Three days later, the Song army's gunpowder arrived as scheduled, and the attack on the Xia army's Mangdangshan camp also began, the southern defense line of the Xia army's Mangdangshan camp, which was the key area of the Song army's attack, was personally guarded by the Xia general Lu He, and at the same time, two-thirds of the Mangdangshan camp were invested here.
"Catapults, gunpowder bag attack begins, put" General Song ordered.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" "Boom, boom, boom" A huge explosion sounded on the walls of the Xia army, but it did not hurt the Xia army defending the city; The first line of defense of the entire Mangdang Mountain is either a steep cliff or a towering city wall, all the city walls are about four zhang high, the top is about one zhang and five feet wide, all the city walls have a dome at the top, the whole city wall is still a double-layer structure, and there is a firing port at intervals, as for the thunder stone rolling wood has been eliminated, all of them are large earth-shaking thunder, as for the return cannon, this kind of large projectile weapons are placed in the city.
As the top priority of the summer army, although there are only 30,000 troops, these people are elite, and the weapons and equipment they use are the best in the entire Xuzhou army, and they are also the top existence in the entire summer army, among the 30,000 troops, 10,000 of them are firearms battalions, and King Li Ke of Qi put his only ace such as a firearms battalion in the Mangdangshan camp; The summer army had a standard firearms battalion, with 10,000 firearms and 30 to 35 guns at the same time.
Lu He stood at a battlement and took out a single-tube telescope; This kind of telescope is the last two years to begin to equip the Xia Army, needless to say that this kind of thing is the Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo invented, at the beginning of the use of crystal, and then Li Liangzuo deliberately let Longtai Commercial Bank from Europa spend a lot of money to buy a batch of glass, now each battalion owner of the Xia Army will be equipped with a single-tube telescope, this kind of thing is called clairvoyance by the Xia generals, usually the treasure is very bad for fear of breaking.
Lu He saw the location of the heavy catapults of the Song army through the telescope, and Lu He asked the captain of the artillery team: "Have you seen the heavy catapults of the Song army, can you get your artillery?"
The artillery captain picked up his single-barreled telescope and looked at it and said, "General, the new heavy catapult used by the Song army is similar to the return cannon we use, but the projectile distance is not as far as ours; Of the thirty-five artillery pieces in the hands of the lowly officials, only five heavy guns of more than 2,000 pounds could destroy them, and although the other light artillery could shoot so far, their power was greatly reduced. ” "Five is enough, go and transport all your cannons to General Ben to the city, give me aim and shoot directly, I want to see what kind of attack the Song army has without these catapults."
Lu He said with a sneer.
"Yes, the last general commands" After the artillery captain left, Lu He ordered: "All the firecrackers, listen, don't care about the ammunition, we have the ammunition, you just need to give me all these ammunition to the head of the Song army, all the bed crossbows, crossbowmen, give me turns to shoot arrows, as long as the Song army is attacking the rain of arrows, you can't stop." ” Crossbowmen have obvious disadvantages compared with firecrackers, experienced archers who have been systematically trained, can pull the bow fifteen times at most, the bow and arrow of this period can not help, as long as the crossbowman is much better, but it will reach the limit more than fifty times, this war is a physical work, often every battle, all the participants will be tired and exhausted, without two or three days of rest is not able to reach the best state again, even if the next day continues to participate in the war, its combat power is not as good as the first day.
It took a lot of effort for the Xia army to transport the artillery, and after the artillery was transported, the artillery captain immediately ordered: "Attention all artillery, the target Song army's catapult array, one round is loaded, and five salvos are ready to be released."
"Boom, boom, boom" Five loud bangs, five burned red big iron eggs flew towards the Song army's catapult array, the Song army's catapults have dozens and are lined up, and there are one at intervals, although the Xia army's artillery is sharp, but it is still quite difficult to hit it with one shot, and the first round of shooting Xia Jun only hit one of the catapults.
The artillery captain ordered again: "Attention all guns, aim and shoot at me, hit hard, and wait for the board when you go back if you miss the shot."
Not to mention that the amount of artillery statements really worked, in the next Xia army's heavy artillery began to name the Song army's catapults one by one, in addition, at this time the Song army's siege army has also been in the city, the Xia army began to throw the earth-shaking thunder and large explosives package down, many Song troops were directly blown into a pile of minced meat, and the Song army's ladder could not be built on the city wall at all, and even if it was built, there was no way, because the top of the Xia army's city wall was round, and it was very slippery and could not climb up at all, and some other large city wall battlements could not be climbed.
But there is a heavy garrison of the Xia army here, and it is basically impossible to get in from here.
After attacking for an hour, the Song army paid huge casualties under the blows of the Xia army's artillery, return artillery, bird guns, crossbowmen, and bed crossbows, and approached the city wall, but in the face of the Xia army's city wall, they had no way but to be beaten, so the Song army's casualties increased sharply.
General Song reported to the planter: "Marshal, the defense of the Xia army is too strong, our army cannot attack the city at all, our cloud ladder can not play any role at all, in addition, the Xia army used earth-shaking thunder and gunpowder bags to strike at the army under our city, our army suffered heavy casualties, please make a clear decision" The seed master Dao looked at the battle-torn battlefield and said: "The herald Mingjin withdraws the troops" "Bell, bell, bell" As soon as the sound of gold sounded, the Song army retreated like a tide, leaving only corpses all over the ground; General Xia said to Lu He: "General, look, the Song army has retreated."
"I saw it, they will come back again, but I don't know where to attack this time."
Lu He said with a sigh.
"General, the Song army has withdrawn, why are you sighing" General Xia asked puzzled.
"If the Song army continues to attack, we can also inflict greater damage on the Song army, which will be more conducive to our army's subsequent defense of the city."
Lu He said: "Forget it, the order is for the brothers to hurry up and rest, maybe it won't be long before the Song army's attack will start again." ” After the Song army withdrew to the camp, the cultivator summoned the generals and asked, "Generals, what do you think of today's battle?"
"Marshal, the last general thought that the failure of our army's attack this time was not only because the Xia army used the so-called new weapons and artillery, but more importantly, the Xia army's city wall, the Xia army actually built a round roof on the top of the city wall, so that our army's attacking troops could not put the ladder on the city wall at all, and even if it was built, it was very difficult for our soldiers to climb the dome; Therefore, the last general thought that if he wanted to break the city, he had to find a way to solve the problem of the cupola, if he couldn't solve the problem of unjust orders, our army would not be able to attack the city even if he paid a large price of casualties, and the firearms of the Xia army were much sharper than ours, so it was not a way to fight hard."
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