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Chapter 239: Offensive and Defensive Battle

More than 200 explosions sounded one after another, and gunpowder smoke rose everywhere at the front of the Yuan army's ranks, and the entire advancing team was cut off by Qi Brush. The collapsed building car was smashed by arrows, and the people and horses who were killed and injured were everywhere, especially the wounded war horses began to run in all directions, which greatly affected the forward team of the Yuan army advancing behind.

The siege equipment that fell to the ground blocked the road, and the ranks behind began to disperse, bypassing the broken siege equipment, and the soldiers began to rush forward with the chariot at an accelerated pace, ready to rely on the superiority of numbers, and first rush to the place close to the city wall to establish a defensive line.

As the second round of artillery rang out, the carriage that rushed to the front was overturned, the stumps and broken arms of the Yuan soldiers flew all over the sky, and the frightened horses fled uncontrollably to both sides.

Si Qinbari saw that it was not good, and immediately began to order the rear team to slow down, but he did not expect that the losses of several rounds of artillery would be so serious, and the dense number of troops and horses became a fatal weakness, and every shell could play the greatest role, killing and wounding countless Yuan troops.

"Change formations, long snakes, line up in columns to quickly pass through the open space, and establish a strong defense line under the city!"

After the order was delivered, the teams that had not yet been affected by the artillery fire hurriedly adjusted their formation, adjusted the dense ranks into columns all the way, and dodged the distance between the teams, so as to reduce the killing range of the Song army's shells at the head of the city.

The long-range weapons were hundreds of catapults, many of which were damaged by shells in the first round of shelling, but in the desperate advance of many of the troops, some of the intact catapults approached the city walls.

"Don't fight, don't fight!" Liu Changhai looked carefully at the head of the city, the catapult was pushed over, but most of the carriages pulling stones had already turned over on the road, or the horses were frightened, and they didn't know where to run away with a cart of stones.

Isn't a catapult without stones a waste, and behind each catapult, there are one or two hundred soldiers pushing it, acting as a power and hiding to avoid being killed by the cannons at the head of the city.

These catapults built by the Yuan soldiers were huge, capable of throwing 100 catties of boulders at a distance of 150 paces, and were the siege weapons that they had always relied on, and they had broken countless city gates and broken the strong walls of the Song army.

Liu Changhai roared: "Arrange a group of cannons, specifically keep an eye on these catapults approaching, enter the range of one hundred and fifty steps, and fire thunderbolts with ballistas." I remember that there were vehicles and people who were carrying stones, but as soon as the truck carrying stones arrived safely, I was able to smash it with a shot. ”

As long as the catapult is not damaged, it will continue to attract soldiers to come over, whether it is personnel or horse-drawn carts transporting stones, they will become live targets in front of the thunderbolt cannon.

In order to better eliminate the Yuan soldiers, Liu Changhai could attract thousands of people with a catapult, and at the same time, it was also a more effective use of the role of thunderbolts. Since there were more and more gun emplacements on the city, the hundreds of ballistae that had been erected in the past were of less and less use, because of their short range and insufficient power, and they were about to be snubbed by the soldiers of the firearms battalion.

In this way, these hundreds of ballistae came in handy, and it was simply too suitable for it to destroy the infantry at a fixed point, and with a small number of cannons, it could completely control the catapult.

The advantage in numbers, in addition to making the opponent's shells more efficient, also has a greater effect, after lining up in a column, it seems that there are endless cavalry charging forward. The cavalry accelerated their horses and sprinted, rushing to the bottom of the city wall from a distance of about a mile, but it was only a few breaths of time, and in the face of the cannonballs of the Song army, these columns began the largest cavalry assault in history.

Not only the number of cavalry, but also the order to never stop moving forward, so that the 150,000 cavalry, which was divided into three routes, began their final mission.

Shells kept firing from the city, and after rushing into the team and killing several people, they fell to the ground and exploded, and more than a dozen horsemen around them fell from their horses one after another. The power of this cannon made the team break down, but the cavalry followed without fear, and continued to rush forward with their heads down, not that they were not afraid of death, but that they would die when they turned back, and they could only rush forward to win the life of that line.

At this time, the rate of fire of the cannons at the head of the city began to be a little unable to keep up, and gradually more and more Yuan soldiers rushed to within a hundred steps of the city, and most of them stopped their horses and began to shoot arrows, and began to shoot at the Song army at the head of the city without the slightest protection.

However, this situation only lasted for a short time, and the tens of thousands of city guards were already hungry and thirsty, watching the brothers of the firearms battalion go on a killing spree, their hearts and hands were almost difficult to suppress, and they were looking forward to the cavalry of the Yuan army to attack within a hundred steps.

"Weng, Weng!"

Thousands of arrows were thrown down from the city, and the Yuan soldiers who had just rushed to the city desperately were black in front of their eyes, and the dense arrows blocked the sunlight, and they shot the first wave of Yuan soldiers into hedgehogs in just an instant.

"Hiss......"

Why are Song Jun's bows and arrows so powerful? Si Qinbari was observing the military situation from afar, and the horses and soldiers who rushed over had good cowhide armor to protect themselves, and the ordinary arrows of the Song army could not shoot armor, let alone shoot dead.

But today, after a rain of arrows in the city, the men and horses who rushed over were small trees that were cut down with a knife, and they all fell in response, and not even one of them stood up and struggled. Song Jun's archery skills and the sharpness of his arrows could not be more familiar with it in his heart, how could it be so powerful?

But after thinking about it, he understood that the Song army could drum up a cannonball that killed many people with a cannonball, and the new style of bow and arrow was not a trivial matter. But if this situation continues, the situation is not very good, the Yuan army lacks effective weapons in their hands, and although some of those catapults are in place, why can't they throw a stone?

Ah Shu stood on the mound in the distance and watched the battle, a little far away, and he couldn't see what was happening under the city very clearly, and he had been wondering in his heart why the catapult couldn't participate in the battle for a long time.

"My lord, the reason is that the carriage transporting the stones is not with the catapult, and the soldiers under the catapult can't get the stones and have no way to launch them."

Ah Shuyi frowned and said, "A bunch of fools, why haven't such trivial things been done well?" There are so many horse-drawn carts full of stones, continue to send them, and I want to see the catapults smash the walls of Canton. ”

Although the battle situation under the city was tense, the Song army on the city wall was very neat and did not panic at all. The city is full of living and dead, running and crawling Yuan soldiers, wounded and fallen Yuan soldiers, as long as you bend your bow and shoot arrows, you will definitely hit an unlucky guy.