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Chapter 29 Different Ordnance

?Yuwen Wen made a bet with Xu Shao, the son of the governor of Yuezhou, outside Shili Pavilion, and later went to Xiaochang City, Yuezhou Prefecture. He stayed overnight and set off the next day and returned to Anlu at noon.

After returning home after Fengchen, Yuwen Wen found that the atmosphere in the mansion was a bit strange. The servants were frightened as if they had seen a ghost when they saw him. Li Sanjiu, who was now the housekeeper, and his right-hand assistant Lin Youdi and other four abacus beads were all looking at him with admiration. The actress Liu Caiyun shook her eyes gloatingly, and her husband Zhang Dingfa, the leader of the guard guard, gave him a thumbs up in private.

His wife Yuchi Chifan kept staring at him blankly, her eyes slightly red and tears rolling, and she looked like she wanted to cry but couldn't help but not cry. Yuwen Wen took a bath and changed clothes in a hurry. As soon as he finished taking lunch, his wife was pulled into the room. When the door was closed, the servants scattered like birds and beasts.

Yuwen Wen was overjoyed and prepared to "start the machine online" to do a big fight, but he never expected that he would have a shot from the back.

The pig teammate was Yuchi Chifan. He opened her cherry mouth and bit her husband's arm hard. The severe pain made Yuwen Wen take a breath, but he could only bear it. The one who bites him now is his beloved wife, he can't kick it away.

Yuchi Chifan bit his arm and did not let go, and then his shoulders twitched and cried. The big drops of tears wet his sleeves. Yuwen Wen was panicked when he saw this and hurriedly held his wife in his arms to comfort her. She was already crying and just kept hitting her husband's chest with her pink fists.

Monk Yuwen Wen was confused and recalled the expressions of everyone in the mansion just now, and suddenly realized: the soul is faint, and someone has leaked the news!

After successfully attacking Huangcheng that day, Yuwen Wen 'taken' the task despite his father's opposition. The next day he went to Luguan City, Beijiangzhou Prefecture, north of Huangcheng to brush the copy of "Getting Tiger's Son". He was ready to seize the power without any danger. Afterwards, he ordered his follower Yuwen Shiwu to keep the secret and not let his wife know.

I dare to betray me if I die! I want you to live, but not to die!

Even though he is full of anger, the most urgent task is to coax his wife. He has made countless mistakes and stop crying. He heard Yuchi Chifan sobbing and said that the whole story was indeed the news that he had "entered into the tiger's den". It was just that his brother Yu Wenming told his wife Li to tell him, and it was his father's source.

"You promised me to take care of myself! Why, why... What if you have a few things to do if you ask me to do it!"

"I won't dare to do it next time."

"You lied to me!"

"Listen to me, this stage is the rising period of my career..." Yuwen Wen couldn't help but play with memes.

She was almost talking about how to do it and finally stopped coaxing her. The couple talked about the things they had experienced in the past few days. When she heard Yuwen Wen say that the "big adventure" of taking Huangcheng and Luguancheng, she almost burst into tears.

The atmosphere gradually became ambiguous as he kissed his wife's hands and became restless. Yuchi Chifan was weak and struggling and said, "Erlang is still in the day now, so he can't make a speech in the day... um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um

Yuwen Wen, who was bitten with evil spirits, forced himself to unlock the "new posture" and consolidate it repeatedly. The couple struggled for a long time before they calmed down. Even the maid Cuiyun was sending her to the room with a red face.

At night, Yuwen Wen was lying on the desk wearing clothes and drawing things on white paper with the lights. Yuchi Chifan hugged her husband from behind, leaning on her husband's shoulder and looking at the strange figure in front of him curiously.

“What are these?”

"Hmph, the eight ox power's drag-type three bows combined with one winch crossbow!"

"Where...what is that?"

"A long range gravity projectile cannon across the ages!"

Early the next morning, Yuwen Wen got up and covered his wife's long legs. After washing, he rushed to the General Administration Office with a sketch. Chief Supervisor Du Shijun sent someone to follow Yuwen Wen to the Anzhou Military Weapon Supervisor to summon craftsmen and start to make trouble according to his request.

