Chapter 62: The Great Killer

Since the watchtower is still being built, the view of the Chengxia Guan Shengyun Department is blocked by the city wall, and he does not know that the bed crossbow is being assembled on the head of the city. However, even Wang Jian didn't know that there were such big killing weapons in the arsenal, and the soldiers were even more unfamiliar, so they could only figure it out and explore the assembly - the large components were all there, and the small parts such as lock pins and connecting rods were either missing or decayed, and they had to be remade, which really took a lot of effort. In particular, there were only about twenty iron spears fired in the Curry, and the iron feathers on the tail had already been rusted through, and they would shatter when touched, and the spear heads were also rusty.

Finally, the lookout was nearly completed, and only the top platform had to be equipped with a baffle guardrail, and Gao Tengdou was impatient to climb up with a few battalion officers to get a sneak peek - the three flying beast battalions were the main attack, and he was more concerned about the city defense of Shaanzhou than anyone else.

The bed crossbow at the head of the city was finally set up, but the iron spear that had just been loaded with a new spear head on the side had not yet had time to put on its tail feathers. The soldiers saw several thieves wearing iron helmets on the opposite mound about to climb the lookout, and one of them was significantly taller than the others - obviously, these guys were all thief generals, and there was a big leader among them! The opportunity was not to be missed, coupled with curiosity, together they turned the winch to the bed crossbow strings, and had no experience, thinking that there was no tail feathers installed, so he directly put an iron spear into the launch slot, slightly adjusted the direction of the lower firing boundary, and aimed the iron spear at the top of the lookout.

A soldier half-held a wooden hammer, his eyes looked to the opposite side, and saw a cluster of black tassels emerging from the top of the lookout - most of the iron-armored weapons of Guan Shengyun's department were blackmailed or captured equipment of the Ming Dynasty. Da Ming pretends to be a fire virtue, and since the color is still red and Guan Shengyun has rebelled, they also want to ask for an auspicious five elements that are mutually restrictive, and water overcomes fire, which corresponds to black. Ordinary soldiers, in addition to the iron armor or cloth armor issued to elite soldiers, have a variety of clothing, if you don't grab new clothes, what you wear when you join the gang is almost what you still wear now. In order to distinguish friend from foe on the battlefield, the soldiers were ordered to hang a strip of black cloth on their bodies, and the generals dyed the red tassels on the top of their helmets - the hammer in their hands smashed into the lock pin of the teeth, and with a "bang" sound, a huge iron spear flew out......

Gao Tengdou was still stepping on the ladder, and as soon as he poked his head out of the observation deck floor, he saw the bed crossbow at the opposite city head, as well as the black shadow that attacked him, and subconsciously shrank his head.

The bed crossbow has a long range and great power, but it has a fatal flaw: the shooting accuracy is not enough - it is no wonder, even today, when guns are generally equipped with advanced optical sights, not just anyone can carry the ten rings of guns, let alone the Ming Dynasty a few centuries ago.

The tail feathers on the arrow allow it to rotate itself in flight with the tip of the arrow cluster as the axis, thus maximizing the accuracy of the shot. The soldiers opened their mouths wide and watched as the iron spear without tail feathers trembled and drew a strange trajectory in the air: the flight path of the first hundred and ten steps was still expected, and then suddenly turned around, stabbed diagonally, twisted and deviated to the east, crossed the trench, and pierced the wheelbarrow that an auxiliary soldier was pushing, and at the same time that the huge kinetic energy instantly overturned the car, the spear shaft swept to the waist of the auxiliary soldier, and with a muffled sound, the unlucky guy's body bent into a strange angle, and flew a few steps away in the air, and he died in a daze. The other auxiliaries around looked at the corpse in horror, then looked at the city, shouted, and scattered in all directions.

Gao Tengdou and the others naturally saw this scene, and no one would be stupid enough to continue to climb up as a live target, even rolling down the ladder, riding on a horse and running back to the camp.

The main general ran away, and the auxiliary soldiers who were doing the tail sweeping work before the attack, such as pit shovels and guardrails, thought that they were far away from the range of bows and arrows, and when they saw this, they also threw down the shovels and shovels in their hands and ran back.

In fact, the auxiliaries were too worried: the defenders would not waste expensive iron spears on them—not even the soldiers.

