Chapter 991: Step by step

"PS: I have a cold, a headache and a runny nose, but I still hold on to the codeword. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info I owe a change yesterday.,I don't know if I can finish two chapters today.,Anyway,Owes more to make up after I get better.,I hope you understand.』

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The Wugang vehicle is a very special dual-purpose combat vehicle for combat and transportation, that is, a great weapon for infantry to deal with cavalry.

In front of Wu Gangche, even if it is an elite cavalry, there is nothing to do with the infantry.

But then again, this kind of chariot does not look very good, at first glance it looks like an ordinary cart to carry goods, so that when the merchant army of thousands of people distributed these chariots to the soldiers under his command, the soldiers under his command looked at each other and were completely confused.

"Rantou." The fierce soldier Yang Wu interjected with a strange expression: "Our thousand-person team won't be able to decentralize, right?" …… Have you offended Your Highness again? ”

"What nonsense? Why am I ...... again" Halfway through, a thousand people woke up Ran Teng and scolded angrily: "When has Lao Tzu offended His Highness?" …… Last time, you kid didn't have any good words in his mouth, which made Lao Tzu embarrassed! ”

The last time he said in his mouth was the time when the Shang Shui Army conquered the Chu State.

At that time, due to the incorporation of many Chu regular troops in the Shang Shui Army, many of the original generals in the army were promoted to one level, but only Ran Teng, Xiang Li, and Zhang Ming were still thousands of generals.

At that time, Ran Teng listened to the words of Yang Wu and others, and at first he really mistakenly thought that he had offended His Royal Highness King Su, but he didn't expect the truth to be very different, but His Royal Highness King Su valued their three thousand-person teams very much, and he didn't want these three thousand-person teams to decline in strength because of the expansion.

No, in the end, Ran Teng and the others became the only three special 1,000-person generals in the Shang Shui Army, and their authority was comparable to that of 3,000 generals.

Maybe it was because Ran Teng mentioned the last incident, Yang Wu scratched his hair in a daze, and then he asked puzzledly: "Since it wasn't Ran Tou, you offended His Royal Highness King Su, why did His Royal Highness King Su give us such a ...... A cart for transporting grain? It's not going to be for us to be in charge of transporting grain, right? ”

Hearing this, the soldiers of the Ran Teng Thousand People Team in the vicinity looked at each other one by one, and their expressions were a little worried.

You must know that in the Shang Shui Army and the Yan Ling Army, the highest status must be the vanguard army, that is, the various armies that fight in the front in every battle, for example, in the Shang Water Army, Ran Teng, Xiang Li, and Zhang Ming, the three thousand-man teams, at least seven or eight times out of ten, although they are hard and there are casualties every time, they are also respected and envied by the other thousand-man teams of the Shang Water Army - because only the elite can enjoy this attention.

And with such an elite team of 1,000 people, suddenly allotted to carts used to transport grain, it is no wonder that all the soldiers looked apprehensive and completely confused.

"Who told you this is a cart carrying grain?"

After listening to Yang Wu's words, Ran Teng rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Listen to me, this is called the 'Wugang Car', which was urgently built by His Royal Highness King Su and ordered the Smelting Bureau to rush to it, and it is all up to it to defeat the Han cavalry." …… His Royal Highness King Su said that this Wugang car is a sharp weapon against cavalry! ”

Hearing this, the nearby merchant and sailor soldiers didn't care about Ran Teng talking there, and they all gathered around, looking at the Wugang cars.

But no matter how they look at it, the Wugang cart is like an ordinary grain cart.

"Could it be that there is a mystery inside?"

Soldiers Li Hui, Le Bao, Yang Wu and others looked left and right around a Wugang car, and even Gan Mao, the former general of the Donglai Army of Qi State, was curious about the chariot in front of him, but it was a pity that they looked at it for a long time and didn't see any clues.

At this time, the thoughtful Li Hui picked up the two bags full of grain on the car with one hand, and after taking a closer look, he found that under those two pockets, there was actually a cushion board.

"Leopard." Li Hui said hello to Le Leopard, and the latter understood, and then the two of them worked together to lift the pad.

At this time, the soldiers who were watching from the sidelines found that there was a square hollow groove at the front end of the cart chassis under the backing plate, about a finger wide, which happened to match the thickness of the backing plate.

Therefore, a soldier immediately suggested that Li Hui and Lebao erect the backing board and insert it into the empty groove on the car.

And just as Li Hui and Lebao were busy inserting the thick wooden board into the hollow groove on the cart board, several soldiers found that at the bottom of the front end of the cart, there were several round holes that they didn't know what to do.

One of the soldiers saw that there were still a few spears in the car, and he picked up a spear and inserted the tail of the spear into one of the round holes.

Unexpectedly, the round hole fits the spear very well.

So the other soldiers did the same, and took up a spear and loaded it.

After these two transformations, the Wugang car, which was originally the image of a cart, suddenly changed its appearance, revealing its hideous appearance as a chariot.

The nearby Shangshui soldiers suddenly realized: after looking away, it turned out that this was really a chariot.

On the side, Ran Teng, the general of the thousand people, looked at the appearance of his soldiers in amazement with a funny face, to be honest, if he hadn't learned some information, otherwise, he would probably be like Yang Wu and the others, and he would be confused by the order of His Royal Highness King Su to give them this kind of martial car.

