Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 477
Chao Gai wolfed down the five pancakes, and there was not much pork left in the big plate. He picked up the wine bowl and drank, and suddenly heard the sound of horns outside!

Someone suddenly shouted loudly on the city wall. Chao Gai threw down his wine bowl upon hearing the sound, and several of them strode outside the city tower to look at the Western Army's formation.But seeing the shield carriages, goose carriages, arrow towers, artillery carriages, etc., pushed forward by countless Western soldiers, a large number of infantry sergeants also stepped forward, and the chants one after another were loud and loud!

The Western Army is finally on the move!
The commander of the personal soldiers was worried about the safety of the officer, so he stepped forward and said: "Request, let's go down to the city."

"No hurry." Chao Gai waved his hand.

He is not afraid of danger, not to mention that the western army entered the city from the camp five or six miles away. This battle may not really start this afternoon.Looking at Zhang Jun next to him, he saw that he was in high spirits shouting and calling out orders, directing his officers and soldiers to make arrangements.Regarding the momentum of the Western Army, they did not feel any fear at all.

Chao Gai felt very relieved, this person who he single-handedly promoted performed well on the battlefield, which made him very happy.Of course, Bai Sheng, who was thousands of miles away, was even more happy. He didn't expect that he had selected a talent, and he jumped to the deputy envoy in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Jun didn't have any fear in his heart at this moment, only excitement and excitement.When Luzhou City was captured, he was the first to ascend, bleeding all over his body and suffering from five minor and serious wounds. After his success, he was promoted by Chao Gai as deputy military envoy.But Zhang Jun was not satisfied at all. After becoming the deputy envoy, he also wanted to be the military envoy.The current Luzhou military envoy is concurrently held by Luan Tingyu. You can imagine how tempting this is.

Luan Tingyu obviously won't stay with him for long.In this way, the next battle becomes crucial.If he can achieve more meritorious deeds, then the position of Luzhou's military envoy will be within his reach.

As long as he thought of this, Zhang Jun's whole body was burning with fighting spirit, and his ambition turned into raging karma and surrounded him.You just hate that the Western Army didn't come to the city quickly, why would you be afraid of fighting.

On the city wall, the soldiers on the horses of the enemy's platforms everywhere were nervously guarding. At the crossbows of each bed, the winchmen pulled the bowstrings and put in short spear-like arrows, with children's heads strung on the arrows. An incendiary bomb of about the size, covered with a rattan shell, and the whole body was soaked in oil.

On the positions of the artillery vehicles inside the city wall, Liangshan cannons were also in place, waiting for the observation post on the top of the city to send back information.

These observation sentries are specially trained technical soldiers, who can visually observe the speed and direction of the enemy's advance, so as to facilitate the command of the artillery vehicles to counterattack.These people are matched with a form, which is the so-called cannon form in the artillery era of later generations.At this time, let alone ordinary people, there is no concept of solid geometry in their minds. Even Lu Qian, who has long forgotten all mathematical knowledge, can only provide simple Pythagorean theorem, circle Various equations.No matter how complicated the analysis of the parabola is, it will be completely forgotten.Therefore, what Liangshan Pao can pursue is standardization and standardization.

Try to keep the performance of the stone cannon in a unified state as much as possible.

Then use a large amount of experimental data to prove that the shell and counterweight standard when the target of this type of stone cannon is [-] steps away from the front, the shell and counterweight standard when the target is [-] steps away from the front; , Counterweight standard, shell and counterweight standard at [-] degrees, [-] degrees, and [-] degrees to the left, and so on.

Hong Tianlei's job is not easy at all.The value of this cannon watch is comparable to ten thousand gold.

In this way, Chao Gai took root on the south gate, and until the sun went down, the Western Army was still five hundred steps away from the Wengcheng in the south of the city.

At such a distance, the God Arm Bow and Liangshan Bo are useless, but the bed crossbow can be shot, but Chao Gai saw the tall shield chariots erected in front of the Western Army in the binoculars raised by Chao Gai. Good strength.

That night, Chao Gai was on duty at the south gate.Luan Tingyu sent troops to the city to prevent chaos.During the Zhongli Rebellion in Haozhou, Han Tao was extremely quick in countering the rebellion, but a key figure was inside the city. Attacks from inside and outside caused the rebels to instantly become disorganized, creating a god-given opportunity for Han Tao.

Of course, such good news is even more shocking to Chao Gai than the identity of that person. His surname is Shi, and his two names are Wenbin and Shi Wenbin.

It turned out to be Shi Wenbin who was the county magistrate in Yuncheng back then.

When he was dispatched far away because of the big incident in Liangshan, Shi Wenbin never thought that he would be able to return to the Central Plains one day.But Chen Zhenghui's waving of the flag made many prisoners in Lingnan think about it, and their supervision power is weak, but it gave many people an opportunity to take advantage of it.At least Shi Wenbin is one of them.

