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Chapter 108: The War Starts Again (Part 1)

"Yi'er, go and ask Chen Hu to bring his people up, and bring me all the battle crossbows. The battle crossbows must be fast!" At this time, there was no one else beside Liu Shan, only Yi'er came to this border town with him, so Liu Shan had to ask Yi'er to call Chen Hu.

"The archers on the city are ready to pull the bow and skeletons, and stand by the city wall!" Although they were not the direct superiors of these soldiers, the soldiers still carried out Liu Shan's orders without hesitation. Faced with the Turkic bandits, the crowd was excited at this time. When they heard Liu Shan ask the crossbowmen to go up to the city wall just now, some people already understood what Liu Shan was doing.

Yes, Liu Shan wanted to use the gap between the range of bow and arrow and the range of crossbow arrows to wipe out these Xiongnu soldiers.

In this era, the production of crossbow machines is actually not a particularly difficult task, but compared to bows and arrows, the production of crossbows is quite difficult, which restricts the possibility of universal equipment for combat crossbows. In the border, because they have been fighting with the Turks, they rely on passive defenses with strong city walls and fortifications, and crossbows and arrows are not equipped with troops at all.

Although most people know that crossbows are effective weapons to deal with cavalry, compared with the difficulty of making war crossbows and the number of fabrication, the border is equipped with bows and arrows most of the time.

This is why the officer ahead said that these Turks would not rush too close, and would stop outside the range of the bow and arrow.

All the warriors pulled their long bows, and their bows were like a full moon. The archers stood in two rows on the city wall, and the first row was close to the city wall.

The Turks on the opposite side had already rushed closer. When there were more than 300 meters away, they dragged the civilians tied down from the war horses, and pulled them together with their hands, like pulling a broken sack. The civilians were piled up by them, and then the Turkic soldiers waved the butcher knife in their hands, and actually killed all the civilians in Liangzhou in the Tang Dynasty one by one in front of the guards of the city. Looking at the living civilians just now, they instantly became corpses all over the ground. Blood gushed on the ground and people rolled around. Liu Shan seemed to be able to feel the body that had lost its head on the ground still sobbing.

Liu Shan felt his heart sobbing. At this time, when he looked at Liu Shan's eyes, it seemed like he was about to spit out fire. Liu Shan's clenched fist was hammering heavily on the bricks and stones of the city wall. The other holding hilt trembled slightly because of the force.

"Massacre the people, a group of beasts!" Liu Shan gritted his teeth and cursed. After the Turkic people on the opposite side were massacred under the border town, they burst into laughter. Some people waved the city wall with blood-dripping swords. There was a sudden stir on the city wall. The soldiers were almost going crazy in the face of this naked provocation. Several archers had loosened the bow strings in their hands and shot at the Turkic soldiers with howling bows and arrows, but the distance was too far. The arrows lost the motivation to advance and landed under the city. Seeing the feathered arrows shot, the Turkic soldiers burst into laughter again, with obvious mockery and jokes in the laughter.

Liu Shan was already aroused by all the anger of Turkic soldiers who killed the people, but at this time, Liu Shan had to suppress this anger. Here, at this time, he was the main general here, and he wanted to wipe out all the Turkic cavalry who massacred the people under the city. He looked at the few people who were shooting arrows, and the young men were a little embarrassed. They just now couldn't bear it because they saw the atrocities of the Turkic soldiers. If they were asked to rush out of the city to compete with the Turkic soldiers at this time, they would definitely rush out.

"Re-wind the strings. No one is allowed to shoot arrows without my order!" Liu Shan's low voice sounded in the ears of the soldiers. Several archers who had already shot an arrow quickly pulled out the feather arrows from the archer, pulled the bow and styling, and looked at the arrogant Turkic cavalry at all times.

At this moment, Chen Hu's people had already come up, and every soldier was holding a war crossbow in his hand. The crossbow machine of the war crossbow had been loaded with crossbow arrows. The archers' team soon became one team, and the crossbower followed closely behind the archer. The crossbower's battle crossbow was hanging low and was just blocked by the city wall.

