After the first square team ended, the appearance of the second square team made everyone stunned.
The second square team still has a carriage, but the difference is that this carriage has a very strange shape. There is a huge shield standing on its sides and behind, and eight archers stand on the carriage.
In addition, its wheels are larger than those of the carriage just in front, making the frame height of this carriage nearly one and a half meters high.
Seeing this, everyone was a little surprised. Could this be a chariot? After all, in addition to the soldiers controlling the horses, ancient chariots also had archers on them.
Could this be another new type of chariot developed by the Tang Dynasty? The shield looked like it was covered with a layer of iron, and its protective capabilities were unquestionable. But since it is a chariot, there are no extended strangulation sticks used by infantrymen on the axles on both sides of it.
However, although there are explanations for these formations, it is certainly impossible for the explanations to explain these weapons and equipment to them in detail. In fact, these chariots can be regarded as an experimental improvement invention of the Ordnance Institute.
The new carriage they developed is currently quite flexible in moving in the wild. It can adapt to most terrains. Even the terrain that cannot be adapted can actually be passed with a little help from people or animals, as long as the carriage is not too heavy. .
Because the steel shock absorbers and cast iron wheels add too much to the carriage.
This allows the carriage to cope with harsh terrain, reduces the failure rate, and improves the ability to carry loads and other aspects.
That's why this carriage appeared. This carriage... is actually a way to prevent enemy cavalry from cutting. The steel shields on both sides of the carriage are actually two pieces. After one of them is put down, it can be combined up and down to form a A huge shield nearly two meters high.
And the shields on the left and right sides can be unfolded to form a shield wall with the shield at the rear of the carriage.
On the battlefield, if these carriages are united, their shields have predetermined connecting rods, allowing them to quickly form a steel wall that the enemy cannot overcome!
Moreover, the frame of the carriage can be disassembled to form a platform for spearmen or archers to stand.
And when this carriage forms a shield wall, it can also carry a large amount of military supplies, such as arrows and other battlefield supplies, which can be put to good use.
To be honest, this kind of invention has never appeared in history, because there has never been a carriage with such strong adaptability in history, and it is impossible to use steel on such a large scale to form carriages and shields.
Whether it is useful or not, Li Ke thinks it is useful, at least after the archers, infantry, baggage and other troops in the rear carry it, to a certain extent, it has eliminated the possibility of enemy cavalry raiding and cutting.
Because of this shield wall with brackets, the enemy's cavalry cannot break through it at all, but the soldiers standing behind the shield wall, even if there are no spearmen and only archers, are likely to destroy the enemy's cavalry.
Especially since the Tang Dynasty had no shortage of arrows, what threat could the enemy's cavalry pose to the archers protected by such a shield wall?
In addition, this kind of carriage has special functions in special circumstances, such as rivers with a depth of no more than 1.7 meters. The design of this carriage can be combined with this shield wall to form a temporary pontoon bridge in the river! It is also a pontoon bridge with an iron deck, which can play a great role in the transfer of large troops and rapid assault on the enemy.
As for the river with a depth of 1.7 meters, it is difficult for even the cavalry to pass, let alone the supplies of large troops and so on.
In addition, with its height, you can even climb up some small city walls that are about three to four meters high by stepping on it. Therefore, this carriage has many functions, which is why Li Ke asked the Ordnance Factory to produce a large number of them.
As for whether its actual effect is that great, this thing cannot be known until it is put on the battlefield. It is a test. Anyway, with the current strength of Datang, the cost of casting these things is not much at all. There is enough strength for this test.
Weapons and equipment under different technological means are naturally different.
When the third military weapons phalanx appeared, the envoys on the city wall looked solemn this time, because this time... it was a large crossbow.
There is also a super large bed crossbow with three crossbow arms, but its structure is the same as the first phalanx, and it is combined with a carriage, so its weight does not seem heavy, and it moves faster obviously , can be directly pulled by pack horses to follow the troops and advance quickly.
You must know that the bed crossbows used in various countries now have very thick wooden frames. Just these wooden frames cannot be pulled by the carriages of various countries. Even if they are put on them, the carriages cannot move forward at all.
The wooden bearings and wheels cannot bear its weight. Even if they can bear it temporarily, they cannot travel long distances.
But all the wheels and hubs of Tang Dynasty's carriages were made of cast iron, so there was no problem in withstanding such a crossbow.
In this phalanx alone, there are more than twenty large bed crossbows like this... Doesn't this mean that bed crossbows like Datang's bed crossbows can be used on the battlefield at any time? And not just siege warfare? !
This carriage phalanx is the last phalanx. When the last carriage phalanx passes, a brand new phalanx in the distance is slowly moving forward again.
But this phalanx is different from all previous phalanxes. It does not have uniform movements, nor uniform armors. Even the armors on their bodies are of various kinds, and the soldiers who make up them range from more than 20 years old. They range from white-haired soldiers in their sixties.
They just formed a simple square and moved slowly in this direction.
But this time, it was Li Ke's voice that sounded from the speaker.
"The formation approaching us now does not have a well-prepared military appearance, they do not have complete weapons and armor, and many of them have not even undergone strict military training. Some of them are only in their early twenties, and some are already gray-haired. ."
"But it is they who guard the last frontier of this land with their passion! They are the frontier of the Tang Dynasty! Defense! Army! People!"
"Some of them, when the Tang Dynasty was first established more than 20 years ago and were unable to take care of the border, they silently guarded the border without backup, defense changes, or material supplies. The longest group of people guarded the border for as long as More than ten years! During the most difficult period, they could only eat wild vegetables and voles to survive the difficulties."
"And there are still some, they are ordinary people living near the border. When the Central Plains was devastated and the people were in dire straits, they silently and automatically transformed into soldiers stationed at the border. They guarded the border for several years, more than ten years! Until the Tang re-incorporated this land into the national territory!”
"It is they who have protected the land of China with their blood and responsibility, making them an immortal monument!"
