Chapter 268: Only One Door Left

Twenty-two whistling cannonballs, passing through the fluttering flags of the Yuan soldiers, past the rows of soldiers on horseback, as if they had eyes, flew towards the huge artillery carriage.

"Ahh

After a few screams and screams, a flowering cannonball passed through the crowd, smashed seven or eight times before it stopped rolling, and after a few turns underground, it exploded and spilled dozens of sharp shrapnel in all directions.

The continuous explosions sounded in the ranks of the Yuan army, and Bo Yan in the camp looked earthy, and he sent two or three waves of heralds to find out what happened, even if he already had the answer in his heart.

Twenty-two cannons roared again at the head of the city, and the dust raised was already a man high, and under the urging of half of the amount of propellant, the rate of fire of the cannonballs was amazing, and from the beginning of the discharge, there was a roar of a dragon and a tiger.

"Big handsome, big handsome, it's not good, the Song army's shells came over, blew up two artillery trucks, and the 10,000 jin and 10,000 jin cannons fell ......"

"How many have you poured? Say it! ”

"One is upside down, and the other is supported by manpower, and they are using wooden frames to cushion the wheels, I'm afraid it will be difficult to move!"

Bo's face sank like water, glanced at Ali Hague beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Prime Minister Zuo, it's time for you to get out, remember, don't die." ”

"Yes, sir!"

Ali Hague took the order, and the 100,000 troops that had been prepared, under the leadership of the vanguard generals who rode forward, rushed out from several different directions, gathered into several amazing torrents, and began to rush towards the city of Guangzhou.

Another wave of 22 shells roared in, bombarding around the sports car, and this time a shell hit directly, directly blowing up an artillery truck, and the 10,000-pound cannon that fell to the ground crushed at least a dozen people.

Boyan's heart was cold, the only hope was the artillery of the Song army, don't hit so accurately anymore, leave him a few 10,000-pound cannons, and leave a little chance to counterattack. In fact, at this time, Boyan was too uncalm, and when he understood that his trick had not been hidden from the Song army, he should have withdrawn all the troops backwards, and removed the artillery of the men and horses from the range of the Song army's artillery, and it was not too late to completely understand the matter and then fight.

But Bo Yan was already desperate in his heart, if he withdrew his troops again, it was likely that he would never have a chance to go into battle again, just like a gambler who was about to lose all his chips, desperately pressed everything he had, and his whimsical delusions had a chance to turn over.

The army led by Ali Hague rushed forward at full speed, and the cannonballs of the Song army were whistling overhead, and his own majestic 10,000-pound cannon was bombarded like this before entering the gun position.

However, once a large cavalry of this scale is mobilized, the possibility of wanting to stop is very small, and the 100,000-strong army rushes towards the foot of the city wall of Guangzhou like waves surging from the vast sea.

The density of the team is too great, the speed of the carriage pulling the siege equipment cannot get up, and it falls behind the team invisibly, at this time, if anyone falls off the horse, tens of thousands of horses' hooves behind will instantly teach you what heaven is.

The momentum of this siege was much greater than the previous two times, and the Yuan soldiers who rushed forward had heard the sound of cannons many times, and they could roughly distinguish the power of the cannonballs, and they were all rushing forward, praying in their hearts that the falling cannonballs would be farther away from them.

"Ignore these cavalry, continue to bombard long-range targets, and if you can't confirm the destruction of the target, continue to fire and kill all the people there! Artillery of other calibers, letting go of autonomous fire, remembered an important point and gave priority to bombarding the enemy's commanding generals. ”

Liu Changhai calmly gave the order, turning a blind eye to the surging Yuan soldiers, because he knew that under the current firepower configuration, the Yuan soldiers who attacked the city with cold weapons had no chance of winning. At most, you can rush under the city walls and shoot arrows, and you can only shoot the soldiers in the city, but there is no chance to shoot three arrows in a row, because there are piles of small mountains of armor-piercing cones waiting for them, and the archers of the city guard are suffocating when they are full.

The archers of the Song army did not even need the simplest aiming, they only needed to follow the commander's correction of the scale of Wangshan, and keep shooting arrows at several fixed angles. This kind of comfortable and easy position to kill the enemy can be done by an ordinary soldier with full physical strength, and he doesn't even need to deliberately practice the accuracy of the bow and arrow.

Rushing through a mile of landmark building fortifications, the cannonballs of the Song army fell like hailstones, and the explosions one after another became one, and the horses fell one after another, as if they were submerged by the merciless sea, and they couldn't even stir up a wave.

The Yuan soldiers who rushed to the front were like wheat being cut, falling down layer by layer, and the new soldiers behind rushed up layer by layer, and soon reached a distance of three hundred paces.

"Look at the mountain four times, shoot three salvos! Put! ”

Along the entire mile of the city wall, archers of 20,000 city guards stood in three different rows, each with two quivers filled with armor-piercing cones. There were forty arrows in each barrel, and the two quivers were eighty in total, and it was impossible for a single archer to shoot so many arrows at one time in an ordinary battle.

Every time the bow is wrestled, the muscles of the whole body are used, and a standard two-stone hard bow, even a well-trained elite skill, cannot shoot twenty arrows in a row, and if the bow is forcibly pulled, the two arms will be useless.

Therefore, the 60,000 people were divided into three groups to participate in the battle, and after this group of 20,000 people shot ten arrows, they sat down on the spot to rest and recover their strength, and replaced them with another group of 20,000 people who were preparing for battle, and continued to obey the instructions of the guide, and shot armor-piercing cones at the Yuan army under the city.

The preparation for the Song army this time was also very well prepared, and all the longbows were newly adjusted, which reduced the strength of the open bow, which was equivalent to reducing the longbow from one and a half stones to one stone. Because the arrow is shot from the top of the city, the requirements for the shooting distance are not strict, but it highlights the piercing ability of the armor-piercing cone relying on its own gravity, as long as the covering shot can kill and injure the Yuan soldiers under the city.

"Prime Minister, Prime Minister, the four cannons were all hit by the Song Army's shells, and they were damaged to varying degrees, and there was no way to open the artillery."

Bo Yan's heart trembled, and then asked, "Then there is still a 10,000-pound cannon that is okay?" Hurry up and fire a cannon at Guangzhou City to strengthen the prestige of our army, and go and give the order! ”

"Prime Minister, it's the one that broke at the beginning, and it's still a few hundred steps away from the scheduled gun emplacement......

"Go and fire, I don't care where it is, I just fire, fire, fire, fire, do you hear me? Hurry up and fire the cannon......" Boyan shouted loudly, his voice was a little hysterical and crazy, Boyan, who had always acted cautiously and steadily, was like an enraged beast, not only losing control of the battle situation, but also losing control of himself.

Ah Shu leaned on the wooden pillar of the building car, his expression was lonely and his eyes were in a daze, the guards around him had been killed and wounded, and he could only hide from the arrows when he hid here, and if it was a cannonball explosion, he could only ask for more blessings.

"Boom!"

The earth seemed to tremble, and the faces of the dozens of Yuan soldiers who carried the chariot with their arms turned pale in an instant, and the huge force of the shock almost tore off their arms, and these two arms were lucky if they were not crippled.

The flames that erupted from the muzzle of the cannon were like substance, and the black solid iron bullets that left the chamber flew towards the city of Guangzhou with the momentum of wind and thunder.