A number of lookout cars with high platforms appeared behind the crowd of the Song army who had just stood still. Since the hot air balloon that can carry people has not yet appeared, the lookout on the battlefield now is one on the mountain, the second on the upstairs, and the third on the lookout car.

There is no mountain to go up on the side of the Song army, but there are a few buildings, but it is a little closer to the front of the Zhou army, and it is easy to be bombarded by the other party with long artillery, so the important generals dare not go up. Therefore, looking at the car has become their first choice.

Although there is also a risk of shelling, this thing is much smaller than a house and is not very easy to hit. And there are often many lookout cars on the battlefield, and no one knows where the real big guys are?

Zhao Liang, who was dressed in gray, boarded one of the lookout cars, and went up quietly, but he didn't dare to hug him with a handsome flag. That will definitely attract shelling!

Raising the binoculars, General Zhao Liang first glanced at his own front, and now advanced forward to the front near the three courtyards for 10 miles. It is not a straight line, because the three courtyards are not in a straight line, but are roughly arranged in a zigzag shape. One of the grain depots is in the protrusion of the zigzag.

Because the three courtyards are based on the layout of the characters, the front of the two Song Dynasty coalition forces has also formed the layout of the characters. Among them, there were three whole divisions in the salient, which seemed to form the main direction of the campaign assault. The other two compounds were surrounded by only one division. However, the second formation of the coalition forces was arranged in a straight line.

Looking at Zhao Liangjiang's vision, there was a sea of gray in front of him, and only a piece of blue in the right rear.

Wearing gray military uniforms are the infantry of the Western Song Dynasty, their lines are neatly arranged, the military flags are unfurled, and the sunlight reflected by the snowy bayonets is constantly flickering, which makes people shudder.

As for the blue sea of soldiers, it is the elite of the Eastern Song Dynasty. It is also a jungle of bayonets, standing still in the sun. The visual effect conveyed is by no means under its own "gray army".

General Zhao Liang turned his gaze to the enemy again.

The Zhou army put on a defensive formation. Taking advantage of the battle for the three courtyards, they urgently dug trenches, piled up breastworks with sandbags, and built artillery forts.

Now their earthy yellow infantry crouched behind the breastwork, and there was no array to be seen.

However, looking at the speed at which they dig holes and build fortifications, you can imagine how well they trained. Anyway, the infantry of the Western Song Dynasty was no match for these Zhou officers and soldiers in terms of construction.

Oh, not only is the construction ability of the soldiers inferior to others, but even the entire Western Song Dynasty country is not good at this aspect.

It has been more than 200 years since the westward migration, are there any magnificent buildings and cities worthy of praise in the Western Song Dynasty? There is only one Xiangyang Mansion City that looks a little imposing, and that was built by Pan Xiao'an when the two Song Dynasty were not divided!

On the other hand, in the Great Zhou, I don't know how many magnificent buildings have been built in the past 200 years. Even the "miracle project" of the railway has been built for hundreds of miles!

Compared with capital construction, the Western Song Dynasty and the two neighbors, the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou, cannot be compared at all!

The infrastructure of the Great Zhou is first-class, and the craftsmanship of digging trenches and repairing artillery forts is naturally not far behind.

General Zhao Liang is a famous general who has been in military textbooks, and at a glance, he knows that the chest wall and fortifications of the Zhou army are not easy to break through.

However, General Zhao Liang is still very confident in his own soldiers. Although the enemy's defense is good, it is impossible to block the elite soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty. After all, he prepared 10 divisions of infantry, with a total of 1340,000 people, which was enough to break through the enemy's defenses.

Now the question is just how much do you have to pay? After paying those costs, can his army continue to advance towards Kaifeng Mansion?

General Zhao Liang turned his head and asked his own Ji Yi Changzong Yizhi: "Where is the follow-up troops?" ”

Of course, he would not believe that with 210,000 allied troops, he could take Kaifeng Mansion and force the Great Zhou to sue for peace.

Therefore, while launching a surprise attack, it also repeatedly urged the follow-up troops to be deployed. He estimated that the little force he had at hand would be almost exhausted if he could break through to the area around Yingchang Mansion.

If you want to open the feudal mansion in one go, you must get the follow-up 190,000 troops!

In addition, the two corps deployed in Shaanzhou and Huaixi (one of which belonged to the Eastern Song Dynasty) should also launch an attack as soon as possible to contain the forces of the Zhou state.

Only in this way can General Zhao Liang have the certainty of defeating the main force of the Great Zhou Republican Army near Kaifeng Mansion.

