"Quick, stand up!"

"Not enough! There are not enough planks! ”

"Take all the door panels in the city and !!"

After about half a moment, the area within a hundred paces of the city walls was occupied by a noisy howl.

With Liu Ying's order, all the buildings in the entire Yongcheng City were 'opened' in an instant.

Planks of wood, large and small, thick enough to ensure that the arrows of the bow could not penetrate them, were sent to the southern city wall in order, and then the sergeants hugged each other and supported them with two wooden sticks.

If it weren't for her sober-mindedness, Liu Ying would inevitably think that the scene in front of her would be a common solar power generation base in the northwest in the future.

After all the planks in the city were taken and all of them were propped up diagonally, Liu Yingcai finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned sideways, and nodded to the southern army jailer holding a huge shield not far away.

Seeing that Liu Ying was finally no longer stubborn, on the city wall, Li Shang finally let go of his hanging heart a little.

"Your Highness, what a ······"

As soon as he spoke, he felt the faint reminder of Wang Ling's gaze beside him, and the word 'stubborn' that Li Shang had not yet said was finally quietly swallowed back into his stomach.

"Well, that's a brilliant idea!"

Stiffly moving the topic away, Li Shang slowly turned around, frowning slightly.

Outside the city wall, the Huainan rebels, who had reorganized the array, had also come to a position three hundred steps away from the city wall.

"Three hundred paces from the enemy!!"

"Let !!!!!"

With the roar of the bed crossbow, the final battle began······

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"Put!"

Sou! Sou! Sou!!!

The middle-level generals roared, and thousands of arrows flew up in response to the sound of the city wall.

But after flying over the city wall not far away, the bow and feather arrows that were originally in an ascending posture flew a little flat to adjust their posture as if someone was remotely controlled, and then pierced downward!

The difference from the previous days of battle was that after this round and every subsequent round of crossbow salvos, the crossbow phalanx soldiers in the city wall all turned sideways for the first time without exception and hid under the diagonally propped planks.

And in this huge 'wood-plank forest', a thick plate surrounded by two giant shields in all directions is undoubtedly very eye-catching······

"Whoop~Whoop······"

After gasping for breath loudly, Liu Ying turned her head sideways with an irritated face and looked at the southern army guards who surrounded her tightly.

But for these giant shields of the Southern Army who surrounded themselves one after another, and even couldn't shoot a trace of light under the wooden plank, Liu Yingzong had the intention to drive them away, and there was no good way.

The reason is very simple: theoretically, Liu Ying at this moment is a crossbowman of the crossbowman Ding Department of the Yongcheng garrison!

And this crossbow corps captain is the one that has suffered the greatest casualties in the battles of the Yongcheng defenders in the past few days.

——From the time the army was 'driven into' Yongcheng by Yingbu to the arrival of Cao Shen and the army on the battlefield, it has only been three days!

In other words, today is the third day of the battle to defend the Yongcheng City!

And in the past three days, the crossbow corps captain's department, which obviously did not need to climb the city wall and face the Huainan rebel soldiers' peak, its casualties reached more than forty percent!

The original five teams of Simas, with a total of more than 2,000 people, have also become the current three teams of Simas, with less than 1,200 people, in just three days.

Liu Ying still remembers the wise saying: In the era of cold weapons, if the army suffers more than 10% casualties, the army's heart will be shaken; If it exceeds 20%, it will hurt the muscles and bones; More than 30%, it will be on the verge of collapse.

In the past three days, the crossbowmen of the Yongcheng garrison, Captain Ding, suffered more than forty percent of the casualties······

Such a casualty ratio is undoubtedly a huge psychological blow to the crossbowmen of the crossbowmen Ding Lieutenant or to the other Han soldiers in Yongcheng.

And in this decisive battle, the only thing Liu Ying can do is to play his role in these aspects that may affect morale and shake the morale of the army.

Therefore, Liu Ying did not stop doing two things, first went to the wounded barracks, brought out the lightly wounded who could still walk and hold bows, and then joined the crossbowman Ding Lieutenant and became a crossbowman.

The reason is simple: the only way to convince a soldier of himself is to charge with him!

But fortunately, compared to those ordinary soldiers who still need to hold their own bows and arrows and load crossbow arrows even if they are injured, Liu Ying, the 'crossbowmen' who are surrounded and safeguarded by an entire giant shield tun, enjoys the unimaginable 'privilege' of ordinary soldiers.

