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What's even more frightening is that this kind of loud noise was very frightening to the Japanese who had never seen artillery, and they were stunned on the spot.

In front of the Song army's formation, blue smoke rose, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

"What happened!" Fujiwara Qingming shouted tremblingly.

"Earth Dragon turned over!"

"The earth is split!"

Even though they were in panic several miles away, the Japanese troops sent to the front line were even more frightened.

The worst thing was Yuan Changzheng's troops, who were smashed to pieces as soon as they formed the formation, and in a panic, were sprayed to pieces by the second wave of artillery.

After seeing that it was almost done, Zhao Chen personally rushed forward with ten cannons, and fired at the city gate with solid cannons.

Ten cannons fired one after another, twice, and the city gate collapsed in response.

The Japanese army standing in front of the city gate was miserable. The slurry from the broken half of someone's head was painted on the broken city gate.

After just a few strokes, Yuan Changzheng's men and horses, their longbows still useless, collapsed again.

Not only did it collapse, but even the gates of the city were blasted open.

There was a mess under the city, throwing away their helmets and armor, and running around.

The people in the city were also completely dumbfounded.

Yuan Changzheng was even more frightened, and ran around with his head in his arms.

The striker who had already been prepared quickly went up and began to harvest life.

Knowing that Yuan Changzheng has been defeated and even the gates of the city have been opened, Fujiwara Qingming in the east immediately became restless.

According to Yoricho Fujiwara's tactics, the north and west were suspicious soldiers, attracting the Song army. After the Song army passed, Fujiwara Qingming in the east took the opportunity to attack from the rear.

But now the Song Army has directly defeated Yuan Changzheng at the gate of the city in a short period of time, which means that the Song Army can enter the city at any time.

Fujiwara Qingming hesitated for a moment, and immediately ordered an attack.

The Japanese army in the east began to advance rapidly towards the north gate of Shuicheng.

When the news reached Fujiwara Yoricaga, Fujiwara Yoricaga roared angrily: "Who told him to do it now, the main force of the Song army has not yet moved!"

"Daisuke, Kitajo Minamoto Defense has been defeated. Your Excellency Fujiwara is worried that the Song army will invade the city!"

"That can't be messed with!"

Fujiwara Yoricho roared angrily. He looked over, and the main force of Fujiwara Qingming had already rushed to the north of the city, and now it was too late to stop.

God knows the call to stop, will a Song army take advantage of the instability of the army to kill it?

On the battlefield, once an army moves, it doesn't stop whenever it wants.

Fujiwara Yoricho sighed, although he was still angry at Fujiwara Qingming's unauthorized actions, but thinking that Fujiwara Qingming was leading the main force after all, there should be no problem in winning.

How did he know that the Song Army defeated Yuan Changzheng in a short time to force the main force of the Japanese army to do it.

This undoubtedly solved the problem that the Song army could not figure out which side the main force of the Japanese army was on.

Before Qingming Fujiwara's thousands of main forces entered the main battlefield, their whereabouts were quickly exposed to the scouts of the Song Army.

When his troops entered, the arrows of the eight-ox crossbow began to crazily hit the arrows in that direction, and the dense rain of arrows covered them indiscriminately.

Some failed, but many hit the Japanese army.

The main force of the Japanese army was shot to death more than 200 people on the spot, and the formation immediately appeared in partial chaos.

"Artillery Battalion! Artillery Battalion!" Zhao Chen shouted at the main artillery battalion not far away.

He yelled and ran over there frantically.

"Your Highness! Be careful!"

Zhao Chen ran over with all his strength and began to direct himself.

"The enemy is now at eight o'clock to the east! Just one mile away! Immediately move the artillery 300 meters in that direction! Quick!"

While commanding, he ordered the nearby infantry to assist the artillery battalion.

The infantry lined up on both sides, and the soldiers of the artillery battalion moved forward quickly.

They don't have much time. If the enemy is not chaotic under the impact of the arrow rain, but instead rushes forward bravely, then the artillery battalion will lose the best time to strike.

In addition, if the Japanese deploy a large number of longbows, the Song army will turn from active to passive.

At this time, it will be a great test of the courage of the commanders on the battlefield.

Zhao Chen, who had been in Liaodong for eight years, and Zhao Chen, who had fought with the Jinren for eight years, quickly demonstrated his command in times of danger in this war.

The soldiers of the Artillery Battalion saw His Highness Liao Wang personally with them on the front line, and their morale was also boosted. After bombarding Yuan Changzheng, they quickly moved to the location set by Zhao Chen.

Sure enough, the Japanese main force did not retreat after being covered by the rain of arrows, but began to rush towards this side frantically.

There are a full three thousand soldiers and horses, most of them are wearing bamboo armor, and many of them are carrying armor-piercing longbows.

Song Jun put down the artillery, and quickly began to fill the ammunition with his hands and feet.

Boom boom boom...

Shards of iron spewed out, and the Japanese who rushed to the front were about to start using bows and arrows, but they were thrown backwards in an instant.

Countless iron fragments tore through the bamboo armor on his body, entered his body, and cut open his internal organs.

The rest ran across his face, and the blood burst into the air.

Chapter 1280 Occupying Water City (Part [-])

A large number of Japanese were lifted up, and when they fell to the ground, their flesh and blood were mutilated.

People around were spattered with blood and minced flesh.

It was too late to figure out what happened, besides the terrible roar, there were also the roars of officers.

The Japanese army did not panic immediately, and the large troops still rushed forward with collective inertia, shouting and killing loudly.

The commander-in-chief Fujiwara Yoricho's expression changed drastically: "It's artillery! The Song army used artillery!"

At this moment, he wished he could chop off the aggressive Fujiwara Qingming on the spot.

"Quick! Deploy our artillery!" Fujiwara Yoricho reacted and shouted at the people behind, "Quick!"

The troops in the rear of the Japanese army immediately began to mobilize the artillery.

The style of the artillery of the Japanese army still stays in the first-generation artillery of the Song Dynasty, that is, the most primitive is the tiger squatting cannon style, and it is made of iron.

But it was too late, and the timing of the battlefield was changing rapidly.

Zhao Chen himself was on the front line of the artillery battalion, and he shouted loudly: "No need to cool down! Keep filling! No need to cool down! Keep filling! Bomb these pirates to death!"

The Japanese army was only more than 200 meters away from them, which meant that they only had three chances to fire.

And under the three waves of artillery, the willpower of the Japanese army must be completely disintegrated. Otherwise, the main force of thousands of Japanese troops rushed up, and it would be difficult to sustain it with the artillery of these artillery battalions and hundreds of infantry.

After all, fighting a war depends not only on willpower.

Fortunately, the artillerymen behind followed closely at this time, and the Song Army's artillery quickly increased, and its firepower increased sharply.

A total of [-] cannons were added, and the cannons were fired one after another.

Tongues of fire spewed out from the muzzle, bursts of blue smoke floated up, and dense iron rain sprayed wave after wave on the Japanese soldiers who were constantly rushing up.

The Japanese soldiers had hideous and fierce faces. Although they were short in stature, the savage nature in their bodies made them look like wolves running out of the forest.

But under the impact of the artillery, the front piece after piece splashed back like splashed mud that had been shoveled up.

Some Japanese soldiers quickly bent their bows and shot arrows. As soon as they shot out, their bodies were smashed into a sieve.

Finally, in nearly 20 seconds, each artillery piece of the Song army fired three times, and the firepower formed by the crossing sprayed hundreds of Japanese soldiers to death.

However, several artillery pieces were blasted because of this, but this is irrelevant.

When the Japanese army had approached the Song Army's artillery line only a few dozen meters away, the Japanese army's willpower collapsed uncontrollably.

A large number of Japanese troops began to turn around and flee.

