Chapter 20 Positional Defense

Seeing that the Eastern Wu Army was about to launch a full-scale attack, the airborne troops were also ready, and this time all the people who were doing other chores stopped what they were doing, gathered together, and divided into two rows.

There are 14 people in each row, and there are 28 people in the two rows, and the two rows take turns to shoot, which is equivalent to two shots. Of course, since the reloading time of the crossbow is very long, much longer than it takes to shoot, two shots are not enough.

If the enemy continues to charge, there will be a situation where the team in front has already shot the arrow box, and the team behind has not reloaded the arrow box, which is a very dangerous thing, but it is not the same with Thunderbolt.

As long as the bolts can't withstand it, throwing a few thunderbolts can easily get through this time, allowing the people in the back row to buy time to complete the reloading of the magazine.

Soon, the Eastern Wu army completed the assembly and prepared for the attack, and the Shu army airborne troops were also ready to meet the battle, with two horse crossbows in front of everyone. There are 50 crossbows in each crossbow, and there are 56 crossbows and 2,800 crossbows for 28 people. Just one round of shooting from all the horse crossbows was almost able to kill all the 3,000 men and horses transferred by Ding Feng to participate in the attack, but no one in the Eastern Wu army knew that they were facing such a terrible shape.

In front of the captain of the Airborne Forces was a firework, which was similar to the common monkeys in later generations. This kind of fireworks is called by the northerners or two kicks, in fact, the southerners and Liuyang, the hometown of fireworks, call it a cupola. And Liu Hou's local dialect is called "snort", because after this kind of fireworks is ignited, it will fly into the sky with a "snort", and then explode with a "boom".

This kind of fireworks is actually a kind of firecracker that uses the principle of rockets, and the production of zuò is actually very simple, which is to glue a powder cartridge to the head of a thin wooden stick.

The powder cartridge is divided into two parts, the lower part is not sealed, there is an opening at the bottom, after the gunpowder burns, the air flow breaks through the cover and sprays out from this opening, pushing the main body to fly upward, and after flying into the air, the lead inside burns to the same time, and ignites the upper part.

The above part is a sealed powder cartridge, which is actually a firecracker, so it can explode after flying into the air.

Sometimes, in order to make the flight louder, a whistle-like structure is added to the head of the fireworks, so that it can make a screeching sound when it hits the agitation reeds when it flies.

The firework in front of the captain of the Airborne Forces is a model that can whistle, and apparently, it is something that has a similar function as an arrow.

"Captain, let it go?" A soldier next to the captain asked.

"Wait, we can handle it, wait and see if we can attract more Eastern Wu soldiers." The captain replied.

If there is moonlight tonight, you can find that about fifty steps outside the camp of the Soochow Army, countless figures are lying on the ground in black. These people were also dressed in black, the rattan armor on their bodies was all painted with black paint, and the weapons in their hands were also smoked black with smoke and fire to make them not reflective.

Needless to say, these people are the Shu army, and no one knows when they started lurking here. Although the lights in the Dongwu military camp were bright, in ancient times when there were no searchlights, the light of the torches could not shine 50 paces away.

As soon as the scouts of the Dongwu people left the barracks, they were all cleared out by the Shu army, so on this night, the Dongwu army knew nothing about the situation more than a dozen steps outside the barracks.

The vulture bone was lying next to Liu Hou, and at this time, he heard the sound of a rumbling thunderbolt explosion in the Dongwu military camp in the distance, and couldn't help but say to Liu Hou: "Prince, I heard thunder, let's rush." ”

Liu Hou said: "Old Wu, don't worry, they haven't sent the signal to attack yet, wait." Let them attract more Eastern Wu soldiers to come over, and we will have less pressure to rush the camp later. ”

The vulture said dissatisfiedly: "No matter how many Dongwu people he has, it's not all turnip greens, as long as my sons rush up, it's not enough to cut it." ”

"Old Wu, obedient, fighting is not child's play, those who count more win, those who count less win, and those who don't count do not win. When you have time, you should also learn more about the art of war, and don't always think about rushing and killing. ”

After hearing this, the vulture bone muttered in a low voice: "Just have you old foxes and little foxes to calculate, what's the use of me learning more and calculating less?" All I need is someone to kill. "For a savage like the vulture, charging into battle, killing people and setting fires is his hobby, his hobby.

If he has to slash and kill the enemy to his heart's content, he will be more excited than the Night Imperial Seventh Maiden, during this period of time, under Liu Hou's suppression, he has a lot less opportunities to charge, so at this time, he is particularly concerned about how many people he can kill today, and whether he can kill happily.

Liu Hou didn't seem to hear him talking to himself, and continued as if he had seen through his thoughts: "You don't have to worry about killing today, there are 50,000 Dongwu people on this mountain, and it will be enough for you to kill later, and I am most afraid that when the time comes, you will be soft and you won't even be able to lift a knife." ”

"The prince will look down on people when he is good, and when will my vulture bone kill people, he will not have enough strength."

The camera turned back to the Soochow barracks, and in front of the defensive positions of the Airborne Forces, the Soochow Army had already launched an attack.

The first to attack were the archers, only to see countless rockets and fire oil arrows being thrown into the air, flying towards the position of the airborne troops like a Leonid meteor shower. The area around the position was in flames.

Due to the obstruction of the low wall, the Shu army was equivalent to hiding in the shadow formed by the low wall, so only a few rockets fell into the position, and the fire on the arrow was quickly extinguished by the airborne troops covered with sand.

