"Eighty rulers, three rounds of rapid fire!"

With the order, the 1,200 archers at the forefront of Zuo Weiwei's entire battle formation raised their strong bows at an angle of about 80 degrees, and then released the bowstrings.

"Phew! Swish! Whew!"

A full 1,200 triangular white feather arrows flew directly into the sky, and the dense arrows were like black clouds, pressing straight ahead.

An arrow was fired, and the archers did not pause, holding the bow in their left hand, and reaching for the quiver behind them with their right hand as fast as they could, and the feathered arrow was taken out and placed on the bowstring again, and the feathered arrow flew out again.

When the second wave of arrows left the string, the first wave of arrows had already fallen like dense raindrops to the Bohai people who were charging at the forefront.

The armor rate of the Bohai infantry is relatively high among the various tribes and ethnic groups in Liaodong, but it is still dominated by leather armor and leather armor.

These leather armor and leather armor do have a certain defensive power against ordinary arrows, but after the unified redress of the Tang Army, the three-edged arrows and armor-piercing arrows look pale and powerless in front of them, not to mention, the armor of these hastily attacked Bohai infantry soldiers may not be complete.

As the arrow rain landed, blood splashed, screams and wails were endless, and the Bohai foot soldiers fell under the arrow rain in pieces.

If it encounters other forces, such as the combined forces of Silla, Baekje, and Goguryeo, which are known for their battle of the five scum, a rain of arrows may be defeated.

However, the Bohai people are not those who are extremely weak waste.

Raindrops of armor-piercing arrows will indeed bring blood, pain and even death, but for these Bohai people who were born in the bitter cold land of Liaodong, grew up in the white mountains and black waters, and the severe cold, and wild beasts, and hunger, blood, pain, and death will detonate their ferocity and instinct, becoming more fierce, more violent, and more dangerous.

If you were to find a state to describe these Bohai infantry who were attacked by a rain of arrows, then they could only be those beasts that had been wounded.

After a moment of gloom and hesitation, the fellows' eyes were red, with murder in their eyes, struggling, howling, and moving on......

The Bohai people became more ferocious and dangerous, but these had no effect on the archers who caused them suffering, bringing them blood and death.

It was as if it was not the same people who fell under their arrows, but some wild beasts that had nothing to do with them.

The archers still took the arrows again and shot them again, the whole process was precise, fast, calm, cruel, and ruthless, like machines focused on killing.

In just twenty breaths, all the archers completed three rounds of rapid fire, and the distance between the Bohai infantry and the archers at the forefront also increased from sixty paces to nearly forty paces.

The distance of forty paces is still theoretically enough for the archers to shoot at least two more volleys, and as the distance is shortened, the power of the arrows can also be greater, but the military order is only one clear word, withdraw!

As the order was delivered, the archers quickly gathered their bows and arrows, and quickly faded along the reserved space towards the rear and the sides of the heavy infantry battle formation.

However, the fact that the archers stopped firing did not mean that the long-range attack would stop, because Zuo Weiwei's battle formation not only contained archers, but also a full three thousand crossbowmen, plus a full twenty eight-bull crossbows.

At this moment, the three thousand crossbowmen were already evenly distributed in three bands in units of thousands, ready to shoot.

At the same time that the archers were retreating according to the order, the order to shoot came from the rear of the heavy infantry battle formation, and the crossbowmen, who had long been ready, pulled the trigger in their hands.

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Compared to the scatter of the archers before, the crossbowmen have a slightly smaller number of crossbows at this moment, but this definitely does not mean that the lethality will be reduced.

On the contrary, the quiet, safe position behind the heavy infantry allowed the crossbowmen to aim calmly and in a step-by-step manner.

More importantly, as the Chang'an Forbidden Army, the crossbow used by Zuo Weiwei was different from other Tang Army, and it was a new one that was jointly improved and upgraded by the Supervisor, the Science and Technology Supervisor, the Changying Army Engineer Battalion, and the Forbidden Army Equipment Battalion

crossbows.

Compared with the coexistence of two stones and three stones before, after upgrading and improving, the crossbows used by individual soldiers of the forbidden army have been unified into three stones.

It has been a full four years since Guo Rong presented pictures to Li Yu and Li Chun in the second year of Yuanhe and put forward a package of proposals.

With the strong support of Emperor Li Chun, the continuous investment of the forbidden army group headed by the Princess's Mansion of Dunhuang and the old Guan Long nobles headed by the king of Fenyang County, the participation of the officials of the emerging technology faction headed by the science and technology supervisor, coupled with the development of the Fugu coal mine and the large-scale use of coal, the industry with Chang'an as the core developed rapidly, and the smelting and casting technology advanced by leaps and bounds.

