In the afternoon of the next day, a convoy of thousands of large vehicles arrived at the foot of Bianliang City. Escorting these vehicles were a logistics team composed of nearly 30,000 Luoyan Valley people. The convoy came with the convoy.
There is also the Luoyan Army infantry commander Liang Qi and his 3,000 infantrymen.
After the siege crisis in Shili Changgang was lifted, Lin Jue immediately ordered Liang Qi to go to Luoyan Valley to perform a secret mission. More than ten days passed, and with Lin Jue's eager anticipation, Liang Qi finally followed this large-scale
The convoy carrying food and baggage has returned.
When Lin Jue heard the news and rushed to the rear camp, a large number of carriages and horses loaded with food and supplies were busy unloading. Lin Jue saw the figure of Liang Qi and Gao Muqing who went to greet him in the busy crowd. Liang Qi was commanding
A group of soldiers pushed out more than ten flat carts covered with oilcloths from a large mess of carts. There seemed to be not much on those carts, and the oilcloths covered with them were not large, but they seemed to be larger than those around them that were fully loaded with oilcloths.
The cart of grain became even heavier. A dozen infantrymen pushed it from behind, and a mule pulled it in front. The cart slowly drove over the soft ground and gathered on the side of the camp.
Seeing Lin Jue's arrival, Liang Qi hurriedly ran forward and saluted: "I've seen the military advisor. Liang Qi is back."
Lin Jue stood up and dismounted, handed the reins to his guards, laughed and returned the favor, saying, "Okay, we've arrived. Why didn't you give us any news in advance? I was anxious to ask your tall and powerful leader to greet you.
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Liang Qi said with a smile: "It's not that I don't want to report the news, it's because I really can't be sure. This road is too difficult. I can't count the number of times the cart got stuck on the road. Once I get stuck in the mud, I have to work hard for a long time."
It really made me miserable. Fortunately, this time I came with the convoy escorting the grain trucks. The people escorting the grain trucks know how to repair the cars and help, otherwise I would be crying on the road right now."
Lin Jue nodded, he understood what Liang Qi said. The dozen or so large trucks that Liang Qi was responsible for escorting were not ordinary trucks. They were several times heavier than those grain trucks. The vehicles themselves could not support such a long journey.
We live here, and the official roads these days are all simply paved with stones, which can barely be used by ordinary vehicles and horses. If too heavy vehicles drive on such official roads without foundations, the road surface cannot bear it.
I hadn't considered this before.
"Brother Liang worked hard, but he finally arrived, and it didn't exceed my expectations." Lin Jue said.
Liang Qi nodded and said: "Yes, we finally fulfilled our mission. Military advisor, we'd better take these big guys to the Chinese army camp for storage. The back camp is in a mess. I'm afraid that the carriages and horses will collide with each other. Don't damage these precious lumps."
That would be all your hard work in vain.”
Lin Jue nodded and said, "What I'm saying is, take it to the Chinese army camp and I'll personally inspect and accept it."
Ten carts were slowly towed from the rear camp to the front camp. The distance was less than two miles, but it took more than half an hour. The ground in the camp had been rested, and the people and horses were well-trodden.
, but after these vehicles passed by, they still left deep ruts.
Finally, ten carts were lined up in the open space in front of Lin Jue's Chinese army tent. Lin Jue stood in front of the cart with his sword hilt in hand, facing Liang Liang.
Qi nodded.
Liang Qi shouted loudly: "Open the oilcloth,"
The soldiers next to the car quickly climbed onto the cart, untied the hemp ropes binding the oilcloths, and then coordinated with a loud roar, and the heavy oilcloths were all peeled off. Then the behemoths on the ten carts appeared and were exposed to everyone.
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Those are ten Divine Power General Cannons. Different from the first Divine Power General Cannon forged in Luoyan Valley, the ten Divine Power General Cannons in front of you are even larger. They have black, thick, large and long barrels with a square shape at the rear.
There is a thickened ammunition chamber, a base under the gun body, and a fine iron bracket for adjusting the height and angle of the barrel. The shape of the wedge-shaped groove. The appearance of the entire Shenwei General Cannon looks more powerful, like a giant.
Lying on the cart, the oiled gun body and barrel reflected a faint blue light in the sun, making it look cold and noble, domineering and restrained.
The Shenwei General Cannon was originally a failed work of Lin Jue. Due to the inability to solve the problem of manufacturing explosive shells, the first Shenwei General Cannon cast in Luoyan Valley could only fire solid shells and became a firearm with extremely poor cost performance. In the copycat spirit
In the case of shortage of iron raw materials, it was almost eliminated.
However, a few years ago, when Guo Xu led the imperial army of the Great Zhou Dynasty to encircle and suppress Funiu Mountain, Shenwei General Cannon performed a remarkable feat. The opponent's move of burning the mountain with a flame chariot posed a great threat to Luoyan Valley's defense system.
At that time, Lin Jue used the Shenwei General Cannon to break one of the fire oil tanks of the opponent's flame truck parked at the foot of the mountain, and then ignited it with a rocket, causing a big explosion of the flame truck, thereby crushing the opponent's attempt to destroy it with fire attacks.
