Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 394

"Okay, then you are researching and researching. You don't need to shoot crossbow arrows, you can also shoot steel balls. The current firepower has already surpassed other armies. You have enough time to study. Remember, you are a team. If there are talented people in the team, they must be allowed to stand out." Chailin arranged.

Geng Gong said: "I just love researching these things purely. As for whether I can make money or not, I don't care, let alone hinder others."

"Okay, go back and study carefully. Make two small melon launchers first, and I will take them to Cangzhou tomorrow." Chailin said.

"No problem, just a little modification." Geng Gong said.

"Don't forget my big gun." Dian Zhengnan reminded.

"I can't forget it. It needs to be redesigned, and it will be done for you in five days." Geng Gong said.

A group of people rode back to Chaijiazhuang, and Chai Lin said: "Zhengnan, you are tired too, go back to the barracks and rest. I will go home tonight. There are hundreds of soldiers stationed in Zhuangzi, so there is no need to worry about safety."

"Okay." Dian Zhengnan sent Chai Lin back to Zhuangzi, and went back to the military camp to play.

Besides, when Chai Lin returned home, the home that was deserted a few years ago was now very lively.

Three wives, one concubine.

As soon as he entered the door, Chai Qin, the son of the eldest wife Hu Sanniang, pouted foolishly and said, "Uncle, who are you looking for?"

A one-and-a-half-year-old child can't speak so clearly.

The maid hurriedly said, "Call me Daddy."

Chai Lin took the child and said, "Let Daddy hug you."

Chai Qin stared at Chai Lin for a while, and found that he didn't recognize this person, so he burst into tears.

Hu Sanniang heard a voice coming from the back room and said: "Our family is living well, and we don't know our own family anymore."

Chai Lin sighed and said, "I've been too busy these past few years, so I'm sorry for you."

Hu Sanniang said: "There is no such thing as the best of both worlds in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people rely on their husbands for food. It is normal to be busy. It's just a pain for the child, and I can't see you a few times throughout the year."

Chai Lin smiled and said, "I can't take care of my family and the world. But I will try my best to spend time with my children. How many of them are there?"

Hu Sanniang shouted inside: "Hongyan, the landlord is back." Yanran acted like a landlord's wife.

Hongyan came out with a little girl over two years old, and said, "Call Daddy quickly."

Although Chai Lin married Hu Sanniang first, Hongyan was the original maid who gave birth to a girl named Chai Ming.

After all, the daughter is more than two years old. She is smart and knows how to please others. She said, "Daddy, you are back. Have you eaten yet?"

With one arm in his arms, Chailin took the two babies to play.

As for Cheng Wan, who lives in a cotton spinning factory, a large factory with 2 people, gets up early and stays busy until evening.Cheng Wan gave birth to a son named Chai Tang, who was only one year old.

Only Pang Qiuxia has no children yet, she leads troops every day and rarely comes back.

Hu Sanniang was very happy, it was rare for Chai Lin to come back, and said: "Master, today I will go to the kitchen to cook for you, and our family will have a good reunion. I will have someone call me sister Qiuxia."

Chai Lin looked at Hu Sanniang suspiciously, this girl has nothing to say about her martial arts skills, she can be regarded as a second-rate general, but she probably can't cook.

"Who do you look down on, I can do it." Hu Sanniang angrily washed her hands and went to the kitchen.

Chai Lin asked Hongyan: "Do you really know how to do it?"

"I really know how to cook. Madam has always wanted to cook for you." Hongyan said.

There was a tinkling sound from the kitchen, and those who didn't know it thought it was a blacksmith.

After a while, Pang Qiuxia came back, saw Chai Lin running over quickly, and said, "Why did you change my cavalry and archers into a medical barracks?"

Chai Lin said: "You have a group of beauties, who are very beautiful. They ran to the battlefield and took away the souls of the men. How can you let them fight. So, you are still managing the field hospital in the rear , the same contribution. If you disagree, you can stay with me."

