Chapter 31: Ballista Strikes
[Thanks to the "Dream" tip!] I haven't seen you for a long time, but I'm fine! 】
"Nima, play trebuchet again, use it to use a few tricks, can you come up with some new tricks?" Xiao Xunbu glanced at the "stones" floating in the sky and muttered disdainfully.
Moreover, he had no intention of hiding at all, and without blinking in the face of this stone, he led his soldiers to rush forward without hesitation.
If it's really just a hundred stones, maybe it really can't do anything to people, even if you can kill three or four hundred people lying down and smashing them, it's lucky. It's a pity that these aborigines who have never seen hot weapons, how can they understand the power of huo medicine! Even if it is a very low-end black huo medicine, it is not that Liao people who have never seen the world can understand it!
I can't smash it! I can't smash it! Can't smash it......
These elites of the Liao army also showed a great [unafraid] spirit in the face of the "small stones" thrown by the Song army, showing off their riding skills to avoid the "stones", while loudly mocking the incompetence of the Song army.
Many of them did manage to avoid the attack of "The Stone" with their superb riding skills, and their performance was worthy of the title of elite. It's just that they don't know that these "stones" are not used to smash people, but to blow them up. Just this word difference, but the Liao army has become the second batch of lucky people in the world to enjoy thermal weapons.
As for the first one, of course, it is the indigenous people on the other side of the ocean!
Boom Boom ......
This time the sound was not only extraordinarily loud, but also extraordinarily long. Xiao Xunbu and the others listened to a hundred firecrackers for free, but free things are usually not good things, and this thing is no exception. According to the estimation of the power of the shells, the lethality of a black medicine cannonball in this dense formation is about ten people, and even if all these shells hit, there are still thousands of people.
However, as soon as the word "but" is mentioned, the cliff means that something bad is happening. You must know that the war horses of this era have not experienced cannon training, and the first time they faced the thunderous sound of cannons, it was light for people to turn over their horses, and it was normal to be played to death by their own war horses.
As the second attack echelon, Yelu Sanjiao hurriedly reined in the war horse, touched the cold sweat on his head, and exclaimed happiness: "Fortunately, I didn't run in front, I was scared to death!" I'll wipe it, has Song Guo been evil in the past few years, clean up some inexplicable things! ”
"Hurry, hurry! Don't be stunned, it's such a good opportunity to beat the water dogs, you don't have time to shoot arrows! Yang Jinhua was very satisfied with the shock of the soldiers who didn't have these baby bumps, but he couldn't give up a good fighter to kill the enemy because of this.
The concubine spoke, and everyone naturally didn't dare to slack off, and the guys who came to their senses woke up their partners next to them one after another, and together they gathered enough strength to greet the Liao army. The trebuchet and the bed crossbow were also unwilling to be lonely, and all the ranged attack units were in full swing, beating Xiao Xunbu and his party to death, crying and screaming.
I have to mention Xiao Xunbu here, maybe there are really cats in this world, I feel that this product has more than nine lives, and it is a miracle that he has not hung up in the face of such a saturated blow. However, three minutes later, the second round of ballistas arrived as scheduled, finally ending the unkillable cockroach.
Thus, artillery fire, as a representative of the era of thermal weapons, began its first performance after its existence. Since then, it has played the role of a dominant player in countless wars, and has also achieved its title as the god of war. At the same time, Xiao Xunbu, the first general to experience the power of artillery fire with his life, has become famous through the ages along with a military textbook, which can be regarded as an anwei award for him!
The war continued, and the rain of arrows of the Song army still did not stop. In the face of Xiao Yunjin's urging, he originally wanted to say no, but he didn't have the courage yet. There was no way, he had no choice but to lead the troops to continue to charge, and continue to enjoy the stormy baptism of the Song army.
A quarter of an hour later, the roaring artillery fire finally subsided, and the battlefield became relatively quiet. Without these "thunders" sounding around them, the Liao soldiers and their war horses finally slowly quieted down. But in just a short period of time, tens of thousands of frightened war horses rampage on the battlefield, their lethality far exceeded the power brought by the artillery fire itself, creating tens of thousands of duan arms and legs...... OK! This damn thing has finally stopped!
Taking advantage of this time, Zhi Weizheng hurriedly withdrew the 1,000 soldiers at the gate and the remaining "Hundred Tigers Running Together", as for those logistics carriages, they had no choice but to be thrown outside the city.
Zhen Wei looked at the bad luck of the Liao people, and it was refreshing to see it, but the artillery fire suddenly stopped, just like that, I felt that I couldn't go up at a critical time, and I was very annoyed. He hurriedly approached Yang Jinhua with a shy face, and asked with a smile that he thought he was a river crab: "Niangniang, you see how good this thing is, it makes those Liao soldiers cry and wipe the ground, and the minister sees that it won't be long before they all fall down, why did you stop?" Go on! ”
Yang Jinhua rolled his eyes at him, pouted and said, "You think these shells are stones!" Do you know how difficult it is to make this cannonball, this time the palace brought this cannonball with the emperor's soft grinding and hard bubbles, each ballista is five cannonballa, and the gold is expensive! If it weren't for the Xiao family's mother-in-law being cheap, the palace would be reluctant to use it! ”
"Huh?" Zhi Weizheng sighed: "It turns out that there are so few of these things!" The minister still wants to play with the big guys in the Holy Lord! It seems that there is no play, but it's a pity! ”
"Hey, hey!" Yang Jinhua showed her iconic front teeth: "Don't be so discouraged! Bengong quietly told you, don't say it, Bengong heard that the saint has been tinkering with new things, but I don't know why I haven't played with Bengong all the time, or let's sum up? ”
Zhi Weizheng looked at her incomprehensibly: "Niangniang, what do you mean?" ”
Yang Jinhua: "Come here with your ears!" ”
"The ears are there!" It's rare for Zhen Weizheng to be funny with her.