As long as this goal is achieved, the Great Zhou Republic can only sue for peace...... It's not that Kaifeng Mansion is very important to the current Zhou State, and the current Kaifeng Mansion is just a medium-sized city.

But there is a large section of the Yellow River dam in Kaifeng Prefecture, which is the real thing!

In the past 200 years, the water conservancy engineers of the Great Zhou Republic have maintained the waterways of the Yellow River, the canal and the Huai River, and there has not been a large-scale flooding.

However, the problem of sediment accumulation in the Yellow River is unsolvable!

Faced with the rising river, water conservancy experts in Dazhou can only protect the farmland and cities on both sides of the river by increasing the height and thickness of the dams in the middle and lower reaches.

Therefore, the Yellow River flowing through the territory of Kaifeng Province itself is a weapon of mass destruction enough to force the Great Zhou Republic to sue for a peace truce!

However, it is not easy to get this weapon, and it is not even possible to think about it without winning several decisive battles.

General Zhao Liang took a deep breath and said to Zong Yi beside him: "The enemy's main force should be attracted to the center, right?" ”

"It should be," Zong Yizhi said with a smile, "Now the initiative is on our side, and the four divisions of our second formation can be flexibly dispatched." And they can only cope passively. ”

General Zhao Liang smiled: "Since they think that the king's goal is in the middle lane, then follow their wishes first!" ”

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"The prince said, let our 7th Division take the lead! The first team to break through the defense line of the Zhou army will be credited with first-class merit for the whole team! The captain was promoted to the first rank, the soldiers were rewarded with half of the grange, and the gun doctor was promoted to the first level of merit...... Brothers, here's your chance! ”

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Victory ......"

As the four battalion commanders of the 7th Division of the Western Song Army loudly announced General Zhao Liang's orders and rewards, the cheers immediately resounded on the battlefield.

In the Western Song Dynasty, there is now a saying of "half a grange", half a village is 30 acres of paddy fields and 60 acres of dry fields. Actually, it's less than half, just half.

However, the reward of 30 acres of paddy fields and 60 acres of dry fields is also a huge wealth for the military families of the Western Song Dynasty who have become poor now.

And the Western Song Dynasty court can only come up with such a reward...... This half of Zhuangzi is going to give too much, and I don't know where it comes from? If you can cut some land from Da Zhou, maybe you can still cash it out, otherwise you will have a good headache.

The two brothers, Chen Youliang and Chen Youren, were also soldiers of the 7th Division. But they don't have to think about where they came from.

No matter where it comes from, it will definitely be honored! Because Zhao Liangjiang, the king of Jingchu, is the master who does what he says!

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"Commander, the enemy is on the offensive! There are a lot of people, there are 4 battalions, right? The first wave is half a division of infantry ......"

Han Shantong spoke, put down the telescope and turned his head to look at Wu Yuanzhen.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The shelling of the Song army also began. Participating in the shelling were 20 artillery batteries, which were deployed around the two flanks of the two courtyards in the zigzag courtyard.

Just as the Western Song army stormed the grain depot, the sappers of the coalition army were renovating the two courtyards. It was pushed to the north-west-facing wall and turned into a makeshift battery, and 10 artillery batteries, either long or hill, were deployed behind and around the two temporary batteries. No howitzer batteries were deployed, because the howitzers of the Western Song Dynasty had performed really badly in previous battles. Zhu Xinglong had little confidence in them.

The two long artillery and mountain artillery positions, all of which at this time fired from the side, fired solid shells at the part of the eastern defense line of the Zhou army near the eastern foot of Jiangshan - this part was facing the center of the Song army's battle line, that is, directly opposite the grain depot.

"Well played!"

Watching waves of shells fly out from both sides and fall on the positions of the Zhou army, sending out clusters of smoke and dust, the soldiers of Chen Youliang and Chen Youren's hand artillery team cheered.

They were now forming a three-column horizontal formation, walking behind a battalion phalanx. In front of them were six columns of musketeers. And before the musketeers, the gunmen who had already dispersed in formation.

It's really pitiful. It was supposed to be on top...... Oh, it's the Yuan Dynasty now, and there are no high-ranking scholars anymore. However, it was a bit miserable for the scholar to be like this, holding a rifled gun and advancing cautiously through the wheat field.

Bah, Bah, Bah......

