CHAPTER XXIX
In the past two days, Xiao Chen has had a lot of fun every day. Because there is nothing to bother about, it is natural to play and relax. As for the wife, she has already been tamed by our masters, and now in addition to following behind your ass every day, we no longer restrict our steps. Hahaha Follow the group of idle bastards in the army, go shopping every day, and you don't have to flirt with the women of good families, and your wife follows behind, you can't do it so obviously, you have to do it in the middle of the night. Let's go to the suburbs to enjoy the beautiful rivers and mountains, barbecue a few times when you have nothing to do, and drink some wine, not to mention how refreshing the taste is.
A group of idle old men play happily every day, which can be regarded as suffering from the group of Wenchen Yashi led by Li Ming. Every day, small things are constantly being done, and big things are coming to intervene, and they are more tired than dead dogs. All day long, everything was stolen, and who was in trouble and had an awkward fight, a lot of trivial things, and Prime Minister Li Dacheng came to Xiao Chen every day to say that he was old and wanted to go home to retire.
Is it possible? In his own sphere of influence, at present, Li Lao Taishan can easily handle government affairs, and let others do this work, it is estimated that he would have hanged himself in annoyance. Therefore, such a valuable talent, no matter what he does, he can't be let go.
As a result, Prime Minister Li Dacheng had no choice but to continue to spend the rest of his life to contribute to the development of Donglin City's forces, silently and selflessly. Xiao Chen, with the assistance of Lao Taishan, is naturally at ease.
Three days after the last court meeting, more than 30,000 slaves paved the mixed earth and stone road between the three cities at a very fast speed under the treatment of Prime Minister Li Dacheng's stick and sweet dates. After that, several slaves were promoted to become slave captains, under double oppression. More than 30,000 slaves continued to march westward, and began to build beacon towers on the great plains to the west. Not only are the roads paved along the way, but the beacon tower must be built when you encounter a good place.
The squeezing continued, and blood and sweat flowed out of the slave's body, but what does this matter to Xiao Chen, as long as he works hard for the master, a happy life will soon come in the future.
It turns out that a slave is a very good item, of good quality and low price, and that he is beaten and scolded and selflessly dedicated. Although up to now, in a few days, this group of slaves has made a great contribution to the forces of Donglin City. However, it was also unfortunate that thousands of people died, and Xiao Chen felt that the slaves were not enough.
As a result, the plan to attack Kells City was also taken out again today, and on the same day, Xiao Chen gathered more than 5,000 troops in the school field. Among them were 1,000 and 5 sword and shield soldiers, 2,000 Changge soldiers, plus 1,000 archers and 500 cavalry troops. At the same time, in a few days, under the research of nearly 100,000 copper plates, the forces of Donglin City finally appeared heavy weapons and siege weapons.
Trebuchet: An ultra-long-range shooting weapon that uses stone bullets to attack at a distance of up to 600 paces and about 500 meters.
Siege Ladder: Different from the simple ladder, it is used as the simplest siege weapon. The siege ladder is taller and stronger, and it transports troops several times more than the simple ladder.
Siege Cone: A siege weapon designed to attack city gates. It weighs 2,000 catties, a person-thick wooden body, and the pointed end of the iron wrap makes the city gate have been reduced to a child's plaything in front of it.
At present, only these three siege weapons have been researched, there is no way, it is too expensive, and these three items cost 100,000 copper. And the cost of each piece is not cheap, the materials needed are not counted, just a siege cone costs 50,000 copper coins, a siege ladder also needs 10,000 copper coins, and a catapult is 20,000 copper coins.
Due to the lack of funds, Xiao Chen had no choice but to give up the catapult army in his heart. I could only secretly hurt myself to build only five catapults, twenty siege ladders, and two siege cones. This cost 400,000 copper plates, and fortunately, the tax was just collected today, which alleviated the problem of the distribution of military salaries.
This afternoon, all the big soldiers finally got their salaries for this month. Then, when they heard that their boss was going to fight Kells City, they were as excited as mainland chickens. He yelled that he was determined to snatch back the daughter-in-law of the King of Kells City and give it to his own boss. The ideal is very beautiful, but the result is often extremely sad.
