Zhu Kuang, who was standing on the side, suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Governor, this roar must be the war elephant of the Han army!" No wonder the Han army put so much effort into protecting their elephant riders from driving straight in! At present, our army is surrounded in this square area, and if we do not manage to break through the shield wall, we will have unimaginable consequences......"

Li Yuan nodded and said in a deep voice: "Xie Gui wants to eat us in one go!" However, there is not necessarily no solution. It's too late to move the trebuchet...... That's it, Zhu Kuangcong, immediately go and bring all the Fuyuan crossbows in the army! Originally, I wanted to use it against those elephant riders, but now let's try to see if I can destroy this shield array! ”

Zhu Kuangcong was stunned for a moment and said: "Dudu, this shield wall can be next to the wooden wall of our camp, if you can't break the iron shield, but it will crush your own camp, this's-"

Li Yuan's eyes were like torches and said: "The governor of Pontus knows it!" The elephant is coming, don't be verbose! ”

"The last general obeys!"

The sergeants on both sides around the camp were fighting bloodily, and the terrible hiss was forcing them to approach, Zhu Kuang never dared to slack off, and immediately took people to carry the secret weapon Fu Yuan crossbow specially carried on this trip.

In the science and technology of the Tang Dynasty, there is one that can be called the killer feature of the Tang Dynasty: the crossbow. The law of the Tang Dynasty clearly stipulates that it is strictly forbidden for the people to practice crossbow shooting, and it is not negotiable for ordinary people to dare to hide crossbows privately, and to go to prison for the army. The crossbow is the high-precision secret weapon of the Tang army, which is incomparable to all dynasties.

And the most terrifying lethality is the Fuyuan crossbow.

(Note: In Volume 16 of the Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty, it is recorded that there were seven kinds of forbidden military crossbows in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty: "One is called the Zhang crossbow, the second is the horn bow crossbow, the third is the wooden single crossbow, the fourth is the large wooden single crossbow, the fifth is the bamboo pole crossbow, the sixth is the big bamboo pole crossbow, and the seventh is the Fuyuan crossbow. ”）

Fuyuan crossbow is made of crossbow arm made of red oak wood, mulberry wood, cow tendon and other materials through multi-layer composite; Mix silk, hemp, beef tendon, etc. into strings; The crossbow body has a bronze casing with a mechanism inside; The receiver is expected to be mountainous, and with a special eight-inch steel-tipped crossbow arrow, it can shoot 300 paces and penetrate heavy armor. With such a huge lethality and ultra-long range, this ruthless guy fights out on the battlefield in one go, which is simply an all-round three-dimensional bombardment.

It's a pity that because the crossbow production process is very complex and the degree of precision is very high, the manufacturing cost is extremely high, and it was rarely used after the decline of the Tang Dynasty.

This time, in order to deal with the elephant cavalry that the Han army was proud of, Li Yuan specially ordered the military weapons supervisor to urgently build this kind of heavy crossbow with amazing lethality before leaving Langzhou.

Zhu Kuangcong soon led people to carry all the twenty Fuyuan crossbows in the camp. Dozens of guards immediately brought the boulders that were originally used as trebuchet shells, and quickly built them into a row and fixed them on both sides of the Fuyuan crossbow to prevent the huge impact generated by the shooting. The twenty operators also quickly put the Fuyuan crossbow into place, and the shaft of the motive tightened the thick bowstring, and placed the iron-tipped crossbow arrows as thick as a child's arm into the slot.

"Governor, where to shoot?" The operator asked, adjusting the angle.

"There are iron shields all around, let alone anywhere?" Li Yuan shouted.

"Yes." The soldier looked up at the black python surrounding the camp, reached out to hold the yellow rope of the transmitter, and took a breath and pulled it hard. There was a "hum" bowstring explosion, and the Fu Yuan crossbow almost jumped up from the ground, and several boulders were firmly supported, so that it would not be out of position.

At the same time, the crossbow arrows as thick as a child's arm shot out quickly, and the next moment there was a "clang" explosion, and even in broad daylight, you could see the splashing sparks, and the iron head of the crossbow arrow first penetrated directly through the wooden fence, and then hit the smooth surface of the iron shield, making a piercing sound.

Li Yuan and the soldiers beside him stared wide-eyed, but saw that the crossbow arrow did not penetrate the shield, and after it was shot, it bounced off the shield and slid along the layers of shields for a long distance before falling to the ground.

