Chapter 33 Conflict of Interests
After a loud bang, the tall and magnificent south gate of Xingqing Mansion was directly blown out.
After the smoke cleared, countless Liangshan infantry rushed into the city, and there were broken corpses everywhere as far as the eye could see.
The few surviving Western Thief sergeants were all frightened by the explosion like heavenly punishment, and their eyes were dull as they watched the Liangshan army pouring in like a tide, and then they were cut down like wood.
In such a battle, Lin Chong, as the commander of the Liangshan Army, naturally did not have to take the lead in the front, and the special combat team members of Wu Song's own department who took the lead also led Fan Rui, Shan Tingqi, Wei Dingguo, Zhang Xiucen and others to personally lead the cavalry infantry of the headquarters to open the way in front.
Lin Chong, Seed Master Dao, Seed Master Zhong, Yao Gu, Liu Fa and others rode horses, and under the escort of a group of personal guards, they followed unhurriedly behind Wu Song's subordinates, who were in charge of attacking the fortifications.
At the beginning, due to the covering shooting of catapults and the rout near the city wall, Wu Song's troops did not encounter any decent resistance for a long time, and it was not until they approached the inner city that the resistance gradually increased.
Probably completed the psychological construction, these western thieves who blocked along the way quickly changed from panic at the beginning, and the wolf rushed to the current dying struggle, not afraid of death, even if the country was destroyed, they had to pull the Liangshan army to be buried together.
Therefore, Wu Song's troops soon encountered extremely stubborn resistance and even counterattack, and wave after wave of Western Thief elites screamed with red eyes and launched a decisive charge against them.
Some of the most skilled warriors even climbed to the rooftops on both sides of the street, and began to fire arrows when they saw the Liangshan Army, and after discovering that the Liangshan Army's armor was strong and the feather arrows had limited effect, these people even jumped down from the roof, wildly waving the weapons in their hands, regardless of their own life or death.
To be honest, in the face of such a decisive charge, Rao is Wu Song's department is the elite of the elite of the Liangshan Army, and he was still caught off guard at first, and many of the elite of special operations were killed by the thieves who jumped from the house one by one.
However, in the end, the special forces of this era quickly adapted to this desperate style of fighting desperately for their lives, so they formed formations and alternated cover, and then used intensive firepower to open the way.
With sword and shield soldiers as the front row, pikemen and grenadiers followed, then a row of archers and archers, combined with the cold light armor worn all over the body, steel helmets and face armor, with advanced weapons and equipment and formation coordination, it is enough to crush all resistance.
Seed Master Dao rode on his horse, full of shock as he watched Wu Song's troops rush towards the inner city all the way, and the resistance of the western thieves was completely like paper paste in front of them.
The firepower of the Liangshan army was too strong, and the fearless charge of those Western Thief warriors was like a food delivery in the face of such powerful firepower, and most of them were killed by the dense rain of arrows on the way to the charge.
Finally rushed to the front to greet them with small thunderbolts, which were directly blown apart, and even those who survived were split in half by the sword and shield soldiers.
I have to say that the Liangshan Army's sword is too sharp.
But the Breaker Knife can still only be regarded as pediatric, and the real power is the Thunderbolt and the Repeating Divine Arm Bow.
Needless to say, the power of this new type of gunpowder weapon is self-evident, and when the generals of the Western Army were bombarding the city wall just now, they knew that in the future, the mode of combat will inevitably face a reform, and whoever masters this new type of gunpowder will master the battlefield in the future.
But when they saw the repeating arm bow in Sergeant Liangshan's hand, everyone was shocked again.
They have seen the Divine Arm Bow for a long time, but they also know that although the Divine Arm Bow is the first divine weapon of the Song Dynasty, it has the weakness of being extremely slow to winding and requiring great effort to wind.
The Divine Arm Archer fires once, and often the enemy's riding bow is enough to fire more than a dozen arrows, so although the Divine Arm Bow is powerful, it still needs to be matched with a large number of archers, so as to make up for the lack of rate of fire.
However, Liang Shanjun's divine arm bow can be fired once in about two breaths, and because of the existence of the crossbow arrow box below, there is no need to install crossbow arrows.
The winding is also very labor-saving, just hold the crossbow body with your left hand, turn the winch handle with your right hand, and you can complete the winding on the march.
It's not like the original Divine Arm Bow at all, you have to stop and step on the iron ring in front of the Divine Arm Bow with your feet, and use the strength of your whole body to complete it, and even if the elite of the Western Army is at most 11 or 2 times in a row, you will be tired and weak.
God, with these two weapons in hand, coupled with well-trained and strict military discipline, the generals really couldn't imagine that there was no other army in the world that could be the opponent of the Liangshan army.
