Chapter 244: Artillery Siege
The brothers in Zhenjiang Mansion have heard it clearly! Today I have the name of tall and handsome, let me and others cooperate with the army to attack Ximen, you have given me enough spirit, this time if anyone dares to embarrass Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu personally chopped you with a knife, as long as Lao Tzu does not Ming Jin to collect the army, even if you die, you will die for Lao Tzu forward, if anyone dares to retreat without authorization, Lao Tzu will not kill you, Lao Tzu will not be surnamed Luo! Luo Zhuo summoned his generals to lecture them loudly, he was a rough man, and he didn't speak much, and he scolded and scolded directly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Previously, Zhenjiang Mansion exercised, and the troops of Zhenjiang Mansion were compared with the former division of the palace and the Zhongshun Army, and they really had no face, this time I heard that Gao Dashuai gave them a chance to attack Baoying City together, and the generals of Zhenjiang Mansion were also very excited, and after listening to Luo Zhuo's orders, they immediately intervened together to receive the order, and prepared with their hands.
Inside and outside the city suddenly got busy, Liu Qingfu can be said to be uncomfortable these days, he can't sleep at night, he is worried about the Song army attacking the city all the time, but the Song army has not moved at all for three days, and even a tentative attack has not been carried out, which makes him a little confused.
It turned out that the Song army was waiting for the rear to transport heavy siege equipment here! Looking up, the Song army camp outside the city launched a variety of siege equipment, which can be regarded as an eye-opener for their northern army, they have been in the battle for so many years, although they have gone through countless battle formations, but after all, they are the righteous army, and the logistics supply is far less sufficient than the Southern Song Dynasty army.
Today, after looking at the various siege equipment that appeared outside the city, they knew what it meant to be heavy equipment, and the hundreds of artillery trucks of all kinds lined up outside the city alone made them feel a little frightened.
What else to watch? Don't give Lao Tzu an order, hurry up and prepare? The Song army is about to attack the city, everyone cheer up, resist Lao Tzu, if anyone dares to retreat from the battle, see if Lao Tzu doesn't cut you! Liu Qingfu shouted and scolded his opponent in anger, which was very similar to that Luo Zhuo outside the city.
After Gao Huaiyuan waited until all kinds of siege equipment were transported to the camp, he no longer waited, and immediately ordered the east, west, and south gates to start preparations at the same time, and began to launch an attack on Baoying County on the same day.
He is now the commander of the Song army, he only needs to be in command of such a battle, and the specific details of the battle will be arranged by his deputies, and after the herald told him that he has been prepared outside the three gates, Gao Huaiyuan immediately turned over and got on his horse, and came out of the camp to the front of the two armies.
Hua Yue was personally responsible for the attack on the south gate this time, while Zhao Futang went to the east gate to direct the siege, leaving a north gate and not sending troops to attack, which was also a strategy, that is, to leave a seemingly life-like place for the northern army under Liu Qingfu, forcing them to flee from the north gate as a last resort.
When all kinds of preparations were in place, Gao Huaiyuan immediately nodded to Hua Yue and said: It's time to start! Besiege!
Three arrows immediately flew in the south of the city, and then a few more trumpets and cannons roared, and the Song army, which had already been waiting for the east and west, immediately launched the first siege battle.
The gunners who threw off their shirts in the sound of their respective cannon commanders, together with the rope in their hands, the thick rope gathered in a section of the throwing rod, providing considerable power for the throwing rod, for a time outside the city thousands of cannons fired together, all kinds of boulders in the raised throwing rod with the help of the raised throwing rod, the sound flew to the towering Baoying County city wall in front of the sound.
In an instant, these boulders fell up and down inside and outside the city wall, and the broken stones above and below the city wall flew wildly, these stone bullets were not round, square, long, and had any appearance, but they had a unified feature that under the acceleration of gravity, each power was huge, as long as it fell on the city wall, it could immediately smash out a big pit, and the city bricks on the city wall were shattered and flew, so that the northern army on the city wall was shocked into a cold sweat.
Some stone bullets were fired very accurately, and they fell directly on the city wall, and the original neat female wall of the battlement was immediately smashed and collapsed, and the unlucky guy who was hiding behind the female wall was suddenly smashed into a pulp, and the first round of attacks caused a certain amount of damage to the northern army defending the city, and even the houses in the city were attacked by flying stones, and many houses collapsed, which caused an exclamation in the city.
Give it to me! Luo Zhuo yelled at his first battalion of soldiers.
General Luo and slow! The commander has an order, don't attack for the time being, the commander said that I want to wait for the cannon to bombard them for an hour, and then attack, with a strong crossbow to suppress the counterattack of the city, and then attack, to minimize the casualties of the soldiers! As soon as Luo Zhuo's words fell, a fast horse galloped from the south of the city, and the herald on the horse immediately shouted to Luo Zhuo.
