Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

The battlefields in front of them were nearly twenty miles away from each other.

There are also more than ten miles in the horizontal direction.

The official road is in the middle, with sparse forests, shrubs, abandoned villages and fields on both sides.

Large groups of men appeared on such terrain and worked to fill in the last defensive obstacles.

The armor is bright, the armor is dazzling, and the weapons are shining coldly.

A small number of cavalry were mixed in the formation of the troops and followed them forward.

The military flags were fluttering, mixed in the military formation, and the edges could not be seen at a glance.

It's no wonder that the Song army, which was able to attack the Liao Kingdom, was indeed much more powerful than the troops of the Shijiedu.

An army of more than 200,000 people attacked.

A grand battlefield.

A colorful scene.

Tens of thousands of people were shooting at each other in the sky, and the arrows were so dense that they could block the sun.

Wang Lun was not only not nervous when seeing all this, but there was even appreciation in his eyes.

Reaching this point is a victory for Wang Lun.

Previously, the court did not bother to deal with the local bandits, which numbered several hundred people.

Only when the riot gets serious will the local garrison intimidate it. If it provokes a state-level crusade, the riot is considered serious.

By the tenth quarter, they were divided into three groups, and it was already the victory of Liangshan and Wang Lun.

Reaching this point means a great success for Wang Lun.

The scene in front of Wang Lun looked like an extremely successful oil painting.

A completely different face.

Nervous, excited, terrified, fearful, cowardly, ferocious, ferocious...

Iron helmets of different styles, hooded helmets, phoenix-winged helmets, different armors, leather armors, iron armors, and paper armors.

Paper armor is a characteristic of the Song Dynasty. It is made of hard cloth and filled with paper tendons. After repeated beating, it becomes extremely tight.

This thing definitely cannot be compared with iron armor, nor can it be compared with leather armor.

The cotton armor in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was also thicker than paper armor, and the cotton armor was inlaid with iron leaves, so its protective power was definitely much stronger than that of paper armor.

Paper armor can block an exhausted bow and arrow. Not to mention being cut by a bayonet, it can't block even a slightly stronger arrow.

The only thing missing is Bu Renjia.

The most famous 16-piece armor of the Song Dynasty looks like an iron man and beast when worn. It was worn by the giant men in the Fourth Army who were over 1.85 meters tall. They wore heavy armor and held heavy weapons. This was a critical force. The strong army that is always used to block the enemy's heavy cavalry charges is also the only bright spot of the Northern Song Dynasty army.

It's a pity that I can't see it this time.

To Wang Lun, the scene in front of him was spectacular, gorgeous, and an extremely beautiful piece of music, but it was time to end.

The officers and soldiers were already within a hundred steps.

The closest ones were about fifty or sixty steps away. They worked in pairs, carrying short ladders. The walls of the camp were not high, so a two-meter-high ladder was enough to climb over.

There are a large number of thousands of ladders with curved hooks at the front, which are difficult to overturn after being put up.

The camp is not a city and lacks many means of defense.

If the attacking party has a large number of people and the quality of its soldiers is sufficient, it can also attack the camp during the battle.

And it is obvious that the Liangshan Army relied on the camp and was unable to get out of the camp and exchanged fire with the officers and soldiers. Perhaps in the eyes of Wang Huan and others on the opposite side and the ordinary officers and soldiers, this was a sign that the Liangshan Army lacked confidence.

Maybe the bandits have strong cavalry but not so much infantry?

Under the desperate situation, the already strong officers and soldiers also burst out a lot of energy. Despite the initial disadvantages and heavy losses under the attack of crossbows, they were still able to continue to move forward.

When they advanced to the vicinity of the camp, they seemed to see the dawn of victory and began to shout desperately.

Many military attaches also led the troops on horseback. They waved their swords in the formation to encourage the soldiers to speed up and break through the camp, so that they could crush the Liangshan Army's infantry formation. Then they spread out the infantry in the array and concentrated the formation, not afraid of Liangshan's superior cavalry.

