Chapter 1332: Wheelbarrow

Charlie, Earl of Geldon, was very tolerant, and before, during the siege of the city, Count Charles did not take out 600 musketeers, but hid in the snow.

Because, Count Charles knew very well - musketeers were of little use in sieges. On the contrary, it is to defend the city, and the power is invincible. After all, the defending side could safely reload ammunition from behind the battlements and shoot outward from the firing hole. On the besieging side, the musketeers had to stand under the walls and shoot because of the range. But then the musketeers became live targets for the enemy troops at the head of the city.

Therefore, Charlie, Earl of Geldon, did not take out 600 musketeers at first, but hid them in the snow, ready to use them at a critical moment. Obviously, the decisive battle three days later was that "critical moment......

In the past three days, Marin has not been idle. Under his command, in the entire Tucheng battalion, the Beihai State army was fully mobilized. In addition, the main gate of the earth city, Marin also plans to blast it to make the gate wider. After all, the current main gate of Tucheng can only accommodate a few people to go out of the city in parallel. If you go out of the city too slowly, you may encounter an opponent who likes to sneak attack, and the vanguard may be defeated.

Therefore, Marin planned to blow up the earthen city gate at that time, so that more soldiers could go out of the city in parallel. Of course, this will not be blown up until the day of the official war. If the bombing is early, someone will have to be arranged to guard the gap. The original method of blowing up the entire section of the east wall was too gunpowder-intensive. If you just blow up the East Gate, it won't cost too much gunpowder.

"My lord, even if we blow up the East Gate, we will accommodate dozens of people out of the city at a time. What if, at that time, the enemy army took advantage of the unstable foothold of our army to launch an attack? Captain of the First Legion, Stadder, asked.

"Probably not...... These old aristocrats are the most good-looking, they won't be so 'clever' (shameless), right? Marin said with some uncertainty.

Schwartz, the temporary commander of the Second Legion, rolled his eyes and said:

"Certainly not the other princes, but certainly Charles, Earl of Geldon. He hates you to the core, and he probably doesn't follow the rules so much. ”

Marin thought about it, if it was the army of the Gerdon Country, it might really take advantage of the North Sea Country's army to launch an attack when it was not firmly established.

So, after thinking about it, he arranged:

"Schwartz, you go and gather all the wheelbarrows in the army. When they leave the city the day after tomorrow, these wheelbarrows are the first to go out. Then, in front of the formation. In this way, there is no fear of a surprise attack by enemy troops! ”

The wheelbarrow chariot is the unicycle chariot invented by Yu Dayou, of course, Yu Dayou is only 9 years old at this time, one year younger than Caesar, so it is naturally impossible to invent any unicycle. Therefore, in the future, this car can also be called a Marin chariot.

At the front end of the wheelbarrow, there were four sharp spears. If the bottom end of the bipod at the back of the car is sharpened and stuck in the ground, it will form a stable triangular structure with the wheels. At this time, if the enemy rushes up, it is equivalent to hitting the tip of the spear on the front of the car. Even if it is a cavalryman, it is inevitable that he will be stabbed into a kebab.

Moreover, when there is no war, the four spears at the front end of the wheelbarrow can also be removed and inserted vertically into the side of the frame. At this point, the wheelbarrow became an ordinary wheelbarrow that could be used for the task of transporting supplies.

Marin has a soft spot for unicycles, which can transport supplies and ignore most of the terrain. Even in the mountainous areas with low slopes, wheelbarrows can easily pass through and transport supplies for the army.

Moreover, the unicycle in Beihai is a Chinese-style unicycle made by Ma Lin. That is, the wheelbarrow with the center of gravity in the middle is more than twice the load of the wheelbarrow in the center of Europe at the front, and can reach five or six hundred pounds of cargo, which is a very good one-person transport. The reason why Ma Lin attaches so much importance to the wheelbarrow has a lot to do with the sentence that Mr. Chen said, "The victory of the Huaihai Battle was pushed by the masses with small carts".

In addition, after learning Yu Dayou's unicycle technology, Ma Lin found that as long as the unicycle was simply modified, the unicycle could be used for both transportation and combat tasks.

For example, in the Beihai National Army, there are tens of thousands of Chinese-style unicycles. And these wheelbarrows, as long as they are inserted into the front end, they can be used as Yu Dayou's wheelbarrows, which are so easy to use that they explode......

With so many wheelbarrows there, Schwartz mobilized the wheelbarrows easily, and casually vacated 2,000 wheelbarrows, unloaded the grain goods, and installed the spearhead on the side in front, which became Yu Dayou's wheelbarrow that could be used as a chariot. And this time when the city was unearthed, Marin planned to let the 2,000 wheelbarrows act as the vanguard. If the enemy army does not sneak attack, it is fine, if it is a sneak attack, it is just right for them to taste the power of the wheelbarrow......

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Three days passed in a flash, and on the morning of the third day, the army of the North Sea State was finally ready. After breakfast, the army of the Beihai Kingdom lined up in Tucheng, intending to leave the city......

But to the surprise of the allied forces of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms, the Beihai army did not come out directly, but launched the blasting first......

Demolition Captain Doni. Ciri, with the members of the demolition team, used several powder kegs and buried them under the roots of the earthen wall near the city gatehouse. Then, start ignition......

With the sound of a huge explosion, the east gate of the Tucheng camp of the Beihai State Army was completely paralyzed. Marin then began to arrange for his men to clear the clods of dirt at the door to facilitate the army's travel.

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The violent explosion startled the allied forces of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms outside the city. They thought it was the Beihai army that opened fire, but when they saw it, it turned out that it was just the other party bombing the city gate......

"It's really good, I actually blew up the earthen city gate...... Tsk, if they fail, they won't be able to escape. After all, the gates of the city have been blown up by them...... "Henry, Duke of Lüneburg, said in a sigh from Braunschweig.

"Isn't that good? It just so happened that we took this opportunity to defeat them completely. Ma Lin has cut himself off this time, so don't blame us for destroying the Beihai Kingdom! Braunschweig - Duke Wolfenbüttel sneered.

Charlie, Earl of Geldon, looked at the two powerful bigwigs who were bickering, and after thinking about it, he didn't say anything. However, he had already made up his mind - he planned to send a group of cavalry to attack the opponent while the enemy was out of the city and making a commotion. It would be even better if you could take advantage of the chaos to kill important people in the enemy army.

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However, when the army of the North Sea Kingdom came out of the city, the Earl of Gerdon was dumbfounded, for he saw that the first to go out of the city was a chariot with a spear in front of it......

In particular, when Count Charles saw the bipods of those chariots with spearheads in front piercing the dirt, he knew that his plans for cavalry raids were bankrupt......

Earl Charles understood very well that this method of inserting the back two-legged bracket into the earth was far stronger than the spear-wielding soldiers in the front row. Even if the soldiers crouched down and raised their spears forward, they were not as able to withstand the onslaught of the cavalry as well as this fixation......