Di Lie saw this Xia army's "shock soldiers" earlier than Li Liangfu. Because this surprise soldiers who came out from the rear of Checheng were originally rushing towards them and were closer to them; another one, Tianzhu Army observed

The methods are more advanced than the Xia army. The Wanglou and the telescope stand high and look far; in the end, of course, Di Lie had been guarding against this surprise weapon with the information he took out from Cao Ji's mouth...

"It's finally here! Kill it, and the war should end." Di Lie glanced at Zhang Li, "I know what to do next?"

Zhang Li focused his head heavily, and a hint of excitement and ferocity flashed through his eyes.

Di Lie handed over the flag in his hand to Zhang Li: "I will hand over the command to you, and you will command the battles behind you."

Zhang Li solemnly took it, greeted the military leader, and quickly issued an order to the messenger: "Implement the Regulations on Cooperational Operations of Vehicles, Cavalry and Infantry, and the Third Defense Plan."

Taking advantage of the muskets and setting up a car city to fight in a similar car-city battle is a new tactic. It has never been seen before, so naturally there is no exception. Of course, Di Lie does not need any "precedents", he just needs some "back"

"Just. Based on the principle of making plans for everything and not making plans for abolishing the plan, when the Checheng Battle Formation was established, more than a dozen response plans were formulated for various situations on the battlefield. For example, the first plan is

How to avoid arrows; the second plan is how to prevent rockets; the third plan is how to deal with rockets.

That’s right, deal with the throwing stones! Because that fierce surprise soldier is the killer weapon of the Xia army, the "Puxi Army" who repeatedly used surprise attacks to destroy the enemy formation!

This unique army of the Xia Kingdom, the number of people was not large. There were only about 300 people, each of which was equipped with a camel, one for a ride and the other for a cannon (or a stone bomb). However, the army of Xi was not

Generally speaking, it is a simple positional vehicle-submission army, but a mobile and flexible fast and long-range strike force.

Whenever the battle is approaching, the Poxi Army will suddenly appear from an unexpected direction of the enemy, and launch a round stone bullet with a fist size weighing four or five kilograms, with a range of fifty steps.

, If you throw a two-pound small stone bullet, the range is nearly 100 steps (in the Battle of Wumashan, the mistake was 200 steps). This famous whirlwind cannon is actually a small single-tip stone thrower.

Mobility and flexible, and can be turned. Usually operated by three people, one person must release it. Two people pull and fire stone bullets. The maximum momentum generated is more than 300 kilograms, and its throwing range is close to that of a crossbow, and the damage to objects

The force is greater than the crossbow.

The range of 100 steps and 300 kilograms of strike force is close to the firing speed of the crossbow, the attack range that can be turned crosswise, and the rapid movement of the camel is quite a bit like an ancient version of the car-mounted machine gun. All of this determines,

The Poxi Army cannot be a type of catapult in the general sense. That is, the type of catapult car transporting the components of the catapult car to a predetermined position, and then taking a long time to assemble it. It took a long time to throw a giant stone bullet and fix it on the position.

Heavy throwing troops who cannot move.

Strictly speaking, the light stone-cattering troops like the Poxi Army are somewhat similar to the Jin army's kidnapping horses. They approach quickly and attack suddenly, can be beaten or taken away, and repeatedly torture the enemy's infantry formation until they are defeated by the rain of bullets.

It is, the gag horse uses a horse, and the pushes are a camel; the gag horse shoots an arrow, and the pushes are a stone bullet. In terms of power, the stone bullet is more lethal than the arrow, and the

The morale strikes of the enemy are even more significant.

Three hundred gunners, one hundred whirlwind cannons, riding five hundred camels, and there were also hundreds of cavalry guards of the capturing army. They set out at the hour of Mao, and fought against the scorching sun and heat, and took a detour to attack Li Liangfu's plan to break the enemy sideways. As Li Rong thought, any infantry army suddenly suffered such a surprise attack, and riots were inevitable. It was not impossible for a slightly worse army to collapse directly.

But when the two generals of the Xia army saw this Iron Car City, they lamented that their efforts were wasted in vain and they were so charming that they could show the blind man that they were useless!

Even so, it does not mean that the Poxi Army is useless. They can still use the advantage of long-range strikes to launch stone bullets into the chariot city to destroy the enemy; drop bombs directly on the chariots and try their best to destroy the chariots. , then the heavy cavalry may still have a place to use their power, passing through the gaps that have been broken and crushing the enemy infantry. In this way, there is still a lot of potential for this battle.

This is the plan of Li Liangfu and Ye Lirong to turn the tables. Everything must be maintained on Po Xijun.

As soon as the Poxi Army appeared, the Xia army captured the Sheng army rushed out three hundred cavalry to guard to prevent being attacked by the Tianzhu cavalry. At the same time, the remaining seven hundred Shengzhu cavalry also stepped up the interception of the Tianzhu cavalry. However, The cavalry of the Tianzhu Army did not move because the flag command from the Checheng was: Keep it in its original state and there is no need to attack.

