Chapter 488 Storming Guanzi Beach

Ah Shu said: "Two generals, in the Xiangfan area, my middle road army already has ten back guns, although they are all experiments, but the power is also extraordinary, far better than ordinary heavy stone throwers. The commander decided to transfer eight of the ten back artillery to your army. In the early morning of tomorrow, your army will concentrate all the return artillery and catapults to bombard the north gate of Fancheng, and take advantage of the continuity of the catapult firing to try to suppress the artillery of the Southern Dynasties, but remember to widen the interval between the catapults. After the artillery attack, the infantry began to launch a siege campaign, if they were bombarded by artillery on the way, they avoided it by lying on the ground, as long as they approached the walls of the inner city of Fancheng, the opponent's long-range weapons would be useless. ”

"Commander, the last general understands."

"Also, General Ali Hague, are there musketeers in Fancheng?"

Ali Hague said: "Back to Dashuai, so far, there have been no musketeers in Fancheng. ”

"Okay, General Ali Hague, General Kong Yuan, this marshal will allocate another 5,000 elite soldiers to you, and launch a fierce attack on Fancheng from tomorrow, and strive to open the gap from the north gate of Fancheng."

"Yes, Marshal."

"General Liu Quan."

"The end will be."

"The sailors intensified their attacks and fought to gain the initiative in the Hanshui Basin."

"Yes, Marshal."

"General Yismayin, you are responsible for commanding the artillery troops at the east gate of Xiangyang City, continue to bombard Xiangyang, and pay attention to the spacing between each stone-throwing machine, just like the stone-throwing troops outside Fancheng, and at the same time, our army also adopts the shooting method of the musketeers of the Southern Dynasty and bombards it in three stages."

"Yes, the last general commands."

"General Azhuhan, General Zhang Hongfan, you two each lead 5,000 soldiers and horses, as the vanguard, set off at the end of the morning tomorrow morning (three o'clock in the morning) to attack the camp of Guanzitan in the Southern Dynasty. Ben Shuai and General Boyan led an army of 50,000 to attack the camp of the Southern Dynasty. ”

It was night, after approving the recital from Yingzhou in the account, it was almost time. On a sudden whim, I called Shang Ling, Yuan Jian, and Zhang Quanyi to walk slowly towards the Han River to the west of the camp. After walking for about ten minutes, I felt that the surroundings were cooler, the air became moist and fresh, and although the edge of the Han River did not have the wild and uninhibited smell of the sea breeze, it was a little more soft.

Looking around, I saw a few tall willows swaying gently in the breeze, as if they were guarding the Han River without regrets, for a hundred years and a thousand years. Further away, there is the Han River in the north-south direction, and the river is quiet, flowing silently in the dark.

"Brother, I didn't expect there to be willow trees here, but there are fewer of them, otherwise it would be a good place for people to spend summer."

"Yes, when the enemy is destroyed, let Xiangyang Mansion mobilize the people and plant more trees by the river."

When I returned to the big tent, I accidentally saw the imperial flag erected in front of the big tent being blown "pop, pop". I subconsciously said, "No, it's not very windy tonight, why did you blow this flag like this?" ”

Hearing me say this, Fang Ling also said: "Yes, the wind by the river is much stronger than here, and I haven't seen willow branches and leaves like this." ”

My heart moved, and I said, "Quanyi, you go and call Gongsun Xiaochen." ”

There are such descriptions in many ancient books.,Suddenly,A strange wind blew.,Blowing down the big flag in the middle.,The hero can't help but shiver.,The strategist next to him will follow and say.,This is the heavens are warning the Lord.,There will be enemies coming to rob the camp tonight.。

This kind of record in the novel is very mysterious, but tonight I encountered it, could it be the manifestation of the guardian, is there really such a thing?

Gongsun Xiaochen walked back and forth under the flagpole several times, and then took out a compass-like instrument and deduced it by himself. It seemed to me that his steps were disorganized and irregular, and Yuan Jian told me that it was a nine-palace step. The Nine Palaces are divided into Tic Tac-toe (tic-tac-toe), and in addition to the eight trigram directions such as the Qiangong Palace and the Kan Palace, there is also a middle palace in the middle.

About a quarter of an hour later, Gongsun Xiaochen, who was sweating profusely, said: "Your Majesty, judging from the celestial phenomena deduced by the last general, the stars are out of the house, and the number of water is six in the northwest, and the rapid stream from the northwest can enter the official star." To put it simply, this image is beneficial to the northwest, and if you look at the confrontation between the two armies, the Yuan army in the northwest should make some moves tonight. Of course, the general's ability to deduce is not yet able to reach the state of entering the house, but this possibility is quite large, please let the emperor decide. ”

"Really? It's better to believe it. I thought for a moment and said, "Xiao Chen, you can send more scouts to increase the patrol area." Sir, you go and inform Jiang Wanzai and let him set up defenses according to the enemy's attack tonight. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Sure enough, by the time the scouts sent back the news, tens of thousands of troops had already arrived more than a thousand meters away from the camp at Bush Beach. Ah Shu carried Suluding in his hand, took the lead, and led the army to advance another 500 meters to the south.

