Zhao Xing saw that the officers' momentum was a little bit snatched, he shook his whip and said easily: "That's right, this is the Seljuks, it went all the way south from the northernmost point of Europe, and swept across the European continent with hurricanes, destroying countless countries along the way, and no less than a hundred countries fell under their feet.

In the hundreds of years that they were driven out by the Tang Dynasty, these people fought while blending the military knowledge of other countries, and had created a completely different way of fighting from the Tang Dynasty, which had many Persian characteristics and many Turkic characteristics This is the Seljuk, a warrior country that integrates Eastern and Western military knowledge.

Ladies and gentlemen, the honour of destroying them is upon us today, let us accomplish this mission, I have not heard Sinbad say that the Seljuks have been divided, and these 120,000 troops, I am afraid that all the armies of the small southern states, have destroyed them, and the road to Baghdad is a smooth road. Hurry up and return to your armies so that we can defeat them! ”

Zhao Xing mentioned Sinbad just now, Sinbad stepped forward and said in a snort: "Your Excellency Marshal, since the prince of the Luzhi branch promised us to go out of the city for a decisive battle, he will never attack this castle until the victory is known, my suggestion is: Your Excellency the Marshal should take all the troops out of the city, so as to divide the victory with the enemy, this castle does not need to be guarded, and guarding this castle will not help the victory at all."

Your Excellency may entrust me with the task of guarding the city, and I promise to ensure the stability of the city according to etiquette until you divide the division. ”

Zhao Xing shook his head: "You know the customs of the Arabs, but you don't know the customs of our Song people, we would rather be broken than broken if I am defeated, this castle will definitely hold out to the last person, you can go back to the castle, this war has nothing to do with you, but the guard of the castle is in charge of my naval commander......"

As he spoke, countless servants rushed out of the city gate with a van, which was filled with barrels of gunpowder. The inverted array had slowly advanced to the foot of the hill and began to climb the mountain on its back, and the servants drove the two-wheeled carriages around the inverted formation, and in front of the army of the Chenlu Branch, they formed a rudimentary wall with the wagons, and then they unloaded the gunpowder and placed it on the slopes of the hill in dots. A large gunpowder array was laid out to prevent the Lulu branch army from playing tricks and suddenly attacking when the Song army was setting up a position.

By the time the servants had connected the vans and placed the powder kegs, the inverted phalanx had advanced to the top of the hill, and at this time, the cavalry on both sides were still swimming left and right. Ensure that the passage of the Song army out of the city is unimpeded.

Then came the artillery team, a team of 1,000 men pushing a hundred large and small caliber cannons, and began to climb the mountain with difficulty, and when they reached the foot of the mountain, the musketeers came out in an empty group, and began to enter the hillside positions, and then the servants. The remaining servants continued to rush to the countless side vans. These vans were loaded with shells and bullets, and they made several trips back and forth. Wait until Zhao Xing climbs the hillside and completes the artillery position according to the pre-plan. A morning passed, and the time slowly moved into the afternoon.

The army of the Shan Lu branch on the opposite side had already urged impatiently several times. Zhao Xing didn't even see the other side, and directly sent his subordinate local officials to deal with it. By the time Zhao Xing had just finished his work, the liaison officer of the Lulu branch had already asked impatiently, "Okay?" ”

Zhao Xing clapped his hands, as if applauding, and as if he was dusting off the dust, he said casually: "Let's start." ”

On the opposite side, several camels were worn out in the camp of the Luzhi army, and the tall camels were driving shoulder drums higher than the Central Plains war drums, which happened to be about two humps, and on the camels, the strong men with hideous faces and dark skin beat the waist drums viciously, and the eleven drums sounded together, making a deafening sound, and the sound was full of vicious taste.

With the sound of the drums, the Song soldiers were a little pale, and the military formation supported by the opposite road moved, and the first place to fight was a team of 10,000 people, wearing a chicken tube helmet and wearing Persian chain mail, those Persian soft armor in the afternoon sun, like a wave of fluctuating water, and the entire Persian front was like the tide of the Qiantang River, surging towards the Song army's position, and the soaring murderous aura made the Song soldiers' calves soft and their mouths dry.

Zhao Xing slapped his riding boots with a horsewhip, he stood at the top of the slope, and said to the officers beside him in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry, our cannons are definitely louder than their drums." ”

By the way, we have cannons.

