Five hundred steps, this is the best range of the crossbow. Especially for those Jin Crossbows and bed crossbows, although the range can reach 800 steps or even a thousand steps, if you want to exert the best power of the crossbow, you also need to
To stay safe for the most part, Five Hundred Steps is the best option.
At this range, the enemy can only threaten itself with large crossbows. Those crossbows with less than 100 steps are actually the last of their power when they reach this distance, let alone ordinary crossbows with 300 steps.
Sure enough, before he could finish his words, arrows were already whizzing towards him.
The whistling sound caused by the iron arrows released by the bed crossbow was no weaker than that of a catapult. The thick iron arrows jumped directly onto the city wall and pierced flesh and blood one after another wantonly. Even the smaller crossbow arrows
They all come with irresistible momentum. Shields, especially those made of wood, have almost no resistance in the face of such arrows.
Almost instantly, the city wall was covered with blood.
Xiao Shilian had already achieved his goal without using the trebuchet.
Where did the enemy get so many crossbows?
Seeing the scene in front of him, He Ruobi could only take a breath.
The enemy is obviously more difficult to deal with than he thought.
At this time, He Ruobi discovered what a correct decision his guards had made. The two guards standing in front of him had already been hit by arrows and fell. In the face of such arrows, the shields in their hands had almost no effect.
, they could only use their flesh and blood as the next shield to block death for He Ruobi.
"Whoosh!" The bed crossbow on the top of the city also began to fight back at this time, but compared to the Han army, the arrow was like a stone thrown into the vast sea, causing little ripples and then dissipating.
not see.
The gap in strength between the two sides seemed to have destined that the Northern Zhou army would be difficult to stop the Han army's advance. At this time, He Ruobi and Gao also understood why it was difficult for Nanyang and Xiyang counties to organize an effective long-term resistance. However, Hou Mo, who had died in the battle,
It seems that Chen Ying and the Xiyang County general have found it difficult to clear their names.
In order not to let themselves follow in the same footsteps, Gao and He Ruobi could only grit their teeth and hold on, even if it was just for one more day. Otherwise, they would be destined to be nailed to the pillar of shame like the boy from the Hou Mo family.
The current Yang Jian army is like an open palm, with five fingers dealing with threats from all directions, while the opponents they face are fists gathered together.
This is not a symmetrical war.
He Ruobi gave a wry smile. Even dying here wouldn't be considered a relief. He still had to take care of his posthumous reputation.
The Han trebuchets did not stop when the attack started, but they were throwing stones behind the city wall at a slower frequency than before. Apparently they had also received the news that the Shangluo granary was burned, so they were working hard to destroy Wuguan.
Ancillary facilities in the city. If the granaries and the like in the city are also destroyed, then the defenders will directly face the threat of food shortage.
However, neither He Ruobi nor Gao could care about that much now. He could only resign himself to fate and hope that the granaries and equipment warehouses in the city were strong enough.
As if to refute their expectations, a muffled sound soon came from the city. The handsome manor in the center of the city was hit by a stone bullet. The stone bullet hit directly from the roof of the council hall, destroying more than half of the people.
Not only did the roof overturn, but the remaining broken walls also lost their support, swayed and finally fell down, making a "hula la" sound.
Standing on the city wall and looking back, the most obvious building in the city has been shrouded in billowing smoke, leaving only He Ruobi's handsome flag still flying alone.
There was silence in the city.
"As long as the flag falls, the entire army will not retreat! I am with you, kill the enemy!" He Ruobi pointed forward with the long sword in his hand.
Only then did the soldiers react: "Kill the enemy!"
But this time, their voices were filled with fear.
Looking at the collapsed gap in the city, and then at the houses that were randomly torn apart by stones, they felt their own insignificance for the first time.
The ladder truck was already in front of us at some point, and the trench-filling truck rushed over long before the ladder truck.
"Fire the arrow!" shouted people on the urn city.
The enemy immediately used three ladder trucks to rush towards Wengcheng, and the supporting trench-filling trucks were as high as nine. This undoubtedly told Gao that the enemy's ladder trucks could transport a large number of soldiers to rush into the city at one time.
Go up to the city head.
Arrows poured down from the city, like a waterfall. The Han soldiers pushing the trench-filling truck fell one after another, but the shield bearers who came from behind raised their shields high, and the arrows just "crackled".
came down, but they did not pose any real threat to the soldiers under the shield. In addition, the Han crossbowmen finally found their opponents and began to fire arrows at the top of the city desperately. The suppressed Northern Zhou crossbowmen could not raise their heads at all.
The urn city protruding forward is only that big in total, and there are not many people standing on it. In contrast, the Han army under the city is one huge phalanx after another.
"We must stop them from transporting the trench-filling trucks under the city wall!" At this time, Gao Gao had already given up on using arrows to stop the enemy. Their arrows seemed to have no effective effect at all. "Please general, please order the trebuchet."
Move out!”
"That will only expose our trebuchet, and it is very likely to accidentally injure one of our own people. The distance is too close!" He Ruobi decisively objected.
"General!" Gao frowned.
He Ruobi waved his hand: "Get ready to engage the enemy!"
In the previous battles, almost all the trebuchets of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were destroyed, and the only three remaining ones could only be dismantled on the spot. Now it takes a lot of manpower to assemble them, and it will take two years to see whether they can be effective.
He said that we must know that the enemy's trench-filling truck is almost rushing to the city. It is already impossible to block the trench-filling truck. Whether it can block the ladder truck is another question.
Now that the gap in equipment between the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Han Dynasty was too obvious, He Ruobi did not intend to show off his strength anymore. The easiest way was to put the enemy in front of him and engage in hand-to-hand combat at close range.
He Ruobi certainly knew what Gao Zai was worried about. Once the enemy could not be stopped in hand-to-hand combat, they would really have no other choice.
But the matter has come to this, they can only do this in the first place, and the rest is just a waste of time and impractical
"What a helpless war." He Ruobi sighed as he looked at the ladder truck getting closer and closer.
The soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were still lighting the cloth soaked in oil on the iron arrow, trying to shoot it through the crossbow to light the ladder truck. But He Ruobi knew that the enemy's ladder truck was cunningly walking the zigzag line.
How many battles did these Nanman go through before they could hone such familiar skills?