Chapter 328: City Defense Techniques, the Prototype of Mobile Defense Tactics
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Yang Lin had also heard that the three passes in front of the Baozhu Temple on Erlong Mountain were extremely majestic and steep, but he saw hundreds of people building stones and building them, and they were rebuilding the dangerous pass in front of him. Tianlai's novel is more ordinary than the single pass.
Several dangerous passes were replaced by double-storey towers. The lower level can be used for close combat and the upper level can be used for archery. There is no semicircle or square urn in front of the pass to increase the defense of the city gate. Instead, there is a urn two or three feet away from the first dangerous pass.
Outside the mountain road, a city wall with a height and thickness of more than ten feet was built. There were three groups of 'pin'-shaped shooting holes on the wall, and a trench and a blocking wall were set up behind the wall, forming a structure of two trenches and three walls.
Obstacle strip.
The first few city walls located at the foot of the mountain were all no more than two feet wide at the top. The female walls with butts were replaced by flat walls that could withstand stone bombardment. Two rows of openings were staggered in the walls for guards.
Soldiers shoot and assassinate.
"Brother Zhishen, is this...?" Seeing hundreds of civilians busy in full swing, Yang Lin, after all, is a man who has been fighting in the rivers and lakes all year round. He doesn't know much about military and city defense, so he spoke.
Asked Lu Zhishen.
"The two brothers recommended by Brother Xiao and Tang are indeed unparalleled talents..." Lu Zhishen was born in the Western Army. Although this city-building technique did not follow ancient methods, he thought about it carefully later.
After renovating these three city defenses, Lu Zhishen could also understand that the renovated city defense system would be able to demonstrate flexible and thorough deployment in defensive battles and highlight the flexibility of defense and offense. He couldn't help but praise Yang Lin:
"This is just to redeploy and build the city defenses of the Erlong Mountain and Three Passes according to the wishes of Brother Li Zhi, who is responsible for building the city wall. Brother Yang Lin just saw the appearance outside the pass and followed the Sa family to enter the pass to have a look!"
When Lu Zhishen, Yang Lin and others arrived at the first pass, the working men stopped what they were doing. They happily clasped their fists at Lu Zhishen and said, "The leader of the village is back!" and "How is the leader of the village recently?"
Lu Zhishen smiled and waved his hand, and then he came to a foreman in his thirties or forties and asked: "Brother Zhao, is the fortification going well?"
After the foreman surnamed Zhao heard this, he quickly said: "Don't worry, Master of the Village! Master Meng is kind and righteous. In the past, those who worked hard as long-term laborers in the village could only earn four or five thousand dollars after a month's exhaustion.
Not counting the employer's deductions and arrears. The village leader killed our villagers that day and paid back five stones of food and grass to each family in the village that week. We remember the kindness of the village masters, and don't say that the brothers in the village can still get fifteen guans of salary every month.
, even if we don’t get paid, we are willing to take over the whole job.”
"What are you talking about!? The Sa family knows that you are doing hard work, how can I treat you badly?" Lu Zhishen felt even better when he saw the sincere and grateful expressions of the peasants in front of him when they looked at him, and he called the man next to him again.
He said loudly: "Go back to the village quickly! Go and ask Brother Lin Chong's disciples Cao Zheng and the younger brothers who have just joined our village to kill pigs and sheep, and then bring twenty jars of strong liquor to reward these folks! Straight mother-in-law, thief,
Only when you eat and drink well can you have the strength to work, right!?"
After hearing this, the hundreds of civilians all burst into thunderous cheers! They even thanked Lu Zhishen without any words, which made Lu Zhishen feel a little uncomfortable. He waved his big hand like a cattail leaf fan and said, "Sajia
I don’t want to listen to your noise! I’ve got calluses in my ears! You can go home, and if you have anything to do, come to Baozhu Temple to find me!”
After that, Lu Zhishen and Yang Lin drove towards the pass in a caravan. On the way, Lu Zhishen shook his head and sighed: "The Sa family was angry and beat Zheng Tu to death with three punches. When he was sued, he had to become a monk to avoid trouble. Xiao Xiao The Tang brothers entrusted Cai Cai to settle here in Erlong Mountain, but they never expected that life like this would be much happier than when the Sa family was defeated by the Western Army! Most of the villagers here are used to being bullied by evil gentry and cruel officials. The country Regardless of them, now the villagers are allowed to treat us green forest strongmen as parents and officials, what the hell kind of world is this?"
Yang Lin also sighed: "This is a well-known saying: do things according to nature and speak according to people's hearts. At first, when I learned about the young master's plan in the green forest, I was very puzzled, but looking at it today, I have to say that it is still The young master has thought carefully. There are some good officials above the court, and how many of them can see the suffering of the people?"
As he spoke, when Yang Lin entered the first pass, he suddenly discovered that there were several rows of huge "sky pillars" standing in front of him. These towering wooden poles were of different lengths, and some had already placed cannon tips beside them. The capstan and pulleys seemed to be installing various slingshots.
When Erlongshan leader Li Zhi and Ling Zhen collaborated to lay out the city defense of the pass, Li Zhi suggested that the trebuchets should not be placed at the top of the city, but installed on the inside of the city wall of the pass. Inside the pass was Ling Zhen's latest design of a giant stone cannon. , as well as seven cannons and eight cyclone cannons. When the enemy invades, they will be dispatched and commanded by Ling Zhen on the top of the city. According to the range, they can attack the enemy's trebuchets and other siege equipment in all directions. The enemy's main formation positions, as well as the enemy's frontline siege troops.
