The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 357 Seven Lives, Seven Deaths, Seven Buddhas

Can the thousand-step giant crossbow hit Fang Qifo's Chinese army banner?The answer is yes, this crossbow can hit that position.

The farthest range of the thousand-step crossbow is more than three miles. The distance in the Song Dynasty was longer than that in later generations, which is about the same as the distance of three and a half miles in later generations.

The southern city of Jiangning is only about three miles away from Fang Qifo’s Central Army. In some novels, it is said that the generals in the city shot at the opponent’s coach with arrows. It was the opponent’s Central Army that pressed them. It may be about one mile away, and a strong bow can hit it, but No matter how strong the bow is, it cannot shoot as far as three miles.

The furthest range of the thousand-step giant crossbow is more than three miles, so can the crossbow in the city shoot this furthest distance?

As long as the bed crossbow is not broken, it will definitely be able to shoot that far, because three miles away is a flat shooting distance, but at this moment, it is shooting from the top of the city to the bottom of the city. From top to bottom, inertia has a bonus.

The thousand-step crossbow was brought by Zhao Tuo from Tokyo. The people in charge of this ballista are the people from the Heavy Crossbow Battalion. The Heavy Crossbow Battalion is also organized by the Imperial Army. Like the Feipao Battalion, it is an infantry unit. In addition, the navy is also an infantry soldier. .

In the past few years, Zhao Tuo has trained the Imperial Army of the Horse Infantry Division. For the Second Battalion of Flying Cannons and Heavy Crossbows, there is only one requirement, to hit the head!
Relatively speaking, the drills of the second battalion are easier. After all, there is no need to charge into battle, nor do you need to be proficient in swords and guns and have the guts to excel. familiar with hands.

After two or three years, the people of these two battalions have been able to achieve quite good results. It is impossible to hit a hundred shots. After all, this is a giant weapon. Sometimes the target is blurred when it is too far away, but the general range is not large. Difference.

At this moment, with the tall commander-in-chief flag of Fang Qifo's Chinese Army as the target, the crossbowmen naturally did not need to shoot blindly, and calibrated the arrow path of the thousand-step crossbow.

Fang Qifo is indeed under the commander-in-chief banner at this moment. He is wearing a sun-watching helmet and a chain armor with gold chains. He has a lightning purple lizard horse on his hip, and he is looking at the battle ahead.

The terrain where Shuai Qi is located is a bit high, which is convenient for him to watch, but after all, the distance is too far, so he can only see vaguely and hear movement.

At this time, his eyes wandered, and he turned from the front to the top of Jiangning city, barely seeing the movement of the figure above.

At a distance of three miles, ordinary people may not even be able to see the human figure in the city. He is highly skilled in martial arts, and his eyes are naturally amazing.

Suddenly, Fang Qifo raised a pair of crouching silkworm eyebrows, his eyes burst into amazing brilliance, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Before the people around him could react, he snorted coldly: "You really are so brave!"

Just look at the whistling of black light in the distance, and there is something shot towards the front in the distance, but I can't see what it is, just looking at the shape, it looks like a spear.

Fang Qifo's complexion changed drastically, but he seemed to be more than ten years old in an instant, and then he suddenly raised his arm, clenched his hands into a fist, and punched Wu Guang who was galloping towards him fiercely.

At this moment, the color of his fist became similar to that of Wu Guang, and his whole face also turned livid and withered, as if he was seriously injured.

Seeing that this punch directly hit Wu Guang's side, and there was a sound of "噗嗤", the distant Wu Guang was punched obliquely and flew out, turning somersaults into the sky, and only then did everyone see clearly , It turned out to be a huge crossbow arrow like an iron spear.

"marshal?"

"Master Zuo Envoy!"

"It doesn't matter!" Fang Qifo waved his hand, and his face returned to his original appearance. He smiled lightly: "I didn't expect that Jiangning City has such a range of crossbow arrows. It's really unexpected."

The generals around him saw that he was fine, and they all praised him, "The Zuoshi's martial arts skills are unrivaled", "The marshal is brave and unparalleled", "The Zuoshi's master is invincible"!
Fang Qifo shook his head and said: "There are people beyond people, and there is heaven beyond the sky. It's nothing to fly a crossbow gun. This thing loses its strength from afar and has lost its indomitable sharpness. You can do it."

All the generals shook their heads one after another. Perhaps as Fang Qifo said, crossbow spears are not as powerful at such a long distance, and they can also be shot into the air, but it must be with weapons, not with... fists!
"Master Zuoshi's Seven Lives and Seven Deaths has been practiced to perfection, even Master Chen's Fanquan is not as good as it!" A general said beside him.

"Although Chen Zongshi's mortal fist is powerful, Master Zuoshi's Seven Lives and Seven Deaths is unique in the world, unparalleled in the world, once this fist is released, there is no other fist in the world!"

"That's right, that's right. The Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Fist is the first punch of my Holy Cult. Even the holy lady said when she came that the Holy Cult has this kind of boxing. I practiced this punch a month ago!"

"Seven Lives and Seven Deaths, if you practice Seven Deaths once, all seven will die, put them to death and then live again, life and death cycle, if you want to practice it, you must go through seven lives and seven deaths. The Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Fist must be a big surprise!"

"Holy aunt..." Fang Qifo showed a lonely look when he heard the words, smiled, sighed and stopped talking.

Zhao Tun was standing at the top of the city at this time, watching the black light of the thousand-step crossbow go away through the sky, he couldn't see what was happening under the commander-in-chief's flag opposite him, but he saw that the crossbow was vaguely shot into the air at the end, and flew out of nowhere, so he He squinted his eyes.

There are two masters in the Fang La camp, Wang Gong Laofo and Chen Kuutong, and several other minor masters, among which Shenlong Nine Changes Chen Fan, Bao Daoyi, and Deng Yuanjue are minor masters.

As for Fang Qifo's martial arts, Liannazha only told him that he couldn't see through it, and that he couldn't see what state this person was in. which level.

Zhao Tang walked between the battlements with his hands behind his back. After a round of crossbow arrows, the attack speed of the opposing army had slowed down, but some crude catapults were pushed over and hurled across the moat to the top of the city.

The catapult is actually a simplified version of the stone cannon. It is easier to manufacture and has average power.

Fang Qifo did not fail to seize stone cannons when he captured Yuezhou and other places, but they were basically broken. Although the Song army defending the city was not good at fighting and had little courage, they did not forget to take the stone cannons when they saw that the city was about to fall. The crossbow carts were all destroyed, and some were even thrown directly from the top of the city to serve as rolling logs. Therefore, although Fang Qifo also seized a lot, most of them were useless, and no one knew how to repair them, so they were demolished in the end. Change to other siege artifacts.

Zhao Tong looked down and saw a bluestone hit, he flicked his sleeve to knock the stone away, then frowned.

There are too many people on the other side. Even though there are arrows and stones flying above the city, and there are moats and trenches below the city, they still come in a steady stream, and even many ladders have been transported over.

There are two types of ladders. One is the same as ordinary ladders. When using it, a deep pit is dug on the ground, the bottom of the ladder is sunk into the pit, and then it is erected towards the top of the city. If the defenders push back, they won't just fall down and kill the soldiers attacking the city above.

There is also a ladder car, which is more complicated. Most of them have wheels on the bottom, which can be pushed and driven. They are equipped with anti-shields, winches, grabbing hooks and other appliances.

According to records, cloud ladders have been around since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but at that time the city was short, and it is estimated that they were ordinary ladders with extended ropes.

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, in order to achieve the goal of dominating the roost, King Hui of Chu ordered the skilled craftsman Gongshupan to improve the ladder, and created the first real ladder in history, which was the ladder cart, and the Gongshupan was Luban.

But now, the ladder car has been improved again. The main ladder is also divided into two sections, and adopts a folding structure, connected by a rotating shaft in the middle. There are also various styles of auxiliary ladders, making the action of climbing the city simpler and faster.

The bottom of the ladder cart has also been changed, designed as a model with shields on all sides, and the outside is reinforced with raw cowhide. When people push the cart in the shed and approach the opposite city wall, it can effectively resist the damage of arrows and artillery stones.

There are two kinds of ladders in Fang Qi Buddha's army, and it seems that there are quite a few of them, so they are making a gesture under the city to set them up.

Zhao Tang glanced at Wang Zhi, shook his head and said, "Give them a hard time, and don't let the ladder get up."

Wang Ting immediately commanded the guarding soldiers to violently knock down wood, stones and other objects. This was not as sparse as before, in order to save utensils, they had to find a good target before throwing them, but they were thrown downwards without any difference like raindrops.

Immediately, the bandit soldiers below were killed and injured, even the ladders were smashed a lot, and the rest of the soldiers could only hide in the shield car or the compartment under the ladders.

A moment later, the gong sounded from the side of the moat, and the soldiers under the city began to retreat. Wang Ting directed a round of arrows to be released, and many more heads were harvested.

The situation on the other three sides of the city is roughly similar, and the siege soldiers are gradually withdrawing. The siege of the city has always been divided into priorities, and it is rare that all four sides are full of violent attacks. Today, the bandit army is obviously using the south city as the main place to attack, but it is obviously in vain again .

Zhao Tang patrolled around the top of the city, turned around and went down the city, went back to the Xuanfu Department to rest for a while, and then went to look for Zhu Xiuniang.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw Zhu Xiuniang sitting beside the couch with a pale face. When he saw him coming in, he stood up and asked, "My lord, what is the other way of saying that the wine and meat of the rich family stinks, and the bones on the road are frozen to death?"

Zhao Tun frowned and said, "Where is there any other explanation?"

Zhu Xiuniang panicked: "My lord, didn't you say you did last time?"

Zhao Tang thought for a while, and said: "Drink too much, the king has already forgotten what I said, but you remember it clearly, Xiu Niang."

Zhu Xiuniang shook her head: "My lord must have other meanings in what I said, and I asked my lord to let the girls go home!"

