Song Beiyun

"We were talking about war on paper before. The marshal said that King Fu asked him to guard Xiangyang. If he couldn't keep it, he would try to blow up Xiangyang and let people know that Xiangyang could not be defended."

"Well...it's his temper." Zuo Rou sat back, took a big mouthful of soup after eating in two or three bites: "Let's go, I'm going to organize the team."

"The princess be careful..."

Seeing Zuo Rou walk through the trench with her waist bent, and seeing her vigorous figure, I think she is also a restless master on weekdays, but what can Yang Wenguang say, the woman of the immediate boss, the daughter of the generalissimo, this It's because all the soldiers in the Song Dynasty have to call out the existence of the eldest lady when they meet...

However, Zuo Rou was very strict on the battlefield. She stopped advancing at the 500-meter line and directed the soldiers to start filling rice bags with soil, and then used these bags to form a circle along the second line of defense.Then there are horse refusals, barbed wire fences and sentries arranged at both ends.

And at this moment, a signal bomb in the sky pierced the dawn sky, and it rose into the sky with its tail.

"Reload!"

The gun covers were pulled off at the same time, and more than a hundred guns were pulled off the red gun covers. The artillerymen began to load the flames, and then filled the shells into the barrels.

After everything was over, the second morning star rose into the sky again, and the flag bearer of the artillery battalion immediately waved down the flag.

All the muzzles spewed out dazzling flames, like a fire dragon ascending to the sky, shaking the earth.

The shells hit the city wall of Xiangyang, and the whole city seemed to tremble. The people and the garrison who were still sleeping were awakened.

Sun Zewei hurried out of the door in armor, and grabbed a passing soldier: "What happened?"

"My lord... My lord is not good... Lei Gong is angry!"

"Lei Gong?" Sun Zewei frowned: "There is no such thing as Lei Gong, go! Order people to go to the top of the city to have a look!"

Soldiers stepped up to the city wall one after another, but just in time for the second salvo, the huge tremors and smoke frightened the people on the city wall to run away with their heads in their hands.

Some of them prostrated themselves on the ground and cried, and some even staggered and fell off the wall and died on the spot. Anyway, the entire Xiangyang City was astonished with pale faces, and there were strange rumors circulating among the people and soldiers. , that is, the assassin Sun conspired to offend Tianyan, and the sky sent punishment...

After the second round of shelling, there was a long silence outside, and a bold person poked his head out from the city wall to look around, but at the moment when the smoke and dust cleared, there was a sudden flicker in the distance, and there were more spots on this person's head. A bloody hole was opened, and then he fell on his back on the top of the city.

Other soldiers stepped forward one after another. Seeing this scene, everyone was scared out of their wits, and the theory of gods and ghosts boiled even more.

And when the whole of Xiangyang couldn't react, the geotechnical team had already started to build a pontoon bridge beside the moat relying on the smoke and dust.

At this time, the sky was bright, and the situation was gradually visible on the top of the city. When they found out that it was not a ghost but a new army from the East China Sea, Sun Zewei ordered the soldiers to go up to the wall to meet the enemy immediately.

But they obviously chose a very bad position. When many people are just about to draw their bows and shoot down, there will be an extra bloody hole in their heads.The group of people who beat them was caught off guard and dizzy.

"My lord... the soldiers guarding the city cannot show their heads, there seems to be a demon on the opposite side... as long as they show their heads, they will be killed."

"I don't believe in this evil!" Sun Zewei waved his hand: "Up the shield!"

The shield soldiers quickly began to deploy defenses on the top of the city. These wooden shields are good at dealing with bows and arrows, but just when they thought they were safe and sound, a hole suddenly appeared in the center of a wooden shield, and the people behind the hole had no suspense. He fell to the ground.

The rest of the people saw that the situation was not good, and immediately gathered in the center. At this moment, the second bullet hit one of them accurately, and the head was shot on the spot. The brains splashed out like tofu brains, blowing up the faces of the surrounding people. The mentality of these soldiers It exploded then...