"Listen up." Standing on the board of one or two Wugang cars, Ran Teng, a thousand people, shouted loudly: Each Wugang car, lead a Wugang car. …… Today and tomorrow, we will familiarize ourselves with the structure of the Wugang car, and in two or three days, our army will accept a mission. ”

Hearing this, all the soldiers nearby were excited, thinking that they were about to use this kind of Wugang car to fight the Korean cavalry, only Ran Teng laughed a few times ill-willedly.

Because he knew that the task they were about to accept would not be what his soldiers expected.

Two more days passed, during which dozens of ships flying the "Wei" flag docked at the temporary river port in the south of Ji County, and one after another Wugang trucks loaded with full cloth bags were transported off the ships and pushed to the Wei camp in Ji County.

On March 19, Ranteng's thousand-man squad first received orders to leave the city and head to the northeast.

The northeast of Ji County, until Qishui Pass, this is a plain that is more than 100 miles long and about 60 miles wide, the northwest side is Linshu Mountain, the southeast side is the big river, the plain is almost a flat terrain, there used to be a lot of forests here, but now, the forests on this plain have been burned by the Korean army during the retreat during the last Northern Xinjiang Campaign, so that the line of sight on this plain is extremely wide, especially for the cavalry.

Today, on this plain, let's call it the Linshu Plain, the thousand-strong team of the Ran Teng Army is slowly advancing towards the northeast with 200 armed Wugang chariots.

At the front of their team, about four or five crows were responsible for guiding the thousand-strong team to the predetermined location.

It can be seen that this time, the soldiers of the thousand-person team under Ran Teng are not very emotional for some reason, but on the contrary, they are a little wilted.

The reason for this phenomenon is related to the orders they receive.

I remember that three or two days ago, after getting the Wugang car, the soldiers of the Ran Tengjun thought that they were about to have a big battle with the Korean cavalry, but they didn't expect that a certain His Royal Highness King Su just asked them to temporarily play the role of a mason, the mason's work - to build a defensive stronghold on the Linxi Plain.

That's too boring, isn't it?

The soldiers of Ran Tengjun's morale were inevitably a little depressed.

After about half a day's journey, the Ran Teng Thousand Men came to an unknown river, judging from the direction of the flow, this was most likely a river that flowed towards a large river.

At the front of the team, several members of the Green Crows on horseback were gesticulating, exchanging something with Ran Teng, the general of the thousands.

"I guess it's here." One of the green crows glanced at the map in his hand, and then said to Ran Teng: "Your Excellency, please build a defensive base near this river, and I, the Green Crows, will be on guard in all directions, and once we find that the Korean cavalry is approaching, I will send a message to you and others." ”

"There are a few workers." Ran Teng clenched his fists and said.

After the crows left, Ran Teng ordered the soldiers to cross the river, and then stationed on the east bank of the river, and told the soldiers to lift the green cloth covering Wugang's chariot.

At this time, I saw that Wu Gang's car was loaded, and it was actually a truckload of burnt bricks.

And in addition to these burnt bricks, there are also pockets, on which gray powder faintly oozes.

"Bang bang."

Ran Teng clapped his hands and ordered: "Hurry up, take action, don't play dead to Lao Tzu." How much ability do you have, don't you know? ”

As he said this, he kicked a soldier who was lying nearby.

As a thousand generals of this thousand soldiers, Ran Teng knows very well that the soldiers under him are all the elite of the Shang Shui Army, and the half-day rush alone will not make these soldiers exhausted, in the final analysis, these little cubs are just not in a high mood.

At Ran Teng's urging, the soldiers complained and took action, they chose a place, unloaded all the cloth pockets on Wu Gang's car, poured a gray powder called "cement" in the pockets on the ground, dug up some soil, and took water from a nearby creek, stirring it into a gray-black mud.

After the preparations were ready, the soldiers of the Ran Teng army began to pile up the defensive stronghold using the burnt bricks and the mud.

They first built a brick wall about five or six feet high - a brick wall of this height alone would be enough to deal with the cavalry.

Not surprisingly, the Korean cavalry really noticed this Wei army, so that about half an hour later, about five or six hundred cavalry heard the news.

Seeing this, the Ran Teng soldiers, who had received a timely warning from the Green Crows in advance, did not panic, and placed two hundred Wugang chariots side by side, surrounded the defensive strongholds that had not yet been fully built, and formed a square gate array. "Note: The square gate formation, that is, the "mouth" formation."

I saw that the Wugang chariots, which were about two zhang long, one zhang four wide, and one zhang five high, were transformed into a strong wall that was difficult for the Korean cavalry to cross under the operation of the Wei army.

In the Wei stronghold where the Wugang chariot was spliced into the city, those Ran Teng sergeants did not pay attention to the Korean cavalry, except for the crossbowmen who boarded the Wugang chariot and hid behind the thick baffle to peep at the movements of the Korean cavalry, ready to greet them with hand crossbows, the rest of the infantry continued to pile up the stronghold that had not yet been completed.

"This ......"

The five or six hundred Korean cavalry circled around the Wei stronghold spliced together by Wugang cars twice, looking confused.

They had the intention of attacking this Wei army, but the problem was that the chariots around this Wei army seemed to be spliced like a city wall, and there was no flaw to be found at all.