Those seemingly bulky and crude siege equipment are worth much more than human life!

There was a cheer from the top of the city.

Although he didn't shoot the thief general, he was a good win in the first battle, and the defenders smiled and thought it was a good sign. The witnesses naturally became the central figure of the crowd, and even described the tragic situation of the guy who was hit with a strange voice, and the listeners were also elated, and the spitting stars on the sprayed face did not care to wipe it, and turned his head to relayed it to others, and also enjoyed a star-studded worship of the other flower soldiers.

Wang Jian scolded that he had wasted a good arrow and spear in vain, and he was very happy in his heart, and the soldiers could also see that he responded with a hippie smile, and loaded the tail feathers of other iron spears with all hands and feet.

Ma Wensheng was making trouble in the blacksmith shop for nothing, and when he heard the news, he rushed to the wall - Master Ma was happy, shouted a reward, and announced the reward: Kill an enemy and reward two taels of silver! Immediately surrounded by the soldiers, you and I said a word: the first to find the enemy general, the two who carried the spear, the six who set the bed, the one who aimed and corrected, the ten on the side of the winch (including the six who carried the bed), the hammer was in a hurry, and there was a roar and a roar...... Master Ma smiled and threw out nearly fifty taels of silver.

Wang Jian looked at the tower under construction in the distance, and whispered to Pan Ding and Jing Xiangshan worriedly: "Two adults, can you persuade Master Ma?" If such a reward continues, the last general is afraid that the soldiers will shoot indiscriminately when they see the thieves in order to get a reward—these iron spears are so expensive that they should keep the siege equipment to deal with the thieves. ”

Pan and Jing looked at each other and smiled bitterly: "Who can stop Master Ma's temper?" Alas! Although he said this, he still leaned over: "My lord, we only have a few dozen arrows and spears, you can see ......."

Ma Wensheng was stunned when he heard this, glanced at the arrow spear on the ground a few times, and then responded: "Isn't this a short gun!" Wang Jian, you go to the arsenal and find more guns to cut it short! ”

When Wang Jian heard this layman's words, he hurriedly said, "My lord, this is not a gun!" You see, this spear is full of feet, and the shaft of the spear is thicker and heavier than the shaft of the spear, so the force of the shot is strong enough. Ordinary spears mainly rely on the length to resist people, the head of the spear is not more than two, and the power of shooting is insufficient, so special javelins must be used for throwing. Simply cut off the spear - it is useless to shoot siege equipment, if you want to shoot people, it is better to fight arrows. In addition, most of the barrels of guns are made of elastic wood such as ash shafts, which is convenient for expanding the range of stabbing and swinging, and the shafts of arrows should be made of hardwood, so that they will not shake when they are shot......"

Ma Wensheng felt very faceless to be robbed by a martial artist in front of everyone, and impatiently interrupted Wang Jian's explanation: "Fart, fart!" Don't want to use excuses to prevaricate this house! You're obviously lazy! Go and go, and then be long-winded! ”

Wang Jian opened his mouth and wanted to distinguish it, Pan Ding pulled his sleeve and said, "Master Ma will let you do it, it's always okay to try......

"Hmph." Ma Wensheng was swept away and left angrily.

Looking at Master Ma's back, the three of them sighed in unison.

"General Wang, what did you just say about the Douzi Arrow, what is it?" Jing Xiangshan asked curiously.

"Your Excellency, it's just an ordinary feather arrow. In addition to firing arrows and spears to destroy the enemy's equipment, if the bed crossbow is against the unarmoured, it can put dozens of feathered arrows in an iron bucket and shoot them out, with a range of about dozens of steps to a hundred steps. I've only heard of it, and I roughly know how to use it, how far it can shoot, and I can't say it clearly, so I have to try it. ”

"That's good!" When Pan Ding heard this, he came to his senses, "Why can you only deal with Wujia?" The power of the bed crossbow is so great, even if it is armored, it can't stand it, right? ”

"Lord Pan. The power of the bed crossbow is indeed large, but when dozens of arrows are loaded in the bucket, the strength is dispersed, and there is still a lot of string power wasted on the bucket, so the effect is not much different from that of an ordinary step bow. If you want to break the armor, you have to use a special iron-bone armor-piercing arrow. ”

"Then put on armor-piercing arrows, okay?"

