Chapter 46: Expedition to Liao
At this moment, Song An felt a great shock in his heart.
He suddenly remembered the lyrics of the ending song sung by Mao Amin in the TV series "New Water Margin": ...... The cute reckless hero turned out to be the starry nether, and the ordinary Vasher commentary concealed the secret of salvation......
Yes, almost all of them were born in the grass, and when they heard that the country was in trouble, they were going to step forward with their heads in hand!
No one complained!
This most simple and pure patriotism made Song An deeply infected!
On the night five days ago, Song An told his father that the Liao soldiers were attacking in the south, and Zhao Ji would definitely use this as an excuse to let Liangshanbo send troops to Qinwang, firstly, to let Liangshanbo lose his troops and lose his generals, to avoid Liangshanbo's self-respect and make the court uneasy, and secondly, to also hit the Liao army. It can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Dad stared at the bright moonlit sky for a long time, and he said deeply: "I, Song Jiangsheng, was born in the Great Song Dynasty and died in the Great Song Dynasty. Filial piety for the son, loyalty for the minister, loyalty to the country, what does it matter if you die......"
Gu Yanwu of later generations said that "the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband", isn't it exactly what they are talking about?
What a group of lovely, respectable reckless heroes!
"When you go to the eight generals, when you return to the four pairs, one less brother, swear not to return to the hometown!" ('圩' means fifty)
This shout in the Hall of Loyalty and Righteousness permeates the space.
One hundred and nine wine bowls were filled with wine, and one hundred and nine people were killed by one, and one hundred and nine people threw one hundred wine bowls on the ground with a crisp and shattering sound, and shattered to pieces......
This is a strong wine.
Daddy Song Jiang is currently a die-hard fan of the Great Song Dynasty, and he plans to pour out 100,000 troops to the north to attack Liao.
Under Song An's persuasion, he finally agreed to leave 5,000 troops to stay in Liangshan, leaving Zhu Wu, the master of the Shenji Army, to coordinate the overall situation at home, and Song Qing's son, Song Ping, Song An's cousin, temporarily replaced Chai Jin to take care of internal affairs.
The cars are sparkling and the horses are sparkling, and the pedestrians are each with bows and arrows at their waists.
In the spring of March, the rape flowers have just bloomed, and the land of Shandong is golden and beautiful.
The army of 95,000 Liangshanbo stretched for more than ten miles all the way to the north......
Song An's familiarity with the heroes of Liangshan basically comes from the old and new versions of the TV series Water Margin, and unfortunately in these two versions, the matter of Song Jiang Pingliao has been chosen to be brushed aside, and the original work that is a little awkward to read, Song An has really never seen it once.
Therefore, although he knew that the result of Song Jiang Pingliao was one hundred and eight generals without losing a single person, he did not know the process at all.
Although Song An's position among the leaders of Liangshan has been promoted from the one hundred and ninth to the thirty-seventh, his position has not changed, and he is still the commander of the "Parachute Battalion".
After several months of training, his "parachute battalion" has expanded from more than 70 to 300 people.
After four days of marching, more than 90,000 troops arrived at the northernmost point of the current Great Song Dynasty territory - Danzhou.
There are three small cities in Danzhou with a radius of 15 miles in the shape of "Pin", each guarded by 20,000 Liao soldiers.
The former city defender was Aliqi, the commander of the Liao State.
The left city guard will be called Yelu Guozhen, and the right city guard will be called Yelu Guobao, both of them are brothers, both are nephews of Liao Emperor Yeluhui.
At the beginning, the Song army with 50,000 absolutely superior troops and did not have time to retreat into the city of Aliqi engaged in positional warfare, but unexpectedly was attacked by the enemy on the left and right and the front city, 50,000 troops killed and wounded 30,000, but only 6,000 enemies were killed.
Later, the Song army besieged the three cities with 100,000 troops, so why can't you help each other, right?
But who knew that the bows and crossbows of the Liao army were too violent, and when the Song army rushed to a distance of three hundred steps from the city, they released arrows, three hundred steps away, iron armor, shot through the human body and wore a cold heart!
The arrows from the crossbow can shoot through the three layers of shields!
The arrows were like a hurricane, and the corpses of the Song army were piled up under the three cities, but they didn't even get close to the walls of the three cities.
In this battle, the Song army suffered 40,000 casualties and killed hundreds of enemies.
Li Cheng, the commander of the defeated Song army, was ordered by Huizong to serve in the Song Jiang army and make meritorious contributions.
