Chapter 1562: The effectiveness test of the new weapons of the Far East Army
Councilor Shen Yi'an, who was on the vantage point at the forefront of both sides, sent someone to send him information - Li Shentong's side had already started building a camp at the back.
"If this battle continues like this, Li Shentong will build a camp nearby. Once there is a camp for the Li family's army near our camp, it will affect subsequent plans. And the Li family's army only needs to build a camp nearby. If you launch an attack on us again, you will save the physical energy of traveling several miles. If Li Shentong can think of this, he can be considered a good general." Wang Junlin looked at the intelligence sent and analyzed it for the counselors around him.
"But it's been two days since this heavy snowfall, and it's freezing cold. With the methods of the Li family army, the camp that can be built is probably not good enough."
After sending out several groups of light cavalry and testing at a slow speed at the cost of more than a thousand casualties, we have found three passages each more than three feet wide facing the center of the Far East Army. If they were all dug into horse traps, although It temporarily blocked the opponent's attack, but it also trapped oneself inside.
What's more, what Wang Junlin wants is the opponent's repeated attacks. If there were not these three passages, Li Shentong would definitely build the camp today while trying to fill in these traps first. But with these three passages, no matter what Li Shentong said that he must give it a try. He always believed that without these powerful long-range attack weapons, the Far East Army would definitely not be their opponent in close combat.
What Li Shentong didn't know was that his idea was exactly the result that Wang Junlin led the Far East Councilors to analyze and wanted.
Li Shentong first sent out three thousand cavalry. These three thousand cavalry were all wearing iron armor, and their helmets were similar to those of the Far East Army, which could protect most of the face. The heads of the war horses were also protected by armor. In Wang Junlin's opinion, this was already the same as heavy armor. The cavalry doesn't make much difference.
This is clearly modeled after the armor of the Far Eastern Army.
At the command of the commander of the three thousand iron cavalry, all three thousand cavalrymen pulled down their helmet masks, divided their troops into three groups, and began to charge along three channels without horse traps.
The ground suddenly trembled, and the momentum of the charge of three thousand heavy cavalry was not even much weaker than the previous twenty thousand light cavalry.
With the defense of these three thousand heavy cavalry,
The crossbows, crossbows, steel string bows, and the deadly hundred-shot crossbows are not very effective, but the giant crossbows, guns, and trebuchet gunpowder bags are enough to deal with it. There is still no need for the Far Eastern Army to send cavalry to hedge against them and fight in close combat.
According to the legends in Hedong and Guanzhong areas, the armored cavalry of the Li Army are demonic beings, cruel and ruthless, yet brave and good at fighting, and invincible.
However, these three thousand Li Jiajun armored cavalry were once again overwhelmed by the Far Eastern Army's understatement attack.
The Far Eastern Army did not even use trebuchets to fire gunpowder packets. Instead, they concentrated five giant guns and crossbows at each passage. What chilled all the Li Army was the five crossbows and guns fired each time by these giant guns and crossbows. There seems to be almost no gap.
Li Shentong, whose face turned gloomy again, looked carefully through the captured telescope and discovered that there were wheels underneath the giant guns and crossbows of the Far Eastern Army. After every five of them fired the crossbows and guns, they quickly pulled back at the same time. , five giant guns and crossbows that had been loaded with crossbows were quickly pushed up from the gap next to them, and they were fired again. The speed at which such giant guns and crossbows were wound was the only thing Li Shentong had ever seen in his life.
Li Shentong didn't know that this giant gun and crossbow was the latest development result of the Yancheng weapons and equipment production base of the Far Eastern Army. Each one was equipped with a winding device, and each giant gun and crossbow was equipped with a dedicated operator for winding.
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This is the innovation brought by science and technology to weapons and equipment, which has quietly improved the combat effectiveness of the Far Eastern Army. As long as this continues, it is conceivable that the Far Eastern Army will inevitably crush all forces in the world with powerful and advanced weapons and equipment.
You must know that this is just a simple gear knowledge in physics, put into a very simple winding device in later generations, and then divided into two groups reasonably, it can make the shooting of giant crossbows and guns almost non-stop.
The huge vibrating sound of the giant gun and crossbow when it is fired and the harsh sound of the crossbow and gun breaking through the air. Even in the opposite direction, the howling of tens of thousands of Li's army and the sound of three thousand heavy armored cavalry charging, as well as the crossbow and gun flying through it.
The screams of the fallen horse were still clearly audible.
This voice is destined to be unforgettable for all the soldiers of the Li Family Army, including Li Shentong.
Pregnant, but only if they can live as long as they want.
The three passages were filled with cavalry in armor and tall war horses. Some were screaming, whining, and groaning while twisting and climbing, and more had turned into corpses. They had only attacked recently.
Once we were about a hundred steps away from the Far Eastern Army's battle formation, it would be difficult to advance even half a step further.
The cocking hand cocks the gun, the loader places the crossbow and gun, the firing hand aims at the enemy and fires, and two soldiers specifically push the gun and crossbow machine to move, and then hand over the gun and crossbow machine, and the other squad repeats the same process.
The operation process of this set of giant guns and crossbows has been trained very proficiently in normal times. Each soldier performs his own duties. The skilled operation shortens the time to the extreme. Each shot can shoot a three-foot-long weapon.
The crossbow and gun were fired accurately, and even the armored cavalry could shoot through two to three people.
Although the 30,000 armored cavalry of the Li Family Army have high defense and can ignore ordinary bows and arrows and fast crossbows, they are still unable to fight back against giant guns and crossbows.
Although these three thousand armored cavalry performed extremely bravely and were not even afraid of death, they still failed to change the disastrous defeat in the end, leaving behind the corpses of 1,670 cavalry and war horses, and then retreated in embarrassment. But even these who escaped back
Almost all of the more than a thousand cavalrymen were injured.
The guns and crossbows stopped firing, and the bowstrings stopped ringing. After a brief confrontation, everything returned to calm in front of the Far Eastern Army's center.
However, there were still some seriously injured Li family cavalrymen twisting and howling on the three passages. Then Wang Junlin gave an order and dozens of new soldiers carrying swords and axes ran over and hacked them all to death one by one.
Everyone in the Li family army witnessed this scene and were furious, but no one dared to go up and retrieve the bodies of their comrades.
The Far Eastern Army's endless supply of terrifying and sharp long-range attack weapons completely frightened these battle-experienced elite soldiers of the Li family, and they were stunned.
Little did they know that this was the first time that the Far Eastern Army had used it on such a large scale on the battlefield after a new round of weapons and equipment innovation, and they happened to be the target of the effectiveness test of these new weapons on the battlefield, and judging from the effects,