Return to the Song Dynasty

"Come back, come back. Zhao Canjun, our people are back."

"Huh? Are you back?" Zhao Man dozed off on the chair in a daze.The others were all driven back to sleep by him, and they had to continue to defend the city tomorrow, so it would not be a problem for me, who didn't have to play to join the army, to sleep less.Hearing that the people who went to harass the enemy camp had returned, Zhao Man hurriedly took the military doctor on duty to greet them.

"Thanks for your hard work! How is it going? Is everything going well?" Zhao Man asked again and again.

"Back to join the army, everything is going well, everyone is back, only a few brothers were slightly injured. At least three or four stacks of food and grass were burned, and more than 50 horses were brought back. Hehehe, this is a profit. Did you See, they are so messy, and they ran out without putting on their pants, hahaha." The leader Liu Xiaojiang rubbed his hands excitedly and said with a smile.

"Okay! Brothers have worked hard! If you are injured, hurry up and find a doctor to treat the wound. The kitchen has prepared a hot pot of roe deer meat for everyone. Hurry up and have a meal, and then have a good sleep to catch up on sleep!" Zhao Canjun handed With a wave, it means that everyone has worked hard and rewarded everyone to go to the back camp to open a small stove and sleep well!

"Oh~"

"It's great!"

"Hahaha"

"Okay!"

……

"It just makes those gangsters so tired during the day that they can't sleep at night. Humph!" Zhao Man looked at the soldiers going away, muttering in a low voice with a smile on his face.

"Hey, it's really bad of you to join the army." Hearing this, young general Liu, who hadn't left yet, couldn't help but smirk.

"Ok?"

"Ah, ah, no, the humble general said that you are too smart to join the army."

"Well, it's more or less the same. Ah~" Zhao Man yawned, and patted Liu Xiaojiang next to him, "Let's go for supper."

Pingxia City could not be attacked for a long time, and the tug-of-war continued until No. 13 days.The Empress Dowager Liang finally couldn't bear it anymore. She put on her battle robe, went to the city, beat the drums to help the battle, and launched her ultimate siege weapon - confrontation.

This is a new type of chariot that Xixia has just developed.The entire vehicle is wrapped in iron armor, equipped with powerful weapons such as trebuchets, and can accommodate hundreds of people in the vehicle. It is powerful, but it is also too heavy and expensive to use once.Empress Dowager Liang didn't want to use such a trump card at first, but she had no choice but to use this weapon due to her unfavorable start this time.

More than a dozen rival cars were lined up in front of the formation, and the momentum was very spectacular.

"Oh my god, isn't this an ancient heavy tank? This thing is too cruel." Zhao Man, who was lying on the wall, exclaimed.

"What's the matter?" Guo Chengzheng felt dizzy, heard Zhao Man muttering there, and hurriedly asked.

"Tanks, I can't tell, these guys are pretty smart. If I'm not mistaken, these things should be covered with iron armor, and ordinary bows and arrows or soldiers using weapons can't penetrate it. "Zhao Man sighed a few words, and quickly said seriously.

"Isn't this nonsense? Look at the trebuchet installed on it. If it reaches the gate of the city, we will all be screwed!" Guo Cheng was obviously a little crazy. He didn't expect the Xixia barbarians to study weapons. And come up with such a big thing.Ordinary ones are definitely useless, maybe the rockets can still have some effect?

"What can we do?" Guo Cheng scratched his head anxiously.

"How about I take someone out to fight?!" Yue He straightened his helmet and invited himself to fight.

"Don't, this thing can't be played at all, and everyone's life has to be put on the line." Zhao Man hurriedly stopped it.

"Then what do you say?"

"Then what do you think we should do?" Guo Cheng and Yue He said in unison, looking at Zhao Man.

"Cold salad!" Zhao Man looked at the dark Xixia army outside the city, and calmly shook the colorful feather fan in his hand, his long and narrow phoenix eyes narrowed into a slit, and the slightly raised eye tails looked extraordinarily sinister.He slowly spit out a sentence: "Get on fire."

(The defenders of the city witnessed the conversations between their generals throughout the whole process, and their hearts were full of ups and downs: General, military adviser, can we beat them? So what, what is a fire bomb?)

Xixia was waiting to see how the Song army was in a panic. They were quite proud to see the crowds of people in the city, thinking that the Song army was frightened by their own new weapons and was at a loss.

"Hahahaha, look, look, are you scared to pee?!"

"That's right, once our confrontation starts, there's no city we can't beat!"

"Hahaha, let them be frightened for a while, hahaha, when we start attacking the city, they won't even have a chance to be afraid."

The strong men of the party laughed and were full of confidence.Empress Dowager Liang was also very excited, feeling that she was finally going out today after holding back her anger for several days, she really wished she could kill the difficult Song Jun on the opposite side right away, but she couldn't bear to do it too quickly, and wanted to appreciate it more The embarrassing scene where the enemy is scared to death, let me relieve my anger! 'Alas~ Contradictions, how good it is that our army is too strong. ’ Empress Dowager Liang was still secretly complacent and self-satisfied, when she heard Wei Ming Ah Bu suddenly say: "What is that?"

Empress Dowager Liang reluctantly pulled herself away from her beautiful fantasy, and reluctantly looked in the direction of Wei Ming Ah Bu's finger.I saw a few big black iron pipes popping up at some point on the opposite side of the city?What is this?I have never seen it.Whatever it is, most of the Song people's things are superficial, just playing tricks!

"Xiaoman, what, what is this?" Guo Cheng asked with a fire bomb in his hand, pointing at the six thick black iron pipes next to him.

"This is for firing fire bombs." Yue He looked at Guo Cheng with the eyes of an old hat, "You don't even know this?"

