The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 871
Seeing the earth-shattering shouts of the soldiers of Feng Jun, and their overwhelming momentum towards this side, Xu Shiji raised the horizontal knife in his hand high, and a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth!
suddenly.

The saber in his hand suddenly drew an arc in the sun, and shouted: "Split up, let the bee crossbow fire."

"Woooooo..." Following Xu Shiji's order, the Sui army sounded a desolate horn, and the soldiers and horses standing in front of them were divided into two sides like a tide, and the thousand beehives hidden behind the army formation The crossbow is revealed.

The honeycomb crossbow that everyone was looking forward to was struck with a rush of drums, and two thousand honeycomb crossbows showed their ferocious faces, firing continuously in three stages, with a thousand in the first row, and five hundred in each of the subsequent rows.

The first row took the lead, and [-] iron crossbow arrows woven into a cloud of black arrows in the air, and then turned into black spots in an instant, overwhelmingly shooting at Feng Jun's soldiers, who raised their crude shields to greet them.

But the Sui honeycomb crossbow not only has a long range, but also has a strong force. It is thrown from the air, and the iron arrows that fall from the sky have a strong gravity when they fall, making it impossible for ordinary shields and leather armor to resist.But the most desperate thing is that it is too dense. The [-] iron arrows are like a violent storm. Only a dense crackling sound can be heard. The iron crossbow arrows shot through the shield and the simple leather armor of Feng Jun soldiers. , The screams suddenly rang out.

But the bad news did not disappear. The essence of the three-stage shooting is to never stop. When the third row finished firing, the first row had replaced the arrow box. Two soldiers shook the winch and bowed their feet. Their movements were concise and fast.The soldiers who fired did not need to order, they directly pulled the hanging knife, and the bowstring popped out with a loud 'hum' sound. Thirty iron crossbow bolts rose into the air, and merged with the surrounding iron arrows, forming a wide There were dark clouds for a mile. This time, they did not hit Feng Jun in the front, but pointed at Feng Jun's soldiers who fled to the sides.

Since the Warring States Period, crossbow arrows have been the sharp weapon of the Central Plains Dynasty to defeat the enemy, causing huge casualties to the enemy.In the Qin Dynasty, with the intensive use of crossbow arrays on a large scale, the Qin army crossed the Great Wall and began to actively attack the Huns who came and went like the wind. The powerful crossbow array became the magic weapon for the Qin army to win, and it also became the nightmare of the Huns. .Today, the weapons and equipment of the Sui army have made great progress under the painstaking research and development of many masters, especially the appearance of large-scale long-range weapons such as cellular crossbows, army-breaking crossbows, city-breaking crossbows and new continuous crossbows, causing extremely terrifying Lethality.

But not everyone has the capital to use this kind of weapon. Even if the enemy gets a full set of blueprints, they don’t have strong national strength and superb smelting technology to back them up. Every iron arrow used in the honeycomb crossbow needs a lot of material cost And labor costs, not to mention that tens of thousands of iron arrows will be shot in one war, and 18 iron arrows will be shot in three rounds. This kind of huge consumption, let alone Jiaozhou, even in today's world, no country can afford it. rise.

Of course, iron arrows can be recycled after the war, but even so, they still need to be sorted, maintained, or returned to the furnace after recycling, which also consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.

It is also because of the high cost that the Sui army will not easily use this weapon of mass destruction. So far, the Sui army has only used it three times against Tubo, and today is the fourth time. Used on a large scale.

Two thousand honeycomb crossbows fired three rounds/nine times in a row, with a total of 18 iron arrows, which made Feng Jun soldiers pay a very heavy price. The continuous dense rain of arrows made people breathless. It fell, shot through the shield, and shot through the face and chest of the enemy army. Feng Jun's soldiers fell down amidst the blood splatter like crops destroyed by a storm, and died tragically one by one.

With these rounds of arrow rain attacks, the fate of the soldiers of Feng Jun, who had no combat literacy, no solid armor, no sharp weapons, but only blood, can be imagined.They couldn't even reach the range of the non-cellular crossbow, and they were swung to cut off their lives, leaving only corpses and winding streams of blood!

Feng An's eyeballs were red!

He knew that his soldiers were brave and had no rules in fighting. If he wanted to wipe out Xu Shiji's army, he would have to pay a huge price.But he never thought that besides the Modao army and heavy cavalry who had not attacked yet, Xu Shiji also had this even more terrifying murderous weapon hidden in front of him.

In front of this cry, his soldiers were like a group of lambs under the butcher's knives. Apart from howling, they had no power to fight back. With just a few blows, he lost about half of his soldiers.

He is willing to pay the price for the survival of the Feng family and the Xian family that he has followed for generations, as well as the prosperity and wealth of the independent regime, but the heavy price after time is not acceptable to him at all!

These soldiers are the last bargaining chips in my hands. If they are all dead, why should the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, who murdered without blinking an eye, care about himself and forgive himself?Why should the Feng family, the Xian family and others continue to control the power of Jiaozhou?
At this time of the war, it is also the time when the commander's ability is most tested. I saw that many soldiers were scared out of their wits, turning around and running away desperately.Feng An was in a hurry and retreated at this time, the Sui cavalry would definitely take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill him... He shouted: "I can't retreat."

