When Liu Cheng saw this situation, he felt a chill in his heart.
Damn it, he didn't expect that the Far North could be so terrifying.
No wonder King Ding Ling repeatedly warned not to enter the Far North rashly.
Liu Cheng was actually very puzzled.
In his previous life, he had never heard of such a big beast in the far north.
Don't Russians live well in this area?
Things have come to this.
Liu Cheng knows that it is useless to regret.
Now he can only try his best to survive the night.
He took a deep breath and ordered: "While it is not completely dark, let all the soldiers Give me food, water, and take care of whatever needs to be done, they shouldn't move until dark."
The soldiers began to eat dry food and drink water.
After eating, they began to clean their swords and prepare crossbows and arrows.
The spear cavalry became infantry.
In front of such a huge beast, the horses were useless.
Once the beast attacked, , the horses must be frightened, so they must be The horses are controlled in the middle, the cavalry are all turned into infantry, and the spearmen are arranged in a dense and neat formation at the outermost edge.
Next are the sword and shield soldiers.
Their role is to support the spearmen in time.
Once a wolf rushes in, They were about to rush forward and fight the wolf.
The sky turned completely dark, and with a wolf howl, pairs of green eyes began to appear around the defense circle.
It seemed that there were countless pairs of green eyes staring at this side.
The number was probably no less than thousands.
These wolves were huge and moved.
But there was no sound.
This was what made Liu Cheng feel scared.
This was the first time in his life that he felt fear.
"Come here, light the firewood pile in the defensive circle."
A soldier lit a torch, which illuminated the surroundings.
Then a firewood pile was ignited, burning out a blazing fire.
The surrounding horses calmed down when they saw the fire.
These domesticated war horses were not afraid of fires and liked the light. .
Seeing the fire, the green eyes outside the defensive circle seemed a little scared, and they moved back a little.
"Come here, divide everyone into three shifts to take turns to watch and rest.
Change one group every two hours.
If there is no order, the resting soldiers will just sleep.
Even if the sky falls, they are not allowed to come forward to support."
"yes" After all, the fire in the defensive circle was still too far away from the wolves.
The light of the fire frightened them at first and they retreated a distance.
However, after an hour passed, they seemed to adapt or understand that the fire was too far away and did not pose a threat to them, so they His courage began to grow again.
After the second wolf howl, thousands of pairs of green eyes in the surrounding darkness moved closer to the defense circle again.
At this time, two-thirds of the soldiers had spread their furs in the defense circle, lay down, covered themselves with furs and started to fall asleep.
There were only more than 7,000 soldiers responsible for the defense.
Liu Cheng felt that the wolves seemed to be slowly approaching the defense circle, and the distance was a little close.
He thought for a while and ordered: "Meng Qi, arrange for some archers to light some fires, and the distance between the two fires should be separated."
Thirty steps or more is too close.
We need to use the firewood sparingly.
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It’s a long night and the time is still long.
Once the fire burns out, these wolves will pounce on us like crazy.
We must have something to make them afraid of. , do you understand?”
"Understood" Ma Chao agreed, and immediately arranged for some archers to light rockets and aim them at the firewood pile outside the defensive circle.
"Boom, boom, boom" each firewood pile was ignited one by one.
The fire next to the wolves was lit, and they were greatly frightened.
They screamed and fled back, far away from the fire.
Even the howling command of the Wolf King had no effect.
Howling wolf Liu Cheng listened thoughtfully to the howling of the Wolf King, and sent someone to call Yan Xing, Ma Chao and others over and said: "I need to select soldiers with ears far beyond ordinary people from the entire army. try to find" "Yes, my lord" Not long after, a dozen soldiers were brought to Liu Cheng.
According to Ma Chao, there were a total of nineteen soldiers here.
Each soldier's ear power was far better than that of ordinary people.
Three of them were scouts, and the rest They are all ordinary cavalry.
Liu Cheng looked at everyone and said: "I want to find the three people with the best ears among you.
Listen to me.
When the next wolf howl comes, I hope you can find it by listening to the sound.
The location is the exact location.”
The soldiers agreed: "Yes" After a few minutes, another wolf howl came.
After the wolf howled, Liu Cheng asked: "How many people can hear the location of the howl and raise their hands to tell where it is?"
Of the nineteen people, only six raised their hands.
Liu Cheng asked the other thirteen people to leave.
He asked the remaining six people: "How did you judge its location?"
The soldier who was pointed at by Liu Cheng immediately said: "My lord, in addition to the cry of the wolf king, there were other wolf sounds just now, some of which we can see with our eyes.
By judging these, we can see The distance to the wolf, using them as a reference, can be used to estimate the approximate location of the wolf king based on its cry.
Although it is not very accurate, it should not be too different."
