I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 195 The Power of the Eight Ox Crossbow

Zong Yu nodded, obviously agreeing with what Li Heng said.

Wu Jun seems to have more troops, but in fact it has no advantage.

Kuimen is very narrow. Although the Baidi Mountain area after leaving Kuimen is more spacious, if they cannot cross Baidi Mountain, the Wu army's warships will not be able to fully extend.

Many Han crossbowmen were deployed in front of Baidi Mountain, and there was also a Han Army ferry at the ferry flanking Baidi Mountain.

Although the Han army's ships were not as good as the Wu army, they occupied the geographical advantage of the entire Baidi Mountain.

Li Heng said: "The reason why Quan Zihuang is making loud noises now is just a bluff. The next step is for him to make people chant loudly to further increase his momentum."

As soon as he finished speaking, a cry came from the Wu warship on the river: "Surrender without killing! Surrender without killing!"

The sound was not loud at first, but soon it became louder. At least thousands of people were shouting at the same time. The sound echoed in Kuimen and Baidi Mountain, alarming animals on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

After Wu Jun, who had not left Kuimen, heard about it, his morale was high.

Wu Guo has always had a psychological advantage over Ji Han.

He killed Guan Yu then and defeated Liu Bei later.

After these two things were done, Yizhou could only send people to continue to request an alliance.

This is known to everyone in the Wu army.

Now that the vanguard of the Wu army has left Kuimen, the army's confidence is naturally doubled.

"General, you can go to war now!"

Although young Luo Xian was surprised by the accuracy of Li Heng's prediction, he inevitably got excited after hearing Wu Jun's words.

Zongxu glanced at Li Heng, who smiled and said: "You are the commander-in-chief here, I am afraid I am not suitable."

"Li Shangshu joined the army before as the prime minister, and participated in the battle to regain Guanzhong and Longyou. I fully believe in your military talents."

"Then let me speak boldly. When the Wu army vanguard gets closer, preferably within a hundred feet, we will shoot with the arrows of the bed crossbow!"

"We have entered Baizhang now!" Luo Xian said hurriedly.

"I mean a hundred feet away from our bed, not a hundred feet away from Baidi Mountain!"

"But if this continues, our army's momentum will be suppressed!"

"We are on the defensive. We don't have to act out of anger." Li Heng pointed to Wu Jun's warship in front, "Did you see that Wu Jun's warship seems to have stopped, but it is still moving forward slowly. They seem to want to head on. When they attack us, they actually want to go around us, open up the front line, and encircle us!"

Luo Xian was even more anxious.

"General, the Shu army has not taken action." Qin Huang, the commander-in-chief, took the letter sent from the front and presented it to Quan Cong.

"The Shu army wants to play defense. This terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack." Quan Cong frowned.

In fact, Quan Cong didn't really want to fight this battle against Shu. In his opinion, the terrain of Yong'an was comparable to that of Tongguan.

But now everyone in Jiankang is willing to fight, and the governor Lu Xun even wrote to him personally to persuade him.

The reason for persuasion is simply that conquering Shu now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and if you miss it, it will be gone.

Although I know it’s difficult to fight, I still have to give it a try!

"Pull out the front line first and look for fighter planes. If no fighter planes are found, send forwards to dive from the water to the shore at night."

"After deployment, will our warships be exposed to the Shu army's crossbows?"

"The effective range of the Shu army's crossbows is only more than thirty feet. If they are shot from Baidi Mountain, they can reach the middle of the river. Our warships can withstand these crossbows. Don't worry. We will open the battle line and attack the Shu army." Press!"

"Here!"

Wu Jun's movements obviously accelerated, and he began to form a long line, moving to the east and stretching out.

"We've entered Baizhang!" Luo Xian became excited.

Zongxuan glanced at Li Heng, who of course became excited: "All arrows are wrapped in cloth, and the cloth is soaked in oil. Check again!"

"I checked it all before!"

"Wu Jun has already come in, don't be in a hurry and confirm again!"

Luo Xian glanced at Zong Yu, and Zong Yu said, "Go and confirm again!"

"Here!"

Luo Xian immediately went to the mountainside and checked carefully. He found out that some of the instructions were not followed. He became furious on the spot: "Immediately wrap all the arrows in cloth with oil. This is a military order!" "But this is a waste of oil." , a lot of oil..."

"Drag him down and stick him for thirty!"

"Everyone else act now!"

"Here!"

Twenty bed crossbows began to operate. This kind of bed crossbow was also called eight cow crossbows. One eight cow crossbow required twenty or thirty people to pull it.

They were lined up there, like huge beasts, making crunching sounds under the control of the Han army.

What was placed on the string was not an ordinary arrow, but a spear. The head of the spear was wrapped in a large piece of cloth, which was soaked in oil.

The Han army used torches to ignite the oil, and a fire broke out instantly.

"Fire arrows!"

The officer next to him roared loudly, and twenty eight-oxen crossbows let out angry roars one after another.

The soldiers of the Wu army looked up and saw twenty burning rockets roaring out from Baidi Mountain, cutting through the void and rushing towards the largest building and ship.

At that moment, everyone was stunned.

"quick……"

As soon as the word was finished, a flaming spear pierced the string of the building ship.

This distance is only two hundred meters, and the Ba Niu Crossbow has a maximum range of one thousand five hundred meters.

You know, some sniper rifles in later generations only have so much range.

When the flaming spear hit the hull, its power was still astonishing, directly piercing through the hull's defense and piercing into it.

and stabbed a man on the second floor through the chest, pinning him to the floor.

The man died before he could even scream.

The large piece of cloth soaked in oil was still burning with a strong flame.

Everyone around was unable to react, and only heard the sound of impact and shattering one after another.

About half a dozen lances penetrated the building ship with terrible impact and burst into flames within.

Another thirteen branches entered the river one after another.

Another one happened to be nailed to a small boat.

"Defend quickly!"

The Wu Jun officer roared out, but the sudden change made everyone panic.

"Go away!"

"It's gone..."

Someone on the second floor started exclaiming.

People on the surrounding boats only saw that the building boat was attacked by burning spears, but the fire inside was not yet apparent.

But the flames on the second floor upstairs began to rise rapidly.

Wu Jun rushed over to put out the fire.

When Luo Xian saw this scene, he shouted excitedly: "Hurry! Prepare the second batch! Hurry!"

He didn't expect this weapon to be so useful!

"quick!"

The Han army immediately began to prepare the second batch. Fortunately, he had checked in advance and had all the arrows wrapped in cloth and soaked in oil.

"General, I just saw some burning fire coming out of Baidi Mountain?" Qin Huang couldn't help but say something.

Quan Cong was also shocked, because he also vaguely saw it, but the distance was too far, so he couldn't be sure.

(End of this chapter)