There were so many "bomb cows" from the golden thief that the waiting soldiers of the Song Army were drooling... but they all had an ominous premonition at the same time!
Whether he will have a beef dinner tonight or wait to be laid to rest, only the bow and arrow can tell. While the soldiers were setting their bows and arrows, the captain, deputy, and platoon leader of each team had prepared torches and stood beside the soldiers.
Seeing the fried cow rushing at the front, he desperately rushed through the row of "white hair" stuck in the black soil. The captains of each team waited for a few more moments before waving the torches in their hands and loudly giving the order: "Five shots!"
Then a booming, booming sound with a vibrating sound was heard in the air, and countless powerful heavy arrows shot out, heading straight towards the incoming large group of fried cows!
The Red Turban Song Army now has weapons such as the 5-pound long cannon and the 8-tael camel cannon that can cause huge damage at medium and long distances, so it has completely eliminated sharp weapons such as the Divine Arm Bow and the Eight Ox Crossbow - the materials for making crossbow arms. Because the production is rare, the price is very expensive. Moreover, the manufacturing period of the crossbow arm is very long, the process is cumbersome, and the cost is naturally high. The price of thirty guan for a pair of high-quality divine arm bows is definitely not outrageous!
That’s more than a hundred kilograms of copper!
An 8-Liang cannon is only this price. Can a Divine Arm Bow be worth an 8-Liang cannon?
As for the price of the Eight Ox Crossbow, it is incomparable to a 5-pound long gun.
Therefore, the Red Turban Song Army simply eliminated the Divine Arm Bow and the Eight Ox Crossbow, and at the same time required all infantry soldiers to prepare their own cheaper infantry bows.
Although both types of bows use some expensive horns and tendons, the materials used are less expensive and the workmanship is more sloppy... Of course, the bows used by the Red Turban Song Army infantry are their private property. If you have the money to equip yourself with high-end goods, that’s fine. However, most of the soldiers are equipped with commercial products, the range is not far, and the accuracy is not high.
Therefore, ordinary infantrymen of the Red Turban Song Army generally do not use bows and arrows to shoot at targets 50 steps away. If heavy arrows with greater lethality are used, the standard attack distance will even be reduced to within 30 steps.
The heavy arrows used to shoot cows today can only hit bomb cows that are more than 30 steps away!
Even though the range of these heavy arrows is not very far, the lethality is still quite astonishing. At a distance of 30 steps, the "cowhide armor" prepared by Bomb Cow looks like paper in front of it. It can protect the arrows to the flesh. It's a big hole!
I saw arrow shafts with white hair stuck to their tails inserted into the upper brains, eye flesh, outer spine and other parts of the cows of the group of bomb cows rushing at the front almost at the same time, and the arrow shafts were pierced very deep. It hurts!
However, most of the bomb cows continued to run wildly like cows with no problem - they all risked their lives for the sake of the Kingdom of Jin! Their tails were wrapped with linen and set on fire. Now their tails are almost burnt! Moreover, a bomb was tied to the body, and the fuse of the bomb was already lit... It would explode at any time, blowing up these cows into a pile of beef, beef bones, beef offal, and beef. Blood. They are already dying cows now, who cares about the arrow shaft stuck in their back?
But they don't care, it doesn't mean that the infantry of the Red Turban Song Army don't shoot arrows... The infantry department's requirement for them is to fire 5 rounds of bows when the enemy reaches 30 steps before switching to mines or spears!
These five shots before the battle were not salvos, but random arrows. The infantry at the front of the formation shoots directly, while the infantry at the rear shoots five rounds.
Now most of the soldiers of the Song Army have already mastered the skill of shooting arrows, and their archery skills are by no means inferior to that of the golden thieves!
Therefore, those brave bomb cows encountered a hail of arrows. Although most of the sharp arrows hit the upper brain, eye flesh, outer spine, and buttocks, there were also some arrowheads that pierced the cow's head. , beef neck, beef neck meat! These places are more deadly. Most of the bomb cows that were hit fell to the ground unwillingly, and after wailing a few times, they couldn't move anymore!
However, most of the bomb cows still braved the rain of arrows, making strange "moo moo" sounds and rushing towards the trenches and camp walls ahead.
At this time, there was a loud "crackling, crackling" sound behind them that frightened the cows. The bomb cow, which was already frightened, accelerated like crazy, with arrows stuck on its head and back, and its tail was full of arrows. The mad cows that were about to be burnt all exploded with the greatest strength, their hooves flew, and they looked like they were flying in the clouds. They moved straight forward, and no cow had the slightest intention of looking back!
In just a blink of an eye, the bomb bulls at the front had already leapt into the air, trying to jump over the trench - they were jumping over the trench that the Song Army had hastily dug last night. It was neither wide nor deep enough and could not block it at all. Live like crazy running bulls.
However, the camp walls, fences and wooden stakes inserted in the mud on the opposite side of the trench were not so easy to break through. Some bomb cows who jumped over the trench accidentally had the sharpened wooden stakes inserted directly into the brisket or brisket. Immediately he was bleeding profusely and fell down screaming. Some bomb cows hit the fence, and their heads or shoulders were caught in the wooden fence, and they roared angrily.
