The troops gathered under Suluding's banner were significantly different from the previous siege Yuan army. Not only were they covered with various chain mails, ring armors, and willow-leaf armors, but each Seme Samurai also held a heavy infantry side card in his hand.

"Well, isn't it? Iron Shield Armored Soldier?"

The soldiers of the Song army all took a breath. Everyone had an iron shield, which was really... It's not that the iron shield was expensive and it was difficult to equip on a large scale. Although this is true, the reason why straightforward forces restricted the army from equiping iron shields was weight!

A standard infantry side sign is five feet long, three feet wide, five minutes thick, and has a trapezoidal shape. There is a standing wood behind the sign. Generally, it is made of hardwood. If the better shield is covered with a layer of cowhide, the weight will reach more than twenty kilograms. If a layer of iron is nailed on it, it will be at least more than thirty kilograms. It is okay for a person to carry dozens or hundreds of kilograms, but how far can he be raised by carrying more than thirty kilograms? In ancient times, war was a job of strength for soldiers. They consumed all their strength to take things, and they were tired of fighting when the two armies got tired of fighting. Do you still need to fight this battle?

Therefore, although the iron shield has strong defense, it is not something that any army can play. If you can form a full iron shield unit and put it into battle, you must be elite.

The Beiting Army happened to be the elite guards of Ali Hague.

Zhao Lie took the scope handed over by Ding Xiaoyi. In the camera, there were thick and burly warriors wearing strong armor, holding heavy troops, holding iron shields, and the murderous intent formed by the torrent of steel could be vaguely felt from a distance.

The nations outside the border have an innate physical advantage. The Seme warriors selected by these two teams are obviously powerful warriors who fight melee, carrying a few dozen kilograms of iron shields and playing. Of course, no matter how strong they are, they can't play for too long. However, it's only less than two miles to rush from the top of the slope to the city. Before entering two hundred steps, their iron shields were all carried behind them. They lifted the iron shields to fight in Gaden City with 200 steps. These warriors who were shaped like bears and tigers were still competent.

The camera stopped on the iron plate as bright as a mirror for a while, and Zhao Lie looked solemn: "It turns out that this is Ali Hague's trump card. This guy has learned to be smart..."

Of course, Ali Hague is not stupid. How could he use his most elite personal army to hit Zhao Lie's muzzle? Even if he wants to hit him, he must be well prepared. During this period, he has repeatedly attacked Yacheng and suffered repeated losses from muskets. At the same time, he has accumulated a certain amount of experience in dealing with muskets.

Ali Hague discovered that the lethality of Song Army muskets decreased according to the target's protection. For armorless targets such as followers, auxiliary soldiers, spearmen in the new affiliated infantry, the muskets can be killed in 60 or 70 steps; while the gun player, crossbow player, knife player, wait for the target with short leather armor, and then it takes fifty steps to kill; as for the iron armor soldiers, it takes about ten steps to kill. And most of the time it is not armor-breaking, but the strong impact force of lead causes severe damage to the body and internal organs under the armor to death.

During the siege a few days ago, Ali Hague conducted a special test: more than a dozen burly men were selected from the Han army, each wearing iron armor, each wearing iron shield, and attacking with the siege troops. In the end, nearly half of these people came back alive. After inspection and inquiry, it was found that as long as the iron shield was blocked, even if the projectile was penetrated, the armor would not be damaged. Only if the projectile was not blocked in time and the projectile was directly hit by the projectile would cause casualties and injuries.

When siege today, because of the additional team of continuous bead muskets and Zhao Lie's power to kill the enemy by 100 steps, Ali Hague asked the craftsmen to make a batch of iron shields, double-layer iron plates, each layer of one minute thick (3 mm) and weighing more than 40 kilograms, and then sent a group of selected warriors to fight. Although such iron shields are very heavy and only a few elite soldiers can use them, the feedback received after the fourth wave of siege made Ali Hague's beard and open their faces. The power of Song Bing's muskets suddenly increased. Many soldiers in leather armor were killed and injured in seventy or eighty steps, and even several team officers in iron circle armor were killed at twenty or thirty steps. However, even those warriors who used double-layer iron shields were baptized by the crackling guns and bullets that were close to the city, and finally when they retreated, they mostly came back alive.