However, the effect of killing the enemy is only the main function of the cellular crossbow. Another bonus effect is that it brought a huge psychological impact to the soldiers of Feng Jun who escaped by chance. .

In a war, no foreign army can bear [-]% of casualties. Even a well-trained and disciplined Central Plains army can only bear [-]% of casualties at most. It is a desperate situation for soldiers to die until the last person dies. helpless choice.Once the psychological limit of endurance is exceeded, there is no fourth option other than withdrawing troops, retreating, or surrendering.

They have lost too many soldiers now, which has exceeded the hearts of the soldiers. Feng An's throat can't change anything.

As Feng An expected, as the soldiers in front retreated, even the relatively stable formation in the rear became chaotic, and what caused the chaos was the rout of soldiers who witnessed the power of the honeycomb crossbow. There was no need for the Sui army to attack, and the Feng army soldiers who were colliding with each other were already in a mess.

"kill!"

Veteran Wang Bian led [-] cavalry from one side of the crossbow formation, and at the same time, under Xu Shiji's order, Fan Qin led [-] heavy cavalry to launch a fierce offensive against the chaotic Feng Jun soldiers from the other side.

The two cavalry were like a torrent of steel, crushing over with an aura of destroying everything, and started a bloody slaughter.

This was an asymmetric unilateral massacre from beginning to end. No matter how the enemy wailed and begged for mercy, the cavalry of the Sui army would show no mercy.

The heavy cavalry led by Fan Qin were like plows plowing through the wilderness. Wherever they passed, Feng Jun's soldiers fell to the ground like weeds, messy everywhere.

After they broke through the army formation, they did not stop, but walked away all the way. This is because although the combat effectiveness of the heavy cavalry is good, their speed is relatively slow.

Moreover, although people are not tired, it is difficult for a war horse carrying hundreds of catties to last long. In order to achieve the best of both worlds as much as possible, the weapons of the heavy cavalry were changed to Mo Dao. The way to fight back.

Fan Qin's [-] soldiers did the same thing. They dismounted from their horses and quickly matched themselves into formations to form a Mo Dao formation to fight back. Thousands of people moved in unison. The sun, dazzling and blooming, is murderous.

In front of the chaotic soldiers of Feng Jun, Mo Daojun, he had nothing but to be slaughtered, and there was no room for retaliation.

At this time, Wang Bian had already arrived. He divided the light cavalry into two, one cavalry took over the horses of the heavy cavalry, and the other followed the Modao army, facing some of the still-established troops who had the strength to resist. The enemy squad shoots arrows.

"Let's retreat!" Feng An's face was pale. In fact, even if he didn't say anything, Feng Jun's soldiers had already run for their lives frantically.

"Pursuit!" Xu Shiji saw it clearly, and immediately issued the order to cover up the killing. Feng Ang chased him to his death, and there was no ambush in the south. His ass kills.

As the horn of the general attack sounded, another [-] fine cavalry who had not moved yet burst into earth-shattering shouts, venting out the brave blood that had been accumulated and boiled for a long time.

All of a sudden, thousands of horses were galloping, and the heavy hooves of the horses were like thunder that made the earth tremble, and they roared towards Feng Jun's soldiers from the front.

"Don't mess up, hold on!" Xian Baoche and his nephew Xian Zhichen yelled frantically among the chaotic army. Although the formation was completely chaotic, if the chaos continued like this, the entire army would probably be killed by himself.

Regrettably, at this moment, no one is listening to anyone's orders anymore. In a rage, Xian Baoche and Xian Zhichen led their own soldiers to shuttle back and forth among the crowd. Anyone who disobeyed orders and pushed indiscriminately would immediately go forward and kill them. Xian Baoche held With a big knife, he killed a soldier who had chopped off several companions. Just as he turned around, a cold murderous intent suddenly permeated his whole body, and Xian Zhichen's heart-piercing roar came from his ears: "Uncle, be careful."

"Puff puff puff~" A series of three arrows pierced through the air and shot through Xian Baoche's body. His burly body froze on the horse's back, the raised sword fell powerlessly, and his body rolled off the horse's back. Trampled by the surrounding soldiers.

"Uncle!" Xian Zhichen patted his horse forward with his eyes tearing open, seeing a group of soldiers trampling on his uncle's body back and forth, swiping their knives in a fit of rage, beheading more than a dozen soldiers to the ground in an instant.

A soldier saw that Xian Zhichen had killed his own brother, and after chasing him, he cut off Xian Zhichen's horse's leg with a knife.

"Return my brother's life!" The soldier rushed towards Xian Zhichen crazily, slashed at him fiercely, but was sent flying by Xian Zhichen. Before he could stand still, several spears pierced through his body, Under Xian Zhichen's frightened and angry eyes, the soldiers didn't pay any attention to him as a general, they withdrew their spears and fled. Xian Zhichen's body was hit several times, and finally fell powerless to the ground, being trampled by the raging rebel army one after another.

(End of this chapter)