Chapter 4158: estimate

The next day, Yu Jin and the others got up on the hour, and it was strange to see that the camp was not in chaos and that there was no blood in the air.

"Didn't Brahe come to attack the camp yesterday?" Yu Jin asked strangely.

"It did send someone here, but the situation is a bit strange." Wu Yi replied with a little doubt, "They beat the gongs and drums, then pretended to make a wave, and then there were no people."

"That's it, it seems to be an ordinary exhausting strategy." Yu Jin didn't understand what Brahe was thinking, and said with a bit of guesswork.

"I think so too." Wu Yi nodded and said, "However, Guishuang has produced a lot of crossbows, so it seems that the other party is well prepared."

"If it's really enough, I'd definitely build something like a crossbow machine bunker on the river beach." Yu Jin said casually, "Even if there are restrictions on the white horse, if there are a large number of crossbows in the real village, they should be pushed to the river beach. We're halfway through."

Yu Jin's judgment cannot be wrong, but it is not completely correct.

Brahe thought about going over and attacking, but the Han army navy defeated Sinari and came directly on the big boat. Although the car crossbow is very powerful to hit people, it can be honest in the face of such a large ship of the fourth generation. Really not, after all, the smallest marine crossbow machine is a few tons, and the ones installed on the seventh-generation ships are directly hundreds of tons.

This kind of crossbow used by the army to beat people, although there are several hundred kilograms, half a ton or something, but it is really not good for fighting ships.

Therefore, after hesitating for a while, Brahe gave up half-crossing and attacked, preparing to wait for the Han army to form an array to give the Han army a whole lot of power. As a result, the Han army had more crossbow machines than Brahe.

"That's true." Wu Yi thought for a while, thinking that even if Gan Ning's transport ship was suppressed by naval guns, the projectile density and number of naval guns were there. Forcibly facing each other, it would be difficult for the Han army to land even with the cover of the fleet.

To a certain extent, the Han army has a certain cognitive problem with the concept of a large number of armaments, although their consideration is indeed correct-if Brahe has 10,000 crossbows, he really Dare to push 5,000 crossbows to the bank of the Ganges to block the landing of the Han army.

After all, half-crossing is the best way to deal with the enemy. Five thousand crossbows are piled on the bank of the Ganges River, under the cover of the Han army's naval guns, it is still possible to kill the small 10,000 Han army. After all, something like a crossbow machine , the larger the value, the lower the winding efficiency.

The Han army's naval guns were basically defeated in the delivery efficiency of car crossbows, and their power was very advantageous, but if they were used to hit people, to be honest, the medium-sized ballistas used by the shield guards were all products with overflow damage, but The efficiency of the shield guard using a medium-sized crossbow is close to that of a single-shot strong crossbow.

Relying on the hand armor to deadlift and give up the twisting wire, the crossbow shield guard can basically guarantee a low rate of fire of about three rounds per minute. Although the efficiency is not comparable to that of bows and arrows, the power and survivability are guaranteed, and coverage shooting is guaranteed. ,very effective.

"Are there any casualties on our side?" Yu Jin naturally changed the subject and didn't bother about it.

Brahe is equipped with a car crossbow of a certain scale. It is enough to know. According to Yu Jin’s estimate, this certain amount is only two or three thousand. As long as you take precautions, the efficiency of the car crossbow can be suppressed by them. , playing the second wave is a problem, not a big problem at all.

"One of the shield guards was hit by the short spear of the car crossbow and is being treated." Wu Yi said with a sigh. He didn't know why there were such unlucky children in every battle. More than 30 short spears were fired, only six were lost. When we arrived at the camp of the Han army, there was no covering ability at all. When we saw something that could be avoided by experience, there were still people who were hit.

"Show me the short spear shot by the car crossbow." The corner of Yu Jin's mouth twitched. According to Wu Yi's statement, the other party shot a wave, and only a single digit fell to the camp. There are still people who were shot. This is no longer strength. The problem is purely point of back.

"This." Wu Yi asked his own guards to hand over the short spear of Guishuang, and then pushed over the Kushuang car crossbow that he collected last night. Although they were all damaged, the general condition of these car crossbows is still the same. Can see something.

"It's alright, but it's not neat enough." Yu Jin looked at the crossbow and basically knew it.

