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Chapter 1053 This kind of downwind battle is really lonely

Su Yonglin once had unrealistic fantasies about Song Jun's legendary ultra-long-range destructive weapon, the three-bow crossbow, that is, the legendary eight cattle crossbow.

However, according to the actual understanding of the three-bow crossbow captured in the Ming-Song War by the professional department of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, Su Yonglin felt very depressed.

It is not impossible for this thing to shoot 1000 meters or even 500 meters, as long as you are willing to use the highest-grade raw materials, the best wood and tendon, and risk that this expensive three-bow bed crossbow will be completely scrapped after one shot Risk, can reach this range.

It can really go very far.

But the range doesn't mean the effective range, otherwise Su Yonglin can shoot two or three kilometers away by raising the muzzle of the Great General's gun.

But what's the use of hitting the target no matter how far you go?

It is not impossible to make the three-bow crossbow shoot a kilometer away, but the offset from the intended shooting target is estimated to be tens of meters away, which is not the same thing at all.

The first crossbow had no sight and second sight, and it was impossible for the Southern Song court to master the mathematical model of the shooting data of the crossbow or to calculate the range equation of the two-meter-long huge arrows fired by the crossbow.

Without the support of this mathematical data, it is difficult to say how accurate it is by roughly calibrating and shooting a small target hundreds of meters away with the naked eye.

Throughout the ages, bows, arrows and crossbow arrows have been used to fight, and it has never been said that precision is important. There are indeed sharp marksmen, but they are rare. The army mainly relies on the number to cover and strike, and never looks at the shooting rate of a single person.

Therefore, the credit of the melee troops on the battlefield can be obtained immediately, while the credit of the bowman is generally obtained in daily training, and it is not counted in the battle, because it is impossible to know who shot who.

According to the calculations of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, the limit effective range of the three-bow bed crossbow they captured was about 300 meters. As for the Liao army general Xiao Talin who was killed by the Song army with a bed crossbow 400 meters away, it is estimated The above is the most unlucky guy in the history.

He probably provoked something that shouldn't be provoked at some inadvertent moment, and let him die in such an unfortunate and extremely humiliating way.

And if the Song army is expected to use the three-bow bed crossbow on the top of the city to effectively shoot the Ming army's artillery group placed about 500 meters away from Fancheng, the difficulty is almost equivalent to shooting a mosquito ten meters away with a water gun.

Not to mention technology, at least it has nothing to do with technology.

In the face of the effective bombardment of the Ming army's general artillery, this tactical behavior of chance is infinitely close to self-inflicted humiliation.

Therefore, Zhang Yuejing and He Feihu were not worried about how Song's long-range strikes would affect the Ming army.

And if it was a field battle, the Song army was purely delivering meals to the door, and the Ming army was fighting hard, organizing and fighting weapons, and everything was above the Song army. What should I worry about?
[This kind of downwind battle is really quite lonely].

Occasionally, Zhang Yuejing's mind will have this kind of incomparable Versailles idea.

However, he would not be merciful, and it was his military creed that the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, so he gave an order and the battle began.

The first round of fire from the Great General's artillery began in full swing.

After the earth-shattering roar, 25 rounds of steel shells, wrapped in scorching heat, rushed towards the city wall of Fancheng with an indomitable momentum.

Not kidding, the feeling of the defenders of Fancheng at that time was more complicated.

They felt the whole city wall shaking.

The wall is shaking!

When the cannonball hit the city wall fiercely, it not only smashed the contact surface of the city wall to reveal the inner wall, but also caused the entire city wall to vibrate.

This is not to mention, there is also a cannonball that hit the tower on the city wall very accurately, just a cannonball, which caused debris on the city wall to splash around, smoke lingering, and the seemingly mighty and majestic tower was torn away. Half, the shape is very miserable.

A few more shells hit the city wall, smashing the city wall, and the kinetic energy was not reduced, and they continued to charge forward, directly smashing the defending soldiers hiding behind the city wall into flesh.

