Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"Woo..." the ear-piercing sound of the horn sounded, and the soldiers following the elephants quickly began to advance in an orderly manner, but they did not charge directly, after all, they were still about two or three miles away from Li Ke and the others.

"Boom" and "Boom" the sound of uniform footsteps came continuously, and all the navy soldiers kept advancing in an orderly queue, until Li Ke was completely blocked behind, and then they stopped their footsteps with an order.

Li Ke did not leave. His place is now on a high ground, at least 200 meters away from the frontline battle formation. This distance is already very safe for the cold weapon era.

Li Ke wanted to see how effective the soldiers he had trained were.

Fan Zheng was riding on a war elephant with a stern expression on his face. Just now he couldn't see clearly from too far away. He could only see a group of soldiers in armor. But as the distance approached, Fan Zheng's expression also became serious. At least three There are more than a thousand soldiers, and the front row holds arc-shaped shields that are at least half the height of a person, and they are covered with a special kind of armor. He feels that it is more complete than the Mingguang armor!

Is this the elite troops of Datang?But soon Fan Zheng's face showed a hint of ferocity, since your Datang wants to swallow us, you can't blame it for injustice.These shields may be able to prevent war horses, but facing war elephants, there is only one end, and that is death!

The impact of a war elephant is not comparable to that of a war horse!

"Ready!" Fan Zheng yelled, and following Fan Zheng's words, the guard who formed the same battle elephant with him directly raised the flag in his hand. When the guard flag was raised, all the soldiers on the other war elephants They all raised the bows and arrows in their hands.

The distance between the two sides is rapidly approaching!

Liu Yilong took a deep breath, a smirk appeared on his face, just like Lin Yiguo's bamboo bow and arrow?Arrows that don't even have many iron arrows?

"Squat!" Liu Yilong roared, and a sharp whistle resounded across the battlefield. The shield-wielding soldiers in the first row and the second row squatted down instantly, hiding their bodies behind the shields. Behind them, there were two hundred beds. The crossbow instantly appeared in front of everyone.

This is not the kind of large bed crossbow, but a medium-sized bed crossbow made by Li Ke's researchers. It is similar to the three-armed bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty, but it only has two arms. The most important thing is to install it on both sides of its bed crossbow. It is the first pulley block that appeared in this world, which is very similar to the pulley compound crossbow of later generations.

There is a movable pulley block that can reduce its pulling force, and the composite crossbow string greatly increases the pulling distance, which greatly increases the power of this two-arm bed crossbow. Although the pulley is not an eccentric wheel, and because of the problem of ball lubrication, the bow string may be slightly lowered. The rebound speed, but compared to the advantages brought by the movable pulley block, the power of this reduction is not important.

The two-arm bed crossbow on the ground is supported by a special steel support rod. Inside a main groove is about the thickness of two adult fingers. The arrows are sharp armor-piercing triangular steel arrows. It is two crossbow arrows the thickness of little fingers, also using three-edged armor-piercing arrows.

Its maximum shooting range has reached more than 700 meters, which is incomparable with the 1500-meter shooting range of the three-bow bed crossbow recorded in the Song Dynasty, but its effective shooting range is also more than 500 meters. Even the new steel armor couldn't resist it.

As for the so-called rattan armor on these Linyi soldiers and those war elephants, the protection against swords and swords is actually not bad, but Li Ke wants to see the protection of these things.

The entire bed crossbow has canceled the huge support below, so it is not too heavy, and two people can easily carry it around.

This is one of the reasons why they can easily bring two hundred bed crossbows.

When he saw clearly what was on the other side, a trace of fear flashed across Fan Zheng's face, but now the distance between them and each other could not be stopped!

"Charge!" Fan Zheng issued an order abruptly, and now retreating is courting death, and he can only rush across this distance with the fastest speed!

Although those huge bed crossbows were terrifying, there were not many of them. As long as they passed the first wave, they would not have a second chance to wind up.

"Woo..." A sharp horn sounded, and the horsemen's cheers instantly came from Linyi's war elephant troop. The war elephants they were riding immediately began to move their legs quickly, and the dull footsteps instantly made people cry. The ground began to tremble.

Li Ke took a deep breath and had to say that these war elephant troops have something. The physical strength of elephants is not weak. Asian elephants can run at a speed close to 30 kilometers per hour, and they can run for a long time, although they are not as strong as The stamina of the horse, but there is no problem charging such a short distance.

The running of elephants is more like a fast race, but the earth trembles caused by the charge of a thousand elephants. If it is not for the soldiers who have been battle-tested, they will probably pee their pants in fear of facing this scene.

The distance between the two sides quickly approached. When the opponent's elephant soldiers approached a distance of about 400 meters, Liu Yilong suddenly showed a grin on his face, and waved his hand directly, "Let go!"

Countless dull crossbow strings bounced back and forth with a "boom", and countless sharp whistles of crossbow arrows instantly rang through the ears of all soldiers. enemy.

Just a few seconds later, "Moo!" was similar to a cow's cry, but a sharper elephant's scream resounded throughout the battlefield, and the crossbow arrows on the front row of elephants even penetrated directly tens of centimeters deep. , a crossbow arrow just shot through the forehead of an elephant, and the elephant fell directly to the ground.

Some elephants that hadn't been shot directly made a miserable cry, went mad for a moment, and rushed towards the narrator indiscriminately, colliding with their companions.

And some soldiers who were unlucky and directly shot by the crossbow arrows flew upside down as if they were hit by an invisible giant, and a huge hole was torn out of their chests.

Fan Zheng was lucky, the elephant under his crotch escaped the attack in the first round, but the heart of Fan Zheng sitting on the elephant seemed to fall directly into the ice cellar, because in his line of sight, behind those crossbows on the bed The soldiers actually pulled the crossbow string forcibly by two people, and it was directly wound up!

How can this be? !With such a powerful bed crossbow, how could two people pull the string? !

While the opponent was winding up, the soldier next to him had already put three crossbow bolts into the grooves again.

The harsh and sharp whistling sound of "嗡" sounded again, and after these soldiers placed the crossbow bolts, they knocked off the crossbow strings with a small hammer without hesitation.

This time, Fan Zheng didn't have such good luck anymore. A small crossbow arrow passed directly across his chest. Because the distance between the two sides was closer, the crossbow arrow directly shot his whole body through a hole, even directly The soldiers behind him shot down the elephant again.