Confucianism in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 18
Luonan Road, the confluence of Luoshui River and Dahe River, is an important waterway connecting Guanzhong and the Yellow River. It is also an important hub for the Qin Army to transport grain and grass through the waterway. Luo Jing transported grain and grass to the main camp of the Mongolian army outside the river via the Yellow River.

At this time, the boats on the river were going back and forth, and the Qin army's supply team and the recruited civilian men were busy unloading grain and grass to the wharf on the river bank, and everything was in order.

"General, this batch of newly arrived military rations has been counted, totaling [-] shi, and can be shipped in the future." A potato officer reported to Qin General Huan Qi.

"Very good, but you must remember that there must be no mistakes." Huan Qi instructed, he did not dare to be sloppy in this matter, otherwise even if he made a mistake, he would not be able to afford it.

"Don't worry, General!" Officer Dian Shu bowed and promised.

At this moment, someone shouted in the distance: "Look, what is that?"

I saw a cloud of smoke and dust billowing in, and everyone looked around, and saw hundreds of soldiers on horses galloping towards them. They held spears and wore iron armor, and they were menacing.

"What is Wei Jun?!" Huan Qi was shocked, how could this Wei Jun suddenly appear here.

"Kill!" Wei Wuzu Huozi Battalion Commander Ji Huan raised his spear and charged forward first. The good horse under his crotch flew like an arrow from the string, and it was close in front of him in an instant. Ji Huan roared and swung the spear Immediately, several soldiers of the Qin army were pierced through their bodies, and fell to the ground dead with a scream.

"Kill!" A group of knights followed closely behind, and the spears in their hands stabbed at Qin Bing like poisonous snakes, and each of Qin Bing was pierced through his body and died tragically on the spot.

"Close the gate of the village for me!" Seeing this, Huan Qi hurriedly ordered.

"But what about the soldiers and food outside?" Dian Shu officer asked hesitantly.

"I can't control so much anymore!" Huan Qi gritted his teeth and said.

"Quick! Bowmen get ready! Shoot me! Don't let this group of Wei knights break through the gate!" Huan Qi shouted loudly.

The soldiers of Qin assembled quickly, set up their bows and shot arrows, and the dense arrows poured towards the knights of Wei State.

All of a sudden, the knights of the state of Wei were overturned by the dense rain of arrows.

"Bring me back!" Ji Huan hurriedly stopped his men, it was unwise to use the lives of his cavalry to fill up the camp, he didn't want his men to die in vain.

Seeing Wei Jun retreating, Huan Qi was relieved, but he was afraid that this might just be the vanguard of Wei Jun.

The group of Wei knights did not retreat, but hung out of the range of Qin soldiers' bows and crossbows, staring at Qin soldiers like a pack of wolves.

He also didn't dare to open the gate of the village. As a result, the entire Qin army was divided into two parts: the outside of the village and the inside of the village.

After a while, I saw a crowd of people on the mountain road in the west, with banners unfurling, and the darkness was overwhelming. It turned out that an army of tens of thousands of people was coming here.

"It's Wei's army, our army is finished!" Looking at the scene in front of him, Huan Qi turned pale.

"General, it's better to take advantage of the fact that the Wei army is not encircled, and go out." Dian Shuguan said.

"If you lose the Luonan River, even if you escape, you will die. It's better to fight the enemy!" Huan Qi said, he already had the will to die. Since he can't escape, he might as well fight these Wei troops. This is the only thing he can do. Things to do.

At this time, a group of Wei soldiers outside the village was lining up. The commander of the Wei army was none other than Lord Xinling Wei Wuji, and his eyes were fixed on the gate of the Qin army's village.

"The army has completed its formation. General, do you want to attack the stronghold?" The lieutenant beside him asked Lord Xinling.

"Order Ji Huan to lead four battalions of soldiers and horses to attack the Qin army on the river bank." Lord Xinling said.

"Push the completed catapult forward." Lord Xinling said again.

This catapult was actually a catapult built by Fu Nian with local materials according to Fu Nian's advice to Lord Xinling.

Pao chariots already existed in the Spring and Autumn Period, this time it was just Fu Nian's improvement on the original basis.

This kind of self-propelled gun vehicle can use two other pillars to support the gun when it is in use, and the wheels are off the ground, which not only stabilizes the gun, but also increases the height of the gun.Although the power and the weight of the projectile are not as good as the fixed gun, it is much more convenient.

I have seen Gongluojia's amazing mechanism beast before, but this thing about him is not worth mentioning.

