(I'm out of town, so I'm a little sorry for the update...... ）

Although Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er joined forces to kill the village, they could kill more than 200 soldiers and horses left behind in the Black Falcon Cliff and turn them on their backs, but this could not achieve the purpose of training the horse infantry army through actual combat drills - they were fighting alone at this time, but when they encountered a village with more than a thousand bandits and could condense the killing spirit, it couldn't be him and Ning Chan'er going into battle alone, right?

The gate of the wall made of iron birch is closed, not much worse than the big iron gate made of fine iron, Chen Hai, Ning Chan'er and Fan Dachun are not fighting, ordinary generals brave the arrows and stones shot above their heads, and the falling stones and trees that roll down, if they want to storm such a walled gate, the casualties will not be less. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Chen Hai let him be assigned to the baggage camp of more than 200 slave craftsmen to build a waterwheel, but the ice was taken from the ice lake in front of the Black Falcon Cliff and melted it, and the water wheel continued to sprinkle water onto the gate of the village.

By the cold of dripping water into ice, the water was sprinkled in front of the walled gate, and soon froze into layers of ice, freezing the city gate cave into a large ice mound.

Since the gate of the village is difficult to attack, it is simply sealed from the outside, and the thieves are not allowed to have the opportunity to send troops from the village to counterattack.

After that, Chen Hai sent the baggage battalion to cut down trees in the oasis forest in front of the Black Falcon Cliff, and built siege equipment such as side vans, ramming rods, building cars, and catapults outside the Black Falcon Cliff Walled City......

The partial carriage is mainly forced by the horse infantry army to block the wall of the wall, and the ram can be used to storm the wall; the building car is also very simple, the simplest wooden car frame erects two high poles, as long as the suspension compartment can be hoisted to a height of twenty or thirty meters, it is convenient for the elite archers to stand in the suspension compartment and condescendingly shoot the thieves behind the battlement wall of the walled city.

These are all siege weapons recorded in the Commander's Mansion Drill Codex, and the Mojia Division also has records of the manufacturing method of human-type trebuchets, but this kind of trebuchet is not valued in many battles in Yanzhou.

In addition to the cities built in Yanzhou, the cast iron shields held by ordinary generals are also extremely strong, if there are Tongxuan Realm warriors, there is no need to throw hundreds of pounds of stone bullets to form a deadly threat.

At the same time, Yanzhou's bow and crossbow have an extremely long range, and a human-type trebuchet usually needs to be placed a thousand steps away to be able to carry out continuous operation without being affected by the enemy's bow and crossbow.

It is very difficult for a group of people to pull the slings synchronously every second, and at this time, if they want to throw a stone projectile weighing 100 catties or even hundreds of catties into the enemy formation from a thousand steps away, it may take one or two hundred people to pull the slings at the same time to do this.

If you want to attack the enemy formation intensively, you need to use twenty or thirty catapults at the same time.

At this time, at least four or five thousand people are needed to cooperate in this matter at the same time, and enough defensive troops and horses must be deployed on the periphery to prevent the enemy's counterattack and surprise attack.

There are too many drawbacks, so catapults rarely appear on the battlefield in Yanzhou.

The catapult made by Chen Hai at this time was a heavy-duty trebuchet made by using the principle of leverage.

Equipped with a heavy-duty trebuchet, one end of the trebuchet is no longer pulled by manpower, but is equipped with a solid counterweight box, which is filled with thousands of catties or even tens of thousands of catties of gravel or iron ingots, and is tied to the tail end of the catapult as a counterweight;

When attacking the enemy's formation, use a knife and axe to slash the rope at the end of the bomb, and the 10,000-pound counterweight box at the end of the tail suddenly falls, and you can easily throw the stone projectile one or two thousand steps away.

At the same time, twenty or thirty people can operate a heavy trebuchet, local materials, manufacturing is also quite convenient, only the strength requirements are extremely high, need to use quenched iron cast parts, Chen Hai needs to personally go out.

At this time, Chen Hai organized forty hundred-man teams for Ma Bujun, and for each heavy trebuchet built in the baggage battalion, in addition to arranging more than 20 prisoners to operate, he also arranged one or two additional hundred-man teams to guard the flanks.

The Ma Bu Army is hastily organized, and the combat power of the generals is only slightly better than that of ordinary people, even if they form a defensive battle formation, the front three or four people form a battle group or battle surface, holding halberd shields or sword shields, it is impossible to block the rush of a Xuanxuan Realm warrior.

In the dense array, a Xuanxuan Realm warrior with an iron shield in his hand was enough to resist the stabbing of three or four ordinary generals with spears.

This is also the key reason why Fan Dachun doesn't look down on prisoners and slaves at all.

Chen Hai's solution to this problem is very simple, that is, to use the Macedonian phalanx plus a five-meter super spear as the mainstay, and train these ordinary generals.

The Macedonian phalanx was fatally flawed, but it was the best way that Chen Hai could think of at this time to train the horse infantry army and fight against the elite horse bandits in the vast sea of sand.

In a dense battle formation, the five-meter-long iron spear allows the first four to five columns of generals to have direct contact with the enemy.

In this way, when a Tongxuan Realm warrior rushes over even a royal horse, he will no longer be attacked by three or four ordinary soldiers, but a dozen or even twenty overlapping iron spears stabbing him. The dense spear wall formed in this way will be able to completely make up for the serious lack of individual combat power of ordinary generals.

Of course, Chen Hai directly sealed the thieves of the Black Falcon Cliff Village in the stockade, and he had not had a chance to test the power of this super spear Fangqidun phalanx at this time, after all, it would take time to train the Fangqidun phalanx, and it would take time to transform three or four thousand lengthened iron spears.

