Chapter 393          Fighting across the water

Li Yu looked down at the map, rubbed his chin, and said, "Add defense by the river. Once the enemy forces cross the river, I can catch them off guard when the enemy has just arrived and is unstable!"

He smiled and bowed and said, "Your Highness is wise!"

Li Yu nodded and said, "Okay! That's it! We will set up defenses in Yu Wenghe!"

Wenghe was originally the boundary river between the Boy tribe and the Shiju tribe. After the Shiju tribe was destroyed, Wenghe became the inland river of the Boy tribe.

In the entire territory of Xiaoyang Kingdom, the Weng River is considered a big river. It not only flows through a wide range, but also has a wide surface and rapid water flow.

When Li Yu led his army to the south bank of Wenghe River, a 100,000 Taungzhi army had already arrived at the west bank of Wenghe River, and the two armies were across the bank.

The Weng River here is almost 300 meters wide, and the river water is surging. Even if a person with good water quality wants to swim directly, it is difficult to have the possibility of success.

After seeing this, Li Yu nodded. This Weng River can definitely be regarded as a natural danger.

It is our own side to hold on to the river, and even if the Taung Chi army has more troops, it is difficult to cross the line.

As he was thinking, Chen let him go over and salute Li Yu, saying, "Your Highness, I remember that Mr. Lu had developed a powerful crossbow machine, which seemed to be a moaning crossbow!"

Li Yu blinked his eyes and thought about it carefully, and vaguely remembered that it seemed like this was the case.

A bed crossbow is a large crossbow machine, not used by individual soldiers, but a large siege weapon similar to a stone thrower.

When siegeing the city, the defenders usually hide behind the arrowheads, and it is difficult for the attacking party to directly attack the defenders.

The bed crossbow is designed to break through the city defense.

It can shoot up to three crossbow arrows at the same time each time. Each crossbow arrow is the thickness of an arm, with a range of up to 300 steps, and can directly penetrate the arrow stack and kill the enemy troops hiding behind the arrow stack.

Since the main enemy facing Pyeongchang County is the tribes of the Xiaoyang Kingdom, which are primitive and backward and have no cities, large siege weapons such as stone throwers and crossbows are completely useless.

Even though Ruchi successfully developed the bed crossbow, it has not been manufactured on a large scale.

Li Yu asked in confusion: "Why did General Chen suddenly ask about this?"

"Your Highness, can you invite Mr. Lu over and let him make a bed crossbow here?"

Li Yu only pondered for a moment and understood Shen Lu's intention.

The surface of the Wenghe River is 300 meters wide, and no matter what kind of strong bow and crossbow is, it is difficult to shoot arrows to the other side.

But the bed crossbow is different. Its range is 300 steps. If it is converted into meters, it is 450 meters. It is more than enough to shoot to the other side.

Li Yu's eyes lit up at first, but soon he shook his head and said, "This doesn't make much sense!"

He raised his hand, pointed to the other side, and said, "If the Taung Chi army set up camp on the shore, our army can indeed use bed crossbows to kill the enemy, but the enemy can also choose to retreat and retreat to camp in the nearby forest. In this way, even if our army drove a batch of bed crossbows, it would be useless!"

Chen Fang smiled at Li Yu and said, "Your Highness, as long as you can create a crossbow, I will be confident that I can defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!"

Seeing Chen Fang's confidence full of confidence, Li Yu shrugged and said, "Okay! According to General Chen's opinion, I will send someone to invite Mr. Lu here!"

It was obviously not feasible, but Chen Fang had to do this, and Li Yu didn't understand what he was thinking about.

But the same thing is said: in war, he is an outsider, while indulge in the open is an insider.

The expert has made an opinion, so he, as an outsider, should not interfere too much.

Next, the border soldiers began to camp on the south bank of Wenghe River.

Their camp chose to be on the shore.

The Taung Chi army opposite was also facing each other and also camped on the shore.

The camps of both sides were set up across the river. Even though there was no direct confrontation, they had already emitted the smell of gunpowder, and the tension before the war spread.

After both sides set up camps, the Taung-zhi army immediately took action, and a large number of soldiers entered the nearby forest to cut down and create rafts.

They did not carry ships with their troops on this expedition, and there were no ships nearby, so they could only make them by themselves.

If a hundred thousand troops had to cross the river, the number of ships needed was naturally indispensable. In just one day, the wood cut by the hundred thousand troops piled up like mountains on the north shore.

Chen Fang saw the Taung-ji army on the opposite side being logged, and he also ordered his soldiers to cut the wood.

Seeing the Taung Chi army making rafts, the sinking of the rafts also made people make rafts.

Judging from his posture, he didn't seem to be planning to defend, but wanted to fight a water battle with the Taung Chi army.

Soon, Luqi brought a group of apprentices and craftsmen to the south bank of Wenghe River.

When he heard that Li Yu wanted to make his own crossbow, Ruqi immediately organized his apprentices and craftsmen to start making it.

Because the border soldiers cut down a lot of wood and the materials were ready-made, Ruqi and others made it very fast.

In just three days, Ruqi and others made more than a dozen bed crossbows.

In the following days, more and more bed crossbows were made, from ten to twenty, thirty, and fifty.

After fifty units were built, Chen Fang did not have to do it anymore.

He asked someone to put fifty crossbows in a row on the shore and aimed at the Taung Chi military camp on the other side.

With the order of Shen Qi, fifty crossbows shot crossbow arrows at the other side.

Each bed crossbow, three shots at a time, fifty bed crossbows, and one round of volleys, will be one hundred and fifty crossbow arrows.

The soldiers of the border army had never seen the power of the crossbow. They stood around curiously, stretched their necks and looked at the opposite shore.

Thick and long crossbow arrows cut through the sky, flew over the wide Weng River, and shot directly into the opposite Taung Chi military camp.

The crossbow shot down the straw shed that was temporarily built by the Taung Chi man. The wall of the shed broke down accordingly, and then there were a series of screams inside.

The power of the crossbow arrow is too great. When it hits a person, the flesh and blood body is like a piece of paper, and it is directly penetrated, and then it hits the second person and the third person...

Some crossbow arrows shot into the straw shed with one arrow, killing four or five people in a row.

With just one round of volleys, the Taungzhi Army camp seemed to be in an uproar.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the border soldiers on the south bank were so excited that they raised their arms and shouted.

Chen Fang also had a smile on his lips and ordered the arrow to continue shooting. Without his orders, don't stop.

The crossbow shot wave after wave of crossbow arrows continuously toward the other side. The Taung-ji army on the opposite side gradually calmed down from the initial panic.

The King of Taung-zhi responded quickly, abandoned the camp located on the river bank, and all the soldiers retreated into the forest behind to camp.

Under the order of King Tamjee, the Tamjee army began to retreat on a large scale, with only a small amount of troops, and continued to stay on the shore to guard against border soldiers who quietly crossed the river and attacked.

Seeing this, Li Yu was full of helplessness.

He expected this to be the result.

The crossbows created by our side can indeed kill the enemy on the shore, but the problem is that the enemy is not dead. They all have legs, so they can retreat and hide in the woods.

Now, the bed crossbows that we have made have become useless things, which is a waste of resources and a waste of manpower.

Before Li Yu could come and blame Chen Fang, a news suddenly came from Zhou State that shocked Li Yu and everyone.
Chapter completed!