Chapter Fifty-Nine: The City of Living Fire

The first time artillery appeared on the stage of history, it showed his efficient killing skills. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Gunpowder gives the cannonball great kinetic energy, and then these kinetic energy acts on the human body, and it has an extremely cruel beauty.

The city gate that is not more than half a foot wide has withstood the ravages of six cannons, and after three rounds of eighteen chain bombardments, only a few lonely war horses are left at the city gate.

The cavalry who can run back is already a strong-minded person, and there are not a few cavalrymen who have been frightened by cannonballs with all their strength, and under the urging of the desire to survive, they crawl in the direction of the city gate cave in horror.

The three cannonballs fired directly into the city gate completely stopped the desire of the cavalry in the city to go out of the city to fight, and in the small urn city, people shouted and horses shouted and chaotic, and there were countless smoking gunpowder shells and gunpowder bags falling overhead, and every roar took some lives.

Because the crowd is too dense, the lethality of gunpowder shells is not obvious, and the broken shrapnel has no room to spread, and can only fall on nearby people.

After the explosion of the gunpowder pack, it is very terrifying, the shock wave spreads outward, and those near will be torn apart by the huge energy, but those who are far away will be shocked to death.

The scene of people and horses spurting blood together frightened these Western Xia warriors, who had no regard for life and death...... They can accept the head of the sword, they can also accept being trampled to death by the war horse, and they can also accept the death of being injured by cold weapons in the melee.

Now, this unprecedented way of dying was beyond their knowledge, and the taut thread in their minds was finally broken by the terrifying power of artillery...... They don't have to flee on their own, and the terrified horses will naturally carry them to the territory where they are safe.

Crowding, stampeding, roaring, and then slashing at each other...... When the army was defeated, military discipline and human nature no longer existed.

The grief and indignation buried in the chest of the adjutant general disappeared, just now, a chain bullet circled past him, a personal soldier was cut by the iron chain on the chain bullet, and the blood sprayed wildly in the cold air of late autumn emitted a faint white smoke, the upper body did not know where it went, and the lower body was still riding on a war horse to protect his general.

He shouted loudly for the soldiers at the head of the city to put down the jack gate, but no one listened to his order, Lang buried a loud scream, climbed the city wall with both hands like an ape in the stone crack, and cut off the thick hemp rope on the wheel with a knife, and the jack gate fell to the ground with a bang, splashing a large area of blood.

Lang buried his body against the wheel, looked at the Hami army slowly approaching outside the city, howled in despair, and quickly went down the city wall, dodging the falling gunpowder bullets, while finding an ownerless war horse, and rushed to the back mountain.

He hadn't even tried to reorganize the army, and there was no way for his salivating and screaming men to regroup.

At this moment, Lang Fu just wanted to leave Big Rock City quickly, the purpose of the Hami people was obvious, as long as they looked at the endless gunpowder bullets that stretched into the city, they knew that they did not intend to leave a prisoner.

There were two exits from Dashicheng, one in front and one in the back, and Lang buried half the way back, and turned west behind the landing point of the gunpowder bullet, so he didn't want to run back into the mountains with those fools, it would be strange if there was no Hami army.

After avoiding the gunpowder bullets, Lang Bury stopped on the side of the road, ready to gather some remnants of the army so that he could leave the Death Sincerity.

The general naturally has the ability to attract his subordinates to follow, and some of the rational Western Xia cavalry naturally followed when they saw the Lang Bury standing on the side of the road, as for those cavalry who were not frightened, the Lang Bury did not want it, they would only make the target bigger and attract the pursuit of the Hami people.

Soon, there were many people around him, among whom Yi Lang buried the most of his own personal soldiers.

Sent a lot of people out to gather the people of the headquarters, Lang buried his teeth and waited in place, as the sky gradually darkened, his heart gradually sank.

The Hami people still had no intention of entering the city, but instead of gunpowder bombs, they fell from their heads, but fierce fire oil bombs, and each bomb exploded, bursting into large bright sparks, and then igniting everything that could be burned.

The city was full of burning men and horses, who stumbled and ran around, and finally fell in front of the obstacles, which were then ignited.

There were especially many bright flames that burst out in the back hills, and one of the back cities of Nuoda was already covered in smoke and flames.

Not many of the people sent out came back, and seeing that almost two thousand people had gathered around them, Lang Burying knew that he couldn't wait any longer, and the fierce fire oil bombs began to slowly cover them in the direction where they were.

With the last glimmer of light in the sky, Lang Bury found that the shadow of the Hami army had appeared at the head of the city, and those tall wooden shelves had gone up to the city with them.

It was these wooden shelves that threw gunpowder bombs and fire oil onto Big Rock.

"Let's go ......"

Lang Buried decided not to wait any longer, he had to abandon the war horse after climbing over the city wall, Lang Buried didn't know how long and how far he could walk on the wasteland without the war horse, without food and water, and he wanted to leave this flame hell as soon as possible.

