"Lu Weng," Yang Yu said to Lu Xunzhi, who hurried in, "We are really in trouble this time." ”

Lu Xunzhi picked up the pen and hurriedly wrote a few strokes on a note, turned around and took it to Chen Guang beside him: "Immediately make wax pills, send fine people to Shatou City, and recruit the chief manager to come back to defend the city." ”

Chen Guang responded and ordered, "Xiang Ning, you go." ”

A short, sturdy man answered, took the sticky note and turned to go out.

"It's not insurance to rely on the general manager," Yang Yu commanded, "This is a matter related to the overall situation, immediately send a messenger to

He paused for a moment and said, "Ask for help from the envoy of Xiangyang Zhao, the deputy envoy of Jiangling, and the Meng Dutong of Huangzhou. The letter must be written that this is the old camp established by the father and son of Zheng Qingzhigong, and it will be attacked by a large group of Mongolian soldiers soon. ”

"I believe that at least the three coaches should not sit idly by."

Chen Guang said yes again.

"Now that we've done these things, let's work hard again." Yang Luo said and picked up the pocket from the table: "Inform the brothers in the Youyi camp that there is big prey to fight this time." ”

Chen Guang stretched out his hand and pressed his pocket, and said, "This battle is not as good as Yanjia Village, it must be a dangerous battle." Before the governor rushes back to the cottage, the commander must take on the responsibility of commanding the whole situation. ”

"I'll lead the team this time."

Yang Luo no longer refuted, because he knew that what Chen Guang said was right, and before Zheng Yunming rushed back to Dazhai, he couldn't just throw away his life.

"This time it doesn't have to be the same as in Yanjia Village." Yang Yang advised: "If there are too many enemies, if you are keen on intrigues, you will bring disaster to yourself, according to ordinary ambush methods, you can adapt to the situation." ”

"The meaning of Youyi is to make your own judgment flexibly according to the local situation at that time." Yang Luo patted Chen Guang on the shoulder: "Ziming (Chen Guang's character Ziming), I believe that your intelligence is enough to be called a very good commander of the Youyi Army." ”

Chen Guang bowed down and thanked him, then took the black iron head and took the order to leave.

Yang Luo turned to Lu Xunzhi and said, "Lu Weng, that thing should be taken out and used." ”

Lu Xunzhi said without hesitation: "Now is the time to use that." ”

Under the wall in front of the camp, the soldiers and servants were busy in amazement to see four huge machines covered with tarpaulins being pushed straight to the two corner towers of the north gate.

The corner tower of the north gate was originally just a simple wooden square building, but at the insistence of Zheng Yunming, the design was modified and replaced with a round wooden pile filled platform.

This modification is precisely to use the most powerful large-scale defense equipment of the Earth Dragon Army.

The tarpaulin was carefully removed, and in front of the exclamated Dazhai soldiers and civilians was a huge bed bow and crossbow.

The bed crossbow used by the Great Song Dynasty to garrison the famous city is divided into two levels: single bow and double bow, and the most praised in the world is the powerful giant crossbow that can only be pulled apart by eight brute oxen, and the three-bow bed crossbow.

On the bed made of hard wood, there were three huge bows, two in the front and one in the back, numbered the Three Bows. The bowstring is made of the tendons on the back of the ox, and the multiple tendons are crushed into a single strand, which is strong and stiff, and can fire huge arrows.

The so-called huge arrow is an iron javelin that can be fired. The arrow was three feet five inches long and five inches thick. The tail of the arrow is inlaid with iron feathers. The main arrow is flanked by a small arrow. This is the source of the "one gun and three swords" in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts".

In order to open the three-bow bed crossbow, it is necessary to use more than 100 strong men to drag the rope together to turn the winch used to open the bow under the command of the bed crossbowman, and work together to open the bow and crossbow. The title of the eight-bull crossbow is worthy of it.

Yang Luo watched the scene of the pulley crane temporarily installed on the wall slowly hoisting the huge bed onto the launch pad of the corner tower amid the shouts of more than 100 people in unison, although he had been a staff member in the army for a while, he did not know much about the power of this weapon.

"Speaking of this bed crossbow, it is a divine weapon that has saved the Great Song Guozuo." Lu Xunzhi said with a smile: "I think that when it was still the Zhenzong Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao State rode 200,000 iron horses south, trying to destroy my Great Song Dynasty. Emperor Zhenzong drove the expedition in person, and the two armies confronted Danzhou. The Khitan was strong, and our army was in danger several times. ”

"Seeing that the situation was unfavorable and even the emperor might be captured by the Liao State, the bed crossbowmen on the city of Danzhou saw at a glance that there was a Liao army general six hundred steps away, and more than ten light horsemen came to the city to wait for the situation of our army. Immediately, the bed crossbowmen opened three crossbows and shot an arrow, and the three swords hit the Liao general's chest and killed him on the spot. ”

Later, I learned that the Liao general was originally Xiao Yuanrin, the commander of the Nanjing army of the Liao State, and it was the vanguard of the invasion that the Empress Dowager Xiao relied on to command, and after the death of this person, the morale of the Liao army declined, and soon after the Empress Dowager Xiao was forced to sign the Tanyuan Covenant with Emperor Zhenzong. Just this crossbow, with an arrow, solved a crisis in the Great Song Dynasty, and it really deserves to be a weapon for the country. ”

