Chapter Ninety-Five: Two Dozen Yao Villages (5)
The great victory of Shifo Mountain has now become a well-known thing in Langxi, but the bandits who were exterminated have changed from the original well-known Shifoshan bandits to unfamiliar bandits from other places, and the number of people annihilated has also been seven or eight versions, from one or two hundred to three or four thousand.
Although there were doubts, the people sent to Shifoshan by the townships and towns for verification were all pale and did not eat meat when they returned!
And Pan Datou also took advantage of this "big victory" and began to raise the throne of the county magistrate!
As for the two forces of Wu Xiaoya and Wang Yougui, Pan Datou got the support of his two sons and the secret support of the deputy envoy of Su Wanjiang and the overseer of Jiangsu, Qi Bianyuan. After all, Wu Xiaoya's Shi Foshan this time is a broken muscle, and the vitality will not be better for a while. As for Wang Yougui, who had never won a battle, Pan Datou didn't care about it at all. Without the support of his cousin and his godfather, Wang Yougui's team would be a plate of loose sand, and there would be no more than forty of them that could really fight.
What worries Pan Datou the most is the mysterious team that ambushed him, and the dense shell craters repeatedly torture the nerves of Grand Master Pan.
There are seven aunts and eight aunts in Biqiao Town in Yao Village, why don't there be seven aunts and eight aunts in Yao Village in Zhou Village, which is closer to Zhou Village, and the heavy trebuchet that appeared last that day has long been put away by Zhao Yun, but there are still many people in Zhou Village who have seen it.
After collecting it from someone with a heart, Pan Datou determined that this thing was definitely not the weapon that ambushed him on the mountain road that day.
This trebuchet is large, it is not easy to carry on the narrow mountain road, and it is improvised to take the mountain road, so who can quickly carry such a heavy object to the team's travel route?
After his two sons invited a master to look at the scene, they came to the conclusion that this must be a shell with a caliber of more than 75 mm to cause a crater, but such a dense crater made the master can't help but smack his tongue!
However, after walking around the surrounding hills, there was no place to set up artillery, so how many shells the other side released became the key to solving the problem. So these dense craters became the only way to solve the key problem, and the number of craters was used to calculate how many guns there were.
Finally, the stupidest way is to count. In total, at least 800 shells landed on the mountain road, which was less than 2,000 meters, inflicting heavy casualties on the marching troops in a single line.
"Eight hundred? At least? If it weren't for this "master", Pan Datou had heard of his name before, and his statement was highly convincing, otherwise Pan Datou would have treated him as a liar a long time ago.
How many cannons do you need for these 800 rounds?
"Yes, it must have been more than eight hundred rounds!" The "master" surnamed Li pointed to the crater and said, "And the other side should have set up three shooting points, you can see that these craters under your feet are very uniform, the size and specifications are very consistent, they must be fired at the same height and the same place." It's almost the same within 500 meters, so it should have been done by a group of people, and the craters in the past are very different from this, indicating that another group of people fired at another height and from a different launch point! And there are three craters of this size on this road! Anyway, this is what I can help you with, as for who did it, you can study it slowly! After the "master" finished speaking, he packed up the tools for surveying and mapping and prepared to leave, ignoring the head of Pan Datou who was still thinking about staying in place.
"Oh! Forgot to say a word! The "master" surnamed Li took two steps, then turned back to Pan Datou and said, "If there is any news, please ask Commander Pan to tell the Overseer as soon as possible, the Overseer is very interested in this shelling!" After saying that, he left without looking back.
"Interested!?" Pan Datou's face twitched, isn't this just reminding himself not to take revenge? The Qi Overseers wanted to take this team for their own use. "A bunch of warlords who only know their own interests!" Of course, this sentence was what Pan Datou thought in his heart, but he didn't say it in the end. Think about provoking an arms dealer named Zhao Yun, and now a mysterious artillery team has appeared, Pan Datou has been very heartwarming recently.
Is there a relationship between the two? Are they all in the mountains, out of nowhere? An idea popped out of Pan Datou's mind and startled himself, if this is true, then it's best to run away now!
Pan has a headache, and his opponent Zhao Yun is also in trouble.
The two most heavily equipped arms at present, infantry and cavalry, are now at odds with each other for the sake of resources, just like the Japanese navy and army.
Whether to favor cavalry or infantry, Zhao Yun was really difficult to choose for a while. The infantry or cavalry gave Zhao Yun a headache for a long time, but he did not rush to solve it because he had been peaceful, but this time in Pancun, the cavalry that was suddenly pursuing was wiped out, which made Zhao Yun learn from the pain and decided to reorganize.
In fact, the issue of the matching of arms has always been a headache for heads of state for a long time.
Even the United States, although it seems to be powerful, there is still repeated competition between the navy and the army, because behind the military interests, the different capital predators support different types of troops. Just look at the poor second-rate level and numbers of the U.S. Army before World War II, and compare it to their powerful navy.