At this moment, Wang Lun made a movement and waved his arms downward.

The Chinese military flag was waved vigorously.

After the Chinese army's flag was moved, each battalion's command flag, each Qianhu flag, and each command flag began to wave.

When the command flag is waving, the flags of subordinates are also waving. This is called"Ying Qi".

The semaphore is much more complicated than the golden drum.

The golden drum is not simply a matter of beating the drum to advance and ringing the golden drum to retreat.

It can have many meanings, including attack, garrison, defense, retreat, etc.

But for truly complex commands and various tactical instructions, the most important thing to understand is the semaphore.

From the Han and Tang dynasties to the Song and Ming dynasties, flag language was an important component of the military command system, and was even the first required course for many children of general families.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the army was also in decline. In the later stages of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army no longer had the ability to fight in large groups, or in other words, no generals could command large groups to fight.

The civil servant is the one who coordinates many general soldiers and is the nominal commander-in-chief.

Each commander-in-chief only commands his own direct battalion. The deputy generals, staff generals, and guerrillas below each do their own thing, and each is in charge of a battalion. It is difficult to form a joint force.

Even if these general soldiers are really asked to command large corps, there will only be very few qualified people.

After Qi Jiguang, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty increased their suppression and control of generals. By the late Ming Dynasty, generals had reached the level of generals, and many were illiterate.

There are many generals who cannot even control the marching, encampment, golden drums and flags of the army.

They can only command one or two thousand people at most.

Like the battle between the Liangshan Army and the Song Army, the generals in the late Ming Dynasty 100% did not have the ability to command.

Not to mention the late Qing Dynasty, there were only 500 people in each battalion of the Hunan Army and the Huai Army in the middle and late period. The generals, namely Li Hongzhang and others, relied on their fellow villagers, disciples, relatives, etc. to command these battalion officers. The battalion officers had the ability to command only a few hundred people. A battalion, if dozens of battalions join forces in combat, it will be a grand battle.

When the Hunan Army was dismantled and the Huai Army became a garrison force in North China, and when the Japanese adopted Western-style organization and tactics to establish a new army, the Huai Army's lack of organization and command were fully exposed.

Relying on a group of confidant generals, the battalion officers under their control also had old relationships. However, during the Sino-Japanese War, the Huai Army had already been updated and iterated. The old battalion officers who had experienced the war were getting old one after another, and the new second and third generation battalion officers had no military skills. The Huai army had no command system at all. Under the attack of the Japanese army, the Huai army actually had more advanced weapons. The Qing Dynasty had always been generous in purchasing weapons, and purchased the most advanced weapons from various countries.

On the Northeast battlefield, the Japanese army had more than 300 rapid-fire artillery pieces, while the Huai army and the Northeast garrison had more than 700 guns, and their artillery was more than twice that of the Japanese army.

There were more foreign guns, all of which were the most advanced rifles in the world at that time, as well as the most advanced breech-loading guns at that time, such as the Austrian Charisier, the German New Mauser and so on.

The number of troops does not suffer, and the guns and artillery do not suffer.

In the end it was a disastrous failure.

The collapse of the command system, the collapse of the training system, and the collapse of the formation system are the most important reasons.

Sometimes, dynasty changes are like a spiral.

Spin around, get back to where you started, and even drop lower.

The end of the Han Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Song Dynasty, the end of the Ming Dynasty, the end of the Qing Dynasty...

There is no lowest point, only a lower point.

At least in front of us, in this fierce battle involving 200,000 people, both sides were under command, which is remarkable.

The Ten-Jiedu team broke out in a desperate situation, and it can be regarded as playing at a rare high level.

Under the attack of arrow rain, they continued to advance with a high casualty rate and continued to fight back. Even if Liangshan had iron helmets and armor, they would inevitably suffer casualties under the attack of tens of thousands of arrow rain, and the battle line also fluctuated slightly.

