The walls of Binh Duong New Town are ten zhang high, and to some extent they are meandering, forming protrusions that cover each other in a large area of about 100 paces. The entire city wall does not have battlements in the traditional sense, but is like a three-layer iron armor shrouded in the castle head, and inside the iron armor are things with cylinders and ballista windows like heavy iron shields.

After the various advances that the entire Dongyuan Dynasty has exhausted for more than 500 years, coupled with the fact that Zhang Fan has eliminated the shackles on the heads of some craftsmen and craftsmen over the years, many technical aspects have made progress, which is no longer comparable to hundreds of years ago.

To some extent, the new cylinder air crossbow has also changed from the original horned wooden bed crossbow to a large steel crossbow that is erected but slightly tilted. This increased the number of large crossbows that could be placed and used in the unit space with an unprecedented increase in power. At the head of the city, which stretches for about 20 miles, a total of 10,000 large air crossbows with steel beds are deployed, which are divided into three layers. On average, almost every kilometre has a large bed crossbow.

When the bed crossbow is fired, it can fire three iron-clad steel spears weighing about three catties or nine cluster arrows weighing about one catty at a time. The energy emitted in a single emission can also reach the level of 40,000 joules. When projecting, there are also some unique mechanical devices that can project about 20 ordinary strong arrows with an energy of about 2,000 joules and a weight of one-third of a catty at one time, further increasing the firepower of the projection.

If it was hundreds of years ago, this level of 10,000 jin strong crossbow was basically a top-level thing like some kind of mascot, and it was only available in the capital. It is said that the most important role is not to attack the enemy forces outside the city, but to shoot some kind of gliding arrow to a high place to call for help or to maintain contact at night with places outside the siege outside the city. However, at this moment, when cylinder gas and even the newly invented steam power could be used as a power source, a large bed crossbow of this size could fire at least six times per minute like a strong bow, which was unimaginable before.

Not only is the power and even the output completely different from before, but the improvement in aiming is actually greater than the output power itself. Especially in recent years, a new means of ranging has been invented. It is probably to use a kind of single-sided glass with excellent performance instead of steel or copper mirror to make two light tubes in an ingenious way, and use the different images in the two light cylinders a few feet apart as an auxiliary means of ranging. Although this method is not necessarily comparable to some very experienced masters, it can greatly increase the level of ranging judgment for many people who have entered the industry over the years. On this basis, the entire large steel crossbow is also equipped with detailed testing and aiming discs, and after years of training, many shooters and even sub-shooters can skillfully understand the use of this aiming disc. Even the service life of the watch is recorded in a unique way as quickly as a supplement. These things are gradually perfected on the basis of countless practical tests. The attitude of the craftsmen of Higashihara can even make people of that era hundreds of years ago ashamed.

All of the above is also the reason why many civilians who have learned about the entire military system of Binh Duong New Town and even the recruits who have been in the army for a period of time do not have too much tension in the battle, but are full of confidence.

In fact, as confident as the defenders, there are also those cannon fodder trained by the coalition forces in various places who have also experienced a lot of preparation in the past two or three years. It is different from Binh Duong New Town, which concentrated most of the craftsmen of the former Dongyuan Province. Although those fiefdom coalition forces also have a lot of craftsmen, because the warriors have not attached much importance to these aspects for a long time, they are still not much stronger than hundreds of years ago in terms of cold weapons, at least for those cannon fodder tools. Although it can achieve a good armor rate, and the armor of ordinary soldiers is almost comparable to the specifications that only generals or commanders had hundreds of years ago. But in fact, those martial arts masters who had dealt with the former Dongyuan Kingdom also knew that these slats, steel armor and even steel shields carried by individual soldiers were not enough to fight the advanced defenders of Binh Duong New Town. Therefore, this time, of course, there are many shield cars that will accompany the battle.

