After the Yongjiguan Ancient Road, it is the Langshan Ancient Road.

The Lang Son Ancient Road is not long, less than 20 kilometers, and there are not many curved places, almost a straight road.

But why did Guo Kui prefer to take a long detour than go here during the Song Yue Xining War?

Because it's in the middle of two mountain ranges, it's like a ray of sky. The Vietnamese army built a fortress in the middle and occupied the mountains on both sides, not to mention tens of thousands of people, even 200,000 people could not break it.

It's as difficult as Shu Road.

Therefore, since ancient times, Yongji Pass and Lang Son Road have been the border between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Vietnamese Dynasty, and Vietnam occupies this natural danger to avoid the risk of losing the country.

But at the moment. Times have changed, little brother.

In the middle of the Lang Son Ancient Road, on a high mountain with a terrain of about three or four hundred meters, this is already the highest mountain beam in the vicinity.

The top of the hill was cleared of a flat land, weeds and trees were cut down, and three or four meters from the edge of the cliff, rows of large and small cannon barrels glowed with a strange silver glow in the August autumn sun.

Almost as soon as the fort was assembled, the gunner just aimed the muzzle of the gun in the direction of Langshan Pass of the Li Dynasty, and without much calibration, Di Qing gave an order and opened fire on the enemy.

Precise strikes only need to be calibrated, and carpet coverage only needs direction.

What's more, the end of the mountain road is full of Li Dynasty's camps, and there is no need to aim, as long as the direction is right, basically fire casually, and you can hit the Vietnamese army.

Therefore, Di Qing was too lazy to waste time.

He shouted, "Boom! ”

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Toot toot toot!"

Several heralds shouted loudly.

Then the whistle blew loudly.

The entire position was filled with the shrill sound of whistles breaking the air.

Almost at the moment when the whistle sounded, the crew members of both the cannon and the small cannon began to act in an instant.

There were shells that were plugged into the shells, there were those who poked in with a pickle, and there were torches that took out the scythe and lit a small torch that they carried with them, and in an instant everyone was already loaded.

In the next second, the leader of the artillery team ignited, and the first to fire was the small steel cannon group, their barrel is short, the firing speed is extremely fast, under normal circumstances, four or five rounds can be fired in a minute, and under the limit output, ten rounds can be fired in a minute, which is very terrifying.

"Bang bang

The roar suddenly resounded throughout the world.

White smoke fills the air.

The muzzle flames burst out.

At this time, on the mountain ridge above the right side of Langshan Pass, Guo Shengyi watched on the top of the mountain as usual, wanting to see what the Song army was doing after being silent for a few days.

He actually didn't understand, why did he insist on it when it was clear that the Song army couldn't break through their pass?

If he was a Song army, he would definitely choose to take a long detour to Beifu, although they also arranged heavy troops there, but there were many forks in Beifu, and some could even go straight to the Ruyue River.

If Song Jun goes over there, there may still be some chance. And go this way, not to mention that the Song army only has tens of thousands of people, even if it is a 200,000-strong army, it has to be sunk in the sand.

I really can't understand why Song Jun did this.

But it doesn't matter if you don't understand it, Guo Shengyi thinks that since Song Jun is so stupid and chooses this way of hitting the south wall, why shouldn't he do it?

So he stood on a high platform on the top of the mountain and continued to look, his eyes wandering over the camp of the Song army and the top of the mountain occupied by the other party.

Hey?

Why did the Song army get out of the camp?

Guo Shengyi saw that many people were pouring out of the Song army outside the pass in the distance, and began to line up outside the camp.

Are they going to attack?

He thought.

However, Guo Shengyi did not immediately arrange men and horses to prepare for defense.

Because the enemy is so far away, it will take at least half an hour to come, but there is no hurry, and continue to wait and see.

Hey?

How can I see a white light flashing on the mountain occupied by the Song army?

Guo Shengyi was confused.

Is that a mirror?

He couldn't understand the situation on Song Jun's side at all.

The other side acted as if he didn't understand military affairs.

Attack heavily guarded passes.

Set up camp in places where there is little water.

Still installing mirrors on top of the mountain?

What's the situation?

Guo Shengyi only felt that his mind was full of question marks, could it be that the general of the Song army on the other side was a fool?

He didn't know why, so he had to keep watching.

A few seconds later.

A huge sound came, and white smoke rose from the mountains in the distance.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of black balls crossed a brilliant arc in mid-air and smashed towards the Vietnamese army at the pass.

Hey?

What is that?

Guo Shengyi watched blankly.

Only this one thought crossed my mind.

But after only two or three seconds, Guo Shengyi knew what it was.

"Bang bang bang!"

Those black balls fell into the Vietnamese army camp behind the pass, and suddenly exploded.

