"A group of six trebuchets will clear the enemy's trebuchets and ballistae at fixed points!"
Seeing the cannibal infantry catching up, Su Chen began to share the command of the long-range troops for Cheng Wuting, letting him deal with the cannibal cavalry with all his strength.
He glanced at Yuchi Baolin again: "The giant crossbow is on standby for now!"
There are four types of crossbows in the Marine Corps. The most common hand crossbow is relatively lightweight, can be fired with one hand, has a short range, and can be cocked with arm strength.
The Divine Arm Crossbow and the Divine Power Crossbow are both on the battlefield for the first time today.
The Divine Arm Crossbow just borrows a historical name and has nothing to do with the historical Divine Arm Crossbow.
But the same thing as the divine arm crossbow in history is that it needs to be stretched to be stringed. This means stepping on the crossbow arm with your feet, bending down and pulling the bow string with both arms. It requires all the strength of the whole body to pull the string, and the range is very long.
As for the divine crossbow, it cannot be pulled directly by human power. This kind of crossbow is equipped with a pulley set and a rubber plate, and relies on mechanical assistance to wind it, so it has a longer range.
Su Chen planned to use it as a sniper rifle, and specially trained several groups of sharpshooters. The battlefield commander responsible for sniping the enemy made his debut today.
There is also a kind of giant crossbow, which is not an individual crossbow. It should be classified as a crossbow or bed crossbow, and the arrows it fires are not ordinary arrows!
The arms of the Divine Arm Crossbow, Divine Power Crossbow, and Giant Crossbow are not made of traditional wooden materials, but spring steel!
After exchanging the steel smelting technology from the system and getting the spring steel out, Su Chen replaced all the weapons and equipment of the Royal Navy that relied on elastic potential energy with spring steel materials.
The greatly reduced preparation volume is very convenient for transportation, and its power is also much higher than that of traditional materials.
Steel crossbows historically appeared in Europe in the late Middle Ages. They were specially used to deal with knights' plate armor. They were considered the highest stage of cold weapons.
Su Chen's metal smelting technology is definitely better than that of Europe in the late Middle Ages. It is normal to make some steel crossbows.
After the large cannibal infantry caught up, the heavy armored infantry immediately moved forward with shields raised, only to find that the Tang people seemed to ignore their existence, and no one paid any attention to them.
But as soon as the crossbowman took two steps forward, arrows rained down from the sky!
"How is that possible! How could the Tang people's crossbows be set so far away!"
Seeing the crossbowman being directly hit by the rain of arrows from the Tang Dynasty,
An officer anxiously said to Suleman:
"General! The range of the Tang people's crossbows is at least one step further than ours. Our crossbowmen cannot shoot against them at all!"
Suleman ordered loudly:
"Let the crossbowmen spread out and move forward quickly. Once you reach the attack position, just suppress the Tang people's crossbowmen!"
"Trebuchets and crossbows ready to hurl gunpowder bombs and Greek fire!"
"There are only three thousand people in the Tang Dynasty, and there are twenty thousand of us. Even if six are exchanged for one, we can completely eliminate this group of demons!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The big man-eater's torque trebuchet was slowly pushed up. Before it reached the attack position, several bombs fell from the sky, directly blowing up the trebuchet and the surrounding soldiers!
"Damn it! Damn it! Why does the devil's trebuchet have such a long range!"
Suleman's eyes turned red with anger!
Su Chen held up the telescope: "Okay! Well done!"
"Tell the long-range attack team that our first attack target is the enemy's trebuchets and giant crossbows and other throwing long-range weapons."
"As long as the enemy's long-range throwing weapons are included in the range, even crossbowmen must be listed as the first target of attack!"
Su Chen's tactics are very simple. As long as the long-range throwing equipment that poses the greatest threat to him is destroyed, the remaining Daesh troops, whether infantry or cavalry, can be easily dealt with.
At this time, both sides were basically firing on all cylinders. Although the two armies were still more than fifty meters apart, the battle was already very intense.
The Great Food Cavalry was still being bombarded by bowl-mouth muskets and continued to fill the trenches with sandbags.
Seeing the cannibal heavy armored infantry starting to move forward, Cheng Wuting also ordered the field artillery to start loading shotguns.
Field cannons loaded with shotguns have a much longer range than bowl-mouth blunderbuss, and they have a large ammunition load and can bombard enemies hundreds of meters away.
The heavy armored infantrymen of Dashi, who swaggered all the way and advanced hundreds of meters without being injured, finally faced their own nightmare!
Heavy armor and large shields that bows and arrows could not penetrate were shattered into pieces in front of the large high-speed projectiles ejected from field guns!
Seeing the vast army of soldiers falling under the fire of the Tang Dynasty, Suleman was filled with resentment and helplessness: God, what kind of devil have we provoked!
He, Khalid, and Abbas discussed for a day yesterday, and finally decided to take the initiative and overwhelm the Tang army with their absolute numerical superiority.
Because they really couldn't think of a way to break the aerial bombardment of the Tang Army's hot air balloons. If the Tang Army flew that thing over Medina, everything would be over.
They knew that three thousand kilograms of Greek fire from Fahd's camp had been taken away by the Tang people.
Once the Tang Dynasty flew a hot air balloon over Medina, they would not need to use their own gunpowder. The three thousand kilograms of Greek fire alone would be able to burn the entire Medina to a white ground!
So the three of them decided that instead of just sitting there and waiting for death, they might as well fight to the death!
The reason why we have to rush out all at once is that there is nothing we can do about it.
With the Tang Dynasty's defense circle composed of two iron cars and powerful artillery, many tentative attacks were in vain.
We can only rush into the Tang people's camp at once and completely wipe out the Tang people!
So Suleman watched the large number of food-eating soldiers fall, and could only grit his teeth and persevere.
Now we can only fight to the end in one breath. Once we retreat, all the previous sacrifices will be in vain.
The battle continued fiercely, and the Tang army began to suffer casualties.
The man-eating catapults and giant crossbows withstood the attack of the Tang army's catapults, moved to the attack position, and began to project gunpowder and kerosene bombs at the Tang army.
Although the range and hit rate of the Great Cannibal's trebuchets are not as good as those of the Tang Army, they are better in numbers!
Su Chen and Yuchi Baolin stood high up, watching the battlefield situation, and frowned.
"Commander, our numerical disadvantage has become apparent."
"Even if the cannibals cost their lives, they can still reach our camp."
"Why don't we let the rest of us help out? I think we still have a lot of crossbows."
Su Chen shook his head: "Your thousand men cannot move. They must be on standby at any time, ready to rush down from here and disrupt the enemy."
"Besides, a few hundred more crossbowmen will have little impact on the battle situation."
Yuchi Baolin said: "Then don't let the giant crossbow watch and help clean up the catapults at the rear?"
Su Chen shook his head again: "Fifty hot air balloons, ready to take off!"
Seeing that the trench was about to be filled in, Su Chen ordered: "Godly Crossbow, prepare to support the artillery, fill the artillery firing gap, directly aim at the camels at close range and shoot, and strive to shoot one arrow at a time!"
