The Sacred Ding Chapter 248: Strike the village
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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 the horse and infantry through actual combat exercises. Shi fought alone, but he and Ning Chan'er couldn't fight alone when he encountered a stronghold with more than a thousand bandits who could condense and kill soldiers?
The gate made of iron birch is closed tightly, not much worse than the large iron gate made of fine iron. Chen Hai, Ning Chan'er and Fan Dachun did not fight, and ordinary generals braved the arrows shot from the head. , The falling rocks, if you want to attack such a gate, there will be no fewer casualties.
Chen Hai asked the barracks of more than 200 slave craftsmen to build a waterwheel. However, the ice was taken from the ice lake in front of the Black Falcon Cliff and melted, and the waterwheel continued to spray water onto the gate of the village. .
Through the freezing cold of dripping water, the water sprinkled in front of the gate of the village, which quickly froze into layers of ice, freezing the city gate cave 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.
Afterwards, Chen Hai made the heavy camp to cut logs in the oasis woods in front of the Black Falcon Cliff, and built siege vehicles, rams, stair carts, and stone crossbows outside the Black Falcon Cliff Walled City...
The side car is mainly used by the horse infantry to force the wall to block the arrow stone and hit the pole to attack the wall. The car is also very simple. The simplest wooden car has two high poles on the shelf. As long as the suspension box can be hoisted to Twenty to thirty meters high, it is convenient for elite archers to stand in the hanging box and shoot down the thieves behind the wall of the walled city.
These are all siege weapons recorded in the Military Commandments of the Military Command, and the Mojia Division also has records of manpower trebuchet manufacturing methods, but this kind of trebuchet has not received much attention in many battles in Yanzhou.
In addition to the strong cities built in Yanzhou, the cast iron shields held by ordinary generals are also extremely strong. If there are strong soldiers in the Profound Realm, it is not necessary to throw hundreds of catties of stone bullets to become deadly. Threat.
At the same time, Yanzhou’s bows and crossbows have a very long range. A human-powered trebuchet usually needs to be placed a thousand steps away to be able to carry out continuous operations 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 a hundred catties or even hundreds of catties into the enemy’s formation within a thousand steps. It takes one or two hundred people to pull the sling at the same time to do this.
If you want to attack the enemy intensively, you need twenty or thirty catapults at the same time.
At this time, at least four to five thousand people are required to coordinate this matter at the same time, and enough guards must be deployed on the periphery to prevent the enemy's counterattacks.
Too many disadvantages, so the sling crossbow rarely appears on the battlefield in Yanzhou.
The catapult that Chen Hai built at this time was a heavy-duty catapult manufactured using the principle of leverage.
Equipped with a heavy trebuchet, one end of the trebuchet is no longer pulled by manpower, but is equipped 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 system To the tail end of the sling bar; and put hundreds of kilograms of stone bullets in the front-end cartridge of the sling bar, slowly pull the front end of the sling bar with a winch and tie it with a rope.
When it comes to attacking the enemy's formation, use a knife and axe to slash the rope at the end of the bomb, and the weight box weighing tens of thousands of catties at the end suddenly falls, and the stone bomb can easily be thrown one or two thousand steps away.
At the same time, twenty or thirty people can operate a heavy-duty trebuchet, which can be made from local materials and is very convenient to manufacture. Only for the parts that require extremely high strength and need to be cast with hardened iron, Chen Hai needs to go out in person.
At this time, Chen Hai organized forty centuries for the Ma Bujun. For every heavy trebuchet built by the heavy battalion, in addition to arranging more than 20 prisoners to operate, they also arranged one or two centuries to guard the flanks.
The horse infantry is made up of grass, and the combat power of the generals is only slightly better than that of ordinary people. Even if they form a defensive battle formation, the first three or four people form a combat team or battle surface, holding a halberd or sword shield, It was impossible to stop a violent **** in the Tongxuan Realm from rushing.
In the dense array, a brave soldier of the Profound Realm, holding an iron shield, is enough to resist the stabbing of three or four ordinary generals and soldiers with a spear.
This is also the key reason why Fan Dachun couldn't appreciate the captive soldiers and slave soldiers.
Chen Hai's solution to this problem is very simple, which is to use the Macedonian phalanx plus a five-meter super long spear to 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 horse infantry to fight the elite horse bandits in the vast sea of sand.
