Chapter 83: Madness
Even at this distance, the power of the cannonball was already limited, but the projectile still bravely advanced a few kilometers in the enemy's army before it stopped, but where he passed, those soldiers were all turned into stumps and broken arms, and it was better to lie down and not move, but the living people kept wailing with their severed limbs, which made the scalps of these soldiers numb and cold sweat. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The other shell apparently deviated from the target, only landing on the far right side of the Mongolian column, but this did not affect its role, first blasted the head of a Mongolian soldier into minced flesh, and before the headless corpse fell, it hit the waist of a soldier behind him, and as a result, even though the soldier was cut in half by the shell, the upper body fell to the ground and his intestines and stomach flowed to the ground.
The Mongolian soldier who was cut off by the waist was not dead for a while, lying on the ground in horror and constantly pulling his intestines, and screaming to pull his lower body to his side and catch his upper body, but soon he lost his strength and fell limply in a pool of blood.
Aha! Hit! Hit! The tension of the soldiers in the front line of the Song army had relaxed a lot at this time, as if they were watching a big show, their eyes widened, for fear of missing any scene, and when they saw the shells falling in the ranks of the Mongol army, many people couldn't help their excitement and began to applaud.
Solid cartridge loading, rapid-fire! Free fire! For such a target, Xing Fang didn't bother to command it anymore, and directly handed it over to the commander of the two guns to direct the launch himself.
As soon as the cannons were loaded, they immediately ignited the cannons, and the projectiles continued to fly out and fell into the advancing Mongol army.
Although the officers and soldiers of the new annexed army were almost terrified, but in the urging sound of the horns behind them, they could only withstand the continuous cannonballs fired by the Song army, and moved their legs forward step by step, and some even closed their eyes and no longer looked around at all.
Although it was constantly subjected to the artillery bombardment of the Song army, the firepower of the two guns was very weak, and even if it could cause some casualties of the Mongol army, the number was very limited, so the Mongol army continued to maintain a relatively neat queue and marched towards the mechanical march step by step.
Boom, just when the Song army was struggling to bombard the enemy, suddenly a cannon had just packed the medicine into the barrel of the cannon, and an explosion occurred, and a loader standing at the muzzle of the cannon was blown out and fell directly more than two feet away, and the entire upper body was almost scorched, and even the outline of his face could not be seen clearly.
So there was an exclamation immediately among the Song army, Gao Huaiyuan had been paying attention to the shelling situation, and immediately shouted: Stop loading!
Then he ordered Zheng Bingjie to temporarily take his place, turned over and dismounted, and rushed to the front artillery position quickly.
Xing Fang also hurriedly ordered to stop firing the cannon, and hurriedly ran towards the cannon where the accident occurred, Gao Huaiyuan spit on the cannon, only to hear a stabbing sound, and the spit was burned dry.
The cannon is overheated! Can't launch so continuously! Quickly fetch water and pour it on the cannon to cool it down! Gao Huaiyuan even commanded the people around him.
Yes? Oh! Hurry up and get water! Hurry, hurry! Fast! When Xing Fang heard this, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to fetch water.
Gao Huaiyuan only remembered at this time, he ignored a very important problem, that is, although he made this kind of artillery, but he did not take into account the problem of the cannon heating up when it was fired in a hurry, and usually like Xing Fang, they secretly practiced, and at most a few cannons, it was never possible to carry out such an intensity of rapid fire, so no one knew that after the artillery was overheated, it would cause spontaneous combustion of gunpowder, so that after eating such an accident today, he lost an excellent gunner in vain, which made Gao Huaiyuan feel distressed to death.
Soon someone sent the water bladder over, Gao Huaiyuan grabbed the water bladder and poured it on the gun body, with the sizzling sound, a stream of heat came out of the gun body, and after several bags of water were poured in a row, the temperature of the gun body was lowered.
Do the same for the other one, and force the cannon to cool down! Otherwise, something like this would have happened! Remember, keep an eye on the temperature of the gun, stop firing if it's too hot, cool it down with water, and then reload the gun! Gao Huaiyuan explained loudly to Xing Fang.
Xing Fang also immediately understood, and said loudly: Obey orders!
After a brief pause in the artillery, it began to reload again, and the rumbling cannons continued to rise one after another, constantly rising clouds of smoke in front of the Song army.