An attempt to fortify the hillside. After that battle, the Shenwei General Artillery was saved from being melted down, but was moved to a separate place in the Xishan Arsenal for storage and collection. Like a meritorious object in a museum, it should be enjoyed as it should.
Some glory.
However, for Lin Jue, the improvement and development of the Shenwei General Cannon has always been on his mind. Because Lin Jue knew that although the tortoise box shotgun, swarm of rocket launchers and other items seemed to be more cost-effective and more attractive,
Eyeballs, I feel that their power is worthy of the large amount of silver and precious raw materials required to make them. However, these are not actually considered important weapons among firearms. In favorable terrain, these firearms are certainly effective against the opponent's soldiers and horses.
It is very powerful, but when it comes to attacking a city, neither a tortoise box nor a swarm of rocket launchers can be used as a means to break through the opponent's wall.
And precisely in this era, wars often revolved around fortified cities. If the city could not be captured, it would be impossible to advance and win. A city could even determine the outcome of a large-scale battle. Of course Lin Jue remembered that parallel history
Among them, when the Mongols went south to attack the Song Dynasty, the Mongolian army was blocked by Xiangyang City for six years. If the supplies in Xiangyang City were not exhausted and the Southern Song Dynasty failed to rescue them, Xiangyang City would have been a nightmare for the Mongols. This would have been a nightmare for the Mongols.
The battle also showed that the means of siege was an important criterion for the strength of an army in the cold weapon era. Lin Jue realized precisely that the shortcoming of the Luoyan Army was the lack of means of siege, which made the Luoyan Army far away from the enemy.
A super powerful army always keeps a distance.
The siege methods of the Zhou Dynasty soldiers and horses
In fact, it is very impressive. The Great Zhou Dynasty had a variety of siege equipment and means, including cloud chariots, flaming chariots, catapults and other siege equipment. The soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty were the best in the world in terms of siege means. However,
Lin Jue has observed siege battles using this method. Generally speaking, Lin Jue feels that although the methods are rich, these siege equipment are somewhat flawed. The sky chariot is regarded as the biggest threat by the defenders.
For example, this kind of siege equipment that can quickly build an attack channel above and below the city is a nightmare for the defenders. However, the roller coaster also has many weaknesses. It is large and heavy, and often requires offensive pressure with a huge advantage on one's own side.
Only under this condition can it advance to the city in a leisurely manner. Without the cooperation of other arms, it will never be able to get close to the city. Because it is bulky, it is a big problem for it to cross the moats that most cities have. It is often necessary to build a way for it to move forward.
The passage will require many soldiers and horses to be killed or injured.
In addition, the unstable center of gravity of the roller coaster is also a problem. Because it needs to be built higher than the city wall and has strong protection, it is a common problem of the roller coaster that it is top-heavy. In order to solve this problem, the counterweight must be increased.
, making the chassis more stable, which in turn made it appear more bulky. Instead, it became a vicious cycle. When the Liao people attacked Liaoyang Mansion, the Jurchens used pulling methods to disrupt the Yunxiao chariot's attack.
It takes advantage of the disadvantage of the Skytrain's unstable center of gravity. Other shortcomings, such as the Skytrain's tunnel being easily damaged by internal fire attacks and being expensive to build, are all secondary.
Lin Jue also thought about using existing siege methods as a means for the Luoyan Army to siege the city, but in the end he gave up this idea. The siege method consisting of thousands of catapults, skycars and city rams was too laborious.
To please, that was not the method Lin Jue hoped for. Therefore, Lin Jue hoped to find a more direct and sharp method that would not require a large amount of manpower and material resources to be invested in the operation, maintenance and manufacture of traditional siege equipment.
Of course, Lin Jue turned his attention to the Shenwei General Cannon again.
Lin Jue is not a person who cannot adapt. Since the production of explosive shells is a gap that he cannot overcome for the time being, there is no need to continue to waste time on it. Since the Shenwei General Cannon is destined to only fire solid shells, why not do more in this aspect?
Making a fuss about enhancing the range and power of artillery shells has become a goal that Lin Jue has been studying.
Before the army came out, Lin Jue had actually designed the blueprint for a new generation of Shenwei general cannon. It was nothing more than increasing the length and thickness of the barrel so that the solid shells could fly farther and be more powerful. In addition, the strength of the barrel was increased, and the equipment could
The adjustable bracket makes the Shenwei General Cannon more accurate and durable, which is also a side benefit of the improvement. This time Liang Qi returned to the mountain, he brought Lin Jue's order to have the mountain arsenal cast it as quickly as possible.
Ten powerful general cannons.
It only took three days to complete the casting and forging of ten cannons. When the cannons were still warm, Liang Qi loaded these behemoths into trucks and transported them to Bianliang City. Lin Jue's idea was simple. He did not need to use cumbersome methods.
As siege equipment, he was going to use these ten divine cannons to blast open the gates of Bianliang City and collapse the walls of Bianliang City. Although Lin Jue did not know whether the power of these divine cannons could achieve the target. But he decided to
