775 Soldiers Divided into Two Ways (II)

Suning's strategic goal was indeed agreed by Qin Qiong, but Qin Qiong also warned Suning based on his past experience: the first campaign launched by Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian and the three campaigns launched by Emperor Yang of Sui, a total of four crusades, each time the Sui army was a waterway and two armies marched together, and there was a general like Lai Hu'er who led the navy to break Goguryeo, so the Goguryeo navy also had a certain combat effectiveness.

The news of Datang's establishment of a navy Goguryeo people must know that if we rashly use the Youzhou navy, which has not yet been trained and mature, in case of a fiasco, we will not be able to bear this responsibility, but Suning shook his head and said that he did not need to care about this matter, Datang's new weapons have been initially successful, and this time if you can, you can test the power of this new weapon and give the Goguryeo people a good drink!

On the other hand, Suning's documents quickly spread to the vertical and horizontal departments, Du Ruhui agreed with Suning's idea, and immediately wrote the letter of state according to Suning's requirements, ordered the flying horse to hand over the letter of state to Suning as soon as possible, and notified the blood droplet agents and blood flowers in Silla through the secret channel, so that they could prepare relevant things and forge the relevant documents, so that these blood drops and blood flowers who were familiar with Silla could come in handy.

The specific situation Suning is not clear, Suning is busy mobilizing the Youzhou Navy, which is not yet mature enough, this time Suning feels that the three navies of the Tang Dynasty and the three navies of the Manchu Dynasty in another time and space are reversed, the strongest is the South China Sea Navy, followed by the East China Sea Navy, and finally the current Youzhou Navy is the North Sea Navy. The three navies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were the strongest in the North Ocean and the weakest in the South Ocean, although in the end the three navies were all wiped out without exception.

The Beihai Navy now has only more than 5,000 people and more than 300 ships, which is simply disproportionate to the strength of the strongest South China Sea Navy of 30,000 people and more than 1,500 large, medium and small warships. Fortunately, the South China Sea Navy is strong enough. Organized many pirate encirclement and suppression campaigns, and exterminated many pirates.

Strangely, I hadn't heard of pirates before, and I hadn't heard of them for a while. All of a sudden, there were pirates. The first attack was on the warships of the South China Sea Navy. Seven or eight pirate ships besieged a naval warship, and after a desperate battle with the navy, they rammed and sank a pirate ship. Then he ran away, Datang's shipbuilding technology is very high, and Datang's warships are obviously more powerful than these pirate ships.

Then Li Daliang organized the pirate encirclement and suppression campaign, but to be honest, where did these pirates come from, Suning himself is very strange.

But although the Beihai Navy is the weakest of the three navies, it is the first navy to be equipped with new weapons by Suning, as for what this new weapon is, hehe, it is - a miniature trebuchet that can be mounted on a ship! It's not artillery, yes, it's not artillery, and there is no artillery, I don't know how long it will take for this thing to come out, and the gunpowder in Li Tai's place has not yet met the requirements of mass production, and even bombs can't be made, so what about artillery?

Considering that artillery would be the most important and indispensable weapon in army and navy operations, Suning always hoped that those Mo family disciples and the highly intelligent Li Tai could toss out the artillery as quickly as possible, and then crush the Goguryeo people all the way with the artillery...... In fact, if there is really artillery, Suning will not need to use stratagems to deal with the Goguryeo people, nor will there be any old tricks to surround Wei and save Zhao, so he will directly pull a few hundred artillery pieces to Liaodong and fire a salvo to ensure that the Goguryeo people will lose six of the seven spirits.

There is no way, the gunpowder is enough to use, Suning also personally presided over the artillery carried out by the Ministry of Industry in accordance with Suning's requirements, the first cannon tube in history was born, and the first real cannon was born, weighing more than 300 pounds, not a very big artillery, after all, it was used by the real people, at that time, Suning believed that the big guys could not control the flowering bomb, so in order to improve the power of siege and hit ships, Suning advocated the use of solid iron bullets, which must not be very powerful against people, But when dealing with large objects such as cities and ships, it is an absolute killer.

Breech cannon, filled with gunpowder, solid shells, light the fuse, aim at the wooden shed built for the real yàn in the distance, fire!!

There was an earth-shattering boom...... And then...... Blown up......

That's right, fortunately, Suning quickly realized that something was wrong, and immediately shouted loudly: "Cover your ears!" Lie down! Lie down! ”

After that, the explosion occurred, and the barrel of the iron-copper fusion cannon weighing hundreds of pounds was scrapped, and a shocking hole was blown out, which looked like a brilliant chrysanthemum from a distance, and the iron bullet didn't know where it went, after a while, everyone heard a muffled sound, followed the sound to find it, and found the iron bullet more than 30 meters away from the explosion, and no one saw how it appeared there, but Suning estimated that it must be inseparable from the chrysanthemum.

Li Tai was like a treasure, and said very excitedly that although this failed, it was really valuable, so some gunpowder and an iron bullet can actually blow up this cannon barrel into this virtue, which is enough to prove that the use of gunpowder in this way has a strong lethality, Suning said that it is absolutely feasible to use this new weapon to siege the city, the city wall is made of earth and stone, you say that iron and copper are hard and earth and stone are hard?

Li Tai continued to devote himself to the development of more powerful gunpowder with full mental strength, he seemed to have found something, such as some points to enhance the power of gunpowder, he was very excited, and the Ministry of Industry was also very excited, today's explosion outside Chang'an City made the whole Chang'an City hear, as the main messenger, the Ministry of Industry suffered a joint impeachment of seventy or eighty officials, accusing them of making trouble, causing panic in the hearts of the people.

