gradually knocked open with a big hole.

Short swordsmen, pikemen, and the cavalry that came from the storm, collided violently. The cavalry had a fast impact. With the strength of the war horse, he knocked the soldiers in front of him into the air, and immediately broke his bones and tendons. And at the moment of crashing, the spearman did not hesitate to stab the spear in his hand. Tie the war horse into a bloody hole.

And the short knife hand drilled down into the leg of the horse, and could be trampled to death by the war horse of the Jin army, and may be hacked to death by the sword that was chopped down, but they had no choice, and they still drilled under the horse's belly without hesitation, and then cut into the horse's leg and stabbed the horse's belly.

The battles are divided into brutal, bloody ones!

But at this moment, neither side flinched, neither ran backwards, they both bravely slashed at the enemy, either killed by the enemy, or killed the enemy.

The soldiers of the Eight-Character Army are fighting desperately to protect the emperor; And the soldiers of the Jin Army are also fighting desperately, fighting for the appreciation of the marshal.

At the end of the battle, the formations of the two sides had already been confused, and the charioteers also picked up the long knives in their hands to fight; And the spearmen were also in a group of several people, besieging a golden cavalry; The archers have long since abandoned their bows and arrows, wielding spears or swords and slashing at their enemies. After the Jin army rushed into the formation, the speed of the war horse decreased, lost its speed, and its power was greatly reduced, and the war horse was no longer a help, but a burden. Some of the cavalry of the Jin Army simply jumped off their horses, brandished Mo knives or maces, and slashed at the soldiers of the Bazi Army.

There is no obvious difference between infantry and cavalry in the Jin army, the upper horse is the infantry, and the lower horse is the cavalry; If you have a horse, you are cavalry, and if you don't have a horse, you are infantry; When you need horses to fight, you are cavalry, and when you don't need horses to fight, you are infantry. In the transformation of cavalry and infantry, it moves flexibly.

Although it was a scuffle and the formation of the two sides was chaotic, the Bazi Army still maintained a squad-based combat unit, which was caused by the influence of the Mandarin Duck Formation. The entire eight-character army, with the squad leader and deputy captain as the core, rushed to kill, the squad leader was killed, the deputy captain replaced, and the entire squad was condensed together and fought vertically and horizontally.

And in this regard, the Jin army is much worse, the Jin army is a natural soldier, a strong army honed in the battle, and the combat effectiveness is well-deservedly strong, but the discipline is much worse, and it is like a scattered sand in the battle, even if some Jin soldiers are combined to fight, they are mostly unconscious, and there is no formation pattern.

"Kill!"

"Rush!"

Both sides are fighting, they are fighting to the death, they have already killed with red eyes, they only look at their clothes and don't look at people, and when they see that their clothes don't match, they come forward and slash and kill.

In the melee, only the central high platform still maintained a formation, with more than 200 guards guarding Zhao Pu's side, and more than 500 martial arts academy students guarding the periphery.

The first lesson these martial arts academy students took was a bloody fight, a miserable stump with broken arms, and hideous corpses.

Some of the military trainees, most of whom were scholars, also experienced a bloody battle for the first time. In books, fighting a war is a matter of talking and laughing, and fighting a war is strategizing, and the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, just like Su Dongpo's poems, romantic and beautiful; But the scene at this moment completely subverted their world view, the order given by the general who commanded the battle was very simple, direct, rigid, no mystery at all, no mystery at all, no artistry at all, no sense of beauty.

There is nothing but fighting, only bloody battles, where one group dies and another group rises until they all die, or the enemy is repulsed.

They are the students of the Martial Arts Academy, and they are also warriors, and they are also the guards who defend the emperor, and they are constantly slashing and attacking the soldiers of the Jin Army on the high platform, killing the Jin Army with jerky means.

The battle spilled over to beneath the high platform. Many of the guards were pale, but only Zhao Pu still looked the same, still thinking crankily, still thinking about the pros and cons of using arquebuses and flintlock pistols.

It seems that everything has nothing to do with him;

Or is it the conviction that you can't die.

"Whoosh!" A sharp arrow shot at Zhao Pu, and was immediately blocked by the guards around him with shields, and the arrows scattered around him were scattered and blocked by the guards around him. It didn't hurt him at all.

At this time, a Jin army defender rushed to Gaotai, killed Zhao Pu, and destroyed the emperor of the Song Dynasty. It's just welcome. It's a sharp spear, a sharp knife. And the kung fu of this Jin army is very high. The mace in his hand swung and smashed away the various weapons that beckoned to his body. Then with a swing of the mace, it smashed on one of the guards, who was beaten to death.

At this time, some swords and spears were stabbed on the Jin army's defenders, but they were all blocked by the armor on their bodies, and it was difficult to injure them.

