"Let the people in the previous battalion come down to rest and replace them." Tong Guan was sure to win. Soon, the battalion of troops besieged Xuanwu Gate slowly retreated, and the wounded and the bodies were dragged out, and the next battalion was ready.

"Hurry and hurry!" The prince was impatient, "Get in, everyone is inside!" As he said that, he took a knife from his side and gestured excitedly.

There was a vague sound from the south, but everyone didn't care too much. Seeing that the achievements were coming, Tong Guan was very excited and personally gathered the elites around him.

"Brothers! It's time to make achievements, kill me!" Tong Guan shouted loudly, and everyone was excited to rush in.

All the elites under Tong Guan gathered over and began to launch a final charge towards Xuanwu Gate.

"General! Encounter! Encounter with the South Gate, and Encounter with the South Gate!" Someone hurriedly pushed the person away.

"Who? How many?" Tong Guan was shocked.

"I don't know, I've called in from the south gate!" The visitor said in panic.

"Take all the people over here and stop them. When the prince and I kill the old emperor, they are the rebels!" Tong Guan was furious, "What are you afraid of? The roads in the palace are narrow. Even if there are too many people, they can't get in at once. Block me!" As he said that, he turned around and rushed towards Xuanwu Gate.

The remaining people organized themselves to intercept reinforcements in the opposite direction.

The prince was a little panicked and followed Tong Guan on a horse: "What should they do if they call in?"

Tong Guan waved his hand and the elite troops under his command began to attack towards Xuanwu Gate.

"I can't get in!" Tong Guan was very self-righteous. "The road is so narrow, we have so many people, and even if the dead are blocking the road, they can't get in."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chengnan thought of a loud noise that shocked the sky. The horse under his crotch was shocked. He quickly stabilized the horse, a little confused: "What sound?"

The prince shook his head, the sound continued, and it was getting closer and closer...

Tong Guan didn't have time to think, so he quickly urged the soldiers to attack Xuanwu Gate quickly. The defenders seemed to know that there were reinforcements and resisted to the death.

Tong Guan scolded the crossbowman behind and said, "Go up and kill! What are you doing behind!"

Several soldiers holding divine arm crossbows lost the crossbow and also drew their swords and rushed forward.

"I heard the sound is getting closer..." The prince was a little uneasy and squeezed the reins tightly.

"No, they can't get through, and more than a thousand people can block an alley!" Tong Guan said loudly.

"But I heard it!" The prince was almost crying.

"Shut up!" Tong Guan looked at him fiercely, with a serious fierce light flashing like a wolve under the moon.

The prince shut up...

At this moment, a large number of figures were noisy, and they were noisy and retreated toward him, crowding the passage in the palace.

"What are you doing?" Tong Guan was furious and slashed down one person, "The escapee died at the last battle!"

But what he didn't expect was that no one paid attention to him at all. Everyone ran back like a ghost, the sound of horse hooves rumbling, and a large number of black shadows followed these people around the corner, and a large number of black cavalry under the moonlight...

Impossible! How could it be so fast? He kept people to guard the key points of each level, it was impossible! Tong Guan looked at the cavalry under the moon. Before he could say anything, a large number of fire suddenly lit up in the opponent's formation, and then the sound was dense.

He didn't react to what happened. The war horse under his crotch suddenly whined and threw him off the horse. He was spinning and fell to pieces, and he was covered in dizziness. He saw Venus all over his eyes. There were explosions around him. Some people shouted "The new army is coming" and "Run quickly". His back hurt, and he was probably trampled a few times in a panic......

In recent years, the new army has become too famous. Thousands of people followed the King of Jin to the south, defeating more than 100,000 rebels, and then exterminated the Northern Han rebels in the Taihang Mountains.

Finally, he defeated Weizhou, Anding, Yanshan Prefecture, captured the Emperor of Liao, and added many legends. The new army was like the commander of the King of Jin, as if it was no longer a human, but a god. So when the new army, which was well-known and well-known, drove around the corner under the bright moonlight of Mid-Autumn Festival, the morale of the rebels completely collapsed.

......

As reinforcements approached, the rebels' offensive became more fierce, and what was even more deadly was the powerful crossbow in the army, also called the Divine Arm crossbow.

It is the inheritance and upgraded version of Han Crossbow. This version can even shoot through the skinned wooden shield, causing considerable casualties to the Wude Department. Ordinary soldiers' leather armor cannot be defended at all.

In the darkness, Li Xingzhou dared not show up at all because this was not a joke. It would be fine to shoot on the armor, but it might be just a skin trauma. If he was not lucky, he would be killed in the uncovered armored area.

Wudesi also has such crossbows, with more than 200 pieces, but they have never been used, because people in front of them block the door and can easily hurt their own people by mistake.

But every time when the rebels were about to rush in, these powerful crossbows saved their lives. More than a hundred divine arm crossbows shot at a small door at the same time. That was no joke.

.........

When the sound of muskets came from outside the door, Li Xingzhou knew that reinforcements were coming, so he immediately asked everyone to retreat to avoid being too close and being accidentally injured by muskets. At the same time, everyone replaced the divine arm crossbow at the rear and shot at the door.

The blockbuster rebels were in a state of attack on both sides, with heavy casualties, but they still persisted. Then the blockbuster cavalry began to appear on the other end of their vision, with the flashing fire and the sound of the sounds shook the sky, and fierce shooting began. The rebels were blocked in the open space outside the Xuanwu Gate and became sandwich biscuits, and their morale began to gradually collapse.