That's pretty good.

However, it has basically stopped at this point.

As the Chinese army's flag waved and each ministry responded to the flag, there was a brief calm.

This calmness is quite eerie.

Even the bed crossbow stopped.

When hundreds of thousands of people opened their fronts and approached within a hundred steps, the effect of the bed crossbow became smaller.

Even useless.

It requires a certain elevation angle and shooting space, and this heavy crossbow cannot be used at too close a distance.

This is why the officers and soldiers accelerated their advance.

In their haste, they didn't bring the bed crossbow.

Several hundred crossbows had just brought them huge casualties.

Although it is inevitable that quite a few crossbow arrows will be in vain, being shot on the ground or floating far away.

But as long as one of them falls into the queue, it will cause huge casualties.

It was an extremely terrifying situation. A heavy crossbow arrow could penetrate at least three or four people. The killing effect was extremely astonishing in a dense formation.

Fortunately, they were not far apart, and with the deployment of many shield bearers holding large shields as high as a person, even if they could not block the direct heavy crossbow arrows, they could effectively reduce the damage.

Now they were close.

The morale was originally high.

But there was a strange silence on Liang Shanjun's side.

This made a large number of officers and soldiers hesitate, but with the sound of drums, flags, and inertia, they continued to move forward. (To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

"boom!"

"boom! boom! boom!"

On a front more than ten miles long, at least three hundred artillery pieces opened fire at the same time.

The artillery fire first had orange flames, accompanied by a huge roar, then thick white smoke, and then the pungent smell of gunpowder..A large area on the opposite side has been cut down like wheat!

The roar, fire, loud noises, and inexplicable attacks made a large number of officers and soldiers on the opposite side frightened!

They began to put down the ladders and turned back.

Even the military attachés were panicked. There is no time to suppress these fleeing people.

If it is a bow and arrow shooting, the number of archers of the Liangshan Army is not large. If they do not get the upper hand and take advantage with crossbows, the archers of the Liangshan Army do not have much advantage.

Wang Lun activated All arms, including the Jifeng camp, the trapped camp, the Beifu army, the beggar army, the white-eared soldiers, the Baima Yicong, Qi Jiguang's Qijia army, or the Beiwei army, are not good at archery.

And to be fair, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing. Although the Qing was good at so-called mounted archery, the Qing bows were indeed strong and powerful, and the Jurchen archers were also first-rate in accuracy, but compared with the various heavy crossbows of the Song Army, the light Crossbows, bows and arrows are all available, there are a lot of excellent archers, the armor is excellent, and the armor coverage rate is far higher than that of the Ming army. Compared with the army, it is really not good enough. To put it simply, the later Jin Dynasty is not as good as the former Jin Dynasty, and the Song army is far superior to the Ming army.

This As a result, Wang Lun activated the military services and did not take advantage of the shooting. The Song

Dynasty can be said to be the best dynasty in China for shooting, and also the dynasty that pays the most attention to equipment. The

Ordnance Supervisor of the Song Dynasty was also the only professional weapons manufacturing yamen, with There are more than 5,000 craftsmen of various kinds, constantly producing various heavy crossbows, light crossbows, bows and arrows, iron armor, leather armor, various weapons, etc.[]

In terms of both quality and quantity, the weapon supervisors of the two Song Dynasties were unparalleled in China, even higher than the highly efficient Qin Dynasty.

But... all these advantages no longer exist in the face of weapons with generation differences.

On the Liangshan Army's front line were hundreds of small artillery pieces.

This kind of artillery weighs only a few dozen kilograms and can be picked up and moved by one person. During the march, a camel is enough to carry it.

It's fast to move, fast to reload, and fairly easy to cast.

After possessing the Qi Family Army, Wang Lun considered large-scale manufacturing of muskets.

