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Chapter 280 Continuous Crossbow Battle

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Wu Meng, Ding Fan, Ge Tong and others were in Juquanling. In addition to getting more than fifty ferocious spirit birds, they also brought ten mechanical chariots and forty mechanical crossbows into Black Mountain this time.

Although each of the more than fifty ferocious spirit birds were extremely fierce, they could easily grab more than 2,000 kilograms of heavy objects and flew into the sky, in addition to more than 100 guards and craftsmen, as well as necessary armor for them to carry, considering that they would fly more than 30,000 miles continuously, the total amount of cargo they could carry must be compressed below 30,000 kilograms.

In addition to tens of thousands of kilograms of medium and low-level elixirs, Wu Meng, Zhou Jingyuan, Ding Fan and others considered the most useful combat equipment in the depths of the desert, namely the combat chariots and the crossbows.

The chariot of the machine must be able to charge among thousands of troops, and the defensiveness of the chassis must be strong enough. Even if it is made of metal quenching iron, a medium-sized chariot weighs at least tens of thousands of kilograms; and a medium-sized chassis of the machine also weighs more than one thousand kilograms.

It is impossible to transport the complete mechanical chariots and mechanical crossbows into Heishan, Wu Meng, Ding Fan, Ge Tong and others this time can only barely carry the most difficult core components such as the most difficult to refine, such as twenty sets of wind array boxes, ten sets of transformed shaft gear boxes, and forty sets of arrow array boxes. The other parts must be cast on site in Heishan.

Fortunately, Chen Hai led the Jingjue Army to seize the camps and achieved great success.

Even though the casting of counterweight catapult crossbows used to consume a lot of gold quenching iron, Heishan City still had nearly 200,000 kilograms of gold quenching iron left, which could be used to cast components such as the body of the mechanical chariots and mechanical crossbows, shaft wheels and crossbow beds.

Thousands of skilled craftsmen in the Craftsman Camp in Heishan were all slaves without a foundation in cultivation, and they were far from comparable to the group of excellent craftsmen brought by Wu Meng and others. However, after following Chen Hai for half a year, he has been familiar with the method of running water.

Chen Hai selected more than a hundred excellent craftsmen and, together with more than a dozen excellent craftsmen from Juquanling, set up the Heishan First Foundry Factory. In less than three months, he casted and assembled ten chariots and forty crossbows.

The mechanical crossbow that Chen Hai personally tried to produce can shoot thirty short gold-tempered arrows in one breath, but the mechanical crossbow and arrow array box were completely refined by Chen Hai himself with extremely precious iron for the mysterious fetus. It is extremely difficult for others to imitate it.

The gold quenching arrow used by the mechanism crossbow was short and narrow, with the strongest penetration within a hundred steps, and even shot through an inch thick iron plate of gold quenching. However, after more than three hundred steps, the penetration will drop sharply, and it is extremely powerful in close combat, but it is not suitable for large-scale people's battlefields.

At this time, the medium-sized crossbows that Juquanling could mass-cast in batches were specially developed for the battlefield. Within a range of 1,000 steps, the penetration is comparable to that of the gold-quenching iron arm bow. However, for this, the medium-sized crossbow is much heavier than the melee crossbow that Chen Hai initially tried to produce. Each frame weighs more than 1,200 kilograms, and the fastest rate of fire also dropped to one breath and six shots.

Even so, such a high firing rate, range and penetration are amazingly high.

Considering that the most elite archers can shoot an arrow every two to three breaths, forty crossbows gathered together, which is equivalent to gathering seven or eight hundred elite archers to cover the narrow contact surface within less than a hundred steps.

At a distance of one thousand steps, even if the enemy elite cavalry riding on the cunning horse of the green horse, it would take twenty or thirty breaths to rush to the front of the formation. Even if the arrow box is replaced and cooled, such a long time is enough for forty crossbows to pull out a base of 6,000 crossbow arrows, which is like a storm and rain.

Medium-sized mechanical crossbows are still too bulky for ordinary generals and soldiers. The crossbow body weighs more than 1,200 kilograms; the base gold quenching arrow weighs more than 2,000 kilograms. This mechanical crossbow can only be assembled on a mechanical chariot, so that it can move forward and retreat freely on a complex battlefield.

Assembling the crossbow onto the mechanical chariot and assembling it into a crossbow chariot is the real magical chariot designed by Chen Hai.

Chen Hai used the spear formation to make many great achievements in the battles of Jinxiangling, Heixiao Cliff, Moyue Lake and Shiyue Gorge. When Fan Dachun and Han Wen were training the Jingjue Army, they paid special attention to strengthening the spear formation. Among the 6,000 troops of the Jingjue Army, half were heavily armored spear-like soldiers.

In addition, the Heishan Craftsman Craftsman also used a large amount of gold quenching iron materials to cast three thousand excellent special iron spears, and grassroots military officers even practiced the magic of prickly based on the secret shape of prickly.

An ordinary soldier holding a spear, and he can stab a heavy stab at one breath, is already quite powerful. However, in order to strengthen the attack density of the spear phalanx, among the dense phalanxes where people are attached, the grassroots military officers with a foundation in Tongxuan realm, no matter how exquisite the other unique skills are practiced, they have no use. They can only aim directly at the front of the enemy's prick. After destroying the qi, blood, essence and energy of the whole body, they can stab a heavy stab three or even more times in one breath, and their power is extremely powerful.

