Chapter 21: The Battle of Xuanzhou

In the face of the heavy encirclement of nearly 200,000 troops, the 40,000 Dali soldiers under Duan Zhuang still behaved very calmly, and did not show any disturbance because of the destruction of more than 100 cannons, but set up a camp under the city of Xuanzhou City, dug a trench, and even built a high platform with soil to surround the entire camp, while the combined forces of the Northern Liang and Southern Liang did not dare to attack easily, because as long as this is the first to attack, this is definitely the first team to repay the taste of bombs. And at this moment, the commander of the Xuanzhou City garrison, the former commander of the Yangzhou Navy Xu Yunwei was squinting at the camp in Dali not far away, but the sweat on his body was constantly flowing down, seeing the high platforms erected in front of the Dali camp, his heart suddenly jumped unevenly, and he turned his head to the herald next to him and asked: "Do you know what those earthen platforms are for!" ”

When the herald heard this, he hurriedly looked at the past, and after looking at it for a long time, he couldn't say why, and then he circled around the city wall, and asked all the soldiers on the city wall, but no one could guess what these earthen platforms were used for, but he got a bunch of ridiculous answers.

"Dali's general is a devil, he can turn these mounds into puppets ten zhang high, and he can smash our city walls with just one slap, oh my God! How to fight this, Dali's army is a demon...... General, let's run for our lives! ”

"The general of Dali is using these mounds to set up a devil's array, as long as the hour comes, there will be the blood of 10,000 soldiers to open the formation, which can kill all the people in our entire Xuanzhou City overnight!"

There is also a more realistic and convincing statement: "There are big pits dug out behind this mound, and Dali's army is afraid that it will not have time to deal with our corpses, so they dug the pits in advance, and waited until they dragged our corpses into it?" ”

"Oh my God...... How can we fight this, we are basically fighting against the devil! Hurry up and run for your life! ”

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Admiral Xu Yunwei heard this, his eyes were full of stars, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, and immediately ordered people to pull out these soldiers who spread rumors and bewitch the hearts of the army and scolded them with a cane, but after that, no one dared to talk about it anymore, and Lord Xu Yunwei was helpless to see that Dali's army was still piling up mounds and digging trenches not far from the city wall, and there was no way to go out to fight, it would definitely be sent to death, but watching the Dali military carry out these inexplicable behaviors, his heart was extremely worried: "His mother Xipi!" Lord Xu Yunwei burst into a foul language, but was soon stunned again: Who did I learn this from.

Two days have passed, but the mounds outside the city gate are getting more and more, I am afraid there are hundreds, and on the night of the next day, Lord Xu Yunwei finally knew the purpose of these mounds, because Lord Xu Yunwei got up early in the morning and came to inspect the city wall, but he saw that there was a devil's tool placed on each mound, cannon, Lord Xu Yunwei recognized from the drawings sent from the front line that this was the thing that brought nightmares to all the troops of Nanliang, cannons, and immediately panicked. Hurriedly howled and called out to the messenger: "After the summons, all the soldiers are ready to attack, notify the army of Beiliang in the north, and inform Yang Dutong that they must be required to assemble and attack in the fastest time, otherwise when these demonic weapons bombard Xuanzhou City, this place will be razed to the ground in a day!" The herald's face was pale as he listened, and he cried and shouted orders as if the end was really coming, and for a moment the people were terrified......

In fact, whether it is the troops of the North Liang or the South Liang, they all have a certain understanding of the demon weapons of Dali, and know that although the power of this cannon is great, it has the same distance range limit as the bow and arrow, of course, this distance is naturally much farther than the bow and arrow, and the range of the cannon is about three miles is already the limit, so the camp of the Dali army is five miles away from Xuanzhou City, which should be within the safe range, so this Xu Yunwei has not sent troops, otherwise, As long as this Xuanzhou City is within the range of the cannon, I am afraid that it can only go out of the city to fight, or wait to be blown up in the city.

This Lord Xu Yunwei is also a battle-hardened soldier, extremely experienced, this first time to know the intention of the Dali army, after sending the cannon to this high mound, the city wall of Xuanzhou City was immediately exposed to the range of the cannon, not only that, after the range of the cannon here has become farther, it means that their casualties will be greatly increased, originally within three miles will be attacked by artillery fire, but now as long as it enters the range of five miles, it will be affected, there is no doubt By the time the combined forces of the Southern Liang and Northern Liang rushed to the front of the Dali military camp, there were not many manpower, even if some of them could break through the obstacles and rush into the battle circle, the next thing waiting for them would be the Dali soldiers who were waiting for them...... As for whether there will be bombs in the hands of Dali soldiers that are similar to the power of cannons...... That's another matter, all in all, our Lord Xu Yunwei realized that as long as these cannons were on the high platform, then the hope of victory in this war would be even more slim.

