Under the cover of sand and mounds, the 3,000 elite soldiers were immediately divided into three parts, which were used to control and launch the three types of combat tools mentioned earlier, except for a group of people who dispersed to monitor the enemy's movements.

The so-called "arson flying kite", which was usually called "divine fire flying crow" before it was improved in the past, should have been invented in the Ming Dynasty in normal history, but in this world, it was a firearm that was mass-assembled and produced by Ji Bei, who was concentrated in the border wilderness in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and shined in dealing with the Yan people headed by Murong Chui.

This is a kind of firearm made of bamboo strips, the shape is like a crow, sealed with cotton paper, containing gunpowder and wolf venom, arsenic and other more than ten kinds of medicinal materials, the front and rear are equipped with the head and tail and wings, strengthen the stability and sustainability of flying in the air, such as a bird flying in the sky, the crow body obliquely mounted four take-off rockets, become a powerful power for take-off, enough to make the firearm fly more than 100 zhang.

When the target is reached, the gunpowder in the crow explodes, which not only sets the target on fire, but also releases a poisonous gas based on arsenic, which can poison the enemy and stun him, and the smoke is filled with smoke, blocking the enemy's vision, which is very effective.

At present, the Sha family in the south of the Yangtze River is also proficient in the technology of this kind of firearms, and sells them at a high price, and later has been transformed and upgraded by the research institute, and has developed a number of versions with different shapes and functions.

The biggest difference between the Arsonist Kite and the original Raven is that they use a new technology on their wings, which allows them to vibrate quickly with the power of gunpowder burning, which doubles the time and distance in the air, and the effect of multiple types is coordinated with each other.

After receiving the order from the superior lieutenant to launch a raid, more than half of them quickly took out the three-foot-long wooden kites from the accompanying carts, placed them on special take-off stands, and then lit the fuses with the fuses of the wooden kites with a fire fold one by one.

"Bang!"

In an instant, hundreds of arsonist flying kites rose from the bracket one after another, across the night sky, and flew towards the white Tongwan City in the distance, and the traces left by the fireworks were a spectacle and dazzling.

Although the tracks of the flying kites initially showed a straight ray due to the guidance of the special support tracks, as they flew higher and higher, they became more and more dispersed under the blowing of the night wind, and it seemed that they would deviate from the spot.

Then, in the midst of this large flock of flying kites, a few of them suddenly burst out with more violent sparks, and quickly rushed out of the line to the front of the whole team, generating a forward tail vortex at the tip of the wings, so that the flying kites behind could benefit from the effort, and soon automatically arranged into a "human" shape similar to the shape of a flock of geese.

Relying on these set flying kites to accelerate fuel consumption, with a group of about 100 flying kites, each "wild goose array" lined up a distance of about 50 zhang, forming a different pattern like a giant wing of fire across the night sky, the scene is very spectacular.

Although they did not expect the surprise attack of the expeditionary force, and due to the harsh environment, the number of Turkic soldiers who stayed up all night to defend the city was not large, but looking at this scene of fire in the sky from afar, dozens of sentry guards on the lookout platform immediately sounded the designated horn, and relevant news was transmitted, which made the wolf army of the entire city enter the countdown to wake up.

However, there was no way to wait for the Turks to make effective countermeasures, but in just a dozen breaths, thousands of fire kites had already entered the airspace above Tongwan City, and then dozens of special flying kites suddenly lit up with a dazzling bright light, reaching the level of blindness.

Under the strong light obtained by these flying kites through the burning of lively metal, a large number of Turks who had just woken up to the news of the enemy's attack and were preparing to assemble in the open areas of the camps with their troops and arrows were immediately stimulated by the flashes to see normal things clearly, and a considerable number of them fell into confusion.

In the next moment, another 100 slightly heavy flying kites suddenly exploded into fragments, releasing a large amount of irritating gases and diffused accelerant particles, which made the panicked Turkic soldiers suspect that the enemy had dropped poisonous mist and other things, and hurriedly forcibly held their breath in a state where they couldn't see clearly, and couldn't help but feel panicked.

