Volume 1 The Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Chapter 58 Repeating the Crossbow
The next day, Ye Qing was originally going to select some soldiers who were familiar with cavalry warfare among the foot soldiers to supplement the personal guards, but unfortunately, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and he received a message from the scouts early in the morning. Five hundred miles away, 20,000 barbarian cavalry were heading straight towards Wangjiabao.
In fact, Ye Qing and the others encountered more than 20,000 barbarian cavalry, of which 10,000 were the standing army of the Azhe tribe, and tens of thousands of tribal troops followed, led by the commander of Wanyan Azhe, Fuluo.
Yesterday, when Ye Qing wiped out thousands of barbarians again, he finally revealed his position, and Wanyan Azhe was shocked after hearing the remnants of the battle report, followed by boundless anger, and now he has confirmed that this Terran cavalry is the one who eliminated the main force of the Mu Tuorong tribe last year, and it is also the culprit who caused him to lose face.
That night, he ordered his right-hand man, Captain Frowan, to lead an army of more than 20,000 to eliminate this nasty Terran cavalry, which was already equivalent to more than one-fifth of the troops in Wanyan Azhe's hands, and it was not a piece of cake to eliminate less than 5,000 Terran cavalry.
It's a pity that if Ye Qing's reinforcements haven't arrived yet, they may still be afraid, but now that 40,000 foot soldiers have joined, if they are applied properly, it will not be a problem to defeat this group of barbarians.
At the beginning of the smoke and dust in front, the sentry who had already placed in front passed the information back, and Ye Qing's army had already left the village to find a good battlefield and set up a position.
Li Xin was very excited as the commander of the infantry in this operation, this infantry has been formed for almost a year, except for looking for some weak fierce beasts to see blood, has not officially fought, and now there is finally a chance to fight.
For such a long time, in addition to training, he followed Ye Qing to learn the art of war, and now he is talking about the Tao, but most of them are on paper, and he lacks actual combat experience, so he still needs to be honed.
Two hundred chariots were quickly pushed to the forefront, and these were the results of more than half a year of the craftsman's battalion. Behind them, another row of soldiers held a large shield in their left hand and a square knife in their right hand, and the third row was a group of archers, standing in turn, neatly arranged, whether you look horizontally, vertically or obliquely, the Ye army troops are in a straight line.
Two thousand steps, fifteen hundred steps, one thousand steps. Li Xin silently counted the distance between the other party and himself in his heart, and when he reached a thousand steps, Li Xin waved his hand violently, "Release!"
The trebuchets on the two hundred chariots rang out at the same time, and two hundred huge stone projectiles flew up with the sound of the wind, smashing fiercely into the charging cluster of the barbarian cavalry.
Originally, Captain Frovan was still a little worried when he saw the number of Terran troops, but when he saw that this group of Terran infantry was going to fight with him, the worry in his heart disappeared all of a sudden.
After following Wanyan Azhe for many years, he also fought with the infantry of the Terran in the field, but in the face of the charge of this cavalry, no matter how many foot soldiers were in vain, they could only be crushed.
Stone bullets fell heavily, the center of the dense assault group of brute cavalry immediately stirred up a wave, these stone bullets weighed about dozens of catties, falling from the sky, each was afraid of hundreds of catties of strength, the barbarians were not afraid of ordinary bows and arrows, ordinary bows and arrows could not penetrate the iron armor on their bodies at all, but this kind of stone bullets are different, if you hit it, you will be directly knocked off the horse, in this situation, fall off the horse, you will be waiting to be trampled into flesh.
Because the brute cavalry was too dense, in the first wave of attacks, hundreds of horsemen fell off their horses and disappeared in an instant.
"Release!" Li Xin shouted again, and another wave of stone projectiles shot out, and hundreds of barbarians fell off their horses again.
Although the trebuchet is powerful, the reloading speed is too slow, and basically the barbarian can fire a stone projectile after advancing 200 steps.
Just as the barbarian cavalry rushed less than seven hundred paces in front of the array, the archers and soldiers who had been standing still moved. They reached out and took out a strange-looking bow and crossbow from behind their backs, quickly and skillfully wound their arms, and then the tip of the bow and crossbow was slightly raised, pointing at the approaching barbarian cavalry.
When the brute cavalry was six hundred paces away, the archer commander shouted: "Release", and suddenly the sound of "whizzing" sharp arrows breaking through the air sounded, and the crossbows and arrows with blue light on the arrows flew towards the rushing brute cavalry like lightning.
The powerful penetrating power of the bow and crossbow instantly penetrated the iron armor of the brute cavalry, and those arrows were all quenched, and the hundreds of cavalry who rushed to the front soon fell off their horses one after another, even if they did not die, they were not far from death.
These bows and crossbows were all redeemed from the Holy Book, and were copied by the Craftsman's Workshop, and although their range and power were not as powerful as when they were exchanged from the Holy Book, they were not to be underestimated.
What's more, this is not a single-shot crossbow, but a repeater, a repeater capable of firing ten arrows in a row. It's just that the production of the repeater crossbow is too troublesome, the task of the craftsman camp is too heavy, and there is a shortage of manpower, and it took more than half a year to make a thousand sheets.
