Chapter 334: Fierce Battle

The cannonball did not fall on the distant Yuan soldiers according to Qu Liu's wishes, but flew over their heads, hitting a tree from afar, and then exploded with a bang, blowing the tree the thickness of a small arm to the ground. （）

Several artillery commanders in the distance cast puzzled glances, the riders had already waved the flag just now, waiting for the shield soldiers of the Yuan army to approach and shoot, didn't Qu Liu see it? Seeing that Qu Liu's gun position did not continue to move, people's attention continued to be focused on the outside of the city, and regarded this shelling as a misfire or an accident.

Perhaps it was Qu Liu's consciousness that transcended the distance and spread to the thousands of struggling people, and some people began to turn their heads and run wildly, running in the direction of Bazhou City, even if they were firing deadly shells at them just now.

The shield bearers were close in all directions, and they were already three or four hundred steps away from the city wall, and the ordinary people who were driven away by them had already wondered, and they all turned and ran forward, hoping to get close to the city wall of Bazhou to increase their chances of survival.

At a distance of five hundred, four hundred, and three hundred steps, these strong shieldmen began to raise the shields in their hands, and they didn't know why the cannons at the head of the city stopped roaring, but as the distance approached, the sense of crisis and oppression from the head of the city became stronger and stronger.

Zhao Tianyou had only a few heralds around him, and all the experienced officers and generals were scattered to command the defense on the four city walls, and he also attached great importance to the direct confrontation with Kublai Khan this time. The difference in the number of troops is several times, the walls are low and the moat is not much water, and if there is no artillery as the main defensive weapon, this war can directly admit defeat.

Zhao Tianyou is nervous about the next battle, and it is also a rare test for the Song army in Bazhou City, it may be said that the test is a bit exaggerated, because they will immediately realize that the gap in weapons cannot be filled by numbers, even in front of such a simple and thin city fortification.

Controlling the battle line within 300 paces can give full play to the maximum power of the cannonballs, and the archers with a range of 150 paces can rely on the thrown iron-shelled thunderbolts to form a cross-covered firepower network, which can cause large-scale damage to the concentrated forces of the Yuan army.

This is not that Zhao Tianyou has doubts about his own strength, but an assessment of the strength of the Yuan army, which has an absolute advantage in numbers, and it depends on the actual results on the battlefield, and then adjusts the tactical means.

"Boom!"

A Hongyi cannon adjusted to the angle of close firing spewed out tongues of fire, and fired a cannonball at the shield soldiers of the Yuan army who were already approaching, hitting the front of one of the shields. Huge impact

Shattered the tough wicker, then unstoppably shattered the shield completely, and the soldier holding the shield was shocked to death by the tremendous force, and then turned into a mess of rotten flesh.

"Boom!"

The shells exploded violently, impacting several soldiers beside him, and sharp shrapnel scattered all over the sky, splashing onto the shield, and cutting countless tough wicker strips with a click.

Several wounded shield soldiers got up, looked at their fallen companions in front of them, and then touched their bodies, only a little wound on their legs and feet, and the vital parts were covered by shields and protected, and they were not fatally injured.

It must be said that this wide and tough shield played a big role, this shell killed only three people and seriously injured two soldiers, and the soldiers around the center of the explosion, mostly hiding behind the shields, were only shocked by the shock wave.

"Haha, we're not dead! Thanks to the shield, thanks to the shield! ”

A sense of joy of rebirth appeared on the faces of these shield soldiers, and they held up their shields with shrapnel in them high, showing their companions the results of the explosion they had just experienced, and the excitement and joy and rebuilt confidence made the dozen shield soldiers smile all over their faces.

"Stupid! It's time for you to cry in a moment! Die with your broken shields! ”

Zhao Tianyou saw it really at the head of the city, nodded to the heralds beside him, and several young soldiers ran out quickly, transmitting the signal of war to various positions.

The impact point of the second Hongyi cannon, just next to the explosion just now, the team of more than a dozen shield soldiers who were happy was once again shrouded in the smoke of the explosion, I don't know if they were still so lucky, using shields to protect their bodies at critical moments.

When the smoke and dust cleared, almost all of the people who were very happy just now were lying on the ground, maybe someone relied on the shield to avoid death, but the damage suffered by the explosion was multifaceted, and the shield could really play a limited role.

When an artillery shell explodes, the angle of shrapnel is uncontrollable, almost 360 degrees can be scattered, holding a shield you can only protect against shrapnel from the front, but now on the battlefield, in the intensive bombardment that is about to begin, I am afraid that you will blow you out if you get into the soil.

Without any hesitation, all the sub-cannons on the city wall began to fire with a roar, and one after another the cannonballs drilled into the crowd of the Yuan army, and the explosion left a mess. The effect of these shields cannot be concealed, and the lethal effect of the Song army's shells has been canceled out a lot, and it can almost reduce the results of the battle by three or four percent, which is definitely not a small number.

When the first row of shield soldiers was blown away, they were immediately filled with new soldiers and new shields, and the Yuan soldiers braved the bombardment of the cannons at the head of the city and continued to line up close to the city wall, which was the advantage of numbers.

No matter how awesome you are, no matter how powerful your artillery is, you can't kill all my soldiers before they get close to the city wall, this is the reason why Kublai Khan launched a strong attack today, and it is also the confidence to support his preparation to annihilate the Bazhou team no matter what the cost.

The firing frequency of the Song army's artillery began to accelerate, constantly shooting at the Yuan army's ranks, at this time, the shield soldiers were no longer in a row, but groups holding shields, braving the artillery fire at the head of the city and moving slowly.

The continuous explosion of cannonballs blew a gap in the middle of their ranks, but soon there were people rushing up from behind to fill them, and although the speed of approaching the city wall was slow, no matter how much the Song army bombarded, they did not stop their advance.

Zhao Tianyou's eyes looked at the trench under the city, and there were people constantly swimming across the river that was not deep, crawling to the foot of Bazhou City, leaning against the wall and trembling.

"I hope you don't blame me, in order for the Yuan army not to use this kind of meat shield tactics in the future, and take the initiative to shoot you, this reason is not too sufficient. But it is also the only way I can choose, I hope you can continue to persevere under the walls, in order to be able to continue to live, persevere, persevere! ”

Zhao Tianyou muttered to himself, his voice was so low that even he couldn't hear it clearly, it wasn't that he had no choice, it wasn't that there was no way, but that he didn't want to do that.

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