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The Rise of Heroes Chapter 362: Zhuge Ma Nu

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    Wen Shangangyan pondered for a moment and sighed: "It is not because we are incompetent, but it is actually forced by the situation. If we attack rashly, the 200,000-strong army will inevitably be defeated! By then, rivers of blood will flow and mountains of bones will become mountains. I don't know how many soldiers will die in the battle."  ! However, the lord has treated us with great kindness, and we have to obey the lord's orders. Even if our army is defeated, we can severely damage Pound. We only need to wait for the reinforcements to arrive and take Nanyang in one fell swoop!" After that, he raised his spear and shouted: "The enemy!  The army can only have 100,000 people at most. Our army has 200,000 people. Why should we be afraid of the whole army?" As the voice fell, the war drums in Yuan Jun's camp were blaring, the trumpets were loud, and the troops that stretched for nearly ten miles launched like a tide.  The group charged.  This is also a helpless matter. Pound's army is mostly composed of sword and shield soldiers. Even if the archers and crossbowmen are equipped with steel knives, iron swords and other close weapons, it is difficult for their own crossbowmen and archers to cause actual damage to them.  The spearmen in front were treated as living targets, so they might as well be the first to charge.  More than 200,000 people charged together. The scene was extremely spectacular. The shouts of killing from the soldiers on both sides could be heard for more than ten miles.  Pang De was not surprised but overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately ordered the messenger beside him: "Transfer the order, order the army to stop advancing, the sword and shield soldiers will cover the archers to shoot from a long distance, and the crossbowmen will be ready. When the enemy army approaches eight  After Shibu heard the order, he fired thousands of arrows!" "No!" After receiving the order, dozens of messengers immediately galloped towards the area they were responsible for.  After a moment, the 100,000-strong army stopped neatly. The sword-and-shield soldiers at the front protected their chest and abdomen with shields made of steel and wood, while the archers hid behind and kept firing cold arrows.  Eighty percent of Wen Chou's troops were spearmen, and their armor was in dilapidated condition.  Most of them were made of crude cowhide armor, which could not block the penetrating power of feather arrows at all.  As soon as the tens of thousands of spearmen approached the distance of 150 steps, some people kept falling to the ground after being hit by arrows. Fortunately, the number of casualties was not too high.  There are only five thousand archers in Pang De's army, and one round of feather arrows can only cause one or two thousand casualties at most, which is like scratching an itch for an army of two hundred thousand.  As the main general, Wen Chou wanted to stay behind and command the battle. While attacking Pound's infantry forward, he also sent his generals Jiang Qi and Jiao Hu each with a pair of men and horses to guard against the cavalry trying to attack the flanks.  As the distance between the two armies became closer and closer, the hit rate of the archers in Pound's army became higher and higher, and the casualties of Wen Chou's pikemen rushing in front gradually increased.  But this casualty was not enough to damage the bones of the 200,000-strong army.  Ji Ling, Gao Gan, Gao Rou, Li Fu and other generals were responsible for commanding on the battlefield.  Seeing that they were about to engage in hand-to-hand combat, the charging speed became faster and faster.  Pound's army remained motionless, assuming a defensive posture.  This situation made Ji Ling and others overjoyed. The weapons on the battlefield were incompatible with each other.  Although the sword and shield soldiers have advantages.  But it is absolutely impossible to escape the assassination of spearmen at long distances.  Of course, in close combat, the sword and shield soldiers still have the absolute advantage.  Seeing Yuan Jun rushing into the range of eighty steps.  Pang De shouted loudly: "Strike the gong!" "Dang, Dang, Dang" Following a clear sound of gongs, the crossbowmen in the army who had been preparing for a long time began to use their power, and only heard "Whoosh"  " There was a sound piercing the air, and countless specially made crossbow arrows and feather arrows were fired at the rushing Yuan Jun.  Yuan Jun immediately let out a miserable howl, and the number of casualties caused at one time was close to 10,000.  It turns out that this move is the trump card arranged by Pang De and Xu Shu. This secret weapon is the thousand repeating crossbows that Ma Chao has just assigned.  This type of repeating crossbow was proposed by Ma Chao, designed and manufactured by Zhuge Liang, and later modified by Ma Jun and Ma Chao. Therefore, Ma Chao named it Zhuge Ma Nu.  To put it bluntly, this bow is a super heavy bow. First of all, the bow string is extremely powerful, with the force of six stones, which is the current strength of one hundred and fifty kilograms.  In order to save time on the battlefield, usually only two people can pull it apart easily.  The stretched bowstring is not fixed at one point, but at two points three inches apart. It can fire ten crossbow arrows at a time, which is amazingly powerful.  Ma Chao originally thought that the repeating crossbow was like a machine gun that could fire arrows non-stop, but later he realized that was not the case.  However, he came up with a brilliant idea based on the principle of later machine gun magazines, which was to improve the arrow clip of the repeating crossbow and develop a detachable arrow clip.  This greatly reduces the time between launches in battlefield timing applications.  After testing, the two crossbowmen cooperated with each other, and it only took a few seconds to re-draw the bow string, change the arrow clip and fire again.  This period of time is enough for a soldier to run about fifty steps.  A thousand Zhuge Ma slaves fired a volley of ten thousand crossbow arrows, plus the feather arrows shot by five thousand archers, fifteen thousand feather arrows flew towards the oncoming 200,000 troops.  With such a dense crowd of people, is it difficult to miss?  What's even more terrifying is that this crossbow arrow has no tail, and its arrowhead is cross-shaped. It uses friction with the air to maintain accuracy. It is much smaller than the arrowhead of ordinary feather arrows, but its speed is twice as fast.  