"Isn't this a bed crossbow?" Ryazan asked suspiciously, "Why does the chief call this thing a widowmaker?" ”

Chen Ying smiled bitterly: "This is a bed crossbow, but it is also a widow maker, as long as you take an arrow, you will definitely die, what is not a widow maker?" ”

This bed crossbow is not a joke, in ancient times this thing was a cannon. Do you know how it opens?

Turn the axle and hit the trigger with a hammer, and the range can reach fifteen hundred meters! This is something that the northern nomads could not have imagined.

During the Liao invasion of Zhenzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, it reached the central part of Hebei Province, and the soldiers pointed directly at Kaifeng, at this time the vanguard of the Liao army, Xiao Da Rin (Tart), who was known for his bravery, was deeply afraid that the morale of the Song army was high, and immediately led thousands of cavalry to the city, wanting to preemptively take the north city. On the one hand, he organized a fierce attack, and on the other hand, he immediately observed the weakness of the Song army on the high slope, the morale of the Song army was like a rainbow, the arrows were like rain, and the Liao army was gradually scattered.

Xiao Darin's position thought that he was out of the range of bows and arrows, and he thought he was safe with shield soldiers on one side facing the Song army. As a result, dozens of crossbows of the Song army were fired together, and Xiao Darin, who was immediately on a high slope, became the target of concentrated shooting, and the first arrow directly hit the war horse of the tart, and he himself was then hit by an arrow in the ribs, as if throwing an arrow to the ground, and in a blink of an eye, another arrow penetrated through the helmet, pierced out from one side of the eye, and suddenly could not support it and fell to the ground, and died in the camp that night, and was hit by six arrows when he died.

The bed crossbow has no way to defend at all, and no matter how heavy the shield is, it can't withstand the blow of the bed crossbow. The ancient city walls were basically made of steamed soil mixed with glutinous rice juice, although it was not cement, and it could not be smashed with a hammer, but the bed crossbow was 500 steps away, and an arrow could be shot into the wall one foot.

"You can't be beaten passively!" Chen Ying knew the power of the bed crossbow, and immediately ordered: "Come on, immediately order Luo Shixin and Yu Guni to lead the cavalry and destroy the enemy's bed crossbow outside the city!" ”

As soon as Chen Ying's order was issued, a terrible sound sounded in the air.

"Rain of arrows!" In the sharp sound of breaking the air, several soldiers at the head of the city were hit by arrows at the same time, and even Ryazan was almost shot by accident.

Against the nomadic cavalry bows, the Chinese defenders also had an advantage in range. Unless the enemy does not care about casualties, sends himself within range, and endures the baptism of archery on the city wall, it will not be able to suppress the defenders on the city wall at all.

However, although the number of crossbow machines in Liu Tong's department was not large, at best there were more than 200 units, the range of the two sides was almost undefeated, and both sides had their own strengths, and arrows came and went, and the fight was inextricable for a while.

However, in the process of the two sides using crossbow machines, the Liang army took advantage of the fact that the defenders on the city wall had no time to suppress the city, and hundreds of Liang infantry carried cloud ladders and began to ascend the city. At the same time, there were dozens of Liang soldiers holding dry firewood and carrying oil cans to rush to the city gate.

The gates of Lingzhou City, like other city gates, are made of wood-clad iron. A thin layer of iron sheet can't withstand burning at all. If you can't expel the enemy from under the gates, you can burn the gates in half an hour at most.

Chen Ying looked at the Liang army outside the city and sneered, the enemy's main general's siege method was not wrong, but very orderly. But he ignored one point, Chen Ying was in Lingzhou, and he was not unable to go out of the city at all. Chen Ying was also not afraid of field battles with the enemy.

