Chapter 279: A Powerful Display

The gun shot the first bird, and the cannon was the same way, Wei Hu's soldiers and horses had just rushed out of the city gate for more than 100 steps, and they were bombarded by the Hongyi cannon. The Yuan soldiers who just rushed out of the city gate are not very fast in formation, not to mention flowering bullets, even if they use solid iron bullets to smash into the team, they can also kill a lot of soldiers and horses.

"Boom, boom!"

"Boom!"

Wei Hu raised his sword and brandished it, shouting loudly: "Charge me!" Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

However, there were not many people who could brave the smoke of the bombardment, and the shrapnel that flew in all directions followed him towards the Song army camp, and half of his soldiers and horses did not come out of the city.

In this chaotic season, the general in charge of the lifting of the suspension bridge could not hold his breath, if he was put on the suspension bridge by the Song army in the chaos, and then entered through the city gate, his sin would be too great.

"Lift, lift, lift the drawbridge!"

With a creaking sound, only Wei Hu and his more than 1,000 soldiers and horses were left outside the city, rushing towards the position where the Song army was waiting without any backup or support.

The two hundred artillery trucks didn't move at all, and the soldiers of the firearms battalion above didn't even look at Wei Hu, such a team was not their target in the first place, if they had the ability to get close to the Song army's position, they really had to say their admiration.

Wei Hu crouched on the saddle and galloped forward, praying silently in his heart, if you want to die, you will have a good life, I will be finished with a cannon crash, don't make me suffer half-dead. From the moment they left the city, the fate of this team was already sealed, and they couldn't even decide how to die.

At this time, thousands of archers rushed out from the Song army's formation, and the first row of soldiers sat down on the spot, kicked the bowstring of the god's arm crossbow with both feet, and wound the arrows to aim and fire in one go. After turning around, he ran back to the last row of the line, sat down on the ground, and kicked the crossbow with all his might, and loaded the second crossbow arrow.

This is the longest-range crossbow arrow in the Song army, because it requires a lot of strength to be able to pull out a divine arm crossbow, so the best crossbowman in a battle can complete three shots.

According to reason, although the range of the Divine Arm Crossbow is long, it is only about 300 steps, which cannot be compared with the cannon at all, but in order to save cannonballs, Ling Zhen and Liu Changhai arranged their tactics extremely carefully.

The battle that can be solved with cold weapons will definitely not be shelled casually, and the round of artillery bombardment that Wei Hu just came out of the city was aimed at disrupting the rhythm of the Yuan soldiers' attacks. After the goal was achieved, the firearms battalion stopped, and with such a small force of cavalry, there were naturally other arms to deal with them.

There were more than 2,000 crossbowmen in the third row, and after shooting from the first row, Wei Hu's men fell off their horses one after another, followed by the second row to keep up with the launch, and half of the more than 1,000 people fell off their horses, and when the third row was launched, there were less than 100 people around Wei Hu.

At this time, Wei Hu was less than 100 steps away from the front of the Song army's position, and the second round of firing of the crossbowmen was stopped by the flag officer, and another group of soldiers who were issued with longbows and armor-piercing cones were ready to fire.

A thousand armor-piercing cones burst out of the string, humming through the air like a layer of jet-black raindrops, covering the head of the galloping team.

"Weng! Father! ”

The men of this longbow team can fire up to three arrows in an instant, and this shot exhausted their strength, and after shooting, they have already collected their bows and trotted away without waiting for the arrows to hit the target. The two thousand armor-piercing cones behind chased the arrows fired for the first time, like three layers of fine black rain, completely covering the more than 100 knights.

In a miserable cry, not only people but even the war horses under their crotch collapsed to the ground, sharp arrows came out of their bodies, and even the sturdy war horses could not take a few hits, they had already emptied the blood in their bodies, and where was there still strength to struggle.

A group of Song soldiers with round shields in their left hands and steel knives in their right hands ran out of the formation, examining the dead bodies along the way one by one.

Wei Hu's more than 1,000 people from the beginning of leaving the city to becoming corpses all over the ground, it was so little time before and after, so that Li Heng, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, and the generals around him didn't have time to let out a few exclamations, and they were all over.

The tactical rhythm of the Song army, the degree of tacit cooperation between different arms, and not even a single hair was injured, and Wei Hu's men and horses were dealt with, but Li Heng opened his eyes. He named and sent Wei Hu out of the city to attack the enemy, in addition to someone secretly reporting that Wei Hu also wanted to escape, he also had the heart to break this calm state, and paying a small price could make the Song army's cannons sound in unison, but it could make the Yuan army in the city more at ease.

Li Heng was very suspicious of his eyes, such a well-trained and well-disciplined team, was it the army of the same Song Dynasty? The team holding the same banner, in the past ten years, I don't know how many have been killed, and even more defeated, why has all this changed today.

The Song army closest to the nearest city wall, that is, a distance of one hundred and fifty steps, if the Yuan archer of the Yuan army opened his bow and released arrows, it could be included in the killing range, but Li Heng never gave an order, and looked at the Song army outside the city with wide eyes.

After dealing with the wounded soldiers and horses on the field, the sword and shield men did not leave immediately, but they also retreated some distance, leaving the range of the Yuan army in the city. At this time, another team came out of the Song army camp, which looked like hard laborers, and among them were some former prisoners of war, holding wooden forks and pushing carts full of firewood.

They very neatly separated the carcasses of men and horses, and began to dispose of them in the same place, the butcher with a short knife killed the horses and skinned them, and the other group put the corpses of the soldiers and the firewood together, and in a short time they were all disposed of.

Five piles of human corpses were lit with a roaring fire, and the processed horse flesh and horse skins were used for their own uses, and they were ready to be loaded into carts and pushed back into the formation, and there were only five burning heavenly burial fires left in front of the city, as well as jet-black blood stains that had dried up on the ground.

What is Song Jun doing? The Yuan army in the city was dumbfounded, not knowing what this meant, could it be that the Song army wanted to eat horse meat and was reluctant to let the dead war horses rot and deteriorate? But why did he dispose of the corpses of the Yuan army and spend manpower and material resources to burn them.

Li Heng knew in his heart that although autumn was about to begin, the weather in Wuzhou was still relatively hot, and if those corpses were not disposed of, there would be a large area of rancid maggots in more than three days, not only affecting the Song army outside the city, but also if there was a miasma or plague, even the Yuan army and the people in Wuzhou City would not be able to escape.

At the same time, the Song army is also in Liwei, a few simple things, I think the Yuan soldiers in the city have shown strong combat effectiveness, tacit cooperation between the arms, and finally a strong confidence in winning Wuzhou.

"Li Shuai, why don't we abandon the city!"

A subordinate who had followed him for many years whispered in Li Heng's ear.

Li Heng's eyebrows raised, and he almost had a seizure on the spot.

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