Chapter 365: Rain

Under the blow of several throwing carts of the Mongol army, some of the partial box carts were hit by stone bullets, and when they were smashed into a pile of rotten wood, the Song army had to brave the enemy's artillery stones, and constantly rush to repair the smashed fortifications, in case the Mongols took the opportunity to break through these gaps into the big array, and now they can no longer use fire to intercept the Mongol army's charge as they did on the first day, they have limited fire oil, and they used a seven-seven-eighty-eight on the first night, and now they can only rely on manpower to defend. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Listening to the buzzing sound of throwing the rod in the night outside the formation, as well as the rumbling sound of the stone falling to the ground, and the dying screams of the Song officers and soldiers who were hit, Gao Huaiyuan was also very annoyed, in the past half a year, it was their Song army who bullied people with a heavy weapon like throwing a car, but today they were bullied by the Mongolian army, and he wanted to teach this group of Mongolian Tartars a lesson.

After pondering for a while, Gao Huaiyuan came up with an idea, and immediately summoned Li Ruohu to instruct him: Go and take out dozens of horsetail earth-shaking thunderbolts that we brought with us, let's go and let the Tartars eat some cannonballs, and let them see what cannons are!

As soon as Li Ruohu heard this, he became interested, just now he and Qiu Tong competed to break through and report the news, but it turned out that Qiu Tong took the lead, his mood was low, and he felt very sorry not to go, at this time, when he heard this, he hurriedly rushed away, and after a while, he moved a box from a car.

Then he recruited more than a dozen Gao Huaiyuan's personal soldiers and pried open the lid of the box, revealing the contents of the box.

I saw that the box was neatly placed in the groove with a black iron bump, the strange thing is that the iron bumps are braided with a hemp rope on it, and the discerning person will remember a kind of horsetail grenade that has appeared on the battlefield in the future world, but this thing is obviously simpler, there is a reserved hole on the bullet body, leading out a lead, and when the bullet body is still casting, a carved line is reserved, it becomes a preset fragment, and the explosion can ensure that the shrapnel is more uniform and spread larger.

Gao Huaiyuan stretched out his hand and picked up a few, and asked each of the soldiers to take a few, and then instructed them: Everyone find two sword and axe men to cover their bodies with shields, and one person finds the Mongolian Tartar to throw the cart, throw it to me accurately, let the Tartar also taste the taste of this iron melon, and see if their stones are powerful, or our iron eggs are powerful!

More than a dozen pro-soldiers are Gao Huaiyuan's trustworthy people, don't worry that this kind of weapon that is still classified at the moment will leak out, and it is filled with exquisite gunpowder, although it is not as good as the TNT explosives loaded in later generations, but the explosion power is already considerable, when he was in the capital, Gao Huaiyuan has tried many times, so that the craftsmen have adjusted the casting process, so that its power has reached an ideal state.

The Mongol army expected that the Song army could not take them, and did not dare to attack their throwing car, so they were very arrogant to put the throwing car very close to the Song army's array, and erected a shield in front to prevent the Song army's arrows, and a large number of Mongolian soldiers hid behind these shield walls, pulling ropes hard, and throwing pieces of artillery stones into the Song army's array.

Gao Huaiyuan took two personal soldiers, covered his body with a round shield, and the cat's waist jumped out of the line of the box car, and after rushing forward for a distance, Gao Huaiyuan struggled to wave a lit horsetail grenade in his hand, the reason for using this situation is because this can increase the distance of throwing, and the general grenade relies on arm strength, but the horsetail grenade increases the centrifugal force and can be thrown farther.

After Gao Huaiyuan rounded the horsetail grenade, he saw the location of the enemy's throwing cart, and threw it hard, and the horsetail grenade flew out with a swish, and under Gao Huaiyuan's fierce push, it directly sank into the night sky, and this angle could ensure that it would not touch the shield in front of the Mongolian soldiers, and flew directly over their heads.

A short time after the enemy threw the cart, a sudden roar was heard, and then the screams of the Mongol soldiers and the cries of many Tartars were heard.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately became happy, and lit these horsetail grenades in his hands one by one one one and threw them out vigorously, and there were explosions near the enemy's throwing car.

The Mongols were not happy at this time, they did not know what was happening in the night, and one of the unlucky fellows was instantly knocked over by an iron bullet that fell from the sky, and before they could find out what the enemy had thrown, there was an explosion.

It takes a lot of people to operate the throwing car, even if it is a single-tip cannon, it takes at least forty strong men to drag it to launch the cannon, and their position is very concentrated, which happens to be the best target for this kind of grenade, the result is miserable, many Mongolian soldiers don't know that they can dodge the fragments produced by the explosion when they lie down, and standing there shouting and jumping around just becomes the target of the shrapnel flying around, after each explosion, there will be a few Tartar soldiers who are blown down to a blur of flesh and blood, and a few grenades are lost, There will be no one to drag and throw the car in the Tartars.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately retreated into the car formation with two personal soldiers covering him, and at this time, the explosion of horsetail grenades began to be heard in all directions, and after this explosion, the Tartar cannon stopped firing, and outside the Song army's large array, there were panicked screams of Mongolian Tartars everywhere.

