Li Nan looked around at the generals in the tent and said lightly: "Let's talk about the current military situation." ”

The eight-clawed spider Varys, with a shiny head, as the head of the intelligence department, introduced with a smile: "This time, the head of the Song Army will be from the Seed Family, and he is also the younger brother of the Seed Master Dao. This person has experienced many years of trials in the Western Army, and his command and military strategy are excellent......"

Hearing this, Li Nan smiled and said, "Varys, this is not good news. ”

Varys bowed and said, "Lord please forgive me, ministers have always liked to start with difficulties and then with ease, since I just said bad news, then I will tell you the good news now." ”

"After the battle of Guizhou City, the 150,000 elite western army of the Song State suffered more than 100,000 casualties, and the 30,000 iron cavalry accumulated for many years were all wiped out, and only about 20,000 people fled back in the end. After that, the Song State launched two more battles to the north to attack Liao, and of course lost twice. ”

"Hahaha......" Hearing Song Guo's defeat, everyone in the handsome tent burst into laughter.

Varys laughed with everyone for a moment, and then continued to introduce: "After three defeats, the elite of the Western Army has been exhausted for many years, and the only remaining ones are also strictly guarding against Western Xia, while the slightly stronger Northern Army is staying in Yanyun and other places. Therefore, the 100,000 troops urgently dispatched by Zhao Ji of Song Huizong this time, except for the 30,000 forbidden troops from Tokyo City and equipped with muskets, which were slightly stronger, the rest were all Xiang troops from all over the country. ”

Pointing to a young recruit who was in charge of serving tea and water in the tent, Varys smiled and said: "What kind of virtue is the Xiang army of the Song Kingdom, I don't think there is much to say, this kid is estimated to be able to deal with more than a dozen soldiers who have neither armor nor training for many years." ”

"Hmm." Li Nan nodded, he had dealt with Xiang Jun.

If it was the Song Taizu period, the box army of the Great Song Dynasty still had some combat effectiveness, but after so many years, today's box army can be said to be rotten to the bones, and it seems that the main force of the Song State this time is the 30,000 musketeers.

"Leonidas, you're the boss of this fight, what are you going to do?" Li Nan asked.

After so many years, Leonidas, who came from other worlds, also gave up the idea of returning to the old country of Sparta and lived here with peace of mind.

As the king of Sparta, Leonidas is a leader in terms of bravery and military strategy, and when he heard Li Nan's question at this moment, he hurriedly replied: "Now that the enemy is 100,000 and our army is 20,000, it is definitely not advisable to besiege the city, and it is difficult to implement other tricks to sneak attack and cut off the grain route, so I think there is only one way to attack!" ”

Leonidas pointed to the sand table placed on the table in the middle of the tent, and said loudly: "Although Changsha City has thick walls, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it cannot stop the sharp artillery of our army. Therefore, as long as we bombard with artillery in turn, we will definitely be able to break through the city wall, and when the time comes, as long as our army advances steadily and steadily, we will definitely be able to win this battle! ”

Li Nan basically agreed with Leonida's idea, but he was inevitably a little hesitant about the shelling of Changsha City.

In the final analysis, whether it is Changsha City, Jinghu Jiangnan, or even the entire people of the Great Song Dynasty, they are all their own compatriots, maybe Li Nan's ancestors are among these people, if they use artillery to attack the city, there will definitely be many people who are injured by mistake.

Thinking of this, Li Nan couldn't help but sigh: "All the nations have been conquered, and the beacon fire has been conquered. The corpses are bloody and bloody. He Township is a happy land, and he takes Shang Panhuan. Abandon the tent dwelling, collapse and destroy the lungs and liver! ”

Li Nan consulted with the generals in the camp outside Changsha, and among the commanders of the Song army in the city, they were also talking about this imminent battle with many generals.

"Li Nan!" The frost-colored planter looked at the south from afar, remembered the anti-king, and read this name that everyone knows today.

Now, the detailed resume of Li Nan has long been placed on the desks of the emperors and generals of various countries, and his details have long been investigated clearly by those who are interested.

