Chapter 143: The Power of Yuan Rong's Crossbow
The Wei army was tasked with the first wave of attacks, a whole group of 500 men, although the mountain road was rugged, but these warriors who had ascended to the camp first did not seem to have the slightest fear, with shields on their shoulders, swords and guns, almost trotting all the way to the top of the mountain.
Junhou Wang Kui is the commander of this song, and he is also the only one among the five hundred people wearing armor, burly, with fine eyes and beard, and he is very strong, Deng Zhong chose him to take the lead, because he took a fancy to his bravery. Wang Kui took the lead, carrying a mountain knife in his hand, and proudly walked at the forefront of the procession, climbing a steep slope of nearly thirty degrees, the road in front of him was a little smoother, and at the same time they could clearly see the high stone wall.
"Sons, kill me! The first one to rush to the top of the mountain, General Deng was rewarded! Wang Kui raised the big knife high, the horizontal flesh on his face was trembling, and he shouted loudly.
Those Wei soldiers screamed, and under the encouragement of the heavy reward, they began to sprint to the top of the mountain.
"Shoot the arrows!" Liu Yin gave the order coldly.
Those soldiers have been holding bows and arrows for some time, and their wrists are a little sore, and at this moment, when Liu Yin gave an order, they naturally shot at the target that they had been aiming at for a long time without hesitation.
"Whoosh ......" From behind the stone wall, rows of arrows were shot out like locusts, and the Wei soldiers who rushed to the front and were bent on fighting for merit instantly fell a large piece.
The Wei soldiers, who were originally very vigorous, were suddenly attacked, and the team seemed to be panicked, many soldiers carried shields to cover their fronts, because the parts covered by the shield were limited, in order to protect the vital parts under the shield as much as possible, many Wei soldiers' bodies were stiffened. As a result, the rapid momentum of the offensive came to an abrupt halt, and it appeared to be timid.
Wang Kui was furious, and a few arrows from the other party stopped his offensive momentum, which made Wang Kuiton, who swore in front of Deng Zhong to take the mountain, feel embarrassed, and he shouted: "Don't stop!" Attack! Take the mountain in one go! ”
With Wang Kui's supervision, those Wei soldiers began to move slowly towards the top of the mountain again. Although protected by a shield, the crossbow arrows shot from behind the stone wall were as dense as a shower, always finding the gap between the shields, and then dealing a fatal blow to the Wei soldiers hiding behind the shields. The lack of armor protection made the lives of these soldiers who first arrived in the camp fragile, and the distance from Banpo to the top of the mountain was not long, that is, only a stone's throw away, but this road became the road of death at the moment, and Wei soldiers continued to die on this road.
Wang Kui was very angry with his subordinates who were moving forward at a fast pace, the more difficult it was, the more he needed the fighting spirit of sacrificing his life and forgetting death, and if he wanted to capture the top of the mountain, how could he do it without fighting? He slashed a cowering chief with his own hands, and rushed to the front with his shield in hand.
Liu Yin had already seen Wang Kui on the top of the mountain, and his arrows had already locked on Wang Kui, but Wang Kui was shielding the door and he was wearing heavy armor, Liu Yin had been waiting for a suitable opportunity.
Finally, at the moment when Wang Kui turned around, Liu Yin saw a small vacancy, he let go of his right hand without hesitation, and the arrow only drew a slightly curved arc in the air, and in half a breath, it penetrated Wang Kui's throat. Wang Kui couldn't even scream, and the sharp arrow shot through his throat, and he fell headlong only a hundred steps from the stone wall.
Wang Kui's death caused the Wei soldiers to lose their fighting spirit in an instant, and after throwing down hundreds of corpses, they fled to the foot of the mountain in embarrassment.
Deng Zhong's face was pale, he didn't expect the first wave of attack to be repulsed so quickly, but Deng Zhong was by no means a person who gave up easily, five hundred people couldn't do it, this time he directly transferred a thousand people to attack, and if it didn't work, all two thousand people pressed up, Deng Zhong didn't believe in this evil, tried his best, and couldn't take down a small mountain.
