At this time, fifty thousand people, pushing various siege equipment and beating war drums, approached the city wall.
If they had walked another thirty meters, their forward would have already reached the edge of the trench.
At this time, the archers began to shoot. The range of the bows and arrows could just cover their entire team from the forward line to 120 meters away.
These people all wore leather armor and dismounted and walked.
The armor ratio of Mongolia in the entire desert is still not high. Only the four major tribes can provide 20,000 to 30,000 pure armored cavalry. Most of the rest are leather armor.
Although the Western Region was not blocked by the Ming Dynasty, iron was also a scarce resource.
They relied on plundering craftsmen from various ethnic groups as slaves to produce firearms, armor, and weapons. The production efficiency was not high. It was far less than the scale achieved through trade.
However, the surrounding big countries were all afraid of the Mongols, and no one was willing to be an enemy to allow them to become stronger again.
Mongolia is now divided and killing each other. They all think that it is good for the Mongols to be like this. It would be better if it could continue to be like this.
There is Tsarist Russia in the north, the Kazakh Empire in the west, Iran and the Indian Mughal Empire in the south, and the Arab and Ottoman Empires in the southwest. None of them, I hope they will become stronger again.
Yang Fan didn't expect any good archers in these group trainings.
Therefore, he implemented target management. Shoot a hundred arrows at will, and then you can go down and rest after shooting. As long as you can draw the bow, shoot the arrows at an elevated angle.
It's not difficult, you don't need to aim, just finish shooting. The officer will check your quiver and you are not allowed to leave the fighting position until you finish shooting.
For these regiment trainers, although they were also afraid of the huge Mongol army under the city, they knew clearly that if they did not want to be captured and sent to the Western Regions to herd sheep, they would never be able to return to their homeland.
The only thing they can do is resist desperately, and they must not be allowed to break through Jiuyuan City.
In three or four minutes, 10,000 people shot a million arrows. They didn't even look down, just one arrow. They shot desperately. They shot quickly. After shooting, they went down to rest quickly.
The siege will definitely be brutal for a while. It would be wise to leave as soon as possible.
Then they unleashed their potential and quickly shot all one hundred arrows.
After shooting the arrows, the regiment went down to rest together.
Their arms were so sore that they couldn't lift them up.
Another ten thousand men came up to the walls to relieve them, preparing for the ensuing hand-to-hand combat.
One million arrows fell intensively in three to four minutes.
Whoosh! The whistling sound is endless. These arrows are mechanized by the Xincheng Arsenal. They are all standard industrial products. Although Yang Fan seized a lot of bows, there are not many arrows. And many of the bows and arrows in Monan Mongolia are made of stones and bones.
Made arrow.
How can Yang Fan see these rags, and the effect is not good.
Originally, these regiments were not good at training soldiers, and no matter how good their weapons were, the battle would be impossible to fight. Yang Fan directly asked the water-powered machinery workshop in Xincheng to work day and night to produce arrows. Then they would be transported by water.
The rain of arrows flew from a distance, making a sound similar to that of a swarm of locusts flying in. These arrows were all made of chirping arrows, and there were holes in the arrowheads that made the sound.
The Mongols below immediately raised various shields.
For this attack, all the ministries gathered their shields and gave them to the siege troops to use.
They held small bucklers covered with rawhide, Central Asian-style Arab shields, and some even held various strange-shaped shields made of improvised wood.
However, they cannot be immune to a million arrows by raising their shields like this.
The arrows flew down diagonally like rain. The dense arrows fell, and the ground seemed to grow grass in an instant, as if it had turned into a grassland. In the strong wind, the ground was swaying, and all of them were stuck in the ground.
Arrow.
Countless people were shot, and there were too many places that the shield could not protect. The area of the shield was so large that it was impossible to protect the whole body.
As long as the bows and arrows are densely packed to a certain extent, even if the head is protected, the torso will be hit by arrows. Even if the torso is protected, the limbs will be hit by arrows.
For a moment, everyone in the attacking force was crouching down, trying their best to reduce their projected area. They tried to use their shields at a 45-degree angle to block the front and top. This way, they could protect themselves as much as possible.
Captain Wulihan was on the second floor of a carriage. He leaned half of his body through the side window and looked outside. He saw dense black dots appearing in the sky in front of him.
He quickly retracted his body, and an arrow was nailed to the wood of the window.
At this time, the arrow rain was covering it. Looking down from the building car, a large area was shot down directly below. Many people were shot in the calves and feet, but the severe pain would make people fall down and lose their shields.
For protection, he was shot into a hedgehog by more arrows that followed.
These arrows all had a whistling sound that broke through the air. It was very frightening. These whistling sounds disturbed the minds of the army and brought additional tension.
Wulihan grabbed the arrow and pulled it out with a roar.
He was a famous wrestler and a warrior, but he still struggled to pull it out. He didn't expect that the arrow actually shot so deep.
He narrowed his narrow eyes and observed carefully.
He found that this arrow was completely different from the one used by the Mongols. The arrowhead of this arrow was triangular pyramid-shaped. There are very few such arrows, and they are generally used for armor-piercing arrows. Normal arrows are in the shape of a spear head.
There are also perverts like the Jiannu who have great strength and amazing bow power. They can use shovel-like arrows to chop off a human head or cut off an arm with one arrow.
The arrows used by the Han people shone with a cold light. They were made of fine steel and were polished very sharp. The exquisite workmanship made Wulihan open his eyes in surprise. This must be too rich.
He knows that these are directly cast with molten steel, then quenched several times to increase the hardness, and then polished with a grinding wheel. They are completely mechanized production. The workshop in Xincheng uses hydraulic machinery, and the grinding is very fast. There are three shifts 24 hours a day.
Unfortunately, the output is scary.
Wulihan looked at the arrow shafts. These arrow shafts were all made of eucalyptus wood, which had good elasticity and were made of the best materials. What surprised him was that these arrow shafts were absolutely cylindrical. I really don’t know.
How could they have such skilled craftsmen?
These arrow shafts are made from hydraulic woodworking machines, and of course they are absolutely round. There are no burrs at all.
Then several more arrows landed at the window. He found that all the arrows were exactly the same in terms of length, size, and weight. It was like they came out of the same mold.
Wulihan looked down from the window and saw that the entire team had completely stopped moving in the face of the rain of arrows. They were all squatting on the ground and holding their shields upwards to resist the intensive arrows.