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As soon as Di Qing's army entered the city, and even before the city gate was completely closed, Yelu Goulu's soldiers and horses had already arrived. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sixty or seventy thousand cavalry surrounded and killed on three sides, cutting off all the roads leading from Zhongjing to the outside in an instant, and surrounded a tight one. Chen Yuan saw Yelu Purr, and he believed that the other party must have seen him as well.

In the city, two hundred artillery pieces have been arranged, and above the city, there are also the latest simple artillery of the Song army.

This kind of improvised artillery looked very much like the kind of salute that Chen Yuan had seen before, but the muzzle of the cannon was much larger. The power is not very large, and the range is not too far, but it is just right to put it at the head of the city. The barrel weighs 500 pounds, and the chassis is equipped with two wheels, so that only five soldiers can pull it at will.

The Song army above and below the city is adjusting the angle of the artillery, and the crossbowmen on the city are also ready, even the crossbows, car crossbows, and divine arm crossbows, one by one, have already pulled the bowstring. There was also a group of musketeers, who were stationed in a trench outside the city, numbering a total of 5,000 men. This was the first large-scale use of musketeers by the Song army on the battlefield, and it was also the forefront of the first battlefield of the musketeers, serving as the main blocking mission.

The five thousand men remained in the trenches outside the city, leaning against the walls in a defensive formation, and they would be the first obstacle that Jermanglu had to cross.

Chen Yuan saw Yelune grunt at a stop five hundred paces in front of the trench of the musketeers, but he did not stop attacking, but prepared to charge.

A strong wind blew through the city, and Chen Yuan was really excited in his heart. A game is over again! It was the same as the result he expected, but it was completely beyond Chen Yuan's expectations.

Yelu Gollum's coming to hit Zhongjing this time was completely to send him to death, and he had no hope at all. However, Chen Yuan understood his approach, and at the same time, he secretly admired it in his heart. Ask yourself, if Chen Yuan is Yelu Ne's muttering, he will make two choices, one is to try to make peace, even at the cost of losing everything.

Staying in the green mountains is not afraid of no firewood, which has always been Chen Yuan's creed. If the other party doesn't give him a way to live, Chen Yuan won't wait for death, he will take 400,000 cavalry to kill other places, he can't afford to provoke, he always runs, right?

During this time, he had been guarding against Yerune's escape, and now it seemed that he had been careful to spend Yerune's belly as a gentleman. People chose the most heroic way to make a break with themselves.

In a few years, there may be Khitans who will rethink Yelu Rum, or they will regard this Liao Emperor who knew that he would die and still attack him as a hero, if that is the case, Yelu Gollum will get his wish.

Chen Yuan didn't want to stop all this, the wheels of history are driven by war, when the bloody horse's hooves step on the dust of the years, some people, some things, some countries, are destined to become memories, since Yelu Gollum wants to become the object of others' remembrance, then fulfill him!

The formation of the Liao people charging under the city has been arranged, and all the preparations of the Song army in the city have been prepared.

Jermane Gollum had not moved. Di Qing frowned as he looked at the five thousand musketeers who were staying in the trenches outside the city. Five thousand brothers! Will they really be able to hold on? Although the musket had a long range, it was still very cumbersome to reload. Di Qing's heart was really uncertain.

However, Liu Ping is full of confidence.

It didn't take long for the iron cavalry of the Liao people to bring up a puff of dust, and the musketeers in the trenches were really a little nervous, although they had fought in Yingzhou before, and the effect was very good, but the charge of these Liao people was completely different from that of the Dongying people.

The speed of the Liao people was faster and more violent, and Yan Zhan stood under the city gate, responsible for directing the battle. At the moment when the Liao people launched a charge, Yan Zhan found that the enemy in front of him was suddenly blurred, hidden in the dust.

The Liao people's bows and crossbows were soon overwhelming, and the trench itself was the best cover for the musketeers, and the crossbow arrows flew over their heads, and very few could hit directly.

The experience of the Song army's trenches can be said to have just started, coming from Wu Ming's lone defense in Goryeo, as well as Xu Huaide's combat experience later. These two battles gave the Song army a taste of the sweetness of the trenches, and there was also the credit of Chen Yuan in the middle, and he firmly believed that the musketeers equipped with trenches must be the best combat mode. So Zeng Gongliang immediately collected the previous information about this aspect, and only then did he have this tunnel about two miles long outside Zhongjing City.

The Liao people are getting closer and closer, can they stop it? Yan Zhan never doubted it, but he quietly wiped the sweat from his palms, took a deep breath, and calmed himself down, and when the cavalry of the Liao State reached three hundred steps, he suddenly raised his long knife high: "Ready!" ”

There was a clicking sound, and the sergeants quickly checked whether their muskets were faulty, and whether the lead bullets and gunpowder had been loaded.

After waiting for about ten seconds, Yan Zhan's long knife pointed forward: "Ahead!" ”

Three thousand muskets were pointed at the Liao cavalry at the same time.

At the same time, Wu Ming in the city was also commanding loudly: "Prepare!" ”

Two hundred guns were immediately put in the shells, and the soldiers stood beside the guns with torches in hand, waiting for another order to light the fuses. Next to each cannon stood ten Song Dynasty soldiers, each performing their own duties.