The Jin defender continued to rush forward and kill. Everywhere he went, there was no one to do, like a humanoid tank, constantly rolling ahead. Keep moving forward.

The defenders stepped forward step by step, getting closer and closer to the high platform, and it seemed that the credit for pouring heaven was close at hand.

And at this time, there was a loud bang, and a copper pill like a pigeon's egg was shot, and the penetrating power was extremely strong, instantly piercing through three layers of armor, and blasting the internal organs of the Jin Jun's guards into a smithereum.

"What is this?"

At the moment of death, this Jin army defender was a little unwilling, but no matter how unwilling he was, he was just a dead man.

He died under a large flintlock pistol.

The flintlock pistols made in the early days were extremely unsuccessful, and Zhao Pu originally intended to make a flintlock pistol, but instead made a lifting pistol. It is not possible to equip cavalry, and it is not cost-effective to equip infantry, so it can only be equipped in the Guards, specifically to deal with those masters with high martial arts.

No matter how strong the martial arts are, as soon as you raise the gun and hit it, the pigeon-egg-like copper pill flies out and hits the body, no matter if you are Jiuyang Divine Skill, Iron Cloth Shirt, or King Kong's incorruptible body, it is all fatal material.

And this Jin army soldier died, and gloriously became the first Jin army soldier to die under the gun.

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After the death of this Jin army guard, some Jin army guards rushed to the high platform, and they were also raised for seconds.

At a distance of ten meters, five guns were fired together, almost a hundred shots, and death was inevitable.

There are many Jin troops who are good at fighting, and there are many brave ones, all of them are hundred-man enemies, and they are fierce generals on the battlefield, under normal circumstances, if you want to kill them, you need to work hard, but under the shameless siege of raising guns, they have fallen, and from beginning to end, no one rushed to the high platform.

The bloody battle continued, but some ministers around him were frightened and a little frightened.

"Your Majesty, please move quickly to avoid being injured by the sword!" At this moment, one of the courtiers fell to his knees and began to cry.

At this time, Zhao Pu came back to his senses, and secretly said in his heart: Where to move? It's better to be still, and if you don't move here, you may not die; But as soon as you move, hehe! ”

"Don't worry, I can't die!" Zhao Pu's expression was calm, as if victory was in his hands.

His calmness undoubtedly reassured the ministers and guards around him.

"Look, didn't the Jin army retreat?" Zhao Pudao.

When everyone looked over, they realized that the Jin army was slowly retreating; And when retreating, it was also orderly, and there was no panic at all.

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The Jin army has retreated!

One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion.

In this battle, the main thing is to fight morale; This battle was mainly a raid.

The Jin army came from afar, and it was exhausted itself, and it was only by relying on a breath of breath and the belief that it would win that it insisted on attacking; Under this morale, the Jin army repeatedly broke the enemy army, defeated one enemy after another, and won victory after victory, except this time.

The cavalry is good at long-distance running, rushing to attack, and some Song troops often did not have time to set up a military formation, and they were hit by the distance of the cavalry, were chiseled through, and cut into several pieces. Then the Song army fled in all directions, and the Jin army could ride on horseback and slaughter, wielding a sword to reap the fruits of victory, but this time was also an exception.

After a fierce battle for an hour in a row, two war horses were changed, and the cavalry lost nearly a thousand, but it had not yet been overcome.

After a long attack, the soldiers of the Jin army were exhausted, their morale was greatly damaged, and the whole army was vaguely unwilling to fight any longer.

And the most important thing is that the Jin army is only 3,000 people, and the Song army is also 3,000 people, with 3,000 Jin army attacking 3,000 Song army, the mortality rate of the attacking side is higher than that of the defending side, and it may be fought to the end, the Jin army is exhausted, but the Song army is still alive.

As the battle continues, the chances of victory are slim.

"Let's go to war!" Jin Wushu's expression was gloomy, "I originally wanted to capture the emperor of the Song Dynasty, but at that time, the Song army was leaderless, and Jianghuai, Jiangnan and other places were at your fingertips." It's a pity that God doesn't bless Dajin, and it is difficult to overcome for a while! ”

The distance is so close, some Jin soldiers have approached the high platform, it seems that they are about to rush up and kill the emperor of the Song Dynasty, it seems that victory is at hand, it seems that it is within reach, but it is almost a kick in the door, and it is difficult to enter.

"Your Highness is very good!" Han Chang nodded, unwilling to start this battle in his heart. The cavalry is good at running, but not good at attacking; If the enemy's formation is not in place, you can quickly charge and kill the enemy; It's just that now, the military formation has been tightened, and if you attack again, you are looking for death.

The horn sounded, and the cavalry of the Jin Army slowly retreated! (To be continued......)