In an inconspicuous alley in the city of Tokyo, the silence is shattered by the sound of horses.

The sun has set, and for some people, today is a thing of the past. Go to bed early and rest early to start the day. But for the upper echelons of Tokyo, this is a good time for them to get drunk and die! It will take a few more hours for them to end this beautiful and splendid day of the so-called "today".

But this alley is a very ordinary alley, at least there are no rich and noble people. So when the sound of horses' hooves broke the calm, many families put on their clothes and looked out. It turned out to be an official of the Ling family, so it was not unusual.

Although this Ling family is not rich and noble, he is an official at all, a member of many deputy envoys of the Jiazhan Treasury, and eats the court's money.

Ling Zhen was summoned to the palace marshal's mansion at night, and the next day he received the diploma of the marching commander, and then taught him to pack up the saddle horse and get up. But it was the one who came to the high place.

Yanliang Mountain thieves arranged in a chariot formation, fearing the might of the iron cavalry, and did not fight with him. And he wants to clear the cottages, sweep away the puddles, capture the thieves, and demolish the nests. But you must first break the camp of thieves and cars.

Hu Yanzhuo said that he cared about the lives of the soldiers and did not want to fill the ravine with human lives, so as to take a cannon hand and make the throwing stones fly to smash the thief's nest. At that time, even if there are capable fighters in the thief army, there will be nothing to show.

"I have long heard that there is a cannon player Ling Zhen in Tokyo, known as Thunder, this person is good at making fire cannons, can go more than ten miles away, where the stone cannons fall, the sky collapses, and the mountains fall and the stones crack. If you get this person, you can take the thief's nest on the day of Keke. He is also proficient in martial arts, and he is familiar with bows and horses. It's a rare talent. ”

Gao Yu read Hu Yanzhuo's letter and saw that he asked for the artillery player Ling Zhen, but he had heard of this person. Zuguan Yanling is a good hand of the first cannon in the dynasty, and everyone calls him a thunderbolt. There is no need. At that moment, he passed down the decree of Jun, summoned Ling Zhen to come, and told him all the geographical enemy information collected in his hand, so that he could work hard and make his own reward.

At the same time, he sent a letter to Hu Yanzhuo, asking him to overcome it as soon as possible, so that he could block the mouths of others in the court.

This sophomore pair of high school can also be said to have done his best.

And Hu Yanzhuo, as he said in his book, did think that it was necessary to bring Ling Zhen here.

For Lu Qian's shield car, he thinks that fire cannons and stone cannons are very necessary.

Whether it is a precious cavalry or a soldier with armor to pile up, there is no fire cannon, stone cannon to come quickly, come to be thorough.

While artillery is difficult to transport, stone cannons are simple. On one side, Hu Yanzhuo sent a letter to Tokyo, and on the other hand, he asked the sergeant to cut down trees and make stone cannons.

Moreover, Ling Zhen put the useful pyrotechnic materials, loaded the utensils that could be used in the warehouse onto the ship, brought his clothes, armor, armor, knives, luggage and other items, and thirty or forty useful and capable military men, left Tokyo, and took the water to Liangshan.

The action was very fast, and by the time the cottage got the news and dispatched the sailors to intercept it, he had already landed in Juye County and turned to Qinghe by land. When I arrived at the camp, I first came to see the main general Hu Yanzhuo, and then I saw the pioneer Han Tao, and asked about the distance of the water village, the steep place of the cottage, and the smell of the high place, so I arranged a third-class artillery attack.

The first is the wind and fire cannon, the second is the golden wheel cannon, and the third is the child and mother cannon. But they are all stone cannons commonly used in the Song army. The shilling army raised the artillery rack, covered it with the iron cavalry of the armor soldiers, and went straight to the outside of the Liangshan military camp to erect a stone cannon, preparing stone bullets and mud bombs, so that the artillery could be released in the future.

And this so-called "wind and fire cannon" should actually be called a whirlwind cannon, the cannon does not have a fixed shelf, it is fixed on a huge "cupola pillar", there is a cannon tip shaft at the end of the column, and its cannon tip can be adjusted and launched at will, which can be said to be miniaturized. This cannon is easy, only the lack of the frame, when fired lack of stability, but also because it is the artillery stone bullets used must not be overweight, the weight limit is three catties. In order to enhance the power of this kind of stone cannon, the three-pound stone bullet was manipulated by Song Jun in different tricks. The most common is to use grass and vines all over the basket, and build gunpowder, croton and other arson, poisonous things, and project them out, so there is the name "wind and fire cannon".