Fortunately, fire prevention measures were taken in place where the Thunderbolts were stored, otherwise these rockets would have posed a great danger to the Airborne Forces.

Seeing that the rocket couldn't help the Shu army, Ding Feng ordered the bed crossbow to release the arrows, but his subordinates reported that the bed crossbow had just been dismantled and transported, and it had not been assembled yet.

Where is the disassembly and assembly of the bed crossbow can be completed in a short time. Ding Feng was faintly a little uneasy, these bed crossbows were originally installed in a very reasonable position, which could not only deal with targets in the air, but also deal with the Shu army attacking head-on as long as the elevation angle was slightly adjusted.

Now that it has been demolished inside the barracks, Ding Feng faintly feels that something is wrong, but he can't say what is wrong.

However, the situation on the scene did not allow him to think too much, and he ordered the process of installing the bed crossbow to be accelerated, and then ordered the sword and shield soldiers to start charging.

The sword and shield soldiers did not charge at the beginning, they still followed a shield wall composed of tower shields, and slowly moved to a place 20 steps away from the Shu army's defensive position.

At this distance, unless it was an innate god like the Vulture Bone, it would be difficult to throw the Thunderbolt over.

But that was the end of it, and when they reached a distance of 20 paces, the tower shields did not dare to advance further, and with their slow speed of movement, they could not even escape if they were bombarded by thunderbolts.

At this time, the shield wall is separated from both sides, and the tower shield soldiers are lined up on both sides, quietly waiting for the results of the battle ahead, if their own side wins, they will naturally have nothing to do with them, and if their own side is defeated, they are also shouldering the heavy responsibility of receiving the retreat of the remaining sword and shield soldiers.

The sword and shield soldiers quickly rushed out of the gap in the shield wall and rushed towards the Shu army's position without stopping. They were eager to rush into the position and chop these damned Xishu people into meat sauce.

Another reason why they had to charge quickly was that the Shu army's crossbow arrows began to sing, and their comrades fell to the ground one by one. They know that at this time, only rushing into the opponent's position as soon as possible is the best way to avoid more people being sniped.

Even if they use round shields to protect important parts such as necks and chests, even if they have used their strength to eat milk and run as fast as possible, they still can't save their fate of being sniped.

The people of Dongwu couldn't believe that such a dense rain of arrows could be sent by 28 people, in fact, only 14 people shot arrows at the same time, and if they were allowed to know this fact, they would definitely be even more shocked.

They couldn't believe that the Shu army had such an accuracy rate, almost no arrows missed, almost every arrow would die, and few were injured. Who are these people?

Each of these airborne arrows is fired at intervals of about one second, which means that it takes them one second to complete, fire, and find the next target, and they are sure that they hit the vital part of the target.

How can such a person be described by one in a thousand, how many times do these special forces usually have to be trained to shoot live targets before they can practice such marksmanship?

20 steps away, about 30 meters, these Eastern Wu soldiers carrying knives, shields, about 7 seconds, these seven seconds, the Shu army shot an average of 7 crossbow arrows per person, 14 people, a total of 114 crossbow arrows, nearly 100 people fell on the way to charge.

However, this still could not stop the charge of the Eastern Wu people, the number of people in this wave of charging was 500 * people, if it was not for the very good terrain selected by the Shu army, which made the attack surface of the Eastern Wu people too small, Ding Feng was eager to send 3,000 people to charge at one time.

However, the terrain here is relatively narrow, and the charging team of 500* people is already crowded, and no matter how many people there are, it will not be able to accommodate it.

It's also fortunate that Ding Feng didn't send more people, otherwise more people would have died. The denser the crowd, the more effective it will be for a group-killing weapon like the Thunderbolt.

Seeing that the sword and shield soldiers of Dongwu were about to rush into the position, the captain gave an order, and the originally planned two-stage attack plan was forced to give up, and the 14 people in the second row quickly put down the crossbow arrows, took off the thunderbolt hanging on their waists, lit it and then threw it.

The 14 thunderbolts suddenly blasted the stumps of the charging Dongwu sword and shield soldiers, and their flesh and blood were splashed everywhere. The charge of the Eastern Wu Army was abrupt, and the airborne troops in the front row took the opportunity to kill the sword and shield soldiers who were relatively close one by one.

However, the Eastern Wu soldiers still rushed forward one after another, and Ding gave a death order to crush the position of the Shu army at any cost. Seeing that the five hundred sword and shield soldiers in front of him were about to be exhausted, Ding Feng ordered the second echelon to dispatch and continue to charge behind these sword and shield soldiers.

Because the airborne troops were busy greeting the sword and shield soldiers in front, the second echelon that came up behind the Eastern Wu Army did not need the protection of the shield wall at all, and directly rushed to 20 steps away from the Shu army's position, and then, they all stopped and continued to rush forward, replacing the sparse first echelon of sword and shield soldiers to rush forward.

The same scene continued to be staged, the airborne troops desperately fired crossbow arrows to block the charge of the Eastern Wu army, once they were about to be unable to contain the wave of their charge, they threw several or even a dozen thunderbolts to suppress the wave of the Eastern Wu people, and then repeated the process of blocking the crossbow arrows.

The airborne troops repeated these boring, boring, and monotonous actions, and in front of them there were constantly bloody, cruel, and terrifying images.