"Release, release, release!" With three successive commands, a thousand crossbowmen simultaneously pulled the trigger of the repeater in their hands, and the crossbow and bow shot diagonally upward.
The overwhelming array of crossbows and arrows rained down on the barbarian cavalry who were charging for their lives.
"Ah...... Suddenly, a large wail sounded on the battlefield, the neighing of war horses, and a huge gap suddenly appeared in the formation of the brute cavalry rushing forward. Many barbarian soldiers who were lucky enough not to be hit by the arrows were tripped to the ground by the barbarians and war horses who were injured and fell to the ground in front of them, some fell to the ground and fell to death, and some were not killed but quickly ushered in the next round of arrow rain.
After ten rounds of arrow rain and 10,000 crossbows and arrows were fired, at least about 5,000 casualties were inflicted on the barbarian cavalry, and the brute cavalry only advanced two hundred steps, and there were still more than four hundred steps away from the Ye army's array.
This sudden change surprised Flo. Although he didn't rush to the front just now, he was also very far ahead, relying on his excellent equestrian skills and good martial arts to escape, and most of the guards who had followed him for many years sacrificed.
Frow was furious, this kind of chariot attack and such a powerful bow and arrow were the first time he had encountered it, and he lacked the means to deal with it, and lost nearly a quarter of his soldiers, but he didn't even touch the enemy's side.
He vaguely felt that something was wrong today, but at this time, he couldn't allow him to think about it carefully.
"Brethren, as long as you rush to their front, these bows and arrows and boulders are not to be feared!"
The power of the crossbow and the fast rate of fire are not without drawbacks, that is, the reloading speed is too slow, slower than a trebuchet, and it can only be used once in a battle.
However, the soldiers who had finished shooting the crossbow did not leave the field, but took out the green crossbow they carried with them and continued to shoot, although the green crossbow was not as powerful as the crossbow, but it could shoot through the armor of the barbarians at a distance of 400 paces.
More importantly, the number of green crossbow equipment is large, and all the five thousand archers in Ye Qing's army have been equipped with green crossbows, and now the salvo also gives people a very shocking feeling.
"Rack guns!" There was a loud bang, and rows of spears were neatly erected.
For a fast-moving cavalry team, the distance of four hundred paces passed in a flash. Closer, closer, finally closer, the first row of horses neighed, and suddenly turned automatically, the bright spear tips on the chariot allowed these rather psychic horses to avoid automatically, and the knights on the horses flexibly bent their bows and arrows, shooting sharp arrows at the back of the chariot.
The rain of arrows hit, the neatly lined soldiers could not avoid it, all they could do was to bow their heads and protect their faces, but the distance was too close, although there were shields raised high by the shield soldiers, and the spearmen also raised their spears and waved them in the air, but there were still arrows to break through the layers of defense, and the Ye soldiers finally suffered casualties. The fallen soldiers were immediately dragged away by the sword soldiers, and new spearmen were immediately added behind them, so that the formation remained tight.
The horses in front could be avoided, but the horses behind were blocked from view, could not turn, and crashed into the chariot heavily, and were stabbed in the belly by the soft, and the knight on the horse was thrown high and fell to the back of the chariot, and was immediately met by several spears in the air and pierced into a sieve. The great force of the chariot caused the chariot in the front row to fall backwards heavily, and the handlebars that were stuck to the ground were deeply rooted in the ground, but some of the handlebars were broken in two, and the chariots fell to the ground with a blow from this great force, and the barbarian cavalry with excellent horsemanship leaped forward and rushed straight in.
"Thorn!" the officers shouted hoarsely, and the entire platoon of soldiers did not hesitate to raise their spears and stab forward, and as for the opponents who had rushed into the formation, there were naturally shield soldiers and sword soldiers.
The barbarian soldiers who crashed into the formation turned over and got up, but found that around him, the black pressed shield squeezed up, and in the gap of the shield, there was a long knife with a cold light, shouting in despair, and violently slashed the war knife in his hand, but Ye Jun's shield was specially thickened, and a knife could not directly split the shield, but a few holes appeared in his body.
One by one, the chariots in the front row were knocked into the air, and the charioteers flew into the air with their feet pierced and fell to the ground again, but they succeeded in slowing down the speed of their horses, and the infantry behind them advanced in a neat row to the shrill whistles of the sentry commanders.
"Thorn!" with a thud, rows of spears stabbed neatly.
"Second row, thorn!" is another row. "Third row, thorns!"
The guns seem to be endless, row after row, at this time Ye Jun is like a confidential machine, the departments are perfectly coordinated, there is a distance of about one step between each row, the front row of guns is stabbed, the moment the gun is collected, the back row has been plugged in, after stabbing more than a dozen shots, the gunmen in the back are in the deployment of the fruit chief, the whistle of the whistle chief, rush forward, replace the front row soldiers who have weak arms.
Flo felt himself trapped in an infinite forest of guns, the opposing army's advance for so long, and it was still neatly arranged, not giving him the slightest space to find. He and his soldiers were struggling to cope with the waves of spear tips.