The Tartars didn't know what they were attacked, why these explosive things fell from the sky, they were dizzy and their morale plummeted, and the Tartar soldiers who operated the artillery turned around and ran back as long as they were alive, no matter how brave they were, they couldn't withstand such a fierce bombardment, and as a result, a small number of throwing cars were suddenly abandoned by the Tartar soldiers in front of the Song army.

Gao Huaiyuan gave an order, the Song army attacked in all directions, and a small team of people and horses rushed to the side of these Tartar throwing cars, splashing the remaining fire oil on the throwing cars, throwing the torches and turning around and running, several huge torches immediately rose outside the Song army's large array, and the throwing cars were ignited immediately, and they burned fiercely.

Polu watched these throwing cars that he had managed to get out of turn into nothing, and jumped to his feet angrily, but he couldn't figure out what was going on, and continued to fight to the death, which was a greater loss for him, so he had to order a retreat and no longer engage the Song army.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't rest this night, he had been worried about Qiu Tong's safety, he didn't know if she could break out safely and send the news back to the camp, waiting is the biggest torment, especially for unknown situations, one night passed, and another day, Gao Huaiyuan was in this deep worry.

On the third day of besieging Gao Huaiyuan's army, the Mongol army launched another tentative attack on the Song army, but the result was still unable to break through the Song army's large array, but the Mongol army still achieved some results, but the end was very sad.

Polu was really going crazy by this cunning Song army, he commanded the Mongol army to carry out a very large-scale cavalry shooting on the Song army this time, each Mongolian soldier almost fired nearly 20 arrows or more, thousands of people fired more than 100,000 carved arrows, and finally finally tore a hole in the Song army's front, but when a group of cavalry rushed towards the Song army's archers, they found that they were fooled again.

When the Mongol army tore through the Song army's line, the rushing leaders killed them, thinking that they could happily wield their swords and guns to slaughter these Song archers with low melee ability.

But what I didn't expect was the location of the Song army's archers, and everyone had a sharpened thick wooden stick buried in front of them, and the sharp wooden stick pointed diagonally straight ahead.

As soon as the outer defense line of the large array was breached and the Mongol soldiers swarmed in, the Song archers retreated unhurriedly, leaving sharp wooden stakes on the ground pointing straight forward.

Unprepared, the Mongol cavalry jumped into the low stake forest, only to be overturned on their backs by the sharp stakes left all over the ground.

This trick is Gao Huaiyuan's previous life to see some military knowledge, from the British longbowmen where to learn, in the British war against France, the longbowmen each need to carry a two-end sharpened long log, when arrayed, one end of the long wood into the ground, the other end forward, very effective to resist the impact of the French cavalry, this time Gao Huaiyuan was in a hurry, he thought of this method, so that each archer got a long log, sharpened and followed the British longbowman, buried in front of him, As a result, this trick was used, and when the defense line was breached and the Mongol cavalry poured in in to try to slaughter the archers, the pointed stakes left behind were very effective in keeping the enemy out.

The result is of course obvious, to be prepared to deal with unprepared, of course the Mongolian cavalry is going to suffer, so they, together with the war horses, have been poked in this jungle of sharp stakes, simply unable to exert their huge impact power, but fortunately the Mongolian generals who commanded the attack were clever, seeing that the situation was not good, the Song army pikemen on both wings began to surround and wanted to block the mouth, he immediately ordered a retreat, with these Mongolian cavalry who escaped by luck withdrew from the Song army's large array, which did not end up with a total annihilation, Gray and defeated.

Polu really lost his temper with this group of Song troops, this Song army was full of strange tricks, all of which were specially designed to restrain his cavalry tactics, so that he was deflated again and again, but he couldn't bargain much, and sent a lot of horse meat to others for the Song army to eat.

And the situation that he expected that the Song army's combat effectiveness was greatly reduced due to lack of water did not appear, and the Song army was still in a lively posture, fighting with them, which surprised Polu.

However, he did not believe that the Song army could hold out for long, so he ordered the troops to be withdrawn and continued to besiege the Song army until they had no strength to fight at all, and then slaughtered them one by one.

The sky has been hazy for three days, there is not even a trace of wind in the air, people feel that the sweat on the body keeps rising, very uncomfortable, and in the afternoon, suddenly there was a gust of wind, and then the raindrops that had been held for a few days began to fall, smashed on the bare dry ground, stirred up a cloud of smoke and dust, and was soon sucked dry by the soil, leaving only a mud spot, but soon these raindrops were connected into a line, like a curtain in the air, and the ground could not immediately absorb the falling rainwater, Gradually, the ground became slippery and muddy.