Yang Jinhua pulled his ear and said: "This palace thinks so, when this battle is over, you will run back to appeal to the emperor, and this palace will help the next side, and strive to take out a little more of the emperor's old bottom, so that we will have to play!" ”
Zhi Wei was staring at her: "Niangniang, this is not good!" If we let the emperor know that we calculated him, we wouldn't have died miserably, uh, no, it should be that the ministers would have died miserably? ”
"No, I can't!" Yang Jinhua waved her hand: "The emperor's brother is so merciful, how can he let you die miserably!" At most, it's a miserable death, not a miserable death! ”
Zhi Weizheng's face darkened again: "Niangniang, how can you do this!" It's very unkind! ”
Yang Jinhua patted him on the shoulder: "Look at you, I'm scared, this palace is joking!" But to get down to business, the emperor's brother really has a lot of good things hidden, and Bengong thinks that he should take something out to be worthy of Bengong's smart head. Don't you know, now there are a lot of jin land in the mountains around the capital, and even the palace can't even hunt, it must be the emperor's brother who is tinkering with something new. ”
"Then you think about it first, the minister will definitely cooperate at that time, and now the war is critical, so the minister will withdraw first!" Zhe Weizheng has also learned to be cunning, in order to avoid being taken into the puddle by this bold little girl, it is better to take thirty-six strategies!
"Alas...... Alas...... Don't! Hongu isn't finished yet! ”
No matter how Yang Jinhua shouted, Zhi Wei made up his mind and pretended not to hear it, calculating the emperor, as a self-proclaimed courtier, he really didn't have the courage to do so, and this kind of work was more suitable for someone with a big mind and no brains.
"Look at what! Don't hurry up and kill the enemy! Yang Jinhua had no choice but to sprinkle her "resentment" on the innocent soldiers next to her.
By the time the Liao army slowly recovered from the panic, a layer of human flesh mats was already lying on the ground, and the fierceness of the battle and the number of casualties far exceeded Xiao Yunjin's assumptions. However, after a brief period of amnesia, Xiao Yunjin still gave the order to attack.
Because the battle has reached this point, she has no other way to choose, only to desperately defeat the Song army and open the three levels in order to regain her reputation and continue to hold power, otherwise she will be drowned by the spitting stars of those ministers if she escapes back to Shangjing.
Seeing that this Xiao family's mother-in-law was unrepentant, after discussing with Yang Jinhua for a while, he decided not to entangle with her anymore, and finally gave her a thunderous blow.
So, a large flock of pigeons suddenly flew out of Yijin Pass and flew towards their respective destinations......
In the afternoon, the Liao army and the Song army crackled and fought for a whole afternoon under the Yijin Pass, and there were no commendable results except for the destruction of the carriages at the city gate. Time passed, it was getting late, and the Liao army had no choice but to withdraw its troops again and lick their wounds in the dark night sky.
Xiao Yunjin's right-hand arm is also missing one now, and she doesn't have the heart to play with Yelu now, so she asked after she hurriedly finished her work: "What do you say we should do now?" ”
Yelu Sanyan groaned: "Queen Mother, please forgive the minister for saying something that should not be said!" ”
Xiao Yunjin: "Say it!" The mourning family gives you innocence! ”
Yelu said slowly: "Queen Mother, the minister thinks that we can't fight like this, you see that it has only been two days of fighting, and almost half of our 100,000 troops in the middle have been lost. Although most of the losses were infantry, and we were not fundamentally wounded, without these infantry, we would have lost the ability to attack the city. In the opinion of the ministers, we can no longer spend time on the city wall with the Song army, or we should give full play to the advantages of our cavalry, break into the Song Kingdom, put pressure on their emperor, and force them to reach an agreement with us again. Only in this way can we turn defeat into victory! ”
Xiao Yunjin also felt that he couldn't stick to his previous thoughts anymore at this time, so he asked: "Then according to your meaning, let's all break into the Song Kingdom tomorrow, what if we are surrounded by the Song army?" ”
Yelu shook his head: "Queen Mother, we don't need to break into the Song Kingdom, we only need cavalry, so the mobility is good, coming and going like the wind, and there is no need to be afraid of the Song army." And let's not pay attention to the cities along the way, bypass them and go straight to the capital of the Song Kingdom......"
"However, if we don't bring infantry, we will only have less than 50,000 cavalry left, will it be too little? Besides, what would happen to these infantry if only cavalry was sent? Shall they withdraw first? "Xiao Yunjin is not a general, and she doesn't know the truth that there are many soldiers, and her best understanding of strength is still in terms of troops.
"No, no, no! The Queen Mother misunderstood what the minister meant. Yelu Sanyan hurriedly denied: "The minister's meaning, not only our cavalry, but also the cavalry of the king of the Southern Courtyard should also gather together, so that the time will put pressure on the Emperor of the Song Kingdom." As for these infantry, of course, we can't let them withdraw like this, wouldn't it be too wasteful, and we can also let them stay and drag the Song army in Sanguan to create good conditions for us to go deep into the enemy territory! ”
Xiao Yunjin: "You still think thoughtfully!" The mourning family sent someone to let the king of the southern courtyard lead the cavalry to come overnight, and we will bypass Yijin Pass tomorrow and go straight to Kaifeng! ”
Yelu said: "The Queen Mother is wise! ”
When the night came, the two put aside the troubles of today's war and entered their dreams together, while Zhi Weizheng and Yang Jinhua in Yijin Pass were secretly arranging a big net...... (To be continued.) )