"Let your soldiers continue to set up camp and build a camp wall." After reading the car crossbow and crossbow arrow, Yu Jin already had some ideas in his heart, but Yu Jin was cautious and did not take the initiative to attack, but built the camp first and stood firm. .

After Wu Yi left with the order, Xu Shu rushed over. He had already gone to see the injured soldier instead of Yu Jin. With the basic quality of inner qi, the soldier had passed the dangerous period.

"How is the situation?" Yu Jin asked.

"The opponent's car crossbow is very powerful, and the shield of 180 shield guards may be able to withstand it at a long distance." Xu Shu said with a bit of caution, "But I have already had Guishuang's car crossbow dismantled, and the craftsman commented. It is said to be purely handmade, the parts have strong personal traces, the interior is not streamlined, and there are certain design problems in the labor-saving pulley block.”

"Simply put, it's inefficient?" Yu Jian summed up after listening, "What's the rate of fire?"

"The average level is more than twice that of ours. Of course, there is no shortage of high-quality products. It can achieve one shot in thirty seconds, and the average rate of fire can be about one shot in forty seconds." Xu Shu informed Yu Ban of the information they had collected. , while Yu Jin frowned when he heard the words.

"This guy Brahe is a bit interesting. It seems that he did his best. First, he was heavy on the cloud, which restrained the performance of the soldiers, and then the movable crossbow with wheels. It seems that he really found the right way to deal with us. way." Yu Jin said with some emotion.

"The first wave of crossbow strikes must be carried over. The rate of fire of this thing is not high, but it is very powerful. At a certain distance, the shield guards are not enough to carry it hard." Xu Shu said seriously.

"This is not a problem." Yu Jin waved his hand and said, "With such a low rate of fire, plus the need for several people to use it at the same time, plus the movement of the crossbow, a crossbow requires about five people to use it, and then consider Brahma. He didn't perform a half-cross attack, and the number of car crossbows will not be too many."

"About 3,000 units." Xu Shu directly concluded, "They are purely handmade, and the parts of each crossbow machine are different in size, which is doomed to manufacturing efficiency and precision. Time, this scale is the limit, and this is still considering that Brahe was prepared to face the Han army shield guards very early."

"It's almost as I thought, only three thousand crossbows." Yu Jin said with a sneer.

"But the power of this thing is very terrifying." Xu Shu felt that he still had to warn.

"If Brahe can push the crossbow to a thousand paces in front of the Han army and shoot flat, then I might think about it. Do you think Brahe can?" Yu Jin waved his hand and said.

Zhang Yan's 15,000-strong crossbow shield guard killed less than 2,000 enemy troops in six rounds, while Wu Yi's 5,000-strong team killed almost 1,000 in the first round. The former hit rate At around 2%, the latter's hit rate is almost 20%. Is there such a big gap between the two sides?

In fact, no, the hit rate of the crossbow machine is very low. If you really want to say a high hit rate, you have to shoot the crossbow machine flat, because in the case of flat shooting, the hit rate of the crossbow machine is actually more than 80%, because the ancient war No matter how the formation is adjusted, it is actually a dense formation.

The flat shot of the crossbow machine is almost bound to hit the opponent, even if the soldiers in front dodge, and there are soldiers behind, the reason why Wu Yi's flat shot in the first round has only a 20% kill rate is not only 1000 rounds of short spears To hit the opponent, to be precise, one thousand people in Carano's death camp and headquarters were hit by five thousand ballistas.

Yes, the biggest problem with flat shots is that a lot of times it hits one person several times.

Yu Jin used to form Qingzhou soldiers anyway, and he knew the real situation of the crossbow machine army - flat shooting is the truth, and projectiles are rubbish.

Question: Does Brahe dare to pull the three thousand crossbows into the visible range of the Han army to shoot against the Han army? Certainly dare not, the Han army also uses crossbow machines, and the number is more than that of Brahe.

"In the case of projectiles, according to the standard 1.5% hit rate of the crossbow machine, even if we are not prepared, we will only lose less than 100 people after the first round, but what about after? The number of our crossbow shield guards is five times that of the opponent, and the projection density is 10 times that of the opponent." Yu Jin had an iron-blooded look on his face.

