The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 336 Summary after the war

Liu Tai patted Ran Liang on the shoulder and said, "You did a great job by getting the first one today."

When Ran Liang saw Liu Tai coming over to pat him on the shoulder, his expression inevitably revealed a bit of excitement. He even didn't know where to put his hands, but said with excitement in his eyes:

"I only wish that I was driven off the city wall by the enemy. It has insulted the reputation of our Han army. Please punish me, your Majesty!"

When Liu Tai heard this, he smiled calmly, and then said with some calmness:

"We are only attacking Tongguan on the first day this time. If we take the city directly, we would be underestimating You Ziyuan and this great pass.

Being able to force the opponent to use Wengcheng's Broken Dragon Stone and push you back from the city wall on the first day, at least today's attack is very meaningful and the performance is very good! "

Ran Liang heard Liu Tai's praise. Although Liu Tai was obviously not much older than him, Ran Liang was still very happy.

When Liu Tai saw that Ran Liang's mood had stabilized, he continued, "What did you encounter on the city wall that made you retreat?"

Ran Liang heard Liu Tai's words and said sternly, "The other party also wore fish scale armor. Although it is not as strong as our armor, the big Han sword in our hands can damage the opponent's armor if we kill it several times, but the opponent's armor is If a heavy weapon with both hands is hit on the body, the soldiers will be shocked to the point of vomiting blood, or even fall off the city wall after retreating!"

The Han Dao is actually a bit like the prototype of the Tang Dao. After all, Liu Tai has never seen what the Tang Dao looks like.

The Dahan Sword is a two-handed sword. If it is not the kind of shield guard holding a shield, the warriors will basically carry more than three spare swords on their backs.

There is no way, because the sense of security brought by the armor allows the soldiers to let go and kill when necessary.

And if such weapons on the battlefield are used for a long time, the relatively sharp knives will wear out at an incredible speed. Naturally, it is necessary to prepare more weapons as backup.

"I know!" Liu Tai nodded when he heard Ran Liang's words, and then said to Xun Chuo beside him,

"Record this first. Zhao Guo is not waiting for death, but wants to struggle again!"

Although Liu Tai had already predicted that over time, someone would definitely find a way to crack this pattern of heavily armored soldiers.

Even if it can't be cracked, it can be imitated to some extent. What if the imitation accidentally kills the original one?

Anyway, if you don't think of a way to solve it, it will definitely be a dead end.

"Your Majesty, can we imitate it and use two-handed weapons?" At this time, Zhou Ping beside Liu Tai couldn't help but ask.

Obviously, the ability of heavy weapons to restrain heavy infantry is fine if it is not shown, but as long as it is taken out, the guy who has been fighting for several years will immediately react.

Especially for Zhou Ping, who was accustomed to his own superiority in military equipment and immediately wanted to copy the route.

After all, even if the equipment was the same, Zhou Ping didn't think his Han army would lose!

Liu Tai heard Zhou Ping's words and said calmly, "What you are thinking is of course a good idea. After all, copying our opponents and then using more efficient industrial resources to crush them is our best route.

It's just that this route is not suitable for siege. It is impossible for soldiers to carry heavy weapons with both hands up the city wall. With such an elite team, we will have a headache! "

Hearing this, Zhou Ping couldn't help but frown.

To be honest, if they really fought purely in the wild, Liu Tai's army would naturally not have any fear.

However, the number of people who can gain a foothold on the city in siege warfare is limited. The role that these soldiers wearing armor and holding heavy weapons can play at least here is that one man can guard the gate and prevent ten thousand people from opening it.

Liu Tai said: "First try using a shield with a triangular pyramid. As long as you can get close, even if you are wearing armor, the triangular pyramid can stab someone to death!"

Just like spearmen vs. swordsmen, as long as the weapons in the hands of both sides of the soldiers can threaten each other, it is not one-sided. Your weapon cannot break your defense, but the opponent's weapon can hit you with a concussion. So what is the difference between the two sides? Gotta fight.

"Triangular pyramid?" Zhou Ping was a little confused when he heard Liu Tai's words. This kind of weapon had not been used much.

Liu Tai waved his hand and said calmly: "It's a little thing I asked Jie Fei to study. It's just for infantry to break armor!"

This kind of thing is not worth mentioning to Liu Tai. After all, he has already predicted that someone will copy his war mode first. After all, heavy cavalry has no horses and it is difficult to copy, but heavy infantry can still copy it, but it will take a little effort. Just money.

