"Continue to shoot in succession and teach the Khitans a lesson!" Han Qing happily glanced at the smoke starting 200 steps away and continued to wave the flag with all his strength.
Three more crossbows roared out and fell into the chaos of the Liao cavalry.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" The explosion sounded again, mixed with large masses of flesh and blood.
Several Liao cavalrymen who were too close to the impact point of the crossbow were blown to pieces together with their mounts without even figuring out what happened.
The modified crossbow gun is astonishingly powerful.
Because it is no longer intended to directly shoot enemy soldiers, the solid cast iron head of the crossbow is completely replaced by a hollow one. It can hold two kilograms of black powder at one time.
Two kilograms of black gunpowder exploded at close range, enough to shatter a half-meter-thick earth wall. The Liao cavalry and war horses were made of flesh and blood, how could they withstand it?
What was more terrifying than the explosion was the reaction of the war horse after hearing the explosion.
When hundreds of war horses were frightened by the explosion, they began to run rampant at the same time. In a short period of time, no one could hope to restore peace to them.
Among animals living in groups, fear always spreads quickly and is constantly amplified. In the blink of an eye, it spreads to the entire team.
Before the third round of crossbows arrived, the entire Khitan cavalry collapsed completely. The frightened horses screamed and fled in all directions, swinging their bodies, raising their front hooves, and throwing the Khitan man on his back to the ground.
The next moment, countless horses' hooves trampled directly over the fallen person, trampling him into a ball of flesh.
Screams and wails came and went.
More than one cavalryman was thrown from the back of the war horse to the ground, and the number of cavalrymen who were directly trampled to pulp by the horses' hooves far exceeded the direct damage caused by two rounds of ballistae bombardment.
Soon, the ground was dyed red with the blood of humans and horses. And more cavalry were still being thrown off their horses. More horses were still running rampant, knocking over their companions and knocking them down.
The cavalryman on his companion's back was hit with broken bones and tendons!
Several frightened horses rushed straight to the pier with their owners on their backs.
"Archers, block the pier, stop the frightened horses, don't let the frightened horses rush into the people!" Han Qing saw it clearly, decisively lowered the flag and shouted to the brothers around him.
"Archers, block the dock, stop the frightened horses..."
"Archer..."
The brothers around him fired their bows and arrows while repeating his orders loudly, transmitting his orders to all nearby warships as quickly as possible.
A flurry of arrows were shot down, completely cutting off the dock from the outside world. Several frightened horses that rushed towards the dock in a panic were quickly shot into hedgehogs by the arrows.
The other frightened horses that followed found that the road was blocked, and they all screamed and turned around. In the blink of an eye, the people near the Jian Bridge were once again out of danger.
"Thank you Grandpa God for your spell!"
"Thank you Grandpa God for saving your life!"
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The people who had already boarded the boat had neither seen grenades nor heard of ballistae. First they saw the Khitan cavalry rushing towards the dock crazily, and quickly collapsed with thick smoke and muffled thunder. Then they saw the frightened horses turning around one after another.
He left, instinctively thinking that the gods had intervened to save everyone.
Therefore, everyone knelt on the deck and worshiped the sky.
"Notify Yuan Bao to speed up. I don't have many crossbows here! I can't deal with the infantry coming in formation!" Han Qing had no thought and no time. He cared about the people and gave their gratitude to the gods. After taking a breath,
Immediately give instructions to the messenger.
Frankly speaking, the results of the ballistae far exceeded his own expectations.
Especially when he saw the Liao cavalry trampling on themselves because their horses were frightened, causing numerous casualties, he was extremely shocked.
However, after the initial shock passed, Han Qing's mind quickly calmed down, and then he vaguely felt a door opening in his mind.
He remembered that a philosopher in his previous life said: The emergence of gunpowder was the watershed between civilization and barbarism.
After the advent of gunpowder, it became increasingly difficult for barbarians to trample on civilization. But the light of civilization became brighter and brighter, destined to drive away all barbarism in the world.
Smiling and clenching his fists, Han Qing turned his attention to the Liao cavalry in the distance again, no longer fearful in his heart.
The Liao cavalry still had not restored order, and people continued to fall off their horses and be buried under the horses' hooves.
Dozens of Khitan soldiers who were lucky enough to escape from danger stood dumbly in the wilderness, unable to stop any frightened horse or save any of their accomplices!
"Kill the horses, kill the horses!" Because he was positioned far back and was protected by his own soldiers, Yelu Keli, the commander of the Liao horse army, finally rushed out of the horses. The moment he was out of danger, he quickly
He jumped off his mount, turned his head, and shouted at the cavalrymen who were still struggling on their horses.
Several cavalrymen who were relatively close to him heard the order and instinctively chose to obey. They drew their swords and stabbed the necks of their respective mounts, piercing the throats of the horses instantly.
The body of the frightened horse trembled, and it fell down with a mournful cry, turning several cavalrymen into gourds rolling on the ground.
Rows of horse hooves quickly trampled over the fallen cavalry, and in the blink of an eye, they and their respective horses were sent to hell together.
"Kill the horses, kill the horses, keep killing, and the ones on the outside will be killed first!" Yelv Keli was not moved at all by the deaths of several cavalry, and continued to shout at the top of his lungs.
"Shoot the horses and knock over the surrounding horses first!" Xiao Moke also recovered from the shock and took the initiative to order the assassin to come forward to help.
The sword flashed, arrows shuttled, more frightened horses were killed, and blood flowed like a waterfall.
More cavalrymen were thrown into pieces. However, the probability of being trampled to pieces quickly decreased.
Death, accompanied by blood, spread among the horses, quickly covering them with fear.
Dozens of frightened horses, frightened by the killing so close at hand, staggered to a halt, and then fell to their knees softly.
More frightened horses also stopped in their tracks, their limbs and torso trembled, and their feces and urine flowed out.
"Dismount and fight on foot, let the people of Song Dynasty pay with their blood!" As a veteran general who has been famous for many years, he destroyed a group of Khitan cavalry by relying on bloody killings, and also rescued another group of Khitan cavalry. In the Yelu class, he immediately
The knife pointed at Jianqiao.
He couldn't let his cavalry have time to watch the scene where his comrades turned into pieces of rotten flesh. He couldn't let his cavalry have time to notice how much his team had been damaged.
They must find something to distract them and re-energize the wildness in their bones. Only in this way can they always be brave and fearless of death.
"Come up, retake the pier with the cavalry, and retake the Jian Bridge!" Regardless of Yelu's contempt for him in class, Xiao Moke also raised his sword and shouted at the assassins under his command.
In terms of time, it was definitely too late. He had already seen the last dozen old and weak men boarding the battleship with the help of the Song Army.
Even if the dock and Jian Bridge were recaptured, he and Yelu Keli would not be able to capture any warships and kill more people of the Song Dynasty.
However, he has not lost yet.
The second link of the chain plan is being launched. If he can attract Han Qing's attention to the north bank for a moment longer, he will have a better chance of winning!