"This is indeed a fact, but we also need to consider the situation in which Brahe and us are facing each other, and the opponent really fights for losses directly with us. Even if we can win, the loss of the shield guard will not be small." Xu Shu is very said solemnly.

"Yuanzhi, there is no problem with your consideration, so I have sent someone to notify General Zhang, and when we start the war, we will determine the tactics." Yu Jin said with a smile.

Xu Shu nodded when he heard the words. He actually understood what Yu Jin meant. The shooting efficiency of the crossbow was about 40 seconds per shot. Zhang Liao led the fast white horse to increase the speed to a maddening 150m/s, and the opponent finished the first wave. , Zhang Liao copied the battle line directly.

Even if the luck is bad, there may be a wave, but as long as the white horses led by Zhang Liao never enter the battlefield from the front of the crossbow, the white horses will not suffer too much damage even if they are attacked. This array, that's all mowing.

In particular, the large-scale car crossbow that Guishuang used was still difficult to adjust. Zhang Liao directly cut the line of troops. Even if there was no way to directly defeat the car crossbow front, it was enough to prevent Kushuang from carrying out the second round of blows, and the time he gained, It is enough for the Han army to use.

Of course, this tactic is useless when facing Guishuang with the car crossbow at the very center, and it is of no use when fighting in front of the soldiers. It's time for the Shield Guard to start attacking.

After all, the Han army has an absolute advantage over the amount of crossbow arrows thrown. This is not a joke.

When the protection of the camp was strengthened in Yujian, Brahe and others in Palayaga have quickly transformed more than a thousand chariots. After testing, these chariots with the front thickened to forty centimeters are enough to survive a hundred chariots. The distance of the steps withstood the Han army's medium-sized crossbow machine.

Although the crossbow machine used by the shield guards has not been captured, the Han army's short spear Kushuang has picked up a lot here. They tried their own medium-sized crossbow machine and tried it with the Han army's iron-clad short spear. There is no doubt about it. Enough to block at a distance of a hundred paces.

As for what to do with the remaining 100 steps, there are only 100 steps left, what should I do? Of course, it was a rush. The Han army's crossbow machine is not a bow and arrow. Even if it is wound quickly, according to the conclusion that Helan and Carano were beaten before, it will take fifteen to twenty seconds to wind up.

A distance of a hundred paces, even a soldier can rush through at this time, and since the shield guard is holding a crossbow, doesn't it mean that the shield cannot be used?

What is there to be afraid of shield guards without shields, the soldiers on their side go down with a bone and kill a shield guard without shields, which is not a problem at all.

"Okay, it's really a defensive weapon!" Brahe was very excited when he saw the frame car transformed from the frame car. This is the most suitable defensive tool for their Guishuang. It is simple to manufacture and has super defensive power. Can be pushed easily.

"It's really an amazing defensive tool." Helilah looked at the spear on the thick wooden shield with a smile on his face, "but it's also thanks to these years that we have stockpiled a lot of wood and prepared to make chariots. The frame, otherwise it would never have been produced so quickly.”

"It's true, if you didn't have a large amount of supplies stored early, General Brahe, even if I had this idea, it would not have been possible to realize it so quickly." Helan said understandingly.

"Okay, okay, say a few words of compliments." Brahe waved his hand and said, "First, send the design of this thing back to Qunvcheng, and it will be handled by Your Majesty. With this thing, we will fight against the Han army. The crossbow machine would not be a problem at all."

"Should we put cowhide or iron pieces on the shield bread of the chariot here?" Carano said after turning around.

Wrapping it with cowhide or nailing it with iron can greatly improve the shield's defense. Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is fire prevention. The Brahe group have all experienced Zhang Su's fire in Zhongnan. This thing has a great shadow on the fire meter.

Coupled with the fire at Brahmas, these people also knew that it was very terrifying for the Han army to play with fire, so don't be fooled.

"There aren't that many materials and time." Brahe waved his hand and said, "It's enough to soak in water for one night tonight, and I'll talk about this next time I build a carriage."

"Also." Carano nodded, as long as he was prepared.

"I intend to go out of the city and fight in the field tomorrow." Brahe said suddenly, "There are too many moths in Palayaga, and the Han army should have discovered it later."