Chapter 210: Turtle Shell
"This, how can this be ......"
"How is it possible, these ...... Is this a dream? ”
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Whether it was the soldiers on the city wall in Chang'an, or the tens of thousands of soldiers behind Li Chengming, looking at the six behemoths that suddenly appeared, they were all stunned one by one, and a look of disbelief appeared on their faces.
This scene, they just never dreamed of, or rather, they were afraid that it could only appear in a dream, but they saw it in reality.
What is it?
Is it a trick, turning into a monster out of thin air?
But such a big demon beast, where should it be found from, is it a fairy beast?
The soldiers guarding the city wall of Chang'an, looking at the six behemoths that appeared out of thin air, were first dumbfounded with fright, and then a look of fear appeared on their faces.
Because, they have seen it now, the thousands of iron horsemen who followed Cheng Yanjin out of the city just now have begun to disperse under the collision of Zhu Gangguan.
That's thousands of iron horses, not thousands of foot soldiers, thousands of iron horses, it is possible to block five with one and ten with one, but as soon as it confronted the demon beast, it was already in a state of collapse, and this is just a demon beast, but there are six equally huge demon beasts behind, can they resist it?
At this time, on the top of the city tower above the Mingde Gate of Chang'an, a pale figure looked at the six-headed demon beast that suddenly appeared below, and his face changed greatly, and his pale face was even more pale, like white paper.
Taking a deep breath, Li Shimin suppressed the horror in his heart and said coldly, "Order, after Cheng Yanjin comes in, immediately close the city gate and prepare the crossbow!" ”
"Yes, Your Highness!" Hearing Li Shimin's order, the pupils of the person beside Li Shimin shrank slightly, and his order was to give up the thousands of iron horsemen who followed Cheng Yanjin outside the city now.
In other words, next, the thousand iron horsemen who followed Cheng Biting Jin out of the city were doomed to the fate of total destruction.
But even so, no one will say more.
Because this is a battlefield, and in their opinion, Li Shimin's order is not wrong.
Cheng Yanjin rode his horse frantically towards the city gate, and looked back at the scene behind him where thousands of iron horsemen collided with Zhu Gangguana, and the man turned on his back and his flesh and blood flying, and his hair suddenly opened, and a look of shock and anger appeared on his face.
Cheng bites Jin hate, he hates himself for being too light on the enemy, originally his plan was to lure Li Chengming out, and then unexpectedly prepare countless crossbow arrows in the dark to shoot Li Chengming.
This is not Cheng Yanjin's imagination, although this plan is somewhat risky, but Cheng Yanjin originally had a four-to-fifty chance of success, and the source of his confidence is the front-line fighters of this era.
Fighting generals before the battle, that is, when the two armies are fighting, they will send several brave generals to fight a few times, one to show the courage of their side, and the other is that if they can win, they can not only hit the morale of the enemy, but also boost the morale of their own side.
However, Cheng Yanjin didn't expect that Li Chengming would be so unruly, and he had always turned a blind eye to his provocations, and what was even more odious was that he misestimated the power of the demon beast under Li Chengming.
"Bastard! Damn......" Cheng Yanjin's face flashed with a touch of unwillingness, and he roared, but he didn't stop, but continued to ride his horse towards the city gate that was close at hand.
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Not to mention Cheng Biting Jin, who escaped into the city, Li Chengming glanced at the thousands of iron horsemen who had almost been crushed, Li Chengming first communicated with it with his mind to let it come back, and then said to Xue Wanche and Luo Ning, "Luo Ning, go and bring out the things that this king has instructed you to let the craftsman make in the camp!" ”
"Yes, Your Highness!" After hearing Li Chengming's words, Luo Ning saluted, and then rode his horse and galloped to give the order, and then saw that under the joint efforts of dozens of soldiers, one by one strange-looking things were carried out.
The reason why this thing is strange is because it looks like a hollow turtle shell, about three zhang long and nearly two zhang large.
However, although this thing looks very large, and the surface seems to be made of iron, it is actually not very heavy, because on the top surface of the top layer like a turtle shell, it is actually just a layer of iron sheet half a finger thick, and there is about fifty centimeters in the middle, and the middle place is stuffed with cotton that Li Chengming has found with great difficulty, and the bottom is also just a layer of iron sheet.
Li Chengming did not forget that when he asked Xue Wanche before if he could use Zhu Gang to break Chang'an, Xue Wanche said that Zhu Gang could not resist the Tang Dynasty's crossbow.
It was precisely because of this that Li Chengming thought that since the pig couldn't resist the shot of the crossbow, why not let it wear armor like a human?
However, he thought that if he wanted to get a suit of armor for demon beasts such as Zhu Gangguana, it would definitely be too late, and he didn't know how much iron would be consumed, and the most important thing was that if the armor was too heavy, the wild boar would lose its mobility, which was not what he wanted.
Therefore, Li Chengming had an idea, and he thought of the turtle shell, and directly asked people to make two layers of iron sheets to add up, and stuff cotton in the middle.
As for why he wanted to cold cotton, it was because he thought of a kind of cotton armor in ancient times, which had a good defensive effect on arrows and firearms that appeared in the early days.
Under Li Chengming's order, all six wild boars obediently lay on the ground, and then ordered the soldiers to begin to put on the six wild boars with that layer of "armor".
The wearing of the armor was not complicated, and with Li Chengming's order, the six wild boars were very cooperative, and soon the armor was put on.
Li Shimin and the others, who were far above the city tower, watched Li Chengming ask people to put the strange armor on the six demon beasts, and a look of doubt and worry flashed on their faces.
Although they had indeed seen the terrifying defensive power of the demon beast under Li Chengming just now, they were actually not too worried in their hearts, because there were now hundreds of crossbows on the city wall.
The tattooed crossbow is said to be the most terrifying weapon in the Tang Dynasty, with a maximum range of more than 700 steps, and within 300 steps, even a finger-thick iron plate can be shot through, unless these demon beasts under Li Chengming are really made of iron, otherwise they can't resist the attack of the tattooed crossbow.
And they had seen before that although the crossbow arrow killed the demon beast under Li Chengming, it could make the demon beast suffer a little light, even if this injury was insignificant to the demon beast, but it also made them see that these demon beasts were not really invulnerable, and the attack power of the crossbow was enough to kill these demon beasts.
However, this was before, after seeing Li Chengming actually put on "armor" on these demon beasts, they suddenly became worried.
And Li Chengming, who was outside Chang'an, didn't pay attention to the thoughts of those people in Chang'an City at all, and directly communicated with the six wild boars with his mind, and then divided them into the previous three major army formations, and then stood on the body of the pig Gangguan, pointed at Chang'an and shouted, "Kill!! ~~~”
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