Chapter 16: The Great War Is Coming
The plateau, which had been silent for a long time, once again ushered in the flames of war. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
I don't know how many wars have been experienced in this land in order to compete for the resources on which we depend, and I don't know how many more I have to experience.
Tuyuhun's army once again appeared around the Tang army.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and the location chosen by Duan Zhixuan is one of the destinations of the Tuyuhun people in the winter in the past, which can also see the strength of these nervous veterans.
Although the previous attacks of the Tuyuhun people did not gain any benefits, but left a large number of corpses in front of the Tang army, but this time it was different, in order to survive, they had to fight. If you win, then you can spend this year in peace; If it fails, there will be fewer people in the tribe to feed. Although these people are the elite of the tribe, dying on the battlefield is a fate they have known for a long time.
The ruthlessness of the steppe and the fierceness of the steppe people are like that.
Unlike the previous few small fights, this time the concentrated Tuyuhun people surrounded Duan Zhixuan's army from all directions, and what the Tang army could rely on now was sophisticated equipment.
"Master Hou, General Duan, please go over and narrate." Outside the house, Duan Zhixuan's personal soldier said.
"Okay, I'll be right here." Putting down the meat strips that had just been coated with seasoning in his hand, Changsun Tang could only swallow his saliva silently.
"I've seen the general." After entering the big tent, the rules that should be there are still required, and the eldest grandson Tang doesn't want to be confused and become a ghost who has died unjustly.
"Excuse me, come and sit here." Duan Zhixuan pointed to the position beside him and said.
"This is not good, the purpose of my visit is to see if this logistics can help me a little, the general is too elevated to me." Changsun Tang hurriedly resigned, that was originally Liang Luoren's position, and Changsun Tang had not yet been ignorant enough to offend the second-in-command.
"Master Hou is too modest, this matter of transporting grain and grass for thousands of miles is worth it." Liang Luoren is also an understanding person.
"This Tuyuhun has arrived at the door, and they are still grinding here." Li Junxian muttered.
"Vice General Li, what did you say?" Duan Zhixuan's eyes narrowed into a slit and looked at Li Junxian.
"Didn't say anything."
"The purpose of convening the generals this time is to discuss the matter of dealing with the attack of the Tuyuhun people, I don't know what you think?" Duan Zhixuan said in a deep voice, this can be regarded as the beginning of this meeting.
"What else is there to say, give me 3,000 cavalry, and they will be killed, and they will not be left with any armor." Li Junxian was the first to say it.
"I don't know if there are still 3,000 cavalry in this whole army who can charge with you." Although the problem of eating has been improved, and the phenomenon of diarrhea is rare, this qi disease has not been solved.
"This ......" Li Junxian stopped talking, in this barracks, it was said that it was Duan Zhixuan and Liang Luoren who could control him, and this Li Junxian was even more afraid of Liang Luoren, without him, every time he collided with Liang Luoren, Li Junxian would cry wolf for a while in the school field.
"The current situation of our army is naturally the most secure way to shoot the enemy with long-range weapons." The other person spoke up, this is the long history of the army.
"Huang Changshi is right, it's just that the strength required for this improved eight-bull crossbow is smaller, but the structure is more complicated, although this time the little general escorted another batch over, and this battle can barely cope with it, but this crossbow is a little damaged, and it basically can't be repaired." The general in charge of logistics who spoke said that Changsun Tang really couldn't remember his name.
"General Qiqi, don't think about this matter for the time being, the reason why I came to go the same way with Lord Hou this time is because of this." Duan Zan called Duan Zhixuan a general in the army.
"Oh, I don't know if Master Hou has any good solution?" Duan Zhixuan didn't expect that the eldest grandson would bring him so many surprises.
"General Qiyu," the eldest grandson did the same. "This is because I have been busy with other things in the past few days, and I really don't know the specific situation about the weapon, but I don't dare to draw conclusions easily."
"So, the eldest grandson has studied this quite a bit?" Huang Changshi asked.
"The generals don't know that the improvement measures of this eight-ox crossbow were proposed by the eldest grandson Hou Ye." Duan Zhan helped Changsun Tang to break the siege, and if Changsun Tang said this, his credibility would be greatly reduced.
"Really?" Duan Zhixuan was a little overjoyed.
"Let's see it first, and this big battle is just around the corner, so I guess I won't be able to catch up." The eldest grandson can only pretend to the end.
"Okay, let's go now, and we'll be on patrol before the war." Every time there is a big war, Duan Zhixuan will take a group of high-level officials to inspect every corner of the barracks.
It is said that it is the rear army, but the baggage battalion must be not far from the tent of the Chinese army and is closely protected.
"See the General." The voices came and went, indicating Duan Zhixuan's arrival.
The logistics battalion is a special existence, even if he sees Duan Zhixuan coming, he still does what he should do, and there is no chaos at all.
"What are you guys doing now? Tell the eldest grandson about it. Duan Zhixuan didn't say anything, just signaled.
"I've met Master Hou, our main work at present is to repair the damaged crossbow machine, as well as repair the recovered arrow loss."
"Is this the kind of firing mechanism?" The eldest grandson picked up a crossbow machine that was basically unusable.
"That's right."
"Is there anything special about such a crossbow?" Without investigation, there is no right to speak, and although Changsun Tang knows his principle, he still needs to understand it in more detail to avoid making jokes.
"This new crossbow machine adopts the latest technology of the Ordnance Supervision - gear, so that the bed crossbow that originally required six people to barely operate is reduced to four people, and the main thing is that four people can carry ten crossbow arrows while moving the eight-ox crossbow."
"You mean that with the help of the auxiliaries, the two of them can operate such a large bed crossbow? This group of four is set up with redundancy in mind? ”
"That's right."
"What's the problem?" The eldest grandson asked.
"The main thing is that such crossbow machines are too easy to wear, and some of such gears are scrapped after forty or fifty shots, and some are even less. And the army fought all the way here, and it was barely able to use only about half of the original. ”
While talking to the craftsman, the eldest grandson observed the overworn-out crossbow machine.
"Can't this replace parts that aren't worn out or aren't worn out enough?"
"Master Hou will try it and know, there are about twenty complete crossbow machines here, you can see how many can be replaced."
I knew that if I picked up two pieces casually, the diameter of the gears was not much different, but the teeth could not be matched at all.
"I see."
"I don't know what the Hou Ye can do, if it goes on like this, it is estimated that this kind of large crossbow will not be used in the whole army after this battle." (To be continued.) )