Chapter 5265 Eight Ox Crossbow
Although Zhao Zian does not have the talent to command the world's troops, he has been trained in the army since he was a child. Ten years ago, he led the human cavalry to annihilate the Storm Cavalry Regiment led by Phantom. He has rich experience in commanding large troops.
He is at an age of passion, but he will never be blinded by passion.
Today, the scale of the heavenly army's attack on Yumen Pass is unprecedentedly strong, and Zhao Zian will naturally not take it lightly.
He immediately sent an order to let the Tianma Air Cavalry of the Tiannv Kingdom stationed on the flanks of the North and South Tianying Passes prepare to deal with the six-winged army of the heavenly realm.
When the order was issued and tens of thousands of air cavalry took off, the hand-to-hand combat of Yumen Pass was about to begin.
The first line of defense of Yumen Pass has been turned into a sea of fire by the attack of the Sky Fire Beast. The human warriors can only hide in the rock cave.
The scorching flames seemed to melt the entire mountain. The human warriors in the cave were still sweating even though they were shirtless.
Because of the fire burning on the rocks outside, the human warriors could not enter the position at all. They could only shoot arrows at the densely packed enemies below through the shooting holes in the rock wall.
However, the tall giant warriors were standing in the front. These tall humanoid monsters held huge wooden shields high above their heads, forming a shield dome.
The ordinary strong bows and crossbows of the human soldiers could not cause any lethality to the large shields that were several feet thick. Only the eight-ox crossbow controlled by the mechanism could shoot through the giant warriors' huge wooden shields.
When the giant warriors were less than a hundred feet away from the Queguan, thick stone slabs were pulled apart, and terrifying black holes appeared on the nearly vertical rock wall.
Behind the big holes were pure iron crossbows of 18 feet long, flashing with cold light. Three crossbows were grouped together, like three cold eyes, staring at the shield wall below.
The dense drumbeats suddenly stopped, and about half of the cave entrance, thousands of eight-ox crossbows fired at the same time.
Two or three thousand zhangba crossbows made a whistling sound of tearing the air, and shot down together.
The giant warriors in the front row fell down in an instant.
At this moment, iron feather arrows shot out from the dense holes.
But many giant warriors did not suffer fatal injuries. After getting up, they continued to hold up their big shields and rushed forward.
The drums sounded again, and the other half of the eight-bull crossbows that had not been fired were immediately smashed down.
Another wave of eight-bull crossbows was fired.
The human soldiers in the cave did not care whether the crossbows shot killed the enemy.
They were in a group of five, controlling an eight-bull crossbow.
Two people were responsible for quickly turning the lock plate to re-string the eight-bull crossbow, and the other three quickly placed the three crossbows in the slot.
From firing to putting the three crossbows back in place, it took less than thirty breaths.
During this period, the first wave of Eight Ox Crossbows had been re-strung.
Because each line of defense of Yumen Pass was very long, it was obviously impossible to use messengers to send messages to each combat unit in time.
Therefore, Zhao Zian adopted the use of drums to transmit combat signals.
The drumbeats that resounded throughout Yumen Pass suddenly stopped, and another wave of Eight Ox Crossbows was fired.
This two-shift rotation and accumulation of shooting was extremely efficient. Almost every fifteen breaths, a wave of two to three thousand crossbows would be fired.
This set of movements has been practiced countless times in the past ten years.
They didn't change crossbows so quickly before.
You know, the Eight Ox Crossbow uses machinery as a pulling force. When the mechanism is smashed down, the powerful torque is instantly released, and the crossbow weighing dozens of pounds is fired.
The hard cowhide rope will vibrate rapidly after the crossbow is fired. If you reach out to fix it, it is easy to hurt your arm.
If the winch is pulled forcibly, the leather rope will easily break.
Only after the leather rope becomes stable can the two soldiers controlling the winch turn the winch.
Therefore, the firing interval of the Eight Ox Crossbow is much longer than that of the bow and crossbow used by a single soldier. It takes at least a hundred breaths to reload and fire.
The long firing interval reduces the power of the Eight Ox Crossbow.
After the continuous improvement of human craftsmen and the continuous cooperation of soldiers in the past ten years, the preparation time before firing has been greatly compressed.
The interval has been reduced from a hundred breaths to thirty breaths.
For this reason, the military generals have formulated some strategies and tactics for the Eight Ox Crossbow based on the uninterrupted spraying of fireballs by the Heavenly Fire Beast in batches.
If it is a two-shift operation, the interval between each round of firing is about fifteen breaths.
If it is a three-shift operation, it is ten breaths.
Through the experience summed up from countless years of war, rows of accumulated shooting will have greater lethality.
If every archer shoots arrows at his own frequency, although arrows are flying all over the sky, the damage to the enemy will be reduced by 30%.
Only volley shooting and cumulative shooting can more effectively curb the pace of the enemy's attack.
Zhao Zian arranged about 2,000 Eight Ox Crossbows at the frontier position of the first line of defense of Yumen Pass.
Learning from the experience of Eagle Cliff ten years ago, Zhao Zian did not place any Eight Ox Crossbows on the surface of the position that could be attacked by the Sky Fire Beast.
He hollowed out the mountains of the Yumen Pass defense line. In addition to hiding soldiers, he also dug countless holes on the mountain wall facing the outside.
There are shooting holes for archers and shooting holes for Eight Ox Crossbows.
From the inside to the outside of Yumen Pass, cultivators have deployed many magic formations to reinforce it, protecting the defense line from being breached by fireballs. Therefore, during this period of time, the Skyfire Beast continued to bombard Yumen Pass every day. In fact, it only tickled the first line of defense of Yumen Pass. Judging from the strength of the above defensive array, even if these ten tens of thousands of days
Three years of continuous bombardment by the fire beasts may not be able to cause substantial damage to the defense line.
The Eight Bull Crossbow with three arrows is like the God of Death harvesting lives.
Giant warriors with tenacious vitality will die under the crossbow of the Eight Bull Crossbow, let alone the smaller madman warriors.
As long as there is that scalp-numbing whistling sound in the sky, the giant warriors at the front will definitely fall down.
After they fall, the large shield they hold high will fall down, revealing the madman warrior and skeleton warrior protected under the large shield.
At this time, countless iron feather arrows shot down, harvesting their lives.
After several rounds of shooting, the Celestial Army finally rushed to the Jade Gate Pass after leaving behind the bodies of hundreds of giant warriors and more than two thousand giant madman warriors.
This is a blind spot for bows and arrows and the Eight Bull Crossbow, so it is temporarily safe. After a brief adjustment under the wall, they began to attack the city.
