Lord of the House

(Second update, asking for a red ticket. Brothers, the New Year is approaching, and the red ticket is very weak.)

The Jinhai is Lin Bie's ship, and it is not used as the main attack ship. There are bed crossbows on the stern deck, but no scorpion crossbows. After Song Bo and Wang Chengfu were forced to board the ship, they boarded the ship with Lin Bing. I watched the naval battle on the stern deck, but I could not see the scorpion crossbow, which the Jiangdong Zuo Army had regarded as a secret weapon, and the scorpion crossbow was not used in the naval battle at noon.

At this time, on the high ground south of the Dayangshan Island stronghold, six scorpion crossbows were set up.

Song Bo saw the auxiliary soldiers put loose stone bullets into the scalp of the crossbow tip. He could guess that this kind of tool with a strange shape, a crossbow tip raised high like a scorpion tail, was a kind of catapult, but it was familiar with military affairs and war. He has never seen the equipment in practice, nor has it been recorded in any military book.

"Your Excellency really has countless skilled craftsmen." Wang Chengfu watched the scorpion crossbow firing stone bullets at close range. After three or five rounds, he accurately hit the wall of the village. He threw the fortress from the distance, and the wall swayed. The bandit soldiers on the wall hit two people, and they immediately bleed. Seeing that their lives were not guaranteed, the other bandit soldiers were forced to retreat from the wall. Wang Cheng was overwhelmed with emotion. Said, "This kind of crossbow is really a sharp weapon. It is used in naval battles, but it is sharper than a bed crossbow..."

Scorpion crossbows are expensive to manufacture, and Lin Bie is only willing to make small scorpion crossbows to be mounted on decks for water warfare. The use of a scorpion crossbow is far less cost-effective than a common catapult in a land-based siege of a city and a fortress.

The first time Wang Chengfu saw the scorpion crossbow in actual combat, he could see that the scorpion crossbow was more conducive to naval warfare, and he was indeed a person with eyesight. Lin Fu thought: It is also worth Song Bo to make a special trip to Jiangmen for him.

After Wang Chengfu said that, he felt a little regretful. He glanced at Song Bo, explained the purpose of the scorpion crossbow, and reminded Song Bo, worried that it would make Lin Fu unhappy.

Song Bo smiled slightly and asked Lin Fu: "Master Lin really thinks that there is a way to follow in the world?"

"Those who gain are more help, and those who lose are less help. The ancients said," Lin Bie asked with a smile, "Using tactics is a technique, and this scorpion crossbow is also a technique. Both techniques are important, and one cannot be lost. Wantless slaughter, what if you get the skills? You think you have a plan, but you lose the road. How can you become a great weapon? Although the Jiangdong Zuojun is weak, I have the confidence to fight with the luxury family. Three to five years, Brother Song, let's watch it." Seeing Wang Chengfu, he also smiled as if he wanted to understand, and Wang Chengfu also wanted to understand the hesitation of the Song family's Mingzhe to protect himself and watch the situation at this time.

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Lin Bie doesn't mind showing Song Bo the truth of Jiangdong's left army. Even if the Song family is determined to follow the She family into the dark, even if the secret of the scorpion crossbow is not leaked by Song Bo, as long as the scorpion crossbow is used in naval battles and plays a role , nor can it be completely kept secret.

The structure of the scorpion crossbow is not complicated. The craftsmen who are good at making weapons can easily guess that the key to the torsion of the scorpion crossbow is the function of the crossbow cable in the middle of the crossbow. At the technical level, it is not difficult to imitate the scorpion crossbow.

As long as the strategic focus of the She family is not on the sea, even if the She family knows the secret of the Scorpion Crossbow, it is impossible for the She Family to invest resources on a large scale to build large ships and install the Scorpion Crossbow on the ships.

In land siege, due to the high manufacturing cost of the scorpion crossbow, it is not as practical as the ordinary catapult, and there is no need to imitate it.

Although the luxury family gave up the strategy of going north to west Zhejiang and Jiangxi through Xianxia Pass, abandoned land and sea, and instead infiltrated and controlled the East China Sea bandit forces, and directly attacked and plundered the wealthy eastern Zhejiang and eastern Jiangxi from the sea, in order to achieve both. A heavy blow to the Yuan's rule in the two Zhejiang and Jiangdong regions can also be used to support the war and restore vitality quickly, but after the luxury family controls the East China Sea, the focus is still to develop steps that are conducive to siege and defense, and land and field battles. pawn.

