The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 188

"Damn it, how many catapults are there on the other side!" Wang Jun found that his own catapult was obviously more powerful, farther away, and faster than his opponent's, but he was at a disadvantage in this catapult competition. .

Obviously yesterday, I used my Thunderbolt Car to destroy the opponent's catapults to pieces, but in just one night, these guys came back with a vengeance, giving me a splitting headache. The opponent's catapults were lined up again, as if... Endless.

This feeling is like Bai Qi slaughtering Zhao's 40-strong army in the Battle of Changping at the cost of five labors and seven injuries.

However, Zhao State was very unreasonable and sent out 40 troops to fight again, and these 40 people had no food needs.

This kind of thing is so outrageous that even a Four Saints figure like Bai Qi would go a little crazy.

Not to mention, Wang Jun was determined not to leave the camp and had to wait until the rear grain transport team arrived to transport food.

To be honest, from Liu Tai's point of view, he had already passed the news to these soldiers and family members.

It can be said that if Wang Jun directly sends troops to defeat himself after competing with a catapult with a thunderbolt chariot, then no matter what news he brings, it will not matter. This should be Wang Jun's opportunity.

But from Wang Jun's perspective, Liu Tai ordered his troops to come over aggressively this time, wasn't it just for a decisive battle with him?

Liu Tai, who had been cowardly for a whole quarter, suddenly took the initiative to attack, and kept saying that Youzhou was broken. It would be a mistake for him to believe everything Liu Tai said.

After all, since ancient times, soldiers have never been tired of deceit. Maybe Liu Tai, a bad guy, wants to lure him out and then ambush him at a suitable place.

Therefore, Wang Jun would rather be mature and choose to continue driving Liu Tai away with a thunderbolt car and delay it first.

At least in Wang Jun's thinking, regardless of whether Liu Tai's words were deceiving, at least food cannot deceive people!
If the food is not delivered smoothly, then regardless of whether Youzhou is occupied or not, at least there will definitely be a big problem with your food route.

This is the most fatal point for Wang Jun, so it is not too late to wait until the food arrives before making a decision!
However, one thing Wang Jun didn't expect was that Liu Tai's catapult was completely suppressed by his own thunderbolt during yesterday's catapult, and even many catapults were completely destroyed.

Only one day passed, and Liu Tai's army launched another row of catapults, but his own thunderbolt chariots had been suppressed by the opponent.

In particular, it is not just as simple as the Thunderbolt Chariot being smashed by the opponent's rocks, but more importantly, those who can control the Thunderbolt Chariot are more or less considered to be technical soldiers. Unlike ordinary soldiers, they can be given a spear and can go to the battlefield with a single assault.

In such a crazy catapult battle, the main targets of both sides are their own catapults.

However, the technical troops who operate the catapults have also suffered a huge loss, which is a considerable test for the psychological pressure of the soldiers.

When his Thunderbolt Chariot had the upper hand, Wang Jun didn't pay attention to this problem. But when the next day, his Thunderbolt Chariot was completely at a disadvantage under the attack of the opponent's massive catapults, no one under his command dared to operate it anymore. Those were thunderbolt cars.

After all, not to mention the smashed Pili cars, even the ones that were not smashed were stained with a lot of blood at this moment. Many soldiers did not dare to continue operating the Pili cars even if they were beaten by the officers. .

"What kind of magic power does Liu Tai have? He obviously lost the catapult competition yesterday, but today he was able to pull out an elite force to compete with him like this.

Damn it, the people on the other side are all iron men, don’t you have anything to fear? "Wang Jun felt incredible.

Liu Tai's idea is very simple. Sometimes when you can use the Dui Zi tactic, then use the Dui Zi tactic.

Yes, it is not easy to train soldiers by yourself, and the price paid is also very high, especially if such a mechanized army is really damaged here, then it will take at least two years to reorganize it.

But for Liu Tai, these people were trained just to be used today.

If you cherish them too much and restrain your hands when it is time to use them, how can you win the war?

Not to mention that Liu Tai has some sympathy for the people in this world, but when they really need to sacrifice for certain interests, because of the different times and different identities, the alienation caused by it will make Liu Tai The order was particularly cold.

Just like in front of him, Liu Tai didn't consider that the catapults on both sides were controlled by people, but Liu Tai was sure that as long as the other party's equipment was not streamlined production, the other party's maintenance and production speed would be a little slower than his own catapult. !

Therefore, if he lost the catapult competition on the first day, he would lose. Liu Tai did not care at all and rushed to work overnight to repair it. On the second day, he reassembled it and the number was more than three times the number of the opponent's remaining catapults. catapult, keep throwing.

Do you think the competition between the two sides is just about who has more catapults?
No, this competition is between the ancient manual workshop model and the competition between Liu Tai and standardized industrial production after the reunification of weights and measures.

So what if the performance of the Thunderbolt Car in Wang Jun's hands is higher? As long as the gap between the two parties does not really widen the generation gap, then even if the other party suppresses him at the beginning, with the productivity advantage, the two catapults will continue to appear. On the battlefield, sooner or later the opponent will be suppressed by Liu Tai's mode.

According to Liu Tai's idea, using productivity to stack up will definitely lead to victory, so Liu Tai chose to use a catapult to fight the opponent head-on.

But Liu Tai ignored that, even if it was a catapult, in the end it was still controlled by people, and it was people who decided the outcome.

Any catapult requires at least a dozen or 20 people to operate it. As long as one of them is timid, the stones invested by the catapult will be affected to some extent.

In contrast, Liu Tai's army has ideas and beliefs. They will indeed be afraid of the stones thrown by thunderbolt chariots in the sky and will dodge. However, even if some soldiers die in battle, there are still people who choose to control the catapults and continue to throw them.

Yesterday, almost all the catapults were wiped out. The mechanical unit suffered more than two layers of damage, and everyone was injured. However, they only went back and underwent simple treatment by the medical camp, and then they began to reclassify the parts of the catapults. Today they were assembled and continued to fight. kill!

Liu Tai's army, who had developed nationalism, did not flinch at all because of yesterday's defeat.

But Wang Jun's soldiers were fine at first because they could see that they had the advantage.

After all, as long as you have an advantage in your heart, even if the soldiers around you die in battle, it will not make these people feel despair.

It is simply unbelievable for any normal person to suddenly have a psychological breakdown and no longer want to live when he has an absolute chance of winning.

But today, when their Pili cars no longer have an advantage in numbers, this torture and despair will continue to be amplified.After all, they followed Wang Jun, but it was just because they had this choice, not because Wang Jun was a benevolent and righteous gentleman or had any charisma. For these soldiers, compared with Wang Jun's charm, they still didn't believe in the steamed buns in their hands.

As Liu Tai's catapults gained an absolute advantage, especially after all the Thunderbolt Chariots were destroyed one after another by Liu Tailu, the catapult throwing of Liu Tai's army still did not end at all. Stones rained down on the opponent's military camp. This caused their morale to plummet.

The catapults of this era could not hit the city wall built with solid clay, but if they could only hit the military camp itself that was slightly weathered, the military camp would collapse sooner or later under an attack regardless of the cost. After all, it was made of wood. .

At this moment, Wang Jun watched rocks fall into the military camp one after another. The people in the military camp were suddenly turned upside down, the houses were destroyed, and the defense facilities were continuously destroyed. His Thunderbolt Car was forced to defeat the enemy regardless of the cost. Everything was replaced and cleaned.

At this time, Wang Jun knew very well that at this point, he had lost the possibility of making other choices.

Because if the delay continues, the morale of the soldiers will inevitably be affected.

In fact, I must not let the morale of my soldiers drop.

Because as long as people are in a low mood, it is easy to think wildly. Even if the words on the note thrown to them are all lies, when the morale of the soldiers is low, they will instinctively think that the words above are the truth.

To be honest, after Liu Tai threw those broken notes from Youzhou to him, he had no way out.

Originally, Wang Jun looked at the time when the enemy's smoke was ignited, and he could estimate that even if Youzhou City really fell, the grain trucks must have been transported out before the fall of Youzhou City.

Wang Jun planned to wait until the grain truck arrived at the camp and immediately control the people in the grain truck. It didn't matter what news they brought to him, but he would lead by example and bring the good news to the entire army. Then he would have the freedom to give it a try. of certainty.

