Chapter 670: Booming Cannon
In the first year of Hongwu (AD l368), Taizu of the Ming Dynasty set up thirteen provinces in the country, and Handan County belonged to Guangping Mansion of North Zhili Province. The Qing Dynasty was called Zhili Province due to the attack on the Ming system, and Handan County was still under the jurisdiction of Guangping Prefecture.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the political and economic center of Handan was in Guangping Fucheng (now Yongnian Old City). At the beginning of the Republic of China, Guangping Mansion was abolished, Handan County belonged to South Hebei Province, and in 1928, Zhili Province was changed to Hebei Province, and Handan County was directly under the jurisdiction of the province.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Handan was the center of the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan base areas.
The reason why we want to briefly introduce Handan is because he is also more important, and some of Fu Lin's orders and things in the future are also related to Handan many times.
We don't talk much, and the book returns to the main text, just when Yan Liang led the army and hurried to the Yellow River crossing.
In Handan, some things have happened, but the size of the matter depends on how the superior views them.
There is no other reason, that is, Zhang He and Gao Ran's family, even a house slave and maidservant, hundreds of people, since they disappeared without a trace overnight.
And because Handan's county order is Guo Tu's son Guo Yan, this Guo Yan is a typical second generation, he eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, draws, abducts, cheats, and steals, and does all kinds of evil, and Zhang He and Gao Ran, the two generals, are not valued at all in the Yuan family, so Guo Yan's county order is only written in the case file that the two generals Zhang Gao, their families moved their families, and their whereabouts are unknown.
Rattle!
Guo Yan is really funny, but his casual perfunctory hits by mistake, in fact, Zhang He and Gao Ran's family is small, and the family has really moved, and the goal is Chang'an.
Zhang Gao's two generals' families have come to an end, and they will soon know the news of their family's safety.
At this time, Yan Liang's army also happened to arrive at the crossing of the Yellow River, Yan Liang came to the bank of the Yellow River with his personal guards, he looked at the turbulent waters of the Yellow River and the other bank, the defense was tight, and the Yellow River camp stretched for more than ten miles.
Whew!
After a while, I heard Yan Liang immediately shout: "Come, pass my military order, the army immediately cross the river, launch an attack on Fu Lin's camp, capture the Yellow River camp for me, capture Fu Lin alive, and kill Zhang He and Gao Ran, the two traitors." By the way, send a letter to the lord, saying that the two generals Zhang Gao have defected to the lord, and let the lord cut off all the small families of the two of them! ”
As the so-called old cat is not at home, the mouse climbs in the house, and now Yan Liang is the commander of the army, so the life and death of these soldiers and horses are decided by Yan Liang in one word.
And Yan Liang jumped like thunder, which also frightened these generals and soldiers, and saw a deputy general, who immediately came out of the line and saluted: "No! Checkmate...... Military ...... Don't worry, you'll do it! ”
Yan Liang slanted the lieutenant general with the corner of his eye, so frightened that the lieutenant almost lost his incontinence, this general shrank his neck, and turned away, he felt that he should hurry up and stay away from the pervert!
This Yan Liang sent a letter to the lord Yuan Shao, and soon, Yan Liang ordered the army to start crossing the river, but Fu Lin was recuperating and had already made complete preparations.
I saw that Fu Lin was dressed in a draped suit and stood on the wall of the Yellow River camp, and Fu Lin's soldiers and horses were also waiting in formation.
And this big camp, Jia Xu designed it very cleverly, he is not close to the Yellow River, but it is not far away, the archers on the camp wall can not only attack the enemy's ships, but also will not be too close to the river, so that Yan Liang has a chance.
There is a kind of half-crossing attack above the art of war, and Fu Lin used this one, but he didn't move it down from the books.
I saw Fu Lin's soldiers and horses, divided into many queues, among which the archers above the city wall and the arrow tower were archers, and inside the camp wall, the first row was the sword and shield men, the second row was the pikemen, and there were fifty cannons in the Yellow River camp.
These instruments are all developed and produced by Fu Lin Ordnance Institute, because this kind of thing is high-tech in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but although this kind of sky-bombing cannon has many advantages such as long range and great power, it also has many shortcomings.
For example, the frequency of the launch is not full, and it cannot be moved over a long distance as a whole, so it can only be produced, and then when it is necessary to use it, it will be temporarily assembled.
Today, these sky-bombing cannons are loaded with oil bombs, which is also explained by Fu Lin himself, because the veteran once told Fu Lin that this kind of sky-bombing cannon is not suitable for oil bombs, because his hit rate is not high.
Yan Liang's enemy army came from the other side of the Yellow River, so the possibility of burning the enemy ships and the enemy to death was not too high.
However, Fu Lin had Fu Lin's thoughts, and at this time, Fu Lin saw that Yan Liang's first batch of men and horses had already reached the range of the Sky Bombardment.
So, Fu Lin came to the front of the small leaders of the people and horses of the Sky Cannon, only to hear Fu Lin say: "Lao Li, you use your brains well today, I don't ask you, all the fire oil bombs, all knock down the enemy, as long as you have a hit, of course, the higher your hit rate, the better, if you concentrate an enemy, I will reward you with a reward of 1,000 yuan for the catapult camp, and so on, if you don't hit any of them today, from tomorrow, your training will be doubled, and your food will be halved." ”
"Alright!" Lao Li heard the lord talking to him in person, he was also very excited, if he was allowed to hit 100%, it would be impossible, but as long as he hit an enemy ship, there would be a reward, such a reward, if he couldn't get it, then he didn't have to live.
So, Lao Li said very excitedly: "Lord, just look at it, see how I let Yan Liang lose people." ”
After seeing Lao Li saluting to the lord, he turned to his men and said, "Brothers, all ready, the goal is facing straight ahead, ready. ’
This Lao Li is just a talent that Fu Lin found out from tens of thousands of troops, and Lao Li is just an ordinary person, because he was captured by Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army in the early years and plundered into the Xiliang Army.
Later, by mistake, he went to the catapult camp, which was among the soldiers and horses, and was specially responsible for launching trebuchets.
Therefore, later Lao Li worked the trebuchet, and after a long time, he became the small leader of the trebuchet in any army, just because of the trebuchet commanded and controlled by Lao Li, their accuracy was relatively high.
In this era at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this kind of trebuchet did not have the high-precision artillery of the later generations, so high accuracy, and even after a war, the trebuchet fired hundreds of times, but it did not hit once.
Therefore, according to the characteristics of this era, Fu Lin promised Lao Li that if it weren't for Fu Lin's hard life, the trebuchets under his command would only be decorations.
To put it bluntly, trebuchets are used to scare people, unless there are enough trebuchets and enough stone projectiles, so that the concentrated high-density design can hit the enemy.
At this time, Fu Lin also saw that Yan Liang's men and horses had already crossed half of the Yellow River.
Lao Li also looked at the enemy army, and he saw that the opportunity had come. So Lao Li immediately shouted: "Ready, release!" ”
Boom Boom!
Thundered!
Brush Brush Brush Brush!
Brush Brush Brush Brush!
Lao Li gave an order, only to see fifty sky-bombing cannons, all of which were fired at the same time, and each time five fire oil bombs were ignited into the air.
I saw that the fire oil bomb was like a starry sky, firing towards Yan Liang's ship, in fact, Fu Lin's sky-bombing cannon was not suitable for today's battlefield.