Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 86
Chapter 99 Don't Add Mess

"Boom, boom, boom..." The sound of the drums sounded, and the Lu Longtian Clan's begging army officially launched an attack.Gao Jingzong took a lot of effort to swallow the gastric juice welling up into his stomach with difficulty.Gao Jingzong knew that although he, the governor of the Jianghuai River, didn't take much care of things, he was so intimidated by the enemy that he vomited, which would definitely affect morale.

After Gao Jingzong suppressed the discomfort in his stomach with the small half-pillar of incense, he stared at the battlefield.Although Lu Longtian's begging army did not use war drums to convey complicated orders, a group of messengers carrying inverted triangular red flags conveyed the battle orders one by one.In Gao Jingzong's later film and television dramas, he saw that the swarm of bees in the cold weapon era was different.Lu Longtian's begging army was a combination of various arms and attacked step by step.

The trebuchets kept pouring stone bullets towards the city wall. Although the accuracy of the stone bullets was not too high, as the trebuchets in the distance kept firing stone bullets weighing more than a dozen catties, the trebuchets at close range were throwing stone bullets. Stone bullets weighing more than [-] kilograms were poured cracklingly towards the city wall, and some stone bullets would always hit the target.Under the rain of stone bullets, the soldiers of the dead army had to disperse and squatted down close to the parapet.

In ancient times, the parapet wall was called "nv's wall", which contains the meaning of peeping. It is a wall pile built on the city wall in the form of a woman's "peeping", so it later evolved into a special architectural term.It refers specifically to the low wall where the outer wall of the house is higher than the roof, and we can still see it in the existing ancient buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Under the cover of the trebuchet, the soldiers of the dead army had to help themselves down. At this time, the shield chariot also slowly approached the city wall.When the shield chariot was still more than a hundred steps away from the city wall, Lu Longtian begged for [-] cavalrymen to shout "Wan Sheng" and rode out across the formation.The [-] light cavalry were divided into four groups of more than [-] people in each group.

"Don't they still want to charge up the city wall?" Gao Jingzong looked at the Tian Family Army cavalry who were charging in surprise and asked, "Uncle Ji, what are they doing?"

"Get down!" Ji Kan, with quick eyesight and quick hands, pushed Gao Jingzong down under the parapet.At this moment, the sound of "咻咻咻" pierced through the air, and it turned out that the Lu Longtian Clan's begging army adopted the sprinting that nomads are best at.As the bowstrings of Tian's light cavalry trembled, those cavalry shot arrows quickly, and these arrows were like beads. Although there were only more than two hundred cavalry, they shot a dense rain of arrows, and almost every female wall was taken care of.

As the Five Hus invaded the Central Plains, they slaughtered the people of our Han family like pigs and sheep. This brutal and bloody policy also successfully aroused the blood and bravery of the people of the Han family who were suppressed by Sima.Lu Longtian's begging army, like Jiziying, also followed Ran Min to kill Hu, and trained a whole body of hard skills.When there are no stirrups and high bridge saddles, just relying on the legs to clamp the horse's belly, you can shoot arrows on the horse's back like a nomadic wolf cavalry.Lu Longtian's light cavalry was not equipped with the horned bows commonly used by nomads, nor were they crudely made hunting bows, but the mulberry recurve bow invented by the Han Dynasty.

A recurve bow stores more energy than an equivalent bow with a straight arm, allowing the arrow to shoot with higher kinetic energy.As a result, recurve bows can be made shorter than normal bows while maintaining their power.This advantage makes recurve bows suitable for use where longer weapons would be inconvenient, such as in jungles, forests, or on horseback.Relatively speaking, a recurve bow with the same pulling force has about one-third more kinetic energy than a straight arm bow. (In fact, the recurve bow first appeared in about 2000 BC, and was first used by the Semites in West Asia. The murals of the Han Dynasty have already appeared the pattern of Han cavalry holding a recurve bow, so Lao Cheng believes that during the Han Dynasty, China had already equipped it. recurve bow)
Faced with such a dense rain of arrows, the soldiers of the dead army showed somewhat panicked expressions on their faces.In particular, Gao Jingzong did not expect to be criticized by later generations, saying that the Han cavalry archers of the belly army were so powerful.The four groups of cavalry took the approach of hand-to-mouth, and one group retreated immediately after shooting the arrows without hesitation.The second group continued to follow.It is almost the same as the three-stage firearms of the Ming Dynasty, maintaining continuous and continuous suppression.

"Steady your ground, don't mess up!" Ji Kan immediately ordered: "No one is allowed to fight back without an order!"

As the unique rhythm of the death army's war drum sounded, the soldiers of the death army had received Ji Kan's order from the sound of the drum.There is no one exposed on the entire city wall.At this time, I saw that the dead army was suppressed and couldn't lift their heads.A happy smile appeared on Tian Luo's face: "I thought their death army was really capable. It turns out that like Ran Min, they are boiled ducks that are rotten and their mouths are not rotten!"

However, as soon as these words fell, the begging army of the Lu Longtian clan around looked at Tian Luo with strange eyes.It is said that Tian Luo was only five or six years old when Ran Min raised his flag against Hu and promulgated the historically famous "Decree to Kill Hu".

Although Lu Longtian's begging army parted ways with Ran Min because of Li Nong, Marquis of Saiwu, it didn't mean that Ran Min's prestige in everyone's hearts was reduced by one point.Although Tian Luo is the young commander of Lu Longtian's begging army, he is not qualified to slander Ran Min.Many soldiers of Lu Long Tian's begging army who heard Tian Luo's words distanced themselves from Tian Luo, even reducing their desire to attack the city by more than a little.

At this time, Tian Luo didn't notice this problem at all, but was complacent.

Just when the third and fourth groups of cavalry of Lu Longtian's Qihuo army were alternating, Gao Jingzong saw the enemy cavalry in chaos, and Gao Jingzong couldn't help shouting: "Hit the crossbowmen!"

Hearing Gao Jingzong's order, the fifty or sixty bows and arrows of the dead army were immediately wound up. Just as the sixty crossbowmen showed up, a row of sharp arrows flew in. Suddenly, more than a dozen crossbowmen were shot in the face and upper body. , screaming and falling to the ground.The recurve bow is powerful, and the dead army soldiers who were hit by the arrow fell on their backs and threw the crossbow far away. Zhongchuang's crossbowman was nailed to the ground.

More than 40 other crossbowmen still followed the order to shoot arrows at the enemy cavalry. The sound of "咻咻咻..." pierced the air, and more than a dozen light soldiers and horses of the Lu Longtian Clan's Begging Army set off bursts of blood mist , more than a dozen cavalry screamed and fell off their horses, but at this moment, another row of sharp arrows flew in, and half of the dead army's crossbowmen were shot down again.

Gao Jingzong couldn't bear to watch it anymore, two-thirds of the more than 450 crossbowmen were reimbursed at once.The dead army has 150 crossbowmen and [-] archers, a total of less than [-]. If the ratio of casualties is one to three, it cannot withstand several times of consumption.

Seeing this scene, Ji Kan couldn't help being furious and said: "Governor Gao, you don't know how to command, so don't make trouble here, okay? We've let you toss all this little money, and what a fart!" !"

Gao Jingzong touched his nose in embarrassment, so he had no choice but to leave angrily.

(End of this chapter)