Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty Seven Thunder Car and Iron Buddha (more later)
The potter watched the situation on the battlefield in the distance with cold eyes, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
Yuan Shu didn't seem to care about the soldiers and horses of the Sun Group. He used Tao Shang to judge them. Yuan Shu now completely treated the Sun Army as cannon fodder and sent it first. Later, seeing that the Sun Army could not win, he sent another
Our own troops attacked from behind.
I don’t know if Yuan Shu had any predictions, but he didn’t know that in this situation, how many troops of the Sun Army would become victims of being trampled by the galloping troops at the rear, and how many soldiers who fell on the battlefield but were still saved would be killed.
Yuan's army was crushed to death by the tens of thousands of troops that attacked from the rear.
Thinking of this, the pottery merchant shook his head helplessly.
This is a battlefield. No one can be blamed for any decision or action. If you are to blame, you can only blame the Sun family army for their bad luck. These soldiers must have followed the wrong master.
Shaking his head to get rid of distracting thoughts, the pottery merchant looked at Chen Deng and said seriously: "It's time to let our secret weapon appear."
Chen Deng smiled quietly, then waved his hand, and once again ordered the ordering soldiers to wave the order flag to convey the order.
After a while, I saw huge weapons being moved to the front city of Ruxuwu in the deep city behind Ruxuwu.
Looking at the weapons arriving at the front line, the pottery merchant raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a confident smile.
Over the past year, the inventions and creations developed by the pottery merchant and Zhang Hong at the Utensil Making House in Jinling City were not just instruments that benefited farming and people's livelihood, such as Jiangdong plows and keel waterwheels.
Economic development requires invention and creation; but in order to protect economic achievements from being destroyed, war and military need innovation even more.
Therefore, when it comes to military inventions, the pottery merchants did not fall behind at all.
Turning his head and looking at the approaching Yuan Jun soldiers, Tao Shang's eyes showed a rare blazing battle flame.
It's time for Pili Che to perform a song for everyone.
Seeing that Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses were getting closer and closer to him, and had already reached the shooting range, Tao Shang ordered Chen Deng again: "Sign Yang Zhan, pull the string and fire the cannon!"
"Huh? What does this mean?" Chen Deng was a little dazed after hearing this, and did not quite understand the meaning of the pottery merchant's words.
"It's just a lot of rocks! You have to make me say such a rustic slogan... Culture, you have to add some culture, Mr. Diannong Xiaowei!"
Chen Deng rolled his eyes, really too lazy to talk nonsense to him.
His brains were spilled from the beating outside, but he was still in the mood to make trouble with himself here.
I don’t know what this kid’s heart and nerves are made of.
After giving the order, the thunderbolt car that had been prepared for a long time finally took action.
I saw huge reserve boulders, thrown into the air by the Thunderbolt Car, roaring into the sky!
After the pieces of stone drew curved arcs in the sky, they fell diagonally with huge gravity acceleration, and smashed heavily into the military formation that Yuan Shujun was attacking at an extremely fast speed.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Huge rocks smashed into the enemy's formation, kicking up overwhelming dust and breaking the boulders! But seeing the rocks flying everywhere, many Yuan Jun soldiers didn't realize what was going on for a while, and many people were stoned.
A block hit or the splash of gravel caused the frightened people to flee in all directions, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.
Ji Ling, the brave general of Yuan Shu's army, was waving his three-pointed sword and leading his troops to rush towards Ruxuwu. Suddenly, he saw hundreds of large and round stones coming from the sky and hitting his general in the formation.
, caused a huge chaos in an instant, even though Ji Ling was very brave and as bold as a tiger, he couldn't help but turn pale with fright at this moment, and he was very frightened.
"Disgrace your mother! What the hell?! Could it be a meteor from the sky?" Ji Ling shouted in disbelief.
After the round of stone bombardment was completed, but seeing that Yuan Jun's formation was already in chaos, Tao Shang immediately raised his eyebrows at Chen Deng and said: "Tell Yang Zhan with a flag that we should be able to fire another round of these stones...
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Chen Deng accepted the order and asked the ordering soldiers to send out the flag message again.
Install stones, pull strings, throw...
Another round of thunderbolt shells flew into the sky again.
Another batch of stones bombarded Yuan Shu's military formation, once again causing a commotion.
Yuan Shu was at the rear, already looking dumbfounded.
In surprise, he pointed at the stone flying into the sky from Ruxuwu in the distance, and asked the people around him without knowing why: "What's going on? What is this? You know, the flying sand and rocks are not helped by gods..."
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Everyone on the left and right shook their heads, not knowing why.
Even the most knowledgeable Yan Xiang was shocked at this moment. He stared blankly at the rain of stones in the sky and murmured: "It is really a divine thing. Jinling City actually has such a sharp weapon.
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However, the Jinling Army's methods do not stop there.
Just after the sudden attack of the Thunderbolt Chariot caused chaos in Yuan Shu's army formation, Tao Shang's army, which had been hiding all this time, also began to attack.