What he wanted to make was an instrument that had not yet appeared in this era, but the manufacturing process was no different. The so-called principle was that a piece of window paper would be broken at a little bit. As long as the craftsmen had seen the real thing carefully analyzed it, they could draw a picture.

It’s still the old method. First, make a small scale model to give the craftsmen a perceptual understanding, become familiar with the basic structure and then enlarge it. As for how to do a full-size physical object, these skilled craftsmen have a headache.

For the sake of confidentiality, Yuwen Wen selected two groups of capable craftsmen and asked the Chief Supervisor Du Shijun to ask for an idle barracks in a remote area outside the city. Then, he moved all the people and things to the barracks with materials and tools. There were soldiers outside to guard them and not let idle people approach them.

The craftsman can go home to rest every night, but he cannot take things out of the barracks. He even slapped the fat man and gave each craftsman half a day to make "overtime pay", and used both soft and hard words:

"If someone asks you what you are doing, tell him it is a powerful magical artifact."

"How powerful is it? It's tens of miles in one shot, and the landslides and the earth is broken!"

"Too exaggerated? No, no, I just have to say that. Remember to say that, say important things three times!"

"If anyone dares to talk nonsense, I will send a strong man to his family to greet his wife!"

In ancient times, many armed forces liked to exaggerate the power of many armed forces. For example, the literati praised artillery in the late Ming Dynasty, which was really outrageous. Yuwen Wen believed that confidentiality measures were not as good as being loose. If someone asked, just add fuel to the fire and blow it into the sky, so that others would not believe it.

The more you cover others, the more interested you are. Instead, you are open and honest, and then nine out of the ten sentences are fake. This can effectively hide the real information. As for the appearance, it is better to keep it as confidential as possible. It will be too late to wait until the enemy first sees the true face.

It took two days to make the small-scale technical verification model of the "Eight Niu Powers: Drag-type Three Bows in One Winch Crossbow" and "Span-Era Long Range Gravity-type Propeller" finally turned into a real thing and appeared in front of Yuwen Wenhe Craftsmen.

"Very good, thank you for your hard work, let's zoom in on it like this." Yuwen Wen roughly described the size of the real thing to the two groups of craftsmen. Seeing everyone nodding, he clapped his hands and asked Lin Youdi to bring a plate of copper coins.

"One person and half a day, I'll give this public some care. It's still the same rule. If someone leaks the news..."

"The county lord sent a strong man to greet his family's family!" The craftsmen shouted in unison.

Yuwen Wen nodded with satisfaction and asked the craftsmen who were smiling and started work with the money, and asked the two leading craftsmen to come over:

"There are two drawings here. The old rules are the ones. Let's make the model according to the drawings."

Two leading craftsmen took the drawings and looked carefully. After working together over the past few days, they adapted to the painting style of Xiyang County Duke. After reading it, they almost realized in their hearts: "My County Duke, I don't know what these two things are called?"

"The extreme western Roman twisting power straight aiming crossbow cannon."

"Brown's exercise medicine spurts monkeys."

As a fan of the puppet army, Yuwen Wen has always had a bad interest in naming weapons. It is impossible for anyone to understand what he is talking about in this era.

The "Eight Niu Power's Drag-type Three-Bow Combined One Winch Crossbow" is the three-Bow Bed Crossbow in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is also known as the "Eight Niu Crossbow" that once relied on "faith" to hit the Liao army's chief general Xiao Talin in the Battle of Tanyuan.

"Long-range gravity-propelled cannon across the ages" is a powerful gravity-drawing car that launched a powerful gravity-drawing car for the Yuan army to break through Xiangyang in the late Southern Song Dynasty, also known as the "Huihui cannon". These two weapons have appeared on ancient battlefields. In principle, it is very simple to make the production process much easier than artillery. Yuwen Wen just wanted it to be released in advance.

As for the two that come later, I don’t know whether they will succeed, so let the craftsmen try to persuade them.

