"Ding Ding Ding" Xiahou kept waving his big knife to chop the arrows that came from him, but the arrows on the city tower seemed to be endless, and he couldn't shoot them.

People miscalculate, horses miscalculate!

An arrow came straight to his face through the knife curtain that Xiahoudun danced, and he tilted his head to the side without thinking, but he was still a step too slow, and the arrow hit one of his eyes, which he had been blinded by an enemy general in a battle, and now he had been shot with another arrow.

Immediately, blood flowed profusely, and the sharp pain made him let out a miserable scream: "Ahhh

Seeing that Xiahoudun was injured, the soldiers rushed over to block the endless stream of arrows for him, regardless of the casualties.

"General, go, go!" A pro-soldier shouted.

Xiahou didn't care about the pain, broke the shaft of the arrow, hit the horse and turned around and ran.

The few soldiers who blocked the arrows for him were shot into hedgehogs in an instant, and the wounded Xiahoudun and the remaining men and horses quickly ran out of the range of the bow and arrows, and the archers on the city tower stopped firing their arrows.

Xiahoudun and the others thought they were safe, but at this time, there was a creaking sound of the city gate opening behind them, and they turned their heads to look, only to see a general rushing out with a large number of soldiers.

"Don't get away with Xiahoudun, the reward for capturing Xiahoudun alive is a thousand gold, kill—" Su Fei shouted while chasing and killing.

The sergeants were in high spirits, and their horses galloped faster.

Xiahoudun and others suddenly burst into a rage, desperately whipping the horse's belly, running wildly all the way, only to see a group of men and horses on the road running desperately in front, and there was a group of men and horses in the rear who were pursuing with all their might, and people in front of them were constantly being caught up, or killed or dropped their weapons and knelt down to surrender.

Xiahoudun didn't know how long he had been fleeing, only to see the war horse fall to the ground as soon as his feet were soft, and the strong inertia still allowed it to carry Xiahoudun forward, Xiahoudun even fell to the ground with people and horses, a piece of dust flew, and he slid out a few meters away before stopping.

The eye that had been shot by the arrow was even more painful at the moment, and he grabbed the remaining shaft of the arrow and gritted his teeth and pulled it out.

"Ahh

Parents who have received the skin of the body should not be discarded at will, otherwise it will be unfilial.

For a long time, Xiahoudun had already bandaged his injured eyes with the strips of underwear that he had torn off, and when he looked at the war horse, he had already died of exhaustion, and in desperation, he could only limp towards Wuyang City with his weapon.

Wancheng.

The siege equipment workshop, located in the northwest corner of Wancheng, covers an area of more than 100 acres, piled up with mountains of thick wood and the craftsmen who are working are busy, forming a picture in full swing.

Qin Feng, Yang Hong, Yan Xiang, Xu Shu and others were inspecting and watching the craftsmen nervously build the equipment to defend the city, as the commander of the equipment battalion, Xi Ji accompanied the whole process, he only occasionally instructed the craftsmen, and he did not need him to participate in the production of the equipment.

Xi Ji brought Qin Feng and the others to a row of large bows and crossbows and introduced: "Lord, this is the bed crossbow, whether it is attacking or defending the city, it is a sharp weapon, if it is a siege, then use a longbow bed crossbow, which has a long range and great power; If you are defending the city, because you are condescending, you don't need to shoot too far, you can use a short bow bed crossbow, because the short bow bed crossbow is a little smaller, and it is also more flexible, and you can change the position at any time. ”

Qin Feng asked, "If the enemy army also has a bed crossbow, and it is a longbow, wouldn't our army suffer a loss with a short bow?" If you put it on the wall, it will be destroyed by the enemy's bed crossbow, right? ”

Xi Ji hurriedly explained: "No, no, my lord, because our army is a defender, condescending, even if the enemy army uses a longbow bed crossbow, they must be as close as possible to the city wall to shoot directly to our bed crossbow and soldiers, if they shoot crossbow arrows from a distance, they can only shoot by hanging, but the accuracy of the hanging shot will be greatly reduced, and the probability of falling on the city wall is very small, let alone the people and items in the question!" ”

"As long as their ballistae enter a distance that can shoot directly at the walls of our army, our bed crossbows can shoot at their ballista"

Qin Feng thought about it, this is indeed the case, if the crossbow arrow wants to shoot the farthest, it must be shot upwards at a forty-five degree angle, the trajectory of the crossbow arrow is parabolic, and the probability of hanging on the city wall is indeed very small.

Qin Feng asked, "If you want to use our bed crossbow against the enemy's bed crossbow or other siege equipment, how can we make it more powerful?" ”

Xi Ji thought for a while, and arched his hand and said: "There is no better way, you can only use armor-piercing arrows, so that the penetration of crossbow arrows is greater, if you can destroy one of the parts on the enemy's siege equipment, if the enemy can't replace the parts in time, this siege equipment will be temporarily unusable, you can also use rockets, tie silk and hemp soaked in fire oil and other things on the arrow, but if the enemy's siege equipment is made of wet materials or put out the fire in time, it will not play a role!" ”

Qin Feng nodded when he heard this, pointed to one of the bed crossbows, and asked, "Can you install a baffle on this to prevent the enemy's bows and arrows, leaving only the observation hole?" And it would be nice if this crossbow bolt could be fired in bursts! ”

Xi Ji thought about it for a while, "It's feasible to install the baffle, it's not difficult!" It's just that you have to be able to fire continuously, there is no good way to use this kind of large bed crossbow, if it is a small bow crossbow, you can find a way! My lord, you think, it is not easy to pull the bowstring of such a large crossbow arrow, and it takes several people to use a winch to pull it apart. It should be feasible to make a burst of small bows and crossbows, but you also need to consider a convenient and labor-saving method! ”

Qin Feng immediately said to him: "Then you want to think of a way to design a bow and crossbow that can fire continuously, don't be afraid of wasting arrows and materials, think about it, if I have a bow and crossbow that can fire continuously, and calculate that there are ten enemies rushing towards me quickly, I will continue to release arrows quickly, and the enemy will all be shot down by me before they can rush to me, and my ten people can block more than 100 enemy soldiers, how powerful is this weapon?" ”

"Yes!"

"There is another thing, you have to gather some craftsmen to build enough trebuchets, our army may have to defend the city for a long time, and the Cao army has a stone cart, they call the stone cart a thunderbolt, in the battle of Yuan Cao, the Cao army used the thunderbolt to deal with Yuan Jun's building car!" Qin Feng commanded.

Xi Ji immediately agreed: "My subordinates have received the order, so we will gather people to build trebuchets specially, counting our previous inventory, the number of things built in three days is enough to use!" ”

At this time, a sergeant pressed his sword and hurriedly ran over to report: "Lord Qi, report carefully, Cao Cao's army has arrived in Wuyang City, and it will soon enter my Nanyang territory!" ”

After hearing this, Qin Feng waved to the sergeant and said, "Probe again, and report the news in time, go!" ”

"No!"

Qin Feng and others returned to Taishou Mansion after inspecting the engineering equipment workshop, and he said to Yang Hong and others: "Princess, Cao Cao's army has arrived at our border, how should our army respond, is it a city and a place to block, or take the initiative to attack and fight a decisive battle with Cao's army?" ”