There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 301 Bombarding Xiangyang City ([-])
Dengcheng, on the other side of Xiangyang City, was later known as Fancheng.

However, Dengcheng was not close to the river bank. Li Chu and Lu Junyi's army directly took down Dengcheng, which was defended by only 1000 people. Li Jun's navy also blocked the Han River, so that Dengcheng could only go to He Xing sighed, no news could reach Xiangyang City.

Xiangyang has been an important military town since ancient times.

Especially during the Southern Song Dynasty, Xiangyang blocked the Mongolian army for more than ten years, forcing the main Mongolian force to attack the Sichuan Basin and attack the Southern Song Dynasty in a roundabout way.

Even the Hulao Pass, where one man guards the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it, has no such merits.

Although Li Chu did not study the history of the Southern Song Dynasty in detail, he still knows a little about Xiangyang's defense against Mongolia for more than ten years. After all, there are so many martial arts novels in later generations, especially the TV series "Shooting the Condor" and "The Legend of Condor Heroes". Not a few.

If Li Chu hadn't been to Xiangyang before, he might really think that it was like in the TV series that the soldiers defending the city fought hard to resist.

When they arrived near Xiangyang, Li Chu had only one sentence.

Fuck your director, fuck your beard.

Even the so-called master Jin Yong, Li Chu couldn't help but want to scold him bloody.

Xiangyang has been able to resist Mongolia for so many years, not only because of the so-called elite soldiers, but because of Xiangyang's intricate natural geographical advantages.

In the front, there is a spacious Hanshui crossing the east and west. The Hanshui turns south at Xiangyang. It doesn’t matter. There is also a Baihe River.

Not only Baihe, but Tanghe, a tributary of Baihe, took over the work of Baihe and blocked the further east.

In addition, the east and west of Xiangyang are high mountain areas, and the Mongols are all cavalry, and they are not proficient in water, and there is no way to detour in this place. If you go, you will only go to Nanjing and Huguang?Forget it, there is only one way.

The only thing that can be forced is to go to Zaoyang to follow the state, but if you go to these two places and wait out the high mountain area, you will be Xiaogan and Panyang Lake, and the water system there is even more complicated, and the Mongolian cavalry cannot be used at all.

The best way is to take Xiangyang, go south from Xiangyang to Changde, Jingzhou, then go south to Hunan, turn from Hunan to the interior of Jiangxi, and at the same time attack from the northeast of Jiangxi, take Yingtan and Huizhou to attack Hangzhou directly, this route One is that the region is relatively flat and suitable for cavalry operations, the other is that there are relatively few rivers encountered, and the third is that it directly leads to the interior of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Xiangyang is a point that the Mongols must take. If Xiangyang is not taken, even if they go to Zaoyang, they will be attacked and harassed by the defenders of Xiangyang.

The Mongols did not have a navy, nor did they have access to water and water warfare. In addition, those who surrendered to Mongolia were soldiers from the north, who also did not have access to water and water warfare. Therefore, there was nothing they could do about Xiangyang's natural river geography.

This is the key to Xiangyang's ability to resist for so many years.

But in Mr. Jin's novel, the outside of Xiangyang City is flat...

At that time, there were no aerial pictures of Xiangyang, and perhaps Mr. Jin had never been to Xiangyang, so it is understandable that he did not know the key points of water conservancy in Xiangyang.But are the directors who make TV dramas in later generations all brain-dead?
It's nothing more than a flat spread outside the city, but the bearded director even set up a catapult to throw flints into Xiangyang City.

Brainless.

Can you first cross the river or say something.

Not to mention the width of the river, even the narrowest area in Xiangyang City is 500 meters wide, and the widest point in the west is almost 2000 meters. Although some swamps are included in the 2000 meters, but Even if it is 500 meters wide, can the catapult cast 500 meters away?

If the catapult could throw 500 meters, Mongolia would have conquered the world long ago.

Not only that, but if it could be thrown 500 meters, then Xiangyang would have been beaten down long ago, and there is no need to send troops out, just use a catapult to throw stones at Xiangyang.

If it wasn't for the fact that Shunyang's naval forces had not been recruited during the capture of Shunyang, Li Chu would not have dared to attack Xiangyang directly. At that time, Wang Qing would directly send a navy to block the river. Li Chu's side would not have such a wide river. There is no way to cross the river, and in the end you can only return home on the other side of the river.

But now, all of Wang Qing's sailors belong to him.

As Zhu Wu said, Xiangyang is now in his pocket, and it is easy for Li Chu to take Xiangyang.

Not just navy, but other weapons as well.

Li Chu sat back in the commander's cabin and asked Li Qun to park the tank.

Catapults cannot cast 500 meters.

But Li Chu's Leopard 1 tank can.

The range of the Leopard 1 tank can reach more than 2000 meters, and the width of the small Han River is no problem.

He climbed into the gunner's room and aimed the tank's muzzle at the north wall of Xiangyang City.

There are high-resolution Gaoxue binoculars on the gunner's cabin to control the muzzle, and Li Chu can clearly see the movement on the Xiangyang city wall.

At this moment, Wang Qing was staring blankly at the sailors crossing the river. Almost every one of these boats crossing the river could be recognized by Wang Qing, because these boats were paid for by him at the beginning. built.

Now, looking at the Qilin flags flying on these ships, Wang Qing's heart hurts so much.

These are all his former possessions.

It was only a few days before he changed his surname to Li.

"What's going on, why did the Kirin Army appear here?" Wang Qing asked He Ji, the general of Xiangyang who was beside him.

He Ji was originally a clerk in an ordinary prison in Chang'an, Xijing. He knew Wang Qing because he was escorting Wang Qing. Later, he released Wang Qing and Wang Qing to Junzhou. .

"This, the subordinates don't know."

He Ji was also puzzled, he drank some wine last night, and this early in the morning, his subordinates pulled him up and said that something happened on the river, so he hurriedly dared to take a look, and it turned out that a group of troops he had never seen before Xiangyang The river was blocked.

"The Qilin army has already reached the Han River, and you tell me you don't know?" Wang Qing glared at He Ji, feeling both startled and panicked. He had just left Wancheng, and the Qilin army appeared in just a few days. here.

He Ji also panicked. Seeing Wang Qing's angry face, he hurried down to ask someone to ask about the matter.

It didn't take long for He Ji to come running over. He said, "Your Majesty, I found out that it's the Qilin Army. They broke through Rang County and rushed here directly."

"That's all?" Wang Qing's face turned cold.

"The other subordinates are not too clear about this." He Ji shrank his head, his mind is a mess now, and he doesn't understand how so many enemies appear at his door before.

"Then tell me, what happened to these boats on the river?"

Wang Qing suppressed the anger in his heart.

(End of this chapter)