"Besides the armored men, the other one is the Dragon-Breaking Stone, but this kind of stone is easy to deal with. Generally, it is tempered with water and fire to break the stone. Basically, this Dragon-Breaking Stone can be solved!" Liu Tai couldn't help but feel deeply. Taking a breath, he calmly said:

"Let's go down and recuperate first, and then leave the daily battles to the Shesheng Battalion and the engineering team, let them spend time with Tongguan!"

Liu Tai's "tempering of the old fire" specifically for the city gate, and even specifically for the dragon-breaking stone, has become the norm in wars.

Generally, a large fire pit of red-hot grease and coal is pushed directly onto the city gate to burn it down.

Because the basin is filled with oil or coal that burns at a very high temperature, if water is poured directly on it, it will cause the fire to spread, or the temperature of the coal is too high, and the door will be more easily broken due to thermal expansion and contraction.

Especially stones like Broken Dragon Stone, when subjected to thermal expansion and cold contraction, and then impact, the stone itself is prone to cracks, and if cracks appear inside the stone, it will break.

However, Liu Tai pays attention to science here, and has been specializing in coal for a long time, so the temperature of the coal produced is higher. As for the water to cool the coal, ice water prepared with saltpeter is prepared to ensure that the temperature of the coal is higher. Broken Dragon Stone experiences the two worlds of ice and fire.

Liu Tai spent the next time asking about the details of the battlefield in detail, trying his best to put the information that the soldiers had exchanged for their lives into practical use.

Liu Tai is studying how to conquer Tongguan, but this does not mean that the attack on Tongguan by the Shengsheng Battalion and the Engineering Battalion has ended.

The Shesheng Battalion gained the advantage of being in a commanding position with the help of the Lou Lu, as well as the long-range shooting capability of the ballistae, and then began to consciously shoot at the people on the city wall who were preparing to repair the city wall, thereby exerting a sniper effect.

It can be said that even a soldier wearing fish scale armor cannot resist this kind of crossbow arrow, let alone other people.

And as long as someone dares to come up to the city wall, the crossbow will shoot without hesitation and kill the opponent.

If too many people come in one go, notify the engineering battalion and ask them to throw rocks and smash them randomly. In short, it will disrupt the speed of Zhao Guo's re-defense at the city head. Whether they are migrant workers or soldiers, if you dare to come up, you dare to kill them. ! Of course, such suppression of powerful crossbow fire forced You Ziyuan to roll out his crossbow cart and shoot at the Shesheng Battalion.

As long as the opponent's ballista has increased momentum, Jie Fei will decisively use the thunderbolt chariot to invest stones to suppress it.

After several repeated attacks, many of the oars built by Liu Tai were destroyed. The soldiers of the Shesheng Battalion above suffered losses but were not necessarily dead.

They only need to fasten their cloaks to the ropes according to the procedure. If the oar is damaged, they can jump off the oar without being caught by the oar itself. The special cloak can act as a buffer similar to a parachute. function, increasing their probability of survival.

Of course, there are also many sound-shooting soldiers who have the ropes on their cloaks entangled with the oars, or they jumped directly without tying the ropes when they picked them...

Under such circumstances, both sides fired crossbows at each other, but Liu Tai could afford it anyway!

And the crossbowmen who wander far away cannot afford to consume them. After all, the distance between the two sides is so close, and no one has better equipment than the other. Basically, if the target is hit, the target will die.

But this kind of mid-gate confrontation really requires the courage of both sides. As long as the soldiers under Liu Tai's command did not fall down, the soldiers of the Shesheng Battalion basically went forward and continued without any intention of retreating.

After a few rounds of shots fired at each other by You Ziyuan's troops, and even some ballistas were shot and exploded, they soon became desolate and even disappeared.

There is no way, any soldier who can operate a ballista is not cannon fodder in itself, because after all, it is a technical unit. Such a consumption rate will soon make the wanderers who do not have enough talent reserves far away, and they feel that the hits of their soldiers are getting worse and worse. Difference.

However, the soldiers under Liu Tai's command are all good at mathematics, and the two special military camps of Sheshengying and Changshuiying have higher mathematical requirements for the soldiers, so they master the corresponding shooting skills faster, and naturally the threshold for supplementation is higher. Low.

Of course, the engineering battalion with the best average quality is naturally Jie Fei's engineering camp. Basically, after You Ziyuan fired two waves of strong crossbows, someone quickly calculated the approximate location of these strong crossbows, and then the thunderbolt car did not move. Hesitant to throw stones!

It was such an unpretentious confrontation that lasted until dark and finally came to an end. At this time, Liu Taicai asked the soldiers of the Shesheng Battalion to retreat and began to let the soldiers of the Changshui Battalion take over.

