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"I don't know what happened to you military masters who came to the village at night?"

There are some things that the outcome of the matter is known, but for some people, the situation does not seem so bad if they do not receive a definite answer. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This may also be a kind of self-comfort. However, to put it bluntly, it can be regarded as a typical situation of not seeing a coffin and not shedding tears.

The person who led the troops to this Zhuangzi was Xiahou Ying.

Originally, for Xiahou Ying, he didn't like such a thing as commanding an army. However, Xia Houying did not object to Chen Ping's arrangement. Of course, he could see that this was a credit given to him by Chen Ping.

Who is Xiahou Ying?

No one can say this for sure. However, judging from the records in the history books, in that environment, Liu Ying and Liu Luyuan, two unlucky guys who were not loved by their fathers, were rescued from the carriage again from Liu Bang's black hand, it is obvious that Xiahou Ying is not the kind of person who is very immoral.

Loyalty and honesty, and love for others, such virtues cannot be deliberately pretended in that environment.

Therefore, in terms of merit, Xiahou Ying is far inferior to the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty and even some other Han army civil and military forces. However, judging from the generous treatment given to Xiahou Ying by Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, it is known that Xiahou Ying does not care much about fame and fortune.

After receiving the order this time, Wang Ling had an exchange with Xiahou Ying.

Wang Ling said to him: "If the other party doesn't admit such a thing, then Brother Xiahou should know what to do." ”

"Do you really want to do this?" Xiahou Ying's expression seemed a little unbearable.

"Brother Xiahou, it's not our fault, if General Zuo knows about such a thing, I'm afraid the situation will be even worse for those people. Wang Ling gently patted Xiahou Ying's shoulder, then turned around and checked the corresponding supplies.

Xiahou Ying knew very well what Wang Ling, a person who was not much older than him, meant by what he said. But he didn't want that to happen.

He really wanted to do more, but he knew better that this time, the order given by Chen Ping, as Wang Ling said, was not the fault of their Zuo General's Mansion.

"Hopefully, those people will get to know each other. Xiahou Ying shook her head helplessly and sighed softly.

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After hearing the words spoken by the person who was standing on the wall of Zhuangzi and should be the head of the target family, although Xiahou Ying's character was quite good, he was also angry by the other party's words.

Xiahou Ying, whose expression was still very calm, couldn't help but turn cold: "The head of the Feng family, are you just pretending to be confused with this official? This official will give you a chance, either you open the door of Zhuangzi and come out and surrender by yourself, or you will ......"

Xiahou Ying looked coldly at the old man who looked no different from an ordinary old farmer under the light of the torch, and his tone contained murderous intent: "The whole Zhuangzi chicken dog is not left!"

According to Wang Ling's words, Xiahou Ying knew very well that it was unlikely that these Zhuangzi's people would surrender. After all, most of the people in a strong Zhuangzi are people who are somewhat related to this Haoqiang. Counting on something to happen within the other party, Xiahou Ying thought it was unlikely.

After the old man heard Xiahou Ying's words, his face couldn't help but be shocked.

Behind the walls of his Zhuangzi, he ambushed dozens of armed Zhuangding who had been gathered after years of hard work. However, counting on these people to be able to withstand the six or seven hundred Qin troops who were already prepared, he was not yet arrogant to this point.

The old man quickly thought about what he should do. However, Xiahou Ying didn't give him this opportunity.

This is not to say that Xiahou Ying immediately ordered the personnel to attack, but said one sentence again: "This official gives a word of advice to all the people who are innocently involved: If you solve the family of the head of the family and enlarge the army into Zhuangzi, this official guarantees that innocent people will be punished lightly!"

Since there is such a provision in the Qin law, in fact, even if Xiahou Ying really ordered all the people of this Zhuangzi to be slaughtered, and the chickens and dogs were not left, Chen Ping and the others would not say anything. But Xiahou Ying would not do this, because he did not want to say such an order himself.

