Chapter 140 Ceramic Grenades

The robbers were destroyed so quickly that everyone couldn't believe it, except for the dozen or so people who escaped, when cleaning the battlefield, they found that in addition to the two or three hundred dead and wounded, there were five or six hundred people who surrendered, and most of these people were Han Chinese!

For such a victory, Rowan was not surprised, he felt that with the current combat effectiveness of the Tiger Guard, it would not be a problem for him to be able to deal with three thousand opponents with the number of Wu Bai Tiger Guard, although there would be some damage, but now it is easy to wipe out a thousand cavalry.

The robbers were able to give up resistance so quickly, because the guards used a special weapon, the kind of small ceramic jar that could explode, and the form of the battlefield was completely changed by it, this is a firearm newly developed by Ding Jianpeng, which is completely different from the kind of hand cannon in the Great Song Dynasty, and the power is not the same.

This kind of hand-thrown explosive is the closest weapon to a grenade that Ding Jianpeng can think of, the ceramic tank is filled with nitrifying explosives, and the fuse uses a pull ring, which is a device that uses a rough metal wire to wrap glass powder, yellow phosphorus and gunpowder, as long as the pull ring is pulled through friction, the fuse can be ignited to trigger the explosive explosion!

This kind of clay pot grenade with prefabricated fragments engraved with patterns on the outside cannot be equipped with wooden handles, but the damage caused by the iron filings and broken porcelain fragments of the shell contained inside is also very huge, and at a distance of thirty or forty meters, it is a piece of lethal weapon used by the tiger guards, although they do not need to use ceramic grenades at all this time.

Rowan demanded that the use of ceramic grenades must be carried out at a distance of thirty to forty meters after the opposing cavalry had broken through to the defensive position fifty meters, that is, a distance of thirty paces, and arranged for the crossbow to shoot at the missed point, but the tiger guards actually adopted the method of attacking with ceramic grenades, which was also unexpected by anyone.

And the consumption of this ceramic grenade is not to worry at all! This time, in the caravan of the Taiping Firm, in addition to the Taiping's Black God Crossbow, chain armor, and standard scimitar, there are several big carts of such grenades! This was specially asked by Xiao Ming to be transported by ship from Hangzhou to Weihai, and then sent to Xuzhou.

This time, the weapons and equipment plus the Tiger Guard once arrived in Nanjing, that is, when Xiao Ming was preparing to start a war against Western Xia, although he had not seen the power of ceramic grenades, but judging from the cannonballs made by Ding Jianpeng, nitrification explosives were really a hundred times stronger than black powder!

Luo Wen asked people to clean up the battlefield, and after defeating the captives and handing them over to the Great Song officials who rushed to hear the news, Shi Shiran continued to hurry, the prisoner he had already interrogated, and with a tongue, this was indeed the team sent by the Western Xia State to attack the Song Liao trade, in addition to this robber, there were two smaller gangs.

In addition to a small number of Western Xia people, the gang that cracked down on the Song Liao trade also recruited a lot of Han people, these people are local bandits and robbers, but as the backbone of the personnel is still the remnants of the Ming Sect Duobaoguan, these information Luo Wen has all been sorted out, with his tongue directly to Nanjing, handed over to Xiao Ming to deal with.

At this time, Xiao Ming had an excuse and immediately reported to Emperor Tianzuo, claiming that the Western Xia people had sent a large number of men and horses to infiltrate the Great Song Dynasty Mirror to specifically attack the Song Dynasty caravans engaged in business with the Great Liao, and the war materials we prepared suffered heavy losses, which delayed the time to start the army and attack the Xia, and hoped that Emperor Tianzuo would let him delay the ...... for a while.

After the Tiger Guard arrived in Nanjing, Xiao Ming personally inspected the team of 800 people, and now the Tiger Guard is very different from before, the whole body is wrapped in chain armor, two crossbows per person, the latest improved Black God crossbow and marble crossbow, special standard knife, the only difference is not the tiger head breastplate painted on the chest.

