On the city of Huayin, the Wei army was waiting in full formation. The new weapon, the armor-piercing cone, showed its power, leaving the Chinese army with lingering fears.
Outside Huayin City, Xu Huang, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army of the Chinese Kingdom, was groping for the armor-piercing awl. He saw that the armor-piercing awl had a triangular shape and was extremely sharp. Even at night, there was a chill in it.
"Bring me my big bow!" Xu Huang didn't believe this evil, so he asked someone to fetch his big bow, ready to test the power of this armor-piercing cone himself.
The men presented Xu Huang's big bow. Xu Huang ordered his people to place a shield and a pair of steel armor a hundred steps away, put a torch on it, and he filled the bow with arrows and put on the armor awl. Only a sound was heard.
The string rang, and the armor-piercing awl flew out, shooting towards the shield and steel armor a hundred steps away.
With this arrow, Xu Huang used all his strength. He wanted to see how powerful this so-called penetrating awl could be, and it actually beat his soldiers like losing dogs.
"Whoosh!"
After shooting an arrow, the armor-piercing awl flew directly a hundred steps away. The arrow hit the shield and armor. The sharp edges of the armor-piercing awl penetrated the shield made of thin steel, and then penetrated into the shield and armor.
The shields were about ten centimeters apart from the steel armor, and the arrow penetrated the steel armor, leaving a few inches exposed.
Xu Huang has the art of piercing Yang with a hundred steps, but as everyone knows, Xu Huang is not showing off his archery skills, but testing the power of the penetrating armor awl.
Not long after, a soldier a hundred steps away ran over with a shield and armor, and handed the things into Xu Huang's hands. After Xu Huang looked at it, he frowned. Because the armor-piercing awl completely penetrated
It passed the shield and then penetrated the front steel plate of the steel armor, with the arrowhead still showing a few inches.
"I never expected that Wei's weapons would be so sharp..." Guo Jia sighed after looking at it.
"Although the penetrating awl is sharp, its whole body is made of fine steel and is heavy to hold. Even if it is shot with a bow, it cannot be used by an archer without certain arm strength. It seems that Cao Ren has indeed trained an archer who is good at archery.
"Xu Huang turned his head and glanced at the archers in Huayin City. Under the light of the lights, the archers were all strong and strong, and everyone's eyes were so deep and full of murderous intent.
"Take another armor-piercing awl, use a double-layer shield, and a pair of armor, and still place them a hundred steps away. Leave some gaps between the shields to increase the resistance of the arrows." Xu Huang snapped.
said.
"promise!"
Later, Xu Huang used the armor-piercing awls he collected to demonstrate to varying degrees. When the two shields were put together and a pair of armor was placed behind him, although the armor-piercing awls passed through the two shields,
However, it was not completely penetrated. The back of the arrow was embedded between the two shields, and only a sharp arrow was exposed.
Later, Xu Huang conducted experiments to varying degrees using eighty steps, fifty steps, and twenty steps. He found that the armor-penetrating awl was most powerful at fifty steps. It could penetrate two shields in a row and shoot into steel.
Within the armor, and at twenty steps, due to the distance and the loss of his arm strength, the power of the armor-penetrating cone gradually disappeared a little.
However, Xu Huang knew that this was his personal reason. For this reason, he specially called a sharp archer in the army and asked him to shoot arrows for him, standing twenty steps away and shooting three arrows in a row.
As a result, the three arrows were extremely powerful. The arrows all passed through the first shield, and the tail of the arrow stayed on the second shield. The arrow pierced into the steel armor, revealing the sharp arrow.
After Xu Huang looked at it, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his frown slowly relaxed.
Seeing this, Guo Jia knew that this was Xu Huang's idea, so he asked: "Does General Xu have any countermeasures?"
Xu Huang nodded and said confidently: "Cao Ren has a good plan, I have a ladder, and I will win this battle!"
Guo Jia watched Xu Huang struggle a lot, and roughly understood what Xu Huang wanted to do, so he remained silent and just smiled and said to Xu Huang: "The general's clever plan will surely capture Huayin Pass."
Xu Huang smiled, and then ordered his soldiers to go to the mountains on both sides to cut down trees. It happened that the rear army had nothing to do. Standing in such ice and snow, it was really cold. Looking for something to do could also warm up the body.
After Xu Huang gave the order, the more than 20,000 Kwantung Army stopped attacking. Except for the 2,000 soldiers who stayed at the front, all the others went up the mountain to cut down trees.
Cao Ren saw clearly at Huayin Pass that Xu Huang was not in a hurry to attack. After losing his troops, he actually did not attack and instead asked the soldiers to chop down trees. He murmured in his heart: "Does Xu Huang want to camp here for the long term?"
Intend?"
After thinking for a while, Cao Ren ordered: "The whole army is on alert. If there is any movement, immediately beat the war drums and order the rear troops to start lighting fires to cook. The troops will take turns to eat."
As a result, the two armies temporarily stopped fighting. The Chinese army had a great time chopping down trees on both sides of the mountain road, while Cao Ren stepped up repairs to the city gate and blocked the city gate with a square of huge rocks. The city gate was blown to pieces and within a short time
It is impossible to build a new one inside, so we can only use stones to temporarily resist it.
