Fifty large and medium-sized stone-throwing machines rose immediately after the watchtower, and in the battle of heavy stone-throwing machines, small guns such as whirlwind and tiger squat guns played a small role, so they simply slowed down the construction for the time being, and then used small stone-throwing machines to sweep the defenders on the city wall.

Of course, the garrison in the old crow cottage will not sit idly by and watch the opposite side prepare siege equipment, but this time the Mongolian military has prepared in advance, and hung a curtain more than a foot high in front of the position, and an earthen wall and fence have been built in front of the curtain.

Under the harassment of the Tulong army's artillery carts, the Mongolian army's stone trucks were all built according to the plan.

Just waiting for a new round of stone-throwing battles that will start on the second day.

The next morning, the Mongolian military camp sounded for the first time, and more than a dozen light horsemen galloped with a general in the shouts of the army, and rushed to the north gate of Dazhai.

Yang Luo wanted to ask the crossbowman to release cold arrows to test his luck several times, but was stopped by Lu Xunzhi. He was a Confucian leader of the army, and he was still stuck in the cliché of Xinyi etiquette, and decided that before the war began, he would never attack the enemy's messenger.

The general glanced up at the banner on the gatehouse, and motioned for his soldiers to open his mouth and shouted: "Lu Mou, the commander of the Southern Army, listens to the truth!" Today, the Great Khan personally sent Zhending, Hejian, Dongping, Daming, Jinan Five Roads and Ten Thousand Households"

Before he finished speaking, he had already received a fierce whip in the back.

"How is it so verbose!" The general urged the chestnut mount under his crotch to leap a few steps forward, and shouted: "Shi Tianze of a certain Youzhou! The guards in the city know my name and surrender early! If it's half a minute late, break the walled city, and the jade will be burned! ”

Lu Xunzhi opened his mouth and replied: "The Great Song Tulong Army commands Lu Xunzhi's answer!" Gentleman values righteousness"

Before he could say anything, Yang Luo raised the horned crossbow in his hand, looked at it accurately, pulled the tooth machine, and the crossbow arrow shot straight at Shi Tianze under the city like a rabbit.

Shi Tianze leaned over slightly, and his right hand reached out and firmly grasped the flying arrow in his hand. One shot fast and the other caught accurately, everything was completed in an instant, and the people in the city and the city didn't have time to react.

Shi Tianze raised the arrow in his hand high and shouted: "Is this your answer!" Shi swore with this arrow that if you don't break the walled city, you won't even leave a chicken or a dog after killing you, and you won't have the surname Shi anymore! ”

With that, he threw the arrow into the ground and led the cavalry away.

Lu Xunzhi turned his head and glared at Yang Luo.

"What does it matter," Yang said, "This answer is much simpler than that of the land command." ”

As he spoke, dust rose from the distant earth-shattering shouts, and dozens of projectiles of tens and hundreds of catties swept through the sky and fell into the walled city.

This time the Mongol army was ready, and the lookout on the watchtower had already indicated the location of the enemy artillery cart in the city for the catapult, and under the first wave of blows, a five-way cart was knocked down by stone bullets and collapsed, and the rest of the stone bullets hit the location very close to the target.

The artillery armies in the walled city immediately began to return fire.

The gunners placed in their leather nests the mud pellets filled with fireweed and withered vines, which had been soaked in the oil beforehand, and were ignited by the torches and immediately burst into flames.

"Put!" As the soldiers shouted in unison, dozens of huge fireballs flew out with black smoke trails.

It must be admitted that although the actual combat effect of fire bombs and ordinary projectiles is not much different, it is much more shocking in the scene. Not many people can watch a huge fireball flying towards them and remain indifferent.

It's an instinctive human reaction.

In practical terms, the fireball also burned a lot of the tabernacles that were hidden in front of the Mongol trebuchet, which made the attack of the Tulong army's trebuchet more accurate.

But soon, the opposite side also began to throw countless meteor fireballs into the city.

Fireballs flew over the wall, and ballistics made of black smoke drew strange patterns in the air. Yang Luo didn't have the time to pay attention to these. His eyes were fixed on a hundred paces in front of him, and a large group of Mongol soldiers had gathered, clearing the antlers and fences while pushing the large shield forward, forming a large shield defense line.

Behind the line, the archers began to shoot at the city, feathered arrows looming over the walls like a flock of crows. Not to be outdone, the archers at the head of the city also fired back, but after all, the number was too small to pose any real threat to the Mongol archers behind the big shield.

Yang Luo was not concerned about this, he was worried that behind the shield wall, he could already see the soldiers starting to dig holes in the earth, preparing to place smaller stone throwers.

Shi Tianze has little patience, and he wants to preemptively move on to the next offensive before the game of throwing stones is over.

Behind the shield wall, dozens of small stone throwers have been erected, all of which are light weapons specially used in close range for the destruction of fortifications at the head of the city.

It was a whirlwind cannon of fifty cannons as swift as the wind.

