There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 354 Attacking Xiangyang
In just two days, all the soldiers from the Bow and Arrow Battalion and the Mo Army were selected.

Because of the special nature of the two arms, the thick armor of normal soldiers is not suitable for them, so Li Chu ordered another [-] sets of blade scale armor. The weight of the armor is much lighter than the batch ordered by Li Chu, but In terms of protection strength, it is only a little less.

All [-] compound bows and compound crossbows have been distributed.

At the same time, the soldiers of the two arms were also equipped with a Qilin military dagger.

The Xiuchun knife is the standard equipment for every soldier of the Qilin Army.

In addition to these two items, Li Chu customized and purchased two other new gadgets.

One is a later Chinese multifunctional engineer shovel, which has the functions of shovel, pickaxe, crowbar (thorn), saw, and knife. Li Chu customized [-] of them.

The second is the infrared night vision device, which also ordered [-] units.

The main reason is that there are not enough custom coins, otherwise Li Chu would have equipped all the troops directly.

The 5000 pieces will be fully equipped by the Mo Army, and the remaining [-] will be assembled by the Qilin Army. The number of the Qilin Army is not large, and there are only [-] people now, and the remaining [-] sets of equipment will be returned to the Water Margin Army. There are Yingshui Army and the two armies assigned to each other.

The Water Margin Army and Ying Shui Army also ushered in a new costume change.

Before joining the Qilin Army, they were still wearing the ordinary equipment and armor of the imperial court. Some soldiers even wore their own linen and leather armor. Still holding big sticks, many soldiers' weapons are either not sharp, or have various fractures, and the power of this real fight is limited.

Li Chu gave them all the same equipment and weapons as the Qilin Army.

As for the outer robe, following the advice of Yang Zhi and Lu Junyi, the color of the outer robe was printed in purple. It was still a unicorn suit, but the color of the unicorn suit was changed to purple.

As for Ying Shuijun, the print is dark purple, leaning towards red.

The soldiers of the Water Margin Army and the Yingshui Army have long been envious of the equipment and clothing of the Qilin Army. It’s just that they have just joined the Qilin Army not long ago, and so many equipment and weapons cannot be produced in a short time. , so everyone is envious, I didn't expect to be able to change them all in a short time.

After the two armies changed their costumes, the whole team immediately became majestic.

The main thing is that the neat and consistent equipment has a great visual impact.

Finally, there is Li Jun's navy.

Today's water army, Li Chu has handed over all the water army to Li Jun's jurisdiction.

However, considering that the navy is currently recruited and newly recruited, and their loyalty and other aspects have yet to be observed and trained, they have not been equipped with sophisticated weapons and equipment for the time being, and the original training is still maintained.

Just this boat.

Now that the custom coins are almost spent, this time the lottery did not draw the boat category, so I have to wait for the next time.

However, the matter of the boat has also been put on the itinerary by Li Chu, and it will be the first customized item after owning the customized currency next time.

For the remaining customized coins, Li Chu went to customize and bought a lot of hot air balloons, and also customized and bought [-] sets of parachutes, all of which were equipped for the Fushui Army.

After all, the hot air balloon was in the air, and Li Chu couldn't guarantee that there would be no accidents. With the parachute, every soldier could be saved if an accident happened.

Three thousand sets of parachutes, one thousand for combat and two thousand for training.

After changing the new equipment, each army still needs a certain amount of time to adapt, leaving ten days for everyone to adapt, mainly for the training of the bow and arrow battalion and the Mexican army, the two are the most important.

When the army was training, Li Chu discussed with Shi Tianyi, Zhu Wu, Yang Zhi, Lu Junyi and others how to conquer Wang Qing.

The areas that Wang Qing currently occupies mainly consist of these few areas.

Dengzhou, Jiangling, Xiangyang, Junzhou.

In the novel "Water Margin", Wang Qing occupied Chang'an, Tongchuan Prefecture, Dengzhou, Jiangling, Xiangyang, Bianzhou, Junzhou and De'an, but that time was already at the peak of Wang Qing's army.

But now, Bianzhou Wang Qing is attacking, and it has not yet fallen into Wang Qing's hands.

Bianzhou is in the east of Chongqing in later generations.

De'an is the De'an army, which is the Langzhong of Sichuan in later generations.

Tongchuan Mansion is the Jiannan area of ​​later generations.

Bianzhou hadn't been captured yet, so the De'an and Tongchuan mansions hadn't fallen into Wang Qing's hands.

And Chang'an did not fall into Wang Qing's hands.

The plan to destroy Wang Qing is also simple.

Dengzhou, which is the completed area of ​​Nanyang, has now fallen into the hands of the Qilin Army and is under the jurisdiction of the Qilin Army.

Wang Qing only had three places left: Junzhou, Xiangyang and Jiangling.

The Qilin army occupied Junzhou, and also incorporated Wang Qing's navy, which was tantamount to breaking one of Wang Qing's arms, because of Junzhou!
From Fangzhou to Junzhou, and then to Xiangyang, the best route is to go down the Danjiang River, either to Xiangyang or to Nanyang. Now Nanyang is occupied, and even Qiande, Rangxian, and Shunyang are occupied. The route from Junzhou to Xiangyang was blocked.

And if you don't go to Nanyang, you have to climb many mountains, and the road is extremely difficult.

The plan here is also simple, just push it directly.

Together with Li Chu, the cavalry attacked Xiangyang, then went south along the way, and took Jiangling.

The infantry entered Junzhou from Shunyang, supported by Li Jun's water army on the river and the Fu water army's air support, forcing them all the way through. The Mo army was also sent to the Junzhou battlefield, while the archers split half to follow Li Chu. While walking Xiangyang.

Both Xiangyang and Jiangling have flat terrain suitable for cavalry operations, but Junzhou, Fangzhou and Bianzhou are different.

After ten days.

All the armies have been gathered in Rang County.

As the order was issued, the troops of all parties went to different places according to their pre-war tasks.

In Shunyang, Li Jun's navy was divided into two parts.

Some of them went south to Xiangyang to cooperate with Li Chu's large army.

Part of them marched westward to Xunyang, cooperated with the blockade of various river bank areas, and cooperated with infantry to attack Xunyang.

The infantry is also divided into several large teams.

Lu Zhishen and Wu Song led [-] infantry troops from Shunyang to Junzhou, and attacked Xunyang with Li Jun's navy.

Tiger Fighter Li Zhong led [-] infantry from Gucheng and entered the Fangxian area.

Li Xuan led the hot air balloon air force to provide support in the air.

The rest of the people followed Li Chu to Dengcheng.

The cavalry led by Lu Junyi went east along the Han River first, crossed the Baihe River at the foot of Hongshan Mountain, and then circled to the east of Xiangyang City.

On the east side, there are also many Wang Qing bandits stationed to defend Xiangyang.

By the time they counterattacked, most of the cavalry had already crossed the Baihe River and began to sweep the east of Xiangyang. The cavalry swept past wherever they passed along the way, and Wang Qing's bandit army was defeated all the way.

The water army has found many ships and has gathered on the north bank of Xiangyang.

The infantry boarded the ship and was transported by the ship to the shore east of Xiangyang. Li He's Mo army was the first to be transported.

(End of this chapter)