That's right, a bed crossbow can shoot thirty or forty arrows at a time, and dozens of bed crossbows can be fired at the same time, which means thousands or even more than one thousand arrows. More than one thousand arrows are indeed nothing in a battle where tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of arrows can be consumed at any time, but if they are fired within one second, the scene is a bit scary!

Li Rui said: "The arrows fired in this way are naturally not as powerful as those of the special crossbows fired by the bed crossbow, but they are much stronger than individual crossbows, and they are enough to penetrate most of the armor. Of course, if you encounter a target wearing heavy armor, it is better to change the heavy arrows."

Everyone agreed with this.

The arrows fired by the crossbow are naturally impossible to be ordinary arrows. Special arrows usually start at one pound. A strong crossbow can shoot it from 800 to 900 meters away. No armor can block such an attack. Now, the range of ordinary arrows that are launched into beams has been reduced to within 5 or 600 meters. After all, the energy is conserved. The weight of an arrow is about 100 grams, and 30 to 40 arrows. This amount is much heavier than a single crossbow arrow. Moreover, its launch principle is to use the tension of the crossbow to enter the iron bucket.

The speed of the arrow was accelerated and the arrow was thrown out of the iron bucket. It was not done directly by the crossbow to do the work on the arrow, and the range naturally had to be discounted. But no matter how much it was discounted, the range of five or six hundred meters was an unattainable range for the archers. The force was really much stronger than that of a single crossbow. Beigong Jing asked someone to find some broken armor for experiments, and found that within sixty steps, the general armor was similar to paper-paste in front of it. As for the leather armor that the Hu people had the most equipped, it would be easily penetrated within three hundred steps.

The Hu people's heavy cavalry usually starts to accelerate and sprint at two steps and a hundred distances. Before two hundred steps away from the Jin army's infantry phalanx, they are usually jogging...

In other words, as long as they can master the launching skills of this kind of arrow, they can use a crossbow to pour out dense rain of arrows when the Hu people's heavy cavalry is close to one mile away from them, and kill them on a large scale. At the same time, they also force the Hu people's heavy cavalry to accelerate the sprint in advance, consuming the physical strength of the war horse. The physical strength of the war horse is limited, and sprinting consumes a lot of physical strength. If they sprint a hundred steps ahead of time, the physical strength of the war horse has dropped greatly by the time they rushed to the infantry phalanx.

.The most important thing is that when the heavy cavalry charges, the formation will slowly disperse due to enemy attacks, terrain, corpses, obstacles and other factors. The further the charge distance, the more severe it disperses. This is not something that the commander can control... The looser the formation, the more powerful the impact force is weakened. This is an iron rule. Therefore, heavy cavalry charges are generally a one-time transaction, either killing the opponent in one go, or losing the impact force, falling into the enemy cluster and strangling them all.

Starting sprinting a hundred steps ahead of time means that the formation of the Hu people's heavy cavalry will be much more scattered than before, and it will be much easier to deal with it.

Beigong Jing figured out these keys and couldn't help but smile and said to Li Rui: "You are such a genius."

Li Rui said proudly: "Sometimes I also think I am a genius!"

Zhang Xiong couldn't help but snorted, full of sourness, but he could not help... This guy is indeed a genius, so he can't accept it.

Beigong Jing said to the craftsmen: "Renovate the other bed crossbows immediately so that those bed crossbows can also have the ability to fire archery beams!"

The craftsmen led their troops and started working hard.

At the same time, the craftsmen also dressed up the bows of the sound shooting camp.

After arriving at the Yiyang battlefield, the Liangzhou army showed their powerful bows that could be fired continuously to the sound camp. The archers in the sound camp were fascinated by this powerful and extremely fast bow, and they all asked for the same modification of their bows. Just as the craftsmen who stayed in Xiongershan Camp had not been idle for a while and had already made thousands of accessories. Beigong Jing waved his hand and gave all these accessories to the sound camp. The sound camp also had its own craftsmen, and the craftsmen immediately imitated the samples after getting the samples. Soon, the archers in the sound camp had more than 2,000 strong bows that could be fired continuously, and their firepower was twice as strong as before.

While the Jin army was nervously preparing for the attack, the Hu people were also ready to fight.

At this time, the main army of the Huns and Han Kingdom led by Liu Cong, with Liu Yao as the vanguard, had set out from Mianchi and headed straight for Luoyang with the force of Mount Tai. In addition to the headquarters of the Huns, there were also the Han armed forces led by Wang Mi, as well as the Xianbei and Wuhuan cavalry who surrendered to them. The total force exceeded 70,000, and the momentum was huge. Not to mention that the Western Jin Dynasty is now shaking, even if it is in its heyday, it is probably impossible to get into such a large army. Even if it has such a huge advantage, Liu Cong will not

He planned to confront the Jin army head-on. He adopted Wang Mi's suggestion, ignored Yiyang and rushed straight to Luoyang. There were many forces in Luoyang City that were interested in investing in the Huns and Han Kingdoms. Once the army arrived, they would definitely open the city gate and let them in. Now there is no Beigong Chun in Luoyang City. In the end, the elite of the imperial guards were also transferred. It would not be too easy to take Luoyang. After taking Luoyang, Sima Yue and Beigong Jing all became turtles in the jar. It would be better to deal with them!

