Chapter 280 Brothers unite, break out of the siege
On this side of the room, Tan Pingzhi stood in front of Liu Yu, with crossbow arrows flying out from his arms and shooting straight at the enemy.
He protected Liu Yu in front of him and was responsible for long-distance attacks. Within the range of his magic crossbow, the Di Qin soldiers who were further away fell to the ground one after another, and they could not even get close to Liu Yu.
Tan Pingzhi's archery skills were never boasted, but due to the limited range on the city tower, and the crossbow could only carry out mid-range attacks, there were still a few fish that slipped through the net.
And all these fish that slipped through the net were snatched up by Liu Yu!
Any Di Qin soldier who can pass through Tan Pingzhi's first line of defense is already considered a strong opponent. However, after breaking through the siege, what awaits them is not luck, but a more cruel fate!
Lao Tan, he attacks from a distance, he is very civilized, he can kill a person with one arrow, he moves quickly and bleeds little.
The Di Qin soldiers who were lucky enough not to die at the hands of Tan Pingzhi thought they were favored by the god of luck. Little did they know that when they escaped from Lao Tan, what was waiting for them was the steel knife of Ji Nu!
It's so fresh and dripping with blood!
"Therefore, save yourself some effort and leave a few for me!"
Swinging the sword, Liu Yu waved his hand and chopped down a few of them. He took a posture and waited for another wave of impact, but unexpectedly, there was nothing in front of him.
Several waves of charging Di Qin soldiers were all killed by Tan Pingzhi with crossbows. Liu Yu wanted to have a good time and went on a killing spree, but he actually felt lonely.
"Jiu Nu, there's no point in dividing the battlefield between you and me. Whoever grabs it gets it!"
Tan Pingzhi was also a man whose eyes would glow green when he went to the battlefield. Now that he saw the groups of Di and Qin soldiers, his eyes were red with blood. How could he care about leaving a few for Liu Yu?
When Liu Yu heard this, he felt it made sense.
yes!
Whoever grabs it belongs to whom!
Do you still have to wait for your comrades to feed you on the battlefield?
But once Liu Yu realizes this, Lao Tan won't be able to kill him so happily.
Liu Yu jumped up and rushed to Tan Pingzhi's side, even standing further forward than Lao Tan.
The sword in his hand flew up, and using both the handle and the blade, he quickly broke through Tan Pingzhi's protective circle and rushed to the front to kill the enemy.
Di Qin soldiers fell down around him one after another. Liu Yu's sword was flying freely in the air. In the vast night, Tan Ping felt that there was an afterimage of the sword.
horrible!
Under the cover of the two generals, the Jin army retreated from the tower to the turret without any danger, and quickly withdrew down the wooden ladder.
As many people imagine, the ladder used to climb the city is not used once and then left unattended.
On the contrary, because soldiers have to be transported continuously to climb the city, these wooden ladders are always protected. In other words, as long as the Beifu soldiers can break through the Qin army's encirclement and interception and climb the wooden ladders, they can be safe.
Landed.
This is why Liu Yu was full of confidence in retreating. According to his observation, the defenders of Xiangyang City did not seem to be ready to meet the enemy.
Faced with the sudden siege by Beifu soldiers, the various responses in the city can be said to be chaotic.
If preparations had been made and the Lord had been responsible, this would definitely not be the case now.
Apart from anything else, the fact that Liu Yu led a handful of Beifu soldiers actually jumped onto the city tower was already magical.
Normally, facing a heavily defended military town like Xiangyang, this would be absolutely impossible!
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Just when Liu Yu and others decided to retreat, Wang Mi was not idle on the outside of the battlefield.
He is organizing the rocket launchers who have been removed from the stone cannon truck to carry out new assembly work.
"You guys, go pull the cloth!"
"You guys are responsible for loading!"
Liu Yu poured the three-sided nails he had collected on the ground, and by the bright firelight, directed the soldiers to remake them into weapons for defeating the enemy.
"Hey, it would be better if there were explosives!" Wang Mi held a three-edged nail in his hand and poked the tip with his fingertips. The force was just right, so that he could feel the subtle pain without actually feeling it.
Stab yourself.
"Explosives?"
"What it is?"
"Cure?"
Shen Suanzi jumped down from the stone cannon cart at some point, and walked up to Wang Mi without him noticing. The distance was so close that he could even hear his mumbling to himself.
"This explosive certainly doesn't cure diseases."
"It's meant to kill people!"
Shen Suanzi's question was as speechless as her name. Wang Mi wanted to explain it clearly to her, but he couldn't explain the chemical principles and modern knowledge clearly. Just when it was difficult for him to speak, Shen Suanzi suddenly held up
He lowered his chin and nodded clearly.
"Understood!"
"It turns out to be poison!"
"Poison...can't be wrong."
Whoever dares to swallow explosives will die?
Under Wang Mi's command, the rocketeers placed the captured triangular nails in pieces of cloth in an orderly manner. According to Wang Mi's request, these pieces of cloth were cut to just the right size and tied into small cloth bags.
Wrap such a cloth bag around the arrow. When the bow and arrow are fired, the bag will naturally loosen and the three-edged nails will fly in all directions. As long as it can hit a person, it can cause multiple times of damage.
According to current historical records, this kind of bow and arrow mixed with three-edged nails first appeared in the Song Dynasty. So how did the Song people make this kind of bow and arrow?
By the Song Dynasty, black gunpowder had become quite popular, and people also realized that black gunpowder could not only be used by Taoist priests to make elixirs, but also for fireworks masters to make fireworks.
Black gunpowder can be widely used in the military field and has achieved extraordinary achievements, greatly improving the combat capabilities of the Song people.
In order to further enhance the effectiveness of black powder and achieve the purpose of killing more enemy troops, the Song people made extensive modifications to the cannonballs made of black powder.
The black gunpowder in the Song Dynasty was spherical. Triangular nails, croton or even arsenic were added to the round shells. When the round black gunpowder was launched, the powerful thrust generated by the gunpowder would cause
When it explodes, it releases arsenic, cinnabar, three-pointed nails and other weapons that ancient people thought were particularly powerful and invisible in killing people.
Putting everything else aside for the moment, the black powder cannonball wrapped with a three-edged nail is indeed very powerful, doubling the attack power of the black powder.
The topic is brought back to the late Eastern Jin Dynasty. Wang Mi, who has been busy in the military since time travel, has not yet had the time and energy to put into practice the black gunpowder, a powerful weapon.
Since there was no black powder, we had to find another way to reuse the three-edged nails scattered by Di Qin.
This is why Wang Mi repeatedly lamented that it was a pity that there was no black powder.
Judging from the current situation, the most Wang Mi can do is to wrap these sharp three-edged nails in cloth bags and shoot them out with a bow and arrow.
This kind of bow and arrow with three-edged nails was also widely used in the Song Dynasty. The soldiers tied ignited artillery to the arrows. As the bow and arrow were shot, the artillery wrapped with three-edged nails was also taken away.
The effects are almost the same.
However, without the explosive power of black powder, it is uncertain how effective the flying three-sided nails will be.