After half a year of training and strengthening the military armor and grassroots military officers, the Jingjue Protector's Office's regular formation of three thousand sharp soldiers spears was several times stronger than that during the Shiyuexia War. However, after seeing the performance of dozens of machine crossbows lined up, Fan Dachun, Han Wendang, Deng Tonger and others were all scared and sweated.

Even if the spear-sharp soldiers are wearing scales, they do not have the protection of large shields at close range, and it is difficult to block the golden arrows from being densely shot like a storm.

The slow advancement of the spear phalanx is also an insurmountable weakness, which means that even if the three thousand spears are heavily armored, sharp spears, even if the entire army is destroyed, they may not be able to advance to the ten-vehicle-equipped mechanical chariots equipped with crossbows.

The crossbow chariot is covered with gold quenching decks, and the two layers of gold quenching decks are half an inch thick. Although they cannot directly withstand the close-range mysterious soldiers of the middle and late stages of the Mingqiao Realm, they must also be able to attack within the first ten steps of the crossbow chariot without any obstacles.

Fan Dachun, Han Wendang, Deng Tonger and others were still looking forward to the heavy armored formation of spears that could shine in the battle to capture the Pinglu Oasis. Who would have thought that they would become useless in front of their Heishan Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Craftsman Crafts

When casting and assembling these crossbow chariots, Chen Hai had already drawn more than 200 elite elites from the Guwei Battalion of the Jingjue Protectorate to build new crossbow chariots.

The tactical issues of how to cooperate in combat with the Che and Crossbow Camp and the Battle Bird Camp, the Ruiqi Camp, the halberd and shield soldiers, the longbow camp, and the spear and heavy armored sharp soldiers. Chen Hairang Wu Meng, Ge Tong, Qi Hanjiang and others, and the generals of the Jingjue Army have repeatedly deduced on the sand table countless times in the past two or three months.

However, Fan Dachun and the others had not experienced systematic military training, believed in their inherent experience, and usually paid more attention to tactical deduction with spear phalanx as the core. Until this moment, many old tactical concepts collapsed.

Fan Dachun and his friends were born as horse thieves. Although their cultivation was not weak, they were simple and crude in combat, and had many difficult-to-overcome bad habits and disadvantages. Chen Hai could only use this violent method to destroy their confidence again and again, so that they could quickly grow into truly qualified generals.

Now that ten consecutive crossbow chariots are assembled, the Jingjue Army can take off the sand table and conduct on-site combat training exercises. Chen Hai and the others will soon be familiar with the new tactics with the continuous crossbow chariot as the core.

It is very likely that the metal quenching material in Black Mountain is still too limited, and a large amount of gold quenching arrows are needed to support a large-scale war.

Dong Ning also understood more deeply at this time. Chen Hai handed Juquanling to the common people to hold on, and Dong did not take advantage of him, so why was he so angry?

Juquanling is second to master the secret of manufacturing crossbow chariots. Juquanling produces 60,000 kilograms of gold-tempered iron materials per day, which is the key to large-scale manufacturing of crossbow chariots, popularizing gold-tempered arrows, and large-scale construction of gold-tempered fine armor and combat equipment.

If the Dong family can monopolize Juquanling, it may be difficult to break through Qintong Pass and occupy Yanjing, but within three to five years, it will no longer have the delusion of destroying the Musashi Army and Hexiang Army and dominating the Northwest Region.

As a disciple of Hexi, Chen Hai gave such an extremely important resource to the common people. How could Dong not be angry?

However, no matter how angry the Dong was, he had no choice but to rely on Juquanling to supply ten crossbow chariots and 30,000 to 50,000 gold-tempering arrows every year.

After all, under the leadership of more than a dozen masters, Juquanling has thousands of craftsmen and craftsmen who make crossbow chariots every year, and only 400,000 gold quenching arrows can be cast for 400,000. Dong's family can now get about one tenth, and an additional supply of nearly one million kilograms of gold quenching iron.

If Chen Hai and Zhaoyangting Hou Mansion could not take Juquanling back from the hands of the other families, they could still do it together with the other families to exclude Dong's family.

The fact that Wu Meng and his team were able to take out the core accessories of the ten-car-cross-crossing crossbow chariots at one time was also the accumulation over the past two years - this was also the share that Zhaoyang Ting Hou Mansion should share in Juquanling. It was originally used to strengthen the guard camp of Zhaoyang Ting Hou Mansion, but knowing that Chen Hai was trying to plan major events in the desert, he naturally asked Wu Meng and the others to bring to Heishan.

Of course, Dong Ning also understood more at this time why Chen Hai could not hand over Juquanling to Dong's family.

Although the Juquanling was handed over to the Dong family, it would also increase Dong's ambitions for no reason, thus launching bloodier and larger-scale wars in Yanzhou, consuming Yanzhou's potential resistance to the invasion of the Rakshasa demon; at the same time, it is not difficult for Dong Ning to imagine that after occupying Juquanling, the Dong family would inevitably strictly control Chen Hai and the people of Zhaoyangting Hou Mansion to ensure that all the secrets would not be revealed.

Now Chen Hai handed over Juquanling to the nine families to jointly support it. On the one hand, it can improve the strength of the nine families at the same time, and on the other hand, it can suppress the unnecessary or even dangerous ambitions of Dong's family.

Ge Xuanqiao didn't know the secret of the Blood Cloud Wasteland, nor did he know what Chen Hai's real intention was. After seeing the powerful strength shown by the crossbow chariot, he sighed slightly in his heart.

The crossbow chariot was first used by the Black Yan Army in war. Even though it was not yet large enough and could not finally determine the direction of the battle, it had already caused considerable casualties to the Hu Ben Army in Lichuan and Heyang.
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