From She Feixiong's attempt to defend the city by capturing Xiangshan City in mid-June, as well as many actions against Mingzhou and Jiahang, it can be seen that the She family's strategy of abandoning the land and going to sea will eventually achieve the purpose of capturing the city and eroding eastern Zhejiang.

Even if the Shejia will continue to strengthen the power of the East China Sea pirates, as long as the Shejia's fundamental strategy is not adjusted, it is impossible for the Shejia to use its limited resources to develop large warships that are conducive to maritime hegemony.

The concept of sea control has not yet formally appeared in contemporary military thought.

In the current mainstream military thinking, although some people have begun to realize the existence of naval warfare, the court has also established three regular naval divisions in the town army system: Dengzhou Naval Division, Ninghai Town Water Camp and Jiangning Water Camp. Coastal areas are also planning to set up water camp boat divisions to guard against pirates, but the sea is difficult and dangerous, and the storm is unpredictable, almost all water camp boat divisions try their best to avoid going to sea to fight. Even if there are occasional sailors who go out to sea to patrol the sea, they will try their best to avoid fighting directly on the sea surface.

In the form of warfare where naval battles only occasionally occur in this world, warships are a means of ferrying across the sea, not a weapon of war.

The four sea loach ships that can resist the wind and waves can be staffed with more than 300 armored soldiers and sailors. The Jinhai-class warships are normally only equipped with more than 300 armored and auxiliary soldiers, and the two Jiyun-class warships have There are only more than 200 soldiers in the Auxiliary Army, but the cost of one Jinhai-class warship can build 20 or 30 sturdy loach ships, and the cost of two Jiyun-class warships can make 12 or 3 sturdy loachs. ferry.

Under the influence of the current naval warfare ideology that focuses on landing operations, the East China Sea bandit forces controlled by the luxury family are naturally mainly loach ships with low development costs and easier to form landing scales.

Thousands of years later, the idea of ​​sea **** has been deeply ingrained in the minds of ordinary military enthusiasts. Lin Fu's main intention to develop the Jinghai Camp is to compete for sea dominance and develop the elite step battalion.

Li Zhuo intended to strengthen the Jinhai and Dengzhou divisions in the Pinglu policy. He planned to use the Jinhai and Dengzhou divisions to attack the Donghu side by sea when he counterattacked the Donglu. In fact, he had the idea of ​​​​controlling the sea. .

Only after possessing the command of the sea, did he choose the initiative of the land battlefield.

East China Sea pirates entering and leaving Zhejiang and Jiangdong coastal prefectures and counties are like entering a land of no one. In fact, it is also a manifestation of Ninghai Town’s water camp inaction, East China Sea pirates mastering the sea power, and choosing land battlefields at will. It’s just that the extravagant family behind the East China Sea pirates has no awareness. The concept and importance of sea domination.

If during the East Fujian War, Li Zhuo suppressed the She family on land, and Ninghai Zhenshuiying launched an offensive from the sea, directly attacking the hinterland stronghold controlled by the She family, it would be difficult for the She family to have the opportunity to split the soil and seal the lord.

People in the world say that Chongzhou has no danger of defending the land, but they don't know that Chongzhou is close to the river and the sea. With Chongzhou as its foundation, a sharp sailor is compiled, and the forces can enter the east of Sichuan in the west, attack the eastern captives in the north, and reach the Nanyang in the south. Far wider and farther than an elite cavalry.

However, the importance of sea control has always been fully discovered in the era of great navigation. The rise and fall of the Central Plains dynasties and the frequent wars over the millennium have always been dominated by land hegemony. Traditional military thinking ignores or even ignores sea control. It is inevitable. In addition, the weak ability of ocean voyage is also an important reason.

