Tang Yin didn't have the patience to listen to Xuanwang's ramblings. He raised his head to the side and said, "First try the power of your Pojun Crossbow!"
"Yes! Sir!" Xuanwang agreed, found the crossbow machine of the Pojun Crossbow, and then waved over five soldiers, asking them to work together to pull the crossbow string. The five soldiers looked at each other, and each spit into the palm of his hand.
He spit, rubbed his hands, and worked together to pull the arrow string. Hearing a crunching sound, the long crossbow string was slowly pulled open.
Later, Xuanwang asked someone to take out three crossbow arrows from the bottom of the carriage. The Pojun Crossbow was large, and the crossbow arrows were thick and long. Each arrow was as thick as an adult's wrist. The arrows in front were wrapped in steel and were extremely sharp. He asked
The soldiers placed three crossbow arrows on the crossbow machine, aimed it at the dense forest in the distance, took aim for a while, and then suddenly fired the crossbow machine.
Just a bang was heard, and the crossbow string bounced back to its original position. At the same time, three crossbow arrows flew out together, and the woods in the distance were heard clicking in the ears. Two violent snapping sounds were heard. People hurriedly looked up, only to see
I saw two crossbow arrows hitting the tree respectively, and their powerful force directly penetrated the trunk of the old tree that only three people could barely hold together.
"Yeah?" After looking at it, there was a sound of exclamation and gasping in the crowd. From such a long distance, even such a thick tree can be penetrated. How much strength must be involved? Not to mention that ordinary armor cannot withstand it. Even if
Even a spiritual warrior wearing spiritual armor cannot bear it!
The army-breaking crossbow truly lives up to its name and has the power to break the army. It is not difficult to imagine that when the enemy and we are engaged in a frontal corps battle, our side suddenly uses the army-breaking crossbow to attack the enemy's phalanx, and the enemy's formation can be shot into chaos immediately.
, allowing our side to establish an advantage before engaging the enemy in close combat.
Tang Yin looked at the crossbow arrows in the distance, his eyes were shining and his eyes were spinning. It was obvious that he was surprised and delighted by the power of the Pojun Crossbow. Although the crossbow was a bit large, it was not convenient to transport with the army.
, but it does have a powerful attack power. After a long silence, he said to Xuan Wang with a calm expression: "Master Xuan, try your city-breaking crossbow again!"
Xuanwang smiled at Tang Yin and said, "Sir, you can't try the city-breaking crossbow in the woods!"
"Why?"
"Because it's so powerful, I can't see its effectiveness by just using trees as targets."
"Oh?" Tang Yin raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then what does Master Xuan think we should use as a target?"
Xuanwang turned back, pointed to a mountain wall in the distance, and said, "Use the rocks as targets!"
After hearing this, everyone looked at each other in confusion. They all felt that Xuan Wang's tone was too loud. The power of the crossbow was too great. It couldn't penetrate the stone, right?! Tang Yin was also in disbelief. He asked: "Master Xuan means that it can hit the stone."
Pierce the stone and shoot into the mountain wall?"
"You will know once you try it, sir!" Xuanwang said with confidence, smiling.
I want to see if you are exaggerating or if it is true! This time there is no need for Xuanwang to find anyone. Tang Yin has already waved to his soldiers and said: "Pull the crossbow string of the city-breaking crossbow!"
"Wait a minute!" Xuanwang stopped Tang Yin, who looked at him in confusion. Xuanwang smiled and said: "Sir, the city-breaking crossbow cannot be pulled open by human power, it must be pulled by horses!"
"Ah?" Tang Yin was startled at first, and then understood. No wonder Xuanwang had to prepare his own horses when he came. It turned out that they were used to pull the crossbow strings, but what kind of crossbow must be pulled by horses? This is incredible. Around
Everyone in the crowd also had the same idea as Tang Yin, staring at Xuan Wang with big eyes and small eyes.
Xuanwang commanded the soldiers to gather together the five war horses that Tang Yin had prepared in advance. Then he took out the hemp rope and tied one end to the crossbow string and the other to the five war horses. Finally, he ordered the soldiers to beat them together.
Horse buttocks.
Snap, snap, snap! With the sound of the whip, the five war horses felt pain and moved forward together. Their forward movement also tightened the hemp rope and slowly opened the crossbow string of the city-breaking crossbow. At this time, Xuan Wang
He also ordered people to carry out the crossbow arrows for the city-breaking crossbow.
This crossbow arrow is thicker than the three broken military crossbow arrows put together. It looks like a big tree stump and requires two people to carry it together to move it.
The soldiers laboriously placed the crossbow arrows on the siege crossbow. Xuanwang stepped forward, checked and confirmed that there was no problem. Then he handed over to Tang Yinyi and said: "Now you only need to cut off the hemp rope, and you can put the crossbow arrows in."
Launched."
Upon hearing this, Tang Yin slowly walked over and stood in front of the hemp rope. He lowered his head to look at the tight rope, then looked at Xuan Wang. He suddenly shook his shoulders, and the scimitar appeared in his palm. As he waved his arm,
With a click, the hemp rope was cut into two pieces.
As soon as the hemp rope was broken, the stretched crossbow string immediately bounced back, and the wooden stake on the crossbow flew out with a buzzing sound, like a black lightning, flying straight towards the mountain wall.
Click!
When the wooden pile hit the mountain wall, it made a deafening sound. The steel arrow in front easily smashed into the stone wall and penetrated deeply. The force was so fierce that even the ground trembled from its impact.