I spent money!

"Mr. Lang, if you spend so much money like water, Sister Liu will curse people." Lin Youdi looked at Yuwen Wen with a sad face. After coming to Anlu, Liu Caiyun was responsible for "creating income". He finally used "lilac beads" to subsidize the household income from the rich man. Now, it is really distressing for the Lord.

Yuwen Wen patted his shoulder and said that he would say he didn't have to worry after he went back, but his heart was bleeding:

If you don’t spend money to buy plug-ins, how can you challenge the big boss Yang Jian?

The family is on track, and his wife Yuchi Chifan is in charge of the housework in an orderly manner. Li Sanjiu is the housekeeper and servant. Liu Caiyun is the co-founder of the small workshops. He is responsible for the "counterfeit and shoddy" to generate income. Zhang Dingfa is the head of the hospital guard, and Lin Youdi is the "experimental supervisor". He can only prepare for the battle desperately.

‘The powerful elephant trial-making a pneumatic continuous bead gun in two years’ has made some progress under Lin Youdi’s persistent experiment. This thing can kill rats within ten meters, but it is still far from being used to defend itself.

With a wife as a strong backing, Yuwen Wen ran to the barracks outside the city every day, and mingled with the craftsmen to make trouble with the "plug-ins". In the blink of an eye, it was late May.

In the morning, the Anzhou general manager Yuwen Liang and his two sons appeared in a special barracks outside the city.

"Is this the eight, three-bow, and other crossbow?" Yu Wenliang touched his beard under his jaw and looked at a strange giant crossbow in front of him. The crossbow bed was equipped with three large bows, the first two were installed along the way, the next one was installed in the reverse, the winding mechanism was a winch on both sides, and the crossbow bed was equipped with two wheels that seemed to be dragged by a horse.

"It's the three-bow crossbow." After Yu Wenwen added, he waved his hand. The soldiers standing next to the three-bow crossbow began to work. Sixteen people divided into two groups to pull the left and right winches to string the giant crossbow. The tense creaking sound of the bow string made people furrow all over their bodies.

After the winding, a soldier walked over with a huge long arrow. Looking at the long arrow, Yu Wenliang's hand touching the beard under the jaw, he couldn't help but stop:

Iron arrows, wooden shafts, iron feathers, tails, these are not arrows, they are clearly giant arrows like spears!

The long arrow was put on the tar, and a strong soldier came to the side of the three-bow bed with a wooden hammer. After Yuwen signaled, he suddenly waved the hammer and smashed it down at the trigger. The long arrow flew out and pierced on the soil wall in the distance.

Yuwen Liang and Yu Wenming were stunned when they looked at the arrow on the earth wall in the distance. It took them a long time to remember how far they were.

"About four hundred steps, six hundred meters." Yu Wenwen had already tested the shots many times before, and he had a clear idea. "If you improve it, you can take at least six hundred steps."

"..." The father and son didn't know what to say. If this thing hit someone...

"And this." Yuwen Wen decided to strike while the iron was hot and took his father and brother to the other side. There was a huge device there. Yuwen Liang led his troops for many years, but he could tell at a glance that this thing looked very similar to a catapult.

However, the catapults used for siege are pulled by manpower, and there are many long hemp ropes tied to the lower end of the cannon rod for people to pull, but now there is a huge wooden box hanging at the bottom of the cannon rod of the much larger catapult in front of you.

Also, this catapult cart is too big! The height of the bracket alone is less than eight meters, and there is also the stone that is about to be thrown... Did the stone be mistaken?

Yuwen Liang was stunned at the stone that had already been put into the cannon's tip. The stone looked like it was fifty or sixty pounds, but he had never heard of any catapult cart that could throw such a heavy thing.

"Start the cannon!" With Yuwen Wen's order, the operator pulled down the mechanism and then the wooden box at the bottom of the cannon rod sank suddenly. The wooden frame made a creaking sound. At the same time, the thick cannon rod suddenly swung the big rock in the cloth bag and threw out the big rock.