Hu Sanniang was serving the dishes and said, "That's not okay, you have to take me with you as well."

"You don't have the demeanor to be the boss." Chailin said.

Hu Sanniang said: "Hmph, who told you to marry so many wives?"

Chai Lin spread his hands and said helplessly, "You're too handsome, there's nothing I can do."

Hu Sanniang cooked a Yellow River carp, and the cook cooked the rest of the dishes.

The family had a group meal together, and enjoyed themselves happily. The happy days are pots and pans, and the children cry.

In the evening, Chai Lin was drinking tea and chatting in Sanniang's room. Hu Sanniang said: "It's getting late, you can go to Qiuxia's sister. She leads soldiers all day long and hasn't given birth to a baby yet."

When Chai Lin thought about it, he was right.

"Okay, remember to leave the door open for me at night, I'll come back." Chailin said with a smile.

"Let's go quickly, I really think you are a camel machine, and you still have the strength to come back."

Hu Sanniang pushed Chai Lin out the door.

Waking up early the next day, Chai Lin arranged for his own soldiers to bring two small melon launchers from Tiangong No. [-] Battalion to rush to Cangzhou.

There was no words all the way, Wu Song, the defender of Cangzhou, had [-] defenders.However, usually the defenders are not on the city wall, only hundreds of city defense battalions guard the city wall, and the army is stationed in the big camp in the west of the city.

Today is a big military training, [-] soldiers, and the combination of weapons is more complicated, among which the elite are the [-] horizontal sword soldiers in heavy armor.

Chai Lin, Dian Zhengnan and a group of people watched the exercise.

Wu Song is lining up his troops.

The huge practice field is full of beacon fires.

With the sound of the horn, thousands of infantry walked slowly.

Five hundred giant shields were arrayed at the front, and ten-foot-long spears pierced out of the shield array like bamboo shoots.

On both sides are soldiers holding small shields and Mazha knives. The huge square formation is mainly designed for preventing cavalry.

It still looks pretty average.

Wu Song is also making progress, and he is making rapid progress. He used to be a bad boy who liked to drink and fight, and now he is a general.

With the sound of the horn, hundreds of gaps were opened in the shield array on the door panel, and the sharp fangs of five hundred hand-push ballistas were exposed.

"Fire the arrows." With the commander's voice like a broken gong.

Five hundred crossbow bolts with the thickness of mop poles were shot for 300 meters. The huge crossbow bolts can break through heavy armor. If there are no soldiers who have not pierced armor, there will be a scene of stringing candied haws, several at a time.

"The ballista returns to the formation."

The crossbowmen pulled the ballista and quickly returned to the shield formation, and they were tightly protected again.

Chai Lin nodded to Wu Song next to him: "Erlang has made good progress in the past few years. From a layman, he has slowly learned to form troops."

Wu Songdao: "It's not just me boasting, my six thousand soldiers can beat the Liao army's thirty thousand infantry."

"Okay, it's good to have self-confidence, but you can't be proud. You need to practice more. You will not be in a hurry when you fight. How do you feel about five hundred ballistas?" Chailin asked.

Wu Song said with a smile: "Before I was ignorant, I always thought that good martial arts can despise everything, but now I understand that the power of machinery is invincible. The ballista is powerful and lethal. It is a great blow to the morale of the enemy soldiers. There is only one The disadvantage is that the speed is slow, and the second round needs to be separated by sixty numbers after the launch. Moreover, a ballista must be equipped with at least two people, which still takes up a lot of people."

"Come and try this improved little melon launch vehicle. Its rate of fire is doubled, but the distance is not as far as the ballista." Chailin said and asked to set up the ballista brought from the Tiangong No. [-] Battalion.

Put the little melon on the fire, put it on, bang, and launch the little melon [-] meters away.

Wu Song said: "Very good, very good, if this is used to defend the city, it is comparable to a small cannon."

"This time we also found many problems in the battle against the Liao soldiers. Our General Cannon and Crouching Tiger Cannon are restricted in use when it is cloudy. found, so we must also pay attention to cold weapons." Chailin said.

