Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

After all, it's hard to imagine something you've never seen.

In addition to the ten eight-ox crossbows, there are several rows of crossbowmen between the eight-ox crossbows.

The shooting range of the eight-ox crossbow can reach 200 meters, and the effective range of the crossbow is about 100 meters.

The two are combined for the purpose of saturated coverage.

While covering the top of the city, it also covers within [-] meters of the city.

As for the heavy artillery, due to its large size, it was not carried on this expedition.

Not carrying it does not mean that the ship cannot fit it, but it is not cost-effective, and you have to pack other things.

The most important thing is that heavy artillery is not needed to attack this kind of city rammed with earth.

Tiger crouching guns and eight-ox crossbows are enough.

But Zhang Rong obviously didn't intend to go to the tiger squat immediately.

Looking at the Song Army nearly a hundred meters away, the Japanese on the top of the city were still talking there, and He Yang Baozhong even said openly: "Song Army would not think that at that distance, it is possible to shoot bows and arrows into our city. On the head, cause lethality to us!"

"I don't believe that the Song Army's bows and arrows can shoot so far!" Another noble also laughed, "Even if they shoot to the top of the city, they are no longer lethal!"

Duoduo Liangmao Village solemnly ordered: "Archers, get ready, as long as Song people get close to the moat, they will shoot with bows and arrows!"

"Yes!" The archers at the top of the city shouted in unison.

This voice lifted the spirits of the Japanese at the top of the city.

According to this distance, the Japanese's rhetoric is also correct.

Standing a hundred meters away, shoot the city with a bow and arrow, unless the commander's brain is full of shit.

But the problem is that the Japanese in the Heian period no longer knew what the crossbow arrows were.

In the past Bronze Age, Japan also had crossbows, which were gradually phased out.

Japan has basically never achieved great unification in history, and the local chaos has been chaotic for a long time, but the scale of Japan's war is completely incomparable with that of China.

If you send 1000 troops to a local area, you are already a great prince.

This led to very low casualties in local wars in Japan, and the low casualties meant that the survival rate of veterans was high. Unlike the Central Plains Dynasty, after a major battle, more than half of the soldiers in a certain place had to be recruited again.

The low battle loss rate allows many archers to survive, and the survival of archers means there are enough archers every time.

And under what conditions does the crossbow come in handy?

The training threshold for archers is very high, and the threshold for using crossbows is low. In order to quickly expand the long-range attack team, crossbows have been used on the battlefield.

But the threshold for making a crossbow is much higher than that of a bow.

Since Japan's battle loss rate is low, it means that there is always a retention rate of long-range weapons, and there is no need to worry about the loss of archers after a war.

Of course, the manufacture of more complex and more expensive crossbows was gradually abandoned.

Unlike the Central Plains Dynasty, after a war, all archers may be gone, but they are forced to prepare for the next war immediately, and there is no time to train archers, so they are forced to continuously improve their crossbows.

"City Lord, you should go back, Song people can't attack." He Yang Baozhong said to Duoduo Liangmao Village.

He Yang Baozhong showed respect for Duoduo Liangmao Village on his face, but he was very scared in his heart.

He came with Ouchi Hong's family yesterday, and Ouchi Hong's family was decapitated at this time, and he was afraid that he would be cut off too.

"In my opinion, the people of Song Dynasty have loud thunder and little rain. You don't need to come here at all, City Master. Just leave everything to us..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of horns sounded in the Song army barracks echoed in the surrounding fields.

Each eight-ox crossbow is equipped with twenty strong soldiers, and they pull the rope as thick as an arm.

An officer drew his knife and waved it, and the orderly began to wave the command flag.

The eight-ox crossbow let out a roar, and at the same time, the crossbowmen beside them also pulled the trigger.

In an instant, countless dense arrows rose from the ground and pressed towards the city.

The Japanese who were still talking finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

But it was too late.

He Yang Baozhong turned his head to look, and suddenly the dense arrows had arrived in front of him.

