Chapter 286 First confrontation

As soon as it was dawn, the soldiers were still drinking millet porridge and nibbling dry food in the trenches. They heard a sharp voice shouting, "The tartars are coming up!"

Hearing this, all the soldiers threw down their meals, picked up the Tianque and went to the trenches. They cleverly put two big cakes on their chests. The battle had been fought all day. In the gap between the tars retreating, the hungry soldiers looked at the soldiers who were gnawing dry food while fighting with envy and drooled.

The tars got up so early!

As the old saying goes, there is a tradition of three updates and four updates. Although they only arrived last night and camped for half a night, after a few hours, the soldiers regained their strength and were full of food. At dawn, they touched it while the other party was unprepared.

Last night, Alu suffered even more. His army did not rest all night, and the back gun and bed crossbow had been placed in the designated place. Remove all the parts from the car and assemble them, which exhausted tens of thousands of soldiers.

It's dawn, and the positions of the back gun and the crossbow have also been placed. In a moment, it will give the defenders a heavy blow with lightning speed.

Zhang Yang stood at the head of the city and looked at the hazy place in the distance. Those gray squirming things were the tars moving forward in array.

If only there were telescopes! Zhang Yang secretly made up his mind that after the Pingjiang River was beaten, he must find a place to burn porcelain, burn the glass, make it into a convex and concave lens, and distribute it to all the commanders.

The sky is gradually getting brighter, and the Tatars are getting closer and closer to their own side, only a few miles away.

In the north, east, south and three directions, the tars attack together. Where is the main attack direction of the tars, or the tars decide to attack three gates at the same time?

Shi Nai'an stood behind Zhang Yang. After a while, after the battle began, as the supreme commander, I'm afraid only they knew the psychological pressure.

Tout also stood at the top of the whole army, watching the army begin to move slowly towards the head of the city.

The front is the garrison transferred from Zhongshu Province. They have been fighting against all kinds of anti-thieves, and their combat effectiveness is second only to that of the bodyguards. Although they are not equipped with fire, they are equipped with another long-range weapon: a swarm of bees.

This is a "multi-shot volley rocket". 32 rockets are placed in a rocket barrel with a large mouth and a small bottom, and two layers of grid plates are placed in the barrel for the positioning and orientation of the rocket. At the same time, the gunpowder wires of each rocket are clustered together. After ignition, the arrows fly together, and the launch surface is several feet wide, which is very similar to the modern rocket nest.

The volume is not very large, just for two people to carry it, as a strong support firepower in the attack, and the range has reached nearly 200 steps.

The only disadvantage is that this is a kind of product. After the rocket is ignited, the rocket will be launched and the barrel will be scrapped. Compared with other weapons, this is a consumable. In order to fight this war, they took out all their family information: 30,000 Zhongshu provincial troops carried a full of 500 such swarm of bees.

If both sides are on the plain, this weapon can give the other party the greatest lethality. It is also very easy to adjust the angle and shoot at the head of the city. However, for the defenders hiding in the trench, the effect of this weapon is average, because the trench is only two feet wide, which is a face-to-face weapon. Most of them, They will fall to the flat ground.

Toutu defeated it for the first battle, which was also a lot of money. Not only did he bring out the most elite Chinese and book provincial army in the province, but also the return gun was ready to attack.

Use elite troops to fight the striker. Although in the process of attacking the city, the first batch of soldiers on the battlefield will suffer a lot of casualties, but there is no doubt that the effect is also the best. It is the best outcome to conquer once. Otherwise, if you fall into the repeated battle with the other side, it will seriously affect your morale.

The siege of the city will always be the one who attacks with heavy casualties.

Either don't move, or if you want to move, you will do your best. This is a strategy to get rid of it.

Behind this group of troops are all kinds of troops in Shaanxi and Sichuan Province. Their combat effectiveness is obviously low, but their number is very large, with more than 50,000 people. At that time, as long as the supervision team is arranged in the back, the soldiers behind them rush forward hard, and the soldiers in front of them can't work hard.

On both sides of the siege force is a cavalry army composed of bodyguards. They mainly undertake the task of seducing the enemy, while protecting the safety of both wings, especially preventing enemies from appearing from Gaoyou Lake.

At this moment, it is already dawn.

The north is ready, and the east and south are also magnificent.

To the east are the troops transferred from various Khanates. Some of them wore leather robes, revealing half of their shoulders, and some of them wrapped their whole bodies in a piece of cloth, revealing only their heads. They are burly, which makes the defenders feel ashamed.

Although there are no firearms, they hold up the mace and other weapons and are not afraid. Their task is to pretend to attack the head of the city and contain the other side's defenders. If they can destroy the enemy in the trench outside, it will be an additional result.

Although the troops transferred from various provinces in the south in the south are numerous, they do not have a tendency to oppress people. Most of them are hasty. Compared with those two troops, their combat effectiveness is obviously not on the same level.

After the war, he couldn't help but make other generals envy Tang He. Why is he so lucky every time!

"From the perspective of the military situation around, the target of the main attack of the tars this time is still the North Gate." Shi Nai'an said.

"After a while, where the back gun of the tar is arranged, it is the main direction of attack." Zhang Yang said. If you want to make a breakthrough, the powerful offensive ability of the return gun is indispensable.

"Why don't we transfer Bian Yuanheng's navy to the north to support." Shi Nai'an said.

"In a hurry, the navy is our last means of support. We can't expose all our family information until the tars do their best." Zhang Yang said.

In terms of specific tactics, when it is time to keep the backhand, you must keep the backhand. If you expose all your strength at once, the tars will beware of it and improve the attack mode.

There are too many people in the tars this time, and there are black crowds in all directions. They have enough strength to attack separately, so the reserve force must not be used easily.

Zhang Yang has been thinking that if he is an attacker, he will not take the North Gate as the main direction of the attack. He will choose the East Gate, because it deviates from Gaoyou Lake and can't get the fire support of the navy.

So, although the formation of the tars now is from the north, Zhang Yang can't rest assured. After a while, he has to always beware of the group of tars in the east, which are all soldiers of the ethnic minorities! Even Zhang Yang was envious of that guy. With just a glance, Zhang Yang knew that some of them were Northeastern Han, and most of them were ethnic minorities in the Western Regions.

Tuo stood on the high hill, looking at the shaman who had made a wish to the sky, and spit out a few words in his mouth: "Attack, start!"

"Wow!" The horn of attack began to play.

After hearing the sound, the front step-up troops began to move forward steadily. They lined up in neat phalanxes, and thousands of people marched forward!

The cavalry on both sides also came like a tide, and they quickly crossed the infantry and charged forward. They are not the main attacking team, but just use the mobile surname of the cavalry. After approaching the position, they shoot arrows to cover their own impact.

Zhang Yang looked at the head of the city, and it seemed that the tars still did not get rid of the conventional siege tactics: human sea attack. He kept adding people forward, leaning on the crowd, and beating down the head of the city.

All this doesn't work at all. At least there must be long-range cover. Why hasn't the other party's catapults started to attack? This makes Zhang Yang a little worried. The other party's return gun will be put into use with the attack. Which direction is it?

The formation of the tars, from eight miles away, gradually approaching, five miles, three miles... Finally, Zhang Yang saw clearly that after that sea of people, the return gun was hidden in the opponent's military array and was slowly moving forward.

According to historical records, the range of the return gun is 250 steps, the projectile weighs 150 catties, and the landing is seven feet!

Now, the tars are likely to improve their range by reducing the weight of the projectiles. After all, the tars know that they have long-range attack weapons in their army, but they don't know that their God of War guns can hit ten miles away, and even the other party's barracks are within their own fire range.

"God of War cannon, ready to aim, distance: a thousand steps." Zhang Yang said.

