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

Han Shizhong was still a few miles away, and he was all heartbroken.

Not to mention the officers and soldiers stationed in the water village.

The first round of shelling was when the five warships adjusted their attitude and bombarded with the main guns of the ships, which was extremely powerful, and a large number of wooden fences were immediately blown to pieces, and a large number of debris and sawdust flew all over the sky.

There were also a few unlucky officers and soldiers who were hit and died instantly.

This was followed by more than a dozen Yangsan battleships bombarding the hull sideways.

Three guns on each side, more than a dozen dozens of guns bombarded.

Although it was only a small cannonball weighing five pounds, it was still an undisputed weapon of mass destruction in this era.

No matter how powerful the bed crossbow is, what about even the eight-bull crossbow of the triple crossbow?

It's just shooting a spear.

It takes time and effort to rewind it, so this thing can't be used to attack the enemy in the field at all, but can only be put on the head of the city for defense.

This kind of militaristic heavy weapon, it takes the power of hundreds of people to control and use.

The so-called eight-bull crossbow is just a name, which means that it takes the power of the eight-bull to pull it apart.

Well, for a certain general in the army, this kind of heavy crossbow threat is indeed not small.

If you're not careful, you might be shot to death by this heavy crossbow.

It doesn't make sense to hide in a military formation, with a shieldman in front of you and behind you, or to be heavily armoured.

The crossbow was as fast as lightning when it was fired, and the shield and armor were meaningless, like papier-mâché under the heavy crossbow spear.

But for an army of tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people, how meaningful is a spear fired in this way, even if it is huge?

Which arrow, or which piece of wood, which rolling stone on the battlefield will not shoot and kill people?

How many of these giant crossbows that need to be controlled by 100 people can be placed on the head of the city? Is it useful to put dozens of divine arm archers who can reach more than 1,000 people for city defense?

Pointless.

Therefore, after the Northern Song Dynasty, there was no news of this kind of giant crossbow.

The Southern Song Dynasty didn't build it at all.

It's not that it's technically difficult, it's just that it's not built.

The value for money is too low.

However, it is an ordinary bed crossbow that can be controlled by a dozen people, or a small single-bow crossbow that can be controlled by a few people, as well as a crossbow with a kick, a waist crossbow, and an arm crossbow, which have been continuously manufactured and used until the end of the Song Dynasty.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, firearms were used on a large scale, and the cost performance of firearms far exceeded that of various crossbows, and crossbows were eliminated.

From the bronze crossbows of the Qin Dynasty, to the repeating crossbows of the two Han Dynasty, the bed crossbows of the Song people, the divine arm bow and other infantry crossbows, the Han people have always been good at making crossbows.

After all, even if it was the Qin and Han dynasties, except for the Liangjiazi of the border county who was not inferior to the barbarians in riding and archery, most of the Han civilians were definitely not comparable to those barbarians who shot arrows with bows and arrows all day long.

It is the Song people, and there are a large number of bows and arrows on the roads of Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi.

In addition, in the heart of the Central Plains, the two lakes, the two Zhejiangs in the south of the Yangtze River, and the two Guangzhous in Fujian, these places do not have any martial heritage, and it is impossible to have thousands of righteous associations like Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi.

When these places become battlefields, it is too difficult to train a qualified archer.

Without three or five years of training and a certain amount of battlefield experience, it is basically impossible to shoot live targets on the battlefield.

Originally, it could have been replaced by a crossbowman.

The ballistic output of a crossbow is much simpler than that of a bow, but it is more expensive to manufacture and much more expensive than a bow.

But in any case, the training of a crossbowman is much easier than that of an archer.

It's just that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of muskets appeared, which were actually quite rudimentary, and the firing range was only a few dozen steps...... That's enough.

Unless the crossbow is a heavy crossbow such as a crossbow, the effective range is only a few dozen steps.

The Qin crossbow was boasted of by later generations, including the Han crossbow, but it is fair to say that the crossbow of the Qin and Han dynasties cannot be compared with the Song crossbow, the manufacturing process, raw materials, forging of various parts, range and how much pressure it bears, the Song crossbow is at its peak.

