Chapter Forty-Three: Cannon Burning Arrows
The South Gate was broken, and the battle situation at the West Gate was also in an unfavorable situation.
Although it was squeezed to fight in a narrow area, the blood wolf's numerical advantage could not be brought into play.
But man is not a machine.
After a long time, the physical strength began to decline, and the night northern army of the West Gate, although it was still in formation, did not move at all, and fixed behind the door.
However, it is no longer as brave as before.
On the other hand, the blood wolf was brave and brave, and it was divided into three teams, one team rested, and the other team continued to attack. There is also a team, behind the attacking soldiers, to boost morale.
The meaning is obvious, since I can't expand all my members, then I will fight a wheel battle with you, and I can also give full play to the advantage of numbers.
But when I saw it, the horn sounded several times, and it floated up leisurely, and the team of blood wolves watching the battle shouted in unison, "Heh! Scold! Roar! "Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, the heavens and the earth tremble.
Although they were shocked by the strong combat power of the Night North Iron Cavalry, they also had absolute confidence that they could use continuous attacks to drag them out until they were exhausted.
He Ruoyi stood at the forefront of the Sancai array, shouting and fighting, unstoppable, when he killed to the red eye, he shouted wildly in his mouth, facing the blood wolf's brave wolf's wolf-headed long halberd, attacked and rushed, killing seven or eight people in an instant, and the blood wolf's brave offensive was a setback.
That night, the morale of the Northern Army had declined, and gradually the marksmanship was scattered, and the hand of the knife was also sore, which showed that the uncle was so brave, in an instant, everyone was full of spirits, the knife was like a meteor, the Lingyun gun was like purple lightning, like a tiger going down the mountain, and the dragon going to sea was probably just like that.
The sound of the collision between the blades is endless, resounding in all directions, earth-shattering!
The vicissitudes of the sea show the true character of the hero.
In the troubled times, I know that the heroes are proud.
Gradually, those blood wolves began to retreat?
He Ruoyi couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the blood wolf retreating bravely, and with a wave of his hand, the whole army ordered, taking advantage of the retreat of the barbarians, to push them back to the city gate, and then close the west gate.
At this moment, suddenly heard the thunder of the golden drum, and the blood wolf team outside the west gate began to move forward with the pace of shaking the heavens and the earth, and the six barbarian wrestlers in front of them, pushing a four-wheel bed crossbow, marched towards the city gate.
That He Ruoyi took everyone, and finally pushed the blood wolf out of the city, was relieved, and was about to close the West Gate, who knew that a drum sounded, "bang", muffled sound, five seven-foot arrows broke out of the air, "Peng" sound, the West Gate smoke and dust were everywhere, blowing up a cloud of blood mist, the arrow blocking beast cards were shattered, the human wall, the horse wall was pierced, and in the blink of an eye, the Yebei Army was shot ten people.
One of the arrows actually pierced through the three people and three horses side by side, and it was still castrated, and it was nailed into the city wall for several inches.
"The Art of War: Offensive and Defensive Tools" records: With one shot of his teeth, all arrows rose together, and seven hundred steps. The city fortress in the center was all destroyed, and the building was also upside down. It is called a crossbow.
and attacking Shouchun, Taizu entered the city by kayak. The crossbows of the cars in the city were as big as rafters.
- "History of the Song Dynasty: The Biography of Zhang Qiong"
Legend has it that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the range of the Qin crossbow could reach 800 meters, and the range of the extra-large bed crossbow could reach 1,000 meters.
The size of the crossbow bolt was even thicker and longer than some spears, and it could easily penetrate even the city walls.
"Whew!" The sound of the drum horn sounded again, and the blood wolf thousand commanders waved his hand and ordered, and the two barbarian Hercules twisted the axles of the crossbow again.
Seeing that the other party was about to come to the second round, He Ruoyi suddenly let out a heart-rending shout: "Everyone, retreat." ”
The muffled sound was sacrificed again, and the five giant arrows broke out of the air again, and no one dared to defend the entire West Gate at once, at this time, He Ruoyi asked everyone to lean against the wall as a cover, and the brigade slowly retreated to the West Beacon Fire, preparing to deploy along the wall, shrink the defense, and defend the wall.