But in fact, the original ability of the "Divine Fire Crow" to release poisonous fog is not very good, and it only has a short-term impact on people, so that the enemy has to hold his breath and retreat, and it will be blown away for a while, and it will not poison anyone at all in the open field, and it mainly plays the role of weakening the enemy's state, and must be combined with long-range weapons such as catapult arrows.

The truly efficient and powerful poisonous gas should be the "Ten Thousand Years Fans" of the Maitreya Sect in the past, the "Sun Stealing Madness" that Yao Xing of the Later Qin Dynasty got from the Qiuzi people, and the "sad and crisp breeze" of Jin Yong's world in Western Xia, but the cost or output is not ideal, and it can only cover a small area.

As a result, they are now replaced by non-toxic gases that are purely panic-mongering and have much lower concentrations, and are more focused on a different direction of combustion, rather than separating some of the space occupied by the raw materials for such ineffective attacks.

When the combustible gases and particles spread out, the common arsonist kites, which occupy the vast majority, also began to play their role, their wings were bent up and bent by the built-in bracket drive, making them hover and move in an elusive trajectory;

The mouths erupt in a series of hot sparks, completely scurrying and blinding, making the area they envelop as wide as possible without missing anything that can be ignited.

These flying sparks are viscous droplets of fire oil that can adhere to buildings, all kinds of debris, and even people's clothing, and burn continuously on their surfaces, although each flying kite only carries a few liters, but it is extremely lethal to flammable targets.

For a time, the sky above Tongwan City and the space outside the houses and camp tents in the city were all filled with colorful fireworks and flames, and the flames were everywhere, when this kind of "gorgeous" and destruction were combined, they formed a strange and thrilling picture, which was even more shocking than the geese flying array.

Although many of the houses in Tongwan were made of pure brick and stone and would not be ignited by sparks, the Turks occupied a large number of the houses of the original inhabitants of the city after entering the city, forcing them to temporarily huddle in tents on the streets, and the newly built large military tents in the city were all made of wood and cloth.

In addition, in order to resist the cold of the desert at night, play the role of heating, and try to use fire and smoke in the battle in the near future, a number of warehouses for storing wood were also built in the city, which at this time contributed to the power of the fire of Tongwan City, which was out of control, so that the Turks could not save it.

Accompanied by a huge tongue of fire rising into the sky, a large amount of smoke rose from the city, drifting everywhere with the night wind, and in a moment, the radius became smoky for several miles, and the vision was not clear, even if the flashing flying kite had burned out, it was difficult to see from a distance.

Faced with a terrifying fire attack that could burn most of the city to the ground, the Turks showed their ability to deal with the mutations, and the elite who cultivated to the higher level decisively dealt with the frightened soldiers who caused chaos in the city, forcibly quelled the situation that was out of control, and tried to restore things to an orderly state.

Inside and outside the city, the drums of war sounded in unison, and the wolf army panicked and began to put out fires and search people, and at the same time transferred the soldiers to the direction where the fire kite flew to deal with the expeditionary force that might come from Jilusai.

The most rare thing is that the war horses that were originally afraid of fireworks were under the control of their owners, although they were unstable, they did not go out of control and went berserk, and continued to gallop through the streets of the city to pass orders and deliver supplies, showing that even in the current extreme situation, the wolf army still maintains a strong combat effectiveness.

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However, the Turks, who had just thought that they had survived this catastrophe, were about to send several thousand-strong teams out of the city to search for the enemy's traces, vowing to avenge the fire attack, but they did not expect that after the arson flying kite was released, the second team finally arranged the launch procedure of the "shock jammer".

It was a large assembled crossbow machine, and the arrows that were attached to it were extraordinarily thick, and the middle end of the arrows could be seen fixed to a strange machine, and the detachment advanced two or three hundred feet away under the cover of flashing smoke, and quickly fired towards the places with the highest fire in the city.