Just because I don't know who passed this sentence to the two wives, as a result, Xiao Chen just started to speak at the oath meeting. The two female insects suddenly came out of the woods, opened their bloody mouths, bit Xiao Chen's ears and dragged them away. Poor Xiao Chen, screaming for help for a long time, just didn't see his men come down to save himself Xiao Chen was beaten violently, and when he came out, his face was more terrible than the scene of the car accident. Xiao Chen looked at the palace in the distance, and then looked at a small quilt in his arms. Nima, is it easy to work and capitalize? Just because of the words of a little soldier, it has become this bitter appearance. Not only was he beaten, but he was also kicked out of the palace. Moreover, my wife also spoke: I can only sleep at the gate of the palace tonight, and I am not allowed to go, and I am not allowed to enter the palace, otherwise I will directly break my three legs.
Looking at the ten-meter-high palace wall, Xiao Chen found a corner helplessly, spread the quilt in his arms, and then sat there with a tear, two tears, and three tears This Nima is a palace of labor and management. Why is it like this?
Without Xiao Chen's speech at the oath meeting, under the leadership of Wang Ping and Luo Cheng, a group of big-headed soldiers who had just been paid their salaries were still walking towards Kells City with high spirits. Dragging heavy siege weapons, carrying the Changge in his hand, and then holding the big flag, singing the peasants turning over and singing, the military spirit is usable, and the morale is high! ……
Along the way, the big guy had nothing to do and chatted for a while, and then ran out of the team to pee and take pictures of his hairstyle. The army of five thousand walked leisurely. Suddenly, on the horizon in the distance, a black shadow appeared: "Enemy attack!" All the troops are in formation! With Wang Ping's loud roar, more than 1,500 sword and shield soldiers quickly formed a human wall. Then, Changge soldiers quickly interspersed and stood behind the sword and shield soldiers. The archers immediately went to lower their bows, hung their bowstrings, and at the same time took out several arrows from their quivers and plunged them into the ground in front of them. The five catapults in the last row were also quickly assembled by the relevant technical arms, revealing their domineering and arrogant figures.
A body five meters tall and more than six meters long, resolutely appeared in the open land. Pieces of polished stones weighing twenty or thirty pounds were neatly placed on the right side of the catapult, and more than 50 people stayed near the catapult, ready to attack at any time. The cavalry ranks, flanked by the formation, were also ready to charge.
As time passed, the distance between the two armies grew. The black shadow on the horizon gradually revealed its figure, and about three thousand soldiers, lined up in a five-fold army formation, continued to slowly advance towards the army formation of the soldiers of Donglin City. The cavalry unit quickly sent a small group of light horsemen and ran towards the enemy formation, and after that, it did not take long to return.
"General Qiyu, the enemy's military strength has been clearly investigated by our reconnaissance cavalry, and the enemy army is about 3,400 people. Among them, there were more than 500 sword and shield soldiers, more than 2,000 spearmen, more than 500 archers, and 300 heavy cavalry. There were five main enemy generals. A soldier with an arrow on his back quickly reported the military situation to Wang Ping, and then hurriedly left to return to the team.
Listening to the military intelligence report, Wang Ping didn't care about the enemy's 3,000-strong infantry. But the enemy's 300 heavy cavalry is a bit weak, and when there are no hoplites now, what can resist the 300 heavy cavalry. You must know that heavy cavalry is the most powerful weapon of war in the era of cold weapons, no wonder the enemy commander dares to fight his own army of 5,000 with 3,000 men and horses.
As soon as the distance of 500 paces was reached, Wang Ping immediately ordered his catapults to attack. You can't just stop fighting just because the other party has 300 heavy horses, in that case, your boss won't sell himself to the kiln as a duck.
Two hundred and fifty technicians, after receiving the order, hurriedly lifted the boulder. Then, more than 40 people pulled the lever down, and the boulder was quickly placed in the basket at one end of the lever. Immediately after that, more than 50 people let go of the hand pulling the lever, and then the boulder "swished" through the air, bringing a screaming sound. Then, the boulder was smashed close to the enemy's phalanx, and in an instant, five boulders fell from the sky and fell fiercely into the military column.
