Datang romantic little landlord

In this era, the power of the composite steel crossbow is almost equal to that of muskets, and it can even be said to be stronger than the early muskets.

At the very least, those shotguns of the Qing Dynasty could not accurately kill the enemy at a distance of 300 meters.

And presumably the early muskets, the composite steel crossbow, because Li Wangyou designed the winding device, not only the winding speed is faster, but also the excitation is faster.And because of the use of steel cables as crossbow strings, it is not even affected by the weather.

Compared with the early muskets, the composite steel crossbow has only one disadvantage, that is, it is expensive!

Both the cost of making steel crossbows and the consumption of crossbow bolts are too expensive compared to gunpowder and lead pellets.

Fortunately, the national power of the Tang Dynasty is growing day by day, otherwise Li Er might not be able to equip so many Sky Crossbows.

It's just that Datang has misunderstood the use of composite steel crossbows.

Just like when the tank was first invented, the way Western countries used it was to distribute it to various divisions and cooperate with the infantry to attack.It was not until World War II that tanks began to be used intensively and became the king of land warfare.

Tang Jun used composite steel crossbows, but they were no different from ordinary crossbowmen.

But in Li Wangyou's view, the tactic that can best exert the power of the composite steel crossbow is the matchlock gun tactic of the sixteenth century, three-stage shooting!

Although the composite steel crossbow is equipped with a stringer, its shooting speed is still not too fast.

In this way, in order to exert the maximum power of the steel crossbow and avoid the shortcoming of being unable to shoot continuously, three-stage shooting is very necessary.

Divide the crossbowmen into three teams, and the three teams take turns to string and shoot, and the efficiency of the composite steel crossbow can be tripled!

In this regard, Li Wangyou is very confident.

But Li Wangyou is confident, but it doesn't mean that Mi Tuo and Cheng Chumo have confidence.

Even though he was very confident in the combat effectiveness of the Tang army's iron cavalry, facing five times as many enemies as himself, whether it was dudes or Mi Tuo, or the school lieutenants and generals in the army, they all felt drummed in their hearts.

Even Mi Tuohe persuaded Li Wangyou to withdraw his army many times, but found Li Wangyou's rejection.

In this regard, Mi Tuo was also very helpless, so he could only secretly order his Baiqisi agents to get ready.If the Tang army was defeated, even if it was kidnapped, he would have to rescue Li Wangyou, the king of Qin.

After Jie Libi finally decided to fight to the death with Li Wangyou, the two sides set up their own camps on the grassland and faced each other ten miles apart.

On this day, the wind was light and the clouds were calm, and the mountains and rain were about to come and the wind was all over the building. It was a good day for murder and arson.

The first trumpet of the Tang Army was blown, and all the schools of the Tang Army gathered people to form a team!

The second horn was blown, and military flags and spears were raised like a forest!

The horn of the third pass was blown, and the Tang army lined up to meet the enemy, and the banners were blown by the wind!

With the sound of war drums, Tang Jun and Xue Yantuo stepped forward to attack at the same time...

1037 A Touch of Fire

With the beating of the war drum, Li Wangyou's heart began to beat violently, and his palms were covered with sweat.

In fact, it would be nonsense to say that he has absolute confidence in defeating the Xue Yantuo people.

Aside from other things, Li Wangyou felt his scalp tingling just because of the dense Xue Yantuo army phalanx opposite him.

As the saying goes, if there are a thousand people, it will reach the sky; if there are ten thousand people, there will be no boundaries!

The battlefield unfolding in front of Li Wangyou at this moment is such a boundless scene that he cannot help being nervous.After all, it was also the first time he really faced this kind of battle scene.

The last time in Jiulong County, Shu County, there were only a few thousand Liao people rioting. Compared with the tens of thousands of people in today's big scene, it is simply pediatrics, not worth mentioning.

Standing on the watchtower car, Li Wangyou was both nervous and excited, plus a bit of anticipation and anxiety, the contradiction reached the extreme.

It is understandable to be nervous and excited, but uneasy is worried that the Tang army will suffer heavy casualties... After all, this war was purely initiated by him.

If it weren't for his insistence, according to Mi Tuo's persuasion, the Wantang army under his command would not have appeared on the battlefield at this moment.

In other words, because of his selfish interests, these Tang soldiers faced life and death, which made Li Wangyou feel a little bit of intolerance and accountability.

After all, Li Wangyou is not a person of this era. Even though he has been in a high position in the past few years, he still cannot treat human life as nothing.Whether he won or lost this battle, the casualties of the Tang soldiers all stemmed from his obsession.

According to Jun Mo's words, he will become a marquis, and he will become famous once and for all!

Sighing silently in his heart, Li Wangyou withdrew the messy thoughts in his heart, raised his eyes and continued to look at the battlefield.

The most important thing now is to win this battle. As for the rest, we will talk about it later.

If there were casualties in the Tang army, Li Wangyou planned to take out copper coins from his own house to compensate their relatives, which could be regarded as his wish to buy peace of mind.

After calming down, Li Wangyou raised the binoculars in his hand, and carefully observed the configuration of Xue Yantuo's army on the opposite side with Cheng Chumo and others.

Now there are still several miles between the two sides, and they are slowly moving forward amidst the sound of their respective war drums and horns.

Fighting, of course, is not like in later TV dramas, yelling indiscriminately and rushing forward.Otherwise, the soldiers would wear armor and bring knives, and after rushing for a few miles, they would be exhausted and lie down, and they would still fight a fart.

Generally speaking, the armies of the two sides will march to about one mile apart, that is, 500 meters apart, and enter the range of the opponent's long-range weapons to stand still and rest before officially going to war.

The Tang army's [-] troops were divided into the central army and the two wings.

The central army consisted of two thousand crossbowmen, one thousand mo swordmen, and two thousand jumping soldiers, with a thousand cavalry on each side.

Of course, the [-] soldiers of the Chinese army were not crowded together, but formed into several infantry phalanxes.

In fact, Li Wangyou and the dandies don't need to worry about these, only the lieutenant colonel and lieutenant officer can make arrangements.The only arrangement Li Wangyou made was to summon the captain in charge of two thousand crossbowmen two days ago and order him to follow his instructions to practice three-stage shooting with those crossbowmen.

For Li Wangyou's order, the captain of the Tang Army was very puzzled, and even privately felt that Li Wangyou was completely fooling around.

The school lieutenant is also an old soldier. Where has he seen such a crossbowman?

Throughout the dynasties, the use of crossbowmen has always focused on concentrating troops and throwing them over a large area to kill the enemy.

Crossbowmen usually rarely use direct fire against the enemy, the main reason is the range.

The projectile can reach two hundred steps, and the direct shot can reach up to one hundred steps.

However, what Li Wangyou ordered him to let the crossbowmen practice was to divide all the crossbowmen into three teams, and to load and shoot the crossbows one by one according to the order, and asked to shoot directly.This completely defies common sense.

Regarding Li Wangyou's "nonsense", the captain complained in his heart, but he had no choice but to follow Li Wangyou's order to arrange drills for his soldiers.

But after only one day, the school lieutenant was convinced.

How could an old army like him not see the benefits brought by the three-stage shooting method.

Today, against [-] Xue Yantuo's iron cavalry, all the others were heartbroken, but the captain who commanded the crossbowman was full of confidence and was gearing up to kill.

The war drum kept beating, and the watchtower chariot where Li Wangyou and the dudes were, was pulled by oxen and horses, and followed the footsteps of the soldiers, slowly moving forward among the Chinese army.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer!