There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 123 The Fear of Being Dominated by Cannons
boom!
A loud noise tore through the quiet dawn.

A large amount of white smoke was ejected from the muzzle, and a shell with a flame tail blasted out in the white smoke, and exploded in the center of the cavalry of that battalion. A huge pothole, the few riders in the middle of the explosion area were directly torn to pieces by the impact of the instant explosion.

The surrounding cavalry were also directly overturned by the shock wave of the violent explosion. Several more cavalry, including men and horses, were shot by the fragments of the explosion and died on the spot. Even those who were lucky enough to survive had various disabilities.

This sudden explosion completely blinded the imperial army.

The horses roared, and those who were frightened by the sound of the cannon, out of the instinct of the animal's crisis, regardless of the group of cavalry on their backs, immediately spread their hoofs and fled in all directions. Crouching or leaning, the horse galloped in fright, and nearly 30 cavalrymen were directly overturned by the frightened running of the horse and fell off the horse.

There is even an even more unlucky guy who failed to fall off the horse because his foot was stuck in the stirrup, but his foot was caught in the stirrup, causing the person to fall off the horse, but his foot was still stuck in the stirrup. The horse ran in fright and immediately died. Tragedy, being pulled and dragged.

Some were lucky and managed to escape after being dragged a little distance, while others unfortunately were dragged forever.

Wang Tong, the commander of this cavalry, was even more confused. What happened?
He was at the front of the cavalry team, and the place where the shell hit was a little behind the cavalry battalion test. His horse only rushed forward for about ten meters in fright, and was calmed down by him. He turned his horse's head and looked at the cavalry battalion.

The cavalry formation, which was originally a bit scattered, was completely gone now. Some of the cavalry at the front gradually calmed down the horses, and the cavalry at the back were completely disrupted. The horses were running around, and there were already people on the horses. There is no trace of the rider.

The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke, and the sky was still filled with thick white smoke. After seeing this huge gun crater, Wang Tong fell silent...

"Cool."

Li Chu was in a very happy mood. This group of cavalry came in a square formation, and everyone gathered together very densely. Isn't this just convenient for Li Chu to fire the cannon? Such a dense scene is simply accurate. Shell damage is maximized.

Before the group of people understood what happened, Li Chu hurried to the loader's position, processed a howitzer shell and loaded it into the barrel, and returned to the gunner's room again.

The gun barrel swayed slightly up and down, and Li Chu was aiming.

On the city floor.

Different from last night, this time, Li Han and Chen Zu felt the horror of the tank thoroughly. What happened yesterday was too fast to see clearly. The whole process from firing the gun to being hit by the target and exploding can be seen clearly.

Not only Li Chu and Chen Zu, but also so many soldiers on the tower.

My heart was trembling, but at the same time I was secretly happy and secretly excited, there was no one else, such a sharp weapon like ghosts and gods, was on my side.

boom!
There was another white smoke from the muzzle, and the tank body was pushed back a few meters by the huge recoil force. This shell bombarded the center of the cavalry of the imperial army.

This time the cannonball hit a little crookedly and did not land in the middle of the crowd, but at the position where it landed in front of the cavalry, there was an explosion and thick smoke rose. Being directly hit by shells in the state...

Li Chu didn't want to look at the effect of this shell.

After firing the gun, he immediately opened the gunner's compartment, drilled his head out, waved gestures at the soldiers on the city wall, then immediately got back into the tank, shifted to the driver's position, and drove the tank forward.

"Brothers, come with me."

On the city wall, Chen Zu, who received Li Chu's order, immediately went down the tower with a machete, and rushed out from the city gate with five teams of soldiers. Shen Ning was also brought out by Chen Zu. Out of the city gate, he quickly followed behind Li Chu's tank.

The first two cavalry from the imperial cavalry side were also shocked by the two explosions behind them and looked back. The scene behind them stunned them. Before the two cavalry came back to their senses, Li Chu The tanks have already arrived.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and there was still a little fog. The Leopard 1 tank rushed out of the fog. When the two riders found it, the tank was already close in front of them. The tank that rushed out was startled, and under the leadership of the cavalry, it ran back quickly, spreading its hooves and running desperately.

However, it was too late to run away.

The speed of the tank has been pulled up, but the horse is turned around and runs back because of a pause. The knights with their horses and men ran over...

At the same time, because of this rolling, the speed of the tank slowed down, and the remaining one was lucky to escape.

On the side of the cavalry battalion of the imperial army, it was completely messed up at this time.

Recruits are afraid of artillery, and veterans are afraid of machine guns.

This is a very classic war analysis term in later generations.

Although this group of cavalry belonged to the top imperial army in the Song Dynasty, the so-called top was only fighting against soldiers of the same class. The shells have completely blown this group of people into a stupor.

Fear shrouded my heart, my ears were already humming, hallucinations appeared in my brain, and I even felt that there were shells exploding everywhere around me.

Even, many of the cavalry dismounted, knelt down on the ground, and bowed to the sky, praying in their mouths, begging for God's forgiveness.

In their eyes, the two shells were mistaken for thunder punishment from the heavens.

Some cavalry even hugged the horse's neck tightly in fright, allowing the horse to run wildly.

Some of the calmer cavalry captains were calling for their teammates, while others immediately turned their horses and ran back, fleeing away from this hell-like place.

It's terrible!

The morale of this battalion of cavalrymen of the Imperial Army has been weakened. On the wall of Xiangcheng County, Li Han saw that Li Chu had already approached this group of cavalry with his tank, and there were already many horses wandering around on the vast flat ground. He immediately ordered Soldiers shoot cloud-piercing arrows into the sky.

Ning Rong, who had been out of the city for a long time in ambush, took a cloud-piercing arrow in the sky, and immediately led the soldiers to climb out of the low pit. The two teams immediately dispersed, each with a target, each holding a harness. Suo chased after the group of unmanned war horses.

After not chasing the cavalryman with the flag behind him, Li Chu slowed down the speed of the tank and waited for the large troops behind to converge.

However, at this moment, a white horse behind him overtook the tank. The knight on the horse was wearing a chain lion armor, a wolf helmet, and a Ziyun battle robe.

(End of this chapter)