Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi followed Wu Qi, and Zhang Gouer climbed the steps to the island to watch the crossbow platform; Lin Fu, Gao Zongting and others met at the crossbow platform.
"It's so rude for Yue Du to come all the way here, and to have to go through the bumps of the boat when he comes to Haizhou!" Lin Fu stood with his arms folded, looking at Yue Lengqiu, and Yue Zhi came up on the stage, smiling and expressing condolences.
"You're welcome, Lord Chong." Yue Lengqiu bowed his hands in salute. Although the crossbow viewing platform was only 14 to 15 feet tall, Yue Lengqiu came all the way with sweat on his forehead and panting.
It had been two years since we had seen each other in Huangpi. Although Yue Lengqiu had returned to Jiangning during the period, Lin Fu happened to be away from Jiangning and there was no chance to meet. At this time, I saw Lin Fu with a thick short mustache on his lips and bright eyes.
However, with a strong body and a majestic aura, Yue Lengqiu secretly sighed in his heart: After all, he is not comparable to these twilight people.
Gao Zongting, Ge Cunxin and others all exchanged greetings with Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi. Shi Fengtai came over and reported to Lin Fu: "The shotguns are ready, do you want to wait a moment?"
"Duke Yue and I are not outsiders. We are talking about things while watching the crossbow..." Lin Fu asked Shi Fengtai to continue the archery performance and invited Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi to come and sit down at the crossbow viewing platform.
Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi followed Wu Qi to the East-West Island. They heard the sound of crossbows along the way. The sound was loud and small, and the sound was not small across the mountain. Even though they knew that Lin Fu had ulterior motives for such an arrangement, they felt in their hearts
I am also very eager to see the power of Huaidong's new weapons.
Yue Lengqiu took a seat next to Lin Fu and discovered that the crossbow viewing platform was a thin side peak. The crossbow shooting field was in the wide valley in front of the peak. It was surrounded by mountains on three sides and faced the sea on one side. Only the southwestern wing of the crossbow field was visible.
There were five huge black war crossbows, which looked like they were made of fine iron.
It is said to be a fire-fighting crossbow, but it is very similar to traditional crossbows. Looking at it from a distance, you can't tell how complicated it is. It looks more like a simple and huge rod on the frame of an iron cart.
There are black iron pipes, and there are also some accessories like ear taps and winches, which can't be seen clearly from a distance.
Next to the war crossbows are carriages half the height of a man. Looking over from a high position, there are projectiles similar to the stone bullets used in catapult crossbows, which seem to be made of iron.
Compared with the soldiers beside the war crossbow, the large iron pipe of the fire crossbow is two people long; the tail end looks bulky and clumsy, as if the waist of a strong man is thick, and the front end stretches out from the frame of the carriage and gradually becomes thinner.
The sound like rolling thunder that was heard across the mountain just now was made by this kind of war weapon? Yue Lengqiu was quite puzzled. At this time, he was also searching for words about fire-sulfur pill and alchemy, but it was difficult to follow.
The war crossbow in front of me corresponds.
"Fire spraying scene!" However, Yue Zhi has a good memory and quick thinking. In addition, he had thought all the way before. When he saw the real body of Huaidong's new war weapon, he suddenly had an idea and thought of the previous report about the flame spraying scene.
Record, blurt out.
After being reminded by Yue Zhi, Yue Lengqiu also thought about the records about the flamethrowing show in the literati's notes of the previous dynasty: it was said that the acrobats of the previous dynasty filled a bamboo tube with a small amount of fire elixir powder, knocked the flint and ignited it with a medicinal twister, which could cause fire.
Fire and five-color smoke. This flame-breathing drama was quite popular in the palace in the early years of the previous dynasty, but it was lost after the ban on alchemy.
Sometimes it's just a simple matter of puncturing a layer of window paper. Lin Fu glanced sideways at Yue Zhi, thinking that Yue Lengqiu's several heirs were useless. Yue Duming also died on the battlefield, but there was one who could be useful.
nephew.
In fact, Yue Zhi is quite old, nearly forty years old. He was born in the imperial examination, but failed to pass the Jinshi examination many times. After Yue Lengqiu led the army, he gave up the scientific examination and has been studying in Yue Lengqiu.
