Chapter 154: Fierce Soldiers As for the catapult, Qingji also made some craftsmen, at that time a catapult required one or two hundred people to make, too complicated, and the throwing speed was slow, Qingji remembered that he had seen in the movie The Roman stone-throwing car was simple to make, one side was filled with boulders, and the stones of the other side of the long pole were launched with heavy pressure, and it took only more than ten people to make such a stone-throwing machine, so he summoned craftsmen to say the idea and make them make it.
However, after trying to make a few huge stone throwing machines, in practical application, it was found that although the range is long, the lethality is especially above the traditional stone throwing machine, but the launch speed is slow, and if you want to achieve the thrilling power in the movie, at least you have to make more than 100 stone throwing machines to use at the same time to have an effect.
In view of this, the use of a small amount of stone throwing machine in actual combat is far greater than the actual usefulness of using hundreds of stone throwing machines to make and use them, and finally to achieve the effect of capturing the city.
At that time, there were few extremely steep cities, most of the cities were not built of bricks and stones, both the degree of solidity and the scale of the city were limited, rather than spending a lot of time making at least 100 stone throwers, it was better to charge quickly and close the distance to launch a siege hand-to-hand combat.
So Qingji hid this invention for the time being, and let the soldiers who were good at carpentry practice the method of making and assembling various other melee siege equipment on the mountain of wood cut down and piled up every day.
It is impossible to carry heavy siege equipment during a long-distance attack, thanks to the local materials under the city, made on the spot, and the proficiency and quality of the soldiers in making siege equipment can largely determine the victory or defeat of a city attack and defense battle.
In terms of the equipment of individual weapons, Qingji once wanted to contact the Wu Guoren clan, who had not known the news for a long time, to buy a batch of sophisticated weapons, but the second battle he wanted to launch was close at hand, and he was proficient in using Wu Ge and Wu Dun to become an excellent swordsman, especially to be proficient in the cooperation between everyone, these soldiers he recruited could not be completed in a short period of time, and he also lacked excellent generals to teach and lead.
To build an army that can be perfectly coordinated by all arms, for him, there is neither enough time nor financial support, and he is not afraid of defects, it depends on how you can make use of your strengths and avoid weaknesses and make up for your shortcomings.
The Chu people have a powerful crossbow, and the Chu crossbow is a sharp weapon that the Chu people are proud of.
Speaking of this crossbow, although it came from the bow, its origin was very early, and there were already crossbows at this time, but the crossbow was originally only used for hunting.
The crossbow for combat was first started by the Qin clan of the Chu State, and the Qin clan transformed the crossbow to make its lethality and operation more suitable for battlefield applications, and once invented, it quickly became an important weapon for equipping the Chu army.
When Qingji led his army to fight in the Chu State, his army suffered from this kind of Chu crossbow.
Chu crossbow has "arm stretch", "kick stretch", "waist stretch" several ways to open the string, among which the crossbow with foot pedal force is the most powerful, arrows shoot, like showers, within a hundred steps can break the heavy armor.
This is already extremely terrifying lethality, more than 2,000 years later, the effective range of the 38 big cover is only 400 meters, Qingji, as a person who has come over, has foreseen a large number of terrible effects of crossbows on the battlefield.
The most important reason why he favored the Chu crossbow was that the crossbow not only had a long range, great lethality, and a high hit rate, but also did not require much training, only a few skills were needed to make it, and even a new soldier could quickly become a master of using a crossbow after a short period of training.
A farmer who has just put down his hoe and picked up a crossbow is likely to shoot a heavy warrior who has practiced martial arts all his life with a crossbow.
Therefore, Qingji sent people to rush to Chu with a lot of money, hoping to buy a batch of crossbow arrows from the Qin clan, a crossbow family in Chu.
These cronies have been given a death order, if the Chu State refuses to sell it out of secrecy, then they will contact the two sons of Cover Yu and Zhu Yong, and get the Chu crossbow through other means, if it still doesn't work, then even if they assassinate a crossbowman of the Chu State to get the crossbow back.
Or hijack a crossbow-making craftsman back.
It is necessary to use crossbows, and the effective range and intensity of fire are important conditions for severely defeating the enemy and forming a suppressive firepower.
For this reason, Qingji spared no expense and stored a large number of special wood, bamboo, paint, bronze, horns, cow tendons and other things for making crossbows in the Flying Fox Valley, vowing to make the whole army have a crossbow.
The hardwood and bamboo need to be carefully selected and dried in the shade for more than a year.
Buffalo horns should be evenly long, about half a meter long.
Beef tendon is taken from the tendon on the back of the cow close to the backbone of the cow, which also needs to be dried in advance, then wrapped in a coarse damp cloth and smashed with a mill or wooden hammer, and finally torn into a trace and soaked in water for later use.