Li Zhi was good at arranging city defenses, but Ling Zhen, who had used trebuchets and sky-shaking thunder to level several cottages in Fangshan, was now on the defensive side. From the range and power of various artillery tools, he was able to defeat the surrounding dangerous mountainous terrain. The artillery formations were carefully considered in many aspects, such as limiting the angle at which the artillery can throw stones, and the range of stone-throwing coverage in the foothills, which can hit the enemy. This made the already steep and difficult Erlong Mountain pass more impregnable, and at the same time, it was also possible to attack enemies from a long distance. The enemy troops who came to attack the mountain caused heavy casualties.
Yang Lin, who was not born in the army, did not know how serious it was. He could probably imagine that when the enemy invaded, they would be thrown by strong crossbows, hard bows, rolling logs, stones and trebuchets before they even reached the pass city wall. The overwhelming series of attacks by huge boulders and firearms, not to mention the exquisite layout of the obstacle belt with two trenches and three walls between the passes, even if the enemy forces left countless corpses to capture this place. This is only the first of the three dangerous passes in front of Erlongshan Baozhu Temple. .....
Erlong Mountain relies on mountains on three sides. Even if a hundred thousand soldiers and horses come to attack, they may not be able to defeat these three dangerous passes... While Yang Linwu secretly admired it, Lu Zhishen looked down upon the foremen who were commanding and dispatching civilians in the pass. , the scholar who was the little leader of the cottage, he said to Yang Lin: "Brother Yang Lin, he is Li Zhi, the 'Sky Mender' who came to join the four brothers in Huangmen Mountain."
Under the introduction of Lu Zhishen, Yang Lin, Tang Long and Li Zhi greeted each other. Yang Lin gave Li Zhi a thumbs up and said: "Brothers' ability to build city walls is really impressive. I admire you from the bottom of my heart!"
Li Zhi raised his hand to Yang Lin and said humbly: "This city defense technique is not unique to me. When I was an official in the capital, I had a close friend in Bianjing Academy called Chen Gui. This person has a dignified character and is extremely good. He is loyal and good at repairing and building cities. He and his younger brother respect and love each other. We often discuss construction techniques with each other and benefit a lot from each other."
Lu Zhishen was listening and immediately said: "Since your friend also has a genius and a very loyal person, why not ask him to join the team and become a top leader in the village!"
Li Zhi gave a wry smile and said: "That stereotype is not like the fact that my younger brother was persecuted by traitors. Before he was sent to the army, he was studying hard in preparation for passing the Ming Dynasty law exam. He was a person who wanted to get into the imperial examination, so what? Are you willing to become a thief?"
Lu Zhishen laughed and said: "What can you do if you want to be an official? Back then, the Sa family was under the jurisdiction of Weizhou Jinglue Prefecture. Brother, you were a supervisor and official in Bianjing, and my brother Xiao Tang also became a palace official. The Marshal's Mansion is the Marquis of Yu, but he is not the leader of our group of thieves? Are there too few good men and capable men who have been forced to live in poverty? If he is a decent man, let's see how long he can be an official!"
However, what even Li Zhi himself doesn't know now is that Chen Gui, who had become friends with him, had been through the three dynasties of Huizong, Qinzong, and Gaozong. Although his city defense skills were not fully valued due to the imperial court's ignorance, this Chen Gui later wrote "City Guarding Records", but more than thirty years after his death, in the eighth year of Qiandao in the official history (1172), Song Mingjun Song Xiaozong issued an edict to the world, ordering the city guarding generals everywhere to follow suit. He benefited a lot from the famous minister who later single-handedly controlled two-thirds of the war in the Southern Song Dynasty against the Jin and Mongolia, and the famous Chinese general Meng Gong, who was praised as the "master of mobile defense" by later generations...
It was already dusk. When Yang Lin and Tang Long rushed to Baozhu Temple, they saw Lin Chong, Zhu Jing, Ou Peng, Jiang Jing, Ma Lin, Tao Zongwang and other leaders in Erlong Mountain. All the heroes were setting up a banquet to celebrate. Of course it's no big deal.
During the banquet, Yang Lin said to Lu Zhishen again: "Brother Zhishen, my younger brother used the banner of transporting darts to transport supplies to various cottages for convenience, but now our two cottages in Erlong Mountain and Qingfeng Mountain are getting bigger and bigger, and they have gathered 8,000 people. , After all, a big tree attracts the wind, what's going on with the government?"
Lu Zhishen drank the whole bowl of liquor in one gulp and cursed: "I'm afraid of him! Murong Yanda, the prefect of Qingzhou, and the bad official Sajia just think of him as a piece of shit! The Sajia also know that Qingzhou Commander is in charge of Thunderbolt Fire Qin." Ming Dynasty, the soldiers and horses supervising the town of Sanshan, Huang Xin, have some friendship with the Xiaotang brothers, but Huang Xin has such a strong tone! How dare he call him "the town of Sanshan". If he dares to come, the Sa family will have to take a look at that guy. Can we suppress Erlong Mountain?"
"Back then, when we didn't kill Deng Long and capture the Erlongshan Baozhu Temple, Huang Dujian was called Zhensanshan. It was not because he wanted to bring bad luck to us." Yang Lin said with a smile, and then said: "But When I was escorting, I got some information. It is said that a new commander of troops and horses will be transferred to Jingdong Road. His name is Yun Tianbiao. He seems to be a general from the Western Army. I wonder if brother Zhishen recognizes him?"
Unexpectedly, Lu Zhishen's disdain was palpable when he heard the name. He threw the wine bowl on the table and cursed again: "How come you don't know that Zhuniaoshajia? That guy has some martial arts skills. He is usually good at it." At the end of the Han Dynasty, Guan Yunchang dressed up, and he was promoted to him by an old manager. However, he was a pretentious man who pursued fame and fortune. He felt that his promotion in the Western Army was slow, so he worked hard to find another job. , if this guy dares to come, the Sa family will teach him how to eat a few Zen rods!"