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Before nightfall, more than 1,000 soldiers and auxiliaries of the Jiangdong Zuo Army landed on the ground, five times as many as the soldiers defending the village. A total of 12 scorpion crossbows and 16 bed crossbows were sent from the east side of the village. The gate and the high ground on the south side attack the gate and wall of the village. The earth platform on the west side of the highland was also built with a height of 10 feet and a length of 50 feet. The earth platform was only 20 paces away from the wall on the west side. When it was put on a pallet, it formed a cloud bridge that could directly attack the wall. Two hundred soldiers were borrowed. The cover of the landing platform was used to prepare for the attack, and dozens of strong crossbows were also concentrated to suppress the bandit soldiers on the wall during the storm. Offensive pressure on the sides.

The wind and rainy season is over, the twilight is full of colors, a white moon floats between the sea and the sky, and the Venus in the sky is also pale and dull. When the night really falls, the stars and the moon can become bright and illuminate the sky.

Although the wall is sturdy, it is nowhere near as thick as the brick rammed-earth city wall that is three or four feet thick, and its height is only more than ten feet. Even the city wall as thick as three or four feet may collapse under the continuous blow of large catapults. Under the precise strikes of hundreds of stone bullets, not only could no one stand on the wall, but the entire wall. Branch-shaped cracks have formed on the surface.

Seeing that the wall on the south side might collapse directly, Lin Fu said to Ao Canghai, "The moonlight is still good, and it is easy to attack the fortress at night, do you have more patience?"

"Okay," Ao Canghai said, "I'll send someone to discuss with Zhou Tong and ask them to wait a little longer. Then four scorpion crossbows will be dispatched from the east, and a rushing vehicle will also be prepared from the east. If the wall of the village collapses, the east side may use the chariot to attack the gate of the village first, and after the two sides have attracted enough pirates, Zhou Tong will then take the cloud bridge to seize the village..."

There is no suspense to annihilate the more than 200 bandits who are defending the stronghold, but what is the meaning of the battle of "annihilating 200 enemies and destroying 180 yourself"?

The Jiangdong Zuo Army has just established a foothold in Chongzhou, and the large-scale resettlement of refugees by means of inventorying public fields and dredging the salt river has just begun. At this time, the soldiers who can recruit and supplement the fighting strength of the Jiangdong Zuo Army are still quite limited~www.wuxiaspot. com~ In the war with the East China Sea bandits, the battle strength was too much, and Jiangdong Zuojun would not only fail to grow, but would be weakened. Lin Fu asked Jiangdong Zuojun to fight more intelligently.

A total of ten scorpion crossbows and six crossbow bed crossbows continued to attack the south wall. In the middle of the night when the moon was in the middle of the sky, the eight-foot-thick, masonry wall finally couldn't support it, and it collapsed and broke open. A big mouth five or six feet wide.

The Kou soldiers who had not given up their defense, mainly large shields, rushed to the gap, trying to stop the Jiangdong Zuo army from advancing into the fortress from the south.

After the collapse of the southern village wall, the current Jiangdong Left Army soldiers on the east side of the village also used bed crossbows and crossbows to suppress the bandit soldiers on the wall, and used high shields to cover the chariots to directly attack the village door.

The shape of the rushing car is simple. It is a solid giant wood on a two-wheeled frame. The pointed tip is covered with iron, which increases the impact force. More than a dozen auxiliary soldiers slammed into the gate of the village. The direct blows to the Zhaimen have accumulated to a considerable extent before, and the Zhaimen shook with one hit, and the masonry on the forehead fell off.

Of course, the Kou soldiers in the stockade would not wait for the stockade gate to collapse before gathering. Seeing that the stockade door was crumbling, they gathered 60 or 70 people and desperately filled the backside of the stockade gate with bricks, stones, wood and soil to completely seal the stockade gate. .

At this time, there was a loud roar from the west, and the crossbow arrows rained like rain, suppressing the more than 20 bandits on the wall of the fortress so that they could not lift their heads. The soldiers of the Yidu team took advantage of this temporary trestle to scramble to climb the wall, kill all the pirates guarding the west wall, and cover the archers to climb the wall. After that, the armored soldiers in the south forced their way in through the gap in the collapsed wall to attack the bandits; the armored soldiers in the east also gave up attacking the gate of the village, and directly climbed the wall with a ladder, attacked the village, and attacked the middle of the village together on three routes. . My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter