Legendary star: Signed to the Palace at the beginning

Chapter 227 The brave are invincible

Yuchijia raised the long horse lance with one hand, and immediately shouted: "The eight-ox crossbow is ready!"

The eight oxen crossbowmen immediately drove away the bullocks, and the strings of the crossbow arrows were slowly pulled away.

Yang Guang swung his arm down fiercely and shouted, "Let go!"

"Buzz!"

Fifty crossbow arrows more than one foot long and the thickness of an arm were shot at the Tuyuhun cavalry who were charging a thousand meters away.

The front of each crossbow arrow was immediately empty, whether it was Tuyuhun cavalry or war horses, they were all strung with candied haws, and broken limbs and pieces of meat were flying all over the sky.

Some unlucky ones were even nailed to the camp wall.

But Bohan leaned his whole body on the bare horse, and while charging forward, he shouted: "Come on, my prince! I will be rewarded heavily for destroying the Sui army's crossbows!"

The moon was dark and the wind was high. I don't know how many Sui troops were surrounded outside. The Tuyuhun cavalry also knew that only by breaking out of the encirclement could they survive, so they rushed out one by one howling and brandishing their weapons.

"Doucunzi crossbow is ready."

"put!"

Nearly a thousand sharp arrows more than one meter long and as thick as a thumb fell on the Tuyuhun cavalry team like raindrops.

Hundreds of Tuyuhun cavalry or horses were shot, and the cavalry who landed were immediately trampled to death by the horses behind.

"The crossbow vehicle is ready."

"put."

The Tuyuhun cavalry was cleared out again.

Then there was another round of shooting, and there were more than 8000 Tuyuhun cavalry left, and they had rushed to a distance of 300 meters from Yang Guang.

"Bed crossbowmen set up chariot formations, shield formations, and god arm crossbows are ready."

Hundreds of carts transporting grain and grass were pushed in front of the Eight Bull Crossbows. Large shields as tall as a person stood in the gaps between the carts. The first row of Sui Army's divine arm crossbows behind them were already pointing forward.

"put."

Four hundred crossbow arrows flew into the sky and fell on the galloping Tuyuhun cavalry.

After the first row of Sui soldiers finished shooting, they immediately retreated to the end and continued to load crossbow arrows.

Before the screams of the Tuyuhun cavalry stopped, the second and third rows of crossbow arrows came one after another.

This is the three-stage shooting method taught by Xiao Chuan, which guarantees continuous blows to the enemy, and is especially effective against cavalry.

The three-stage shooting method was derived from the three-line fire gun method invented by Mu Ying, a famous general in the early Ming Dynasty.

After the Chinese invented gunpowder, besides using it to make firecrackers, the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties also used gunpowder to make firearms, but in modern times, when Western colonists used ships and guns to develop colonies, We are still immersed in the kingdom of heaven, arrogant Yelang, stereotyped Confucianism, and romance.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang’s army had begun to use firearms on a large scale, including artillery and firecrackers. During this period, Zhu Yuanzhang’s subordinates emerged a large number of generals who were good at using firearms. Great role, the best of these generals are Deng Yu and Mu Ying.

Yunnan in Mu Ying’s era was definitely not the spring city and tourist destination that everyone yearns for today. In fact, Yunnan at that time was still a barren land with many ethnic minorities, and rebellion was their main daily activity. On the other hand, fighting mainly depends on infantry.

Originally, the indigenous tribes without formal training were no match for the well-trained Ming Dynasty infantry, but there happened to be a local specialty that gave Mu Ying a headache.

This specialty is elephants.

Elephants are tall, fat and thick-skinned. When they get angry, even tigers will hide away when they see them. Ivory was not as valuable as it is now, so there are a lot of elephants.

The Ming army has two legs, and the anti-army rides an elephant. How to fight this battle?
There are still ways to restrain elephants, and that is firearms, which can not only effectively attack elephants, but also intimidate them with the sound they make when shooting.

But the facts are not satisfactory. The range of the firecrackers in the Hongwu era was not far, and after each shot, gunpowder and lead bullets had to be filled into the gun barrel, and then hit with an iron rod. Before the next ammunition was loaded, soldiers often will be trampled to death by elephants.

After countless failures and thinking, Mu Ying finally created an advanced firearms method that can restrain elephants.

Mu Ying divided the firecrackers into three rows. After finding the elephant soldiers, the first row shot first, and then the second row and the third row fired sequentially. Continue shooting after the third platoon finishes shooting.Form a complete and continuous firepower network.

It was by virtue of the three-stage shooting that Mu Ying completely put down the rebellion in Yunnan. Although the three-stage shooting was not widely spread among the Ming and Qing armies, this does not negate its great significance in military history.

Later, Qi Jiguang, an anti-Japanese hero in the Ming Dynasty, also used three-stage shooting to defeat Japanese pirates many times.

A hundred years after Mu Ying invented the three-line firecrackers strategy, King Frederick II of Prussia invented a similar three-line strategy after long-term research. His troop formation method was exactly the same as Mu Ying's. Later, he relied on With this strategy, he dominated Europe.

In just a few tens of seconds, the Tuyuhun cavalry seemed to be hovering beside the abyss of death, falling off their horses in pieces, but Bohan couldn't figure out why the Sui infantry's bows and arrows could shoot hundreds of steps away. The bow and arrow range of the weak inland peoples increased tenfold?
Doesn't it mean that the Xianbei people have abandoned their bravery and blood, and pursued pleasure, wine, and women like the Han people?
At the cost of two to three thousand men, the Tuyuhun cavalry finally rushed to a distance of 3000 meters from the Da Sui chariot formation.

Yang Guang drew out his sword and shouted loudly: "Stand up your shields to defend, and the horses will go up."

A few Sui soldiers stood behind the cart and behind the shield. They leaned forward and put their shoulders firmly against the car and the shield. The [-] Sui soldiers behind them clasped their horses with both hands and stared fiercely at the approaching Tuyuhun cavalry.

The Tuyuhun cavalry who rushed to the front did not slow down at all, and even their horses and men slammed into the cart or shield fiercely.

The Tuyuhun cavalry from behind slammed into their own people in front one after another.

The cart slid backwards, the shields were tilted here and there, and many of the Sui soldiers standing in front were vomited blood, their legs were broken, and their arms were broken. Support the cart and shield with your back.

"Shua, Shua, Shua."

The horse lance desperately stabbed out the horse lance, and the sharp tip pierced into the body of the front Tuyuhun cavalryman and into the belly of the horse.

Soon, the corpses of Tuyuhun and Sui soldiers were piled on both sides of the cart and shield.

The advantage of the cavalry was sprinting, but they were forced to slow down before the line of defense formed by the lives of two thousand Sui infantry.

Seeing that the heat had arrived, Xiao Chuan struck the Heavenly Halberd with a wave of his hand and said sternly: "Cavalry attack!"

Then he took the lead and rushed to the side of the Tuyuhun cavalry team.

Yujuluo also issued an attack order at the same time, and two torrents rushed into the remaining [-] Tuyuhun cavalry, instantly cutting the Tuyuhun cavalry into three sections.

The Tuyuhun cavalry was in chaos, and they could only fight on their own.

Ke Bohan saw that the situation was not good, he shouted, turned his horse's head, and was about to escape with his guards.

Sorry to be late.

Kebohan's clothes were too conspicuous, Xiao Chuan recognized his identity at a glance, and immediately used the skill of "enduring humiliation", passed between the horse's legs, and came to Kebohan's horse.

(End of this chapter)