In a dense battle formation, the five-meter long iron spear allows the first four to five ranks of generals to directly contact the enemy.
In this way, when a strong **** in the Profound Realm, even if it is an imperial horse, will no longer be three or four ordinary pawns, but a dozen or even twenty overlapping iron spears. Stabbed over. The dense spear wall formed in this way can completely make up for the serious shortcomings of ordinary generals in individual combat power.
Of course, Chen Hai directly sealed the thief soldiers of the Black Falcon Yazhai in the stockade. He has not had the opportunity to test the power of this super-long spear square. After all, it is necessary to edit the square. Time, it will take time to transform three or four thousand lengthened 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, only to buy time as much as possible to train troops 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 stone bullets are more powerful, 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. At the same time, 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 parts and ordinary poplar trees to make sling poles. However, they slowly replaced them with thousand-year-old Populus wood and hardened iron castings. .
By the fifteenth day, the yinzhong battalion had built twenty catapults, which could fire hundreds of ice bombs at the same time.
Even if a martial artist in the spirit realm, he dare not easily pick up a hundred catties of ice bombs thrown from two thousand steps away. The strong wall made of black sandstone poured iron is dense and precise. In the continuous bombardment, there were also dense cobweb-like cracks, which would collapse at any time.
The scale of Black Falcon Cliff 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, but did not see any reinforcements appearing. After more than a hundred remnants in the stockade realized that Chen Hai was actually training with them, except for the dozen or so bosses who fled at night, everyone else suffered. 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 the Black Falcon Cliff to join the cavalry team to supplement the lack of combat power; also selected hundreds of elite slaves Come out and be incorporated into the horse infantry and barracks.
Same as Heishanzhai’s disposal, food and other bulk materials can’t be taken away, and cowardly and resigned slaves are abandoned on the open field, let people come and fetch them, and leave them alone.
Five or six thousand men and horses didn't do anything to stop at Black Falcon Rock. After all, the past ten days were mainly composed of training. It was much easier than the forced march that lasted two or three days before, and ordinary generals did not consume much.
A small amount of Shique honey was taken every day, and the soldiers selected from the slaves were weakened and strengthened slightly; the day after the attack on Black Falcon Cliff, Chen Hai waited with Han Wen. With more than 4,000 horses and infantry and barracks, they drove directly to Jinxiangling, which is 400 miles away.
Although the twenty stone throwing crossbows are extremely heavy, they are dismantled into hundreds of large and small parts and dragged directly in the vast sea of 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, and blocked 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 also brought the large and small parts of the catapult. , Assemble outside Jinxiangling Village.
The same steps of attacking the village have been demonstrated in the previous round, and the 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 catapult crossbows leisurely, collected the lake ice to make bombs, and threw them over the thieves’ village. past.
More than four thousand horses infantry, twenty hundred teams continue to form a defensive formation on the empty oasis meadow outside the stockade~IndoMTL.com~ to practice the Macedonian spear phalanx; ten hundred teams, practice the sword and shield formation; Ten teams of one hundred people practice shooting; Fan Dachun led more than 400 elite cavalrymen to monitor one side to prevent unexpected changes.
At this time, Chen Hai didn’t seem to care about what happened to the Hexi who was besieged by Yequ Mountain and sent soldiers and horses, nor did he send anyone to investigate the movement of the West Qiang State, or even care about whether the West Qiang State’s reinforcements were or not. Being lured by a horse thief, he didn't care who was in Xiqiang who wanted to overthrow the Ye royal family who ruled the Pinglu Oasis at this time.
When Hangeul can organize training and bombard the thieves 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 dissipated. Chen Hai was able to borrow the vitality of heaven and earth calmly, condense flames, melt gold and cast iron, and make more sophisticated castings. At the same time, he also worked hard to create the shape of the catapult. Smaller, it's easier to dismantle and haul down.
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 in its manufacturing process. At least it is much simpler than the organ continuous crossbow, but it is usually used by generals to siege cities. The 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 catties of stone bullets.
She can imagine that once this type of heavy-duty sling crossbow is deployed outside the city and tens of thousands of generals are deployed to operate, the defense formation of Yanjing City will be fatally threatened-Chen Hai The birth of Yanzhou really completely changed the old war pattern in Yanzhou.