Chapter 14: The Battle of the South City

"Pong! Disheveled! Ponto!"

Lightning and thunder, cannonballs tore through the air, breaking through the air, and solid iron balls flew in the air, mixed with countless shotguns, heading straight for the city walls and city heads.

"Get down!"

Brother Richard was frightened and quickly shrank down.

At the head of the city, many Xia soldiers did not have time to bend down to dodge, they had been hit by the oncoming iron bullets, and they were killed and injured in an instant, and some Xia soldiers were knocked out, half of their bodies were full of blood holes, and the sound of "poof" continued to sound, and the city wall was full of dead bodies and wounded, blood splashed, and it was extremely tragic.

A cannonball came head-on, hitting a garrison officer of the Xia army at the head of the city, and the seven-pound cannonball smashed his brain burst, his flesh and blood were blurred, and the corpse hit the earthen wall heavily, collapsing half of the battlement wall.

"Fire!"

Liu Hongjin roared loudly, and the gunners in the second row of loaded ammunition lit the primer one after another.

"Attack!"

As the cannon sounded, groups of soldiers stepped forward, quickly reached the edge of the trench, set up ladders, and the soldiers behind rushed down the wide trench one after another.

The ditch was about 30 meters wide, and the end near the city wall was about 20 meters away from the city wall, and the entire ditch was designed to be within the firing range of the feather arrows. Seeing that the Song soldiers on the other side had descended from the trench and came forward, the lookout soldiers shouted loudly, and the Xia soldiers on the city wall braved the opponent's artillery fire and began to shoot.

"Small cannon, aim and hit!"

Seeing that in the trench, the advancing Song army soldiers kept falling, Liu Hongjin shouted angrily.

"Heavy artillery, aim at the city gate for me, blast it open!"

The artillery fired in unison, white smoke billowed up, iron balls danced wildly in the air, hundreds of artillery pieces of all sizes were repeatedly bombarded, and the artillery positions were filled with gunsmoke and white.

The sound of artillery was incessant, and the southern wall of Pingxia City was soon in tatters, and many battlements were smashed flat, revealing the bare city head. Some of the party's warriors frequently shot feathered arrows, and regardless of whether they hit the target or not, they quickly retracted their heads to avoid being hit by artillery fire.

With the sound of "Kalala", the city gate building at the south gate was hit by several iron balls and collapsed, and several party soldiers did not have time to escape and were buried inside.

Richard hid behind a battlement wall, horrified. If you continue to fight like this, you can only be beaten, and it is not a way after all.

In the sound of artillery, Xia troops were constantly hit, and the city walls were piled with corpses and wounded, and helpless moans and screams were endless. Xia Jun hid behind the battlement wall that was not completely damaged, and shot desperately, but the lethality was greatly reduced.

"King Jin, the gate is about to collapse!"

"What?"

Brother Richard was taken aback, once the gate of the village was blown down, the Song army was about to attack.

"King Jin, why don't we retreat to the inner city, the brothers really can't stand it!"

Before the sergeant could finish speaking, he had already received a stab in the back of his face, and blood immediately oozed out.

"Fuck your shit!"

Brother Richard said angrily: "There is only a place in the inner city that is the size of a palm, how can it accommodate an army of 20,000!"

He sank his face, his face turned pale, and said loudly: "Gao Xian, you lead people to pile up the corpses on the city wall, and the soldiers hide behind the corpses to face the enemy. You don't hide it, you take the cavalry of your headquarters and go out to kill for a while. ”

The drums beat intensively, and Liu Qi looked forward, and many soldiers had already climbed up the trench along the ladder and headed towards the city gate.

The walled gate could not withstand the impact and destructive force of the artillery, and was shattered. A few soldiers stepped forward, several explosives were put on the rack, the gate of the fortress fell to the ground, and a large number of Song troops poured into the city like a tide.

Suddenly, the dust at the gate of the city was flying, and countless ironclad knights rode out, instantly disrupting the battle formation of the Song army.

