Gao Daquan from the north to the south, killed through the forward barracks of Jiaozhi, coldly glanced at the gate of the two-mile foreign toe camp, looked back at the hills on both sides of the valley mouth, and shouted loudly: "The rescuers of the Jiaozhi people have been assembled, and it will not be long before they will be killed, we will withdraw!" ”

The soldiers behind him listened, turned their horses' heads, and went to the command offices to give orders.

On the top of the mountain, Xu Ping looked at the situation and ordered Tan Hu, and after a while, a cannon burst into the night sky.

Chen Changji looked at the fire left by the cannon in the air in front of the tent, frowned and said, "The Song army will engage in these strange things and disturb people's hearts!" ”

The 5,000 regular soldiers of Jiaozhi spread out to the two wings and quietly took cover in the forward barracks two miles away. At this time, the cavalry formation of the Great Song Dynasty was scattered, and if it was surrounded by the Jiaozhi formation, it would inevitably pay a huge price.

Xu Ping could see clearly by the light of the fire on the top of the mountain, and pointed to the attacking Jiaozhi soldiers and horses and said to Lu Fang: "You also saw that the Jiaozhi reinforcements have come out." Just in the middle of the two military camps in Jiaozhi, aim at the route of their two teams, and let the large and medium stone cannons fire a salvo together! ”

Lu Fang received the order and took the herald soldiers to make arrangements.

This time it was a covering blow, and even the test firing correction range was exempted, and with a sound of a drum, two large and medium stone cannons behind the mountain were fired at the same time.

The tremendous reaction force made the whole hill tremble, and the stone bullets in the sky even covered the moonlight, and flew down the mountain with the whining of the wind.

The Cochin soldiers who were attacking forward were halfway through when they suddenly felt the light dim, followed by the sound of tearing the air above their heads, and before the stone bullets could hit the ground, a gust of wind was first raised.

This area was an open space, and there were only a few sparse large trees, which were first hit by stone bullets, and bowl-thick branches were smashed from the big trees. Seven or eight Cochin soldiers were swept to the ground at once.

The Cochin Soldier just felt a burst of shock, and before he could react, the huge stone projectile had already fallen into the crowd, ran over the Cochin Soldier, and took advantage of the momentum to roll forward, pressing a gap in the crowd.

There are two or three hundred large and medium cannons on the mountains on both sides. Launched at the same time, it was like a stone rain falling at the bottom of the mountain, and the Jiaozhi soldiers under the shroud had nowhere to hide, and there were countless casualties.

This time the shot was a little off, and most of the stone bullets hit the open space in the middle, and only a small half smashed into the crowd. This was especially true when a single salvo killed more than 300 Cochin soldiers.

The lieutenant who led the troops was so frightened by the earth-shattering momentum that he froze in place, looking at the stone bullets that were still rolling on the ground in a daze, and he didn't know whether to move forward or retreat for a while.

Chen Changji watched in front of the camp. I saw that a large swarm of bees seemed to fly out of the mountains on both sides, buzzing and covering the soldiers who attacked them, but in an instant, the five thousand soldiers and horses were already in chaos.

"Ruan Dali's killing talent, no wonder he was so frightened by the stone cannon of the Song army, he actually has some such might!" Chen Changji gasped, "I don't know how many stone cannons the Song army has set up on the mountain, and they can fire hundreds of stone shells at a time." How can this battle be fought? A few more times, won't all my 5,000 soldiers and horses be finished? ”

Come to think of it. Chen Changji said to the soldiers around him: "Pass the order, let Vice General Li bring people back!" ”

The sound of cymbals sounded in the Cochin barracks, and it continued for a long time as the wind in the winter night spread into the distance.

Hearing the sound of cymbals, Vice Admiral Li let out a sigh of relief and organized his men to retreat. He couldn't care whether the soldiers in the vanguard camp in front were dead or alive. The Great Song cavalry, who calmly retreated, no longer took it to heart. Song Jun will retreat, and his life will be saved first.

After more than a quarter of an hour, the drums on the top of the hill sounded again, and the second round of stone bullets with a whistling sound smashed again into the Jiaozhi army, which had begun to disperse in formation.

This time, the Cochins were already on guard, but the stone bullets would fly everywhere after they landed. As long as you get closer, you can't prevent it, and more than 200 people still died under this round of stone bullets.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gao Daquan retreated to the valley with his subordinates. Two thousand cavalry, a military camp of nearly 3,000 people with Jiaozhi people, only lost a dozen people, which can be regarded as unscathed.

Xu Ping saw it on the top of the mountain, completely relaxed, and ordered Tan Hu to tell Lu Fang to increase the range of the stone cannon by fifty zhang, and play another round to surprise the Jiaozhi people.

The so-called long-range is only one or two counterweights on the stone cannon, which is theoretically fifty zhang, but the range of the stone cannon is affected by too many factors, and the dispersion is particularly large, so it can only be approximate.

The retreating Cochin soldiers were caught off guard by the third round of stone artillery, and this time the most casualties were imposed, and more than 500 Cochin soldiers withdrew from the battlefield with a single series of casualties.

The one who was most surprised by this round of artillery attacks was Chen Changji, who muttered in his mouth: "How is it possible, the stone cannon of the Song army is accurate, not to mention, how can it still be close and far, this is worth it?" ”

Looking at the embarrassed appearance of his subordinates, the more Chen Changji thought about it, the more frightened he became: "If the Song Army's stone cannons can chase and fight people, and they are condescending, how can this battle continue?" Hundreds of stone projectiles are fired at a time, how many of me can withstand such a toss? Before they could get close to the valley, thousands of people would die! No wonder the Song army vacated the mouth of the valley and did not build a pass there, I thought they were too late, but I didn't expect that it was because of such a powerful stone cannon, which was convenient for their soldiers and horses to kill out of the valley. How good is that? ”

This night, both parties could not sleep.

