Chapter 1038

At this moment, it has actually entered the firing range of Tang army crossbow men. After changing the giant crossbow, its firing distance will be 400 steps away.

The captain who commanded the crossbow man couldn't help turning his head and looking at the watchtower car, but he saw that Li forgot to worry and didn't show any expression at all. He stared at Xue yantuo's army step by step.

Three hundred steps... Two hundred steps

Xue yantuo, one of the bowmen in the front 20000 army, first attacked, raised his bow and arrow and began to throw arrows at the Tang army.

The Tang army's jumping soldiers immediately raised their round shield to cover the arrow rain.

Xue yantuo had a forward force of 20000 people, including as many as 5000 crossbow men alone. For a time, the dark rain of arrows poured like raindrops, which was frightening.

Two hundred steps and a distance of three hundred meters can actually reach the maximum throwing distance of the bow and arrow.

Although the arrow rain of Xue yantuo's vanguard army is very dense, the damage to the Tang army is small and pitiful.

Not to mention that the round shields in the hands of the jumping soldiers can resist arrows. Even if the unfamiliar swordsmen have no shields, the unfamiliar swordsmen in the Tang Dynasty are all wearing heavy bright light armor with amazing defense.

These arrows launched from the maximum range actually don't have much kinetic energy. Where can they penetrate their armor.

However, the arrows fell from the air and hit the armor, making a terrible sound.

However, the Tang army has been in battle for a long time. Even in such a passive situation, the army did not have the slightest commotion. In addition to the occasional unlucky guy, who was shot by the falling arrow rain and sent out a stuffy hum when his shield and armor were not protected, the Tang Army stood still like a reef in the torrent!

Chumo and others were worried: "Ziyou, why don't you fight back? The range of the giant crossbow is far higher than that of Xue yantuo's bow. Why should you be beaten so passively?"

Li forgot to worry and smiled: "brother Chumo, don't worry. Let them get closer so that they won't be too tired to catch up later!"

Catch up... Too tired

Chumo and Fang Yiai look at each other, and some of them don't know what to say.

Now everyone is worried. Even Mituo has secretly gestured to his subordinates to protect Li forgetful. If something is wrong, he will pull him to retreat immediately.

As a result, the goods are thinking about how to pursue the enemy

Isn't it a little too indifferent to your opponent?

There are 50000 Xue yantuo troops opposite, not 50000 pigs!

Although Chumo and other dandies have never been to the battle, they are also powerful. They are very clear about the battle. When they are about to speak again, they see Li forget worry suddenly wave his hand, and the messenger nearby immediately sounded the horn in his hand

With the sound of the horn, the jumping soldiers and unfamiliar swordsmen who were originally at the front of the Tang army queue suddenly moved, squatted down in the sound of the horn and exposed the two thousand crossbow hands behind.

The captain who commanded the crossbow man shouted a command: "shoot!"

A numbing hum suddenly filled the sky. It was the strong breaking sound of the composite steel crossbow bowstring.

Five or six hundred armor piercing arrows with cold light broke through the air from the Tang army array and stabbed at Xue yantuo's forward 200 steps away.

The reason why Li forgot to worry about putting Xue yantuo's forward army so close is that the composite bow and crossbow has enough advantages compared with the bow and arrow in Xue yantuo's hand.

At a distance of 200 steps and 300 meters, Xue yantuo's bow and arrow can be thrown to the maximum range.

It's not so easy to break armor at this distance.

But at the same distance, the composite steel crossbow in the hands of the Tang army can shoot directly and has enough power to penetrate Xue yantuo's armor.

The strings ring! Arrow out!

The next second, the armor breaking arrow crossed a distance of 300 meters, ignored the obstacles of armor, directly plunged into the human body, and brought out a fluffy blood mist

Two thousand Tang army crossbow men were divided into three columns with five or six hundred people in each column according to Li forgetful's order.

After a volley, the crossbow men in the first row immediately turned around and began to put on the crossbow and install the crossbow. The second row of crossbow men came forward, raised the crossbow to aim, listened to the captain's command, pulled the crossbow machine, shot the crossbow again, and then turned back without hesitation

In an instant, two thousand crossbow men of the Tang army completed a three-stage shooting, and two thousand armor breaking arrows were projected.

Xue yantuo's vanguard army was stunned by this wave of arrow rain.

Two thousand armor breaking arrows directly turned over seven or eight hundred Xue yantuo soldiers.

Even though they were wearing armor and holding round shields, they still couldn't stop the arrows that came like meteors and lightning.

The army, which had been neat and uniform and moved forward with the sound of war drums, suddenly melted, and countless howls resounded through the grassland.

The commander in charge of commanding Xue yantuo's forward army couldn't help his heart beating wildly. Where could he think that the bow and crossbow of the Tang army had such power.

Before Xue yantuo could react, the next batch of arrows of the Tang army came again and took two or three hundred lives

The two thousand bow and crossbow men of the Tang army, under the command of the school captain, kept firing deadly arrows like a precision machine.

With only two rounds of Volley fire, Xue yantuo's vanguard army left nearly 2000 dead bodies, and countless wounded.

For a time, Xue yantuo's 20000 vanguard army was almost on the verge of collapse.

Many people in later generations thought that the casualties in the wars of the ancient cold weapon era were very heavy. In fact, this is not the case.

In the age of cold weapons, an army that could bear 30% of casualties was already an iron army that could be famous all over the world.

Generally speaking, 5% of casualties are enough to collapse an army.

After all, in the age of cold weapons, it was not easy to kill with a knife in hand to hand combat. The best embodiment of the progress of human science and technology lies in the improvement of weapon killing efficiency.

It is precisely because of this that World War I and II will bring tens of millions of casualties and make the world tremble.

Compared with other bows and crossbows in this era, the composite bow and crossbow made by Li forget you is a sharp weapon for killing people.

The strong crossbows, which are equivalent to four stones, were originally large bed crossbows that were inconvenient to move and used to defend the city. Where Can Xue yantuo people think that two thousand crossbows are equivalent to two thousand large bed crossbows.

Compared with the slow and incomparable string opening speed of the bed crossbow, the excitation speed of the two thousand bow crossbow hand is even more remarkable.

In this way, it is not surprising that Xue yantuo's forward army was stunned in an instant.

Looking at Xue yantuo's army on the opposite side, they kept howling and screaming. The soldiers who were shot and killed were Chumo and Mituo on the watchtower car, but their frightened chin was about to dislocate.

The people opened their mouths and stared at the cruel, bloody and extremely efficient killing

Nima, it's not that fast to kill pigs, is it?

This is Chumo's only thought at the moment.

Xue yantuo's vanguard army was already defeated before it had time to attack.

When the third round of the Tang army's three-stage shooting method began, Xue yantuo's forward army began to turn and run uncontrollably.

These fleeing soldiers, like an avalanche, instantly collapsed the originally orderly army.

All the xueyantuo people turned in horror and ran to the rear.

Crowding, trampling, fleeing... 20000 vanguard troops, one hit and one defeat

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