Da Wei Chun

Chapter 172 Tanks in the Age of Cold Weapons
The towering white armor, like a huge cliff, presses down from west to east.

The white armored soldiers came so fast that the rebel barracks were almost in chaos.

Two quarters ago, there was an urgent report from the scouts. There were many white-armored cavalry around ten miles away. It seemed that the enemy was probing their horses. Two quarters later, thousands of white-armored cavalry had killed about ten miles away.

How can there be such a war that doesn't talk about the rules at all, and just comes when it is said?
Not to mention sending rangers to explore the formation in advance, at least think about it, this is the lair of the rebel army, and the white armored soldiers drive straight in like no one is going straight?
Aren't you afraid that the Fa Wang and the great general will use their mighty troops to surround you to death?
If he was afraid, Li Chengzhi would not come...

Marching to about ten miles away from Jingzhou, after encountering the rebel scouts, Li Chengzhi ordered Guo Cunxin, Li Liang, Song Lishen and others to lead the infantry and auxiliary troops to camp, and led only [-] cavalry and [-] chariots to advance quickly to the east .

When they arrived outside the rebel camp, they saw a large number of rebels gathered out of the camp, and the sky and fields were full of people.

If there are thousands of people, the earth will reach the sky; if there are tens of thousands of people, there will be no boundaries!
There are more than tens of thousands of rioting soldiers and civilians under the city of Jingzhou?
There are all people in sight, densely packed and boundless.Extending from five or six miles away to the city of Jingzhou, it looks like countless ants are wriggling...

If you look closer, you can see that there are many camps three or four miles away, and there is a forest of refusal horses.As the smoke and dust rose, one team after another of cavalrymen and chariots rushed out of the barracks and quickly lined up in front of the village.

Among them, there are quite a few armored soldiers.Out of the ten teams of cavalry, at least five teams were all wearing armor.

"Are you still attacking?" Li Chengzhi looked at Hu Baozong and asked with a smile.

Hu Baozong choked violently, and shook his head unwillingly.

Before dispatching troops, Hu Baozong once said that if the rebel camps were not strict and the lineup was uneven, he would lead the black cavalry to charge once, so that Li Chengzhi could see how the cavalry was used.

Li Chengzhi agreed immediately.

Impossible to think about.

Even generals who don't know the art of war know the principle of tight outside and loose inside. When setting up camp, they will naturally arrange the elite at the outermost periphery.

What's more, the Wuzhi Li family started with military exploits, which is better than the family history, not to mention Li Chengzhi's ancestors, but they are much higher than the Anding Hu family: the family's first ancestor was the parachutist Li Guang.

as predicted!

Looking at the situation in front of him, he knew that no matter how chaotic the rebel army was, it was impossible for someone to steal the camp in broad daylight.

"Then are you afraid?" Li Chengzhi asked with a smile.

"Huh?" Hu Baozong sneered, "It's just a chicken and a dog!"

He said so in his mouth, but he still took it very seriously in his heart.

Too many ants can kill an elephant.

What's more, the other party is not a refugee who has no power to fight back.

Just after receiving the enemy's report, there were so many rebels out of the camp, and the formation was not too chaotic. These soldiers were probably the elite of the enemy.

The surprise attack is definitely impossible, but it is still no problem to try it out and find out its combat power...

Hearing the angry urging and scolding of the enemy general, Hu Baozong was ready to move again: "Why don't you take advantage of the enemy's unstable position and make a small charge first? Not much, just give me a brigade of cavalry..."

He came in such a hurry, of course he didn't come to watch the show. Li Chengzhi originally wanted to catch the rebels by surprise.

But it's not Hu Baozong's stupid style of play, he just knows how to rush.

With all the calculations, I only have two thousand cavalry in my hand...

Li Chengzhi pondered for a while: "It's fine to charge and kill, it's still necessary to test it out, but it's not your turn!"

He turned his head and said to Li Zhao who was behind Li Song, "You go, lead a hundred chariots, eight hundred archers... but only to explore the formation, not to go deep, and not to be within twenty steps of the enemy's formation..."

Li Chengzhi was afraid that if he got too close, if the rebels lost their minds again and swarmed up, it would be too late for him to save them...

"Decree!" Li Zhaomeng cupped his fists, turned and left.

"Huangfu Rang!"

"The end is here!"

"Lead the Bingzi battalion and sweep the formation for Li Zhao!"

"promise!"

Seeing that Li Chengzhi really didn't send him, Hu Baozong was a little anxious: "Why didn't you send me? Even if the black cavalry is only half-armored, it is not as strong as the white cavalry. You should let Huangfu let the C-character battalion go. Why is it Li Chengzhi? Zhao's archers?"

idiot!

Li Chengzhi really wanted to scold, but it was not in private after all.

In front of so many generals, it was necessary to save some face for Hu Baozong, the deputy commander. Li Chengzhi just glared at him, and then pointed forward: "You can see it..."