In the mood of giving it a try, the seed master Dao and the others approached Lin Chong one after another.
"It's really a divine weapon, Lin Jiedu, can this kind of divine arm bow of your Liangshan Army make a certain ......?"
"Lin Jiedu is really hidden, with these two weapons, the world is ...... no matter how peaceful"
"Can you send a certain thunderbolt, and try the power of the firearm that splits the mountain and splits the rock......"
Lin Chong smiled, the reason why he invited the Guanxi generals such as Seed Master Dao and Liu Fa to come up and watch the battle was actually to show off his strength and show the well-trained and super combat effectiveness of the Liangshan Army.
Just as the later generations of Emperor Magnesium engaged in military exercises at every turn, in fact, it was also to show muscles, scare certain countries and maintain their hegemony.
"No problem, if you like this kind of divine arm bow, you can give each of you a handsome."
In fact, it is not much difficult for the craftsmen of Zhao and Song Dynasty to send the Divine Arm Bow, the last time they attacked Bianliang City, Lin Chong was like Zhang Shuye and others who demonstrated it, as long as these craftsmen go back and think about it, it is easy to imitate it.
It's just that the biggest problem is that the court doesn't have the corresponding materials, and it can't make qualified springs; And with the efficiency of the imperial court, even if it is developed and wants to be mass-produced, it is very difficult, so Lin Chong is not too afraid that Zhao Song will steal it.
But the thunderbolt is actually a matter of two layers of window paper.
The first is the formula, as long as the imperial court masters the correct formula of black, fire and powder, it will immediately increase the power of gunpowder by more than ten times on the existing basis;
The second is the granulation process, if you master this, you can increase the power by more than two times.
But because it is window paper, it may take ten, twenty, or even hundreds of years to study it on its own, and it may only take one or two months to study the real thing.
"As for the thunderbolt, this is the top secret of the Liangshan Army, and none of it must be leaked, you may not know that if a thunderbolt is thrown out and does not explode, the soldiers will pick it up even if it costs a lot of money......
Liu Yanqing looked at the front of Wu Song's department with a complicated expression, and pushed forward all the way, listening to Lin Chongyun's light words, but he couldn't say that he was irritable and anxious, and while no one was paying attention to him, he secretly turned his head and asked a guard to invite Tong Guan over.
Because when Tong Guan and Lin Chong were arguing yesterday, Liu Yanqing thought that he could use the hand of the western thief to consume the strength of the Liangshan army, and it was best to let the two sides fight together, so he suggested to Tong Guan and agreed to let the Liangshan army attack the city.
Who knew that when I saw it today, the Liangshan army could take the entire Xingqing Mansion at a very small price with just the help of gunpowder bullets and this kind of continuous fire divine arm bow, so wouldn't the Western army have to go to Grandma's house at a loss.
And as a suggestion, he will definitely be scolded to death by Tong Guan afterwards, and even angry that he removed his position, how can he not be in a hurry?
Liu Yanqing was anxious, in fact, Tong Guan was more anxious than him, as early as the first round of artillery attacks of the Liangshan Army, Tong Guan knew that his wishful thinking of using the hands of the Western Thieves to consume the strength of the Liangshan Army failed again.
Therefore, there was no need for Liu Yanqing to invite him, and after Lin Chong led a group of Western Army envoys into the city to watch the battle, Tong Guan immediately ordered the Shengjie Army under his command and Liu Yanqing's Yan Yanjun to enter the city immediately to kill the enemy.
Now that the words have been spoken, there is no way to save the western thieves in the city of Xingqing Mansion and collect them for their own use, so the credit for breaking through Xingqing Mansion naturally cannot be monopolized by the Liangshan army.
Not to mention, as the capital of Western Xia, there are mountains of gold, silver and jewelry in the city of Xingqingfu.
You must know that although the territory of Western Xia is not large, the population is not too large, and most of the domestic terrain is the Gobi Desert, the land production is limited, only animal husbandry is relatively developed, and the others are not even self-sufficient in food.
However, because the Western Xia firmly occupied the Hexi Corridor, the passage to the Western Regions, it was very developed in terms of commercial trade.
Not to mention anything else, the Hexi Corridor, the choke point of the Silk Road, was firmly controlled by the Western Xia, and the taxes paid by merchants from the Western Regions passing by each year were a huge amount of income.
In many cases, the Western Xia also worked part-time as robbers, forcing these merchants to sell their goods to the Western Xia, and then the Western Xia traded through the border fields with the Song Dynasty and the Liao State, or simply smuggled them.
Don't look at the Western Army and the Western thieves who have fought to the death for decades, and the hatred between the soldiers and the country on both sides is deeper than the sea. But Tong Guan knows better than anyone that the lower-level officers and soldiers of the Western Army have always turned a blind eye to smuggling.
