Chapter 2126 Hot weapons, new technology, haven't you seen it?
The camps set up by the Qi Dynasty and Xiliao armies were filled with a chilling atmosphere, stretching endlessly on the Gobi. Until nightfall, the torches fired from the company camps several miles apart were scattered and scattered, and they flashed in the night.
A flash of dim light shines out, just like the twinkling stars in the night sky. Of course, both sides will have light cavalry troops on night patrol patrolling around the company camp.
A deep trench has been dug in front of the camp gate. The wooden pillars are cross-fixed to form a rack with sharp blades inlaid on them. Barbed antlers block the gate. There are also pits in the camp to keep horses away, and there are rotating guards.
The infantry was carefully guarded to prevent the enemy who might not resort to night attack tactics from hijacking the camp troops.
The Xiaotang and Yelu Dashi armies also set up their camps at the same location. They set up company camps outside the range of each other's crossbows and other long-range weapons. As for the large slinging artillery that is usually used to attack and defend cities, they were in
Due to the complicated and slow installation in the general season, they are rarely used in field battles. Moreover, the Xiliao Empire also masters the cutting-edge technology of making various standard catapults. If there is any abnormality in the Qi Dynasty's army formation, they have the ability to immediately take action.
react.
After all, the inventor of the Huihui cannon in the official history was Alao Wading and Yisi Mayin who were born in the Western Regions. Therefore, the manufacturing technology of sling artillery in the Western Liao and even the surrounding countries that belong to him is not necessarily inferior to that of the Song Dynasty.
Xiao Tang also remembered that later generations had seen the heavy catapults used by Saladin's army when they attacked Jerusalem in the movie "The Kingdom of Heaven". In fact, the historical background described in that movie was only a few meters away from today.
It's thirty or forty years late.
And Yelu Dashi defeated the coalition of Islamic countries led by the Seljuk Empire on the Katwan grassland. Now there are a large number of Muslim scholars and craftsmen under his rule. In fact, Yelu Dashi mobilized troops and a large army.
Zhong also equipped a large number of components of giant sling artillery, intending to defeat the Qi army in this battle, and then dispatch a large number of skilled craftsmen to accompany the army, move through Yumen Pass, break through Guazhou and Shazhou, but instead use the resources possessed by Xiliao
Use siege weapons to kill back home.
However, what Yelv Dashi still doesn’t know is that the Qi Dynasty has been in a state of chaos for more than ten or twenty years due to the advent of new artillery, improvements and large-scale production. It was previously created by Ling Zhen, and now the workmanship is still poor.
The giant catapults, which are more sophisticated and advanced than those of Xiliao, will gradually withdraw from the battlefield and become an ordnance that will be completely eliminated by the Qi Dynasty...
In the Qi army's company camp, a large number of objects wrapped in oil skin finally revealed their true colors. The artillery pieces were slowly pushed out of the company camp under the control of the gunners of the teams. Their dark barrels were also completely in harmony with the night.
It merged into one, and the sound of rolling wheels gathered in one place. Although it was unavoidable to rumble, it was of course impossible for the Xiliao company camp, which was extremely far apart, to hear any movement.
There were infantry soldiers in black armor and black robes looking at the sound in front of them. Rows of smoothbore artillery created by Ling Zhen were pushed out of the Qi army camp and pushed forward in an orderly manner. Until the dozens of guns at the front were
The artillery has been pushed to a distance of about one mile from the Xiliao army camp. The gunners of the other teams have also operated the artillery positioning in an orderly manner, and the black holes of the thousands of artillery muzzles have also been
Look in the direction of the enemy's company camp and stronghold in front...
After all, in this era when smoothbore artillery had not yet been invented, no matter how wise and powerful a foreign country's commander-in-chief was, it was impossible to have the concept of guarding against enemy artillery bombardment.
The military officers who had set up the cannons in various places had begun to use wooden hammers to pour the gunpowder into the cannons, then picked up the cannonballs and put them into the cannon chambers. The gunners in each battalion listened to the order, and after setting up the cannons, they all lit them up.
Fire fuse, and reached out to explore the fuse behind the barrel...
