In the first month of 2023 AD, there was a rental house in Yongfeng No. 2 Village, Yincheng City.
Lu Xiaoning glanced outside the window and found that it was already stormy and thunderous, so he quickly got up and closed the window to avoid having to pay the landlord again when the window glass broke.
As a 996 social animal, it is not easy to make some money.
What the hell, thunder can also happen during the first month of the year?
When I returned to the computer desk in the room, I saw that the software had been downloaded.
This is an expansion pack for the large-scale ancient war PC game "Dynasty", set in the Tianbao period of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
As a hardcore player of "Dynasty", Lu Xiaoning has been looking forward to this expansion pack for a long time, and today he finally got what he wanted. It was like doing that with his girlfriend for the first time.
The expansion pack was quickly installed, and Lu Xiaoning eagerly clicked to start.
Nowadays, there are very few people who play PC games, and most of them have switched to mobile games, such as King of Kings, Genshin Impact, Chicken Game, or Lua Lu Lu. However, Lu Xiaoning is still obsessed with the war PC game Dynasty.
However, just when he was about to enter the game interface, a thunder suddenly sounded outside the window.
Moreover, the thunder was so loud that it was almost outside the window, making Lu Xiaoning's eardrums buzz, and there was even a blue current flowing along the wires on the wall to the computer.
The computer screen flashed for a moment, then went black.
"Fuck me!" Lu Xiaoning was so angry that he yelled.
This is too unlucky, isn't it? A thunderstorm destroyed the computer?
This is a new machine that he just bought with most of his salary.
After cursing a few words, Lu Xiaoning restarted the computer with the intention of giving it a try.
A miracle really happened. The computer screen actually lit up again, and a picture popped up: a group of Tang Dynasty cavalry wearing black hammer armor were marching in the desert, and they looked very tired, and some even had their heads drooped. , The body is crooked, as if it might fall off the horse at any time.
It's okay, it doesn't look like 50-cent special effects.
The game production team is really careful this time.
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AD 753, the first month of the twelfth year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, Anxi.
A group of Tang cavalry was meandering forward among the rolling yellow sand.
The leading cavalryman had his back straight and his eyes were as sharp as a knife.
While walking, he took off his hat, revealing a tanned face with sharp edges.
Lu Wen felt like he couldn't hold on anymore, because he hadn't had a drop of water for two days, his throat was so dry that smoke was almost coming out, and his lungs were burning and uncomfortable.
It would be nice to have a barrel of wine at this time.
Lu Wen thought to himself, he must fill his stomach.
It's a pity that fantasy is just fantasy after all. Let alone wine, I can't even drink saliva.
"Boss, I really can't walk anymore." A Tang soldier said, "Get off your horse and rest for a while."
"No, I can't rest. Just cheer up and move forward. I already recognize this place. There is an oasis more than ten miles ahead with a spring on it. You can drink the spring water when you get there."
Lu Wen knew that the brothers were now supported by a certain energy. Once this energy was released, they would never be able to get out of the desert, so he did not hesitate to make up a lie to deceive his subordinates.
"Army, is there really an oasis ahead?"
"Boss, are you lying to us?"
"What are you doing to lie to me? Am I free?"
"I have been guarding Seluburg for five and a half years, and I have walked through this desert no less than twenty times!"
Lu Wen is talking nonsense. It is true that he has been guarding Selüborg for five years, but he has not crossed the Tulun Moraine (Taklimakan Desert) to Khotan many times. What's more, he encountered a sandstorm this time and has already lost his way. direction.
But the dozen Tang soldiers under Lu Wen believed his words, and they all accelerated their horses, hoping to reach the oasis earlier and drink the sweet spring water earlier.
However, nine out of ten things in the world are not as good as they should be.
As soon as we climbed over a sand dune, we saw a group of Hu riding towards us.
"Army, Tubo dogs!" Tang Bing, who was walking in front to explore the road, reported the number at a glance. This is an innate sensitivity to numbers. "Thirty-one Tubo dogs, about three miles apart!" "
"Formation! One-word formation!" Lu Wen put the bag on his head hard.
The sixteen cavalry Tang soldiers behind Lu Wen also spread out to both sides, forming a formation.
Lu Wen raised his right hand and waved forward, and the seventeen cavalrymen urged their horses to face the Tibetan cavalry.
Although there were thirty-one Tibetan cavalry on the opposite side, nearly twice as many as their Tang army, even though they were tired and thirsty, they still took the initiative to attack the Tibetan soldiers without hesitation.
