Xinkou.

Wei Chi Gong fought against Song Jingang, Yu Chi Gong was extremely brave, but it was difficult to advance under the Xinkou Pass.

Song Jingang, the king of the puppet Song Dynasty, after he was defeated and surrendered to Liu Wuzhou in Zhaojun, Hebei, Liu Wuzhou treated him very politely, not only married his sister to Song Jingang, but also gave him half of his property, which made Song Jingang, the leader of the horse thieves who came to the defeat, very moved, and divorced his wife without saying a word, and then patted his chest and said to Liu Wuzhou that as long as he had a breath, he would not let the Qin army fight through the Xinkou Pass.

To say that although Song Jingang started as a horse thief, he is really good at riding and shooting, especially because he knows the art of war and strategy very well, and he is not an ordinary horse thief. Before being able to survive in Zhao County, Hebei Province for a year under the pressure of Qin Jun and Xia Jun, it can be seen that this person has some ability.

In the end, the defeat came to vote, but it was only because of congenital insufficiency.

When he came to Hedong, Liu Wuzhou trusted him very much, and directly pulled out a lot of soldiers, horses, money and food for him.

Liu Wuzhou's Yiwu Army, this is not an ordinary chaotic army bandits, they were the first of the imperial court's Mayi border army, and later they were supplemented by Turkic and Tiele cavalry, not to mention the ordnance and armor, so this army is actually a regular army.

Such an elite team defends with danger, and there is a general like Song Jingang who understands the art of war, and Wei Chigong, a fierce general, is a little helpless.

The emperor rode his horse to the pass.

Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin and other generals followed, all of them were famous generals of the Qin army.

Under the city of Xinkou Pass, 100,000 elite Qin troops were gathered at this time.

When the emperor's white tiger banner appeared next to the dragon flag of Great Qin, the Qin troops under Xinkou Pass were all excited.

The left green dragon flag and the right white tiger flag.

Under the two banners, the emperor in golden helmet and armor was as dazzling as a god.

"Long live the Emperor!"

Someone shouted.

Then countless people shouted along.

"Long live the Emperor!"

On the huge battle array that stretched for more than ten miles, the sounds came and went, and finally they all converged, becoming more and more neat, until all the voices were uniform.

"Long live the Emperor!"

The sound was like a landslide, like a sea cracking.

Under this voice, the blood of all the soldiers of the Qin army couldn't help boiling, and everyone had only the emperor in their hearts at this time.

And the front of the castle.

The soldiers of the puppet National Volunteer Army felt chills in this earth-shattering sound.

Many people just feel numb in their scalp.

Facing the tsunami-like shouts of the mountain under the gate, they only felt that their minds were dazed, and their faces were as pale as dirt.

Once, they were also members of the opposite side, but now, they are on the opposite side.

Wei Chigong was dressed in black armor and rode his horse to the emperor's horse.

"Please Your Majesty once again have a chance to take Xinkou Guancheng!"

Cheng Yanjin laughed on the side, "Although Song Jingang, a thief, also knows some tactics in the art of war, but it is only average, with just a closed city, he can actually block General Wei Chi for so long, it seems that General Wei Chi's forward is a little incompetent!" ”

Wei Chigong's face turned red.

"Your Majesty, give the minister another chance, and you will definitely take Guancheng."

The emperor smiled and said to Wei Chigong, "Song Jingang does have some ability, and if he really talks about using soldiers, he may still be above Liu Wuzhou." "Speaking of which, Liu Wuzhou was actually just a captain of Yingyang before, and he didn't fight any decent battles, let alone command the legion to fight, he became the envoy of the festival, but he assassinated his boss Wang Rengong in a sneak attack, and then guarded the three counties of Yanmen in Mayi for a few years, and he didn't make any achievements.

"General Wei Chi, I also know that Xinkou Chengjian is strong, so don't worry, I will give you another chance to attack, and I will give you twenty red-coated cannons to cooperate with you."

The so-called red-coated cannon is actually a stone-throwing machine, but this is a new and improved stone-throwing machine.

China has long had catapults, but generally the kind of rope catapults pulled by manpower, that is, one end is loaded with stones, one end is tied with ten or even a hundred ropes, and then one or two hundred people pull the ropes together to throw the stones at the other end.

According to historical records, this kind of cannon is also called a thunderbolt cannon, but it can generally throw about ten catties of stone projectiles.

For a long time, at the technical level, the counterweight technology has not been combined, and the manual cable method is used.

And now the red-coated cannon is a catapult with a counterweight and ratchet.

Dozens of horses pulled the stone-throwing carts, covered with red cloths, to the gate, and the specialized artillery began to assemble rapidly.

This is a stone-throwing cart using the benchmark principle, but instead of dozens or hundreds of people pulling the rope as in the past, it is made of wood and equipped with a thousand pounds of counterweight iron at the back.

These weights are all made into pieces of iron bars and packed in large special boxes.

When used, it is hung at one end of the gun carriage arm, and then the artillery pries the ratchet to lift the weight box one by one. Because there is a ratchet device, even if it is equipped with a thousand catties or even thousands of catties of counterweight, it only needs two or three people to operate it.

This is a revolution brought about by technology, in order to research this latest type of stone throwing car, Luo Cheng recruited craftsmen as early as several years ago, proposed the direction of improvement, and gave a huge reward.

After several years of research and transformation, a lot of manpower, material resources and money were invested, and this red-coated cannon was finally developed.

This time, it was the largest of the molded products, and the stone bullet used weighed 150 catties and had a range of 260 paces (about 400 meters).

During the experiment, the power showed that the stone projectile could hit the ground seven feet deep after landing.

If you hit the house directly, you can knock the house down.

Even against the city wall, it has a lot of lethality.

In comparison, the traditional rope trebuchet, although there are also light and heavy, heavy seven and five pins, need 15 to 250 people to pull the rope, at most can only throw 30 or 40 pounds of stone bullets, just like this, are still improved by the craftsmen of the Qin army.

Originally, at most, it was to pull twenty or thirty pounds.

In addition to developing the red-coated cannon, the Qin army also improved the light cable cannon, the stone bullet weighs only half a catty, and can even be replaced by mud bombs, which only need two people to pull and release, but it is easy to move and transport, and the hit can also be fatal.

Behind the twenty red-coated cannons this time were as many as a thousand medium and light stone cannons.

This was also the debut of Daqin's first real artillery unit.

Two hundred paces away.

This distance is very safe for the red-clothed cannons and artillerymen, not to mention that the emperor attaches great importance to this artillery and specially prepares an infantry for them to protect them.

The red clothes were lifted, and the cannon was hideous.

The weight box was quickly assembled, the gunners began to pry the ratchet, and the jack counterweight slowly rose.

"The redcoat cannon is in place!"

"Start loading!"

Under the order of the gunner, several gunners loaded the polished 150-pound stone bullets into the throwing mouth.

"The No. 1 redcoat cannon is reloaded!"

"The second redcoat cannon is reloaded!"

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All ten cannons were loaded.

The commander of the red-clothed artillery came over and checked it again with a serious expression, "All aim and shoot for me, I know that you have tested thousands of rounds before, and the shot is already very accurate, but today is our first actual battle, His Majesty the Emperor is watching the battle behind us, and in front of us is the rebel Guancheng, this battle must show the majesty of our artillery!" ”

A gunner replied in a loud voice, "Please rest assured, I have already aimed at the city gate building, and I will kill him with one shot." ”

"Okay, kill the city gate building, Lao Tzu will reward you with two catties of Longmen flying general good wine!"

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