The crossbow stopped attacking after three consecutive fires.
At this time, the entire West Gate Gate was wide open, unguarded, the beating of the golden drum sounded intensively, and the blood wolf that retreated a little bit was brave and crazy, pouring into the West Gate like a tide.
When hundreds of blood wolves bravely arrived at the city, suddenly, from the top of the city tower, threw down a brown clay pot, the golden liquid in the jar hat scattered out in all directions, an arrow coated with fire oil, ignited by the fireworks in the brazier, with a whistling sound, shot out from the city, the fire accompanied by the fire oil exploded in the air, igniting a raging fire, with countless splashes of flames, down the stream.
In an instant, the hot flames fell on the blood wolf Jianyong, and the yellow fox shawl armor and rhino leather armor were lit up one after another. The fire took advantage of the wind and burned through their skin.
Suddenly, under the west gate, the sound of howling and rolling was endless.
The skin and flesh bloomed, and the smell of burnt flesh spread in the wind.
Airburst, abbreviated as airburst, English name, airburst.
It is an explosive device such as a bomb or nuclear weapon that explodes in the air, rather than after touching the ground or a target, or an armor-piercing projectile that delays the detonation.
For military purposes, an explosion from the air has an advantage over a ground-based explosion in that the energy (including shrapnel) is more evenly distributed over a wider area, while the peak energy at the point of the atomic explosion will be lower.
The term can also refer to natural occurrence, such as the explosion of a meteorite in the air as it enters the atmosphere.
In future conventional warfare, airbursts were primarily used against infantry in open or unarmored targets, as the resulting fragments covered a large area of damage, but would not penetrate armor, fortifications, or fortifications.
"Good!" He Ruoyi's eyes swelled, and he hurriedly looked at it from afar: But he saw that at the head of Ximen City, there were three sturdy men, who were Yang Tingfeng, Xiao Wolf and a young man covered in blood - it was the soldier that Jing Chuwei rescued from Su Mansha
Previously, he deliberately pretended to be dead, coupled with Jing Chuwei's superb martial arts, he successfully attracted the attention of Su Mansha and the Imam assassins, and he narrowly escaped death.
I saw that the soldier was carrying eight quivers, squatting beside the brazier, lighting the arrows dipped in fire oil, and handing them to Yang Tingfeng one by one.
Yang Tingfeng took three rockets, wound two arrows in one hand, and held one in his mouth, opening the bow like a half moon, but it was not triggered. Beside him, the crockpot oil pot was piled up, and Xiao Wolf held it in his hand one by one, nodding secretly.
"Put!"
As soon as the words fell, Xiao Wolf raised his left hand and shook his right hand, and the two oil cans were thrown out by him, castrating like electricity, and the fall was extremely fast.
Before the sound fell, the arrow had arrived, but when I heard a "snort", the oil tank exploded again in the air, and a circle of flowing fire fell, burning the entire outer land of the West Gate, and the smell of scorched flesh was heavier.
In an instant, the blood wolf warriors let out a heart-rending shout, bathed in fire, and rushed from place to place; Those who were not hit also tried their best to dodge left and right, avoiding them as much as possible.
Na He Ruoyi couldn't help but feel excited, his blood was boiling, he slapped his thigh, and quickly ordered three Yebei soldiers, accompanied by the medium-sized, pale-complexed Shichang, and the four of them bent on their waists and quickly stepped up to the city tower.
When passing by the stone wall, he secretly peeked out, and he couldn't help but gasp at this time.
I saw that outside the west gate in the distance, a team of 1,000 blood wolves had been arranged, and countless totem wolf flags were swaying in the wind, covering the sky and the sun, and the three hundred barbarian archers, with bows and arrows, and black clusters of arrows, aimed at the sky.
At the rear of the blood wolf army, fifty strong barbarian strongmen, a team of ten, pushed the iron chariot wrapped in cowhide protection, and slowly marched towards the west gate......