Seeing the Khitan people outside the city busy, and a large number of pack horses in front of the city, Chang Fang was dumbfounded. After a long while, he said: "Look at the appearance outside the city, the Khitans are going to attack the city with artillery?" ”

Cui Qun nodded: "Yes, what are they putting out, not artillery?" ”

After a while, Chang Fang let out a sigh of relief: "I heard that the Khitan army arrived in Youzhou in early October, and it took so long to go south just to bring the artillery?" Speaking of artillery, how can they compare to us? ”

After speaking, he called Zheng Zun, the leader of the artillery, and pointed to the guns of the Khitans outside the city: "Prepare immediately, and knock out the guns of the Khitans outside the city one by one!" The cannon on the city is installed in order to destroy the siege equipment, not to mention the artillery! ”

Zheng Zun crossed his hands and promised, hurriedly turned around, and commanded the soldiers at the head of the city to reload and reload. Together with a few gunners, he was facing the outside of the city, nervously calculating the parameters. In this era, there were no measuring instruments, nothing more than thumb measurements. Although there is some accuracy, if you want to measure accurately, you still need to look at the experience of the surveyor. Therefore, when artillery attacks the enemy, it is difficult to hit the target with one shot, and it must always be constantly corrected.

The artillery of the Khitans was all in the north, divided into several rows, and was deployed there to bombard the Song army city wall. Compared with the artillery of the Song army, the artillery of the Khitans was extremely heavy, and each one had to be dragged by several horses. Fortunately, there was no shortage of horses in Khitan, and for a time, there were more than 1,000 horses pulling cannons outside the city.

Zheng Zun divided the cannons into two groups, each with three cannons. The three guns are aimed at one target and fired together to make up for the lack of accuracy. The city was defended by only one battalion and twenty-three guns. The four city walls, the north city wall is more, but it is just a door cannon.

Ali only commanded the soldiers to pull the artillery into position and retreated. He was familiar with the range of these artillery, and the gun emplacements set up should have just hit the wall of the Song army. More than a mile away, when you reach the city wall, it is the time when it is most powerful.

Setting up the artillery, Ali only looked at the city and sneered: "Today, let's arrange thirty cannons first, and if you do more, you will be crowded." Look at this small city, the walls can withstand a few shells! The city wall collapsed, and the Song army knew how powerful we were! ”

But I didn't know that although the city built by the Song army was small, the city walls were extremely thick. Moreover, there is a slope on the outside, and the outside is attacking the city, and the cannonballs cannot hit the city wall directly. Although the city wall is not high, the defense against artillery is strong, and it is no worse than that of the state and county towns.

The Song army itself used all guns, and the city would naturally consider the defense of artillery, which was not comparable to the previous city. This small city is much more capable than the fire cannon of Quyang City.

The tower on one side also commanded the cannon, and only said to Ali: "General, there is a cannon of the Song army at the head of the city." What if they hit us with cannons? I heard that the Song artillery hit far and accurately, but I am afraid that it will not be easy to defend. ”

Ali only sneered: "We have more than a hundred cannons, and only thirty are on display today." I've seen the cannons of the Song army at the head of the city, and there are only five or six of them on each wall. Even if I exchange two cannons for one, I still win! ”

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly heard a whistling sound in the air. Not far from the side, three shells fell, where there "hiss, hissed" smoke.

Ali was only taken aback, and hurriedly threw himself on the ground. As soon as he lay down, he heard three muffled sounds, and the cannonballs exploded into the sky. A few of the soldiers could not dodge, were wounded by the shards, and wailed there.

Rising from the ground, Ali only said: "This is the flowering bullet of the Song army, the most vicious!" The cannonballs flew in, smashed and injured people first, and after a moment, they suddenly exploded. There are a lot of debris inside, if it hurts someone, non-heavy armor can't resist it! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, another cannon next to him was accompanied by a shell that fell next to it, wounding five or six soldiers.