Caught with one's pants down

, countless Song soldiers were knocked over, slashed, and shot to the ground. The Dangxiang knights swept from the gates of the city to both sides, apparently to break up the Song troops who were swarming around the city walls.

The knights of the party marched forward like a wall, and they opened their bows and arrows to shoot at the Song soldiers in the trenches, and many of the Song soldiers kept screaming and falling to the ground despite the shields.

Xu San was furious and roared angrily: "Grenadier, drop the bomb!"

"General, there are quite a few of our brothers in there!"

The adjutant general hesitated: "If the earth-shaking thunder is thrown down, there will be many brothers killed and injured at that time!"

"If you don't throw it again, you will be rushed up by the party cavalry, and I don't know how many brothers will die!"

Xu San blushed and shouted, "Grenadier, throw bombs to me from all of Thanion!"

Wu Zanggui took the party knights and slashed wildly in the crowd of foot soldiers of the Song army, and rushed out fifty or sixty steps in a blink of an eye. Along the way, the corpses and wounded of the Song army were everywhere, and countless Song soldiers were squeezed back into the trench and shot at will by the other side.

"Brothers, slaughter this group of Song dogs!"

Seeing that Song Bing was panicked, he didn't hide an inexplicable trace of happiness in his heart. He led the party knights to slash wildly, and the party soldiers on the city wall also took the opportunity to gallop and shoot the Song army under the city wall.

Groups of party cavalry, like locusts, poured out from the south city gate, the drawbridge at the city gate has been lowered, countless party cavalry along the drawbridge to fight forward, as if they want to rush across the drawbridge, first break the Song army's artillery position, directly impact the Song army's large array.

When the party knights crossed the trench, they shot wildly at the Song troops in the trench, and countless Song soldiers were shot to the ground, which was extremely tragic.

"What are the grenadiers, gunners doing? The artillery is aimed at the drawbridge and the city wall, and the cannon is fired at once!"

Liu Qi was furious and roared loudly. The first fierce battle turned out to be like this! If it were the elite of the loyal army of the two rivers, such a situation would never have occurred.

The Song gunners quickly loaded their ammunition, and one by one the artillery was aimed at the drawbridge, and the party cavalry that charged forward habitually hid their bodies behind their horses, and could no longer care about shooting at the Song troops in the trenches on both sides.

"I don't know if I'm alive or dead!"

Liu Hongjin snorted coldly in his nostrils and shouted hoarsely.

"Fire!"

In the face of the rolling party cavalry, the gunners were also pale and hurriedly lit the artillery wires.

"Pong! Disheveled! Ponto!"

Dozens of artillery pieces roared together, iron bullets whistled and flew, thrilling, and countless party knights were beaten and flew out, even with horses, covered in bloody holes.

Another round of artillery was fired, and the hundreds of party cavalry on the suspension bridge were basically swept away. The dozens of surviving knights were so frightened that they turned their horses around and ran wildly towards the city.

"Fire!"

"Pong! Ponto!" The sound of artillery continued to sound, hundreds of cannons opened fire together, white smoke filled the air, and at the city gate and on both sides of the city gate, a large pile of party knights were swept off their horses like leaves swept away by the wind. At the gates of the city, the corpses of men and horses were stacked on top of each other, and the corpses were piled up like mountains, and there were blood, stumps, and scattered human and horse organs everywhere.

Several iron balls smashed into a pile of corpses on the city wall, and the pile of corpses was torn apart and flew out in all directions, and the party soldiers hiding behind were also knocked off the city wall with a scream.

"Pass! Pass!"

Countless smoking iron bumps were thrown under the city walls, and then countless earth-shattering thunderbolts were thrown at the head of the city and in front of the city gates.

Bursts of smoke rose from the city's gates and a hundred meters below the city walls. The earth-shattering thunder on the city wall bloomed everywhere, thick smoke billowed out, and countless party soldiers and soldiers were blown off the city wall, just like dumplings in the next pot.

