Almost at the same time, a thousand honeycomb heavy crossbows suddenly broke out, and long arrows like locusts shot strongly at the dense cavalry. The honeycomb heavy crossbow was a large bed crossbow just invented by the weapon supervisor of the Northern Sui Army.

In fact, it is to use the principle of continuous crossbow to improve the bed crossbow and increase the power of the winch. The bed crossbow arrow is changed to a small iron arrow. It can shoot thirty armor-piercing iron crossbow arrows at one time, with a range of 400 steps and a killing range of 300 steps. It is a powerful tool to deal with dense cavalry.

Military weapon supervisors invented the honeycomb quiver more creatively. Thirty iron arrows were encapsulated in the quiver. After the arrow was shot out, they directly installed the honeycomb quiver with a heavy crossbow and could be fired again, which greatly saved the time to load arrows and compared with the shooting frequency of the yellow crossbow.

A honeycomb heavy crossbow is one meter long, six feet wide, and weighs hundreds of kilograms. It is usually placed on the city wall or installed on wheels and then shot into the air. A total of six people are manipulated, four of whom are responsible for winding the strings with winches and two are responsible for loading arrows.

This kind of crossbow has a long range, dense arrows, and strong lethality. The only disadvantage is that it has no accurate head, but the Turkic cavalry formation used to deal with intensive attacks is undoubtedly the most suitable.

The Sui army installed a thousand honeycomb heavy crossbows in the camp, about thirty steps away from the city wall, and arranged in three rows. They could shoot 30,000 iron crossbow arrows at one time, which required strong national strength to support them. Today is the first time the Sui army used it, and it created a powerful killing effect.

Although the Turkic cavalry were well-equipped Khan Guards, holding large shields and wearing strong leather armor, they could not resist the shooting of heavy crossbows and strong arrows. The powerful crossbow arrows smashed the shield and penetrated the leather armor. The huge thrust directly shot the cavalry off the horse. The war horses wearing leather armor on the front were also shot through by heavy arrows and neighed and fell to the ground.

The attack of the catapult mainly produces shocking effects, and the killing effect is not very ideal, but the honeycomb heavy crossbow shoots the crossbow arrows completely opposite, and the killing effect is extremely obvious. The overwhelming attack like a locust makes people unable to hide.

In the first round, 30,000 arrows were shot out, and most of the more than 3,000 Turkic cavalrymen galloped in the vanguard were shot down, leaving only more than a thousand cavalrymen safe and sound. The ground was covered with soldiers howling in pain and war horses.

But the Turks could not react immediately. They could not see clearly the casualties in the dark night. The Turkic army behind them was still coming to the camp one after another. At this time, the Sui soldiers had quickly changed the quiver. Amid the sound of a clamor, the second round of 30,000 iron crossbow arrows rushed towards the running Turkic cavalry like a storm.

Suddenly, screams erupted everywhere, and large areas of Turkic cavalry and war horses were shot down by arrows, as if a strong wind had swept past, and no cavalry stood within a hundred steps.

With just two rounds of powerful crossbow shooting, nearly half of the 10,000 Turkic cavalry lost. The remaining 5,000 cavalry finally responded. They were so scared that they turned their horses and fled.

Zhang Xuan, who was watching the battle from a distance from the wall, said coldly: "Cavals attack!"

"Dong-Dong-Dong-Dong!"

The heavy and slow drum sounded, which was a signal of the cavalry's attack. The 20,000 cavalry ambushed in the north and south directions suddenly moved out, quickly surrounding the thousands of Turkic cavalry who were fleeing.

The 20,000 Turkic main forces, who were still ten miles away, did not come to rescue him, but were waiting for the Khan's order.

Dozens of generals looked at Khan together. The expression on Khan's face was very complicated, his eyes were full of hesitation, and the fighting spirit in his chest had disappeared. After a long time, Khan finally issued an order, "Transfer the order, the entire army retreated north!"

All the generals sighed secretly, and had to ride back to their troops and shouted: "Khan has orders, the whole army retreats north! retreat north!"

As the bell of withdrawal rang, the Turkic army turned around and retreated northward. Chuluo took a last look at the besieged army in the west, and also whipped the war horses hard and ran northward.

The sound of retreating reached the attacking Turkic army. Wen Mutie led thousands of cavalry to break through the siege and finally broke out from the northeast corner. Wen Mutie led more than a thousand cavalry to break out. When the Hu Ben Lang General Shao Yiming saw the enemy's chief general breaking through, he was furious and ordered the soldiers around him to say, "Follow me to chase!"

At this moment, a cavalry rushed over and shouted, "The general has an order, don't chase the enemy!"