The substantial progress in smelting and casting technology has improved the quality of the core components of the crossbow machine and the crossbow, although they are also three stones, the new and old versions of the crossbow have a huge gap.

Compared with the original three-stone crossbow, the effective range of the new three-stone crossbow has increased from 120 steps to nearly 160 steps, but at a distance of 180 steps, it still has enough lethality for unarmored or lightly armored targets.

Based on the calculation of one step and one hundred and a half meters in the Tang Dynasty, the effective killing range has reached 240 meters, and the farthest killing distance is close to 300 meters.

The improved three-stone crossbow used by the forbidden army can be said to have reached the true peak of the Cold Weapon Era, and there are almost no shortcomings except for the long time required to reload and the need for maintenance.

In terms of shooting accuracy, an experienced crossbowman can control the scattering range to the size of a human head within forty paces in the absence of wind, and still within the range of a human torso within sixty paces.

The reason why the range of accurate shooting is limited to sixty steps, that is, within ninety meters, is only one reason, these heavy crossbows that have reached the peak of cold weapons do not have the supporting facilities of later generations, such as sights, which can be identified by the naked eye, and sixty steps is really the limit.

Sights or scopes, this thing sounds high-end, but it also has to be divided into types, the really high-end is indeed high-end, but the low-end is also low-end enough.

Ordinary sights, like ordinary white light telescopes, are just glass clips in the final analysis, and they have no special technical content and are not high-tech products.

The science and technology supervisor, the general supervisor, and the engineer battalion have indeed made sights that can be used by heavy crossbows with copper pipes and lenses, and after the test, heavy crossbows equipped with sights can really improve the accurate shooting of heavy crossbows to one hundred and fifty steps.

However, the problem is that ordinary glass is easy to make, but lenses with suitable sights and telescopes are not so easy to make.

After years of attempts, the craftsmen of the Eldest Princess's Mansion in Dunhuang have indeed mastered the technology of making and polishing lenses, so that the Eldest Princess's Mansion does have a certain output.

However, there is a conflict between sights and telescopes in terms of the purpose of lenses.

Regardless of the difficulty, it is clear that the telescopes issued to military academies at all levels will increase the overall combat effectiveness of the entire team more than the sights issued to the crossbowmen.

More importantly, for a shooting of about one hundred and fifty paces, it is essentially close to sniping, and the new three-stone heavy crossbow can indeed do it, but the Tang Army obviously has something more suitable, that is, the eight-bull crossbow.

One hundred and fifty steps is close to the limit for a single crossbow, but for a big killing weapon like the Eight Bull Crossbow, it is only the beginning.

According to the experience of the rabbits, if you really want to snipe, single shots, and those with mirrors are snipers, and from this point of view, it is very reasonable to use a crossbow against snipers.

Therefore, no matter from which point of view, the limited production of lenses must give priority to telescopes distributed to military academies at all levels, rather than making sights.

As for why the production of lenses is limited, it is very simple, this is the Tang Emperor Li Chun is strictly controlling all glass products.

You must know that after completing the game, glass/glass products have become one of the most important incomes in Li Chun's hands now, and its actual income is even higher than that of salt and iron.

Li Chun dared to expand the Chang'an forbidden army from 180,000 to more than 200,000, in addition to the improvement of smelting and casting technology can provide sufficient equipment and ordnance, the biggest reliance is on the huge profits brought by glass products.

However, there is such a thing as glass and smelting,

Casting is different, it is completely a handicraft workshop product, the threshold is too low, once this technology spreads, it can instantly make glass products into cabbage prices.

In line with the principle that he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one, Li Chun simply strictly controlled glass and glass products.

At first, it was just a glass workshop in the Eldest Princess's Mansion, but later I was afraid that it would not be safe enough and not confidential enough, so I simply found Yan Qing directly, and prepared to directly requisition the entire backyard of the Eldest Princess's Mansion, including the glass workshop, from personnel to venues, to kilns and other equipment.

Although Li Chun is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, it is more or less inappropriate to directly requisition the dowry from the deceased Emperor Taishang in this way.

Fortunately, Yan Qing listened to Guo Rong in everything, and Guo Rong's biggest ideal was to return to Anxi, and to return to Anxi requires the support of the whole country of Datang, not to mention a backyard, even if the entire princess mansion is sent out, it doesn't matter, so the whole process is unusually smooth.

