"General, the Dijon army has moved, and it will take half an hour at most to reach the city of Xuzhou."

"All-arms war!"

"Yes!" On March 29, the wind and the sun were beautiful, but the war was about to break out. Eighty artillery pieces were put on the city wall, more than 1,000 muskets, bows and crossbows were crossed, Molotov cocktails, rolling stones, and rolling wood were all prepared.

Song Che and Liao Heng personally went to the wall to supervise the battle, and the emperor and military advisors were present, and the morale of the soldiers was greatly increased. Three quarters in the hour.

"Knock knock knock ......" miles apart, you can hear the sound of heavy footsteps, and as far as the eye can see, the black army of Dijon swallows the earth like a tide.

The scene is really shocking!

"Five miles!"

"Artillery ready!" The artillerymen cleaned the barrels, loaded the gunpowder and shells, and waited with torches.

Song Che used a telescope to observe the distance of Dijon's army at any time.

"Sanli!"

"Ignition!" Eighty guns were fired in unison.

"Boom!" A burst of artillery rang out, kicking off the war, and one by one the artillery smashed heavily into the Dijon camp, and the lethality was visible to the naked eye.

Dijon, probably the first time such a ferocious firearm, immediately howled at the charge, and the vanguard cavalry carried the stairs over the wall in twos and charged at the foot of the city.

Wait for the cavalry to rush half a mile.

"Musket aiming!"

"Launch!" A thousand guns fired a volley, and the bullets rained down like a curtain, and the front row of cavalry was brought down in an instant. The musket fired, and while the ammunition was reloaded, the bow and crossbow stepped forward to shoot!

In just three rounds of cross-range strikes, hundreds of cavalry were defeated. Seeing this, Dijon hurriedly changed his strategy, recalled the cavalry, and used shield infantry to cover the advance.

Eight battering rams, under the cover of shields and human walls, approached the city gate one after another.

"Artillery, knock out their siege engines!" The artillery turned its muzzle, aimed at the siege vehicle, and the two-wheeled artillery fire came down, destroying most of the vehicles!

At this time, the Dijon shield soldiers approached Xuzhou City less than half a mile against the crossbow, and suddenly withdrew from the defensive formation, and tens of thousands of infantry carried the ladder over the wall to the city gate!

The infantry would cross the wall, ladder, truss, and moat, and build wooden planks to make improvised bridges.

"Molotov cocktails!" Molotov cocktails filled with alcohol were thrown into the moat, and the blue flames burst into flames, quickly igniting the bridge, and even if the alcohol fell into the river, it was smaller than the water and floated on the surface of the river, and the Dijon infantry who fell into the river could not escape the incineration!

The battle lasted for two quarters of an hour, and the Great Liang side used all kinds of firearms so that Dijon could not even cross the moat. Eventually, Dijon was unable to support enough and lost, and after leaving behind a thousand corpses, Mingjin withdrew his troops and retreated for the time being.

But they did not go far, but retreated five miles away, regrouped their formation, and would charge again at any moment.

"The whole army quickly refills ammunition, and it is just a tentative attack by the enemy, and there will be a second round soon!"

"Brother Song, when will you go out of the city to fight, the swords and axes in the hands of the soldiers are already hungry and thirsty!"

"The Art of War: 'Husband fights, courage also, one flourishes, then declines, and three is exhausted.'" Next, they will attack on a large scale, and if they are defeated twice, they will be able to open the gates and release the drawbridge in pursuit. ”

"Look, Dijon is moving again!" Sure enough, this time, Dijon pressed on the whole line, with the shield infantry as the front row, and approached Xuzhou City in order.

The artillery fire was fierce again, and it was not a burst shell, and seven or eight people were killed and wounded in one shot, and Dijon healed again, but it did not slow them down much.

In a short time, the Dijon infantry marched half a mile away, and in the rain of bullets, they suddenly changed their formation, and saw that the infantry were scattered, and a heavy cavalry wearing armor and horses and armor suddenly launched a charge, carrying large shields!

"It's Dijon's ironclad heavy cavalry!" The cavalry is almost armed to the teeth, coupled with the fact that the Dijon people are tall and large, like human-shaped tanks, thousands of horsemen are charging in the dust, and the sense of oppression is suffocating!

Almost ignoring muskets and crossbows, the ironclad heavy cavalry lined up to cover the infantry and rushed to the moat in one go.

Dozens of times the strength of the first attack, quickly built more than ten wooden bridges on the moat, Dijon soldiers braved the flames, carried the ladder over the wall, and finally reached the city wall of Xuzhou!

The Great Liang army threw rolling stones, logs, explosives, and Molotov cocktails, and swept the Dijon vanguard off the city wall one by one.

At this time, the enemy's catapult has also driven to the city wall, and a round of earth explosives was thrown onto the city wall, with a strong bow and a hard crossbow, the girder side began to appear battle damage.

"Let the artillery knock out their catapults!" Catapults are far inferior to artillery in terms of range, power, and distance.

Once the muzzle of the cannon is aimed at the catapult, half of the fire is fired, and most of the catapult is lost. Although the Dijon reached the walls, none of them could reach them, and thousands of corpses were piled up under the walls, scorched by the fire.

After half an hour of fruitless attack, Dijon withdrew again.

"This time, everyone is allowed to cheer for a while." Song Che wiped his face with a rag, and even if he didn't go to the battlefield, the gunpowder smoke blackened his face.

The joy of victory turned into bursts of cheers, and they shouted to the Dijon army in unison: "Tarslaves, get back to the gates!" Tarslaves, get back out of the gates! The shout was undoubtedly another punch, which broke Dijon's morale by another three points.

Dijon still had not retreated. The two sides faced each other for another quarter of an hour, and suddenly the Dijon army began to advance again, this time at a slow pace, without an offensive.

"Don't fire yet, get them closer." The Dijon soldiers are in the city, the leader has a mustache, and he is still a familiar face in his thirties, isn't it the Dijon envoy Saipan who used to play polo with them in Luoyang?

"Hey, are you Liang people so weak? Only dare to hide on the city wall to defend, if it is a man, he will go out of the city to fight to the death! ”

"That's right! A group of shrunken turtles, dare to come down and fight to the death! ”

"If you don't dare to come to battle, you will obediently open the city and surrender, otherwise when we invade Xuzhou, we will slaughter you and not leave a piece of armor!" It turned out that the mouth cannon was coming.

Not to be outdone, Song Che took the lead in mocking: "I have heard that Dijon Iron Cavalry swept everything, but you can see, there are mountains of corpses piled up under this city, heh...... That's it! ”

"That's right, a group of reckless men who can only charge, just because you dare to earn me Xuzhou! Acquaintances, lay down your arms and surrender quickly, or you will invade your north and destroy your entire Tarslave clan in the coming day! ”

"Come up!" The two sides began to scold, speaking official and foreign languages at the same time, and no one could understand anyone, so they scolded vigorously.

"In my opinion, don't talk nonsense, we will each send a warrior to face each other, if I win, you let us carry the dead brother's body away, if you win, we will withdraw our troops immediately, how about it?" Saipan asked aloud.

When the two armies are fighting, if they can kill the enemy's generals, their morale will inevitably increase greatly. But...... Song Che turned his head to look at Jiang Yuntian, Dijon is definitely not a widow, its brute force is unfathomable, will the risk be too great?

"The enemy has gone to the city to provoke, how can he not accept the challenge? It just so happens that Lao Tzu didn't set off with a fire in his belly, so what's the harm in having a heads-up face? Jiang Yuntian couldn't wait.