Yang Yu said disdainfully: "This is just the thickness of Emperor Taizu's Yin De accumulation, so that they can be blinded at such a distance." Such a heavy guy, it is almost impossible to aim finely, and when he releases it, he can only burn incense and worship the Buddha to bless and shoot which ancestor has damaged the yin virtue, how can it be relied on as a decisive weapon? ”

Lu Xunzhi said lightly: "What if you don't shoot people?" ”

"That's another story." Yang Luo saw the three-bow bed crossbow gently hanging on the corner tower platform, and the bed crossbowmen hurriedly stepped forward to debug and repair, and suddenly remembered another sharp weapon to defend the city: "The day before yesterday, the chief manager left the camp, and the four firearms teams took away three teams, where is the remaining team now?" ”

"I have commanded them to set up a camp under the wall, ready to go up to the wall for reinforcements." Lu Xunzhi said: "The chief manager is worried about the instability of the camp, so the three teams he took away are all bamboo general troops, but what remains in the camp is a wooden general army. ”

As the name suggests, General Mu is a wooden cannon made of hard locust wood and other materials, plus three iron hoops to strengthen the cannon body, which is a strengthened version of the bamboo general that Zheng Yunming and the craftsmen of the Gangneung manufacturing workshop discussed and improved, whether in terms of charge, range or power, it has been further improved than General Zhu.

"If the Tartars really attack in a big way, then these wooden generals must be left for use at the most critical time." Yang Wei frowned and said, "Fortunately, the rest of the firearms chiefs have left a lot, and they should also be used cautiously to avoid unnecessary waste." ”

"Nothing can be wasted." Lu Xunzhi looked at the rolling mountains in the northwest: "No one will know what a terrifying army it is. ”

The answer to this question came at dusk three days later.

Only a camp of more than 300 people remained, and fled back to the camp with heavy casualties.

Chen Guang had arrow wounds on his body and left arm, and was shot in his right leg, and was helped into the camp by the soldiers.

"There were more than a dozen ambushes of the enemy, and each time it was fierce." Chen Guang grinned and said, "This time it really made them suffer." ”

Yang Luo was very dissatisfied with this result: "How many times have I said it, when the enemy is strong, don't easily fall into close combat, this time you lost a lot of brothers because you are always impatient to fight!" ”

Chen Guang raised his voice: "I am the commander of the front line, I think that if I don't teach this enemy army a hard lesson, it will be too late when they reach the camp safely." ”

Yang Luo looked at the wounded soldier wrapped in gauze behind him, and immediately understood that Chen Guang's judgment was correct: "Yes, the commander at the front should have the power to make decisions on the spot, and tell me about the situation you have detected. ”

"The Tartars' ranks are more than ten miles long, all of them are cavalry, it should be more than ten thousand people, all of them are well-dressed and have high morale. In addition to the regular soldiers, there are also a lot of miscellaneous soldiers who carry their own horses and weapons, and they should all be guys who want to come and rob while the fire is burning. ”

"In addition to this, the troops carried a lot of servants, much more than the average army would use. I think they had a good idea of the siege. ”

"Any further information?" Yang Luo asked, "Who is the commander of the enemy army?" How many real Tartars are there in the team, and how many Han soldiers are there? ”

"We took a dozen soldiers prisoner and came back." Chen Guang said: "The detailed part of the commander can interrogate them. ”

A dozen tightly bound Mongol soldiers were pushed into a huge makeshift tent halfway up the mountain. When they saw that the people sitting at the top were all members of the Song army above the general level, they just begged for mercy with their heads like pounding garlic.

Yang Luo glanced at Lu Xunyi, who was sitting upright in the position of the main general in the center, and the other party nodded, signaling Yang Xun to start.

Yang glanced at the captives who were kowtowing under their seats, and chose the thinnest-looking guy and asked the soldiers of the Youyi Army to come forward.

"Answer well, the ruler can protect your life without worry." Yang Yan said warmly.

The captive was shocked, and just looked at Yang Luo with frightened eyes.

"Where are you from? What is the name? ”

"The villain is a native of Xuchang, Henan, named Zhu Dingqi."

Yang Luo nodded, and asked again, "When did you become a soldier?" And in whose subordinates? ”

"The villain was originally a good farmer in the countryside, the day before yesterday, the Mongolian Xuancha master was, it was the Tartar Xuancha who gave the order, calling one of the five strong men in the village to follow the army to the south, and the villain was selected to join the troops of Marshal Liu Heng'an's subordinate army of Qianhu Zhang Tieta."

Yang Luo asked again: "How many military horses have come from Mongolia this time?" Who will the Lord be? Thou shalt be a good student to reply, if there is any deception," he snorted and drew his waist knife: "Now I want your head to fall to the ground." ”

That Zhu Dingqi was taken aback, and replied tremblingly: "The villain is just a farmer, and the number is not clear, but I heard our brand head (the name of the ten commanders in the Mongolian army) say that this time there are 800,000 horses and horses following the king of Quchu south, and they want to set foot on Jingxiang."