Of course, Guo Rong and Yan Qing did not suffer any losses.

For the requisition of the backyard of the Eldest Princess's Mansion, whether it is a person or a thing, it is a temporary requisition, and after the requisition is completed, it should belong to the Eldest Princess's Mansion or the Eldest Princess's Mansion.

Not only that, but the Eldest Princess's Mansion can continue to earn stable income from the glaze trade,

In addition, it is a promise that has been recognized by Li Chun and is extremely important to Guo Rong.

This unexpected promise inadvertently solves the biggest hidden danger that may exist between Li Chun and Guo Rong in the future.

Guo Rong and Yan Qing agreed, and the requisition was no longer barrier-free.

For the craftsmen in the workshop, how the official family arranges has little to do with him, after all, their identity is the house slave of the eldest princess's mansion, and they have no freedom in themselves, although they can't get rid of the identity of the house slave after the requisition, but they have an extra share of the court, which is also an unexpected joy.

After gaining the approval of Yan Qing and Guo Rong, the impatient Li Chun immediately sent someone to take over the backyard of the eldest princess's mansion, and after completing the takeover, not only were eunuchs guarding it, but also the forbidden army patrolling day and night, and the level of defense was higher than that of the three major ones.

The only point is that the area of the Eldest Princess's Mansion is limited, and it is this that limits the production capacity of glass and lenses.

As a result, apart from the first few experimental sights, the crossbowmen did not receive any additional accessories.

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Although without the blessing of sights, it is impossible to achieve long-distance accurate sniping, but how can it stump these elites of the forbidden army.

If someone really wants to snipe, he can choose the Eight Bull Crossbow as an opponent.

If the opponent feels that the eight-bull crossbow is too ferocious, the crossbow soldier also has a way to provide alternatives, and a single soldier can't achieve accurate sniping with more than 100 steps, which doesn't matter, then increase the number, one is not enough then ten, ten is not enough for a hundred, a hundred is not enough for a thousand, there is always one that can meet the opponent's needs for sniping.

And outside Xiangping City in front of him, what flew towards the Bohai infantry who rushed into battle happened to be a thousand crossbow arrows, but a point they were aiming at, but a line, a front line of Bohai infantry soldiers.

Compared to the slender feathered arrows, the crossbow arrows have a faster initial velocity and a shorter time to fly in the air due to the powerful kinetic energy provided by the strong crossbow.

Within four breaths of the crossbow bolts, the crossbow arrows had already leaped over the heavy infantry and archers, and flew in front of the red-eyed Bohai infantry, followed by a rain of arrows composed of thousands of crossbow arrows and the Bohai infantry who were charging forward.

Experienced and experienced crossbowmen, a safe environment under the protection of heavy infantry, and a crossbow with greatly improved performance are superimposed to produce qualitative changes.

When the crossbow bolts collided with the Bohai infantry soldiers, the Bohai infantry who rushed to the front in two full rows fell to the ground almost at the same instant.

Before the Bohai infantry behind could understand what was happening, the second wave of crossbow arrows had already risen into the air, and they were heading straight for the faces of these dazed Bohai people.

"Phew! Swish! Swish! Swish! Whew!"

With the second wave of crossbow arrows, two rows of Bohai foot soldiers fell to the ground in unison.

Immediately after, a third wave of crossbow bolts arrived......

Under the salvo of three consecutive waves of crossbow arrows, the top five or six rows were in the front

The Bohai infantry was almost emptied.

If you stand on a high place and look at the birds, you will find that the charge of the Bohai Navy seems to have crashed into an invisible wall at once.

If there are Bohai people who can observe carefully at this time, they will find that the front of every Bohai foot soldier who fell to the ground is filled with heavy crossbow arrows that are more than an inch long and finger thick.

It is true that the Bohai people are brave, and they become more ferocious and dangerous under the stimulation of the battlefield, but they are also flesh and blood after all, and their psychological endurance is also limited.

The absolute number of casualties caused by the shooting of the archers of the Tang Army was actually quite a lot, because this was within the scope of their cognition, and in their expectations, it not only did not affect their morale, but on the contrary, it stimulated their ferocity.

What follows, however, is completely beyond their knowledge.

As we all know, whether it is a foot soldier or a cavalryman, rushing to the forefront, the one who is at the forefront is always the strongest and most courageous existence.

However, in just a few breaths, more than six hundred of the most elite and brave foot soldiers were directly emptied, almost instantly crushing the psychological limit of the Bohai people.