When the Manji tribe rose into flames, Acuori was anxious and had a hint of happiness.

Fortunately, he brought the Bird Gun Camp halfway up the mountain, otherwise it would have been terrible if the enemy set fire to the gunpowder and exploded.

Even if there was no explosion of gunpowder, the 800 cavalry and 800 Kongming crossbow chariots led by Vistori were now in danger.

"The whole bird battalion is on guard and guards the camp. The infantry camp unloads the rattan armor and follows me down the mountain for reinforcements!"

Ah Cuo Ri looked halfway up the mountain, and he couldn't see what was happening at the bottom of the mountain.

No matter what happened, now there is a fire under the mountain, and the rattan armor will definitely not be able to wear.

After the reorganization of the Xiongjia army, there were 1,200 infantry battalions, including 400 hobbermen, 600 archers, and 200 shield bearers.

The hob hands are all short-handled chopping knives three feet two inches long, weighing seven and a half pounds.

In addition to bows and shields, archers and shields also have an embroidered spring knife similar to the three-foot-long Jinyi Guard.

Ah Cuori wasted no time, and soon led the infantry camp to rush down the mountain.

The situation on the side of Vistori is a bit bad, but not too bad, and the point is that the Kongming ballista has played a huge role.

Eight hundred crossbow carts, a total of two hundred Kong Ming ballista carts.

When Vistori built the camp, the two hundred Kongming ballista carts were all arranged in a circle on the periphery, and the eight hundred cavalry were in the middle, like a huge hedgehog.

Verstori ordered a group of twenty ballista wagons, to take turns guarding while the others slept.

There was nothing wrong in the first half of the night, and the problem was after the fourth watch.

When the war horse kept snorting, Vistori knew it was going to be bad.

However, instead of alarming the others, he had his own soldiers secretly order that the number of ballista wagons serving as guards was increased to sixty, which was twice as many as usual.

After a short time, the captain of the pro-soldier came over and whispered: "General, someone has touched it." ”

Vistori leaned on his cooked brass stick and said in a cold voice: "Don't alarm the enemy, hurry over and let all the crossbow chariot soldiers get up and prepare quietly, and let the men of the cavalry battalion get up and protect their horses." ”

"General, our sentry has seen clearly. The enemy pressed down the river from the north and south, and numbered about four hundred. ”

Vistori nodded: "Order to extinguish all the torches and fires, and concentrate twenty ballista carts at the north and south to fire a salvo, so that the enemy can have a little bit of a look." ”

A ballista cart fires twenty-four copper crossbow arrows at a time, with an effective strike distance of 200 paces and a limit kill distance of 360 steps.

Twenty ballista carts fired a salvo, four hundred and eighty crossbow arrows at a time, and the width of the defense was two hundred paces (one step was equal to five feet), that is, a front width of one hundred zhang.

The biggest disadvantage of the ballista cart firing crossbow arrows is that it cannot accurately strike, and can only cover the surface.

The six-inch-long copper crossbow arrow, because the flight speed is much faster than the arrow of the bow and arrow, so the penetration power is also much stronger, and it is an armor-piercing weapon.

To deal with the dense infantry and cavalry that sneaked over in the dark, the Kong Ming crossbow car was a big killing weapon, much more powerful than a bird's gun.

Versioli had seen the power of the ballista cart, so he was not in a hurry when he stood at the door of his tent.

"Launch—"

With a soft shout at the north and south ends at the same time, the sound of the bow and crossbow bouncing and the piercing sound of the crossbow arrows suddenly rang out.

Screams and shouts of rage erupted in the dense forest ahead, announcing the complete failure of the enemy's first sneak attack.

"Stand back, get ready to launch!"

With the roar of the commander of the crossbow battalion, the "squeak" sound made during the pushing of the single-wheeled Kong Ming car seemed to be music.

The ballista cart that has already been fired retreats and reinstalls the bolts, and the mounted ballista cart is ready to be fired in advance, so as not to give the enemy a chance to breathe. This is a tactic that has been practiced hundreds of times, and it is naturally methodical.

The second round was finally not launched, because the enemy retreated with a hula.

Ballista carts are not something that can be fired casually, as they carry a limited number of bolts. Each cart carried two hundred and forty crossbows (thirty-six catties), and the total number in Vistori's hands was only ninety-six thousand.

In the event of a large-scale death battle, if two hundred ballista carts had to be fired in a salvo, they could only be fired ten times in total.

If the ballista cart does not repel the enemy, the cavalry that stays in the center will fight to the death with the enemy.

This is the base for the southern expedition, and there will be many battles in the future, just now forty ballista carts fired a salvo, and nearly a thousand crossbow arrows were shot out at once, which was too fast.

A ballista cart is equivalent to twenty-four archers shooting arrows at the same time, and the consumption of arrows is a huge burden.

Fighting a war is a fight for consumption, and consumption comes from logistics supply.

There is no logistics for long-distance expeditions, so the generals who lead the troops are very valuing the limited resources.

The sneak attack finally retreated, and Vistori breathed a sigh of relief: "Don't go out of the camp, everyone, the ballista cart stays on guard, and wait until dawn!"

Vistori wanted to wait until dawn, but the enemy wouldn't give him the opportunity.

The first attempt to steal the camp failed, and the enemy immediately adjusted their strategy.

To the east is the Nanting River, so to set fire to the north, west, and south is the second problem that the enemy prepared for Vistori.

Fires broke out on three sides, and Versiori knew he was in trouble.

