The chief reported: "Taishi, there are twenty giant catapults set up by the river, and there are countless whirlwind cannons. (**Chinese Net* Superspeed Update Latest Chapter*).

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Zhao Xing sat on the deck, there were several gun-wielding guards standing beside him, Chao Lu was holding two muskets in his arms, sitting cross-legged at his feet, the bard Buffett was plucking the strings for a while, standing beside him, Yuan Yeping stood at the bow of the boat, holding a telescope to observe, Lu Qiuguan was also in front of Zhao Xing, he was not infected with the pre-war tension at all, and looked around with a smile.

Zhao Xing ordered softly: "Let's start!" ”

Hearing this, Buffett gently put down the six-stringed piano, he probed and gestured to the guard at the door of the cabin, the guard typed a series of numbers to him in sign language, Buffett took out a stack of papers from his arms, took out a quill pen, and wrote: "March of 11C6 A.D. (11 AD), maybe February, because I can't convert the local calendar into the correct date of modern times, I only know that according to the strange local calendar, today is March 5th, the third day of their daughter's day, and the marshal of the Song Kingdom I serve started a war, It was 11:13 p.m. ......"

Buffett forgot to explain that the so-called "11:13" is calculated based on Hangzhou time, and the local time is one time zone different from Hangzhou time, of course, people at that time did not have the concept of time zone.

However, the time when Buffett said that the war began is not exact, in fact, the war started half an hour later. The fleet of the Song Kingdom was on the road all night, and in order not to run aground in the shallow waters of the twists and turns of the Yellow River, the fleet had been sailing in the middle of the river. And the ancient artillery and catapults were not far away, and at this distance, the two sides could only look up to each other, but could not fight.

In order to adjust the formation in the center of the river, the Song army was busy all morning, and so on to sail under the Tiandebao City, the fleet made the assault boat enter the attack position, and it took a lot of effort, after half an hour of hard work, the pioneer boat was in a good posture in the countercurrent, and slowly sailed towards the river.

"Boom!" The Xixia people couldn't bear it, and the first shot, the giant catapult threw a strange-shaped stone, the stone rolled in the air, and changed the course halfway without accuracy, the stone fell heavily in the middle of the river, stirring up a splash, and soon, the splash was washed away without a trace by the torrent.

"Boom!" , The Song army fired back, but this cannon was also inaccurate, the cannonball flew over a distance, fell in the shallow water area close to the river bank, and also stirred up a water column, but because the cannonball fell in the shallow water area, the water column was not big, and the catapult on the river bank, the Tangut people pointed to the bullet point and leaned back together, as if they were laughing at the momentum caused by this army of unknown origin was far inferior to them.

Aboard. Warren Buffett begged for a pair of binoculars from someone else to observe the troops on the shore. The shore laughed at him and looked at the beginning. But I didn't see the end. I just saw the catapult and the people on the side of the catapult swayed. Followed by. Song Jun's ground bounced and suddenly a column of water sprang up. Forthwith. Louder explosions rang out. A stream of flames rose from the water. The flame swept up into the air with a larger wave of water. In a blink of an eye. The steam of the flames creaked. Countless tiny mist blocked Buffett's vision.

"Boom!". The stern cannon of the pioneer boat sounded. The shells drilled straight into the mist. I can't see the impact point clearly. But then. The water column fell heavily. Lapping on the river. A puff of yellow smoke rose from the shore. It is the dust endemic to the Loess Plateau. On top of the yellow dust column. It's a dark black plume of smoke. The plume of smoke churned. From time to time, it spits out the red of flames.

The pioneer boat finished firing two shots. No stops. One turn of the rudder continued upstream. Just now, both guns of the Pioneer Boat did not hit the target. The first shot was too close. The second shot was too far away. However. For this shelling effect. The Great Song fleet didn't care. The second Pioneer Boat had adjusted its artillery angles to the ground shelling of the previous ship. As soon as it enters the attack position. Immediately and impatiently attacked.

"Boom!". Almost at the same time as the third cannon rang out. The shore of the West Xia catapult is mighty together. Countless boulders flew into the air. They rolled in the air. Writhing his body. It was as if a flock of crows had pounced on the second assault boat.

