Chapter 270: Provocation

Zhao Tianyou observed the details at the head of the city, and already felt that the overall situation of this battle had been decided, but when the soldiers under the city were damaged to a certain extent, they would lose control over the grassroots soldiers.

In a life-and-death war, if a tough and morale-strong army can hold out until the battle is seventy percent lost, it will lose the ability to attack, of course, this is also the probability of a draw in the textbook, and it is not impossible for a team to fight to the last person.

In the previous battles of the Song army, when fighting a tough battle with the Yuan soldiers, even thirty percent of the battle losses could not be maintained, and the entire team would begin to rout, and the rest would be chased and killed by the Yuan soldiers. Therefore, the Song army has always had no good way to sprint the Yuan soldiers' heavy cavalry, as long as they are broken through the formation, they are basically left to escape.

The elite army commanded by Ali Hague is the elite unit of the Mongolian cavalry, and the trump card of the whole structure is not mixed with any water, and all the soldiers are brothers of the same clan in the eight major tribes, and the combat ability of the small team is amazing, which can be said to be the cornerstone of Kublai Khan's conquest.

But now, like a swarm of big-headed flies, crashing aimlessly and uselessly, although the direction is not wrong, but it is only covered by rows of arrows at the head of the city, and it will immediately turn into a corpse lying on the ground.

The same scene played out in different places, and Ali Hague's eyes were on fire when he watched the one-sided killing, but there were very few places where he could lift the ladder to the city wall, and it was almost piled up with corpses.

Behind the pile of broken siege equipment, they spontaneously formed a team of longbowmen, gathered together soldiers with strong arm strength and could shoot from a distance, and launched a counterattack against the Song army in the city under cover.

However, the strength of this counterattack was too weak to suppress the attack at the head of the city, and could only pose a small threat to the Song army, and once the strength of the organization became stronger, it would immediately attract a concentrated bombardment of artillery shells, turning into lying corpses and wounded soldiers.

The tragic battle line stretched for several miles, and the first batch of tens of thousands of soldiers led by Ah Shu to attack were mostly turned into corpses that fell to the ground, and the smarter ones looked for a place to hide and pretend to be dead, but there was no way to predict the direction where the Song army's shells would fall, and many people were turning into real dead corpses by the shells when they were pretending to be dead bodies.

Ali Hague's elite troops, the battle damage has reached 20%, plus the initial cannon fodder troops, outside the city in the past half a day of fierce fighting, more than 50,000 people have changed their identities. The distance from the soldier to the corpse is so close, so direct and cruel, and the price of the Song army is not small, the fast-depleting ammunition is like pouring silver out, and all it costs is money.

Zhao Tianyou is still a little uneasy about Dongcheng in his heart, and another reason is that the culprit of Tingzhou, Dong Wenbing's blood debt has been recovered, and there is also a slip through the net is Suo Duo who led troops outside Dongcheng, Zhao Tianyou doesn't want to miss him.

Suo Duo outside the city was still hesitating, and the constant sound of artillery from the battlefield in Beicheng knocked on his heart one by one, he was not a person who liked to be in the limelight, and he liked to fight with a knife and a knife by himself. Strictly speaking, he is not suitable to be a leading general, at most he is almost the same as a vanguard officer who rushes forward, and he is much worse than Dong Wenbing in terms of understanding and application of tactics.

However, because of his character, after taking Zhangzhou again, Dong Wenbing's status has risen sharply and has jumped to his head, but he is not jealous but faces it easily, it is a lot of brain-using things that are now handed over to Dong Wenbing, and he ends up relaxed and happy.

Today was the first time he had disobeyed Boyan's order, and he had seen with his own eyes the soldiers who had returned to the camp after Dong Wenbing's army led the army to attack the city, and the faces of each of them were boundless despair.

So he hesitated, from the time he received the order, he hesitated, it was not that he was afraid of death, but that he was unwilling to face the artillery of the Song army, and he was unwilling to let these soldiers around him rush up and be torn to pieces by the cannons.

"General Zhao is here, it's so enjoyable to fight over there, tell me about it, how many Yuan soldiers are attacking the city!"

Ling Zhen was already uncomfortable, and when he saw Zhao Tianyou coming from Beicheng, it must mean that the overall situation had been decided, and he was very eager to know the specific results.

"Why are you in a hurry, it will take a long time to fight well, there are still many people in the Yuan soldiers, they won't know how to retreat if they don't die to a certain extent, what's going on on your side? The Yuan soldiers below haven't moved? ”

"Yes, look at that Suoduo's general flag, he has been dangling two miles away, and his grandmother's just doesn't dare to come forward! I can't help but want to go out and meet him for a while. ”

Ling Zhen blushed a little after speaking, Zhao Tianyou wholeheartedly helped him form a cavalry, from horses to weapons and equipment, but until now there has been no big achievements, which is a bit embarrassing to say.

"No, our cavalry should practice with real swords and guns, but isn't it stupid to go out and fight with him now? Why didn't he come, it's because our cannon is powerful, he is so scared that he doesn't dare to come forward, if you go out of the city to find him, wouldn't you be stupider than him? ”

Zhao Tianyou smiled and patted Ling Zhen's shoulder, then squatted behind a cannon, and said to the somewhat nervous artillery commander: "How far can you shoot with this cannon?" Shoot at the crowd of Yuan soldiers, let them see the blood, and give them some courage. ”

"It's more than three miles, Battalion Commander Liu has been warning us, let's expose the true range as little as possible, otherwise these soldiers won't dare to show their heads!"

"It's okay, this time you are following my orders, and I will tell your battalion commander to go back, he can rest assured that he can't punish you. Come on, turn the muzzle up a scale, yes, yes, give me and I'll ignite! ”

"Boom!"

With a crisp cannon sound, the cannonball departed from the chamber, and the body of the bullet may have been stained with some gunpowder, and with a puff of white smoke it drew an arc and fell towards the crowd of Sodo's team.

At the head of the city, I saw a sudden confusion among the cavalry in the distance, and then the sound of fire and artillery came.

"Boom!"

A cloud of gunpowder rose up, three horses fell within a radius of a few feet, and five riders were seriously injured and bleeding profusely, and in this situation, the injury was basically sentenced to death. First of all, the wound of the cannonball is not like a sword, the wound is neat and easy to deal with with medicine, and the wounds caused by shrenchel are extremely deep and irregular.

Sodo gritted his teeth, but the anger on his face was nowhere to strike.

He had no 10,000-pound cannons, no siege chariots, only a few rudimentary ladders, and wooden bunkers to build fortifications under the city. But this cannon that can't resist the Song army, he knows it very well in his heart, Dong Wenbing's can't carry a few cannons made of logs, let alone nailing him together at will.

Sodor responded to the city's provocation.

"Everybody's on orders! Two hundred steps forward! ”