A large number of Li Dynasty soldiers were still taking naps and resting, and in their sleep, they only heard a loud roar, which startled everyone.

"What's going on?"

"The earth dragon has turned over, the earth dragon has turned over."

"Run, run."

All kinds of Chinese are mixed with the local Beijing language of Annam, Jiaozhi, and I don't even know what language.

But there is one meaning in all the language - horror.

No one knows what's going on.

Judging from the sound alone, it was as if there was an earthquake, which filled every soldier of the Li Dynasty in Dayue with panic and fear.

Many of them didn't even have time to put on their clothes, so they ran out of the camp in a panic, and before they could see what was happening, they felt that the surroundings were surrounded by dust and smoke, gray mist, and a strange smell in the air.

Many people ran out of the camp and looked around, and noticed that there was no violent shaking under their feet, and there seemed to be no earthquake. Just as he was in doubt, a few seconds later, someone pointed to the sky and said in horror, "What is that?" ”

Some people looked up and saw a large number of black balls swept towards them.

But they didn't have time to react, because the speed of the cannon was very fast, four or five kilometers away, it only took a few seconds to fly, and almost the moment they saw the black balls, those black balls had already fallen, and they broke out again with a loud sound.

"Bang bang bang!"

After the flowering bomb hit the ground, it exploded, some tents were lifted away, some wooden towers were blown up, and some people were in the center of the explosion, directly splitting apart, and the blood turned into rain, swaying on everyone's body.

A Vietnamese soldier stood in a daze, more than ten meters away from him, one of his comrades disappeared, one leg flew into the air and landed in front of him.

Blood was stained all over his face, it wasn't his blood, but the warm feeling touched his skin, and the roar in his ears made him lose his mind for a moment, and he couldn't tell if it was his own blood or the blood of his enemies.

He couldn't even tell if he could still control his body.

After a few seconds, he struggled to come back to his senses, his legs trembling, and then he screamed, stumbled, rolled, and staggered backwards.

As he ran, he cried out in a trembling voice, "The gods are angry, the gods are angry!" ”

His shout had an immediate ripple effect.

"Woo woo woo, the gods don't punish me, the gods don't punish me, I don't want to come to war."

"It is we who have offended the kingdom of God, and the gods are angry."

"Run."

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die! Who's going to save me, my leg is gone. ”

They shouted and cried. Everyone either spoke in Chinese or in the native Beijing language of the Li Dynasty, praying for forgiveness.

The Li Dynasty was in the period of development of Vietnam's native culture, and their first national myth, The Legend of Lingnan Monsters, was written at this time, so the Vietnamese people believed in ghosts and gods at this time.

The terrifying power of the artillery made many low-level soldiers think that the gods were angry and sent down punishments, causing everyone to be terrified at this time.

Some people have weak legs and can barely walk.

Some of them can still hold on, like crazy demons, running around.

Others simply rolled their eyes, foamed at the mouth, and were directly frightened and fainted.

However, no matter how much they prayed to God, the sound of explosions was still incessant, and the atmosphere of terror still hung over their heads.

Even if more than 200 artillery pieces covered the attack, there were not many people who could really be killed per shot, at most only a few hundred, but it almost collapsed the Li Dynasty's army of 50,000 or 60,000.

The camp inside the pass was a mess and smoke-filled with smoke, and a large number of soldiers fled in all directions, scurrying like monkeys.

Guo Shengyi at the top of the mountain was even more shocked and speechless.

It wasn't until two or three minutes later, when the Song army's artillery had fired more than ten rounds, and the entire Langshan Pass was already in a mess, that he came to his senses and shouted tremblingly: "Retreat!" ”

But at this time, the camp was in chaos, not to mention the gongs and drums, copper cymbals, horns, and whistles commonly used in marching and fighting, and even the flags were completely invalid.

The entire chain of command, without any blows, was completely ineffective because of the chaos below.

On the opposite mountain beam, the Song army was still covered by artillery fire.

This time, the flowering bullets they used, the power of the flowering bombs was not satisfactory, but the benefits were also obvious. That is, the sound of the explosion is very deterrent, and it is very useful against monkeys who have never seen firearms.

In just 30 minutes, the Song army poured about 20,000 shells, an average of two or three shots per minute, and the entire mountain road was almost destroyed, the ground was full of potholes, broken trees, dilapidated tents, and scattered equipment could be seen everywhere.

There are also many unlucky corpses lying on the ground, lucky only to be scratched by the iron pieces sputtered by the shells, and the seriously injured can still moan when they fall to the ground, and the unlucky ones are directly torn apart, and the corpses are not human-shaped.

That is to say, in ancient times, wars were about grouping, and the roads were narrow. Otherwise, in the era of thermal weapons, the soldiers will be scattered separately and will not gather together, and carpet bombing will not have much effect.

But it would be good if this tactic could be successfully used once, and it would already be the foundation of the entire battlefield.