Shi Su said on the side: "The young general must not be rash, the Shu army is condescending, occupying the geographical advantage, if you want to take the top of the mountain, you must use the archers to cover and suppress the archers of the Shu soldiers when the shield attack, only in this way can we have a chance." ”
Deng Zhong followed his words and dispatched hundreds of crossbowmen to within range of the halfway slope, with the shield soldiers attacking in front and the archers covering in the rear. The archers fired their arrows around the stone wall and behind the stone wall with an upward shot at a 40-degree angle. Since they could not see the situation behind the stone wall, the Wei archers only used a diffuse method to carry out a covering attack.
In order to deal with the Wei soldiers' bow and arrow counterattack, Liu Yin ordered the soldiers to get as close to the stone wall as possible, so that the arrows flying over the stone wall would not hit the target behind the back wall, and as for the team in the back row, they used shields on their heads to guard against the rain of arrows falling from the sky.
At the same time, Liu Yin ordered the crossbowmen to focus on counterattacking the Wei archers in the distance, and to use rolling logs and stones to attack the Wei shield soldiers who had already attacked the front.
The most important thing on the mountain is trees and stones, after arriving at Jingjun Mountain, Liu Yin ordered people to cut down a lot of trees, made rolling wood, and mined a lot of big stones, in addition to building walls, the rest was left as stones. Compared with the point and line strike of the bow and crossbow, the rolling log and stone can be described as a weapon that sweeps through the thousands of armies, a thick rolling log, whistling down, for the infantry attacking the mountain, it is a complete nightmare, devastated and rotten rolling down, no one can resist it, once it is hit, crushed into the flesh and blood.
Although the dispersion at a 45-degree angle was less powerful than the flat shot at a low angle, the Wei archers had an advantage in numbers, and the rain of arrows on both sides was always in a stalemate.
The battle lasted from morning to evening, the entire mountain road was already covered with the corpses of the Wei army, and the blood had soaked the soil, Deng Zhong persevered in launching round after round of offensives, seeing that the sky was about to dark, Deng Zhong was even more crazy to press all his troops up, ready to take the mountain in one go.
Liu Yin's first group of soldiers had already retreated to rest, and now it was Zhang Le's second group of soldiers who were fighting, but Liu Yin did not retreat, and in the face of the Wei soldiers' tidal offensive, Liu Yin also felt unprecedented pressure.
"Big brother, if you can't do it, you can blow up his dog with gunpowder!" Zhang Le suggested. Three hundred people faced the crazy attack of nearly 2,000 people, in the end, the pressure was very high, and the power of ordinary bows and arrows and rolling logs and stones alone was insufficient, not to mention that after a day of fierce fighting, the rolling logs and stones were basically exhausted.
"Prepare the Yuan Rong crossbow!" Liu Yin commanded in a low voice. Gunpowder is the weapon at the bottom of the box, Liu Yin is not ready to expose it prematurely, and now he can only use the big killing weapon of the Yuanrong crossbow first.
The Wei soldiers had rushed to a distance of forty or fifty paces outside the stone wall, and they were excitedly beating each other, as if victory was at hand.
But at this moment, thousands of short crossbow arrows suddenly poured out from behind the stone wall, like a violent storm that swept across the flat ground in an instant, drowning all the Wei soldiers on this road.
All the Wei soldiers were stunned, under this dense attack, the Wei soldiers fell in rows, rushing to the front, there was not even a little hope of survival, and another rout inevitably happened.
"Yuan Rong crossbow?" Deng Zhong, who got this eight-inch black short-pole crossbow arrow, gasped, he was no stranger to this kind of crossbow arrow, in the battle with the Shu army, how many Wei soldiers died under this black arrow cluster.
In the end, Deng Zhong also had to accept the crushing outcome and retreated to the river valley camp with less than a thousand remnants of the defeated army. Under the moonlight, Deng Zhong's face showed a look of horror, because he saw a big scroll, on which was the word "Deng" of Dou Da.
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