Muskets are not as good as crossbows. They are difficult to shoot through armor at close range. Armors such as plate armor often rely on shooting areas where armor cannot be killed. The elite soldiers of the imperial guards all have iron armor, but the new army muskets do not care what armor you are.

However, the straw that broke the camel's back was still the banner of the new army. When the banner of the new army drove across the corner and reached the front of the touchdown, the rebels began to panic, shouting something like the new army came, and gradually some people began to drop their swords and guns and kneel down to surrender.

After all, the deterrent power of the new army is too great.

Many soldiers from the Wude Division cheered and cried as they smiled......

Li Xingzhou also had a sense of courage to take off his strength. He stepped on the fishy and bloody water under his feet and went to see Ji Chunsheng who was seriously injured in the back. Degong and He Zhao were taking care of him. Li Xingzhou put down the divine arm crossbow in his hand and pinched Ji Chunsheng's cold palm, which was covered with calluses. His pulse could hardly be felt.

He glanced blankly at his hand before putting down the blood-stained divine arm crossbow. If it weren't for these two hundred crossbows, they wouldn't have been able to hold back the reinforcements. He was committed to the development of firearm technology, but what he saved at the critical moment was not the firearm...

The crossbow is an important masterpiece of ancient Chinese military technology. However, China is a country that emphasizes humanities. Subconsciously, it believes that man will conquer nature, so it believes that human strategies are more important than technology. Some spirits are the opposite. They believe that technology can solve everything, so they do not pay attention to long-term strategies.

This kind of subconsciousness is difficult to change, so even if modern people talk about the powerful crossbows in ancient times, many people say crossbows, Zhuge crossbows, etc., because the cultural confidence and cultural significance carried by the "black technology crossbows" are more important than the scientific and technological significance.

But what is interesting is that some scholars from China are interested in restoring various crossbows in the world and making documentaries, relying on strict historical verification and scientific analysis.

As a result, he was surprised to find that the so-called crossbow can indeed achieve semi-automatic firing, with a faster firing rate than many ancient crossbows, but its power is only toy-level, and it cannot shoot through any armor at all, nor can it achieve practical significance, and it is even more impossible to equip the army unless the leader is a fool.

At the same time, he believed that from the perspective of physics, it is impossible for a crossbow to achieve great power, and he also carefully carried out a series of calculations and reasoning to prove his point of view.

On the contrary, other normal crossbows in China, such as the military standard crossbow drawings recorded in military books, as well as the unearthed military equipment crossbows, those that were not blown to the sky, such as the Han army crossbows, Song Shen's arm crossbows, etc.

The power and range are much greater than that of the European crossbows of the same period, and are much smaller than that of the European crossbows in size and weight.

Because after the crossbow is loaded, the string will tightly hold the fixed protrusion. At this time, because the tension is too strong, human power cannot be pulled. European crossbow uses the principle of simple leverage and adds a long iron lever behind the crossbow to achieve firing.

This also causes the crossbow string to be unable to be too wide, because the greater the force accumulated by the crossbow arm string, the longer the lever trigger behind it will be to obtain the same huge force to allow the crossbow to fire.

Simply put, if the European crossbow is 1 meter long, then its string can only be pulled back about 0.3 meters, otherwise the trigger will not be pulled. A one-meter crossbow is already at the level of a heavy crossbow.

However, Chinese craftsmen found a solution to the Han crossbows and designed a structure similar to the triggers of guns in later generations. That is to say, if the Chinese crossbow is 1 meter long, its string can be pulled back by 0.9 meters. Because of the craftsmen's clever design, pulling the trigger is no problem.

It is enough to imagine how different the kinetic energy accumulated by the crossbow is. The power gap between the 0.3-meter pull distance and the 0.9-meter pull distance are self-evident.

It is not difficult to imagine that if the Han crossbow and the Divine Arm crossbow would be much lighter than the European crossbow of the same period. Unfortunately, people talk about the crossbows, and the crossbows that are blown to the sky are also the crossbows, and the crossbows that lack practical argumentation, such as the crossbows that are blown to the sky.

Therefore, at that time, scholars from M country called the crossbow "exquisite toys", while the regular military Chinese crossbow was designed to lead the world.

This sentence is very pertinent. When the Han army defeated the Huns, historical books recorded the benefits of crossbows.

But gradually, under the influence of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, the Central Plains believed in people more and believed in people's strategies, rather than the power of external objects, and did not believe in technology, so gradually the world-leading crossbows of the Qin and Han Dynasties and the unrivaled sea ships of the Song Dynasty.

By the Ming Dynasty, due to this far-reaching influence, it had already shown that it had been very "awkish" or distorted. On the one hand, it attached importance to the development of firearms. The craftsmen had various ideas, such as the earliest design of the firearm, the design of the rear-loading gun, etc.

But on the other hand, processing technology and material technology are far from keeping up, the quality of the iron is not good, the gun barrel cannot be made, the air leakage is severe, the cavity is often exploded, the power accuracy is insufficient, etc.

The court also showed an attitude of not paying attention to it. To put it bluntly, until now they hoped that "human planning" could make up for the shortcomings of these external objects and use human strengths to make up for the shortage of external objects. This way of thinking is an inevitable drawback brought by the core values ​​of "we are the destiny of heaven."
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