"The confinement bends and shines on Kyushu, and a few families are happy and a few are sad."

At the mouth of the valley in the south of Langzhou, the Jiaozhi people are worried, and the Song army on the mountain is also worried.

The sorrow of the Jiaozhi people is that there is a monster squatting in front of them that eats people and does not spit out bones, and I don't know when I will enter that mouth, and my good life will be buried.

Song Jun was worried about such a beautiful scenery, but the smell of blood around him was pungent, and he was not in the mood to do anything.

After winning the first battle, Langzhou City sent wine and meat, and held a celebration banquet on the top of the mountain by moonlight. But the smell of blood wafting from time to time with the cool breeze of the night made the sergeants lose their mood.

Lu Fang had no choice but to find a few agile soldiers, tied a rope around his waist, and went down to the hillside to clean up.

The Jiaozhi people were in the barracks, watching the Song army jumping around on the hillside, remembering that they were cleaning up the corpses of their comrades, and their hearts became heavier.

At this time, it is the middle of the moon, when the moon is big and round, and the watery moonlight spreads down, and the whole earth is shrouded in a layer of misty colors.

The moon had already risen very high, and Xu Ping and Shi Quanbin came to the top of the mountain.

The arrival of the Jiaozhi soldiers and horses indicates the official start of the war, no matter how easy Lu Fang fights here, Xu Ping, as the coach, cannot be careless, and has to make many arrangements. When everything was arranged, the sun set down the mountain, and only then did there be time to go to the front line to see the soldiers who had won the first battle.

Shi Quanbin waited here to see how the battle went, and if it was really a big victory as Xu Ping expected, he would have a lot to say in front of the official family when he went back. It is difficult for the chamberlain to leave the palace once, and if you happen to encounter this kind of scene, you can't miss it, but if you're lucky, you can get a reward. And in the eyes of the official, after this kind of scene, he has seen the world, and he may have the opportunity to take up a foreign post in the future because of this.

I heard that Xu Ping was going to the front line to reward the soldiers. Shi Quanbin followed closely and asked Xu Ping to help him prepare a reward for wine and meat, which was counted as his own intention. The people around the emperor can't be cold at this time, Shi Quanbin prepared more reward than Xu Pingfa's routine reward, although this money also came from Xu Ping's hands.

A few bonfires were lit on the top of the mountain in the moonlight. The soldiers of the Song army chatted around in a heap. These people are all village soldiers, who have been working in the sugar business for a few days, and no longer care about rewards like the van soldiers in service. In their hearts, they still hope to finish the war early and continue to live a peaceful life in the sugar cane business.

There is a fundamental difference between a professional military and a part-time soldier, especially in terms of mentality, and the two are very different. Whether it is the forbidden army or the box army, for them, social stability and instability do not care at all.

As soon as Xu Ping arrived. The Song army on the top of the mountain shouted together, and the sound buzzed and echoed between heaven and earth.

The easy victory on the first day gave the Song army confidence that no matter how many Jiaozhi troops came, they would return with a feather.

The soldiers accompanying the soldiers carried wine barrels and filled everyone with wine, Xu Ping raised his glass and said loudly: "The victory in the first battle is all thanks to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives!" However, this was the first battle, and the follow-up Jiaozhi army arrived. It also takes concerted efforts to keep Langzhou from losing! Lang Zhou is not lost. Zuojiangdao has no more wars since then, and the blessings of the descendants! ”

"Drink this cup to the brim!"

There was cheering on the mountain, and everyone drank the wine together.

Following behind Xu Ping, Shi Quanbin toasted three glasses of wine. However, he was verbose, starting from the emperor and the queen mother, how everyone was loyal to the king and the country. had such a big victory, and he kept talking about how he would speak well for everyone in front of the emperor when he returned to Beijing in the future, and after some words, the soldiers were a little drowsy.

Alcohol. A large piece of meat was loaded, and Lu Fang led everyone to eat and drink.

Xu Ping took Shi Quanbin to stand here as an eyesore, so he patrolled along the north side of the mountain.

The south-facing side of these two hills has a smooth slope, while the north side is much more complicated.

Not far from the top of the mountain, a platform was carved out on the mountain, which was arranged by Xu Ping. Although there was gunpowder in hand, there were also small steel cannons, but those things were too expensive to use as weapons for long-term defense. Xu Ping's positioning of the artillery is used as a surprise attack when attacking, and when defending, it still relies on stone cannons, the trebuchet he said in his previous life.

At this time, the stone cannons that the Song army was really equipped with had various names, and the whirlwind cannons on the city tower were the most common when defending the city, which was actually a catapult that could rotate and launch in multiple directions.

However, no matter what the name, these stone cannons are basically pulled by manpower, and the larger ones will use oxen, which are neither accurate nor powerful. There are actually counterweight catapults, but the requirements are high, and the production is complicated, so they are not popular.

As a wealthy cane sugar business, naturally it will not use improvisation, and the stone cannons here are all counterweight, and they have been transformed by Xu Ping. At the back of the mountain, the first row is a small cannon set every five steps, the second row is a medium cannon every thirty steps, and the third row is a large cannon set every fifty steps.

The cochin striker Ruan Dali guessed right, the rolling logs were just an appetizer for the defense of the hillside, and there were these large and small stone cannons in the back, as well as bows and crossbows, and the last fire-breathing device, and the two thousand people in his hands couldn't touch the top of the mountain at all.

Xu Ping also knew that there were catapults in ancient times in his previous life, but he didn't know what the principle was, and it wasn't until he came to this world and saw it with his own eyes that he realized that the catapult used centrifugal force, not elastic force and the like that he vaguely thought before.

Knowing the principle, Xu Ping had a direction for improvement. Since it is the centrifugal force used, the trajectory of the stone projectile can be roughly calculated, and an approximate range can be calculated. You will know what method to use to shoot the stone catapult farther, hit more accurately, and fire more frequently.

The catapult dragged by manpower is the most unreliable, especially the large catapult uses one or two hundred people, and it cannot be controlled at all, basically throwing the stone bomb out and flying to see the character.

Xu Ping changed to a counterweight, and the counterweights used were all pre-cast lead blocks, and the stone bullets were not randomly found stones, but were specially mined, and after trimming, the weight of each piece was controlled within a certain range. By changing the counterweight and using stone projectiles of different sizes, the range could be adjusted, and Xu Ping even carved a ruler on the catapult for the soldiers who operated it as a reference.

After this improvement, although the accuracy is still far from that of artillery, it can at least be controlled within a range, and it is impossible to hit people, but it is still no problem to hit a military camp.

As for the stone bullets for stone cannons, they were all over the surrounding stone mountains anyway, and the nearby 10,000 or 20,000 people had nothing to do after repairing the fortifications, so Xu Ping sent 5,000 people to produce them, which was enough for stone cannons.

(There's another chapter in the evening.) (To be continued.) )