Even if the Neiwang cannot successfully open the Luoyang city gate and let them in, it doesn't matter. When he is at the city, the Jin army will have to return to the rescue quickly. At that time, Shi Le from Yiyang City, Hu Yanyan, with elite cavalry, will bite them. He will send cavalry to intercept them. Under the front and back attacks, even the tenacious Jin army will collapse... The key to the victory or defeat of this battle is that Yiyang City must withstand the offensive of the Jin army, and entangle the Jin army before he approaches Luoyang, so that the Jin army cannot get out to block him. For this reason, Liu Cong specially sent an order to let Shi Le and Hu Yanyan must stand firm in Yiyang. If he loses Yiyang before he arrives in Luoyang, he will be severely punished!

After a few days of rest, Shi Le and Hu Yanyan had recovered. Yiyang City was high and deep, and there were also Fenghuang Mountain camps supporting each other. More than 30,000 of them were guarding here. No matter how powerful the Jin army's magic was, it was impossible to knock down the Luoyang city wall with a forbidden spell, right? There is still a battle to fight. In the past few days, they not only tried hard to strengthen the fortifications, but they were rewarding the three armies and boosting morale. The Xincheng defeat in the attack on the Huns and Han army was heavy. The Huns headquarters

Fortunately, he slipped quickly and did not suffer much damage. Jiehu was miserable. Nearly 10,000 people were killed and injured. Most of the eighteen generals who first followed Shi Le to reign were killed and injured. This was a crushing defeat that Shi Le had never encountered since reigning. Having been so harsh, his morale was naturally not much higher, and he could even be called panic all day long. Everyone was filled with fear, fearing that the terrible thunder would come to him again in the next moment and blow him up to his flesh and blood!

Shi Le and Hu Yanyan first took out a large amount of looted property to reward the brave soldiers who fought, while those who were not so brave also killed cattle and prepared wine, so that everyone could have a few good meals. The battles against the Liangzhou Army were really fierce, and each battle was heavy casualties. The soldiers of the entire army had resentment, and they had to take some favors to gather the morale of the army and eliminate the resentment in the hearts of the soldiers. Sure enough, after one reward, the resentment in the hearts of the soldiers of the three armies was relieved a lot.

However, it is useless to just relieve the resentment. The biggest problem of the army now is that they are scared by the fireball falling from the sky and the thunder and thunder. Many people even lose the courage to fight. If they cannot dispel the fear in their hearts, once the Jin army launches an attack, they will probably disperse and run to the back of their heads. In order to avoid this worst situation, Hu Yanyan and Shi Le discussed and finally decided to deceive the soldiers of the three armies and tell them that those who would explode.

The explosion of fireballs and the thunder falling from the sky are not magic tricks, but secret weapons that the Jin army had overwhelmed. This lie sounds quite reliable. The reason why the Central Plains dynasty was able to suppress the barbarians in the past five hundred years was not just advanced technology? In the past five hundred years of war, did the Central Plains dynasty have few advanced weapons? At the moment of life and death, what is it that it is to take out a few lethal killing weapons?

Not to mention, the general is the general. This set of lies made them look good. The Hu people who are still in the prenatal education stage really believe it: Oh, I just said how could it be thunder in this cold winter? It turned out to be the secret weapon of the Jin army! The case was solved!

Then the morale became even lower.

The reason for the even lower morale is very simple: if this was the secret weapon of the Jin army, with the huge number of craftsmen and strong financial resources of the Central Plains Dynasty, they would definitely produce such fatal weapons in batches like exquisitely produced single-soldier crossbows and huge bed crossbows, and then hit them in a head-on manner. That would be a hammer!

Shi Le: "…"

Hu Yanyan: “…”

Hey, these subordinates are really dissatisfied. They tried hard to explain. They just said that, what are you thinking about? It’s hard to lead them, and these subordinates are really hard to lead them!

While Shi Le and Hu Yanyan were worried about how to boost morale, the opponents who had defeated them were already sharpening their swords and ready to take action.

To be precise, Beigong Jing is already sharpening his knife and ready to take action.

Beigong Jing always believed that it was unreasonable for Hu Yanyan and Shi Le to choose to defend Yiyang after their great defeat. Yes, the Hu people who were annihilated by him in the Battle of Xincheng were indeed mainly Qiang, Hu and Di, and Hu infantry. The elite cavalry of the Xiongnu headquarters basically did not suffer any losses, but Shi Le's Jiehu cavalry also lost nearly 10,000 people. For the Huns and Han Kingdom, this was already a heavy loss. According to their usual style, after suffering such a heavy blow, they usually chose to retreat and wait until they recovered before launching an attack. But after Shi Le and Hu Yanyan suffered a great defeat, they chose to nail Yiyang, a military city that was only twenty or thirty miles away from Luoyang. If they did not retreat, there must be any conspiracy here!
Chapter completed!