The Sacred Ding

Although Chen Hai and Ning Chan’er joined forces to enter the village, they can kill more than two hundred remaining soldiers and horses in Black Falcon Cliff, but this does not achieve the purpose of training horse infantry through actual combat exercises– They are fighting alone at this time, but when they encounter a stronghold with more than a thousand bandits who can condense and kill soldiers, it can’t always be him and Ning Chan’er alone?

The gate made of iron birch is closed tightly, not much worse than the big iron gate made of iron essence. Chen Hai, Ning Chan’er and Fan Dachun do not fight, ordinary generals shoot overhead The arrow stones that came, the falling stone hurdles that rolled down, if you want to attack such a gate, there will be many casualties.

Chen Hai asked the barracks of more than two hundred slave craftsmen to build a waterwheel, but the ice was taken from the ice lake in front of the Black Falcon Cliff and melted, and the waterwheel continued to spray the water Go to the Zhaimen.

Through the freezing cold of dripping water, the water sprinkled on the front door of the village, and it quickly froze into layers of solid ice, freezing the city passageway into a large block of ice.

Since the gate was difficult to attack, it was simply sealed from the outside, and the thieves were not given the opportunity to send troops from the village to fight back.

After that, Chen Hai made the heavy camp to cut logs in the oasis woods in front of the Black Falcon Cliff, and built siege vehicles, ramming poles, high-rise vehicles, and catapults outside the Black Falcon Cliff Walled City. ……

The partial car is mainly used by the horse infantry to force the wall to block arrows and hit the pole to attack the wall; the car is also extremely simple. The simplest wooden car has two high poles on the shelf. The suspension box can be hoisted to a height of 20-30 meters, so that the elite archers can stand in the suspension box and shoot down the thieves behind the wall of the walled city.

these all are siege warfare weapons recorded in the Military Commandments of the Military Command, and the Mojia Division also has a record of the manufacturing method of a human-type trebuchet, but this kind of trebuchet has not been used in many battles in Yanzhou Not taken seriously.

In addition to the strong city built by Yanzhou, the cast iron shields held by ordinary generals are also very strong. If there are strong soldiers in the Profound Realm, it is not necessary to throw hundreds of catties of stone bullets. , To form a deadly threat.

At the same time, Yanzhou’s bows and crossbows have a very long range. A human-powered catapult usually needs to be placed a thousand steps away in order to be able to operate continuously without being affected by the enemy’s crossbows. .

It is very difficult for a group of people to pull the sling poles synchronously every second. At this time, they want to throw hundreds or even hundreds of catties of stone bullets into the enemy’s formation within a thousand steps. Among them, it may take one to two hundred people to pull the sling at the same time to do this.

If you want to attack the enemy intensively, you need 20-30 catapults at the same time.

At this time, at least 4000-5000 people are needed to coordinate this matter at the same time, and enough guards and horses must be deployed on the periphery to prevent the enemy’s counterattack assault.

Too many drawbacks, so the sling crossbow rarely appears on the battlefield in Yanzhou.

The catapult created by Chen Hai at this time is a heavy-duty catapult manufactured by leveraging principle.

With a heavy trebuchet, one end of the trebuchet is no longer pulled by manpower, but with a strong counterweight box, which is filled with thousands of catties or even tens of thousands of catties of gravel or iron ingots. As a counterweight, it is tied to the tail end of the sling bar; and hundreds of kilograms of stone bullets are loaded in the front end of the sling bar, and the front end of the sling bar is slowly pulled down with a winch and tied with a rope.

When it comes to attacking the enemy formation, use a knife and axe to cut the rope at the end of the bomb abruptly, and the weight box weighing 10,000 catties at the end suddenly falls, and the stone bomb can easily be thrown a thousand or two thousand steps away.

At the same time, 20-30 people can operate a heavy-duty trebuchet. The materials are collected on the spot and the manufacturing is quite convenient. Only the parts that require extremely high strength and need to be cast with gold quenched iron. Chen Hai needs to go out in person.

At this time, Chen Hai compiled 40 Hundred Men Squads for the Ma Infantry. For every heavy trebuchet built by the camp, in addition to arranging more than 20 prisoners to operate, they also arranged one or two Hundreds. Men Squad guards the flanks.

The horse infantry is made of grass, and the battle strength of the generals is only slightly better than that of the ordinary person. Even if a defensive battle formation is formed, the first three or four people form a battle group or battle surface, holding a halberd shield Or a sword and shield, it is basically impossible to stop a violent pawn from the Profound Realm.

In the dense array, a brave soldier in the Profound Realm, holding an iron shield, is enough to resist the lance stabbing of three or four ordinary generals.

This is also the key reason why Fan Dachun doesn’t like captive soldiers and slave soldiers at all.

Chen Hai’s solution to this problem is very simple, which is to use the Macedonian phalanx plus five meters super lance as the mainstay to compile and train these ordinary generals.

The Macedonian phalanx has fatal flaws, but it is the best way Chen Hai can think of at this time to organize and train the horse infantry to fight the elite horse bandits in the boundless sea of ​​sand.

In a dense battle formation, Iron Pole Spear, the length of five meters, allows the first four to five ranks of generals to be in direct contact with the enemy.

In this way, when a soldier in the Profound Realm, even if it is an imperial horse, will no longer be three to four ordinary soldiers, but a dozen or even twenty strokes. The folded iron spear stabbed over. The dense spear wall formed in this way will completely make up for the serious shortcomings of ordinary generals in individual battle strength.

Of course, Chen Hai directly sealed the thieves of the Black Falcon Cliffs in the stockade. He has not had the opportunity to test the formidable power of this super-lance squared square array. It takes time to make a phalanx, and it takes time to transform three or four thousand long iron spears.

