Chivalrous Song Dynasty

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Although the oilcloth-covered vehicles in the funeral procession are quite different from the ox carts that traveled to Xixia at that time, you can understand everything just by looking at the shape of the barrel of the artillery under the oilcloth on the vehicle.

After recognizing the cannon, he knew it must be Bai Sheng's team, but Bai Sheng's team was dressed in sackcloth and mourning. Who was the deceased?Could it be Bai Sheng himself?And if the deceased was not Bai Sheng, who's death could make Bai Sheng's men so inspiring?

Seeing that the funeral procession was getting closer and closer, he didn't bother to guess whether the deceased was Bai Sheng himself. What he thought was: Regardless of whether the deceased was Bai Sheng or not, this fight cannot be easily started.

It's not a good thing to start a fight with Bai Sheng's team, because there are too many strange people in this team, and there are endless styles of play that are beyond the norm. You will never guess which way he will use to fight against such a team. You are at war.

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the artillery bombarding the sky and thunder. The longest range can hit more than ten miles away. How could such a powerful long-range bombardment be able to deal with it by the archers of the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty?

People only need to set up the artillery in the middle of the way from a distance, and bombard the barracks a few times. It is no wonder that the useless soldiers who have endured the bombardment do not collapse.

Although the Thunderbolt was developed and manufactured by the Da Song Weapons Workshop, those who developed the artillery have never had actual combat experience, let alone equipped with the Forbidden Army, that is, Bai Sheng was extremely popular in front of the emperor. For a while, he was able to get Ling Zhen and Huo Pao out together, but he was humiliated by showing himself ugly during the cannon test in Aoshan.

So the imperial guards don't know how powerful they are, but Xu Ning knows that Bai Sheng's artillery bombing was a trick of the arrogant enemy. The artillery is so powerful that the hundreds of places in Hengshan in Xixia are easy to defend All the military strongholds in the country were blown down, not to mention the Song Dynasty military camp that was not in danger to defend at this time?

This is a situation where Bai Sheng is dead, and it would be even more serious if Bai Sheng is still alive. Bai Sheng has always been eclectic in fighting, and he will always use unexpected tricks to win the victory with an overwhelming advantage. When he fought, the enemy was killed by him, but he didn't even know how they died.

Thinking of this, he couldn't bear it any longer, regardless of his current embarrassing status, he stopped in time.

If he didn't call for a stop, wouldn't he be killed by the artillery fire from the opposite side?Although Yan Lingjia is not afraid of fire, it may not be able to withstand shells.

At this moment, several generals from Song Dynasty turned their heads and looked at Xu Ning with questioning eyes, hoping that the latter could give an explanation.

Xu Ning also couldn't get rid of the habit of telling the truth, saying; "The enemy army on the opposite side is too powerful, we can't beat it."

"hehe"

"hey-hey"

"Ha ha"

Hearing what Xu Ning said, all the generals sneered. Although the voices of the sneers were quite different, their faces were all full of mockery. They all thought: I thought you could come up with a good way to fight. It took a long time to scare everyone, why?Do you dare not listen to Marshal Tong's military orders?

This group of people was quite jealous of Xu Ning's military exploits, but now they didn't hear what he said, so they ignored him. One of the generals in charge of commanding the archers shouted: "Bow, shoot!"

Seeing this, Xu Ning was in a hurry, and said loudly: "No!"

But how can anyone care about him?This time, people didn't even look back. They only heard the sound of swishing through the air, and thousands of crossbow arrows shot into the sky.

To strike an enemy half a mile away, you can only use this kind of upward shooting to diffuse, unless the kind of archer with a hard bow will choose to shoot directly at the target.

Seeing the dense arrows flying across the sky like a plague of locusts, they landed on the top of the funeral procession walking ahead. Under the cover of the arrows, no one in the funeral procession ran out. Several members of the imperial guards looked at Xu Ning at the same time, Does that mean that's what you're talking about?

However, before Xu Ning could say anything, people heard a tinkling sound, very noisy, like rain knocking on the window, huh?Where were these arrows shot?

If the arrow hit the human body, it would definitely not make such a sound. No matter how it sounds, it sounds like it was shot on an iron plate.

The officers hurriedly turned their heads to look at the funeral procession on the opposite side, only to see that the front of the funeral was empty, replaced by strangely shaped vehicles.

The strange shape of the vehicles is because they look like carriages, but there are no horses in front of them, and what is the use of the huge cylinder protruding from the carriages?Chimney?Shouldn't the chimney be upright?

The officers couldn't figure it out, but they knew that all the arrows had been shot on the roof or the outer walls of the carriages. It sounded like the carriages were actually made of iron sheets.

Xu Ning couldn't wait to explain to his colleagues, because he had already seen the oilcloth on the cannon barrel being taken off. What does it mean that the oilcloth was taken off?Still need to ask, run!

This time he didn't remind anyone again. He reminded you just now. Don't blame me if you don't listen. The phalanx of archers in the platoon, when they land on the ground, they chase the cicadas in eight steps and run away.

The direction he chose was extremely correct, and the shooting of the artillery was also in the shape of a parabola. As long as the artillery was fired from the opposite side, the target must be this group of archers. Then he only needed to run five feet toward Bai Sheng's team to enter the safe area.

And the artillery can only do extended strikes, that is, as the barrel rises, it will hit farther and farther, but it will not hit closer. He understands these reasons, because he and Ling Zhen lived and lived together back then.

"Xu Ning ran away!"

"Xu Ning has defected to the enemy!"

There were noises from the soldiers behind him, and one of them, Zhou Ang, was the most jealous of Xu Ning, so he ordered without hesitation, "Shoot an arrow at him!"

