Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1070 The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment

The Wolf Guards had a lot more long-range attack equipment, which more or less put some pressure on the soldiers of the Volunteer Army.

Excellent armor has always been an important factor or the biggest advantage of Xiangfu Kingdom's strong combat power. Gunpowder packs have blown up many city walls, and giant guns and crossbows are also a great weapon that can be used in defense, siege, and field battles.For a long time, no matter whether it was the Song Dynasty or the Liao Kingdom, in order to obtain the granule gunpowder formula of the Xiangfu Kingdom's black fire medicine, and other advanced equipment manufacturing methods, they did everything possible. Even life has failed to obtain the core technology. Although there are similar equipment imitated, the power difference is still very large.Therefore, the reason why the morale of the Xiangfu country's army can be invincible, and no matter where the enemy is facing, it can maintain the confidence and high morale of victory. The huge advantage of weapons and equipment is a very important factor.

At this moment, the relaxed atmosphere at breakfast had long since disappeared, and there was silence and desolation inside and outside the barracks, before and after battles.

It didn't take long for the front cavalry of the Xizhou Uyghur Wolf Guard Army to reach the effective range of the giant trebuchet and the giant crossbow gun.But their own catapults and bed crossbows were obviously far from reaching the shooting position where they could hit the Volunteer Army, so they could only move on.

"Scare these barbarians first." Huang Dongqiu's order was understated, even frivolous, but when the order was executed by four trebuchet companies, it was extremely terrifying.

The giant trebuchet behind the infantry phalanx of the Chinese army, the long throwing rod was instantly flattened by the force of the gear, and the loader quickly loaded the stone projectile. The squad leader of the trebuchet squad used a special small hammer in his hand, He slammed it on the shooting mechanism with hatred, and an extremely stable force instantly threw the throwing rod up at an extremely fast speed. A round rock the size of an adult's head turned into a parabola at an extremely fast speed and flew towards the wolf guards. The army that was attacking strictly followed Huang Dongqiu's order, and the target was a rock-throwing locomotive of the Wolf Guards.

The tens of thousands of troops on both sides watched the trajectory of this stubborn stone projectile intently. The faces of the Wolf Guards had already changed, and everyone was extremely nervous, because this was not what they expected. How could the opponent launch the stone thrower so far? .

As a result, many people in the Volunteer Army sighed secretly. The stubborn stone missed the intended target, but it was only two or three feet away from the rock-throwing locomotive.However, it hit the head of a wolf guard soldier who was pushing the rock-throwing locomotive, and his head was smashed to pieces on the spot, causing him to die horribly.

Such a result was expected by the trebuchet company and Huang Dongqiu and other senior leaders of the Volunteer Corps, because they all knew that the first shot was originally used for trial adjustment, and the first single shot could have such a small error, which is enough to see How accurate is the giant trebuchet in Chuxiang Fuguo, and the next projectile only needs to be slightly adjusted to hit the target.

"This must be a blind cat meeting a dead mouse." Many Uighur soldiers in Xizhou thought so, especially those soldiers who also operated the trebuchet.Only a few high-ranking wolf guards, such as Baturmu, thought that what would happen if the opponent threw gunpowder just now?

But even if the gunpowder packs were not used next, all the soldiers of the Wolf Guards would soon know how outrageously wrong they were.

Four catapult companies, one hundred giant catapults projected at the same time, more than [-]% of them hit the target, and nearly half of these catapults hit the wolf guards' catapults, pit filling vehicles, Equipment such as shield carts and bed crossbows, that is, one round of shooting, lost one-fifth of these equipment that the Wolf Guards relied on. These devices are basically all explained here.

The so-called 'the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment', as a result, the wolf guards were hit hard up and down, and the morale that was high because of these equipment before suddenly dropped instantly. Lacking means of attack, one was at a disadvantage, thinking about building his own equipment to regain the situation, but the result was extremely disappointing to them, Baturmu instantly felt that the morale of his army had begun to waver, and his face was extremely ugly , but he has no choice but to order to speed up the forward speed. Only when he reaches the place where he can shoot and starts to counterattack with the trebuchet, the situation will change.

Huang Dongqiu watched the four trebuchets show off their power and prestige in succession. He was delighted but also deeply moved.

Only ten people are needed to operate a giant trebuchet, and these ten people are a trebuchet squad, and the squad leader is responsible for commanding and operating the final launch.At this time, it can be seen that these squad leaders gave loud passwords one by one, skillfully commanding the people in their squad from taking stone bullets, to adjusting the counterweight, aiming, then loading stone bullets into the trebuchet, and finally throwing the stone bullets.

