Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

All the generals agreed unanimously that if you want money or not, you can die.They all clamored to fight with Chen Ying.

But before they could discuss any countermeasures, they heard the rapid sound of war drums coming from outside the camp.

The reorganized Modao Army has formed a dense formation, ready to attack the Jinsha Camp.

Chen Ying surrendered two Modao regiments at once (there were only so many Modao in his hand), and more than [-] Modao fighters lined up in a dense formation and slowly launched an attack on Zheng Jun's Jinsha camp.

The Mo Dao Army has two major difficulties, one is that it is difficult to make a Mo Dao, and the other is that it is difficult to obtain a Mo Dao hand.The first difficulty is a problem of technology and resources, but with the emergence of high manganese steel, this difficulty of blocking Modao and being unable to mass-produce has been easily solved.Only the high manganese ore powder produced in the Lingzhou Salt Mine is as much as 1 catties per month, which can be used to produce 1 catties of high manganese steel, and at the same time can forge about [-] mo knives and The same amount of high manganese steel bright armor.If there is a year, Chen Ying's workshop will completely produce [-] Mo Dao and [-] Mingguang armors.It can fully arm forty Modao regiments.

Of course, Chen Ying was not satisfied with this amount. He also sent more than a dozen exploration teams to search for manganese ore resources in various places such as Hexi, Bashu, Guanzhong, and Hedong within the scope of Datang. The high-manganese steel Mingguang armor and Mo knife can be like a horizontal knife, with inexhaustible and inexhaustible output.

Once this kind of Modao army forms a conventional army with large-scale equipment, this kind of Modao army that can advance like a wall, step, ride, shoot, length, and various arms can crush all enemies around Datang, especially It is the Turkic people in the north, who will usher in an indelible nightmare in their lives.

In fact, the key factor restricting the development of the Tang Mo Dao Army is not because of the difficulty of equipment, but because of the difficulty of finding talents.In order to increase the protracted combat capability of the Modao army, in the absence of the Modao, Chen Ying only needs to let the more than [-] Modao army soldiers who do not have the real Modao take temporary modifications, which fully doubles and a half Tomahawk for physical training.

Seeing the Modao Army slowly approaching, Chen Yingchong Ashina Simo, Shan Xiongxin, Zhang Anshi, Gao Feiyang and other generals said: "Although the Modao Army is not a omnipotent army, it is undeniable that the Modao Army is still difficult to match head-on in this era. army!"

Shan Xiongxin asked suspiciously: "According to what the general said, it seems that the Modao Army also has a way to restrain it?"

"Restraint method? Of course there is, and there is more than one!" Chen Ying smiled slightly, looking at Gao Feiyang and Zhang Anshi intentionally or unintentionally: "The first method, in fact, General Gao and General Zhang have already experienced the taste of it! "

Gao Feiyang and Zhang Anshi's eyes met in the air, and they were speechless.

In fact, when they first started, they were actually very unconvinced.However, after surrendering to Chen Ying, the two had to admit that the hook and sickle spear, whether cavalry or infantry, could easily bring down the heavy and slow-moving Mo Dao army.

However, as a heavy infantry general, Zhang Anshi was obviously not convinced that Chen Ying underestimated the Modao Army so much. He was slightly taken aback, and said bravely, "I don't know General Chen, what else can I do to restrain Modao?"

"This general can use a crossbow!"

"Crossbow?" Zhang Anshi felt very funny. The soldiers of the two-layer heavy-armored Tomahawk battalion could ignore the shooting of crossbows below three stones. Even if it was a three-stone crossbow, it would not be able to harm the soldiers of Modao Army unless it hit the neck or head.

Knowing that Zhang Anshi didn't believe it, Chen Ying wasn't angry either.Instead, he nodded at Ashina Simo.

Ashina Simo then took a crossbow from the horse's neck.

This crossbow is completely different from ordinary crossbows. Except for the crossbow string, there is no other part that is the same as the crossbow. Even the whole crossbow is made of steel.

Chen Ying was slightly struggling to lift such a crossbow.However, Chen Ying asked Ashina Simo to install the tripod on the ground, and put this strange crossbow on the tripod with difficulty.While stringing the crossbow, Chen Ying held the crossbow trigger and made a 360-degree rotation.

"This crossbow machine is called the Scorpion Crossbow. The crossbow arm is six feet six inches long and weighs 32 catties and sixty-two three cents!" Chen Ying explained to the generals while putting the steel crossbow into the arrow slot: "This crossbow The only shortcoming of the crossbow machine is that it is too bulky, and it will be very difficult to carry it by a single soldier, especially each crossbow bolt weighs two or four dollars a catty. If a pot of 25 crossbow bolts is also carried, a soldier will have no money at all. The method is long-range maneuvering, so the general has defined this kind of crossbow machine. This kind of crossbow machine does not fight alone, but is only used as a support arm of the Modao army, responsible for covering the Modao team to face the enemy's bows or crossbow arrows. "

When Chen Ying said this, everyone understood.In fact, why the Modao Army was lost in the Song Dynasty was not because of the convenience of the Modao craft, but the lack of horses in the Song Dynasty.The generals and soldiers of the Mo Dao Army are all mounted infantry. They all ride war horses, and they are one man with two horses. One horse is used to carry the Mo Dao hand, and the other horse is used to carry the supplies of the Mingguang armor and the Mo Dao hand.In the Song Dynasty, due to the lack of horses, Modaoshou could not follow the large army to maneuver.However, the Tang Army was different. At the time when the Tang Dynasty was at its most powerful, there were more than 60 war horses in the horse farms under the jurisdiction of Taipu Temple alone, but the Tang Army had less than [-] regular troops.

What's more, in the Tang Dynasty, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Liangzhou, Longyou, Bashu, Qingzhou, Hetao, Monan, and Mobei were all suitable for raising horses.The number of war horses owned by private folks is also very scary. (Tong Dian) In fact, it is recorded that the Tang Army’s equipment group had six war horses at the most difficult time. During the richest Zhenguan period, a group of ten people owned fourteen war horses. (average).

At this time, Chen Ying did not pull the crossbow string hard like other crossbow machines, but tugged at the bottom (Old Cheng didn't know why it was called such an extraordinary name), and shook a ratchet vigorously. Turning, the crossbow string was slowly buckled on the bracket.

Chen Ying adjusted the firing angle with the crossbow, and suddenly pulled the crossbow at three o'clock.

"call out……"

The crossbow shot out of the string and flew towards Zheng Jun's camp with a scream.A large flag with the word "Zheng" fluttering in the wind on the sentry tower of Zheng Jun's camp fell in response to the sound.

Shan Xiongxin was dumbfounded.

Zhang Anshi was dumbfounded.

Ashina Simo was also slightly surprised.

In fact, Chen Ying's archery skills can barely be said to be average, he can barely hit seven out of ten arrows at a fifty-step target, which is quite qualified.But he didn't expect that Chen Ying could shoot the banner in the enemy camp from [-] paces away, which was very difficult for him himself.

The person who was three hundred steps away had actually turned into a stick of fire in his sight.

Chen Ying actually wanted to say that what he was aiming at was not the big flag at all, but the eye-catching big gong in front of Zheng Junying.This large copper gong is almost three feet long, and there is a very bright center in the center, which can be used as a target.Unexpectedly, it was the gong that was aimed at, and it happened to hit the flag of Zheng Guo.

"The general is good at archery."

"The general really lives up to his reputation."

"The great general Zhen Nai Yang Youji is alive..."

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said: "Coincidence"

But looking at the appearance of the generals.Obviously don't believe it.

Chen Ying shook his head and smiled wryly, pretending to be coercive invisibly, that's the real thing.Chen Ying coughed to hide his embarrassment, and continued: "This is a scorpion crossbow. It can shoot three hundred paces. Within one hundred paces, it can shoot six inches into a compacted earth wall, and within fifty paces it can shoot five inches. Go one foot in, tell me, what is the chance of the Modao Army encountering this kind of crossbow?"

Shan Xiong said: "If so, the heavy shield may not be able to stop it."

Zhang Anshi said: "It's not just a heavy shield, even two layers of iron armor can't stop it..."

The first thirty-five chapters actually cried

The first thirty-five chapters actually cried

In the Tang Dynasty, the Tang army was powerful for a while, and its main opponents were Turks, Tubo, and Arabs, all of whom were powerful nations at that time, but their confrontations with the Tang army were basically more defeated than victorious.In the heyday, the Tang army expanded its territory and extended its power as far as the Caspian Sea region. Outer Mongolia and the Western Regions were all China's territory.

However, the army of the Tang Dynasty did not rely on numbers to win from beginning to end. The 630 four prefectures in the country had less than 60 troops.However, this army, which is not huge in number, controls 300 million square kilometers of land in the Western Regions, deterring dozens of countries, large and small.

