Chapter 884: Cannon Shot

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Three days after the beacon fire in Yunzhou City was extinguished, Yang Weili and his brothers in Jiadu, who were on a reconnaissance mission near Baishuiluo, finally saw the banner of the Hu tribe alliance and the tribal alliance army with no end in sight. The tribal alliance was like a huge wolf pack, black and oppressive, with a huge rumbling sound and high dust, pulling a long procession, winding through the mountain wasteland, sweeping towards Baishuilu.

"Fire!"

Yang Willy looked at the army marching like an ant colony, his heart was excited, and he said in a high-pitched tone. The Hu people are really here, and the hunting has begun.

The chicken ran over excitedly: "I'll light the fire, I'll light the fire!" "This guy seems to have contracted a disease, and he wants to rob him no matter what. Grab people's heads, grab loot, and now even small things like ignition have to be grabbed. Everyone is almost used to this guy, anyway, he grabs for the sake of grabbing.

The chicken ran in front of the flying thunder cannon, grinning, showing a mouthful of big yellow teeth, and didn't know what Lu Dao was excited about. He took out the treasure-like treasured lighter from his body, although this thing was produced by the Qin Domain, it was still a very rare thing, especially this collector's lighter with a gold shell and inlaid with precious stones, which was even more valuable. It was snatched from a small clan leader whose head he had chopped off. Although the Qin army had a military rule that in addition to collective capture, individual seizures should also be returned to the public, but it was not completely returned to the public, and some of the spoils were divided into three parts, half of which went to the public, and a quarter was used as a reward and compensation for the dead and wounded in the battle. The remaining quarter went to the captured fighters. For example, some gold and silver jewelry, war horses, armor, weapons, etc.

This lighter is priced ten. The price of a cow. Obviously underestimated a little. Originally, he could get a reward of two times, but he asked for it himself, and he owed the troops eight times for this. But he was willing, and said that he would leave this thing to his son Shi Jingtang.

The chicken rubbed the grinding wheel, and with a few clicks, a flame came out, and he brought the lighter close to the lead and lit it.

The lead burned rapidly with a string of sparks. Then there was a loud bang, and the gunpowder pack in the barrel of the flying thunder cannon flew straight into the sky.

Bang!

The sound of artillery resounded through the mountain fields.

"Pack up the guys, get out!" Yang Willy decisively ordered.

"I'll bring the flying thunder cannon!" The two Lu Shi's apprentices pretended to be active in carrying the flying thunder cannon, and sure enough, the chicken immediately ran over again, and took the initiative to rush to bring this heavy equipment of the capital team. The two students looked at each other and smiled, pretending to be reluctant, and then left secretly in their hearts. After following this comrade who wants to grab everything for a long time, everyone has become smarter.

Because of its lightness and simplicity, the Flying Thunder Cannon is now also a mass-produced 'heavy equipment'. Equipped to the team.

According to the standard armament of the Iron Cavalry, each of them is a hundred. There are 200 war horses, in addition to each person's riding spear, saber, riding shield, and armor, one also has two flying thunder cannons, ten Fuyuan double heavy crossbows, four three-bow and eight ox crossbows, ten large square shields, and 1,000 thistles. It can be said that in terms of equipment, the Qin army is indeed no feudal town that can be compared, and even the Divine Ce Army of the Son of Heaven is far inferior.

This kind of configuration allows the small troops of the Qin army to have a strong explosive power, and often a battalion of the Hu people can sometimes deal with it.

However, Yang Willy faced tens of thousands of Hu people and fired cannons, but he didn't want to hit the stone with an egg. This is just an early warning, the armies of both sides are already approaching Baishuiluo, and it is the fastest to convey military information with the sound of artillery.

After the cannon fire of Yang Willy's team, sure enough, the cannon sound began to sound continuously behind him, one after another.

At the end of this cannon transmission, on the shore of Baishuiluo Lake, the horn began to blow in the setting sun, making a rapid whining. At this time, there were Qin troops everywhere outside the wooden fence by the lake, and at their feet, there were corpses of Hu warriors lying all over the ground, as well as broken knives and guns all over the ground, and the flags that had been cut down, and the blood flowed like a river, staining the water by the lake red.

Li Siyuan's subordinates, who were still cleaning the battlefield and mending knives to the Hu people one by one, didn't look back at the Hu people who kept coming, they were just seriously mending the knives, mending the knives for each Hu person's corpse. Their method is very simple, directly chop off the head of each Hu people, before they were ambushed here, defeated, the Hu people cut off the heads of tens of thousands of Shatuo warriors, and piled up countless Jingguan by the lake. Now, they are back, and they deliberately let go of the tens of thousands of Hu routs, and then chased them all the way here.

