1160.Battle of Tongchuan (I)
Xiao Yulin had just left, and Zhao Dongting announced that he was scouting again.
Only the next morning, Yue Peng, who received the news from the scouts, led a large army to attack Tongchuan Mansion.
The two military camps of the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia each left only about 2,000 soldiers to guard it. The rest of the soldiers all headed towards Tongchuan Mansion.
The Great Song army marched in front, and the Western Xia army followed.
After the scouts in Tongchuan Mansion found out about this scene, they hurried back to the city to report the news.
The defenders of the city hurriedly converged towards the north gate.
There were countless artillery carts on the city.
In addition, the hot air balloon army of the New Song Army and the Dali Army are waiting in the city and are on call at any time.
To this day, both sides can be said to have been preparing for this battle for a long time.
The deputy palace master of Guigu personally sat in the urn city in the middle of the city, ready to command the three armies. Then there is a pool wind drum in the east of the city wall urn to assist, as the deputy marshal.
In addition, the main defender of Tongchuan Mansion will sit on the west side of the city wall.
The entire northern city wall of Tongchuan Mansion can be described as heavily defended.
As the morning sun gradually rose, the Great Song Forbidden Army and the Western Xia Forbidden Army also slowly appeared outside Tongchuan Mansion.
Tens of thousands of troops lined up as long snakes, and then stopped about 500 meters outside the city to line up.
There were dozens of regiments, all arranged in phalanxes. It looks like the battle is really quite bluffing.
The defenders of Tongchuan Mansion at the head of the city were rubbing shoulders, and their expressions were also solemn at this time.
Because both sides of a war are bound to suffer damage to each other, it is not that whichever side has more people will not have any losses. If you are shot, no one else can die instead.
Even the Great Song Forbidden Army is quite dignified at this moment.
There was an extremely suppressed murderous aura above the military formation.
Yue Peng, Zhao Hu, as well as Du Hu, Zheng Yihang and others each stood in front of the army. Then Helian Cheng and Qu Rujian also led the army to the front, ranking on the left side of the Great Song Forbidden Army.
Yue Peng raised his binoculars to observe the situation at the head of the city.
There are so many artillery throwing vehicles, which is enough to show how well prepared the defenders in Tongchuan Mansion are.
And in the face of the hot air balloons of the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, the deputy palace master of Guigu also has his own way of coping. There are many people in Tongchuan Mansion who are not out of Yue Peng's surprise at the head of the city.
Yue Peng just sneered after putting down the binoculars, "Use such a trick again." ”
When the Great Song Army attacked Dali, a certain official in Dali had already suffered the loss of using such a despicable trick.
Just wanted to come, the deputy palace master of Guigu did this because there was no other way.
The blades and armor of the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty were much stronger than those of the New Song Dynasty and Dali armies, and he did not dare to give up the city wall easily.
In this battle, perhaps only by consuming many Song soldiers on the city wall can Tongchuan Mansion be able to hold it.
Otherwise, let those wolf-like Song troops enter the city, and the soldiers in the New Song and Dali armies will inevitably be defeated. After all, they have all suffered from the Great Song Forbidden Army.
And the deputy palace master of Guigu couldn't have imagined that Yue Peng had no intention of showing mercy to his subordinates this time.
This was from Zhao Dongting's instructions.
Miao Youli and Pang Wenbo died in Chongqing Mansion, which made Zhao Dongting angry.
New Song, he will perish.
And now the destruction of the new Song Dynasty can be said to be only two cities: Tongchuan Mansion and Chongqing Mansion. Under such circumstances, he would no longer care about the lives of those people.
It's not benevolent.
But this is the choice he must make as an emperor.
Only by doing so can the defenders in all parts of the New Song Dynasty dispel their intention to use the people as shields. Otherwise, the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army will also suffer a lot of losses in the New Song Dynasty.
That's not what Zhao Dongting wants to see.
To govern the country, we must be benevolent, but we must also weigh interests first.
Now Zhao Dongting is becoming more and more mature emperor. The style of doing things has gradually changed subtly compared with before.
On his body, it is gradually difficult to see the shadow of the past. He is no longer the boss of the company in his previous life, but the real emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.
In front of the army, Yue Peng slowly raised his gun.
Beside him, Da Xuan shook.
Suddenly, Tiankui, Tianyong, and Tianmeng all had grenadiers running to the front of the formation.
The main gunner got down on one knee and threw down the gun.
This made Helian Cheng and Qu Rujian, who had to see this scene, envious.
The Great Song Dynasty gave them the method of making hot air balloons, but did not make the production methods of such sharp weapons as grenadiers, cupolas, and dragon guns public.
This is the root of the Great Song Dynasty's rampant forbidden army.
Then, I saw only a big and far away.
Tiankui, Tianyong, and Tianmeng all had hot air balloons slowly inflated.
Qu Rujian also passed down the military order.