On the other side of the Xiliao company camp, on the watchtowers on both sides of the village gate facing the Qi army, there were some soldiers who suddenly observed the strange things in the night in front of them, which were at least lighted up a mile away.
Although it was difficult to detect the fire, countless fireflies were suddenly lit up. From their perspective, it was as if countless fireflies appeared out of thin air in the distant night. Just when the alert military officer was about to shout a warning, suddenly a sudden firefly appeared in the distance.
Rows of flames burst out, and immediately "boom, boom, boom, boom!" A series of shaking sounds suddenly started, shaking the ground so much that it seemed to tremble!
A moment later, deafening explosions sounded one after another. Heavy iron balls and gunpowder-filled artillery shells hit the camp of the Xiliao military camp. Suddenly sawdust and stone flakes flew everywhere, and the originally erected fence collapsed.
Their bodies were blown into flesh and blood and their limbs were thrown up in the sky. Some of the night watch soldiers who were still within the range of the artillery fire were so frightened that they didn't even know how to run away and just stood there in a daze. There were also a large number of Xiliao soldiers.
Even the soldiers of various vassal forces were blown to pieces while they were still sleeping!
Almost half of the area of the Xiliao company camp was within the range of artillery strikes. Suddenly all the artillery fire was fired, but fireworks were seen flying into the sky, the mountains were shaking, and the ground was shaking. It was like a thunderous formation, and the thunderbolt shook the world!
After the battalion gunners fired the first round of artillery bombardment in sequence, they also began to reload the artillery shells step by step. However, this round of artillery bombardment alone was enough to completely plunge the military units in Xiliao into chaos!
Although the accuracy of the large number of artillery currently equipped by the Qi Dynasty needs to be improved, the artillery bombardment of the dense enemy troops encamped is enough to produce the greatest lethal effect. There were flames everywhere in the Xiliao company camp, and there was a loud sound of shaking the mountains and the earth.
There was never a break, and there were loud howls of ghosts and wolves everywhere in the camp. When a large number of terrified generals rushed out to find out what was going on, they were bombarded by a large number of densely packed artillery shells. What kind of solid armor was inside the camp?
The armor is of no use at all, and it can only kill a large area in the serial explosion!
The casualties suffered from being bombarded by countless artillery shells were extremely heavy, but compared to the actual lethality of the artillery shells, suddenly being in the center of a series of explosions was undoubtedly a fatal blow to the morale of the troops and horses in Xiliao. Seeing broken limbs all around.
Blood rained down from the broken arm, and the sudden explosion of fire and air swept up the corpses of his colleagues and threw them away. Almost all the soldiers had no intention of attacking the Qi army suddenly, and they counterattacked and resisted the attack that was completely unexpected. They were already hesitant.
They were all torn apart, and driven by instinct, they just cried and ran, running to the rear and retreating, just hoping to immediately escape from the company camp that was hit by continuous artillery fire, and escape as far as possible!
"What's going on? A night attack by the Qi army? Damn it! There are no slinging artillery in front of the enemy's stronghold. When did the soldiers and horses who robbed the camp crash into the stronghold and set off firearms to blow up the camp!?"
In a large tent of the company camp that was hit by artillery fire, Xiao Weili, an important minister who now serves as the king of the Sixth Academy and the marshal of the military and horse capital, can be said to be the only powerful minister in the Western Liao Empire under Emperor Yelu Dashi.
Thorn didn't have time to put on his armor, so he hurriedly ran out barefooted with his chest open.
This man was originally the king of the Tianyuan Division of the Liao Dynasty, and then moved westward with Yelv Dashi to establish the country, and made great military exploits. In this battle, he was originally ordered to supervise the troops and horses attached to the ministries, and he was about to show his talents. The famous general Xiongcai still had no idea about the Qi Dynasty.
How did the army use a large number of artillery shells and firearms to break into the company camp? Xiao Weili looked back and forth, gritting his teeth, and was about to order his personal followers to gather their troops immediately and work with him to stabilize the situation in the company camp.
At this moment, he suddenly heard the heavy sound of breaking wind, and a dark cannonball was falling rapidly towards him...
