Years later, when Wanyan Wushu looked up at the sky by the Yellow River, he could not help but think of that sunny winter morning.
It is said that in this world, the significance of some things will often not be revealed until the dust settles, or even many years after the dust has settled; and for some meaningful things, how meaningful they are may be destined to remain unknown until the end of time.
However, back to that day, under the warm winter sun, when dozens of mud balls the size of human heads hit the general platform of the Jin army camp, the direct consequences were definitely measurable.
The bullet whizzed towards him, and Wanyan Wushu, who was standing at the front, turned around along the trajectory with a confused and curious look, and then his face was covered with blood - a bullet flew over his head and hit Wanhu Chizhanhui's chest directly behind him, hammering the latter to the ground so hard that blood gushed out of all his seven orifices!
It's really blood-spurting!
Living in troubled times and being experienced professional soldiers, the people on the podium often see tragic scenes of armored warriors being hammered to death on the battlefield... The armor may look neat and the body may be stable from the outside, but when the mask is removed, it will be discovered that this person has already bled from all seven orifices, and if the chest or back is injured, it is very likely that his internal organs have been shattered into a mess.
Compared with the fist-sized hammer, how powerful would this mud ball the size of a human head flying from hundreds of steps away be?
In fact, in the sight of Wanyan Wushu, whose face was covered in blood, the Niwan, which was destined to be recorded in history, smashed the veteran Jin army general and Wanhu Chizhanhui heavily to the rammed earth ground of the general's platform, then rolled over the opponent's face, bounced off the helmet, and then hit a Meng'an behind Chizhanhui for the second time with red blood stains, and even bounced twice and fell to the ground for the third time before it shattered, but it obviously splashed on the leg of another Meng'an, causing the latter to fall to the ground with a wail.
These things happened and ended in an instant. Of the people still alive on the stage, only a few could come to their senses at this time. Most people were like Wanyan Wushu. Although they witnessed this sudden change at the closest distance, they still looked confused... They really didn't know how it became like this? It was fine just now!
Fortunately, however, bystanders can see clearly. Hundreds of Jurchen armored warriors who had awakened from the situation rushed up to the rammed earth platform like crazy and dragged down the senior military officials who were either panic-stricken or confused.
This action seemed worthy of praise at the time, but, in hindsight, it was more harmful than helpful - because the casualties had already been caused by this round of volleys, and the Song army could not launch a second round of attacks in a short time. Instead, countless wounded died on the spot due to being trampled and dragged, or their minor injuries turned into serious ones.
You have to know that among these wounded, except for a very small number of guards, most of them must be at least at the level of Mouke, and most of them are even at the level of Meng'an... Puliyan is not qualified to go up.
Of course, hindsight is hindsight after all. After dozens of mud balls were thrown, the Fourth Prince Wanyan Wushu and others, who were standing with their backs to the general platform and surrounded by the royal guards for protection, were still in a trance... He was no longer confused, but he could not believe his eyes, because there were more than twenty corpses in front of him, all of them were acquaintances.
However, relatively speaking, Emperor Zhao on the city wall was not so immersed in it. He was just excited for a moment at the moment of shooting, but after the mud ball fell to the ground, he immediately became bored.
After all, at such a distance, he could only see that the crowd over there suffered some injuries and then a panic, but he could not see the specific results of the battle at all. The ordinary mud bullets did not have any special visual effects and seemed to lack lethality.
That's right, apart from adding a capstan to the catapult and using the principle of leverage to come up with a counterweight design, the incompetent engineering students did not have any technological achievements that were ahead of their time... They couldn't even stuff gunpowder into the mud ball, because they didn't know how to add a twist to ensure the stability of the explosion, and they couldn't make the gunpowder seal well... It's not that they didn't try, but they failed every time they tried.
Therefore, gunpowder is still used as an accelerant in the hands of the incompetent Emperor Zhao until now. It can only be said that it burns more violently than the gunpowder of the Jin army on the opposite side. Perhaps it can have some miraculous effects in specific situations. The so-called "flowering bomb" is just a figment of your imagination. At present, the mud pill is still used to play this "flowering" role.
Of course, having come to this point, Emperor Zhao did not think too much about it, because in his opinion, no matter what, things like artillery carts were enough to change the city defense warfare model in this era of cold weapons, and since his side had grasped the advantage of artillery warfare, it was enough for him to take this gamble in Nanyang.
In fact, the reason why Minister Chen Gui was particularly trusted by Emperor Zhao when he came to power that day, and even entrusted his life and property to this person, was because before he met the emperor, when he was still the pacification envoy, he had submitted a long memorial to Emperor Zhao.
In that clearly structured outline of defending the city, which is several thousand words long, one can clearly see this man’s military thinking… One is flexible defense in depth, which means if you can have one more layer, don’t have one less; if you can be flexible, don’t be rigid; the other is that the design of city defense should prioritize defense against artillery, and the means of counterattack should mainly be artillery warfare.
If you look into it carefully, you will find that even the in-depth flexible defense itself is actually based on the new military phenomenon of large-scale application of artillery vehicles, and it is a targeted reform of the old method of defending the city.
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