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The crossbow cavalry of the Han army used a new generation of repeating crossbows, which was improved from the previous three-shot mounted crossbow, which increased the loading amount of the arrow box and enhanced the spring system, which could be loaded with ten crossbow arrows at a time, and it was possible to use the action of changing the arrow box to reload the arrows on the horse.

The new generation of repeater because of the increase in the amount of arrow magazine loading, there is no longer a feather at the tail of the crossbow arrow, so the crossbow arrow without arrow feathers has a large impact force in a short distance to ensure accuracy, but once it exceeds a certain distance, there will be unbalanced and tumbling kinetic energy, and the effective range is about 20 meters.

At the same time, because the firing frequency of the new generation of repeaters has greatly increased, the life of the spring system of the repeater is also short, about after firing one hundred and twenty crossbow arrows, the original range of about 25 meters will continue to decrease with the accumulation of the frequency of use, and the penetration will inevitably decrease.

There are not many Han troops equipped with a new generation of ten-shot repeaters, because the process of making zuò is too complicated in this era, and the output of new repeaters has not been high, and the current Han army equipped with new crossbows is five thousand, they are specially trained as crossbow cavalry, and the thousand crossbow cavalry that appeared on the scene is Sima Xin's actual combat nature of the new-style crossbows, and it is estimated that it is also to take care of Li Liang, so it will be temporarily dispatched.

The horror of the crossbow cavalry of the Han army is not the range of the traditional crossbow, it is the kind of arrow that will "roar" endlessly as long as there is still the strength to pull the turntable of the crossbow, although the effective killing range is only about 25 meters, but the frequency of shooting is too fast. The lethality on display is naturally incomparably dense.

What is the most important thing? It was Lu Zhe who got the magazine system of modern firearms on the new repeater, which also included a device similar to the magazine ejection, and the result was that the crossbow cavalry only needed to hold down a button and pull it after shooting a magazine. The empty receiver will detach from the repeater, and then the crossbow cavalry will take out the full barrel and push it slightly hard to carry out the arrow action, so that it can act as a battlefield cactus until he dies or the metal fatigue of the repeater makes the repeater unusable.

Oh, and by the way, the new repeater isn't the traditional style of the crossbow either, with the exception of the opener system. It is also a winch with internal gears, and the gear will repeatedly pull the bowstring and hook it on the spring during the rotation of the external grip, and the hook will be pried every time the turntable turns to a certain position. Then the bowstring will be loosened from the taut state, and the crossbow arrows will be driven out by another spring device to push the crossbow arrows into the chute, which is very similar to a kind of hand-pulled machine gun of modern thermal weapons, but in terms of process structure and range...... There is no comparison.

The advantage of a time-traveler is not only in the understanding of historical trends. It is also because the time-traveler has a lot of knowledge that is not available in the modern era. For Lu Zhe, there is no advantage in the direction of history. But knowledge alone that is far beyond contemporary can change the world.

The crossbow cavalry of the Han army was mighty, and those who were in the distance could still be stunned, but those who were being fired like a storm did not even have a chance to be stunned, and their fate was that they were killed by one arrow after another, lying on the ground waiting to be trampled into flesh by the horses' hooves.

The new repeater crossbow was also used by the Han army for the first time in actual combat, and they themselves were surprised by the power brought by the continuous shooting of the fan-faced formation, and they were roaring excitedly when they saw the large area of people and horses of the Hu cavalry who came from the impact become corpses.

Because of the relationship between the field of view. In the middle of the group, Maudun couldn't see what was going on in front of him, but from the continuous screams. and the movement of the cavalry of the headquarters to reduce the speed of their horses, and other details, he can still sense that there is unprecedented trouble ahead.

It was about three minutes into modern time, and more than 500 of the Mao Dun headquarters that rushed towards the Han army became corpses, and the number of crossbow arrows fired by the Han crossbow cavalry reached an astonishing 20,000 yuan, that is, on average, each crossbow cavalry changed their arrow magazines at least once and fired twenty crossbow arrows.

Oh, my God! More than 20,000 crossbow arrows to destroy about 500 enemies? That's an average of forty bolts to destroy an enemy! And that's still the number of crossbow arrows consumed in three minutes, and in some ways, the crossbow cavalry of the Han army is simply a luxury in terms of the number of crossbow arrows fired.

