Chapter 261: The Tartars Retreat
After Kumaji finished aiming, he immediately started the burst shooting mode.
One after another, the **** slid into the barrel and then fired out, and the target was behind the house.
Ahri Hague can be described as furious, originally about to take Fancheng, but was rescued by the reinforcements arriving by the Song people, their muskets are also as sharp as the legend, and tens of thousands of lives have been collected.
What to do, Ahri Hague doesn't know what to do, he just wants his troops to disperse and shoot cold arrows at Zhao Rui's troops, but he doesn't know the bottom in his heart, it's his turn to shoot from a distance, which can compare to the power and accuracy of the musket?
Now he is just doing his best to obey the destiny of heaven, which is not only supported by the desire of the Yuan Dynasty all along, but also the attitude of Ahri Hague who is unwilling to admit defeat.
What Zhao Rui's musket is invincible, Liu Zheng, the defected Song man, can really be regarded as disturbing the morale of the army, oh, no, it disturbs the psychology of the generals.
Now Ahri Hague also has a breath of anger, wanting to prove to Liu Zheng that the legendary invincible Zhao Rui's army is going to be defeated by himself today, see how he will face himself again at that time?
At the same time, Ahri Hague also complained to Liu Zheng in his heart, it was because he went to the other side of the river that the guards were empty, otherwise he would not have let the reinforcements of Zhao Rui's army arrive so easily.
But these are just Ahri Hague's cranky thoughts to comfort herself, first of all, Liu Zheng's army, how can they stop Zhao Rui's reinforcements, can they still resist the musket in their bodies?
The current street fighting is in an open field, which greatly exerts the effectiveness of the musket, and the ammunition that Zhao Rui lacked before has finally been replenished, so the scale of more than 3,000 musket salvos is really unmatchable for the Yuan army.
After countless deaths, the generals of the Yuan army also received orders from Ahri Hague, and they all transferred the position of the team to a more hidden or remote location to shoot at Zhao Rui's team.
But such a ridiculous tactic is not worth mentioning in Zhao Rui's eyes, no matter how accurate the bow and arrow are, can it beat the musket?
"Tutu Tu Tu ...... Sudden ......"
In just a few breaths, the tactics of the Yuan army quickly collapsed, and the various Yuan army squads were like headless flies, dodging indiscriminately.
At this time, in the ranks of the Yuan army, they each asked the marshal if there was any new order to be issued, and now for them, they would become human targets as soon as they showed their heads, and they practiced marksmanship for the soldiers of Zhao Rui's army.
But now Ahri Hague doesn't give orders, and being able to save his life can be regarded as burning incense.
As if he had long eyes, he fell suddenly, leaving his personal guards dead and wounded by the adjutant, and he was also embarrassed to be escorted by his own soldiers and fled everywhere.
But the annoying cannonball was like having eyes, and basically wherever it went, the cannonball hit wherever it went, and twice it exploded in front of it, almost killing itself.
At this time, the soldiers who reported the news inside also came, talking about the crisis of the situation inside, and asked Ahri what to do.
What else can I do......
Considering all the circumstances, Ahri Hague finally came to the conclusion that Fancheng could no longer be attacked, so it was better to run to Xiangyang now.
Although it is possible that Liu Zheng will be mocked by him, but for the sake of his life, what about it!
Then another shell fell behind him, almost deafening Ahri's ears.
"Retreat!" Unable to hold out any longer, Ahri Hague immediately gave the order.
"What?" A crowd of officials surrounded him, unable to hear clearly, apparently under the impression of shelling, and now everyone was almost deaf.
In desperation, Ahri Hague could only slow down his words, and the soldiers below knew the order to retreat by virtue of Ahri Hague's mouth.
However, after such a delay, several more people were killed by mortar bombing around Ahri Hague.
Ahri Hague was running, feeling that the cannonballs were exploding continuously behind him, as if he had long eyes, he was chasing after him, if he didn't know that there was such a thing as a firearm, Ahri Hague would definitely have to take this as a demon spell.
Ahri's goal was the same as Liu Zheng's retreat, which was to take the pontoon bridge at the south gate of Fancheng, and now that he had run to the west of the inner wall, Xiong Er could no longer judge where he was.
With the order to retreat, the Yuan army was also cautiously withdrawing from the gap, but some unlucky ghosts who were not careful would still be hit by the muskets.
The pressure on Zhao Rui's side was greatly reduced, and after a while, he finally couldn't see the Yuan soldiers anymore.
"Wow~ Great!"
"Fancheng is defended!"
"We won! We won! ”
There were also Zhao Rui's soldiers involved, but mainly the guards before Fancheng, and the bloodied soldiers who survived now were roaring madly.
Alas...... What's the ......
Zhao Rui looked around, the corpses lined up everywhere, and the broken inner walls, as if Fancheng had been trampled countless times by the giant's big feet.
Many houses in the inner city were set on fire by the Yuan army, and Zhao Rui had the strength to release the rain charm, and in an instant, the clouds were thick, and it rained slowly, and it gradually became bigger.
