Chapter 424 Building Terrain
One day later, Chen Xiuping brought his army to the designated location, a plain, called Wolongpo, it is said to be the place where Taizu uprised and the Zhao family was snatched from the hands of the previous dynasty. This is the place where Taizu gathered his troops for the first time. There are plains around a hundred miles, so after the enemy headed south, there was no stop. This is the most important reason.
"Prepare to camp. Tonight, all the staff will start digging holes in front."
Looking at the vast plain, Chen Xiuping gave an order. The Buddha Saint beside him seemed something was wrong. This was a plain. The opponent's cavalry could not organize an effective counterattack when they charged. How could they camp here?
"Mr. Chen, it's a bit inappropriate to set up camp here. If you don't march forward, there is a small gully in front of you, so it's safer."
"It's too late. The intelligence says that the enemy has marched a hundred miles away. If we march again, once we hit, the soldiers will not rest and are exhausted, they will not be opponents at all. Since we have no terrain advantage, we will build the terrain ourselves and order to start digging according to the drawings I gave."
The drawings given by Chen Xiuping were something he had thought about for a long time. One of them was to restrain the cavalry of the Great Liao Kingdom, which was the anti-tank cone. In modern times, anti-tank cone was a kind of triangular pyramid cast of concrete. The exact point was a triangular prism, but it was placed horizontally, so people generally said it was a cone, about half a meter high. In ancient times, there was no such material. Chen Xiuping made a little change, that was to wet the soil with water, and then put some sharp wood in the mound, so that it could resist the cavalry's charge.
The second drawing is trenches. This era was the era of cold weapons. The artillery of the Great Liao Kingdom directly broke through the fortress that had been operating for many years as soon as it was launched. It can be seen that the collision between cold weapons and hot weapons made it so useless to cold weapons. The term trenches should be the first person proposed by Chen Xiuping in this era, in order that the Great Liao Kingdom used artillery to bombard the cavalry after discovering that the cavalry could not charge.
Although the army of the Tianshi seemed a little loose, its execution ability was more firm and quick than that of the Xinsong army. Chen Xiuping ordered the army and the subsequent army began to arrange it without any gap.
There was a layout in front, and Chen Xiuping was not idle either. He was commanding the arrangement of cannons behind him. The Liao Kingdom did not know that they had cannons. These cannons were built by Chen Xiuping privately. Once they were fired, these cannons could be unexpected.
The artillery of the Great Liao Kingdom should have a range of about 500 meters according to intelligence, while the range of the artillery modified by Chen Xiuping can reach one thousand meters. In this way, the artillery array can retreat a little and will not be impacted by the front-line artillery at all.
Time passed minute by minute, and it had changed from late night to first sight dawn. The excavation power of 200,000 soldiers should naturally not be underestimated. An artificial terrain appeared, with countless anti-tank cones ahead. Although the soldiers did not know what the purpose of the adults asked them to make this thing, Chen Xiuping's reputation was here. In the Tianshi Army, Chen Xiuping's reputation must be higher than in the Xinsong Army. The Battle of Kaicheng has made the name Chen Xiuping famous in the Tianshi Army.
Chapter completed!