But it was found to be relatively difficult to produce.

First, a large number of lathes and drills are needed.

The barrel of the gun needs to be overlapped and rolled, and then a drill bit is used to continuously drill out the empty tube. There must not be any deviation in the middle. If the drill is tilted, it will be useless.

It would take an old craftsman a month at the fastest to drill a gun barrel.

Even if you use a hydraulic tool to drive a drill bit, you still need a machine tool and enough drill bits.

In addition, the use of the matchlock gun is not convenient and is limited by weather conditions such as strong winds and heavy rain.

If there are enough archers and they are well-trained enough, the early matchlock guns will not be able to take advantage of strong bows and crossbows.

If it is a flintlock gun, the technical difficulty will increase even more.

Early flintlock guns could only succeed three times out of ten shots, and failed seven times for 190 fire.

At least from the 17th century to the turn of the 18th century, the technology of the flintlock gun was mature, including the medicine tank, the trigger for striking, and the complete locking of the faucet. The success rate of ignition increased to more than 70%. In addition, with the development of granular black powder, Flintlocks began to be more powerful than archers.

But the real pure firearms force will come later.

It was fully equipped with black powder, flintlock muskets, and bayonets. The Spanish phalanx and the subsequent Swiss phalanx of cold weapon spears and matchlocks were eliminated, and various countries began to use pure firearms troops.

This process has a history of two to three hundred years in Europe.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Qi Jiajun era was also a mixture of hot and cold.

But by the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to a serious shortage of archers and the threat of Qing Gong, the Ming Dynasty began to use pure firearms troops to fight the enemy.

We started off on the wrong track.

In addition, the Ministry of Industry was shoddy and the firearms were seriously substandard. The power of matchlock guns was not as good as bows and arrows. It can be said that the Ming army's firearms troops did not play any role.

The forged artillery is a European naval gun. It is not a field artillery at all. It is heavy and clumsy. It is suitable for defending a city, but it cannot be used on a large scale on the field battlefield.

Liangshan Army already has a large number of qualified archers.

It was a long process for flintlocks to create and suppress bows and arrows to replace spearmen.

After Wang Lun thought about it again and again, he decided not to manufacture the musket on a large scale for the time being, but just ordered the construction department to continue trial production.

Until a flintlock gun with high stability and a range greater than that of a bow and arrow can be produced.

But the artillery in front of me started to be cast early in the morning.

No Hongyi cannon was built.

That thing is too heavy and difficult to move. It is not a field gun at all.

For the Napoleon cannon, the current construction department's standards, equipment, and casting experience are not up to par.

Gunpowder technology is not up to par either.

But this kind of small artillery that the Ming army had started to use a long time ago is completely suitable!

It weighs dozens of kilograms, has a thick muzzle that is easy to load, and shoots a large number of shotshells with wide lethality. It is an effective supplement to the single attack of crossbows and bows.

The disadvantage is that the gunpowder and air sealing properties are not good enough, and the range is only a few dozen steps away.

It doesn't matter.

Heavy crossbows, bows and arrows, and small artillery just complement each other, a trinity.

At close range, these artillery fired a large number of fan-shaped lead pellets. Under the range of damage, the entire front was sprayed with blood mist!

Within fifty steps, these small artillery pieces fully exerted their effectiveness!

In Wang Lun's eyes, the entire array of officers and soldiers on the opposite side had been flattened by several levels!

Countless people fell down, with blood and flesh splattering on their bodies!

Under the sudden sound of artillery and brutal blows, the effect is also amazing!

After the second round of artillery bombardment, the ranks of officers and soldiers could no longer maintain their position and began to scatter. A large number of officers and soldiers turned around and fled, or fled aimlessly along the front.

At this moment, as Wang Lun gave another order, the rumble of horse hooves sounded, the infantry array was in chaos, and the opportunity for the cavalry came!.

Người mua: Tê Tê Ka