Two days later, inside the camp of the summer army in Bagong Mountain.
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Qing, the king of Yan, said to the generals: "Generals, our heavy siege equipment has arrived, you can tell me how to fight this Shouchun City."
"Lord Yu, the last general has already selected the location of the artillery position just now, and found that our artillery is simply not able to directly attack Shouchun City from Bagong Mountain."
The artillery general reported to Li Qingyu; "The only way to open a gap for our siege troops is to shoot at close range, which will increase the danger of artillery."
"If you are afraid of danger, simply go home and pick up your children."
Li Qing said very unhappily.
"Lord Wang, according to the latest information we have, the Song army has invested a new type of long-range attack weapon in Shouchun City, and the specific data of these weapons is not yet known, but it is very likely to pose a threat to our party's artillery and return artillery."
The scout general reported to Li Qingyu.
"Do you know what it is?"
asked Li Qing to the scout general.
"It's unclear that, according to the source, it should be something similar to a catapult."
The scout general said to Li Qing.
"The herald, the army's siege plan remains unchanged, and Shouchun City must be taken."
Li Qing said decisively.
"Yes, follow the orders of the prince" Li Qing ordered the Xia army to start the final siege preparations, and all the two hundred artillery pieces were transported to the predetermined position, in order to blast the walls of Shouchun City as soon as possible, the artillery and return artillery of the Xia army were pushed as close as they could, and they were almost pushed under the nose of the Song army, behind the artillery of the Xia army was the 60,000 army besieging the city, and as for the remaining 10,000 people, there must be some to defend the city, Li Qing was also afraid that Zhang Miao would copy his own back road.
Li Qing, the king of Yan, set up his handsome platform on the main peak of Bagong Mountain, standing here, you can clearly see the situation in the entire Shouchun City, before the attack, Li Qing deliberately used a telescope to observe a good circle, and did not find the new long-range attack weapon of the Song army that the scout general said.
"Lord Wang, everything is ready" "Pass on the king's order, prepare for a long-range attack," Li Qing decisively issued a military order.
"Yes, the order of the Great Summons, artillery attack" After Li Qing's military order was issued, two hundred artillery pieces and three hundred catapults launched a fierce attack on Shouchun City, and the explosion resounded in the sky, Li Qing looked at Shouchun City hit by artillery fire through binoculars, and suddenly ordered: "Order two hundred artillery pieces to replace with cone-shaped armor-piercing shells, and give me a fierce bombardment of Shouchun's city wall, and I will blast Shouchun's city wall to this king before sunset." ” "Yes, Da Xu's order, the artillery will be replaced with a conical armor-piercing shell" After replacing it with armor-piercing shells, two hundred artillery pieces were all aimed at the city wall of Shouchun, under the heavy artillery fire, the entire city wall shook, Li Qing saw all this through the telescope and said: "Okay, just fight like this, this king wants to see how long the wall of Shouchun can last." ” On the other side, in Shouchun City, Yue Fei came to Zhang Miao and reported: "Marshal, the artillery fire of the Xia army is very sharp, and the soldiers of our army have suffered heavy losses. ” Zhang Miao sneered: "Don't worry, Ben Shuai has already prepared, and ordered the firearms battalion to prepare for the attack." ” "Yes, the last general commanded," a Song general replied.
Yue Fei asked puzzledly: "What kind of firearms camp is the firearms camp?"
It turned out that the Song army's defense of Shouchun this time, in addition to the 200,000 elite Song army and the fortified Shouchun City, Zhang Miao also had a secret army firearms battalion in his hands; This firearms battalion of the Song army is different from the previous firearms battalion, this firearms battalion is equipped with the most powerful long-range attack firearms of the Song army.
After issuing the military order, Zhang Miao personally came to the firearms battalion of the Song army, where the new firearms had been installed, if a firearm soldier of the Xia army was here, he would definitely be able to recognize this kind of thing, because the Xia army was also equipped with it, that is, missiles; Unlike the cast-iron missiles of the Xia army, the missiles of the Song army are all made of paper, and to put it bluntly, they are large two-kicks, and the purpose of this is to make them fake and cheap, and as for the lethality, they are not known because they have not yet been on the battlefield.
"Your Excellency, 500 missiles have been prepared."
A Song army general reports to Zhang Miaoyu.
Yue Fei was very surprised when he looked at these missiles, these missiles were as thick as calves, and there were at least five catties of gunpowder in each missile, and their power could be imagined; Zhang Miao touched one of the missiles, then pushed it away from a safe distance and ordered: "Let's ignite" "The handsome has an order, ignition of the fire" "呲, 呲, 呲" In order to prevent the missiles from causing losses to their own people, the twists of these missiles are designed to be very long, after ignition, all the Song soldiers immediately retreated to a safe distance, and it didn't take long for 500 missiles to rise into the air "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" and went straight to the artillery position of the Xia army, like the missiles of the Xia army, the missiles of the Song army were also very inaccurate, and these needed to be made up for by quantity, but due to the limitations of the site in the city, the Song army was able to launch 500 missiles at one time.
On the platform of the Xia army commander of Bagong Mountain, Li Qing, the king of Yan, was observing the entire battlefield with a telescope, and when Li Qing saw the incoming missiles through the telescope, he was shocked, and immediately ordered: "Order, all artillery is hidden" However, Li Qing's military order was too late, but these Xia soldiers, who had been dealing with firearms for a long time, immediately made a relatively correct way when they saw the missiles coming, lying on the ground, it was impossible to run at this time, in order to reduce the damage caused by the missiles, lying on the ground was the safest way, and about 200 of the Song army's 500 missiles hit the artillery positions of the Xia army, and one after another the flames rose in the air in the artillery positions, and some even directly hit the ammunition stacked on the side and caused the explosion.
Except for some of the remaining shells that turned into fireworks in the sky, the remaining small part exploded in the rear of the Xia army preparing to attack, or deviated from the course and exploded in the field on the side, which was the first time that the Xia army was covered by such dense firepower, and brought very heavy losses to the Xia army.
Li Qingtie ordered with a blushing face: "Order the artillery to shoot and blow up the entire Shouchun City to this king." ” "Yes, follow the orders of the prince."
At the same time, the artillery general of the Xia army was also using binoculars to find the launch position of the Song army's missiles, although the Song army's missiles brought a lot of losses to the Xia army, but did not eliminate all the artillery positions of the Xia army, and the Xia army already had the ability to counterattack; On the other hand, after the first round of launches was completed, Song Jun was also actively preparing for the second round of launches.
Zhang Miao asked the general of the firearms battalion of the Song army: "How far can our missiles attack, and can they hit Bagong Mountain?"
” "Yu Dashuai, Bagong Mountain is more than ten miles away from us, and it is a bit choking to hit Bagong Mountain, but you can try."
The general of the firearms battalion said to Zhang Miao.
"In that case, forget it; Give all the missiles to Ben Shuai and aim at the artillery positions of the Xia army, as long as the artillery of the Xia army is knocked out, Ben Shuai wants to see what else he Li Qing will take to attack the city.
Zhang Miao clenched his fists and ordered.
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