Ali only gritted his teeth and said, "A mile away, how can the cannonballs be accurate?" I'm just hitting the city wall, I don't need to aim, the Song army can't! Even if their artillery is powerful, they will lose today! ”

Chang Fang at the head of the city saw it with a telescope and hammered the city wall: "It's a pity that I missed it both times!" The cannon is still there! Looking at the artillery of the Khitans outside the city, there are as many as 30 guns. If you can't fight accurately, how can you stop them from bombarding the city wall! ”

Cui Qun said: "Command, don't be anxious. A mile away, it is not easy for artillery to hit accurately. However, if the fight is accurate, the Khitan cannon will be abolished. We can attack him, but he can't attack us, the strength of the city's artillery. ”

Chang Fang nodded: "The truth is such a truth, but it can't be delayed at all." The Khitans had a lot of artillery, and they bombarded too much, and if the city wall collapsed, it would be difficult to hold the city. We defend the city, and the city wall is the lifeline. ”

Zheng Zun held the binoculars in his hand, carefully looked at the landing point of the artillery, and nervously adjusted the cannon with the gunner. It is necessary to hurry up and destroy all the artillery while the Khitans have just pulled it over and not set it up. After a long delay, the Khitan opened artillery bombardment of the city wall, and the result was unpredictable.

Retune and adjust, and fire another shot. This time it was much more accurate, and it was smashing next to the artillery. Seeing the Khitan gunner fall to the ground, Zheng Zun shouted loudly: "Okay, that's it!" The Khitan cannon is bulky and inconvenient to move, it is exactly the target! ”

At this moment, Chang Fang sent his own soldiers over, and said with a forked hand: "There is an order for the command, there is no need to shoot three cannons and one cannon." One cannon to one cannon, first let the Khitans not be able to fire the cannons! Three artillery against one cannon, although the shot is accurate, it can't suppress the Khitan artillery fire! ”

Zheng Zun crossed his hands and listened to the order. He is a subordinate of Chang Fang, and he can only obey Chang Fang's orders. Three guns against one artillery was learned in military school, and due to the lack of accuracy of artillery, the number of artillery pieces was used to make up for it. Since Chang Fang doesn't allow it, then listen to him.

At this time, the Song army did not have the concept of artillery suppression. To learn artillery, what you learn is the knowledge of transportation, aiming, firing artillery, etc., and the specific tactics are mastered by the commander. Chang Fang is the main general of the city, and he can see that according to Zheng Zun's method, he is afraid that he will not be able to suppress the Khitans. If one cannon and one cannon are needed to break the Khitan artillery, the rest of their cannons can be fired, and the city wall is still in danger of being blown down. And one for another, do not force the destruction of Khitan artillery in one time. Because of the flowering shells used, they can injure the artillery soldiers, so that the Khitan can not fire.

Dozens of soldiers were injured by two rounds of artillery by the Song army, Ali was only furious and urged the soldiers to set up the artillery quickly. Bombarding the city walls does not require any complicated operations, only one or two veterans are needed for each artillery, and the rest are only ordinary soldiers. What is it to hurt dozens of people, the Khitan has an army of 50,000 outside the city. No matter how fierce the Song army's artillery was, it could still wound all 50,000 people.

I was thinking about it, and suddenly I heard a cannonball explode. This time it was different, no longer only two guns were attacked, but six. Although the Song army did not fight accurately, they did not destroy the artillery, but many of the soldiers who operated the artillery were injured. As a result, the artillery arrangement was affected, and for a while people could only be redeployed, and it was impossible to open artillery bombardment of the city wall for a short time.

Seeing Song Jun fight another round, Ali only understood Song Jun's intentions. Said angrily: "What a sinister way of playing! They're like this, how can I shoot here? I don't want to do it, I'm afraid I can't do it! It's really annoying! ”

After thinking about it, he said to the herald's soldiers: "Go and report to the king, the artillery at the head of the Song army is powerful, and it hurts my soldiers a lot." The people who operate the cannon here must wear heavy armor to avoid injury! Let the king send some strong men, dressed in heavy armor, to fire cannons here! ”

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