Dajin picked up a god of war

Chapter 388 What is the opposite building?
According to standard regulations, a chariot must be equipped with at least 60 people. In addition to the soldiers standing on the chariot and responsible for attacking, there are also foot soldiers on both sides of the chariot who follow the chariot along the way. These soldiers are responsible for feeding the infantry on the chariot. It takes about 20 people to pass weapons and provide food and grass.

60 people need to stand on a chariot, and these 60 people have to perform various offensive actions on the chariot.

Archery, slashing, there is no shortage of everything, think about how spacious a heavy chariot needs to be.

The wooden chariots are quite small in scale, just like the carriages used for people's transportation, and a maximum of four or five people can be seated in one car.

Any more and the car will fall apart.

However, the chariot built by Xie Xuan actually overcame the shortcomings of the generally small size of the wooden cart. The modified toad car can not only be used by many people, but also has a cover. Soldiers do not have to fight in the open air, they can hide in Among the chariots, the chariot, led by its own cattle and horses, can automatically make the chariot move forward, without the need for the soldiers in the car to operate it.

Although the toad car has a cover, the entire car body is actually not taller than the general chariot, and relatively slightly shorter.

However, the first impression of the toad car is that it is huge.

Although the height of the chariot is a little short, it can accommodate a lot of soldiers. As far as the toad chariot in front of me is concerned, eighty soldiers can fight at the same time in one car, and the space is still very rich.

Why is the not tall toad car able to accommodate so many soldiers?

Where is the secret?
The Beifu soldiers were busy pulling the chariots one after another out of the workshop, but Police Shen was not in a hurry to keep up with them. One by one.

Visually, the height of the toad car is only more than ten feet, and because it is covered with a cover, it looks a little short from a distance.

But soon, Police Shen saw that some soldiers who were ready to fight jumped into the toad car and got ready for battle in the workshop.

Police Shen approached them and observed carefully. When the cover of the toad car was lifted, he finally discovered the mystery!
The soldiers in the toad car were all half-squatting!
And the cover of the toad car is also detachable!

The weapons commonly used by Beifu soldiers today are nothing more than broadswords and spears. Among them, the ring-headed sword is relatively short and easy to carry.

But because the spear has a wooden pole at the back end, the wooden pole is generally about five feet in length, and it is easy to carry it on the shoulder.

However, it is not easy to bring a chariot. Imagine how much space each soldier needs to carry a spear on his body!

It is precisely because the long-pole weapon occupies a large area and is inconvenient to carry. In the past, the chariots were made into the open air, and there were also considerations in this regard.

The soldiers stood on the chariot in the open air. The weapons were easy to carry, and the operation space was larger, and it was even convenient to get on and off the chariot.

However, the soldiers in the toad chariot did not hold weapons. Except for long knives, which were easy to carry, weapons such as spears and halberds, which were inconvenient to carry, were all stored by the soldiers in the corner of the chariot.

The rear flap of the toad car can also be opened. When the chariot arrives under the city of Xiangyang, it is quite easy for the soldiers in the toad car to get up and fight in the chariot or to jump out of the car to fight outdoors.

During the march of the chariot, the soldiers squatted in the chariot like this. Because of the cover, the enemy could not see the situation in the chariot and did not dare to attack rashly.

When the chariot stopped, the Beifu soldiers could file out and attack aggressively. Of course, this kind of combat method could be spread on the battlefield, or relying on the well-trained Beifu soldiers.

Long-term cooperation and tacit understanding, whether it is attacking or retreating, there are rules and regulations, which are the characteristics of Beifu soldiers.

It was precisely because of this advantage that they dared to put aside their protective spears, and temporarily capture them when they were about to jump off the chariot.

It seems to be a very simple action, but in fact, it is quite difficult to do it on the chaotic battlefield.

It is necessary to ensure that the soldiers can jump off the chariot neatly, and when taking weapons, they must be fast and obey the order. Looking at the territory of Dajin, no other troops can do it except the Beifu soldiers.

Before the toad chariot entered the battlefield, Police Shen could have predicted how much damage this new type of chariot would cause to the arrogant Di Qin army.

Xie Xuan is a practical person. Although he doesn't talk so much on weekdays, since he arrived at Xiangyang City, he has been supervising the craftsmen to make tools for siege.

It was not until he saw it with his own eyes that Police Shen was surprised to discover that there were not only one invincible chariot, but twenty toads!

Twenty!

If all the twenty toad cars were parked under the Xiangyang City Tower, it would be estimated that they could be lined up in a row, blocking the main entrance of Xiangyang City.

It will not be easy for Qin Bing to go out of the city to fight again!

so amazing!

One wave of shock has not yet subsided, and another wave of shock has arisen.

Police Shen had just satisfied his curiosity and planned to leave the workshop with the last toad truck, but he was startled that there were weapons being continuously delivered behind him.

And this kind of weapon, although it can be called a kind of "chariot", is obviously not a toad chariot.

Is this the legendary "opposite building?"

Shen Jing suddenly remembered the task explained by Xie Xuan. In addition to the toad car, he did mention that he would also pull out the opposite building to participate in the battle.

During the few days when Police Shen was helping in the workshop, the craftsmen were busy making toad carts, and they hadn't heard of any other weapons for the building.

The opposite building in front of him really opened Shen Jing's eyes.

What is this thing used for?
It's amazing!
That pair of buildings is really worthy of the name "lou", because it really looks like a building!

Its chassis is about the same as that of a toad car. It is made of pure wood, but compared to the toad car, the chassis on the opposite floor is not so wide, and the interior is also hollow, which can accommodate about twenty soldiers.

The difference is that the toad car has a cover, while the top of the opposite building does not have a cover, but is open-air.

On the cover of the open air, there are two sets of vertical ladders similar to the Lingyun Ladder. The vertical ladder is about ten feet high.

On the two vertical ladders, a mortise and tenon structure is used to build a horizontal ladder. Compared with the vertical ladder, the horizontal ladder is larger.

Police Shen stood opposite the building and observed the money for a long time. He really couldn't imagine what such a combination of ladders could do.

Probably also a siege tool?

After thinking about it, Shen Jing can only make such a judgment, Mr. Xie is not an ordinary person!
There are so many geniuses in Beifu!
Although Wang Mi is a talented young man, Xie Xuan is not an ordinary person. Look at the weapons he built, all of them are foreign objects, and they have never been seen on the battlefield before.It can be seen that Xie Xuan also has real skills!
The abundance of talents is indeed the luck of Beifu!
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