It wasn't until the Mongol soldiers began to enter the 400 paces that Xing Fang once again ordered the rest of the small-caliber copper cannons to start firing in a salvo, and immediately the front of the Song army was once again filled with gunpowder smoke from artillery fire, which choked some officers and soldiers coughing loudly.
After each shell fell, it would take away one or even several lives, and the hearts of all the officers and soldiers of the new annex seemed to be constantly beaten on the anvil, and finally some people began to can't stand the pressure, and they lost their weapons like crazy and fled towards the rear team.
No! I don't want to go any further! Don't it, I'm not doing it! The broken soldiers, who were not so bullying, screamed loudly as they pushed away the soldiers behind them and tried to flee back.
But a knife swept through his neck, and his head flew into the air, and the headless corpse spurted blood and fell to the ground with a thud.
The general has an order! Retreat without permission and kill without mercy! One of the Mongolian centurions in charge of the escort shook off the blood from his sword, hissed his voice, and gave orders to the soldiers of the newly annexed army around him.
So the soldiers of the new annex had to move their legs forward again.
Put! A roar suddenly sounded from the right side of the rows of crossbowmen standing behind the artillery emplacement.
At this time, the Mongol army had already begun to enter the range of the crossbows, and the people in charge of commanding these crossbowmen gave the order to release the arrows.
The crossbowmen who had already prepared immediately raised their arms, raised their hands to pull off the crossbow body, and shot the iron feather crossbow arrows into the air in front of them one by one.
When this dark cloud fell on the Mongol soldiers, another group of soldiers screamed and fell to the ground.
Rush! A Mongolian commander in charge of commanding this new annexed army raised his scimitar into the sky and shouted loudly.
After receiving this order, these soldiers, who had been moving slowly, also raised their weapons one after another, howled, and began to accelerate forward.
Aggrieved, too aggrieved, such a short distance of a few hundred steps, they could only stare dryly at Song Jun slamming the hot iron bullets between them, tearing apart living people one by one, but they didn't have the slightest way, walking here, they didn't know how many people fell on the way forward, now they are finally close to Song Jun, and it is time to let them take revenge!
Although they were defeated by the Mongol army and had to surrender in order to survive, they followed others to do things, but many of them also looked down on the Song people and thought that the Song army could be bullied, but today, they found that things were not what they thought, they watched their fellow villagers and relatives fall to their side, even if they did not work for the Mongols, they also had reason to rush up to avenge their fellow villagers.
Therefore, when these new annexes who had been suppressed to the extreme, they also broke out of their anger at this moment, and they all raised the weapons in their hands, screaming and rushing towards the Song army's formation.
Lose your marbles! These people are driven insane! Get ready to take on the enemy! Gao Huaiyuan stood in front of the handsome flag and looked at these Mongolian soldiers who began to charge, shook his head and sighed.
Stop firing! Reload Shotshots! Lay flat on the fan side! Get ready for a salvo! Xing Fang looked at these Mongolian soldiers who began to run towards the Song army's position, and immediately waved his small flag to give the order.
Packets of lead bullets were once again stabbed into the barrels, and the muzzles of all the guns were flattened, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the Mongol troops in front of them, and the muzzles of the guns formed a slight fan.
The archers also raised their bows one after another, put their arrows on the bowstring, and under the orders of the officers, they twisted their waists and pulled the bowstring
This is exactly the time! Warriors of the Great Khan! Now it's time for us to pay off the blood debt from these damned Song people! Kill! Batu excitedly watched as the new annexed army was getting closer and closer to the Song army's line, and had already begun to charge, so he thought it was time for him to attack, he waved his bright waist knife vigorously, and yelled at the soldiers around him.
So those Mongol cavalry and the Semu cavalry also shouted, and then, under the leadership of their respective officers, they urged their mounts one after another and began to charge at the Song army.
Gao Huaiyuan and the generals in the army began to get nervous, but after Gao Huaiyuan saw the actions of the Mongolian army, his mood relaxed, and he said casually: The Mongolian army has been defeated!
His brainless words, so that everyone around him couldn't help but be stunned, many people now see the Mongolian army all began to launch, like a tsunami towards them, although they have a lot more troops than the Mongolian army, but most of them know that the combat effectiveness of their Song army is not enough to compare with these Mongolian barbarians in front of them one to one.
So when everyone saw the whole Mongolian army start to attack, they all began to get nervous, and after listening to Gao Huaiyuan's words, some people didn't think so in their hearts, thinking that Gao Huaiyuan might just be comforting them.