Chapter 46: The Four Elephant Arrays
Che said that the merchant army was stationed under the city of Renfang Yi, and the two armies always lost more than they won in successive days. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info There's no way around it, where is the strength of the generals. When he went out on the expedition, Di Yi didn't send him a few capable generals, just some ordinary people in the military camp who climbed up by their qualifications, and it was okay to bring soldiers in normal times, where did they go on the battlefield with real swords and guns?
Lin Xing didn't pay attention to these things, anyway, they all fought according to the routine, and if they lost, the battle exemption card was hung up, and the enemy didn't rush to the camp anyway, so the two armies were deadlocked.
The human side challenged and insulted repeatedly, but Lin Xing was just addicted to strange and obscene techniques. The generals complained about this, but because of his status as a teacher, he was only angry and didn't dare to speak.
"Come on, come on!" Lin Xing made another small object and beckoned the generals to come and watch it together: "This thing is called a catapult, and it is evolved from a slingshot!"
There was a trace of disdain in the eyes of the generals, they had all seen the slingshot made by Lin Xing, and it could only be used as a child's toy without any lethality, and it was just his child's play to come to this catapult!
"Taishi!" You Hou Xi clenched his fists and said: "The generals of the human side have repeatedly scolded the formation, and our army has not left the camp to meet the enemy for several days, and I am afraid that it will reach the ears of the king, right?"
In the entire military camp, only Marquis Yu dared to talk to Lin Xing like this, and his status as a marquis was not inferior to Taishi.
"Hehe!" Lin Xing smiled disappreliantly: "Scold him, and there will be no loss of meat." ”
"But if it goes on like this, it will affect morale, and now there are rumors in the army that our army is not the enemy of the people, and it will be defeated sooner or later!"
"It's okay!" Lin Xing waved his hand and continued to introduce his invention to everyone. Is it playing scheming? This is all left over from his previous play, how can he be afraid of this? When it comes to playing scheming, to be honest, people in this era are really tender.
"Such a small thing naturally has no lethality, what if it is expanded by a hundred times, a thousand times?" Lin Xing held up the catapult model and looked at the generals with a smile.
The generals' eyes lit up, they had seen the slingshot, and the power was indeed not worth mentioning, but if it was to be expanded by a hundred times and a thousand times, it would really be a big killer.
"And these!" Lin Xing saw that the generals became interested, and took the opportunity to show them the achievements of the past few days.
"These are catapults too?" You Houxi looked at the dozens of models on the shelves and felt a little dizzy, how did this Taishi's brain grow? How could there be so many strange ideas?
Lin Xing shook his head and began to introduce his inventions one by one: "This is a siege vehicle, driven by dozens of people, and the power is enough to break through the enemy's city gate! This is a crossbow, which is dozens of times more powerful than a bow and arrow......
In this era, war technology is too scarce, and Lin Xing casually throws out a weapon that has been eliminated in later generations, which can attract a burst of surprise.
Lin Xing even wanted to invent gunpowder, now that the necessary raw materials such as sulfur charcoal have appeared, the ratio of one nitrate, two carbons and three sulfur can easily prepare unearthed explosives, but thinking that he is still a monk after all, making too many killings is against heaven and I am afraid that it will be detrimental to future cultivation, so I will temporarily dispel this idea.
"These are the power of machinery, not human!" After demonstrating the use of these things, Lin Xing couldn't help but feel a little proud: after thousands of years of precipitation, not to mention anything else, but in terms of war weapons, the creativity of the descendants of China does not have to be inferior to anyone, even if a foreigner's foreign gun is a burning stick without the invention of gunpowder.
If he didn't fight for so many days, it wasn't that he was cowardly, but that one or two pre-battle victories didn't play a big role in the overall situation, and the crusade against the people to break through Yicheng was the key. Lin Xing's plans were very big, and he didn't care about the temporary victory in front of him at all.
With the experience of thousands of years of historical predecessors, it is not a matter of minutes to win in front of the battle: the bow and arrow in front of the road, and the heavy cavalry in the back, these armies that have never seen the market are still swept like autumn wind and falling leaves?
As for fighting alone, this Lin Xing never thought about it. Although this style of play is obscene, the effect is surprisingly good!