"Boom!". The boulder has not yet fallen into the river. The first shell of the second assault boat has already landed. The shell was hitting the river. With an explosion. Several Western Xia soldiers flew into the air. Followed by. The sound of explosions set off more severed limbs. Flying around. In addition to fire, smoke and dust. There was also countless pieces of blood and minced meat.

The third artillery of the Song army still did not hit the catapult. Just fell behind the catapult body. Entered the ranks of the Tangut people. The artillery shell of the Song army had just exploded. Countless boulders fell into the river. Suddenly, the whole river surface was like a boiling pot, and the ground water boiled. The water column rises and falls. Set off the ground wave after wave. The waves pushed the warships in the middle of the river. Even Zhao Xingdi's boat ride was a little bumpy.

"Boom", the stern cannon of the second assault boat fired, it finished this cannon, turned quickly, and continued to sail upstream, and then, the third assault boat sailed into the firing range, it did not hesitate to double the cannon, this time the impact point of the Song army's shooting was close to the catapult on the shore, there was a catapult that was affected by the air wave of the explosion, it first tilted its body, shook it, and then, the crossbar above the catapult leaned down slightly, the chassis pried up, slowly detached from the shore, as if in slow motion, the chassis began to dismember, and then, The slow motion accelerated, and the entire catapult chassis flew in pieces as if it had been torn apart by the hands of giants......

The next assault boat entered the shelling position, the catapult of the Tangut people still had not finished loading, Buffett's telescope looked behind the catapult, at this time, the Xia soldiers around the catapult had begun to flee, most of them ran towards Tiandebao not far away, but some people ran above or below the riverbank.

The shelling continued, there were no soldiers next to the huge catapults on the riverside, and the follow-up of the Song army ran to name those catapults, and the shells hit quickly and densely, and all the fragments of the catapults flew in the air, and the columns of smoke that exploded on the shore one after another, one after another.

It was Zhao Xing's turn to sit in the boat to enter the shelling position, and went to the front cover, Buffett saw more clearly, he was now in a mess on the riverside, there were corpses lying on the shallow water on the bank, many corpses were incomplete, and the blood had turned the turbid Yellow River water red, at this time, due to the explosion of the shells, the river water on the bank was still tumbling, but the turbid yellow water could not cover the red blood.

Through the telescope, Buffett looked at the point of impact of the shell, and behind the column of smoke, there was a team of soldiers

Their officers, waving their sabers, were shouting hoarsely, and the shelling had spread out in front of them and was beginning to take aim at the insistent ranks.

The warship was bumpy, the pillar of smoke was thick and dense, through the smoke, Buffett now this army is very neat, they are wearing black armor, the front row is holding a large shield one person high, but the shield array has been incomplete, through the broken shield wall, Buffett is now a soldier is struggling to stand up at the gap, his left arm is gone, only half of the flesh and blood are left in the stump arm, the blood on the face of the face covers his eyes, so that his appearance is not clear, but Buffett noticed it from the telescope, The soldier seemed to be straining all over his body.

The hull of the ship shook a little, as if it had been fired. At this time, Buffett had lost his sensitivity to the sound of the shelling, anyway, there were explosions everywhere, and he couldn't feel the sound of the cannon from the ship he was in, but then, a white smoke of gunpowder covered the distance, and then, the pungent smell made him cry. The warship seemed to crash into a white cloud, and Buffett was at a loss in front of him, and then he felt the warship shake again, and then it shook continuously.

The smoke of gunpowder became thicker and thicker, and when Zhao Xing's boat rushed out of the gunsmoke, the team on the shore seemed to be trying its best to form a team, but the officers in the command area were gone, the military flag was broken, and there were not many people left in the whole team, they were either standing in a row of three or two, or standing alone, and it could be barely seen from the position of these people that this army was originally arranged in a square team.

"Why don't they leave, why don't they withdraw yet?" Buffett held the telescope in his hand, his eyes off the hole of the telescope, anxiously asking the people around him for confirmation.