It is absolutely impossible for the backgun of the tar to get close to the head of the city by 250 steps, because the three trenches outside the city have been dug 300 steps away, and with the range of the sky, it is enough to snipe at the strike of the tars at 600 steps. Therefore, Zhang Yang asked the God of War cannon to be transferred to a thousand steps, and tried to destroy them before the opponent's return gun was fired.

The flag at the head of the city fluttered in the wind. Zhang Yang looked up at his flag. Suddenly, he thought of something and his face darkened.

Today is the north wind! The bow and arrow of the tars can shoot farther with the help of the wind.

"Shoot!" Shi Yi saw that the tartar cavalry had entered a range of 300 steps and immediately issued an order.

"Ban, bang, bang." Countless poles opened fire and shot at the fast-coming tartar cavalry. Suddenly, the tar cavalry fell off the horse.

At this moment, the Tatar Stepper also suddenly accelerated the pace of its march, changing from walking to running, faster and faster.

The shouting sounded together.

Zhang Yang stood at the head of the city and saw everything clearly. He saw the tars in front of him galloping, and the back gun behind him stopped moving forward and began to prepare for the launch.

Trap, this is a trap. Zhang Yang suddenly figured out that the tars were not fools. They had come up with a way to fight against their trenches!

There is a bad thing about the trench, that is, although it is relatively low, it can hide itself while destroying the tartars and reduce the risk of being destroyed by exposure. However, it is precisely because the trenches are relatively low that the commanders in the trenches lack an overall understanding of the battlefield, or those tall The cavalry blocked their sight, and they didn't know who was behind the cavalry.

Those cavalry simply came as baits to expose the location of their trenches!

Although Zhang Yang didn't know what the tars had, he knew that the tars must have a future!

"Quickly, let Shiyi withdraw into the second trench." Zhang Yang said to the messenger.

The messenger ran out of the gate quickly and ran to the position through the suspension bridge.

Unfortunately, the order has not yet reached the front position. Shiyi, as usual, facing the live target in front of him, naturally can't let go, and Tianque is firing continuously.

Suddenly, the cavalry withdrew to both sides. In the rear of them, a row of infantry were exposed. Everyone in the front was holding something like a wooden barrel in their hands. The twist had been ignited, and 200 steps away, they could still see the spark of the twist burning.

Something came from the sky in the dark, and all of the secret weapons of the Tatars were used!

Stand on the high ground and quietly watch all this. Whether it will go well or not depends on the performance of these weapons first.

Although Shi Yi didn't know what was flying, the fighting on the battlefield made him develop a sense of danger. He remembered his eldest brother's advice. All the tactics were to attack the Tartars as much as possible while saving himself. And the thing in front of you is obviously something you don't know, and it's better to be careful. Even if you go back and be laughed at and run away, you can't lose the team too much.

"Retreat!" Shi Yi gave the order. By observing, the landing point of those things flying in the sky was above his position.

The soldiers had already been trained very skillfully. When they saw a large number of infantry from the other side coming up, they wanted to knock down a few more. However, when they heard the officer's order to retreat, they did not hesitate to immediately take their weapons and evacuate to the second trench from the traffic trench behind.

Erzhuzi was beating vigorously, and Tianque's voice covered up Shi Yi's command. He was absorbed in aiming at the infantry in front of him and didn't notice that there was no one around him.

The infantry in front of him seemed to be a fool. Although they were knocked down one by one, if one fell down, there would be a supplement immediately to correct the barrel-like thing, which made Erzhu curious about that thing.

"Wo!" Suddenly, the wooden barrel made a loud noise, and a huge black smoke came out of it. With the black smoke, a stream of flames came out.

The second pillar opened his eyes wide, and he saw clearly that there were countless arrows shot from the barrel. Each arrow was covered with a small flame. Without a hard bow, he actually flew into the sky!

So many wooden barrels have released countless arrows one after another, like locusts, flying this way.

Erzi's heart was hairy. He turned his head. When was there no one around him?

Damn it! Er Zhuzi knew that the team had retreated. He picked up Tianque and quickly ran to the traffic trench next to him.