It is not comfortable to sit on a horse for a long time, and the red horse is not used to standing motionless in a certain place.

Therefore, after the guards set up the tent and arranged the tables and chairs, Tie Xinyuan invited Wang Anshi and Liu Qi to sit in the tent together, there was a brazier in it, which was very warm.

"The next time you set a fire, you must choose the upwind position to set up camp." Liu Chu waved his hand to drive away the smoke, which was not only choking, but also mixed with a strong smell of burning.

Wang Anshi took a sip of hot tea, held the teacup and said, "The power of firearms is so powerful." ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "It will change the pattern of the battlefield and change the way of war, it will be difficult to win the war in the future by relying on the barbaric body, it is more about the richness of a country and the degree of civilization of the people, as well as the level of craftsmanship."

Sir, this change should be very beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Wang Anshi glanced at Tie Xinyuan, and suddenly sighed and said, "It has also weakened the role of generals......

Tie Xinyuan pretended not to hear the sarcasm in Wang Anshi's words, and said with a smile: "That's not necessarily, in the era of cold weapons, the role of generals is very important, and in the era of hot weapons, the role of generals is even more important."

Especially when it comes to hot weapons against hot weapons, the role of generals will be infinitely magnified, and at that time, generals will still be the key to determining the outcome of a war. ”

Liu Chu patted his knees and looked at the city outside the tent that was burning more violently and sighed: "What a quick way to kill." ”

Tie Xinyuan frowned and said: "It's also a kind of progress, our ancestors used wooden sticks and stones to fight wars at the earliest, the soldiers did not exceed 100 people, and the casualties were only dozens, and then we just started to use bronze as weapons, and the number of people involved in the battle exceeded 10,000 people, and when it came to the battle of Makino, there were hundreds of thousands of wars, and the number of deaths became even more......"

"You have now raised the speed of killing people to a new level, if you don't see it with your own eyes, the old man can hardly believe that 30,000 people were burned by you like this."

Tie Xinyuan said in surprise: "Could it be that you are going to let me leave them a way to live?" ”

Wang Anshi snorted and said: "The more people in the Western Xia naturally die, the better, and the old man does not have the kindness of a woman." ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said, "That's right, otherwise I wouldn't be able to sit in a room with you and talk." ”

While he was talking, Wei Chiwen walked in and said: "Except for some people on the west city wall who escaped over the wall, the rest of the city walls have been controlled, and after General Tie Er is ready to fire the last round of fire and oil bombs, he will stick to the city wall and wait for the fire to be extinguished before entering the city to search for the remnants of the enemy." ”

Tie Xinyuan said: "Ordered Zhang Zhi to lead the men and horses of the headquarters to pursue the remnants of the enemy, and the scouts released a hundred miles to the west, and released the pigeon to tell Li Qiao that the battle of Dashicheng has ended, and the battle has entered the second stage." ”

The battle in the west is still continuing, but it is very dull, there has been no large-scale confrontation until now, Shishou Mountain is not suitable for large-scale combat, the Xixia people are blocking the plain, their purpose is to not give Li Qiao the opportunity to reinforce Tiexinyuan.

Li Qiao knew that Tie Xinyuan had artillery, knew that Tie Xinyuan had a large number of gunpowder shells and fierce fire oil, and even knew that Tie Xinyuan's pro-army was equipped with the most sophisticated weapons in the world.

Even so, he was still anxious, he was very worried about his brother, who was usually very arrogant, this is a battle between two armies, not a battle of wits and courage with one person, a small mistake can destroy a large army, no matter how well-equipped this army is.

If it weren't for Tie Xinyuan's order, even if he paid a big price, Li Qiao would not hesitate to attack the 50,000 Tanguts on the plains, and the Tubo warriors under his command were not weaker than the Tanguts.

Regardless of victory or defeat, at least it can relieve some of the pressure on Tie Xinyuan.

Standing on a high place, looking at the sparkling company camp of the Tanguts on the plain, he once again had the idea of charging.

It's been three days, and there is no news from the side of Big Rock City, and no news is the worst news, according to the progress of the two armies, the king and the beggar army should have clashed two days ago.

Most of the cavalry of the Tangut people were in Dashicheng, and this was the way to prepare for field battles, and when he thought of the violent cavalry wave of the Tangut people, Li Qiao's whole body was cold.

In the Hami army, he was the only one who really fought with the Tanguts, and only he knew how fierce the Tangut cavalry was.

From Shishou Mountain to Dashicheng, it is only three hundred miles, and if the cavalry keeps hurrying day and night, it only takes one day and night to arrive.

Neither the king nor the beggar Bo Bo has arrived, which shows that the war between them is still ongoing.

"It's all the fault of this idiot Yang Huaiyu!" Li Qiao gritted his teeth and smashed his fist viciously on the stone.

"If he can force the Wuzang Pang a little tighter, how can the Tangut people draw 80,000 men from the overstretched forces to attack Hami?"