Chapter 361: Trebuchet Range

When fighting, the muscles of the whole body are tense, and the opponent and the battlefield are engrossed. Yesterday's battle lasted from morning to night, and Jiang Feng's 6,000 men were all extremely tired, and a short sleep was far from recovering their physical strength and spirit, but the number of the Tile Spur Army was far greater than that of the Jiang Army, and they could be replenished at any time to fight in turn.

Although it was exhaustion, but the army was pressing, and it was necessary to respond, and the officers at all levels of the Jiang family army were shouting loudly to put the soldiers, regimental training, escort and slaves into operation, and let them take their places.

Jiang Feng was wearing armor and stood very close to the battlefield to be on guard, the Tile Spur army that came over on the opposite side had experience this time, and last night's bloody battle let them know the range of artillery and arquebuses, and they stopped from afar.

Almost at the edge of the firing range, many people who were not dressed as soldiers stood at the front, and some kind of equipment was erected there with various wooden frames, and the soldiers of the Jiang family army did not know what the other party was doing, and there was a slight commotion, and they were immediately stopped by the officers.

Jiang Feng also leaned in front of the wooden fence, observing the other party's movements, watching the other party's wooden frame get higher and higher, and slowly formed a similar to the current appearance of the electric wire steel frame tower in the field when Jiang Feng had not yet crossed, and there are things similar to the tower crane on the construction site.

Suddenly, Jiang Feng remembered this thing in his gradually indifferent memories of film and television dramas, which was a trebuchet used to attack the city.

In ancient China, the very early "cannon" was not next to the word "fire" but next to the word "stone", and when gunpowder did not appear, this cannon referred to the trebuchet. This was the most powerful long-range weapon at that time, and after the rise of the Mongol tribes, it was widely used in siege battles, and it had a great effect.

After the Ming Dynasty drove the Mongols to the grassland, the Mongols gradually degenerated or reduced from the powerful military machine in the steppe to the alliance of the herdsmen, and the machinery and skills for making trebuchets were rarely used in the war.

Obviously, a lot of preparations were made, and the trebuchet for the siege was also brought here, but I didn't expect it to be used here.

The soldier operating the artillery has been there to estimate the firing range, and the trebuchet built by the other side is indeed outside the range of the artillery, even if it is added to the ricochet, it cannot be hit.

Jiang Feng frowned, and arranged for the soldiers who were close to the wooden fence to pick up the big shield, and the rotation and reserve troops standing behind the wooden fence took a few steps back, and now it must be stupid to order their own soldiers to attack rashly, and the Mongolian soldiers are eager to leave the fence and go to hand-to-hand combat. The opponent's longbow and arrows can easily shoot you at the range of the hedgehog, but the trebuchet that is gradually taking shape looks more and more dangerous.

It wasn't long before the leather pockets on the throwing arms were loaded with stone bullets, and from a distance it was seen that hundreds of people were pulling the ropes of the trebuchets.

"Whew", the huge whistling sound was heard clearly even on Jiang Feng's position, all the soldiers of the Jiang family army raised their shields or took a few steps back, and the entire camp was silent, all of them were there staring at the big stone bullets flying in the sky.

After the silence, Jiang Jiajun's sudden burst of laughter, everyone immediately relaxed, and the fierce stone projectile fell about a hundred steps away from the wooden fence, and the entire stone became shattered, but even the splashed gravel did not touch the wooden fence.

The range is really too far apart, Jiang Feng exhaled lightly, it seems that it is inevitable for hot weapons to eliminate cold weapons.

After firing the stone projectile, the trebuchet fired it several times, and the best effect was only to hit a place sixty steps away from the wooden fence, Jiang Feng directly called the leader in charge of the artillery, and ordered:

"As long as the other party is in range, you will fire!"

Sure enough, the tile spur army on the opposite side was not reconciled, and the catapults that had been set up were quickly dismantled, ready to move them further forward, but the ground in front of them was already potholed in the battle, and it was uneven by various weapons and men and horses.

However, this trebuchet has very high requirements for the ground, and it will not be able to, but fifty steps forward is the range of artillery, first hundreds of people are ready to fill the ground with equipment, but the artillery of the Jiang family army is only a salvo of three guns, so they smashed the crying father and mother and retreated, leaving dozens of corpses in vain.

It didn't take long for the Tile Spur army to give up the possibility of using trebuchets.