You must know that it is now the era of the end of the ancient pre-Qin period, and there is no machine tool, and everything depends on manual social environment. As the environment and materials permit, skilled craftsmen can make about 100 ordinary feather arrows per day. The making of ordinary feather arrows can be allowed even if there is a small error, but for the crossbow arrows that need to be installed in the chute, the arrow shaft of the crossbow arrow can not tolerate the slightest error, such as the bending of the arrow shaft can never appear, to ensure the straightness of the arrow shaft, there are strict regulations on the length, so the amount of each person per day can have one or twenty branches, which is actually too much.

In three minutes, this group of crossbow cavalry of the Han army consumed the fruits of the hard work of more than 1,000 people in three minutes, and their battle has just begun, and I don't know how many crossbow arrows will be consumed next. Calculated in this way, the consumption of crossbow arrows in a battle-scale operation is basically 100,000 bases, and each battle must consume at least five bases, and 500,000 crossbow arrows require 25,000 skilled craftsmen to work hard for a day. And the consumption of 500,000 crossbow arrows represents more than just a simple labor cost, people need to eat, work needs to be paid, materials need to be purchased, and tools to make crossbow arrows also need to spend money, so how much money should be spent?

In short, the crossbow arrows shot by the crossbow cavalry under Li Liang's command within three minutes were not simply a killing tool, each crossbow arrow represented the sweat and money in the rear, and they used an average of four and a half taels to kill a Hu cavalry, and the new generation of five baht coins was about forty-five. According to the purchasing power of copper coins in the Han Kingdom now, one and a half taels can buy about two stone of rice grain (sixty-one and a half modern catties), in other words, the price of rice in the Han Kingdom is about twenty five baht and one stone.

So it may not be an exaggeration to measure it in terms of money alone, but in terms of food...... Those crossbow cavalry used the weight of almost two hundred and fifty catties of rice to "crush" a Hu cavalry to death!

In fact, it is not uncommon for prices to be cheap in the Han Kingdom. During the Warring States Period, the prices of the countries were not high unless it was a special period, and the prices were generally not high until the Western Han Dynasty, which caused many reasons. For example, the population is not large, the demand is not so terrifying, and the other is that the circulation of coins is insufficient, and most of them are bartered.

There is no such thing as "can be stoned to death with cannonballs, never fight with human lives", but Lu Zhe, who is not short of wealth, has always been like that, and he will never be stingy with well-equipped ordnance, after all, he is ...... In particular, the population that can become a combat force is more important than anything else in the strategy of endless expansion, the other is the death of a Han soldier. Regarding the subsequent pension, it is also far more expensive than arming a Han soldier to the teeth.

The 13th Cavalry Regiment was a luxuriously equipped regiment in all the Han armies due to various factors, and the rangers who were not suitable for frontal combat encountered by the Maodun Division were all loaded with about 1,500 people, facing the 10,000 Han cavalry led by Li Liang to fight on the frontal battlefield. It is not an exaggeration to fold six or seven hundred people in just one photo.

It wasn't until Mao Dun realized that something was wrong, and the remaining 2,800 or so Hu cavalry reopened the distance from the Han army. Waiting for the distance to be widened, Mao Dun finally saw the battlefield full of crossbow arrows, not only each Hu cavalry with men and horses at least one or twenty arrows. Some of the ground without corpses also suddenly "grows" a large "cluster of arrows" formed by crossbow arrows.

The frequency of fire from the Han crossbow cavalry was too intensive. And because of the leading equipment, the shooting interval was also surprisingly short, and Mao Dun was glad that he was out of order in time, but he didn't know that the situation of the new repeater on the side of the Han army's crossbow cavalry was not so good.

In fact, due to the relationship between the new equipment, the failure rate of the Han army's crossbow cavalry's ten-shot repeater is not low, after all, according to the understanding of the times, the new repeater is already a high-tech product, and being able to catch up with high-tech means that the equipment structure is complex. And the more complex the structure of the ordnance, it is always easy to fail due to the error of some parts, and a confrontation will come down. The failure rate of the crossbows of a thousand crossbow cavalry has reached about 10 percent, and this is only about ten minutes of continuous use. As you can imagine, the longer you use it, the higher the failure rate will definitely be.

Mao Dun was stunned that the Han army had that kind of terrifying weapon, he would not think about whether there were any defects in the weapons of the Han army now, the only thing that he thought of was that he had lost another six or seven hundred people on his side, and it would not only hurt to lose it again, but the faces of the surrounding ethnic groups, whether they were representatives or ordinary cavalrymen, were full of fear, and he didn't know how to end this matter.

In the outer Huyan Shilan Division, the Hun cavalry led by himself was still galloping straight towards the battlefield, while the other two Hu cavalry composed of non-Xiongnu tribes were hesitant.