Now is already the most critical opportunity, Lord Xu Yunwei can only hope that the army of Dali did not have time to stuff the ammunition into the bore of the cannon, let his army rush to kill at this critical moment, kill them by surprise, many years of experience in soldiers told himself, now is the most important time, absolutely can not be delayed any longer, so almost instinctively, without hesitation, Lord Xu Yunwei gave the order to rush to kill, and the 50,000 soldiers in the city were all neatly equipped, shouting and rushing out of Xuanzhou City, And at this time, General Meng Chaoda of the Northern Liang and Yang Lijie of the Southern Liang also knew the news, knowing that this Lord Xu Yunwei had made a very wise decision, so he did not hesitate to wave the army to attack, just after the three armies shouted to kill, Han Anguo, the general who was defending the country after the break in the west, heard the sound of shouting and killing, and knew that the war had begun, so he rushed up from the rear wing without hesitation.

Encircled and suppressed on all sides, with 200,000 against 40,000, this was originally a battle where you could know the outcome with your ass, but in fact, the outcome of this battle was often unexpected.

Just when the coalition forces of the North Liang and the South Liang attacked violently, the camp tent of Dali was launched countless cannons, from a distance, the number of cannons on each side was not under two hundred, at this moment, the coalition soldiers who rushed to the front were already desperate, and before they had time to turn around and escape, they had been blown to pieces by the roaring cannonballs.

And when countless cannons rushed into the sky one after another, the hearts of all the commanders of the coalition forces sank to the bottom, this time, the Dali army showed its bottom line, a full 800 cannons, in addition to the more than 100 cannons that were destroyed, it was possible to come up with 800 cannons, what kind of concept is this, no wonder the Dali army can lose more than 100 cannons after no reaction, it turns out that there are so many terrible weapons, this battle, from the beginning has been doomed to be a failure.

The soldiers who were the first to rush into the range of the cannons on the high platform were bombarded into cannon fodder five miles away, but fortunately, these artillery fire was not very dense, and the two hundred cannons on the high platform could not cover the sprint of the 200,000 troops from all directions, but when these soldiers who were lucky enough to escape rushed through the first artillery fire line, they were greeted by the remaining 600 cannons bombarded like a storm, which was simply ...... Hell on earth, broken limbs, internal organs are all over the ground, the mud and sand instantly turned into a bright red color, the originally fresh air was suddenly filled with a smell of blood, hell on earth, a veritable hell on earth, the long river of history, but there is no battle that can be more bloody and ...... than today's massacre Shortcut.

In just the first round of shelling, 10,000 of the 200,000 allied soldiers fell, followed by the second, third, and fourth rounds...... This short distance of less than five miles is like a road to the Yellow Spring, either you die before you can rush over, and even if you rush over...... Also dead.

Despair instantly spread among the coalition forces, when finally the first soldier rushed to the front of the Dali military camp, the number of casualties of the coalition army was close to 100,000, and these soldiers who were lucky enough to avoid the artillery fire rushed to the front of the military camp in Dali, waiting for these coalition soldiers, and it was an endless rain of arrows, but they did not even see the shadow of the enemy, and they were pierced by random arrows and died.

In less than an hour, the number of casualties of the coalition army has approached 100,000, as for the casualties of the Dali army? A thousand, a hundred, ten, who knows...... Anyway, it's only a fraction of the casualties of the coalition forces, and even ...... Not even a fraction.

Lord Yang Lijie's fear, General Meng Chaoda's cold, General Han Anguo's cold, Lord Xu Yunwei's cold, after half an hour, the leaders of the four aspects of the army made a decision, withdrawing the army, this battle is just pure death, one hour into 100,000 soldiers, this battlefield is a bottomless pit, even if another 200,000 troops come, after being sent to the battlefield, they will only be ground into minced meat.

When the news of the withdrawal was learned, it was not time to rush up to send the soldiers to death suddenly like an amnesty, and the feet flew backwards and fled for their lives, the original 200,000 coalition troops were left less than 100,000, and fled to the east in a hurry, with a victory of 40,000 against 200,000, the inhumane torture and killing was finally over, and after the end of the war, Duan Zhuang did not send troops to pursue, but calmly settled in Xuanzhou City for supply and cultivation, this battle, has laid the victory to capture the Southern Liang, there is no doubt about it...... Dali has already laid a ...... Half of the Central Plains,