However, they were all covered with white robes, each of which still had a tiger head painted on it, and the helmet had also been improved, with a round shrimp tail helmet at the top of the peak, which protected the neck part, and each person had two straps hanging on his body in a cross way, which was a portable backpack, lead pill bag, water bottle, crossbow arrow hanging bag, dry food bag and other bits and pieces, these were all designed by Rowan, and they are still more practical.

But what Xiao Ming was most interested in was that each of them had those ceramic grenades hanging on their bodies, according to the young tiger guard below: "Master Ding once strictly explained to them, saying that this thing is very dangerous, let us take less, and it will explode in the bump and bump when the time comes!" But it didn't seem to be happening, so they each packed five or six in a bag!

Xiao Ming personally tested and detonated a ceramic grenade, which can be thrown to a distance of thirty or forty steps through his arm, which is not bad, the fireball caused by the explosion is very obvious, and it is accompanied by a large amount of smoke, which can be used to make smoke bombs and gas bombs, if there is magnesium powder, it can also cause flash grenades, which is similar to the CS games that he is used to!

And the power of the explosion is very amazing, the radiation range of the fragments exceeds two hundred steps, and it is really stained with death, touching death! Xiao Ming was very satisfied with this result, and he asked Hu Wei, "Does this thing have a name?" ”

The guard bowed down and replied, "Master Ding said what kind of grenade is this...... Grenade, later renamed: Thunderbolt Hand Cannon! ”

With the addition of the Thunderbolt Hand Cannon and the Tiger Guard, Xiao Ming finally decided to send troops to Western Xia, and the 800 people of the Tiger Guard Battalion were incorporated into the personal guard, and the more than 200 mercenaries formed a team of more than 1,000 people, which was called the Guards Regiment by Xiao Ming, and he would use this team as a special force.

In the third year of the Great Liao National Protection, in August of the fifth year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, the summer heat gradually disappeared, the weather was fine, Xiao Ming, the king of the Southern Courtyard, officially set up an army to attack the summer, Xiao Ming officially raised a total of 30,000 horses, 10,000 cavalry, 10,000 infantry, and 10,000 archers.

The 10,000 cavalry is the Khitan iron cavalry of the Wuhuai battalion, this team is the main force in the last attack on Beijing, which was trained by Xiao Ming's special tactics, Xiao Ming can also rest assured, and the other 10,000 infantry are all Han soldiers, and this team is all pikemen trained by the Alima mercenary group.

The most important thing is that the 10,000 archers, which are all trained by the Tiger Guard, although the shooting accuracy is not up to the requirements, but you are the most disciplined and most obedient to orders, and they also shoulder an important mission, which has been specially designed and trained by Xiao Ming.

A total of 30,000 horses are all elite soldiers, but others don't think so, and they also regard Xiao Ming as child's play if he dares to attack Western Xia with 30,000 horses, Xiao Ming doesn't want to pay attention to these at all, the reason is very simple, he also needs 20,000 auxiliary soldiers to follow, because the main combat force is only 30,000, but the heavy supply is the top priority, and the auxiliary soldiers who transport these materials alone reach 20,000, so Xiao Ming declared to the outside world that there are 50,000 elite soldiers!

However, Emperor Tianzuo was still not very relieved when he heard this, and ordered the Liao State West Liao Jiedu to make the marching commander Yelu Xiaoju Gong, and govern 50,000 elite soldiers in Western Liao to assist Xiao Ming in the summer war, and to tell the truth, even Emperor Tianzuo himself was a little lacking in confidence, but he still attached great importance to it.

He specially made a gold medal to give Xiao Ming, let him raise the emperor's red and yellow banner, as if the emperor personally conquest, for this reason Emperor Tianzuo in Shangjing let the general knowledge of the Hanlin Academy of Yelugu preside over the emperor's personal expedition ceremony for him, after the temple, to the Taizu Temple to worship, set up three gods to worship, one is the first emperor, the second is the road, three said the army. It is necessary to kill the green ox and the white horse and sacrifice the heaven and the earth.