As long as there are benefits to be delivered, these big-headed thieves will not care if this is this kind of behavior, but in fact it is smuggling, and it is also financing the enemy.
(Of course, you can't blame all these soldiers of the Western Army, after all, corruption was common in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the big turbans of civil officials above, after being sent to each soldier, were not even thirty percent of them, and they couldn't even eat enough to eat their stomachs. This is also one of the reasons why the military discipline of the Western Army has always been very poor, and there is no war without a reward. )
If it weren't for this, the Song Dynasty would have been able to trap and kill these Western thieves just by engaging in an economic blockade.
In addition, for decades, the western thieves relied on the advantage of cavalry, and from time to time sent people to various roads in Kansai to burn and loot, and after nearly a hundred years of accumulation, the accumulated wealth of this Xingqing Mansion was at least fifty or sixty million yuan, not 10,000 yuan.
With so much money, you can't afford to be a rebel and thief like Liang Shanjun!
So after the military strength was issued, Tong Guan also immediately came behind Lin Chong and others uninvited under the escort of Wang Yu, Xin Xingzong, Liu Guangshi (one of the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty in history, Liu Yanqing's son) and others.
At this time, Wu Song and his party had rushed to the inner city gate of Xingqing Mansion, where they encountered the fiercest resistance.
The western thieves took advantage of the terrain to frantically counterattack with crossbow arrows and rolling wood and stones on the inner city wall, and even if Wu Song's department was elite and good at fighting, it still stopped at the range of crossbow arrows in the face of the strong city wall.
"Push the small catapult behind you up, blow up these, and at the same time order someone to shout to prevent them from jumping off the wall......"
Just as he was preparing, Lin Chong heard the cavalry behind him arrive, and when he looked back, Tong Guan had arrived.
Although Lin Chong knew it, he still pretended not to know and asked, "Why did Tong Xuanshuai also come to see how my Liangshan army broke the enemy?" ”
Seeing this, Tong Guan's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he said lightly: "The Liangshan Army has advanced weapons and excellent combat power, and this commander can be regarded as a leader, and he is completely convinced!" ”
After a pause, he continued: "Lin Jiedu, yesterday's incident Ben Shuai also thought about it later, the West Thief has been a disaster in Kansai for a hundred years, everyone is indeed innocent, and it cannot be easily forgiven, this matter is indeed Lin Jiedu did the right thing, it was Ben Shuai who thought about it." ”
It is worthy of fighting an evenly matched figure with Cai Jing's treacherous and cunning old fox, Tong Guan thought very clearly in his heart, suffering a little loss in face, and admitting a mistake in his mouth is nothing, but the real benefit cannot be a little regressive.
"So what?" Lin Chong said with a smile.
"So it's not too late for Ben Shuai to decide to make amends, the Western Thief and the Western Army have a century-old blood feud, exterminate the remnants of the Western Thief, eliminate the evil, and capture Li Qianshun, how can the Western Army be absent?"
Lin Chong continued to pretend to be confused: "It's just that you didn't say it yesterday?" Let my Liangshan army and his family attack the city today, and no one is allowed to help? Why do you see that the thief is not an opponent at all, and Xuan Shuai wants to pick peaches again? ”
Tong Guan's face turned slightly red, he seemed to have said this in a hurry yesterday, but so what? The benefits of breaking through Xingqing Mansion, do you still want to monopolize it?
However, since Lin Chong said it so bluntly, Tong Guan might as well open the skylight and say something bright, he sneered: "If you want to talk about picking peaches, you should come to pick peaches." Xingqing Mansion has been besieged by our Western Army for half a year, and although Brother Richard has been harassed from time to time, he can only return in front of our impregnable camp, trenches, and city walls.
Only wait for another month or two, the food in the city of Xingqing Mansion will be exhausted, and the people will be panicked, the army's heart will be shaken, and the morale will be depressed.
Besides, our Western Army has been fighting bloody battles with the Western Thieves in Hehuang for decades in Hengshan, and the imperial court has also exhausted most of its national strength, which has compressed the space of the Western Thieves little by little, and built the walled fort all the way to the city of Xingqing Mansion, and besieged the city for more than half a year!
If it weren't for this, how could there be today's results, Lin Jiedu spoke in the vernacular, completely ignoring the desperate and bloody battles of hundreds of thousands of people in the Western Army for several generations, and even kept saying that our Western Army picked peaches, isn't it chilling! ”
Lin Chong was choked up all of a sudden, speaking of which, because of the relationship between the traversers, Lin Chong stood at a higher historical height, and his vision and historical experience far surpassed those of this era, so when it came to long-term strategy, vision and vision, Lin Chong didn't know how many streets.
But it's more than the eloquence of the scene......
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