Because they must fight their way forward.
Paoze of the ninth regiment was still waiting for reinforcements from Khotan.
The Tibetan cavalry on the opposite side discovered the Tang army almost at the same time, and immediately formed a flying geese formation and rushed towards the Tang army. The shouts of the Tubo cavalry could be heard in the distance.
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Love it, love it, the production level is beyond expectations.
Lu Xiaoning stared at the computer screen with bated breath, unwilling to move away even for a second.
This opening animation is really the conscience of the industry. How many years have we not seen such sophisticated animation production? No, I have never seen such sophisticated production, and the animation of Final Fantasy 15 is far inferior to this.
This animation is nothing like animation, and it is not inferior to those live-action high-definition movies produced by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The color and texture of the black hammer armor, the undulating mane of the war horse as it gallops, and the dust kicked up by the horse's hooves, all the details are so real.
It was so real that Lu Xiaoning couldn't tell it was an animation.
If I had to find a flaw, it would be that there is no soundtrack, and the camerawork is amateurish.
The camera is always fixed a few meters in front of Tang Jun, always looking down at the panoramic view.
For such a sophisticated production, a lot of money was spent, but I didn't expect to get two close-ups of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and the horses at their crotches. The Tibetan cavalry on the opposite side didn't even appear in the scene.
Lu Xiaoning only knew about the discovery of the Tibetan cavalry from the Tang soldiers.
But the camera focused on the Tang army from beginning to end, and did not show the Tibetan cavalry.
The long howl of the Tang army commander sounded again in the earphones, and the seventeen Tang cavalry lined up in a row took out a horn bow from the bag at the same time, drew the bow and arrows, and pointed at the screen in unison.
So handsome! Lu Xiaoning couldn't help but secretly praise it.
I just like the cold weapon era of gold and iron, horseback riding and shooting.
The pinnacle of cavalry and archery in the Han Dynasty had to be the Tang Dynasty.
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"Fire the arrow!"
Lu Wen gave an order, and the seventeen riders released their bowstrings at the same time.
Seventeen light birch arrows flew into the air in an instant.
Most of these seventeen cavalry were veterans, and their timing was very accurate. At this time, the two armies were about two hundred steps apart, far beyond the range of the horn bow, but it took time for light arrows to fly in the air, and the Tubo cavalry also He was rushing forward quickly, so when the light arrow fell from the sky, it could land on the head of the Tubo cavalry.
After about half a finger snap (3.6 seconds), several screams were heard in the distance.
Obviously, many of the first wave of light arrows fired had hit the Tibetan cavalry.
It's a pity that the lethality of the birch light arrows is still a little weak, and can only barely penetrate the chain armor of the Tubo cavalry.
Therefore, unless it happens to hit the connecting gap of the armor, it is difficult to cause real damage to the Tubo cavalry.
The Tubo cavalry also used bows and arrows to fight back. Many of the light arrows they fired hit the Tang army, but such light arrows were of no concern to the Tang army cavalry.
The defense of the Tang Army's black hammer armor was much stronger than that of the Tubo chain armor.
Unless armor-piercing heavy arrows are used to shoot directly at close range, it is impossible to penetrate the black hammer armor of the Tang army's cavalry.
The seventeen-horse Tang soldiers, who were spread out in a straight line, ignored the shots fired by the Tubo cavalry and shot more than ten light arrows in just a snap of their fingers. In the blink of an eye, the distance between the two sides was less than fifty steps.
Lu Wen replaced a armor-piercing heavy arrow and clasped it on the string, then stretched the horn bow with all his strength.
Just hearing the sound of a bang, a Tibetan cavalryman on the opposite side fell off his horse.
"Cai!" The sixteen Tang troops lined up in a row cheered in unison when they saw this.
When Lu Wen drew the bow string again, the two sides were already less than thirty steps apart.
The Tang army cavalry and the Tubo cavalry simultaneously replaced light arrows with armor-piercing heavy arrows.
This wave of armor-piercing heavy arrows was incomparable to the light arrows just thrown.
Four Tang soldiers and seven Tubo cavalry were shot in the vital points at the same time and fell off their horses.
After shooting a wave of heavy arrows, all the Tang cavalry and Tubo cavalry threw away their horned bows without hesitation, and then took out their own melee weapons. The Tang cavalry used all the same horses, and the weapons of the Tubo cavalry looked very different. Some are messy, including horizontal knives, bone knives, and even scimitars, but of course the main ones are spears.