He Yang Baozhong hadn't finished speaking to Duoduo Liangmao Village just now, and his body was full of arrows.

Five were inserted on the face, and one was inserted between the forehead and the brow.

A large amount of blood was splashed on Duoduo Liangmao's face, and he was so frightened that he froze in place.

I saw that the rain of arrows was divided into two waves, the first wave was the rain of arrows from the crossbow archers, which roared towards the city like a torrential rain, and He Yang Baozhong was killed by this batch of arrow rain.

Immediately there were screams and wailing from the top of the city.

The sharp arrows hit the top of the city, making countless impact sounds.

Only then did the Japanese react, and quickly hid behind the plank.

The luck of Duoduo Liangmao Village is obviously much better than that of He Yang Baozhong. He just got hit by an arrow and quickly followed Duodao behind the board.

He turned his head and looked at He Yang Baozhong, who was hiding on the ground with his eyes wide open and his body full of arrows, his face turned pale with fright.

Tatara Homori, who was so arrogant just now, hid behind the wooden boards, feeling that the sunlight above his head seemed to be blocked by something.

Looking up, I saw a dense rain of arrows whistling past the top of my head, like a large dark cloud flying past.

Next, there were countless screams in the city, which were the result of the rain of arrows from the Eight Bull Crossbows.

At this moment, everyone fell into extreme panic.

After this wave of blows, the rammed-earth city and the wooden planks in the hands of the Japanese army were filled with arrows.

The attack did not stop, the Song Army's crossbowmen quickly switched, and the impact on the city followed.

In the panic at the top of the city, there were screams everywhere, and those who were not shot were also screaming strangely behind the wooden boards with their heads covered.

Next, the impact of the eight-ox crossbow came again, crossing the top of the city and rushing into the city.

A group of people in the city had already been shot to death by the first wave of crossbow arrows.

Due to the great power of the eight-ox crossbow, the rain of arrows impacted on the person, directly impacting the person several meters away, and dragging out a long bloodstain.

The area within [-] meters of the city near the city wall quickly fell into chaos.

The Japanese army at the head of the city used a thick template prepared in advance to block the attack of the crossbow arrows.

However, the Japanese had no room to fight back.

"Put on the rocket!"

Zhang Rong gave an order, and Song Jun began to change rockets.

Soon, the first batch of rockets hit the top of the city, burning those templates.

The terrified screams became even more desperate. A Japanese soldier came out from behind to put out the fire, but was shot to death on the spot by crossbow arrows as soon as he came out.

After the intensive attack was suppressed, the Song army began to move forward one after another, laying down a large number of wooden boards on the moat, preparing to cross the river.

At the same time, the artillery battalion also appeared ahead of schedule.

Chapter 1209 Breaking the Castle (Second Change)

The planks prepared by the Japanese burned one after another, and the Japanese were busy putting out the flames.

Duoduo Liangmao Village endured the pain and glanced below, and found that the Song Army had laid a large amount of wood on the moat to quickly form a bridge.

He yelled in horror: "Archer, hit back quickly! Quick!"

Several archers received the order, stood up, bent their bows and shot down, but before the arrows could be shot, they were shot to death by crossbow arrows flying towards them.

There are more and more flames on the plank.

The drums of the Song army also sounded, shaking the sky and the earth, and the shouts followed, with a momentum like a rainbow.

The first batch of Song troops crossed the moat and quickly lined up in front with shields to prevent the Japanese army from counterattacking desperately.

Seeing more and more Song troops crossing the moat, the Japanese at the top of the city were helpless and panicked.

"Quick!" General Staff Wang Yun, wearing an iron armor and holding a command knife in his hand, shouted to the soldiers of the artillery battalion, "Put the artillery at the door, get closer, and aim at the city gate! "

The soldiers of the Artillery Battalion carried the artillery and trotted quickly towards the city gate, skillfully placing the artillery at a distance of less than 20 meters from the city gate.

At this time, the Japanese army at the head of the city was overwhelmed by the saturation attack of the crossbow arrows, and there was no way to stop the Song army from placing artillery.