No one around answered, Buffett put down the binoculars, rushed to Zhao Xing's side, and asked unexpectedly: "Marshal, why haven't they withdrawn, this is obviously a massacre, the enemy's catapult is big and bulky, and it is fixed on the riverside, and your warship sails in from the center of the river, and it hits and leaves in a mobile state, you are a moving target, they are a fixed target, why are these people still insisting?" ”

Zhao Xing replied lightly: "The Western Xia military system, the commander is killed, and the whole team dares to withdraw for no reason, then the whole team will be killed."

Zhao Xing gestured on his neck and explained: "It's to cut off the head!" These people did not withdraw because their general was killed by us, and the only reason for them to withdraw was to retrieve the general's body, but now it seems that their general is already a team of minced meat, and even if they bring back this pile of minced meat, no one will believe them, so they can only insist. ”

Warren Buffett shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, I clearly saw the catapult people retreating just now." ”

Zhao Xing replied coldly: "The soldiers who operate the catapult are technical soldiers, in Western Xia, such soldiers are called 'Yu Ren', such technical troops are precious, and their retreat is not controlled by the front-line commander." ”

As he was talking, the attendant rushed over and reported: "Master, several ships have reported that their cabins are flooded and are struggling to plug the leak. ”

Zhao Xing snorted and said with annoyance: "A disposable ship is of poor quality." ”

Most of the ships used in this hurry were not dried wood, and the assault boats were still made of the best planks as much as possible, and only two small cannons were loaded on board, but in this way, they still could not stand the shock of the shelling, and after only two shellings, some of the ships had already seen water seepage. Zhao Xing's boat was made of the best dry wood, and he carried ten cannons on his ship, which is why Buffett felt the hull vibrate just now. There were only three such ships in the entire Song army fleet, which were carried by Zhao Xing, the commander-in-chief of the fleet, and the commander of the supply fleet.

"Order the seepage boat to move as close to the river as possible, choose a shoal, and prepare to wash the beach," Zhao Xing ordered.

At this time, Zhao Xing, who had completed the shelling, sailed back to the center of the river in a boat, and on the side of his boat, those troop transport ships that were not loaded with cannons were passing through, and on the side of the boat, countless Song soldiers were pointing at the river, with excited looks on their faces.

"How many ships are still in good condition?"

The officer randomly counted and replied: "About 10% of the assault boats are leaking, and according to the report just now, there are thirteen that cannot be repaired, and they asked to rush to the beach nearby, and the remaining boats replied: The water seepage is not large, and they can be repaired." ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "Leave ten assault boats, follow my ship for the second round of shelling, and the rest continue to maintain an escort posture, don't stop, our target tonight is the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division." ”

It took some time for the fleet to regroup, and when the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield cleared, the Western Xia soldiers who had just left on the battlefield no longer existed, and the ships of the Song army rushing to the beach were trying their best to unload the small cannons from the boats and push forward to the shore in the mud, while at the same time, the neighboring Tiande army castle kept shelling the riverside.

This cannon is shot by the whirlwind cannon on the castle, the whirlwind cannon is small in size, although it is condescending, but the volume of the stone projectiles thrown is not large, these stone bullets barely reach the river, and the falling stones hit the cuirass of the Song soldiers on the ground, and most of the Song soldiers covered their faces with their arms while burying their heads and climbing to the shore.

The banks of the Yellow River are all loess, these loess are very soft, there is no point of strength, and a large collapse will be shown when you step on it, and the local mudslide is formed in this way, the soldiers are struggling to move forward in such an environment, many soldiers have to throw off their black cloaks in order to move quickly, so that their fiery red military uniforms are revealed.

The exclamations on the walls of the Tiande army came one after another, with the intelligence of the Western Xia people, they could not imagine how the Song army could attack them from the territory of the Liao State, and the lack of information made it impossible for them to make a judgment, and in their exclamations, there were many speculations, guessing that the Liao State had joined forces with the Song State and planned to destroy the Western Xia.

