Chapter 283: Heavy Crossbow One
Jing Jun was shocked by what he saw, the maximum distance of the sniper rifle scope in his hand was four kilometers, and after adjusting the focus, he still couldn't see what was going on there, but it was in the rear of the coalition forces This is undoubted, no matter what, they are rioting, and it has no effect on their own curtain wall.
The most important thing at the moment is to quickly repel the warriors of all ethnic groups of the coalition who rushed forward.
Jing refocused and began to shoot enemy targets that looked more threatening.
The machine guns were blocked under the narrow drawbridge, and the continuous spray of bullets rained down the coalition charge formation into a fan-shaped surface, and the siege ladders had been erected one after another in places that could not be taken care of by other bullets, but the counterattack at the head of the city was quite sharp, although the ladders were erected, but no one had climbed the ladder for five meters and was shot down by arrows or bullets.
A lot of strong Minotaur lifted the boulder and smashed it into the ladder at the head of the city, the wooden ladder could not bear the weight of hundreds of pounds of stones, and they broke and fell into the moat, but the calm of the past does not mean that the coalition forces have nothing to do, obviously they have built a very large number of ladders, one ladder falls, and the other two are erected up, fortunately, it is almost impossible for the coalition soldiers to go to the city through the ladder.
Lao Jing quietly lay on the battlement to find a sniper target, suddenly, through the camera, he found that the coalition camp about a thousand meters away had changed, many soldiers pushed a wooden cart appeared, there seemed to be a flash of light on it, like a spear in the hand of an ape warrior, but slightly small.
"What is this?"
"Hmm, brother, what did you say?"
His self-talk was heard by the cat Yanran, who was following closely behind, and asked curiously on tiptoe.
Lao Jing turned his head and said with a smile: "Oh, the ape man below seems to have made something, my brother doesn't know it!"
"Really, can Yanran take a look?"
The little girl became interested, and begged with a smile.
"Well, that's not going to work, this place is so dangerous, my brother thinks you should go to the city......"
Of course, Lao Jing disagreed, although the coalition army did not attack the city very well at this time, there were still many feathered arrows flying on the city, what if the girl was injured.
"Hmm...... , No, Yanran will take a look, okay?"
The girl didn't know where she learned the pestering kung fu, but at this moment she actually used it on Lao Jing, her big watery eyes were crystal clear, which directly changed Lao Jing's original intention, and said in a daze: "Just take a look, you have to be obedient ......when it's over."
"Uh-huh!
The cat smiled immediately, and was about to climb up the battlement, but there was no way, the city was built according to the height of the minotaur, and she didn't think that there would be a little girl looking down at the city in the future.
In fact, even Lao Jing was lying on the wide battlement with half of his body and aiming and shooting.
Jing Jun stretched out his arms to pick up the girl so that she could reach the scope.
The little girl's pretty face leaned into the eyepiece and looked at the other side, but her face became bloodless the moment she saw it.
Lao Jing laughed in his heart, "In the end, it's a child, I can't see bloody scenes......"
"Okay, I'm afraid, hurry down and hide......"
"Brother, it's not good, that thing they're working on seems to be a 'machine platoon heavy crossbow'!"
The girl raised her head, frightened, and interrupted Jing with a shrill voice.
The latter was stunned and blinked not understanding what the girl was talking about.
Mao Yanran calmed down a little, but her eyes widened, and she said quickly: "Yanran heard my father say before that the ape clan had invented a powerful heavy crossbow arrow, and my father also drew patterns when he was fine, just like theirs, but I don't know why I didn't equip the army......"
Jing Jun realized what Mao Yanran was talking about, the heavy crossbow could be said to be a long-range siege weapon before the appearance of thermal weapons, whether it was extremely destructive to the wall or the human body.
But I've only seen props in film and television dramas before, and I never thought that they would appear in front of me, and what a lucky thing it is for the little girl to take a look, if it is really said by Mao Yanran, there will be heavy casualties in the city.
looked left and right, and found that the warriors either drew bows and arrows or threw stones, and of course, there were centaur kobolds who shot with guns, among which Ma Wancheng was very conspicuous.
The city is noisy, and the roar may not be heard by the old horse, he looked down at the cat Yanran, whose body was trembling slightly, and before he spoke, the latter understood and disappeared in front of him, and in a blink of an eye, Ma Wancheng had been brought closer by the cat Yanran.
The old horse shook his head vigorously and muttered, "What's the situation?"
"Brother Ma, there is a situation, do you know this?"
Lao Jing didn't have time to explain more, and handed the gun to the still ignorant old horse.
The latter looked at Jing Jun, although he had doubts, but his hand naturally took the sniper rifle that he had only touched before, and learned to bring his eyes to the mouth of the eyepiece.
"Well, probably where they charged more than twenty platoons, do you know that thing?"
Ma Wancheng looked at the general instructions of Lao Jing, and after seeing it clearly, his face changed greatly, and he put down his gun in a trembling manner, and muttered: "How can this be?
"But the 'machine platoon heavy crossbow'?"
Jing Jun took the gun and asked.
"Can't be wrong!"
Ma Wancheng's face was gloomy, which made Jing Jun see a trace of fear, he didn't explain more, but turned around and shouted: "Brothers, pay attention, the ape man has a heavy crossbow, raise a shield to protect it!"