And the golden wheel cannon is the tiger squat cannon, which is the tiger squat cannon of the Song Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty. There is a cannon frame, which can form a square and triangular oblique frame with four foot posts, supplemented by a wheel axle, which is more flexible in application, so it is called a golden cannon. The operation of its cannon requires more than 70 soldiers, and it can throw ten pounds of stone bullets.

As for the last type of artillery, its name does not refer to a single type of artillery, but to a certain type of cannon. Multi-fingered cannon.

Lao Zhao's "Wujing General Essentials" only recorded the cannons: single-tip artillery, double-tip artillery, five-tip artillery, seven-tip artillery, nine-tip artillery, thirteen-tip cannon, and so on.

The pins here refer to the cannons, which are composed of five wooden poles and are the five-pinned cannons, and the seven-pins are the seven-pinned cannons. The composite cannon has better elasticity and is easier to throw the cannon farther.

And because this kind of cannon distributes fragments, the fragments of bricks and stones in the net are thrown out like one, and they scatter in the air, just like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers, and the killing surface is huge. is also because of the many, calling itself a "sub-mother cannon".

The five-tip cannon rod is two feet long and five, and there are more than 80 ropes, and the operators are more than 150 people. Therefore, after understanding this, Lu Qian was full of puzzlement about the shame of Jingkang, and the record of more than 5,000 golden soldiers outside Tokyo in one day was full of puzzlement. Although the Song army first threw hundreds of stone cannons outside the Fengqiu Gate to the Jin soldiers.

Of course, some people say that the 5,000 cannons are a combination of large, medium and small, but Lu Qian is also wonderful, Jin Bing has a fart to build some small cannons under the city of Tokyo? At that time, did the Song army dare to easily go out of the city and destroy the stone cannons?

This topic was not mentioned, and it was said that the changes in the Song army would alarm Qian and others in the interior of the camp.

That Ling Zhen came very quickly, and he couldn't dispatch the sailor battalion to intercept it, but some information also fell into Lu Qian's ears. When I saw Hu Yanzhuo suddenly ask people to erect stone cannons outside the camp, I don't know who came.

The first artillery player in the world, thundering thunder Ling Zhen entered.

Now there are only two choices in front of Lu Qian, one is to withdraw from the shore camp and return to the mountain; The second is to send troops to fight Hu Yanzhuo. The leaders in the camp were reluctant to retreat and return to the mountains, and they had won the previous battle, and it was their vigor. As for the news sent by Chao Gai [going back], the news reached Yuncheng, and Song Jiang was a little tired.

In such a good situation, when the troops were collected and returned to the mountain, wouldn't it be in vain that the officers and soldiers were proud of their strength? Does it not make the unrighteous people proud?

But can you beat the Song army's mounted iron cavalry?

In the previous battle, the Liangshan army killed and captured more than 500 Song cavalry, captured more than 200 war horses, and asked them to add meat and vegetables to the rest of the dead horses and wounded horses. Naturally, Lu Qian also captured a lot of horse armor and vests, but unfortunately, the horses on Liangshan were weaker than the more than 200 war horses obtained by the battle array.

It was also difficult to find so many healthy soldiers in the cavalry camp for a while, and they could quickly adapt to the iron cavalry.

In other words, the power in Lu Qian's hand did not improve by leaps and bounds with the victory of the previous battle. Perhaps the only gain is to make the Liangshanbo people more morale and fearless.

"Not to mention that the brothers are unwilling to retreat, nor do I want to make the unrighteous children proud." Lu Qian set the tone with a word. The leopard head next to him seemed to have something to say, but the atmosphere in the tent was high and stopped.

"The chain of horses of the official army is certainly strong, but in the previous battle, we also saw its shortcomings. Its soldiers can only move forward, not to the left and right, just be careful of their frontal charge. And there is a lack of morale, the soldiers have no heart to fight to the death, and they will have no idea of victory. It is difficult to be sharp for a long time, and the frustration will be discharged. As long as it withstands that wave, its momentum is declining, and it is not difficult to kill again. Therefore, I want to find 300 brave soldiers, who are armed with sackcloth, regardless of swords and guns, and do not hesitate to live and die, but only cut off the legs of horses. ”

This may be Yue Fei's chapter in the official history. It's just that Lu Qian's subordinates don't have such elite cavalry as Wei and Youyi, and Hu Yanzhuo's subordinates in front of him are not as elite as the kidnapping horses. In his eyes, the warriors sent by Yue Fei who were armed with knives and only cut the legs of horses were real warriors. The suicidal tactics of the Yue family army are also in awe for future generations.

