Daqin Engineers

In fact, training chariots is not easy at all, it can even be said to be difficult.

The reason is that at least one driver who can drive is needed.

This driver is not an ordinary driver. He is the commander of the tank and also the target of the enemy... Because if the driver of a tank dies, not only will the tank lose its command, the tank may also lose control or even lose control due to unmanned driving. People turn their backs.

Then there are the right halberd and the left archer who must be veterans.

Not only that, but the driver, halberd and archer have to rehearse and cooperate with each other again and again, and the chariot as a member of the chariot formation must also rehearse the formation and so on.

It can be said that the tanks are the elite of the elite. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, the number of tanks owned by a country was judged to be powerful.

The reason why Shen Bing said that it is not difficult to "train chariots" is because the chariots he referred to are different from those in the traditional sense.

Traditional chariots have to fight close to the enemy, so the armor and coordination are all perfect. Just like modern tanks, they almost need to be able to use their arms freely, otherwise the car will be destroyed or killed by accident.

The tanks Shen Bing required were not so strict. They just fired a "fireball" at the enemy far away...

So the crew does not have the tension and pressure of close combat.

If there is any danger, it is more from the enemy's arrows, for which it is almost the same as long as it is equipped with a vine armor.

In terms of coordinated combat, the driver's role has been reduced in stages, and he only needs to follow the cavalry team.

Even the command can be transferred to the crossbow hand... The crossbow hand is also an observer. He can better perceive the change of the enemy's direction and the distance between the enemy and ourselves, so only he knows how to adjust the direction and speed to better control "Thunderbolt Fireball" launched into the enemy camp.

Therefore, the difficulty of training is reduced in stages: the driver only needs to be able to drive a car, the crossbowman is directly selected from the crossbow hand, and the loader can handle it with any cleverness.

If there is anything to pay attention to, it is the coordination between the loader and the crossbowman.

It will explode and after the explosion will shoot out more than a dozen rounds of iron tribulus with sharp corners. What is more serious is that each tank contains fifteen "Thunderbolt Fireballs"... In ancient times, the space of tanks was not large. Can hold fifteen.

If it is smashed, it is not a joke, it is likely to cause the collapse of one's own troops.

This is not to mention the ancients who have never seen the power of gunpowder. Just like modern recruits, when they throw a grenade, they often fail to get out because of tension and other reasons, causing accidents.

Not to mention using a crossbow to shoot a "fireball of thunderbolt", the more links there are, the more mistakes you may make.

For example, the crossbowman loads and ignites the fireball without opening the string.

Another example is a crossbow that fails to fire normally.

Or the fireball is launched without a point... This situation is fine, but it is a waste of a fireball, but it should also be avoided, because at the same time there are also fighters.

Therefore, Shen Bing rigidly stipulated the operating sequence of the crossbowman and the loader during training, and each step could not be different.

In addition, the fuse is lengthened to extend the reaction time, and at the same time, the bottom of the fuse is exposed out of the bamboo tube. In the event of a failure or accident, the fuse can be cut off in time and the fireball can be thrown out of the car...

The operating manual is to throw the fireball out of the car regardless of whether the fuse can be broken or not.

Although throwing a fireball outside the vehicle may cause casualties to your own personnel, it is better than causing other ammunition to explode on the tank.

Then it is to operate with the training bomb over and over again with this operation manual.

The training ammunition was made by the workers by Shen Bing. It looks the same as a live ammunition. It also has a fuse to ignite, but the warhead does not contain gunpowder.

Various accidents and mistakes really occurred during training.

However, after practicing over and over again, the hands and feet have been solidified in my mind and have formed conditioned reflexes, and there are fewer and fewer mistakes, and then there will be almost no more.

Therefore, what Shen Bing worries most about the "Thunderbolt Fireball" is not whether it can defeat the enemy.

In fact, it is almost certain that it can defeat the enemy. The key lies in whether it will accidentally hurt itself... There is a saying called "playing with fire and self-immolation". Fighting with this thing is playing with fire. Of course, you must be cautious.

The production of the tank is left to the workers.

This is a trivial matter for Cang. At this time, he is already a chief instructor... Batches of workers have been trained from him, and batches of workers have joined the training team.

Although it was busy with him, but he enjoyed it.

There are tens of thousands of people under him, which is much more prestigious than before when he was a gunner. Everywhere he walked, he respectfully called him "master".

This makes Cang a little complacent.

As for the chariot, Cang Yi patted his chest and replied:

"The general can rest assured that he will rush out the tank in two days."

As a result, it took only two days to drive out 120 chariots, and the workmanship was very delicate.

These 120 tanks were evenly distributed to the Shenwu Army by the Shen Bing, and there are 50 people to reinforce one tank per village.

The chariots were called from the beam army.

Like the previous bed crossbowmen, Shen Bing believes that it is too wasteful to convert cavalry into chariot soldiers... Cavalry can be cavalry, and they practice cavalry day and night hard, if all efforts before turning into chariot soldiers will be for nothing. flow.

At the same time, the beamer's infantry is fully capable of turning into a chariot. The difficulty is the driver... not many infantry can drive.

But this problem is not a big deal. Shen Bing raised his arms in Yunzhong County, and immediately many people who could drive car volunteered to fight.

To know that this battle is going to fight Jiuyuan, Jiuyuan is their hometown, of course they are eager to fight for the first place.

Many of the people are handlebars...Although they can't afford a horse-drawn carriage, they have to help the dignitaries carry things or drive a horse-drawn carriage, or some of them raise horses for their livelihoods, so many can drive them.

Select some young and strong training from these people, which can serve as drivers.

On the other hand, there is the issue of war horses.

In this era, it is not only that people have never seen the "Thunderbolt Fireball", but the war horse has never seen it, so when the "Thunderbolt Fireball" explodes the loud noises, the horse will inevitably be frightened.

If there are saddles and stirrups, it's okay, the horses can be controlled when they are frightened, but without these, the rider will "pounce" like dumplings.

This is not a trivial matter on the battlefield. Falling off a horse and being stepped on by a war horse is either dead or wounded, especially when the Shenwu Army is equipped with light cane armor that cannot withstand heavy blows.

The solution is to detonate the "Thunderbolt" near the horse again and again.

Once, twice... Several times the next day.

Over time, the horse gradually got used to it, suddenly detonating one, and occasionally a small number of them will be frightened, but most of them have no reaction.

So Shen Bing knew the time was almost time.