Chapter 176: The Battlefield (Part II)

The Zhao army has been equipped with firearms on a large scale for some time, but most of the firearms produced by the Ordnance Bureau are inferior weapons. In the battle between Zhao and Liao, although the Zhao army also used weapons, the firearms did not exert their due power.

And this time, the Liao army really saw the power of firearms.

"Seventy steps to break the armor." Wan Yan Haiya broke the arrow in his hand, "Maybe this is the real firearm, the power of the firearm is too terrifying." If the Zhao army is equipped with this weapon on a large scale, our cavalry and archery superiority will be lost, and our war against Zhao in the future will not be as easy as it is now. ”

For the first time, Wan Yan Haiya felt the horror of firearms. In the past, due to the immaturity of technical conditions and the unqualified production, accidents occurred frequently after firearms were put into use on the battlefield, and it was not uncommon for firearms to be blown up. Sergeant Zhao preferred to use spears and broadswords to fight the enemy hand-to-hand rather than use firearms.

If the Zhao army can really produce these sophisticated firearms on a large scale, the passive position of Zhao and Liao in the competition between Zhao and Liao in Liaodong will be reversed.

These firearms were all produced by He Tengxiao's Yunguam Ordnance Bureau, and He Tengxiao recruited a large number of craftsmen who could not escape from the back on favorable terms in the inescapable refugee tide in the thirteenth south of Zhenyuan for his own use. Among them, He Tengxiao attaches the most importance to the old craftsmen who can produce firearms and gunpowder.

This era is an era of coexistence of hot and cold weapons, and in view of the immaturity of firearms manufacturing technology, this era is still the king of cold weapons. But firearms have already been decapitated and shown in the war. As a monster known for 800 years, he was certainly well aware of the revolutionary impact that the advent of firearms had on warfare.

The Yunguam Armament Bureau can be said to have brought together the most skilled craftsmen in the entire Liaodong, and the Yunguam Armament Bureau can even be compared with the Armaments Bureau of Jinzhou of the Huang nationality and the Arsenal Bureau of Fuzhou of the He nationality, although it is far inferior to the Armaments Bureau of these two clans in terms of scale, but the technical level of the Yunguam Armament Bureau can guarantee that it has surpassed the Armament Bureau of these two clans and become the Armament Bureau with the highest technical level in Liaodong.

Despite this, the weapons manufactured by the Yunguam Ordnance Bureau are of high quality, but their expensive construction and production are flawless. One of the guns of the Yunguam Ordnance Bureau is two or three times the cost of the guns commonly equipped by the town army, and this is the price to be paid for improving the original guns. The problem of the original firearm was solved, but the cost was increased by two or three times.

Moreover, the output of the Yunguam Ordnance Bureau has always been a hard injury, because of the scale, He Tengxiao regards weapons as the first life of soldiers, and the requirements for the quality of weapons have reached a demanding level. The delivery of each firearm is carried out by the craftsman in charge of production dozens of rings to ensure that there are no problems before receiving them.

The output of all weapons in the Yunguam Ordnance Bureau this year is only enough to maintain the use of the cavalry battalion. In this Zhao Liao War, He Tengxiao's weapons to support Wu Tingzhen were all produced by the Yunguam Ordnance Bureau. I have to say that war is very money-burning, and the degree of consumption of materials is staggering. A big war almost exhausted the weapons produced by the Cloud Guam Ordnance Bureau in a year.

As a result, the cavalry battalion is also in short supply of weapons and equipment.

"If all the Zhao troops in Liaodong were equipped with such sharp weapons, our cavalry would be useless." Achiller also felt the threat of firearms to the Liao army, and was deeply touched by Wanyan Haiya's words.

"We Da Liao also want to make our own firearms, most of Yu Yansong's subordinates are not firearms soldiers, although they are still equipped with the eliminated goods of Da Zhao more than 200 years ago, but at least they are also firearms, learn from others." Wan Yan Haiya said, "We in Daliao also need our own craftsmen, I don't believe that we can't produce decent firearms!" ”

"Learn from Yu Yansong?" Achille was deeply surprised, "Yu Yansong is a Han Chinese, and the dignified Liao nobles surrendered to a Han general to learn to fight, and our Manshu people can't afford to lose this face." ”

In recent years, the good news of the Zhao war has been frequent, and the Manshu people have developed a sense of superiority, and gradually their attitude towards the Han people has gradually changed from the original reverence and admiration to the later contempt. Yu Yansong was the first Han to join the Liao army, and the Manshu people in the clan still had a contemptuous attitude towards Yu Yansong. Learning from those he despised was a humiliating thing for Achiller.

"Don't be ashamed now, what you will lose in the future is your life, in front of life, face is not worth much." Wanyan Haiya found several indentations on the grass on the gentle slope, and the depth of these indentations varied greatly, the deep ones were very deep, and the shallow ones were very shallow. The shallow indentations are so shallow that they cannot be found without careful searching.

"Only bulky heavy weapons can press out such marks." When Achille saw these indentations, the first thing that came to mind was the famous stone throwing machines of the Manshu people, and every time he moved them after the war, there would always be deep indentations of the stone throwing machines on the grass.

There was no such equipment as a stone thrower in the Zhao army, and the heavy weapons commonly used by the Zhao army in field warfare were nothing more than bed crossbows and artillery. These distinct indentations of depth and shallow also indicate the indentations left by these indentation bed crossbows and artillery.

"We have found no less than 30 deep indentations, and there are dozens of artillery pieces used by Wu Tingzhen in this field battle." Achiller said that the Liao State scoffed at the firecracker, but for artillery, the Liao State had a soft spot from top to bottom, and even invested heavily to recruit talents who were proficient in artillery to build artillery for the Liao State. In particular, the loud noise produced when the artillery was fired was like thunder, which made the Liao army remember it vividly.

"There are no less than thirty artillery, and the total number of cannons that Liaoyang City can put is only more than seventy years, and Wu Tingzhen, a declining clan, can still have so many artillery." Wan Yan Haiya said with emotion.

"It is unlikely that it is Wu Tingzhen's own artillery, Wu Tingzhen was so embarrassed last year, it is impossible to take away such a bulky weapon as artillery from Liaoyang City. Wu Tingzhen's firearms and sharpshooters were all He Tengxiao's private support, and these cannons were He Tengxiao's! Achiller was excited, but he was wearing a metal mask that covered half of his cast face, and through a metal mask, no one could see the expression.

Since the defeat in the battle against Pingshan Fort last year, Achiller has regarded He Tengxiao, the defender of Pingshan Fort, as his biggest enemy. Although He Tengxiao was still a small hundred households at that time, he was only equivalent to the first class of low-level military attachés in the Liao army.

"Pingshan Fort, Cloud Guam." Wanyan Haiya silently recited the names of these two familiar places, and in the future, he should let the secret agents spy more about the movements of these two places.

There were some abnormal movements near the old battlefield, and the Liao army sentinels who took the wind drove their horses away for a while and returned.

"What's going on?!" Wanyan Haiya asked with a frown.

Guerzhen came back and reported: "The cavalry of the Zhao army has been dispersed. ”

"When did the Zhao Jun Ranger become so bold and dare to run so far." Wan Yan Haiya sneered.

This laugh is also self-deprecating. (To be continued.) )