"Don't listen to him, they're just trying to trick us into opening the door!" said a middle-aged man with a spear next to the old man.

Perhaps, there is something special about this middle-aged man's identity, but Xiahou Ying's strength is much higher than him. At the very least, in terms of shouting loudly, Xiahou Ying's voice is much more intonation:

"This official will say it again! If you hand over the main culprit's family and open the door to enlarge the army into Zhuangzi, this official can intercede for you! Otherwise, Zhuangzi will not be left behind!"

Xiahou Ying was no longer the coachman who was still making a living in Pei County at that time, and of course he was very aware of the connection between some things. There are some situations that Xiahou Ying can't say so clearly, but he will do that, that is, to intercede for other innocent people.

"Don't force me to do it. This is the comfort that Xiahou Ying gave herself in her heart.

However, there are some things that cannot be easily changed by Xiahou Ying's will alone.

That is, maybe it's this heroic, it's not bad for Zhuangzi's people, maybe it's because of the strength of the other party's master, and he doesn't dare to resist.

In short, after waiting for a while, Xiahou Ying did not get the answer he wanted.

The Qin army did not have the bad habit of slaughtering villages and towns for no reason, and it is a mystery how many times the Shang Dynasty changed the law and how many times it was effectively implemented. However, judging from the handling of Cheng Jiao's tunliu rebellion, the joint sitting is not stricter than the armor protection system in later generations. Mass executions for consecution are quite rare.

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Many people say that Qin law is strict, but from many situations, this is not the case at all.

Zhang Jiashi did not change anything in this regard, because after comparing many aspects, Bai Qi found that the current Qin law was quite perfect, and Zhang Jiashi did not have the basis for large-scale changes in the law now.

It's not that the things of the afterlife are the best. There is only one kind of best thing, and that is the most suitable for the situation at the time and the most acceptable.

In fact, Qin Law does have many kinds of punishments, but it is not a punishment made out of nothing at all. For example, the so-called three chapters of the law of Han Gaozu later, well, in essence, it is to follow the sentencing method of Qin Law and unify the punishment method.

And the end result...... Wasn't it until the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty that the means of drastically modifying the punishment were written?

Therefore, the three chapters of the covenant, in a sense, can be regarded as a kind of thing to put gold on Liu Bang's face.

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Xiahou Ying reluctantly glanced at the wooden wall of Zhuangzi again, the old man on it, he gently waved his hand forward: "Attack! If there is a resistant, no one will be left!"

Xiahou Ying's order was fully implemented. Dozens of Qin army shieldmen kept hiding behind the large shields, slowly advancing. The Qin army crossbowmen in the back were constantly following behind the shield bearers, forming an arrow array and advancing with them.

Many of the chariots of the Qin army have been replaced with the pouting crossbowmen in Zhang Jiashi's establishment, and some of them are not too strong, so they can only use their feet to support the crossbow arms, and then wind up the arrows.

"Shoot !!"

Under the orders of the crossbowman officer of the Qin army who commanded one of the vehicles, one hundred and twenty crossbowmen on top of the thirty crossbow chariots fired at the wall three hundred meters away in a staggered manner.

After a few rounds of shooting, there were a lot of bronze crossbows inserted inside and outside the wall, and there were also some careless strong men, who were shot through the body by the crossbows, and fell above the wall with a howl.

The old man who saw this scene was very stunned, because he had never heard of such a thing.

"When will the Qin army use such a tactic?" This question emerged in the hearts of several people beside the old man who also had surprised expressions.

However, compared to this, many Zhuang Ding hid behind the wall with great interest, because they did not want to die under this kind of attack.

These Zhuang Ding, no matter in any aspect, have a certain gap with the Donghu people. Perhaps, that is, a little better equipped.

At the very least, it is unlikely that the Donghu people will shrink back because of such a sparse attack.

The old man was so angry by this situation that he was about to roar something, when he was suddenly pressed under his own son.

He was about to say something when he saw a crossbow that shot his nephew in the back and pierced the other's neck. He knew that if it weren't for his son's vigilance, then this crossbow, the person who shot it, would be him.