At this moment, the infantrymen of the Song Army who had just finished shooting arrows had already lit the mine fuses with the help of the captain, deputy and platoon leader (who had torches in their hands), and began to throw waves of mines to explode the cattle. .
But before the mines they threw exploded, some bomb cows carrying explosive pots had already exploded!
Balls of fire and bursts of roar erupted at the camp wall and wooden fence to the north of the Song Army's camp. The power of the explosion was not great, but it was not something that the wooden fence and wooden stakes could withstand.
The battlefield was suddenly filled with smoke, beef was flying everywhere, and many wooden fences and wooden stakes inserted into the soil were broken by the blast.
The Song Army's first line of defense suddenly became tattered.
However, not all the bomb cows hit the Song Army's defense line at the same time, and were blown into beef, beef bones, beef offal, and cow blood... Some cows ran fast, some cows ran slowly, and some cows ran slowly. The frying pots carried by the cows exploded, and some of the frying pots misfired for various reasons.
So after a roar, only a section of the Song Army's first line of defense was blown to pieces, and a large area in front of this line of defense was also "meaty and wild", and the ground was covered with "beef" ".
There were also a very small number of "mad cows" who stepped on the corpses of their companions, rushed through the gap in the collapsed fence, rushed into the Song Army's camp, and pounced on the Song Army's second line of defense.
However, they soon became the targets of the Song Army's spearmen... Some of the Song Army's infantry spearmen picked up their long-line guns after throwing the mines, and came out in large numbers, not even close to these seriously injured ones. The "fierce bull" who was willing to retreat started fighting!
But how can a cow be a match for a ferocious human butcher? After a while, these seriously injured "fierce bulls" were knocked to the ground one by one by human butchers with long spears, and were also dragged away from the front of the battlefield... The cooks in the Song Army's camp were boiled with water. Now, when they arrive, all the beef, beef bones, beef tendons, beef offal, and butter cannot be wasted!
At the same time, there were also some mad cows that had been frightened out of their minds, running around in the battlefield at a loss... There was a terrible "crackling" sound behind them, and in front of them were balls of fireballs, and huge bursts of them. There was a loud noise, and his dead and dying companions were lying around him, his back was full of arrow shafts, and the ox's tail was burned to the point of losing all feeling!
This life is too hard, right?
Moo moo...
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Although this wave of fried cattle attacks did not kill a single Song army, their sacrifices were still valuable... They cleared the obstacles for the subsequent attacking troops and broke out of the gap, and their bodies were still intact Be a winner’s meal!
What a worthy death!
Behind this group of fierce bulls who sacrificed their lives for the Kingdom of Jin were large groups of armored infantry, with more than ten thousand people, forming square arrays. Flags were flying in front of the array, blocking out the sky and the sun!
Between the formations of these infantry troops, there are the tube soldiers, hot pot soldiers and robe soldiers of Ali Xi's auxiliary soldiers and the Jin Army. The pushers, tube vehicles and artillery vehicles are mixed in the infantry formation, slowly squirming forward.
To the left and right of these large groups of infantry, there were large groups of cavalry and camel tubes, mixed into two large groups, each with thousands of cavalry, and the formation was not very neat. But the momentum is extremely amazing! And those camels carry saddle-loaded eighty-two cannons on their backs... This is not easy to deal with!
Behind the left and right cavalry groups, the recognition flags of Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyan Zongmin had just been flying. The noble disciples of the Jin people and the Iron Buddha cavalry, all wearing iron armor and white robes, surrounded Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyan Zongmin. These are the most elite forces of the Great Jin Kingdom, and they all went to the battlefield in this battle that was a matter of life and death for the Great Jin Kingdom.
Even if they fight for the cow, how can they not fight? The Kingdom of Jin belongs to them, not to those bullies.
At this moment, Wu Jie had climbed onto a watchtower outside his Chinese army tent, overlooking the battlefield from a high position. He had just witnessed the scene of "Golden Ox fighting hard", and now he saw more than 20,000 golden soldiers who had appeared on the battlefield and were about to launch an attack. He also saw the golden army infantry forming formations all over the mountains and plains further away. ride.
The desperate posture of Wanyan Zongqian and Wanyan Zongpan made Wu Jie feel a strong ominous atmosphere... There were too many golden thieves, and they were determined to fight to the death!
Although Wu Jie's more than 20,000 soldiers of the Thirteenth Army are well prepared and there are strong strongholds to rely on, as long as the golden thief is determined enough to break Wu Jie's defense, it may be a matter of time!
Of course, it is also a matter of time before Niu Gao's 200,000 troops break through Jinzhou City... Now it depends on whether Niu Gao succeeds first or Wu Jie loses first!
Thinking of this, Wu Jie shouted to the staff below the watchtower: "Quickly, send someone to tell Lieutenant Niu that there are hundreds of thousands of enemies facing the Thirteenth Army... The situation is critical, and he must work hard to attack the city. , break Jinzhou earlier!"