Twenty or thirty pounds of stones are thrown into the air, and then the inertia and the accelerated gravity of the free fall are used, and the damage intensity is very large. At least, an enemy soldier who was hit by a stone saw a dark shadow coming down from the sky, and before he could see what it was, he was directly smashed into flesh, without even screaming.
The moment the stone hit the ground, the whole thing shattered in half. Immediately after, the broken stone directly pierced the bodies of the two soldiers around them, and even one of them burst into two halves in an instant. The pain of the wound made the seriously wounded wail worse than the other.
In fact, catapults do not deal very much damage when they are unable to form a swarm attack. Its greatest influence is to inflict unimaginable wounds on the enemy and to use the miserable condition of the wounded soldiers to break the morale of the enemy army.
The impact of catapults was enormous, at least in Europe, and the Italian soldiers, who had seen catapults and wars, were very disgusted by this artillery-like thing. Because the casualty effect it caused was so disgusting that it was directly hit and it was not even allowed to wail before death. Those who were not directly stoned to death were even more mixed, holding stumps and broken arms, and could only wait for death to come.
Or they can pray to the crucified God in their hearts that the boulder fired by the catapult will not hit their heads.
Catapults continue to be launched, and the morale of the soldiers in Kells is being broken step by step. There was no way, the city lord of Kells City, Ender, had no choice but to send his most precious heavy cavalry to charge into battle, striving to quickly tear apart the opponent's army formation and destroy the opponent's last row of catapults. Because, if you can't destroy those monsters that can throw stones, then you will definitely lose today, and even if you ride hard, you can't bear the other party's sea of people.
The heavy cavalry, who received the order to attack, suddenly issued excitedly one by one*. Wielding the giant sword in his hand, the big axe or other strange weapons, wearing double armor, riding armored war horses, lined up with a straggler line, and rushed towards Wang Ping's military formation with a honeycomb roar along the way.
Wang Ping was speechless, really speechless, after the enemy's heavy cavalry rushed into his field of vision. Wang Ping felt that his young and innocent heart had been deceived, and this Nima's could also be called a heavy cavalry? With only one iron armor and one leather armor, and riding a war horse with layers of cloth, when did he become a heavy cavalry? And why don't the heavy cavalry charge in a cone formation, what can the charge of such a skirmish line be used for?
"The sword and shield soldiers and Changge soldiers are lined up in military formation, and they are not allowed to take a step back without an order! Retreat from the latter, and there is no mercy for killing! Archers, release the arrows! After seeing the so-called fake heavy cavalry of the enemy, Wang Ping decisively ordered the archers to release their arrows. Just those two layers of armor, it is strange to block the bow and arrow within 80 meters.
As an ancient civilization, China's development of cold weapons is at the top of the world, especially the development of bows and arrows. With the mining of iron ore in large quantities, a large number of iron armor appeared in the Chinese army. In this case, the bow and arrow became more and more powerful. It can be said that the Chinese bow and arrow can definitely penetrate iron armor within its own range. As for range, it refers to the range that can deal great damage to the enemy. Although it is said that it does not cause much damage to the enemy beyond the range, it does not mean that the bow and arrow only have a little range.
The effective range of the wooden bow is eighty paces, that is, it can inflict maximum casualties on the enemy within eighty paces. Beyond eighty steps, the power will be reduced a lot, but its actual range can also reach one hundred and fifty steps, and it can't kill anyone even if it shoots there. The birch bow has a range of one hundred and eighty paces, because its bow material allows it to exert its maximum ability, and it can penetrate any armor within a range of one hundred and eighty steps.
The first to attack the enemy heavy cavalry were 500 archers armed with birch bows, and a rain of arrows quickly fell on the heads of the heavy cavalry. As a unique aristocratic heavy horse in the West, their armor is just an ordinary armor, just one more set, weighing about twenty or thirty pounds. In terms of defensive power, it is far inferior to the protective ability of ancient China's heavy cavalry armor, and you must know that the weight of China's heavy cavalry armor is at least 50 catties, and it is also a fully protected armor.