In the distance, those Khitans stood in the place designated by Chen Yuan in a very orderly manner, no one walked around, they were much more honest than Chen Yuan imagined, and many of them were still ready to fight with the Song army at any time to defend this Zhongjing City.

All this is thanks to the efforts of those scholars, and it is their good governance for more than a year that makes these people quickly identify with the Great Song Dynasty. Of course, Chen Yuan also played a great role in the ugliness of Yelu Gollum during this period of time, and these ordinary people didn't know the truth of the matter. In their eyes, Jerman Gollum was already a tyrant, a devil.

Also, Yelu Gollum came this time, and did not restrain military discipline, and the atrocities along the way also spread through the mouths of those fleeing people, which made the Khitan people who had already returned to the Great Song Dynasty firmly believe that what Chen Yuan said was true.

Such a result is not unaware of the fact that Jermane Gollum is unaware. It's just that in his opinion, there is no need to make up for anything, all he wants is an end of his own choosing.

With the 20,000 cavalry around him, his first target to clear was naturally the 5,000 Song troops hiding in the trenches.

Seeing that the other party had entered the range of the Song army, Liu Ping at the head of the city raised the flag with his right hand, and on the city wall, a soldier waved the flag in his hand almost at the same time. His eyes kept staring at Wu Ming on the city wall, and he waved his hand violently: "Release!" ”

More than 30 cannonballs drew a graceful arc, crossed the city wall of Zhongjing, and smashed into the middle of the Liao cavalry that was rushing over.

"Bang...... Bang ......" continuous explosions sounded in the middle of the Liao State's charging ranks, and immediately dozens of horses were blown up and their flesh and blood blurred.

The first round of explosions was not over yet, and Wu Ming waved the order flag in his hand again: "Put it again!" ”

More shells hit head-on. Before the Liao people rushed to the trench for a hundred paces, there were already huge casualties, and Yelune's eyes burst into flames, and there was no need for a herald, and he shouted loudly on horseback: "Disperse!" Spread out the formation! ”

Chen Yuan, who was at the head of the city, shook his head slightly, Yelu Ne's battle was really good, and it was the best way to deal with the artillery bombardment, and the power of his current artillery shell was not great, and after the Liao country's charging team dispersed, the casualty ratio immediately dropped a lot.

However, the war has just begun, and the artillery fire is just a small snack before the meal, and the real meal is still to come! Yelu Gollum is here for a big meal this time, how could Chen Yuan let him down?

Yan Zhan in the trench finally moved, and the five thousand soldiers were divided into four rows. Chen Yuan's style of play is slightly different from those three-row round-robin shots in Europe, not because he innovated, but because the current rate of fire of muskets is not as fast as that of Yuehou, and there is no need for three-row round-robin shooting, even four rows cannot block the impact of cavalry.

The method adopted by Chen Yuan was that some soldiers were specifically responsible for shooting, some were specifically responsible for loading, and some were specialized in handing guns.

The soldier in charge of shooting will hand the gun back as soon as he has fired it, and his comrades in the back will bring the second gun to him, and generally each group will carry ten muskets before the battle, pre-loaded with ammunition, and five more muskets during the battle, for a total of fifteen shots, because it should be able to ensure that the enemy's charge will be crushed.

The muzzle of the musket erupted in streams of flames, and the iron sand pierced the air at a rapid speed, pounced on the oncoming Liao cavalry. Those Liao soldiers fell off their horses one by one, and there were not many who were directly killed, but after landing, their fate was to be trampled into pulp by the cavalry behind.

This didn't make Yelu Gollum flinch, he had no way back, he only wanted to kill a few Song people now, kill one by one, the more he killed, the better!

The Liao cavalry, led by Yelu Neghulu, trampled on the bodies of their comrades and continued to rush over.

However, the Song army in the trench became more and more skillful. The soldiers who shoot are only interested in shooting, and if they are shot, the one in charge of handing the guns in the back immediately fills the position. At the same time, three soldiers crouched behind them, just reloading their ammunition.

The Song army used this method to ensure the continuity of shooting, and the musketeers always blocked the opponent's horses' hooves at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces in front of them.

The situation faced by the Liao people now was that it was impossible to break through the Song army's musket array with a scattered charge, but once their army was assembled, the artillery in the city immediately fired.

In a short period of time, Yelu Gollum paid the price of tens of thousands of people. He had already sensed that something was wrong, and if he rushed down like this, there was no way to get close to the other party.

As long as they advance another fifty paces, and if they advance another fifty paces, those artillery on the head of the city will not dare to fight indiscriminately, and they can also use bows and arrows to shoot those musketeers, but these fifty steps are an obstacle that the Liao people cannot cross.

Unwilling to fail like this, Elome personally rushed over with his guards. His guards were still very dutiful, and they did not disperse in the face of the artillery fire of the Song army, using their bodies to resist the iron sand shot from the opposite side to protect the safety of Yelu Gollum.

"Kill!" Jerone grunted her spear and shouted frantically.

The Song army became so strong that he knew that there was no need to fight this battle. But because of this, it strengthened his determination to die willingly, and he believed that he was right this time. If he doesn't come out and work hard, maybe after a while, he won't even have a chance to fight hard.

(To be continued)