With Lang Son Pass washed by 260 artillery pieces and the mountain road in shambles, Di Qing finally gave the order to stop shooting.

The artillery positions of the Song army were almost submerged in white smoke at this time, and the mountain beams were about to become heavenly palaces, and in such clear weather, the visibility actually became very low.

"All the troops are attacking!"

Di Qing stood on a high place, and could only see the Li Dynasty's position that had completely collapsed through the smoke of gunpowder that was blown a little thin by the wind, so he issued a military order.

As soon as he arrived, a herald walked to the edge of the cliff and waved his flag down the mountain.

Since the top of the mountain is about four or five hundred meters away from the bottom of the mountain, it is difficult to pass on ordinary gongs, drums, horns and other things, and basically use flag language.

Led by the mountain were several of Di Qing's lieutenant generals, in addition to the commanders of the two firearms armies, there were also Zhang Yu as his deputy commanders of the capital soldiers and horses, as well as local generals such as the commanders of the Guangxi South Road and Yongzhou Xiangdu.

Zhang Yu led the musket team and the Xiang army to press the formation in front, and when he saw Di Qing on the top of the mountain giving a signal, he shouted: "The enemy has been defeated, brothers kill!" ”

"Kill!"

The morale of the Song army was immediately high.

This battle is too easy to fight, and before the close combat begins, the enemy has already collapsed, and the credit is the same as that of the white pick-up.

The Song army rushed towards Lang Son Pass like a tide.

When Zhang Yu arrived at Langshan Pass, there were almost no living people in the pass, and only a tragic scene remained.

More than 20,000 flowering bombs carpeted the ground, resulting in craters and fresh mud, almost half of the lush woods on both sides of the road were destroyed.

Everywhere were corpses, sawdust, earthen pits, and the broken tents and ordnance of the Vietnamese army, and the wall outside the pass was intact, but the inside of the pass was already full of messes, and under the attack of artillery, the Li Dynasty was unable to form an army.

Zhang Yu stood on the gate and watched all this in shock.

This is actually the first time that artillery has been used on a large scale on the battlefield, and it was either only a small number of artillery pieces or only used for deterrence, and the artillery position composed of hundreds of cannons was so terrifying, which also shocked veterans like him who had experienced the Songxia and Songliao wars.

More than 200 cannons are already so terrifying, but the imperial court has arranged tens of thousands of them on the border of Songliao and Songxia. If the Western Xia and Liao armies come again, I'm afraid they will be bombarded into slag this time.

And even Zhang Yu was shocked, not to mention the local Xiang army and which ethnic minority soldiers.

They all looked at all with horror in their eyes.

Zhang Yu quickly came back to his senses and shouted: "Pass the order, don't be stunned, chase me, chase the enemy for three hundred miles, and take their capital Shenglong Mansion!" ”

"Yes!"

The surrounding lieutenants also hurriedly responded.

Immediately, the Song army, which had been prepared for a long time, was mighty and did not bother to clean up the battlefield, directly crossed the Lang Son Pass, and pursued the defeated Vietnamese army all the way.

It was only at this time that Di Qing went down the mountain, and the main force went to chase people, and he, the main general, was still in the rear.

He went down the mountain with Nong Zhigao, and after ordering the artillery groups to start waiting for the barrels to cool down, and disassembling the cannon to go down the mountain and return to the camp, he entered the Lang Son Pass with Nong Zhigao.

This formation in Guanzhong also surprised Di Qing, the artillery array was really terrifying.

And Nong Zhigao was even more trembling, and kept muttering to himself: "This is the Heavenly Power of the Heavenly Kingdom, this is the Heavenly Power of the Heavenly Kingdom."

Saying that, he unconsciously suddenly became proud, and muttered to himself: "I am the Heavenly Official of the Heavenly Kingdom, and I am the Heavenly Official of the Heavenly Kingdom." The court gave me Yongzhou Tongzhi, and I am a member of the court. ”

At this moment, he was glad that while fighting against the Li Dynasty, he always maintained his loyalty to the Great Song Dynasty and kept asking for attachment.

Otherwise, if you learn from Li Yuanhao and set himself up as the king, I'm afraid I won't know how to die.

"Tongzhi, this place will be handed over to you."

Di Qing glanced around, and then admonished: "You let the people clean up the battlefield and bury or burn the corpses, if you don't care, it will cause an epidemic." Then I came with artillery and ordnance in the rear, and I went to charge with my men and horses first. ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

This time, Nong Zhigao no longer dared to question any of Di Qing's orders, and hurriedly responded.

After giving the order, Di Qing took his personal guards and began to chase the large army in front, and he planned to stab the Li Dynasty directly to Shenglong with a single shot, so that the Li Dynasty would lose the country with lightning speed!

(End of chapter)