What is Tang Jun's "excellence"?Make the world dare not take it lightly?

The "sugar powder" of later generations came up with the most objective and fair answer. Tang Jun's equipment is considered the best generation in Chinese history, with excellent weapons and sufficient horses.Before the Anshi Rebellion, the expensive and extremely fragile "Tang-like Broadsword" (horizontal sword) was standard equipment for soldiers. It took three years to manufacture a strong bow, and even infantry would be equipped with pack horses to improve mobility. The heavy cavalry, in addition to wearing iron armor, was also equipped with a horse that took 15 years to complete.There is also Mingguang armor that can basically ignore light bow shooting.

Chen Ying saw in the military forums of later generations that the Tang army had three major weapons: "Bow, Modao, and Qingqi!" It is related to the weak national strength.After the cavalry of the Tang army was equipped with Chen Ying's horseshoes, the loss rate of the horseshoes was reduced by almost [-]%. The equipment of the high bridge saddle and the double-sided stirrups allowed the soldiers of the Tang army to abuse the Turks on horseback in field battles.

The Mingguang Armor and Mo Dao, and Chen Ying thought of ways to improve production efficiency and reduce production costs. In the near future, Tang Jun's Mo Dao will equip troops on a large scale. More than [-] will increase exponentially or tens of times.

Of course, Chen Ying did not let go of the crossbow.The crossbow machine is the powerful weapon of the Chinese nation to restrain the nomads in the north. The manufacturing and research and development of the crossbow machine in the past dynasties have produced extremely strong results.The Qin Dynasty in the Qin Dynasty, the foot-mounted crossbow and rhubarb crossbow in the Han Dynasty, and the Wanjun crossbow in the Jin Dynasty.There are also Tang crossbows and eight ox crossbows from the Tang Dynasty in contemporary times.

Chen Ying did not make great efforts to improve the eight-ox crossbow at this time, but he made the scorpion crossbow sold on "a certain treasure" later. The so-called scorpion crossbow is actually a composite crossbow. Made of spring alloy steel, it adopts recurve arc to increase the tension. With the increase of tension, the shooting range and power have also been greatly improved and strengthened.

After all the generals flattered and flattered, Du Shanguo, who joined the army in the recording room, asked a targeted question: "General Chen, although this crossbow shoots farther and is powerful, it is too heavy, isn't it?"

Chen Ying nodded and said: "For individual soldiers, this crossbow machine is a bit heavy. Of course, its main function is not to counterattack in time, but also to attack and suppress the enemy's crossbowmen. sexual overlay."

In fact, Chen Ying also expressed his helplessness. Without a scope, although the scorpion crossbow has a long range and great power, it is impossible to shoot accurately.Facing a target the size of a matchstick, it is very difficult for rifles in later generations to catch it with the naked eye and hit it directly.Not to mention the crossbow machine, when shooting a target more than three hundred steps away, the crossbow arrows do not travel in a straight line during the flight, but in a parabolic shape. In this case, to accurately hit the target, it is necessary to predict the target sentenced.This is a test of the crossbowman's operational level and anticipation ability.

Du Shanguo stopped talking when he heard that Chen Ying originally used this kind of crossbow to suppress the enemy archers.Because bows and arrows are generally not very accurate in the process of shooting, they rely on unit density for covering shooting.Accuracy is not important, what matters is that the range is far enough and the penetration is strong enough.

However, before the Modao army arrived at Zheng Jun's Jinsha camp, the soldiers under Wang Xuanqiong's command suddenly panicked.An arrow from afar hit Zheng Jun's banner, which had a fatal impact on Zheng Jun's morale.On the battlefield, the morale of the offensive and defensive sides often increases and decreases with each other. If the morale of the enemy is found to be high.One's own soldiers may also become suspicious because of this.

The power of Chen Ying's arrow made all the generals of the Zheng army immediately think that there were sharpshooters in the enemy's formation, and none of them wanted to be named by the enemy, so they immediately retracted their heads and vital parts in unison.

"cut!"

Dozens of Mo Dao breathed heavily, raised the Mo Dao in their hands, and chopped down neatly.With a breathtaking howl, Mo Dao slammed fiercely on the horse-rejecting pile blocking the front of Mo Dao's army.

Like a horse refusal stake as thick as the mouth of a bowl, it turned into thousands of pieces and fell to the ground.