Ming Dechang immediately understood that it was Huang Shan who had come to support him with the repeatedly made crossbow, so he turned around excitedly.
Huang Shan was seen rushing to the top of the city with thirty or forty blacksmiths and carpenters holding repeating crossbows.
These craftsmen are naturally dexterous and can quickly complete the tasks assigned by Huang Shan with a little guidance.
As for operating the repeating crossbow, it is not a problem for them.
Even a weak woman like Ru Yan can use a repeating crossbow, and a craftsman who spends all day working on iron and sawing wood can naturally use it.
As Lian Nu joined the battle, the northern barbarians were stunned and shot in the face by Lian Nu.
Even the centurion of the Northern Barbarians wearing iron armor could not withstand the power of the crossbow, let alone the ordinary Northern Barbarians who only had leather armor for body protection.
Aqina who was at the bottom of the city was already smiling when he saw his warriors attacking the city.
Capturing this city of Dagan will give me another bargaining chip in the peace talks between Father Khan and Dagan. When the time comes, I will make those who usually look down on me look at me with admiration!
Heduo on the side also smiled slightly. If Aqina captures this city, he will definitely increase his voice in the tribal sect. By then...
Suddenly Heduo discovered that something was wrong with the battle situation ahead.
The warriors who had been continuously rushing to the top of the city suddenly stopped climbing, and soon the bodies of the northern barbarian warriors were thrown down.
The originally shrinking Daqian defenders actually leaned out and once again threw stones and wood at the climbing warriors.
"Shooters, don't be in a daze, hurry up and cover the climbing warriors!"
Heduo roared and rushed forward with a whip.
Aqina saw Heduo's rare loss of composure and quickly rushed forward with his guards.
At this moment, Huangshan leaned out and looked coldly at the northern barbarian archers shooting arrows under the city.
"Brothers, if you continue to throw rocks and wood, leave those northern barbarian shooters to us!"
While talking, Huang Shan saw the crossbow aimed at the Northern barbarian archer who was bending his bow under the city.
"shoot!"
Huang Shan gave an order, and the craftsmen holding repeating crossbows shot desperately at the northern barbarian archers below the city.
In an instant, an overwhelming barrage of crossbow bolts rushed towards the unsuspecting Northern Barbarian archers.
In just an instant, more than half of the one hundred Northern Barbarian archers were lost, and the remaining Northern Barbarian archers looked stunned and stunned.
Heduo, who rushed over at this time, quickly shouted for the shooters to move back, but unfortunately it was too late.
After loading the crossbow arrows, Huang Shan and the craftsmen began the second wave of coverage shooting.
The remaining Northern Barbarian archers were swallowed up by the heavy rain of crossbow bolts under the watchful eyes of Heduo and Aqina.
Aqina stiffly reined in his horse and stopped, with a bit of fear in his eyes.
This is the strange crossbow that killed Dolu, his first warrior.
The northern barbarians who were climbing the ladder looked back at the corpses on the ground, and they were also stunned on the spot.
Where are our hundred skilled shooters? Why are there only corpses left on the ground?
This scene brought a great visual impact to the northern barbarians and greatly weakened their morale.
"Hedu, do you want the warriors to withdraw?"
Heduo, who came back to his senses, shouted repeatedly: "Let the warriors withdraw quickly!"
Aqina quickly ordered his men to blow the retreat horn.
The northern barbarians on the ladder began to retreat one after another when they heard the retreat horn.
Naturally, the Daqian soldiers and civilians on the city would not let go of the opportunity to fight against the fallen dogs. They violently smashed the rocks and wood in their hands at the retreating northern barbarians.
The northern barbarians left dozens more corpses before hurriedly withdrawing.
The soldiers and civilians guarding the city wall also burst into violent cheers.
Listening to the cheers from the Daqian defenders, Aqina gritted his teeth and retreated with his men.
The yellow cedars on the city wall waited until the northern barbarians left and then breathed a sigh of relief.
But when he saw that in addition to countless corpses of the northern barbarians on the ground, there were even more corpses of large numbers of people who were driven by the northern barbarians, he became increasingly anxious.
The more he helps the county soldiers and civilians to defend the county, the more people in the surrounding villages will be slaughtered and enslaved by the northern barbarians, and the more dangerous Ruyan and the others will be.
Thinking of this, Huang Shan pressed his eyebrows hard to calm himself down.
Ming Dechang noticed that Huang Shan's mood was not right, but he did not step forward to enlighten him. Instead, he immediately counted the troops and checked everyone's weapons and equipment.
In this battle, Caoxian also killed more than ten forbidden soldiers and more than thirty strong men, and countless weapons were damaged. Even the newly made crossbows were damaged by four or five.
There are two main reasons for the damage of the repeating crossbow.
The first point was that he was accidentally chopped down during the battle with the northern barbarians.
The second point is that because the production is full and some materials have not been carefully processed, the durability of the repeating crossbow is greatly reduced.
Now Ming Dechang knew that Lian Nu was the key to holding the county seat, so he ignored Huang Shan's strange mood and quickly grabbed his arm.
"My dear nephew, these repeating crossbows are far from enough, we need more!"
"Otherwise, it will be like before. If my nephew and his people don't arrive in time, I'm afraid my life will be sealed."
After hearing this, Huang Shan came back to his senses and looked at Ming Dechang, with a helpless look on his face.
"Uncle Huang, after smelting that bracelet, you can only make more than thirty repeating crossbows."
"Now that there is no refined steel, even I, a clever woman, can't make a meal without straw!"
After hearing Huang Shan's explanation, Ming Dechang's joy at repelling the northern barbarians also disappeared.
"What should I do now, nephew?"
"Is it feasible for us to smelt it ourselves?"
Huang Shan glanced at the northern barbarian camp in the distance, took a deep breath and looked complicated.
"I'll try it first anyway."
After Huang Shan handed over the remaining thirty or so repeating crossbows to the Forbidden Army, he took the craftsmen back to prepare to make the steel wire himself.
But he was worried about whether the defeated Northern Barbarians would soon attack the city again for revenge.
However, Huang Shan and Ming Dechang's worries were obviously unnecessary.
The northern barbarians who were repelled by Lian Nu were now frightened and angry.
Aqina clamored to immediately command everyone to fight to the death with the soldiers and civilians defending the city of Daqian.
However, his desperate move was immediately opposed by Hedu.
"Aqina, you have to stay calm and make a desperate move now. If you fail to capture the city."
"How many troops do you have available?"
"Without soldiers and horses, who will take you seriously!?"
Aqina punched the table he grabbed with anger.
"What should we do?"
"Are we just huddled in the camp like this?"
"Is it the same as those Dagan people?"
Heduo immediately comforted the furious Aqina with a few words, saying that he would come up with a good way to make the Dagan people who killed the Northern Barbarian warriors pay the price.
The ordinary northern barbarians who had lost the battle were holding evil fire in their hearts.
Seeing the large number of enslaved people in the camp, he immediately whipped them hard to vent his anger.
Needless to say, there is no need to describe the situation that those captured Daqian women have to face.
When the world prospers, the people suffer; when the world falls, the people suffer.
