Yang Jian's Pingchen Southern Expedition Order brought the entire Great Sui into a state of general mobilization for war, from Longyou to Hebei, a group of soldiers and horses like a stream flowing to the great rivers and seas, galloping throughout the land of North China, and finally converging to Guangling, Jiangling, and Xinzhou, the three main troop points.

Wujun was first in charge of Xinzhou, and Yang Su of Shangzhu was the marching marshal, and the 100,000-strong army went down the river, aiming directly at Bajun of Chen, Xiangnan and other places, preparing to seize the land of Xiangzhou (now Hunan) in Nanchen, and Liu Renen, the governor of Jiangling, was also under his control.

Jiangling all the way with Yang Jun, the king of Qin, as the marching marshal, and the general Wang Shiji as the actual commander of the road, commanded 100,000 troops, and aimed directly at Jiujiang, Yuzhang and other counties in Qin, preparing to seize Jiangzhou in Southern Chen, and threaten Jiankang from the flank.

The main force attacking Chen was Yang Guang, the king of Jin on the road to Guangling, Yang Jian did not let Yang Yong be the commander this time, but sent the second son Yang Guang, who was originally sealed in Bingzhou (now Shanxi), to sit in Shouchun (now Shouzhou, Anhui), with Gao Xi as the marshal of the Jin Dynasty, and the two famous generals He Ruobi and Han Baohu were all under his jurisdiction.

Yang Guang was the main force of Pingchen along the way, with more than 300,000 troops, and there was only one goal, that is, Jiankang City, the capital of the Chen Dynasty, which was only separated by a river.

In addition, Yan Rong, the general of the Zhu State, led tens of thousands of naval troops to set out from Shandong and attack Yuzhou (now Lianyungang, Jiangsu) by sea, thinking that he was a surprise soldier.

The eight marching commanders, with an army of 520,000, have already set up a position on a front of thousands of miles, and they will not destroy the Chen Dynasty and will not stop.

Wang Xuan stared at the Chen warships on the river, these ships were more than ten zhang long, with two decks on them, and the sides of the ships were covered with cowhides, but the oars protruded from the small square-shaped grids.

On the warship, Chen Guo's sailors all carried swords and bows, and there were several huge crossbow machines on the top floor of the ship, on which were three or four feet long short lances instead of ordinary bows and arrows, and several strong men with sledgehammers stood on the side of the crossbow machines.

Wang Xuan whispered to Wang Huaqiang: "Huaqiang, do you see, that is the famous golden-winged warship of the Southern Dynasty, you see those oars, the speed of rowing is exactly the same, these oarsmen are all many years of boating, well-trained."

The first deck is full of archers, the first priority of water warfare is bows and arrows, the southerners have strong bows and arrows, these archers can not be afraid of wind and waves, archery and combat on the deck is like flat ground, and you see their ships are covered with wet cowhide, just to prevent fire, if the wind is favorable, they will switch to rocket attacks. ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded, these were all things he had known a long time ago, and what he was really interested in was the huge crossbow machines on the third deck: "Jing Yan, are those crossbow machines the world-famous Wanjun Divine Crossbows of the Southern Dynasty?" ”

Jing Yan is Wang Xuan's word, this time the two of them are hot, commensurate with each other's words, Wang Huaqiang has not yet reached the crown, and there is no word for the time being, so Wang Xuan still calls his name Huaqiang. Wang Xuan was awarded a military position by Yang Jiante, and added the authority to open the government, and Wang Huaqiang also became the governor of his military palace, which was actually his mastermind.

According to the military system of the Sui Dynasty, five people set up a captain, five troops for the partial, there are partial divisions, two partial for a team, set up a governor and one person to control, the current governor has become the most basic officer in the Sui army, equivalent to the platoon commander in later generations, and the team has become the most basic combat unit of the Sui army.

The second team has a sentry and a sentry commander, that is, a centurion, above the sentry commander, there are also Shuai Du Governor (company commander), Dadu Governor (battalion commander) and other positions, Wang Huaqiang and his two brothers are now Dadu Governors, and they can nominally command 500 troops.

Wang Xuan smiled slightly: "Yes, this is the Wanjun Divine Crossbow developed by Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty. ”

Wang Huaqiang gasped, and finally saw this legendary divine weapon. The power of this object is equivalent to a fifty-stone crossbow, which can hit two hundred paces away, and it fires a long lance instead of an ordinary crossbow arrow, and ordinary fishing boats will be directly sunk if they are hit.

During Liu Yu's Northern Expedition, his target was the Later Qin Empire, which was established by the Qiang Yao clan in Guanzhong, and the Northern Wei north of the Yellow River was not his original target.

