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Chapter 617 Modified bed crossbow (second update)

Chapter 626

"If they want to see it, let them see it. Hehe, I have an army of [-] in Daxia, and I strictly guard a small ancient city of Wuyan. Even if the Song army finds out about our formation, so what? Do they really dare? Raising troops to attack the city?"

"That's true. I really hope that these Song soldiers will come and die."

"Gentlemen, the well-known general in the south of the city discovered that it was not the Song army who camped outside the city, but the traitor Liang Yibu."

"What?" The generals all bulged their eyes. After looking at each other in disbelief, they quickly walked along the city wall towards the south of the city.

Soon, they rushed to the south of the city, and saw that besides the Song Dynasty flag fluttering high, there was also a familiar Liang character flag erected next to it. The mood is extremely not beautiful.

"You bastard thief, not only turned his back on the master, but now he has the face to come here... It's just, I'm so pissed off." Fei Ting Darong was so angry that his face turned blue, he slapped the city wall and roared.

"My lord, do you want the last general to lead a fine horse out of the city? Such a thief, we can't let him continue to be so arrogant and domineering."

"Bastard, this is obviously Song's trick. He just wants to provoke us. If we really send troops out of the city, it is very likely that not only the rebels, but even the Song army's ambush." ​​Sa Chen can't wait to pick it up. A big club is knocked on the head of this idiot.

"Just let that old dog Liang Yibu continue to be arrogant and proud. One day, Sa Mou will take his dog's head as a sacrifice to the late emperors of my Great Xia."

"Well, nine times out of ten, it should be the trick of those Song people, and you must not be easily lured out of the city. Anyone who violates the order, beheaded!" Fei Ting Darong nodded in agreement after he ordered.

After some chatter, most of the Xixia generals who felt that there would be no major problems left the city, and only the generals who were in charge of guarding the city wall stayed and continued to monitor every move of the Song army.

"I didn't expect that these Western Xia thieves would be so cunning, and they wouldn't be tempted by such a big bait." Zhe Keshi put away the binoculars with a regretful face and said with emotion.

Behind him were thousands of fine cavalry wearing Yuanyou armor, and three thousand heavy cavalry of the Iron Kites. However, when there was no war situation, the Iron Kites all wore heavy armor and sat cross-legged on the ground.

All the heavy cavalry have three riders per person. When they usually move, the equipment and the rider each ride a horse, and the horse that is really going to the battlefield is only mounted on the vest. Time to have enough stamina to keep the impact going.

In order to lure the enemy, Liang Yibu's soldiers were placed under the city, and [-] fine cavalry were ready to go. As a result, those Xixia people were so cowardly that they didn't even have the courage to go out of the city to fight. I have been lurking for so long in vain.

"General, should we continue to lurk here?" The general beside him also asked helplessly.

"Well, that's natural. Just continue to lurk. There will always be a time when we can seize the opportunity. If they don't leave the city, then we will continue to stay here. Maybe we will wait until Lord Xiao Wang's gunpowder weapon is fired into After entering the city, those Xixia thieves will sooner or later be unable to bear it. Trust me..."

Zhe Keshi spat out the grass stalk he was biting in his mouth, and handed over the binoculars in his hand to the soldiers. "Watch me honestly. If there is any change, report it to me quickly. Well, tell those iron kites to remove their armor. It seems that today is a dead end."

At this moment, Wang Yang was squatting in the main camp to the east, watching the young men who came with the army digging the soil there, and then gathering the soil to build a tent with a width of ten feet and a height of There is a slope platform of four feet and strive hard.

"It's a pity that there are only two bed crossbows. If there are a few more, I believe the damage to the Xixia army in the city will be more impressive." Wang Yang stood there and said with emotion.

"There is no way. This bed crossbow is too heavy, and it is not easy to make, and it is also very inconvenient to transport, so I only brought two of them this time. There are also catapults and so on. But with the range of the catapults, I'm afraid At most, it can only be thrown outside the city, which is still some distance away from the city wall."

"It doesn't matter, two are just two. After Wang's test, this kind of bed crossbow can throw a weight of a hundred catties a mile away at a time, which is enough. Throw two hundred or so gunpowder arrows at a time. In the past, only those guys drank a pot."

"In addition, after the slope is built and a certain parabola is obtained, Wang believes that the range of the bed crossbow can be increased by one or two hundred steps. In this way, it will be the center of the ancient city of Wuyan. , also entered our attack range."

Listening to Wang Yang's description, when the frontier generals around him thought of the enemy troops far beyond their own range throwing a large number of wooden objects that could ignite into their own city, that feeling was really weird. It's sour and refreshing.

Fortunately, this guy belongs to our Song Dynasty. Otherwise, if such a peerless talent fell into the hands of Bei Liao or Xixia, the unlucky one would most likely become the Song Dynasty, right?

With the hard work of hundreds of young and strong people, enough soil was quickly excavated to build a slope platform, and those excavated places formed a road about two feet wide and as deep as the platform directly in front of the platform. One zhang, a trench with a length of two hundred steps.

Even if the Xixia people sensed something was wrong and wanted to use the speed of the cavalry to attack and destroy the bed crossbows, they had to consider whether they could cross the trench and try to defeat the [-] soldiers guarding the two bed crossbows. The elite infantry of the Song Dynasty.

Seeing those young men standing on the slope, shouting chants and beating the nearly completed slope, Wang Yang set his sights on the two most sophisticated long-range weapons of the Song Dynasty: bed crossbows.

The bed crossbow, also known as the bed crossbow, was developed on the basis of the winch crossbow in the Tang Dynasty.It is to combine two or three bows together, which greatly enhances the tension and strength of the crossbow.When stretching the crossbow, use a thick rope to connect the crossbow string to the winch. The soldiers shake the winch, open the crossbow string, and install the huge arrow. When firing, the soldiers have to hit the trigger with a sledgehammer. Shoot into the distance.

There are eight types of bed crossbows using compound bows, which can be divided into two categories according to the strength and range of the crossbow.One is the double-bow bed crossbow, which is equipped with two bows, which are respectively placed at the front and rear of the thick crossbow arm. The two bows are placed opposite each other. , and the other end hooks the shaft of the winch.

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