After being reminded by Zhao Xing, the officers' expressions softened, and the staff officer who questioned Zhao Xing just now looked at the silver wave surging across the opposite side, and couldn't help but sigh: "Is this army the criminals who were expelled by the Tang Dynasty, such a fierce army, and the wolves that were beaten by the Tang Dynasty ran thousands of miles, and they didn't dare to go back to their homes, or even dare to look back." Thinking about the majestic posture of the Tang Dynasty, I can't help but be fascinated. ”

Zhao Xing saw that the expressions of the officers softened, he continued to beat the riding boots with a horsewhip, and said with a relaxed expression: "The Tang Dynasty was established, what the Tang Dynasty could do, we can also do in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is more thorough than the ancestors, we have to bury this army completely, and avenge the suffering that the ancestors once suffered." ”

Zhao Xing's words made the Song army officers enthusiastic, and a Song army officer raised his arms and shouted: "The ancestors are not far away, look at my great Song Dynasty to destroy this criminal people!" ”

Another staff officer waved his arm and sang loudly: "Inner ......"

This is the military song of the Qin army, although it adopts a modern tune, but in the Song Dynasty, after a little evolution of the Song people, it has a little taste of the Qin king's breaking array music, and the Turkic remnants in front of them were defeated by the Tang army beating the breaking array music, but they have obviously forgotten this song that once made them frightened, the military song sounded, and the footsteps on the opposite side did not stop, and they still pressed up violently.

The observers constantly reported the distance of the enemy, five hundred paces, four hundred paces...... Two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps!

"Fire!" Zhao Xing brandished a horsewhip and ordered.

The cannon roared, and the huge roar overwhelmed the waist drums of the Luc army, and the discharged shells smashed heavily on the land of the Iranian plateau, which was the second time that the land had been baptized with gunpowder. The cannonball fell to the ground, sending up a cloud of smoke, and then leapt into the air, flying over the heads of the first row of Persian soldiers, bringing with it a blazing wind, which drew an arc and fell into the face of a soldier more than ten rows back.

Although the speed of the cannonball was visible to the naked eye, it was still not something that could be dodged, and the falling cannonball hit a soldier in the face, who was lucky. He was instantly killed, and the cannonball passed through his face as if it had not encountered the slightest obstacle, sending a pool of blood, and behind the trajectory of the cannonball, the soldier's face had evaporated out of thin air, and broken flesh and bone were splashed.

It all happened so quickly that the hapless soldier's companion didn't understand what was going on. Feeling wet, he wiped his face, and then looked at his companion's position in confusion, when he heard a bang, and his companion's helmet hit the soldier's chest in the back, and the soldier's chest immediately collapsed. The iron helmet immediately turned into a discus, and the kinetic energy contained in it was completely absorbed by the soldier behind him.

At this time, the cannonballs that flew out were like bowling balls, and the army of the Chenlu branch was like bowling pins, and they were unfortunate that the kinetic energy of the cannonballs was no longer enough to kill a person in an instant. But the energy it contains cuts off several arms and legs. It was not a problem to smash a few ribs, and the downed soldier did not die for a while. They lay on the ground, screaming hoarsely. It's as if you've met a devil who has just come out of hell.

At the same time, the camels in front of them were already jumping up with a loud noise. The drummer on top of the camel flew in the air, falling heavily on the tip of the spear of the Luzhi soldier behind him. Immediately poked into honeycomb coal, blood leaking out of a leaky water bag, unstoppable.

The Song army only fired one cannon, this cannon was like a pair of scissors cutting the film film, making the picture freeze, all the movements of the Luzhi army were frozen after the sound of the cannon, and in the silence, the prince of the Luzhi branch whispered: "Aduri, is this what you call the devil's weapon?" ”

Aduri nodded: "That's right, it brings iron and fire, spraying the power of demons, true God, I pray for this land, I hope it will be saved from disaster." ”

On the hillside, after the Song army fired a cannon, they began to adjust the muzzle, Aduri glanced at the hillside and was overjoyed: "A whole hundred devil weapons, they are mine, as long as the Song army is willing to surrender, I will use these weapons to blast open the door of my brother and uncles, so that I will be the only king of Seljuk to send orders to go down and continue the attack, the enemy does not have many weapons, and their combatants are only a few thousand." And I brought 120,000 big

After a short pause, the Persian drums sounded again, and the Persian soldiers began to step forward hesitantly, and at the same time, the cannons of the Song army also adjusted the firing range, and with Zhao Xing's order, on the front hillside, like a monster swallowing clouds and spitting fog, the cannons sounded in turn.

The first shot was an eight-pounder gun. Such an eight-pounder cannon belongs to the medium-range cannon here in Zhao Xing, and there are fifteen of them. In addition to this, five sixteen-pounder guns and eighty three-pounder guns were laid in the artillery positions.

According to modern standards, these cannons are not standard standard guns, but according to the Song Army weights and measures, the three-pounder cannon fires three Song Jin projectiles, so it is called "three Jin cannon", this small steel cannon with two wheels, light and easy to carry, was used by Zhao Xing as a marching gun in large quantities. The five guns with the highest range were used as siege guns for siege and fortification.