A cannonball landed on the tower and bounced again, and went directly over the tower and fell into the city, killing more than a dozen unsuspecting Song soldiers in the city, and injuring and burning 30 to [-] people.

A cannonball smashed the city wall and rose straight up, hitting the remaining half of the city tower, breaking two pillars, tearing the remaining half of the city tower into disrespect. A lot of debris fell to the ground and splashed. So injured.

Another unlucky guy was hit in the neck by the debris, and he suddenly bleeds, fell to the ground and twitched, dying slowly.

A three-bow bed crossbow firing group is located at a higher position on the city wall, and a newly built bed crossbow tower is designed to launch farther and have more lethality. However, this bed crossbow tower is just hit by a cannonball. hit.

The building was shattered, the bed crossbow was destroyed, and none of the seven soldiers in the entire launch group survived.

The situation was so tragic that Song Bing, who had witnessed all this and survived, was so frightened that he ran away from his head and ran away.

In addition, three others directly crossed the city wall and rushed into the city, landing in the city, causing huge damage to the buildings in the city and the Song army soldiers around the buildings, causing the Song army in the city to fall into a huge panic.

They shouted, they cried, they hugged their heads and ran away. Many troops who were originally organized were rioted after being so stimulated. Many soldiers fled south of the city involuntarily, but the officers could not stop them.

Some officers even took the lead in fleeing, so that the soldiers under his command lost their discipline and ran away with their lives, feeling like they were playing the role of life and death.

The soldiers on the city tower ran frantically down the city, and the soldiers under the city frantically ran into the inner city, staying away from the city walls and away from the terrifying [Ming Military Artifacts].

The Ming army had not approached the city wall to launch a real attack, and the morale of the defenders in the city collapsed for the first time. Fortunately, at this moment, the Ming army did not initiate an ant attachment to the city, otherwise Fancheng would be defeated by the Ming army on the first day of the battle. Hit the city wall.

For all this, Fancheng defender Zhou Benyuan lacked psychological preparation.

At that time, Wang Yan had been transferred to Xiangyang City, and Zhou Benyuan was supervising the battle on the Beicheng Tower.

He looked at the Ming army's positions from a distance, and still couldn't see the artillery, but when the white fog suddenly rose up, he felt that something was not right.

Sure enough, the feeling of vibration when the shell hit the tower, the feeling that the entire tower was hit by an iron fist and then vibrated, as if someone had hit him with a fist in his heart.

The cannonball didn't hurt him, but the huge physical and psychological blow to the city wall and the Song army from the ferocious bombardment of the cannonball was too great.

What is even worse is that the city wall, which is relatively weak in defense compared to the wall, was destroyed by the Ming army's artillery shell, and many of the city wall were broken, which greatly reduced the protection ability of the city wall for the soldiers of the Song army.

It is conceivable that once the second round of shooting comes, the defense of the Song army on the city wall will be more difficult, and the casualties will be even more severe.

However, the problem facing Zhou Benyuan is that the soldiers of the Song army have already fled. After he got the report, he had to force his own personal guards to dispatch, kill the officers and soldiers who escaped, and restore the order of the defenders as soon as possible. , Arrange the army to defend the city.

When they encounter fear, they can only create even greater fear, so that the Song army in the city knows that if they fight on the tower, they may die, and if they escape from the tower, they will definitely die. In this way, they will make the right choice.

This is the experience of the veteran Zhou Benyuan.

When they dealt with the Jin Army, they did the same when they encountered timid soldiers. They would not do ideological work on you in a soft and harmonious way. They would only use knives and blood to show you the result of not being able to go to the battlefield. And then ask you a question - go or not?

Dare not to go?

Before the Ming army launched the second round of artillery bombardment, Zhou Benyuan's order was passed on to the personal soldiers. As the arms of the main general, the personal soldiers resolutely carried out the mission of the main general. Head to the front line to threaten cowardly soldiers and officers.

If you don't go to the tower to fight to the death, this is the end. Unless ordered, you are not allowed to go down to the tower without permission. Otherwise, come down and kill one!
(End of this chapter)