Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

Chapter 158 Bastion + Divine Arm Crossbow

"The method of building a city can protect Xixia!"

In an instant, all the officials looked at Fan Zheng with dissatisfaction. Now at this moment, Fan Zheng is still thinking of doing something wrong.

Xixia is a persistent disease that has been a headache for the Song Dynasty for decades. If it can rely on the city to resist Xixia, why wait until today?

In addition, the method of building the city in the Great Song Dynasty has been extremely mature. Even so, the city has been attacked by Xixia many times in a row, which can be said to be a heavy loss. They don't think that Fan Zheng's evil method can double the defense of the city.

Fan Zheng said proudly: "Fan's method of building the city is not a common city in the Song Dynasty, but a military castle. If Jinming Village is built according to Fan's method of building the city, it may have a different ending."

The privy envoy Zeng Bu showed disgust on his face and said: "Fan Taicheng's nonsensical words, do you know the crime of deceiving the emperor?"

Fan Zhengyi said without fear: "Fan naturally knows the crime of deceiving the emperor. However, if you masters understand Fan's method of building the city, this method of building the city will be unbreakable, and it will be difficult for Xixia to move an inch."

"I can't move an inch."

All the officials in the court looked at Fan Zheng like a fool, and they didn't believe Fan Zheng's words in their hearts.

Only Zhao Xu was looking forward to it, because Fan Zheng's evil prescription never let him down.

"The old man will listen to Fan Taicheng's plan of building the city." Zeng Bu sneered in his heart. Today he will reveal the true face of Fan Zheng's military talk on paper, and make the officials completely disappointed in Fan Zheng.

"Bring a pen and paper." Fan Zheng said solemnly.

With a wave of Zhao Xu's hand, Tong Guan immediately presented the pen and paper.

Fan Zheng took the pen and paper, carefully measured on the paper, and solemnly drew the most classic Vauban Bastion in later generations.

Lu Dafang snorted immediately and said, "General Fan Taicheng made a hedgehog look like a hedgehog, do you think it will make Xi Xia unable to speak?"

Zeng Bu also shook his head and said with a smile: "Fan Taicheng's city building is magnificent in shape, like a star, but it is flashy, not to mention that resistance makes it difficult for Xixia to move forward, it is simply vulnerable."

He is a man who knows how to fight, and when he saw the blueprint of the bastion with his eyes, he had already thought of several ways to break the city.

"This fort is completely on paper, with several sharp corners protruding, which is simply superfluous. It increases the enemy's breakthrough surface out of thin air, and increases the risk of breaking the city." Censor Yang Wei satirized Fan Zheng's bastion blueprint, although he is a literati , but I also know that the fewer the city walls, the fewer places the enemy can attack, and the easier it is to defend. The Jiange, where one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it, is the best example.

However, Fan Zheng's bastion blueprint did the opposite, using sharp corners to actively increase the length of the city wall. Isn't this courting death?

The officials of the Manchu Dynasty were also disappointed, shaking their heads and sighing.

Zhao Xu's face was embarrassed. Although he didn't understand military affairs, he also knew that this kind of castle might not be able to withstand Xia Jun's attack.

Fan Zheng didn't panic at all, and nodded solemnly: "This method of building a city is called a bastion. The protruding bastions certainly increase the risk of breaking the city, and at the same time, it will also increase the number of attack points for the defenders, allowing the defenders to attack. Power multiplied."

Zhao Xu's heart moved. Ordinary city walls are only flat and can accommodate limited attack points. However, the sharp corners of the bastions protrude, which is enough to greatly increase the number of defenders that the bastions can accommodate.

"It's just borrowing the idea of ​​a wall facing a horse! It's nothing new in my Song Dynasty." Lu Dafang sneered.The horse-faced wall is a masterpiece of the Song Dynasty's defense system. The city wall protrudes outwards in an arched shape, like a horse's face, which greatly increases the defensive strength. The same principle applies to the towers, increasing the height and increasing the attack point.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "The principle of a bastion is indeed similar to that of the horse face, but the horse face wall is still the concept of the traditional city wall's full defense, while the bastion is different. It advocates offense as defense."

"Based on offense?" All the officials couldn't help but frown, all cities exist for defense, so there is no such thing as offense as defense.

"The two sides of the attacking city in the past dynasties are all the defenders occupying the advantage of the city, and the attacking side has the advantage of troops, while the bastion greatly increases the length of the city wall, increases the strength of the defending side, and limits the strength of the attacking side. The difference between the strength of the defending side and the attacking side is not too big. If the defending side adds a weapon, it will turn decay into magic, and turn such a city that seems to be full of loopholes into a terrifying killing machine. .”

"What kind of weapon is it?" Baiguan asked curiously.

"God Arm Crossbow!" Fan Zheng paused every word.

"God arm crossbow?" All the officials couldn't help being startled. The god arm crossbow is the most powerful weapon of the Song Dynasty. The weapon originally from Xixia caused the Song Dynasty to suffer a lot. During the Shenzong period, Da Song finally obtained the power of the god arm crossbow. Blueprints, mass production and equipment for the whole army, became one of the magic soldiers of the military.

According to the records of the Song Dynasty, the body of the divine arm crossbow is made of wood, sandalwood is used as the bow, iron is used as the head of the gun, copper is used as the horse face and teeth, and hemp rope is tied with silk as the string.The body of the bow is three feet and two inches long, the string length is two feet and five inches, and the arrow wood feather is several inches long. It can shoot more than 340 steps, and it can break through heavy armor.

"My lords, just imagine that all the protruding parts of the bastion wall are full of crossbowmen holding crossbows with god arms, because no matter which side the siege soldiers will be attacked from two or even three sides, and with the horror of the god arm crossbow Lethality, any enemy attacking the bastion will suffer more than ten times the casualties, theoretically speaking, as long as there are enough god arm crossbows, the bastion will never fall." Fan Zheng raised his arms and roared angrily.

The bastion appeared in the era of alternating cold weapons and hot weapons. The best weapon for the defenders was the arquebus. However, the power of the god arm crossbow was comparable to that of the arquebus, and it could complete the task of outputting firepower.

"The bastion never falls."

The eyes of all the officials suddenly turned from disdainful to solemn, especially Zeng Bu, the privy envoy of Zhibing, who had long since lost the previous contempt, carefully deduced on the blueprint of the bastion, but the more he deduced, the more shocked he was.

The traditional method of defending the city can only attack the front of the enemy, and is often blocked by the shield of the attacking party, with little effect. However, the bastion and the crossbow of the god arm will infinitely expand the advantage of the defending party. It will withstand heavy crossbow attacks from the left, right, and even the back, and kill a large number of invading enemies!

"What a bastion! What a substitute for defense!" Zeng Bu suddenly exclaimed.

The traditional method of substituting offense for defense is to take the initiative to attack and rashly increase the risk of defeat, but Bastion applies offense instead of defense to the defense of the city, abandoning the passive beating of the traditional defense of the city, and using the powerful god arm crossbow In the future, if the enemy is killed under the city wall, let alone climbing the city wall, the enemy will suffer huge casualties even if he gets close to the city wall.

"Zeng Aiqing thinks this strategy of Bastion is feasible?" Zhao Xu quickly asked after being surprised.

Zeng Bu nodded his head and said: "This bastion is indeed ingenious. If you equip enough magic arm crossbows, if you want to break through this fort, you will have to pay at least ten times more casualties."

(End of this chapter)