Liu Cheng nodded.
This method can indeed determine the location of the Wolf King, but the accuracy needs to be discussed.
He said: "I need an accurate location, just like what I can see with my eyes.
Who can do it?"
Three of the six people raised their hands.
Liu Chengdao: "Come here, separate the three of them and ask them to tell the location of the Wolf King."
"Yes, my lord" After a while, the answers of the three soldiers were collected and written on three pieces of paper respectively.
Liu Cheng took them one by one and looked at them.
The words written on the three pieces of paper were different, but the expressions were the same.
On a high rock six hundred paces to the northwest.
Six hundred steps, this distance is too far.
Bows, arrows and crossbows cannot reach it.
Even ordinary trebuchets cannot shoot such a long distance.
"Come here, find all the craftsmen in the army," Liu Cheng ordered.
Because they were all cavalry in this battle, there were not many craftsmen accompanying the army, only a dozen people.
These people were quickly called over.
"I would like to ask you if there is any way to merge three crossbows together so that they can shoot three times the range and exert three times the lethality."
The craftsmen thought hard, but no one could come up with a way.
When Liu Cheng was about to give up, a young man who was only sixteen or seventeen years old timidly raised his hand and said: "Sir, sir, maybe there is a way to make the three of them work."
The bed crossbow is combined, but it is impossible to triple the power and range.
It can only double the range at most."
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Liu Cheng was shocked and immediately said: "Tell me, how can we do it?"
The young craftsman said: "The bed crossbow is actually a super large crossbow fixed on a wooden bed, and the bow string is stretched with a noose.
The bow arm and bow string still play a role.
We can put the same bed crossbow according to the front and rear Install three oversized crossbows in sequence."
"Okay, I order you to take charge of this matter and start making it immediately.
You will arrange and direct all other craftsmen.
If the power is more than doubled, I will give you a heavy reward.
If you make the three-bow bed The crossbow can help me kill the wolf king, and you and all your craftsmen will be rewarded heavily."
Liu Cheng's promise boosted the spirits of the young craftsmen and other craftsmen, and they all bowed down and said, "We will live up to the trust of the Duke."
The craftsmen went to work, and Liu Cheng turned his attention to the pack of wolves outside the defensive circle.
Thousands of wolves, which were as big as calves, stared at them outside the defensive circle, each with their green eyes wide open.
The terrifying big mouth gasped, revealing its long scarlet tongue, and saliva kept dripping from the corners of its mouth.
Some snow wolves tried to pass between the fires, and they had entered the range of the large crossbows.
Liu Cheng ordered: "Meng Qi, let the soldiers operating the crossbows aim for me, aim and fire.
We don't carry many crossbow arrows, only ten thousand.
We strive to kill a wolf with one crossbow arrow.
Every time we kill a wolf, Reward of one hundred coins" A large crossbow requires several people to operate, and the crossbow arrows used are not ordinary arrows.
It is actually a spear or a gun, but it has a tail fin at the end to enhance stability during flight.
"Yes, understand" Ma Chao immediately ordered: "Crossbow soldiers, please listen to me.
Aim before firing.
We don't have many crossbow arrows.
To get one, at least one wolf must be killed.
Killing a wolf will reward you with a hundred coins.
If you can shoot one Crossbow arrows kill two or three wolves, stacked one after another, do you hear it clearly?"
"Ho ho ho ho" the soldiers shouted in unison.
Once there was a reward, the soldiers were extremely happy.
"Whoosh!"
A crossbowman took the lead in firing a crossbow arrow.
The huge impact force shot a snow wolf through the head.
The crossbow arrow entered from the wolf's neck and came out from the tail.
The wolf only had time to scream.
Kick your legs to death.
Liu Cheng became energetic and shouted to the soldiers: "Have you seen clearly?
Such large wolves that cannot be shot by ordinary arrows can also be shot by our crossbow arrows.
Their fur defense is not indestructible.
Whoever killed this will be rewarded a thousand coins."
The soldier was overjoyed and even more excited, "Thank you, Lord" The other crossbowmen were encouraged and concentrated on aiming.
Then, crossbow arrows were fired one after another, and the snow wolves that only tried to pass through the passage in front of the fire were shot one by one.
The snow wolves' test lasted for more than two hours, and more than 400 snow wolves were shot.
However, Liu Cheng was not optimistic about the situation because it was just a test.
After a wolf howl, the snow wolves retreated like a tide.
"Damn it, these wolves are about to become spirits," Yan Xing couldn't help but cursed.
Guo Jia said with a serious face: "Obviously, this wolf king is already very intelligent.
It actually understands the art of war.
Next, I'm afraid it will order a large-scale attack.
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Lord, we have to be careful.
Also, the weather seems to be getting colder."
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