"Woo" the shrill horn sounded, and the soldiers following these war elephants quickly began to advance in an orderly manner, but they did not charge directly. After all, they were still about two or three miles away from Li Ke and the others.
"Bang" and "bang" the sound of uniform footsteps kept coming, and all the navy soldiers were marching forward in neat rows. They stopped in their tracks with an order until Li Ke was completely blocked from behind.
Li Ke did not leave. His place was now on high ground, at least two hundred meters away from the frontline battle formation. This distance was already very safe in the cold weapon era.
Li Ke wanted to see how effective the soldiers he had trained were.
Fan Zheng was riding on a war elephant with a stern face. He could not see clearly from too far away just now and could only see a group of soldiers in armor. But as the distance got closer, Fan Zheng's face became serious. At least three There were more than a thousand soldiers, and the front row held curved shields that were at least half a person's height, and their whole bodies were covered with a special kind of armor. He felt that it covered them more completely than the Mingguang Armor!
Is this the elite force of the Tang Dynasty? But soon a trace of ferocity appeared on Fan Zheng's face. Since your Tang Dynasty wants to devour us, you can't blame injustice. These shields may protect against war horses, but when faced with war elephants, there is only one outcome, and that is death!
The impact of a war elephant cannot be compared to that of a war horse!
"Get ready!" Fan Zheng shouted. Following Fan Zheng's words, the guard who was a war elephant with him directly raised the flag in his hand. When the guard flag was raised, all the soldiers on the other war elephants They all raised the bows and arrows in their hands.
The distance between the two sides is quickly approaching!
Liu Yilong took a deep breath, and a sinister smile appeared on his face. Just a bow and arrow made of bamboo like Lin Yiguo's? Arrows that don’t even have iron arrows?
"Squat!" Liu Yilong roared, and a sharp whistle sounded throughout the battlefield. The shield-holding soldiers in the first and second rows instantly squatted down and hid their bodies behind their shields. Behind them, there were two hundred beds. The crossbow appeared in front of everyone instantly.
This is not that kind of large bed crossbow, but a medium-sized bed crossbow made by Li Ke's researchers. It is similar to the three-arm bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty, but it only has two arms. The most important thing is that it is installed on both sides of its bed crossbow. The pulley set that appeared in this world for the first time was very similar to the pulley compound crossbow of later generations.
The moving pulley block can reduce its draw force, and the composite crossbow string greatly increases the draw length, which greatly increases the power of this two-arm bed crossbow. Although the pulley is not an eccentric wheel, and due to ball lubrication problems, the bow string may be slightly lowered. rebound speed, but compared to the advantages brought by the movable pulley block, this reduced power is not important.
In the middle of the main groove of the two-arm crossbow, which is supported on the ground by a special steel support rod, are crossbow arrows about the thickness of two adult fingers. The arrows are sharp armor-piercing triangular steel arrows, and on both sides They are two crossbow arrows as thick as little fingers, also using three-edged armor-piercing arrows.
Its maximum range reaches more than 700 meters, which is incomparable with the 1,500-meter range of the three-bow bed crossbow recorded in the Song Dynasty, but its effective range is also more than about 500 meters. The power of this thing is over 500 meters, even if it is worn Even the new steel armor can't withstand it.
As for the so-called vine armor on these Linyi soldiers and those on the war elephants, the protective swords are actually pretty good, but Li Ke wants to see the protection of these things.
The entire bed crossbow eliminates the huge support underneath, so it is not too heavy and can be easily carried by two people.
This is one of the reasons why they can easily bring two hundred bed crossbows.
When he saw clearly what was on the other side, a trace of fear flashed across Fan Zheng's face, but now the distance between them and each other could no longer be stopped!
"Charge!" Fan Zheng gave the order fiercely. To retreat now is to court death. He can only rush through this distance as quickly as possible!
Although those huge bed crossbows are terrifying, there are not many of them. As long as they rush through the first wave, they will not have a second chance to cock the bow.
"Woo" a sharp horn sound sounded, and the cheers of the riders were instantly heard from Linyi's war elephant troops. The war elephants they were riding instantly began to move their legs quickly, and the dull footsteps instantly made The ground began to tremble.
Li Ke took a deep breath and had to say that there was something about these war elephant troops. The physical strength of elephants was not weak. Asian elephants can run at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per hour, and they can also run for a long time. Although they are not as good as The horse has endurance, but it has no problem charging such a short distance.
The running of elephants is more like a fast foot race, but the ground tremors caused by the charge of a thousand elephants, if it were not a soldier who has been on the battlefield for a long time, he would probably pee his pants in front of this scene.
The distance between the two sides quickly approached. When the opponent's elephant soldiers approached a distance of about 400 meters, Liu Yilong suddenly showed a cruel smile on his face and waved his hand directly, "Let go!"
Countless dull crossbow strings "bang" reverberated continuously, and "buzz" and countless sharp whistles of crossbow arrows instantly resounded in the ears of all soldiers. Six hundred crossbow arrows fired from 200 crossbows rushed at a terrifying speed. enemy.
Just a few seconds later, "Moo!" was similar to a cow's cry, but a sharper elephant scream resounded throughout the battlefield. The crossbow arrows on the front row of war elephants even penetrated dozens of centimeters deep. , a crossbow arrow just hit the forehead of an elephant, and the elephant fell directly to the ground.
Some elephants that had not been directly shot to death let out pitiful screams, went crazy instantly, and rushed to the side indiscriminately, colliding with their companions.
And some soldiers who were unlucky enough to be directly hit by crossbow arrows were as if they were hit by an invisible giant. They flew backwards and had a huge hole ripped out of their chests.
Fan Zheng was lucky. The war elephant under his crotch escaped the attack in the first round. However, Fan Zheng, who was sitting on the war elephant, felt as if his heart fell directly into the ice cellar, because in his sight, behind those bed crossbows Two of the soldiers actually pulled the string of the crossbow and cocked it!
How can this be? ! How could two people pull the string of such a powerful bed crossbow? !
While the opponent was loading the bow, the soldier next to him had once again placed three crossbow arrows into the grooves.
The harsh and sharp whistling sound of "Buzz" sounded again. After placing the crossbow arrows, these soldiers did not hesitate to knock off the crossbow strings with a small hammer.
This time, Fan Zheng did not have such good luck. A small crossbow arrow passed directly through his chest. Because the distance between the two sides was closer, the crossbow arrow directly shot a hole in his whole body, and even directly shot him through a hole. Shooting the soldiers behind him down the war elephant again.