He served as a staff member and did not have the opportunity to lead an army until the Yongxing year, but he quickly became the most important general under Yue Lengqiu.
Although Yue Zhi was subordinate to Tao Chun and led the deputy commander of Woyang Town at this time, his status was actually the same as that of Tao Chun and Deng Yu. However, Lin Fu only gave Yue Lengqiu the establishment of two towns, and Yue Lengqiu was
Qiu cannot be called Tao Chun, one of the two is wronged by Deng Yu.
Both Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi were regarded as scholars, but they had been immersed in military affairs for half their lives. They were considered representatives of traditional military strategists and one of the most pragmatic people in the world.
Huaidong's new war equipment didn't look very complicated. Yue Lengqiu couldn't help but lean over the long desk and look forward. He saw that the new war equipment simply replaced the bamboo tubes used in traditional flamethrowing scenes with super-large ones.
The cast iron pipe, I thought, would be similar in principle. It would be filled with fire elixir and ignited, and the iron and stone would be ejected - but can the flame ejection and iron and stone be ejected and hit a target six miles away?
At this time, Lin Fu handed over something and whispered: "Yue Du..."
Yue Lengqiu came back to his senses and saw Lin Fu handing him a bronze telescope. He quickly took it with both hands and thanked him.
The telescope has begun to spread to the middle-level generals in the Huaidong Army, so it is inevitable that it will spread to the outside world; especially when the new learning spreads, some truths will be revealed at a glance, and outsiders can imitate the telescope according to the principles described in the new learning.
mirror.
The troops in Guoyang, Zhengyang and other towns in Henan all had telescopes flowing into them, but the number was very small.
A good looking glass is a good thing. Objects several miles away can be seen as if they are close up, and every hair can be seen. However, in today's war, its use is limited.
In today's world, people's field of vision is inherently wide. Standing at a high place, you can observe the activities of humans and animals more than ten miles away - whether you can see it more vaguely or more clearly, it is not of great significance in terms of tradition and tactics.
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What's more, manufacturing telescopes is extremely difficult and extremely expensive. Yue Lengqiu has two telescopes in his hands, but they are mostly used as playthings.
At this time, through the telescope, one can watch the details of the crossbow field performance more clearly.
In the looking glass, Yue Lengqiu could see more clearly that on the beach outside the crossbow field, there were all human-shaped and horse-shaped puppets. These human-horse puppets were fully clothed and armored, and there were chariots, shield chariots, crossbows, etc.
If you look closely at the weapons, you will see that although they are all dummies and horses, they imitate exactly the scene of a complete water-borne horse army charging from the beach. There are also several ferries diagonally in the distance.
There are also accurate distances marked on the human and horse puppets, using the new weights and measures promoted by Xinxue. The human and horse puppets closest to Huaidong's new war weapons are marked "two hundred meters", and the words further away are "four hundred meters".
The words "600 meters" and "600 meters" can be seen clearly with a telescope, and you can more intuitively judge the lethality and effective killing distance of the new crossbow.
The weights and measures practiced by the new school finally determined that "Gongzao ruler" three feet is one meter, and three feet is ten meters. Using one meter as the side to build a square ark, it can hold two thousand jins of water. The concept of "liter" was redefined to
One-tenth of a meter is the side, and the square cabinet is "liter", which holds two kilograms of water. There is a slight difference between the newly defined "liter" and the traditional "liter" for measuring meters, but the difference is very small, so it can be
Let the world accept it.
In order to promote the new weights and measures, the Privy Council and the Military Department began to use units such as kilometers, meters, kilograms, catties, and liters in their official letters, and the towns in Henan were forced to adapt. However, Yue Lengqiu also knew that the new weights and measures
One of the fundamental purposes of learning and implementing new weights and measures is to unify length, volume and volumetric weight, which is much more convenient than the previous confusing weights and measures.
In traditional measurement, stones are used to measure meters, liters are used to measure firewood and grass, bolts are used to measure cloth and silk, and tea and iron are measured in loaders. As for length measurement, there are also differences between the so-called work-made rulers, earthwork rulers, and river-work rulers, which is a mess.
Yue Lengqiu did not have time to think carefully about the merits and demerits of the weights and measures adopted by the new school, but he asked Lin Fu about the situation he could see in front of him: "Is this to check the new war crossbow to suppress the enemy's battle formation?"