Apparently someone was shouting orders, and the Tile Thorn Army had switched to traditional tactics, and many horses were blindfolded and rushed to the front. The distance between the Tile Thorn army and Jiang Feng's wooden fence was far beyond the range of Jiang Feng's artillery, and of course, the Tile Thorn's big bow could not shoot at this place.

Seeing that the other party was preparing to drive the horses to charge, the people on Jiang Feng's side quickly moved away from the wooden fence, and the slaves rushed out with firewood and grass, and threw down the firewood and grass forty or fifty steps in front of the wooden fence.

There were mountains on both sides of the Taer River, so there was hardly any wind blowing in the valley, and the slaves ran back desperately after putting down the firewood and grass.

The guards who had been arranged for a long time approached the fence with bows and arrows, and the bows and arrows were helped with burning tarpaulins, and after a few rounds of firing, the firewood and grass in front of the wooden fence began to burn brightly, and at this time, the Tile Thorn Army completed the whole team, and the blindfolded horses were driven and ran.

If the horse is not blindfolded, the horse will instinctively avoid it when it sees something sharp and shiny, which means that if it is not blindfolded, as long as the spearman on the wooden fence sticks the spear out of the wooden fence, it will have a good effect, and the horse will not move forward at all.

However, those Tile Thorn people who have been fighting with the border army of the Ming Dynasty for many years naturally know this common sense, so they directly blindfolded the horses.

There is no shortage of horses in Mongolia, this time hundreds of horses rumbled towards the front blindfolded, followed by heavily armed cavalry and foot soldiers, but Jiang Feng lit firewood and grass in front of the wooden fence, because there was no wind in the river valley, so the smoke was okay, but the animals clearly felt the heat and smoke of the flames, and many horses just stopped in front of the wall of fire and refused to step forward.

The tile soldiers behind became more and more anxious, but there was nothing they could do but shout loudly there to drive away, and the confusion became more and more chaotic.

The guns behind the wooden fence saw this situation, the gunners raised the angle of the barrel one after another, and with a command to fire, six shells whistled and smashed into the soldiers behind the horses.

Although it has only been a day or so of fighting, the soldiers of the Tile Spur are completely frightened in the face of the artillery, no matter what method is used, they cannot resist the artillery on the opposite side, although most of the soldiers of the Tile Mongols are wearing leather robes, but there are also many officers wearing iron armor and heavy armor, but these people are also unable to block those flying metal projectiles, if it is a cannonball to death, it is enough.

Many people were injured by flying shells, and in the current army, there is no way to deal with it except to ask shamans and lamas to pray for blessings, in other words, to wait for death, and many of the wounded soldiers who were snatched back wailed in the camp tents all night before dying.

Everyone who heard that voice was worried in their hearts, for fear that they would be treated like this in the next day's battle, this time the shells bombarded over, and suddenly the people and horses were in chaos, and the horses in front had not turned back and rushed over, and the cavalry and foot soldiers turned their heads and ran towards the back.

When Jiang Jiajun's artillery was about to be ready for the second launch, Jiang Feng immediately stopped it, the shells can't be so wasted, it stands to reason that reinforcements are coming soon, and there should be news of bringing reinforcements in the fleet that came to transport supplies, but there was nothing.

Now the supply and transportation is also vaguely heard the news, this side has hit such a hardship, many people are not to increase the supply and personnel supply, but to think about running back to the Guannei, they are the people of the Jingshi Business Group who have gradually become large-scale in the reclamation manor outside the Guan, and they have the same industry in the Guan, and they are also the big heads.

To save life and money, many people naturally choose to save their lives.

The battle between the two sides this morning, because the range of the trebuchet was insufficient, and the horses were stopped by the pyream, and the result was that the Jiang army stopped the opponent's attack with a unilateral advantage in firearms, if it went on like this, the other party could not even move forward, but the ammunition was limited after all.

The current Daming is not a general environment for firearms, the gunpowder and ammunition of the Jiang family army are all supplied by Huazhou, and this battle has brought all the original reserves of Huifeng Manor, Jiang Feng knows that if he fights like this for another day, his troops are afraid that they will have to fight white-edged battles, and the white-edged combat on the real battlefield, Jiang Feng is not afraid, the hand-to-hand combat ability of the spearmen and guards of the Jiang family army is even stronger than that of the herdsmen on the other side, but at that time they will be exposed to the rain of arrows on the other side.

But at this time, inexplicably, the Watters suddenly stopped attacking, and the whole battlefield became quiet.