Of course, his original intention was not to defect to the Liangshan Army.Shi Wenbin is very self-aware, but his identity is very embarrassing.Moreover, the Liangshan Army's general situation has been established, and there is no need for a small former county magistrate to show off his face.He Shi Wenbin was not Li Liang. As the first Jinshi magistrate to join the Liangshan Army, Li Liang is now the Zuo Buzheng of Shandong Province.And if Shi Wenbin was bumped into by Lu Qian, he might be chopped up with a knife.

The only one he can go to is Hei Sanlang, but it's a pity that people are not good enough to drink cold water. When Shi Wenbin arrived in Huainan, he heard the news that Song Jiang was seriously ill and had already left his job and returned to his hometown to take care of him. Chao Gai, the King of Tota, came Take his place.

Shi Wenbin had no choice but to settle down in Zhongli, changing his name to Lin Shan.A few months later, it was the scene of Zhongli City.

How shocked Chao Gai was when he heard about it, but he didn't mention that when the war came, he was exiled to Lingnan, but he was able to win over a few men in that barbaric land, and even made meritorious service in Zhongli City. I kept everything in the back of my mind, but I only remembered one important point - beware of internal changes.

In this case, Luan Tingyu toured the north of the city and the south of the city, and went to the east of the city to visit the west of the city, but he did not dare to be negligent.

Shi Songqing, the commander of the army, was also busy until late at night. When he was awakened by the shouts from outside the city, he only felt that his eyes had just closed.In fact, he had just fallen asleep.

The night is dark, and there is a bright moon hanging in the sky, cruising alone among the clouds, sprinkled with cool and watery moonlight.

At this moment, when everything is silent, the Song army outside the city is quiet, and the defenders inside the city are safe, only Feishui is still flowing tirelessly.The moonlight shone on the ice surface, and the mirror-like luster was particularly eye-catching in the black night.A gust of cold wind came, as cold as a knife.

Suddenly, there was movement in the Song Army camp. A telescope could not help people see clearly the details one or two miles away through the heavy night.All they could hear was the rustling of footsteps.

Not long after, the sound of "creaking and creaking" wheels was heard.The south wall of Luzhou City was already ablaze. Chao Gai stood on the top of the city, looking at the dark night outside the city. Although he couldn't see a fart, he could tell what Song Jun was doing just by listening to the sound.

"light fireworks."

After Chao Gai gave the order, his heart was full of admiration for Lu Qian.Using fireworks as flares is a trick that is hard to imagine.

Even the Western Army didn't know this trick, because this batch of special flares had just been finalized and shipped from Yidu.

Two sharp "whoosh" sounds were heard, and the two flares pulled out two bright tail marks in the black night sky, flew far away, and then exploded with a bang.It was like a bolt of lightning struck from the sky, illuminating the boss.

It's just a pity that the bright light didn't cast the shadow of the Song army's equipment, it just made Chao Gai vaguely see the blurred outline.

There was no need for Chao Gai to issue orders, and the gunner took the initiative to install paper tubes behind the flares.There are bundles of gunpowder sticks inside, and the propelling force and endurance generated by the second combustion of the multi-section gunpowder bundles are enough to greatly increase the range of the flare.

This is essentially a big second kicker.

If so, another flare was fired.Now, with the development of trade between Qilu and Japan, the performance of high-quality natural sulfur called gunpowder has been further developed.Lu Qian has already begun to realize that the explosive power of the gunpowder at the beginning is not good enough, which is mostly related to the quality of saltpeter and sulfur.

Although the purification of saltpeter and sulfur remains to be studied in the future, the good news is that the gunpowder group has found a way forward.

The range of this third illumination bomb was more than [-] steps away. When it exploded, countless shield vehicles and stone cannons pushed by the Western soldiers were all exposed.

Although that moment was very short, it was already spotted by the shooters.Swinging the mallet, it slammed hard on the hanging knife of the bed crossbow.Branches of arrows with blazing fireballs were thrown out by the bed crossbow.

The sound of the bow string vibrating was drowned out by the shriek of the stepping arrows. The short spear-like crossbow arrows, perhaps called crossbow guns, passed through the night and were mostly nailed to the thick front baffle of the shield car. superior.

Next is a contest between 'lighting' and 'blowing'.

The fireball attached to the front of the prong arrow was enough to expose the Western Army's whereabouts, and their response was to extinguish it immediately.

But the initiative has been firmly grasped by Chao Gai.

When the front of the western army's vehicles had already entered the range of the defenders' artillery vehicles, the commander of the artillery vehicles was not in a hurry to fire, but held on!Waiting for the distance to be further shortened, it is necessary to inflict greater trauma on the enemy.In this round, the stones are not used, but rounded stone bullets.The cost of one piece of this thing is far more than ten times that of a stone, and it is a hundred times, a thousand times that of the frozen mud water bomb. You have to teach it to be useful.

Liu Yanqing looked at Luzhou City, his eyes were solemn.This bandit Liang really surprised him.Chao Gai is very experienced in using troops. He tried several times to lure the defenders out of the city to fight, but Chao Gai remained motionless.

It's just that countless hardwood string buildings are erected above and below the city.