And Xiao Ming also carried out the ritual of sacrificing to the sky, he raised the emperor's red and yellow banner, and began to review the army after the whole body was neatly draped, and then killed a cow, skinned on the big stone out of the city, and carried out the ritual of sacrificing to the sky, the incense case and wine and food could not be removed, and when the war was over, the class returned to the court, and then used the captured horse and cattle to sacrifice heaven and earth here.

Xiao Ming commanded the army to go west out of Hanguguan, enter the Hulunbuir grassland, march all the way to the west, and arrived at Daxing City, an important town in western Liaoning, where they rested and recuperated, and the troops marched very fast, because in addition to the cavalry, the rest of the infantry and sappers also rode horses, while the auxiliaries and baggage supplies were held behind.

Xiao Ming's every march will not drag the baggage troops too far, after reaching a similar distance, they will send people to respond, and then his subordinates reacted that the marching speed was too slow, so Xiao Ming ordered to start buying war horses along the way, and to the state capital along the way to send horses, when arriving at Daxing City, the entire auxiliary army was also full of horses, all goods and materials were transported by war horses, such a speed can be completely consistent with the large army.

This road can be described as full of complaints, complaining are the local state officials, the king of the southern courtyard west to conquer the summer, along the way the government must be supported, who knows that Xiao Ming is also wantonly apportioned, it doesn't matter if there are no horses, you can get gold and silver, so the number of horses in Xiao Ming's army has reached seventy or eighty thousand along the way, and there are tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver.

Xiao Ming convened a meeting of the generals in the big tent of the Chinese army, there are almost no officers in the Southern Courtyard in the Liao army system, Yelu Dashi was left by Xiao Ming in Nanjing Mansion, this western expedition is completely the private army general of his Wugu enemy Lie Command Military Division, among which Yang Qizhong is his vanguard officer, among which the commander of the horse army is the warrior Hanlu of the Wuhuai battalion, the commander of the infantry army Han Lingshou, and the deputy commander Zhao Yanwen, both of whom are people from the two Han families of Han and Zhao in Youzhou, and the two themselves are also from the army.

During the Liaojin period, the six major families of the Han people, including Han, Liu, Ma and Zhao, were prominent for generations, and made their own contributions to the construction and development of the Liaojin regime. Among them, the Zhao family has Zhao Yanshou and Zhao Siwen, and the Han family has Yutian Han and Youzhou Han, and Zhao and Han are also the big buyers of this war debt.

The presidential leader of the archers is Yang Qizhong, and there are two tiger guards as deputy commanders, in addition to an artillery commander Qian Baguang, although Qian Baguang has dozens of people under him, but he is content, and he will say when he meets people: "Don't look at the lack of people, my old Qian is also a big commander!" ”

The commander of Xiao Ming's personal corps is Alima, and he and Luo Wen command the "special forces" of more than 1,000 people together Now these people are all in the big tent of the Chinese army, and the arrangement of troops is not Xiao Ming's strong point, he completely handed it over to Yang Qizhong, and brought everyone to Xiao Ming just got the information and wanted to discuss with everyone.

This information was sent by Yang Qizhong's father Yang Zhen, and the information mentioned in detail to Xiao Ming the situation of the Western Xia army that Xiao Ming is now facing, on the border line, the Western Xia general Helian Tielie led an army of 150,000 to meet the enemy head-on, and sent the left general Li Cunzhong to lead 50,000 light cavalry out of Pingcheng to occupy the security, and the Western Xia army was divided into two wings and attacked Xiao Ming.

And Liaoxi Jiedu made Yelu Xiaoju Yang is marching eastward and wants to join Xiao Ming in Yongning, but this person's action is really unhappy, Xiao Ming considers whether to wait for him, or go to Yongning first, Daxing City is less than one hundred and fifty miles away from Yongning, he wants to listen to everyone's thoughts before making a decision.

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