Just now, I saw the terrifying picture of the Mao Dun Department as if it had crashed into a wall of air, who could figure out whether the Han army was carrying that kind of terrifying weapon? Because of fear, the two non-Xiongnu cavalry of 10,000 each, which were supposed to be sandwiched by the left and right flanks, were slowing down, and one of the Hu cavalry, which was blocking the Han army to the east, seemed to be considering whether it was time to leave.

Of course, Li Liang knew that the two armies were separated from each other, to be honest, although he knew the ferocity of the new type of repeater, but he was also surprised by the results obtained, consuming 30,000 crossbow arrows to destroy six or seven hundred enemies, compared to the crossbow arrows consumed, the killing was not low, and the most important thing was that the Han army only lost fifty or sixty people.

"Armor is superior, equipment is superior, morale is ...... It's also dominant! An unprecedented self-confidence formed in Li Liang's heart, which made him point the sword in his hand to the 10,000 or so Hu Qi who blocked the way back: "Chisel through!" ”

The Hu cavalry referred to by Li Liang's sword was composed of the Qu Chuan tribe, the Xiu Tu tribe, the Yu Wu tribe, and the Lou Fu tribe, most of whom came from northwest China...... That is, the Siberian region of modern Russia, so the race is basically white-skinned.

Seeing the Han army galloping and shouting loudly, he was calling the leaders of the tribes to quickly adjust the formation of his subordinates, after all, according to the speed of the cavalry, it is not an easy time for them to make a detour, and then be cut off by the Han army, it is better to charge face-to-face and staggered, and the loss of personnel is also more valuable.

More than 10,000 Han cavalry controlled the speed of the horses to adjust the formation of the troops during the gallop, about 1,000 archer cavalry equipment ran lightly at the front, and about 1,000 scattered cavalry and about 1,000 crossbow cavalry broke away from the brigade and bypassed the flank, so that behind the 1,000 archers were 7,000 assault cavalry.

The confrontation between the two armies still began with the exchange of arrows from both sides, the difference was that the Han archers and cavalry immediately dispersed to the left and right of the two wings after shooting the first wave of feather arrows, while the Hu cavalry still moved straight forward.

The Han army's archers scattered left and right, revealing the assault cavalry in the rear. These cavalrymen were now holding a three-shot mounted crossbow with a range of about 30 meters, and when they were about 50 meters away from the enemy, they had already fired crossbow arrows at the fastest speed, and then abandoned their crossbows and replaced them with 4-meter-4 mounted guns to flatten their spears.

Thousands of cavalry armed with cavalry spears and men and horses in armor appeared on the chest, and the Hu cavalry who rushed head-on first encountered a wave of crossbow arrows, and then saw the forest full of spikes and said that it was absolutely fake, and the two sides had reached the distance of hand-to-hand combat between the gods, and the cavalry spear made of tree materials made of wood made a burst of crackling sound because of the stabbing target, and each crack would be accompanied by a scream.

Huyan Shilan was stunned again, he knew that the long-range weapons of the Chinese civilization were superior, and he also knew that the melee ability of the Han army was not bad, after all, there were at least four or five hundred large and small encounters between the Xiongnu and the Han army, but it was the first time he had seen the charging posture of the Han army's assault cavalry.

What kind of picture is that? It is nearly 7,000 Han troops who have become a large front arrow formation at least three meters apart from each horse, the Han army cavalry collided with those non-Xiongnu cavalry, the four-meter-four length of the cavalry pierced the target at a position where the Hu cavalry could not reach, the Han cavalry with broken cavalry rhythmically lowered the speed of the horse, followed by some other Han cavalry to fill the vacant position, repeatedly using the cavalry to kill, the overall picture is as if nearly 10,000 Hu cavalry is tofu, and when encountering the Han army, it was easily knocked into tofu scum and there are gaps.

The two sides rushed face to face, because the horses galloped so fast, and it only happened in a few minutes from the confrontation to the staggering of each other. After the two armies staggered, the Han army was reduced from 7,000 to about 6,000, and the nearly 10,000 Hu cavalry composed of the Qu Chuan tribe, the Xiutu tribe, the Yuwu tribe, and the Loufu tribe were only less than 5,000 left.

After the battle between the two armies, the field formed a rectangular road paved with the corpses of men and horses, and at the other end of the road, the Han army completed the rendezvous, and under the red sunset, they were getting farther and farther away...... The farther away you are...... (To be continued......)