Genghis Khan's light cavalry used a cavalry bow that was much worse than the foot bow, and it could complete the heavy riding of the Western aristocracy. So now, the step bow in Wang Ping's hand has dealt a serious blow to this impostor.
More than 500 arrows, with a whistling sound, fell into the group of heavy cavalry. The two-tiered armor could not withstand the arrows fired by the birch bow, and the arrows, with the inertia of falling from the sky, pierced through the outer iron armor of the heavy cavalry. Then, he cut through the inner layer of leather armor and drilled into the *.
Suddenly, a gap appeared in the pseudo-heavy cavalry troops that were originally surging into the stream. The death of dozens of people has already caused a lot of casualties to this heavy cavalry unit. But as a great warrior of the Roman Empire, as a group of nobles, it is the spirit of true knighthood to go forward bravely in the face of powerful demons.
So, after continuing to enjoy two rounds of birch bow shooting, more than a thousand arrows rained down. At this moment, such a group of aristocratic lords can't bear it, and it is everyone's common responsibility to destroy the demons, and it is also my responsibility, but today my daughter-in-law is in labor, and I have to go back quickly, so let you become heroes instead of me.
As a result, this group of stupid hat-like fake heavy riders didn't even touch Wang Ping's military array, so they left more than 200 corpses and fled in a hurry. The heavy cavalry charge with a tiger's head and tiger tail has become a topic of idle conversation among the big soldiers in the army.
Although the enemy's heavy cavalry retreated, their infantry was still advancing, and Wang Ping really didn't know what the commander on the opposite side thought. The trump card in his hand has been crippled, and he still dares to rush forward, which is really tired and crooked. Actually, how did Wang Ping know what Ande thought.
Ander just wants to cry now, Nima, the three hundred heavy horsemen that labor and management have managed to pile up, have been wiped out by two-thirds without spending a single soldier. God, you deserve to be fucking crucified there, the infidels are in front of you, and you don't care about your children.
As for now, how to withdraw? There is only a distance of 200 paces between the two armies, and you can see the small faces of the soldiers on the opposite side, how can you withdraw in this case. Once you retreat, you may directly form a rout.
The Italian army, which is really not very good, came out and was arrogant for a while in the Roman era, and has been the existence of the Noodle Army since then. Now he still wears the hat of the Noodle Army.
Ender's troops, on their way, were furiously subjected to the ravages of catapults. The five-hundred-meter road has greatly reduced the morale of your noodle army, and although it has not yet collapsed, it really does not have any combat ability. However, the two armies still faced each other, and they were unhappy not to fight, so they fought each other in close quarters, fortunately, all European players inherited the great Macedonian phalanx and the Swiss infantry phalanx, which were powerful phalanxes. In front of the seven-meter-long Macedonian phalanx spear, Donglin City's Changge was a little insufficient, because Changge was only less than six meters long, which was a bit unadvantageous.
Under the stabbing of the two sides' extra-long weapons, neither side took much advantage. The lances of the Italians were very long, but their shields were not as large as those of the soldiers of Donglin City, although the front row of Donglin City suffered a lot of casualties. But the 1,500 archers made the soldiers behind the Macedonian phalanx miserable.
If it weren't for the fact that the phalanx also brought a lot of casualties to the soldiers of Donglin City, and caused Ande's army to recover a little bit of morale, this battle would have ended long ago. However, Wang Ping knew that it would soon be over, because Wang Ping discovered a weakness in this phalanx.
The enemy phalanx was certainly powerful, but the shields in the hands of the soldiers in the front row were not the oversized infantry shields of the Chinese style, they made it only a single shield. Because of the small size of their shields, their feet are all exposed. If it's a spearman, you probably won't care about this, but you're a Changge soldier. You must know that Changge's weapon is cut except for thorns. The benefits of dealing with this phalanx could not be more obvious. Hahahaha, the battle after that became that simple