At the same time, the Macedonian phalanx needs to cooperate well with the elite cavalry and a large number of auxiliary sword and shield soldiers and archers, and at the same time, it must play its due role on a relatively open and flat battlefield.

Chen Hai besieged the Black Falcon Village at this time, just trying to gain as much time as possible and train troops in actual combat, and what could play a role at this time was the heavy catapult that was built one after another.

Although the stone bomb is more powerful, there are not enough people to collect the stone bomb, so Chen Hai directly arranged for people to collect lake ice by hand, make a large number of hard ice bombs, and throw them at the Black Falcon Village.

The manufacture of catapults, Chen Hai also first simplified and then complex, first let the craftsmen use ordinary iron to cast parts, and use ordinary poplar trees to make catapults, but slowly replaced with thousand-year-old poplar solid wood and quenched iron castings.

By the fifteenth day, the baggage battalion had built 20 catapults, which could fire hundreds of hundred-pound ice bombs at the same time.

Even if he was a martial cultivator in the Spirit Clearing Realm, he didn't dare to easily pick up the hundred-pound ice bombs thrown from two thousand steps away, and the solid wall built with black sandstone poured iron juice was also full of cobweb-like dense cracks on the dense and accurate continuous bombardment of the ice bombs, which would collapse at any time.

The scale of the Black Falcon Cliff Village is much smaller than that of Black Mountain City, only four hundred steps square.

At night, the catapult changed the weight of the counterweight box, adjusted the range, and threw a large number of stone projectiles into the walled city, causing heavy casualties to the thieves, and they did not dare to rest.

also persisted until the fifteenth day, but did not see reinforcements appear, and after more than 100 remnants in the stockade recognized that Chen Hai was actually only training with them, except for a dozen leaders who fled at night, the others surrendered happily.

After strengthening his self-confidence and expelling the leader, Fan Dachun also obediently accepted Chen Hai's suggestion, selected some of the captives of the Black Falcon Cliff to be incorporated into the cavalry team to supplement the lack of combat strength, and also selected hundreds of strong slaves and incorporated them into the horse infantry army and baggage camp.

As with the disposal of the Black Mountain Village, grain and other bulk materials could not be taken away, so they were abandoned in the open field with the cowardly and resigned slaves, allowing others to take them and leave them behind.

Five or six thousand men and horses did not stop at the Black Falcon Rock, after all, the past ten days or so were mainly training, which was much easier than the previous forced march that lasted for two or three days, and ordinary generals had no consumption.

Every day, a small amount of mistletoe honey was eaten, and the weak bodies of the soldiers selected from the slaves were slightly changed and strengthened; the day after the capture of the Black Falcon Cliff, Chen Hai, Han Wendang and others led more than 4,000 horse infantry troops and baggage battalions directly to the Golden Elephant Ridge, which was 400 miles away.

Twenty stone-throwing crossbows were extremely heavy, but they were broken down into hundreds of large and small parts, and dragged directly in the vast sea of sand by thousands of horses, and the speed of movement was not slow.

Fan Dachun first led more than 400 elite cavalry to approach the periphery of Jinxiangling, blocking more than 400 thieves in the cottage so that it had no chance to abandon the village and escape;

The same steps of attacking the village, there have been demonstrations in the previous round, and Han Wendang is already familiar with it.

First, the water was diverted and solidified, and the gate of the village was frozen, so that the thieves did not have the opportunity to counterattack in a big way, and then calmly assembled the twenty catapults, collected the lake ice to make bombs, and threw them over the thief village in waves.

More than 4,000 horsemen and 20 hundred-man teams continued to form a defensive formation on the open oasis meadow outside the stockade to practice Macedonian spear phalanx; 10 hundred-man teams practiced sword and shield formations; 10 hundred-man teams practiced archery; and Fan Dachun led more than 400 elite cavalry to monitor one side to guard against sudden changes.

At this time, Chen Hai didn't seem to care at all about what happened to Hexi, who was besieged in Yequ Mountain, and he didn't send people to reconnoiter the movements of the Xiqiang Kingdom, and he didn't even care that the reinforcements of the Xiqiang Kingdom were not lured out by the horse thieves, nor did he care who in the Xiqiang Country wanted to subvert the Ye royal family who ruled the Pinglu Oasis at this time.

When Han Wendang was able to preside over the training and bombardment of the thief village in an orderly manner, Chen Hai's main energy was to cast more accurate and stronger components, and transform the catapult step by step into a more sophisticated and powerful one.

More than 400 thieves were besieged in the stockade, and the people's hearts were disheartened, while Chen Hai was able to calmly borrow the breath of heaven and earth, condense flames, molten gold and cast iron, cast more sophisticated, and at the same time strive to make the shape of the catapult smaller, which is convenient for dismantling and easier to haul.

Ning Chan'er was also quite enthusiastic to come over to help at this time, of course, her purpose was to learn how to make and use the heavy catapult.

This kind of heavy catapult that is not recorded in the first volume of the training record, the manufacturing process is not complicated, at least it is much simpler than the mechanism crossbow, but ordinary soldiers use it and use it for siege and siege, and the power is considerable.

In particular, a large amount of quenched iron can greatly improve the strength of the catapult and other components, and it is even possible to throw stone projectiles weighing tens of thousands of catties.

She could imagine that once this kind of heavy catapult-throwing giant crossbow was arranged outside the city and tens of thousands of generals were called to operate, the defense array of Yanjing City would be mortally threatened - Chen Hai's birth really completely changed the old war pattern in Yanzhou.