"Exactly." Lin Fu said.
Yue Lengqiu once again used the telescope to take a closer look at the array of human-horse puppets: the human-shaped puppets representing the infantry were pushing shield carts, holding large shields, swords, spears, and crossbows in the center; the horse-shaped puppets representing the cavalry were on both wings, and in the center there were
A small number of heavy armored cavalry are used for battlefield assaults. Judging from the texture of the armor worn by the centaurs and horses, they should all be real armor, including leather armor, iron armor, and cotton. The one spread out on the beach is a complete one, charging.
A battalion-level battle formation, the entire battle formation is 400 meters deep.
In front of this battalion-level battle formation, there are only five new weapons deployed - can five new weapons be able to suppress the forward charge of a battalion-level battle formation?
Yue Lengqiu subconsciously glanced sideways at Yue Zhi, and saw that Yue Zhi's brows were raised and his expression was extremely solemn. He knew that his thoughts and doubts and shock in his heart were the same as his own.
Yue Lengqiu suppressed the strong doubts in his heart and watched with a telescope as the Huaidong crossbowman filled a large yellow paper bag into the mouth of the tube, tamped it with a wooden pestle, and then took an iron cylinder-type thing from
After filling in the nozzle, looking at the flag instructions, he saw flint hitting the crossbow tail to create sparks...
Before Yue Lengqiu could react, he saw five Fuhuo crossbows retreating almost at the same time, and huge flames ejected from the crossbow mouths. The large iron cylinder-shaped bullets that were loaded into the crossbow mouths before, but what was sprayed out in the flames was
Countless iron pellets. Countless iron pellets formed a long cone-shaped barrage in the fire smoke, accompanied by an earth-shattering loud noise, covering the formation of men and horses...
Hearing the loud noise of the Fire Crossbow at close range, he felt that the rock under the seat was shaking. Yue Lengqiu's hands holding the telescope couldn't help but trembled. When he took a closer look, the front wings of the entire puppet array
, had been completely torn to pieces by the barrage. The armor on the human and horse puppets was terrible, their limbs were broken, and many wooden war weapons were injured. The large wooden or iron shields could be seen with holes pierced by projectiles.
Small hole...
The middle and rear positions of the entire battle array are slightly better looking, but it is certain that the entire charging battalion array will completely collapse if it is hit by this wave at 200 meters, and there is no chance of it being a fluke.
Although countless iron pellets were scattered across the battlefield, Yue Lengqiu felt as if he was being struck by a crossbow. His hands and feet felt cold, and cold sweat could not help but break out on his back:
He and Yue Zhi put down their guard and came to Haizhou to discuss the Northern Expedition, so they were able to invite Lin Fu to watch the performance of Huaidong's new war crossbow on the crossbow viewing platform; if they did not come this time, what would happen to Zhengyang and Guoyang?
Zhenjunma will definitely be the first to experience it on a real battlefield to feel the power of Huaidong's new weapons - Lin Fu will never conduct the Northern Expedition in the unstable situation on the Western Front.
"There were five rounds of shotguns, including one or two heavy iron pellets, totaling one thousand. All five rounds were successfully fired. The actual killing power is still being calculated..." Shi Fengtai came over to report the test firing.
Lin Fu nodded and said, "Bring one of the 200-meter, 400-meter, and 600-meter puppets, so that everyone can take a closer look..."
He visually observed that the shotgun shells can form effective lethality between 200 and 400 meters; any further away, the barrage formed by the shotguns will spread, and the lethality will also be sharply reduced, and the armor-breaking ability will be lost.
ability.
The newly compiled Fire Crossbow Manual sets the shooting distance of shotguns at 350 meters, which is appropriate; this can actually replace the intensive use of bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows on the battlefield.
I went to the crossbow field under Shifeng Tower to select typical men and horses and send them to the crossbow viewing stone. I also organized a manpower statistics and a more detailed killing data report.
Lin Fu turned sideways, with a smile on his face, and said to the frightened Yue Lengqiu: "This time we are asking the towns in Henan to reduce the number of troops. Others think that I have no ambition for the Northern Expedition. In fact, I want to save some military resources and use them for new weapons."
Regarding the research and development of war crossbows; inviting Governor Yue to come here is indeed to discuss the Northern Expedition..."
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