I will never be Renzong

Chapter 210 Artillery Divine Might
At the foot of Longxi City, Duke Cao Wei of Qi led an army of [-] people and had already surrounded Longxi City so tightly that not even a fly could fly in.

In the Chinese army camp, Cao Wei was looking at the sand table. After Wen Buqi escaped, there were still nearly [-] Tibetan soldiers in Longxi City.Cao Wei has sent someone to inquire about the news. These [-] Tubo soldiers are controlled by four Tubo tribe leaders. The four Tubo tribes all want to make peace with the Song Dynasty. This is why Cao Wei has not attacked for a long time. Of course, Cao Wei mainly The artillery battalion waiting in the Suzaku Corps will transport the artillery to the gate of Longxi City.

"Marshal! Your Majesty's order has arrived!"

Di Qing came in from the outside and handed an imperial decree to Cao Wei. It was Jin Yiwei who came to deliver the decree, not the servants of the palace, because Zhao Zhen had already ordered that eunuchs would no longer be recruited in the palace. The eunuchs in the Song court were also the last batch of eunuchs.

Cao Wei opened the imperial edict and browsed it quickly, and then said with a serious face: "Vice General Di, quickly summon the generals to discuss matters!"

"It's handsome!"

Di Qing quickly took orders and left.

After a while, all the generals of the three armies gathered in the camp.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Cao Wei has always been in poor health, and this time he went on an expedition despite being ill. Coupled with the difficult conditions in the military camp, he has been relying on his personal willpower to support him.

Cao Wei picked up the imperial decree and handed it to Di Qing, saying, "General Di Fu! Read your majesty's decree to everyone!"

Di Qing hurriedly stepped forward to accept the imperial edict respectfully, and then read it out in public.

After Di Qing read out the imperial decree, Cao Wei said: "Your Majesty's decree must have been heard clearly by all the generals, that is, they will not accept peace talks. Whether it is Qingtang Tubo or Tubo from other tribes, they have only one way to choose. It is unconditional surrender.

But the commander-in-chief wants to show courtesy first and then soldiers, and send someone to give an ultimatum to the city. Before the sun sets today, he must go out of the city to accept the surrender, otherwise the commander-in-chief will show these Tubo people the power of my Great Song artillery! "

In Longxi City, the chiefs of the four major tribes were waiting for the Song Dynasty's recruitment document, but they didn't want the recruitment document to come, but they waited for Cao Wei's ultimatum.

Some chiefs of the four major tribes proposed to agree to the request of the Song army and go out of the city to accept the surrender, because the [-] troops of the Song Dynasty had already surrounded Longxi, and they had already seen the power of the Song Dynasty cavalry, and these Tubo soldiers who retreated to Longxi were all defeated by the Song Dynasty. The morale of the crippled fleeing army was extremely low, and it was a bit difficult to defend the city, let alone break through.

But the surrender conditions proposed by Cao Wei were too harsh. Cao Wei didn't say anything nonsense, that is, he asked them to put down all their weapons before the sun went down today and walk out of the city to accept the surrender.

The chiefs of several major tribes are still dreaming of continuing to be their local emperors, so it is difficult for them to accept the conditions offered by Cao Wei.

The chief of the Zahid tribe proposed to defend the city, and then sent a message to the Tubo tribe in other prefectures, asking them to come to support. After all, if Longxi City was captured by the Song army, it would be very difficult for other cities to be preserved.

Ever since, the major tribes have selected dead soldiers one after another, and then began to break through from the four directions of southeast, northwest, but unexpectedly, the wily Cao Wei had already expected that they would do this, so he arranged three blockades in a row on the way to the states , so even if someone can break through the first blockade, they will soon be strangled by the second blockade.

The setting sun dyed the sky red, and the Tubo tribe in the city had eliminated seven or eight waves of dead soldiers who broke through, but none of them succeeded. The Song army even chopped off the heads of those who tried to break through and piled them up under the city to deter the enemy. .

Cao Wei walked out of the camp of the Chinese army, and then glanced at the dilapidated Longxi city in front of him, thinking that the Tubo people are really lazy, they don't even repair this important city, they really don't have the slightest military acumen.

Cao Wei looked up at the setting sun that was about to set, and then ordered loudly: "Command! Bring the Azure Dragon Cannon to me!"

"Order!"

The herald hurriedly clasped his fists in response, and then quickly ran towards the artillery battalion.

After a while, the twelve Qinglong cannons were pushed by hundreds of soldiers from the artillery battalion to a place about 1500 steps away from the city.

Cao Wei turned to Yang Wenguang and asked, "General Yang! This Azure Dragon Cannon is so far away from Longxi City, can we get it?"

Due to his illness, Cao Wei did not participate in any cannon test of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and because of the confidentiality measures taken before, all generals who participated in the cannon test were given a gag order by Zhao Zhen, that is, they were not allowed to disclose the cannon No information, so Cao Wei just knows that the cannon is very powerful, but he doesn't know the specific range.

Yang Wenguang hurriedly replied: "Commander, the Qinglong cannon has a range of 1500 to 2000 steps, and its power is huge, while the tiger cannon has a range of 1000 to 1500 steps, and its power is slightly inferior to that of the Qinglong cannon." But there is one advantage, that is, the shipping speed is fast.”

"Marshal! The sun has already set! It seems that the remnant enemies in the city are about to resist!"

Di Qing hurriedly paid homage.

Seeing this, Cao Wei shouted an order: "Order the artillery battalion to fire!"

After receiving the order, Zhang Wuzhong, the commander of the Artillery Battalion, raised his hand and gestured for the height of the city, and then shouted loudly: "Calibrate the bearing, to the northwest, raise it by half a foot!"

Then the gunner began to quickly turn the wheel on one side of the cannon, and then the barrel of the cannon began to be raised.

"Calibration complete!"

"Calibration complete!"

"Fix the elements!"

Zhang Wuzhong gave another order, and soldiers stepped forward to load a cannonball weighing more than ten kilograms into the barrel of the cannon.

"Settings are complete! Waiting to fire!"

"Settings are complete! Waiting to fire!"

Zhang Wuzhong shouted: "Light the fire!"

Then the soldier holding the torch picked up the torch and ignited the fuse of the shell, and then quickly retreated three meters away.

The chiefs of various tribes on the top of the city learned that the Song army had pushed a strange thing down the city, and they all went to the city wall to pay attention to the distance, curious about this thing they had never seen before.

"Boom~"

"Boom~"

A deafening sound sounded one after another, and I saw a big iron ball with fire flying out of the black gun barrel, and then hit the top of the city without any mistakes. Before they could even make a sound of exclamation, they were blown to pieces.

"This is Tianhuo! Run! Song Jun is a devil~"

A Tubo general who was lucky enough to survive saw broken walls and corpses everywhere, and he shouted in panic.

But just when the enemy troops defending the city began to run down the city in panic, another round of fireballs suddenly fell from the sky, and they were immediately blown to pieces. A large number of the defenders were bombarded from the city wall, and then died on the spot.

Zhang Wuzhong saw that the enemies on the city wall were in chaos, so he shouted loudly: "Get ready for No. [-] and No. [-] gun positions, due north, drop half a foot! Fire!"

"Boom! Boom!"

The two shells hit the Longxi city gate accurately, and the city gate was immediately blown to pieces.

Seeing this, a general on horseback immediately drew out his saber and shouted, "Pioneer Battalion! Follow me!"

Immediately, three thousand cavalry rushed into Longxi City like a tide, and began to chase and kill the fleeing Tubo soldiers.
(End of this chapter)