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Chapter 40: The Iron Horse Longbow


In just a few minutes, this cavalry team from the south bank of Luoshui built a pontoon bridge using prefabricated components over Luoshui.

These components were designed by Sima Yu himself and built in the Acropolis workshop.

The main body of the components is equipped with wheels and can be hauled by horses and oxen.

When building a pontoon bridge, put it directly into the water, unfold the components, and they will float on the water and become the bridge body of the pontoon bridge.

After the pontoon bridge was erected, four thousand cavalry quickly crossed the Luoshui River and appeared behind Zhang Fang's army.

They went against Zhang Fang's rebels and rushed towards the Forbidden Army camp to the west for reinforcements.

When the sun set in the west, smoke was everywhere in the rebel camp that besieged the Forbidden Army camp in Luoshui, and the soldiers began to cook rice.

A cook was adding firewood to the pit under the pot when he suddenly noticed that the water in the pot began to stir.

He was surprised that the water boiled so quickly, and then he realized something was wrong.

He clearly felt that the earth under his feet was trembling slightly in rhythm with the water in the cauldron.

He was not the only one who noticed the clue, many soldiers also raised their heads and looked at each other in confusion.

Immediately afterwards, a sound like thunder reached their ears.

A soldier looked to the east and shouted loudly: "Enemy soldiers, not enemy cavalry, enemy cavalry is coming."

The rebel soldiers suddenly panicked, and under the scolding of generals at all levels, they all took advantage of their weapons.

The chaotic crowd was in a panic, and many large pots cooking porridge and rice were knocked over and fell to the ground.

Before they could finish gathering, four thousand imperial cavalry had already rushed to the camp.

Countless arrows fired by strong bows flew towards the rebels with the kinetic energy brought by the horses' sprint.

Caught off guard, the rebel soldiers, who were not even wearing their armor, fell to the ground with arrows.

The sound of screams and groans mixed with the sound of arrows piercing the air came and went.

After the arrows, there was the massacre of Iron Pagoda.

Because the rebels did not expect that enemy troops would attack from other directions, there were no defenses around the camp except a symbolic circle of low antlers.

Five hundred Tiefutu rode their horses easily over the low antlers, rushed into the group tent quickly, slashed left and right, and ran rampant, pushing down and trampling the remaining rebel soldiers into pieces.

Following closely behind were 3,500 kidnappers, horse and light cavalry, who also began to charge at the rebels.

In less than a moment, all the soldiers in this rebel camp, a total of 3,000 people, almost all died under the hoofs of the horses except for a few who escaped.

The four thousand cavalry did not stop at all and began to attack the next rebel camp.

In the Chinese army's tent, Li Han picked up the rice brought in by his own soldiers and began to eat.

As soon as he picked up a chopstick, he heard the noise outside.

At first he thought it was a fight between soldiers.

Just as he was about to send his own soldiers to check what was going on, a soldier ran in and shouted without any courtesy: "Captain, it's not good, the enemy troops have invaded."

Li Han was startled, and the rice bowl in his hand fell to the ground, and the rice spilled all over the floor.

He muttered with a slight stutter: "How could the enemy troops come from so and so?"

"Coming from the east, Commander, don't say so much, run away quickly, it will be too late."

The soldier continued to speak eagerly.

"Zhang Fang's army in the east has just gone east.

If it is an invading enemy from Luoyang, Zhang Fang should be able to meet it.

Could it be that something unexpected happened to Zhang Fang?"

Li Han was still frightened and confused, but this But it didn't delay him from running away.

Under the protection of more than a dozen soldiers, Li Han got on his mount and ran wildly to the west.

As soon as he left, four thousand imperial cavalry broke into the camp and bulldozed the camp in a matter of seconds.

In this way, the Forbidden Army cavalry destroyed seven rebel camps in a row.

The rebel soldiers who were stationed behind the barrier to monitor the movements of the Forbidden Army camp saw that the situation was not good and began to abandon the barrier early and flee westward.

Sima Ya in the camp had learned of this situation and understood that reinforcements from Luoyang had arrived, so he did not hesitate to let the forbidden troops in the camp come out in full force and cross the barriers to pursue the rebels.

The rebels threw away all their baggage and fled towards Hongnong.

The infantry and iron pagoda heavy cavalry of the imperial army did not continue to pursue them.

However, five thousand kidnappers, horses and light cavalry pursued them all the way and killed countless rebel soldiers.

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When they fled into Hongnong territory, they had no one left.

Zhang Fang, who was besieging Luoyang, sent a partial army to attack three small cities in the north of Luoyang City.

He did not expect that these three small cities would be so difficult to conquer.

After several tug-of-wars and heavy casualties, they could not conquer any of them.

Angry, Zhang Fang sent 10,000 additional troops to three battlefields, and finally captured Jinyong City and another small city.

But the Acropolis was never conquered.

Although there are only more than 2,000 soldiers guarding the Acropolis at present, one thousand of them are the system's black armored iron guards.

Their individual combat effectiveness is extremely powerful.

Especially in this kind of city defense battle, the combat power can be said to be one to ten.

In addition to throwing thousands of corpses at the foot of the Acropolis, the rebels only managed to reach the top of the city with few people.

In the main city of Luoyang, Zhang Fang was also unable to defeat the city after a long battle, and he began to think of using barriers to besiege Luoyang City for a long time.

Following the same pattern, under the cover of night, the rebels sneaked into dozens of places near the city gate like ghosts and began to dig ditches and build fortifications.

Under the moonlight, these rebel soldiers were sweating like rain, swinging hoes and shovels, driving piles and ramming soil.

In order to prevent a counterattack after being discovered by the defenders in the city, Zhang Fang also concentrated all the cavalry in the army to provide mobile support.

These cavalry are preparing at the tenth battle point behind the construction site.

A rebel soldier wielding a hoe took off his sweaty clothes, became shirtless and started swinging the hoe again.

At this time, there was a strange expression on his face, because he found that the surroundings suddenly became brighter, like a small sun appearing in the night sky.

He looked up into the sky, and sure enough, a big fireball was slowly falling from the sky.

It turned out that this was a new type of projectile illumination fired by a ballista.

The burning fireball was hung on a hood made of a piece of silk with a wire.

The rebel soldiers around him stared blankly at the fireball hanging in the air with their mouths wide open.

They had seen Kongming lanterns before, but they were not that bright.

Moreover, the Kongming lanterns would float randomly if there was a little wind, while this fireball basically fell vertically and slowly.

"Whoosh".

Accompanied by a low scream in the air and the sound of bones and flesh breaking, an arrow pierced the chest of the soldier.

He fell to the ground like a log without making a sound.

Other rebel soldiers around him suffered the same fate.

Some were shot dead on the spot by arrows, while others were shot through non-vital parts and fell to the ground wailing.

A rebel soldier was shot through the thigh by an arrow, which then penetrated the other thigh and nailed his legs together.

The scene is horrific

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