With the roar of the sky, more than a dozen special giant arrows fell obliquely into many areas of the city, penetrating through the houses and the ground, and penetrated straight into the ground more than a foot deep.

Immediately afterward, the shock jammer began to operate at full power, and the thrilling whistling sound quickly spread, overpowering the original crackling sound of wood burning, and the screams and howls of the burned people, so that the Turks within a radius of hundreds of zhang could not help but cover their ears with their hands, their faces distorted, and endure the pain that pierced their ears and shook their souls.

Especially for people who are closer, their ears suddenly lose their sense in the loud noise they suddenly make, their eardrums are as painful as a blade scratching, and their internal organs seem to be smashed and rolled by a sledgehammer, as if they want to vomit something but have no strength to vomit out, their bodies gradually collapse softly, and blood spills out of their seven orifices, and they are suddenly killed by the shock that exceeds the limit of bearing.

The so-called "shock jammer" refers to the mechanism bound to the giant arrow rather than the arrow itself, which has an effect similar to that of modern earthquake shakers or shock bombs, and can work for a long time to create a deafening and violent sound.

After being shot into the ruins of the fire by a special giant arrow, the jammer deeply embedded in the city will continue to consume fuel and make a sound, making it impossible for the nearby Turks to enter a state of rest, so as to have the effect of "exhausting the army", and the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

In the present situation, the Turks, who had been deprived of both sight and smell, almost lost their sense of hearing, and the transmission of orders encountered unprecedented obstacles, no matter how high their fighting quality was, it was difficult to make up for it, and finally fell into an irretrievable defeat.

Due to the interruption of communication with the upper echelons of the officers, most of the Turks and other Han Yi people inside and outside the city fell into a state of madness on the whole after a short period of depression, and more than 10,000 men and horses abandoned the city and fled in spite of the cold and the fact that they did not have time to carry food and grass.

What made the Turkic general Kang Sheli, who commanded the troops in the city, feel even more desperate was that until this attack entered the current situation, there was still no real person of half of the Turks who had seen the enemy army.

When this Jieli henchman made up his mind to give up control over the vast majority of the people in the city, only commanding a small number of elites in the vicinity, and only trying to keep a few important areas and maintain stability, the third detachment of about two hundred people outside the city had connected dozens of specially made carts together in an ingenious way, locking them into each other to form a huge structure.

There is no doubt that this is the "Split City-level Giant Crossbow" as the finale weapon of this raid, which is more than ten zhang in scale, but does not have many of the characteristics of ordinary crossbow machines, and generally looks like a long bracket, with two tubular arrow paths left in the middle.

In fact, rather than saying that this super giant crossbow that reaches 10,000 stones is a crossbow machine, it is better to call it a giant slingshot, because it completely abandons the traditional bow blade energy storage and changes to the shape of an inertial flywheel, and the overall layout is similar to the aircraft catapult of a modern aircraft carrier.

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After a period of adjustment, the giant ballista was firmly fixed on the slope of the mound, so as to obtain an oblique upward firing angle, under the joint efforts of the engine and a number of innate talents, a heavy steel wheel at the front of the car slowly accelerated and rotated, making a noisy sound of cutting air;

At the rear of the car, two half-foot-long arrows were placed on a track covered with pulleys, and the arrowheads were connected to the arrows with a ring lock, which was tied to a slender and tough steel chain, and the other end of the chain was close to the steel wheel.

After waiting for a considerable period of time, the speed of the huge steel wheel finally reached a terrifying and terrifying level, making the surrounding air like a furnace, and the position of the wheel axle was constantly flickering due to excessive friction, which shows that the wheel body has stored extremely amazing kinetic energy in the process;

Without too much hesitation, the innate hands on both sides who had already prepared for it simultaneously buckled the hook extending from the steel chain to a gap in the outermost recess of the giant wheel, so that the high-speed rotating giant wheel received additional resistance, and immediately moved with the chain, transferring energy to other objects.

