Chapter 340: Dynamite Pack

What did Kublai Khan want to do? He wanted to charge the city directly with cavalry, using horses and the corpses of warriors to pave a passage into the city gates. This idea may be a bit naïve, like a child who has done something wrong, crying and losing his temper at the people around him, and there is no reason to talk about it at all.

Because he knew very well that after tomorrow, there would not be so many people who could still follow him, and more than half of the more than 400,000 horses were recruited from various khanates, which was very different from the people of his own tribe who swore to follow him.

If the battle of Bazhou fails this time, there is no need for other tribes and khanates to oppose it, Kublai Khan is afraid that he will not want to live anymore, how can it be like hitting the evil spirit, and he will hit it headlong with his head covered.

Zhao Tianyou in Bazhou City also noticed something unusual, the movement of the rear camp of the Yuan army was too big, and the preparation momentum of more than 100,000 people could not be hidden, so this meant that the Yuan army had to make a desperate bet and threw all the chips on the gambling table.

"I used to look down on you, Kublai Khan, how could you be like this, I don't understand how to do it, is it menopausal syndrome?" Zhao Tianyou muttered, but things are going too well, Kublai Khan wants to fight to the death under the city of Bazhou, if he doesn't fully cooperate, wouldn't it be too faceless.

"Before dawn, the Yuan army will attack the city in a big way! Order, cancel rest and rotation, and the whole army will fight in the city! ”

Zhao Tianyou sighed, although the trend of the battle situation was very satisfactory to the Song army, but the pace of Kublai Khan's siege was too fast! It's only a day later, the whole army is going to attack the city, except for the lives of people and horses, he can't take anything else, it's just that he has to smash the table if he doesn't agree, Zhao Tianyou's idea of preparing to fight with him for a long time seems to have failed.

However, this result is indeed what Zhao Tianyou wants the most, as long as this cavalry is folded here, the rest of the matter will be even more peaceful, Zhongshu Province and Yuan are mostly in the bag, and then look at the entire territory of the Yuan Dynasty, in addition to recovering the old land of the Song Dynasty, Jinliao, Xixia, Tubo and other countries that were destroyed by the Mongols are already smiling and waving at the Song army, and the sons of Kublai Khan are no longer worried.

In the northwest and Yunnan-Guizhou, Sichuan, there are still hundreds of thousands of Yuan troops scattered and stationed, but they are too busy to take care of themselves at this time, and the rebel armies that resist the Yuan in various places are blooming in all directions, and they are busy dealing with their side, and they have no ability to return to the Yuan capital.

At this time, Kublai Khan felt that the territory he occupied was too large, and the several sons who led the army to fight and were stationed in various places, they did not issue an order to recruit troops, the main reason was that those places were not easy to come by, and once the army left, the previous achievements would be wasted, so he mainly recruited the tribal khanates in the north.

The east gradually turned white, the sky was already bright, and the infantry of the Yuan army, who had been holding on to the attack in front of the battle, invariably turned around and retreated, and no one looked back again, as if they were fleeing from the hell of Shura.

Behind the wall of the Song army, groups of soldiers were busy, high shelves were quickly erected, and hundreds of trebuchets were quickly formed, and they could soon be put into actual battle. These are produced according to Zhao Tianyou's modularization, each part can be universally interchangeable, as long as it is used in accordance with the operating rules, without much experience, as long as there are one or two people to lead the team, you will soon be able to use this trebuchet skillfully.

The Song army has already entered the era of artillery and thunderbolts, why bother to make these trebuchets, manufacturing and transportation are very laborious, and there is all this time to cast two more sub-cannons.

If they were really used to launch stones, it would be purely because Zhao Tianyou's brain was broken, and he tried his best to use the platform modularization technology to create a bunch of obsolete weapons. When the soldiers finished assembling all the trebuchets, they found that the basket used to throw stones at the door was of a uniform shape and size, and it was not used to hold stones.

At this time, a number of manpower trolleys pushed truckloads of new ammunition from the ammunition depot in Bazhou City, that is, the soldiers in charge of firing knew what it was, and even the soldiers who were transported by those carts did not know what they were sending.

A large lump of three feet square and one foot thick, tied very tightly by hemp rope one by one, from that thick and long fuse, the power of this thing should not be small. If they have experienced modern warfare, they will know that this kind of thing is called an explosive bag, and it is a very widely used weapon by Chinese soldiers in World War II.

Of course, it was also because there were no artillery shells at that time, the power of the self-made grenades was too small, and the damage caused to enemy vehicles and fortifications was too small, so the explosive bag was developed as a quick and useful means of attack.

However, Zhao Tianyou's preparations are not for people to use directly, this is a plan that has been implemented for a long time, and the specific target they are dealing with is the cavalry of a large-scale attack. In the case of the high power of the Hongyi cannon and the slow rate of fire, and the fast rate of fire of the sub-mother cannon but the lack of power, the idea of preventing the enemy from using superior forces to attack on a large scale came up with the idea of using a trebuchet to launch explosive packs with dozens of catties of charge.

This explosives bag is not simple, it is a collection of a variety of time-ahead technology on Hong Kong Island, more than a dozen workshops of the main craftsmen jointly designed and created, but so far has not participated in the actual combat, the real power has yet to be verified.

"The Great Khan has a purpose! All on board! Sortie! Capture the city and kill the Song Dog in the city for the Great Khan! ”

"Woo! Woo! ”

Gray-yellow smoke and dust rose in the distance, and the dull sound of horses' hooves sounded like thunder, sounding from all directions at the same time, and hundreds of thousands of cavalry urged the war horses under their crotches at the same time, and began to accelerate towards Bazhou City.

Not to mention that the Song army at the head of the city was a little surprised, that is, the troops withdrawn by the Yuan army, watching the vigorous cavalry rushing towards the city wall of Bazhou, they couldn't react in their heads, and they couldn't figure out what tactics this was.

If you look closely at the hands of the soldiers in the first row, they are all holding a coil of rope as thick as their fingers, and people with flexible brains should be able to think of what they want to do when they rush forward. The Mongolians also have a unique skill, that is, the craft of the horse, the horse pole and the rope are good helpers, and the Mongolians who herd horses on the grassland will carry the tools with them.

The Song army's artillery was adjusting the angle, and then began to fire freely, facing the Yuan cavalry rushing from afar like a tide, the Song army at the head of the city became nervous. The tragic battle of this day and night, in terms of the way and rhythm of the battle, was under the control of the Song army, but now I can't touch the idea of the Yuan army, even Zhao Tianyou's guess is ambiguous. 、

It is that they can rush under the city walls with their speed and superior forces, but how can they run up? The hundreds of ladders left on the battlefield had long been burned by the Song army's deliberate targeting and launching rockets, could they have jumped up?

No matter how much the Song army wanted to break his head, he couldn't guess the Yuan army's thoughts, but the speed of 100,000 cavalry ran up, rushing towards Bazhou with billowing smoke and dust.

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