Under the oppression of the 90,000-strong army, the Khitans outside Fanyang chose to retreat and move instead of rushing up for a decisive battle.

After Li Zhongyi learned the news, he immediately guessed the thoughts of the Khitans, who obviously wanted to adopt delaying tactics.

Annihilating the enemy in the movement is not only a tactic that Li Jiajun is good at, but also an advantage of the Khitans.

However, in addition to the advantages of sports warfare, Li Jiajun had the advantage of attacking fortifications after having artillery.

On the morning of the second day, after the soldiers of the Li Jiajun had eaten and drunk enough, under the command of the officers, they drove out of the camp in an endless stream.

Yelu Huge's supreme commander stationed on the front line of Fanyang was Yelu Hengchang, the deputy privy envoy in the north. The privy envoy to the north has always been concurrently served by Yelu Hugo, which means that Yelu Hengchang is the de facto deputy generalissimo of the Khitan soldiers and horses.

Yelu Hengchang is over fifty years old this year, and in the past eventful years, he has gone south many times to fight the grass valley, and the maids and slaves in the family are all beautiful Han women.

Before this battle, when it was opportune for Jereux to face the occasion, he repeatedly emphasized one important point: to delay the decisive battle as much as possible.

To put it bluntly, the task given to Yelu Hengchang by Yelu Hugo is actually to defend Fanyang City with a heavy army group, so as to delay and wait for change!

Yelu Hengchang is an old man, he is in his fifties, and his plan is just to give shade to his children and grandchildren, so that the glory of the family can continue better and longer.

This is also the fundamental factor for Yelu Hugo to send him to guard Fan Yang.

The Khitans are known for their archery and horses, and their advantage is that they can destroy the enemy in a mobile way.

However, the problem is that the Li Jiajun, which has realized the transformation of the whole army into mules and horses, has not only learned to fight in sports, but also has the advantage of positional warfare.

Today, the siege frame set up by the Li Jiajun is not small, but Yelu Hengchang replaced the 10,000 Han troops defending the city from the city wall out of prudent considerations.

In case, when the battle was at its most intense, a large group of Han troops in the city suddenly changed, Yelu Hengchang was afraid that he would not have time to react.

Li Zhongyi sat on the command car, he glanced at Li Yongtang, the commander of the artillery corps, who was standing respectfully in front of him, Li Yongtang hurriedly beat his chest and saluted, and said loudly: "I guarantee the completion of the task." ”

"The key to this battle lies in whether the artillery army can successfully blast open the city wall of Fanyang on time." Li Zhongyi raised his hand and pointed to the battle map in the hands of Zhang Sanzheng and Gao Qiang, "The four city gates of Fanyang are all built with urn cities, and it is obviously not enough to just blast open the outer city gates. ”

Li Yongtang narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "Lord, the gate with the urn city is obviously a pit. The subordinates thought that our artillery army should concentrate the fire of a dozen nine-pounder guns and nearly a hundred six-pounder guns to attack a certain point except the city gate. ”

Li Zhongyi nodded and said with a smile: "It has always been my principle to leave professional things to professional people to do. Lao Li, listen up, you only have two hours. ”

Seeing that Li Yongtang opened his mouth to bargain, Li Zhongyi waved his hand first and said, "I can only give you two hours, after the time, the army will launch a general attack." ”

Li Yongtang's heart was fierce, when the army launched a general attack, if he hadn't broken down the southern city wall of Fanyang, who could afford the loss?

Li Zhongyi saw that Li Yongtang's forehead was sweating slightly, and couldn't help but show a satisfied smile, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and if they don't exert some pressure, how can Li Yongtang and the artillery army make rapid progress?

This man was forced out!

Perhaps because he was forced to be in a hurry, after Li Yongtang went back, he completely abandoned the safety of the artillery drill and pushed the nine-pounder gun to two hundred steps in front of the south gate of Fanyang before he would give up.

Li Zhongyi turned the monocular in his hand, observed it carefully for a while, and then smiled.

Li Yongtang's maturity was extremely fast, and under his deployment, all the 6-pounder guns were raised and aimed at the arrow battlements on the city wall.

Heavy artillery, nine-pounder guns, were all grouped together in three rows, each row and column no more than a foot apart, with the muzzles pointing in the same direction.

Li Zhongyi understood at a glance that Li Yongtang planned to use 6-pounder cannons to suppress the power of the counterattack at the head of the city, concentrate the fire of more than a dozen 9-pounder guns, and bombard a fixed point on the southern city.

The main role of the 6-pounder gun was actually to disrupt the offensive rhythm of the Khitans in a war of movement. A wave of iron projectiles, a wave of chain bullets, and another wave of shotguns were enough for the Khitans to drink several pots.

Li Zhongyi zoomed closer to the telescope and saw that the soldiers of the artillery corps had given solid iron projectiles to the 9-pounder gun, while the 6-pounder gun was a chain projectile.

Uh-huh, bombarding the city wall, doesn't it just need a solid iron projectile?

As for the chain bullet of the 6-pounder cannon, even if Li Zhongyi thought about it with his toes, he knew that he wanted to kill and injure the Khitans on the city wall as much as possible.

As for shotguns, they are indeed not suitable for siege warfare, but they are quite suitable for street battles or positional warfare.

To put it bluntly, after taking Kaifeng City, which is extremely rich in materials, Li Zhongyi's harvest is huge, and tens of thousands of well-trained craftsmen alone are enough to make Li Zhongyi wake up with a smile when he falls asleep.

It is precisely because of the replenishment of nearly one million catties of pig iron that Li Yongtang's artillery army will not worry about the problem of insufficient iron projectiles.

According to the information that Li Zhongyi had, since he had not encountered the threat of war for many years, Fanyang City had not undergone serious repairs for at least 30 years.

The Khitans were originally good at attacking and not defending, and in addition, the southern barbarians in the south were very strong in writing articles and learning, but their ability to fight collectively was not worth mentioning at all.

In the absence of a huge threat, the Khitans never thought about strengthening the city defenses at all.

It's just that after Li Zhongyi led his troops into the Youji Great Plain last year, the Khitans hurriedly strengthened the city defense of Youzhou. Fan Yang, who was relatively secondary, didn't care about repairing it at all, and Li Thief Zhongyi came in again.

After Li Zhongyi saw Li Yongtang's arrangement of troops clearly, he was greatly relieved that Li Yongtang had already done the training principle of sweating more in peacetime and shedding less blood in wartime, and he did it very well.

"All of them, watch the red flag fall and fire the cannon in turn, and those who violate the order will be killed!" After Li Yongtang completely opened the frame, he decisively gave the order to prepare for the attack.

"One test shot, calibration test."

"Team A's cannon, let's go!" The red flag fell violently.

"Boom ......" was accompanied by an earth-shattering loud bang, and the prelude to the general attack on Fan Yang was quickly opened.

Before the artillery is fired in a group, it is necessary to first calibrate the firing range and firing range, which is a scientific method refined by Li Yongtang under Li Zhongyi's point.

"Boom!" The entire Fanyang South City shook violently as if it had been struck by lightning.

Yelu Hengchang was not careful, and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, the kiss next to him reacted quickly and supported him in time, otherwise, the enemy army did not see the shadow, and his own commander fell to the ground first, what kind of system?