Reaching out to the left in the dark, a skin bag filled with salt water was stuffed into his hand, making Liu Ying drink heartily.

Regardless of the image, he wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and as soon as he propped his hand on his side and wanted to stand up, nearly ten loaded four-stone crossbows were placed outside the wooden plank, waiting for Liu Ying to take them at any time.

After a long while, there was a high-pitched 'Ready!' from above the city walls. Only then was Liu Ying able to get out from under the plank.

Grab a crossbow machine, follow the example of the crossbowman next to you, raise the crossbow machine slightly, and with another "shoot!" Under the cover of six giant shields, Liu Ying was finally able to throw the crossbow arrow out through the only gap the size of a ping-pong ball between the giant shields.

After pulling the trigger, Liu Ying didn't dare to delay for a moment, hurriedly threw the crossbow machine in his hand aside, grabbed a well-adjusted crossbow machine, and waited for the order to fire a salvo.

After repeating this five or six times, another voice came from the city wall, 'Hide!' Before Liu Ying, who had time to pull the crossbow machine in his hand, was pushed under the wooden board by the jailer beside him.

When Liu Ying came to her senses, the 'space' held up diagonally by the wooden planks fell into darkness again······

"Whoo~Whoo~"

Heavy wheezing and the occasional sound of swallowing constituted most of Liu Ying's memories of his first combat experience.

But what surprised Liu Ying herself was that it was this kind of 'battle' that was extremely ironic and full of the atmosphere of 'image engineering', but it made the bow and crossbow phalanx in the city ignite an inexplicable Goldman Sachs fighting spirit······

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"Hmm······"

"Good!"

"With the power of bows and crossbows, the rebels outside the city are not allowed to line up under the city walls for a while!"

"Very good!"

With a slightly excited expression of admiration, Li Shang involuntarily turned around again and looked at the huge wooden plank that was half a foot thick, one zhang wide, and nearly two zhang long.

Due to the problem of angle, Li Shang could not see Liu Ying's figure at all, and could only see six giant crimson shields clinging to the wooden plank, forming a second 'wooden plank';

From time to time, crossbow bolts shot out of the small holes in the planks, and along with the volleys of the crossbow phalanx, they crossed the city wall and then flew head-on towards the rebels rushing outside the city.

Regarding Liu Ying's complaint in his heart, 'What kind of battle is this', Li Shang didn't know anything.

If he knew, Li Shang would definitely tell Liu Ying: Your Highness, you are the first nobleman you have ever seen who dares to enter the bow and crossbow phalanx!

As a founding father and a famous general who will surely go down in history, Li Shang knows very well in his heart: as long as it is a war, whether it is a field battle on the plains, a highland attack battle at the junction of hills and plains, or now, the city defense battle that Yongcheng is facing, or even the pursuit battle between the infantry unit and the cavalry unit, the bow and crossbow troops will always face the greatest casualties!

As for the reason, it's very simple: in the past, in the present, and even in the foreseeable future, crossbowmen have always been the most lethal class of infantry.

Just like in the wars of later generations, light machine guns will inevitably attract enemy snipers, heavy machine guns will definitely become the target of artillery fire, and the same is true in the era of cold weapons.

The two armies are facing each other, where to hit first?

- Whoever hits me the most, I'll hit it first!

The same is true for the offensive and defensive battles of the city.

The archbow troops of the defending side will basically be arranged inside the city walls, and they will cause damage to the outside of the city by projectiles;

The attacking side will also place all long-range strike forces evenly at a distance of 50-80 paces outside the walls, dealing blows to the defenders on the walls and inside the walls.

As for the attacker's crossbow troops, why they would inflict huge damage on the defenders' crossbow troops in the city cannot be regarded as deliberate.

- For the besieging side, the first priority is always to climb the city wall and then take the city wall!

Therefore, in order to relieve the pressure on the sword and shield siege soldiers in front of the city and create a good opportunity to climb the wall, the bow and crossbow troops on the besieging side outside the city will continue to fire at a high frequency of the defenders on the city wall.

As for the inside of the city, the crossbow troops on the defending side will also inflict damage on the enemy by firing round after round of salvos in order to make it easier for the enemy to get close to the city wall.

In later generations, this action was called fire suppression.

The reason why the crossbow troops on the attacking side will cause more damage to the bows and crossbows of the defenders inside the city walls, rather than the defenders on the city walls, is actually a very simple angle problem.