In addition, it is the swim bladder, which is a kind of glue boiled by fish bubbles, and there are workshops specializing in refining the swim bladder glue in the industry of several salt owners in the East China Sea.
The maw gum is dried in the shade and cut into strips and stored in a wooden box, which can be mixed with water when used.
These things are stocked in advance, and once you get the sample, you can make a qualified crossbow machine in time.
These materials were all purchased through Mrs.
Cheng Bi, and Cheng Bi was so powerful that he could make five thousand crossbow machines, and he could actually complete them so quickly.
However, the money for the purchase of these things, of course, is counted on Qingji's head, and he has to pay it back with the income from running the salt business of Wei and Jin.
No matter how affectionate Mrs.
Cheng Bi is with him in private, once she talks about business, Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao, and she will never let him half a point because of personal feelings.
Qingji can feel that Mrs.
Cheng Bi's persistence is not reluctant to give up money, in this era when the wealth of a wealthy family can rival the country, this money is not in the eyes of Mrs.
Cheng Bi.
She insisted on doing so, seemingly because of her intimate relationship with Qingji.
She was unwilling to tie a layer of interest to this relationship, especially after being ridiculed and reprimanded by Ji Sun Xiaoman that night, she subconsciously didn't want to use the wealth of Ji Sun's family to give Qingji undeserved support.
Qingji understood what kind of psychology her persistence and persistence came from, and Madame Chengbi asked him to offset this expenditure with the income from selling salt in the coming years, in fact, she had already given him great help in a cover-up.
Beauty is gracious, and he never makes excessive demands.
Mrs.
Cheng Bi has relied on him more since Ji Sun Xiaoman left that night, the emotions of the two people are like glue, Mrs.
Cheng Bi seems to know that he will leave her sooner or later, and she does not believe that after he returns to the country, she will bring a woman who is in her prime back to Wu Guona as his wife, she is hungry for it, she just wants to grasp every day with Qingji, and use this short period of a few months to enjoy the love that she dreams of pursuing all her life.
Things in Flying Fox Valley are going very smoothly, this is done with the full support of Mrs.
Cheng Bi, but it is precisely because of Mrs.
Cheng Bi's support that things here can go so smoothly, and Qingji can rest assured that he can leave and rush to defend the country.
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The day of separation is still coming soon.
When the autumn wind rose, Qingji saw that the recruitment of troops in Flying Fox City was carried out in an orderly manner, but for the defense of Aicheng, he only had the memory of Qingji's original body, and he had never gone back for so long, and he was more and more concerned about that city, and he finally asked Mrs.
Chengbi to resign and return to Weiguo.
Today was his last day to inspect Flying Fox City before leaving.
Qing Ji stood still at the point of the general's summons, followed by the Qi warrior "Chen Changqing" who he rescued.
Sun Wu's injuries have almost healed, and although he is still on a cane, his movement is no longer in trouble.
These words, Qingji often walked around with him in Ji's old house, because he knew that he had been a warrior general who led troops in Qi State, and the two often talked about the art of war.
At that time, Sun Wu had already begun to write a military book, but many theories had not yet been sorted out, and the ideas in his heart had not yet formed a refined language.
Moreover, Sun Tzu's Art of War is his later written text, and the grammar of the ancients when he practiced it was not only refined, but also the wording is very different from the spoken language, so although Qingji heard many of his unique and incisive views on the art of war, he never heard a sentence of Sun Tzu's original words on the Art of War, and he never thought that the person in front of him was actually a soldier saint.
On the mountain path on the right, a group of soldiers with sandbags on their legs had just run down and staggered to the ground.
On the flat ground on the right, there are two hundred soldiers who practice crossbow arrows, at this time the crossbow arrows are not yet equipped, they are practicing the crossbow team, under the order of the pawn commander, the soldiers are arranged in three groups, the first group of crossbows, the second group of crossbows, the third group of strings.
After the first group is shot, it retreats to the third group, the second group enters the first group, and the third group enters the second group, and so on, and so on, always continuous.
This team of crossbow soldiers has just been recruited, and when recruiting, they saw them dancing swords and sticks, and they were all vigorous, at this time, they only held a light wooden stick temporarily replaced by a crossbow, and walked through the queue repeatedly, but they were in a hurry, either you hit my shoulder, or I stepped on your foot, and the mess was almost out of formation, but fortunately, the captain was also trained in this way, knowing that it was like this at the beginning, but he was not annoyed, and continued to explain the whole process to them loudly.
Qing Ji smiled and glanced over there, looked back at Chen Changqing who was following behind him, and said, "Brother Changqing, what do you think of my training method?"
To be continued: