Ulu was prostrate on the ground, trying to raise his head several times, but was pressed back by the arrows that never stopped for a moment.

The Song people pushed down balls of burning grass from the city, exposing most of his sons to the fire. The arrows slammed against the iron armor, and there was a dull or crisp sound.

Even if it is equipped with the iron armor of the Song people, in such a dense rain of arrows, there are always a few arrows that the armor cannot defend. With the strength of the Divine Arm Bow, he was shot by a wooden feather arrow thirty or forty steps away, and in addition to the thicker helmet, even with the sturdiness of the breastplate and back armor, it could not completely block the damage caused by the arrow.

And above the city wall, the sound of bowstrings that formed a single note was mixed with a deep and heavy hum, which was still shooting from the armor-piercing heavy crossbow that was still on top of the god's arm bow.

I don't know when—probably after it was determined that the various palace divisions of the Great Liao had also begun to change their iron armor—the arrows used by the Song people had changed their shapes in order to ensure the effectiveness of their most proficient strong bows and crossbows. Most of the arrow clusters have been cast and are made in the same shape. Hundreds of triangular arrows were clustered together, and even each slightly convex arc was exactly the same. These are for unarmored or lightly armored enemies.

But the other part of the arrows is still wrought iron forged, but after some kind of secret art, it is far sharper than before, and the arrows always shine with the light of steel. The best arrow clusters are said to be made of forged steel that has been refined for dozens of years, and is made with a special armor-piercing heavy crossbow that is larger than the Divine Arm Bow, with a longer shaft and sharper arrow clusters.

In the arsenal of Daizhou and the passes that had been conquered, a large number of arrows had been found, all of which had been forged and divided—even the ordinary arrows cast were far more sophisticated than the arrows produced in Liao. And the forging of the top grade is the target of scramble.

These days, looking at the dark arrow cluster in their hands, many people have found that the cast iron arrow cluster has come out of a mold at all. This discovery made the Khitan warriors, including Ulu, shudder. Such an arrow cluster, as long as the mud mold can be prepared, I am afraid that an iron yard will not be able to build thousands of arrows a day.

The armor-piercing arrows shot by the armor-piercing heavy crossbow easily pierced the iron armor equipped by the Song people, and even more so that many conceited generals whose armor did not lose to the Song people secretly said that they were lucky. Today, he gave up attacking the city during the day and chose the dark night, and Ulu estimated that the reason for thirty percent was that he was afraid of the armor-piercing heavy crossbows of the Song people.

However, now, the night did not offset the Song people's advantage in bows and crossbows as expected.

At all times, Uru could hear one or two screams and muffled moans around him. And Uru itself was shrouded in a rain of arrows, but because he was lying under the ridge of a vegetable field, deep in the shadows, he was lucky not to be targeted.

But when he dodged just now, there were a few inexplicable stings in the vest one after another, and Ulu's heart was half cold, until he hid under the ridge, and he was shocked to find that he was still alive. The strongest armor didn't stop the arrows, but it reduced its power by a lot. But he's most likely sure that he's just lucky not to be targeted by the Armor-Piercing Heavy Crossbow.

At some point, the arrows began to thin out, and then they began to shoot intermittently. The dense chord that had just been ringing in my ears dissipated suddenly, but there was still a whisper in the distance with the wind.

The Song people here have already run out of arrows, or they don't have the strength to draw their bows anymore. Even Uru's mind crossed the thoughts, but his instincts, tempered by decades of experience, immediately reminded him that this was not the case. It's just that his sons lack such intuition.

"Don't stand up!" Uru's roar was a step late, and several warriors from the clan had already jumped up and rushed directly to the foot of the city wall. Even though they were suppressed by the Song people with strong bows and crossbows for a long time, they were still fearless.

It's just such bravery, but it is reckless, they only rushed forward two steps, the strings that had just subsided suddenly rose up, nearly a hundred heavy crossbows were fired at the same time, and the sharp arrows shot from the front instantly pierced through their bodies, as if they had been punched head-on, and flew back upside down. There was no sound before landing.

Uru let out a low roar of pain and buried his face in the dirt. Among those people are his brothers and siblings. Brothers and sisters who hunt together, graze together, and fight together! But he died in the trap of the Song people.

The fishy smell of the cold soil brought Uru to his senses.

That's a complete trap! But only the defenders, under effective command and full confidence, could set such a trap for the enemy.

If it is a civilian or even a soldier who is new to battle, many of them will shoot all the arrows in their hands at the first time. Where is it possible to deceive the enemy with a change in the pace of shooting? Recruits captured by fear and nervousness cannot be heard by the commands that echo in their ears.

Calm down, that's the hardest thing to do on the battlefield.

But the Song people did a wonderful job this time, very beautiful. Ulu can be sure that those who are now in the city must be the elite of the Southern Dynasty army. It will not be first-time recruits and newly drafted civilians.

Uludu is thirty years old, and has lived in the land near the northern steppe since he was a child, and has killed the enemy many times since he shot the first diviner when he was nine years old. He couldn't know more than that many of the first-time sons and daughters in the clan could deform their movements and make mistakes in tense situations, and they could even pull the bowstring. Like himself, at the age of nine, he was able to shoot an incoming foe by luck, not archery. The defenders of the city are definitely elite soldiers who have been in battle or have been trained for a long time.

Ulu buried his head, his body tensed, and he didn't dare to relax for a moment.

