Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1069 Changes brought about by the professional army

Therefore, at this time, the camps of the various brigades were not completely silent, and there were occasional laughing voices suppressing their voices.In Huang Dongqiu's opinion, this regulation is excellent. During wartime, soldiers are nervous and tense at all times. Relaxing properly will help maintain the morale of the troops.

A few days later, on the battlefield of the Volunteer Army camp, the corpses of Xizhou Uighur soldiers and war horses were deliberately piled up as a low wall by Huang Dongqiu's order. After splashing water on it, they were all frozen into popsicles and became wolf guards. Another line of defense for the army to attack the camp of the Volunteer Corps.

After eating, Huang Dongqiu inspected the camp surrounded by several soldiers and staff officers.All the snow in the camp has been cleaned up at dawn, and it has been piled up to the side of the camp to be solidified. After watering, it has been built into a wall of ice and snow, so as not to affect the movement in the camp, especially the large siege equipment. promote.

Huang Dongqiu walked out of the camp and came to the front ditch, where he saw many different arrows stuck in the dirt pass in front of the ditch.This was yesterday when the cavalry of the Wolf Guards dismounted and turned into infantry, attacking forward with shields. They were thrown at a distance of a hundred steps, but the defense of the steel plate armor and helmets of the Volunteer Legion was too strong, except for a very small number of people who were shot. Outside the eyes, there was almost no damage. On the contrary, the Wolf Guards suffered many casualties from the Volunteer Legion's trebuchets, giant guns, crossbows, steel string bows and other powerful weapons, and finally retreated in embarrassment.

The arrows of the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom are naturally different from those of the Xiangfu Kingdom. To be precise, the arrows of the former are too rough compared to the latter. They were all different, some were made of wood and some were made of bones. Huang Dongqiu could imagine that most of the opponent's arrows were made by the soldiers themselves.Only the arrows shot by the [-] armored cavalry were uniform in length and style, and they were even well-made. It looked like it was made by professional military craftsmen, but it was still far from the level of craftsmanship of the Xiangfu National Military Factory.There are craftsmen in the opponent's army. As early as a few days ago, the spies from the Ministry of Security have found out that there are craftsmen in the opponent's camp who are making suspected long-range attack equipment such as trebuchets.

From a point of view, just looking at the opponent's weapons and equipment, it can be seen that the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom is far behind the Xiangfu Kingdom in terms of national strength, military strength, and people's livelihood.According to Huang Dongqiu, since the invention of the hammer, the Xiajing Military Factory can produce more than [-] pieces of steel plate armor every year, and hundreds of thousands of arrows.

In addition, Ye Chen personally decreed that the repeated military reforms made the Xiangfu country's military system already the same as the professional military of later generations, with a clear division of labor and clear responsibilities.The staff department is responsible for combat readiness and fighting, the equipment department is responsible for the production and maintenance of weapons and equipment, the logistics department is responsible for the basic necessities of personnel and horses, the training department is responsible for training, the military law department is responsible for military law, and so on.Coupled with the scientific and reasonable establishment system and military honor system, reward and punishment system, pension system, military affiliation system, martyr system, military academy training system, etc., as well as various regulations and regulations, the army of Xiangfu country can be as long as there is no corruption within the army to a certain extent , the combat effectiveness will always be able to maintain a very high level, especially for the planning, efficiency and preparation of each war, which is far from being comparable to the armies of other countries in this era.What's more, the repeated innovations in Xiangfu's military weapons and equipment have made the gap between other countries and it wider and wider.

Looking back at the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom, it is obvious that except for the core army of [-] armored cavalry, the soldiers of other troops are equipped with their own equipment, and their own horses are used. Obviously, there will be no pensions if they die, let alone any Xiangfuguo's martyr cemetery and Zhongyi temple are enshrined.

Under such circumstances, if he couldn't beat the barbarian army like the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom again, Huang Dongqiu really felt that he could directly cut off his head and send it to Xia Jing to ask His Majesty to apologize.

Thinking of this, Huang Dongqiu had already cast himself in admiration for His Majesty the great emperor's talent and foresight, which seemed to be bestowed by God.

While secretly lamenting the rapid improvement of Xiangfu's national strength and military power in less than three years since the establishment of the country, Huang Dongqiu walked out of the camp of the Chinese army and came to the camp of the two wings. The situation is similar to that of the Chinese army. The only difference is that the two wings The low wall piled with the corpses of Wolf Guard soldiers and horses was lower than that of the Chinese army, obviously because the enemy troops who died in their camp were fewer than the Chinese army.

The night before yesterday, a strong wind blew up. Huang Dongqiu ordered all the brigades and battalions to defend against the enemy's night attack, and at the same time sent a thousand elite soldiers to attack the wolf guard camp at night.As a result, Nabaturmu also took precautions and sent more than 1000 people to sneak attack. Both sides were prepared. Naturally, their night attacks were unsuccessful, and they left some corpses and retreated.

However, the volunteers who went to sneak attack all wore special lurking white clothes and white hats. When they retreated, they got into the snow, and the wolf guards couldn't see them at night, so only dozens of people were killed or injured.But it was different when the Wolf Guards came to sneak attack, more than half of the more than 1000 people remained.

Huang Dongqiu was thinking about the overall strategic plan and when Baturmu would withdraw his army. After inspecting around, he returned to the central army. At this time, with the sound of a sharp siren, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army were tense and orderly One after another, they went out of the camp, and each went to his position, ready to kill the enemy.

The attack of the Xizhou Uighur Wolf Guards today is different from that of the previous days. Their large army came out of the camp and came to the front of the formation. They also pushed out a long-range attack device similar to a crossbow.Finally, he had his own long-range attack weapon, and he no longer had to be beaten. Under the observation of Huang Dongqiu's telescope, he found that the morale of the soldiers of the wolf guards today was much higher than that of the previous few days.

Huang Dongqiu smiled, with a sarcasm on his face, and said: "It doesn't matter that Baturmudo knows how to fight, and no matter how brave his cavalry is, they will never think of some things, such as the same trebuchet with different ranges, The level of accuracy is different, and even the rate of fire is different."

After a pause, Huang Dongqiu said: "Order the four catapult companies of the engineering battalion, once the enemy's long-range equipment comes within the effective range, I will smash them into pieces first, and tell them not to use gunpowder bags. , just use the rock bomb."

The messenger next to them quickly conveyed the military order to the four catapult companies of the engineering battalion, and the commanders of the four catapult companies who got the news were very excited, which meant that they were about to get another great military exploit.

Huang Dongqiu is not at all surprised that Xizhou Uighur state-owned craftsmen can build these offensive equipment. After all, these things have been in the Central Plains since the Han Dynasty. It is not surprising that some Han craftsmen even migrated to the Western Regions and passed on these technologies to other races.But the ability of these horse peoples to improve these things is too poor, not to mention compared with the Xiangfu Kingdom where science has sprouted today, even compared with the improvement ability of the Central Plains Huaxia Dynasty in the past dynasties.

This time, Baturmu was very well prepared, and the morale of the Wolf Guards was high, and he was sure to win. However, the development of some things was often very different from the expectations of the parties, or even completely different.

Holding the binoculars in his hand, Huang Dongqiu looked at it seriously for a while. The wolf guard's trebuchet was not small, but compared to Xiangfuguo's trebuchet, its structure was too crude.And the crossbow with the same big head looks somewhat similar to the bed crossbow used in the Song Dynasty.However, since Ye Chen was still in Song State, Huaxia Weifu Weapons Department invented a giant crossbow gun with better range and accuracy, and now Song State no longer uses this thing.Huang Dongqiu also heard that the Liao Kingdom has also obtained this technology through some channels, and the Liao Army is also building it on a large scale.

Baturmu obviously wanted to use the two relatively long-range attacks of catapults and bed crossbows to cover their people with pit filling vehicles to bury the horse traps, and then destroy the two offensives of the outermost low wall and trench.In Huang Dongqiu's view, this was wishful thinking.

Huang Dongqiu handed the binoculars to a staff officer next to him, smiled slightly, and said, "Let these barbarians see what the gap is, and let these local turtles see the power of the art of investigating things in the words of your majesty."

The Engineer Battalion of the Volunteer Corps has four catapult companies, each with 25 giant catapults. At this time, all [-] catapults have been prepared for launch on their respective positions. Polished rocks were prepared next to the stone machines, and the operators were all confident and disdainful, just waiting to smash the various equipment that the Wolf Guards had spent several days building with great difficulty into pieces.

The configuration of each brigade and battalion is the same as the previous days. Right in front of the frontline defense of the Chinese army are two infantry brigades. Each soldier is holding a steel string bow. As long as the enemy can enter the attack range, they will shoot and cover. The crossbow and gun company also set up their positions behind the ice wall poured with corpses at the front line, next to the winding machine.

Although Huang Dongqiu and the Volunteer Corps are confident that they can repel the enemy with long-range attacks alone, the two cavalry brigades are also ready to charge at any time on the two wings of the infantry phalanx.

On the opposite side, [-] armored cavalry troops from the Uighur Kingdom of Xizhou were at the rear of the central army, and another [-] light cavalry followed the trebuchets, bed crossbow shield vehicles, and pit filling vehicles.The other [-] light cavalry were deployed on the left and right sides of the wolf guards, apparently to prevent the troops on the north and south sides of Shazhou City from the Volunteer Army from attacking from the two wings.

From the overall layout alone, Baturmu is extremely sophisticated and steady.Apparently, he was thinking that as long as his siege equipment worked, he filled the horse trap and suppressed the long-range attack of the Volunteer Legion, he would let his light cavalry and even their [-] armored cavalry charge to conquer the city in one fell swoop. Camp of the Volunteer Legion.

(End of this chapter)