Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 468 Baivarhan
...

The whole group of Liang Shan's army entered Yundi on the front foot, and Gao Qiu led Shi Jiedu on the back foot to attack Shuibo Liangshan.

This time, Gao Qiu, who was eager for revenge and meritorious service, spent all his money and brought not only Shijiedu, but also two people—Liu Menglong and Niu Bangxi.

There is a navy in Jiankang Mansion in Jinling, and the chief commander is called Liu Menglong.

It is said that when Liu Menglong was born, his mother dreamed that a black dragon flew into her belly.

When Liu Menglong grew up, he was good at water. He once made great achievements in beating bandits in the Xichuan Xia River, and was promoted to be an officer in command of the capital.

Gao Qiu specially transferred Liu Menglong, this navy and all the ships under his jurisdiction.

Gao Qiu also sent Niu Bangxi, a lieutenant of the military academy, to search for ships along the river and in the river, and then brought them to Jeju for use in attacking Shuibo Liangshan.

In addition, Gao Qiu has a pair of brave generals under him, one is called Dang Shiying and the other is called Dang Shixiong.

These two were brothers, and they both became commanders. Gao Yu ordered them to select 5000 people from the imperial army.

In total, Gao Lian brought a total of 13 horses to attack Shuibo Liangshan this time.

however--

Although Gao Lian was well prepared, Ruan Xiaoer took advantage of the natural danger of the water to stop him outside the water for more than a month.

It turned out that Liangshan Bing Cao transferred Shan Jinglong, Zhu Neng, Hu Jun, Liu Heihu, Zu Qiu, Wenren Shichong, Cheng Gui, Zhai Yuan, Qiao Zheng, Xie Fu and other water experts to Ruan Xiaoer. Assisting Ruan Xiaoer in guarding Liangshan Po, how did Gao Qi go one step further?
Seeing this, Wang Huan suggested to Gao Qiu: "Zhang Xianggong has many strange men and women, why don't you teach him to attack Liangshanpo together?"

Gao Qiu didn't want Zhang Shuye to steal his credit, so he didn't let Zhang Shuye join him in encircling Shuibo Liangshan. Credit goes to Zhang Shuye.

……

On this day, Ruan Xiaoer brought two people and three or four hundred horses to meet Wu Lin.

As soon as they met, Ruan Xiaoer said to Wu Lin: "Erlang, I brought you two more heroes."

Ruan Xiaoer was Li Yan's brother when he started his family, and he was the first and second general in the navy. One of his two brothers was in command of the peninsula navy, and the other was Li Yan's first personal guard. How could Wu Lin dare to trust him?
Wu Lin immediately went forward and said: "If the second uncle can personally recommend him, he must be a hero who stands above heaven and earth."

Ruan Xiaoer smiled and said, "Erlang is still so good at talking, come on, let me introduce these two heroes to you."

After speaking, Ruan Xiaoer pointed to the two men beside him, and said: "They are the two leaders of Zigai Mountain, Huo Wancheng and Wang Liang, both of whom are highly skilled in martial arts."

Wu Lin heard the words and looked at the two of them, and found that they were both young heroes. Majestic.

Wu Lin said: "When our Shuibo Liangshan was besieged by the Song army, the two of you were still able to vote. They must be heroes with the most affection and nature. I think the governor will not treat you badly."

Huo Wancheng said: "I wanted to come and vote for the Great Governor, but at that time the Great Governor had already been recruited, and the two of us swore against those foolish officials, so we didn't come to vote. Now the Great Governor is the imperial court, To regain the hometown of Yanyun for the Han people, those stupid rulers and officials sent a large army to attack the hometown of the Great Governor, thinking that it is impossible for the Great Governor to be in the same family with those stupid rulers and officials, so I came to vote."

Huo Wancheng and Wang Liang were originally the leaders of Yuanyang Valley. The two leaders of Yuanyang Valley, Qianzhangkeng Xu Pingsheng and Bingshan Han Tongyin, provoked Zhang Shuye's general Yan Shude, which led to the destruction of the village. Huo Wancheng and Wang Liang Take advantage of the chaos and escape.

In that battle, Huo Wancheng and Wang Liang's family members were completely lost in the army, so that they hated the army to the bone, so they swore against the court.

