"Stronging stones like fists" is the Song army's evaluation of the Poxi Army of Xixia. In the history of Xixia, the Poxi Army became famous during the Li Yuanhao period and was more common during the Li Yuanhao period. It was a Song army that wore heavy armor and made up the majority of infantry. The least
Enemies you wish to meet.
However, when the Poxi Army was in Xixia, its number was not large. Zhang Zhao estimated that in addition to national strength, it was also related to the complex composition of forces in Xixia.
Li Yuanhao probably had some kind of balanced thinking and was unwilling to expand the size of the Poxi Army, lest the royal family or even people other than himself master this powerful weapon.
However, Zhang Zhao definitely does not have the same concerns as Li Yuanhao. The thinking of a pathological narcissist is not something that ordinary people can understand.
However, there are not many cyclone gunners in the Guiyi Army, because it is indeed a bit troublesome to make them, and the quality and requirements of the gunners are still relatively high.
He Chuan touched his nose anxiously. After he called the gold, the Guiyi army also retreated. What are these Hexi people going to do? Why don't they attack?
Just as he was doubting, more than a hundred camels came out screaming oh oh oh oh oh. What does this mean? Camel cavalry? He Chuan was puzzled.
"What are those camels carrying on their backs? It looks like...um...like..."
Next to He Chuan, Commander Wu narrowed his eyes and recalled. He always felt that something on the camel's back was familiar, but he couldn't remember what it was.
"The direction is right, five up, nine right." A captain of the Tornado Cannon Flag reported the data loudly while squinting his eyes to observe.
Following his report, the Chinese army's flag soldiers raised the large black flag symbolizing the right side. Two small flag soldiers put small flags on their backs and ran in front of each tornado cannon.
The semaphore soldier in front has five small red triangular flags on his back, and the semaphore soldier behind him has one large square yellow flag and four small yellow pennants on his back.
As soon as the semaphore soldiers passed by, the foster soldiers who specialized in taking care of the camels and the assistant gunner who adjusted the shooting angle and direction, one person drove the camels, and the other adjusted the scale on the cyclone cannon, and the adjustment was completed in half a cup of tea.
"No! That's a trebuchet! The Hexi people put the trebuchet on the back of a camel!" Wu Defender suddenly roared, and he saw what was on the camel's back.
Trebuchet? Is there such a small trebuchet? As soon as this thought came to He Chuan's mind, he suddenly felt like he was dying. Oh no, the people from Hexi will smash his crossbow hand.
"Third and fourth from the left, the crossbow formation goes to the right and shoots at the camels on the opposite side. Second, third, fourth and sixth from the right go forward!"
He Chuan made a prompt decision and ordered the crossbowmen of each formation to move forward. He also sent out his few hundred cavalry to rush forward in an attempt to scare away Zhang Zhao's camel whirlwind cannon.
At this time, the range of the trebuchets for the small ones was about a hundred steps, and the range for the large ones was less than 300 steps.
Because the stones of Zhang Zhao's cyclone cannon are carefully polished and the trebuchet is made more precisely, although it is small, it can still reach an effective range of about two hundred steps.
But this is a very dangerous distance, because the popular single crossbows and Fuyuan crossbows at this time also have this range, and even exceed this range. Ordinary crossbows can also cause damage at about 150 steps.
That's why He Chuan ordered the crossbowmen to attack, but it was a little late. As soon as the order was given to the left and right crossbowmen, the terrifying sound of "Woo-Woo" rang out.
Eighty cyclone cannons threw polished boulders the size of fists, raining down on the rebel army's crossbow array.
As soon as the crossbowman on the second right of the rebel army gave the order for the soldiers to move forward, the roaring boulders hit him. His head was still shouting with his mouth open and his legs were still moving forward, but his whole head was
It's already sunk in.
The iron bag didn't have any protective effect at all, and the white brains were stained pink by the blood, and they were everywhere like tofu.
A crossbowman next to Dutou suddenly felt a spasm in his stomach. He slammed his head down and vomited loudly.
It was this bend that saved his life. The stone that was going to hit him instead hit the crossbowman behind him.
This crossbowman wore a piece of leather armor and a small ring-locked armor, but it was also of no use.
He didn't even hum. He threw the stone and directly smashed the iron ring of the ring armor into the crossbowman's chest. The huge impact even squeezed the crossbowman's internal organs directly from the breach.
Squirted out.
At the urging of the officers, several sword and shield bearers may have wanted to cover the crossbowmen, but such shields, which were not even covered with iron sheets, were ineffective against stone throws.
As soon as a sword-and-shield man raised his long shield, two gaps were made in the shield, and half of the sword-and-shield man's head was cut off.
Raindrop-like stones were thrown one after another. This raindrop is not an adjective, but a description. The reason why it is called a cyclone cannon is because its striking speed is like a whirlwind.
As the gunners continued to take out the slings from the skin bags carried on the camels' backs, the cyclone cannon struck faster and faster.
After such a fist-sized boulder is thrown with such force, it doesn't matter what kind of armor you have, as long as it hits it, it will be useless, and it will be the same as nothing.
The advancing rebel army's large formation of crossbowmen on the right was wiped out by three rounds of rapid fire.
