The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1057
Borjijin Xu Liewu, the youngest marshal of the Mongolian Western Expedition, and the sixth son of Borjijin Tuolei!

This person does not look down on the Han people like Brother Alibu. He has two Han army troops under his command, Zhang Rou and Guo Kanjun, and there are also Han advisors in the army such as Xu Heng, Yao Shu, Dou Mo, Yang Guo and others.

Facing Yunhai City where Yue Fei was stationed, Xu Liewu ordered Zhang Rou and Guo Kan to attack fiercely in turn. Whoever can win Yunhai City will be the vanguard after that!
Zhang Rou and Guo Kan are gearing up to set up a row of trebuchets and crossbows under Yunhai City!
This made Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Gan Ning, Hu Yanzan and others in Yunhai City feel a little dazed, returning to the time when they fought Yuan Shao in the Central Plains Civil War decades ago.

What is the sharp weapon of Song Dynasty's siege?That is, the trebuchet and the eight-ox crossbow are used to smash the city continuously, and cooperate with other means such as Digger Army or Jinyiwei to cooperate internally and externally, etc.

But which of the strong cities in the Central Plains, such as Xiapi, Yecheng, and Xiangyang, didn't use a trebuchet to smash the opponent for ten days and a half months, and then use various means to take it down.

In the more than ten years of the civil war in the Central Plains, in this time and space, apart from Lu Heng's Great Song, the only opponents who can use trebuchets are Boss Cao and Yuan Shao.

What Zhao Yun and Tai Shici feel now is that they have returned to the feeling of confronting Yuan Shao back then!

The same use of trebuchets, the same accuracy is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty, so the quantity is used to make up for this. Now Guo Kan and Zhang Rou's army is exactly the same as Yuan Shao and Han Qiong back then.

Yue Fei debuted too late, and had never experienced Suiyang's offensive and defensive battles after the Guandu battle. The most recent defensive battle was also when Jin Wushu defeated Anbei City.

But to be honest, what Jin Wushu learned was only superficial and did not learn the essence at all. Guo Kan's functional ability put a certain amount of pressure on Yue Fei.

Fortunately, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and others had rich experience. They had participated in the Suiyang defense all the way back then, and every suggestion was adopted by Yue Fei one by one.

If Du Gao was here, he would be very gratified, because Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and others have learned his way of defending the city.

Similarly, Guo Kan under the city also had a dignified expression. This Yunhe City was completely different from those big-nosed castles in the west, and the guards could be said to be impeccable.

The stone trebuchet is almost useless to Yunhe City, because the opponent built a wooden building to protect the city wall from being hit by boulders. The stone trebuchet only destroys the wooden building, and the other party will soon launch a new wooden building. building instead.

What is even more frightening is the opponent's defensive equipment. It is not uncommon for Da Song to have a catapult, but the accuracy is much stronger than his own catapult!
Guo Kan built the first batch of [-] trebuchets, almost all of which were smashed by the opponent with trebuchets!This is very incredible in Guo Kan's eyes!

The trebuchet is ineffective, and the stone cannon is even more ineffective.

The stone cannon was another weapon besides the trebuchet before the Mongols attacked the city without returning the cannon.

Some are similar to bed crossbows, but they are filled with stone bombs. Unlike the arc and parabola of the stone catapult, the stone cannon is more accurate in straight-line attacks, and can make the city wall suffer from boulder bombardment.

It can be imagined as a huge slingshot launching huge stones, which is the stone cannon.

However, this kind of sharp weapon that Guo Kan is omnipotent in the west is useless here. Like the trebuchet, it is completely defended by wooden buildings, and it cannot destroy the city wall at all.

The same archery was also suppressed. Guo Kan was invincible in attacking cities in the West. In addition to the two sharp weapons of trebuchets and stone cannons, another powerful weapon was archery suppression.

The Mongolian army fought the world with bows and arrows, and its archery skills were unparalleled in the world. In the western siege, their archers couldn't even raise their heads, and the eagle archers could accurately kill the archers on the city wall.

But in Yunhai City, the endless long-distance abilities on the city walls made Guo Kan open his eyes and doubt the world at the same time!
Playing long-distance with Da Song, Lu Heng can say a word that is true for the Mongols, especially the city defense battle!
For long-range strikes, there are iron spears with eight-ox crossbows and stone bullets from trebuchets at [-] paces, mid-range and long-distance strikes at [-] paces with god-arm bows, and mid-distance strikes at [-] paces with composite strong bows and quiver rain of arrows with eight-ox crossbows. , there are Zhuge Liannu and Fire Dragon Ark within a hundred steps at close range!
Today's eight-ox crossbow and trebuchet are the collective names of two large-scale equipment.

After more than ten years of development, various models have been developed under the painstaking research of inventors such as Ma Jun, Zhuge Liang, Liu Ye, Huang Yueying, Shen Kuo, Su Song, and Bi Sheng to meet different requirements.

For example, the eight-ox crossbow has a variety of models such as mother and child cannons, sniper cannons, serial cannons, and artillery cannons.

As the name suggests, the mother and child cannon is a very penetrating ultra-long-range weapon with a range of 1200 steps and is specially used to break through heavy armor defenses.

The sniper cannon does not need too much introduction. It is a bed crossbow specially used by Zhang Gui, Ling Zhen and others to snipe and kill opponent generals. It has the advantages of strong concealment, easy operation, long range, and high accuracy.

The chain gun is actually an upgraded version of the arrow box, and the power of the arrow box is now several times stronger than ten years ago.

The trebuchet also has various models such as fixed-point guns, kerosene guns, boulder guns, and return guns.

That's right, the return gun is actually a kind of rock-throwing machine that increases the rate of fire back and forth based on the principle of leverage. Shen Kuo and Ma Jun spent three years researching the return gun when Lu Heng proposed the leverage principle.

No matter how good the Mongols' shooting skills are, no matter how fierce they are, they are human beings. As mentioned above, the biggest battle losses of the Mongolian army were not in field battles but in siege battles.

The Mongols' shooting skills, equipment, and the spirit of not fearing death in siege battles, as well as their omnipotent means, allowed them to take down one strong city after another in Europe.

But now, no matter how strong the shooting skills are, they are suppressed, and the invincible equipment is also suppressed. This makes even the Mongols suffer huge losses in battle.

However, as a famous Mongolian general, Guo Kan still has two brushes, and he actually put the breakthrough on the Liao people.

You read that right, they are Liao people!

After the defeat of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Tulu, Yelu Zhilie, Yelu Bali and others led an army from the Liao Kingdom to the west, intending to come to Yunhai City to join Yue Fei.

However, at this time Xu Liewu was already under Yunhai City with a large army, and the large-scale Liao army approached. It was impossible not to be discovered by Xu Liewu, Zhang Rou, Guo Kan and other famous generals.

Xu Liewu keenly discovered that the Liao people could be used to attack the city, and sent Mongolian cavalry to intercept the Khitan army of Yelu Tulu, Yelu Jilie, Yelu Bali and others.

This Khitan army was originally a defeated army, and low morale was normal, so Yelu Tulu dispatched scouts to learn about the Mongols' movements.

However, Yelu Tulu, Yelu Zhilie, Yelu Bali and others think that this is just a partial division of Mongolia, and its combat effectiveness should not be as good as Jebe's main force. Since they can fight against Jebe, they can also fight against this partial division. You can be safe and sound if you get to the city of Yunhai...

(End of this chapter)