This is the trump card unit prepared by the potter before this war.
In Jinling City, a pottery merchant brought back 200 war horses from Xuzhou. After arriving in Danyang County, he sent people to Qingzhou to purchase 200 more horses. There were 200 war horses in Danyang County. During this period, the pottery merchants also
He was led by Ear and Nose to manage the horse farm, and Liu Hu was sent to the north to purchase Huns horses under the supervision of his own people. So far, there are still 200 horses.
After nearly a year, the pottery merchant used all his strength to collect all the horses that could go on the battlefield in Jinling City, and trained a cavalry of about 800 people.
Eight hundred war horses is already a quite huge number in this southern county.
This is definitely not something that can be obtained by randomly finding a county guard.
To put it bluntly, this is as difficult as gathering together 800 Maseratis in one province in later generations.
Moreover, with the support of the resources of Jinling Iron Mine, the pottery merchants built this cavalry into a heavy armored horse army that was famous and powerful in the Song Dynasty.
In history, this heavily armored cavalry was once called the "Iron Buddha".
The meaning of Iron Buddha is that both men and horses are wearing heavy armor and launching a crushing charge against the enemy.
In the wars of the Song and Jin Dynasties, Tiefutu and Guaizima were generally used at the same time, complementing each other and acting as the horns of each other.
General Wanyan Zongbi of the Kingdom of Jin once used this cavalry formation to fight against other countries. He was invincible and victorious along the way, and was very powerful for a while.
In ancient opera talks, later generations also called this thing the chain-linked horse.
In ancient China, due to the production of copper and iron and its high value, few princes would consider forming this kind of very expensive heavy armored cavalry. However, pottery merchants took advantage of Jinling City's abundant iron production.
, armed all the existing 800 cavalry in Danyang County into the prototype of the "Iron Buddha" heavy cavalry.
All the cavalry were wearing heavy armor, with only two eyes left in front of their masks. The war horses were also wearing heavy armor, with only four hooves left. In this way, these eight hundred cavalry became one
Supporting cavalry with thick armor, super strong attack power, and extremely high defensive power, in this era, it can be said that the Iron Buddha is equivalent to a tank-level team.
The gate of Ruxuwu was slowly opened, and the Jinling Army's formation slowly moved to the left and right, and a passage appeared with a roar.
In this passage that could only accommodate five cavalry in parallel, a group of heavily armored cavalry, including men and horses, all wrapped in heavy armor appeared in front of the world. The weapons in their hands were all maces and long
Spears, powerful crossbows, long spears and other weapons were mainly used, like a group of ferocious evil ghosts crawling out of hell. The thick armor made of copper and iron exuded an icy aura under the afterglow, and the endless killing aura
It also began to spread from their bodies to the surroundings.
Among this cavalry, one of the leading generals holding a mountain-breaking ax was undoubtedly Xu Huang.
At this time, although Yuan Shu's army was thrown into chaos by the Jinling Army's "Wrath of the Stars", such a terrifying heavy cavalry suddenly appeared in the enemy's ranks, which made Yuan's soldiers not pay attention to it.
The potter waved his arm forward slightly, and the sound of the trumpet resounded in the sky again.
In an instant, the cavalry was seen passing through one's own military formation, roaring towards the enemy's Yuan Jun's battle formation, like a tornado made of steel. Although its speed was slow, it had the potential to intimidate
But the power left everyone present moved.
Xu Chu, Xu Rong, Tao Ji and others also gathered all their soldiers and followed closely the 800 heavy armored cavalry led by Xu Huang, charging towards the enemy camp.
Xu Huang was in the front row, urging his horse to gallop.
Except for killing Zu Mao with an arrow from an iron-tied bow at the beginning of the war, he had been hiding in the rear, waiting to deal the final heavy blow to Yuan Jun.
The heavy-armored cavalry slowly spread out in formation while galloping slowly, forming about seven or eight rows, with dozens of cavalry in each row, and a buffer of about one foot between each cavalry.
Then, I saw this heavy armored cavalry slamming into Yuan Jun's formation!
Suddenly, terrifying howls suddenly sounded in Yuan Jun's formation!
Maces, spears, halberds, spears, and sabers all took advantage of each other's strength and swung at each other, tearing out a long bloody line in Yuan Jun's formation, which was chilling to watch.
Some soldiers of Yuan's army in the formation hurriedly took out their bows and arrows and shot at the heavy armored cavalry.
But after those arrows were shot, the crossbowmen found that their shots were like nothing, not even a splash was made. Although some cavalry were also damaged, most of the cavalry seemed to have no feeling. They were in heavy armor.
In the package, it was crushing forward like a tank... crushing...
"What the hell is this?" Many of Yuan's soldiers were already panicking. Faced with such a monster, with both men and horses wrapped in iron armor, it was the first time for many of them to encounter such a terrifying thing in their lives. It was not human at all!