Li Nan came from a small official's family, his brother was sick since he was a child, and after his father died, he replaced his father and entered the Yanggu County Prison as a jailer. Because of the killing of the cannibal tiger in Jingyanggang, Hu Wei was promoted to the head of Yanggu County.

Later, Li Nan bought part of the Xiang army, and cooperated with Dulonggang Sanzhuang to exterminate bandits in various places on Jingdong East Road, and went to Tokyo with a large amount of money to buy officials.

A few years ago, he volunteered to go to Lingnan West Road to pacify the envoy......

Because he has been stationed in the northwest for a long time, he has never met Li Nan, who was literary and elegant in Tokyo City, but after reading the other party's materials, he became very interested in him.

How can a mere jailer have the ability to fight tigers?

How can you write those wonderful poems?

How can you write that kind of calligraphy?

How can you draw those masterpieces?

How can you rely on your own strength to destroy Jiaozhi, occupy the city, sweep Dali, and defeat Zhenla in Lingnan?

How can the 150,000 Western Army be defeated and flee without stopping?

In the past, no matter what kind of opponent he faced, he had never been confused, but at this time, he had an army of 100,000 in his hands, but he was still a little hesitant about this battle.

Just as the seed master closed his eyes and pondered, a personal soldier hurriedly rushed in, kneeling down and holding up a letter in worry: "A letter has been shot by the southern thief army in the town outside the city, and the words are personally opened by the master of the book species!" ”

The planter took the letter, and after reading it, he said disdainfully: "Full of nonsense! ”

The generals in the hall circulated the letter in turn, only to see that it was full of words such as not bearing the suffering of the people of Changsha and hoping that the Song army would persuade them to surrender.

"What wishful thinking!" Chong Hao, who was accompanying him, said angrily.

"Huh." The seed master sneered: "Li Nan actually used such demagogic methods, he really underestimated my planter's general. Chong Hao, immediately send the order down, the whole army is ready for battle, I have to weigh the quality of the Zhennan army! ”

Zhennanguo attacked with anger this time, so in the early morning of the next day, hundreds of artillery pieces bombarded indiscriminately at the south gate of Changsha City.

Although the Song Kingdom developed a replica according to the musket of Zhennan, they had not yet studied the behemoth of artillery, and after half a day of bombardment, the city wall in the south of Changsha City began to collapse.

The advent of firearms is a earth-shaking change for the traditional cold weapon era, and the defenders used to rely on the fortified city, but in the face of artillery attacks, it has lost the power of the barrier.

Although a city wall in Changsha had been blasted open, Leonidas, who was in charge of commanding the battle, did not give the order to attack in a hurry, but gave full play to the huge power of his long-range weapons, and hundreds of artillery continued to attack for half an hour.

When the deafening sound of artillery stopped, the thousands of Song soldiers who were originally defending the southern wall of Changsha City were either killed by the collapsed city wall or had already fled, so when the vanguard of the Zhennan Army rushed in, they were not hindered by the enemy.

In the intricate street battles that followed, the small Zhennan army began to suffer a large number of casualties in the face of several times their own and prepared Song army musketeers in advance.

Realizing this problem, Leonidas immediately made adjustments and ordered all the soldiers entering the city to maintain a formation of no less than fifty people, open the way with grenades, and advance slowly and steadily.

Because the muskets issued by the Song army to the forbidden army were imitations, they were inferior to the original southern smoothbore guns in terms of range and power, but the number of 30,000 people made up for this disadvantage, but the biggest gap between the two sides was not weapons and equipment, but the most important command and morale of the army.

According to the rules of the Great Song Dynasty for treating military generals, there must be a civil official or eunuch next to the commander who leads the troops outside, and this battle of Changsha is naturally no exception.

Changsha City Xuanfu envoy division, immediately after the city was broken, ordered 30,000 Song musketeers to ambush in the houses near the south, which did bring a lot of casualties to the Zhennan army at the beginning, but as the battle continued, the frightened supervisor Liang Guang actually ordered the musketeers to protect themselves and evacuate.