In an instant, with the help of multiple pulley sets, the huge force transmitted by the steel wheel was amplified, and the two giant arrows, which were much larger than people, suddenly obtained nearly half of the kinetic energy of the wheels, and tore through the air along the slide rail, and the next moment they shook the surrounding controllers to the ground, they had already crossed the sky, and came to the thick walls of Tongwan City, which were as solid as iron.

Looking at the direction of this arrow's shot, it turned out to be aimed at the corner of Tongwan City from the side, which is equivalent to magnifying the thickness of the normal city wall by a hundred and ten times, and if Gaine penetrates straight through from this position, it is equivalent to changing the target from the thickness of the strong wall to the total length of the entire side of the city wall, which is not the same level at all.

However, I saw two arrowheads covered with dark iron piercing into it, and as easily as if they had hit tofu, they each tore open a large hole far beyond the diameter of the arrow, and the brick and stone debris that exploded outward at the arrow hole knocked out countless deep pits of different sizes in a radius of dozens of zhang.

As if it was caught and cut by a giant pair of scissors, the middle section of the eastern city wall hit by the side was severely damaged, and it was difficult to support the weight of the upper section of the city wall.

Not only was the height of the wall reduced by more than half, but a large amount of rubble was poured and piled up on both sides of the castle inside and outside, creating a passable slope, which was no longer the same as before, when this section of the wall was high and thick, and had a strong blocking ability.

In the past, the thick walls of the fortified city, which Helian Bo was proud of, were simply vulnerable in the face of this super crossbow arrow that exceeded the limit of manpower and was supported by the technology that transcended the era, and at the same time, combined with the surprise attack of the other two types of weapons, made the Turks' tactics of using the city as an important stronghold came to naught.

Of course, such an earth-shattering blow was unleashed, and the ballista, which was originally assembled and had limited structural stability, was almost completely broken on the spot, and the pulley block, steel chain, steel wheel, etc., were all damaged to varying degrees, and they needed to be repaired separately before they could be re-fired, which was also the flaw of the weapon.

And with the appearance of a large section of the city wall, the 3,000 elites who launched a surprise attack hundreds of feet away from the mound also have the opportunity to rush into the city and kill wantonly, if they are willing to risk going deep into the sea of fire, they can even almost wipe out the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city.

However, in the case of reaping great results, he still has to put himself in the same dangerous place as the enemy, and the only people who are willing to do so are naturally only a few elites led by Kou Zhong, who want to compete head-on with the Turks who are fighting the trapped beasts, highlighting their courage beyond ordinary people.

Armed with powerful crossbows and sharp swords, they headed for the broken mouth of the wall, and soon they were confronted by a fleeing Turkic cavalry, and with the rapid sound of bowstrings, arrows flew through the air like locusts, and launched an attack hundreds of paces ahead of the enemy.

The situation was unbearable to witness, the torch fell, the horse overturned, and more than 100 horsemen were all fed with strong arrows, piercing the chest and neck, and the enemy's light armor could not play the slightest role in blocking the arrows, leaving a nameless corpse on the wilderness, which made people sigh.

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Under normal circumstances, the smaller the conflict, the more the Turkic cavalry without anyone else as a shield will suffer heavy losses under the high-speed crossbows assembled by the expeditionary force in batches, and even the entire army will be wiped out before no one charges to the enemy position, and the battle loss ratio is amazingly high;

However, this does not mean that in a large-scale offensive and defensive battlefield, the two sides will still maintain the same battle loss gap, mainly depending on the state of the battlefield in an instant, as well as the current equipment and quality of the personnel on both sides.

However, the use of firearms to attack in large quantities like Fang Cai is of limited effect in the general situation where the two armies are facing each other, and only when the enemy sticks to a specific space and is in a passive situation, firearms can exert the greatest lethality and destructive power as in the current situation.

If they can easily shoot a hundred wolf riders in a head-on encounter, there must be a reason why the other party is so panicked that it is difficult to cover each other and form a joint formation, and it also means that their team, which dares to venture into the city, may see the most vulnerable side of the Turks in panic.

