After the artillery array was prepared, Li Yanze specially built a watchtower for Li Wu behind the artillery array, standing on the watchtower, you can clearly see the scene in the entire Dengzhou City, and at the same time you can also command and dispatch the entire artillery array, this artillery array in front of the watchtower is the most powerful attack force of the Xia army, with them in the eyes of the Xia army in the strong city wall, it is also vulnerable.
Li Wu stood on the watchtower and looked at everything in Dengzhou City with a telescope and sneered: "Let's start" "Yes."
Li Yanze immediately received the order; "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered, open fire" "Daxu herald, open the cannon" "Boom, boom, boom" Five hundred artillery pieces and three hundred return cannons began to roar at Dengzhou, and a huge sound resounded through the sky, and the "boom" explosion sounded around the city wall of Dengzhou, and the entire city of Dengzhou trembled, just like an earthquake; Loud explosions could be heard from dozens of miles away, and although the accuracy of the artillery and return guns was not high, the unprecedentedly dense firepower could also make up for this shortcoming.
"Boom, boom, boom" A Song general threw Wang Kai to the ground and said loudly: "Marshal, the firepower of the Xia army is too fierce, and the soldiers of our army have suffered heavy casualties."
"Didn't they all go down to the city to hide," Wang Kai said loudly.
"That's not good, the entire Dengzhou City is within the range of the Xia army's firepower."
Song Jiang said to Wang Kai.
Wang Kai clenched his fists and said: "Don't we have a tunnel, and the whole army is ordered to approach the tunnel, leaving only a small number of people to monitor on the ground." ” "Yes, I'll do it."
General Song immediately took the order and left.
The tunnel of Dengzhou City was built after the Song army recovered Dengzhou, 200,000 Song soldiers took turns to excavate, and built a huge underground system under the city of Dengzhou, which was specially prepared by Wang Kai for Li Wu, before the Northern Expedition, Wang Kai carried out detailed intelligence collection work on the Xia army, and conducted a comprehensive investigation of the Xia army's new firearms troops, so in order to fight against the Xia army, Wang Kai designated a top-secret plan, which is also an important reason why Wang Kai did not continue to go north after occupying Dengzhou.
Under the bombardment of cannons and return guns, it could not hold up on the strong city walls; After more than half an hour of bombardment, the north wall of Dengzhou City finally could not be supported, under the deafening sound of cannons, the sound of the city wall collapse could not be heard at all, only a burst of smoke and dust suddenly rose in the distance, and the smell of gunpowder filled the sky of the entire Dengzhou City.
At this time, a Xia general came up to report: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the north city wall of Dengzhou has collapsed. ” "Your Highness, after such a long time of shooting, the barrel of the cannon is already very hot, and if you continue to fight, I am afraid that there will be a danger of exploding, and now that the city wall has collapsed, you can see if the last general will bring people into the city."
Li Yanze asked Li Wu for instructions.
"Except for the artillery, all the rest of the army is under your command, and you will immediately enter the city to fight, and in the shortest possible time, you will destroy all the Song troops and control the entire Dengzhou City."
Li Wu issued a military order very decisively: "In addition, send someone to order Li Hu'er to deploy defenses on the south bank of Chaoshui to prevent the remnants of the Song army from escaping. ” "Yes, the last general commands."
Li Yanze smiled and took the military order.
"This prince has heard that my righteous brother Li Yue, Duke of Anguo, has already broken through the Sword Gate Pass and entered the land of Sichuan and Shu, so we may not be too far behind."
Li Wu said with a smile.
"Your Highness, rest assured, before sunset, the last general will take this city, and take Xiangyang within seven days; It only takes half a month for our army to be able to sweep the scene, and according to this method, there is no problem in destroying the Song Dynasty in less than half a year.
Li Yanze said; His Highness watched the battle again, and the last general led his troops into the city. ” After Li Yanze left, Li Wu still used a telescope to observe the entire Dengzhou City, at this time the Dengzhou City has been ploughed by the artillery fire of the Xia army I don't know how many times, the entire Dengzhou City is full of fire, except for the area around the Thorn Mansion in the city, which has not been affected too much, there are not many complete buildings in the rest of the place, this battle down the entire Dengzhou City is completely scrapped, in addition, the losses of the Xia army in this battle are not small, mainly because the artillery shells are basically running out again, In addition, nearly 50 guns have been completely scrapped due to the frequency of firing.
But these are worth it, the Song army suffered heavy losses under the blow of the Xia army's artillery fire, although the Song army hid in the tunnel, but many tunnel entrances were collapsed by the Xia army's artillery, due to the lack of oxygen, many Song soldiers were suffocated underground, and finally or left the tunnel of the Song army soldiers but only more than 10,000 people, these lucky surviving Song soldiers are also the most elite force in the Song army, they came out of the tunnel, immediately launched a counter-assault on the Xia army, but under the blow of the Xia army's firearms, in addition to death, They did not inflict any substantial casualties on the Xia army.
And Wang Kai fled south from Dengzhou under the protection of more than 1,000 remnants, although Wang Kai did a lot of intelligence work on the Xia army, but still underestimated the power of the Xia army's firearms, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Xia army only took less than half an hour to successfully occupy the entire Dengzhou City, after taking the strategic places in Dengzhou City, Li Yanze immediately went out of the city to report to Li Wuyu: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, our army has occupied the entire Dengzhou City, and now the city is dilapidated, and the materials that the Song army has put in the city have all been destroyed, The last general suggested that it would be better for our army to be stationed outside the city. ” Li Wu shook his head and said: "The artillery is heavy and not easy to move, the artillery is still stationed outside the city, as for the bird soldiers, it is still stationed in the city, the remnants of the buildings in the city are enough for the brothers to live in, it is much better than sleeping outside, so that the brothers can rest well." ” "Yes, the last general will arrange it."
Li Yanze took the military order.
Then the Xia prince Li Wu entered the city of Dengzhou with the personal guard battalion, and went straight to the Thorn Mansion, which has been temporarily changed to Li Wu's line, although the Xia army occupied the whole city, but the Xia army did not clear the whole city in such a short period of time, so the entire Thorn Shi Mansion was still closely protected by Li Wu's personal guard battalion.
Besides, after Wang Kai led more than a thousand remnants of the army to escape from Dengzhou City, he ran all the way south until he fled to a dense forest fifty miles east of Dengzhou, and then it was already dark; General Song said to Wang Kai: "Dashuai, we have escaped so far, Xia Jun should not chase after us, the brothers are tired, or let's take a break here for a while."
Wang Kai looked at the soldiers beside him and said, "Okay, by the way, have you arranged everything in the city?"
"Don't worry, the last general has been fully arranged, and this time Li Wu will shed his skin even if he doesn't die."
Song Jun said to Wang Kai.
Wang Kai nodded and said: "Okay, if you can really succeed in killing Li Wu, even if the 200,000 army of Ben Shuai is not lost in vain, my Great Song Dynasty can once again usher in a respite." ” The second update will be presented as: