84, the crossbow shocks the moon

Unable to startle the snake, Yan Zhenqing commanded the army to retreat five miles and set up camp in a valley. It is a persimmon forest, with thick fallen leaves at your feet, ridges and trees to block the cold wind, and the valley is still warm.

A soldier was in charge of bringing water from the spring, and it was strictly forbidden to light the fire, so everyone chewed bread and dried meat with cold water for dinner.

The scout reported the information he had investigated to Yan Zhenqing and Dugu Huan, and with Yan Zhenqing's permission, he went to find a nearby family and found a man from his family to be a guide into the mountain.

In the winter leisure season, the men of every household here become hunters.

A few years ago, the mountain was closed here, and people were not allowed to hunt in the mountains in this area, except for the valley, some of the trails into the mountains were also guarded by soldiers.

In the past few winters, he can only catch a few rabbits and trap a few wild boars in the wilderness on the nearby hillside.

However, he was born and raised, and when he was a child, he followed his father and uncles into the mountains to hunt, and he was very familiar with the situation in the mountains.

Orion ate the jerky and bread that Yan Zhenqing gave him, very satisfied, and grinned innocently while pointing fingers.

There were a lot of bread and jerky in front of him, but Orion ate them very carefully, chewing carefully one bite at a time.

After eating a few bites, he stopped: "The villain is full, even if he gives up his life, the villain is also willing to take the military masters into the mountains and kill all these dog-day beasts." ”

Orion quietly stuffed the half-eaten bread and a piece of jerky into his arms. happened to be seen by Yan Zhenqing.

"How can you eat these few bites, you will follow us into the mountains tomorrow, eat more quickly." ”

After speaking, Yan Zhenqing took out more jerky dough cakes and piled them up in front of Orion.

When Orion saw it, tears fell: "My lord, my lord, you are really a good official, but a few children and his mother in the family have not eaten a mouthful of bread and meat for several years, don't you think I can still beat a rabbit, and I also take it to exchange some old grain and wild vegetables with the rebels in the city, how can I eat it, when I meet a good soldier, I will give some beans to feed the horses or something, and when I meet something that is not something, I not only rob the rabbit, but also get a whip if I don't make a good scene." ”

After Orion finished crying, he suddenly knelt down.

"My lord, let the little one go and call all the old and young masters from the ten miles and eight villages, and go into the mountains with you to kill the rebels. ”

Orion kowtowed, hoping that Yan Zhenqing would promise him to lead the villagers into the mountains and help attack the rebels together. These demands were naturally dissuaded by Yan Zhenqing.

Yan Zhenqing divided some of his jerky, handed it over to Fang Cai's scouts, sent it to Orion's house overnight, and pushed some jerky pastries in front of Orion, telling him to eat well. Only then did Orion gobble up with tears in his eyes.

"Man, eat slowly, there is no hot water, be careful of eating bad stomach. Yan Zhenqing looked at it and instructed earnestly.

At night, the soldiers let the horses lie down, and piled up the leaves high next to the horses, and nested in them, and fell asleep.

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, a few crisp magpie cries woke up Dugu Huan, the morning air in the valley was very heavy, and it was still a little uncomfortable. Dugu Huan looked at the glow reflected on the mountain top in the distance, and felt some warmth on his body.

Dugu Huan got up and looked, Yan Zhenqing was already neatly dressed, holding a piece of dough in one hand and a water bag in the other, talking and laughing with the soldiers not far away. He was touring his ranks.

Dozens of soldiers were unloading their pack horses, some of them already assembling something.

"It's the Moon Crossbow. Yan Zhenqing saw Dugu Huan coming over, pointed to something on the ground, and said to him.

"The structure is similar to that of a crossbow, but this one is bigger. Dugu Huan exclaimed.

"Haha, yes, fortunately I met a descendant of the public loss class, and he came up with the idea to create this.

I know that An Lushan has a chain of iron horse arrays, people and horses are wearing heavy armor, ordinary cavalry can't do anything at all, at the beginning, Yan in order to hold the plain county, secretly recruited skilled craftsmen and patriotic dead soldiers, including such a carpenter, drew a drawing for me, Yan was overjoyed after seeing it, and later asked several times, he confided that he was actually a descendant of the public loss class.

At the beginning, An Lushan's soldiers and horses attacked, I had already ordered someone to secretly build a hundred of these moon-shattering crossbows, but unfortunately his chain of horses did not come, those ordinary light cavalry, such a crossbow arrow, can shoot more than a dozen people in succession, how about it, amazing. ”

Yan Zhenqing was full of confidence when she spoke.

Only then did Dugu Huan see clearly that there were bundles of "spears" on top of the pack horse, which turned out to be the bow and arrow of the moon crossbow.

The moon-shattering crossbow is dozens of times larger than an ordinary crossbow machine, and there are two people tall when the back of a single bow is erected, and the bowstring is made of cow tendons, which is two fingers thick.

There is also a crossbow bed, which is similar in structure to a normal crossbow machine, except that there is an extra winch at the end of the tail to tighten the bowstring.

"This thing looks bulky and simple, and the structure is similar to that of a normal crossbow machine, but the key is the bow back and the quasi-head. This bow back is too big, ordinary bamboo and wood simply can't provide such elastic power, this kind of crossbow can also be seen at a glance, it is launched at a long distance, and it is difficult to control the quasi-head. ”

Yan Zhenqing was very proud of his secret weapon, and patted Dugu Huan's shoulder and said.

