Chapter 297 100 Monthly Tickets for the Opening Battle
Chapter 297 Opening Battle (100 monthly tickets plus additional updates)
"Hey! These Liao dogs look a little strange. Are they the Liao's expedition horses?"
Looking at the position just a mile in front of the formation, those Liao soldiers, one man and two riders, could still drive their horses forward quickly even on a road full of mud pits, baggage and other obstacles.
Chen Feng is a gust of wind.
This rookie, who was in his twenties and also from the Monan area, was suddenly confused and couldn't help but muttered something.
At this moment, he was squatting on a large truck.
The horizontal cart had several one-meter-high planks erected on one side. The planks were originally three centimeters thick and could completely defend against the opponent's arrows.
Between several wooden boards, a beam is temporarily stuck, and the beam is supported by strong locust wood pillars.
In this way, even if the Liao soldiers rode their war horses against these temporary wooden walls and rammed hard against them, they might not be able to break through such wooden walls in one or two blows.
Now, it is precisely because of such good protection.
Only a rookie like Xiufeng could stay behind the wooden board with peace of mind and see the opponent appearing in front of him through a palm-sized shooting hole.
As a young man who hangs out on the Internet for a long time and likes to read fictional novels.
I still have some basic knowledge about the Liao Army.
For example, he knew that with the military system of the Liao Dynasty, every time the Liao army went on an expedition, the troops and horses would be divided into three parts: the escort army, the vanguard army and the expeditionary force, and each would be led by a general.
Among them, dozens to 10,000 brave warriors were selected to form an expedition force, which went deep into the enemy's territory to find out the enemy's strength and strength, and killed the opponent's scouts and sentries to ensure the smooth advancement of the army.
Such a tough and elite soldier is called Yuan Tan Buzima.
Soon after, a gust of wind confirmed such a guess, because the current number of Yuan Zima who appeared was only fifty or sixty.
Not only were they well-equipped, but each of them wore fine fish-scale iron armor and an iron helmet on their head.
More importantly, it seems that morale has skyrocketed.
Seeing that there was a car formation blocking the road ahead, they did not pursue and kill the defeated soldiers who only knew how to run for their lives but did not know how to resist, like weak persimmons.
He actually set his sights on Hu Biao and others.
Led by a leading officer, the group stopped briefly in front of the car formation, about four to five hundred meters away.
Then they all dismounted, and then changed horses again.
There were whistles coming from his mouth, and with at most only one-ninth of the defenders' strength, they actively launched an attack on the car formation.
That posture made him look down upon Hu Biao, Gufeng and the hundreds of them as if they were nothing.
It seems that the previous battles also allowed the remaining defeated soldiers of the Liao Kingdom to regain their fighting courage and confidence that they had lost with the Jurchens in the Song Dynasty.
It's just that Hu Biao was so stubborn that he made all kinds of preparations more than ten days in advance.
Seeing these people charging, Xiufeng knew clearly that these people were just asking for their own death...
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"Double bow bed crossbow ready, release~"
Almost as soon as the officer who was the first to stop the horse from afar took the lead, he slapped the horse with all his strength and rushed to a position about 300 meters in front of the car formation.
In the ears of a gust of wind, I first heard Hu Biao holding up the broken trumpet and shouting at the top of his voice.
After hearing such a sentence, a burst of wind even started to mourn in silence for the ensuing experiences of these elite Liao soldiers.
Because the so-called double-bow bed crossbow is a large-scale crossbow in the Song Dynasty that uses one bow at the front and one at the front, stretched with a rope shaft, and a wooden bed underneath to hold the crossbow.
The four aircraft that Yang Dongli managed to obtain, although they were medium-sized models, were still large-scale equipment that required five to six people to complete the winding and operation.
The crossbow arrows used in this thing are still slightly shorter than the long spears used by Hu Biao and others.
But in terms of roughness, it is much stronger than a circle; after this thing is shot out by tightening the tendons, the power can be imagined.
What's more, after such equipment fell into the hands of Lang Qing and others, there was no way it would be modified.
Even though Lang Qing and others have been busy with too many things recently, they have only made some limited modifications to these bed crossbows.
That is to say, some pieces of beef tendon were replaced and twisted into a bow string, and several small pulley blocks were installed.
But it has also succeeded in further improving the power and range of this thing, and at the same time, it has become simpler and easier to wind.
In addition, a wooden disc is installed under the crossbow body to make it easier to adjust the direction.
As for the real lethality? Xiufeng immediately had an intuitive understanding.
When Hu Biao's command with a long tail came out, Lang Qing, who was carrying a mallet on his shoulders, waved the mallet with both hands and smashed the trigger.
A little further away, Wu Zu, Lao Tie, and Yu Hanfeng made the same move almost at the same time.
So amidst the beating sound of 'Duang, Duang~', four thick crossbow arrows pierced the Liao soldiers' distant scouting horses like meteors.
Because these guys, the current formation charging along the dirt road was slightly denser; so except for one ballistae that missed the target, the remaining three all hit the target.
Two of them directly penetrated deeply into the chest of the oncoming war horse.
It was like a hot knife piercing butter, and it penetrated more than one meter in a blink of an eye.
The huge force carried by the crossbow arrows instantly caused the galloping war horses to stop charging and fall to the ground after hooves. At the same time, it also threw away a knight on top.
The remaining crossbow arrow was the one that Lang Qing aimed with his own hands, hammered the trigger, and fired.
After directly shooting the head of a war horse, he continued flying and shot the knight on the horse through the chest and abdomen, killing him on the spot.
Then the remaining crossbow arrow continued flying with a corpse weighing more than 200 kilograms including the armor, and shot to death a Liao soldier behind him who was unable to dodge.
In a hurry, the Liao soldiers blocked the one-handed shield in front of them, but it was shot through without any effect.
It can be said that in an instant, these four modified double-bow crossbows showed great power like a cavalry nemesis.
It was a pity that even if the pulleys were installed after the modification, Lang Qing and others were faced with the double-bow crossbow that had just been fired. If they wanted to complete the loading, they would still need to lead people to reload it for a while.
The whole process seems to be more troublesome than loading a World War II-era howitzer.
Therefore, these four powerful war weapons may not have a chance to fire again when the remaining expeditionary horses are rushing towards them.
Yuan Tan Zima, who has always been the elite among the Liao soldiers, faced four of them in an instant.
Even the leading officer was shot to death by a crossbow, and the remaining officers felt no hesitation or timidity at all at this moment.
Instead, after one person took over the command, he yelled out new orders.
The general meaning is that reloading the Song Army's bed crossbow is troublesome, so as long as you rush over as soon as possible, it will be fine.
Immediately, the remaining personnel started beating the horses even more frantically, making them charge even faster than before.
There is no thought of retreating and waiting for reinforcements to arrive before fighting again...
