Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 59
In ancient times, crossbowmen and archers cooperated with each other. Although bows and arrows are cheaper than crossbows, the main reason is that crossbows can only shoot in a straight line, while bows and arrows can shoot in curved lines like a blaster.In the face of heavy shield defense, the crossbow machine is powerless, unless armor-piercing arrows are used to shoot at medium and short distances (fifty steps), but armor-piercing arrows are made of fine steel to make cone-shaped arrows, and the cost is very high. At this time, the power of bows and arrows The display appears.

It turned out that the soldiers of the Tian family army who were still hiding behind the "shield" were still trembling, praying for the protection of thousands of gods and Buddhas.However, seeing that the crossbow could not shoot through their "shields", most of them shouted arrogantly: "You guys shoot me, shoot me, you can't shoot this time, right?"

There is a saying that if you don’t do something you won’t die, if you do something you will definitely die.The soldiers of the Tian Family Army yelled and shouted: "Come and shoot me..." As soon as their words fell, a row of sharp arrows flew over, and the soldiers of the Tian Family Army who were hiding behind the heavy shield had more than a dozen heads. Or hit an arrow in the upper body, screaming and falling into the Huai River.The blood instantly stained the river red, and then spread and died.

In fact, the bow and arrow cooperate with each other, and the shooting angle is from the front to the top, almost three-dimensional strike, and the shooting dead angle is not large.The shield can protect the front, but it can't prevent the bow and arrow from falling from the sky. The crossbow and the bowstring of the bow will crack from time to time, and the sharp arrow will break through the air.

As for some friends who would say, wouldn’t it be like in TV dramas or movies that you hold the shield above your head and in front of you?As long as you understand the principle of force, you should know that the defense of the shield is only the penetrating power of the arrow, but it cannot offset the inertia and huge impact of the arrow. When a strong crossbow is shooting, the huge inertia of the arrow will be like When the hammer hits the shield, the shield will shatter if it is heavy, and if it is light, it will be too much for the shield holder's hands.

150 strong crossbowmen and more than [-] archers of the dead army shot arrows at the heads of Tian's army crossing the river as if they didn't want money. After a short time, Tian's army was shot and killed hundreds of people.It's a pity that the raft can only row a hundred steps just now. According to this hit rate, Tian's army would have to drop at least three or four hundred corpses to complete the river crossing.

Of course, the main reason is that the soldiers of the dead army have too few crossbowmen. If the soldiers of the dead army increase the ratio of crossbowmen to archers by ten times, a hundred times.It is estimated that even if all the Tian family troops were killed, they would have no chance of rushing ashore.

Tian Bao saw that it was not an option to be passively beaten. Although the crossbowmen of the dead army soldiers could kill dozens of them, or even dozens of them, this kind of fighting method was very draining on morale. More than a hundred people were killed in battle, which was less than [-]% of the entire army, but it caused countless Tian family army officers and soldiers to change their faces, and even many people trembled, like sifting chaff.Let the crossbowmen of the dead army continue to shoot like this, and the morale of the troops may collapse.

"Archer, fight back!"

The archers of the Tian family army were ordered to draw their bows and shoot arrows one after another. Then these hundreds of archers just left the defense of the shield and got up to shoot arrows. However, before their bows were fully drawn, they were shot down by a row of sharp arrows. .Nearly [-]% of the hundreds of archers fell down immediately.Enduring the huge casualties, the archers of the Tian family army still shot the arrows in their hands towards the formation of the dead army Linhe.

However, the arrows shot by the archers of the Tian family army were not only soft and weak, they had not yet flown to the front of the death army, like birds with broken wings, falling into the Huai River one after another.It's okay if the shooting range is not enough, it's barely tolerable, and the accuracy is extremely poor, it's okay to shoot off the direction, but it's maddening to shoot the arrow on the back of the Tian Family Army soldiers on the raft in the front row.

Fortunately, Gao Jingzong was not here at this time, otherwise he would have said to the Tian family army officers and men: "Are you all invited by monkeys to make fun of you?"

At this time, the archers said that they were unwilling to shoot arrows with their bows and arrows. They shivered and hid behind their shields, willing to shrink their heads like turtles for ten thousand years.Tian Bao was as tangled up as if he had vomited a fly, but he couldn't help it.The standard one-stone strong bows and arrows equipped by the Tian family army are very few, and only a few marshals who are good at archery or officers above the rank of team leader have them.As for the strong crossbow, there is not even a single one.

The bows equipped by the Tian family army are basically either hunting bows or horn bows. These bows and arrows have limited pulling power, limited range, and naturally have little lethality.Otherwise, the Song army in Xiangyang City during the Southern Song Dynasty would not have been able to defend for 38 years, and the Mongolian army that swept the world was smashed.

At this time, Tian Bao had no choice but to bite the bullet and rush up.

For Tian Jiajun's clumsy and incompetent performance, Hu Guang and some Jiziying veterans have long been familiar with it.If Tian's army was really brave and good at fighting, Jiziying would have been wiped out more than a dozen times.

The crossbowmen in front of the dead army were in pain and happiness at this time. They were very happy to rain arrows on the troops of the Tian family army crossing the river, while the Tian family army bit the bullet and attacked.

At the same time, the dead army completely tortured the soldiers of the Tian family army with zero casualties until the soldiers of the Tian family army suffered nearly 350 casualties during the process of crossing the river.

"Bow and crossbow soldiers retreat 150 steps, rest and wait for orders!" Hu Guang shouted coldly: "Spear soldiers, throw their spears and get ready!"

The distance of fifty steps is enough for the archers of the Tian family army to cause casualties to the archers of the dead army, and the archers of the dead army are not equipped with iron armor. How can there be hunting bows and horn bows at this distance? Lethality.Dead army crossbowmen will also be injured or killed if they are shot.

It is the basic quality of every general to expand the advantage in the field that is beneficial to one's own side and wipe out the enemy at a very small cost. Hu Guang definitely did not make such a poor tactical mistake, letting the dead army fight with Tian's army within fifty steps. Archers play mutual damage.

As the drums sounded, the crossbowmen of the dead army breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the order, and slowly retracted their crossbows and retreated.These crossbowmen were actually very tired, and they almost lost their strength in this short quarter of an hour. Letting them rest now is exactly what they wished for.

As the crossbowmen retreated one by one, the soldiers of the Tian family army, who had already been shot by the crossbowmen of the dead army, began to slander and curse each other.

"They are cowardly!"

"Escaped!"

"Don't run away if you have the guts, I will leave you in the fertile land!"

"Can you be more shameless and want to leave after taking advantage? There is no door, rush up and kill them all."

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The yelling Tian Jiajun basically realized that death had already shown them a ferocious smile.More than [-] dead soldiers from the two villages stepped forward neatly.In the equipment of the former song of the dead army, it was not equipped with throwing guns, but it had undergone similar training.Gao Jingzong planned to put his feet on crossbows, hard bows and throwing guns to form a combined strike firepower network of the dead army from far, middle and near.

Hu Guang saw that Yang Suowen was equipped with a large number of long spears in the trilogy. Anyway, he distributed these long spears, which are almost affluent at the fingertips, to these armored spearmen.Use actual combat on the battlefield to test whether Gao Jingzong's words are correct or not.

Seeing these black armored spearmen approaching, the archers of the Tian family army were not polite at all, and they began to draw their bows and shoot arrows without Tian Bao's order.

(End of this chapter)