After returning to the room, Yun Zheng's brows condensed together again. Li Qing's behavior made him feel very uncomfortable. Things in Lanzhou have changed a lot because of Brother Chun's random intervention.
At first, I thought that among the couple Chun Geer and Xiaoman, it was Xiaoman who played the leading role. Unexpectedly, things were different from what I thought. Chun Geer was the real head of the family.
Hei Hu'er was indeed destroyed, but it was destroyed with Li Qing's conscious cooperation. It was impossible for Li Qing not to know that Fu Bi's cavalry would pass through Lanzhou City.
So, what is this guy doing this for?
Yun Zheng knew this secret, but he knew it a little late. The reason why he sent the elite Jingxi Army and Xiaoman to Lanzhou to intercept and kill Hai Hu'er was to drive away Hai Hu'er and prevent them from becoming Fu Bi's cavalry.
The obstacles to the eastward advance and this plan were handled very well by Brother Chun, Xiaoman, and Chen Shu. The only regret was that they did not kill Li Qing. Li Qing would rather watch Hai Huer be killed than choose to join the war.
He chose to turn around and leave without stopping for a moment.
When the troops sent by Yunzheng to intercept and kill Li Qing arrived in Lanzhou, Li Qing's camel team had already passed the Kalochuan River and returned to the Xixia Kingdom with countless customized iron tools. Therefore, the Poxi Army was established.
Something that cannot be stopped.
Among the intelligence sent by the Secret Intelligence Department, Li Qing occupies a large space. This Han Chinese whose ancestral home is in Xizhou has long lost any sense of belonging to the Song Dynasty. Like the Zhang family of Xixia, he
They will only think that the Xixia Kingdom they established is their own motherland. It is simply not feasible for them to be open to the Song Dynasty.
For the Song Dynasty, Xixia, a small country in the barren land of the northwest, was simply a nightmare. After several battles at Haoshuichuan and Dingchuan Village, the Song army was completely defeated. Behind these classic battles included in textbooks, it is inseparable.
The plan of a Han strategist named Zhang Yuan. This unappreciated talent who left his country and left his hometown, his lifelong career is to live up to his talents.
This person had already died of illness when Yun Zheng went to Xixia. Otherwise, this person would have been even higher than Li Yuanhao on Yun Zheng's must-kill list.
Yun Zheng is actually a very proud person at heart. He is proud of his bloodline. Especially when he suddenly leapt from modern times to the Song Dynasty, this feeling suddenly became more obvious. Therefore, even after the Qingyi knot,
After Guizhang committed suicide, he only felt sad, but not much grief. Although there was only one word difference, the emotions represented were completely different.
Yun Zheng believes that many things that have happened in history are accidental events. How can humans, as the wisest people in the world, always cherish bird spirit and live in Anshun in vain?
The elites are like this, and so are the ordinary people. Sometimes the anger of ordinary people is just to shoot the ground with their heads, but sometimes it will be like a rainbow piercing the sun. The garrison soldiers scream, and the letter is raised. The Chu people use their torches, pitifully scorching the earth.
So he never let go of this possibility.
I heard in Liaodong that Bobo had become a prince and led his troops to plunder the Liao Kingdom. I heard that the nobles in Tokyo of the Liao Kingdom would fight with each other whenever they heard about the name Haidongqing. With such a reputation, even if
Even Keri Bo, the great Jurchen hero, had never owned it.
This guy Li Qing is really a variable. When he was on the rocky slope, he was just a ghost under his own sword. He didn't expect that when he went to the west, he was able to win every battle. In five years, three hundred people in Kexiong City, although this was obviously
The Xixia people are bragging, but this guy has definitely conquered thirty cities.
There were some things that neither Brother Chun, Xiaoman, nor Chen Shu knew about. It was only when Li Qing was about to return home that Yun Zheng figured out what Li Qing had done in Lanzhou City.
——Ballista!
This is all the purpose of Li Qing coming to Lanzhou. He did not come to Lanzhou to treat diseases, let alone to stay away from the political disputes in Xixia Kingdom. His only purpose of coming to Lanzhou was to prepare to expand his power and form a new type of army-Poxi Army!
When an army like Hai Hu'er, which had exerted its physical strength to the extreme, still could not deal a devastating blow to a Song army, he completely threw Hai Hu'er into Lanzhou City to see how this army could deal with it.
What a huge blow the Song Army caused.
The result was disappointing to him. The Song army buried gunpowder in the market. As a result, Haihuer suffered heavy losses. Only a few hundred men and horses could come back alive.
From this trial, he was completely sure that as long as he did not change his subordinates' fighting methods, he would still be unable to escape the fate of destruction whenever he encountered the elite Jingxi Army. The Song Army, which was already equipped with a large number of firearms, was really
It is not an army that human power can withstand.
