It seems that a hot knife can easily cut through the grease, and the penetration of the red-hot round iron bullet on the wooden board will be greatly increased, and not only that, but the temperature of the red-hot round iron bullet is extremely high, and there are flammable things in the place where it passes, which is more powerful than setting fire to a fire oil can.

Inside the seemingly calm "turtle shell", there is chaos to the extreme. Solid round iron shells pierced through the log shield, and scorching cannonballs flew in all directions. The space inside the shield cart was extremely narrow, although after the shield cart stopped, a large number of horses were led out, but in addition to the 10,000-pound cannon, there were also horses that pulled the winch to load the cannon with ammunition, a mountain of shells and gunpowder, and hundreds of sweaty gunners had almost no place to stay. The scene here is like hell on earth, the blazing cannonballs pierce the wooden shield without warning, the gunners panicked and hold their heads, once hit or grazed by this cannonball, either the head is in a different place, or the stump is broken, the end is extremely miserable, the horse is screaming, kicking and biting, and the hand can't pull it.

In the panicked crowd, there was a person who stood still, Wu Chun looked at the solid cannonballs that kept penetrating the wooden shield, his lips trembled, and muttered: "How is it possible,......, how can it be so ,......, impossible,..... He stood there in a daze, standing there straight, letting the people running around knock him staggered, and did not dodge, only muttered, "Why,......, why?" There was a sudden hint of panic in his distracted pupils.

A dark red round iron bullet pierced through the wooden shield, and with a stream of hot gas, it went straight to the powder keg pile, and smashed into it with a "bang", and then a ball of flames rose into the sky, "boom-" "boom-boom-" The gunpowder detonation erupted in a huge wave of air, sweeping in all directions, everything in the shield car was blown up, and flesh and dust flew everywhere. Not only that, but this wave of air was like a giant hand, overturning the entire 10,000-pound iron bucket cannon, and then blasting the wooden shield car covering the outside to pieces, and wood chips, iron filings, and sand and stones flew in all directions. Accompanied by a huge shock, a puff of smoke and dust rose up on the ground, which looked particularly strange in the ten thousand rays of morning light.

Above and below Nanshan City, the Liao army and the Han army were all stunned by the power of this huge explosion. Zhao Xingde looked at the rising smoke and dust, and let out a long breath. After the explosion, outside the gap in the city wall, the terrified Liao army was also unbearable, and under the blow of the shotgun at the head of the city, they retreated one after another, and the Han army seized this rare opportunity to repair the city wall.

Xiao Tachi was almost overturned to the ground, and he finally managed to control the frightened warhorse. He looked at the huge smoke and dust with a grim face, a red sun rising from behind the horizon, and the ice reflected a thousand golden morning lights. Just a moment ago, the Liao army was still in high spirits, and at this moment it was retreating in a hurry, and even Yelubo and Xiao Ping did not stop it. The Han army on the city wall erupted in a huge cheer, which seemed to be unbridled mockery in Xiao Tachi's ears.

"The city wall has fallen, we have to conquer Nanshan City!" He pointed the whip in his hand forward, the broken walls, the mountains of corpses, the soaked red mounds, like a huge wound that was constantly bleeding.

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"General, there are only eight hundred miles left on the foot to Zhenzhou." The marching commander Shi Shi Xiaobingdao.

"Well," Zhu Yanheng looked up at the sunset in the west, his legs were also a little sore after the march on this day, but he still ordered, "Walk ten miles further north and camp at the Yinma River." "Yes." Shi Xiaonai was Zhu Yanheng's old department, and immediately went to arrange the march and camp. Zhu Yanheng narrowed his eyes slightly, hiding a trace of fierceness under his eyes.

Beizhou was copied by the Murb people, and Zhu Yanheng, the general of Anbei, was furious. Where is Northstate? Duhan City is where the old military palace of the Anbei Military Division is located, where the fiefs of the three founding princes are located, and countless Beizhou people have been knighted for their military merits, even Your Majesty, because he has served in the hussar army, there is also a mantra of "I am a native of Beizhou". Now Beizhou has been plundered by a small barbarian, I don't want to know, the news reached Dunhuang, and the court was full of criticism of the Anbei Military Division. After learning the news, Zhu Yanheng immediately handed over the military affairs to Zhuang Zuobang, the head of the march of the Anbei Military Division, leaving the Duhan Army and the Tongqiu Army, and 15,000 Yinhu cavalry cooperated with the Andong Military Division to continue to attack Datong Mansion. He himself personally led the hussars and 15,000 shadow cavalry to the north.

On the march, Zhu Yanheng received a military report that the nobles of Beizhou, such as Zhao Guogong, the Duke of Qin, had personally gone into battle and expelled the Murbo people from Beizhou. According to the imperial court system, the regimental training army was not allowed to cross the state border without the permission of the protectorate. However, after the Murbo people left Beizhou and entered Zhenzhou, instead of reining in, they plundered all the way through.

Since the discovery of the infested cavalry of the Murbo Army, the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom who stayed in Zhenzhou has repeatedly sought the enemy to invite the enemy, but they have not achieved much success. Wu Mingchang, the commander of the Tayan Army, noticed that the horse thieves seemed to be hiding treacherous schemes, so he strongly advocated shrinking his forces and holding on to the strategy of waiting for help. Zhenzhou is not suitable for farming, and there was no Cangcheng in the past. Nearly 3,000 sergeants of the Tayan Army and 300 hussars were scattered to the counties, and the shades were gathered together to form a large camp of tens of thousands of people to defend against the raids of horse thieves. The remaining 1,500 geese and 200 hussars continued to defend the fort.