Xu Ping here, is to reward Gao Daquan and his party of 2,000 cavalry for their military exploits. Through this battle, Xu Ping also strengthened his confidence in victory, and it was not difficult to destroy the 10,000 or 20,000 Jiaozhi soldiers outside the valley.

Here in Jiaozhi, it is a scramble to treat the soldiers who were injured by stone bullets, and arrange for the regular soldiers who have escaped from the forward camp and have been frightened. And most of the local soldiers who were killed and scattered have fled without a trace in the moonlit night. They are not stupid either, how can they still stay here and let others be cannon fodder.

The most worried was Chen Changji, who couldn't sleep all night, and meditated how to deal with the stone cannons of the Song army on both sides of the valley. According to the convention, the best way to deal with stone artillery is to use stone artillery, artillery to artillery, as long as you can hit farther and more accurately than the opponent, you can naturally win easily.

But Chen Changji saw the three rounds of salvos of the Song army, and he really didn't have the confidence that he could make a better stone cannon than the one on the opposite mountain. Not to mention that the Song army occupies a favorable position and is condescending, even if the two sides use the same artillery, the Jiaozhi army has no chance of winning.

Stone cannons are warp weapons that are inherently good for defenders, especially when there is cover. A hundred years later, the reason why Chen Gui, a famous defender of the Song Dynasty, thought that the city wall should not be too high was because the defender's stone cannon could be erected under the city wall, and it should be fired just over the city wall. And the stone cannon is under the city wall, no matter how powerful the attacker's stone cannon is, it can't hit the head, and if the city wall is not broken, this defense will be unbreakable.

Xu Ping naturally didn't know about this, but he understood the ballistics of long-range weapons, and if the stone cannons were placed on the back of the ridgeline, the enemy would either occupy the ridgeline or dig through the mountain, otherwise the stone artillery positions would not be threatened.

With these hundreds of stone cannons, several blockade lines can be established on the offensive route, so that the Cochin army cannot form a continuous attack. With his own troops no less than those of the Jiaozhi people, the intermittent attacks could not threaten the Song army at all. Even if something goes wrong, you can use the reserve team to make up for it in time.

By the time the war had ended, the advantages of the Song army had become extremely obvious.

In the next three days, Chen Changji did not make any moves, and quietly sent a large number of soldiers to the surrounding mountains to cut down big trees and step up the production of simple stone cannons.

The principle of the simple trebuchet is not complicated, it has been an essential weapon for siege since the Warring States period, as long as you find a few skilled craftsmen, the army can make it yourself. In particular, the simple stone cannons dragged by human means are easier to make, and as long as there is enough wood, it is not difficult to make several tables in a few days. However, how powerful this stone cannon can be depends on the character of the coach.

On the fifth day, it was about to reach the end of the first month, Chen Changji of Taniguchi was calm, and Li Fuma of Thang Long Mansion was unable to hold his breath.

The situation in Sumaozhou became more and more erosive, and the local soldiers of Jiaozhi who entered there from Luzhou were not welcome, and they ran into walls everywhere, launched ferocious attacks, and burned and plundered everywhere. Sumaozhou is a poor mountainous state in the frontier, where can it withstand the toss of thousands of routs? The flight of local households became more and more serious, led by local large households, and another 2,000 families fled into the territory of Qinzhou in the Great Song Dynasty. At this time, the Song army on the border already had an advantage, especially Xu Ping, who contained 10,000 or 20,000 mobile troops in Jiaozhi, and Thang Long Fu was also unable to increase troops to the border.

Feng Shenji, a veteran for many years, naturally would not let go of such an opportunity, and his attitude towards Jiaozhi became tougher, learning from Xu Ping's actions in Langzhou, and insisting that Su Maozhou was a subordinate state of Yongzhou in the Great Song Dynasty.

Without the support of local households, the regular soldiers sent by Thang Long Province to Sumao Prefecture clashed with the local soldiers of Jiaozhi who entered there for supplies, and they were already in a mess.

On the twenty-eighth day of the first month of the second year of Mingdao, the day of Yiwei, the solar term was stunned.

Winter has just come to an end, spring seems to be coming to the future, the chill between heaven and earth is finally far away, and the warm wind blows from the sea to Langzhou.

Li Foma sent to the front line of Langzhou, the inner servant Li Mingxin, came to Chen Changji's military camp.

Chen Changji listened to the soldier's report, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly greeted the handsome tent outside the gate.

Li Mingxin is the adopted son of Li Renyi, a favored servant at this time, Li Renyi is the mastermind of Li Foma's ascension to the throne, and his status in front of Li Foma is self-evident.

Chen Changji takes Li Fengxiao as his backer, and it is not that no one takes care of him, but don't say that his subordinate status cannot be compared with his adopted son, even his status in front of Li Foma, Li Fengxiao, a fierce general, may not be able to compare with Li Renyi, the chamberlain who guards in front of the king every day.

Seeing Chen Changji, Li Mingxin's attitude was cold, and after the cold noise, he raised his head and said nonchalantly: "General Chen, the Holy Lord is coming down, and I want to ask you, it has been nearly ten days since I arrived in Langzhou, why did you not move forward." Recently, the villains in Su Mao have been in turmoil, and the saint is anxious, waiting for the general to pacify Langzhou, sweep Luzhou along the Qiqi River, and take down those villains who are in rebellion together with the defenders of Su Maozhou. As a result, the general stayed honestly outside Langzhou, and didn't take the holy advice to heart at all, what does it mean? (To be continued.) )