This is the lair of the rebels. No matter how strong their morale is and how courageous they are, would the cavalry dare to rush into the enemy camp?
God knows how many soldiers are hidden inside, if you dare to rush in, nine out of ten will end up being surrounded to death.

Of course, Hu Baozong also understood this truth, and he had already given up the idea of ​​surprise attack.What he didn't understand was that even for scouting, the most mobile cavalry should be used. Why did Li Chengzhi use slower cavalry?

Li Song vaguely thought of something, but he was not sure.

Li Shi was the one who felt the most, gritted his teeth and reminded Hu Baozong: "Lieutenant Hu, the bandit soldiers not only have bows, but also crossbows..."

Hu Baozong was taken aback for a while, then curled his lips secretly.

It turned out that the problem of cherishing soldiers has been committed again?
How can there be undead in war?

No wonder he brought so many vans...

The so-called box car is actually a carriage with the top lifted by the official driver, surrounded by walls five feet high and three inches thick on all sides.

This thing is not a new thing created by Li Chengzhi, it has existed for a long time.Most of them are for officials and ladies.

There are also records of it being used for war.

At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the leader of Hexi Xianbei, Bald Shuji, rebelled in Jingzhou. He defeated and beheaded Hu Lie, the governor of Qinzhou, who was the thirteenth ancestor of Hu Baozong. He also defeated Sima Liang, King of Fufeng, Sima Jun, King of Ruyin, The first governor of Liangzhou Qianhong, the second governor of Liangzhou Su Yu, the third governor of Liangzhou Yang Xin, the famous general Wen Yang of the Western Jin Dynasty, and Jia Chong, the father of the demon queen Jananfeng, and a series of heroes, as well as hundreds of thousands of heroes from the Western Jin Dynasty army.

Suddenly no one can beat him?
Dramatically, he was eventually defeated by Malone, who led only [-] soldiers.

Not to mention natives like Hu Baozong and Li Song, even Li Chengzhi was surprised when he read this section of history books:
Ma Long defeated the bald tree with only [-] soldiers. The magic weapon capable of tens of thousands of cavalry turned out to be a van plus a magnet?

He ordered all his subordinates to wear leather armor, carry wooden staffs, and not carry half a piece of iron.Then use hundreds of vans to pull the magnet, and go to the bald tree for a decisive battle.

Hu cavalry and war horses in iron armor couldn't control themselves at all, and kept rushing towards the officers and soldiers' chariots, but before they could even rush up, the knives and guns in their hands flew away first?
In a panic, the Jin army stabbed thousands of people to death with wooden sticks.

The rest is just as if this is God's punishment, a miracle, tens of thousands of cavalry escaped, surrendered, and finally suffered a crushing defeat...

Inspired by this, Li Chengzhi remembered the sidecars of the Ming Dynasty.

Sun Chengzong can even defend against the Qing army's firearms with this thing, why can't it defend against crossbows and arrows?

The carriages are all ready-made, but there is only a layer of thick wood around them, and the process is not complicated.In five or six days, Yang Shu got him two hundred cars.

As for the effect, just look at it...

A hundred double-drive vans lined up, slanting towards the enemy formation.

The rebels only thought that the chariot soldiers were about to charge into the formation, and those who refused to ride immediately refused to ride.

But when they were about [-] paces away, the carriage suddenly turned and was parallel to the edge of the enemy formation.

The leader of the rebel army was a monk, and he was bewildered, secretly guessing what the hell the white armor soldiers were doing, whether there was something kindled in the car, and they wanted to set it on fire.

But you can also rush over...

Just as he was laughing, a few holes were suddenly opened on the wall of the carriage, and what protruded from the inside was clearly an arrow shining with cold light.

Just listening to the sound of strings, the sky is full of arrows, shooting towards the rebels like a rain of locusts.

"Raise the shield!" the monk roared.

Most of those who can be used as former soldiers are not far behind, at least they have been soldiers.In fact, before the monk gave an order, some soldiers raised their shields.

There was only a chaotic sound of "ding, ding, ding, ding", followed by miserable howls one after another.

Hundreds of soldiers in front of the rebel army were hit by arrows, and the shields in the hands of the soldiers seemed to have become decorations.

The rebel general's eyes are tearing apart.

It's not that the shield is useless, but that the white-armored soldiers are too despicable. Half of the arrows are shot directly from the holes in the carriage, and the other half are thrown from the roof of the carriage?
Even if the former soldiers of the chaos had shields, they only had one hand, which protected the top of the head, but could not protect the chest, abdomen and lower body.

"The archers and crossbows fight back... shoot back..." the traitor roared loudly.

Following the roar, there was a sound of "tie, tie, tie", and the crossbowmen and archers hiding behind the shield soldiers pulled the hanging swords and drew the bows.

Arrows are also raining like locusts, but only the sound of arrows hitting the carriage, shield, and horse armor can be heard, but the screams of people after being hit by arrows cannot be heard.

There was no need for Li Zhao's order. After the first round of shooting, the four archers in the front row sealed the hole.

