The dense barbed wire was mostly concentrated 200 steps away from the trench. As Liang Army soldiers who had experienced the flames of war, they worked hard to adjust their pace and reorganize at 250 steps, making the entire team more disciplined.
"Cut these nets and charge in directly!" The captain of the Liang army who was in the front gave the order.
As the Liang soldiers slowed down and began to prepare to chop the barbed wire, on the Qinghe County position, the lookout shouted: "The enemy is two hundred steps away and has begun to destroy the barbed wire!" Then he took out his issued light crossbow.
"Everyone, fire five rounds in a volley, followed by free fire!" As the battalion commander of the Fourth Battalion, Cheng Guorong did not ask Lin Hai and others for instructions, but directly gave the order to shoot according to the battle plan.
The reason why a lightweight crossbow is called a lightweight crossbow is because it is light in weight, not because it is less powerful.
At a distance of two hundred steps, the Qinghe-made light crossbow can easily penetrate the armor of the Liang soldiers.
Lin Hai was very confident about this, because the iron used by the Xichuan Liang soldiers to make armor was provided by Qinghe County, and as long as excess carbon was added during the smelting of pig iron, more brittle iron would be obtained.
Originally, this problem would have been discovered during the armor's construction, but to save money, the prefectural government outsourced the armor's construction to the lowest bidder, a blacksmith's workshop seemingly without any Qinghe connections. Since the armor produced by this workshop was both cheap and attractive, and the well-paid quartermaster also claimed the armor was of excellent quality, Xiao Cheng, who worked his daily "office" at Yubo Tower, was even less aware of the situation.
The Liang soldiers simply didn't believe that their armor could be penetrated at this distance. Many of them even deliberately puffed out their chests, wanting the Qinghe militia who were firing to see what it felt like to fail to penetrate. Then they were all shot - with their eyes wide open in disbelief.
"We need to commend Xichuan Station. This time they reduced the enemy's combat power by more than half." Lin Hai said this at the observation post nearby.
What is even more troublesome is that those barbed wires that look very thin and fragile are not easy to cut through. Simply put, there is no force at all when you chop them with a knife. If you want to rush through them directly, you will be entangled by the wire, and the entanglement will become tighter and tighter until you can't move.
Xiao Cheng, who was at the back of the team, realized that his situation was hopeless after seeing the first crossbow arrow pierce the armor. He knew very well that with the speed of the armored infantry, even without the barbed wire and trenches, they could not rush through under the barrage of crossbow arrows. What's more, from a distance, he could see that behind the trench, the Qinghe armored infantry armed with sabers had already assembled and were ready to launch a counterattack at any time. So Xiao Cheng took over the command at the first moment, shouted: "Retreat, return to camp", and still took the lead and ran away.
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