Probably just the location was revealed, and there were more arrows in his direction than before. Compared to the current one, the density of arrows in the past was like comparing spring rain to a storm in late summer, but fortunately the location was not bad, and the terrain could be used to block most of the arrows.

How many people were on the walls?

Could it be that the Song people have thousands of soldiers in Taigu City?!

Three or five thousand forbidden troops plus twenty or thirty thousand people who had fled into the city and had never experienced the war—as for the Fangkuo households who originally lived in the city, the number was not much, after all, it was only the county seat—this was the judgment obtained from the return of the horses.

Although Ulu was not an important person, in order to improve the morale and confidence of the three armies, Xiao Shisan informed Lu Xia of the number of troops in Taigu City.

However, Ulu, who was so pressed by the arrows that he couldn't raise his head, already understood that the so-called report was nonsense at all.

How difficult it is to pull the Divine Arm Bow out, after fighting for more than a hundred for his people in Daizhou's arsenal, Ulu also knows very well. A heavy crossbow that must be wound by waist force, and it is not a toy bow for children, and it can be pulled once without taking a breath. As long as the speed is a little faster, the waist strength of ten times and eight times can't keep up. The normal use of the Divine Arm Bow is to shoot an arrow after a break, and then shoot another arrow, which requires maintaining a steady and slow rhythm.

But now the Divine Arm Bow fires faster than the bow is drawn. If every section of the entire county in front of him could shoot such a dense and steady storm, it would be absolutely impossible for Ulu to believe that there were less than 30,000 defenders in the city.

Other words...... Xiao Thirteen, that scumbag, is lying again!

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Han Gang looked out of the city with a clairvoyant mirror on the city tower, and with the help of the raging fire, he could clearly see that the attacking Liao soldiers were completely suppressed by the rain of arrows in the city, and even the city could not be approached.

However, the arrows consumed by this are also a huge number, and they are completely smashed with money, and dozens or hundreds of arrows are smashed out of the river every moment.

"Are there enough arrows?" Han Gang asked, his eyes not leaving the clairvoyant.

"There are 630,000 more in the library." Chen Feng replied, "Among them, there are 140,000 armor-piercing arrows. ”

In the past few days, Chen Feng has been very sensitive to numbers, probably because of his background in a businessman's family, and his money and grain calculations are very level. Everyone has strengths, and Chen Feng's strengths also allowed him to gain a firm foothold in Hangang's shogunate.

"Not for now." Han Gang shook his head.

There were less than 3,000 soldiers in the city who actually shot with a bow with a divine arm, and before that, arrows were distributed in four bundles per person. The wooden feather arrows used with the Divine Arm Bow are bundled with thirty, that is to say, one hundred and twenty per person, a total of nearly 350,000, even at the current shooting rate, it is enough to use.

"But you have to get the rhythm right." Han Gang commanded softly. Suppressing the enemy with arrows is not just about shooting around, but a reasonable rhythm can maximize the effect of arrows.

Huang Shang, who was in charge of the military, replied: "The privy order has been passed down before, and the heads and deputies who command the shooting below all know what to do. ”

Han Gang nodded, he had said similar things before, and he had conveyed them in the training of the past two days. If it can be done, this battle will basically not be suspenseful.

With high morale, reasonable command, and abundant military supplies, there is no need to worry about the danger of defeat.

In particular, the supply of military resources, with only 3,000 soldiers, there are as many as 20 bed crossbows, ten times the number of heavy crossbows, twice as many iron armor, as well as a huge number of simple winding devices and animal-powered winding machines, such an abundant supply of military resources, which is unimaginable in the surrounding countries of the Great Song Dynasty, and even including the Liao State.

Consumables such as arrows are as many as a million. The terrifying national strength of the Great Song Dynasty made Zhou Yu's difficult problems for Zhuge Liang no longer a headache for the generals. Needless to say, the capital's ordnance supervisor can easily arm 200,000 people to the teeth within a year. In border states and important counties, there are also bow and crossbow courtyards where arrows and crossbows are made. Any border state bow and crossbow courtyard, as long as it is fully built, it will not be a problem to have millions of arrows of all colors a year. In any battle on the border, the rear can easily mobilize hundreds of thousands of arrows for use.

However, under normal circumstances, it does not mean that a county like Taigu County can also have such a number of weapons. It's just that after Han Gang decided to use Taigu County as the decisive battle, a large number of support from the capital was cut off directly in Taigu County for Han Gang before he arrived in Taiyuan.

How many weapons were in the armory in Taiyuan City, Han Gang knew better than anyone. He has not been away from Hedong for a long time, and the money warehouse and granary may change greatly, but the inventory of weapons cannot change much in the absence of war.

For the weapons and arrows that were replenished later, Taiyuan City was not so urgent. The confidence that the Taiyuan defenders urgently lacked, Han Gang had already given them. It also led away the enemy troops besieging Taiyuan, and in exchange, there was naturally no problem with borrowing a batch of military supplies. What's more, after the Liao army broke through the Shiling Pass and entered the Taiyuan Prefecture, it was to transport support materials to Taiyuan, which was to fight dogs with meat buns and drive ships into the whirlpool.

The clairvoyant mirror in Han Gang's hand moved a slight angle, pointing to the Liao army barracks in the distance, Xiao Shisan should be there, also observing the battle situation. Now the storm on the head of the city is the embodiment of the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is the biggest gap between Song and Liao.

It's time to accept your fate!