But today, he was ready and finally going to launch an offensive, but he did this.Liu Yanqing thought of those three fireworks, it was really a good idea.

"Why hasn't this Liangshan bandit fired yet?" Yao Gu, who had fought against Liangshan army several times, was very puzzled.He was deeply impressed by the Liangshan Cannon of the Liangshan Army, which shot far and accurately.Not to mention the former, but only to talk about the battle in Luzhou City. It was not because of the amazing power of the Liangshan artillery, why did they lose the city?
In that battle, the Luzhou defenders had no choice but to return to the danger, and wanted to attack the Liangshan Army artillery positions at night. As a result, as soon as the soldiers and horses got out of the city, the Liangshan Army's stone cannons were fired, and a round of shotguns hit the head cover. The brain lay down, so that the Song army who was preparing to attack would collapse without a fight.

Yao Gudu was hit on the shoulder by a brick, and half of his body was going to be broken. It took him a long time to recover.

He has a deep memory of the range of the Liangshan Cannon. Now that the Western Army's stone cannons will soon enter the intended location, they will soon be able to bombard Luzhou. Why is there no reaction from the other party?

Beside him, Yao Pingzhong, Liu Qi, Fan Qiong and other generals were all straddling their horses, watching the upcoming battle.After hearing this sentence, Yao Pingzhong said: "I'm afraid we have to wait for our army to go further."

As soon as he finished speaking, the generals suddenly saw a ball of fire rising from behind the city wall of Luzhou.Like two intersecting arrows, they flew up from both sides of the city gate tower and landed directly in front of the gate tower.There is nothing that the battle-hardened generals can't understand. The cannon stone is poured with kerosene, isn't it just like that.The Liangshan army set up stone cannon positions on both sides of the tower, so that cross-fire can cover the front of the tower, effectively covering the safety of the urn city.

A slight rotation can provide cover for the corners of the city and the middle section of the city wall.It is much better than directly placing a group of stone cannons behind the city gate tower.

With the sound of drums in Luzhou City, all the cannons were fired, and stone bombs flew into the sky, carrying huge kinetic energy and potential energy, whistling wind, and the sound was impressive.

When it hits the ground, you can feel the ground shaking.Whether it was the shield chariot or the cannon chariot, the center was torn apart, and all pieces of wood flew across it, and they collapsed immediately.

Most of the round stone balls can still roll forward, which is the biggest difference between stone bombs and stone and frozen mud water bombs.

The former rolls very briefly, the latter falls apart every time.

But the stone bullet can be like a rolling stone, rowing far away, and anyone who is hit by it will definitely become meat sauce!And if the vehicle is hit, it will be destroyed on the spot.

Such stone bullets are waiting to draw blood gullies in the sequence of the Song Army.

Of course, this kind of casualty is still very insignificant for the Western Army as a whole, and it is now in the dark, the soldiers can't see the bloody and miserable scene, but it makes their tolerance rise.

Several torches were lit in the army, and the wounded soldiers were searched and carried down.

The next moment, Wang De's cheeks twitched violently. The soldier in front of him had no complete body, and his armor was tied into a fishing net by the flying wood. In the next breath, he looked straight at the stars in the night sky with both eyes, stretched out his hand, stretched out his hand to touch...

"Abba, Aunt..." This is a person from Qingqiang, and he made such a voice, as if he didn't know that he had fallen into a piece of blood and mud, but returned to his family, his parents and relatives.

The whole person has lost his mind, and he can't even cry out in pain. Only that hand is still tenaciously stretching towards the sky...

The cold wind was instantly filled with blood, and Wang De's cheeks twitched.

"Go forward, keep going—"

Someone in the army was already shouting loudly. "Fire out, fire out..." Such shouts also sounded in the team.

The black face of Yao Gu in the back also turned purple!Seeing the artillery shells coming down one by one from the opposite side, the shield vehicles and artillery vehicles of the former army were smashed to pieces one by one, and my heart was burning with anxiety!
Mess!Mess!
He could clearly feel that the order of the queue in front of him was out of order, and people's hearts were even more chaotic.

"Xiyan, go forward."

Yao Gu ordered without hesitation, telling his son to step forward to suppress the former army.This has certain risks, but Yao Pingzhong didn't hesitate at all, he rode his horse and led a group of soldiers forward.By moonlight, and the faint firelight in the procession.

Farther back from the front line, Liu Yanqing, Zhao Ming and other generals were also looking ahead. The rate of fire of the Liangshan Cannon gave them a great shock at first. "Sure enough, it is a military weapon. Compared with our army's multi-shot cannon, it has a much faster rate of fire." Zhao Ming said.

The generals around him were all silent. Many generals of the Western Army who were fighting against the Liangshan Army for the first time were shocked!They had long heard that the Liangshan Army had a weapon that could destroy the city, but they thought it was a false accusation and did not want to see it today.

Song Jun's counterattack also began.After suffering a lot of casualties, they also arrived at the destination, placed the stone cannons, and immediately launched a fierce counterattack.However, the accuracy of the multi-tip cannon is much worse than that of the Liangshan cannon.

(End of this chapter)