The smoke of gunpowder was filled, flesh and blood were flying, the sound of artillery was incessant, the sound of earth-shattering thunder and explosions came and went, and thick smoke billowed everywhere

It's blood and corpses.

Richard was dragged down the city wall from side to side, and they hid in the dark corner of a dwelling. The earth-shattering thunder of the Song army crossed or flew up the city wall, and the explosions on and around the city wall continued, and the city wall was in a mess, and I didn't know how many people could survive.

The earth-shattering thunder blew up many houses near the city wall, causing fires in the thick smoke, and the party soldiers waiting to reinforce the city wall were killed and wounded, and they could not bear the choking smoke and quickly retreated.

No one thought that the way of war would become so cruel and different!

The city gate can be blown open, the opponent can be killed and injured on a large scale a hundred steps away, and the infantry is no longer afraid of cavalry.

Under the firearms, the party cavalry suffered heavy casualties, many people were bombarded with blurred flesh and blood, fragmented, intestines and internal organs everywhere, Brother Richard couldn't help but feel like a knife.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, the cavalry has suffered heavy losses, and the Song army is about to attack!"

The soldier stepped forward in a panic and loudly reported the situation outside.

"Let the noble guard the east city gate, be sure to guard the east city wall!"

The southern wall was in tatters and badly damaged, and there was no longer any need to continue to hold on. In the battle of the southern city wall, the Song army also suffered heavy losses, and both sides suffered casualties on both sides, so they retreated to a safer place and fought according to the city, and the chances of victory were greater.

Countless Song troops approached the southern city wall, and while they covered the top of their heads with a round shield on their arms, the earth-shaking thunder was ignited under the shield and threw it vigorously towards the city wall.

Inside and outside the city wall, shrouded in the billowing smoke column of earth-shaking thunder, thick smoke billowed everywhere, gunpowder smoke filled, many withered grass thatched huts burned, and the fire became bigger and bigger.

The party soldiers on the city wall could no longer withstand the earth-shattering thunder bombardment of the other party, and even the bravest and fearless party warriors became frightened in front of the bloody corpses of their accomplices.

"Pass the order, abandon the southern wall, and retreat to the east and west!"

Brother Richard's military order was issued, and countless party soldiers retreated like a tide, and you chased after me on the city wall, feathered arrows galloped, and explosions were endless.

Amid the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the party soldiers broke away from the city wall and retreated towards both sides of the city wall and under the city wall.

The remnants of the party cavalry at the city gate and outside the city gate, under the attack of the Song army, were stabbed and blown to the ground one by one, and countless Song troops rushed into the south city gate.

"What are you doing in a daze, put the artillery on it!"

Xu San shouted. After this battle, the nest was extremely hot, not to mention countless casualties, and the entire attack process was simply chaotic.

When did the Loyal Righteous Army fight such a battle!

"The front battalion followed me, the grenadiers followed, the artillery mounted on the city wall, and these dogs were killed!"

Countless loyal soldiers climbed the southern wall of the outer city, and the mess on the wall was quickly swept away, and countless artillery pieces were erected.

"The general spares my life, I am also Han!"

Liu Zhengyan led people to attack the city wall, and just as the spear in his hand was about to be stabbed, the party soldiers were already kneeling in the blood, the weapons in their hands were thrown aside, and their faces were full of panic.

"You are also worthy of being a Han Chinese, you animal that has forgotten your ancestors!"

Liu Zhengyan's eyes were blood-red, and the spear in his hand was not pierced.

"Tie them up, throw them aside, take control of the city walls first, pick up the artillery, and take the army into the city!"

Liu Zhengyan obviously did not forget his duty, this is only the outer city of the southern city wall, there is also the inner city, and there are several other gates in the outer city, and there are so many city gates.

However, until now, he couldn't believe that it took less than an hour to conquer the outer city of Pingxia City.

In comparison, the loss of capturing the outer city can be said to be not worth mentioning.