"Who shot that shot just now? It was beautiful. There are such sharpshooters in the Vulcan Camp?!" Yang Wenguang pointed his binoculars at the top of the city: "The opponent was terrified by the direct shot."

A soldier next to him stooped to go out to inquire, and came back after a while: "General, it was the princess."

"Huh?" Yang Wenguang looked back at the musket position: "Is the princess so powerful?"

On the other side of Zuorou, just as she put down her gun, a person next to her immediately handed over a loaded one. She was still beeping while holding the gun: "You guys, you've been training on dogs, you Don’t you know that you have to lift up when shooting an arrow? The faster the arrow is, the less you can lift it. Although the musket is fast, it still needs to be lifted for more than a hundred feet, not to mention shooting down and up.”

The people around didn't dare to say anything, after all, they were extremely accurate with one shot, and I shot three or four shots on average, which is really inferior...

"Did you see that?" Zuo Rou said proudly, "If I say hit him, I won't hit him on the head!"

After she finished speaking, she pulled the trigger, the musket fired, and a bullet directly penetrated the shield, severely breaking the man's arm, leaving only a layer of skin attached to the arm, looking extremely miserable.

"Remember! Don't hit the head." Zuo Rou chuckled: "Shoot on the shoulders, arms, and stomach, don't kill me. If you kill someone, you die. If you hurt someone, you can save me." , Time-consuming, labor-intensive and labor-intensive, if you don’t save it, it will also lower morale, and you can earn more by hurting one person than killing one. Besides, these people participated in the rebellion. When we enter the city, I will bury them all. Witness the end of the rebellion. When the earthwork team digs a big hole, it will be... thirty feet wide and three feet deep. I will bury him for thirty to fifty thousand in it."

She beeped while firing the gun, and she would make strange screams when she knocked out a few, which made the surrounding Huoshen camp soldiers tremble with fear and wonder This young lady is a monster crawling out of the abyss of hell...

"Vulcan camp!" Yang Wenguang called in front of him: "Get ready to throw flour!"

Zuo Rou was firing a gun. When she heard this, she turned her head and asked, "What is throwing flour?"

The next soldier whispered tremblingly: "The flour is mixed with charcoal powder and coal powder and packed in a paper bag. The paper bag will scatter when it hits the top of the city wall, and then..."

As soon as the words fell, the city ahead was suddenly filled with gray dust, so thick that almost no one could be seen.

At this time, the catapult put a round object on top, and Yang Wenguang raised the flag: "All lie down!"

Zuo Rou looked around, and when she was about to ask a question, she was pressed down on the ground by a hand behind her. She turned around and glared and found that it was Song Beiyun...

"My husband is here."

"Why didn't you move when you were told to lie down?"

"Lie down? For..."

Why didn’t the sound come out, the big ball on the trebuchet had been ignited, and then the fireball was sent to the city wall, and then there was an unprecedented violent sound, the earth shook like someone was ramming the earth, countless Debris, clods, and stones flew all over the ocean, and even the new army of the East China Sea hundreds of meters away was covered by these debris, and then the city became completely silent, and then the screams of soldiers in the city were heard one after another. Come, like a ghost crying from the depths.

"This..." Zuo Rou looked at Song Beiyun pitifully: "My ears are buzzing..."

Xiao Song checked her ears: "It's okay, the eardrums are not broken. Next time I listen to the command, what should I do if I get hurt?"

"The first time... I don't understand." Zuo Rou nodded seriously: "I will know next time."

Xiao Song nodded, looked at Xiangyang City after getting up, and said to the commanding soldier next to him, "Prepare for the third round of shelling. After the shelling is over, everyone will cover the soil engineering team."

