Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Three Mastering His Skills
"Western Region Artillery?!"
Chen Zixiao, Zhou Jing, Wang Ju and others also noticed that the enemy's trebuchets deployed to the front line at this time were very different from what they had seen before, but they did not expect the enemy to push the war equipment into the front line.
Xu Huai, who had always been calm and composed, looked worried.
This was something they had never seen before, and they were all frightened and asked why in shock.
Chen Zixiao was appointed by Xu Huai to take charge of the Central Army and be responsible for battlefield command. Seeing Xu Huai's reaction, he was worried that the situation would be difficult and asked: "What is so special about these stone cannons that the commander is so shocked? Do you want a golden drum?"
Qi Ming withdraws his troops?"
"Send trust cavalry so that there are combat troops deployed by the Western Region Artillery in front of the enemy. Disengage first! The distance must be at least 300 steps away!"
The elite troops of the Chushan Left Army resisted the enemy on a narrow battlefield of more than six or seven miles on the north bank of the Centipede River. Now that a new situation has arisen, we must act cautiously, but in order to avoid unnecessary confusion and being taken advantage of by the enemy, Xu
Huai did not let Chen Zixiao order his head to retreat.
After all, the threat of Western Region artillery in field battles is not particularly great.
He asked Chen Zixiao to send out trusted cavalry to separately contact the combat troops on the north bank and not to be restless.
As dozens of cavalrymen carrying five-color imperial flags rode downhill, preparing to cross the dry and rugged riverbed, Xu Huaicai, Chen Zixiao, Wang Ju, Zhou Jing and others would roughly explain the Western Region cannon and the traditional stone cannon (trebuchet).
What's the difference.
"The Western Region Artillery is so sharp, why haven't I heard Commander Jieh mention it before?" Han Gui, who was standing aside, asked in confusion.
At present, there are two people in the military records office around Xu Huai: Han Gui and Jiang Xie. Jiang Xie was determined to take the imperial examination when he was young, and later served as an official in the Department of Household Affairs. He had little experience and was better at handling documents and other matters, so Xu Huai left him here.
Wuyang stayed with Shi Zhen and Right Sima Xu Wujiang to help handle daily official documents.
Although Han Gui, who was over forty years old, had a bumpy official career and defected to Chushan, he was only a minor official in the capital water supervision department. He was even forced to surrender to the captives after the fall of Bianliang, but he was a sophisticated person and experienced in world affairs unlike Jiang Xie.
He was capable of everything, including poetry, poetry, miscellaneous arithmetic, and rent and land taxes. He was worthy of Shi Zhen's strong recommendation in front of Xu Huai.
Although Han Gui also joined the army in the clerk's office, after integrating into Chushan in the past year and becoming familiar with all aspects of Chushan, he was no longer limited to being a secretary, but became more involved in the discussion and decision-making of military and political affairs.
In Han Gui's view, apart from Xu Huai's knowledge of military affairs and his extraordinary martial prowess, what really impressed him was Xu Huai's understanding of astronomy, geography, and construction. His understanding was far beyond that of the world, and he often had some fantastic ideas.
I think, only he and Shi Zhen, Yu Chengzhen, Ding Chong and others can reach this level.
This is also the key to the Chushan Army's invincibility and invincibility in recent years.
He saw that Xu Huai clearly knew many details about the Western Region Cannon, but he had never mentioned that there was such a sharp weapon in the world before.
Xu Huai couldn't say that many unknown memory fragments need opportunities to trigger. At this time, he suppressed the worries in his heart and said:
"Although this kind of stone cannon is called a Western Region cannon, it is actually from the Western Regions and farther away. It was created by craftsmen from Abbasid and other places. It is a sharp weapon for overcoming dangers. In the past, I was worried that the Western Regions artillery method was leaked, which would be detrimental to Vietnam.
The general was guarding the fortified city, so he intentionally didn't mention it, but he didn't expect that this method was introduced to Chi Hu by someone else - things may be a bit tricky!"
"Ah, that grandson of Yuan Lei came directly with his troops and horses!" Zhou Jing shouted.
Xu Huai always encouraged the generals who commanded the battle in the front line to respond to the enemy's changes, and encouraged them to be more proactive in looking for fighter opportunities when commanding from the front line, instead of completely passively obeying the orders of the Chinese army's general account...