At the same time, the Macedonian phalanx needs to cooperate well with the elite cavalry and a large number of auxiliary swordsman, shield soldiers, and archers. At the same time, it must be on a relatively open and flat battlefield to play its due role. .

Chen Hai besieged the Black Falcon at this time, just to buy time as much as possible to train soldiers in actual combat. At this time, the one that can play a role is the heavy-duty catapult that has been built one after another.

Although the formidable power of the stone bullets is greater, there are not enough people to collect the stone bullets. Chen Hai directly arranges for the hands to collect the lake ice to make a large number of hard ice bullets and throw them at the Black Falcon. During the throwing process, these prisoners of war were continuously trained and calibrated to improve the accuracy of throwing, so as to form a dense ice bomb cover on the small wall.

In the manufacture of sling crossbows, Chen Hai was also simple and complicated. First, the craftsmen used ordinary iron to cast the parts and the ordinary Poplar Tree to make the sling poles, but slowly replaced them with thousand-year-old Populus And hardened iron castings.

By the fifteenth day, the heavy camp had built twenty catapults that could fire hundreds of hundreds of catties of ice bombs at the same time.

Even if Spirit Realm was established, he did not dare to easily pick up a hundred catties of ice bombs thrown from two thousand steps away. Instead, the strong wall made of black sandstone poured iron The dense and precise continuous strikes are also covered with dense cobweb-like cracks, which will collapse at any time.

The scale of Black Falcon Cliff Village is much smaller than Black Mountain City, only four hundred steps square.

At night, the sling crossbow changed the weight of the counterweight box, adjusted the range, and threw a large number of stone bullets into the walled city, causing heavy casualties to the thieves, and they did not dare to rest.

I also insisted on the fifteenth day, and did not see reinforcements appearing. The hundreds of remnants in the stockade recognized that Chen Hai was actually training with them, except for the dozen or so bosses who fled at night. The others surrendered happily.

After stronger self-confidence, expelling the boss, Fan Dachun also obediently accepted Chen Hai’s suggestion and selected some of the captives of Black Falcon Cliff to join the cavalry team to supplement the lack of battle strength; The hundred elite slaves were selected and incorporated into the horse infantry and barracks.

Similar to the disposal of Black Mountain Village, bulk materials such as grain cannot be taken away, and the cowardly and fateful slaves are abandoned on the open field, let people come and fetch them, and leave them alone.

The 5,000-6,000 troops did not stop at the Black Falcon Rock. After all, the past ten days were mainly for training. It was much easier than the previous forced march that lasted two or three days. There is nothing for ordinary generals. Consumption.

And everyday all has a small amount of Shique honey to take, the soldiers selected from the slaves, the weak body will be slightly changed and strengthened; the day after the capture of the Black Falcon Cliff, Chen Hai Dang and the others led more than four thousand horse infantry and barracks, and drove directly to Jinxiangling, four hundred miles away.

Although the twenty stone throwing crossbows are extremely heavy, they are disassembled into hundreds of large and small parts, and they are dragged directly in the boundless sand with thousands of horses. The speed of travel is not too slow.

Fan Dachun took the lead of more than 400 fine horsemen approaching the periphery of Jinxiangling, blocking more than 400 thieves in the cottage, so that they had no chance to abandon the village and escape; the horse infantry dragged on for two days and carried a sling crossbow. The large and small parts come and assemble outside the Jinxiangling Village.

The same steps of attacking the village have been demonstrated in the previous round, and Korean is already familiar.

First divert water to solidify and freeze the gate of the village, so that the thieves did not have the opportunity to counterattack the village. Then they assembled twenty sling crossbows by calm, and collected the lake ice bombs. The thieves threw over the sky.

More than four thousand horse infantry, 20 Hundred Men Squad continue to form Defensive Array type on the empty oasis meadow outside the stockade to practice the Macedonian lance phalanx; ten Hundred Men Squad to practice the sword and shield Array; Ten Hundred Men Squad practice shooting; Fan Dachun led more than 400 elite cavalry to monitor one side to prevent sudden changes.

At this time, Chen Hai didn’t seem to care at all what happened to the besieged Hexi of Yequshan sending soldiers and horses, nor did he send anyone to investigate the movement of the West Qiang State, or even care about the West Qiang State. In the end, the reinforcements of Pinglu were not lured by the horse thief, nor did he care who was in Xiqiang who wanted to overthrow the Ye’s Royal Family who ruled the Pinglu Oasis at this time.

When Hangeul can organize training and strikes in an orderly manner, Chen Hai’s main energy is to cast more precise and stronger parts, and to transform the sling crossbow step by step to be more sophisticated and stronger .

More than four hundred thieves were trapped in the stockade, and the hearts of the people were scattered. Chen Hai was able to calmly borrow the vitality of Heaven and Earth to condense flames, melt gold and cast iron, and make better castings, and at the same time work hard to throw stones The crossbow is made smaller, making it easier to dismantle and transport.

Ning Chan’er also eagerly ran over to help at this time. Of course, her purpose was to learn how to make and use a heavy catapult.

This type of heavy-duty catapult, which is not recorded in the First Volume of the military training record, is not complicated to manufacture. At least it is much simpler than the organ continuous crossbow, but it is usually used by generals for siege. Surrounded by the village, the formidable power is considerable.

Especially after a large amount of hardened gold iron has greatly increased the strength of sling rods and other components, it is even possible to throw tens of thousands of kilograms of stone bullets.

She can imagine that once this type of heavy-duty catapult is arranged outside the city and tens of thousands of generals are called to operate, the Defensive Great Array in Yanjing City will be threatened. –The birth of Chen Hai turned out to completely change the old war pattern in Yanzhou.