Chapter 524: On May 5, Three Years, Qingyan Opens Qin Chu Yongchun Mountain

After the third round of shelling, the city of Xiangyang was completely wiped out. This majestic city, which could withstand the Mongolian cavalry for a full ten years, gave up resistance after three rounds of shelling in the morning.

The heavy armored infantry covered the excavation work of the geotechnical team at the foot of the city, while the Huoshen Battalion kept a close eye on the movement on the city wall.

But there was no movement on the city wall, only the howling of ghosts and gods in the city. Countless soldiers were stunned by the explosion just now, blind and deaf. Some people were lucky enough to survive, but they were completely frightened.

The soldiers farther away were lucky enough not to suffer too much damage, but they no longer dared to approach the city wall. One of the surviving generals scrambled and rushed to the governor's mansion, knelt on the ground crying and screaming. Can't speak clearly.

"What are you crying about? What happened outside? What was that thunder just now?"

"Sorcery! It's sorcery! My lord!"

The general began to recall the nightmare just now. In the beginning, countless paper bags were thrown up. Those paper bags were filled with round marbles. After hitting the wall, they would explode and release the gray powder inside. Toss it out.

But later, the powder exploded suddenly, and the soldiers couldn't react at all. When the dazzling fireball exploded in front of their eyes, everyone was blown to the ground, and some who were close were even pushed away several times. From a distance of ten feet, many people directly hit the city wall or fell off the wall, and died just like that.

But the general said that if he died, it was probably a blessing. Those who did not die were the worst. Explosions and high temperatures can instantly make a person lose their combat effectiveness. What is even more terrifying is that after burning, they will be like ghosts strangling people As if unable to breathe through their necks, many people escaped the fire but failed to escape the ghost's throat, suffocating to death on the city wall.

Someone jumped from the top, and a lot of them were injured. There were more than [-] casualties in this side of the city gate alone.

Casualties aside, it was mostly the fear in their hearts. Now the soldiers no longer dare to approach the city wall, let alone go up to the top of the city to fight back.

With the strange weapons and the theory of gods and ghosts, the morale of the defenders in Xiangyang is now unprecedentedly low, and most of them have no intention of fighting anymore.

"Regroup and continue to defend the city!"

Sun Ze's eyes were bloodshot, and he pointed at the city gate: "The new army in the East China Sea only has 2000 people, what are you afraid of!"

"My lord...they know demon skills! The new soldiers of the East China Sea are all demons! Don't do it, absolutely don't do it!"

Hearing the general's words, Sun Zewei picked up his saber and chopped off the man's head, holding it in his hand: "Who else is like this man! Go to the city wall!"

Although the soldiers were still unwilling, they boarded the city wall again because of Sun Zewei. When they saw the purgatory-like scene on the city wall, some recruits even couldn't help vomiting.

There are broken eaves and broken walls everywhere, and the person who died of severe burns and twisted to death has a scorching smell in his nose.

"Come on, they have..."

Suddenly someone shouted from the left, but he fell straight on the ground without even a complete sentence. There was a hole the size of a fist in his neck, and blood bubbles were bubbling inside, and his hands were scratching meaninglessly. After a while, it stopped moving.

This time, all the soldiers on the city wall squatted down, and of course there were some brave ones who cautiously leaned out to look down, but in almost an instant, this brave man became a lifeless corpse.

This made the soldiers even more flustered, but there were also generals and supervisors coming at this moment. They had no choice but to bite the bullet and start thinking of ways to deal with it.There are already people doing strange things below, which should have poured golden juice, hot oil or stones on the top, but now these can't be done, because as long as they show up, they will be killed by those who seem to have magical powers.

"Brother, how long is it? I think it won't be long before boiling water will be poured from above."

A heavily armored soldier who fixed his shield on the ground as a protective device was asking his comrades in the geotechnical team who kept digging the wall. He was ordered to complete the work in a quarter of an hour, but now more than half of the time has passed. , I'm afraid I'm going to be watered.

