Chapter 873: Artillery Battle
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"What we have is gunpowder!" Song Jirong sneered.
The 10,000 defenders of Yunzhou City have been able to defend it until now, which has a lot to do with Song Jirong's old age. Different from Zhang Yu's strategy when he was in Jincheng, when Zhang Yu faced the attack of the thorns, he wanted to wait for reinforcements to go north, so he scattered his troops and horses in various cities, in order to seek perfection and gain more time to guard Jincheng and those grain and grass baggage. But Song Jirong is different, although there are 20,000 Shatuo people in Niupiguan in the north of Yunzhou, he has never trusted those Hu people.
From the beginning, he did not intend to defend the outer cities of Yunzhou, after resisting the Hu people's forward for a while, and successfully withdrawing all the people and materials in the outer cities into Datong, Song Jirong ordered to abandon the cities and retreat into Yunzhou. At the same time, he recruited a large number of people to assist in defending the city, and divided the 10,000 Qin army into five divisions, in the first few days, in fact, there were only 2,000 Qin troops in the city to defend the city, and more of the soldiers defending the city were just ordinary people. The Qin army took turns to rest and had been recuperating.
With excellent battlefield experience, Song Jirong defended Yunzhou as impregnable, and the casualties were not large. In addition to the large number of equipment, grain and grass stored in Yunzhou City, as well as the firearms and equipment they transported, the key is that Song Jirong and the generals are not comparable to those auxiliary officers in Jincheng. In Jincheng, only Zhang Yu has rich experience in battle formations. Available in Yunzhou. There's a bunch of old fritters here.
Even their 10,000 soldiers. It's not Jincheng's low-powered logistics auxiliaries to speak of. They brought with them all elite solidarity soldiers from various states. Twenty battalions of 10,000 people were united and elite, except that they were not soldiers in name, in fact they were not weaker than soldiers at all, and they even had 3,000 light cavalry, real cavalry, not mounted infantry.
In addition to the 3,000 light cavalry, they also had four integrated artillery battalions, which were originally for Zhang Ziyi to use to recover Daibei. Attacking Shuozhou and Yanmen. As a result, the situation changed, Zhang Zimian hurriedly went south, and the four artillery battalions and those gun trucks, crossbow trucks, and gunpowder were all left in Yunzhou.
"The artillerymen can come out and shoot!" Cui Decheng had a chicken leg in his mouth, and he actually ate it at this time. As he ate the chicken legs, his eyes fixed on the catapult artillery of the three Hu people outside the city. It can be said that the threat of these three artillery arrays is great, although the sloping walls renovated by the Qin army can reduce the lethality of the artillery arrays. But at the current time when the enemy army is attacking on a large scale, if the Qin army wants to establish a flying thunder cannon position on the city wall, it must first eradicate these three catapult positions that pose a great threat to the flying thunder artillery position.
Get rid of the ranged first!
"Let our general bombard the three catapult formations, and then let the heavy ballista formations of the artillery battalion destroy the moving building carts of the Hu people. Then use the Flying Thunder Artillery Array against their archers! ”
Song Jirong's voice was still cold and calm, and he couldn't hear the slightest fluctuation.
A sharp whistle resounded over the battlefield.
Jerusher's face changed. Damn, the Qin army's general artillery is dispatched. He knew that the full firing of the three artillery arrays would attract a retaliatory attack from the general's artillery array.
Rumble.
Rumble.
Eight violent rumbling noises came out in a row, and the entire battlefield shook, and then, on the original three catapult positions, the original two hundred catapults and thousands of Hu soldiers almost disappeared. Eight large craters appeared in their place, followed by a field of corpses and fragments of catapults. A single blow wiped out almost all the catapults, and many of the rest were damaged by the shock, and some were buried directly in the earth. What's even more terrifying is that the Qin army's shelling added Greek fire bullets to the shells, and as a result, the area was full of Greek fires burning, burning whatever they sticked. Many of the Hu people who were originally just stunned, and those catapults that were still intact, were scrapped under this second fire.
Yelu Shilu shook his head and looked at the place covered in white smoke and black fire, his face was miserable and pale, the effect of Qin Jun's retaliatory strike was far beyond his expectations. His artillery array was gone, and even if the remaining dozens of them were good, they couldn't pose any threat for a while, and the key thing was that his gunners were gone.
"!" Yelu Ganggu only plucked out his ears, but it was still a buzzing sound, he cursed loudly, and then shouted at Yelu Shilu, "Fortunately, we still have a hand, damn it." ”
Yelu Shilu beckoned to the herald with a dark face, and also shouted: "Have you seen the location of the eight giant cannons of the Qin people just now?" Raised by a son of a bitch, they played coolly just now, this time it's our turn. Tell those gunners, rush at the position of those cannons, the fireball covers them, shit. ”
The herald departed quickly, and a moment later reached the other end of the newly destroyed catapult formation, shouting loudly at the crowd of Hu people. Then, the leaders of the Hu people turned their heads and shouted a few times, and saw that the ground that had been originally flat was suddenly kicked up with a puff of dust, and then a huge camouflage belt was lifted, revealing a series of catapults hidden under it, which were more numerous and taller than the two hundred before.