Wang Jian smiled bitterly and spread his hands: "Master Pan, the iron-bone armor-piercing arrows are very expensive, and there are more than a dozen ordinary feather arrows on one foot." Ordinary archers are reluctant to give, elite veterans are only three or five each, put in the bucket with a bed crossbow to shoot out of the head, hit or not all depend on luck, it is better to give way to the archers to aim and shoot. ”

Hahaha interlaced like a mountain, the laughter of the three dispelled the unhappiness just now.

"Let's try it with a gun," Jing Xiangshan nodded in the direction of Ma Wensheng's departure, "I have to give that one an explanation." ”

"Hmm." Wang Jian responded. With a wave of his hand, a few soldiers came over, sawed the barrel of the gun with all their hands, and tore the red tassel off the head of the gun.

"Hey, by the way, General Wang, why do you have to tie these red tassels to the head of the gun? The adults in the Ministry of Industry are famous for picking out, and all of them are ruthless characters who can't wait to scrape half a tael of oil off the locust's legs, shouldn't it be just to look good? ”

"Your Excellency is right, the head of the gun is not tied with red tassels just for the sake of looking good. In addition to rejecting the horse, the spearman must also stab and kill the enemy. If you hit the enemy's horse, the blood will flow down the barrel of the gun, and it is easy to slip your hand if you hold it, and with these tassels in the way, you can just turn it around in your hand and shake it a few times. Actually, you don't have to use red, you can use any color. Blind guessing, red is to scare the enemy, from a distance, eyes are full of blood-stained tassels......"

"Oh, the gun shaft is soft and the spear shaft is hard, the spear head is not more than two, the bucket arrow, the iron bone arrow, and even the mediocre-looking red tassel have so many truths in it, Zhuang Ziyun's 'Tao is in the ants, the Tao is in the' is sincere, sincere."

"Don't dare to be. The humble is an illiterate rough man, or an adult who is literate and hyphenation, and has a stomach full of university questions. ”

The three of them watched the soldiers busy while talking, and after a while, the short gun was ready, the mallet smashed the teeth, and under everyone's gaze, the short gun flew out tremblingly, and the amplitude became larger and larger, because the design principle of the long gun never considered the flight mechanics, and then simply turned a somersault in the air, and with a snap, it slapped horizontally to the ground only seventy or eighty steps away, and everyone laughed forward and backwards.

When Gao Tengdou ran back in shock, Guan Shengyun was looking at the several siege towers that were about to be completed. When he heard the news that there were several bed crossbows in the city, he was shocked - most of the generals were from the border army, and they all knew the power of such a big killing weapon. After discussing for a long time, I really couldn't think of any better way than to make more shield cars and send as much cannon fodder as possible to the bottom of the city to dig the roots of the wall.

It seems that the tower is useless, and the dog officers and soldiers will definitely use bed crossbows to deal with it - arrows and spears are expensive and not easy to make, and if you can exchange human lives, you will not lose anything, but if you exchange the tower, you will lose to your grandmother's house.

Just when everyone was looking at each other and there was nothing to do, the southern guard Tang cavalry came to report and found that a team of two or three hundred people was heading towards the camp.

Guan Shengyun was wondering, how could Gu Baihua, who was ambushed and defended at Zhushi Pass, miss this not a small team under his nose, and the second group of Tang Qi brought more detailed news: It was Gu Baihua himself who came.

It turned out that the army had surrounded Shaanzhou too tightly, and the three divisions of Henan Province were still kept in the dark. Gu Baihua was holding a super battalion of six infantry teams in his hands, plus a thousand auxiliary soldiers to help defend against danger, and it was really boring to be idle for several days. Thinking that if there was a policeman, it would not take an hour for the horses to run up and report the news for fifty miles, so he simply left a few horses and brought two foot teams back to join in the fun.

came back with Gu Baihua, as well as Liang Laosi.

He was originally casually thrown into a foot team by Gu Baihua, and he was also idle for several days, seeing that Gu Baihua was going back to the old camp to participate in the battle, Liang Laosi, who was bent on killing the officers and soldiers to take revenge, shouted, and the team officers didn't let him shut up with a few big mouths. Gu Baihua liked this kind of man, so he simply brought him out again and incorporated him into his personal guard.