The third plan was issued, and the entire car city suddenly became busy: heavy armored spearmen, sword and artillery soldiers returned to the chariot; the baggage soldiers took out thick felts and wrapped each transport vehicle tightly; The engineers also quickly took out the thick cowhide rolls, opened them and wrapped them with the Wanglou layer. Only the north side of the Wanglou is the back slope of the shelling, and there is no need for protection. It is left empty as the observation command surface, and the other three sides are only exposed. Several observation holes the size of a palm; soldiers from the medical and nursing office left the awning and entered the reinforced central military flag-and-drum tent to hide.

After doing all this, according to the direction from the Poxi Army, the baggage soldiers and servants hid on the inside of a hundred chariots in the southeast, hugged their heads, squatted down, and curled up as much as possible. The reason why they chose to hide was Under the chariot in this direction, it is also because this is the back slope of the shelling. According to the principle of parabola, the stone bullet thrown from this direction cannot hit an object close to the other side of the vehicle body. This is a throw or a throw The blind spot.

In this era, there will be no other person who can have such advanced concepts of preventing artillery, except Di Lie.

All the soldiers completed the evasion action, and only the engineers were still busy. They used the sub-city surrounded by transport vehicles, supported by a row of transport vehicles in the southeast, and raised pieces of iron and thick wood blocks that were two meters high and nine feet wide. Plates. These are the spare baffles of the tanks, and now they are temporarily used as covers. The thing they want to cover is the catapult!

In the sub-city of Iron-Biche City, there are eight stone catapults in a row, with simple and unique shapes: chest-like height, five feet in width, each consisting of base, spring, iron roller, and a millstone size A solid wood-wrapped iron winch, a pitching arm that is eight feet long (about five meters) long, an iron crank and a special twisted noose.

This is the newly developed torque-type stone-cattering missile of the Military Industry Department of the Tianzhu Army.

In ancient China, until the Song Dynasty, the car-pouring machines used human pulling methods. Not only did they require a lot of manpower, but the range was also very depressing. Take various stone-popping tools in the late Northern Song Dynasty as examples, with single-tip cannons. , double-head gun, five-head gun, seven-head gun, chariot running gun and cannon van, etc. Whether it is single-head, double-head, five-head, seven-head gun, etc., the basic structure is the same. They are all in one by four The square cannon stand formed by foot pillars is equipped with the gun tip. According to the weight, the heaviest seven-tip cannon can throw stone bullets weighing from 90 to 100 kilograms to fifty steps away, with 120 ropes Five. Two-person fixed cannons are required. Two-fifty-person cable pullers are used. A lighter single-shot cannon is used. Only one-person fixed cannons are used. Four-person cable pullers can throw two-pound cannon stones with a weight of 50 steps away. Setting the cannon below the double tip on the wheelbarrow is the running cannon.

A heavy trench machine requires hundreds of people to operate, which is very feasible in actual combat. It is not difficult to see that the human-powered trench tool of this era is quite useless, except for long-term siege or defending the city. ,It is difficult to use during general field battles. The whirlwind cannon in Xia Kingdom has unique structural technology, which can improve the human pulling effect to the extreme. It uses less manpower, and the weight and distance of throwing stone bombs It is nearly twice as popular as similar stone catapults, and it has a camel load and moves freely. This has made the unique reputation of the Poxi Army.

But this time, Poxijun encountered a tit-for-tat opponent missile!

The creativity of the missile naturally comes from Di Lie. After Di Lie captured Pingding City, he found several old double-shot and five-shot cannons in the warehouse, and then people acted one by one. He was surprised to find that this era's Central Plains The catapult is so backward.

The Tianzhu Army has always had very fierce and sharp killings and attacks in medium and short-range areas, but it lacks long-range and powerful killing methods. Speaking of long-range killing, as a latecomer, Di Lie certainly understands that the most powerful one is artillery. But he had no idea of ​​building a cannon for the time being. The reason is very simple. He did not think that with the technological level and industrial foundation of this era, breech guns and shell retracting bullets could be made. If the so-called " "The Red General" is a purely defensive front-loading gun, and the solid bullet fired is far more scary than killing people.

Does the Tianzhu Army need defense at this stage? No! Does the Tianzhu Army need defense in the future? No!

In Di Lie's mind, the strategy of the Tianzhu Army in the next few years is to attack, attack, and attack again. Fighting against the mobile and flexible Jin army, you must be more mobile and flexible than your opponent. Do you have to push dozens of doors and weigh nearly a thousand pounds? The cannon, traveling through mountains and rivers, slowly chasing the butts of the Jin cavalry who could eat dust in a day?

