ps: Thanks to Eagle Zhou\Iron Man\The Incense Is Burning and others for the reward.
Standing in the military formation, looking up at the three-foot-high Yanci city wall, A Ping, the commander of Shulu Battalion of the Huaiyue Allied Forces, could not calm down for a long time.
After surrendering to Li Chengzhong, the governor of Yingzhou, Aping entered the Bailangshan Military Academy. He had deep respect for the Han army that defeated his tribe. He was eager to know how the Han people fought, so he
During the three months at Bailangshan Military Academy, Aping eagerly learned all the knowledge. He felt as if he had entered a whole new world.
It turns out there are so many ways to fight!
There are so many things that need to be prepared before the war, so many plans that need to be made during the battle, and so many arrangements for logistics...
How does a farmer become a soldier in just a few months? What kind of discipline do these soldiers need to abide by? How do they cooperate with others? How can soldiers fear military sticks more than decapitation?
How can an officer act like an arm and a finger, and how can he quickly convey orders to the lowest level soldiers...
How should the army summarize its experience, how should it comment on its achievements, how should it be promoted and rewarded...
Aping has rich combat experience, but has never been exposed to this military knowledge in a systematic way. He feels that he has gained a lot. In the past, when he went to war, he only roughly set a direction and goal, and then led the troops. He rarely fought in battle.
I have calculated all aspects clearly before, and many experiences that I thought were good in the past now seem to be wrong. There are many details that I have never paid attention to in the past. Only now do I realize that they have such a great impact on combat.
In the new advanced training class at Bailangshan, something Li Chengzhong once said made Aping feel that it was particularly suitable for him. That was that he had entered the ideal kingdom from empiricism.
Later, Governor Li became Li Jiedu, and Aping also followed Li Jiedu into the Pass. This was the first time Aping saw the Tang Dynasty in the Pass, and he couldn't help but be deeply fascinated by it. The bustling streets, the towering city walls,
The endless flow of people and the endless goods made A Ping dazzled.
After the Huaiyue Allied Forces marched south to Wuqing, Aping saw endless fields along the way. It was the autumn harvest of the second year of Tianfu. Those large tracts of golden wheat were swaying in the wind, which made Aping so happy that he wanted to howl.
Called. Later, Aping had the opportunity to visit the Lutai Salt Field. When he saw the snow-white salt grains, which were treasured by the ethnic people, so casually spread all over the salt field within his sight, he was stunned.
Many Shulu camp soldiers burst into tears on the spot.
What shocked Aping the most was the southern expedition to Dizhou. Only then did he deeply understand what logistics is!
Not to mention anything else, the total number of 25,000 soldiers gathered exceeds the entire people of the Shulu tribe. The weapons in each person's hands and the armor they wear far exceed those of the Khitan elites back then, let alone the conquests.
Everyone was given a set of summer clothes for free! How much iron is needed? How much cloth is needed? How many people are needed to produce it? A Ping really can’t imagine this.
When the army arrived at Yanci City, Aping once again witnessed the miracle he had seen at the foot of Raole Mountain. In just three days, the army built a strong camp, and not only the north gate. I heard that
Camps were also built outside the east gate and west gate. Aping finally saw how the camp was erected up close, and then he once again fell into incalculable troubles - these soldiers from the logistics battalion brought
When exactly are the parts produced? How many people are actually making these things?
Today, A Ping continues to accept the shocking impact - why are the dense siege machines in front of him so big and spectacular? Why are the smooth dirt roads that are several miles long repaired so quickly? Behind these siege machines, both sides
Stepping on the flat road, Aping felt sincerely at ease. Like many soldiers in the Shulu camp, he desperately suppressed the urge to step forward and worship. A sentiment that he had often expressed recently arose in his heart: This is the Tang Dynasty.
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The Shulu battalion under Aping was an infantry force. As the main force that attacked the city first, they gathered in formation behind tall ladders, always waiting for military orders to be issued.
Aping stared intently at the trebuchet in front of him. The soldiers of the logistics battalion quickly used shovels to build a gentle upward slope in front of the trebuchet - if it were on the grassland, how many horses could these shovels be exchanged for?
What? A Ping made another calculation.
After the earth slope was built, the soldiers of the logistics battalion quickly took out a very heavy leather bag from the cart behind and tied it to one end of the long arm of the trebuchet. Then two soldiers on the left and the right quickly twisted it
The end of the winch where the leather bag is tied is slowly raised, and the free spoon-shaped arm at the other end is lowered.
A soldier struggled to hold a stone bullet weighing more than ten kilograms and placed it on a spoon. Then an officer holding a small flag stretched his left arm forward, raised his thumb, closed his left and right eyes once, and shouted
He said: "Stir five more times." The four soldiers responsible for turning the winch tried hard to turn it five times. The officer waved the small flag in his hand downwards and shouted: "Let go!" The soldiers suddenly let go, the winch spun rapidly, and stones were thrown.
The captain's arm drew a semicircle in the air, and the stone bullet flew toward the city with a "buzz" sound.
