The defenders on the earthen city, in addition to those veteran guards, also had some new young people. No matter how brave a young man is, he will be very nervous when he joins such a big war for the first time.

Some veterans saw the young man next to them, showed nervous looks, and kept teaching the recruits around them.

"Don't panic! Don't shake your hands! Bow half a string, don't I pull it full! Otherwise, if you shoot a few arrows, you won't have the strength to open the bow!"

Due to the momentum brought by the heavy cavalry, whether it is a new recruit or a veteran, there is actually some nervousness in his heart. These prairie men are originally extremely rude, and their words burst out from time to time.

If you scold on weekdays, the scolded person will generally be dissatisfied, and thus resentful.

On the battlefield, it is a different situation, if the commander speaks politely and softly, it will make his subordinates have no confidence in their hearts.

If you keep using foul language like this, you will scold loudly. On the contrary, it will make the hearts of his subordinates more down-to-earth, and their fighting spirit is high.

There were scoldings from various ministers everywhere, but in the midst of this scolding, the soldiers defending the city gradually stabilized their minds.

The Heavy Bear Cavalry had gradually advanced to a place more than two hundred steps below the Tucheng. Because of the condescending position, this distance was already within the effective range of the bows and arrows of the defenders of the city.

Kunsang and Chu Chongshan were on the city walls, directing the defenses everywhere.

After seeing that it was the Storm Bear Heavy Rider who came up with a huge shield, Kunsang said to Chu Chongshan: "These Storm Bear Heavy Riders have heavy armor. At such a distance, if you shoot an arrow, the bow and arrow will not be able to penetrate their heavy armor at all, and it will not cause them any fundamental damage. ”

"I originally thought that only in the empire there were such heavy armored knights, but I didn't expect that there were also on the grassland! Dealing with this kind of iron-armored heavy cavalry, ordinary bows and arrows would not be of much use at all! I don't know if there are armor-piercing arrows in our arsenal that are specially designed to deal with heavy armor?"

"Armor-piercing arrows, is it the kind of feathered arrows that are cast in stainless steel and made of steel throughout?"

"Yes! Is there anything in the arsenal?"

Kunshan shook his head with a wry smile, there was a lack of metal on the grassland. To make one of these armor-piercing arrows, the materials used are enough to make dozens of feather arrow arrows.

How many tribes on the grassland would be so wasteful that they could extravagantly build such armor-piercing arrows?

Kunsang spread his hands and said, "I've just heard of it, Brother Chu, you know that there is a shortage of iron tools on the grassland, and where is there a material to make such an iron arrow?"

"No? This is difficult? These heavily armored knights are like turtles cowering in a thick tortoise shell, although they move slowly, but this defensive power is incomparable! Without armor-piercing arrows, how can they deal a heavy blow to these iron-armored heavy knights?"

Chu Chongshan shook his head and sighed, when he was at Tiebi Pass, he had heard that these grassland people were extremely poor, and their weapons and equipment were very backward! Who would have thought that these grassland people were so poor that they didn't even have conventional weapons such as armor-piercing arrows.

In the empire, these heavy armored cavalry are all Cheng Jian's other existences, because these heavy armored cavalry have huge destructive power and extremely strong defensive power!

So all countries have invented all kinds of equipment to deal with heavy cavalry!

For example, bed crossbows of various functions, using machine springs to fire crossbow arrows, the strength of machine springs is greater than manpower, and the armor of these heavy armored cavalry in front of bed crossbows is as thin as a piece of paper! But on the grassland, where to find bed crossbows?

This armor-piercing arrow is the most common weapon used against heavy cavalry. But the steppe was so poor that there was no equipment of this kind that could be found everywhere in the empire.

Sigh to sigh, but things have to be resolved. Chu Chongshan asked Kunsang, "Uncle Kunsang, if it's a normal day, when you fight this ironclad heavy horse, what method do you use to defeat it?"

"Although the speed of this iron-armored heavy cavalry is not very fast when it charges! But once it is allowed to gallop, its momentum is extremely fierce! The only way to deal with them on the grassland is to use the tactics of a sea of people! When fighting, use human lives to pile up, drag them until they are exhausted and charge still, and then kill them one by one! But every time a heavy cavalry enters a battle, it is almost the life of four or five cavalrymen before the life of a heavy cavalryman can be replaced! Fortunately, there are only a few heavy armored cavalry on the grassland, and they are regarded as their killer weapons, so in the general battle between tribes, there are few heavy armored cavalry involved. ”

"But now we are fighting a defensive war, not a field war! And we are already sparsely armed, so this method of crowd tactics cannot be used at all!"

"What should we do then?Can we only let these rebel rabbit cubs suppress and beat?!Brother Chu, for defending the city, the soldiers in your empire are the most experienced, are you thinking about ...... idea?"

The two of them were thinking hard about countermeasures there, and at this time, the violent bear rode heavily and had advanced to about one hundred and fifty steps below the earth city.

"Boom", only to hear a loud and uniform sound. Those Storm Bear Heavy Riders stood their huge shields in front of them, and it seemed that they were no longer ready to move forward.

The wolf-tooth archers behind them quickly moved into their positions.

The defenders of the city were hiding between the battlements of the walls, and their bows and arrows were aimed at the rebels below.

