Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 132

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Qiu Yue is very, very envious of Hu Yanzhuo, even a little bit jealous of Hu Yanzhuo!

Because he was born in the Huyan family of Jiangmen, he was the descendant of Huyanzan, the founding general of the Song Dynasty, and he was only in his thirties. He was the same age as Qiu Yue, and Hu Yanzhuo had already managed the capital of Runing County. After Taiwei Gao, his future is even more limitless!
And he, Qiu Yue, practiced martial arts diligently since he was a child, and he never dared to slack off for a while!
But just because of his bad background, let him work hard, and he can only be an ordinary instructor of the Imperial Army!

Later, he was finally fawned on by Gao Qiu and Gao Taiwei, and then he became the instructor of the 80 forbidden army!

however!
The head of the 80 Imperial Guards seems to be the boss of the 80 Imperial Guards, but he is actually a small official the size of a sesame seed and mung bean. Not to mention the control of the capital, it is the director of the Dongcheng Army and the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Government. Prisons are far from comparable.

But Qiu Yue was not discouraged, as long as he was appreciated by Gao Taiwei, wouldn't it be a matter of a word to be promoted?

But when he was flattering Gao Taiwei in every possible way, something happened—under his protection, Gao Yanei, Gao Taiwei's most beloved son, was raped and tossed to death!
During that time, not to mention how upset he was, he felt that his official career was over, and he even felt that he would follow in the footsteps of his two former subordinates, Wang Jin and Lin Chong.

Ok!

Taiwei Gao is magnanimous and gave him and the other three fellow sufferers another chance!
He wants to seize this opportunity!

At the same time, he also wanted to take revenge - if it wasn't for this group of unscrupulous thieves who abolished Gao Yanei, he wouldn't have fallen into such a situation!
When winning the first two passes, he really worked hard, and even used all his strength, and when winning the second pass, he was the first to rush to the pass!

Now there is only one pass left, he can win the first merit, and then eliminate the previous influence, regain the respect of Gao Taiwei, and then find some opportunities to make military exploits again, he will be able to rise to the top and become a wife and son!

Think about it, his blood boils!

The only problem at present is that there are still old friends Zhou Ang and Hu Chunhu Dujian who share the first merit with him.
Therefore, he had to work harder and strive for a great achievement alone, such as capturing Li Yan or something, surpassing his old buddies Zhou Ang and Hu Chun.

With this thought, Qiu Yue accelerated again!
Looking at the old buddies Zhou Ang and Hu Chun from the corner of his eye, Qiu Yue found that Zhou Ang and Hu Chun's speed was not slower than him at all, and Hu Chun was faintly ahead of him!
Qiu Yue cursed secretly: "These two villains have the same idea as Lao Tzu!"

At this moment, dozens of thick iron barrels were pushed out indistinctly from the pass.

Qiu Yue thought in his heart: "This is...could it be a cannon?"

Thinking that this thing was a cannon, Qiu Yue was not afraid at all, and laughed at Li Yan: "A village thief is a village thief, and they want to use artillery to defend the city!"

No wonder Qiu Yue laughed at Li Yan.

In "Water Margin", Hu Yanzhuo was ordered to destroy Shuibo Liangshan, and defeated Song Jiang with a chain of horses. The Liangshan people had to retreat to Wanzi City, which was surrounded by [-] miles of water.

Hu Yanzhuo had nowhere to go, so he thought of someone——Ling Zhen, the number one shooter of Song Dynasty.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the angel came to reward him, Hu Yanzhuo proposed to ask Ling Zhen to come.

Under Gao Qiu's order, Ling Zhen came. After seeing the general Hu Yanzhuo and the vanguard Han Tao, he asked about the distance of Wanzi City, and went to the water's edge to set up a cannon mount, ready to bomb Wanzi City.

Originally, Song Jiang and others were defeated by Hu Yanzhuo, and they had nothing to do with Hu Yanzhuo's serial horses, which was very troublesome. With such a thunderstorm, is there still a way to fight this battle?
But after Wu Yong heard about this, he was not worried, and said, "That's okay. My cottage is surrounded by water, there are many ports, and Wanzi City is far away from the water. Even if there are flying artillery, how can we hit the city side?"

So, they gave up the small village in Yazuitan to see how Ling Zhen fired the cannon.

Ling Zhen fired three cannons in a row. Although Song Jiang was "turned and depressed" and all the leaders were "turned pale", Wu Yong did not panic, saying: "As long as Ling Zhen is lured to the water's edge and he is captured , there will be a way to defeat the enemy.”

After Wu Yong said this, the matter became very simple, the navy led Ling Zhen to the water's edge, and Ruan Xiaoer easily captured Ling Zhen.

Why did Ling Zhen, the number one gunner in the Song Dynasty, let Liang Shanbo be defeated without even making a single battle?
Why didn't the three types of artillery he carried, the wind artillery, the golden wheel artillery, and the mother and child artillery, come in handy?
Ling Zhen's artillery "can travel fourteen to five miles, where the stone cannon falls, the sky collapses and the earth sinks, the mountain collapses and the rocks crack." Why didn't we see such power during the battle with the Liangshan army?
In short, why are Ling Zhen and his artillery battalion so vulnerable?
in fact--

The truth is that, although artillery had been developed long before this time, it had many shortcomings.

When Ling Zhen attacked Wanzi City, he fired a total of three cannonballs.

Among them, only one shot hit the small village by the Yazui Beach, and the others fell into the water. This shows that the performance of this artillery is very unstable and its accuracy is not high.

And the shot that hit did not cause any damage, which shows that the power of this artillery is really not very good.

Ling Zhen erected the gun mounts by the water, and Li Jun and Zhang Heng only brought forty or fifty soldiers who could swim ashore and overturned the gun mounts. After the gun mounts were overturned, Ling Zhen brought more than a thousand people to take Li Jun and others chased them away, which meant that the thousand or so people were not in the artillery position, and they had left quite a distance. There could only be one explanation for this—they were afraid of hurting themselves.

In fact, it can also be seen from the specific battle that Ling Zhen didn't think his own cannon was very effective. On the contrary, he believed in his own martial arts-Hu Yanzhuo gave Ling Zhen more than a thousand people. It was to protect these artillery and artillery positions, but Ling Zhen led these 1000 people to attack Liang Shanshui Army, and was captured by Ruan Xiaoer.

Ling Zhen's later job in Shuibo Liangshan was to "specialize in the production of large and small cannons". Liangshanbo neither established an artillery unit, nor gave him a high position. From this, it can be seen that the cannons at this time are more deterrent than lethal. ——If Ling Zhen and his artillery can make Song Jiang suffer a lot, will he not enter the Tiangang star sequence after going to Liangshan?

All of this can show that the artillery at this time is not to be feared.

Therefore, seeing Liangshan Army launching dozens of cannons, Qiu Yue was not afraid at all, and rushed towards the pass at an unabated speed.

Not only Qiu Yue, Hu Yanzhuo, who was born in Jiangmen, didn't pay attention to Li Yan's dozens of cannons, which can be seen from his lack of further instructions.

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(End of this chapter)