Chapter 475: Speed ​​number one

Fighting a siege battle that emphasizes speed is a challenge for the Blood Qi Army. But for the defenders of Xiangning City and the small number of people inside, it is a torment. The Blood Qi Army has had obvious game style and Ye Tao's personality traits since its founding. The Blood Qi Army always emphasizes rationality, coordination, command, technology, equipment, preparation... A series of keywords are to make the Blood Qi Army the most well-equipped army in the world.

At that time, the blood and sharpness of the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Blood Qi Army were temporarily hidden. The Blood Qi Army almost never encountered decent enemies. They were always lukewarm and calm in fighting. The Blood Qi Army usually did not value extra money such as spoils. Many soldiers and officers of the Blood Qi Army did not care about money at all. Not to mention plunder, the precision of the Blood Qi Army's plunder was far from comparable to their attitude when fighting.

Now, the time pressure of downward pressure has forced the soldiers of the Blood Qi Army to release all their fanaticism behind rationality and meticulousness and engage in a fearless battle.

However, fanaticism does not mean not using the brain. The reason why the Blood Qi Army became the strongest army of this era was mainly because of its extremely high cultural level. In the past, although the Dongping Army was powerful, many of the generals were from generals. They were agile but had a relatively deviant in understanding ability and tactical literacy. They often commanded the battle with animal instincts. However, the Blood Qi Army was overturned, and the mind and tactical literacy were the first to consider. After these two aspects were recognized, they were riding and shooting archery horses.

, it must meet the quality requirements of an officer. If the command is strict and accurate during war, no army can be compared with the Blood Qi Army. In the past, even in Dongping, the lowest level of an officer was the lieutenant, which was a commander of a hundred people. But now, the command has been extended to a five-man team. In the Blood Qi Army, everyone can be competent for the command of these five-man teams. The powerful non-commissioned officer class made the Blood Qi Army guarantee that as long as they were ordered to persevere, they could really fight to the last person.

When attacking Xiangning, this wisdom that erupted in urgency was particularly important. Just as dawn broke out, Zou Shuangwen walked in the camp and carefully checked the preparations of the troops. In the morning light, the soldiers of each battalion had already gotten up and washed and finished. In front of the complete field kitchen, the soldiers were lined up to receive breakfast. With the personality of the Blood Qi army, everyone would obviously not be excited by the egg and sausage that had been added before the battle. Everyone's expectations for the war also gave Zou Shuangwen a little more confidence.

In the entire camp, soldiers who were finally wiping weapons and armor could be seen everywhere. Before the war, checking weapons and rewinding the mixed ropes on the hilt to make it easier. It was a very fixed and ritual procedure for the Blood Kid Army to perform major movements. In the heavy equipment camp, stone throwing cars, crossbows, and god arm bows have been assembled. After completing the assembly, the experienced technicians watched the soldiers adjust in detail according to the ruler, while leisurely eating breakfast and drinking tea.

What surprised Zou Shuangwen was a little surprised was that the brigade led by Li Mingtao, a son from Ye's workshop, was fiddling with the ladders at this moment, as if he was urgently installing some kind of device on it.

The Blood Qi Army rarely used the things like cloud ladders, but it does not mean that they did not spend time on them. The cloud ladders they used have begun to be promoted and popularized throughout the Dongping army. Their cloud ladders were equipped with sharp steel teeth on the side that touched the city wall. For those battlements made of bricks and stones, sometimes they could make a string of sparks and make deep marks on them. Those battlements of soil, or built with secret methods of cement from various places, can often be directly pierced into the city wall with the huge kinetic energy of turning the cloud ladders. Each step of the cloud ladder has clear traces of anti-slip blocks. The batch of cloud ladders in Li Mingtao's hand is the latest and updated style. The anti-slip blocks on them are not cut from wood, but shoveling grooves on the pedals.

Then stick the rubber blocks in. Although the rubber production in Yazhou has increased rapidly in recent years, it cannot withstand the urgent demand for this new material by the entire Dongping army. Rubber is a national strategic resource. In addition to the Ye Family Workshop and Qijia Shipyard, it can be allocated part of the rubber for civilian products, almost all rubber is used in military-related fields. Everyone knows that using cloud ladders is time to fight with all their lives. Even if the casualties of soldiers can be reduced by one percent, it is absolutely at all costs. The improvement of cloud ladders is still quite sufficient. However, due to the relatively complex process of this cloud ladder, only the Blood Qi Army and some light infantry units in Yunzhou have updated this thing.

Zou Shuangwen was not very skilled and felt that it was difficult for the Blood Qi Army to improve its equipment now. Seeing that Li Mingtao was tampering with these things without approval, he rushed up and asked, "Li Mingtao, what are you doing?"

"General," Li Mingtao stood at attention, knocked his right fist on his left chest, saluted in a regular manner, and said, "It is a temporary improvement that the last general thought out. When he woke up in the morning, he had a flash of inspiration. If the ladder was tied to the city wall, he would not be pushed down, and there would be no time to report. Please forgive me."

"Will you be pushed down?" Zou Shuangwen was excited and said, "Take me a look."

Li Mingtao led Zou Shuangwen to the camp hollow space where the construction was under intense construction. The improvement they made was very simple. Two long poles firmly connected to the ladder and had a certain range of movement on both sides of the ladder. After the ladder was placed on the city wall, the long poles naturally drooped to the ground, quickly installing a wide base and placing it on the ground. In this way, the contact between the ladder and the ground is not a point, but a triangular three point. In the vertical direction, it also forms a stable structure of three points.

The design limits the density of ladders on a single combat surface, but it also makes it difficult to push down no matter what direction the ladders are. However, this kind of long pole can only be temporarily made based on the specific length of the city wall. Since they cannot really get close to the city wall for actual measurement, soldiers also need to operate on the spot. For example, if the long pole is long, a little bit can be sawed off at any time. If it is short, a stone pad must be moved. This operation must be raced against time, and the enemies on the city will not sit idly by and watch them carry out these tasks.

Although Zou Shuangwen didn't know much about technology, in an atmosphere like the Blood Qi Army, there is still the most basic concept of the most stable structure of the triangle. He asked in surprise: "How many ladders have you changed?"

"There are four units modified, and these are the last two." Li Mingtao said calmly: "The city wall assigned to us is only a little wide. In fact, it is enough to expand four units. Two units are spare."

"I will take these two units away and put them on the north wall for the Axing team to use. You two face to face." Zou Shuangwen made a decision immediately. A powerful weapon determines a tactic, and this kind of ladder determines that they can definitely send troops to the city wall steadily. At this time, a little breakthrough is obviously better than a two-point breakthrough. If the opponent's troops cannot concentrate, their advantage of strong combat effectiveness can be better played out."

Li Mingtao did not argue and nodded, saying, "General, there is less than an hour before the array attack. Our battalion can change two more units, let's do it!"

Zou Shuangwen's reaction was even more intense than Li Mingtao's. He convened a small combat meeting in Li Mingtao's battalion. Less than ten minutes later, a brief meeting lasting two minutes gave everyone the confidence to win. The soldiers in Li Mingtao's brigade who participated in the improvement of the cloud ladder were all left, and soldiers with engineering and technical backgrounds in other battalions were also selected to transform as many cloud ladders as possible in an hour. After the battle began, these soldiers would get more than an hour of rest, and then return to the original troops to join the battle.

At 7:30 a day, the 24-hour schedule was set up by Ye Tao's Tissot clock. The camps of the Blood Qi Army surrounding Xiangning were neatly blowing the horns. The soldiers were sitting scatteredly chatting or wiping their weapons to prepare. When they heard the horns, they sent their blessings before the battle. The excitement or dull expressions were more and more obvious to different people. They seemed to walk towards the gate of the camp casually, but when they left the camp, they had already formed a neat queue. Seeing this majesty formed by neatness and order on the top of the city makes people feel more and more frightened.

Twenty minutes later, the entire army was ready to attack. Two airships flew over Xiangning, and saw the movements and stillness in Xiangning City. The Heavy Equipment Battalion was even more violent this time. For the first time, they ignored the safety regulations and pushed two super heavy crossbows to the front line, and barely stopped ten steps beyond the range of the stone-throwing cart at the top of Xiangning City. This was a dangerous distance. If the wind was wrong, they would have to be beaten. But the soldiers of the Heavy Equipment Battalion needed this feeling of bayonets, the stimulation and pleasure of the nerves being tense at any time, and also needed this distance to directly hit the heavy sulphur bomb on Xiangning's city gate. Xiangning's city gate was

The processed oak was covered with copper skin. They thought that they could directly melt the copper skin outside and turn the wood into charcoal residue. At this distance from Xiangning City Gate, they didn't feel that there was any risk of being attacked by the enemy from the city. Zou Shuangwen was behind them, and there were a thousand elite cavalry and a thousand long bowmen who protected them. There were also one thousand five hundred light and heavy infantry mixed up, sitting neatly behind them, watching when they could get rid of the city gate. They were waiting for this opportunity to rush straight into the city. The expectant but suspicious eyes of these people were the best motivation for the soldiers of the heavy equipment camp.
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