The old man didn't care about his nephew's life or death, so he could only get off the wall in embarrassment under the protection of his relatives.

The strong man on the wall quickly fell into chaos.

However, they didn't dare to run, compared to the people under the wall, they were more just cannon fodder.

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The crossbowmen of the Qin army in the front row, also under the cover of the shield bearers, rushed to the area of effective firing.

Many Qin army crossbowmen have discovered a situation, that is, the wall was originally a situation of longing for a human figure, but now it has become a person who has no intention of standing up.

They could only release the hand holding the bow or just put their finger on the trigger of the crossbow.

The commander of the shield man in front of him, after seeing this, quickly shook the torch in his hand to the back.

After the officers and soldiers of Qin saw this situation, they quickly pushed the rushing car and the ballista to the front.

The current chariot of the Qin army has been eliminated or the bed crossbow installed on the chariot has been removed. This order was given by Zhang Jiashi. He was not satisfied with the range and power of this light bed crossbow, and he went to the new Liaodong Military Construction Headquarters in the Anshan area to see if he could implement it.

Compared with the removal of the light bed crossbow on the chariot, Zhang Jiashi ordered the Liaodong military to install wheels and improve the corresponding equipment for some medium-sized bed crossbows with strong output.

For example, like the towed guns of later generations, two tripods were added to hold and remove recoil. This kind of bed crossbow pulled by horses, when shooting, it is necessary to lower the two pieces of support on the bracket in the form of pulleys or fixed supports.

And because such a bed crossbow is not a prop for defending the city, but a field weapon, in terms of design, the crossbow arm in front is much higher than the machine bracket in the back, and the bracket under the crossbow arm has a gear-fixed angle adjustment design.

Although there are still many problems with this thing, especially the lack of mobile combat ability, it cannot be denied that such a bed crossbow design, in the right occasion, plays a role, very coping.

It's like in this current combat environment, the specially trained crossbowmen work in groups of three, with one person in front of them adjusting the angle of fire, and two people in the back placing the support frame and then loading the crossbow.

After the crossbows were placed in the crossbow groove, the two Qin crossbowmen pulled the crossbow strings, which were quite elastic and tough, made of mixed materials, and buckled them to the hooks of the transmitter.

The officers of the Qin army who were in charge of commanding these crossbow carts waved the small red flag in their hands downward under the signal of the crossbowmen one by one. The Qin Jun crossbowman, who was in charge of the launch, quickly and vigorously rotated the joystick behind him to control the height of the hook.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The originally taut crossbow strings quickly ejected the crossbow after losing the fixation of the hook one after another, and the sounds were the sound of the crossbow strings bounce off the bronze crossbow arm.

After the launch, the crossbowmen of the Qin army, who was responsible for adjusting the height, checked the situation of the crossbow cart and found that there was no problem, so they quickly signaled their comrades to continue loading.

The crossbow that was launched did not fly directly to the wall, but continued to fly in an inertial arc in a parabolic way, after flying for a certain distance.

Perhaps, these inertial flying crossbows do not have much strength, but it is not a problem to penetrate directly through the human body, or a wooden fence that is not too thick.

These ballistas, as the last batch of products made by the Liaodong military before moving to the Anshan area, to be honest, also continued the accuracy of the Daqin bed crossbow, which was not accurate.

Twenty ballistas, less than half of the crossbows fired out, hit the area of the wall, but it doesn't mean that the crossbows that were shot off did not have the slightest surprise.

Two crossbows flew over the wall, and then some of the people in the Zhuangzi raised their wooden shields to resist the strong crossbows and crossbows, and the shields led people directly to the ground.

These people had already lost their voices without too many screams, because the size of these bronze crossbows was about twenty centimeters in radius, even the shafts of the arrows had a radius of about twenty centimeters. Being directly hit by such a crossbow in the body, it can be said that it is a waste of medicine money to save it......