After chasing here, they have no value. Under the order of the King of Qin, more than 20,000 of them, under the banner of the King of Qin, defeated the more than 10,000 defeated soldiers and the 5,000 tribal auxiliaries left behind in the wooden fence in one fell swoop.

They didn't let go of any of the Hu people, for three days and three nights, they kept the speed under control, and won a complete victory with minimal casualties, and now, the Hu army finally appeared as expected.

Behind them, in the center of the camp fence that had been captured, a large banner was erected, on which a huge plum character was embroidered with gold thread.

Everyone knows the significance of this banner, which is the banner of the generalissimo of the Tang Dynasty, Shang Shuling, and Li Jing, the king of Qin. With this banner, although they were facing more than 70,000 Hu troops, they were fearless, and their hearts were full of the will to fight.

Li Jing, who was standing on the high arrow, smiled and watched the Hu people enter the hunting ground little by little with a calm mood. I don't know why, Li Jing's heart is as calm as water, and he doesn't even have the slightest excitement and nervousness, he has experienced a lot of fierce battles like this, not to mention the current battle that is completely as he planned?

The faces of the Hu warriors became clearer and clearer, and the sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer.

The hunt began, and when the cannon sounded, it not only represented the message that the Hu people had arrived, but also a well-agreed trumpet, and the four teams that were ambushed not far from here would immediately rush to join the siege when they heard the cannon. It would have been a perfect hunt, and their prey would still think they were hunters and treat them as their prey.

The approaching Hu cavalry began to divide into two armies to the left and right.

Assault in the middle, outflanking on both wings, this is probably the earliest tactic born out of hunting.

"Circumference three que one!" Gongsun Lan behind Li Jing raised two small eyebrows. Wrinkled his nose slightly. A mocking sneer.

Li Jing was impressed by her cute appearance. smiled: "Actually, the Hu people's use of soldiers is decent. ”

"But this is no regular battle at all."

In front of the camp gate south of the camp gate, Yelu Ganggu only pointed at the Li Ziwang flag flying high in the camp gate, and laughed loudly: "Li Jing is really here!" ”

Yelu Shilu snorted heavily, frowned with a straight face, and said: "The southern barbarians are deceitful, and Li Jing is even more cunning, and prudence should be the first in using soldiers." Let's be careful, and we must not fall for the tricks of the Li thief. ”

"Yes." He only pretended to answer respectfully, but in his heart he was dissatisfied with Yelu Shilu's attitude. Since the setback and withdrawal of troops in Yunzhou. Yelu Shilu was always suspicious, cup-bowed and snake-shadowed, making rumors, people's hearts were panicked, and he completely lost his courage. If it weren't for the fact that he always stopped and stopped along the way, probing left and right, they would not have walked 350 miles for three days and three nights. If he had sent light horsemen to gallop up, it would not have been possible for 15,000 men and horses, including Temuthorn, to fight here for three days and three nights, without waiting for rescue.

Fifteen thousand warriors. It's a pity that blood is sprinkled in vain like this.

"The order goes down. Send 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack the city on each side of the east, west and south, and let go of the north gate alone! ”

"Dashuai, let go of the north gate and don't attack, wouldn't that let Li Thief escape, we finally surrounded him, but we can't let him escape." Shi Yan was still in Yelu Shilu's army at this time, and he wanted to see Li Jing killed the most. As soon as he heard that he was going to let go of the north gate, he immediately hurriedly persuaded him.

"General Shi doesn't know that besieging three queyi is the best strategy for besieging the city. Letting go of one side can break the morale of the defenders in the village and make them have no intention of fighting. Besides, Ben Shuai is not worried that Li Jing will run, in fact, Ben Shuai is wishing that Li Jing would abandon the village and escape. As long as people escape, the cavalry chase battle on this wasteland, isn't this exactly what our steppe wolves are good at? ”

The last time the small Yunzhou City was frustrated, it really made Yelu Shilu a little afraid of attacking the city. Yunzhou, where 100,000 people attacked 10,000 people, was not taken, and the city was defended by auxiliary soldiers. Although Li Jing was surrounded in this small village this time, the people inside were the famous Li Jing after all, and he still had more than 20,000 people. It would be best if you didn't have to fight sieges. He was not confident in siege warfare, but if he fought cavalry battles on the grassland, he was still very confident.

If it weren't for the news that Li Jing only had more than 20,000 people, he was really alone, and he deliberately rubbed for a while along the way, and repeatedly confirmed that Li Jing was alone in the depths, and then surrounded him in one fell swoop. As for saying that because of this, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were killed, Yelu Shilu didn't care, anyway, those were all tribal soldiers and horses, and he wouldn't care how many of those guys died. On the contrary, it is very cost-effective to allow them to consume more troops and physical strength of the Qin army.

