Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

5. Artifact Playing Songs

Soma doesn't know what to say now.

The military structure of Xifan here is a ruling state under Yunling Dalunqiuzhai. There is a "50,000 households in Tongqiao" under it. In fact, it can send more than 10,000 troops, and more than 50 forts around Taideng City were laid out, which is both farming and fighting.

In addition, there were two independent garrison teams, namely the Huichuan defense envoy Lun Qiran and the Shenchuan governor, Xinuolu. They each had more than 3,000 troops, but they were stationed in Huichuan and Shenchuan, and intertwined with the Nanzhao forces.

The "reinforcements" that were highly anticipated by Qizangzang must come from the South Road and Qinghai Road. The southern road of Mangre has five Delun areas, namely Nangong, Saigong, Songzhou, Lacheng and Guhong. Among them, Nangong, Saigong and Lacheng are all adjacent to the Zhuzhou. Therefore, Qizangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangzangz

"Soma, I will leave you the task of requesting reinforcements without delay."

After receiving the order from the young master, Soma could only ride a war horse without hesitation, worrying, repeatedly reminding the young master several words, then put on armor, put on his snails, and with two other bird envoys, carrying the urgent letter of silver falcons, and issued a report to climb Liuqiang Town, northwest of the city, and wade through the steep and high mountains of Saigon River, and then rushed to the Saigon Delun station in Xifan for no life.

Almost at the same time, Wei Gao and Gao Yue gathered the soldiers of the three armies under the city of Liwu and began to speak martial arts before the war.

Now Gao Yue selected soldiers from Dingwu Army and Yining Army, and built large-scale light and heavy guns, divine thunder rockets and shield chariots to "Five Mountain Battalions", renamed them to "Five Artifacts Battalions", allowing Guo Zaizhen and Su Pu to be the chief and deputy soldiers and horse envoys, with a staffing of 4,000, of which three battalions were "Che Gun Battalions" and the other second battalions were "Feishan Cannon Battalions".

Wei Gao personally watched how the soldiers of the Chezun Camp practiced firearm formation shooting:

In the open space of Hanyuan Field, about 300 soldiers from the chariot and gun camp were wrapped in red headscarves and covered with cotton clothes in five rows of armored soldiers. There were several flags and flags at the front of each, and there were drummers and gongs behind them.

40% of the soldiers held "handle guns". This handle gun was greatly improved compared to the previous fire-burning tube. It was used to fire lead balls and was no longer straight, but consisted of three parts: the front bore, the medicine chamber and the tail pill. The front bore is a copper tube with a thin thickness without a hoop. The medicine chamber is back. Because it has to withstand the pressure of the divine thunder gunpowder when it is burned, it slightly raised and the inner wall is thickened to prevent explosion. The tail pill is a hole in the rear, used to fill the wooden handle and leak residual gunpowder gas.

The other 60% of the soldiers held the same improved "Divine Thunder Rocket" and cast it into a three-foot-long copper tube with fine copper. Three or five short arrowheads were inserted in front and tied with gunpowder bags. A fire door was chiseled behind them and dragged out the twist. Once ignited, several arrowheads shot out at the same time, like fire snakes, which could fly two hundred steps away. Whether it was to kill and injure the enemy's baggage camps and forts, it was very convenient.

Wei Gao saw that the equipment carried by this group of soldiers holding firearms was different from others. In addition to the same size spoon (for convenient installation of gunpowder), there was also a string of basswood horses, which were used to pound the gunpowder and then block the tail spoil, so that the projectiles and rockets could fire with all their strength forward.

At this time, the heads of the banner waved their small flags, "One gun, two twisted threads, three loads of medicine!" Only then did the group of soldiers shouting, and then began to operate according to the song.

After a while, the heads of the banner waved the small flag again, "Four horses, five throws to the son, six hits three hammers", and the soldiers shouted again, using the Trojan horses to pound the medicine room, and the sound continued.

Next, the head of the pagoda pointed the tip of the small flag in front, "Seven arrows (balls), eight line guns!" Seeing that the soldiers placed the arrowhead and lead balls in the copper gun, they raised them together to follow the direction pointed by the small flag of the pagoda.

At this time, the sound of the bronze horn sounded, "Jiuting horn whimper!"

Then the clamor stopped, and the cymbals suddenly rang, and all the medicine twists were lit, and then the thunder sounded loudly. The lead balls and divine thunder arrows were shot forward in a dense manner while the violent smoke rose, hitting the wooden targets on the soil piles in a mess. There were several gongs, "Come back!" The soldiers in the front row collected all the copper guns and retreated neatly.

Wei Gao was still not satisfied and was very interested in the song of shooting guns, so he asked his subordinates to write down immediately, saying that he would also teach firearm gunmen in Xichuan, and then asked Gao Yue to ask his car gunmen to demonstrate the tactics of multi-row round shooting, which made the entire Hanyuan Field sound like a firearm.

"Where are the cannons that siege the city?"

"It is cast on site in Liwu City, weighing ten stones. It can launch the Dashiwan. It is an excellent weapon to attack and climb the city." Gao Yue was very confident.

Under the city of Liwu and in front of the Dadu River, many copper, iron, charcoal, livestock and beasts sat on the big-skinned rafts, gathered from the various waterways of Dongchuan, Xichuan and Xingyuan. Several huge earth platforms were erected under the city, igniting fire inside, and constantly spraying out thick smoke. Many craftsmen and slaves surrounded them, bare feet and backbone, creating the "excellent weapon" in Gao Yue's mouth day and night.

At the same time, Wei Gao would not wait for "everything is ready", he sent the order:

During the period, Xie Facheng, the envoy of the Dongchuan army, led 10,000 troops out of Dingfan City Road, reached Wangxing City, and attacked the Beigu of Taideng City;

Xu Ji, the general manager of the three divisions of the West and East Manchus, supervised two forests, and the Fengpa barbarians were 6,000. They crossed the Dadu River and attacked Saigongchuan and Liuqiang Town, blocking the reinforcements paths of Xifan South Road to Taichung City;

East, Liu Chaocai, the commander of Liwu City, commanded three thousand powerful crossbowmen in Xichuan, cooperated with three thousand Deng's barbarians to leave Qingxi Road, and attacked and occupied the road leading to Sanfu City (the old dynasty area).

The fierce battle began, surrounding Wangxing City, Qingxi Pass, and Papaya Ridge. Every day and night, the Tang army attacked and removed the fortresses set up by Xifan at the fortresses or in the frontier or deep in the future. Small-scale and cruel battles continued.

As we stepped onto the city, we kept adjusting our own deployment based on the frontline information.

But he never refused to take the main force to fight because he knew very well that what the Tang army pushed up now was either the guest army with weak combat power or the Yi Cong of the Eastern Barbarians. The other party's most powerful military force, Fengyi, Dingwu and Yining, were always ready to wait at Liwu City. Wei Gao and Gao Yue were tightly held in their hands, like sharp arrows pulled on the bowstring, which would not be triggered until the critical moment.

The biggest lesson of his father's defeat in Huating was that he did not expect Gao Yue to suddenly lead more and stronger teams to the battlefield, and took advantage of the moment when the power comparison on the battlefield was reversed, and he launched a decisive raid, which made his father Shang Jiezan lose his reputation in a miserable defeat.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next