A series of gunshots rang out, and it was the Zhou stragglers squatting in the trenches who opened fire. They are the same as the gun doctors of the Western Song Dynasty, and they are all black guns. In the past 200 years, the Western Song Dynasty gun doctors have been a well-known soldier on the battlefield, while the stragglers of the Zhou State are not very famous.

But now, the black guns of the Great Zhou stragglers are not bad at all, they preemptively shoot before the Western Song Dynasty gun doctor fires, and they shoot very accurately.

In the process of marching, he did not hide his Western Song Xiucai, lifted people, and even had a jinshi, who were shot and fell to the ground. Either die immediately, or let out a heart-rending scream.

However, the sound of gunfire and screams was muffled by the incessant sound of cannonballs. Therefore, the musketeers and hand artillerymen of the Western Song Dynasty did not know that the gunmen in front had suffered heavy losses, and they were now just moving forward with their heads covered.

Nearly 2,000 musketeers and hand artillerymen under the four battalions formed four phalanxes at this time, with bayonets like a forest and soldiers like a tide, rolling forward and swooping forward.

The first to meet the four phalanxes of the Song army's ferocious upward movement was the ferocious fire of the Zhou army's howitzers.

The Zhou army had 6 howitzer teams on the Jiangshan front, with a total of 36 5-inch howitzers.

After discovering that the Song army was massing forces in the direction of the "grain depot", it was immediately dragged to the corresponding preset position and deployed. Now it's time to fire waves of the most ferocious shrapnels!

Shrapnel is the product of a hybridization of a grenade and a shotgun! It is to stuff iron beads in the "belly" of a flowering grenade to increase the lethality.

The performance of Zhou's domestic grenade projectile, which has a wooden bracket and a wooden fuse, is much better than that of the Western Song Dynasty. About 20% of shrapnel explode immediately after or before hitting the ground – that's quite a score!

Moreover, the howitzers of the Zhou army were also accurate, and they could maintain a 30% hit rate when bombarding a large area of moving targets three to four miles away.

That is, about 6% of shrapnel will explode in a human pile! 6% multiplied by 36 results over 2. Probably, the result of a howitzer salvo is that 2 shrapnel unbiasedly fall in the pile of people and then explode.

Oh, and there's a chance to explode above the crowd's heads, too.

That's a lot of casualties!

The shrapnel that kept falling and exploding almost turned the two or three miles in front of the Zhou army's trench defense line into a life-devouring forbidden area. The gray soldiers of the Western Song Army, led by the captain and platoon commander, rushed in. Then the neat and dense phalanx was blown out of large and small gaps. The fragments and iron balls of the shrapnel flew in all directions, easily piercing the human body, and the flesh and blood were immediately splattered in all directions. Splashed in the wheat fields, in the grass, on the heads and faces of comrades.

Chen Youliang's body was also splashed with sticky blood and other things, and the air inhaled in his nostrils was mixed with the smell of blood and gunsmoke. But he didn't have the slightest idea of backing down!

As a soldier, he was instilled with the idea of fighting for wealth with his life since he was a child.

Life is just a bet! It is a bet used to fight for wealth.

The future of the current Western Song warriors cannot be compared with 200 years ago, and they are generally poor. But the situation of making a hole has not changed, and if you climb up, you have to fight and make meritorious contributions!

And if you escape, you will not only be shot, but also become a shame for the family, you will not even be able to enter the ancestral grave, and you will be removed from the family tree.

So now he had to charge hard, with his comrades, into the trenches of the Zhou army, and pick them to death with the bayonets in his hands.

However, the distance of this charge of more than 1,000 paces seemed far and long. Especially when they rushed to 200 steps in front of the Zhou trenches, 12 direct-aim guns of a mountain artillery team and a long artillery team also opened fire.

They fire terrible shotguns!

When a shotgun is fired, it will hit a large number of people in the Western Song Army. In front of the trenches, there were corpses everywhere that had been knocked down, some of them not yet dead, screaming heartbreakingly.

But the rest of the people continued to move forward without hesitation!

Because they have no way back!

Lieutenant Liu Futong, captain of the 8th Brigade of the 3rd Battalion of the 55th Division of the 18th Army of the Republican Army, walked from the shallow communication trench to the trench that was about to be attacked. The stragglers who had entered the trenches before them were firing, and the shouts and screams of the Western Song soldiers had already passed through the sound of cannons, gunfires, and explosions.

Now it's Liu Futong's turn and his brothers in the artillery team to make a move!

Their task was to first use hand cannons to attack the Song infantry who rushed to kill them head-on. And then the bayonet assault was carried out to repel the first wave of enemy attacks.

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