Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1066 Weapon Innovation Brought by Science

Baturmu was able to grasp this distance with such precision, he was indeed a rare good general with rich experience in cavalry battle formation.However, the difference in weapons and equipment between the two sides is too great, and the Volunteer Legion has prepared a whole winter for this battlefield. Huang Dongqiu's ability to command and fight is no worse than that of Baturmu. The army is not weak in comparison.Under these factors, it is obviously not easy for Batum to defeat the Volunteer Legion.

It can be seen that the armor of the ten thousand armored cavalry of the Wolf Guards is not light, and even the heavy armored cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom are not much different. Fortunately, their horses are all good horses, authentic tall and long-legged Western Region good horses, Otherwise, it would not be able to bear the armor and people weighing nearly two hundred catties at all.

Each legion of Xiangfu Kingdom has a battalion of heavy armored cavalry, so in order to gather enough good horses for the heavy armored cavalry, Xiangfu Kingdom also tried its best and spent countless money to barely make enough.And in order to protect these good horses, as long as the heavy armored cavalry is not needed in the war, they will not go out, but let the officers and soldiers of this battalion wear ordinary steel plate armor to fight as ordinary cavalry.I don't want the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom to easily produce [-] such good horses, how can it not make Huang Dongqiu envious or even jealous.At the same time, it also shows that the saying "there are more good horses in the Western Regions" is not a lie.In fact, most of the horses in the nine heavy cavalry battalions of the Nine Legions of the Xiangfu Kingdom are good horses resold from the Western Regions at high prices.

"Only by destroying the Uyghur Kingdom of Xizhou and completely opening the passage to the Western Regions can we have more good horses in the Xiangfu Army, and the cost will naturally be greatly reduced." Huang Dongqiu couldn't help thinking to himself.

The reconnaissance staff sent people from the observation towers on both sides to send information. The Xizhou Uyghur army had begun to build camps behind.

"If this battle is delayed, Baturmu will build a camp nearby. Once there is a camp of the Xizhou Uyghur Army near Shazhou City, it will affect the follow-up plan. And the Xizhou Uyghur Army only needs to Repairing the nearby camp and then launching an attack on Shazhou saves the physical energy of traveling for several miles. If Baturmu can think of this, he can be regarded as a good general." Huang Dongqiu looked at the information sent and thought for himself. The staff around him analyzed.

"However, two days have passed since the heavy snowfall, and the weather is freezing cold. With the means of the Uighurs in Xizhou, the camps that can be built are probably not enough."

After sending out a small group of light cavalry, and paying the price of nearly a hundred damages to test at a slow speed, the Xizhou Uyghurs have found three passages with a width of more than three feet each facing the middle army of the Volunteer Army.If they were all dug into horse pits, although they blocked the opponent's attack for a while, wouldn't they also imprison themselves in it.What's more, what Huang Dongqiu wanted was the opponent's attack after attack.But without these three passages, Baturmu would definitely try to fill in these horse traps while building the camp today.But with these three passages, Baturmu must try it no matter what. He always believes that without these powerful long-range attack weapons, the Volunteer Legion is definitely not their opponent in melee combat.

What Baturmu didn't know was that his thinking was exactly the result that Huang Dongqiu led the staff of the Volunteer Corps to analyze and want.

Baturmu first sent out a thousand cavalry, all of which had iron armor, and the helmet was similar to that of Xiangfu Kingdom, able to protect most of the face, and the head of the war horse was also protected by iron armor. There is not much difference between the heavy armored cavalry. No wonder Batumi is still so confident and dares to attack after losing more than [-] people in the battle.

Amid the orders of the chief general of the thousand iron cavalry, all the thousand cavalry pulled down their helmets and visors.

The ground suddenly trembled, and the charge of a thousand heavy cavalry was not even much weaker than the previous [-] light cavalry.

With the defense of a thousand heavy cavalry, crossbow bolts and steel string bows, as well as large killers with hundreds of crossbow bolts are not very effective, but giant crossbow guns and trebuchet gunpowder packs are enough to deal with it.There is still no need for the Volunteer Legion to send cavalry to fight against it in close combat.

According to the legends of the Western Regions, the Iron Armored Cavalry of the Uyghur Wolf Guards of the Western Regions are demon-like existences, cruel and ruthless, and brave and good at fighting. Except for the Ikta Army of the Black Khanate in the west, they are invincible in the Western Regions.However, the armored cavalry of the Thousand Wolf Guards was once again turned on their backs by the understated attack of the Volunteer Legion.

The Volunteer Legion didn't even use a trebuchet to launch gunpowder packs, but concentrated five giant guns and crossbows on each passageway.What made all the wolf guards feel chilling was that there seemed to be almost no gap between the five crossbows fired by this giant gun.