Later, Huo Wancheng and Wang Liang occupied Zigai Mountain and Luocao, gathering four to five hundred like-minded people in one or two years.

Recently, I heard that the imperial court sent a large army to attack Li Yan's hometown. Thinking that Li Yan would no longer be able to fight with the imperial court, Huo Wancheng and Wang Liang raised their strongholds to vote.

Wu Lin said: "In disregard of morality, Zhao Song's monarchs and ministers sent 13 troops to attack our Shuipo Liangshan at the time when the governor led the army to recover the Han people's homeland for them. It is really despicable and shameless. How can the governor come again?" To live in the same hall with these villains?"

Wang Liangdao: "The general is worried about the 13 troops?"

Wu Lin said: "If you say you don't worry, you are lying to both of you. After all, we are outnumbered... But, you two, rest assured, Wu is definitely not a covetous person. He will fight to the death with these villains to show his loyalty! "

Huo Wancheng said: "General, don't be pessimistic. Although the enemy is outnumbered, it is not impossible to defeat the enemy."

Although I felt that Huo Wancheng's words were arrogant, Wu Lin didn't show it at all, but asked sincerely, "I don't know if brother Huo has any good strategies to defeat the enemy?"

Huo Wancheng said: "I'm waiting for a military advisor to come with me, he is a stranger, he is from the Atlantic European country, his name is Baivarhan, he is the son of the skillful master of the other country, Mnem, and he is specialized in making weapons for war. He can make a kind of chariot, which can be said to be invincible. According to him, this chariot can run across the world. We came to vote this time and brought twenty chariots. The white army division will be behind and will arrive soon."

While he was talking, he saw several large ships approaching from a distance, and there were ten or twenty strange vehicles on these large ships.

Each of these strange chariots is one foot and four feet wide, two feet and four feet deep, three feet high and short, three wheels, eight horses, one shaft, and three layers in the middle. There are four layers of spears and sharp hooks, and there are four turning wheels behind the car.

Wu Lin and the others looked surprised!

Soon, the big boat docked and stopped, and then one person got off the leading boat.

This person is of medium build, with pink skin, deep eyes and high nose, green eyes and yellow hair. He wears a bucket-shaped hat with a shallow brim, a red collar and a bell. He looks like a ghost like a human.

After Huo Wancheng and Wang Liang introduced Baivarhan to Wu Lin, Li Yan specially sent Wu Lin's military adviser Zu Shiyuan to say: "I just heard Huo and Wang talking about Mr. Glancing at Mr. Lu's chariot, Xiaosheng dared to guess. Could it be that this chariot was slightly modified by Mr. Lu? It's not that Xiaosheng is talking too much. If it is a battle in a flat place thousands of miles away in the desert outside the side courtyard, it would be best to use Mr. Lu's chariot, but now it is In the hinterland, mountains and forests cover the road, even if there are plains, the roads are only a few miles wide, and Lu Gong's vehicles are also used in these places, isn't it a small tool?"

Bai Varhan said: "The old man only knows the pros and cons of your Zhonghua Lügong chariot, but he doesn't know that although Nalu's official chariot is good, how can it compare with my chariot? My chariot is called Seer Tuxi, and I use your Chinese characters. The translation is the word "Ben Lei". Nalu public car has four wheels and six horses, four shafts, the horse is in front, the car is behind, the turning is the most stupid, and the place where it is stable is the best place to gallop. Besides, since the horse is in the front, it is the most vulnerable , one horse was injured, the whole car was useless, and fell down when it encountered a small pit, and could no longer support it. How can it be compared to my Benlei car, which has the car in front and the horse behind, and the horse drives on flat places, which is dangerous. The difficulty is that there are horses and carts. There are three wheels and eight horses, and only one shaft is used. Those who are tall refuse the horse, but they can't stop him. There are two iron grates behind the hub to prevent the enemy soldiers from throwing iron thorns and thorns on the horse's feet. When encountering the iron grate, they will sweep away. But the horses moved forward and the chariots were behind, and retreated back. The bows, crossbows and blunderbusses were still facing outside, and the enemy could not pursue them. When camping anywhere, the chariots were used as fences, and the people and horses rested inside. The tents inside the chariots were better than iron walls. Only the high mountains cannot be climbed, and the miscellaneous forests cannot be entered, and the rest can go. How can Lu Gongqi get there?"

