In front of the Huainan army, thirty well-prepared Suzhou guns were lined up one after another, but they were not in a hurry to fire. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This batch of 30 Suzhou guns was manufactured according to the same standard, from the length of the throwing rod to the weight of the counterweight, etc., which greatly facilitated the calibration process during firing.

At this time, under the guidance of the craftsmen, the Suzhou cannon in the middle was loaded with stone shells and adjusted to the firing position.

"Launch!" Following the officer's order, a strong soldier swung the wooden hammer in his hand and struck the trigger of the Suzhou cannon.

With a "buzz", the heavy breeding slammed off a section of the lever, and the other end was quickly thrown up with the leather pit, and when the leather nest rose to the highest point, the stone bullet inside was violently thrown towards the Liang military camp.

"Boom!" This time, the luck was excellent, and the first shot hit the wall, smashing the wooden wall into a large number of flying fragments, and the nearby soldiers immediately suffered heavy casualties, and there was a great chaos.

Although the first shot hit the wall, but this was more of luck, the craftsmen did not rush to let the other Suzhou guns also start firing, but then calibrated a few shots, and waited until the number of hits stabilized, then let the other Suzhou guns start to fire bombardment according to the calibrated settings just now.

For a while, there were rocks and clouds in the sky, and stone bullets continued to hit the wall, smashing holes in the wall.

"Don't worry, the enemy army has a total of thirty trebuchets, and it takes a long time after each launch to fire again, and the accuracy is very poor, and the probability of hitting people is not high. So everyone just needs to stick to their positions......"

Standing behind the wall, the battalion commander Liu Kun carefully observed the movements of the enemy army, and at the same time turned back and loudly encouraged his soldiers.

However, as soon as his words fell, he saw a black shadow in the sky in front of him, and flew towards them in a daze.

"It's not good, get out of the way......" Liu Kun wanted to hide to the side, but he was surrounded by panicked soldiers, and everyone was clamoring to find a place to hide, eager to find a safe place.

"Boom!" After a loud bang, the stone bullet hit the ground, and the remaining strength did not subside, and it continued to roll forward for more than a dozen steps before stopping.

Liu Kun's luck was very good, although he was scratched by the flying sand splashed when the stone bullet hit the ground, his life was saved, and the injuries were not too serious.

However, the soldiers under his command did not have such good luck as him, and more than ten people were stoned to death on the spot, and even more were injured.

One of Liu Kun's personal soldiers was just stoned to death, at this time the lower half of his body was still there, but the head and upper half of his body were completely missing, he was hit by a stone bullet impartially, the part above the waist was all gone, and it became a lump of paste on the ground in the distance, and the stone wrapped in his flesh and blood was embedded in the sand, and the red and white things stained on it looked extremely hideous, making people avoid it.

Liu Kun's heart was cold, the most frightening place of the stone bullets fired by the trebuchet was here, in the face of the flying boulders, there was no way to resist them except to dodge; And once hit, if you are lucky, you can leave a whole corpse, otherwise it will be the fate of the previous pro-soldier.

In the rear, seeing the heavy losses of the soldiers, Li Si'an's face sank like water, and his hands were clenched into fists.

At this time, he had already woken up to the fact that when the Liang army built the camp before, the camp was deliberately built much smaller, and as a result, the soldiers now lack space to hide, and in the face of the Huainan army's Suzhou artillery, they can only hope that they will not be hit.

"They definitely don't have a lot of stone projectiles, there aren't that many stones around here! It won't be long before they stop! Li Si'an kept comforting himself in his heart.

Although such a passive beating had a huge blow to the morale of the soldiers, he had no choice but to let the enemy's Suzhou artillery rage.

At the same time, he constantly made moves, so that his subordinates took turns to defend the wall.

An hour later, the Huainan Army's stone bullets really stopped, which made Li Si'an overjoyed, and hurriedly said to the generals: "Have you seen it, the enemy army really doesn't have so many stone bullets available, and then you must appease the soldiers and let them rest assured to prepare for the enemy's attack!" ”

The generals were also happy, they were smashed by the Suzhou artillery of the Huainan Army for a whole hour, but they had no power to fight back, and they had already had a belly of fire in their hearts.

However, Li Si'an and others were a little too happy, the Huainan army stopped the Suzhou artillery this time, not because there were no stone bullets, but because the wall of the Liang army had been smashed to a dilapidated state, and it was useless to continue smashing, so they adjusted the target to hit the soldiers in the depths of the enemy camp, and at the same time began to send troops to attack.

A quarter of an hour later, the Suzhou artillery of the Huainan Army was readjusted into place. This time, because it is mainly aimed at attacking enemy soldiers, it is not necessary to be so accurate, as long as the stone projectile is fired at the fastest speed in the most dense place of the enemy army without accidentally injuring your own people.

At the same time, the Huainan Army dispatched another 10,000 infantry to attack the enemy camp along the gap that had just been bombarded by Suzhou artillery.