Although the sky was dark, Ah Shu, who had excellent eyesight, could see clearly. Ah Shu grabbed the reins and said, "The first hundred steps of the Southern Dynasty military camp are covered with wooden stakes and other obstacles that hinder the advance of the horse army, and the camp is quite quiet, and I can't see any preparations. ”

Boyan said: "Dashuai, give the order." ”

"Yes." Ah Shu nodded slightly and said, "General Ashuhan, you lead a 3,000 cavalry army to suppress the muskets of the Southern Dynasty with bows and arrows between one hundred and fifty paces to two hundred paces away from the enemy camp. General Zhang Hongfan, if you lead 5,000 sword and shield troops to attack the camp of the Southern Dynasty, you must remember that first, you must be fast, and second, you need to lie down immediately before the artillery explodes. ”

"Yes, the last will obey."

After receiving the news, I immediately rushed to the front of the camp in Guanzitan. This camp is naturally not as strong as the city wall, and under the repeated persuasion of everyone, I stood on a hidden arrow tower about ten meters away from the main gate of the camp, with Yuan Jian, Fang Ling, and Zhang Quanyi closely guarding me.

"Here, Ah Shu and Boyan are here, about six hundred steps away from our army." Yuan Jiandao.

In the dimness, with my eyesight, I couldn't see the situation of the Yuan army five hundred meters away, but I felt that there were countless figures faintly in front of me.

"The enemy's cavalry has been dispatched, five hundred paces, three hundred steps, two hundred steps...... Yuan Jianzheng said, when he heard the sound of "boom, boom" cannons, and the thirty guns let out the first round of roars.

Suddenly, the already dim sky was filled with gunsmoke, making it even more difficult for me to see, and I could only hear the neighing of war horses not far away.

In between the artillery firing, a rain of arrows flew towards the battalion. With Yuan Jian and the others here, I was not worried that this kind of cold weapon would hurt me, but I just stared intently ahead, and after a while, thousands of sword and shield hands of the Yuan army appeared one hundred and twenty steps away, and these sword and shield hands tightly protected their bodies with shields, and rushed towards the camp at an extremely fast speed.

The commander of the artillery battalion made Crete: "The muzzle of the gun is lowered by ten degrees, ignited, and released." ”

The artillery roared again, and exploded in the Yuan cavalry more than a hundred paces away, and although the ears of these horses were all blocked by strips of cloth, after two consecutive rounds of artillery bombardment, they also began to become manic.

The sword and shield men of the Yuan army took advantage of the gap between the artillery reloads to rush forward desperately, and the soldiers at the front had already rushed to a distance of one hundred and twenty paces from the main camp, which was out of the explosion range of the shells.

Bypassing the wooden stakes one by one, thousands of Yuan troops rushed to the camp of Bush Beach.

"One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and thirty steps." Xie Daolin silently calculated in his heart, "One hundred and twenty steps, one hundred and ten steps, ignition of the fire." ”

"One hundred steps, ninety-five steps, ninety-three steps, ninety steps, put."

Under the command of Xie Daolin and Zhang Shijie, the musketeers lying on the guardrail kept shooting bullets one after another according to the three-stage shooting method, and the sword and shield men guarding the guards held shields to block round after round of arrow rain for the musketeers.

The Mongol cavalry archers under artillery attack gradually lost their crosshairs, and the feathered arrows fired were not as good as one round.

The Yuan saber and shield men got closer and closer, and the power of the musket became more and more powerful, and even some of the shields that were not strong enough were pierced by the ammunition fired by the musket, and after paying the price of more than 800 casualties, the first batch of Yuan saber and shield men attacked the front of the camp thirty steps away from the guardrail. At this time, the Mongol cavalry archers in the distance stopped shooting, the bows and arrows had no eyes, and in the large-scale **, no one could guarantee that they would only shoot at the Song army.

Unlike the flat fire in front of the two armies, the feathered arrows fired at a 45-degree angle can only be used as a group attack, and cannot be aimed at a single target, which is also one of the weaknesses of bows and muskets.

The guardrail of the camp is not very high, only more than two meters high, divided into two layers, the upper and the lower, with logs as vertical piles, each pile is about 10 centimeters apart, only one child can be squeezed through, and it is impossible for an armed adult to pass through. The upper floor is paved with wooden planks and is about two meters wide.

The Yuan army, which rushed to the front, held a shield in one hand to prevent the muskets from coming from above, and brandished a war knife in the other, and rushed forward with the intention of cutting off the stakes of the guardrail. At this moment, the musketeers who were lying in ambush on the lower floor heard Wen Zhang shouting, "Release." ”

Wen Zhang was full of energy, even in the sound of artillery, so that the soldiers could hear it clearly.

Thousands of musketeers lit fire at the same time, pulled the trigger together, and when this round of muskets rang out, the Yuan soldiers rushed to just a few steps away from the guardrail. With such a close distance, this group of Yuan troops could naturally only become a meal on the plate of the musketeers.

Many of the Yuan saber shieldmen who reacted quickly immediately lowered their shields to resist the bullets fired by the Imperial Guards at the lower level, but it was difficult to avoid being hit by the bullets fired by the musketeers on the upper level.

The advantage of the three-stage shooting is that there is almost no interval, and when the three rounds of fire are over, the Yuan army at the front all falls to the ground.

The ability to shoot at close range is again a great advantage of muskets.

Seeing this, Zhang Hongfan immediately gave the order to withdraw his troops. After leaving behind nearly a thousand corpses, the Yuan army fled for their lives.