Regardless of whether the heavy cavalry of the golden soldiers in history is the same thing as the current chain of horses, since the horse is said, no matter how god's horse is, after a leg is cut off, it will also be over. This method of warfare is light in words, but in fact it requires a great deal of dedication, and it is not a fierce and fearless army that cannot do this.

To be clear, even if the mounted iron rider runs slowly, it still has inertia. Even if the infantry with swords and axes succeeded in cutting down the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom, the soldier was very likely to be crushed by the war horse. And if this soldier does not succeed, then he will definitely die, and he will not be able to die again. The horses that still carry living people on their backs are not clay wooden tires. Everyone has guns and bows, and it is said that these soldiers are completely dead. Even if Hu Yanzhuo's cavalry literacy is really not good.

If Lu Qian wants to defeat Hu Yanzhuo's iron cavalry now, on the premise that it is difficult to carry a large number of shield carts, he must also have a group of people who dare to die and dare to fight, carrying heavy shields and long knives, and wielding blood on the battle array.

Lu Qian's eyes casually glanced at Li Kui, it was this rough man, who was foaming at the mouth after hearing such a tactic. The rest of the people can be imagined. Guy because of this method of warfare is playing with his life.

"Brother Rongyu, Wu Song asked for his life, and he is willing to lead his sons and daughters to block that group of birds and horses." The black whirlwind swallowed and spitted at the mouth, and knew it well, but there was still the brave man in the tent. Wu Song didn't wait for the scene to cool down, so he said loudly. After speaking, he hugged his fist at the other leaders: "As soon as Wu Er went up the mountain, he didn't make an inch, and he sat on a chair in the righteous hall, although he was very honored, he also felt ashamed. Brothers, let the younger brother go through this, so that I can make a meritorious contribution and be worthy of my body and mind. ”

Li Kui stretched out his fan-sized slap, wiped his nose, and shouted, "Brother Erlang is ashamed of my iron bull." This superficial errand should be done by a rough man like Tie Niu, why did you come. ”

Luan Tingyu's face turned slightly red, and he followed up and said, "Brother Li Kui doesn't need to fight, this matter should be done by me." "This is a big scramble. Han Bolong, Xue Yong and other old people don't mention it, and Ma Lin, Ou Peng, Deng Fei, these new heroes don't go up the mountain, even Lu Zhishen is scrambling to go.

Lu Qian's eyes swept over the faces of everyone in the tent, and he laughed: "I, Liang Shanbo, am really righteous. It's just that you don't have to fight for such things. This battle of daring to die is proposed for me, and it is also for me to bear, so don't fight again. "Lao Tzu's pot Lao Tzu will carry it.

But a word set off a monstrous wave. These Hughes said that Lu Zhishen was in a hurry, but Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, and Suo Chao all jumped up anxiously, and persuaded him to come: "My brother is the master of the cottage, how can I move lightly, and my younger brother is willing to go." ”

asked Lu Qian to wave his hand to stop everyone and said, "Don't worry, listen to me." There is a good magic weapon on top of my cottage, haven't you forgotten it? ”

He still has a lot of gunpowder in his hands. Although the effect of the explosion was not as good as he wanted, it could still make people's hearts beat faster when it was lit and listened to. He didn't believe that the military horses of this year had been specially trained in this area.

The more Lu Qian thought about it, the more he felt that he could give it a try.

The Liangshan army had already defeated the official army led by Hu Yanzhuo in a face-to-face battle. Now if you make some off-the-market moves, it will not be cunning and insidious, but resourceful.

"In this battle, I will fight with soldiers and horses, and everyone will be equipped with heavy armor, or that Hu Yanzhuo will eat the defeat he suffered before, and if he starts fighting again, he may not dare to make the cavalry into that chain of horses again." It's more likely that some of them are used as chain horses, and some of them are used as skirmishers. But it doesn't matter, to deal with the cavalry, apart from the method in front of him, Lu Qian can't think of a more direct and effective way.

As long as they withstood the opponent's cavalry, the officers and soldiers of the Huyanzhuo Department would have nothing to fear. So the army agreed.