"As far as I know, our Divine Arm Bow, which has the strongest range at the moment, can shoot three hundred paces away, and even so, three hundred steps can pierce a layer of skin when it hits a person. The arrows of the Liao army have such divine power, and they can still shoot through the iron armor in 300 steps? Song An asked Li Cheng incredulously.
"The last general didn't believe it at first, and then he was defeated like a mountain......"
Li Cheng took out two bows and crossbows that looked similar on the outside and placed them in front of Song An and his father.
"This one is the bow and crossbow of our Great Song Dynasty, and the other is the bow and crossbow of the Liao army that we picked up on the battlefield."
Song An and Dad respectively picked up the bow and crossbow and looked at it for a long time, except that the bowstring of the Liao army was dyed red, and they found that there was any difference between the two bows and crossbows.
"The difference is in this bowstring. The bows and crossbows of our Great Song Dynasty are the same as those of the Liao army, but the horsehair of our army is made of ordinary horses, and the horsehair of the Liao army is made from blood horses. ”
Song An was incredulous: "I've only heard of sweat and blood BMW, what is a blood horse?" ”
"Erdan, you come and talk to the two great commanders!"
Li Cheng greeted him, and a middle-aged man who looked like a farmer walked in.
"Erdan was captured by the Liao army and raised horses for five years."
"The horses I raised back then were specially used to supply horsehair as bowstrings for the bows and crossbows of the Liao army. The head of the horse breeder told me that I would whip each horse with a leather whip until the blood was drawn to stain the horse's mane red, and then when the wound was healed, and then pumped, so that each horse would be smoked for a year! Then the blood-red horsehair was hinged off. I thought to myself, why do good horses smoke them, so I asked the leader, and the leader told me that the bowstring made of horsehair grown in this way is several times stronger than ordinary horsehair! They all call these horses, which are specially designed to provide horsehair, blood horses! This kind of horse can only be chained to the stable for the rest of its life and whipped ......"
Song Jiang trembled when he heard this: "What a wild race, such a cruel soul, the sky should be destroyed!" ”
Daddy is a man who loves horses like a child, and his BMW mount "Jade Lion in the Night" has to go to the stable every day to tickle it, comb its hair, and then wipe its face with a towel to buckle the eyelets.
Song An tried the power of the two bows and crossbows respectively, and shot at a tree at the same distance, the crossbow arrows of the Great Song Dynasty shot one inch into the body of the tree, while the Liao army's was four inches!
"Liao thieves have such a strong bow and crossbow, how should we break the city!" Song Jiang said abruptly.
"Don't worry, father, don't forget that we still have an umbrella camp!"
Daddy is overjoyed.
Whether it is a crossbow, an ordinary bow and arrow, or a bed crossbow and various crossbow arrows, there are only two ways to shoot: flat and projectile.
Flat shooting is very simple, that is, parallel shooting, straight shooting, this kind of shooting is generally suitable for close range attacks.
Projectile is to shoot into the sky at the angle of Guo Jingming's gaze at the sky, and then shoot the enemy in the form of a parabola, which is suitable for attacking enemies who are far away. This will allow the crossbow to reach its maximum range.
In fact, there is also a third way, this method Song An called it "180-degree angle shooting", which is to point the bow and crossbow vertically into the sky and launch!
It's just that this way is too dangerous, and if you don't get it, you will be shot to death.
At that time, in the face of the Liangshan thieves who flew above their heads and threw earth-shattering thunder, Song Jun angrily launched the bows and crossbows, bows and arrows, bed crossbows and other things that could be shot in his hands in a "180-degree angle" posture!
As a result, instead of hitting a single person in the parachute battalion, the arrows they shot fell from the sky and returned to themselves!
Eventually, a large number of them died under their own arrows.
There may be only three people in history who can shoot the 666 at a "180-degree angle", one is Hou Yi who shoots the sun, one is Guo Jing who shoots the eagle, and the other is Genghis Khan, who only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle.
It can be deduced from a series of meticulous and precise mathematical and physical formulas that if a crossbow can be projectile at 500 paces, it will fly no more than 300 paces in a flat shot, and at most 100 paces if it is to be fired at an angle of 180 degrees.
One step in ancient times was about 1.4 meters in later generations, and Song An's parachute battalion has now reached a flight altitude of 200 meters. Completely out of range.
Theory alone is not enough, practice is the only criterion for testing truth.
Whether the Liao army can shoot or not, it is better to practice, in case there is really a ruthless character like Hou Yi among them?
Guo Jing would not have it, because at this time his great-grandfather "Sai Rengui" Guo Sheng was "serving" in the Liangshanbo army at this time, and he had not yet married a wife and had children.
That big man is also more than a hundred years later.
Qiao Feng, and Qiao Feng!