"Using a bed crossbow is easy to explode in the middle, and the effect is not good. This is a fire bomb launcher we improved later." Zhao Man took the time to answer Guo Cheng while directing the fire bomb soldiers who came up with the fire bomb to fill the fire bomb. "Or, you can also call it artillery?" Zhao Man glanced at Guo Cheng and Yue He with a smile.For no reason, both of them felt chills down their backs at the same time, and both took a step back, "I always feel that this cannon seems to be very difficult to mess with. '

(Note: Historically, primitive artillery appeared in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Primitive artillery (big lifting poles) were widely deployed in the city defense of the Southern Song Dynasty, and even arrows were equipped by the army. If not, the Southern Song Dynasty suffered from poor physical conditions and lacked war horses , How can we fight against Jin and other powerful nomads for a long time.)

The party members couldn't bear it anymore, the Empress Dowager Liang beat the drums herself, the army's morale was greatly boosted, Wei Ming Ah Bu took advantage of the situation and ordered to attack the city!The party members led the way with more than a dozen invulnerable opponent vehicles wrapped in full armor, followed by cavalry and infantry arrays, approaching the city gate in a dense mass.

"It's coming, it's coming." Guo Cheng was full of anticipation, waiting to see his artillery show its might.

"The distance is almost the same?" Zhao Man looked at Yue He, and he had to find an expert to estimate the range.

"Well, it has basically entered the range of the artillery." Yue He has been staring at the marching position of the party member, making a decisive judgment.

"Aim at the armored carts at the front, and aim at the ones directly opposite you. If there is no one directly opposite, aim at the ones to the left. Don't aim too hard. Get ready!" Zhao Man gave an order, and the Fire Bomber They immediately adjusted the angle of the barrel, held the torches tightly and stood by.

"Fire!" As soon as Zhao Man finished speaking, the six cannons ignited simultaneously, and the thick fuses burned rapidly with a slight crackling sound and flickering sparks.

"You can cover your ears." Zhao Man covered his ears, looked at Guo Cheng who was still concentrating on the burning fuse, and reminded.

"Ah? What are you talking about..." Before Guo Cheng finished speaking, he heard "Bang! Bang! Bang..." Several loud noises, and saw a few round fire bombs flying across the tower of his side He shot out, drew a perfect parabola in the air, and fell straight into the Xixia attacking team on the opposite side.

On the opposite side, sparks flew everywhere, dust flew up, there was a deafening "bang", the shouts of party soldiers, the popping sound of unknown objects hitting the flesh, the neighing of war horses, the crackling of things exploding and burning... one after another, in coordination With the background of the flames soaring into the sky, it is simply a picture of purgatory on earth.

Then Zhao Man ordered again, followed by another round of artillery attacks.Two rounds of artillery attacks, mixed with countless rockets, it was basically impossible to see the other side.The huge opposing vehicle was either completely overturned, crushing countless soldiers to death, or it was directly blasted through, and the people and the vehicle were smashed into slag.Rockets and fire bombs burned in turn, igniting a car and burning hundreds of people.

The soldiers and generals are basically out of human form, with stumped limbs and broken flesh everywhere, and the rest can only cry on the verge of death.The whole land is infiltrated with fresh blood. In the cold winter, the steaming red blood leaves from the once fresh bodies, and instantly turns into a blood-red ice layer, covering the snow-white ground, red and white, What a pure color, what a glaring contrast, yet extremely magnificent and soul-stirring.

Zhao Man couldn't bear to cover his eyes, and then put down his arms again, laughing at himself in his heart: "Why do you have to be an asshole and set up an archway?"This is a matter of life and death. Although it is against the peace of heaven, it is also a helpless move.If the Song Dynasty was defeated, the entire city of Pingxia would probably be slaughtered.Heck, with my small body, I might have to be killed and hung on the top of the wall to flutter in the wind. '

Zhao Man was still immersed in the sadness of being hurt by things, and suddenly there was a thunder-like sound in his ears. "Ah? What are you talking about? Why can't I hear? Ah? Ah?" The startled Zhao Man jumped in place. Looking back, it turned out that Guo Cheng's idiot didn't cover his ears just now, and now he is temporarily deaf. Who is he arresting? Who are you yelling at, indiscriminate attacks?

Later, Guo Chengcai figured out that the sound of the cannon was so loud when it was fired that anyone who got close needed to cover their ears for protection.The firebombers are also equipped with cotton ball earplugs.But now he is still very nervous about his ears, for fear that he will become deaf, and then he will not be able to go into battle to kill the enemy.It wasn't until Zhao Man patted him on the shoulder in a good mood, and carefully explained the cause and effect to his ear, that this guy was relieved and waited for his hearing to recover.

The Xixia army is obviously over, and today's siege battle is completely useless.The pitiful dozens of valuable rival cars hadn't played a role yet, and they were collectively blown up like this, without even leaving a complete part.However, there were also fish that slipped through the net. Zhao Man found that the two opposing vehicles were relatively less damaged, only being scratched to the trebuchet part.

"It didn't blow up. Well, the quasi-leader still needs to be improved, and needs to be studied." Zhao Man rubbed his stubble-protruding chin, summing up his combat experience.

On the top of the city, all the soldiers looked at the miserable appearance of the party members downstairs, and said nothing: ...Joining the army, the quasi-leader is actually fine.

"Hey, it seems that two fire bombs missed, where did they go?" Yue He also poked his head out to study seriously.

Zhao Man and Guo Cheng looked at the formation of Xixia soldiers along the general trajectory of the fire bombs, and saw...the chaos near the Zhongjun Commander's Banner, dripping with blood, and the ground was scorched black, it was obvious that they were bombed.

……

'Isn't it? '

'Blow up the coach? '

'It's not such a coincidence, is it? '

The three of Zhao Man looked at each other and stood silently in the north wind.