Chen Ying stretched out his hand and pointed at Fang Jiangtao, the commander of the Dongcheng City Guarding Brigade, and said: "You take over the command, how should you fight, let it go!" ”

"Yes!" Fang Jiangtao didn't know if he had watched too much of the drama, so he actually shouted: "The last general is willing to make a military order, he can't defend the city wall, come and see him!" ”

Chen Ying was amused by Fang Jiangtao: "Okay, this manager is very optimistic about you!" ”

Fang Jiangtao's face flushed with excitement: "People are in the city!" ”

Chen Ying actually didn't expect that he would inadvertently create the iron-walled general of the Tang Dynasty. A few years later, Fang Jiangtao guarded Beiting City, facing more than 100,000 people of the Western Turkic coalition army, he stubbornly defended Beiting City for four months, and became an iron-walled general rewarded by Emperor Taizong.

By the time Chen Ying walked down the city wall of Dongcheng, Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui and Yu Guni, who had received orders to come urgently, had already led more than 4,000 lightly armed cavalry to wait for them.

Especially after seeing the power of the lancers, Chen Ying used the resources in his hands to recreate a batch of hook and sickle guns. At this time, Chen Ying already had five regiments of cavalry in his hands, plus the Turkic servant cavalry under Yu Guni, there were more than 7,000 cavalry alone.

Chen Ying used the captured war horses to replenish all the four regiments of the Yue cavalry army damaged in the battle, and then used Guo Zihe's remnants and the surviving young men of Lingzhou to form the Lingwu Cavalry Regiment. Five cavalry regiments of more than 1,500 cavalry, all equipped with hook and sickle guns, in order to increase the defensive ability of the cavalry, Chen Ying from the captured armor, these cavalry were replaced with high-quality iron armor.

War.

Seeing Chen Ying coming, Yu Guni hurriedly threw himself on the ground, bowing three times and bowing to Chen Ying, "My noble master, your servant is willing to trample all the bedbugs outside the city to death!" ”

Chen Ying waved his hand and said, "The time has not yet come." Calm down! ”

"Didn't arrive? How long will that be? Luo Shixin said: "If we allow the arrogance of the enemies outside the city to continue, our morale will be frustrated!" ”

Zhang Shigui's eyes rolled, as if he saw through Chen Ying's intentions.

Chen Yingdao: "Cut and be patient, this time the chief is ready to solve the bedbug of Liang Shidu once and for all, and if they want to fight, they will be frightened and flee in fear, and in the future, let them look at the general flag of the general manager and retreat!" ”

"The chief manager wants to beat and disable Master Liang?" Luo Shixin asked suspiciously?

"yes!" Chen Yinggan sighed with emotion: "If the situation is gradually clear today, the Tang Dynasty will definitely defeat the anti-kings and reunify the world, Li Mi, the Duke of Wei, and Du Fuwei, the governor of Jianghuai, will surrender, and the Tang Dynasty will have the confidence and strength to compete with Wang Shichong for the Central Plains." At this critical moment, we can only cripple Liang Shi, so that he has no strength and confidence to disrupt the situation! ”

There is a saying that the ass determines the head. The head determines the pattern.

If in the past, Chen Ying's greatest wish was to make a small place, collect a few beautiful maids, and then live a life of a farmer's spring and a little field. However, the times are impermanent, and Chen Ying has been forced to this role, and Chen Ying's mood has also changed, and he is naturally no longer willing to be a small landlord, eating and waiting for death.

He wants power, status, and beauty.

He wants to work hard to gain a strength that can counterattack Li Xiuning.

The terrible screams sounded one after another, and with the suppression of the Liang army's strong crossbow outside the city, the Liang army began to attack the city with ants. As if seeing victory in sight, the Turkic army, which was originally hiding in the shadows and preparing to ambush the Lingzhou cavalry, also joined the siege sequence.

The city gate had been burned by the fire set outside the city, and even though he was isolated more than ten steps away, Chen Ying still felt the heat wave coming from the air.

Seeing that the city gate was already crumbling, Chen Ying shouted: "Soldiers, prepare to attack!" ”