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Chapter 44: Bow and Crossbow Showing Power (1)

"Line!" Chen Fei said to the soldiers next to him.

Soon, three thousand crossbowmen came out and stood outside Jingyang County to form square formations. These square formations were divided into three rows, and then they held these modified pulley crossbows in their hands. The shooting speed of these crossbows was simply from heaven and underground compared to the past bows and crossbows, and their power was not much reduced. The reason for this is that the pulley crossbows require much less force to pull, so they can be completely turned very quickly and then continue shooting.

"Every lieutenant is optimistic about the flag, and then commands his subordinates to shoot, and exchange queues." Chen Fei shouted.

The lieutenant was the leader of a regiment of the Tang Dynasty, but there were only 300 people in a regiment of the Tang Dynasty. However, although there were only 300 people, they were of very high rank, all of whom were seventh-rank officials, and they could have the same status as a county magistrate. If it weren't for Yuchi Gong's repeated orders to let these lieutenants obey Chen Fei's command, Chen Fei wouldn't be able to make them obey the command.

"Preparation, once the Turks approached a hundred feet, shoot alternately!" Chen Fei said.

In the distance, Turi's Tuli looked at Chen Fei's crossbow formation and was a little confused for a moment. Because Tuli was a little puzzled, because Chen Fei actually sent infantry to greet their cavalry, and the infantry suffered a great loss in front of the cavalry most of the time. However, the other party took the initiative to leave the protection of the city wall and came out to fight. This was simply unimaginable. So Tuli was a little confused because he was far away, so he did not see that the weapons in the soldiers were bows and crossbows.

"No matter what you want to do, I will break through Jingyang. If I can't take this opportunity to establish my prestige, it will be very unfavorable for me to win the position of Khan in the future!" Tuli thought.

Tuli has never given up on fighting for the position of Khan, so he has been constantly accumulating strength. Now, attacking the Tang Dynasty together is a good time for Tuli to establish his prestige, so he naturally cannot miss this opportunity. As long as he can establish enough prestige, he will have a chance to win when Tuli and Jie Li turn against each other. Now Tuli's strength and prestige are not as good as Jie Li, so he has not turned against each other. If the Central Plains fall into civil strife again, the pressure of the Turks will be reduced, which will be greatly reduced, and then naturally start to compete. This is the same as in many cases. When external pressure is higher than internal pressure, the internal will often give up contradictions and fight against foreign enemies together.

"Zhi Shi Si's power, you will lead ten thousand people to break through the formation of these infantry!" Tu Li shouted.

"Turkish warriors, fight with me!" The Turkic general Zhishishi's power shouted.

Zhi Shisili led 10,000 cavalry to rush towards Jingyang County, while the charging cavalry was getting closer and closer, and finally gradually approached three thousand crossbowmen.

"Five hundred meters!"

"Four hundred meters!"

"Three hundred meters!"

"shooting!"

The soldiers who were responsible for carrying the flags next to him immediately began to shake the flags, obviously ordering the soldiers to shoot through the flags.

"Swoosh swosh swosh swosh swosh..." The first row of soldiers immediately shot out a thousand arrows.

"KaKaKa..."

“Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo…”

Dozens of Turkic cavalry fell off their horses and fell to the ground, which was the result of a thousand arrows. Zhishili didn't feel any surprise, because when the cavalry charged, the enemy would definitely fire crossbows and arrows. Now that the enemy has gone through one round of launches, the enemy can fire at most twice next. According to conventional rules, crossbows on the battlefield can usually only shoot three arrows when facing cavalry. After three arrows, crossbows will retreat because the cavalry is already very close to them.

"Swoosh swish swish swish..."

Dozens of Turkic cavalry were again dismissed.

Before Zhishishili could react, he was immediately stunned by the next wave of arrow rain. Originally, according to his plan, the second wave of arrow rain of the Han people should have been about half a minute later, because it took time for the enemy's crossbow to skeleton. But now this wave of arrow rain was shot out in less than five seconds before the previous wave of arrow rain, and at most three or four seconds. This is really a ghost. This is already very unexpected to Zhishili. After all, this does not match the past routine. In the past, theirs were all experienced, but now there is something that does not match their experience, which surprised them too much.

While Zhi Shishi was still surprised, the third wave of arrow rain immediately hit again, and more than 80 cavalrymen of the Turks were once again dismissed.

"What's the hell is going on? Do you don't need to be skeletoned by Han people?" Zhi Shili suddenly said furiously.

Zhishili finally realized the problem, that is, the Han crossbowmen had a problem, and they actually fired arrow rain so quickly. This speed was simply amazing. It was fired once in three or four seconds, and each time it took dozens of people. Although dozens of people were nothing to ten thousand people, it was also very terrible. It took about two minutes for cavalry to charge in front of the enemy, and every time it was once in three or four seconds, dozens of people were injured or killed. If you really wanted to reach the Han crossbowmen, you would probably have to pay a price of two thousand people.

"Swoosh swish swish swish..."

"Swoosh swish swish swish..."

"Swoosh swish swish swish..."

The continuous rain of arrows flew in front of the Turkic cavalry, which could bring dozens of casualties to each time. The losses of the Turks were increasing and they were constantly severely damaged. Every time, dozens of people, when the Turks rushed to more than 1,180 meters, the casualties were already over a thousand.

"The Han people's crossbows are so powerful! Let's go!" "If you don't fight, don't fight, you won't fight anymore, the Han people's crossbows are so powerful!" "Let's go, we can't rush over at all!"...

"General Zhishili, we can't rush through!" Zhishili's deputy general shouted.

"Damn it! Retreat" Zhi Shisi scolded.

Although it seems that ten thousand Turks only lost more than one thousand, this meaning is different. The biggest difference between the ancient army and the later army is that the combat will be relatively different. When one-twentieth of the casualties in ancient army began to decline in morale, and when one-tenth of the casualties, deserters began to appear. A deserter could take away a group of people, and a group of people could immediately cause the collapse of the entire army. Being able to persevere to one-fifth of the casualties is already the super elite of ancient times. This is incomparable to those troops in later generations that could persevere to the last one soldier. These Turks were not absolutely elite, so they began to retreat after one-tenth of the casualties.
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