Chapter 1073: Tanks
Under Tong Guan's order, his soldiers were all stunned, what killed them? I heard it right?
Let the Great Song Forbidden Army go to kill a funeral team, are you still human?
It's just that no matter whether the commander is a human being or not, the military order must be obeyed, so kill it.
However, when these soldiers picked up their weapons and prepared to meet and kill, they found that this funeral procession did not seem to be so easy to kill.
This is the person who attended the funeral...... Inevitably, there are too many.
Endlessly, the funeral procession walked out of the south gate of Yanjing, at first it was only hundreds, and in the blink of an eye, it was thousands, and what is even more shocking is that thousands are not over, the first team has come out for a mile, and there are still people coming out of the city gate, which is probably tens of thousands, right?
Not to mention the tens of thousands, the key is that the team that came out behind was wearing armor and weapons, swords like ears of wheat, guns and halberds like hemp forests, and they were particularly dazzling in the sun.
The soldiers wanted to tell the commander what they saw, but the battle between the commander and Duguhong was fierce, and he was so focused that he had no time to care about things outside his body.
What should we do? Kill! If you can't kill people, you have to kill them! At least the commander has an order to kill, so carry out the order?
Killing is killing, how to kill is another problem, just rush up to have a hand-to-hand fight? That is too dangerous, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 yourself, this method of fighting is not worth it.
Arraying to meet the enemy is the normal way of playing.
The archers were in front, and the heavy infantry was in the rear. Although the enemy has lost a large number of pikemen, the opponent's strength does not seem to be dominated by cavalry, and when the enemy enters the range of bows and arrows, let the archers shoot a wave first, and then see whether the enemy retreats to Yanjing or launches a charge.
As soon as several generals summed up with each other, they decided on such a way of playing, and there was no way to ask the marshal, the marshal was too busy.
Seeing that the enemy army was getting closer and closer to the barracks, the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty became more and more nervous, and the opposite side must be a strong force with strong combat power, otherwise how could they burn more than 200,000 soldiers on their own side? Otherwise, how could they beat the Jin Guotie cavalry?
Just as the funeral procession was about to enter the range of the archers, someone suddenly shouted: "Don't be busy shooting arrows!"
The generals looked back, but it was Xu Ning who was staying aside, before the handsome man disarmed him, and before he could be detained into the camp, Dugu Hong and the two of them forced their way into the barracks.
Compared with Duguhong's matter, Xu Ning's matter is an internal matter, of course, it has to be put aside for the time being, so no one continued to stare at him, and then the handsome and Duguhong fought fiercely, and everyone forgot about Xu Ning.
At this time, Xu Ning shouted such an order, and all the generals unanimously moved, and they all thought: Although Xu Ning was suppressed by the marshal, he was a veteran of the Western Expedition to the north after all, and he made great contributions in the battle with the Jin people a few days ago, which shows that this person is still quite capable.
Why did Xu Ning say and stay? Because he saw the gun carriage sandwiched in the middle of the funeral queue, this was Ling Zhen's gun carriage!
He was able to recognize the artillery carriage because as early as the beginning of the Western Expedition, he did not follow Tong Guan all the way, but escorted the artillery to the west with Ling Zhen, Fan Rui, Jiang Jing and others, and the task assigned to him by Bai Sheng at that time was to use the rest time along the way to train 3,000 hook sickle men.
Although the oilcloth-covered vehicles in the funeral procession at this time were quite different from the ox carts that were on the way to Western Xia at that time, everything can be understood just by looking at the shape of the barrels of the guns under the oilcloth on the car.
When he recognized the artillery, he knew that this must be Bai Sheng's team, but it was just ...... Bai Sheng's team was dressed in linen and filial piety, who was the deceased? Could it be Bai Sheng himself? And if the deceased was not Bai Sheng, what kind of death could make Bai Sheng's men and horses so prosperous?
Seeing that the funeral procession was getting closer and closer, he didn't care about guessing whether the deceased was Bai Sheng himself, what he thought was: Whether the deceased was Bai Sheng or not, this fight could not be easily started.
It's not a good thing to play against Bai Sheng's team, because there are so many strange people in this team, and there are endless out-of-the-box plays, and you can never guess which way he will fight you against such a team.
If nothing else, let's just say that the artillery bombarded the sky and thunder, the farthest range can hit more than ten miles away, how can such a powerful long-range bombardment be able to deal with by the archers of the Great Song Forbidden Army?
They only need to set up their artillery at a distance and fire a few cannons at the barracks, and it is strange that these unbombarded soldiers will not break up.
Although this thunderbolt was developed and manufactured by the Great Song Dynasty Weapons Workshop, none of those who developed artillery had ever had actual combat experience, let alone equipped it with the forbidden army, that is, Bai Sheng was a smash hit in front of the emperor, so he could bring Ling Zhen and the artillery out together, but he showed his ugliness and lost face when he tested the cannon in Aoshan.
Therefore, the forbidden army didn't know how powerful they were, but Xu Ning knew that the artillery explosion that Bai Sheng made at the beginning was a ploy for the enemy, and the power of this artillery was great, and the hundreds of easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack military villages in Hengshan in Western Xia were all bombarded, not to mention the Great Song military camp that was not dangerous to defend at this time?
