Flying Clouds in Another World

Chapter 323: Bow and Crossbow Shooting, Spear and Cavalry Charge

The 10,000 civilian militiamen left in the Northern Wilderness were actually the reserve troops of the Zhenhuang Army, used to replenish losses at any time.

Liu Feiyun also put a lot of effort into them.

The first thing is the quality of the personnel. They must be willing to stay in the Northern Wilderness and dare to fight and be able to fight.

The second is the configuration of weapons and armor.

He asked Wang Jue for many war crossbows, and even bought countless iron arrows.

Although the militia was not allowed to wear armor according to the law, the situation in the Northern Wilderness was special, so Liu Feiyun still equipped them with a lot of broken leather armor captured from the barbarians.

Although these leather armors were in tatters, it was better to have them than not! Besides, Liu Feiyun didn't expect them to charge into battle.

One of the biggest advantages of a crossbow over a bow is that it takes less time to train and has considerable lethality. Especially for heavy crossbows and long crossbows, their range is far greater than that of ordinary war bows.

The crossbow formation was quickly set up, and at the same time, several simple watchtowers several meters high were quickly built on the small mound.

Liu Feiyun jumped up, and after using some force, he leapt onto the high platform, with a panoramic view of everything within a radius of several miles.

When he saw the barbarian army approaching within two miles of him, he also stopped.

"Humph! I don't care how you want to fight, you have to follow my rhythm first! Pass the order, the crossbow cavalry will go out and cut down the two wings of the barbarian army first! Go quickly and come back quickly!"

As soon as Liu Feiyun gave the order, a messenger came on horseback to deliver the order.

Soon, two crossbow cavalry units, each with 4,000 men, set out from both wings of the formation and quickly approached the two wings of the barbarian army.

The barbarian army was not to be outdone and immediately sent out two cavalry units to meet the enemy. Judging from their size, each unit had only about four to five thousand men.

The four groups of people were approaching each other quickly and were about to collide with each other.

But then, the crossbow cavalry turned their horses' heads, avoided the charge, and moved out of the formation.

The four teams of the two armies crossed each other.

But at the moment of intersection, the three-row crossbow in the hands of the crossbow cavalry fired, and at the same time, the barbarians also drew their bows and shot arrows.

The death rain formed by iron arrows and long arrows sprinkled on each other.

However, although the barbarian army had the advantage in numbers, they did not have the advantage in the number of arrows they shot.

Firstly, the crossbow cavalry took the initiative, and the barbarians counterattacked later, which was a little slow.

Secondly, the triple cavalry crossbow, after being strung, can fire three arrows in succession, which is almost equivalent to a volley.

So, in the crossbow cavalry shooting, the crossbow cavalry shot more than 23,000 iron arrows, while the barbarian army only shot 8,000 or 9,000 long arrows.

Moreover, the hit rate and killing effect of the crossbow arrows of the crossbow cavalry are much higher than those of the bows and arrows of the barbarian army.

After the crossbowman has strung the bow, he only needs to hold the crossbow and aim at the trigger, and the force with which the crossbow arrow is fired is generally uniform.

The bow and arrow require a lot of effort while drawing the bow

While aiming, even if it is a projectile, there must be a general direction! Moreover, the arm strength of archers varies, and the lethality also varies.

The result was that the two crossbow cavalry armies defeated thousands of barbarians at the cost of nearly a thousand casualties.

"Great! ...! The Crossbow Cavalry is mighty!"

Chen Junda cheered loudly.

"Despicable!" "Shameless sneak attack!" "Cowardly villain!"

The barbarian army shouted and cursed.

Soon, both sides turned their horses around and rushed back to their own camps. They passed each other again and fired their bows and crossbows again.

This time, twenty thousand iron arrows were against more than five thousand long arrows.

When both sides returned to their camps, there were still more than 6,000 of the 8,000 crossbow cavalry, but only 3,000 of the 10,000 barbarian soldiers were left.

The Chen army cheered again! But the barbarian army was in dead silence, without even a curse.

Liu Feiyun won the first game.

"Why are the Chen people's crossbows so powerful today? They have never been so amazing before!"

"If we continue like this, even if we can win, it will be a miserable victory!"

Ok.

"We must not let these crossbow cavalrymen of the Chen people get close to our formation!"

The barbarian generals were extremely worried.

On the other side, Liu Feiyun was also sighing:

This triple cavalry crossbow seems incredibly powerful, but in reality, it is useless.

The triple cavalry crossbow can fire three arrows in a row, relying on the crystal stone array. Moreover, this crystal stone array is very easy to damage and can only be used more than a few times.

If Liu Feiyun had not been proficient in crystal stone magic arrays, and had seized a large amount of materials and crystals that could be used to repair the arrays, and had three cultivators as laborers under him, he would never have been able to put together so many triple crossbows that could be used in the crystal stone magic arrays.

Once the crystal array is damaged, these three crossbows can only fire one arrow at a time, and their power will be greatly reduced.

What's even worse is that it consumes crystals. One penny of red crystal can only be used three times.

One coin of red crystal is equivalent to one ounce of gold and ten ounces of silver.

The red crystals consumed in the two rounds of iron arrows just now are worth forty to fifty thousand silver coins!

Moreover, most of the crystal arrays of these crossbows can probably only be used once or twice.

Liu Feiyun was also depressed!

"This self-righteous little butcher actually wants to compete with our Northern Wilderness warriors in horseback archery. How ridiculous! In this case, let's let the little butcher see for himself what real horseback archery is!"

At Kulibutai's command, tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers shouted and marched in groups of a thousand men, one group of a thousand men after another, straight to the right wing of Liu Feiyun's army.

These barbarians did not attack the main army formation directly, but instead stuck to the formation, circling around the edge of the formation's bow and arrows, while continuously launching a rain of arrows.

They went around from the right wing of the formation to the back, and it seemed that they wanted to go around to the left wing of the formation and make a large circle around the formation.

"Each warrior can shoot at least one bag of arrows after turning half a circle. Thirty thousand warriors means hundreds of thousands of arrows in total!"

"If the little butcher passively takes the beating and engages our warriors in a shootout, we will be able to kill tens of thousands of him. Or if he sends his troops to drive them away, his formation will surely be disrupted, and then we will launch an attack from the front!"

"In short, all little butchers can only be buried here."

Kulibutai saw his barbarians continuously shooting arrows at Liu Feiyun's formation, and he couldn't help but say proudly to the generals around him.

"Want to learn how to fly a kite like the Mongols? Humph! You have to get my permission! You just want to practice horseback archery! I'm going to charge in close!"

"All archers on the right wing will fire a round of cover, and the shield spearmen will prepare to charge the incoming barbarian formation! The rest of the melee cavalry will follow up and cover!"

"Cut them off for me, disrupt them! Destroy them!"

Liu Feiyun issued an order again.

After another dense rain of arrows was thrown at the attacking barbarians, ten battalions of lancers launched a charge.

These lancers held long spears tightly in their right hands, protected their faces with small shields in their left arms, and charged headfirst into the barbarians who were riding their horses at full speed and shooting arrows with bows.

The ten battalions of soldiers, shaped like ten iron spikes, rushed into the ranks of the barbarians one after another, and immediately broke the originally relatively coherent long snake-like ranks into sections.

The long spears and sharp spears, with the help of the momentum of the war horses, pierced the barbarian soldiers' armor.