Chapter 4 Kill Zhao Cheng
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The other Assassins, who were at the forefront, were once again shot off their horses by Zhang Jiashi's personal guard crossbowmen.
Seeing this, many of the Assassins rushed out with a shout. Because in addition to the archer's rate of fire being a little faster, the crossbowman's rate of fire again can be said to be much slower.
Of course, they had a good plan, but they didn't seem to know why the knights who didn't rush at them didn't stop their charge.
Of course, they soon found out what was going on.
The knights on their horses, who did not know what they had taken from their waists, placed it next to the torches in the hands of several knights with torches, and what was lit and threw it in front of them, or in the formation in which they were charging.
"Boom ......"
A series of violent thuds, followed by a burst of fire, sent the Assassin screaming and his horse tumbling to the ground with the violent blast and the scattered metal fragments scattered in the blast gas.
Zhao Cheng saw this scene from behind the trunk and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
And the dozen or so assassins in the back, although they were not harmed, but the war horses that felt panicked because they heard the loud noise, directly threw the assassins on their backs and directly fell off their backs.
Some people are lucky, although they fall dizzy, but some people are dragged alive by the horses because their feet are stuck in the horses.
The Assassins were eager to get out of this predicament, but their thin clothing did not keep them against the rubbing of their bodies against the ground.
After the horses finally felt safe, calmed down, and slowly stopped in one place, they found that their master, dragged by them out of a road trail mixed with blood or muscle fragments, had already died......
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Of course, Zhang Jiashi ignored these unlucky assassins, and after the last fierce battle with the Donghu people on the Great Wall, he improved the black powder bag or black powder jar that basically did not play any role because of the length of the fuse.
The problem of the fuse is still not well solved, although the use of nitrified linen can accelerate the combustion, but there is also a problem, that is, with the current process, the nitrified linen rope is more difficult to control the combustion speed of the fuse.
Zhang Jiashi can't install a large number of such things that can't control the speed of the explosion at all, and then let many officers and soldiers under his command have to bring a time bomb with him?
Out of this consideration, Zhang Jiashi gave up the use of that kind of large black powder.
Of course, although the black powder thing is not powerful enough, it can still be used to make things like grenades, and it can still have a certain effect.
In particular, this primitive grenade composed of a bronze flake box, filled with black powder and some metal residues, was used against unprotected enemies, and the effect was still good.
Of course, there are many shortcomings, although the fuse problem is to choose a relatively small nitrocellulose rope, for the sake of safety, Zhang Jiashi had to personally teach his subordinate guards under strict control to use this kind of original grenade that will explode in 5 seconds.
Of course, as opposed to the Qin army's strong bows and crossbows, the distribution of these grenades will also have a special record.
Zhang Jiashi was also a little worried about whether this kind of thing would be exposed because of the search of the Zhonglang Army. But Ying Zheng did not give such an order, which made Zhang Jiashi still relax a lot.
And the results of their first actual combat show that, just like the ideas of the advocate Bai Qi and the inventor Mo Shu, the lethality of this thing is still a little smaller.
The charge is just about three catties of black powder in later generations, and the overall full weight is only six catties, and the lethality is certainly not too great.
In Zhang Jiashi's estimate, the effective killing range of this primitive grenade is only about three or four meters in radius.
Of course, the situation of being killed by flying fragments is not an effective killing range in Zhang Jiashi's eyes.
According to Mo Shu's experimental records, this fragment can fly up to twenty meters away, but it has no penetrating power, and it may be lethal against unprotected enemies, but it is useless for people wearing ordinary cowhide armor or thicker clothes.
After Zhang Jiashi's consent, Mo Shu tested the destructive power of leather armor, bronze armor and iron armor on this primitive grenade.
In the effective killing range, the Cowhide Armor is still relatively easy to penetrate or be destroyed with armor pieces.
The bronze armor and the iron armor are more effective in defending against the damage of this primitive grenade.
Some metal fragments can penetrate the cracks of the armor, but the probability is not high.
Overall, this thing is intended to deal with enemies with armor defenses, and in fact, it's not very useful.
Of course, Zhang Jiashi knew very well that even if Great Qin was now, it was difficult for the inland county soldiers of the Qin army, which was mainly based on cowhide armor, to effectively avoid the damage caused by this kind of blow, not to mention that in the early days, many people were peasant soldiers who only wore ordinary linen clothes.
Zhang Jiashi also knows that in many senses, such a primitive grenade is actually a kind of cost-effective thing, but it is not a thing that is useless at all.
In many ways, if this kind of grenade is used in the right place, the role it plays is not comparable to that of some conventional cold weapons.
Therefore, Zhang Jiashi asked Moshu to organize a group of production personnel with the children of the Mo family as the core and began small-scale mass production of such things.
It's just that it is difficult for Zhang Jiashi to accept a situation that has occurred in Liaodong military construction now, mainly a part of the cultivation of martial arts, as well as some Liaodong military guards composed of Qin troops, they are leading Zhang Jiashi to send people to Liaoxi and Guangyang County and other places to patrol the Chinese native dogs that they have acquired......
