Unlike Liu Ying, who was idle in Yongcheng to do pre-war mobilization, and even the number of reinforcements in the three directions of Qi, Chu, and Guanzhong, and the time of reinforcement were frantically mixed with water, Yingbu at this time did not dare to waste even a moment of time.

Led the entire battalion to the outside of Yongcheng, and simply ordered the generals under his command to fight, and this decisive battle officially started in the last moment before dark!

"Wow !!"

"Kill~~~~"

"Ah!!h

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In the blink of an eye, a full 60,000 square of rebel camps rushed out and rushed towards the southern wall of Yongcheng.

Seeing that the enemy was menacing, the Han army guards in the city wall were not too flustered, but all stood in front of the wall battlements, with a desire for military merit and martial arts, and organized the first round of defense under the command of their respective superiors.

"Six hundred paces from the enemy!"

A high-pitched roar came from the remote platform not far away, causing the guards on the wall to grit their teeth and watch closely at the Huainan rebels who were rushing outside the city.

Under the tense atmosphere, no one noticed that at every hundred steps of the south city wall, huge winches were rotated by the wrestlers on the side, making a piercing 'squeak' sound······

"Five hundred paces from the enemy!"

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"Four hundred paces from the enemy!"

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"Three hundred paces from the enemy!!"

"Let !!!!!"

A rough roar rang out at the same time as the sound of 'three hundred paces from the enemy', followed by a loud bang that caused the soldiers on the wall to turn their heads sideways.

Bang Bang Bang !!

Whoosh whoosh !!!!

In an instant, hundreds of waist-high, arm-thick giant arrows flew up from the walls of Yongcheng, which was no more than a few miles long, and rushed into the rushing rebel array with almost no horns.

More than a mile away, the wails of the rebels could not reach the ears of the defenders on the city walls.

But just looking at the giant crossbow arrows that had been strung together one by one, but still had no momentum left in the dirt, the faces of the defenders on the wall suddenly swelled with excitement.

"Color!!

"Winning !!!!!"

As soon as the cheers came to mind, a shout came from the remote platform again, which provoked all the soldiers to hurry back to their senses.

"Two hundred steps away from the enemy!"

In an instant, the atmosphere on the city wall was filled with a palpitating slaughter!

In today's era, three hundred steps, that is, one mile, is already considered the engagement distance of the city's offensive and defensive battles.

As for the reason, since a moment ago, the bed crossbow that showed its skills and made the rebels pay the price of nearly a thousand casualties in the blink of an eye.

——The bed crossbow equipped with the Han room today is basically to install several bows on the bed frame, and then use the winch to make the bow string, and shoot it flat.

Although this structure and firing method make the bed crossbow naturally incompatible with the word 'precision', it can still play a decisive role in some specific situations.

For example, if the bed crossbow is densely arranged in a compact area and fired in a salvo, even if the arrows fired are not too accurate, they can achieve indiscriminate coverage of a certain area through ultra-long range and sufficient quantity.

To put it simply, as long as there are enough bed crossbows, a few salvos in one direction will inevitably create a 'dead zone'.

And at this moment, the situation Yongcheng is facing is the second special scene where the bed crossbow can show its skills.

- When there are enough enemies and they are rushing forward and back in a tight formation, even if the accuracy of the bed crossbow is about equal to none, the number is not too high, and as long as it shoots in the direction of the enemy, it will always hit people.

As for why the '300 steps' is the contact point between the enemy and us in the offensive and defensive battles in the city, or the 'exchange of fire', it is precisely because of this primitive version of the bed crossbow that its effective killing range is exactly 300 steps.

That is, in the offensive and defensive battles of the city, the official action of the defending side is to start from '300 steps away from the enemy'.

And 200 steps is another key point.

- Two hundred steps, a total of only one hundred and twenty zhang, for the attacking side that sprints with all its might, you can sprint past it with one breath and one breath!

For the soldiers on the defending side, 200 steps also means that the battle has officially entered the state of 'all the army attacking'.

"One hundred and fifty steps from the enemy!"

"Put !!"

One hundred and fifty steps, this is the effective range of the ten-stone strong crossbow - the Great Yellow Crossbow.

"100 paces away from the enemy!"

"Put !!"

In 100 steps, it entered the effective range of all kinds of bows and crossbows that the Han army was massively armed.

And after a hundred steps······

"Fifty paces from the enemy!!"

After using all his strength, completing the last distance observation and roaring, the guards on the remote platform each slid down the wooden ladder.

On the city wall, the crossbow phalanx had also completed three volleys, and the moment the enemy's long ladder appeared in view, it was pushed to the inner side of the city wall.

As for the defensive positions left by the crossbow troops, they were filled in a matter of moments by foot soldiers armed with swords and shields.

Seeing that the soldiers were carrying out defensive tasks in an orderly manner according to their past combat experience, Li Shang only trotted quickly behind the foot soldiers on the outside of the city wall and in front of the crossbow troops on the inner side of the city wall.

"The pawns of bows and crossbows will temporarily retreat to the city and replace them with foot pawns!"