As the stone bullets flew out, the trebuchet was pushed forward by the force of the long arm, rushed up the small slope built by the front rampart, and then slid back. Several logistics battalion soldiers immediately stepped forward to adjust the trebuchet.
position of the machine, and re-align the wheels on the four corners to the white spots marked previously.
More than a dozen trebuchets hurled stones one after another, and the whole scene was so spectacular that the Khitan soldiers in the Shulu camp suddenly felt a surge of blood boiling for no reason.
Some stone bullets landed in the moat, causing a huge splash. Several stone bullets hit the city wall directly, causing a piece of soil to fly everywhere. Another stone bullet was thrown directly onto the city wall, and there was a sudden spread.
The screams of the defenders came.
After a while, several craftsmen from the logistics battalion inspected the trebuchets one by one, and then the second round of firing started again.
The city wall of Yanci kept shaking under the rounds of stone bullets, with gravel and soil splashing everywhere. In less than half an hour, the city wall was full of pits and pits, showing its ugly appearance.
As rounds of stone bullets were thrown at the head of Yanci City, the Waiyo Allied Forces outside the city walked towards each other, and all the battalions in the carriages let out bursts of exclamations and cheers. They were all troops from various ethnic groups outside the pass, and basically there were no
Having seen such a large-scale weapon siege strategy, it was exciting and surprising.
In fact, not only the Huaiyue Allied Forces under the city, but also the Lulong Army itself had never seen this kind of tactics. All they had seen were the soldiers of Lulong during the Liu Rengong period, including Li Chengzhong. Most of these soldiers had been there as early as that year.
They died in the battle, and most of the remaining ones are concentrated in the two major security companies of Li Xiaoxi and Zhao Zaili, and they are not in the city at the moment.
When Liu Rengong attacked Weizhou, he used a large number of siege equipment, which impressed Li Chengzhong, who was still a new member of the army. However, even during the attack on Weizhou at that time, the Lulong Army at its peak had never concentrated such a large number of siege equipment.
siege equipment, and the siege equipment at that time was far from as sharp as the ones improved after Li Chengzhong's personal guidance.
For example, the trebuchets currently used by the Lu Long Army were built five times under the city of Weizhou. They were dragged by manpower. Each trebuchet required a huge amount of manpower and horses to pull back to the city, and then gathered nearly a hundred people.
Strong soldiers shouting chants and pulling together can launch stone bullets weighing about ten kilograms. Not only are their accuracy extremely poor, but they are also easily damaged and their throwing distance is not very large. They are often under the threat of arrows from Wei Bo's army at the top of the city.
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After this attack, Li Chengzhong personally directed the craftsmen of the Weapons Research and Development Department under the Logistics Department to make improvements. First, the huge trebuchet was split into more than ten parts and built separately to facilitate portability and transportation;
A large wooden wheel is installed under the trebuchet's frame to facilitate towing; the biggest improvement is the addition of a winch and pulley group, using simple mechanical and lever principles to increase the range and strength, and quantifying the throwing during the experiment to determine the probability of the throwing range.
, establish range standards based on probability.
What Li Chengzhong himself didn't know was that he had actually developed the famous "Return Cannon" in another time and space. Speaking of which, this improvement did not have much technical content, but its power was raised to a higher level.
Not only did the manpower required to control the weapon drop from more than a hundred to a dozen, but the range was greatly increased and the accuracy was also much higher.
In order for these siege equipment to play an important role, the General Administration of Military Staff also transferred old Lulong soldiers from the entire army who had participated in the Weizhou siege battle that year, screened and trained these soldiers, and specially organized an engineering battalion for the city.
The battalion commander is a direct disciple of Zhang Laojiang, who started his career with Li Chengzhong in Bailang Mountain.
After half an hour, more than a dozen large trebuchets had fired five rounds of stone bombs. The engineering battalion officer ordered a suspension of firing, and then conducted a large-scale inspection. Two of the trebuchets had cracks in their winches, and three others had cracks.
The beef tendons used in the trebuchets were about to break. In addition, the wooden wheels on the base of several trebuchets could not withstand the huge force and broke. So the engineering battalion immediately used trebuchets to transport spare parts and replaced them on the spot.
When the stone bullets were thrown at the top of the city, because their accuracy was unexpectedly high and their power was high, the Xuanwu Army on the top of the city suffered serious losses immediately. Dozens of people were killed and injured by the huge rocks on the spot.
Therefore, Liu Chongba had no choice but to order the defenders to go down to the city to avoid the stone bullet attacks. Only a few guard soldiers were left on the city top. When the trebuchets stopped firing stone bombs, he quickly ordered the soldiers to re-enter the city.
Defense.
An hour later, the trebuchets were repaired. Following an order from the engineering battalion commander, more than a dozen trebuchets opened fire again, throwing stone bombs at the top of Yanci City.
The Xuanwu Army on the top of the city once again fell into the agony of being baptized by stone bullets. Liu Chongba was quite speechless and had to order the men guarding the city to return to the wall to hide. (To be continued.)