Chapter 309: Teaching Experimental Classroom

The combat effectiveness of an army and the truly shaped military soul must be formed by honing and beating on the battlefield! The current team of the Song army, the foundation is very good, but the start is too fast, and when the army is expanded, it already has a good grassroots structure, and the rapid increase in the number of people has not appeared bloated, the military orders are not strict, and the execution is not enough, etc., it is already the first team in the history of the Song army in the past three hundred years, and it has surpassed the Yang family general of the Yue family army at its peak.

But they fought with the wind, and as soon as the cannon sounded, they waited for the harvest to reach their mouths, and to see who had a good appetite would eat more, and whoever had bad luck would harvest less. This time Xiangyang is a tough battle, the tall and wide city walls, the three-story chain of acropolis and the well-prepared Yuan army soldiers, it is by no means easy to distinguish the winner of the battle, and it is also a whetstone set up by Zhao Tianyou for them.

Whether it is the soldiers of the firearms battalion or the Song army recruited by Chen Longfu one after another, the main force in the grassroots structure comes from a school, and the knowledge learned in the martial arts hall is imperceptibly affected in the process of practice, affecting every newly joined soldier.

But what you have learned, just like the master led you into the door, if you don't take it out and take it for a walk by yourself, the impression will never be deep, and after the washing of blood and fire, you can really learn the ability.

There are different squads outside the city of Xiangyang every day, organizing their own tactics to learn and practice, and take the Yuan army outside the city to compete with the Yuan army at the head of the city, after the accurate grasp of the range of the Yuan army, the Song army even dared to take turns to rest and nap under the city.

All kinds of defensive arrows, techniques to reduce the lethality of the enemy's rolling wood and stones, quick disassembly and assembly of river crossing pedals, wooden guards to cover the safe passage of soldiers, all kinds of siege parties appeared outside the city.

This is exactly what Zhao Tianyou likes to see, and it just so happens that this attack on Xiangyang is the biggest internship class for the graduates of the martial arts hall, and whether the things learned from it are useful or not, can break the shackles in the hearts of all soldiers and learn how to think and solve problems.

Although many of the ways that have appeared have been proved to be very stupid or weak in practice, the grassroots officers in charge of the presiding officers are not discouraged, and share the experience of failure with the soldiers who fought together, and summarize the experience and lessons from them.

But the Yuan army on Xiangyang City can't help but toss so much, as long as the Yuan army defending in the city shows up, it will inevitably be bombarded by continuous fire from the sub-mother artillery. If the number of troops invested is small, the Song army outside the city will seize the opportunity to attack, and bring a very big crisis to the defense of the outer city.

The Song army outside the city was in high spirits, all kinds of protective means were complete, and it was not regarded as a very important thing at all, and the outer city was breached several times, but because of the lack of means to continue the attack, the Song army took the initiative and gave up the outer city.

Boyan had no long-range attack means, only made a catapult out of taller wood, and wanted to use the boulders thrown from inside the city to cause trouble for the Song army outside the city. However, the Song army erected a high watchtower outside the city of Xiangyang, which exceeded the height of the outer city of Xiangyang, and under the supervision of soldiers with binoculars, there were almost no secrets in the city of Xiangyang.

The tall catapults consumed logs, and when there was a shortage of timber in the city, almost all the buildings with girders were demolished. It's just the original teahouse theater, or the private ancestral hall of a big family, as long as there are girders, there will be Yuan troops in the past, indiscriminately, tearing down the house and pulling out the girders and leaving.

For a while, there were many complaints in the city, but the impact on the common people was very small, so it was not the shopkeeper who did business, or the patriarch of the big squire's family. Some of them have friends with certain generals in private, or have secret business dealings, relying on their own face to dredge up the relationship and keep their houses.

However, these were all in vain, and the soldiers who dismantled the beams were directly ordered by Boyan, and the other generals and officials dared to speak, even the people who received the money also wiped their faces, pretending to be very innocent and expressing helplessness.

The movements of the Yuan army were constantly monitored by the Song army outside the city, and they knew exactly what they wanted to do, and wanted to use the range of the giant trebuchet to threaten the Song soldiers who were very comfortable two hundred paces away.

The Song army understood this very well, because their ordinary bows and arrows could only shoot one hundred and fifty paces, and the heavy archers carried a giant crossbow with three people, that is, a range of two hundred steps, even if they could go farther, they would not be lethal.

"General Du, the logs collected by the Yuan army are all concentrated on the south side of Beicheng Yongdao. There were about twenty wooden frames that had been erected, and judging by the number of girders they had gathered, they would have been able to build about eighty large trebuchets if they had used them all. ”

After collecting and sorting out and the final process of judging and estimating, the generals who are in charge of the overall situation have saved a lot of worry, and they don't have to worry about some basic trivial matters, and these officers around them have been professionally sorted out and analyzed.

"How long will it take for them to finish and start launching out of the city? How far is the estimated range, and is it necessary to take the forward battalion back a hundred steps now and re-establish the line and barracks? Du Hu was not satisfied with the answer just now, and was most concerned about how to build up combat power in a few days, how to defeat their trebuchets, and not expose his soldiers to the enemy's range.

"They will never be finished, tomorrow at noon the weather will be fine, the sun will be hot when the sun is high, there will be some southeast winds, and the firearms battalion will conduct an incendiary bomb test at that time, and it is very likely that all their wood will be burned clean.

Even if some of the timber can be preserved, since they can't threaten our soldiers outside the city, as long as they dare to set up trebuchets, the firearms battalion will knock them down and burn them. So General Du, when their combat power and range are not likely to threaten the soldiers outside the city, we simplify that level. ”

What a crazy word, you don't need to think about it, and you don't need to think about the range power of the Yuan army's trebuchet, because I have strong self-confidence, you can't build it at all, and soon I will destroy you all.

Du Hu nodded very expectantly, but he specially sent someone to find Zhao Tianyou, who had gone out hunting and playing, and asked him to attend at noon tomorrow to see how effective the firearms battalion incendiary bombs were, and also to see the expression of the Yuan army in despair.

"Whoosh...... Boom! ”

A high-pitched arrow burst in the sky outside Xiangyang, and the scorching sun wiped away the flames of the explosion, sending only the crisp sound around. The Yuan army on the outer city wall was in a heavy mood, and hurriedly lowered their heads and hurried away, the Song army's cannonballs were coming again, and they hurriedly found a cover that could survive when they did not explode to the top of their heads.

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