"When you retreat into the city, the bow and crossbow are shot fifty paces outside the wall alternately; But the enemy has not retreated, and every fifteen breaths there must be a salvo!! ”

"Your Highness has an order: Do not shoot all bows and arrows! Do not run out of arrows in the city before the dawn of tomorrow!! ”

"!!!!!"

The military order that had already been issued was emphasized again, and when he saw the crossbow troops retreating from the city wall to the city, and immediately organized a projectile, Li Shang finally nodded secretly and ran in the direction of the corner tower where Liu Ying was.

But what Li Shang didn't expect was that Liu Ying at this moment was not frightened by the battle array in front of him in the slightest······

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"Tut-tut······"

"It's a bed crossbow!"

Surrounded by the guards of the southern army, Liu Ying only raised his head, squinted slightly, and sighed at the location of more than 200 troops outside the city.

can't blame Liu Ying for not seeing the world, it's really this scene, it's too easy to make people ······

Excited!

As far as Liu Ying can see at this moment: at the position of more than 200 cloths outside the city wall, there are hundreds of bed crossbow arrows, which are evenly planted on the ground left and right in almost the same straight line!

On the giant arrow, the rebel soldiers who were strung up by the giant arrows one by one and stuck to the ground were bowed with fear, holding the giant arrows that had pierced into their bodies with both hands, struggling and squirming······

"It's a pity that there are only a few hundred bed crossbows, and there are only more than 100 that can be adjusted."

"And the bed crossbow, the power and range are enough, but the loading efficiency and firing frequency are ······."

"Tut-tut······"

Looking back, looking at the one that had not yet completed the second loading, and then at the long ladder that had been set up on the city wall, Liu Ying only shook his head with regret.

This is the only second drawback of the bed crossbow in addition to accuracy.

- If it is an ordinary bow or crossbow, but any qualified bow and crossbowman can release at least ten arrows in a battle.

If you are in extreme difficulty, not considering muscle strain, strain, etc., then releasing 20 to 30 arrow feathers is not too exaggerated.

Even if only a strong person, such as the Fei General Li Guang's generation, can use the ten-stone heavy crossbow - the big yellow crossbow, it can still 'face the enemy three times';

But in the battle to defend the city, the power, range, and even the ability to deter the enemy are incomparable, but the bed crossbow can only send out one salvo!

As for the reason, it's also very simple.

The common bows in the Han Dynasty today are basically ox tendon long bows, and most of them are used with arm zhang, that is, zhang zhang.

As for the crossbow, if it is a regular crossbow of two to three stones, it is also similar to a bow.

If it is a strong crossbow of more than four stones, or even a rhubarb crossbow of ten stones, it is basically a waist lead, or a stretch, that is, a foot tension.

Historically, the reason why the flying general Li Guang was able to win the appreciation of Emperor Wen Liu Heng was because Li Guang was not only able to open a ten-stone rhubarb crossbow, but also like a bow, he forcibly opened it with the strength of his arms and waist and abdomen.

But what is different from ordinary bows and crossbows is that the bed crossbow with huge kinetic energy, ultra-long range, and super power obviously does not rely on human power to pull the crossbow string.

The key to the ultra-long range and super power of the bed crossbow lies in the winch under the bed frame.

In other words: compared with the general stretching, stretching or waist leading all kinds of bows and crossbows, the loading process of bed crossbows has an additional procedure of 'pulling the winch'.

Being able to provide such a large amount of kinetic energy to the giant arrow naturally means that such a winch cannot be pulled back into place in a short period of time, or even one or two people.

Normally, to return a freshly fired bed crossbow to a ready state for re-firing, it takes three to five tall wrestlers to turn the winch a little bit to open the string again.

Obviously, the time required for this process was much greater than the time it took for the enemy to rush from 300 paces away to the foot of the city wall.

As for the enemy rushing to the bottom of the city, it is not that the bed crossbow can no longer cause damage to the enemy's follow-up troops in the distance outside the city, but that the enemy soldiers are under the city, and the loading and aiming of the bed crossbow will no longer be safe.

"Hmmm······"

"The range, the power is enough, the accuracy, there is no good way."

"It's this reload speed, you can make a fuss······"

"Pulley Set ······"

Looking at the winch under the crossbow of the bed not far away, Liu Ying only let out a soft murmur meaningfully.

Behind Liu Ying, seeing Liu Ying whispering in the direction of the bed crossbow, Li Shang's face suddenly swelled with a strange color.

"Your Highness······"

"Don't everyone say that the prince is benevolent and forgiving?"

"When I was more earlier, Your Majesty thought that His Royal Highness was 'too benevolent and weak', and he had the idea of easy storage?"

Thinking like this, Li Shang couldn't help but look outside the city, the Shura field composed of 'human strings'.

In the end, Li Shang's gaze was still drawn back from the spectacular scene to Liu Ying's back.

"This ······"

"The prince of benevolence and weakness, the prince of the uncrowned, is ······"

"Like the power of the Great Crossbow?"