Hengzhai Fort was originally the seat of the Northwest Recruitment Division of the Liao State, which was seized by the Xia State decades ago, renamed Hengzhai Fort, and moved the Anbei Military Division and the Hussars to this place to garrison. However, the power of the Xia Kingdom was not as entrenched in this area as it was in Beizhou and Lingzhou. Just near Zhenzhou, there are many tribes that are hostile to the Xia Kingdom. A few years ago, the Haidu Khan Erbo tribe that Zhu Yanheng conquered, strictly speaking, was also in the boundary of Zhenzhou. Therefore, the Murbo people made waves in Zhenzhou, and they were even more powerful than Beizhou. Zhu Yanheng received the news that several neighboring tribes and the Murbo people actually joined forces and tried to attack Hengzhai Fort, wishing to avenge Haidu Khan and occupy the fertile pastures of the Tuwura River and the Yuqu River Valley.

"Jumping rats, how dare you bully the blade?" Zhu Yanheng narrowed his eyes slightly. The sharp and cold eyes like a knife blade disappeared in a flash. A blood-colored remnant sun is slowly sinking below the distant horizon.

Four thousand five hundred hussars marched behind Zhu Yanheng. It was a silent marching procession, long shadows sweeping across the rolling weeds. Except for the fact that the horses were generally taller, the hussars were almost indistinguishable from other cavalry, and even more ordinary. The armor was covered with all kinds of rough leather jackets, cotton jackets, and military robes with worn holes, but only a piece of sheepskin was coarsely patched. The sergeants were dark-faced, and most of the time marched silently. All the blades were covered in coarsely sewn holsters. In the marching column, the only conspicuous thing was the white eagle on the scout's shoulder, and the night hound scattered around the war horse. Following behind the hussars, the Kashido cavalry looked extraordinarily honest.

On the steppe, the hussars are a powerful force. The only Praetorian Guard in the Anbei Military Division, iron hooves across the desert north and south, invincible. The prestige of the hussars even spread far to the Liao State, and every time the envoy of the Xia State went to Beijing to meet the Liao Emperor, the Liao Emperor always asked about the recent situation of the Hussars.

Since Emperor Weiyuan Chen An served in the hussar army when he was young, it has become a tradition for the crown princes of the Xia Kingdom to serve in the hussar army to show the importance that the royal family attaches to the Anbei military division. Chen Chong, the crown prince of the dynasty, had served as a captain in the hussar army, and was leading the battalion to hold Hengzhai Fort together with the Tayan Army, which was also the reason why Zhu Yanheng immediately returned to Hengzhai Fort to help.

Above the heads of the 20,000 cavalrymen, an eagle hovered, and this eagle flew round and round, as if looking for prey, and finally swooped down in one direction, stopping on the shoulder of a man, and it turned out to be the Great Khan of the Murb, Bethin Molb. While gently stroking the feathers of the eagle with his hand, he said to the generals beside him: "Look at the situation of the eagle, the army of the Xia Kingdom should go to the Yuqu River, how is the situation of the various departments that come to the alliance?" ”

"The eleven tribes have already set off, everyone will meet in Tuwura River Bay to intercept Zhu Yanheng, the evil thief!" The brave general Timur said, and as he spoke, he subconsciously looked around vigilantly. In order not to alarm the Xia army, Boshenghuo Murbo approached with only twenty cavalry, while the army of the Murbo people reached the Tuura River in the far north, waiting for the tribes who came to join the alliance. According to the news from Datong Prefecture, Zhu Yanheng only brought 20,000 cavalry, while the tribes of the Murbo Alliance combined had a total of 40,000 cavalry.

Over the years, the various tribes of the steppe have been terrified. Different from the pacification and restraint policies of the Liao and Song dynasties, each time the Xia State subdued a tribe, it completely disregarded the interests of the original tribal nobles, and only selected warriors were arranged as sergeants, and the others were included as shade households. If the tribal nobles are slightly dissatisfied, they will die and the clan will be wiped out. Because of this, these tribes elected Tohule Murbo as Haidu Khan, in an attempt to jointly fight against the Anbei Military Division. Unexpectedly, before the alliance succeeded, the Anbei Military Division raided the Murbo tribe and killed Haidu Khan. To the east and south of Xiaohai, the tribes on both sides of the Yuqu River are like frightened birds. In the past two years, in addition to recruiting subordinates under the wing of the Liao State, Boshenghuo Erbo has secretly contacted various tribes to fight against the Xia State.

Some of these eleven tribes were afraid that the Xia Kingdom's power would expand eastward, and the leaders were unwilling to let the tribe be dismembered and reduced to ordinary soldiers or shades. Some were bought by Bo Shengkuo and Erbo with a large number of tea and cloth, and some obeyed Bo Shengkuo's dispatch as a recruiting envoy in the northwest of Liao State, and led the army to help in the war. A number of tribal cavalry marched towards the bend of the Tuura River at the same time, with nearly 10,000 large and more than 1,000 small ones.

Note: Yuqu River, Yinma River, now Krulun River.