In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 290 Are you also a shady person?
In fact, although the Mongols have difficulty meeting opponents in this era, to be honest, their performance outside the battlefield is very average.

This is because the Mongols seldom use finesse and don't have many tactics. They rely on force and the performance of their commanders to fight.

In contrast to the Hou Jin Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, they were very good at using craftsmanship during their rise and spread all over the country. When attacking Ming Dynasty cities, they often relied on craftsmanship or internal intelligence to open the city gates. In a short period of time, they captured a large number of Ming towns in Liaodong and gained a foothold.

The Mongols don't play like that, they basically rely on forceful attacks, so the Mongols are still unable to attack the city, and forceful attacks often hit the wall.

As long as the Mongols learn Hou Jin's tricks, use multiple factions to work carefully, and infiltrate in advance, the siege will become easier.

Immediately after the king returns, the Mongols will soon feel the difficulty of attacking the city.

It is precisely because the Mongols are not good at detailing that they are half-informed about many things in the Song Dynasty. They can only rely on the reports of a small number of businessmen, or like Wang Lu now, go to the teahouse in Lin'an City to listen.

And this was the first time Tuochala heard that there was something about bragging for the emperor?Haha, go and listen to it.

The two found a teahouse, and sure enough they heard the storyteller talking about Emperor Zhao Yurui.

They were lucky today. The storyteller was telling how Zhao Yurui came to power, how they outsmarted Shi Miyuan, and how they seized power. After they came to power, they would measure the fields for the people and collect less taxes from the people. Your Majesty, the Emperor, only cares about the lives of the people. .

Among the people listening to the book, some people immediately echoed that the emperor is a sage and a wise king through the ages.

Wang Lu and Tuochala were stunned. They didn't expect that an emperor would be so thick-skinned and send someone to brag for him in the teahouse.

Then the storyteller talked about Shandong and Sichuan, saying that Peng Yibin and Meng Gong appeared to be military generals of the imperial court, but in fact they both obeyed the orders but did not listen to the propaganda.

Someone in the crowd said, wasn’t Shandong a big winner that year?After Zhang Rong was killed, the court still publicized it everywhere.

The storyteller scolded that it was a great victory for Peng Yibin, not a great victory for the imperial court. Yu Jie, who was sent by the imperial court, is still the deputy commander of the capital and cannot speak.

Then the storyteller said that Meng Gong of Sichuan was even more extraordinary. He was very capable. He trained troops and raised horses in Sichuan, but he did not listen to the court at all. He caused trouble everywhere and something big would happen sooner or later.

Now Sichuan is full of Meng's troops.

Someone in the crowd immediately shouted, aren't these traitors and traitors?Call for severe punishment.

There were echoes all around, including traitors and traitors.

The next two people continued to listen, mostly boasting about how wise and powerful the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was. Tuochala couldn't listen anymore and hurriedly left with Wang Lu.

On the way back, Tuochala doubted whether the matter they borrowed the road could be accomplished.

"It seems that the emperor of the Song Dynasty still had to look at the expression of Meng Gong, the commander of the Sichuan system? Is it difficult to borrow a road?"

Wang Lu immediately said: "Don't panic. When Wu Jie was in Sichuan, the Sichuan Army was also known as the Wu Family Army, but the people of the Song Dynasty still had a strong sense of monarchy and ministers. Even if they had power over one side, they would always obey the emperor's orders."

"What is Meng Gong's background?" Tuochala asked.

This stopped Wang Lu from asking.

At this time, Meng Gong was not famous, and he was not a noble official. The two looked at each other. Anyway, there was no such person information in Mongolia.

Even though Meng Ying severely damaged Tuo Lei in Linzhao, except for Tuo Lei himself, the Mongols did not pay attention to this Song army.

Tochara believed that generals and local officials who were traditional officials and nobles would definitely obey the emperor's orders.

But people with mud-legged Yeluzi origins, such as Peng Yibin, basically would not listen to the imperial edicts of the Song Dynasty.

Since Peng Yibin defeated Zhang Rong and Shi Tianze in Shandong, Zhao and Rui used Yu Jie to decentralize power and obtain the main military power of the Shandong army. At the same time, they began to build momentum, saying that Peng Yibin was crazy and would not listen to orders, and issued edicts twice a year. Peng Yibin was summoned to Beijing, but Peng Yibin refused. (In fact, Peng Yibin secretly returns to Beijing every year to meet the emperor once, and never announces it to the public.)
There are various signs that Peng Yibin has the final say in Shandong now, and he does not listen much to the Song emperor.

Tuocha La's worries are not unreasonable. Wang Lu is even thinking now, could it be Meng Gong himself who blocked the thunder and snatched the Xixia war horses at Linzhao?The emperor of Song Dynasty didn’t know at all?
As they came in, they saw the Song people flattering and fawning on them everywhere, and they were afraid of them. This made Wang Lu think that the Song emperor simply did not dare to make the decision to go against Mongolia or even go to war.
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Just when Wang Lu and Tuochala were being deceived by Zhao Yurui, Zhao Yurui's carriage had already left the palace gate and headed for the firearms bureau.

Cao Youwen, who used to always follow the carriage, has been replaced by a young general.

After Cao Youwen stayed with the emperor in the Imperial City Division for two or three years, Zhao Yurui thought that he was well trained, so he was sent to Sichuan last year to follow Meng Gong.

The new general is named Liu Zheng, who has been with Emperor Zhao Yurui for less than a year.

Liu Zheng was the founder of the Yuan Navy Navy in history, and had previously taken refuge with Zhao Fang.

Before Zhao Fang died, he said to Zhao Kui: "Liu Zheng is so talented that you can't use him. It's better to kill him instead of leaving him as a trouble in the future."