- As the defender of the city, the bow and crossbow troops of the defenders in the city have two different shooting angles.

Either stand on the city wall and shoot flat outside the city, or stand inside the city wall and throw it out of the city;

However, for the besieging side outside the city, the shooting angle of the crossbow troops is only one kind of projectile.

This is easy to understand: the walls are high, while the outside is low.

In this way, a ridiculous scene appeared.

- The bows and crossbows of the defenders inside the city are fired, and the shots are fired at the vanguard that is charging outside the city; Even if they shoot flat on the city wall, they are all charged soldiers.

However, the arrows thrown by the besieging side outside the city, as long as they were not shot outside the city walls due to insufficient strength, would inevitably kill the defenders.

- Either shoot the defenders' sabers and shields on the wall, or the defenders' crossbowmen on the other side of the wall!

In other words: as a long-range strike force on the attacking side, the rebel crossbowmen outside the city do not need to aim too precisely, they only need to pull the bowstring as much as possible to ensure that the arrows do not hit the city wall, and there is a high probability that they can cause damage.

Under this concept of 'great power to work miracles', the more severe blows are often the defenders' bow and crossbow phalanxes with thin or no armor and no cover exposed within the city walls.

The extremely high casualty rate of the bow and crossbow troops also makes most of the aspiring lords choose to start with the sword and shield troops that look more dangerous, but are actually relatively safer, and it is easier to get the first rank and obtain martial honors.

As for the bow and crossbow troops that seem to be extremely safe, but are actually dangerous, and it is difficult to catch Wuxun, few people are willing to bring them.

- Beheading, beheading, beheading the enemy, and getting it in your hands is a real military feat!

As for the bow and crossbow, who can say for sure that if you take an arrow and shoot it yourself, and which enemy will knock it down by yourself?

But then again, the bow and crossbow have a high casualty rate and it is difficult to obtain martial arts, but it does not affect the war at all, and it is often these unlucky people who play a greater role.

In many battles, it seems that the two sides hedged at the end, and in the end, one of them stood last.

But the actual situation is that one of the parties was shot by the opponent's bow and crossbow casualties were huge, and he was in a dilemma, so he had no choice but to make a desperate bet; The enemy, on the other hand, took a good time, with the confidence of victory, and ended the battle with an enjoyable charge.

To put it bluntly: the final charge and hand-to-hand combat were just the last straw that broke the camel's back; What really overwhelmed the camel was the previous round, round after round of bows and feathers and arrows that pierced people's hearts.

And now, due to Liu Ying's existence, the defenders' bow and crossbow troops in Yongcheng have gained the upper hand in 'firepower'.

Especially in the current situation, the rebels outside the city need to race against time to capture Yongcheng before dawn, and the defenders in the city only need to ensure that the city is not broken, which makes the advantage of firepower even more calm, so that the defenders in the city are more and more calm, and the rebels outside the city are more and more anxious.

"Hmmm······"

"In the city, how many bows and arrows are left?"

"How many salves have there been in the city since the war?"

Hearing Li Shang's question, Wang Ling on the side only turned his head sideways, and saw Zhang Cang on the side arching his hand without hesitation.

"You're on the right side."

"There are less than 200,000 bows and feathers and arrows left in the city, and if you fire more than ten rounds of salvos, you will run out of lunches!"

"And the salvo ······"

"——Since His Highness personally entered the Captain Dingbu, in the city, there have been seventeen rounds of volleys!!"

With Zhang Cang's calm and powerful statement, Li Shang's face slowly swelled with a touch of excitement.

"Good!"

"With such a momentum, the thief wants to get close to the wall, and it still needs an hour!"

As he spoke, Li Shang raised his head with a sigh on his face and looked at the still dark starry sky above his head.

"Wait for the dawn ······"

"Hey······ hey"

"With the head of Yingbu as a dedication, the old man should also be able to retreat bravely in the rapids, and still be respected by the world······"

Thinking so, Li Shang slapped the wall buttress in front of him, and gave his final order with an excited face.

"Fetch the halberd!"

With a roar like thunder, Li Shang did not forget to turn around and smile at the extremely blinking shield wall.

"Your Highness is less than a crown, so you have to hold the crossbow and shoot bravely!"

"Even if you are old, you can't even be brave enough to be a little inferior to Your Highness······"

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