Chapter 393 Mechanized Troops

In the distance, the Song army almost formed a crushing situation against the wolf cavalry army, not how strong the Song army was, but because the Song army's equipment was too powerful and fully mechanized, the wolf cavalry army had never faced such an army before.

The commander of the wolf cavalry army, Liu Wentao stood on the mound not far from the battlefield, his eyes were blazing, he held his breath, his face was cold, and he looked at the battlefield situation, the Chen Song coalition army and the Liang ** team totaled more than 300,000, the two armies were-for-tat, the blades met, the corpses were separated, the blood was splashed, impassioned, and miserable.

The speed of the Song army's siege of the city exceeded his expectations before leading the army Liu Wentao is Liu Wenlong's younger brother, in the royal families of the two countries, only he and Liu Wenluo, a martial arts and a text are reused by Liu Wenlong, and they are the right-hand man of Emperor Liu Wenlong.

This time, Emperor Liang sent troops to fight, and it was not that there were no generals available in the Liang dynasty. Compared with Zheng Guo, Liang Guo can be described as a large number of generals, Tai Lieutenant Zhang Bu, the general Ju Wentai, Feng Yi, Ma Wu, etc. were all famous generals at that time, among several people, Ju Wentai led the main army of Liang State, and was fighting against the Zhao Zheng troops who rushed into the territory of Liang State, Feng Yi led the army to attack Zheng Guo, Ma Wu led the army to attack Northern Zhao, and the court was led by Taiwei Zhang Bu.

At the same time, Liu Wentao assisted from the side, Liang Guo changed the law, and most of the million wolf cavalry were trained by Liu Wentao, no matter how he performed on the battlefield, but it cannot be denied that Liu Wentao was a master of military training.

More than a month ago, the Chen and Song coalition forces sent troops into the territory of the Liang State, and the combined forces of the two countries seemed to have a tornado in the Liang State, and the speed of attacking the city was unprecedented, far exceeding the performance of the Zhao and Zheng troops in several months.

Finally, a few days ago, the Chen and Song coalition forces appeared a hundred miles away from Suiyang City, which was enough to extinguish the momentum of the Liang State in one go.

Under the crisis, he was ordered to lead 150,000 wolf cavalry to meet the Song army. However, looking down at the battlefield situation, he was still a little surprised, and sighed secretly, it was not that he had misjudged, the Chen and Song coalition forces cooperated too closely, if it was not for the fact that the other party was the Chen and Song troops, he even suspected that the troops he was facing were all elite troops of the Song State.

The wolf cavalry army is mainly cavalry, and the war horses are all fierce horses produced on the western border, which are not as fierce as the war horses produced by Zhao Yanjin in the north, but they are full of endurance, and it stands to reason that it is easy to defeat the infantry of the Chen and Song coalition forces, but unfortunately this is not the case.

The cavalry of the Liang army took the lead in attacking the Chen army, which thought that its combat effectiveness was weak, hoping to defeat the Chen army, and then annihilate the Song army, so as to resolve the crisis of Suiyang City.

However, the Chen army was only weaker than the Song army, and when the war started, the momentum displayed by the Chen army was impressive, and the stubborn resistance surprised Liu Wentao.

Song Jun's performance also surprised him, and he had no confidence at all. The Song army did not charge directly, but gave full play to the advantages of the Song army's mechanized troops in the battle.

Hidden in the treadmill, this unique instrument of the Song Kingdom, can quickly transfer troops during the march, during the attack, the treadmill is equipped with a three-bow crossbow cart, the range is extremely long, the lethality is great, when it is fired, it is magnificent, the arrow is like a javelin, the close-range launch can be directly nailed into the city wall, when the salvo is fired, the rows of pedal arrows are firmly nailed into the city wall, and the siege soldiers can climb up the edge by this.

On the battlefield, the treadmill and the three-bow crossbow bed cooperate, it is an excellent killing weapon, the treadmill is impermeable, the long-distance shooting of the three-male bed crossbow, both offensive and defensive.

Liu Wentao knew that there was such a saying in the third bow and crossbow car of the Song Kingdom: "The old bed crossbow shot at 700 steps, so that Pi increased to 1,000 steps." "In the Song Dynasty, one step was 1.536 meters, and 1,536 meters per thousand steps, which was the highest range achieved by the Song Dynasty's long-range weapons.

Among the vassal states, except for the Song Kingdom, no one else had such an excellent killing weapon. At the same time, the treadmill carrying the rapid transfer of the Song army was a siege vehicle with 16 wheels and three stories high.

The lowest level is for the soldiers who push the cart forward, and the other two layers are for the siege soldiers. The vehicle is about 12 meters high, 6 meters wide and 6 meters long.

In order to ensure the safety of the soldiers in front of the bottom push car, there are Song troops defending on all sides, these people are all equipped, all of them are cross crossbows, the range is not very far, and the number of arrows fired at a time far exceeds the Yan army's crossbows, there are as many as 16 rounds.

Anyone, even if he was lucky enough to break through the javelin fired by the three-bow ballista, within two hundred meters, would not be able to dodge the dense rain of arrows fired by the crossbow crossbow.

Moreover, the treadmill is made of thick wood, after the soldiers enter the car, block the car door, it can be said that it is tight, the soldiers only move in the car, there is no need to worry about the enemy attack outside, according to the opponent's fierce appearance, 10,000 Song troops can easily crush 10,000 iron horses.