At this time, the messenger cavalry had just galloped down the river bed, but there was a troop of troops on the north bank, taking the lead in launching an assault on the enemy troops deploying Western Region artillery.
Everyone looked intently, but they saw that Yuan Lei's troops, who were resisting the enemy on the north bank, had just rested for a short period of time. At this time, they could not wait to regroup and launch another attack on the enemy who had deployed two Western Region artillery in front of them.
Yuan Lei apparently mistakenly believed that what the enemy deployed in the front line was a traditional trebuchet that took up a lot of space. He intended to take advantage of the empty and chaotic enemy front line to launch a powerful attack before the enemy had time to organize manpower to operate the trebuchet.
Captured in one fell swoop.
At this time, it was too late for Xu Huai and the others to send orders to stop them. They could only stand on the hillock on the south bank, waiting somewhat anxiously for the change in the battle situation.
Since the enemy has deployed a dozen Western Region artillery vehicles to the front line, it is obvious that they have made careful arrangements:
The terrain surrounding the deployment of the Western Region is relatively open and flat, making it easier for the reserve troops and horses in the rear formation to rush out from the flanks for reinforcements; more importantly, these Western Region artillery do not need to free up space for tens or dozens of people to pull and launch.
The front shield wall and the gun forest are still dense and thick; and because there is no need for additional traction space, the Western Region artillery is directly surrounded by light shield vehicles. It is relatively independent of the enemy's front formation and can be more flexible.
In advancing and retreating operations, there is no need to worry that once the array is torn apart, the artillery carriage will be destroyed immediately.
Yuan Lei led his troops to kill in front of the enemy's formation, and the enemy's deployment showed its effect:
First, two groups of armored soldiers rushed forward from the gap between the two wings. Together with the armored soldiers in front, they blocked Yuan Lei's troops. In a short time, it was difficult to make further attacks to threaten the artillery carriage.
This also blocked Yuan Lei's troops within the projection range of the artillery carriage.
Because it is a light Western Region gun, it is very convenient and quick to fix the base and fill the suspension box with sand and gravel to increase the weight.
Six or seven hundred steps away, Xu Huai and the others could even clearly see a dozen enemy soldiers standing on both sides of the gun truck. They first used a winch to lift the suspension box connected to the rear of the gun tip and buckled it high to the suspension.
The gun tip of the Western Region Cannon is an extremely tough long bar made of multi-layered wood. The head is like a huge wooden spoon. It is lowered to the launch pad, and dozens of stone bullets are put in at one time.
The command flag was waving next to the artillery carriage, and the machine gun was opened, causing the suspension box to detach from the suspension and suddenly fall, driving the gun tip, and throwing out a total of about forty-five stone bullets.
I saw those stone bullets drawing parabolas in mid-air and hitting Yuan Lei's dense array.
Xu Huai and the others were far apart and could not judge the size of the stone bullets, but they knew very well that even a stone bullet as big as a fist, thrown over three hundred steps across, would be enough to crack an ordinary wooden shield;
A direct hit on the body would result in broken bones and limbs at least.
They watched helplessly as Yuan Lei's troops were hit by stone bullets, as if a piece of them had been dug out. Suddenly, twenty or thirty generals were unprepared and knocked down by the stone bullets.
Everyone who saw it couldn't help but their eyelids twitched and twitched slightly.
You must know that in a fierce battle, the casualties of the well-organized Chushan Army could not be so heavy.
Fortunately, the secondary launch of the Western Region Artillery, even though it was faster than the traditional trebuchet (stone cannon), was extremely limited. Yuan Lei, who was leading the charge and charging ahead, saw that something was wrong, so he immediately stopped the assault and led his troops to withdraw.
However, the generals who were attacking the enemy suddenly suffered such a blow and were inevitably a little panicked. However, the enemy seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack. In the end, Yuan Lei's troops lost more than 20 casualties before they were able to distance themselves.
"What the hell is this?"
After all the troops in the front line had withdrawn from the north bank, and there was no sign that the enemy troops could attack the south bank, Yin Peng, who was supervising the battle on the left and right wings of Tang Pan, also rushed to Po Gang, and asked with surprise and doubt the details of the Western Region Artillery.