Under the artillery fire, the army of the Hindu branch stubbornly advanced, risking the Song army did not fire a cannon, the flying cannonballs could open a bloody alley in the army of the Lance Branch, before the shells were exhausted, all the Persian soldiers on its trajectory could not stand, those shells were like a plow, ploughing in the Persian army a deep ditch made of flesh and blood, the original tight formation of the Hindu branch army was sparsely cut by them, however, the Persian army finally attacked to the foot of the mountain.

The Persian soldiers in the front row had already chopped the van with their axes, and the Persian soldiers with spears were holding the van hard, trying to open a hole in the van. ”

Zhao Xing sighed in disappointment, turned around, looked at the other side of the mountain beam, and said, "There's nothing to see, the rest is just a one-sided massacre." ”

The cannon sounded, countless tiny shotguns sprayed at the Persian soldiers like a torrent of metal, and the Persian soldiers who were hit by the shotguns were like wheat fields in a hurricane, neatly lying down, seeing the misery of the soldiers in the front row, the soldiers in the back row began to hesitate, this hesitation gave the artillery a chance to change the ammunition, and the second round of shelling began, and after this round of shelling, there were no survivors in the entire 10,000-person detachment.

Zhao Xing didn't have the heart to look at this side of the war, he looked behind the hillside, and behind the hillside, there were musketeers sitting neatly on the ground, they were wearing fiery red military uniforms. Carrying a square backpack on their shoulders, the muskets in their hands were not pierced, and the muzzle of the black hole pointed at the long sky, these musketeers held the spears in their arms, let the barrel rest on their shoulders, and sat quietly behind the hillside, waiting for the order to take the position.

Further down the musketeers were a thousand servants. The servants wore light blue clothing and carried backpacks, a thousand specially selected men with strong arms, who would play the role of grenadiers in battle, throwing grenades at the enemy to delay the attack.

Opposite the Persian army array, the prince of the Luzhi branch was dumbfounded. The battlefield was dead silent, and on the Song army's position, those Song troops were busy cleaning the cannon chambers, and several officers were still holding tube-shaped mirrors to look at the Persian army. In the middle of the night, the prince of the Luzhi branch muttered to himself: "That's it, my team of 10,000 people rushed to the foot of the mountain." That's it? ”

Aduri cautioned: "Prince. I have just observed that this weapon appears to be firing slowly. After each launch, someone took a long pole and poked the big iron pipe. This action is repeated twice, once as if it is scrubbing. Another time, it was filling the tube. I have to take a long pole and stab it for a long time......

It fires so slowly, we can take advantage of the cavalry's speed......"

Prince Luchi interrupted Aduri: "You mean it's slow-firing? No, I can't send my precious cavalry up, let Fars's army go up, I'm giving him 20,000 troops, we'll have 30,000 men at a time, let those stupid farmers wear down the enemy's artillery fire, and my cavalry will stay at the most critical time. ”

Aduri sighed slightly, and hurriedly said: "My prince, there are no 30,000 troops on the front of the hillside, so why don't we use fifteen teams of predecessors to carry out the next round of attacks, and order them not to rush to the foot of the mountain, as long as they are slightly attacked, they can retreat, while the other 5,000 troops go around the enemy's flank to see if they can find fighters." ”

The movement of the Persian army was keenly noticed by the Song army on the hillside, and the Song army took corresponding steps, and the well-rested musketeers were immediately recruited to the front, and the barrels of guns came out of the ridges, followed by the soldiers' helmets, and then the fiery uniforms.

When the black pants of the Song soldiers also appeared from the mountain beam, the officer who led the team hung down the command knife on the ground and placed it in front of the right, which was a military salute, and the officers saluted the senior officer on the mountain beam with their sabers.

The soldiers had no such mind, and they had no time to salute the senior officers on the hill as they marched to the beat of the drums amid the rumbling of the cannons, and they had to keep an eye on the ground while keeping an eye on the ground while keeping an eye on the foot.

At this time, the Persian army slowly launched a hundred and ten huge catapults, in the millennium against the Roman army, the Persians also mastered the Roman catapult and crash technology, the prince of the Luchi branch originally did not want to use this last resort, but the Song army only used artillery to crush his first round of march, so that he re-estimated the combat effectiveness of the Song army...... Well, although these siege weapons are not suitable for large-scale positional warfare, fortunately, these weapons are large enough, and the assembled infantry can advance behind the vehicles, and they can somewhat regain a sense of security.

"Change gunpowder and directly attack the Persian army's main formation", Zhao Xing coldly ordered.

Originally, after the Persian army retreated, it gave enough space to the Song army, but as the war dragged on, the Persian army relied on the strength of the people and kept pushing the front forward.