Shao Yiming was so angry that he inserted his spear into the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "Kill me, no one left!"

Since the general did not say he wanted to accept the surrender, all these Turkic cavalry became his punching bag. They were strangled by 20,000 Sui cavalry and were not spared. The casualties were extremely heavy. In the end, only more than 1,000 were captured by the Sui army, and the remaining more than 7,000 soldiers were all killed. The 20,000 Sui army also paid the price of nearly 2,000 casualties.

The battle in the Tang army camp was over first. Although the Turkic cavalry was eventually defeated and more than 5,400 bodies were left behind, the Tang army also suffered heavy casualties, with nearly 2,000 cavalry casualties and more than 3,000 infantry casualties. The Sui cavalry who came to rescue also suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, and the camp was in a mess.

The Turkic army had retreated, and thousands of torches were lit in the Tang camp, illuminating the camp as daylight. The soldiers were busy cleaning the camp, repairing the exterior walls, and rebuilding tents. There were busy figures everywhere.

Wang Junguo was standing in front of the Turkic army's armor pile and studied the other party's equipment. At this time, the soldiers from afar shouted, "Your Highness King Qi is here!"

Everyone turned around quickly and saw King Zhang Xuan of Qi walking quickly surrounded by dozens of guards. The soldiers dodged a way. Wang Junkuo hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "See Your Highness, King Qi!"

"See Your Highness, King Qi!" The generals also saluted.

"Dear generals, please give up!"

Zhang Xuan waved his hand to everyone, and asked Wang Junkuo again, "How is the casualties?"

"More than 5,000 people were killed or injured, of which 3,400 were killed."

Zhang Xuan nodded, feeling a little heavy: "This time the Turkic army came to attack. We have a certain responsibility for not being able to do anything."

"Your Highness must not say this. When two armies fight, it is impossible to have a complete insight. It is normal to encounter sneak attacks. Speaking of which, I would like to thank Your Highness for your timely support. If there were no ten thousand cavalry in time, we would probably have tens of thousands of casualties."

Wang Junkuo was telling the truth completely. They had no time to arrange the spear formation. The soldiers of each battalion formed their own formations, and their formation was very chaotic. They were killed by the Turkic cavalry with superb cavalry to suffer heavy casualties. If the Sui cavalry had not arrived in time and separated the Turkic cavalry and the Tang soldiers, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"This time, the Turkic cavalry attacked us in total forty thousand troops. Attacking the Tang camp was just arguing with the east and west. If our army all came to rescue, then the 30,000 Turkic troops would come from the east and the ending would never be optimistic. The Turkic Khan also found that we had made sufficient preparations and gave up the idea of ​​continuing the attack and led the army to retreat. Although it was a bit cowardly, after fighting this battle, we also learned about the situation of the Turkic army in person." Zhang Xuan glanced at the soldiers who were piled up like hills and said.

"Your Highness is completely correct. This is the Turkic Army equipment we seized. We have indeed learned a lot about the Turkic Army. Please allow Bei Yi to report to Your Highness."

Zhang Xuan nodded and smiled, "Please say, General Wang, I'll listen with utmost care!"

Wang Junguo picked up a shield and said, "Your Highness, please look at this shield. This is actually a copper shield. No wonder our bows and arrows did not play a role."

Zhang Xuan took the shield and bought it very heavily, weighing at least twenty kilograms. He pondered for a moment and said, "The Turks do not produce copper, and the pig iron production is not large. This should be a copper shield from the West. However, not all Turkic troops are ready. The Turkic cavalry that attacked us from the east tonight will not be equipped. This should be the Turkic Khan's confidant army, and ordinary guards do not have the equipment like them."

"That's true. Your Highness, please look at this leather armor again."

Wang Junguo picked up another piece of leather armor and said, "This piece of leather armor is actually double-layer cowhide, sewn in fine and dense, very strong and light, and is completely free from the clumsiness of ordinary double-layer leather armor. This sewing is handicrafted by Han women."

Zhang Xuan took the cowhide and the first feeling was that it was tanned very well, soft and strong, and was lighter than the single-layer leather armor of ordinary herders and cavalrymen. Bei Sui also bought a lot of leather from the Tiel Tribe, including this leather, which is top-grade leather, and half a cowhide can be worth ten sheepskins. This is indeed not something ordinary soldiers can afford to equip.

Zhang Xuan picked up another spear and a battle knife, both of which were the best weapons of the Sui army. He nodded and said, "It seems that the Turkic army attacking the Tang camp is a great achievement. It is also a great achievement for you to severely damage the other party."

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your praise!"
Chapter completed!