Chapter One Hundred and Twenty: Viewing the Mouth and Keeping the Camp (4)
Guankou Camp is built between two mountains, with the village walls as high as two meters high, and they are all built with giant trees. Among the archers in Jingzhou, the most lacking are skilled loggers. Even Lin Chunhong, Lin Chunyi and others are skilled in logging. Therefore, the use of wood in the village is extremely luxurious and extremely solid.
There are arrow towers built every ten feet apart, which are as high as five feet apart, which are used to observe the enemy situation and shoot invading enemies from a high place. Outside the wall of the village, there are iron thorns and bamboo thorns, trying to stab the enemy close to the wall. About one till till the wall is also two feet wide. Originally, the till should have been flooded, but due to the drought this year, there is no water to attract. The till is densely filled with bamboo thorns, which makes people feel numb when they see it.
The trench was covered with trenches and was specially dug into pits. In short, the enemy did not allow comfort to arrive near the village wall.
Within four hundred steps from the camp, weeds and any shelter were cleared to ensure a clear field of view and prevent the enemy from hiding it.
These are just the achievements of Jingzhou archers within three days, and Lin Chunhong is still dissatisfied with the camp. He felt that the village wall should not be built into a straight line, but should be bent into a triangle to increase the shooting opportunities of crossbow arrows. At the same time, he believed that the village wall was not wide enough, and it was not convenient for the archers to walk on it...
Time is limited, and it is not a permanent base, so it is already quite good to be able to do this at present.
Now Gao Yingxiang is ready to break through this simple camp and capture Lin Chunhong.
In the high camp, long and shrill trumpets came in waves, and more than 5,000 people were divided into two parts, pressing towards the village walls on the east and south.
The soldiers' weapons were a little messy, and the leather armor they wore seemed to be worn, but the pace of these soldiers was quite consistent. At the command of the officer, they were still four hundred steps away from the village wall and stopped.
After a burst of shouting, seven Fran cannons were pushed to the front of the formation. Fran cannons were imitated during the Zhengde period and adopted the design method of mother-and-child guns. One cannon has nine sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-s
Looking at the busy gunner, Gao Yingxiang smiled, but this smile seemed cold and chilling. Haha, don’t the dog officers and soldiers have red cannons? Let me see how you set off firecrackers! Now it’s my turn to hit you!
Indeed, the red-clothed cannon has a great power and a long range, but four hundred steps are too close to this giant! Unless the cannon is placed on the wall of the village to shoot down, how is this possible?
In Guankou Village, Lin Chunhong was holding a monocular telescope and staring at the seven Fran machine cannons. After watching for a long time, he handed the telescope to Ling Su, who was full of solemn expression on his face, and said, "It's not worth worrying!"
Ling Su took the telescope, glanced at it, put down the telescope, and laughed: "The gunner's movements are unfamiliar and chaotic, and I don't know if the shells can be shot, haha..."
Ling Su's crazy laughter made the soldiers feel a little relieved. Under the command of the general, they came down from the village wall and hid behind the village wall.
As Ling Su said, Gao Yingxiang's gunners had almost never been trained, and there were very few gunners who fired cannons. However, under the supervision of Gao Yingxiang's cold eyes, he finally got the gun and inserted it into the cannon bolt, and entered the final launch procedure.
The leader in charge of the Fran machine cannon was about to issue an order to fire, but he heard a sound of breaking through the air. The leader's arm immediately got hit by a crossbow and fell to the ground and screamed.
The other gunners were not much better. Some of the gunners lost their lives without having time to shout. Some gunners were frightened by the sudden incident and were stunned. More gunners rolled and hid behind the cannon truck, not daring to reveal any part of their body!
Gao Yingxiang was furious and immediately ordered the sword and shield to cover the gunners, protecting the few gunners. If Gao Yingxiang had a good ear, he would definitely hear Lin Chunhong's sneer: "There are also pulley steel crossbows, and shooting for 400 steps is no problem..."
The pulley steel crossbow is the latest achievement of the Academy of Engineering. More than 300 were tested and the results were tested in the army. The pulley steel crossbow weighed 20 kilograms, and the bowstring was made of steel wire. When the pulley was turned, the pulleys could be easily completed with the help of the pulleys. Its range exceeded 400 steps, and it happened to be used on the blade today.
The sword and shield hand quickly used the huge wooden shield to the cannon cart, and the crossbow arrow shot on the wooden shield and banged loudly, making all the soldiers feel panicked.
Under the protection of the giant shield, the gunners were still trembling and trembling, saying that they would not want to show their heads from behind the cannon cart. Gao Yingxiang's tightly chewed blood almost, and he immediately ordered his personal guards to come forward to supervise the battle. Under the threat of swords and guns, the gunners were busy cleaning up the mess and preparing to launch again.
After dragging for about a quarter of an hour, the Fran machine cannon was finally ready. As soon as the command to fire fell, the gunners couldn't wait to ignite the fuse, hugged their heads and rushed backwards, throwing the protected sword and shield soldiers in front of the formation.
Because the head was injured and no one was in command, the nervous gunners even omitted the process of testing the guns and directly lit seven cannons. A rumbling sound of cannons came, and the ears of the sword and shield hands were almost deafened. They couldn't help but look back at the cannons, but where could they see clearly? They were shrouded in thick smoke.
The effect of the shelling was really bad. Only a solid iron ball fell in front of the village wall, hitting the village wall, and spinning continuously at high speed on the ground, without any damage. The rest of the shells landed without even crossing the trenches and rolling into the trenches.
However, this situation is better than Ling Su's estimate. At least, all seven cannons shot iron balls.
Gao Yingxiang was very angry and wanted to catch the gunner and behead them one by one. Finally, he suppressed the anger in his heart and cursed: "Useless guys, they all grew up eating shit? They shot too close! If they missed the shot next time, they would behead them all!"
The gunners were even more nervous and panickedly cleaned the cannon chamber and loaded another sub-gun.
The less fuse, the shorter the shorter it was. Suddenly, like thunder, the air seemed to be torn apart. The explosion sounded significantly more than last time. I couldn't see anything around the artillery position, but I saw the remains of human limbs over the smoke!
A cannon exploded!
There was chaos on the artillery position. The gunners and swordsmen were either hit by iron flying everywhere or rushed to the ground by air waves. The heavily protected artillery position was once again exposed to the threat of crossbow arrows.
The screams of miserable help mixed together, causing the soldiers in the formation to sink little by little, and a thought flashed out: Does this mean it is a disadvantage of the army?
Gao Yingxiang had never expected that the weapon he used to boost morale would become a sharp sword that cut at him, which made him almost crazy and shouted hysterically: "Attack! All the attacks are for me!"
Chapter completed!