Xiangfu Kingdom's giant trebuchet hits far more than ordinary trebuchets, and the stone projectiles thrown are heavier, not to mention the accuracy. Although it only has a hit rate of 50.00%, it is very important for the trebuchet. It was already extremely unbelievable, but if a hundred more trebuchets were fired at the same time, it would mean that fifty bullets would hit the intended target each time.

The reason why Xiangfu Kingdom's giant rock-throwing machine hits accurately is not only due to its own structure, but also because it has its own method of calculating shooting, which includes the arm length of the throwing rod, the counterweight, the distance from the target, and the rock-throwing method. The weight of the bomb, the position of the giant trebuchet, etc., have been carefully calculated to calculate the range.

Moreover, the teachers of Xiangfu Country Training Department calculated the shooting table by summarizing throwing with different distances and different weights before this giant trebuchet was equipped to the troops, so that the trebuchet squad could use it in wartime Without shooting calculations, just use this shooting table as a basis to find the corresponding shooting elements and make corresponding adjustments. Although it cannot be extremely accurate, the error range will not exceed ten steps.

Therefore, the company commander, platoon leader, and squad leader of the trebuchet company are all people with a relatively high level of Chinese education at the same level, and at least they can understand shooting tables.In fact, they have all gone through professional training and some shooting calculation assessments, and there are corresponding subsidies in addition to military salaries.

Therefore, even if the giant trebuchet falls into the hands of the enemy, who does not have a professional operator, does not have a shooting meter and does not know how to shoot and calculate, it will not be accurate for a while.

After losing nearly half of their equipment, the wolf guards finally reached the throwing range of their catapult machine, and then screamed strangely and couldn't wait to set up the catapult machine and began to fight back.However, the result almost made the soldiers of Xiangfu Kingdom laugh out loud, and Baturmu's face turned purple with anger. Every time they threw a stone bomb, the Volunteer Legion's trebuchet fired three. The performance is too poor, it is not bad if two or three of the ten hit the target.And as soon as they stopped, the catapults on the Volunteer Army's side were better aimed. After the Wolf Guards' catapults fired two stone bombs each, they were all destroyed.

At this time, half of the remaining bed crossbows of the Wolf Guards finally reached the shooting range. The power is not bad, but unfortunately they shot too close. Not to mention the giant crossbow guns of the Volunteer Army, even steel string bows can They were shot, so before the soldiers of the Wolf Guards hurriedly shot their first thick and long crossbow arrows, they were thrown by an infantry phalanx on the side of the Volunteer Army with a steel-string bow in unison. All the operators were shot to death on the spot.

On the contrary, the pit-filling vehicle made by the Wolf Guards was very efficient. Although it was constantly smashed into pieces by the Volunteer Legion's trebuchet, many pits were filled in the process. This may be the result of the Wolf Guards. The only catch today.

Without the cover of trebuchets and bed crossbows, the light cavalry of the Wolf Guards could not charge. They could only retreat to the camp in embarrassment after dropping hundreds of corpses under Baturmu's desperate order. The regiment, as always, did not go hunting.

What Baturmu didn't know was that there was news that would make him even more desperate soon.

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The snow on the wasteland was constantly rolled over by the wheels because of the transportation of grain and grass, and it was mixed with the soil into a muddy slurry. After the upper layer was frozen, it was barely passable for pedestrians, but the uneven and slippery road was staggering and easy to fall. .And the cars full of food and ordnance are unbearable on the muddy ground. As soon as the car is gone, the ground will turn into mud again, making it very difficult to move.What's more, the carts used by the Uighurs in Xizhou to transport grain are really not very good.

However, the Wolf Guards had no choice. Except for a few specially repaired official roads near the capital Gaochang in their Xizhou Uighur country, there were no roads in other places. They were all wasteland or grassland Gobi.Therefore, they could only bite the bullet and continue to advance as far as possible to the Batur camp in a straight line.

It is also for this reason that their route has no secrets at all to the stone wolves cruising nearby.

Therefore, the [-] cavalry led by Stone Wolf have fought against this huge grain and grass transportation team several times along the way.

Although the five thousand fine cavalry under Stone Wolf's command are extremely powerful, if he wants to defeat the five thousand wolf guards escorting the food, he will inevitably suffer heavy losses. Therefore, Stone Wolf gave full play to his best guerrilla lightning tactics, go like the wind.The five thousand wolf guards who escorted the food and grass had no idea when they would come, so they had to maintain a high level of alert at all times, and once the stone wolf's attack was blocked, they would flee away immediately, because they were worried that they would be caught in a plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain. The wolf guards didn't dare to stay away from the food and grass at all, so they could only repel them, but could not effectively kill them.

In this way, Shi Lang led 5000 cavalry who turned into horse thieves to come and go, retreating at the touch of a button. Although it was always a simple way of fighting, it made the [-]-man food transport team of the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom exhausted.

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(End of this chapter)