Baturmu, whose face became extremely gloomy again, carefully observed through the seized binoculars and found that there were wheels under the giant guns and crossbows of the Volunteer Legion. After every five crossbows and guns were fired, they quickly pulled back At the same time, five giant guns and crossbows with loaded crossbows were quickly pushed up from the side space and fired again, and this kind of giant guns and crossbows were wound so fast that Baturmu had never seen it in his life.

But Baturmu didn't know that this giant gun and crossbow was the latest research and development achievement of Xiangfu Kingdom's Equipment Research Department. Each of them was equipped with a stringer, and each giant gun and crossbow was equipped with a dedicated winding operator. hand.

This is the innovation brought by science and technology to weapons and equipment, quietly improving the combat power of the Xiangfu Kingdom's army. As long as this continues, it is conceivable that Xiangfu Kingdom will inevitably crush the Liao and Song Dynasty with powerful and advanced weapons and equipment. other countries.You must know that this is just a simple knowledge of gears in physics, placed in a very simple winder in later generations, and after being divided into two groups reasonably, the shooting of the giant crossbow can almost never stop.

The huge vibrating sound of the giant gun and the crossbow when it is fired and the piercing sound of the crossbow and the gun.Even in the howling of tens of thousands of wolf guards on the opposite side, the sound of a thousand heavy armored cavalry charging, and the screams of horses being pierced by crossbows and guns flying up and down, they were still clearly audible.This voice is destined to be unforgettable for all the soldiers of the Xizhou Uighur Wolf Guards, including Baturmu, but the premise is how long they can live.

The three aisles were full of cavalrymen in iron armor and tall warhorses from the Western Regions. Some screamed, wailed, and groaned while twisting and climbing, and more of them had turned into corpses.They had only been able to reach about a hundred steps away from the battle formation of the Volunteer Legion recently, and it was difficult for them to advance even half a step.

The winding hand winds the string, the loading hand places the crossbow. Gun, the firing hand aims at the enemy and fires. Two soldiers specifically push the gun. Crossbow machine to move, and then hand over the gun. Crossbow machine, another squad repeats the same process.The operation process of this set of giant gun and crossbow shooting has been trained very proficiently in normal time. Each soldier performs his own duties. The skilled operation shortens the time to the extreme. The crossbow and gun are fired accurately, and even heavy armored cavalry can shoot through two or three people.

Although the [-] armored cavalry of the Xizhou Uighur Wolf Guards had a high defense and could ignore ordinary bows and arrows and fast crossbows, they were still powerless in the face of giant guns and crossbows.

Although the thousand armored cavalry were extremely brave and not even afraid of death, they still failed to change the fiasco in the end, leaving behind the corpses of six or seven hundred cavalry and horses, and then retreated in embarrassment.But even the three or four hundred cavalry who fled back were almost all wounded.

The guns and crossbows stopped firing, and the bowstrings stopped ringing. After the short confrontation, everything returned to calm before the volunteer army.

However, on the three passages, there are still some seriously injured Wolf Guard cavalry writhing and howling.Then Huang Dongqiu gave an order, and dozens of recruits with knives and axes ran over, hacking them all to death one by one.

The Uighur Wolf Guards of Xizhou witnessed this scene and were furious. According to the rules of the Western Regions, these people can be captured, and then they can use some money or cattle and sheep to redeem them. The Khanate did the same thing when they fought wars.But all the people from Xiangfu Kingdom in front of them were hacked to death indiscriminately.At this time, no one in the wolf guards dared to go up and snatch his brother's body back.The terrifying and sharp long-range attack weapons that emerged endlessly in Xiangfu Kingdom completely frightened these powerful soldiers who have experienced many battles and are famous for their cruelty and violence in the Western Regions.They don't know that this is the first time Xiangfu Kingdom has used it on the battlefield after a new round of weapons and equipment innovation, and they are even the goal of Xiangfu Kingdom's weapon effectiveness test before using these weapons to conquer Song and Liao countries and unify the world. That's all.

The horrific defeats finally made Batum retreat temporarily, or Batum had expected that Huang Dongqiu would not let them set up camp near Shazhou City, in order to lure the Volunteer Army to leave the vicinity of its fortifications , especially out of the range of those trapping horses, to attack them, so as to carry out a real wild melee fight
In the initial battle plan, it was true that Batum could not be allowed to set up camp near Shazhou City, but the heavy snow now, especially the logistics supply capabilities shown by the Xizhou Uighurs, made Huang Dongqiu change his mind, or Said to prepare to implement the second battle plan.

Although today's first battle was won one after another, it relied on the sharpness of several major weapons and the targeted and full preparations this winter.But this does not mean that the Xizhou Uighur Wolf Guards are really weaker than the Volunteer Army. After the former suffers a big loss, it is unlikely to rely on the previous preparations to win easily.Therefore, it is impossible to wipe out the wolf guards in one day.

(End of this chapter)