Ali Hague personally inspected all the double-layer iron shields. Although the shield surface was covered with craters, none of them formed a bullet hole - that is to say, Song Jun's muskets, even if they were face to face, could not penetrate the bullet holes with one shot!

Ali Hague, Guan Ge, Tuwen Buhua, and the monks and other Yuan generals looked at each other and laughed. Finally, they found a way to restrain the musket! No matter how powerful the "spray" of the unseen musket was, in front of the strong shield, they would have to fail.

Ali Hague was forced to use such a stupid method. He had thought about using other tactics, such as the method of interception and water cut that broke through Jingjiang Prefecture (Guilin). However, the Ningyuan water flowing through Yacheng is vast and interception is very difficult. Moreover, Qiongzhou, especially Yacheng, has abundant water volume, easy to dig wells to obtain water, and it rains heavily at the end of three days. It is not realistic to cut off the water source of the defenders. The method of digging the soil and mattressing the city is difficult to implement because the moat diverts Ningyuan water. Therefore, there is no other way except for a strong attack.

Well, use absolute power to crush the Song army and break the city in one fell swoop, today!

Zhao Lie put down his sight and saw an escort Xiang Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie presented an iron shield covered with craters left by Yuan soldiers.

When several generals saw it, they all took a breath. The double-layer iron shield was very big. Such a strong and heavy side card was unprecedented. Such side card was used to defend against swords, guns, axes and hammers. It was completely useless or unnecessary. Its purpose was obviously obvious - anti-gun bullets.

Wen Tianxiang frowned: "Even the powerful medicine provided by Li Ji cannot penetrate..."

Zhao Lie took the iron shield, carefully checked the thickness of the double-layer iron plate, pulled out a dagger, poked the hardness of the iron plate, and the solemn expression on his face slowly turned into a smile: "Ali Hague has learned to be smart, but he still made a mistake. This small mistake was doomed to his failure."

Zhang Shijie wanted to ask what was wrong, but he was confident that he was naturally unable to put on such a low posture, and glanced at Huang Tiancong at a glance.

In fact, even without the old boss's suggestion, Huang Tiancong could not wait to ask: "What's wrong?"

"He doesn't know my trump card." Zhao Lie signaled the guard to place the iron shield twenty steps away, pulled out the May 4th pistol, and raised his hand and shot it.

Bang! When the two crisp sounds were almost indistinguishable, the iron shield shook violently.

All the onlookers were also shocked, so fast! Such a speed was much faster than an arrow, and people could not hide at all. If they were aimed at such a gun, they would be dead.

When the iron shield was taken, when he saw the bullet hole as thick as a little finger on the shield, Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, Huang Tiancong and other generals were moved. The projectile fired in this small iron lump was so terrifying!

When Zhang Shijie looked at the two-stone strong bow in his hand, he had the urge to throw it away - twenty steps, whether his arrow could shoot into iron is a question, not to mention that he had to use his strength to draw the bow, and the iron lump in his hand was just a random blow...

Huang Tiancong's eyes were stuck tightly on the pistol that Zhao Lie had inserted back to his waist. The crazy eyes... If the eyes could turn into a hand, he would have been put into the gun holster and grabbed it.

"The iron hole passes through gold! The end is a magic weapon!" Wen Tianxiang's cultivation was inevitably moved, and he looked at Zhao Lie with eager eyes, "If this thing can be equipped with the entire army, how can the Yuan Captain be so good?"

Zhao Lie didn't say anything, but pointed out outside the city: "The Yuan army attacked."

Under the sun, a silver light, like waves, like scale light on the sea surface.

A total of 128 Beiting heavy armored iron shield warriors approached fiercely under the cover of thousands of Han soldiers and new affiliated soldiers.

Amid the long and desolate sound of cow horns, the fifth wave of attack by the Yuan army began.
Chapter completed!