However, when the Northern Wei Dynasty first entered the Central Plains, it was in full swing, and it could not tolerate Liu Yu's Northern Expeditionary Army swaggering and arming a large march under his nose, so he kept sending cavalry to harass Liu Yu's grain ship on the Yellow River.

Liu Yu couldn't swallow this breath, so he simply turned his back on the north bank of the Yellow River, with three thousand infantry and hundreds of chariots, forming a moon formation, and dozens of such Wanjun crossbows were placed in it.

The general of the Northern Wei Dynasty saw that Liu Yu had few soldiers ashore, and directly dispatched 100,000 iron cavalry, wanting to eat this army in one fell swoop.

At that time, Liu Yu's Qiyue array was full of elite Beifu soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles with him, that is, the army that broke the million-strong army of the former Qin in the Battle of Weishui, and the battle was dark, and the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty was also a strong force that swept the world, fighting to the death and not retreating, and at the most critical time, it had already broken into the chariot defense line of the Beifu soldiers.

At this time, these Wanjun crossbows played a big role, and the Beifu soldiers used sledgehammers to hit the trigger of the crossbow machine, and directly fired these truncated spears, and for a time the lances were like flying locusts, and the blood was raining all over the sky.

On the entire battlefield, there were four or five Northern Wei cavalry strung with a flying lance everywhere, and even the Northern Wei general A Bogan was also beheaded, and the 3,000 infantry broke 100,000 iron cavalry, so that the northern Hu cavalry no longer dared to underestimate the infantry of the Southern Army. Since then, these Wanjun crossbows have been recorded in history together with the name of Liu Yu's Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty.

Looking at these Wanjun Divine Crossbows on the opposite ship, Wang Huaqiang sighed: "Why can't we in the Great Sui produce such a powerful weapon?" ”

Wang Xuan said with a smile: "Hua Qiang, even when we usually use a two-stone bow or a three-stone or four-stone heavy crossbow to fire, we will also feel that after the arrow leaves the string, there will be a huge momentum to push us back." ”

Wang Huaqiang suddenly understood: "Oh, you mean that kind of recoil, right, too, if this thing really has the power of a fifty-stone crossbow, it is not something that ordinary people or horses can bear, as long as it is launched, it will be ejected far away, and it can only be used on such a ship or chariot." ”

Wang Xuan muttered "recoil" a few times, he had never heard of this term before, Wang Huaqiang smiled, he has rarely used the words of the afterlife over the years, and many things before the time travel have become distant memories.

"Brother Jing Yan, this is a word invented by the younger brother himself, that is, when shooting arrows forward, the force of the person behind him to push backwards, the power of a fifty-stone strong crossbow, it is estimated that this recoil can be thousands of catties, no one can stand it."

Wang Xuan nodded, pointed to the ship opposite, and said: "This kind of golden-winged warship only has two layers, and it is not the largest, so the Wanjun Divine Crossbow on it is not the most powerful, because the main role of this kind of warship is to patrol the river, not the capital ship in the decisive battle." ”

Wang Huaqiang's eyes widened in disbelief: "Is there anything bigger than this?" ”

Wang Xu's expression was solemn, and he said thoughtfully: "Yes, the most powerful warship of the Southern Dynasty is four stories high, fifty or sixty zhang long, and more than ten zhang wide, called the Eight Ships Battleship, one ship can carry more than 2,000 soldiers, and it can even run horses on the deck.

And the oarsmen of these eight-ship battleships also have three layers, and the top layer will stick out as thick as a big tree in close combat, and the head is wrapped with an iron rod, which can directly break some smaller warships.

As for the Wanjun Divine Crossbow on the top floor, it is as big as two or three of the Divine Crossbow that we see now, and its strength is enough to reach hundreds of stones, and it can shoot four or five long lances at a time, and the power is even more amazing.

Huaqiang, our northern army relied on iron cavalry to rush and kill, and was invincible in land battles, while the southerners relied on dense water networks and sharp boats to ensure that the confrontation between the north and the south lasted for 300 years. ”

Wang Huaqiang laughed, pointed to the ships on the opposite side and said: "Brother Jingyan, the southerners can protect half of the south of the Yangtze River, relying on the ships or the Yangtze River, but the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. They boasted that the Han people were orthodox, well-dressed and unwilling to become the people of the Hu people, so they were able to resolve the crisis repeatedly.

But this time, the Great Sui was a Han dynasty, and the Emperor Chen was mediocre, and the court was a traitor, and I heard that since last month, General Yang Suyang, the governor of Xinzhou, and Yang Jun, the king of Qin, had sent troops south, and General Yang went down the river, and in less than a month he had fought through Ba County (now Chongqing). ”

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