Poor U.S. Army is bound by various regulations. The Japanese have established aviation units in the army and navy, while the Americans have more and more branches of the navy and air force performing army functions, and the development of the army has been once again restricted.
This time, forty crossbowmen belonging to the ranks of the infantry occupied the terrain and used the "English crossbow", and it took only one minute to fire a thousand shells and almost wipe out all the bandits who Pan Datou had invited to help. And the hussars, who had always been invincible, folded in the narrow mountain road.
"Looks like we're going to have to tweak!" Zhao Yun said to himself.
Back then, the invincible cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia finally folded into the hands of the infantry and cavalry of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming cavalry originated in Jianghuai, that is, where Zhao Yun is now, and the quality of the horses here was not very good, but the Ming army used the new technology at that time: muskets and artillery.
Science and technology are the primary productive forces! Of course, Zhao Yun knows this famous saying. Think about the guns at that time, and the guns now, the difference is that there is a heaven and an earth.
At best, it was a big pole lifter, but it wiped out the cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty. However, the reason for this is that the characteristics of the Ming soldiers are that the cavalry is not a single branch, and it is mixed with the infantry. Although the cavalry is now one-sided in front of the heavy machine gun, but as a large number of troops until World War II, this stage is definitely not the last period, Zhao Yun decided to imitate the light army, began to suspend the production of cavalry, and turned to strengthen the firepower of the cavalry and increase their long-range attacks. It's a pity that this "English crossbow" is too long, otherwise it would have been used by the archers!
While strengthening the individual strength of the cavalry, it began to produce a large number of infantry, with them as the backing, think of a team of "England crossbowmen" crossbowmen firing indiscriminately, and then the cavalry stepped forward to charge, which is indeed fascinating to Zhao Yun!
After arranging the production sequence of the camp, Zhao Yun is going to do "good people and good deeds" again!
This is not Wang Yougui begging to come to the door again, and I want to ask Zhao Yun to help train his troops!
This time against Pan Datou, Zhao Yun lost a team of cavalry, and Wu Xiaoya suffered heavy losses, with more than half of the casualties, but fortunately, Zhao Yun's servant army had already joined it and controlled the overall situation, which did not cause a situation where someone wanted to "split up" or surrender to the enemy.
"Bad water hemp" has been a special security point these days, and he has been busy with the people in Shifoshan in the village and doing a good job of the second master.
After the breakthrough was blocked that day, "Bad Shui Ma" was afraid that Zhao Yun would settle accounts with him after he came back, and later saw Zhao Yun's "heavy weapons", "Bad Shui Ma" accepted his fate. How miserable is Pan Datou beaten now, Pan Datou will never let go of him, the second master, in the future, for the sake of today's plan, he can only contribute to the cottage with one mind.
Wu Xiaoya said here, Wang Yougui is more troublesome here.
Wang Yougui asked Wu Xiaoya to help him find a way, but he didn't fold. Of course, begging Wu Xiaoya also begged Zhao Yun for the end.
What the king asks for is only two things, one is a human being, and the other is still a human being! One is the problem of his subordinates, and the other is the problem of his godfather.
Some time ago, Wang Yougui's family took out a large amount of money to strengthen the walls of the town, and also built corner towers to increase the defense of the town. also purchased a large amount of ordnance from Zhao Yun, together with the daily food and drink of the militia group, Wang Yougui's family could not make ends meet.
But these recruited veterans are veterans, and their marksmanship and combat skills are all veterans, and they have a fight with Pan Datou's elite, but that spirit is far behind, and he can't be summoned without silver. Even a dial has to get a little blood, and every once in a while there is a little drinking and trouble in the town, and there is no money for shopping. This is too far from the previous militia in Biqiao Town, and many of the people in the town are members of the Wang family, and in less than a month, five or six families have already made trouble with the clan, scolding Wang Yougui for being bloody. Who made Wang Yougui low! All of them are uncles and uncles, and they can only be angry inside and out.
This time, I finally had a chance to break into Yao Village, and let this group of veterans lose their oil, and Wang Yougui, who had nowhere to sprinkle, almost didn't "vomit" all of them!
I heard that Zhao Yunxin sent a team of people to Zhou Village, Wang Yougui hurried to come again, one came to rub the rice, the eating and drinking of these hundreds of men is also a considerable expenditure in a day, I have long heard that Zhao Yun's food is good, this time to beat Yao Village is also a great help, rubbing some food, playing tooth sacrifices should not be a problem. Second, these days Wang Yougui is busy rectifying the team, but the more it is rectified, the more chaotic it becomes, and there is almost no mutiny! Everyone has lost a lot of weight.
Looking at the two teams of musketeers sent by Zhao Yun, carrying ten heavy machine guns and two twelve-pound bronze cannons, he couldn't help but sigh that Zhao Yun was still wealthy!
But this time there is more than that, Zhao Yun spent a lot of money to invite more than 60 dart masters from all over southern Anhui to come with several carts of large boxes.