This is the situation that Bai Sheng is dead, and if Bai Sheng is still alive, it will be even more amazing, Bai Sheng has always been eclectic in battle, and will always use unthinkable tricks to achieve victory with an overwhelming advantage, he fights, and the enemy is killed by him, but he doesn't even know how to die.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help it anymore, regardless of his embarrassing identity now, and stopped in time.
If we don't stop and the artillery fire from the opposite side comes over, won't we even kill ourselves? Although Yan Lingjia is not afraid of fire, it may not be able to withstand the shells.
At this moment, several generals of the Great Song Dynasty turned their heads and looked at Xu Ning with inquiring eyes, hoping that the latter could give an explanation.
Xu Ning couldn't get rid of the habit of telling the truth, and said, "The enemy army on the opposite side is too powerful, we can't beat it." ”
"Hehe......"
"Hey......
"Haha......"
Hearing Xu Ning say this, all the generals sneered, although the sneering voices were quite different, but their faces were full of mockery, and they all thought: Do you think you can say what good way to fight, and you have been making trouble for a long time to scare everyone, what?
These people were originally quite jealous of Xu Ning's exploits, but now they didn't hear him say a reason, so they didn't pay attention to it, and one of the generals in charge of commanding the archers shouted: "Open the bow, shoot arrows!"
Seeing this, Xu Ning was anxious and said loudly: "No!"
This time, the people didn't even look back, but heard a whooshing sound of breaking through the air, and thousands of crossbow arrows shot into the sky.
Attacking enemies half a mile away can only be used with this kind of back-fire diffuse, unless the kind of archer with a hard bow will choose to shoot directly at the target.
Seeing that the dense arrows flew through the sky like a plague of locusts, and landed on the top of the funeral team walking in front, under the cover of the arrows, no one in the funeral team ran out, and several forbidden soldiers looked at Xu Ning at the same time, which means that this is what you are talking about?
However, before Xu Ning could say anything, people heard a dinging sound, noisy, like a torrential rain knocking on a window, huh? Where did these arrows go?
If an arrow hits a human body, it will never make such a sound, and it will sound as if it has been shot on an iron plate.
The officers hurriedly turned their heads to look at the funeral procession opposite, only to see that the front of the funeral was empty, replaced by vehicles with strange shapes.
The strange shape of the carriage is due to the fact that it resembles a carriage of a horse-drawn carriage, but there is no horse in front of it, and what is the purpose of the huge cylinder sticking out of the carriage?
The officers couldn't figure it out, but they knew that the arrows had all been fired at the roof of the cars or on the outer walls of the cars, which sounded like they were made of iron sheets.
Xu Ning couldn't wait to explain to his colleagues, because he had already seen the oilcloth on the barrel of the cannon being taken off, what did it mean that the oilcloth was taken off?
This time he didn't remind anyone again, just reminded you, don't blame me if you don't listen, while a few officers turned their heads to look at the gun carriage, they raised their light skills to the extreme, a harrier soared into the sky, crossed the phalanx of archers lined up in six rows, and fell to the ground to catch the cicadas in eight steps, and ran away.
The direction he chose was extremely correct, and the artillery shot was also parabolic, as long as the cannon was fired from the opposite side, the target must be this phalanx of archers, then he only needed to run five zhang towards Bai Sheng's team to enter the safe area.
Moreover, the artillery can only do extended strikes, that is, as the barrel rises, it hits farther and farther, but it will not hit closer and closer, he understands these truths, because he and Ling Zhen ate and lived together.
"Xu Ning ran away!"
"Xu Ning has surrendered to the enemy!"
There was a noise of soldiers behind him, and one of them, a partial general named Zhou Ang, was the most jealous of Xu Ning, and without thinking, he shouted: "Shoot him with arrows!"
Xu Ning couldn't help but grit his teeth with hatred when he heard it, I recruited you to provoke you? The big man hasn't said what he wants to do with me, but you are ruthless enough.
It's just that he hates and hates, but he doesn't look back, he has a wild goose armor to protect himself, and at most he is hit by an arrow in the leg, and when the time comes, he just needs to lie on the ground and wait for the soldiers behind him to die.
Xu Ning didn't think it was wrong at all, in fact, the second wave of feather arrows of the Great Song archers failed to shoot at all, only to hear a loud bang, Zhou Ang and the archers around him flew into the air.
Xu Ning even heard the whistling sound of the cannonball flying overhead, only to be so frightened that he hurriedly fell to the ground, and when he was rejoicing, he heard the sound of the wheels rolling from the ground, and quickly looked up, but was surprised, it turned out that the gun truck on the opposite side was actually crushed on his side.
Even he couldn't understand it now, how could this cannon be fired while moving? It wasn't like this before!
On the field, the artillery carriages that were originally lined up in two columns have now become lined up, and there are fully twenty artillery carriages driving towards the Song camp, and the tarpaulin on the vehicles has long been removed, revealing the magnificent iron armor, flashing in the winter light.