Wu Song was overjoyed, and said: "I have already said that we must pay attention to cold weapons. The ballista soldiers of our battalion have made an improvement in crossbow arrows. Brother, let's see how it goes."

Wu Song beckoned and asked the soldiers to push a ballista over.

Wu Song took the crossbow and showed it to Chai Lin.

The crossbow has not changed much, only some cotton is wrapped under the head, and the cotton is soaked in cottonseed oil.

When firing, ignite the crossbow bolts to make simple rockets.

"Cottonseed oil is not edible, and it is mainly used to process soap. I will allocate some cotton cloth and cottonseed oil to your camp, and you can process it yourself," said Chailin.

"Okay, no problem, this is too simple, just wrap a cloth strip around it." Wu Song said.

"Also, how is your bow and arrow practice in this battalion going?" Chailin asked.

Wu Song said confidently: "Accurate shooting is relatively poor, but there is nothing to say about coverage shooting. Brother, please take a look."

Wu Song ordered the archers to shoot arrows, and the [-] archers behind the shield threw them upwards at an angle of elevation.

Immediately, a mass of feathered arrows and locusts landed at a distance of 150 meters to 200 meters.Immediately after the second round flew out, there was another piece.

Shoot the ground like a hedgehog.

The shooting range of steel-wood composite bows and arrows is still possible, the pulling force is relatively light, the effective range is about 80 meters, and the projectile is about 150 meters.

"Bows and arrows are very poor at piercing armor. We have tried a few times, and it can break through cowhide armor. I feel that the real war has to be wide open and closed." Wu Song said.

"It's a matter of distance and angle. Shooting arrows at close range is different. As the saying goes, a general is not afraid of a thousand troops, but an inch of iron. An inch of iron refers to bows and arrows. Equip more bows and arrows, at least equip them Three thousand bows, you have to understand that when you fight, you don’t necessarily have to be evenly matched. Maybe your 6000 troops will be against [-] or even [-]. Then you will understand the cruelty of war. Our caravans cost so much The promotion of mulberry planting is not just for silk." Chailin told Wu Song in detail.

Wu Songdao: "I understand, don't worry, brother. Erlang will definitely do things well, and if there is a war, he will guarantee victory."

Chai Lin said: "There is no need to put too much pressure. In the short term, we have a great advantage. Our armor rate alone far exceeds other armies, and they must not be able to surpass them."

Wu Song's six thousand soldiers all had iron armor and helmets.Among them, two thousand horizontal knife pairs are heavy armor weighing more than 30 kilograms.The other soldiers are all about [-] catties of light armor and light helmets.

Even hundreds of auxiliary soldiers, including Huotou soldiers and medical soldiers, are equipped with iron helmets and cowhide armor.

In the evening, Chai Lin and Chai Meng waited at the cart shop for departure.

Chai Meng said, "Brother, we haven't gone out for a year."

"Yeah, it's been more than a year. During this period of time, islands were developed, fields were farmed, and wars were fought in autumn. How can I go out for a run? This time, I'll go around the capital and see what talents I can find." Chai Meng Say.

"By the way, a scholar came here a few days ago, called the master scholar Xiao Rang. He said that he was good at calligraphy from various schools, so Zhou Fu dragged him to a big business firm with an annual salary of [-] guan." Chai Meng said.

Chai Lindao: "This Zhou Fu is messing around again. First-class talents should be in the army. How can they go to a commercial firm? When I come back, I will transfer Xiao Rang back to the staff department. Xiao Rang's handwriting is better than printed ones. Absolute talent."

Seeing that it was getting dark outside, the two of them put on the loose uniforms, jogged first, and then galloped quickly.

However, they had already arrived at Dongping Mansion in the middle of the night, and the two of them stayed overnight at the big car shop in Dongping Mansion.

The hidden pile of the reconnaissance battalion is in the west of Dongpingfu City.

Chai Meng said, "Brother, don't you go to the city to chat with my father-in-law."

"This old man has a very bad temper. I heard that we occupied the Hejian Mansion and dropped all the vases in the study. I went to scold him. But he is old and slippery. My father-in-law is very smart. He is very open about the general situation, and he thinks more about the common people than the government. This year, the harvest of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn planted in the northern mountainous area of ​​Dongping Prefecture is very good. He is very happy. Next year, it is estimated that Dongping Prefecture will expand at least 100 million mu New crops from the land. We don’t have to worry about money and food,” said Chai Lin.

The experimental mountainous area in the north of Dongping Prefecture covers [-] mu of land.

The harvest of sweet potatoes is the most ruthless, and the yield of sweet potatoes with red skin and white flesh is more than [-] catties per mu.This sweet potato is high in starch and low in water.It can be stored in the cellar for a whole winter. If you don't want to eat it, add vermicelli.

Another thing is to use a hand-operated sweet potato slicer to slice the sweet potatoes, and the sweet potato slices can be stored for a long time after drying. One mu of sweet potatoes can produce [-] to [-] catties of dried sweet potatoes.

Dried sweet potatoes are good for people to eat and feed livestock.

The yield of corn is relatively low, and the yield of summer corn after wheat is only [-] catties per mu.

The main reason is that there is not enough topdressing fertilizer. Many people do not have cattle and sheep at home, and the land is extremely barren.

The output of [-] catties has exceeded Cheng Zhifu's imagination. The farmers are happy, and he is even happier.

This means that one mu of land has the output of the original two mu of land.

And corn has one huge advantage over sorghum, and that's corn stover.

The broken corn stalks are excellent forages, which can be used for horses, cattle and sheep, and become fertilizers after being eaten by livestock, which is a virtuous circle.

The location of Dongping Mansion is relatively good, and it happens to be protected by Jeju Mansion outside, so the safety is still guaranteed.

The two slept in the shop during the day, and they set off again in the dark.

Traveling all the way in a hurry, we had already arrived in Tokyo City by the middle of the night.

The city gate was closed at night, and the two of them found shelter in a cart shop outside the city, and when they got up in the morning, they had already changed their appearance.

Chai Lin and Chai Meng were dressed in black cloth short shirts, leather wristbands, and leather boots. At first glance, they looked like the clothes of a bodyguard in the capital.There were relatively few changes to this appearance. The two of them added beards to their faces, and there were hardly any traces of them.

Don't look at the brains of the dogs everywhere, but the city of Tokyo is still singing and dancing.

People come and go on the streets, very lively.

The city of Tokyo is so big that walking would break your legs.

The two took a mule cart and rushed from the west gate to Daxiangguo Temple.

It's a long way, more than 20 miles.

The streets are full of people coming and going, very lively.

The master who drove the car was very talkative, and he was still talking about it, saying: "This business is getting more and more difficult every day, and it is difficult to support the family."

"Oh, why is that? People on the street are not too crowded, and you earn as much as you can." Chai Meng said in an authentic Tokyo voice.

The coachman said: "You two look like escorts in the escort agency. Go back and ask your boss and you will know. Taxes have been raised. If you say that this big cart business is okay, you can earn about [-] yuan a month, but Now I have given a flat bandit salary, [-] cash per month."

"Pay bandits? Hebei Tianhu? Didn't Taiwei Tong lead troops to suppress them?" Chai Meng said.

The coachman sighed, and said, "Tian Hu is fine, but he is just a few bandits who can be destroyed in a day and night. The real trouble lies in Chaijiazhuang in Cangzhou and Fangla in the south of the Yangtze River."

"I understand Fangla in the south of the Yangtze River. Jiangnan is the source of taxes. But have you never heard of Chaijiazhuang in Cangzhou?" Chai Lin said.

The coachman lowered his voice and said: "Although Fangla in the south of the Yangtze River is very destructive, it is not recognized. But Chaijiazhuang is different. The owner of Chaijiazhuang is a descendant of the previous dynasty. debt collection."

(End of this chapter)