Although the destructive power is reduced, it is more powerful and has stronger penetrating power. It can penetrate a person's body like a bullet and then attack another person.Another target in a straight line, and the cross-shaped wound is difficult to stop bleeding and difficult to suture, making the person hit by the arrow miserable.  Wen Chou's army was hit hard by this, and the momentum of the charge was immediately paused. This dense rain of arrows was really terrifying. The soldiers who had just entered the battlefield saw a crossbow arrow passing through the body of one person in front and then hitting another person. Their eyes were frightened.  All straight.  Some people were so frightened that they lay on the ground feces and urine.  But even in this situation, no one dared to retreat, because behind them was the supervisory army. If they escaped from the battle, they would be killed by their own people first.  Ji Ling and other generals had never seen such a formation, but the distance between them and the enemy was only sixty or seventy steps, so there was no reason to give up. No matter how heavy the losses were, they had to continue charging.  Then he raised his three-pointed two-edged sword and shouted: "The whole army is charging! If you are afraid, behead the first one on the spot and kill the other three tribes!" Yuan Jun had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue charging, but in his heart he hated Ji Ling and Gao Gan.  et al.  He was also charging into battle, but he had excellent armor and shields, and he only had a wooden spear in his hand. If he charged forward, wouldn't he have someone chop the wooden pole in half?  Pang De was overjoyed when he saw this, and shouted: "Give me the order, let the sergeants charge after shooting the second round of arrows, and don't forget to shout the slogan!" "Got the order!" After a while, Yuan Jun's speed slowed down significantly.  Rushing to where Pound was about thirty steps ahead of the battle, gongs sounded, horns sounded, and drums shook the sky. The Zhuge Liannu that had just been loaded immediately fired out a second round of arrow rain, plus the fifth round of feathers.  The arrow immediately dealt a fatal blow to Yuan Jun.  As soon as the rain of arrows fell, a thousand crossbowmen immediately retreated to protect the repeated crossbows and retreated to the camp. The remaining tens of thousands of sergeants immediately launched a charge and shouted in unison: "Put down your weapons and you will be rewarded for surrendering! Resistance in the corner is a crime."  "Lian San Clan!" The front lines of the two armies immediately fought together, and the fight was extremely fierce.  Ma Chao's army was organized into units of five, and they formed a formation to fight against the enemy, surrounding several enemy soldiers in the middle to fight.  Every five groups formed a slightly larger formation, with measured offense and defense without any chaos.  On the other hand, Yuan's army fought independently, without any structure, as if stuck in a quagmire.  But it was said that Pang Rou and Wang Shuang each led 10,000 cavalry and took a detour. Seeing that the main forces had begun to fight, they immediately launched a decisive charge.  Although there were spearmen and heavy slaves on the flanks of Yuan Jun, these Xiliang cavalry were also proficient in the art of riding and shooting. They avoided the incoming crossbow arrows while fighting back with strong bows.  The short distance of two hundred steps is only a matter of a few breaths for the cavalry. In such a short period of time, the crossbow can fire at most two rounds of volleys, but the strong bow can fire at least three rounds.  After paying a certain amount of casualties, the cavalry from both sides finally approached the spearmen and used the art of riding and shooting to snipe the surrounding spearmen at close range.  The pikemen and heavy slaves in Yuan's army were not protected by shield soldiers. Faced with tens of thousands of horses running back and forth, they didn't know where to start.  Now the two sides were competing for long-range firepower, so the pikemen caught in the middle were unlucky. The hail of arrows fired quickly left them nowhere to hide, and they were unable to defend themselves. It didn't take long for them to mess up their formation.  Pang Rou is Pang De's cousin. She has been working for Ma Chao under Pang De's recommendation since she went to Xianbei. Wang Shuang is a veteran general. How vicious are the two people's vision?  As soon as he saw a flaw in the spear array, he immediately led his troops to charge towards the weak point.  Jiang Qi and Jiao Chu were both from Hebei Province. Although they had seen cavalry fighting, they had never seen a scene of tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of cavalry charging at the same time.  Two groups of cavalry wore black iron masks and started killing with sharp swords.  Yuan Jun could resist for a while at first, but it didn't take long for the fierce Xiliang cavalry to break through the defense line. The spear formation was completely broken up, and what followed was a unilateral massacre.  Most of the cavalry under Pound's command were Xiliang soldiers who had gone to Xianbei. They had rich experience in fighting on the battlefield. How could they be compared to the temporarily formed "guards"?  Both wings were broken by the cavalry, and the entire Yuan army's formation immediately showed flaws, revealing its first signs of defeat.  In addition, Yuan Jun's army was disorganized and morale was low, and the soldiers who had suffered so much suddenly lost the will to fight.  There was nothing that could be done about it. The barrels of his guns were all made of wood, and they were chopped off with a knife. He was beaten with only half a stick in his hand?  Rather than die in vain, it would be better to simply surrender and maybe be rewarded.  Besides, most of these people were either forced to join the army or were forced to earn a living. Who would really work for Yuan Shao!  "Put down your weapons and you will be rewarded for surrendering! If you resist stubbornly, you will sin against the three tribes!"  Loud slogans resounded throughout the battlefield. People kept putting down their weapons and asking to surrender. Many people even escaped and fell to the ground pretending to be dead.  , countless people fell to the ground after being slightly injured, and the remaining people were also defeated, suffering extremely heavy casualties.  (To be continued)
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