Each whirlwind cannon is one foot and two feet high, and a cupola pillar is used to penetrate five feet into the ground as a foundation. Two 8-foot-5-inch clips were used as supports. It is only a single lever of one foot and eight feet, and forty ropes are pulled, but the artillery hand only uses fifty people, and one person is fixed. Although the firing range is short and the shells are light, they are like the wind, which greatly increases the speed of shooting.

This brisk stone throwing machine is aimed at the defenders who are waiting on the wall.

The three-pound stone bullets and mud pellets were continuously fired at a rapid speed towards the city, although the power was not as amazing as the seven-tip and nine-tip cannons, but the firing speed was extremely fast, the front stone had just passed, the rear bomb had already followed, and the defenders on the wall of the wall suppressed by the continuous rain of bullets could not raise their heads.

Lu Xunzhi greeted Yang Yu, who was directing the archers to release arrows: "It's time to use that!" ”

Yang Luo stopped the order, collapsed his waist and ran towards the northeast corner of the wall, and beckoned to the city while running: "Whirlwind cannon, use the fire oil tank to fight back!" ”

The Tulong Army had already prepared more than a dozen whirlwind artillery positions under the wall, and listening to Yang Luo's order, they all picked up a one-pound stoneware urn from the projectile pile next to them and put it in the leather nest.

This is the traditional fire attack weapon of the Song army, there are unique features in its preparation method, use raw eggs to break one end, carefully take out the egg yolk and egg white, use straw traction to pour fire oil into the empty egg shell, after the eggs are filled with pottery urns, carefully seal them with yellow mud, and they are doubly cautious when taking and carrying them at ordinary times. This kind of oil tank with an eggshell inside is more effective than a simple oil tank filled with oil, so it was widely used in the Song army's land and water warfare.

Under the command of the sergeant at the head of the city, the whirlwind cannons under the city threw oil canisters over the walls one by one, all hitting the wooden shield walls of the Mongol army and the vicinity of the whirlwind artillery array.

The Mongol commander Qianhu, who led the team, shouted, and the whirlwind artillery team and the shooters retreated at full speed.

The Song army is going to attack!

Before they could run a few steps away, two rows of rockets on the wall were thrown down towards the Whirlwind Cannon position. The rockets ignited the oil that had been spilled on the ground, and the walls of wooden shields and fifty whirlwind cannons were engulfed in a sea of fire.

The whirlwind cannon on the side of the Earth Dragon Army is still not listening at all times, adding fuel to this sea of fire.

The wooden shield and the whirlwind cannon were quickly reduced to ashes in the fire.

Yang ran to the circular launch pad in the northeast corner, stretched out his hand and picked up a red flag and raised it.

A red flag was also raised in the far northwest corner. That was another signal that the squad was ready.

"Do it!" Yang Luo patted the three-bow bed crossbow that had been lying quietly since the beginning of the battle, and shouted towards the city. More than 100 servants pulled the piso in unison to the sound of neat slogans, and the winch of the three-bow bed crossbow in the city began to squeak and turn, and the bowstring stretched back.

"The strings are full!"

"Get on the arrow!"

Two bed crossbowmen carefully lifted a one-shot three-sword arrow and placed it on the pedestal.

Yang Luo squatted down, stroked the thick arrow shaft made of oak, and said in a low voice: "Whether you can turn the situation around or not depends on you, please, hit the target!" As he spoke, he took the torch from the sergeant's hand and lit the arrow.

A burly bed crossbowman raised the large axe in his hand, turned the axe side down, picked up the axe and smashed it towards the tooth machine.

Thunder shook the clouds, thunderbolts startled, and an iron spear broke through the air with a huge trail of smoke.

There was another cry of terror in the Mongol barracks. Forget about the stone thrower, a mere cottage is even equipped with a bed crossbow, but I don't know what kind of fierce enemy is hidden in the road.

The huge arrow crossed a slightly curved arc, but the target was not the ground, and everyone exclaimed in unison, and the arrow hit a watchtower in the distance with a huge momentum.

From the Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty, the bed crossbow had a range of only 700 steps, and after the improvement of the Song Zhenzong period, the range was wide to 1,000 steps. After further improvements in the Southern Song Dynasty, it can also effectively hit targets 1,000 steps away.

The Mongol artillery army used the range of the stone-throwing machine in the walled city to place the watchtower, because the watchtower could not be too far from the wall, and if it was too far from the wall, the greater the blind spot under the wall. And the lookout hand itself also has vision limitations, Lu Xunzhi can't see the true face of the opposite military camp clearly, and the same is true for the lookout hand of the Mongolian army.

Therefore, the Mongolian artillery army carefully chose a safe distance beyond the limit of the stone-throwing machine in a walled city to set up a watchtower.

They just didn't expect that the weapon covered with oilcloth on the round corner tower would be a valuable three-bow bed crossbow.

The two oil hyacinths hanging under the arrows of one gun and three swords collided and smashed into the watchtower, shattering into pieces, and countless eggs splashed out inside, and the fire oil inside was ignited by the fire on the arrow, turning a towering watchtower into a blazing torch.

This not only reduced the threat to the catapult troops in the city, but also dealt a morale blow to the Mongol army in the artillery battle.