Luo Zhuo was stunned for a moment, and the person surnamed Gao was too wide in his heart! How can you besiege the city yourself and listen to him? But when I calmed down and thought about it, what they said was right, first bombarded a group of rebels with artillery, and it was good to beat them to scatter, and they were full for a while to release arrows, so that the soldiers under their hands died in vain.
So he nodded, withdrew the order to attack, forcibly restrained the attacker, and ordered all kinds of throwing carts arranged in the west of the city to fire violently to attack the city wall in front of him.
Liu Qingfu stood on the top of the city wall, kept stretching out his head to look outside the city, seeing such a sharp artillery stone outside the city to attack the city, he couldn't help but be a little frightened, the Song army did not send power, I didn't expect that today's power, it would be so violent, which made the defenders in the city a little panicked, and the northern army that was caught up in the city head of the guard, each huddled under the female wall, or clinged to the foot of the city wall to avoid the artillery, and did not dare to show his head to watch, for fear of being smashed into a meatloaf by the flying artillery, only a few brave people will stretch out their heads from time to time to watch, But soon they will retract their heads and dare not stick their heads all the time, for fear that they will be targeted by the enemy.
Only on the city wall of the enemy tower and the crossbow platform on some of the northern army, forced to pull the rope in their hands, to erect on the city wall on the enemy tower throwing car to counterattack, but it is a pity that the number of throwing cars owned by the northern army in the city is limited, and the Song army outside the city throwing the car, it is simply not worth mentioning.
Looking at the scene of thousands of guns in his army, Gao Huaiyuan is still quite emotional, the Song Dynasty can be said to be the era of cold weapons to the extreme, and the development of throwing cars in this era has also developed to a very high level, whether it is the Song Jin or the Mongolian army, they attach great importance to the application of artillery, and whether it is offensive and defensive use of this weapon in large quantities, the power of machinery has been quite powerful, but it is a pity that until this time, the Central Plains of the car still mainly relies on manpower to operate, each car throwing, need to consume a lot of manpower.
Like the general single-tip artillery, it needs more than 60 people to operate, the double-tip cannon needs nearly 100 strong laborers, the five-tip cannon needs 160 people, and the seven-tip cannon is as many as 260 people, which is very huge for the consumption of soldiers, far less convenient than the counterweight stone cart used in the West, which is also the reason why the Mongolian army attacked Xiangyang in the future, a large number of improved and imitated the return cannon from the West, and the Song army suffered a big loss.
Gao Huaiyuan in the battle of Huangzhou, he once sent someone to try to make a simple counterweight stone throwing car, used to defend Huangzhou, the effect is quite good, the battle of Huzhou, he also once let his subordinates temporarily make a few siege use, but now it is not promoted, the main throwing car in the army is still the old-fashioned throwing car, with a lot of people, so Gao Huaiyuan will be with the army of the craftsman head to the front of the army, dismount and squat on the ground, take a branch, on the ground to draw the craftsman's head.
Soon the craftsman understood what Gao Huaiyuan's painting was, and quickly agreed, and then returned to the camp to gather idle people, and began to select big trees around the camp to cut down, and transported the logs to the camp, and gathered the craftsmen to get busy.
Gao Huaiyuan took a look at Baoying County, at this time the Song army outside the city has been bombarded for two quarters of an hour, but the damage caused to the city wall is still very limited, and he may not be able to capture Baoying County for a while, and this time he did not plan to take Baoying County lightly, he intended to fight a tough battle, one is to let many soldiers who go into battle for the first time experience the cruelty of the war, and the second is to give Li Quanjun a heavy blow mentally, so that it not only plays the role of training, but also plays a role in boosting morale, It can be said that the three are all beautiful, so he does not use psychological warfare such as persuasion to surrender, and is determined to take the county seat of Baoying in front of him in a cruel way.
Many of the artillery commanders of the Song army locked their eyes on the throwing cars of the northern army on the city wall, commanded their soldiers, turned the artillery frame to concentrate firepower, and dealt with those throwing cars on the city wall, after the exchange of fire between the two sides, soon some of the throwing cars were destroyed, both sides focused on each other's throwing cars, and there were casualties among each other, but on the whole, the casualties of the northern army were a little larger, after all, the number of throwing cars on both sides was very different, and after the concentrated fire attack, even if the accuracy was not good, the probability would be much higher.
When he saw that the northern army at the head of the city had lost all the cars, Gao Huaiyuan knew that Huayue was about to attack, so he rode his horse to the front of the battle.
Sure enough, after Hua Yue saw that the enemy army had lost all the cars in the city, he really quickly issued an order to attack the city, and the sound of war drums immediately sounded outside the city like rolling thunder, and a group of Song troops who were ready to go were immediately ordered to get up, and with the help of the auxiliaries, they put their armor on their bodies and tied ropes, and collectively shouted, pushing all kinds of siege equipment to rush towards the city like a rainbow.