Suning stood in the court, scolded the group of officials for talking nonsense without knowing why, and carried the cannon tube with a brilliant chrysanthemum and the iron bullet to the court, showing the power of their new firearms, although the real yàn has not yet succeeded, but there have been results, I believe that soon, there will be a greater breakthrough and progress soon, and the iron bullet will definitely be able to shoot out of the mouth of the cannon tube. Instead of squirting out of the chrysanthemum!

Finally, in the process of testing why it failed, we found that the reason for the failure was because there was a problem with the spiral pattern inside the barrel carved according to Suning's requirements and the fit of the shell itself, and the way forward of the guide shell was wrong, and it was blocked in the barrel and could not get out, and the huge impetus generated by the explosion of gunpowder caused the barrel to bloom a brilliant chrysanthemum, which is a technical problem, as long as the technology is improved, it will definitely be successful!

Then Suning was thrown to Lingnan to deal with more difficult problems, and when he came back, he learned that Li Ermaxi had temporarily stopped the development of firearms in order to launch the grassland campaign. Because steppe warfare does not require sieges. It was enough to have enough bows and arrows and horseshoes, and the Ministry of Works immediately proceeded according to Li Erma's requirements, while at the same time, only the navy-style trebuchet and navy-style eight-bull crossbow that Suning had requested before leaving could be placed on naval warships.

This one was successful, with the transformation of the Mo family's machine technique. The trebuchet and the eight-ox crossbow were successfully reduced. But it's even more powerful than the old-fashioned trebuchet and the eight-ox crossbow. Not to mention the super giant trebuchets and eight-bull crossbows specially used for siege, such siege weapons have long played a huge role in the attack on Tuyuhun and Tubo.

Suning asked for 50 naval trebuchets and 100 naval eight-bull crossbows for the Beihai Navy to equip them, and the technicians used the bottom fixation and strengthening techniques. And these eight-bull crossbows and trebuchets are simply semi-automatic in Suning's view, the original kind of eight-bull crossbows and trebuchets that require a lot of strength have been innovated by the Ministry of Industry with technical means, and even the accuracy of the trebuchet has been greatly improved, not to mention the eight-bull crossbow that originally flew in a straight line, the huge arrows were thick and long, and a real yàn was directly shot through by a boat.

There is also a child of the Mo family who had a whim, thinking of the farthest range of the 45-degree angle projectile that Suning said, so he took advantage of the huge space at the bottom of the ship to design the bottom of some Ba Niu crossbows into a slope-type launch pad that can arrange the Ba Niu crossbow at a 45-degree angle, and the bottom space is enough for people to use it, and if the navy needs to shoot at ultra-long distances, this kind of projectile can be used.

Suning was overwhelmed by the wisdom of the working people, and this Nima can also be made, and it is really the carpenter grandfather!

Needless to say, under the guidance of technicians, the naval sergeant learned how to judge the accuracy and firing distance, how to operate the trebuchet and the eight-bull crossbow, and there is a strong guy who is very good at using the eight-ox crossbow in the learning process invented a method of training accuracy, using the eight-ox crossbow to throw a relatively large object upward, and then he used the eight-ox crossbow to shoot the thrown thing at a super high speed, six out of ten shots, known as the marksman.

Suning also felt very incredible, and immediately negotiated with Zhang Shigui, who was appointed as the chief of the Beihai Navy, Zhang Shigui also expressed his amazement after watching the soldier's marksmanship skills, and immediately appointed him as the captain of the Eight Bull Crossbow on this ship, specifically commanding the Eight Bull Crossbow Shooting Team.

With the arrival of the information of the blood drops, Suning knew that the Silla blood drops team had started contact and negotiations with the king of Silla, and on the battlefield of Liaodong, Zhang Jian retreated to a small city not far from Beiping City, according to the city, and was unwilling to retreat to Beiping City, the Beiping army sent 3,000 troops to aid Zhang Jian's defeated army, seeing Zhang Jian's extremely dangerous moment, Changsun Chong, who suddenly appeared on the battlefield, led the assault cavalry team of 1,000 people with fearless courage to burn the dense Goguryeo siege team with a lot of fire.

The entire city wall was burned into a sea of fire, and at a glance, it was full of Goguryeo soldiers who were all burned around, and the Goguryeo people who formed a siege army formation to defend against the defenders' bows and crossbows were often burned alone, and the entire army collapsed, and dozens of people were burned to death even with the assault cavalry; Zhang Jian saw that there was an opportunity, and accumulated the resentment of being chased and beaten for more than a month, and led all the soldiers and horses in the city to attack, defeating the Goguryeo front army in extreme chaos in one fell swoop.

This is the first crushing defeat of the Goguryeo people since the start of the war, the former army of 20,000 siege troops suffered heavy losses, and only a few thousand people were burned intact and fled back to the Chinese army camp, the burned and burned to death accounted for the vast majority, the former army commander Gao Yanshou of the Goguryeo royal family was knocked unconscious by the eldest grandson Chong with a stick, and was directly captured, and the Tang army finally won a big victory in this battle, and wiped out 10,000 Goguryeo people in a war.

However, the victory of this battle was based on the consumption of half of the incendiary tank reserves, and the more than 1,000 incendiary canisters originally stored in Beiping City and the more than 2,000 canisters they brought over, a total of more than 2,000 canisters, and now half of them have been consumed at once, although they have achieved a great victory, annihilating more than 10,000 troops of Goguryeo with less than 5,000 troops, although it is a great victory, but it is also very dangerous.

When Qin Qiong learned of this, he immediately sent an envoy back to Beijing to ask Li Er Xià for more incendiary canisters, and at the same time urged 3,000 soldiers and horses to go to the small city to assist Changsun Chong and Zhang Jian in their defense, so as to build a horn defense system and wait for further changes in the battle situation. (To be continued......)