Accustomed to seeing the German blackback (German shepherd, commonly known as the big wolf dog) that is at least much more majestic in later generations, in the face of this kind of cute Chinese little dog, Zhang Jiashi almost didn't cry:
"This stuff works?"
Bai Qi comforted Zhang Jiashi very calmly: "Do you have a better choice now?"
Zhang Jiashi opened his mouth directly at that time, unable to say anything, and a small yellow Chinese pastoral dog, barking, ran to Zhang Jiashi's feet, wagging his tail and looking at him......
Zhang Jiashi: "......"
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Faced with a weapon they had never seen before, many of the Assassins hid in the woods, waiting for the moment to attack.
However, Zhang Jiashi has a means of cheating, and in the absence of a good spell enemy, he can't perceive or see the enemy of the paper man, and there is actually not much difference between hiding and not hiding.
For Zhang Jiashi, unless you hide in a position that can prevent direct attack, otherwise, he can still see who can be directly hit in the dark woods.
Zhao Cheng asked the remaining crossbowmen in the team to shoot Zhang Jiashi or the crossbowmen beside him through a kind of cry that they only understood internally.
However, many crossbowmen had no idea that their location had been exposed.
In the eyes of these Assassin crossbowmen, those who did not extinguish their torches were the best targets to attack.
They may not have expected that Zhang Jiashi slowly turned on a bow and crossbow guard, handed him a winding eight-stone pouting crossbow, and after aiming, adjusted the shooting position through the shooting scale carved on Wangshan, and then deducted the crossbow machine bracket.
Zhang Jiashi felt a somewhat large ejection recoil, and the crossbow quickly disappeared in front of his eyes.
An assassin who was standing up, pushing his waist against the back of Zhang's crossbow and pulling the bowstring hard, had no idea that he had become the target of Zhang Jiashi's attack.
Before the Assassin could fully pull the bowstring away, a crossbow pierced his chest, and he could even feel the sharp pain from the tearing of his left lung.
He wanted to scream something, but he fell to the ground and broke the shaft of the wooden crossbow arrow, only to feel blood gushing out of his mouth.
He was quickly relieved, of course, it was not that Zhang Jiashi's crossbow had such a powerful lethality, but an assassin next to him, who used a long sword to gently help his companion, and was directly relieved.
One after another, the Assassins' crossbowmen were shot and wounded before they could fire their crossbows. After Zhao Cheng knew about this situation, he couldn't help but become anxious.
He knew very well that in this way, few of the remaining subordinates who still knew how to use the pouting crossbow were still alive.
Facing Zhang Jiashi, who had already been on guard, this crossbowman was the most important means he relied on.
Although it is relatively simple to train a crossbowman, the number of people who can use this kind of heavy individual crossbow, not to mention the dead soldiers of their Zhao family, even the entire Great Qin, will not be too many.
Of course, Zhao Cheng also knows very well that if he retreats now, he will be able to let more precious subordinates live and play a greater role in other occasions.
But he didn't know why he wanted to, so he continued to go his own way.
"Everyone, come with me on !!"
With Zhao Cheng's words, the remaining sixty or seventy Zhao family dead soldiers launched a decisive attack towards Zhang Jiashi's team.
In Zhao Cheng's heart, the greatest strength of these dead soldiers was not an ambush, but the melee skills they showed by relying on their own strength.
Of course, Zhang Jiashi also saw this situation from the "investigation" of the paper figures. After he had shot the other crossbowman, he placed the crossbow on the ground.
Maybe not many people know that Zhang Jiashi may not be a good archer, but he can be regarded as a fairly good crossbowman.
After all, Zhang Jiashi used a crossbow as a way to train these long-range attacks.
Of course, Zhang Jiashi himself was not too embarrassed to recall the situation at that time.
After taking a loaded pouting crossbow, he aimed at a figure that made him feel a little concerned.
"Someone you seem to know?" Zhang Jiashi's eyes showed a hint of doubt.
But of course, Zhang Jiashi would not give up attacking this target because of his doubts.
"Whoosh......"
The sound of the crossbow firing slowly sounded in Zhang Jiashi's ears, and Zhang Jiashi handed back a crossbowman after firing the crossbow, and said loudly: "Everyone prepare! They are coming out." ”
Many people feel that Zhang Jiashi's words seem a little unclear, but although they can't see the situation in the woods, it doesn't mean that they won't carry out the orders Zhang Jiashi gave them.
Almost all the officers and soldiers of the Qin guards quickly drew their weapons and were ready to fight at any time.
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Zhao Cheng didn't expect that he would become the target of Zhang Jiashi's attack at all, but as a ranger with strong swordsmanship, Zhao Cheng had more of an intuition to face crises than other assassins.
"Huh?" At the moment when Zhang Jiashi's crossbow was launched, Zhao Chengcheng felt a very dangerous aura, he didn't know what it was, but he didn't doubt his instincts at all.
When the crossbow was about to fly about a few dozen meters in front of Zhao Cheng, Zhao Cheng hurriedly bent back.
He then even saw a crossbow flying directly above his stomach.
If it weren't for the fact that he suddenly had an intuition about the crisis just now, Zhang Jiashi's arrow would definitely be able to directly hit Zhao Cheng's body.
Zhao Cheng, who was lying on his back on the ground and quickly flicked his waist hard to stand up again, he looked back at the woods where he could no longer see anything behind him, he didn't know whether to rejoice or curse the person who shot him with an arrow, but he was quickly attracted by the screams coming from in front of him.
Of the dozen or so assassins who rushed out of the woods, several of them were directly shot by the crossbowmen of Zhang Jiashi's personal guards with crossbows and arrows that were not dense.
At this distance, some of the Assassins showed a skill that Zhang Jiashi had to marvel at, dodging the bows and arrows that came at them.
Some people even use internal force to jump into the air three or four meters high.
But they didn't expect at all that not all the crossbowmen under Zhang Jiashi's command were shooting together, but there were more than a dozen archers, with bows and arrows in their hands, aiming at them.
One of the Assassins saw the two arrows and brandished his sword to parry.
However, he didn't expect that although he had successfully used his long sword to pull out the arrow, the numbness in his hand made it impossible for him to move his arm freely again.
An arrow from behind pierced his throat directly, violently forcing even his body in the air to change the angle of falling......
The assassin tried to cover his neck with his hand, which had already been pierced. But with his neck bone broken, he couldn't even move.
In the end, what he could feel was his own face, which made direct contact with the ground.
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Zhang Jiashi didn't think at all that he could completely eliminate these enemies with a crossbowman.
For him, although he had more than thirty crossbowmen, it was impossible to stop these assassins who were not afraid of death at all.
Soon, the second grenade was thrown directly after being lit by the guards one by one.
Some of the Assassins saw this and hurriedly dodged elsewhere or quickened their pace.
But what? They were stunned to see that a few knights who had taken out an infantry shield hanging on their horses at some unknown time quickly blocked in front of the crossbowmen.
What they saw was that after they had increased their speed, those people threw it out, and the sound could alarm the war horses, and even the ghost things that brought a lot of dead and wounded were actually thrown in front of them.
Many people want to stop in a hurry and then jump backwards.
However, they didn't expect that these things would just explode.
Many assassins subconsciously blocked their faces with their hands, but in the face of three catties of black powder, many assassins were directly blown upside down and flew out in less than three meters of explosion.
After they landed on the ground, many of them were already dead bodies.
And those Qin army guards who were blocking the front with their shields in their hands, they also heard the sound of those metal fragments, and even dirt and stones, hitting the shields.
Soon, these oar-and-shield bearers were quickly pulled back by the crossbowmen behind them, and beside them, there were Qin army knights holding various long weapons in their hands.
Shusun Zhong and more than a dozen Qin saber and shield bearers protected Zhang Jiashi, and what Zhang Jiashi saw was that Shusun Ji, who commanded the knights to kill the enemy, actually couldn't survive five moves in one person's attack, so he had to retreat under the cover of other knights.
Zhang Jiashi asked himself, in the case of using ordinary weapons, he didn't have more than fifty moves, and it was impossible to promise Uncle Sun Ji.
There are still many people in the entire Great Qin Empire who can easily deal with Shusun Ji, but as the number one master in the army under Zhang Jiashi, he can't let Shusun Ji lose within five moves.
"Damn, this thing is also non-human?" Zhang Jiashi looked at this scene very depressed. But he soon saw that the man did not chase after Shusun Ji at all, but after killing the two knights who stood in front of him, he rushed towards him covered in blood.
Shusun Zhong shouted and rushed forward with a sword and shield, but as a result, under the attack of the masked man, Shusun Zhong's iron shield was directly broken by the opponent's sword.
If it weren't for Uncle Sun Zhong's quick opportunity and quickly abandoning the shield to be active, I'm afraid he would have to be directly cut off by this person with the shield.
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Zhao Cheng looked at Zhang Jiashi, who was under the protection of several shield soldiers, showing a hint of a smile, he didn't understand why the other party was so calm, and he was still able to laugh.
However, he soon learned what was going on.
That is, Zhang Jiashi didn't know when to use a seal spell to summon thorns from the ground under his feet.
Zhao Cheng, who felt the stinging pain in his footsteps, hurriedly used his internal force, intending to jump out of Zhang Jiashi's trap.
However, Zhang Jiashi quickly pressed all the five rune papers in his hand to the ground, and said loudly: "Five Elements Spell!!?
Hearing Zhang Jiashi's words, Zhao Cheng knew that things were very bad, but now he found that those thorns on the ground were actually the kind of spikes that were poisonous, and Zhao Cheng, whose feet began to go numb slightly, couldn't use any strength to jump away.
The last thing he saw was several spikes of stone that were getting bigger and bigger, sticking diagonally towards him......
He used his sword with both hands to split the spikes, but in vain, because the spikes were actually jamming his long sword......
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Zhao Cheng died, and after Zhang Jiashi withdrew the spell, Zhao Cheng's mutilated body slowly fell to the ground.
Throughout the warring area, many Assassins were fighting and also died......
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