"Squad leader, can you see the Mongols?" Signal corporates on the lookout

Next to the telescope, they eagerly asked Zhang Songya, the squad leader who was adjusting the telescope.

"What a nonsense! Shut up! "This name seems to be related to the Book of Poetry, and the squad leader Zhang opened his mouth with a bit of the style of "wind" in "Feng Ya Song". With that anxious look, there is the ruthlessness of singing "Shuo Mouse" soon.

However, the squad leader is the squad leader after all, and if he only knows how to be ruthless, he will naturally not be able to climb up, so he put away his anger and said loudly: "You nail the reed mats on the lookout!" ”

With clear instructions, the scouts were quick to go. This lookout is a standard structure, topped by a canopy for shade. When squad leader Zhang and the telescope were completely in the shade, he also adjusted the telescope. Although the Mongols could not be seen in the telescope, the general appearance of the military station thirty miles to the south and the three smoke rising from the military station were very clear. It was the smoke that came out of the attack.

Giving the binoculars to the soldiers who were anxious to see, squad leader Zhang sighed: "The Mongols have been dispatched. ”

Before this battle, the Song army had expected to encounter harassment from the Mongol cavalry, so they naturally took targeted responses. The military station attacked by the Mongols has been completed, and the military station where squad leader Zhang is located is still under construction. Looking condescendingly, the commanders dug the soil and filled the bags made of straw rope. These bags were neatly stacked one by one, and they became the many walls of the station. The place where the soil was taken was planned for a long time, and the long pit dug was used as a trench outside the military station.

Horses were buried outside the trench, and the earthen walls inside the trench were also divided into two layers, both of which were walls with shooting holes. In addition to the lookout, there are also high flagpoles and fortified forts. With four infantry companies and one artillery company stationed, an ordinary enemy of three or five thousand could not break through such a defensive system in a short period of time.

With the speed at which light traveled in the air, within ten minutes of the start of the fierce Huachi Wanhu attack station, Li Yun, the commander of the Fourth Division, who was dozens of miles away, knew the news. Within half an hour, the flag message would bring more complex information. 5,000 Mongol cavalry attacked Station No. 6.

The straight-line distance between Xuchang and Bianliang is 200 miles, and the road distance is 240 miles. The Song army set up military stations every thirty miles on the road, for a total of seven military stations. The attack on the No. 6 military station meant that the Mongol cavalry was sixty miles away from the 4th Division.

"Chief of Staff, I have heard that the Mongol cavalry can march hundreds of miles a day and still be engaged in battle. However, if they rush back to Bianliang City, they will probably lose their combat effectiveness completely. Li Yun asked the chief of staff. In fact, he also has his own judgment on this matter, but he still can't help but want to talk about it.

The chief of staff did not make any comment on Li Yun's question, he only replied coldly: "To achieve that goal, it depends on attacking unprepared troops." We're ready to respond. ”

Li Yun was secretly happy in his heart, the chief of staff would only show such an expression when he was very nervous in his heart, which proved that Li Yun was not the only one who was nervous. After getting the mental adjustment, Li Yun stared at the Bianliang city wall in front of him, and said viciously: "That is to say, by the time the Mongols rush back, we will at least have attacked the city wall." ”

The chief of staff did not answer. He also looked at the Bianliang city wall, and saw that more than a dozen earthen platforms slightly higher than the city wall had been erected in front of the city wall. Song Jun stood on the earthen platform and shot at the city wall. Before Zhao Taiwei came to power, the Great Song army fought on its own. At present, the Song army has only one under the command of Captain Zhao, and the combat training department in the army regularly exchanges various latest tactics and tactics. Seeing those complacent guys speaking triumphantly at the exchange meeting, the chief of staff was unhappy and wanted to beat them up. When it came time for war, he fully realized the usefulness of learning so much about tactics.

With each shot, a puff of white smoke added to the air. Under Bianliang City, it was already smoky, and the vision was blurred. By this time, the besieging troops had already erected a bridge to cross the ruined moat, transported the ladder to the city wall of Bianliang City, and it would not be long before they could begin to ascend the city. The chief of staff watched quietly, everything he should do and say had been completed, and at this time, it was up to the front-line personnel to execute.

The geographical advantages are different, for example, there is sandy land outside Bianliang City, and each shovel can scoop up a lot of soil. Due to greater efficiency, more earthen platforms were built outside the city than fought in the south.

The young commanders of the Song army had the idea of belonging to the Song army, and the Mongolian army at the head of Bianliang City also had the feeling of belonging to the Mongolian army. For example, when Liu Yunwanhu, who was responsible for defending the city, saw the Song army quickly build an earthen platform with soil and straw bags, the biggest feeling in his heart was that 'the Song army is a loser'! In this era of self-sufficient small-scale farmers, it was also exhausting to tie straw ropes. The earthen platform obviously has no reuse value, and the manpower consumed by so many straw bags is very large.

Because he didn't see the machinery of the Song Kingdom, Liu Yin Wanhu didn't know that most of the military materials of the Song Kingdom were produced by machinery. Twenty or thirty people are responsible for the operation of the straw rope machine, which can produce the output of hundreds of people a day. Long straw ropes were directly coiled into columns two feet thick and two feet high, and sent to the Song army in batches. Weaving disposable earthen bags with straw rope and hemp rope was one of the basic engineering skills that everyone in the Song army had to master. It was easy to weave two bags in an hour.