With a "bang", a burst of dust sparked on the flat ground in the distance. It was the smoke effect caused by a big rock hitting the ground. Yu Wenliang and Yu Wenming were stunned when they looked at the rising dust.

“How far is it?”

"It's nearly two hundred steps, that's about three hundred meters."

“…How heavy is it?”

"Sixty pounds."

The father and son took a breath of air. Yu Wenming was fine, but he was simply frightened by the operation of this huge machine. As a veteran who has been through a long battle formation, Yu Wen Liang knew what this thing meant.

Two hundred steps means that you can throw stones outside the range of most archers guarding the city; sixty kilograms, which one can bear the ordinary city wall if you smash it like this!

"Father!" Yuwen Wen looked at Yuwen Liang solemnly and said, "These two types of equipment are familiar with craftsmen. Larger ones can be made, and it is no problem to make a large amount of them."

"Make a lot!" Yu Wenliang almost pulled off his beard, and he couldn't help but murmured: "Big, more... If you keep smashing it day and night, even the walls of Chang'an City can't hold it for long!"

Yu Wenming also came to his senses. Although he didn't lead troops to fight, he could see through a little bit: "What... this is the best way to attack the city, but those three crossbows were too long to be in the strings, so it would be difficult to use in field battles."

Even if the archers with fast firing speed, the opponent's cavalry rushed in front of him when the two armies fought, and the first shot of this giant crossbow was useful. If you think about the second shot of the string, you may be afraid that the opponent's cavalry had already rushed in front of him. Of course, it is a powerful tool to defend the city.

"The method of fast winding has a countermeasure. My son has never led his troops, but he also has some ideas."

Yuwen Wen told his thoughts. Now the cavalry is king on the battlefield, and thousands of cavalry attacks are unstoppable. However, all kinds of raids, ambush, encounters, and siege battles were eliminated. When the main forces of the two armies launched a decisive battle, they basically had the infantry formation centered as the core and the cavalry flanked by flanks.

Under the cover of archers, infantry on both sides fought head-on with the enemy. The cavalry protected the flank reserve troops and stood on standby. After using various tactical means to make the opponent unstable formation or the morale of the army was disintegrated, the cavalry surrounded both sides of the enemy and caused the opponent to collapse.

The biggest gain of cavalry combat is not before the battle, but the big chase after the opponent's defeat. The infantry formation in the middle is like an anvil, and the cavalry on both sides are like an iron hammer. As long as the anvil can withstand the opponent's main force, the cavalry will be defeated by a sudden attack from both sides.

Yuwen Liang agreed with Yuwen Wen's opinion. If there is no coach who will use cavalry to attack head-on with his cavalry while the opponent's infantry is in a strict defense, it will be a death sentence.

The reason why famous generals are famous generals is that they can capture fleeting fighter jets on the ever-changing battlefield, and use their elite cavalry to suddenly penetrate the opponent's weakness and cause the opponent to collapse in a series of collapses. But what does this have to do with the three-bow bed crossbow?

"The war is about to begin. When the main forces of the two armies set up a large formation to attack, the opponent may not have seen the power of these three bows and crossbows." Yuwen Wen's eyes flashed, "Infantry formation to protect the giant crossbow, and when the opponent's infantry formation to approach, they will use giant crossbows to shoot. How should my father respond if he is the enemy's chief general?"

"The archers cannot reach it, the infantry advances too slowly, and the cavalry cannot rush to our infantry. Will we advance, retreat, or change the formation at that time?"

"Since ancient times, the most difficult enemy to retreat, and it is very difficult for people to change formations before the battle. If soldiers are driven to advance with long arrows and blood, they may be depressed or even mutiny."

"If the imperial court sends Wu'an Jun, Huaiyin Hou, Guanjun Hou, Wuxiang Hou and other sons to lead soldiers this time, they have nothing to say and can only surrender."

Yu Wenliang thought about his son's words and his eyes lit up. Yu Wenming was eager to try. Yu Wenwen continued to strike while the iron was hot: "There are two things here..."
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