The soldiers of Changshui Camp are also very simple. If they hear any movement on the city wall or see some fire, they will ignore it and shoot a wave of arrows first. Under such a policy, it is guaranteed that Wanderers will not be able to make much repairs. .

It can be said that after fighting from dawn to dusk, You Ziyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. This day was actually so long.

At least this day, I experienced the fighting power of the Han army firsthand, and only then did You Ziyuan fully understand Liu Tai's illustrious reputation.

Fortunately, this time we relied on Tongguan for defense instead of going out to the city for a decisive battle with Liu Tai. Even so, You Ziyuan did not expect that Liu Tai's army almost captured Tongguan in just one day.

It can be said that the Han army surpassed his own soldiers in all aspects, whether in terms of quality, discipline, or organizational power.

This first day of war was obviously just a tentative war. The main purpose was to collect information about Tongguan, but Liu Tai's subsequent attack would probably make him feel suffocated even more. You Ziyuan felt that the road ahead was so dark!

At this time, deputy general Zhang Tao came over to You Ziyuan with a large Han Dao, handed the Da Han Dao to You Ziyuan and said:

"Lieutenant, look at the weapons used by this hypocrite!"

You Ziyuan said as he took the big Han Dao. He weighed it in his hands. If he held the knife with both hands, it was actually not heavy. The entire blade was straight and long, but it was very suitable for chopping, and it looked quite sharp.

"Is this the sword used by Han soldiers?" Youzi looked at the big Han sword in front of him from a distance. He did not use his soldiers' weapons to test the sword directly, but said to Zhang Tao, "This is a good sword. How is its power?"

"The fish scale armor of our iron guard was cut open by this knife. Of course, there are also several broken knives on the city wall after being chopped off!" Zhang Tao said, "I tried it with the sword in my own hand, and it was still the Han army. The knife is sharp."

"Give it to the blacksmith and let them imitate it!" You Ziyuan said to Zhang Tao, "Where is the Han army's armor?"

"I peeled off the armor of several Han soldiers who were killed by big guns. Their armor was indeed stronger than ours.

If you stab it with a normal spear, not only will it be a little weak, but at most it will only cause a few fish scales to fall off.

If it is the full iron armor of the soldiers who are pressed by the Dragon Breaking Stone, sometimes the force of the spear will break if the force is too great! "

"Are the weapons and equipment so much better than ours?" You Ziyuan frowned when he heard Zhang Tao's words, "Can you imitate them?"

When encountering good things, You Ziyuan naturally takes the initiative to learn. At least with Tongguan by his side, You Ziyuan feels that he can still compete with Liu Tai for a long time. Under such circumstances, You Ziyuan still wants to learn more and evolve more. of.

"Our iron is basically used to forge those elites, and there is no time to make this!" Zhang Tao shook his head and said,

"And this thing looks the same as what we built, but we don't know the internal process at all. It can't be studied in a short time. Instead of thinking about this, we should first think about how to deal with the opponent's ballista and thunderbolt vehicle. !”

"The ballistas and thunderbolt chariots of Liu Tai's army have been forcibly trained, and their accuracy, power, and range are all better than ours.

Especially in this kind of pure fighting, after several rounds, the opponent's soldiers continued to advance, but our soldiers obviously did not dare to go up again.

In such a confrontation, it is easy for the opponent to become stronger and stronger, while we fall into a passive situation! "

You Zi looked at Zhang Tao from a distance, sighed and said, "If Liu Tai comes to attack, be prepared to abandon the Wengcheng!"

"Abandon the Wengcheng?!" Hearing You Ziyuan's words, Zhang Tao couldn't help but said in surprise, "How long have we been fighting for?"

"Isn't Liu Tai an easy man? Now he is using crossbows and thunder chariots to suppress us and repair the barbican city. He is obviously well prepared.

Next time I attack, whether it's the Broken Dragon Stone or my exposed Iron Guard, I'm afraid they will be targeted.

Let’s build the second line of defense first! "Youzi said worriedly.

Faced with You Ziyuan's worries, Zhang Tao didn't say much.

After all, Liu Tai's attack momentum today made Zhang Tao understand that if You Ziyuan hadn't dispatched the armored guards decisively today, and once the Wengcheng was broken, the wall with almost no preparations would be broken again, then Tongguan would have become a joke.

And on the first day when the direct war broke out between the two sides, it soon started to snow in the northern sky. Winter came quite early this year, which was naturally a good thing for the defenders.

Seeing this scene, You Ziyuan was even more delighted and said, "God, are you on my side after all?"

(End of this chapter)