His voice was loud, and his voice came from afar, and the soldiers who were busy with their hands were all stunned when they heard the sound, but obviously they all knew what the old horse meant by the "heavy crossbow", so they slowed down their work, squatted slightly, and held the iron shield above their heads.
Kobolds and Centaurs who are not usually armed with iron shields either hide under the shields of multiple minotaurs, or hide in the corners of the nearest wall, waiting for the terrifying crossbow arrows to arrive.
"Brother, Xiao Yanran, you just hide under the wall, and the heavy crossbow can't shoot there......"
"Woo woo woo ......"
"Woo Woo ......"
The ape-man crossbowmen had already fired the first wave of heavy crossbow arrows into the city, and thousands of large arrows were fired in unison, and the sound of the pointed tips breaking through the air whimpered and whistling, and the sound of the battle was overshadowed by the sound of gunfire at the mouth of the drawbridge.
The powerful crossbows shot by the coalition forces flew up from the ground, drawing thousands of soft parabolas in the sky, and after the force of the ejection caused it to reach its peak, it turned to a cluster of triangular arrows and galloped towards the city of Sanying, which was thousands of kilometers away.
That's right, the range of heavy siege crossbows is more than a thousand meters!
The ape-man launched three rows of heavy ballista, a total of three hundred, and each ballista could fire ten crossbow arrows at the same time, which means that this salvo will fly to the three battalions of at least three thousand strong crossbows!
The crossbow arrow shaft is red oil wood, the color is dark red, among all the wood, the quality of red oil wood is heavier than other wood, the arrow is designed to be triangular shape, and the heavy crossbow arrow arrows in the Xiong Meng army are made of cold steel produced by cold iron ore in the North Plains, and the penetration is amazing.
The crossbow is five feet long, the average diameter of the arrow shaft is three centimeters, and the weight of the crossbow arrow has reached more than ten catties.
In the era of cold weapons, large siege crossbow arrows rarely use direct fire to kill the enemy, in fact, that is also a waste of this long-range terrorist weapon, most of them are through the craftsman according to the distance between the ballista and the city, and also the elastic force of the twisted tendons, after a certain amount of precise calculation, and then adjust the angle between the ballista and the ground, launch towards the sky, after passing the peak of the parabola and turn downward, at this time the crossbow relies on the effect of gravitational acceleration to obtain very terrifying kinetic energy, and the damage caused after reaching the ground is second only to another siege equipment catapult.
The ape race lacks single attack power in this continent, but the ape-man mind is smarter than other races, and some people wonder how to rely on mechanical power to replace manpower.
Then there were ape-men who invented crossbow arrows based on the principle of bows and arrows, and then invented the powerful siege crossbow.
At that time, the first ballista appeared, and the results of the experiment shocked the rulers of the Eastern Continent, but the result of the discussion was that the research and development of races other than the ape race was not allowed!
The ballista is basically a wooden structure except for the metal of the arrow cluster, and this strategy of the Ape Emperor also prevents other races that are not good at tricks from making similar tools.
In fact, the blueprints of the ballista have not been leaked, and the other races have only heard of the "machine row heavy crossbow" among the ape clan, and even those who have seen it with their own eyes are a few people.
And among the few people, Mao Yanran's father is one of them, and Ma Wancheng happens to know it
Niu Ben knew that the ape man had such a powerful long-range weapon, and his heart moved after seeing the power of Jing Jun's guns that day, the Minotaur was good at striking iron, but he couldn't do the mechanism, and the ape clan firmly grasped the heavy crossbow technology in his hands, although everyone knew the ape emperor's thoughts, and other races didn't bother to fight on it, after seeing Jing Jun, he really wanted to tie Jing Jun to his side in his heart, and he didn't say anything to anyone for this reason......
However, at this moment, Jing Jun didn't have time to ponder why Niu Ben didn't say that the ape-man still had such a powerful long-range attack weapon, because the heavy crossbows had already fallen one after another.
Falling freely from a height of several hundred meters, each crossbow arrow carried more energy than the kinetic energy of the bullets fired by Lao Jing's modified rifle.
"Ding Ding ......"
"Poof......
"Knock Knock ......"
"Oops......"
"Ahh......h
......
The sound of the crossbow arrow hitting the iron shield of the minotaur, and then the sound of piercing the shield, the sound of penetrating the shield and injuring the bottom or the minotaur or kobold, some people were directly killed or even nailed to the ground by the penetrating heavy crossbow, of course, there are many muffled sounds that did not hit the target but pierced directly into the bluestone ground or the houses in the city......
Three thousand crossbow arrows were fired in unison, and the coverage was no longer limited to the head of the city where resistance was organized, and the few residents in the city and more of the warriors of the three tribes who were frequently mobilized were shot through and died.
Ma Wancheng's shouting could only take care of the city, and many people below died in vain.
The first wave of heavy crossbows finally hit the ground, as the sound of heavy objects smashing had stopped, and all that remained was the groans of the wounded warriors.
Jing Jun raised his head from under the battlement, and above the city, the red blood was gradually converging into a trickle, flowing down the tall and heavy city wall along the water outlet......