Wherever there are people, there are wars. There are many factors that determine the victory or defeat of the war, and the role of strong weapons is very large, for example, in the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wudi of han upgraded all the equipment of the Han army to iron swords and iron armor Han crossbows, but the Xiongnu could not use iron weapons in large quantities, so the Han army had a great advantage in facing the Xiongnu. Chen Tang, a famous general who once fought all the way to Afuhan, said that a single heavily armed Han soldier had no pressure to collect three Xiongnu soldiers!
However, war is ultimately a human war, if people can't do it, weapons are useless, let's take a look at the Northern Song Dynasty's powerful weapons that lead the world!
First, the quality of the Song Army
The quality of the northern Song dynasty's army can be said to be seriously polarized, with the strong being particularly strong and the weak particularly weak. For example, the more famous ones are Yang Jiajian, Fan Zhongyan, the breeding master Dao Seed Division (the old breeding in the Water Margin is slightly xianggong and the small species are slightly fair), and so on, while the weak army is relatively large, almost all of them can't count the points, and many people who don't understand the military will serve as commanders, and the war will be a mess. In the eyes of the people, the army commanded by these people is more terrible than the robbers. After all, most of the good men in the green forest still pay attention to chivalry, robbing the rich and helping the poor, and doing things for the Skywalker, and these officers and soldiers rob money and women, and they never have to worry about anything.
By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, military discipline had become a blank piece of paper, and not many soldiers were willing to go to training, taking empty salaries and making money as side jobs. If the superior comes to check, he will spend money to hire idlers to deal with it and so on.
Second, the equipment of the Song Army
The weaker armies are not to be mentioned, but all the elite forbidden troops of the Great Song Dynasty are equipped with spears and heavy axes, and the average weight is fifty kilograms. Swing open the impeccable iron front, flesh and blood again and again, to withstand the fierce cavalry impact of the strong enemy of the Liao state. In addition to this, there is an exclusive high-tech equipment: the crossbow! The crossbows of the Song Army, large categories of light crossbows and heavy bed crossbows, subdivided into dozens of types. In addition to the many tricks, the lethality is even more terrifying, when besieging Youzhou, the heavy bed crossbow was able to nail the crossbow arrow to the city wall, so that the iron-armored Song soldiers climbed up, and the Liao soldiers guarding the city opened their eyes.
The crossbow car of the Great Song Dynasty, when it was the strongest, had reached the point where the enemy was frightened, and when fighting, thousands of crossbow cars roared in unison, and the most crucial battle of Liaozhou, The Liao Army Marshal Xiao Taolan was sniped by the Song army bed crossbow from a distance, and nailed alive in place. It was also this tragic scene that made the Liao State make the most difficult decision completely: not to fight, to sign the "Alliance of the Yuanyuan". Kill a hundred years of peace at once!
Third, the strongest single combat weapon
In fact, although the crossbow car and the bed crossbow are very strong, they also have weaknesses, and their weaknesses are too bulky, requiring dozens of people to operate, and often broken. The defense of the city is extremely sharp, and once the field battle, it is difficult to keep up with the footsteps of the cavalry. So when Wang Anshi changed the law during the Shenzong period, the military technology of the Song Dynasty finally developed the strongest single-soldier combat weapon - the Divine Arm Bow!
The Divine Arm Bow was developed by whom, there have been many opinions, but this weapon can be called a god word, that is incredible, look at its performance, you know how "super": three feet two inches long, a single soldier can operate, specializing in firing wooden feather heavy arrows, the effective range of three hundred and twenty-seven meters, even if the other party is heavy armor, hit is a big hole, the impact is very violent!
After the Shen arm bow was manufactured, it was first applied to the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is said that it almost destroyed the Western Xia, such as the Battle of Pingxia City, the Song Army relied on the Divine Arm Bow to defend the fortified city, dragging the Western Xia's half a million troops, and then combining the siege and beating it, beating the Western Xia to the full line collapse. Similar to the bridge section, the entire Middle and Late Northern Song Dynasty battlefield in the Song and Xia Dynasties is basically a normal phenomenon.
Fourth, the road to national subjugation
Later, the Western Song Army, which could not raise its head in the Western Xia, was transferred to the north. Because there were high-ranking officials in the court who formulated a great and mentally retarded strategic policy - "Lianjin and Destroy the Liao", and then the Western Army ran all the way from Shaanxi to Hebei, and was assigned by the Court of the Mentally Handicapped Command, the Western Army was divided into six parts, which were not subordinate to each other, and the six small units did not have any connection between them, and they were put into different battlefields. At that time, the Liao army and the Jin army were all gathered together, and people waited for work and won less with more, so it was tragic.
The Western Army fought very hard, and the small species was decided to go to the rescue by the Slightly XiangGongShi Division, but at this time, a top boss, xu Han, came to the command of xu Han, who was blindly in charge of the Privy Council, and went deep behind the enemy without any heavy supplies and a divine arm bow, and as a result, he fell into the siege of the Jin army. The remnants of this Song army that fought to the end finally led the final attack in the commander's breed division, and all of them were killed in a heroic battle!