Chapter 344: Prepare for battle
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The morning light slowly opened the curtain, and it was another gorgeous and colorful morning, bringing freshness to the world. The streets of Xiangyang City are quiet. When the first rays of morning light shine through the mist, the streets usher in a warm morning. Occasionally, someone walks on the main road, the air is cool, gently caressing people's faces, people's hair, making people relax wholeheartedly, suddenly the fatigue of the whole body is gone, the soreness on the body is gone, only to feel a wisp of cool spring flowing into the heart, just like eating cold watermelon in the hot summer!
Others stroll along the pond, lined with towering plane trees and willows nodding in the breeze, fish swimming freely in the water, and wildflowers reflecting in the water.
At about four or five o'clock, the sky just revealed the white of the fish's belly, everything was not mixed with the smell of animals, everything was pure and refreshing, like a faint ink painting, and the ink painting was filled with the fragrance of good grass. Then, a glimmer of light on the eastern horizon carefully soaked the light blue sky, and a new day gradually moved into the distance.
Chen Qiubai and the others patrolled the city until midnight last night, and then the shift was over, and they returned to their rooms and hurriedly fell asleep.
Two or three hours have passed since they had gone to sleep. Suddenly, a loud earth-shattering sound of "coaxing" came out of the city, and Chen Qiubai and the others who were sleeping on the bed also shook gently.
In the first second, Chen Qiubai opened his eyes, but his expression was still a little confused. In the second second, the advantage of "coaxing" made a loud noise, and it spread deafeningly.
It wasn't until the third second that Chen Qiubai woke up completely - the Mongols began to bombard!!
It seems that this time, these Mongols are going to get serious. Because in the previous time, although the Mongols surrounded Xiangyang City, but there was no substantial siege action, perhaps because the preparation was not sufficient, or maybe it felt that the time was wrong, so although the Mongols and the Great Song Dynasty were also in a state of confrontation, there was no actual large-scale confrontation.
But now, the Mongols began to attack the city in earnest, and first opened the way with catapults and artillery.
Sure enough, after the second cannon shot, a massive attack followed, "boom...... Boom, boom, ......"Boom" The deafening sound came one after another, making Chen Qiubai a little impetuous.
Then Chen Qiubai didn't say a word, he bounced up directly on the bed, turned over and got up, then grabbed the clothes on the bed, and put them on his body very neatly. And strode out of the house.
"Heck...... Bang Bang Bang ......" Just as Chen Qiubai rushed outside, the sound of gravel rolling also sounded in his ears at the same time. Chen Qiubai's eyes flickered, and he only saw a boulder with a diameter of about half a meter, mixed with a violent wind, and smashed a room not far from his room, this boulder mixed with huge kinetic energy smashed through two walls in a blink of an eye, and then rolled straight towards Chen Qiubai.
said that it was too late, it was too fast, Chen Qiubai hurriedly dodged and passed, and finally narrowly avoided this big stone. Then I saw that the stone continued forward and hit my room, and made a big hole in the room, and "Boom! The sound directly smashed Chen Qiubai's bed, and then stopped rolling and stayed in Chen Qiubai's room peacefully.
"Rub! Lao Tzu was lucky, and he actually won a first prize?! Looking at the boulder that rolled into his room, Chen Qiubai laughed a little self-deprecatingly. It seems that he just reacted quickly and ran out, and he really did the right thing, otherwise, he would have to lie on the bed, and now I am afraid that if he does not die, he will be seriously injured.
At this time, the rest of the Kunlun team, as well as He Zudao, also came out of their rooms.
"Tsk! Chen Qiubai, congratulations! Ma Ningyuan didn't have the slightest virtue on his lips, and said directly.
"Congratulations grandma! I've stepped on shit, congratulations? Chen Qiubai's face was a little ugly.
Ma Ningyuan explained slowly: "If you don't die in a big disaster, you will have a blessing!" Don't you understand? β
"This Xiangyang City, it seems that it is probably going to become unpeaceful in the past few days! Let's all be careful. Ye Hongyi was obviously a little worried.
"Heck...... ......There was another loud bang, and a boulder fell from the sky and smashed it violently at everyone. But this time it was okay, everyone was outside, and all of them were quick-eyed, and they were able to react to it, and they all dodged the moment the boulder hit.
"Whew...... Scared the baby to death, it's so dangerous here. We might as well move somewhere. Mu Sicheng said with some fear.
"Where will there be a safe place now, the whole Xiangyang City is the same, you have to find a safe place, unless you hide outside the city." Liu Yiran said helplessly.
Then "Huh" only saw a black shadow, smashed from afar, "bang", there was no sound of smashing the wall, but like the sound of some ceramic jar being broken, and it was accompanied by a sound of "coaxing ......" - it was on fire!!
It turned out to be a canister of fire oil smashed by the Mongols, and it seems that this time these Mongols attacked the city and made a bloody investment. The boulder cannon should be the legendary return cannon, and it is also mixed with a lot of oil and gunpowder jars. It's burned and fried again. Chen Qiubai and the others were helpless, frowning.
This time, the Mongols attacked the Song on a large scale, and met with stubborn resistance from the Song army in the city of Xiangyang. The Battle of Xiangfan began in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yuan army besieged the city for five years, but it was never overcome. In the eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Shizu sent an envoy to Persia to transfer back the gunsmiths to the king of the sect. Ah Lao Wading and his disciple Yisima responded to the edict and galloped their families to Beijing. In November of the ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Ah Lao Wading and Yi Si Ma were made into return cannons, and they were intended to be test-fired in front of the five doors of the capital.
This is a boulder cannon with a projectile weighing 150 kilograms, which is fired with a machine with a lot of force and a long range. The test firing was successful, and Shizu was very satisfied, and gave them clothes and silk, and ordered them to bring this cannon to the Xiangyang army to use it.
And until now, these hateful Mongols have finally used the legendary Huihui cannon in the siege of Xiangyang.
Chen Qiubai and the others were no longer standing so stupidly, and ran directly towards the hall of the Guo Mansion.
Everyone ran all the way, dodging the huge flying stones that were smashed one by one, and finally rushed to the hall of Guo's mansion, only to see Guo Jing and Huang Rong, as well as their son Guo Poyu, daughters Guo Fu and Guo Xiang, son-in-law Yeluqi, and apprentice Wu Dunru Wu Xiuwen. There are also some martial arts masters who came to help defend the city, and one by one they are already waiting here.