Immediately afterwards, it was the Song Army's two lore weapons, the knife chariot and the Nüren power stone thrower, the former can be used to protect the city gate, the walled gate, and can also be used in the field to attack the opposing troops, relatively traditional knife chariot, the Song chariot, both inlaid with sharp steel knives, as well as telescopic lances, the enemy approaches, stained with death.

The Nuren power stone thrower, with a range of four or five hundred meters, can make up for the shortcomings of the treadmill's lack of close-range defense, and at the same time move flexibly and has great lethality.

The 100,000 troops of the Song army, all of them were mechanized, not to mention the fierce performance on the battlefield, they were lined up in a single word, and they were mighty, like a group of giant beasts in the wilderness breaking into the battlefield, which was incompatible with the cavalry of Chen and Liang, and there was a sense of standing out from the crowd.

Liu Wentao had never heard of the Song Army's mechanical troops before, but he had never seen it with his own eyes, and when he met the Song Army on the battlefield, the powerful lethality of the other party made him shudder a little.

With its extremely fast movement speed, the pedal has a strong range of the three-bow crossbow bed, and its action speed is not weaker than that of the Liang wolf cavalry, since the Song army counterattacked with extraordinary speed, the Liang army has always been under the offensive of the Song army.

Liu Wentao is over forty years old, boasting that he is well-informed, and has experienced many tragic things, but when he saw that the Song army was overwhelmed and the wolf cavalry fled in all directions, he still felt a little jealous in his heart.

Most of the wolf cavalry of the Liang State were trained by him personally, and he knew how powerful they were, but under the mechanized attack of the Song army, he seemed weak.

He was worried that he would continue to resist the Song army, that he would be a moth to the fire and bring about his own destruction, and if he wanted to stop the Song army's westward advance, he had to think of another way.

Otherwise, more than 100,000 wolf cavalry soldiers died at the hands of the Song army, and looking at the momentum of the other party, it would be easy to conquer Suiyang City in one go.

Don't dare to be sloppy, Liu Wentao hurriedly asked Mingjing to withdraw his troops, and fight again after detailed planning another day. Back at the barracks, he hurriedly ordered the adjutant general to count the casualties, but he was taken aback, and in less than half an hour of fierce fighting, the Liang army suffered 20,000 dead and more than 40,000 disabled.

With such a result, he couldn't believe it, if it weren't for the powerful and unforgiving combat style of the Song army that he had witnessed before, he would definitely think that the adjutant general had lied about the military situation.

After drinking two cups of herbal tea in a row, Liu Wentao panicked and was somewhat suppressed, and hurriedly summoned the generals of the three armies to prepare to discuss countermeasures and strive to have a way to confront the Song army.

After calming down, Liu Wentao squinted his eyes, glanced at the lieutenant generals in the tent, and said: "Today, everyone has experienced the strength of the Song army, how do you feel" At this moment, the lieutenant generals were also panicked in their hearts, and the previous battles made them feel palpitations, as if a nightmare was shrouded in their hearts, and they could not disperse for a long time.

In that battle, the Liang army barely saw the shadow of the Song army, and on the huge battlefield, he only saw the mechanical phalanx of the Song army that resembled a giant beast, and the sword chariot shuttling between the two armies, the sharp blade, which was simply the deadliest weapon.

There are also three-bow crossbow beds in the treadmill, which are more than a kilometer away, and often stage deadly tracking on the battlefield, most of which are fatal with one shot.

Fortunately, Liu Wentao saw the situation clearly and withdrew his troops in advance, otherwise everyone here would have been shrouded in horse leather and died in Huangquan.

At this moment, Liu Wentao asked everyone's opinions, and the six or seven lieutenants who were in shock looked at each other, and no one had any idea.

They were extremely experienced in dealing with ordinary armies, such as cavalry or infantry, but they were also helpless against an invisible enemy like the Song troops.

After a long time, an adjutant general stood up and said: "General, it is by no means unreasonable for the Song army to capture the nine counties of western Jin with lightning speed. Hearing this, Liu Wentao's eyes widened angrily, as if he was about to jump out of his sockets, stared at the deputy general who spoke, and said: "Hou Shuang, do you mean that the wolf cavalry army is not as good as the Jin army?"

"General, the last general didn't say this, he just thought that if he wanted to deal with the Song army, he had to think about it in the long run, otherwise it would only increase casualties." Hou Shuang hurriedly explained that he couldn't afford the charge of lowering the morale of the three armies in the battle.

Liu Wentao nodded, sat down, and said: "You are right, the Song army is hiding in the treadmill, just like hiding in a moving cabin to fight, it is really tricky, even if the wolf cavalry has the opportunity to get close, it is difficult to hurt the other party, besides, to get close to the Song army in the treadmill, you must go through a rain of arrows shot by dense javelins and crossbows, and no one dares to predict how big the casualties are." ”

"General, the Song army is well equipped and its defenses are airtight, and it is almost impossible to defeat the other party from the front. However, the mechanized troops of the Song army also have fatal shortcomings, and we rely on the fatal shortcomings of the Song army to defeat the Song army. Hou Shuang said mysteriously.

When Liu Wentao heard this, his mood was turbulent, and he said impatiently: "If you have something to say, don't be a mother-in-law, if you can annihilate the Chen and Song army, this king will personally ask the emperor for credit." In his opinion, to annihilate the Song army, the only way is to attack by fire, but it is not easy to get close to the Song army's treadmill, after all, the opponent is assisted by a Nüren power stone thrower and a knife chariot, and several arms attack and defend each other, leaving no dead ends.

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