Xu Ning couldn't help gnashing his teeth in hatred when he heard it, did I provoke you?The commander-in-chief hasn't said what he wants to do with me, but you are ruthless enough.

It's just that he hates it, but he doesn't look back. He has a goose feather armor to protect him, and at most he gets shot in the leg. At that time, he just needs to lie down on the ground and wait for the soldiers behind him to die.

There was nothing wrong with Xu Ning's thinking. In fact, the second wave of feathered arrows from the Song Dynasty archers did not shoot out at all. There was a loud bang, and Zhou Ang and the archers around him flew into the air.

Xu Ning even heard the whistling sound of shells flying over his head, and was so frightened that he quickly fell to the ground. When he was rejoicing, he heard the sound of rolling wheels coming from the ground. He looked up quickly, but was surprised again. It turned out that the cannon carriage on the opposite side was crushed towards him.

Even he couldn't understand it now, how could this cannon fire while moving?It wasn't like this before!

On the field, the artillery carriages that were originally lined up in two columns have now been lined up, and there are a total of twenty artillery carriages driving towards Songying. The oilcloth on the carriages has long been removed, revealing the majestic iron armor , shone coldly under the winter light.

Chapter 1073 Still Undefeated

Yes, this is a tank.

Of course, this tank is not a mechanized tank of later generations, but an earthen tank developed by Bai Sheng who conceived it and Zhou Cheng was responsible for the practice.Master Zhou Cheng not only knows how to play with gunpowder, he can play with many things, involving a wide range of natural sciences.

Bai Sheng wanted to make this kind of earthen tank, and it was originally prepared for fighting against the Jin people.

As early as the end of the Western Expedition, Xu Ning chose to follow Tong Guan to dawdle, and Bai Sheng began to think about what method he would use to deal with the Jin Kingdom cavalry in the future.

As the saying goes, if there is no butcher Zhang, he will not eat hairy pigs.

Although Xu Ning is gone and the Hook and Sickle Army is still there, in order to take a breather, Bai Sheng thought, I don’t want to use the Hook and Sickle to destroy the Iron Buddha. I have to think of another way to let you Xu Ning I understand, without you, Xu Ning, Bai Sheng and I can still have fun.

So he thought of using artillery to deal with the cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin, so the problem came, not to mention the local artillery in this era to deal with the cavalry, even the advanced artillery in the later World War II period, as long as the number is not large enough, they cannot effectively contain it. The cavalry's charge, what can we do?

As a traveler from later generations, on the basis of knowing how to use the power of artillery, he also knows what artillery is afraid of. In later generations, artillery is afraid of guns and snipers, but in this era, artillery is afraid of weapons such as crossbows or trebuchets. , even more afraid of being charged to the front by the enemy's cavalry, as long as the enemy comes to the dead end of the range, regardless of whether the artillery and the soldiers protecting the artillery can beat the opponent, it is certain that the artillery has lost its effect.

How can we avoid these unfavorable situations from happening?Eh!He immediately thought of the tank.

What are tanks afraid of?During World War II, tanks were only afraid that high-powered bombs or grenades, or Molotov cocktails would cause some trouble to tanks, but none of these things exist in this era!This means that as long as the tank is built, it is invincible!

What strong bows and crossbows, what catapults, what cavalry spears and short knives, all tanks will stop when they encounter tanks, they cannot be shot through, smashed, guessed, or cut!But the tanks can continue to fire. Does it matter who wins the fight?

The tank Bai Sheng conceived is very simple, just put a metal shed on Hong Tianlei, and there are wide-angle observation ports like machine gun holes on the four walls of the tin shed, from which you can see everything in the four directions outside , and if the enemy's archer wants to accurately shoot into the observation port and kill the observer, it must be a peerless arrow like Hua Rong, Pang Wanchun or Yi Xiao, and it is impossible for others.

As for the power issue, it is even simpler. Why is it called a soil tank?The soil lies in its drive. In this era, it is very difficult to build a steam engine or even an internal combustion engine, because the technology chain is too incomplete, so Bai Sheng does not consider to overcome such high-end technical difficulties, and just use human power to drive it.

The car is not big, and it depends on people to push it.The infantry hides behind the tank and charges the enemy. This is a leading tactic in the world. This is called the coordination of infantry and tanks!And what did the infantry behind the tank do before encountering the enemy's disabled skirmishers?It’s okay to be idle, so just push the cart, as long as the wheels are installed under the cart.

The wheels also don’t need tracks, just use traditional wooden wheels, and you can try to make iron wheels, and wait until you find rubber trees from Southeast Asia before thinking about how to make pneumatic tires or solid tires.

After some planning by Bai Sheng, the expert Zhou Cheng took the lead and organized a scientific research team to carry out technical research. The iron house was supervised by Tang Long, a famous blacksmith and leopard. Bai Sheng saved Tang Long's life in the yamen of Yan'an Prefecture in Yanzhou City. , Tang Long was naturally grateful to Dade, and tried his best to contribute to the Bai family army.

This time, when Bai Sheng went north to Yanjing, the reason why he notified some of the troops from the Hengshan area, besides wanting Fang Jinzhi to send him the Dragon Sparrow Sword, was to let the tank artillery unit come. This is his ultimate move against Jin Guo cavalry.

And killing the [-] Iron Buddhas of the Jin Kingdom in the south of Yanjing City was a last resort and a means of forcing them out.Because at that time the Hengshan team had not yet reached the west of Yanjing City.

It is only said that among the twenty tanks of the Bai family army, only one in the middle fired a cannonball, blowing up the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty and fleeing in all directions. Who has seen what this is?Bows and arrows shot up like scratching an itch, a burst of flames spewed out from the black iron pipes, and several people on their own side flew into the air with their stumps and broken bodies. How do we fight this battle?This battle cannot be fought.