"At this distance, they stopped, they were below, we were above! At this distance, their lethality to us was almost negligible!" Kunsang said to Chu Chongshan after seeing the Storm Bear Knight set up a big shield and refused to go forward.

Some officers stepped forward to ask Kunsang if he could shoot the rebels below with bows and arrows now.

Kunsang instructed the crowd to wait and not shoot yet.

At this moment, I heard the sound of a bowstring pulling from below.

Immediately, I heard a loud order from someone in the city, "Shoot from above, straight ahead! All of them are ready, shoot!"

In an instant, the feathered arrows let out a sharp whistling sound in the air, like dense raindrops, falling towards the city wall.

Although this rain of arrows was dense, because of the long distance, it was shot from the bottom to the top, and when it reached the edge of the wall, the strength had weakened, and even some of the walls made of fence planks did not penetrate it.

Although this rain of arrows looked terrifying, not even a single defender in the city was injured, and more than 200 feather arrows were lost in vain.

Although no one was injured, the terrible screaming sound brought by the rain of arrows just shot into the air made many recruits feel suddenly overwhelmed in their hearts! Under this tremendous pressure, as soon as the rain of arrows passed, they couldn't help but shoot the bows and arrows in their hands back!

One man took the lead in archery, and several followed.

When the officer leading the team saw that someone did not obey the military order, he shot the arrow in his hand without permission, and he was furious in his heart, and scolded wildly: "Don't shoot! Fuck! Which bastard calf shot the arrow!? Stop the fuck for me!"

The junior officers who led the team of these recruits waved the leather whip in their hands and pumped them at the recruits who made mistakes, and scolded them repeatedly!

These recruits knew they had made a mistake when they heard the officer's scolding. After being whipped a few more times, he forcibly held back the pain, did not dare to make a sound, and quickly stopped the bow and arrow in his hand and hid behind the battlements.

I saw the bows and arrows shot by the defenders of the city, although they were full of strength, but after all, the distance was still a little far.

Those violent bears rode heavily, and when they saw the feathered arrows shooting downward from the city, they hurriedly raised their big shields and tilted to shield the archers behind them.

The Bear Rider with the shield only hid his head in the shield, but it was completely exposed from the chest down.

I saw that those feathered arrows shot into the bodies of those violent bear heavy riders, making a clanging noise, but they were like tickling, and they did not cause the slightest damage to these violent bear heavy riders.

Surviving this rain of arrows, those violent bears laughed wildly, and shouted to the city: "You archers, are you all some girls! This bow and arrow is not even strong enough to give grandpa an itch!"

Seeing these Storm Bear Knights so arrogant, the city guards gritted their teeth one by one.

Gesang was furious in his heart, and as soon as he stepped on the battlements of the city wall, he pulled the strong bow in his hand!

"Gesang, come down!" Kunsang saw that Gesang was going to make a move in person, and hurriedly called him down!

Gesang jumped down from the city wall in anger and said to Kunsang: "Uncle Kunsang! These violent bears are riding heavily and deceiving people too much! I just wanted him to taste the bow and arrow in my hand! Why did you let me come down!"

"Gesang, can you shoot through the armor of those Storm Bears?" Kunsang said to him.

"If these guys can take another seventy or eighty steps forward, I'll have the confidence to shoot through their armor and leave them here!"

"If he doesn't get closer to seventy or eighty steps, you have confidence, right?" Chu Chongshan replied on the side.

"Brother Chu, I, Kunsang, will never brag! These iron-armored heavy riders are closer, if I have a strong bow in my hand, I will definitely be able to shoot him through!"

"Yes, I have a plan! I can ride these violent bears and keep them all under the city!"

"What's your plan, brother, speak quickly!" said Kunsang.

"Send someone to call Shi Jiu and Gao Huaiyuan immediately! And let the defenders in the city start to fight back with bows and arrows! But there is one thing, the arrows shot must be weak and weak, so that those Storm Bear Knights don't feel a trace of danger!"

"If you fight back, and you don't let you do your best, isn't that a waste of bows and arrows?"

I don't know what Chu Chongshan's intentions are? Gesang couldn't help but ask on the side.

"It's not a waste of bows and arrows, so that the soldiers in the city are like talents, it's just a sparse shot, deliberately showing the enemy weak!" Chu Chongshan smiled and commanded again.

Gesang was a little confused, when was the battle in which the soldiers were extremely tough, where was there such a show of weakness to the enemy?

Kunshan pondered what Chu Chongshan said beside him, and suddenly realized, "Brother Chu means to make those rebels think that we are underguarded, and the archers are even worse! lure them to move forward, and when they get closer, shoot them one by one!"

"Uncle Kunshan is right!"

"But Brother Chu, even if they get closer, I'm afraid that we ordinary archers will not be able to shoot through their heavy armor!

"Now there is a sharpshooter in Gesang who can shoot through their armor! But Uncle Kunsang, have you forgotten that there is Shi Jiu? You have seen Shi Jiu's archery skills, and among our guards, there is also a sharpshooter!"

"In addition to Khan, there is also a sharpshooter!?"

"That's right! This sharpshooter is almost on par with Gesang! With the three of them here, I am confident that I will leave all these 100 violent bear heavy riders under the city!"