The appearance of the city is one of the important symbols that distinguish the nomadic people from the farming people, the natural advantage of the nomads is that everyone is a soldier, that is, they are mobile and flexible, but in the face of the iron wall of the farming people, few nomads break through the defense line of the country when the country is still stable. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yuanmeng is probably the only exception, but even Yuanmeng, after inheriting the legacy of the Jin State, was helpless against the Southern Song Dynasty, until the conquest of the Great Food, the Huihui artillery from Central Asia joined the battle array, which gradually achieved the advantage of attacking the city, and the Diaoyu City, which had not been captured for 30 years, was finally captured, and the Southern Song Dynasty lost its last guarantee.

China is good at defending cities, and the Northern Song Dynasty is even more so, with many Xiongcheng in Hebei and many cities in Longxi being an important guarantee to resist the Western Xia and Liao iron cavalry.

There are many ways to defend a city, for example, various equipment to defend the city, such as gold juice, rolling logs and even falling rocks, but in all the examples of defending the city, the archer is always the first.

Archers defend the city with a natural advantage, their own strong and weak archers, in the field when there is no protection, easy to sneak attack, especially the light cavalry in the flank sneak attack, this is the archer's natural disadvantage, but on the city wall, in addition to the opponent's long-range weapons, other types of troops do not have to be considered, which can maximize the attack power of the archer.

A city with sufficient food, not because of food and discouragement, was eventually captured, which has a lot to do with the lack of archers, archers are the most advantageous troops in the defense of a city, it can continue to consume, and the transfer speed is very fast, will not be defeated by the opponent's concentrated attack, unless the opponent's attack weapon, the range is much stronger than the archer, so that you can ignore the archer, forcibly attack the city.

Ordinary short bow, the range is about 180 steps at most, this is the strength of elite archers, most of them are only 100 steps, or even sixty or seventy steps, such a range, many weapons can exceed its range, even so, the bow and arrow are also very threatening for the troops attacking the city at close range.

Sun Ji's record-breaking kill figures, that is, when defending the city, it can only be a defense of the city, in the field, the other party will definitely not let the archers, smooth shooting, at most after a few rounds of shooting, it will enter the melee, even if Sun Ji's melee ability is still excellent, how many infantry can kill, it is impossible to be hundreds so terrible.

The short archman is an important component of defending the city, for the longbowman, even more so, any of the most basic longbowmen, can reach a range of more than 220 steps, which is an extremely terrifying distance, more importantly, Zhao Xin knows that the parabola is a curve, high, 10 meters, 20 meters, or even 30 meters high, the range of the arrow shot will be greatly increased, not just the height, it is several times the height of the data.

This point, the role of the bow and arrow is not small, the greater role is actually on the artillery, in the First World War, the arrangement of heavy long-range firepower, for the most part, is on the high ground, condescending, multiplying the power.

Zhao Xin also didn't know what the proportion of this promotion was, but there was one point, in fact, the feudal army had noticed this and applied it to this. In the army dominated by archers, most of them will be condescending, build tall city walls, protect the city, build taller arrow towers, suppress the siege troops, and ensure sufficient range, which is the application of height.

Take the defense of the city as an example, the increased height of 30 meters, under the premise of direct shooting, the range is only increased by the difference between a right-angled side of the right-angled triangle and another right-angled side, the smaller the angle, the more it will be improved, but the parabola is different, his angle is more elegant, especially at the farthest point, the effect is very prominent.

The effect of archers defending the city is much higher than that of field battles, longbowmen have changed the weakness of some archers, but the unique weaknesses of archers can still not be solved, in the field, they will be attacked by all kinds of sneak attacks, especially light cavalry, this kind of cavalry that can ignore defense and give full play to the speed is a huge threat to longbowmen.

They can hide on the flanks, and when the longbowmen have not yet deployed and are not ready to start shooting, the protection of the longbowmen, and even inferior, the soldiers in terms of logistics,

In the defense of the city, it is different, can threaten the defenders of the city, there is only the bow and arrow, the Western Army's projectile is an important weapon for siege, facing and defending the city's army, the fast nature to enter and exit, after a projectile, complete the attack, quickly withdraw, this is the right way, but also let the enemy fearful.

There is an important problem with this method, that is, with the help of the impact of the cavalry, plus the projectile, the range can be increased to the maximum, the average archer, the range can not be so far, and the elite shooters are very few, it is impossible to effectively cover, and it has become a sharp weapon to consume the opponent.

But if you run into a longbow, they will be miserable, the longbow itself is much longer than the short bow, the longest range of the bow, the direct shot is equivalent to about 3 stones, the projectile is more than six or seven stones, only a small number of fierce generals can use the bow of more than 5 stones, even if it is a 5 stone bow, and the longbow on the city wall, it is definitely not an opponent, and the use of the longbow, is countless, when the dense arrow rain in front of the cavalry, the cavalry is just a target.

Came to Miaojiazhuang, guarded Miaojiazhuang, so that it was not breached, is what Zhao Xin should do, Miaojiazhuang's own defense system, but also saved Zhao Xin a lot of time.

Miaojiazhuang is a very large Zhuangzi, is the core Zhuangzi nearby, Zhao Xin looked at the wide village, maybe there are such and such problems here, but up to 3 meters, the perfect wall, give Miaojiazhuang a good protection, with 120 elite longbowmen, it is enough.

If there is really a shortage of manpower, at most two or three hundred people will be trained, and each of them may not meet the standard, but a 5-foot, or even a 4-foot-5 longbow will also be quite a threat, and at that time, under the premise that the whole people hold the bow, three or five times the strength may not be able to conquer here.

Miaojiazhuang is a more common village in the north, more than 3 meters long earthen wall, to a certain extent, not even much smaller than the county seat, the circumference is at least about 2.4 kilometers, each side is more than 600 meters, can resist a small group of rangers, unless it is an army, but even if it is to send three or five hundred soldiers over, it can not affect Miaojiazhuang at all, the longbow can play the greatest effect in the fixed defense, unless it is a large army.

Ordinary armies are not enough, and they also need to carry a large army with powerful siege weapons, only such an army can effectively deal with those who have enough defensive strength to conquer Miaojiazhuang, but this attack requires a huge price, at least more than double the bow-wielding personnel of Miaojiazhuang.

The army, the army, thinking of this question, Zhao Xin was suddenly stunned, because he suddenly thought of the question he had been worried about, what kind of method would Zhao Yunrang use to attack him, and how did Zhao Xin in the ancient tomb in the future die.

It was this army that made Zhao Xin seem to think of a message that he seemed to ignore, after coming to Baozhou, invisibly, there was a force that had been pushing him, constantly moving forward, and when he had just gained a foothold, he began to manufacture longbows, and persuaded Sun Ji and others to help train longbowmen.

According to normal speaking, Baozhou belongs to Renzong's territory, and there is the protection of fixed Zhuangzi and Sun Ji and others, a small group of assassins, no more than 50 people, is useless, a large group of enemies, and will alarm the defenders of the Baozhou army, it is logically safe, but there is still no bottom in the heart and there is still a sense of urgency.

At this moment, I figured out that as a doctor of history, or in the direction of the Song Dynasty, he even recalled most of the things of the Renzong Dynasty, he just forgot one thing, it is November 1043, and next year is 1044, and a major event happened in Baozhou in 1044. Baozhou mutiny.