The fear of gunpowder bullets seems to have been engraved on Li Qing's soul, so he is always looking for weapons that can compete with bed crossbows and gunpowder bullets.
Finally, during an attack on the city of Salamahan, he finally discovered a new type of weapon. Although this weapon caused heavy losses to his men and he himself almost died under this weapon, this discovery
But it made him ecstatic.
And this discovery is a weapon ballista from the distant country of Hella (Greece). This kind of ballistae is completely different from the weapons of the Song Dynasty that were made of elastic materials such as beef tendons, and the range is also longer than the twist-type ballista of the Song people.
The crossbow was much farther, but what impressed him most was the accuracy of shooting which was no less than that of a bed crossbow.
The crossbow designed by the Hellas (Greek) has a strong bracket, the main beam is placed on the bracket, and two torsion spring groups are installed on both sides of the front end. Each spring group drives a crossbow arm, and the end of the crossbow arm is connected
In the middle of the bowstring is a braided mesh bag that holds projectiles.
There is a dovetailed long groove on the upper side of the beam. A slide block with a long guide rail can slide forward and backward along the long groove. The rear section of the slide block is equipped with a set of exquisite firing mechanisms.
The bowstring can be conveniently locked and released. A winch is installed at the end of the beam. The user can move the slider by pulling the handle or dragging the rope. When the bowstring is pulled back and is locked by the firing mechanism, the weapon is in position.
Ready to go status.
In order to make operating the winch less laborious, metal racks were set up on both sides of the beam, which not only prevented the bow from being drawn in one go, but also adjusted the projectile power of the weapon to obtain the required range. Later, the metal racks were rounded
A ratchet is used instead, making the operation simpler and more reliable.
In order to give the ballistae flexible directions and elevations, they designed a base for the ballistae that could rotate freely. However, this is not the earliest universal joint design in the world. The Oriental "Mozi" has a detailed record of the rotating machine.
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With such a sharp weapon, the Song people's gunpowder bombs cannot threaten their own formation. In terms of range and lethality, their own crossbows are comparable to Yunzheng's bed crossbows. As long as they have a large number of crossbows,
Yun Zheng's melee weapons, gunpowder bombs, did not pose a threat to him.
The only thing that gave him a headache was that the metal racks and ratchets required for the ballista could not be manufactured in Xixia. Even if they were manufactured, the rough metal smelting process made the racks and ratchets fragile and fragile.
not available.
He wanted to use wind-milled copper instead. After Yu Hou calculated the cost, Li Qing had to give up this ridiculous idea. With the money to make ballistas, he could crush the Song army to death.
Fortunately, the metal smelting technology of the Song Dynasty has made great progress in recent years, especially Huanzhou, which has almost become the center of metal trading. So I asked some merchants who were good friends with Xixia to go to Huanzhou to customize a large amount of iron.
The quality rack and ratchet were brought to Lanzhou for delivery, so Li Qing and his party also came to Lanzhou.
To him, those exquisite iron parts produced by the sophisticated Eagle's Nest are definitely much more important than any hacker.
Li Qing had read translated Western books, in which there was such a record about ballistae, and he was very interested.
During the Roman siege of Jerusalem, the Jewish general Joseph recalled that a companion standing side by side with him on the city wall had his head blown off by a projectile fired from a Roman ballista!
A pregnant woman in the city was hit by a stone bullet, and the fetus in her belly was thrown a hundred feet away! The Romans' giant ballistae could defeat enemies 130 feet away, and they fired
The spear can pin two or three enemies to the ground together in a tight formation.
In addition, the accuracy of the ballistae is also amazing. They can even hit the same place repeatedly. There have been records of the spear fired by the ballista splitting the spear that had hit the previous one into two pieces. Such a thing is absolutely
It is worthy of large-scale manufacturing, and Li Qing has fallen into absolute madness about this.
Yun Zheng felt bitter when he thought that Li Qing's precision iron parts came from the precision casting of Yingchao. In recent years, with the vigorous development of Huanzhou's coal industry and foundry industry, a complete set of the most rigorous primary industries has been formed there.
System, now, the reputation of these small industries has become famous overseas. Even Li Qing knows where to make things that he cannot make, but he has ignored them all these years.
Yun Zheng now wanted to know whether those bastards had made batches of artillery, something he had already ordered, before making sharp weapons for the enemy.
Li Qing wanted to fight a man from the future with a killing weapon. Yun Zheng didn't think this guy had much chance of winning. Li Qing's behavior was like a monkey jumping around in the forest and suddenly learned to use a stick as a weapon.
After that, when he challenged a majestic warrior wearing armor and with a shovel-shaped dismemberment crossbow in front of him, there was no need to think too much about the consequences.
The reason why I stayed in Wutai Mountain for one more day was to wait for the world's first real artillery to appear in front of me.
When something like the artillery, the king of the battlefield, appears, any cold weapon is just a passing smoke in front of it... (To be continued)