Chapter 266: Ladder Shooting

The huge gun carriage was moving with difficulty, made of a combination of steel and thick hardwood, and in front of it were not horses, but four sturdy bulls, and a dozen or so hard laborers pushing the cart at any time, for fear that the heavy gun carriage would sink into the soft earth.

In front of the artillery carriage were hundreds of cavalrymen holding banners, flying high with flags of various colors, covering the huge artillery carriage behind them, hoping to use this trick to conceal the movement of the artillery carriage and avoid being discovered by the Song army at the head of the city too early.

In order to protect these cannons from reaching the designated gun position safely, Boyan Ke spent a lot of thought, in addition to using the banner team to cover up the tracks, there was also the feint attack of the previous team of the meat shield. But now the meat shield that feints to consume cannonballs has actually fled, forcing Boyan to come up with a second set of plans, just to satisfy Ah Shu, who is eager to lead the troops.

"Ah Shu obeyed the order and ordered you to lead 30,000 cavalry to drive the second batch of 10,000 meat shields to the battlefield, and demanded that you must attack the city, set up a bunker to command, and use a longbow to suppress the cannons of the Song army at the head of the city."

Ah Shu stepped forward and lowered his body, and shouted loudly: "Obey!" ”

Then he turned around and aggressively ordered the generals, ready to press the second wave of meat shields into battle, complete the tasks that the first meat shield did not complete, attract the fire of the artillery and the attention of the Song army, and let the artillery moving in the rear enter the position safely.

Seeing the marching formation under the city, Zhao Tianyou, who was puzzled, looked into the distance, saw the banners that were displayed one by one, and the horse team that was slowly moving was a little pretentious, and after a little thought, he knew that it was the team covering the movement of the giant cannon.

"Changhai, do you see the flag in the distance? Well, now you can't see clearly, so first give an order and adjust the aiming direction of the large-caliber Hongyi cannon. After they get into range, shoot a few shots to detect the impact point, and I'll show you the way at any time. ”

"Obey the general, I'll adjust it right away!"

Liu Changhai memorized the general direction, and personally commanded the cannon one by one, adjusting the aiming direction and angle, in order to be able to enter the firing state more quickly for a while.

At this time, Ah Shu personally led 30,000 cavalry, driving 10,000 hard laborers holding wooden shields and pushing cloud ladders and wooden buildings, they were really on the same level as livestock in the eyes of the Yuan soldiers, and they couldn't catch up with the war horses under their crotches.

The team marched towards the city wall very quickly, which was the effect of Ah Shu personally beheading three laborers in a row just now, and telling these laborers with gushing blood that they might die if they walked forward for a while, and if they didn't rush forward, they would die immediately.

This time there was a lot of time, the wooden shield ladder and the building car were used for siege, Liu Changhai would not let these people approach safely no matter what, just crossed the boundary of the fortifications a mile away, and more than two hundred shells smashed into the moving team with a roar.

These shells are not aimed at people, but those siege equipment that are moving, there is no ladder building car, that is, the cavalry of the Yuan army rushed to the bottom of the city, and they can only be beaten against the city wall more than six zhang high, and the feather arrows shot from the bottom to the top will be half discounted in power.

Dense artillery rang out in a row, and the hard laborers fell down in patches, the horses pulling the carts were killed and wounded, and the frightened carriages scattered and fled with long ladders, and it was difficult to get up again after the tall carts fell.

"Order, order the team of the cannons to speed up and seize the time to take position. Ali Hague obeyed the order, once the artillery fire at the head of the Song army was suppressed, you personally led an army of 100,000 to attack immediately and launched an endless attack.

Our artillery mainly attacked the city gate of Guangzhou, if we could smash through the city tower, or smash the city gate drawbridge, it would be better to facilitate our cavalry to rush into Guangzhou and take down the entire city in one fell swoop.

Hehe, at that time, Wen Tianxiang, Wen Tianxiang, don't blame me for being ruthless and killing you in Guangzhou City. ”

"Yes! Prime Minister, the 10,000-pound cannon is brave and invincible, and he will definitely be able to destroy the wall of the Song army with one shot. Haha, the Song dogs have washed their necks and are waiting for our warriors to cut off your heads. ”

Ali Hague laughed wildly and led the order, the 100,000 elite cavalry he led was the real main force of today's siege. In yesterday's mobilization order, Boyan had already issued an instruction, if he did not rush into the city of Guangzhou, then he had already died under the city of Guangzhou, and the lives of the 100,000 people were exchanged for the key to open the gate of Guangzhou.

After a volley of cannons, the uninjured carriage rushed forward as if it were crazy, and rushed to the bottom of the city wall with all its might.

Ah Shu saw that the opportunity had come at the back of the team, and the scimitar in his hand shouted loudly.

"Chong, warriors, rush to the head of Guangzhou City, kill all the Song dogs, woo Chong!"

Thirty thousand war horses began to accelerate, chasing the forward carriage and rushing towards the city wall, and at this time, the thousands of hard laborers caught in the middle could not advance or retreat, and they were rushed by tens of thousands of war horses, and they could no longer see anyone who could stand up.

The cannon of the Song army sounded a round, and the time of clearing the new charge in the middle has been counted many times by the Yuan army, and the time is roughly guessed. Otherwise, Ah Shu would not have led the army to rush without scruples, hoping that before the cannon was refired, it had already rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and at that time, it was difficult for the cannon to pose a threat because of the angle.

Ah Shu's war horse also began to speed up, and the forty or fifty personal guards around him were deliberately separated into an encirclement, protecting him inside and outside in the middle, for fear that he would be injured by shrapnel or arrows.

The fuses of the two hundred sub-cannons had been lit, and the gunners who fired them had already dodged away, watching as a red line of sneering and burning disappeared into the tail of the mother cannon.

"Knock knock!"

More than fifty shells flew in front of the Yuan army's horse, and the roaring explosion made the whole team take a look, why did they fire so quickly? This time the interval is a bit short, is it like the time when the enemy was lured, and the shelling will start without gaps?

Before they could react, the second wave of more than fifty shells arrived, just in time to meet the cavalry that had just rushed over, and after a shocking explosion, the corpses and wounded horses on the ground were mixed into a pile, and the blood was so bloody that people trembled.

The surging horse team continued to speed up, and as long as the fallen men and horses never had a chance to stand up, but the war horses that stepped on their bodies immediately met the third wave of cannonballs.

Two hundred rapid-fire cannons, Liu Changhai divided them into four groups, and fired them separately according to the slight time difference, that is, in the wave of cavalry, causing the greatest and most ruthless damage. After four rounds, the front end of the entire cavalry team was cut off a large piece, and the front was full of people and horses with incomplete limbs, completely suppressing the offensive of the Yuan cavalry.

Two soldiers with long-handled wooden brushes lay in the bunker under the barrel of the cannon, as they were the first step in cleaning up the debris of the chamber after the shot. Therefore, the soldiers at this post had cotton in their ears and endured the loud sound of the cannon with their mouths open, just to quickly jump up and clean the chamber.

The fuse of the fifth round of the mother cannon had been lit, and the cavalry of the Yuan army, two hundred paces away from the city, had already opened their mouths wide and did not know what to do.