Seeing that the Huainan Army did not stop bombarding, Li Si'an's face was a little pale, and his generals were even more earthy.

However, the Huainan army has begun to attack, and the generals can only lead their troops to resist.

"In half an hour at most, the enemy's Suzhou artillery will definitely stop!"

Facing the generals who were already frightened in their hearts and would rather rush out to fight to the death with the Huainan army than continue to stay in the camp and be stoned to death by the enemy, Li Si'an comforted them like this.

Finally appeasing the generals, Li Si'an climbed a high slope, and while looking at the Huainan army outside the camp, he prayed that the Suzhou artillery of the Huainan army would stop as soon as possible.

However, more than half an hour passed, and the infantry of the Huainan Army retreated to rest, but the Suzhou artillery of the Huainan Army showed no sign of stopping, and the ones they used were naturally not stone bullets, but sintered with clay.

This kind of mud bomb actually began to be used by the Huainan Army a long time ago, and the effect was not much worse than that of stone bombs, so it was impossible for Li Si'an to expect the Suzhou artillery of the Huainan Army to stop because of lack of ammunition.

"General, if our army is smashed like this by them again, I am afraid that it will collapse in a short time. Please also ask the general to give an order, and the last general is willing to fight to the death with the Huainan army! ”

"Yes, while there is still the strength of a battle now, we will fight to the death with the Huainan army, at least destroy their Suzhou artillery, otherwise not only will we be in danger, but General Kang's side will also be dangerous!"

"If you go out and fight the enemy, you will die in battle, and it is better than being stoned to death by them now!" After repelling the attack of the Huainan army, the generals asked for their lives and asked to go out and fight to the death with the Huainan army.

Li Si'an was helpless, he also knew that it was no longer meaningful to stick to the camp at this time, as long as the enemy launched an attack, he would be forced to gather his troops and display them not far from the camp, which would be more convenient for the Huainan Army's Suzhou artillery to play. Several battalions of the army were broken up by Suzhou artillery before they even went up to the wall to fight the Huainan army.

finally repelled this round of attacks by the Huainan army, but the Liang army suffered heavy casualties and low morale; Next, the enemy army did not even need to attack, as long as the Suzhou artillery continued to bombard, and when the morale of the Liang army collapsed, and then launched an attack with a large army, the Liang army could be defeated at a very small cost.

"What the generals said is very true, at this time our army should indeed go out to fight the enemy, but at this time I am afraid that it is not appropriate to go out."

"General, what's wrong with going to war at this time?" The lieutenants were puzzled.

"First, there is still a period of time before it gets dark, if our army goes out to fight with the Huainan army, once the battle is unfavorable, it will be difficult for the army to even break through, it is better to wait a little longer, and wait until the sun sets before starting; When the time comes, even if you fail, you can take advantage of the night to break through. ”

"Second, the enemy army has a large number of troops, our army has few soldiers, and the morale is low, and it is very difficult to defeat the enemy army and even destroy the enemy's Suzhou artillery with our words alone, so we must cooperate with General Kang to act together."

"If our army acts alone, and General Kang is not prepared, then our army may fall into a situation of fighting alone, so we need to send someone to break through to contact General Kang first."

Li Si'an put forward his two reasons, he can achieve the position of a high-level general of the Liang army, naturally he is not a completely incompetent general, at least these two reasons are very sufficient, and the generals have nothing to say after listening to it.

Therefore, Li Si'an decided to set the time of the attack half an hour later, and at the same time sent 300 cavalry to break through to report to Kang Huaizhen, agreeing to raise fire as a signal and act together.

Inside the Huainan Army camp.

Yang Wu said to Zhou Ben and other generals with a relaxed face: "This Li Si'an has not come out to launch a counterattack until now, which is a little inconsistent with the rumors!" ”

According to rumors, Li Si'an is extremely brave, and he likes to personally lead troops to attack the enemy formation when he fights, but this time he actually chose to stick to the camp and not come out, which really surprised Yang Wu.

As soon as the words fell, he saw the door of the Liang army village open, and three hundred cavalry quickly rushed out and went straight to Kang Huaizhen's camp.

Without Yang Wu's order, Hou Zan sent thousands of cavalry to encircle it.

"This is ......" Yang Wu was a little surprised: "It seems that Li Si'an finally can't help but fight back!" ”

"That's true! Your Highness, in the opinion of the last general, Li Si'an should plan to launch a counterattack before dark, taking advantage of the cover of night, even if the battle is unfavorable, he can take advantage of the chaos to break through. Zhang Xun said in a deep voice.

"Your Highness, there is still a period of time before dark, and our army has been fighting all afternoon, and the soldiers are a little tired, it is better to bury the pot and cook in advance, so that the soldiers can have a full meal, and prepare for tonight's night battle!" Zhou Ben proposed.

"Okay, then order the troops to take turns eating, but you must be vigilant and not give the enemy any chance. In addition, send someone to inform Wang Maozhang and ask him to prepare for the night battle! ”