Chapter 943: The Power of Weapons
"This ...... What is it? Does the gods punish you? ”
King Wu and King Wu, who were about to go around to the rear, looked at each other, tried their best to hold on to their restless horses, and listened in disbelief to the sound of thunder in the distance. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Great Shun Forbidden Army spread out for a radius of twenty miles, and they were far away, and they could only hear a sound, completely unaware of what was happening.
On the left flank, King Liu, who was being contained, saw the overwhelming orange-red firelight, and was almost knocked to the ground by the war horse.
"The Han people are using the demon law again?"
King Liu, embarrassed, restrled the horse's head and asked loudly to the left and right.
No one answered him, as if they were stunned by the sound of the artillery.
"A bunch of rubbish!" Liuwang is also a strong general, clenched the sword in his hand, and said fiercely: "No matter, attack with all your might!" He knew that if he retreated at this time, the Dashun Forbidden Army would definitely pursue. As soon as the morale is discharged, it is really that the gods can't save it. Although the Khitans have an advantage in horses, if the Han people have been using demon methods, the advantage will become a disadvantage.
Fighting, in fact, is morale. If there is no desperate momentum, it will definitely be the first to lose. King Liu understood this truth, but he had the most 40,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and only 20,000 belonged to him, and the rest were the private armies of the major nobles. If he has 100,000 soldiers and horses, he really can't say who will win or lose this time.
The left flank was still several miles away from the artillery, and the sound was not too loud. The horses of the Khitan people are extremely good, and after a little adaptation, they don't feel anything.
After all, when the Dashun border army was confronting the Liao State, it often used a weapon called a cannon.
The so-called cannon is actually a trebuchet with a primitive ball of gunpowder, called a thunderbolt fireball. This is an explosive firearm, which is made of a bamboo tube about one and a half inches thick, wrapped with gunpowder and broken porcelain and iron sheets on the outside to make a spherical shape. Leave a tube about an inch long at each end of the ball so that one end can be used as a handle and the other end can be used as a hand-held handle, and the other end can be used for gunpowder and twisting. When cast, it explodes like a thunderbolt and rolls like a fireball, so it is called a "thunderbolt fireball". When it explodes, it shoots pieces of iron that can kill and injure enemies, which is exactly the same as the prefabricated fragmentation grenades of later generations, and can be said to be the world's earliest grenade.
The Han people are too smart, and the "Thunderbolt Fireball" is not small, but it is too heavy, it can't reach far, and it is easy to hurt their own people, so they came up with the idea of "Thunderbolt Fireball" plus trebuchet, and launched the "Thunderbolt Fireball" like a stone bullet. Sometimes it explodes in the air, and the lethality is amazing. Used to defend the city, the Khitans suffered enough.
In Chinese characters, artillery and cannon actually mean the same thing, which means that such a cannon is the earliest artillery. The Khitans have seen it a long time ago, but they don't think there's anything to be afraid of.
It is precisely because of this that King Liuwang dared to risk death to attack.
Don't look at more than 300,000 soldiers and horses to dare to besiege more than 400,000 Han troops, which is very different from the art of war. But cavalry and foot soldiers cannot be compared with each other. In the confrontation of arms, the cavalry is the main attack, and the infantry is the main defense, which is an unbreakable truth. No matter how many infantry there are, they can't help the cavalry. The cavalry can't beat it, but it can still run!
The king of Jin on the right wing, he was careful, he wanted to retain his strength, now is the time when the morale of the Dashun army is the strongest, if he fights his family foundation, then he is not worthy of the name of the king of Jin, and he will be "replaced" by the imperial court. So, he just ordered his soldiers to mount and shoot, and did not charge.
For the forbidden army, this mounted shooting is simply an itch in the boots, and it is not painful. Not to mention that there are two layers of chariots blocking the rain of arrows outside, even if it hits the forbidden army, it can't penetrate the chain mail. The Khitans have always lacked large bed crossbows, and it is impossible for them to bring large bed crossbows in the field, so the forbidden army does not panic at all in the face of this kind of cavalry shooting. Even under the leadership of Lu Chenhuan, the forbidden army began to shoot at each other with divine arm crossbows and Hongxiang-style rifles.
How can the softer horse bow be the opponent of the Divine Arm Crossbow and the Hongxiang-style rifle?
In less than a quarter of an hour, not many Khitan rangers who came to provoke could escape this paved firepower net.
Lu Chenhuan used his three-stone bow to bend the bow and arrows, and cursed on his lips: "If you want to fight or not, what does it mean to shoot vigorously?" ”
He still had some spare time to pay attention to the overall battle situation, and when he found that the left wing was fighting inextricably, he scolded even more fiercely: "This barbarian is a group of guts and bandits!" People can't die but lose a big scar at the mouth of the bowl, afraid of a bird? ”
And at this moment, there was also movement in the rear.
Lu Chenhuan scolded even more, scolding while shooting arrows, shooting an arrow and scolding: "Cowardice", and then shooting an arrow and scolding: "No birds", the surrounding soldiers couldn't help laughing, but in such a tense atmosphere, they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and they were so hard to hold back.
But he said that the left wing stayed in the king, and attacked like crazy.
Everywhere the cavalry went, they used to throw arrows.
Projectile is a kind of technical activity that uses gravity to produce a greater killing effect. As a result, the Praetorian army began to suffer casualties. The arrow feathers that fell from the sky were caught off guard.
"General, what should I do?"
As a pro-soldier, Zhao Yang waved and asked with a trembling voice.
"What's the panic?" Zhe Kexing is as calm as a mountain, giving people a convincing feeling. "Fight back with firearms, bows and arrows, and if they get close, won't there be any 'palm thunder'?"
"General, that's a grenade!" A Praetorian officer listened and corrected in a low voice.
"It's all the same kind of thing, it's not bad!" Zhi Kexing said impatiently, "If you don't command the soldiers, what are you doing with me?" ”
"Order!" The officer didn't dare to provoke him anymore, the command was not effective, and according to military law, he could be beheaded in front of the battle.
King Liuwang had never felt that the Han army would have such a terrible day, and they relied on their chariots and fired unhurriedly. The continuous sound of arrows and gunfire never stopped. And the soldiers in front of him, as if they had crashed headlong into a large woven net, kept falling from their horses.
What kind of Han army is this?
Why did they face the charge of thousands of troops, but their faces did not change like Tarzan?
If it had been changed before, the Khitans had rushed, and the Han army would have collapsed on its own.
He didn't have time to think about it, the distance of just two miles was the distance between life and death.
Only by crushing the forbidden army in front of him can he put a huge pressure on the forbidden army in front and behind. The forbidden army will be defeated only if it is attacked from three sides.
It's close, it's close, it's still a hundred zhang away. After a few breaths, the vanguard will be able to touch the unusually stiff-looking carriage. At this time, the bows and crossbows and gunfire of the forbidden army became more intensive.
"Hey, what's that?"
King Liuwang suddenly saw that iron bumps like small pumpkins flew out and smashed twenty or thirty paces away.
That distance is exactly the distance that the vanguard has just reached.
"Bang !!"
There was a loud bang, and King Liuwang only felt a heat wave coming, and he almost knocked the others over. Lying on his horse in embarrassment, he only had one thought now: "What kind of demon method is this?!" ”