The shield car imitated the shape of a certain fishing and hunting tree barbarian in Northeast Prefecture hundreds of years ago, and the width was not very large, only about three feet long, and it could only cover one person in the front, but the thickness was five inches. It was not entirely made up of planks, but rather some sand interspersed between them, and finally wrapped in two layers of armor-like iron sheets. The entire single large shield that can cover the formation weighs about five or six hundred catties. When all the shield carts attached to the team were connected, even a lot of bed giant crossbows that could fire spears at a distance of a thousand paces hundreds of years ago could not be threatened at a distance of about one or two hundred paces.

Unlike the Binh Duong defenders' continuous technological evolution in terms of cylinder air and steam crossbows, the soldiers of the coalition forces, who were more influenced by the martial traditions, were more interested in bows and arrows and even some close-range melee siege equipment. It should be, or at least in the main cycle of preparing for the war for two or three years, each family is still willing to spend money. He has cultivated a large number of archers who can shoot two buckets with one stone, master the eight bucket bows, and more importantly, can be trained at the cost of scrapping dozens of bows tens of thousands of times. These armor-clad bows and knives, which were completely considered top elite soldiers by the standards of hundreds of years ago, now have as many as 200,000 in the first wave of attacks, and this is when the coalition forces are preparing to use a war of attrition to consume the life of the defenders' equipment.

According to many people's thoughts, the armor-piercing arrows of these archers were of course ineffective against most of the defenders' positions, but if they were accurately suppressed at a certain distance, they could undoubtedly suppress the windows that shot the windows.

When a well-organized army fully deploys its formation in a fairly flat place, there is no need to deliberately divide the troops to surround it. In one direction, it is possible to concentrate more than 100,000 main forces to form an effective horizontal team covered by shield vehicles.

Behind the shield chariot and the armored archers, of course, the more talented mounted archers selected by the evil were in charge of pressing the formation. Hundreds of years ago, mounted archery was not the strongest class, and neither were archers. However, when the level of training reaches a certain level, these classes gradually become elite units that overwhelm the traditional hand-to-hand combatants.

The large army approaching from the direction of the main attack was not as numerous as expected, but it was clear that the training was very orderly, and the protective equipment seemed to be very well-developed. Some of the more savvy defenders also seemed to feel some kind of pressure at this moment, because they couldn't tell if the steel bed air crossbow, which had previously seemed very powerful, could effectively threaten those shield carts.

Contrary to many people's expectations, this time the defenders did not intend to shoot when they had just entered the effective range of two or even three miles, but tried to let the opponent enter a more accurate projection range of less than one mile before effectively attacking. Although in this case, more people will be effectively masked by the shield cart.

Unlike the lower strata, the upper strata who are ready to fight are still somewhat culturally minded. This time, the enemy army did not have a sea of troops to press the border, but only sent more than 200,000 armored soldiers to attack the city, and the main attack direction was only a hundred thousand people on the wide front to know what the other side was fighting the idea. If the shooting is carried out on the boundary of the steel bed air crossbow about two or three miles, there is no doubt that it is a waste of life and even killing efficiency.

In this way, on the contrary, the crossbow of the attacking side first began to fire a series of seductive shots at a distance of about five hundred paces, and in this case the defenders were still mostly unmoved, except for the sporadic undisciplined people who shot some powerful arrows and skipped by, but they did not hit the shield car. The officers associated with the defenders were quick to suppress this agitation.

Most of the huge arrows fired from the crossbows of the attacking side that were thrown from five or six hundred paces away fell on the fortified fortress, and of course did not cause much harm to the defenders. It's just that when the opponent has already broken into the range of about a mile, the defenders still did not start shooting, which made many officers on the attacking side begin to feel a little uneasy. So some people began to shoot a large area of oppressive projection of flying arrows with strong bows at a distance of more than 400 meters, although it may not be able to play a role, but there are always people who expect to be able to induce the defenders to open fire as much as possible at this distance. In this way, at least some things can be brought down in the heart.