Either you need field artillery or you don’t want it. This is Di Lie’s point of view. The current platoon cannons equipped by the Tianzhu Army are actually a kind of field artillery, which is no worse than the tiger squat cannons of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the range is a little short. After all, it will be developed, but that is a matter in the future and not an urgent task. Moreover, the casting of the gun barrel is very different from that of the gun barrel, and it is not something that can be done in a year or two.

Having said that, since you can't get the cannon for the time being, how can you solve the long-range firepower? In the Battle of Wumashan, Zhao Jian was quick to make a fool of himself and threw a whirlwind cannon, which was a good attempt.

Di Lie also wanted to cast stone tools and threw ** bags with cast stone tools to solve the problem of lack of long-range firepower. However, this low-level cast stone tools in the Song Dynasty really disappointed him. However, after thinking about it, there was no ideal cast stone tools, so we wouldn't Can you do it yourself? This thing is easier to solve than artillery.

Di Lie is not an expert in the trench tool, but he also knows the principle of counterweight torque trench. In fact, it is very simple. He just changes his idea and replaces dozens or hundreds of human resources with the same weight. If you replace objects, just replace hundreds of cables with nooses.

The craftsmen of the Song Dynasty did not lack intelligence, but they lacked jumping and divergent thinking. Once this thin layer of window paper was pierced, it would be no technical problem at all. When Di Lie proposed, it would be better to reduce the matching. Heavy weight, reduce the weight of the catapult, and also ensure that the range and launch weight remain unchanged. During these difficult requirements, masters with great ideas learned from one example and finally canceled the counterweight, purely with the power of the machine spring. , creatively developed this light trench tool.

Don't think that its range is not powerful when it is simple and light. Before conquering Taiyuan, Di Lie had observed the test of this new stone catapult. This seemingly light thing can actually weigh seven or eight pounds of stones. The block, projected a hundred steps away, is so powerful that it catches the most powerful seven-shot cannon. The gunner only needs three people: one person is required to set the ball, two people winch. How many people do you need for the seven-shot cannon? The new catapult The weight of the seven-tip cannon is less than a hundred kilograms, and two people will leave as soon as they lift it. It is very easy to disassemble and assemble; how heavy is the seven-tip cannon? It is less than a thousand kilograms, and it takes more than an hour to assemble. How big is this advantage?

After watching the demonstration, Di Lie immediately made a decision and called the missile, which immediately put it into mass manufacturing. At the same time, he specialized in producing eight-pound bombs thrown for it.

The craftsmen of the Military Industry Department worked overtime and sent twenty missiles to the three main brigades before the general attack on Taiyuan. Unfortunately, there was no gunpowder at that time and could not show its power, which made the Taiyuan Jin soldiers suffer. This expedition silver The third mixed brigade of the state had a large amount of gunpowder raw materials reserved in Taiyuan, so the gunpowder crafted a batch of bombs and rushed over with eight missiles. However, after taking Yinzhou lightly, it was useless. Unexpectedly, I wanted to "start with the famous Poxi Army" in this wilderness.

The three hundred Poxi Army arrived at the southeast side of Checheng about a hundred steps away. The entire army stopped. After receiving the commander's attack, they began to circle the camels, load guns, unload stone bullets, and prepare to launch artillery attacks. The Poxi Army The attack distance will be adjusted according to the enemy's equipment. For example, if the enemy does not have crossbows, the Xi army will approach fifty steps and throw five kilograms of heavy stone bullets; if the enemy has a considerable number of crossbowmen, the Xijun will retreat to more than 80 steps and throw two kilograms of heavy stone bullets.

This time, the hunting army was warned that the enemy had unidentified firearms, with a range of comparable crossbows, and had a huge lethality. Therefore, for safety reasons, the Pixi Army lined up at a distance of 100 steps and threw two kilograms of rock bullets. It was hoped that the dense bullets could be used Rain kills and destroys the enemy in large quantities while destroying the enemy's will and morale.

Di Lie used a scope to carefully check the whirlwind cannon from the observation hole for a while. Its appearance is a bit similar to the double-tip cannon that was seen as calming. The base of the gun tip cable is similar, but the structure seems to be more complicated. This is probably why the Western Xia whirlwind cannon is famous in various countries.

Di Lie just started to feel cold. No matter what kind of unique craftsmanship of the whirlwind cannon has, it is always just a human cable. In front of the machinery, human power will be exhausted. Today, let the Xia army's most proud unit feel the human power and The huge gap in machinery.

"Missile No. 1, ready."

"Misselage No. 2, ready."

"Missile No. 8, ready..."

At the same time, outside the hundred steps, the whirlwind artillery team of the Poxi Army also issued the same report:

"Team A whirlwind cannon, ready."

"Team B whirlwind cannon, ready..."

The launch drums of the two armies rang almost at the same time.
Chapter completed!