But Liu Tai didn't give himself any time to operate. Yesterday, the catapult was thrown wildly. Even though a large part was destroyed by his own thunderbolt car, today he actually took out a catapult of the same size and started throwing it again.

He simply relied on the numbers to kill the Thunderbolt Car in his hand, and now he started to destroy his own camp.

Wang Jun has been leading the army for many years, and he can naturally feel that as the opponent's slingshots continue to fall, he must respond. If he does not respond, morale will inevitably decline if the delay continues, and his army will collapse!
"You are actually forced to this point!" Wang Jun sighed from the bottom of his heart at this moment.

But when the situation was really desperate, Wang Jun immediately formed a formation in the middle camp. Qi Hong, his subordinate, led the Red Blood Cavalry and the Wang Family Guards under his command. Two cavalrymen rushed out from both sides of the military camp, attacking Liu Tai from both wings. The army gallops forward.

"Finally I couldn't bear it anymore!" Liu Tai looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but reveal a smile.

Liu Tai turned his attention to Zhou Ping, handed the sword in his hand to Zhou Ping, and said:
"This sword is given to you, and the whole army is left to you to command! I will be behind you, you can order me to charge if necessary!"

Zhou Ping nodded when he heard Liu Tai's words and took over the command of the war from Liu Tai.

Following Zhou Ping's control, the two wings of Liu Tai's army began to move forward proactively, forming a V-shaped formation of crane wings, as if they intended to take the initiative to meet the two cavalry.

But whether it was Qi Hong, the commander of the Red Blood Cavalry, or Wang Ming, the commander of the Royal Guards, they all asked their cavalry to bypass them from the front.

This is a normal choice that any cavalry would make, because at least before the cavalry becomes a heavy cavalry equipped with armor, cutting in from the flanks is when they can exert their greatest effect.

At this time, in the military camp directly in front, Wang Jun's military camp was seen being pushed down from the inside out.

Wang Jun's team has finally been reorganized. Following Wang Jun's order, a surging crowd surged toward Liu Tai's army crazily.

One phalanx army after another continued to move forward amidst roaring killing cries.

Wang Jun's front-line army numbered 3, and he had at least 10 left on his hands.

Wang Jun knew very well that the battle between the two sides had just begun. If he directly threw all the chips in his hand, he would not be able to command so many people.

Therefore, they came in batches. At this time, there were five large squares of the 3 people in the front army. They raised their shields and swords and approached Liu Tai step by step.

At this time, Zhou Ping looked calm, and no one could tell his thoughts from his stern face.

He calmly directed the soldiers on the flanks to jog in small steps. They stood in front of the mechanical troops and set up shields.

The warriors in the first row in front hold two-handed shields, and the second row hold two-handed spears.
These shields stood on the battlefield, forming a wall in an instant, and the spears of both hands passed through the muzzles specially left on the shields, and then with a twist of the spears, they could be inserted diagonally into the ground to form a simple triangle. The tail of the spear was deep Deeply embedded in the earth.

A simple defense structure like this was constructed calmly on two levels under Zhou Ping's command.

The soldiers behind the two floors all held long spears, but they were able to thrust their spears through the specially opened gap.

With the simple defense construction completed, Liu Tai's army quickly formed a simple defensive barrier on the battlefield.

As the defense became exhausted, the archers were also ready to shoot arrows.

The mechanical engineering soldiers, under the command of Zhou Ping, began to dismantle the catapult, and then quickly retreated not far from Zhou Ping. They collected various materials and began to use their joint efforts. Next, they began to build a high platform. Even if the enemy troops were approaching, they still could not stop them from working without any distractions at this moment.

As the sword and shield soldiers under Wang Jun approached Liu Tai's troops step by step, under Zhou Ping's order, they saw the archers of Liu Tai's army finally shooting their arrows and attacking the shield soldiers who were coming step by step. projectile.

Perhaps taking this as a sign, both Qi Hong's Red Blood Cavalry and the Royal Guards led their cavalry to pierce the abdomen of Liu Tai's army.

Three troops, from three directions, attacked Liu Tai's army almost simultaneously.

The war between the two sides is imminent.

(End of this chapter)