Chapter 708: Cannon Fire Roars
"Although Henan Road is large, there are only three roads into it, one is in the north, and General Qian is besieging Weizhou; The other is in the southeast, at the intersection of Huainan Road and Henan Road, but the road here is rugged and narrow, which is not conducive to the march of large armies, so this is the best route to attack Henan Road. www.biquge.info"Before the army, Luo Shiji talked eloquently, "Everyone, we have been dealing with these guys on the other side for a long time, and you are afraid that you will already know their details, as long as you use the eight things you usually train, they will never be your opponents!" ”
"Victory! Win! Win! Inspired by Luo Shiji's words, countless soldiers shouted, full of fighting spirit, eager to rush directly into the enemy formation and cut the enemy chief off his horse.
"When will the reinforcements from the National Teacher come?" On the other hand, in the Beiyu camp opposite, the generals Usari are not as invincible as when they just went south, he has suffered enough from Luo Shiji over the years, and he knows in his heart that if it weren't for the lack of troops to take the entire Henan Province, his tens of thousands of horses would have been swallowed by him a long time ago, and now that Luo Shiji's troops have been replenished, I'm afraid they probably won't be able to survive this time.
"General Qiyu, twenty-six waves of messengers have been dispatched, and there is still no response." The lieutenant in charge of the matter replied profusely, he also did not think that he could block Luo Shiji's attack; Given the might of the other side, Usari did not even dare to send his men and horses out to show the enemy his best horse and archery skills, but stuck to the camp, hoping to use the trenches and walls to block Luo Shiji's attack, so as to buy them time for reinforcements to arrive.
Before the camp of the Beiyu, there were trenches that stretched for several miles, and the trenches were about one zhang wide and more than one zhang deep, and they were specially filled with river water, hoping to use these to prevent Luo Shiji from digging tunnels to attack, which would lead to Yaluhan's fall; According to the information gathered, the dean had guessed the approximate reasons for the fall of the Yalehan camp, which had also been prepared according to his orders, and in addition to the fact that many large vats had been buried in the camp for the blind to listen to day and night.
"Send someone more!" Usari shouted anxiously, now there are only 50,000 soldiers and horses in the battalion, and he used to barely form a stalemate with Luo Shiji, but now the opponent's strength has doubled, how can he fight? If there were no reinforcements, he would probably have to figure out how to escape, and now he could only pin his hopes on Yuan Zhang.
"General, the enemy is attacking!" I saw that the attack of the Jiazhou army this time was very different from the previous ones, they did not transport trebuchets, nest carts and other siege equipment, but dozens of bronze thick pipes drawn by oxen and horses, and Usari looked upstairs for a long time and did not figure out what these things were for.
"What's that? Tell the order to go down and let the trebuchets and heavy crossbows aim at those places, but if there is any abnormal movement, attack immediately. Although it is not clear what these bronze pipes are for, they are certainly not a good thing, Usari immediately issued an order, but the cattle and horses stopped beyond the range of the trebuchet, and the front row piled up several low walls with sand to guard against bows and crossbows, only the mouth of the pipe was aimed at the door of the large camp, and Usari was helpless for a while.
"General, these may be the artillery used by the Jiazhou Naval Division, it is said that they can fire several catties of projectiles, but if they are hit by the projectiles fired by these artillery, the wall made of masonry can collapse, and they relied on these things to defeat the defenders of Dizhou before." Some well-informed people speculated that these words made the Northern Yuan soldiers around Usari more and more worried.
"Let the soldiers by the drawbridge get ready, and the cavalry will be ready to attack, if it is really as powerful as you say, it will only be necessary for people to go out and kill for a while." You can't just huddle in the camp and watch you get beaten, right? Usari had no choice but to send men to destroy the cannons.
"Yes, General!" The subordinates are all embarrassed, after such a long time of fighting, now the cavalry of the North Captives can not get any advantage in front of the Jiazhou army, originally wanted to rely on the defense of the walled wall to hold on for more time, but I didn't expect to attack again now, if that guy is unlucky to be selected, I am afraid it will be difficult to come back alive.
"Pu Suqi and Xue Haomu, you two each have three thousand fine horsemen, and as soon as you see my order, you will cross the trench from the drawbridge and destroy these things for me!" Usari saw that no one took the initiative to ask for battle, so he had to choose his own people, after the election, he sighed slightly in his heart, if it was put in the original attack on the capital, then there was still a need to act like this, that time was not a time to hear that there was a battle, all the generals took the initiative to fight, if they were not selected, they would be angry and scream.
It's good now, looking at the appearance of Pu Suqi and Xue Haomu, it was as if they were going to die, and the rest of the people breathed a sigh of relief, their eyes were full of happiness, and they looked at Pu Suqi and Xue Haomu with a sympathetic expression.
"The last general... The last will obey. Pu Suqi and Xue Haomu had a difficult face, but they could only agree to come down because of the military order, and they went down pitifully to rectify the soldiers and horses.
As he spoke, the cannon had been properly placed, and the gunners, who had undergone strict training in martial arts, took out various auxiliary aiming equipment, and continuously issued orders according to the measured results, while the rest of the people adjusted the height of the muzzle and the number of charges according to the figures they reported, and quickly prepared to open the cannon.
"The target is three hundred paces away, the muzzle of the gun is raised by three points, eighty percent of the charge, and the first round of test firing begins!" Receiving the signal from Luo Shiji, the gun commanders of each gun position quickly issued an order, and the gunner quickly lit the fuse.
The fuse sneered to the end, and then a ball of flame erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, and with a loud bang, a projectile screeched into the wall of the northern camp.
Usari and the others immediately raised their hearts to their throats, but fortunately, the shells fired in this round fell into the trench before they hit the wall, splashing into the sky.
Without waiting for Usari to breathe a sigh of relief, the second and third rounds of test firing began, and with the round of test firing, Pandan got closer and closer to the wall, and finally in the fourth round, the gunners calculated the correct data, and the first shell hit the hardwood wall.
The wooden wall was easily torn apart by cannonballs like papier-mâché, and then it took the lives of several Beiyu soldiers behind the wall, and the guys next to them were not good enough to get there, and their bodies were covered with crumbling wooden thorns, and they let out bursts of heart-rending wails.
"The school shooting is complete, and three rounds of rapid shooting according to the above results!" Luo Shiji was very satisfied with the performance of the gunners, and immediately gave the order for a salvo, and then the battlefield sounded like a roar of ten thousand thunders, and one shell after another flew towards the Beiyu camp.