Wu Xian rubbed his eyes hard, trying to see clearly, but the blood and dust on his hands made his eyes blur.
He hurriedly tried harder, and tears streamed down his face before he could see clearly.
The Mongolian troops attacking the mountain roared loudly, holding up long knives and spears, and surged up the mountain road like a tide. Whenever the mountain road was narrow and blocked by fences, strong warriors would rush forward to attack the defenders. Throw black objects at the gathering place.
After those things fell into the crowd, some of them immediately made loud noises and flames, shaking the crowd and the fence. Some of them were not very loud, but emitted large plumes of black smoke. No matter whether they made a sound or not, they would He lit fires wherever he went, which immediately caused great panic among the bandits.
It looks like a real cannon!
When Wuxian joined the army in his early years, he was stationed in the west mountains of Weizhou. He opened the warehouse in the state to distribute swords, guns and arrows in preparation for fighting with the Mongolian army. There was such a thing in the warehouse. According to the records in the book, when the gun fired, it made a sound like Thunder, I heard that a hundred miles away, on half an acre of land surrounded by fire, the fire ignited and penetrated all the armor and iron. So Wu Xian was very happy at that time, but found that it had not been maintained for decades, and it was just a rusty iron lump. , can only be used as rolling wood and stone.
Even so, he did not forget the joy of recording and seeing the records. Later, he heard that the Zhou army fought with the Mongols and relied heavily on firearms. It was obviously the successful use of iron artillery.
The weapons thrown by the Mongols in front of me are different in shape from those used by the Jin army. They are much smaller, and they are not as powerful as the legendary Zhou army.
Wu Xian suddenly remembered that he had seen traces of fireworks when he passed through many strongholds that had been conquered by the Mongolian army. He originally thought that the Mongols set the fire after breaking the stronghold, but now it seems that it is clearly the effect of iron artillery! Even that fire The smell of sulfur is so familiar.
Such weapons, capable of overthrowing armies and killing generals, should have given them an overwhelming advantage over the barbarian peoples on the grasslands. No matter how fierce the Mongols were, no matter how superb their riding skills were, even if they could defeat tens of thousands of people with hundreds of horses, they were still physically mortal. The tire suddenly exploded and settled immediately.
But when did the Mongols learn this skill and use it so skillfully? This is ridiculous!
For decades, the regimes of the grasslands and the Central Plains have been rivals of each other, and they have never stopped spying and infiltrating each other. After the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they relied on their own huge advantages in trade to continuously suck blood, and the personnel exchanges between the two sides were extremely busy. Wuxian was in In the cross-border area, he always had the intention of swinging from both sides, and he was very smart.
So he clearly remembered that the Mongols had not made much progress in the past few years. After the Mongol Khan launched the Western Expedition, the number of craftsmen left on the grasslands was very small, but the Zhou army faced by each tribe was increasingly armed to the teeth. In order to To fight against it, they continued to consume various materials plundered from the Central Plains.
The small-scale battles between the two sides never stopped, and the number of Mongolian cavalry capable of engaging in field battles with the elite Zhou army continued to decrease. This was something Wu Xian saw with his own eyes.
It's not because there are fewer people or horses. The Mongolians who can fight on horseback are like leeks on the grassland, they will grow one after another. The horses are endless.
The problem is that the available weapons and armors are constantly damaged, but no one makes or repairs them. The goods sold by the Han merchants in the Central Plains on the grasslands are all silk and satin treasures, and none of them can be used for fighting. Due to the shortage of iron materials, even the famous
Snake bone arrows and lanceol arrows are no longer in supply.
That's why some Mongolian families tried to cheer up earlier, mobilized the forest tribes to form troops, tried to use the Han army formation to fight against the Han, and used worthless human lives to destroy the Han army.
That battle was naturally lost. Guo Ning, the horse-riding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, personally led his people deep into the grassland and crushed the people in the forest to pieces in front of many tribes in the eastern part of the grassland.
Many people laughed and said that using Han'er's special skills to fight against Han'er would not make sense. But that is enough to show that it is really difficult for the Mongols to maintain their force. It is also very difficult to rely on the original cavalry tactics.
It was difficult to gain the upper hand in the field battle with Dazhou. That's why he took this seemingly stupid step of seeking medical treatment in a hurry.