It trembled three times. At least one-fifth of the long wooden stake penetrated into the mountain wall, as if a dead tree had grown out of the mountainside.
Seeing this scene, everyone present was dumbfounded and speechless for a long time, including Tang Yin. This crossbow is far more powerful than the Pojun Crossbow, even ten times more powerful.
A hundred times, with such tyrannical force, I dare not say that it can penetrate the city wall, but it will definitely be no problem to shoot through the arrow stack.
When attacking a city, the defenders would hide behind the arrow stacks. With this weapon, the people behind the arrow stacks would also be fatally wounded, which was very beneficial to the attacking side. Tang Yin was the first to recover.
Come, look around at the people present, and ask: "My lords and generals, what do you think of the power of Lord Xuan's siege crossbow and army-breaking crossbow?"
Everyone woke up from the shock, shuddered involuntarily, looked at each other, and said in unison: "Awesome!"
Liang Qi rolled his eyes, hurriedly stepped forward, gave Tang Yin a deep salute, and said: "Sir, General Yuan Rang and I are going to attack Tongmen. If we can bring Master Xuan's Army-breaking Crossbow and City-breaking Crossbow,
A sharp weapon, whether offensive or defensive, can get twice the result with half the effort!"
He didn't ask Tang Yin directly for these two things, but just explained what benefits Tang Yin would have if they were equipped with them for him.
Of course, Tang Yin also understood that equipping Liang Qi with these two types of crossbows would undoubtedly greatly increase his combat effectiveness. He pondered for a moment, then turned to ask Xuan Wang: "Master Xuan, how many of the army-breaking crossbows and city-breaking crossbows have you produced in total?"
tower?"
Xuanwang carefully stretched out three fingers.
Tang Yin asked suspiciously: "Three sets of each?"
"No! Sir, there are three in total!"
Tang Yin felt angry and glared at him fiercely.
There were only three units in total, and even if they were equipped to the Sanshui Army commanded by Liang Qi, they would not be effective. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, then asked: "In one month, I will give you enough manpower and materials, can you
How many are made?”
"Oh...if this is the case, almost thirty units of each type of crossbow machine can be produced."
"What if the formation crossbow is also made at the same time?"
"Sir, it's relatively easy to make crossbows. As long as you have enough manpower, it shouldn't be a problem to make two or three thousand more in a month!"
"Okay!" Tang Yin nodded and said with a smile: "I will give you one month, three thousand array crossbows, thirty military-breaking crossbows and thirty city-breaking crossbows. If you can finish the work on time, I will give you a lot of rewards. If you can't finish it, I will give you a lot of rewards."
, your credit for developing the crossbow machine will be lost."
Xuanwang hurriedly bowed and saluted, saying, "I will do my best!" In fact, he didn't value credit and rewards very much. As long as Tang Yin could provide him with money, space, and conditions, it would be enough for him to continue to develop more crossbow machines.
His interest and preference is only to develop crossbow machines.
It made sense for Tang Yin to give him a month. He had calculated in his mind that if everything went well during his trip to Duji, it would take almost exactly one month to go back and forth.
When Xuanwang was testing the crossbow machine, Xiao Na was also there to watch, and she was wary of its power. These crossbow machines were actually a weapon that could defeat Bessa's heavy armored cavalry. If the two sides fought, the Tianyuan Army would
If the army-breaking crossbow or even the city-breaking crossbow is used on a large scale, the slow-moving heavy armored cavalry will become a living target.
Fortunately, Bessa has now reconciled with Tang Yin, and there has been no war. Otherwise, the consequences would have been disastrous. Xiaona was secretly grateful that her father had made the wise decision to negotiate peace in the first place.
After testing the crossbow machine developed by Xuanwang, after Tang Yin returned to Huaiyang, he immediately issued an order to allocate sufficient manpower to Xuanwang. Whatever he needed, as long as he had it, he would be satisfied. Tang Yin's style has always been vigorous and resolute.
Just do it and never delay what you promised.
After this time, Tang Yin finally started to take Xuanwang seriously, and even set up a department specifically for him in the future - the Ordnance Department. Of course, this is a story later.
The next day, Tang Yin and Xiaona set off on the road to Duji. Traveling with them were the three brothers Shangguan Yuanrang, Yuanwu and Yuanbiao, a team of dark arrows led by Cheng Jin, and Brian and Gray from Besa.
Five young nobles, plus Tang Yin and Xiao Na's accompanying bodyguards, the group numbered more than a hundred.
Although Duji borders Feng Country, there is no road between them, and the border area is full of deep mountains and rivers, making it impossible to pass through. The only option is to pass through Guannan County and Tianyuan County, go north and enter Bessa, and then go around Beisa.
We were on our way to Duji. The journey was far away, more than a thousand miles. Fortunately, everyone had excellent riding skills and they had fast horses from the Mo Kingdom, which greatly shortened the time spent on the road.
Tang Yin and his party slept in the open, traveling day and night, and entered the territory of Bessa in only four days.
Having Xiaona accompanying him can indeed save Tang Yin and others a lot of unnecessary trouble. At least no one dares to stop him and question him even if he enters Besa wearing weapons.
Going west from the Pab Prairie in Besa, you can enter the territory of Duki. However, it is easy to say, but it is not so easy to walk. The further you go west, the hotter the weather and the sparser the grass on the ground. Wait a moment
When we arrived at the border between Bessa and Duki, there was no grass on the ground. Everywhere we looked, there was a vast expanse of boundless desert.