After finishing speaking, Bai Varhan instructed his subordinates to drive a Benlei car over, and showed it to Wu Lin, Zu Shiyuan and others.

Not long after, the wheels rang and the hub rang, and Bai Walehan's men drove over in a Benlei car.

Wu Lin, Zu Shiyuan and others looked at it and saw:
The front of the chariot was engraved with a giant beast's head, painted in colorful colors, and two big eyes with big buckets went straight to the upper floor of the chariot, which were used as two embrasure holes.

The huge mouth was opened, and all the soldiers in the middle layer were in the mouth, and crossbow arrows could be ejected from the mouth.

The next level is under the giant beast's chin, with six spears and four hooks as beards, and the strong men with hooks inside are all wearing iron armor.

The surroundings of the car are all nailed with raw cowhide and mushroom nails, and the inside is covered with human hair, and the inside of the hair is covered with tissue paper, so guns, arrows and ballistas must not hurt it.

There are four balances on the back of the car, and eight horses are driving.

There is also a small Western-style building on the forehead of the beast, and there is a man standing inside, holding on to a command flag, who is the eyes and ears of the whole army.

Bai Varhan taught people to open the car again, and asked Wu Lin, Zu Shiyuan and others to look at the mechanism inside.

Needless to say, the hooked spears on the lower level and the powerful crossbows on the middle level, but the two guns on the upper level are very powerful.

Bai Varhan explained: "The name of the blunderbuss is 'Falling Box Lianzhu', and there is a copper container on it, which can hold forty gunpowder and forty shots of lead. But add gunpowder and lead to the copper container. Then the gunpowder on the gun door below was lit, and the gunpowder and lead in the copper pot could slip into the barrel and bombard the outside, and the sound of the guns continued continuously until the forty guns were fired. Fang Zhi. If forty blunderbusses are not enough, just add gunpowder and lead to the copper pot, even if thousands of sounds are made one after another. In order to prevent the blunderbuss tube from being hot, prepare a large and small pot under the blunderbuss and pour it frequently. The blunderbuss It can shoot more than a thousand steps far and near, and all of them come from the eye sockets of giant beasts. There are four turning wheels behind the car, which stimulate the pebbles to fly out. Hundreds of steps can be sent."

Wu Lin, Zu Shiyuan and others were all shocked to the point of being unable to add more after listening and watching.

There are 30 people in each car: six use guns on the upper floor, eight use crossbows on the middle floor, ten use hooked spears on the lower floor, five people drive horses on foot behind the cart, and one person handles orders in the Western building. flag.

Sergeants don't need to practice hard, as long as they know how to cooperate, they will use it.

If the advance and retreat can be done in an orderly manner, then the car starts, and it is clearly land-based, with the power of thunder and lightning, and the potential to overwhelm the sea and mountains.

The more Wu Lin, Zu Shiyuan and the others knew about this Benlei Chariot, the more they felt that this Benlei Chariot was ingenious and mighty.

Huo Wancheng and Wang Liang saw it in their eyes and were happy in their hearts. With such qualifications, how could their future be limited?
really!

Just as Huo Wancheng and Wang Liang expected, Wu Lin, Zu Shiyuan and others immediately prepared a banquet for them after they were shocked, and invited Bai Varhan to sit at the head, changing glasses in turn, and drinking to their heart's content.

After three rounds of wine and five tastes of food, Zu Shiyuan began to explore Bai Varhan's background, "How lucky is my family's governor to have such a great talent as Mr. I wonder how many years has Mr. left your country?"