In addition to giving birth to the feeling of 'sparing no expense' in the Song army's project, all Liu Yunwanhu's feelings about this battle are despair. The tactics of the Song army were extremely simple, using straw bags to build a high platform in the mode of a loser. On each high platform, a vote was placed on the Song army to shoot at the opposite wall. When the bullets rained down on the defenders of the city, there was no other way for them to hide behind the walls.

Even if they knew that once the Song army attacked the city wall, the disadvantage of the Mongol army would only become greater. Liu Yunwanhu himself still stayed under the city and commanded the Mongol army to hide, and there were already hundreds of brave Mongolian military lives to prove the fact that there was only one way to die when exposed to the bullets of the Song army.

Not only will you be killed if you appear in the city. Wanhu sent two thousand-strong troops out of the city to attack the Song army, but they were also easily defeated by the Song army in the open field. If such an action was to be carried out, it would probably be necessary to send troops around the back of the Song army to launch an unexpected attack by the Song army. Just when Wanhu was considering tactics, a small colonel almost ran down the road with a rolling belt, and in the sound of gunshots like bursting beans, the small colonel shouted loudly: "Qi Wanhu, the ladder of the Song army has been erected on the city!" ”

As simple and crude as the Tutai tactics, there were no ladder trucks or building cars in the Song army's climbing facilities, only very simple long ladders. If it was an ordinary battle, the Mongol army at the head of the city could use a long pole to resist the top of the long ladder of the Song army, and easily push the long ladder away and knock it down. Now the head of the city is completely covered by the firepower of the Song army, let alone standing up and pushing, the head of the Mongolian army does not dare to show it.

Liu Yunwanhu ordered his subordinates sharply, "Tell the city that once the Song army does not shoot, it will be the Song army that will enter the city." Let them get up and fight back immediately! ”

In the dense gunfire like bursting beans, his subordinates were ordered to leave. Liu Yinwanhu's eyes were slightly closed, and he prayed in his heart that his father Liu Quan's spirit in heaven would bless the Mongol army in Bianliang City to defeat the Song army and defend the city. I don't know if the thinking ability was affected by the gunshots that rang out for a few hours, Liu Yunwanhu just didn't remember that his father Liu Cheng was captured alive and executed after being defeated by the Song army's firearms.

At this time, another Wanhu in the defenders of Bianliang City was facing the Song army's military station sixty miles away. Within a hundred paces centered on the Song military station, there were more than 100 corpses of Mongolian soldiers. In the camp of the fierce Huachi Wanhu, there were more than 200 wounded Mongolian troops who were humming and chirping.

The Mongol Wanhu came out with 5,000 Mongol cavalry, and before the first day was over, nearly a tenth of the casualties were lost, and if the experience of numbers was followed, they should retreat immediately at this time. However, looking at the dense firepower shot from the not too large military station, the fierce Hua Chi Wanhu firmly believed that there must be something very valuable in the military station, otherwise the Song army would not have resisted so desperately. Fierce Hua Chi Wanhu is a standard encirclement, and his goal is to take down a disgusting military station and cut off the Song army's line of communication.

"Rest everyone, night attack!" With a strong unwillingness, he gave the order to temporarily retreat.

As soon as the Mongolian cavalry retreated to rest, a cavalry sent by Bianliang City came to report, "Wanhu, the Song army has built an earthen platform. Look at the momentum. Unlike the Song army, which made full use of flags and fireworks, the Mongols used their superior cavalry to deliver the message. So the cavalry brought the same content a few hours ago.

Meng Li Huachi inquired carefully about the situation and learned that the Song army did not use straw bags to build a slope directly near the city wall, but an earthen platform that was fired at the outer wall of the city wall. He couldn't help but sneer a few times, "Hmph! Tomorrow, I will attack them from behind the Song army, and we will attack from both sides, and we will definitely annihilate the Song army. ”

Based on the experience of the Mongol army, the Song army's tactics were very 'direct', and there was no way to inflict a lot of damage on the enemy at once. Fierce Huachi Wanhu was very disappreciative in his heart. If another Wanhu in Bianliang City could know the voice of the fierce Huachi Wanhu, he would definitely strongly oppose it.

The Song army's tactics of ascending the city were as simple and crude as the previous ones. The soldiers climbed the ladder and threw several gunpowder canisters into the city as they approached it. The Mongol troops, who were hiding within the city walls, were blown up by the sudden arrival of gunpowder canisters and suffered heavy casualties. Taking advantage of this moment, the Song army crossed the city wall.

Those muskets became short guns with bayonets, and the Song army stabbed approaching targets with bayonets and spears at distant targets, occupying a long section of the city wall in a matter of moments. Seeing that the Song army was about to occupy Yongdao and enter the city, the Mongol army had to send troops to rush up. The Song army on the high platform accelerated their shooting according to the situation, and the number of casualties accumulated at a faster rate.

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, in addition to ordering the gathering of troops to recapture the city wall, Liu Yunwanhu also hurriedly sent people out of the city to summon the fierce Huachi Wanhu to rush back. Five thousand Mongol cavalry could have been of great use in this battle.