At this time, Xu Huai had already roughly drawn the illustration of the Western Region Artillery. He was summoning Yuan Lei and several generals who had seen the Western Region Artillery fire at close range to compare and adjust some details. In the end, it would be more accurate and detailed.
The illustrations were handed over to a scribe: "Quickly make ten copies of the drawings!"
It is still unclear whether the Chihu people have put the Western Region artillery into the battlefields of Ruzhou, Huainan and even Weinan. All Xu Huai can do is to send the illustrations and operation methods of the Western Region artillery cart to Liang County, Huai Prince's Mansion and the Privy Council immediately.
It is hoped that the defenders of Zhucheng can be vigilant in time to take precautions.
In fact, there is no essential difference between the Western Region Cannon and the traditional stone cannon. The secret is clear. Chushan can directly imitate it. However, compared with the traditional towed stone cannon, the advantages of the Western Region Cannon are too obvious.
Especially in the battle of siege and fortification, it is even more prominent.
In today's battle, the enemy had only two opportunities to fire the Western Region Artillery in the front line. The two sides broke off contact on the north bank of the Centipede River. However, after only two firings, the generals were deeply aware of the advantages of the Western Region Artillery.
The operation is simple and fast, and the number of people required is greatly reduced. Higher stability means more accuracy and faster throwing efficiency; and the small space occupied means that a dozen traditional heavy stone can be placed in front of a city.
Artillery, at this time, thirty or fifty Western Region artillery can be placed.
The weight and distance of the stone projectiles fired by the Western Region Cannon have been greatly increased, and the impact force produced by one stone projectile will be increased several times or even ten times.
The fighting stopped at night, and Xu Huai summoned the generals to discuss how to deal with it. They concluded that the threat posed by the Western Region Artillery to Chu Mountain was limited.
Whether it is Chushan City or Zhaoling New City, Xu Huai deliberately gave up the pursuit of towering city walls and paid more attention to the thickness of the city walls when using traditional slinging equipment to attack the city - the walls of Zhaoling New City are only three feet high, but there are three meters on the top of the wall.
It is ten feet wide, and the bottom is even five feet wide.
These city walls are not even covered with bricks and stones. This is not because Xu Huai and Shi Zhen were saving money and food. The main reason is that rammed earth walls are more conducive to absorbing the impact of stone bullets.
If the rammed earth city wall is covered with bricks and stones, once it is hit by a stone bullet, the city wall will not collapse so easily. However, if the stone falls and the bricks crack, it is very easy to injure the defenders at the top of the city.
The cities in Chushan continued to abandon defensive buildings such as city towers and towers, and built more strong and low war tents directly on the city walls for the defenders to hide in them to avoid arrows and stones - the original places above the city gates.
The city tower that was built was just replaced by a larger and sturdy war tent, which was a little bit uglier.
More importantly, Chushan's city defense system emphasizes defense against the city. In order to facilitate counterattacks and prevent the enemy from easily advancing into the city, not only the newly built cities such as Chushan and Zhaoling have more gates, but no external trenches are dug.
The ram's horn wall also leaves enough openings for entry and exit. Cities such as Wuyang, Xiangcheng, and Xinyang also dug new gates into the city walls.
Of course, the best weapon against the Western Region artillery is to learn from its strong skills to defeat it - all the generals have seen the illustrations drawn by Xu Huai himself and feel that it is not difficult to imitate. Chushan can quickly defeat Zhaoling, Chushan,
Many stone cannons (stone-throwing instruments) deployed in Xiangcheng and other cities were transformed.
If a city in Chushan is really besieged by the enemy, the defenders can only passively defend the city. At worst, the two sides will use Western Region artillery to bombard them. It seems that the energy will be exhausted to the end...
The problem now is that Chushan is not afraid of the threat of new artillery vehicles, but in the defense of other cities in Dai Viet, the Privy Council even massively promoted the successful defense experience of Taiyuan, Gongxian and other cities in the past to strengthen the old thinking of city defense.
The generals really don't know how vulnerable these cities will be in the face of the Western Region artillery that the enemy may have equipped on a large scale!
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