Chapter 8: What I Saw and Heard in the Barracks
The forbidden army camp was ten miles north of the city, so a few of us went out of the teahouse and hired two carriages to drive to the military camp, and after walking for about half an hour, the biggest violent institution of the Great Song Dynasty appeared in front of my eyes
"Your Majesty, why don't you go in first and make a report, and let the generals of the Jin Army come out to greet the emperor," Wang Jin asked
"Don't make a noise yet, go in and have a look," I said to Wang Jin
As soon as I entered the gate, I saw a team of soldiers running, and there were soldiers lifting weights in the distance, I walked forward slowly, looking at these soldiers, I still felt very emotional, the first feeling of this military camp is very big, according to Wang Jin's introduction, the training of soldiers is also very systematic, whether it is all kinds of light and heavy armor of sword and shield soldiers, pikemen, crossbowmen, long knife hands, or light cavalry, heavy cavalry, archers have a very clear and systematic training, and almost all the instructors here can become a member of the front line. Besides, although these soldiers are not elite soldiers in a hundred battles, they are also brave and good at fighting, and their weapons and armor are very sophisticated, in addition to improper command, I am afraid that only natural disasters can defeat the Great Song army.
Suddenly, a dense burst of artillery came from the other end of the battalion, artillery!! This is a nuclear weapon of ancient warfare" Wang Jin, what's going on with this cannon sound?" I asked excitedly
"Back to the emperor, it is the soldiers of the artillery battalion who are conducting artillery shooting training," Wang Jin said
"Well, take me to see the artillery first."
"Then please ask the emperor to take it here for a while, and Che Rong Weichen will send someone to lead a few horses" is also said, the area of this military camp is not small, accommodating nearly 300,000 forbidden troops, if I really let me go to the other end, then the sun will really go down
After a while, the people sent by Wang Jin brought back five horses, I asked the four guards to wait in place, and then took Xiaodouzi, Yudie and Tiehu followed Wang Jin to the artillery camp, although Zhao Xu fell off the horse and burped, but I have never ridden a horse, although I have seen others ride before, but I have no experience after all, I am crooked, as if drunk, so embarrassing, hehe, no way, Tiehu can only slow down and take me forward. Alas, it's a shame, you must learn to ride a horse in the future, or how to mix it up
In the confusion, we arrived at the artillery camp, and saw that the artillery of the Song Dynasty was like an iron pipe lying there, the head and tail were as thick, and each artillery had three people to operate, one shouted orders, one person filled, one person ignited, and then, the ignition of the artillery was cleaning the barrel, how to say that this set of actions also had a cup of tea time, if this was carried out by the Liao State, before the cannon could be fired, the cavalry of the people would have to chop melons and vegetables
"Who is the head of the sect here?" I turned back to Wen Wangjin
"Back to the emperor, the head of the sect here is called Ling Zhen, known as the thunder, he is the head of the artillery here, and he is also the head of the artillery in the Ordnance Department, specializing in forging artillery."
"his tent," I said
Following Wang Jin, we soon came to Ling Zhen's military tent, where several sect leaders were arguing, and after listening carefully, it turned out that they were also arguing about the rate of fire and power of artillery
I glanced at Wang Jin, and Wang Jin shouted loudly, "The emperor has arrived"
With Wang Jin's shouting, I strode into this military tent