This world is very different from the pre-Qin era of the original world. Not only does it have a martial arts system, but also black technologies such as mechanism beasts, and the development of the entire army has reached the level of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

For example, this very obvious army armor rate, he has walked along the way, almost all the armies of the Seven Kingdoms are armored.On the other hand, it is the cavalry. Compared with the same period in the original world, the cavalry in this world has become popular and has developed armored cavalry.

Fu Nian checked the cables, winches, and cannon tips of these catapults.

Compared with the human-powered projectile of this era, the elastic projectile is considered a great improvement, but this simple version of the catapult, both the bracket and the winch, are made of wooden imitation, and the stability and durability are not high.

根据投石车车重，绞盘的拉力一般应为车重的1.5~2倍，投石车车重约是300公斤，300x1.5÷0.453=993.39磅=4479N。

That is to say, theoretically, the maximum throwing weight of this catapult is about 400kg-450kg.

The soldiers of the Wei army have begun to load the catapult according to the order he gave.

Fu Nian used tree branches to calculate on the ground. Ballistic calculation is a very complicated project, and at the level of this era, the parameters that affect the ballistic are also impossible for him to measure.

For example, the friction coefficient of air at low subsonic speed is greatly affected by temperature, humidity, and air pressure, which can only be estimated but cannot be accurately calculated.

The most important thing is that the working state of the homemade trebuchet changes greatly, and the spread area of ​​multiple throws is also large. For such an unstable system, it is difficult to perform ballistic calculations.

But Fu Nian is not helpless. He has done ballistic sampling tests before, and made several ballistic tables from the samples of impact points.Make a two-dimensional table with different power outputs as rows and corresponding drop point distances as columns.

He now only needs to use this table to determine the throw and throw angle adjustment used for the projection at a known distance, and he can get a roughly accurate landing point.

"Brother Fu, what are you doing?" Zhang Tantou and the others approached and asked in confusion.

Fu Nian looked back slightly and said, "I'm just calculating the landing point."

"I don't understand these things. I really don't know what's in your little brain." Zhang Tan scratched his scalp and smiled honestly.

Fu Nian ignored him and continued to make calculations on the ground.

Yu Chan'er ran to Fu Nian with a curious look. It was the first time she saw these ghost-drawing talisman-like things, but just looking at Fu Nian's serious expression, she felt an inexplicable feeling of admiration in her heart, and couldn't help but look at them. Into the gods.

"Put in 100 catties of stone bullets, the bar and the heavy object rotate in an arc of 85 degrees, and form a 40 degree angle with the ground." After calculating the model, Fu Nian got up and gave orders to the slingshot soldiers.

Although these soldiers didn't understand what Fu Nian said, but Fu Nian had taught them how to do it before, and they were still ready according to Fu Nian's order.

Fu Nian checked and adjusted the angle of the throwing stones one by one, and then ordered the throwing soldiers to prepare to throw.

"put!"

Accompanied by an order, the stone bullets flew out and hit the wall of the village, hitting the wall in an instant, causing agitated dust to scatter in all directions.

The guarding soldiers of the Qin Army covered their noses as they watched the billowing smoke and dust.

After a while, the smoke and dust faded away, and everyone in the Qin army could see clearly that the wall of the village had been sunken, revealing a huge gully. If the stone bullet hit them just now, they would be crushed to pieces.

All the soldiers of the Qin army looked terrified.

The flying stone was thrown again and hit Qin Jun's formation.

For a while, the Qin army was in a mess, and many people were smashed with blood and flesh, wailing all over the field.

"The crossbowmen are ready!" Lord Xinling Wei Wuji said in a deep voice.

The archers of the Wei army had already set up their formation, their bowstrings were tense, and following Lord Xinling's order, they suddenly loosened their bowstrings.

The arrow pierced the sky and flew towards Qin Jun on the opposite side like a horse.

Qin Jun's shield hand immediately raised his shield to block the incoming arrows, only to hear a few muffled bang bang bang, the arrow pierced the shield and inserted into the chest of the Qin Jun soldier, blood flowed down the wound, staining the armor. red.

Huan Qi's face was gloomy, he looked at Wei Jun in the distance, clenched his fists tightly, wishing he could rush out and fight Wei Jun.

Another burst of dense arrow rain hit, and the Qin army was in chaos, and many people were shot and killed before they could avoid it.

Although the Qin army fought back sporadically, they were extremely vulnerable in the dense arrow rain.

"Pass me the order, the whole army presses forward, first board the camp and prepare." Seeing that the time is right, Mr. Xinling gave the order to attack.