The generals were amazed by Lin Xing's inventions, and according to his description, it was not difficult to imagine how much impact these things would have if they were thrown into war. To put it mildly, it could be a one-sided massacre.
While everyone was talking, a guard came to report, saying that Nanbohou E Chongyu sent an elephant team to send military supplies to comfort Wang Shi.
The fiefdom of Nanbohou is far away, and the elephant team is slow, so it is a little late. However, Lin Xing didn't care about these, he didn't listen to how much military food and grass he had, and only noticed what the guards said about the elephant team.
"Is it an elephant?" Lin Xing's voice was surprised with a little eagerness.
"Yes!" The guards didn't know why the Grand Master was so excited when he heard about the elephant, could it be that he was hungry and wanted to eat elephant meat?
"It's still an authentic mammoth!" Youhou Xi was afraid that Lin Xing wouldn't understand, so he came out to explain to him: "Nanbohou's fief is rich in products, and this kind of beast can only be used by him!"
"How many elephants are there?" Lin Xingcai didn't care whether this elephant was exclusive to Nan Bohou or not, he had to listen to his own orders when he came to the two armies: "Leave the elephant for me, go back and tell Nan Bohou that it was requisitioned by the imperial court!"
"Yes!" the guard smiled wryly, this master is notoriously unreasonable, who would dare to object to leaving the elephant team? But what about six or seven hundred elephants, have you finished eating?
"God help me!" Lin Xing looked up to the sky and smiled, he really wanted to come to something, just now he was still thinking about how to reduce the casualties of the soldiers as much as possible during the siege of the city, and this E Chongyu sent the elephant to himself.
Isn't this thing just right to replace a tank? A little armor is a proper meat shield, and a few soldiers on your back are a mobile fortress!
With the siege equipment invented by Lin Xing and the cooperation of the elephant team, as long as there are no tactical mistakes in the middle, it is no longer a big problem to conquer Yicheng, and now we have to consider how to reduce the casualties of soldiers.
It won't hurt his vitality for the sake of just one Yicheng, right? If he really killed a thousand enemies and lost eight hundred, even if he was victorious, Lin Xing's heart would not be too happy.
After some discussion with the generals, someone proposed to combine the hook aid currently used with the ladder truck developed by Lin Xing, which was adopted by Lin Xing and rewarded the person who suggested it.
After receiving the approval of the superiors, everyone's brains were active for a while, and some suggested that the military vehicle and the ballista could be combined to increase the mobility of the ballista! Well, yes, accept!
Some suggest that the ladder truck be used as a lookout to observe the enemy situation from a distance, which is also a good note. Adopt!
After a while, he put forward a lot of suggestions, and some of the ideas were really good, and Lin Xing adopted them. Of course, there are also bad ideas, just like this big brother proposed to use the heavy cavalry to connect with iron cables? Could it be that you are a spy sent by the human side? The chain horse looks very powerful, and if there is a problem, it will affect your companions, don't you know?
Forget it, brother is happy today, don't worry about these things with you, and come up with such a bad idea to tie your hands and feet together first to see if you are uncomfortable.
The next time is to recruit skilled craftsmen from nearby cities to make these equipment in a hurry. There were many kinds of these things designed by Lin Xing, and he required at least five hundred of each of them, except for siege engines and ladder vehicles.
Tens of thousands of soldiers were excluded from collecting raw materials nearby, and the trees with a diameter of more than five inches in the Mengshan Mountains were basically cut down, and the rocks on the mountains that were larger than the size of a fist were collected and transported to the merchant army camp.
After collecting almost everything, Lin Xing found another problem: lack of manpower. According to his assumption, a stone-throwing truck needs at least a dozen people to operate, and at least a dozen people need to guard it next to it to prevent the human army from sneaking up and destroying it, which alone requires more than 20,000 people, and other people like shield cars, heavy trucks, crash cars, and ballistas each need a lot of manpower!
Each elephant team is also equipped with four people, one person drives and three people hold bows and crossbows to shoot, which is nicknamed the Four Elephant Array by Lin Xing.
Lin Xing tasted the sweetness of cavalry charge, so this expedition was equipped with a large number of horses and vehicles, and the infantry was much less, so that now there is a shortage of manpower.