The Western Xia people were a tiger in front of the Song State, but they were a kitten in front of the Liao people, this guess suddenly made the Xia people soften their hands, and the attack on the city eased slightly, and finally, a Song soldier turned over on the river bank lightly, he hung down the armed belt from the river bank, and then, more Song troops climbed the river bank, and the cannon was also dragged up.

The Xia soldiers on the city were hurriedly dispatched, the Song army was standing on the river bank, beyond the range of the Xia army's bow and arrow, and the whirlwind cannon was not powerful enough, so they wanted to transfer the rest of the weapons, and after a while, black smoke rose from the Xia army's city head, and Yuan Yeping wondered to himself: "What's the matter?" Our army has not yet started shelling? ”

"It's gunpowder!" Zhao Xing held the binoculars and observed, and he replied: "This is a thunderbolt fireball, and the formula contains arsenic, so that smoke is poisonous, Xia Jun wants to replace the stone bullet of the whirlwind cannon with a thunderbolt fireball." ”

The Song army finally began to artillery, entering the attack position

Trying his best to shoot a cannon with the maximum angle of fire, this cannon drifted through the walls of the Xia army and shot a column of smoke.

"Okay, it's good to be able to hit the city, order all ships to cannon in turn, and suppress the city with fire." The cannon of the Song army seemed to turn on the faucet, and countless crockpots suddenly flew up on the city wall, and when those crockpots flew into the air, they all emitted thick smoke, and some of the crockpots shot far away, barely hitting the riverside, but more crockpots did not reach the soldiers of the Song army on the shore.

The Song soldiers on the shore were still busy, they were busy wiping the barrels of the guns that entered the water, and there were soldiers who constantly removed the planks from the boat, laid a plank road on the shore, and stopped for a while, a clay pot with thick smoke rolled down the boat, the clay pot was not broken, and a Song soldier kicked the clay pot into the river, and suddenly, the black smoke stopped.

The Xia army's counterattack was weak, but it lasted for a long time, and finally the Xia army's character exploded, a crockpot hit a busy soldier by the side of an artillery, with a muffled bang, the crockpot shattered, and then, a stream of gunpowder smoke rose, and the fire swept the Song soldier, making him a fire man, the soldier rolled on the ground a few times, and felt that he could not extinguish the sulfur fire on his body, he jumped into the river.

In the river, the soldier on fire was still struggling, he grabbed the corpse of a Xia army, barely fluttering in the shallow water, at this time, the Song army on the shore ignored it and struggled with the artillery.

Rumble! The first cannon blew up, and there were a group of people lying next to the cannon, but then several Song soldiers rose up in a pool of blood, and they ran to the rest of the artillery to help them fix the gun position.

Rumble! The second cannon fired not only the good character of the Xixia people, but also the character of the Song army, this cannon hit the city wall, it seemed to fall into the gunpowder pile of the Tangut people, the cannonball only landed, the Xixia city wall shook a little, and then, the rammed city wall flowed to the ground like quicksand, on the city wall, a bigger explosion sounded, and the river was trembling.

The situation on the shore was urgent, and the Song boats shelled by the river did not pay attention to the formation, they kept artillery into the city, and the shells stirred up columns of smoke in the city from time to time, and at this time, the Xia army had lost the ability to counterattack, and the Song army on the shore finally set up artillery and began to shell the city.

The sound of cannons continued, Zhao Xing kept scanning the pillar of smoke rising in the city with a telescope, at this time, a fire had already ignited in the city, and the sky over the entire city was shrouded in black smoke, and the black smoke drifted to the riverside, and was immediately blown by the river wind.