This is also the reason why these bed crossbowmen had to be taught to master a certain parabolic theory before they were equipped.

Because no matter what improvements are made to the output of the crossbow strings, the weight of these crossbows leads to a relatively short range, and in the end they have to choose to use the parabola to increase the range and sacrifice a certain degree of lethality.

After the first samples of these ballistas were made, the penetration of flat fire was also tested. As a result, at a flat effective distance of 150 meters, the crossbow fired was able to effectively shoot through two iron shields and one of the scarecrows located between 140 and 145 meters.

That's pretty good.

In the farthest range test, in the case of a 45-degree parabolic fire, the maximum range of these ballistas was about 430 meters.

However, the range and power of these ballistas depended more on the high-cost crossbow strings that were made with the addition of Mojia forging techniques. The cost of making a single crossbow string is even half that of an entire ballista.

After Zhang Jiashi knew about this, he had to gasp, because the cost was too high, and there were quite a lot of problems. For example, many ballistae have problems after firing three or four crossbows.

Because the rebound of the crossbow string is quite large, and the bronze crossbow arm and frame are likely to not be able to support multiple impacts and break, in a sense, such a thing is completely failing, especially as a military material, it is a very kind of cheat thing.

However, Bai Qi did not make concessions at all in this regard, because in Bai Qi's heart, he asked Zhang Jiashi to do this, not to make Zhang Jiashi bankrupt, but to accumulate experience in this area.

The ballista has an advantage that many weapons can't match, just like a bed crossbow that can ensure range and power, and it is not difficult to suppress the opponent's siege weapon.

Moreover, Bai Qi did not tell Zhang Jiashi one thing, that is, if Zhang Jiashi could make the people of Liaodong to make something similar to a trigger fuse, or a delayed ignition fuse, then Zhang Jiashi would be able to install gunpowder on the crossbow and do a lot of things.

To tell the truth, Bai Qi is not ignoring the epoch-making invention of gunpowder, but it is very clear that the current gunpowder does not play a big role.

Just like a grenade or something, fuses have always been a serious problem.

With the current level of science and technology, there is still a long way to go to achieve a fuse that meets the requirements. At the very least, one way or another, like one kind of grenade that needs to be lit by an open flame...... No matter how you look at it, it's quite a cheat, no.

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The new bed crossbow troops mobilized by Chen Ping soon had to stop attacking because of problems with the bed crossbows one after another.

There was no problem with the crossbow strings of these bed crossbows, but even if the crossbow cart was fixed by riveting, it was quickly shocked by the huge rebound force of the crossbow strings, which directly caused all kinds of problems.

In a sense, the debut of these new types of bed crossbow units was quite a failure. However, this is entirely due to defects caused by problems in the process and raw materials.

It's not that the design idea is wrong.

Maybe Chen Ping also knows such a problem, so he will choose to test the effect of these bed crossbows in such a combat environment.

If it was on the official battlefield, Chen Ping said that he would not be equipped with this kind of thing that even Zhang Jiashi did not have too high expectations.

And, in fact, to deal with these Zhuangzi, you don't need to use such things as bed crossbows, right?

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Xiahou Ying saw this situation and didn't pay attention to anything, he glanced at it and quickly cleaned up some of the wreckage that was "in a different place", and after putting the frame of the ballista on the back of the carriage used for traction again, he set his eyes on the rushing car.

Xiahou Ying didn't know much about the situation of the rushing car in other places, but he was for this, the top was equipped with a bronze version, and the internal design was fixed and moved with dozens of bronze strips and bronze chains, and in front of a wooden stake, a bronze sheep's head was added to the rushing car, which seemed to be a good thing.

After all, the number of people these rushing vehicles used to push has reached two tithes.

Moreover, behind this rushing car, there were more than thirty shieldmen, ready to fill the vacancy at any time.

In other words, the official establishment of this rushing car is fifty people......

Xiahou Ying didn't know much about this matter, but he felt that such an arrangement and the corresponding personnel training were not exaggerated......