"Deng!" A huge thing fell down and hit Erzhu's leg. Suddenly, he baked the meat on his leg to a paste smell. He smelled a choking smell in his nose. Erzhu's chest was stuffy. He spit out a mouthful of blood, and his eyes became more and more unable to open, and it became darker and darker... This is the secret weapon of escape: The return gun fired not a stone bullet, but a fireball!

In the Song Dynasty, fireballs were already used for war. The black gunpowder balls with low nitrate content and good burning surnames are mixed with toxic or fuming substances, and then several layers of gunpowder balls are wrapped with paper, hemp or thin porcelain pieces, and coated with grease on the surface to prevent moisture and fuel combustion. When using it, ignite the fireball, and then throw it at the enemy, killing the enemy with the flame or poisonous smoke produced by its burning.

In this era, there is no Neiva Convention, which is a naked chemical weapon.

And it's a whim to use the return gun to fireballs.

The return gun is a sharp weapon for attacking the city. The stone bullet firing 150 catties can have a range of 250 steps and seven feet to the ground. However, the range of the other party's firearms is farther. In order to prevent the return gun from being attacked by the other party, the return gun will launch a fireball of only 20 catties, and the natural range will be greatly improved, at least six or seven hundred steps.

Just now, let the cavalry raid first, just to lure the other party to attack, exposing their hidden location. As soon as the cavalry retreated, it was the beginning of the infantry attack. A swarm of bees attacked in front and returned to attack in the back. A swarm of bees destroys the opponent with dense rain of arrows, and the fireball fired by the back gun completely loses the opponent's combat effectiveness with thick smoke.

Now, the killers have been taken out to see if they can work.

Even God is so face-given. Today, it is the north wind. The swarm of bees launched can use the wind to improve the range. The thick smoke can just blow south. Even the defenders at the head of the city have to suffer under the thick smoke.

With the launch of a swarm of bees, the infantry immediately charged forward quickly and prepared to fight with the enemy. However, when they passed, they might have lost their combat effectiveness. At that time, they would not hesitate to stab them all in the position. Those who dare to resist the imperial court will end up!

"Boom, boom, boom!" The God of War cannons at the head of the city also began to fight back. The target was aimed at the opponent's catapult position. However, the number of God of War cannons was still too small, and the scattered cannons could not shoot so far on the head of the city.

The range of the scattered fireworks is only 500 steps. Even at the head of the city, it is only about 600 steps, just enough to reach the front Tatar infantry.

As long as you can get it, Zhang Yang will naturally not be polite. With an order, the scattered fireworks also opened fire.

However, when those "stone bombs" fell from the sky, they immediately turned the first trench into thick smoke, and Zhang Yang's face changed.

The other party is really shameless to use this kind of thing?

As a graduate majoring in light weapons, he naturally has a deep understanding of the development history of firearms. In this era, there are indeed such "inhumane" weapons.

This is a kind of fireball, but it does not kill the opponent with fire, but by thick smoke. This kind of smoke is the crystallization of the wisdom of countless weapon makers. As long as you smell it, I'm afraid you will faint.

And now, it's the north wind again, just blowing thick smoke this way, and even the defenders standing at the top of the city are a little dizzy.

The God of War cannon just fired twice, and the other party's return gun fired the second batch of such weapons.

And the scattered rain of bullets has completely covered the opponent's striker. It can be seen that the other party has suffered countless deaths and injuries.

However, there is no doubt that this time, I'm afraid that all three trenches have been lost.

"Mr. Shi, immediately organize the citizens to dip all the towels and cloth heads in water and give each person a piece." After Zhang Yanggang finished speaking, he changed his mind: "Get some water first. Everyone tore a piece of cloth from their bodies, and everyone immediately covered their mouths with a wet cloth."

I just collected towels now. It's a little late. The situation is urgent. Let's replace it with clothes first.

It is the old Chinese people's way to use wet towels to prevent chemical weapons. In the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army guerrillas did this in the face of the poison gas bombs.

(to be continued)