The rain washed the blood on the ground, and also washed everyone's body surface, and at this time, those defenders of Fancheng who had just fallen into a desperate situation really felt that they were individuals.
Just now, when I was fighting just now, I didn't know what I was.
At this time, behind the raindrops, there were bursts of sad sobs.
Zhao Rui turned around and looked, the people who were crying were the people who had evacuated early, and it seemed that the rain had fallen, and they were even more undisguised and cried loudly.
This siege lasted too long, and there were too many casualties.
Ask the people of Fancheng who are present, which one is not a person who has lost a loved one?
Here, everyone fought and did not move, let the rain wash away, and no one could tell whether the rain left on their faces was mixed with the tears of the rest of their lives.
At this time, Fan Wenshun and his deputy Niu Fu stepped forward, regardless of the wet dirt on the ground, they all knelt in front of Zhao Rui with a plop, bowing their heads and saying nothing.
Zhao Rui looked at them silently, they were thanking themselves for saving their lives, and they were also kneeling down to worship God at the same time.
It is no longer as simple as luck to survive the large-scale siege of the Yuan army, it is Zhao Rui's help and the will of heaven in the dark.
With the beginning of the city guard, the living defenders below also walked behind them silently, and also bowed to Zhao Rui, and then there were the living people.
Zhao Rui's eyes were full of pity, the officers and soldiers in front of him, plus the people, were less than a thousand, for a big city with a population of tens of thousands, it was simply a loss of his foundation.
Now Fancheng is officially out of the siege of the Yuan army, but in the real sense, this city has been destroyed......
Zhao Rui turned around a little tiredly, and said to Zhao Gong on the side: "Call the mortars forward, there are still tasks to be assigned to them." ”
Zhao Gong nodded, climbed to the height, and made the gestures that Zhao Rui taught them.
Gunshots rang out in the mountains to the north, and the representative had received the signal.
At this time, including Zhao Rui, the soldiers defending the city all had a feeling of prostration and exhaustion, and the rest was an endless disgust with war.
After a day of fighting, everyone was extremely hungry and tired, but fortunately, a large amount of supplies transported by Zhao Rui had already been dragged to the end without damage, and at that moment Zhao Gong commanded people to cook in the existing house.
When Fang Hongbin and his artillerymen entered the city, the smell of food was already in the air.
When Zhao Rui had dinner with their generals, he directly explained the next step of the arrangement, and at the moment, the most important thing was to transport the materials into Xiangyang City.
At present, the situation in Xiangyang is probably similar to that of Fancheng, if it is better, it is also better, because Xiangyang is a large city several times larger than Fancheng, and the usual reserves are naturally not the same, but once there is no food and materials, it is also a factor that is most likely to quickly disintegrate from the inside.
The generals nodded yes when they heard this, but only the city guard Fan Wenshun looked gloomy.
"It's too difficult, my lord, although Fancheng and Xiangyang are very close to each other, and there is a pontoon bridge built, but don't forget that the Yuan army still has 50,000 sailors around, and it will never give us a chance to reach Xiangyang!"
There was still a naval army in the Yuan Dynasty?
Zhao Rui didn't know too well, and after asking, he realized that it was really because of Liu Zheng's surrender that the Yuan Dynasty really had a navy.
This naval army is now a mixture of Song and Yuan people, led by Liu Zheng, which can be said to have blocked the transportation of materials on the waterway countless times, and can also be said to be an important link in the siege of Xiangfan by the Yuan army.
After eating, Zhao Rui took Zhao Gong and a group of people and others to the pontoon bridge to have a look.
Sure enough, just as Fan Wenshun said, the river area extending on both sides of the pontoon bridge is full of warships, which really gives people a feeling that they can't pass.
Zhao Rui thought in his heart, because there is a wide distance between the ships themselves, if they use mortars, they may not be able to create any effective strikes, and now it seems that only the hands of individual soldiers can cause a certain threat.
At the same time, Zhao Rui can also use his own warship to pass through the Yangtze River from the sea area and travel all the way west to reach here, but it takes a lot of time to go upstream.
But what Xiangyang lacks now is time......
Zhao Rui put on the telescope and looked at the city of Xiangyang opposite.
"Huh?"
Zhao Rui snorted suspiciously, because he had already seen the figure of the Yuan army, they were very close to the Xiangyang City Wall, this may not be the previous position, it must be a temporary change after Zhao Rui came.
Zhao Rui saw the problem at a glance, they were guarding against mortars, if Zhao Rui's mortars rashly attacked, although the Yuan army would have dead and wounded, but the most important thing was to blow up the city wall while killing them, and then the Yuan army would take advantage of the chaos to rush into Xiangyang, maybe Zhao Rui's artillery attack would become the key to their opening the gate of Xiangyang.
"Hey~ It's Zhao Rui, the king of Yongping, who is on the shore?"
A large warship was relatively close to Zhao Rui and the others, and at this time, a person who looked like an official of the Yuan Dynasty stood up and shouted.
"Exactly!"
Although Zhao Rui's voice was low, the people on the opposite boat could hear it clearly.