Following Lord Xinling's words, Wei Jun began to slowly approach the wall of the stronghold.

Ji Huan on the left took the lead and led the knights from Huoziying towards the Qin army on the river bank. He brandished his lance and shouted loudly.

"charge!"

The Wei army roared in unison, the horses neighed, and rushed towards the formation of the Qin army.

"Shieldman! Shieldman!"

The shields are combined into an army formation, which firmly protects the Qin army. The soldiers of the Qin army hold the weapons in their hands tightly and wait for the formation.

"kill!"

With a sharp whistle, the long spear came out of the sea like a dragon, stabbing out suddenly, with the force of ten thousand jun, the force was like a thousand catties, the shield was lifted away, and the soldiers of the Qin army were overturned.

The spear stabbed out again, and two more people were thrown to the ground.

The cavalry of the Wei army rushed to the front of the formation. They held spears, drove straight in, rushed into the formation of the Qin army, and rushed to kill.

The Qin army's shield immediately collapsed, and the soldiers kept screaming and being picked up and stabbed to death.

As the infantry of the Wei army joined the battlefield, the Qin army on the river bank collapsed across the board.

.........

"Load 200 catties of stone bombs!" Fu Nian readjusted the angle and axle moment of the catapult, and ordered the catapult to throw it again.

The boulder whizzed out and hit the wall of the Qin army. With a loud bang, the wall collapsed, killing many soldiers.

The Wei army in the rear took the opportunity to launch a general attack and rushed towards the wall of the village.

"Quick! Block the gap!" Huan Qi yelled loudly. He led his own soldiers, holding a long knife, and rushed to the front, fighting bravely.

Huan Qi took the lead, and chopped down a Wei soldier with a single blow, and then cut down the leading Wei soldier to the ground with another slash.

"Qin Dog! I'll kill your grandfather!" Zhang Tan jumped up, swung his long knife and slashed at Huan Qi. His knife was extremely powerful and imposing.

Huan Qi hurriedly held the saber to meet them, there was a clang sound, the long sabers collided, Huan Qi was shocked and retreated two steps, the tiger's mouth was split open in his hand, blood dripped down, and he managed to catch Zhang Tan's saber.

"Hmph!" Zhang Tan snorted coldly, and a gust of wind howled towards him.

He only felt a white light flash in front of his eyes.

"Pfft!"

A sharp blade pierced through his body and protruded from his back.

Then there was another knife, and a head was thrown high and fell to the ground.

With the rise of Zhang Tansha, he rushed directly into the enemy's formation, reaping the lives of the Qin army like cutting melons and vegetables...

Lord Xinling came to the bank of the Luo River, and seeing the grain and grass piled up at the ferry, he couldn't help sighing.

"We have succeeded in this first step." Fu Nian said softly when he saw Lord Xinling seemed worried.

"What do you think our army should do next?" Mr. Xinling said.

"You should cut down the wood for a boat, cut off the water and intercept the river, control the Luonan Road, and cut off the supply of food and grass for the Qin army." Fu Nian said.

"Not bad." Lord Xinling Wei Wuji nodded approvingly.

"However, the most important step depends on the news from General Pang Nuan and Sister Ji and the actions of the farm family." Fu Nian said again.

"Korean Gongsunying is a man who knows how to fight. I don't think he will refuse. You don't have to be careful about the actions of the farmer."

Lord Xinling Wei Wuji pondered for a moment, and said: "Yanran's side is the most critical move in this game, now we just need to wait."

The main reason why he detoured so far was to prevent the Meng Ao army from coming to rescue, and at the same time bypassed Ye Wang and Wu Sui, cutting off the supply of food and grass for the Qin army without bloodshed.

.........

In Luoyi, the camp of the Qin army, Wang Yu sat in the tent. He looked at a letter in front of him, his brows were furrowed, and his expression was quite serious.

"How could this Wei army appear on Luonan Road? In this way, the waterway from Heluo to Guanzhong will be completely blocked by Wei army!" Wang Wei worried.

"Immediately order the entire army to stop transporting food and grass from the waterways, and all the ministries will not be able to stand firm, and order the Black Ice Terrace to urgently send a letter to General Meng Ao to return to aid with the red fire seal, and report the incident here to Xianyang, and report to the Prime Minister."

"Here." The guard next to him promised and left quickly.

His eyes are constantly changing, cloudy and sunny.

Wei Jun got the food and grass in Luonan Road, and the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the country has gone bankrupt. He doesn't know the details of Wei Jun at the moment, so it's better to be more cautious.

(End of this chapter)