Finding a surviving fine horse to ride, Kou Zhong was not satisfied with simply raising a crossbow and shooting, and rushed into the city with a few good martial arts companions, but did not kill anyone on sight, but specifically targeted senior generals, using decapitation tactics, which could not only maximize the results of the battle, but also make the Turks lose the ability to contain the rebellious army due to the lack of relevant talents.

The remaining soldiers who had never entered the city were some of them waiting for the breach to continue to ambush the Turks who had escaped from the city, and some of them made a new arrangement near the city wall to prepare for possible battles in the future.

At the same time, the Turkic Dazhai along the Wuding River and the Hailiutu River also suffered roughly similar night raids, but due to the proximity to the river and the open terrain, the losses were much less, and they still retained more than half of their strength, but they were basically frightened and the morale of the army was scattered.

Of course, in order to achieve the effect of this battle, the amount of ordnance and materials consumed by the Anguo side is not a few, and the reserves of high-end firearms such as arson flying kites have bottomed out, and the parts of a total of three Split City-level giant crossbows need to be repaired and perfected in half a month, and the comprehensive combat power has also decreased significantly in a short period of time.

But in any case, almost no casualties were paid, relying on absolute technical superiority to surprise and crush, the original stalemate between the two sides has been significantly biased in favor of the expeditionary force, and only by waiting for the follow-up multi-ethnic coalition army led by Jieli to arrive, can it be possible to barely recover the decline.

The reason why such a near-perfect raid tactic can be implemented, in addition to the technical gap, the intelligence advantage is also crucial, and the commander Li Jing has remotely controlled multiple armies to launch attacks in a targeted manner after comprehensive consideration, which has created such an amazing result.

Unlike Li Jing in normal history, Li Jing in the Huang Yi world was much younger, and he had not dealt with the Turks for a long time in Mayi on the border, so his combat experience and understanding of the enemy were naturally inferior, and there was no way to calculate the last resort;

However, through the rehearsals and practical exercises during this time, he has a deep understanding of the movements and strength of the Turks, and has also accurately estimated the level of his own personnel, so that the evolution of the battlefield situation is completely under his control.

The longer the delay and the more information he obtained, the more Li Jing's ability to command his army to strike at the enemy in a targeted manner would continue to grow, adding to the inferiority of the Turks, and the victory or defeat was already determined in advance without accidents.

To tell the truth, after successfully and heavily striking the Turkic army garrison through a night attack, for him, this war no longer needs to consider the "suspense" of victory or defeat, but how to achieve the maximum result with the least losses, how much time it will take, and what is the theoretical limit of this battle.

In addition, the application of new weapons and new machinery can also be verified through the war against the Turks, and new ideas can be provided for their subsequent research and development.

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Also on the same night as this battle, Zhao Qing, who was thousands of miles away, concentrated on the oracle bone inscription interpretation atlas left by Cangxuan that day, using this object as a medium to probe the other party's information, and vaguely sensed that the "good Samaritan" who left this thing seemed to be in the area of the Shuofang battlefield.

"The ability to understand and translate oracle bones is originally only related to academic achievements, which is an exclusive secret." While comprehending the content of the oracle bone inscription in "The Secret of Eternal Life", she was also thoughtful about the strange thing of being given a big gift inexplicably.

However, judging by the precision of the semantic diction of the annotation left in this article, and the way in which it is described in relation to martial arts theory, it can be seen that the author of the article should be a top martial arts master. I don't know, is the person who left this album the author of this article? ”

"The essence of "The Recipe for Longevity" is actually extending from the realm of 'light' to 'time', and what is more closely related should be the relationship between the speed of light and the speed of time in the theory of relativity, right? The martial arts theories involved in this are something I hadn't thought of before......"

"However, in my derivation, the effect of the simple 'longevity formula' to prolong life also seems to be unsatisfactory, and it may actually seem a little chicken?"

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