It wasn't that they collapsed, but that their formation was too dense and they were not mentally prepared. They didn't even have time to run before they were all beaten and annihilated. More than a hundred crossbowmen, seventy or eighty of them were killed in just over three minutes.
people.
At this time, on the original position of the second right, there were only fragments of broken limbs and red and white things spraying everywhere.
Some were hit on the head and lost their vitality without even grunting, and some were hit in the abdomen, causing intestinal rupture, but they did not die immediately and cried softly.
After the second one from the right was finished, he became the third one from the right. The cyclone gunner adjusted the direction slightly, and threw stones like raindrops again. The three crossbow array from the right that was moving forward almost collapsed in response.
Not only them, the fourth and sixth formations from the right that He Chuan ordered forward also collapsed at almost the same time. No one wanted to fight against the rocks with their flesh and blood.
At the same time, the speed of the third and fourth crossbow formations on the left that were supposed to support them immediately slowed down, almost like a tortoise crawling.
He Chuan cursed angrily and waved his hand at the bodyguard beside him who was holding a shining sword.
This kind of personal guard holding a long sword is called a silver sword officer. When the general travels, he is responsible for the ceremonial guard and is used to improve his character. On the battlefield, he is generally used as a supervisor of the battle team.
Sure enough, more than a dozen cavalry silver swordsmen rushed over and slashed at the scattered crossbowmen. After killing three or four people, the collapsed crossbowmen finally calmed down. They were under the influence of their own officers.
Under the command, we began to reorganize our formation.
Just as the cyclone cannon smashed into the bandit crossbow formation, more than 300 cavalry sent by He Chuan roared out of the formation and rushed straight towards the whirlwind cannon formation.
The rebel cavalry at the front were all delighted that these Hexi people did not send out cavalry to intercept them.
I'll just rush within sixty steps and throw a bunch of arrows at you. Let's see how you continue to throw stones.
But when they were still a hundred steps away, they saw hundreds of people pouring out around the camels, holding crossbows and firing at them. They all screamed loudly, put their bows back, and took them up.
Spear.
Use horse bows and crossbows to shoot at each other. Unless he is crazy, the best way now is to rush over quickly.
Thirty steps!
Twenty steps!
‘Boom! Boom!’ Dutou felt his eyes flash as more than a dozen brilliant fire dragons sprayed directly in front of his eyes.
First, it seemed that countless fragments were pierced into his face, and he screamed in agony, as if his face was being pierced by countless steel needles.
Just as he screamed, hot gunpowder burned his face. The burning pain was so severe that he threw away the spear in his hand.
Immediately afterwards, an unpleasant smell of poison drifted into Dutou's nostrils. Dutou felt dizzy, felt nauseous, and fell to the ground with another scream.
Almost at the same time, the war horse in Dutou was also sprayed by some fireworks from the pear flower gun. The horse was originally timid, but when it was sprayed by fireworks that it had never seen before, it turned around and ran away without caring about anything else.
Poor Du's head was not sprayed to death by the pear gun, but when he fell, his feet were still stuck in the stirrups.
The frightened war horse dragged him and ran wildly, knocking his head on various rocks along the way, and he passed out in a few moments.
The ones at the front were all sprayed on the head, and the dozens of riders behind them also didn't run away. When they charged, they received a wave of crossbow arrows and killed more than 20 riders. This time, they were sprayed by pear blossom guns.
The formation in the front was in chaos, so he didn't care about the people behind him, so he turned around and ran back.
At this moment, the Guiyi Army cavalry that had been motionless moved. Murong Nobunaga held his horse and let out a loud roar. Hundreds of cavalry rushed over like flying, directly blocking the fleeing cavalry and beating them. More than three hundred cavalry were unable to do so.
I know if I can escape and ride a hundred horses back.
There was no threat from the cyclone cannon here. Under the order of the officer, the soldiers drove the camels forward to hit the crossbowmen who had just formed a team.
"Military envoy, all the troops should come forward. There are many of us. If we rush forward to fight hand to hand, if we are beaten for a quarter of an hour, our morale will collapse!"
Commander Wu was horrified to see it. He had such a flexible trebuchet, so he didn't even have to take the initiative to attack you. If you didn't move, he would just use the cyclone cannon to hit you all day long.
He Chuan's heart was filled with regret at this moment. Why did he leave in such a hurry and didn't bring those Fuyuan crossbows?
If there are a few Fuyuan Crossbows, they can make the trebuchets on the opposite side less arrogant.
"Military envoy! Hurry up and give the order!" Seeing that the trebuchet on the opposite side was about to hit again, Wu's defensive envoy became anxious and couldn't help but grabbed He Chuan's sleeve and shouted.
He Chuan's face was as dark as water, and he glanced at Wu Defender, "Our tooth soldiers have just begun to wear armor!"
Commander Wu suddenly turned pale. The commander of the Hexi Army, who had been laughing at each other just now, asked the soldiers to put on armor in advance. Only then did they realize that the clown turned out to be him.
"A certain person leads his own bodyguard to attack with all his strength. The military envoy must quickly mobilize the army!"
After a few breaths of silence, Commander Wu gritted his teeth. Now he didn't know whether his clan would live or die, and the only one he could rely on was He Chuan.
If He Chuan can occupy Guanzhong, he will still have a place to stay, otherwise the world is so vast that there may not be a place to bury his bones.