Daqin: Assist Zulong at the beginning and become a public enemy

Chapter 138 The Fierce Machine Crossbow

Chapter 138 The Fierce Machine Crossbow

More than [-] Xiongnu Yuezhi allied forces frantically whipped their war horses, and with a look of contempt in their eyes, they got closer and closer to the Qin army.

They believed that in the face of their charge, Qin Jun's weak body would be completely crushed in just one blow.

After all, the Qin army has always relied on camps and fortresses in fierce battles with them, but they rarely choose to fight head-on.

Even if it is a frontal fight, cavalry must be used to fight cavalry.

The infantry challenged the authority of the cavalry, which was tantamount to direct death.

A thousand steps!

Five hundred steps!
They could even see clearly the faces of the Longxi flying knights on the opposite side, but they could not see any panic expression on the faces of these soldiers.

Calm, calm, and fearless, words emerged from their minds one by one.

Facing the trampling of iron cavalry, Qin Jun is not afraid?
Seeing that the enemy cavalry has entered the attack range.Xiao Weng Zhong suddenly waved the giant spear in his hand.

"put!"

The large crossbows placed on the outermost periphery were fired quickly.

These crossbows are not ordinary goods. These are large crossbows specially designed by Gongshuchou for the Qin army to deal with the barbarians in the grassland. The range can reach five hundred paces.

Historically, because of the loss of Hetao, Hexi, and the three major horse farms in the Sixteen States of Yanyun, the Song Dynasty embarked on the road of using infantry to deal with cavalry.

Infantry against cavalry, this is a topic that any dynasty is thinking about.The Tang Dynasty had the Mo Dao, which could easily break the undefeated record of the cavalry.However, with the development of the times, the Song Dynasty could not replicate the craftsmanship of Modao, so it had to find another way.With the joint efforts of many skilled craftsmen, the bed crossbows of the Song Dynasty have been developed on a large scale, and the range of the most powerful bed crossbows can reach a thousand steps.

But now in the Qin Dynasty more than 1000 years ago, the attack power of the bed crossbow can reach [-] steps away. It can be seen that the sophisticated ordnance of the Qin army is not just a boast.

Accompanied by the sound of "bang bang bang" firing from the crossbow machine, thousands of thick crossbow arrows three feet long pierced the air, and with a sharp whistling sound, they scrambled towards the densely packed enemy troops. go.

The Huns' equipment was primitive, and now faced with such thick crossbows, even the Qin army itself could not resist it.

Thousands of crossbow arrows, three feet long and thick in arms, plunged fiercely into the densely packed Xiongnu Yuezhi cavalry.The barbarian cavalrymen who came to meet the crossbows suddenly fell on their backs, as if a piece of them had been bitten off by a big mouth.

The barbarian cavalrymen who were shot by the crossbow arrows didn't even have time to let out a scream, and they were trampled into flesh by countless companions rushing behind them, turning them into fertilizer to nourish the Loess Plateau.

Seeing that the brothers who were alive and kicking around him disappeared in the blink of an eye, the remaining Huren cavalrymen who were not shot were secretly glad in their hearts.

The gap that was just bitten off by more than a thousand crossbow arrows returned to its original shape in the blink of an eye.

However, their happiness did not last long.

A long horn sounded from above the city wall.

Under the dense cavalry charge, these voices were obviously completely covered.

If anyone could hear him, he might even have to pee in his crotch right now.

The reason why Longxi has not been attacked by the Huns for so many years is not because the Huns are stupid, but because they have no way to come to Lintao.

Because there are at least a thousand large-scale continuous shooting crossbows installed on the city wall of Lintao, when the crossbows of the Qin Army outside the city were fired, they did not enter the range of the crossbows on the city wall.

But the sudden burst of casualties just now made the Huns outside the city seem to forget that there was another big killer inside the city.

At this moment, they all gathered in front of them, seeming to show their teeth and claws, but in fact they were mutton skewers delivered to their door.

The crossbowmen who had been waiting on the city wall for a long time fired a volley when they heard the sound of the horn.

The number of crossbows outside the city is less than two hundred, while there are thousands of large crossbows on the city wall.

There is a huge gap in the number of crossbows above and below the city, while the outside of the city is shooting horizontally, while the wall is shooting from top to bottom, so the results of this volley are also very different.

There are thousands of crossbow machines, each with six thick and long crossbow arrows, and a salvo of thousands of machines is at least more than six thousand arrows like the giant spear in Xiao Weng Zhong's hand.

The dense crossbow arrows formed an "arrow cloud", and the entire sky seemed to be covered by this arrow cloud.

The barbarian cavalry who were still rejoicing that they survived by chance, looked at this "cloud of arrows" in the sky, their faces turned pale, and their souls flew into the sky.Desperately whipping the war horse under his crotch, wishing to fly past the area covered by this "cloud of arrows".

But it is clear that all this they have done is in vain.

The sound of the arrow piercing through the air, the next moment it slammed into the head of the barbarian cavalry.

Blood spattered everywhere, and a strange "crossbow arrow forest" composed entirely of three-foot-long arrowheads appeared on the vast Loess Plateau.

Below the "Crossbow Arrow Forest" was a mountain of blood and a sea of ​​corpses composed entirely of Yueshi cavalrymen's bodies, blood, and war horses that were still hissing. The strong smell of blood wafted in the slightly chilly air.

The tight battle formation, because of this forest of crossbow arrows, completely turned into two sections.

According to Yuezhi's tactics in the past, they would never charge so intensively.

It is true that the Qin army was too arrogant this time, and they had been severely damaged before, leading to a desperate charge.

"Withdraw! Quickly withdraw!" Touman gave the order to retreat, but unfortunately, all the Hun cavalry gathered together could not change direction quickly.

The chariot at this moment can only keep moving forward.

Although the Huns suffered heavy casualties, fortunately, these crossbows on the city still need a lot of time to fill up, which is enough time for them to make a difference.

"Speed ​​up, rush over!"

The barbarian cavalry, who had been confused and hesitant by Daqin's two consecutive crossbow volleys, suddenly rushed over again, but this time the barbarian cavalry slowly dispersed during the charge. There is a distance of at least three feet between them.

In the last three hundred steps, after the crossbows under and above the city were finally fired, the Hun cavalry had reached less than a hundred steps outside the city.

Because the Hu cavalry were cleverly dispersed, the results of these two salvos were far inferior to those of the first salvo. The two salvos killed thousands of Hu cavalry, which was not as good as the first salvo. Half the result of one attack.

With such a close distance, there was no time for Longxi Feiqi to continue attacking. The soldiers outside the city, under Xiao Wengzhong's order, quickly retreated with their crossbows.

By the time they all retreated, the Huns had already reached the city.

At this time, Xiao Weng Zhong could even see the fine hairs on the faces of the Huns opposite him.

But he didn't retreat, instead he rode on his horse, held a giant spear, and shouted loudly: "Weng Zhong is here, whoever steps forward will surely die."

(End of this chapter)