However, the defenders remained unmoved in this situation, knowing that the attacking army's army was slowly approaching a distance of about three hundred meters. At this distance, there is no need for special flying arrows, and some heavy arrows fired by strong bows can also cover the city. At this time, the defenders in the direction of the enemy's main attack in the Xicheng area gave the order to fire.

The distance of about 300 meters or 200 steps is also the distance that the steel bed air crossbow can ensure the effective hit of the battle array to a certain extent, and in just an instant, 10,000 iron-clad spears weighing about three catties were shot out. Almost seventy percent of them hit their targets. At a distance of about twenty miles, the ten thousand giant arrows didn't seem to be very dense, and even a little sparse compared to the normal arrow array, but each three-pound giant spear with tens of thousands of joules of energy still penetrated most of the seemingly indestructible shield cars with a devastating momentum. When these giant spears penetrated the sand and wood composite shield cart of more than five inches, although the energy was already greatly weakened, they were still able to make three or four armored soldiers be pierced and killed one after another.

Obviously, the car shield that can resist the bed crossbow hundreds of years ago is already a complete threat in front of an opponent who has advanced like never before, even if the opponent fires three arrows at a time.

Of course, when the spear-like arrow struck, the attacking soldiers were still very nimble and knew how to dodge. As a result, not all spears can effectively penetrate or injure three or four armored soldiers after passing through the shield cart. But even so, just one round of throwing of those 10,000 giant arrows was very accurate, causing 10,000 attacking coalition soldiers to be killed and wounded. And the nature of these casualties is very serious, and many of them die before they are carried down.

Although many warriors knew the truth, those people did not take the lead in this first battle. As for those who don't know a lot about the actual situation, according to the impression that many people are accustomed to, such a powerful round of projection must take a lot of time to reload and aim, and it is obvious that they can rush to some dead spots below the city head at such a time. The defenders, in particular, looked very layman, and could barely get under the city with any hindrance, not even some ditches or even moats. Therefore, even if they lost nearly 10% of their troops in a round of fierce projection, these forces, which were still elite by the standards of hundreds of years ago, still launched a decisive and rapid charge under such circumstances.

However, only a few seconds or so after that round of projection, the steel bed air crossbow in the second row of shooting windows launched another fierce attack. Tens of thousands of giant spears hung with the sound of whistling wind approached in a very short time.

At this moment, many people's reaction seems to be much stronger than at the beginning, knowing that in this situation they should lie down as much as possible to avoid greater losses. The reason for this is that many people have already rushed through the shield car under such circumstances, but the casualties and losses have not decreased much, and tens of thousands of people have fallen in pools of blood one after another.

If these cannon fodder, which can be called the top elite according to the standards of hundreds of years ago, if they fight fiercely in an evenly matched encounter, they may be able to rarely defend to the loss of a large part of their members in defense, and have the ability to withstand losses of more than three or five percent in attack. However, with about a quarter of the men lost in just ten seconds of three rounds of arrows under such a one-sided blow, although few people planned to retreat at this time, and no one planned to continue the attack.

It seems to have seen the state of the enemy army. After this round of fierce crossbows, the defenders at the head of the city did not continue to launch a fierce attack, but seemed to expect the opponent to come. It was only at this moment that many people realized why the defenders were sure to allow the attackers to approach such a distance, and still without many sheltered fortifications.

It's just that the suspended firing at the head of the city has also given new confidence to the people with high morale: will the defending side be the only one with these three axes? It's just that because of the long stay, it is obvious that if you attack again, you will suffer a lot of losses.

In this case, some of the generals in charge of the command also gave up their determination to make any progress during the day, especially under normal circumstances. It's just that at this time, someone suddenly proposed: "The defenders rely on nothing more than the advantage of a strong crossbow." Now we have the right direction and a lot of preparations. If it is night, although it seems more advantageous on the surface, no one knows if there will be any variables at that time... ”