Even so, the Song crossbow was eliminated.

The firing range is about the same, and in terms of manufacturing process, the musket is much simpler than the crossbow, and it also saves a lot.

It takes less effort to train a firecracker than a crossbowman.

So even at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the configuration of crossbowmen was almost gone.

The Song army consisted of one hundred, and seventy archers and crossbowmen, of which half were archers and half crossbowmen.

The Ming army consisted of 100 men, 10 sword players, 30 pikemen, and 60 archers.

There are no crossbowmen.

And the musketeers with muskets are used intensively, which is the Shenji Battalion of the three major battalions. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, even the archers were almost eliminated.

In terms of Sun Chengzong's establishment in Liaodong, there is no infantry battalion, no archery battalion, no archery battalion, no iron cavalry battalion, no water battalion, and no archery battalion.

First, the firearms battalion has implemented firearms for all personnel.

Second, in the middle and late Ming army, Wen Tian and Wu Xi, local officials do not pay attention to military equipment, generals only pay attention to family members, do not train ordinary battalion soldiers and guard army, the military equipment is extremely wasted, the guard soldiers and battalion soldiers are like beggars, is a collection of refugees, prisoners, beggars, and the status is far inferior to the Song army.

At worst, the Song army also had the income level of the ordinary middle class, but its social status was generally declining and it was suppressed by civilian officials.

However, before the Shenzong Dynasty, the Song Dynasty military generals could also enter the Privy Council, which was equivalent to the military generals of the Ming Dynasty being able to enter the cabinet, which was unimaginable in the Ming Dynasty.

After Shenzong, although the military generals did not enter the privy council, they became the captains, and they were the same as the second rank of the official residence, and they did not lag behind the civil officials.

It is even more impossible to be like the military generals of the Ming Dynasty, from the official to the general soldier, and he has to kneel down and salute the low-grade civil officials, only to make promises, and obey the moderation of the civilian patrol.

The firearms of the Ming army were mainly shoddy, and at the same time, the old skills of crossbows and bows were lost.

It's hard to avoid a defeat.

At this moment, the Song army is mainly based on crossbows and bows, and as long as it is a garrison, it will not suffer too much against the Khitan.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin people learned a painful lesson with crossbows, divine arm bows, and hemp knives.

The development of firearms in China can only be said to be quite rugged and difficult in the future.

A lot of the time it's going down the wrong path.

But now...... []

The roar of the guns on both sides can be said to have opened an era in advance.

The Age of Firearms!

The age of firearms on the right path!

Only artillery suitable for field or warships is real artillery, and not the kind of heavy and clumsy fortress guns.

That one can have, but it's only a small branch of the big artillery family.

Before the transportation capacity is reached, small artillery, which can be transported over long distances, cover the battlefield, and suppress the enemy's artillery, is the real battlefield weapon.

Even small one-pound guns, three-pound guns, weighing tens of pounds or one or two hundred pounds, can be pushed by a few people and move like flying on the battlefield.

When the Liangshan army and the Khitan cavalry, the Jin cavalry faced each other......

The scene of hundreds, thousands of artillery pieces roaring together......

That's sure to be how beautiful it is.

These nomads will definitely be able to sing and dance in advance.

And right in front of him, a large number of officers and soldiers in Shuizhai were directly blown stupid, threw away their bed crossbows and their own equipment, and fled in the wilderness.

Under the bombardment of dozens of artillery pieces, in less than a quarter of an hour, the entire water village was in shambles.

The original ability to control the water surface is gone.

Along with bed crossbows, small fireships, were abandoned.

All officers and soldiers, dead or fleeing.

Not far away, the cavalry of the Song army was still hesitating.

As the ship slowly sailed forward, its guns aimed at them......

"Straight sissy thief...... Withdraw'!"

Without hesitation, Han Shizhong directly ordered to evacuate.

These cannons are equivalent to Tianwei.

Under the glorious power, manpower is irretrievable.