Steel Dynasty - Chapter 261

[Chapter 261 Crossbow Cavalry]

The two cavalrymen, Lu Fei and Lei Ming, perfectly played the role of troublemakers on the grassland.

The news that the Chongqing army appeared on the grassland again almost made Chagatai grit his teeth.

“Flag leader, withdraw your troops!”

In Chagatai’s camp, all the barbarian flag leaders fell to their knees one after another. Their tribesmen came to ask for help. At this time, many barbarian soldiers were unwilling to fight because of this news.

Chagatai suddenly felt a little tired at this time. He looked deeply in the direction of Cangzhou City and suddenly felt that the Golden Horde might no longer be able to attack this city.

Because this is not just a city wall, but because there is a scheming King of Qi sitting inside.

The manhunt in the past few days had already made his army very tired. At this time, there was another problem in the rear. There were wolves in front and tigers in the back. Chagatai had never been so desperate.

“King Qi, if you have the ability to go out of the city and fight with us on the grassland, you are a bunch of cowards from the Chongqing Kingdom!” Chagatai roared hysterically in the camp.

It’s just that this voice is destined to be unable to reach Cangzhou City.

Facing Beishan’s order and the safety of the tribe, Chagatai was very entangled in his heart. At this moment, the messenger brought news.

“Flag leader, Beishantai Ji asked us to retreat to preserve our strength and not waste our troops on this city wall.”

Chagatai and all the flag leaders in the account breathed a sigh of relief.

“Beishantai Ji Yingming.”

Chagatai put his hand on his right chest and saluted in the direction of Shengdu.

Bei Shanyuan was far away in Shengdu and did not know the situation in Cangzhou City. He learned that harassment tactics could no longer stop the construction of the new city wall, and the Chongqing army was determined to defend it to the death. After careful consideration, he decided to preserve his strength. Waiting for the cannon to be cast.

In his opinion, the new city wall just needs to consume more cannonballs, and his army can fight less once.

After receiving Beishan’s order, Chagatai chose to retreat without hesitation. He no longer wanted to throw his soldiers into the bottomless pit with no end in sight in Cangzhou.

The next time they come back, they will definitely bring the firearms that made the country of Chongqing tremble and burn Cangzhou City in flames.

“Boom…”

When Chagatai led the army to retreat, artillery fired again from the top of Cangzhou City. Chagatai looked back, which seemed to be a mockery of him.

At this time, his heart was filled with rage. The Golden Horde had never suffered such great humiliation. He secretly swore that when the city of Cangzhou was destroyed, they would lead their cavalry to kill everyone in King Qi’s fiefdom. Er Jing, to avoid today’s shame.

At the top of Cangzhou City, looking at the barbarian army slowly leaving, the soldiers cheered again. Luo Xin excitedly asked the soldiers to use cannon fire to celebrate once again driving away the barbarian army.

The soldiers cheered. In their eyes, the barbarians were no longer scary. As long as there were artillery and city walls, no amount of barbarians could break through Cangzhou City, and their families could live a stable life behind the city walls.

But Niu Ben and Xiao Ming were happy and a little worried at the same time.

“Your Highness, the barbarians have become more and more sophisticated after repeatedly suffering losses in the face of gunpowder. I’m afraid they won’t attack the city easily if they are not sure in the future.” Niu Ben said.

Xiao Ming nodded, “The sudden retreat of the Blood Wolf Tribe must have been ordered by Bei Shan. In the early stage, he mainly harassed us and prevented us from building the city wall. Now that we are serious, he is not willing to lose his troops in vain. There is another point that worries me the most. , I am afraid that the barbarian artillery has made good progress, so he will retreat so calmly.”

“Your Highness, if this is the case, it will be terrible. The barbarian people have a comprehensive advantage over the Chongqing State. At this time, the Chongqing State has artillery. How can we resist the barbarian attack?” Niu Ben said worriedly.

Xiao Ming frowned, “I am also worried. I wonder what the artillery technology of the Ottoman Empire is like? Hey, this time I go back, it seems that I will send artillery to the Forbidden Army as soon as possible, but you don’t have to worry, this artillery is not It is so easy to produce, but even if it is produced, it may not be as durable as our artillery. And without our iron mold casting method, the production of artillery is very slow. Even if Beishan has a batch of artillery, he will immediately seek revenge from us. “

“Wouldn’t this be worse?” Niu Ben looked at Xiao Ming with a calm face and felt helpless. He thought that a disaster was coming, but he was not nervous.

“Hahaha…” Xiao Ming laughed, “General Niu, my new city wall was built for the barbarian artillery. When Beishan comes here, he will find that this is a wall that he can never break through. “The fortress.”

This reinforced concrete fortress was strong enough to withstand artillery bombardment during World War II, not to mention solid bullets.

Moreover, the reinforced concrete structure uses steel bars as the skeleton. Even if all the outer concrete is blown to pieces, the city wall will still remain intact.

After celebrating the retreat of the barbarians on the city wall, Xiao Ming organized the craftsmen to continue the construction of the new city wall.

Now that the five-meter structure on the ground has been completed, the next step is to backfill the soil, while the carpenters continue to support the formwork and the steel workers continue to tie the steel bars.

This time the barbarians retreated and it was impossible to come back. After all, Lu Fei and Lei Ming were exhausted from their attacks on the grassland.

Without the threat of barbarians, Xiao Ming organized the craftsmen to work hard on the construction. After building the first floor five meters above the ground, he handed over the construction work to Xu Changgui.

During this time, he had clearly explained the drawings to Xu Changgui. Xu Changgui also knew clearly how to construct it. The rest was just practice.

Lu Fei and Lei Ming returned to Cangzhou City after the barbarians withdrew. This time they had a good harvest, attacking more than a dozen tribes and plundering tens of thousands of war horses.

Now Guan Ning’s cavalry can be expanded to about 3,000 people. In this way, the number of Guan Ning’s cavalry will basically reach 8,000.

And Xiao Ming thought that it was time to equip Guan Ning’s cavalry with new weapons.

The barbarians’ cavalry and archery skills in Dayu are incomparable. After all, the barbarians have been riding horses and archery since they were young. He can’t let Guan Ning’s cavalry compare to the barbarians in this regard, but he has prepared another one for Guan Ning’s cavalry that does not require long-term practice. weapon – a pulley crossbow.

There are many designs for pulley crossbows in the technology library. Xiao Ming is planning to produce a three-wire pulley crossbow, which can save two-thirds of the effort, so that soldiers can use crossbows on horses.

Of course, Xiao Ming also thought about temporarily equipping Guan Ning’s cavalry with a three-eyed fire blunderbuss, but the power of this weapon was too weak, and it could only fire three times in a battle, which was far inferior to the continuous shooting of a crossbow.

Although the most ideal weapon configuration is a flintlock gun, before there was a lathe for bore cutting, the production of hollow steel pipes relied on the blacksmith to hammer one hammer at a time, which was very slow.

(End of chapter)