Ordinarily, with such an embarrassing situation, even if the Mongol Khan returns from the Western Regions, nothing will change. It is just that he could use one hundred thousand cavalry before, but now with the surrender of many big countries in the Western Regions, he can use two hundred thousand or more.
What does the expansion of military strength mean to the Central Plains regime? Wuxian estimates that there are tens of millions of Han soldiers in the Central Plains, right?
The only thing to worry about is the iron cannon in front of you!
The Mongols have continued to suffer on the battlefield in recent years because their cavalry, which is good at long-distance raids, cannot always defeat the Zhou army's cavalry and strong formations in frontal confrontations. But if the Mongolian army had this kind of ability, it would destroy any military formation.
What methods did Zhou Jun use to fight them?
Not to mention the fighting on the battlefield, not even the fortress run by the Zhou army could stop them! The cottage where Wuxian originally hid had an outer wall made of bricks and stones. Wuxian had witnessed it with his own eyes, but it was useless and could not stand up.
live!
After running around in the mountains for several days, Wu Xian has understood that these Mongolian cavalry that infiltrated into the mountains are not actually Mongolians, but mainly the so-called Khwarezm people. These people are just hunting dogs raised by the Mongols, or they have not yet been
The mature kind.
If even they can use iron artillery unscrupulously when attacking mountain strongholds, how many can the Mongolian headquarters use?
Just before Wu Xian's eyes, the Mongolian army had broken into the village like a ragtag force and started killing people on sight. The cries and screams in the village reached Wu Xian's ears from time to time, but Wu Xian seemed to ignore them and concentrated on them.
Calculate.
The mountainous area where bandits roamed was very large, but it was not important. To the south, the Zhou army was guarded by many important passes on both sides of Yanshan Mountain, and to the north, there were farming areas and fortresses that were slowly recovering based on the Jin Kingdom's boundary trench defenses.
Group. For a long time, they have been ignoring the vast and sparsely populated area sandwiched between them.
It is said that this situation was mainly due to the fact that many of the generals in the Zhou Dynasty had similar origins to the mountain bandits, and even had some friendships that broke their bones and connected their tendons, so they were always merciful when pacifying the mountainous areas. In addition, they also had similar relationships with many in the imperial court.
The relationship between civil servants and ministers seems to be that they intend to achieve the result of "cultivating literary virtues when people from far away are dissatisfied" through political and economic influence.
Of course, the bandits' own strength cannot affect the two behemoths of Zhou and Mongolia. To put it bluntly, the disease of mustard moss is nothing to be afraid of. Wu Xian boasts all day long that he has been the most powerful of the Jin Kingdom.
The governor of the state actually has no one under his command now, and is just a hair on the mustard moss.
In recent years, they have not even dared to block several roads through the mountainous areas, and have also started selling food and water along the roads.
How could such a worthless area, with such a bunch of villages that could be easily destroyed, attract the attention of the Mongols, causing them to send their troops south to attack here?
Even if many strongholds are wiped out, what benefits will it bring to the Mongols? They have too many soldiers and horses, do they have to be used in such an unknown place?
Wu Xian was too busy running away two days ago to think about this question. Now he thought of it, and he had the answer immediately.
The reason why the Mongols quickly attacked the mountain strongholds in this mountainous area and slaughtered almost everyone they saw was because they did not intend to control this place for a long time. They only hoped to create a no-man's land and block the massive invasion in a short time.
The connection between the Zhou boundary trench and the Yanshan defense line.
Under this situation, the garrison troops at various passes along the Yanshan Mountains and the state capital were temporarily unaware of the movement of the front line. However, in their view, there were tens of thousands of troops stationed along the boundary trenches, and there were a large number of strong forts to stand on, which meant that the cavalry was of no use.
The Mongols, who lack the means to attack fortresses, cannot be shaken at all. Therefore, the ministries will naturally be a little more cautious and not rush to go out for support.
This little delay will cost the lives of everyone along the boundary trench.
The number of iron artillery in the hands of the Mongolian army headquarters will definitely be greater than that in the hands of Khwarezm's servant army, and they will most likely be more powerful. With the speed of the Mongolian cavalry, coupled with this indestructible weapon,
If the boundary trench defense line does not receive full support, the outcome will be the same as meat on the chopping board!