Zhao Kui always loved talents, and he found Lu Wende and Yu Jie to be reused one after another. He also recommended them to the emperor, and both of them were reused by Emperor Zhao Yurui.

So he was reluctant to kill Liu Zheng at all. After keeping him with him for a few years, he recommended Liu Zheng to Zhao Yurui and relayed his father's words before his death to the emperor.

Of course Zhao Yurui didn't know Liu Zheng, but Zhao Fang said that he must be capable, and he was immediately transferred to his side last year.

He certainly could not have imagined that decades later in the original history, due to Lu Wende's suspicion and Jia Sidao's persecution, Liu Zheng surrendered to the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, established a naval force for the Yuan army, and finally destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty.

At this time, Liu Zheng was riding next to the carriage, wiping the blood on his face as he walked.

It turns out that the bloody carriage man who was beaten at the city gate just now was Liu Zheng pretending to be him.Liu Zheng looked a little depressed and shouted through the curtain: "Your Majesty, they are really fighting."

Zhao and Rui were delighted: "If we don't really fight, how can we convince the messenger that it's true?"

"The blow was so heavy, I almost drew blood." Liu's whole face was covered with chicken blood, but he was almost beaten with blood just now.

Those sergeants were all new recruits. They didn't look like soldiers at all. They were quite enthusiastic about beating people.

Because I didn't tell them beforehand that Liu Zheng was one of my own.

Liu Zheng finally understood that his emperor was really shady, and even his own people were shady.

"Hahaha." Zhao Yurui said with a smile: "Those people are just recruited as extras. When the messenger leaves, we will kick them out."

Liu Zheng didn't understand what group performance was, but he could see that the emperor was tricking the Mongolian envoys and showing weakness to the enemy.

After a while, the two came to the Firearms Bureau.

Li Pingbao, Tang Bo, the assistant minister of the Firearms Bureau, Zhang Xiaoshi, the doctor, and Liu Fu of the Craftsmanship Bureau were all waiting for him at the door.

Everyone came to the foot of Phoenix Mountain first.

Liu Zheng followed the emperor to the scene and saw a lot of wooden and metal parts, as well as long components, on the ground. He was a little confused for a moment.

There were also some generals from the capital's armies at the scene. Emperor Zhao Yurui looked at everyone and explained to them: "This thing is called a return artillery by the Mongols, but we call it a counterweight trebuchet."

In the Middle Ages, Islamic countries such as Persia and Arabia had very developed trebuchets, and there were also trebuchets that could launch [-]-pound boulders.

The Mongols are still using it now, but they are using the ones they got during the Western Expedition and were brought back by Batu. Because Batu supported towing mines when he elected the Great Khan, the trebuchet is not taken seriously by Ogedai. The real thing is to the Mongols. It will take more than ten years to fully build it yourself.

During the time of Kublai Khan, he recalled the Huihui artillerymen Alaowadin and Yisi Mayin from the Western Regions to supervise its construction, and brought the craftsmanship of the Huihui cannon back to the Central Plains.

He used Huihui artillery to attack Dali, and he was invincible along the way. Dali was directly destroyed. Later, he conquered Xiangyang and became the number one siege weapon at that time.

Zhao Yurui built the trebuchet for the purpose of attacking the city.

This thing is actually not difficult. There were styles in ancient times, and there were also small trebuchets on the warships of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao and Rui made slight improvements and used counterweighted iron boxes to create several different trebuchets.

At this time, following Liu Fu's order, several apprentice craftsmen quickly assembled on site.

Liu Zheng heard the sound and found that the bottom was made of pure iron. It was a very simple square made of four iron plates spliced ​​together.

The Mongolian cannons are all made of wood. Zhao Yurui added a counterweighted iron box, so he was afraid that the wood would be easily damaged. The chassis of the largest model was made of cast iron, which is heavy and stable. The other two small and medium-sized models, Still using a wooden chassis.

The assembly is quite fast. Once the base frame is set up, there are wooden frames, axes, throwing rods, etc., and there are escalators on both sides.

Four people assembled it on site and it took less than 5 minutes to install.

At this time, the throwing rod is pointed upward at 75 degrees, facing Fengxiang Mountain.

The projectile was made of several layers of cowhide, and a hemp rope thicker than a finger was used as a bomb belt, which was fixed to the ground.

Zhao Yurui said: "The trebuchets in the Western Regions can throw boulders weighing more than 150 kilograms, or even three to four hundred kilograms, or five to six hundred kilograms."

"Although the power is amazing, boulders are hard to find. If there are enough trebuchets, each trebuchet will throw ten boulders in a battle. It will be troublesome to find so many boulders."

Everyone nodded one after another, that's the reason.

"We gave up the weight of the projectile and increased the throwing distance. At the same time, we improved the projectile and increased its power."

In the Roman era, the largest trebuchet had an arm length of nearly 15.24 meters and a counterweight of 9.07 tons, capable of projecting 200-300 pound stone projectiles 274 meters away.

Zhao Yurui didn't need to throw such heavy stone projectiles, so the lever arm was only ten meters and the counterweight was reduced to three thousand kilograms.

The weighted iron box itself weighed five hundred kilograms. Before pulling him up, someone picked up the discus weighing twenty kilograms and threw them in one by one.

The two men each threw 25. The iron box weighed [-] kilograms.

At this time, two people walked to the other end and used the principle of levers to pull up the fifteen hundred kilograms.

The counterweight box is hung high, and the paraboloid is fixed to the ground.

The Song Army here has relatively few people, only two people are needed. If it is replaced by a heavy-duty stone thrower, it may take five or six, or even seven or eight, and a dozen people to pull it together.

Zhao Yurui reduced the weight of the bomb and also effectively reduced the number of people involved.

(End of this chapter)