"Well, I have also heard some sayings, when the Song Wu Emperor Liu Jinu, who unified the southern and northern expeditions to the Central Plains, had built such a giant crossbow, there are many records in the book, and many people in later generations tried to imitate it, but it was indeed unsuccessful because of the problem of the bow back material. ”

A Moon-Shattering Crossbow is assembled. Dugu Huan stepped forward to take a look, and the crossbow plate of this crossbow was half a foot wide with a thickness of four fingers.

Dugu Huan took a closer look - the plate texture of this crossbow bow is very special, and if you look closely, it turns out that it is not made of a single piece of wood, but a piece of extremely thin and various pieces of wood of different thicknesses are glued.

"Brother Dugu has good eyesight, the back of the bow and the bowstring are secretly supervised by the carpenter, and the bowstring is also made of cow tendons in a special way, and then twisted, and the bowstring itself is also very elastic. ”

Yan Zhenqing knew that Duguhuan had already seen some clues, so she simply confessed.

Dugu Huan tried to pull the bowstring with his bare hands, as Yan Gong said.

"He solved the problem of the quasi-head that I just told you about in this way, the ordinary bed crossbow, the crossbow arm is filled with a groove for the crossbow arrow, and there is generally only one mouth to fix the crossbow arrow, each of these moon-shattering crossbows is fixed on the crossbow arm with three roundness and ultra-high precision, ensuring that the long crossbow is on the predetermined trajectory when it is launched.

And even these ** gun heads, gun barrels, are also personally supervised by the carpenter, the hardness, toughness, weight of the gun barrel are very particular, when launched, it will not cause tremor because of too much force, resulting in deviation from the target.

At that time, he made a total of 3,000 of this **, hehe, every time I have to try to recycle, the temperature difference between dry and wet in winter and summer is different, and there are special maintenance methods, oops, there are still more than 2,000 such accurate ** left, but the baby is miles.

But the man also said that if the other party is overwhelmed, you don't have to pursue accuracy, and you can use some ordinary javelins to do **. ”

"Oh, where is that man now? Why should he carry forward his skills so that he can contribute to the people of the world. ”

"I didn't keep it, he seems to have gone to Chang'an, young people always yearn for some lofty goals, hoping that one day he will really become a master craftsman. ”

Will be a master craftsman, is the chief of the nine temples and five supervisors in the Tang Dynasty, and is also the highest honorary title in the hearts of craftsmen in the world.

"Haha, it turned out to be a craftsman with a big goal. ”

"Haha, who's to say it's not. ”

Under the leadership of the scouts and the Orion guides, Yan Zhenqing's troops came to the front of the valley military village when the sun rose over the East Mountain.

It was lined up more than 1,000 steps away from the gate and set up a formation.

This time, Yan Zhenqing brought a total of ten moon-shattering crossbows, 200 accurate**, and 500 ordinary**. The bed frame of the Moon Crossbow is designed with an ingenious mechanism that can be mounted on the back of a pack horse and carried over short distances.

The military array is lined up, and the moon crossbows are also lined up in front of the formation, and each crossbow is operated by three people, one person is responsible for operating the bowstring on the winch, one person is responsible for aiming and launching, and one person is responsible for loading**.

Dugu Huan noticed that those soldiers first carefully coated the ** with a thin layer of grease, and then carefully filled it in, and the thickness of the gun shaft was just put into the hole. It is true that it is very delicate workmanship.

The rebels in the walled city, seeing the ** banner waving from a distance, approaching strongly, the sentry on the arrow tower hurriedly blew the horn and summoned the defenders to meet the battle.

The strange thing is that the ** who came to attack actually opened up a formation more than a thousand steps away, and the archers on this side were not at all at all.

The rebels did not know the details, and the guards had to order everyone to come to the city wall and wait for the battle.

"The foundation of this walled city is made of earth and stone, which is more than three zhang high, and it is made of bamboo and wood at the top. ”

Last night, the scout had already reported, which was why Yan Zhenqing had prepared the Moon-Shocking Crossbow early in the morning.

It is possible that the construction period was tight at the beginning, and it was safe afterwards, so it has always been like this.

Just when the rebels defending the city were nervously speculating about the intention of attacking, they suddenly heard a shout from the opponent's formation, followed by several cold lights accompanied by a sharp whistling sound, and Ling Ran flew above his head.

Click. Click.

Hula, boom. Hula, click.

Ahh

Get out of the way, the arrow tower is down.

Get out of the way.

The sound of the breaking of wood, the roar of the collapse of the arrow tower, and the screams of the soldiers suddenly became a mess.

The first wave of the Moon's crossbow destroyed all four arrow towers on the walled city.

**Shot on the beams and pillars of the arrow tower, there is almost a thousand powers, directly destroying the beams and pillars of the thickness of the sea bowl, the power of the gun is unabated, after piercing the beams, the buzz continued to fly for a while, and it was deeply nailed into the house wall and soil behind him. A few ** penetrated several soldiers one after another, and only then did they lose their strength.

Dugu Huan rode on the horse, deeply shocked by the divine power of the moon crossbow, and his blood boiled.

"Knock down the walls. Yan Zhenqing commanded calmly.

Dugu Huan looked around, and saw that the soldiers in charge of filling ** each took a special ** - the spear head was not a pointed head, but a brass melon head the size of a melon. A blunt instrument. Each person took about five.

A flag-bearer waved a flag, and the soldiers in charge of aiming and firing adjusted the position of the crossbow machine, and there was a creaking sound.

"Destroy—"

The ten-pole copper melon flying crossbow flew out in the blink of an eye.

Bump-bump-bump-bump-bump-bump-to-bump

There was a muffled sound, echoing in the valley, the thigh-thick logs that built the city wall were broken, the sawdust was flying, and each pole smashed a big hole in the wooden wall.