Chapter 311: Ten Thousand Jin Cannon

There is abundant grain and grass in Xiangyang City, and there is a continuous flow of water from the Han River around the city, and it is impossible to hurt the muscles and bones of Boyan in the city only by relying on the Song army's drill-style attack. () The only thing is that he can't fight back against the pressure of the Song army, which makes Boyan scratch his heart and lie still, and as time goes by, his own prestige in the Yuan army is also slowly declining, and his helpless performance makes many of his subordinates dissatisfied.

Boyan has relied on his prestige for many years to suppress the uneasy mood in Xiangyang City, but the correspondence with Fancheng shows that the Yuan soldiers in Fancheng on the other side have lost confidence in holding the city.

It has been more than two months since the Song army besieged Xiangyang, but the far north has not sent a strong cavalry corps to support and help them solve the current predicament.

The Song army was not besieged on all sides, and the Yuan army in the city could open the outside of the city at any time as long as they wanted to go, put down the drawbridge, beat the horses, and galloped wildly, and fled along the western front in the direction where there were no Song Dynasty troops. However, where to flee and whether there will be an ambush and sniper by the Song army is an unknown, and the risks taken are quite huge.

But it was such a slim opportunity, and there were also generals of the Yuan army who were in their hearts, but the plan was not thorough enough, and it was discovered by people from another tribe before it was implemented, and then the soldiers guarding the two city gates were replaced overnight, and the crisis was resolved invisibly.

The plan was destroyed, and naturally it was a bond, but fortunately in the city, the strength of these two generals was not absolutely strong, so they could only compete secretly, and no one wanted to turn their faces directly on the table.

The disharmony in Fancheng Boyan naturally attaches great importance to it, but it is impossible to transfer troops on a large scale at this time, so it is not deliberately to give the Song army a chance, so he sent an old general with some prestige to Fancheng to go to the town.

The timing is always so coincidental, just in Fancheng, the veteran general gathered several tribal generals together, ready to comfort each other at the wine table, and reconcile and suppress the contradictions between the two parties by taking advantage of the safety of the overall situation.

"Report to the general, the Song army outside the city lined up to reorganize the army, as if they were going to attack the city!"

As soon as the food and wine were arranged, the soldiers at the head of the city came to report, but this situation would happen every two days, and several of the generals present did not pay too much attention to it.

"Okay, order the soldiers on duty in the city to guard against the shells of the Song army, the focus is to protect their own safety, and not to increase casualties!"

"Yes!"

The herald turned to leave, and the banquet on the table began.

"Generals, come and pour wine, pour wine!"

Several major generals in Fancheng surrounded them, pushed their cups and drank them, there was no siege alarm of the Song army outside the city today, and when the wine passed three rounds and the dishes were five flavors, there were suddenly several deafening loud noises.

"Ah, what's wrong? Could it be that the Song army opened fire again! ”

"Hey, no, why is it so loud today!"

"It's not good, hurry up and take a look at the city, don't have any accidents!"

These generals threw down their wine glasses and hurried to the city wall, and on the way they met the herald who was coming to deliver the news.

"General, general, the Song army has launched several giant cannons, the wall of the first layer of the acropolis has been blown up, and now the second layer is also in danger, the power of the Song army's cannonballs is too great!"

Before several generals could react, there were a few more cannons outside the city, and after the booming explosion, smoke and dust rose several feet high on the top of the city, and the sound of soldiers shouting and shouting everywhere was the Song army had broken through the second acropolis.

When these generals climbed the main wall, they were all shocked and frightened, the wide wall had collapsed for a long time, and the portals of the two acropolises had collapsed, leaving only a pile of ruins in their place.

"Hurry up, gather the troops of the whole city, come together to defend this gap, and drive the Song army out!"

"Hurry up and beat the drum to give an order, and ask Xiangyang for help!"

The Song soldiers did not rush forward, but after occupying the first layer of the acropolis, they established a defensive line along the well-preserved fortifications, and only defended the attack of the Yuan soldiers on the second layer of the acropolis, until the first layer was fully controlled, and then moved forward to attack the second layer of the acropolis.

After the two acropolis were blown up, the passage for the Yuan army to move freely was gone, and under the encroachment of the Song army's strong wall and clear field, the second layer of the acropolis would soon be occupied by the Song army, of course, this was only within a few hundred steps of the north city gate.

The five 10,000-jin cannons that revealed their true faces were still forged by Boyan's painstaking efforts, but at this moment, they opened fire outside Fancheng, which not only blew up the city wall, but also shattered the fragile military heart of the Yuan army.

When arranging the defensive task on the northern city, the general who was originally like the one who escaped from the west city quietly left to gather the soldiers of his own clan, and his intention naturally did not need to be clearly stated, he must have wanted to retreat and escape from this mortal Fancheng.

Due to the topography of the Song army and the weight of the armor-piercing cone itself, it was unwise for the archers of the Song army to shoot against the Yuan army, which had an advantageous terrain, and they all held a shield in their left hand and an iron-clad thunder in their right hand. Although it does not have an advantage in range, the power of gunpowder weapons can not be resisted by archers, as long as a wave of thunder ignited is thrown up, it will inevitably cause a large number of casualties.

The iron-clad thunderbolts were more efficient than artillery shells at this time, they rolled freely and exploded everywhere, those Yuan soldiers who were hiding in corners and bunkers, thought that they could avoid the bombardment of artillery shells and be safe, but they didn't expect that the Song army would have this more flexible weapon.

The soldiers in Fancheng were drawn from other garrisons and supported in the direction of the north city gate, and at this time, the killing sound on the west city gate was together, and in the mixed shouting and screaming, the city gate was ready to open the drawbridge and the iron cable was cut off.

Six or seven thousand cavalry roared, rushed out along the west gate, completely ignoring the situation that the northern city was fighting desperately, and in the stunned eyes of the other Yuan troops, they beat the horses and drove away, leaving only a puff of smoke and dust.

"I'm so angry, these people should all be killed, and when I report to the prime minister, all their tribes will be exterminated."

The old general who had just been sent was angry and angry, and at this time he left the city, and he actually opened the gate of the west city and the two acropolises, fortunately there was no Song army outside the city to attack, otherwise he would not have entered the city without much effort.

Anxiety, restlessness, fear, and other emotions were contagious among the soldiers of the Yuan army, and such deserters were incomprehensible in the past, because according to the rules of the Yuan army, if a person became a soldier, his whole family would be spurned. And a team flees the battlefield en masse, in addition to the leading general who wants to be executed, the other soldiers who follow will also be implicated, and in an event like today, their entire tribe will be exterminated by the entire clan.

The open gate, a way to leave, a glimmer of hope flashed in the eyes of many people, and many people's horses began to move, and the horses' hooves trampled on the spot, revealing the uneasy mood of the owner.

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