Zhao Tong said unhappily: "Why do you want to go home again? This will be your home from now on!"

"Ah?! My lord, don't..." Zhu Xiuniang couldn't help but feel dizzy when she heard the words, her footsteps were unsteady, and she almost fell to the ground. She was still holding a fluke in her heart, thinking that Zhao Tun would let her go in a few days, but now she heard the words. Wake up, Zhao Tun has not only taken off the mask of hypocrisy, even the fangs of the tiger and wolf have been exposed, he has no intention of letting himself go at all!

Zhao Tong said: "Why don't you? This king said this is your home, and I will go back to Tokyo with this king in the future. The Qin Palace in Tokyo will be your home in the future!"

Zhu Xiuniang's face became even paler when she heard the words, her eyes sparkled, and she slowly said: "Why did the prince say that? Even if the prince wants to be served by the maid, it must be approved by the daughter's family. As long as the prince speaks, the family will not Oppose, why do you want to imprison the women here, and say you plan to take them back to Beijing?"

Zhao Tang rubbed his chin, looked at Zhu Xiuniang and said: "Xiuniang's words are so unpleasant, where did she come from and be imprisoned here? Why do you say she was kidnapped and returned to Beijing? If you and I become a family, I'm afraid we won't be able to speak like this." ?”

Zhu Xiuniang was shocked when she heard the words, she hurried back a few steps, put her hands on the bed frame beside the couch, and said, "What is the prince going to do? Although the daughters of the people are not from a prominent family, they are always the family of the gentry. Even the common people have parents. The order and the words of the matchmaker, the families of the women will not agree, why did the prince disregard his reputation and insult himself to this point!"

"The gentry's family...disregarding reputation?" Zhao Tang looked at Zhu Xiuniang and shook his head, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Seeing his expression, Zhu Xiuniang suddenly thought of something, and said, "My lord, nothing will happen to the daughter of the people, right?"

Zhao Tong squinted his eyes, and took a few steps forward with his hands behind his back: "How does this king know!"

"No, it's not..." Zhu Xiuniang stared at Zhao Tun's eyes, a little puzzled and terrified, and said, "Why does the prince have such an expression and talk like this? The prince dared not respond to the words of the matchmaker's parents, what did he say?" There are other explanations for the smelly wine and meat of the rich family, my lord...no, nothing will happen to these families in the city, right?"

Zhao Tong looked at her jokingly, and said, "I don't have the ability to predict the future, how could I know this!"

Zhu Xiuniang was in doubt: "The prince is in charge of Jiangning, how could he not know?"

Zhao Tang continued to move forward a few steps, and approached Zhu Xiuniang. Zhu Xiuniang felt his breath was heavy, and couldn't help being confused, but when he stepped back, he was going to fall on the couch, so he had to grab the bed frame and said: "My lord. ..."

Zhao Tong smiled and said: "Once Jiangning falls and the bandits enter the city, not to mention you and other big nobles, I am afraid that even this king will not be able to protect himself, not to mention shrouded in horse leather, buried in the south of the Yangtze River, his soul will be scattered, and there will be no more existence in the world!"

Zhu Xiuniang stared at Zhao Tun when she heard the words, always felt that what he said was not right at the moment, it was full of perfunctory words, she always felt that something was wrong, it was all deceit and deceit, she collected herself, turned her body to one side, and suddenly thought that her family was How could someone who was tricked into coming here trust his every word?Just as she was about to question her, her body suddenly trembled and went numb for an instant, and when she looked again, it was Zhao Tun who put his hand on her waist.

"Ah..." Zhu Xiuniang exclaimed immediately, regardless of the bed or couch behind her, she fell on it, hugged her knees, and moved inside.

Zhao Tang glanced at her, and saw that she even dropped one of her embroidered shoes in a panic, revealing her snow-white ankles, as slender as jade.

Zhao Tang couldn't help thinking, Zhu Xiuniang followed his gaze and saw her embarrassed face, exclaimed again, and hurriedly hid her slender and fair skin under her skirt, her body trembling uncontrollably.

Zhao Tun was silent for a moment, then turned around and left...

At noon of the next day, on the tower of the Jiangdong Gate in Xicheng, Jiangning, Zhao Tang changed his face, wearing a general's armor, and fixed his eyes on the city.

In the distance below the city, Luo Jinshui and Wu Song were leading a group of people waving flags on the other side of the moat, showing off their might.

And behind them, another team stood quietly. In the middle of that team was a man wearing a chain armor with golden chains. He had crouching silkworm eyebrows and Danfeng eyes.

The eyes of the two met for an instant, and Zhao Tun couldn't help raising his eyebrows, Fang Qifo!Zhao Tun confirmed the identity of the other party almost instantly, the left envoy of Mingjiao, the Seven Lives and Seven Deaths and the Seven Buddhas!
A faint smile appeared on Zhao Tun's face, and he said to Zhang Xian beside him, "Signature, we agreed to steal Jiangning from inside and outside at midnight three days later!"

(End of this chapter)