This is the killer mirror that the Hu people used to deal with the general's cannon, a full 300 catapults, working day and night, and then hiding on this battlefield and never taking it out. Yelu Shilu knew very well the power of the general's cannon, and the biggest purpose of his previous two hundred projectiles was to lure the Qin army to counterattack, and then expose the position, so that they could destroy this powerful general's artillery array.
"Can you see the position of the Qin people's giant cannon clearly?" A tall, white-skinned man with blond hair and blue eyes yelled at his gunners.
"See clearly."
"Very good, then give Lao Tzu a fierce counterattack and burn them all into a pile of charcoal!"
"Yes!"
Woohoo!
Three hundred catapults, which were one size larger than the original catapults, launched a salvo, and they no longer only projected stone bullets, but replaced them with 100 catapults, 100 large fireballs that were ignited, and 100 were projected flying fires that were far less powerful than the Qin army, but they were also very powerful, that is, gunpowder canisters.
This was a long-planned counterattack, and the purpose was to destroy the eight super general cannons that the Qin army possessed to intimidate the entire battlefield.
With these eight giant cannons here, it is really too much of a threat to the tribal army.
Rumble.
Thundered.
The accuracy of the Hu gunners was not as good as that of the Qin gunners, but the cluster projection of 300 artillery wagons still made the entire battlefield change color, and the roaring fireballs, stone shells, and bomb packs quickly covered the position of the eight giant cannons, and blew them up beyond recognition.
Cui Decheng stood on the city tower, looked back, and the chicken leg bone in his mouth fell silently.
"Fuck, the dog-day ugly guy would still play such a trick!"
Song Jirong and the others were also taken aback, due to the limited number of troops, they had not sent anyone out of the city these days, so naturally they didn't know that the Lu Daohu people actually hid such a force on the battlefield. This sudden blow really shocked everyone.
"Check the condition of the general's cannon immediately!"
The artillery battalion quickly reported, "Five of the eight general's guns were badly damaged, two were only slightly damaged, and one was basically fine." ”
"How long will it take?"
"It will take two or three hours for the two light ones, and it will take at least a few days for the five doors to be repaired."
Cui Decheng sighed: "Fortunately, our ammunition has always been stored strictly separately, otherwise, it is estimated that there will be no one left." But these dogs know how to hide their hands, don't we have them? Let the artillery battalion push out all the other ten general cannons, and this time, we will give all the remaining 300 catapults. Holy shit, I don't believe it, you can still make a cannon array!"
The artillery battalion received the order and immediately carried it out.
On the Hu people's stone-throwing cluster position, the blonde man was laughing, pointing to the wisps of black smoke rising from Yunzhou City and said: "As soon as I Reinhardt makes a move, who can be the enemy!" ”
Before he finished speaking, a familiar whistling sound was already heard in his ears.
His face changed, "General shelling, how is this possible?" ”
In an instant, several 300-pound heavy bombs have smashed into the catapult position, the first one did not hit the catapult position, but fell in the shield array guarding in front of the catapult array, suddenly, in the thunder and loud noise, the fire soared into the sky, the flesh and blood flew sideways, screaming again and again, and the entire shield array was directly smashed off in half.
Immediately afterwards, there were ten loud bangs, and several heavy bombs fell from the catapult position, and suddenly the tall catapult made of countless wood was destroyed and decayed, and it was a mess.
The killer mirror that Yelu Shilu had carefully prepared was vulnerable and completely destroyed again!
"This is the power of the Great General's Cannon, it's really pleasing to the eye. Fuck, cool! Cui Decheng looked at the destroyed Hu people's catapult position in the distance under the city, and smiled proudly.
Song Jirong's eyebrows were raised twice, his face showed a little joy, and he said in a deep voice: "The Hu people's catapult array has been destroyed, pass the order, let the heavy ballista array fire with all their might, target the enemy's moving all kinds of buildings and vehicles, destroy them, and never allow them to get close to the city wall." After the general's cannon is ready, he immediately goes into battle together, there is no need to save ammunition, and he loads loose bullets and divine fire bombs, so as to teach these bearded cubs a hard lesson. ”
"Yes!"
"The herald took the order.
"The general has an order, tell the heavy crossbow battalion and the general artillery battalion to kill those moving turtles and the rabbit cubs hiding below!"
"The general has an order, kill a cloud car, all members of the artillery team will be rewarded with five times each, and all the soldiers will be promoted to the first rank!" (To be continued......)