But even so, he also refuses to be surrounded on all sides, once surrounded on all sides, with Li Jing's ferocity, he is worried that even if he can win in the end, his own soldiers and horses will not be able to win much.

Therefore, Yelu Shilu was ready to use the best tactics of the steppe people to encircle three and lack one, forcing Li Jing to abandon the village and flee. As long as he is willing to escape, everything will be easy. They pursued after them, like wolves driving a herd of deer, constantly driving them behind, then grabbing and eating them that had straggled, and so on, and then rushing up and annihilating the enemy when they were exhausted.

Yelu Shilu was even thinking that if he could surround Li Jing at the last time, he would be able to capture him alive at the last time. A living Li Jing is much more valuable than a dead one, so he captured Li Jing alive and forced him to retire. Withdraw to Lin Wei's corps and Guo Chongtao's corps in Huangshui Tuhe, withdraw their Zeng Yuanyu and Zhou Dewei's corps in Bohai, withdraw their Liu Xun corps and Zhang Zimian's corps in Daibei. He wants to send Li Jing back to the grassland under house arrest, and then he doesn't need to rush back, he can return to the horse with a shot and take Datong again.

Looking at the bara and Chi guys who were under the command of the camp and preparing to attack the city, a trace of contempt flashed in Yelu Shiru's eyes. After forcing back the attack of the Qin people, they first swallowed the Bohai Sea to restore their vitality, and then they will annex and assimilate these miscellaneous fish tribes on the grassland one by one, and they will be Khitan, and they will establish a real Khitan dynasty led by the Yelu family of the Diethorn Department. A central dynasty as powerful as the Han dynasty, unifying the north and moving south to the Central Plains.

"King, the Hu people will not attack the north, it is better for His Highness to evacuate here first, so as not to make the battlefield dangerous and unpredictable." The supervising army made Zhang Chengye persuade with some concern.

"No, I'm a flag. The army of more than 100,000 people is fighting, and the battlefield is lined up for dozens of miles. If it is light, it will also cause a great blow to morale, and if it is serious, it will even make the soldiers misunderstand that we have been defeated, and if it is not good, it will easily cause major problems, and even directly lead to defeat. Supervising the military envoy Zhang, Gu Zhi said that you are thinking about Gu Yu's safety, but here and now, it is a wartime battlefield, so don't talk about it anymore if you hurt the morale of the army. Not to mention that tens of thousands of our horses are coming from all directions, even if this king is really besieged here, do you think Lone will flee in fright? Li Jing looked around at the generals around him and said loudly, "We have been here for three days, but it didn't really take three days to exterminate the more than 10,000 miscellaneous fish, it's time to show a hand to these miscellaneous fish." ”

"King Qin, will this scare away these Hulu?" Wang Zhong asked. The Qin army planted a lot of gunpowder mines outside the camp fence, and even carried a large number of light flying thunder cannons and gunpowder this time. The flying thunder cannon, which is such a poorly accurate but easy-to-carry equipment, is truly the sharpest weapon in such a scorching July and in a general battle of more than 100,000 people.

"Don't worry, the more fierce we fight at the beginning, the more it will only make the Hu Lu think that we are fighting to the death of the net, let the artillery battalion prepare, this time we will let the Hu people really pay for what is called ten thousand cannons, the mountains shake and the earth shakes, and the sky collapses!" Li Jing said coldly, Hu people, in his eyes, they are really not human, especially these Hu people who invaded the south, no matter how much they kill, he will not feel uneasy.

Li Jing brought a lot of gunpowder this time, and the gunpowder was very sufficient, which could completely allow them to make a saturation attack. Although gunpowder is expensive, if he can use gunpowder to severely damage the Hu people and reduce the casualties of his soldiers, Li Jing is still very willing to spend money.

Yelu Shilu stood under the banner of Shuai and shouted at the generals under his command: "Those who can kill Li Jing's head will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold, and those who can capture Li Jing alive will be rewarded with 50,000 taels of gold." For every Qin soldier killed, two cattle will be rewarded, and an officer below the fifth rank of the Qin army will be rewarded with five cows, and ten cattle will be rewarded if the Qin army officer above the fifth rank and below the third rank is killed, and ten cattle will be rewarded with ten taels of gold. Kill the officers of the Qin army above the third grade, reward 100 cattle, and 100 taels of gold! ”

As soon as the rich reward was awarded, all the Hu soldiers became fanatical one by one, shouting at the Qin army camp, as if there were mountains of gold in the middle of it! (To be continued......)