The four archers in the back row were still shooting from the top in an orderly manner.

The white-armored archers are all in full body armor, and the arrows thrown from the top of their heads can't do much damage to them at all.

However, the relatively powerful non-arrow arrows, even at a distance of about thirty steps, could not penetrate the three-inch-thick wall of the car at all.

Hu Baozong was really surprised: "This van is actually used like this?"

The archers and crossbowmen of the rebel army turned out to be decorations in front of the van.

Unless heavy crossbows or catapults are used, but how many of such things can the rebels have?

If there were too many, Jingzhou City would have been breached long ago, so how long can we wait for two months?
"What do you think?" Li Chengzhi replied indifferently.

According to his vision, if this thing is clad with iron on the outside, and equipped with a hook and sickle gun for the archers, it will be able to defend from a distance and attack from a distance, which is equivalent to a tank in the era of cold weapons.

If it is paired with some grenades... Hahaha, the picture is unimaginable.

In fact, Li Chengzhi's main purpose was to make up for the shortcomings that the hollow formation could not move, and the infantry could only defend to the death when they encountered cavalry.

Not to mention being equipped with grenades, even if it is only equipped with rockets, infantry with vans dare to charge towards cavalry.

What mangu evil tactics, wolf pack tactics, I give you a hammer?
As long as you dare to come, you will die as many times as you come...

Just some bad horses.

The carriage plus eight armored archers weighs more than 1000 or two hundred catties. Ordinary draft horses can't pull it at all. You have to use war horses, and you need two horses.

To put it bluntly, we are still fighting for equipment, whoever has more money is justified...

The more Hu Baozong looked at it, the more he admired it, and his eyes began to light up.

This is what Li Chengzhi said, the active archer?
There are thirty steps between the two armies, if they are riding and shooting, no matter how strong the bow and arm are, the arrows will not have much power when they pass by, and they will not cause much damage to the enemy.

One is because the horse is unstable and the head is not accurate enough.The second is that it is not easy to exert force while riding a horse, and at most it can exert [-] to [-]% of the force when standing.

Therefore, cavalry generally use short bows or soft bows, which are much less powerful than infantry bows.

But chariot soldiers do not have these shortcomings. As much force as they can exert while standing on the ground, they can naturally exert as much force while standing in the chariot.

And it needs to be more accurate...

But why has no one thought of this approach before?
The more Hu Baozong thought about it, he admired it.

……

The wall of the rebel camp was extremely wide, covering three or four miles. Naturally, it was impossible for the chariot soldiers to cover all three or four miles.

After exploring for a mile or so, Li Chengzhi ordered the banner soldiers to return.

The rebel general knew that bows and crossbows were useless, so he immediately dispatched cavalry.

Li Chengzhi sneered: When my Jiaqi is a vegetarian?
Without Li Chengzhi's order, Huangfu Rang, who was following the chariot soldiers, immediately went up to meet them.

The two teams of cavalry were still tens of feet apart, and arrows flew randomly in front of the formation.Immediately, an incredible scene appeared for the rebels:

Countless arrows shot at the white-armored soldiers, but they seemed to be scratching their itch. No matter whether they were humans or horses, they ignored them at all. Those who should be charged were still rushing forward, and those who should be shooting arrows were still shooting.

Huangfu Rang, who rushed to the front, had already hung his bow on the iron hook on the horse's belly, and drew out his knife with his probing hand, ready to slash head-on.

On the other hand, among the rebels, although only three or four of the ten riders were hit by arrows, all those who couldn't stand the arrows were unarmored horses.When one horse falls, it trips the next two or three.

Even if some rebels were lucky enough not to be suppressed by the horse, they were trampled to death by the friendly troops behind.

Full armor... Baiqi is really full armor?

How is this fight going?
The traitor was startled and angry, and blood burst from the corners of his eyes.

"Mingjin...Mingjin...return, return..."

But where else can it come?

The group of cavalry sent out was almost killed by the white cavalry.Even a few fish that slipped through the net were replenished with arrows by the chariot soldiers who followed...

In less than half a quarter, the rebel army lost a group of armored cavalry and hundreds of infantry.

Seeing the panicked soldiers retreating backward into the camp, Hu Baozong took a breath like a toothache: "Just put them back like this? It's a pity..."

Li Chengzhi sneered and said, "What else do you want?"

In fact, it is not impossible to pursue the victory, and it is not impossible to defeat these rebels who have already left the camp by relying on iron cavalry.

But you can't just look at the pleasure for a while and ignore the overall situation.

No matter how late Liu Huiwang and Li Wenxiao were, they should have known that the enemy had already arrived at the city, and they were probably frightened and their hairs stood on end.

If the pressure is too tight, all the troops will definitely be pressed up...

Li Chengzhi really wanted to fight decisively, but it was not like this.

Let alone whether they can win, how many of these two thousand cavalry will be left in the end?
His brain is broken to fight like this...

(End of this chapter)