Nearly 2,000 hot air balloons of the Western Xia Qi Heavenly Army also moved, and the movement was much more terrifying than that of the Great Song Forbidden Army.
The army of Qi Tian is similar to that of the Great Seinfeld Army, and the army is composed of hot air balloons. Even if the hot air balloons in Tiankui, Tianyong and Tianmeng Army all combined, they are far less than those in the Qi Tian Army.
When the deputy palace master of the ghost valley at the head of the city, Chi Fenggu and others saw this scene, they all changed color slightly.
At such a moment, they had to worry about whether the Song army and the Western Xia army planned to put the lives of these people on the city at risk.
I immediately thought that Song Jun had never done such a thing to hurt the people before, and I couldn't help but wonder if Song Jun was bluffing.
Therefore, the deputy palace master of Guigu did not order the soldiers to retreat from the city. He only gave the order to let the hot air balloon army in the city also rise into the air and prepare to meet the enemy.
Hot air balloons swelled up in the city like mushrooms.
At this time, there were 90,000 soldiers gathered in Tongchuan Mansion, and the number of hot air balloons was quite scary.
Duan Qilin almost suppressed all the remaining forces of the New Song Dynasty and Dali in these two cities.
The strength of the master is mostly in Chongqing Mansion.
And the strength of the army is mostly concentrated in this Tongchuan Mansion.
After a short time, many hot air balloons inside and outside the city slowly rose into the air, almost obscuring the sky.
Clusters of black shadows were projected onto the ground, making the atmosphere even more solemn.
Yue Peng waved his gun.
After only a few minutes, the Great Song Forbidden Army pressed forward again.
The grenadier is in front.
He was followed by a cupola gunner.
The Western Xia Forbidden Army did not move, but only remained in place and maintained the phalanx.
Helian Cheng, Qu Rujian and others had already discussed with Yue Peng, and they were not the main force to attack Tongchuan Mansion.
Such a thing as breaking the city still needs to be done by an army with extremely strong firepower like the Great Song Forbidden Army.
Four hundred meters!
Three hundred meters!
Two hundred meters!
As the Great Song Forbidden Army and the hot air balloon in the air got closer and closer, the defenders at the head of the city looked more and more solemn.
The deputy palace master of Guigu narrowed his eyes slightly, and there was a glimmer of light in his eyes that was constantly flickering.
He knew that if the Song army really didn't care about the people in the city. Then they would have a hard time defending the walls.
They did not have weapons to deal with grenadiers.
Most of the artillery carts at the head of the city can only be reduced to decorations.
On the east and west sides of the city, Chi Fenggu and the main general of the defenders of Natongchuan Mansion also looked like this.
They faced the Tianyong and Tianmeng armies of the Great Song Dynasty respectively. was also forced to the city by the Great Song Dynasty forbidden army.
The hot air balloons on both sides slowly approached in the air.
The number is as if it were different. There are always some slight gaps, and they can't be seen in such a hidden situation.
Yue Peng stared at the city for a few seconds, and muttered in a low voice: "The revenge of Chongqing Mansion, I Yue Peng will avenge it today." ”
Then he whispered but heavy to the herald next to him: "Fire the arrows and open the cannon!" ”
The herald hurriedly pulled the arrows from his bosom.
There was a rattling arrow with a red tail that soared upwards and exploded in the air.
At the head of the city, the eyes of the deputy palace master of the Ghost Valley widened, and he shouted: "Go down to the city!" Enter the tunnels! ”
Song Jun is really going to break the city with firearms!
This was too unexpected for him, and he had to deal with it immediately.
Fortunately, he was thoughtful, and from beginning to end, he never thought that he would use this wall to block the Song army from the city.
In the urn of the city, there were also arrows rising into the sky.
When the defenders of Tongchuan Mansion at the head of the city saw this arrow, they didn't dare to hesitate, and they all ran towards the city.
Only at this time, the cannon fire was already ringing.
At the same time, hundreds of cannonballs fell on the city or city walls, and some even hit the urn city directly.
In an instant, there were screams at the head of the city.
Many of the Tongchuan garrisons that were still hastily retreating to the city were annihilated by shells.
The hot air balloon army of Tongchuan Mansion in the air did not dare to get too close to the Great Song Forbidden Army, and they were also stunned when they saw this situation on the ground at this moment.
The dust raised made the generals of the army feel solemn to the extreme.
The task given to them by the deputy palace master of Guigu was to keep the hot air balloons in the Song State and Western Xia armies out of the city.
And now, the Song army is breaking the city with firearms on the ground. This is also an extremely dangerous sign for them.
Because there was no city head as a dividing line, the sky-high cannons in the Song army would inevitably follow the army. And they don't have a way to deal with the cupola.
That's the natural enemy of hot air balloons.
Only slightly stunned, the commander in charge of the hot air balloon army hurriedly ordered, "Retreat back!" ”