Zhao Xing raised his hand, felt the river breeze, and muttered in his mouth: "The spring breeze in February is like scissors, and the wind before the Qingming Festival is cold and dry." ”

After a pause, Zhao Xing continued to raise his binoculars to look at the city, and asked in disbelief: "Where is the iron harrier?" What about the burden? Where are the foot soldiers and sign troops, and this is an important border town? ”

Yuan Yeping replied: "According to the records of the Western Xia, the Western Xia side only stationed 30,000 troops on the Ganzhou Road in the right chamber to prepare for the Western Fan and Hui Hui; There were 50,000 troops stationed in Helan (now northwest of Yinchuan, Ningxia), and the Tiande army was only an outpost here, not to mention that Western Xia was a vassal state of the Liao State and had never fought with the Liao State, so there were not many troops in the city. ”

Zhao Xing nodded and waved his hand: "I'll go first, leave the ten assault boats here to pick up the people on the shore." ”

Zhao Xing's battleship turned around in the heart of the river and continued to sail upstream, behind him, the cannon still rumbled non-stop, until the night of the same day, Zhao Xing could still hear the cannon sound echoing on the grassland, in the distance, in the sky, the Tiande army was already like a pillar of fire, emitting thick black smoke, and its fire reflected the east sky.

At this time, the officer came to report: "Taishi, the pioneer boat has arrived at the fork of the river, in front of it is the Hetao, on the east side is the main stream, the water level is deep, leading directly to the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division, and on the west side is the branch stream, the water level is shallow, but there is no big military town along the way. Please give the order! ”

The so-called "Hetao" is said to be here, the Yellow River branches here, forming a pocket-shaped area, between the two rivers are several county seats, the most famous of which is Wuyuan City, and the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division is located on the main stream, and the famous Vulture Sea City was built on the side of the main stream.

"Enter the North Loop, target the Vulture Sea!" Zhao Xing ordered.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Lu Qiuguan opened the map and pointed to the Wushuhai and introduced: "The current lord of the city is Zhang Hao's descendant, and the so-called Zhang Hao is the Jinshi who was deposed from my Great Song Palace......"

: Qiu looked at Zhao Xingdi's face and continued to introduce: "Taiwei captured Zhang Pu, the fifth son of Zhang, when he was in Huanqing, and it is this Zhang family. Now their head of the family is Zhang Cong, the eldest brother of Zhang Wugongzi. ”

Zhao Xing was surprised: "Isn't the Zhang family in the Jianing Military Division?" ”

: Qiu Guan further explained: "Zhang Wugongzi was sent to Bianliang, the Zhang family was degraded, relegated to the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division, the Western Xia lord still did not trust them, don't send the Liangzhou native Tang Wushi to monitor nearby, and now the Wuthorn Haicheng is the Zhaowu general, Suzhou (Gansu) Xuanwei envoy Tang Wufeng (also known as Yang Feng). ”

"Boom!" There was a cannon fire from the front, and immediately after, another cannon sound rang out non-stop, and the attack of the Song army began.

Zhao Xing listened attentively to the sound of the cannon and asked, "How long do we have to arrive?" The captain hurried over and replied, "We have been delayed for a while in the Tiande army, and it will take about half an hour to reach the city of the Vultures. ”

Zhao Xing sighed, but just as his sound stopped, the sound of the ground cannon in front of him actually stopped, Zhao Xing listened attentively for a long time, and no cannon sounded again. He stood up in surprise and asked at a loss, "What's the matter?" Why don't you shoot it? ”

Yuan Yeping was also wondering: "What's going on?" One cannon hit a dud, can't the rest of the cannons be duds?! Why didn't the front army shoot artillery? ”

Zhao Xing listened attentively for a while, then sat down slowly, smiled and said, "It seems that we can eat hot soup today." ”

Yuan Yeping was still puzzled, and Lu Qiuguan asked tentatively: "Taiwei means that the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division has surrendered?" ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "Yuan Tuiguan was right just now, there was a dud bomb in one cannon, and the rest of the cannons can't be dumb, and now there is no cannon sound for a long time, which can only mean that they have encountered an accident, and the only possibility is that the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division has surrendered." ”

: Qiu Guan's eyes widened, and he rolled his eyes in disbelief, Yuan Yeping couldn't help but ask: "This is impossible, Zhang Cong is still there, there is Tang Wufeng in the city, he is a native of Liangzhou, a cronie of the lord of Western Xia?!" ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "I also wonder, but the front army doesn't shoot artillery, there is only one explanation." ”

How could Tang Wufeng, the party nobleman who monitored the Zhang family, fall? (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, 8.) , more chapters, support **Chinese network*! )