The gunpowder was quickly taken out, and the iron cannon was filled.

This kind of artillery, already the second-generation artillery, is slightly larger than the first-generation tiger crouching artillery, and its casting materials have also begun to mix some iron.

This shows that the cast iron technology of the Song Dynasty is improving.

Moreover, the gunpowder dose of each cannon has also increased significantly.

As the artillery was ignited, a huge boom sounded at the castle gate.

The Japanese, who were already panicked, were completely dumbfounded by the sudden sound of artillery.

The iron cannon impacted on the city gate, shaking the city tower trembling slightly. The Japanese had never experienced such a terrible blow.

At this moment, all the will of the Japanese army to resist was shattered along with the city gate.

After the city gate was blasted open, three hundred forwards in infantry armor began to push forward.

These people are like moving iron men.

Followed by crossbowmen also in armor.

It wasn't until this time that Song Jun's arrow rain stopped, and the striker pushed into the city with an axe.

In the narrow streets of the city, many people were shot to death by the arrow rain of the eight-ox crossbow, and many people hid behind the city wall that could not be covered. They thought they were safe, but at this time they became the first strike of the infantry the other side.

I saw Bu Renjia raised his ax and slashed at the Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese army roared, eyes full of hatred, and rushed towards the Song army with a knife in their hands: "Kill! Kill!"

The first Japanese army to rush forward had immediate results.

The first infantryman A cut across the Japanese soldier's left ear with an axe, like chopping wood, split the Japanese soldier's head from the side, blood splashed out, showing a painful expression, and then staggered two steps before falling to the ground .

After falling to the ground, he convulsed a few times before dying.

The infantry soldiers at the back pushed up steadily, and their movements were clean and neat. When the ax was chopped down, the crunching sound of bones being cut and cracked sounded one after another, as well as the heart-piercing screams of the Japanese.

The Japanese army immediately tried to shoot the intruding Song army with bows and arrows, but the arrows shot on the infantry armor, and the damage to the Song army was almost negligible.

On the contrary, Song Jun's fighting skills are extremely fierce, and every move is so simple that it cannot be simpler, chopping and chopping.

Every time the ax goes down, it either hits the forehead or cuts the neck.

Under the tremendous force, the ax blade tore through the bone, making a crisp sound, and red and white splashed following the trajectory of the ax swing.

The hand-to-hand combat at the gate of the city immediately turned into a one-sided massacre.

Painful screams and distorted expressions, as well as those Japanese who were cut beyond recognition and had no time to escape, the back of their heads were chopped open, can be seen everywhere.

The panic and despair on the faces of the remaining Japanese soldiers could no longer be concealed.

Looking at Song Jun, who was covered in iron armor and only showed a pair of eyes, he felt like a ghost crawling up from hell.

The others stopped resisting and turned around and ran away.

At this time, the follow-up crossbow archers entered the city one after another, and began to shoot the fleeing Japanese soldiers with crossbow arrows.

Row after row of Japanese soldiers fell under the crossbow arrows, wailing: "Help! I don't want to die!"

There were still people crawling among the dead, crying out in pain: "Forgive me! Forgive me!"

After the rapid shooting, the crossbowmen quickly spread out to expand the shooting area.

Buren A walked all the way from the middle of the street, and chopped at the Japanese when he saw them.

The follow-up infantry of the Song Army entered the city one after another, and began to advance from the city to the tower.

The nobles on the tower did not expect the Song army to come so fast that they couldn't react at all.

The first batch of Song soldiers who climbed the tower began to kill the surviving Japanese soldiers at the top of the city. Regardless of whether the Japanese soldiers knelt down and begged for mercy, they would all be killed.

"I am the son of the city lord. I have many fields, many servants, and many treasures. I can give you all..."

Duo Duo Liangshi Baosheng knelt on the ground and begged.

But no one paid any attention to him, a Song army slashed at him, and chopped off Todora Homorori's head.