When it comes to the variety of firearms and equipment, the Song army is called the first in this era, and there is no one who even claims to be the third, because this is the era of cold weapons, and only the Song army is equipped with firearms in the world today. Zhao Xing's army reduced all the firearms that should have been reduced, and only a few were left, artillery was one of them, and grenades were also one of the few gunpowder weapons that had been preserved.

With the movement of the Persian army, Zhao Xing transferred musketeers to the left flank, while grenadiers were replaced by grenadiers on the right flank, both of which had a characteristic of carrying a shoulder bag.

The appearance of the grenade in this era is still very simple, there is no fire pulling device, so the grenade must be lit with a fire rope, these two arms are transferred to a while, the grenadier camp is smoky, like a temple to worship the Buddha, and the musketeer position is very clean, those musketeers buried their heads to check the weapons in their hands, and thousands of auxiliaries behind them are also busy filling the equipment with muskets, and put the loaded muskets on the gun racks, so as to facilitate the use of the musketeers This is a new measure implemented by the Song army in the Song army after the battle between the Liao soldiers in Shunbaozhai and the Liao soldiers. Because the barrel of the musket would be so hot that it could not be loaded with gunpowder after 30 shots in a row, the Song army stipulated that each musketeer should be equipped with two secondary guns, and only after each gun had completed 20 rounds was allowed to replace the new gun, so that the musket barrel had a cooling time.

Speaking of which, firing more than twenty shots in a row, if the musketeers maintain the fastest rate of fire, this time is about three minutes. Then the barrel that became very hot after the first shot only had a six-minute cooldown, including the time to reload the gunpowder, and most of the Song soldiers felt that this time was not enough, so they paid for some spare guns themselves. These spare guns were different from the Song army's standard muskets, and they began to pursue a gorgeous style, so that the guns on the gun rack were varied, and it became a gun exposition, and those guns were full of the flashy style of the Song people, and also added many different colors to the monotonous gun rack.

The artillery bombardment began, this time it was the giant cannon that had not been fired just now, as soon as the giant cannon was launched, the ground shook, and the yellow smoke it raised was full of choking smell, this cannon flew straight to the Persian position, the shells fell, the Persian army seemed to tremble, and the strict array began to shake like ripples of water, but after a while, the Persian army regained its stability.

"Tenacious, too tenacious, just stubborn as a stone", Zhao Xing observed the Persian army with a telescope, and praised his opponent from the bottom of his heart.

This was the first time the Persians had seen artillery, and they did not retreat an inch, and one after another shells fell into their line, and flesh and blood flew everywhere, however, the downed Persians were immediately lifted aside, and the line around these unfortunate soldiers did not collapse at all, and many Persian soldiers still stood upright, preferring to be attacked by shells.

The firing of the five giant cannons did not stop, they continued to spit out huge projectiles at a rate of one shot per minute, the Persian soldiers who went out of the battle stubbornly advanced, and had advanced to the front of Zhao Xing's position, the grenadiers and musketeers on both sides had already exchanged hands with the troops on the flanks, the explosion of grenades, the crisp sound of muskets, and the roar of cannons, the entire mountain beam where the Song army was located was like a noisy kitchen, and all kinds of sounds gathered together.

However, this kitchen is not about deliciousness, but about death.

The earth was trembling, the small cannons of the Song army began to fire shotguns, the Persian soldiers relied on the large number of people, rushed into the camp composed of the Song army's side vans, braving the projectiles to destroy the wooden carriages, in the blink of an eye, the camp was broken away several gaps, the remnants of the Persian soldiers shouted and rushed into the gap, the shield hand protecting the artillery position pulled out the short gun in his waist and fired at the Persian soldiers. The spearmen wielded their spears and engaged the Persians.

The prince of the Luzhi branch showed joy on his face: "We have won, the children have already attacked the position of the Song army, and we have won...... Aduri, what do you think we should do with this army? What do you think of the idea of having them attack Fars first and force Fars to submit? ”

Aduri wrinkled his eyebrows, looked at the mountain beam, and said worriedly: "What a steel army, my prince, it is too early to talk about victory, this impact, if we can't take that mountain beam, I'm afraid we will never have a chance to take that mountain beam again." ”

The prince of the Luzhi branch looked at the battlering mountain beams, carefully confirmed it, and teased in a relaxed tone: "Aduri, my prime minister, I see that you are old, why can't you see that we have the upper hand, and the sons are rushing into the position of the Song army." ”

Aduri pointed to the mountain beam occupied by the Song army, and said: "My prince, you see, the weapons of the Song army are arranged on the slope of the mountain, below the hillside, they also pile up many wooden barrels, which are arranged as obstacles to advance, although our men rushed into the opponent's camp, but the artillery on the mountain beam is not chaotic, I just counted, their firing frequency has not decreased in the slightest, which shows that they still maintain a strong confidence in victory." ”