At dawn, the Chinese army was already in full swing. Trees on both sides of the mountain road were cut down and all the trees were piled together. Then, the Chinese army began to tie the trees together with only ropes.
A large tree was carried by several people, and the shields were tied to the tree with ropes. There was a shield in front and another shield tied behind.
Also, cut all the trees to the same length, find similar trees and tie them together, with shields next to shields.
As the saying goes, when everyone adds firewood, the flames rise. More than 20,000 people do one thing at the same time, and they are all so crisp and clear. They quickly form a giant battle shield surrounded by steel. This is not enough. The Chinese army has no nails.
He had to use a steel gun instead, nail the steel into the battle shield, and insert the other end into the long wooden stake. In this way, the soldier could lift the wooden stake at the back and push the battle shield in front.
By half an hour, everyone was already exhausted. Xu Huang went out in a hurry this time. The rear army did not bring trees, pots, pans or other things, only dry food. However, in such a cold day, after sweating profusely
, once you are sweaty and the cold wind blows, you will easily catch a cold. So Xu Huang let
The soldiers took off their helmets one after another, set up piles of bonfires, put some clean snow into the helmets, and placed the helmets on the bonfires. The snow melted into water. Although the helmets were not burned, they were burned.
It's hot, and the water is getting hotter and hotter as the fire continues to bake.
At the same time, Xu Huang spent a lot of money and had a thousand war horses killed on the spot, and then the horses' blood was drained and distributed to the soldiers to drink. Horse blood is hot, and drinking it will naturally increase the warmth. Then,
Then they began to cut the horse meat and roast it on the bonfire. In this way, the soldiers of the Chinese army enjoyed their hardships, first drinking horse blood, then eating horse meat, and then drinking half-boiled warm water.
After a delicious meal, it was already past noon. Everyone buried their helmets in the snow. After the temperature of the helmets dropped, they put them on their heads. Not to mention, once they were put on, they felt like
There was a burst of warmth. After the soldiers had eaten and drank enough, they began to organize their formations and pushed all the giant battle shields that were one foot high and three feet wide that they had made in the morning to the front. The giant battle shields were lined up side by side.
one
It looked like a newly built wall. There were bundled shields on the outside, and the shields were attached to the log in the middle, and behind them, there were also shields. The snow had stopped long ago, and the sun was shining brightly.
Its weak light shines on the earth, and the sun gradually turns to the west, while Xu Huang and others push the giant battle shield forward. The sunlight shines on the battle shield composed of bright shields, refracting many rays of light.
At this time, the Chinese army hid behind the battle shield and advanced in waves. Xu Huang and Guo Jia rode horses, surrounded by cavalry, and climbed onto a bare highland that had been cut down.
The soldiers rushed forward.
At this time, war drums were beating on the wall of Huayin Pass. The Wei army stationed in the city all night, always paying attention to the movements of the Huaxia army in the cold weather, but in the second half of the night, although they had eaten a full meal, they still resisted
The cold was unbearable, and the Chinese army had no intention of attacking the city, so Cao Ren ordered the soldiers to take turns to rest, with each person sleeping for two hours.
At this time, Cao Ren was resting in the government office. He suddenly heard the sound of war drums and immediately jumped up from the bed as a reflex. He did not take off his armor when sleeping, so he took his sword from the bedside and took out his helmet.
, put on his combat boots and ran towards the city gate.
When Cao Ren came to the city gate and climbed up the tower, he peered down and watched the movements of the Chinese army. He was immediately dumbfounded. The bright things pushed by the Chinese army seemed to be bronze mirrors, reflecting everything on the city wall.
In addition, there was reflection of sunlight, which stung their eyes so hard that they could not open their eyes. Some soldiers had just crawled out of bed and had not yet woken up. In addition, there was reflection of sunlight, which made their eyes sore and they rubbed them vigorously.
Eyes, or cover with arms.
Cao Ren saw this one-foot-tall thing in a row moving forward step by step. His eyes were pierced unbearably, and he hurriedly asked: "What is this?"
Yang Fu replied: "General, it is a large shield made of the shield of the Chinese army. The reflective thing is the shield of the Chinese army. It seems that they have made a desperate move and come up with such an idea!"
Cao Ren said: "The armor-piercing awl is indestructible and can penetrate any armor. These shields are nothing more than trivial tricks. Pass the order and the whole army is on alert. As long as you get within a hundred steps, you will use the armor-piercing awl to shoot me fiercely!"
"promise!"
What Cao Ren said was absolutely correct. The armor-piercing cones made by the Wei army were indeed indestructible. After Cao Cao surrendered the countries in the Western Regions, he brought back a technology for manufacturing armor from the Western Regions. In order to make high-quality weapons, he personally
They monitored the inspection process. If the bow and arrow could not penetrate the armor, the person who made the bow and arrow would be beheaded. On the contrary, the armor maker would be killed. Such a perverted method greatly stimulated the sophistication of the weapons made by the Wei State. This armor-piercing awl is one of them.
a product.
"Every army is ready!" Yang Fu shouted loudly, and the archers on the city began to draw their bows and arrows, but their eyes were blocked.