After the Turks killed the civilians, laughed wildly and mocked the city wall, all more than a hundred Turkic riders were on the horse. Liu Shan clenched his fists at this time, and he was afraid that these Turkic cavalry would leave. However, soon, Liu Shan gave up this concern. Because according to the tradition of these cavalry, they charged towards the city wall. On the war horses, the cavalry roared shrillly, laughed loudly, and waved scimitars, as if they could cut the people on the city wall at such a distance of so many meters.

They were getting closer and closer, and the sound of horse hooves of war horses came into Liu Shan's ears without any obstacles, mixed with the clamor and laughter of Turkic soldiers.

In Liu Shan's sight, these Turkic soldiers lined up into loose scattered lines, and more than a hundred cavalry swept over like wolves in the desert. Behind the cavalry, under the moonlight, the dust aroused was flying freely.

"Arrowman, shoot the arrow!" Liu Shan gave the order. Although the Turkic cavalry did not enter the archer's range at this time, and these Turkic soldiers could not enter the archer's range, the archer still carried out Liu Shan's order.

Suddenly, hundreds of archers all let go of the bowstrings in their hands. With the sound of air, hundreds of feather arrows all left the string. On the top of the city, a metal storm suddenly formed. The arrows shot towards the Turkic cavalry like rain, but the distance between the cavalry was still too far at this time. These bows and arrows fell down a few dozen meters away from the Turkic cavalry, and the sound of arrows falling into the ground. Under the city, a white geese-feather arrow was inserted, and was shining by the moonlight, which was particularly conspicuous.

The Turkic soldiers burst into laughter again, looking at the arrow, as if they were marked with a clear line of life and death for them.

"Free scattering!" Liu Shan ordered another order.

"Shoot slowly!" Liu Shan said to the archers around him. When these archers heard Liu Shan's words, they naturally passed the words to the archers next to him.

After shooting together on the city, the sparse arrows continued to fall outside the city. When the Turkic soldiers saw the feathered arrows that were dozens of meters away from them, they laughed even more arrogant and unrestrained. For these Tang soldiers shooting archers like this, they had the idea of ​​teaching them to shoot archery. They couldn't stand the Tang army's shooting skills.

They drove the war horses, and their hooves moved, and they continued to move towards the falling feathers. In a blink of an eye, they were already standing next to the white feathered arrows. Even the brave Turkic soldiers entered the range of the bow and arrows. The hooves of the war horses kicked the soil and could kick out the arrows inserted into the soil. They watched in surprise as the feathered arrows landed beside them, as if they were looking at beautiful scenery, wonders, and meteor showers. Some cavalry had already dismounted, and a large group of cavalry clans surrounded one after another, like a pile of gold coins.

"Banditman, prepare everything!" Another order was made. The crossbowman behind the archer had already lifted the battle crossbow flat. The sharp crossbow arrow reflected the moonlight, and the smell of sternness was cold.

"Archer retreats, crossbowman shoots!" Liu Shan gave the order, all the archers in the front row retreated to the back, and the crossbowman took a step forward. Suddenly, the sound of pulling the crossbow machine sounded. Compared with the bow and arrow, the range of the crossbow arrows was really far and not a little bit.

The sound of a sudden sound suddenly turned into a circle, and hundreds of crossbow arrows flew towards the Turkic cavalry with sharp roars. At this time, these Turkic soldiers were still looking at the crossbow arrows with admiration. They did not realize that the ones shooting at them at this time were no longer bows and arrows.

When someone finally woke up and saw that the archers on the city wall were really wrong, he wanted to shout, but a small hole had appeared on his throat. Blood was shot out in the hole, and beside him, countless crossbow arrows had swept over like a storm of death. Under the crossbow arrows, blood suddenly splattered. Under the large number of crossbow arrows, a large number of casualties appeared in the crowded cavalry team of Turks.

The Turkic cavalry team, which was making fun of the Tang Dynasty soldiers on the city wall in front of me, suddenly became bloody and screamed in miserable voices. The arrogance just now disappeared in a flash. They shouted loudly, and those who were riding on the horse had already instigated the war horses. They wanted to leave here, and those who had already dismounted the horses hurriedly climbed onto the back of the war horses. However, those who wanted to rush out were full of panicked Turkic soldiers, and they could not rush out for a while, and those who wanted to get on the horses could not find their own horses.
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