It would be easy to deal with if it was poured with hot water, it would hurt for a while at worst, but if it was poured with hot golden juice, I'm afraid it would really kill you.

"What's the rush? I'm more panicked than you." The guy from the geotechnical team wiped the sweat from his brow: "This Xiangyang City is too tough..."

"Tough is right. This is the first pass of the Yangtze River. Can you not be tough? I said brother, I'm shaking... hurry up."

The subordinates stopped talking nonsense and worked harder to chisel it.The city wall of Xiangyang City is much harder than any kind of masonry they have practiced before. It took a lot of effort to open a small crack at the base of the wall, but this crack is not enough to collapse the city wall, so... Time is pretty tight.

Soon, they could smell the stench coming from the city wall, and they didn't need to think too much to know that the golden juice was boiling on it. To put it bluntly, that thing was taken out of a cesspit. If they were burned by it, they might not survive. It's been a few days...

"Quick, quick! Retreat." The heavy armored infantry shouted to the comrades under him: "The semaphore is being raised from the rear! Let us withdraw, they are about to start the second round of bombing."

"Wait a little longer! Just fine!"

The geotechnical team glanced up and realized that time might really be running out, because the big iron pots had already been erected on the top of the wall, and if they waited for that thing to fall, they would all be finished.

"Boss, I'm done!"

Suddenly a soldier shouted, and the big black bull on the other end also responded: "I've done it too!"

At the last moment, 80 to [-] of the more than [-] members of the geotechnical team said that they had completed it.

"withdraw!"

Because there had been drills before, the geotechnical team had to advance and retreat together, so when the big black bull gave an order, all the geotechnical team soldiers turned around and ran to the rear together, while the heavily armored soldier holding the shield stepped back and raised the shield To protect the retreating companions in the rear until they evacuate to a safe point 30 meters away.

When they came to a safe point, the sword rain suddenly began to pour down crazily on the city wall. Because it was a projectile, it didn't have much power. Although it could still stab the human body, if it was wearing armor, it would not be hurt by these things at all.

The heavy armored infantry raised their shields diagonally upwards, and the sword rain fell on their shields, making a clanging sound, and the arrows scattered all around the ground, and occasionally the arrows hit the armor of the heavy armored infantry, but it was also Like a mud cow entering the sea without waves.

After they set up an array to protect the geotechnical team's precious lump, the big black cow slowly walked over leading the lead.

Speaking of which, how can this big black bull be a talent? This guy is probably the only man in the entire Song Dynasty who can wear 42 catties of heavy armor, with a 27 catties of shield on his back, and can carry a hundred catties of explosives to and fro like the wind , he is also the only one who wears heavy armor in the geotechnical team, and he likes to pretend to be so skillful, so he never needs protection.

"You shitheads." The big black cow led the lead to the array: "Let you have a taste of what it means to shake the earth and shake the mountains."

After he finished speaking, he didn't stop and continued to pay off the line, until he passed the pontoon bridge and entered the safe area. He threw down the sultry helmet on his head, turned around and gave a thumbs up to the people in the battle formation. Then the copper enameled wire was stripped of the outer paint and wrapped in a strange device, and then a handle on the outside of the box was shaken vigorously.

"What's that for?"

Zuo Rou asked Song Beiyun curiously, but Song Beiyun just smiled: "Generating electricity, the bomb will be detonated by the instantaneous current."

Zuo Rou: "???"

At this time, the big black bull in front of him silently counted 140 five circles, and then pressed the handle on the top with a very cool posture.

But this time nothing seems to happen...

"It's too slow! Hurry up." Song Beiyun shouted from behind: "The time left here is less than a second. Are you still waiting for you to be handsome?"

Hearing his voice, the big black cow immediately shrank his neck, and honestly began to shake the generator pole in the way in the tutorial, then put one hand on the handle, and after a full 150 laps, he slammed down That lever.