Baivarhan said: "Although I am a Westerner, I was actually born in China. My ancestors were originally from the Yuanqu country. They went to Europe for trade and lived in the Atlantic Ocean. Recently, because the king has good relations with China and business contacts, my parents also I came to China and lived in Macau, Guangzhou, where I was born. My father’s name is Yaya Niai, a very famous artificer in Western countries. He passed away five years ago. I learned my father’s skills as much as possible, from Guangnan. As far as I know, the Guangnan Manufacturing Department later paid me to the government to make some exquisite playthings for the government. I grew up in China, so Chinese etiquette, language, and customs are all saved. The government loves my craftsmanship, but they can't do it in Tokyo. There are too many high-ranking officials who demand too much, and they don’t have enough assistants for me. I can’t supply enough, and some people slander me, saying that the gadgets I make are useless and boring, and I’m addicted to them. I was in charge of Nanbian, and I was spoiled by the officials all the way. I happened to pass by Dayuling, and when I met Huo, the second brother Wang came to rob me. I killed the officials and took me up the mountain. Brother Huo and I were friends when we were in Guangnan. Seeing that I couldn't go back, I planted weeds on him. Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers pursued him so hard that they couldn't stay, so Huo and Wang two brothers abandoned the cottage and joined me in Yuanyang Valley in Tokyo. Not long after arriving there, they were arrested by the village Bravely broken, not safe, today I was fortunate enough to go to Liangshanbo, voted for the governor, and finally settled down. I am just a rough man, but I don’t know the art of war. I can only make some offensive weapons. I still have Shen Luo The method of the boat is the most beneficial in water warfare, and I will apply it to the commander in the future."

Everyone praised Varhan for his great talent, but Zu Shiyuan remained silent.

Seeing it, Wu Lin said, "What is the military division thinking about?"

Patriarch Yuan said: "I'm thinking, how to break this thunderbolt car."

Zu Shiyuan then shook his head, and said again: "This chariot is really ingenious, I can't think of any way to break it, and this chariot can really run wild in the world if it is driven by a military strategist, but... twenty chariots are inevitable. There are too few, I am afraid that there are not three or five hundred vehicles, and it will be difficult to change the strong and weak relationship between us and the Song Army."

Bai Varhan said: "This car is a method that I can't think of to crack it myself. As for the quantity is too small, I can't do anything about it. It took nearly two years for me and thirty apprentices to build these twenty cars. , and it cost a lot, Huo and Wang's savings for many years have been spent on these twenty chariots."

Wu Lin asked: "If you are assigned some skilled craftsmen and you are provided with sufficient supplies, can you produce three or two hundred vehicles within a month or two?"

Baivarhan said: "As long as there are five or seven hundred skilled iron, wood, stone, paper, and lacquer craftsmen each, and sufficient materials, I will rebuild three or two hundred of them within two months."

After thinking for a while, Baivarhan said again: "Although this chariot is well built, it is easy to hook spears and bows and crossbows inside the chariot, only the two lances are not easy, but they need to be carefully crafted by skilled craftsmen. If it is rough, it is not suitable for use, no matter how many craftsmen there are, they will not be able to make three or two hundred in two months."

Wu Lin said: "It doesn't matter, you can use Liannu instead, supplemented by horse infantry, and you can still compete with the Song army."

……

……

Two in one big chapter, that's all for today.

Hmm... After thinking about it, let me explain a few words.

From the function point of view, this Benlei Army is very similar to a tank, but its power is livestock, which is incomparable to a real tank.

But this Benlei car can also be said to be a reasonable imagination of Yu Wanchun for armored vehicles.

This is the best part of "Dang Kou Zhi", and it is also the only place where Yu Wanchun is stronger than Shi Naian and Xu Guanzhong. Of course, this also has a lot to do with their different periods.

I actually thought about it for a long time on whether to take out Ben Lei Che and Shen Luozhou.

In the end I decided to take them out anyway.

After all, the protagonist is a person of later generations, so he must make some advanced weapons, because the vision is there.

And although this Benlei chariot looks like a tank, it is actually modified from the Lugong chariot invented by Jiang Ziya in the Zhou Dynasty, which is not an exaggeration.

As for the characteristics of the "Falling Box Gun" assembled on the Benlei car, it is obvious, this description is a machine gun.

In fact, the Song Dynasty already had muskets and flamethrowers (as I wrote earlier).

During the confrontation between Song and Jin Dynasties, the development of firearms was actually very fast, and many powerful firearms appeared. In the Yuan Dynasty more than 100 years later, the development of firearms was even faster.

Therefore, I think it is not surprising that muskets appear.

Of course, the machine gun is a bit more difficult, so I put a little more barrier on it (making it very difficult to make), so as not to make it look too exaggerated.

Finally, a little spoiler, I let Bai Varhan and Ben Leiche step on the stage now, there is an important purpose.

Well, that's it for now.

(End of this chapter)