Zhu Kuangcong called out in disappointment: "Enter the fuck!" It's useless! ”

Before he could finish speaking, the surface of the iron shield seemed to have collapsed in a large area where the crossbow arrow had been hit, as if a few pieces of roof tiles had been drawn, but after a moment it returned to normal.

"No, who says it's useless? Useful very much. Don't look at the solid appearance of the iron shield, in the end it is carried by manpower. The governor of Pontus predicted that the Han soldier with the shield would not be able to withstand the impact, and he was afraid that he had fainted and vomited blood. Listen to the order, concentrate on the crossbow and shoot in one place, and you will be able to make a contribution! ”

Li Yuan shouted the order, Zhu Kuangcong hurriedly ordered the soldiers to concentrate the Fuyuan crossbows, twenty Fuyuan crossbows lined up, the soldiers moved quickly to twist the strings and install crossbow arrows, and then set the target of all the Fuyuan crossbows on the shield array near the camp gate, at this moment the Wuping sergeant who was guarding there received the order, and at the same time hurriedly spread out to both sides, so as not to be accidentally injured by the heavy crossbow.

With a command, twenty operators pulled the machine yellow at the same time, and twenty iron crossbows shot out with a faint sound of wind and thunder. There was a piercing sound of gold and iron clashing in his ears, and the sparks that came out this time were clearly visible, and twenty crossbow arrows hit the overlap of the four shields at the same time, and they also bounced up and glided in the air and fell to the ground, but this time the effect was very different.

I saw that the shield that was shot was dented, and then dozens of shields around it collapsed at the same time, like the roof of a house collapsed. "Ping Pong" was chaotic for a while, and dozens of Han soldiers holding shields seemed to have suffered a huge impact, screaming and vomiting blood and rolling to the ground, but in this way, they just revealed a group of Han spearmen who were waiting with blades behind the shields, and their faces were full of shock and at a loss.

It was as if the rat hiding in the hole had been lifted from the lid of the nest and suddenly exposed to the sun, and these guys were stunned.

"Shoot the arrows!" Li Yuan seized the opportunity, immediately shouted, before the words fell, an arrow shot out from his side, and it was the throat of a Han army shield-holding soldier who was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, and the soldier turned over and fell to the ground, and there was another shield array collapse beside him. And behind this exciting flying arrow, it was the dense rain of arrows of the Wuping crossbowmen, who shot and killed the hundreds of exposed Han soldiers.

Li Yuan couldn't help but admire: "Good archery!" ”

"Thank you for the compliment!" Wang Jingguo's voice sounded beside him, and Li Yuan immediately turned his head to look at this heroic young man with approval. When he turned his head, Zhu Kuangcong had already ordered Fu Yuan's crossbow to start the second round of shooting.

A moment later, another shield array collapsed, and this time, without waiting for the order, the archers fired arrows indiscriminately at the moment when the shield array collapsed, and those Han soldiers were immediately enveloped by the dark clouds of bows and arrows as soon as they were exposed to the sun.

The elephant cavalry in the rear was speeding up, and the Han soldiers just wanted to desperately support the shield array at this time to ensure that the elephant cavalry charging array was unobstructed, so they tried to connect the shield array again, but the Wuping army would not give them a chance, with the continuous concentrated shooting of the Fuyuan crossbow, the shield array around the camp was shot in pieces.

The iron arrow of Fu Yuan's crossbow was actually quite crucial, although it did not seem to penetrate the shield array, but it was this iron arrow that hit the shield at a very fast speed, and the impact and shock force were enough to make the Han soldiers holding the shield behind unable to support it.

And the collision of iron and the screeching sound made by it is also the key, just like a large iron bell covers several people, and the people outside ring the bell with a sledgehammer, the sound inside will definitely hurt people. Many Han shield soldiers and soldiers on standby in the rear were shocked by this loud noise and caused ear and nose bleeding, and some even lost their mobility directly.

In short, Li Yuan's hand was definitely crooked, originally he wanted to use the powerful impact of Fu Yuan's crossbow to break the shield, but he didn't expect the shield to be broken, but the impact and noise had made the Han soldiers unbearable, and they all fell down due to unstable footing.

Whenever one of the shield walls of the camp was destroyed, the rain of arrows from the Wuping archers covered the area in time and mercilessly, shooting the exposed Han soldiers, even if the nearby Han shield soldiers tried to extend the shield to fill the gap, but the ferocious shooting of the Fuyuan crossbow still discouraged them.