It was too late to say it, and suddenly there was a loud rumbling sound in front of it. Although the sound was not as good as the roar of the previous flour explosion, the tremor it brought was ten times or even a hundred times.

Zuo Rou felt that she didn't stand firmly at that moment. If Song Beiyun hadn't held her waist from behind, she would have fallen to the ground.

After standing still, she looked ahead and saw smoke and dust billowing in the direction of Xiangyang City. The dust covering the sky made Xiangyang's figure hidden layer by layer, and she couldn't see her real appearance at all.

They couldn't see it, but they could see it clearly in Xiangyang City. After the roar at that time, they saw a flood of air rushing towards their faces, followed by dust flying into the air, and immediately after that, they saw the majestic east wall of Xiangyang City Nearly half of Shengsheng was cut off, and a large amount of dust, bricks, and debris rose into the air, and were thrown into the city like rain, and the soldiers and the people ran away with their heads in their arms.

When the smoke and dust cleared, the outside could directly see the scene inside through the gap, and where there were still defenders on the city wall, countless people fell around, and the scene was extremely tragic.

"General, you can go now." Song Beiyun said with a smile: "Today, I promised the general to have a banquet for all Liao colleagues in Xiangyang City at night, and Song will definitely not break his promise."

General Wu had been watching the battle from the beginning to the end, and by now he was terrified. He has been thinking about how to break Xiangyang City all the time these days. This is no longer a difficult bone to describe, it is simply It's just a stone that can't be chewed at all.

But from morning to now, only four hours later, there was a gap in Xiangyang City, which was enough for his soldiers to pass through without any obstacles.

He had just flashed the idea of ​​capturing Xiangyang City in one fell swoop and then using it to claim credit for His Majesty, but seeing the thunderous tactics of the Song Army, he was a little scared... Even if he is now rebellious, it is hard for him to say whether his tens of thousands of people can do it. Get close to this group of weird East China Sea new army.

According to what was said before, the Song army was responsible for breaking the city and the Liao army led by General Wu was responsible for entering the city to clear it.

They were also unambiguous, since the new army of the East China Sea has blocked his tricky thoughts, then he might as well make a contribution, and maybe he will be praised by His Majesty at that time, which is not bad.

However, the defenders in the city would not sit still, they attacked from the gap, the city gate was opened, and countless soldiers surrounded them from all directions.

But before Song Beiyun could issue an order, the sounds of muskets and cannons had already resounded one after another.

The artillery was replaced with a chain bomb made of many iron chains and iron balls. As soon as I fired a shell across it, anyone who touched it would become fragmented, and it was not uncommon for it to be cut off in the middle.And muskets show their power at such a time, one round of salvo will fall down, and they don't even need to aim...

When the soldiers in the city reached the pontoon bridge, conventional weapons such as bows and arrows were called out. The semi-automatic receiver for firing crossbows reminded people of the legendary Zhuge Liannu, which was fixed on a shelf for use. The long-stroke compound bow with super long arrows is even more capable of stringing grasshoppers in a row.

General Wu salivated enviously after seeing these sophisticated equipment that seemed out of date... He hoped that His Majesty would be more careful. If there was such a guy, the Liao Kingdom would be invincible!

The Xiangyang soldiers who failed in the first round of anti-breakout began to flee in all directions, but at this time it was the Liao army's turn to go out.

In terms of siege, the Liao State is indeed weaker than the Song State.In terms of bow shooting, they are weaker than Jin Guo.As far as riding and cutting, they are indeed weaker than the grassland.

But if you want to talk about dry pulling in the flat land and cutting in the wilderness, the National People's Congress of Liao Kingdom can pat its chest and raise a finger and laugh wildly and ask people from the surrounding countries, "How much is this?".

No, the reinforcements from the Liao Kingdom, who had been suffocated for several days, crossed the river along the pontoon bridge like wolves and tigers. They really asked the pawns to cross the river in a car, and Song Beiyun was so addicted to watching the rampage.