A small number rushed over and were hacked to death on the spot by the infantry in the Song army who were waiting in battle.

The main Japanese attack failed.

The news quickly reached Zhang Rong.

Zhang Rong immediately ordered the remaining Song army to rush towards the east battlefield.

The situation reversed.

Fujiwara Qingming shouted loudly behind the main force: "No one is allowed to retreat!"

He even drew out his knife and hacked to death several retreating Japanese soldiers, but he still couldn't stop the rout of the large army.

By the time Fujiwara Yoricho's artillery unit advanced into the battlefield, the situation was settled.

"Daisuke, the main force of our army has been defeated!"

Affected by the defeat of the main force, the artillery unit also showed a frightened and timid expression.

"Fire forward!" Fujiwara Yoricho ordered categorically.

Several of the artillery soldiers were about to flee, but he was executed on the spot.

Immediately, Japanese artillery units joined the battle, quickly reloading their shells.

For Yoricho Fujiwara, he has artillery and has trained a lot of times, but now he is unwilling to use it.

But when the Japanese army actually used artillery on the battlefield for the first time, they realized that it was completely different from the training.

First of all, five of the twenty artillery pieces exploded in the first shot, and four Japanese artillerymen were killed by the flying artillery on the spot.

The shells of the rest of the artillery slammed hundreds of meters ahead. On the wide battlefield, they seemed to be no different from trebuchets.

Except for the huge noise erupting from the artillery itself, which can cause people to tremble, the lethality is really limited.

This undoubtedly disappointed Fujiwara Yori. These things usually look majestic during training, but on the battlefield, they are so unbearable?

He has a feeling of being cheated by those cunning Da Song profiteers.

But in fact, this is Fujiwara Yoricho's lack of understanding of artillery.

The role of solid ammunition and tiger squatting guns in plain battles is indeed limited. After all, the place is open and the army is deployed.

But if it is in the mountains and forests, it is completely different.

Between the mountains and forests, people cannot stretch out effectively, and the terrain is complicated.

Twenty tiger crouching cannons, concentrated on a certain location, can quickly cause panic in the crowd even if the damage range is limited.

The most typical case was the Battle of Xiazhou at that time, when Xue Yi bombarded the Xixia Army on the opposite hillside with a tiger squat, causing chaos among the crowd.

Once the troops in the mountains and forests panic, it is easy to stand unstable and become more flustered, thus making the large troops lose their combat effectiveness.

But it is completely different on the plain.

Of course, it is also very effective for dealing with cavalry on the plains.

If you expect this kind of solid artillery to knock down the enemy as soon as it comes out, it is undoubtedly the same as those scholars in Tokyo who have never been on the battlefield.

Fujiwara Yoricho didn't even know that the official artillery of the Song Dynasty had been iterated to the third generation.

The shells of the third-generation artillery have used iron fragments and iron beads, and the performance of gunpowder is also superior.

The battle didn't last long. It lasted half a day from the Japanese army's formation to encircle the Song army, to the defeat of the Japanese army's main force, and then to the Song army's pursuit and killing of the Japanese army's main force.

At noon, many distressed Japanese soldiers fled to the river, jumped to the ground, and planned to swim to the other side of the river to escape.

But more Japanese soldiers were killed by the river, Fujiwara Yoricho fled, and Fujiwara Qingming was captured.

In the afternoon, Song Jun entered Shuicheng.

Start to do a big cleansing in the water city.

The first batch of Song troops to enter the city headed by Zhao Chen, under Zhao Chen's signal, began to clean up the rich and nobles in Shuicheng.

Those nobles were ready to surrender, but they had no chance to surrender. The Song army rushed in and hacked them all to death.

The head was spinning on the ground, and the blood flowed down the steps.

After fighting until the evening, more than half of the wealthy and nobles in Shuicheng were wiped out.

At this time, Fujiwara Yoricho fled to Ono City with a small number of people.