Because of the long-range strike deterrence of the ballista cart, the enemy did not approach and set fire, but set fire two hundred paces away.

Of course, you can't burn people to death at such a long distance, and besides, there is the Nanting River to the east, which can replace the air, and there is no zài suffocation.

There were fires on three sides, and the horses couldn't rush out at all, because the beasts were afraid of fire. Kong Ming's ballista carts are all wooden, and the bowstring is even more afraid of fire, so naturally it can't rush out of the fire.

What Versori found troublesome was that he was trapped here and couldn't move.

The most powerful ballista carts and the most powerful cavalry are trapped here, and it would be bad if the enemy desperately charged the infantry and birdmen on the other side.

Vistori was worried about the infantry and birdmen halfway up the mountain, while Athori was worried about the crossbow charioters and cavalry at the foot of the mountain.

The distance of three miles was not far at any time, but now that Acuo Ri came down from the mountain with the foot camp, he felt that the three-mile road had become a thirty-mile road, and it seemed that he would never be able to reach the end.

The fundamental reason why Acuori feels that the mountain road is difficult to walk is the current bamboo forest. Previously, the three armies cut bamboo and cooked rice here, and I thought it was very good at that time.

Now that he was revisiting the old place, as soon as he approached the edge of the bamboo forest, he pulled out a short gun from his waist like lightning and opened fire on a dense low bamboo forest.

In the Xiong Family Army, officers above the rank of colonel are equipped with two delicate short guns, which are still things captured in Mobei at the beginning, made by Westerners, like works of art. Officers below the rank of lieutenant were also equipped with two delicate short guns, but they were copied by themselves.

Although like a work of art, Ah Tso Ri is usually very precious, but no one thinks that he will show off now in a place where there is darkness all around.

With a short popping sound, a scream came from a canopy of low bamboo about ten paces in front of the right.

With a bang, Ah Cho Rize's own soldiers immediately shot a flurry of arrows, and the screams stopped abruptly.

When the two of them were dragged in front of Aso Rize, they had already been shot into hedgehogs, and four blow pipes were also searched out of the low bamboo forest.

These are two guys with strange patterns painted on their faces, wearing a cyan vest on their upper body, a bull-eared knife pinned to their belts, and a straight-edged knife two feet eight inches long in their left hand.

The straight-edged long knife in the Southern Barbarian Land is by no means the same as the single knife in the Central Plains, and it looks extremely strange.

The head of the knife is not convex with a tip on the outside, but concave in the shape of a crescent, and the two sharp crescent tips resemble the letter of a poisonous snake. The blade is single-sided, wide in front and narrow in the back, straight and slender, and the cold light is shining.

"Backwards: Archers advance in groups of three, and whenever they encounter such a place where they can hide people, they will immediately release their arrows without waiting for orders, and shoot all the hidden enemies to death or drive them out. ”

Acho Ri refilled the gunpowder of the short gun, and instead of getting excited about opening fire and wounding the enemy, he became more careful.

Since there are two enemies here, there are no other enemies in the bamboo forest to ambush?

Because of this, crossing this bamboo forest, which is more than a mile wide, becomes a difficult process of marching on the death line.

Acho Rize's worries were not unreasonable, and the troops had only walked thirty feet, which had already proved that his fears were very correct.

This time it was not two enemies, but almost twenty enemies at once.

Fortunately, Achori ordered the archers to work in groups of three, and the archers were all the most powerful hunters, and they knew that in the bamboo forest, it was not about shooting far and accurately, but about the density of arrows.

As a result, the archers all took two arrows, and found that the suspicious place was a salvo of three people, and six arrows flew towards the same target in one breath.

When the first group of archers fired six arrows, the six men on their left and right immediately released their arrows, and then the arrows were fired in unison.

Although this method of fighting wastes arrows, it is the safest measure and is not allowed in the general army.

However, Xiong Chu has emphasized many times: nothing is more valuable than human life, and all means that can save life are the best means. If you are not prepared for sufficient consumption, do not start a war lightly.

Because of this, the archers in the Xiong family's army did not hesitate to shoot arrows, and the second wave of more than 20 enemies did not cause losses to the troops, and they were all wiped out.

The more enemies you kill, the slower your troops will advance, so Acuori feels that the three-mile road is really long, definitely longer than the thirty-mile road.

When Aso Ri led the reinforcements out of this bamboo forest, he had already shot and killed more than 150 enemies in front and back.

The harvest was naturally great, but a few enemies still used blow arrows before they died, which also caused more than a dozen casualties on their side.

The only thing that makes Ah Cuori more reassuring is that when he walks out of the bamboo forest, he can see the situation on the side of the Nanting River condescendingly.

The situation was not very bad, Vistori did not panic, his troops naturally did not panic, and the hedgehog circle formation of two hundred Kong Ming ballista carts exerted its might.

Although the fires were still burning on three sides, they did not cause any significant damage.

What made Aso Ri thunderous was that he couldn't reinforce at all.

Not only can they not be reinforced, but they must also retreat into the bamboo forest, because the smoke from the fire under the mountain will always drift over with the wind, which can completely choke people to death.

"Shout in unison: The iron bucket array will hold on until dawn, and wait for dawn to speak!"

Ah Cuori had no choice but to inform Wei Shi Ori in this way, saying that his side was fine, and he couldn't be anxious now, and persistence was victory.

However, whether it was Asorize or Visori, both of them neglected one important thing:

The enemy should be well aware that even if both barracks are trapped, they will not be able to eat them for the time being, so what is the real intention of the enemy?

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