The journey to the heavens starts from the underground station

Chapter 140
At the first moment of the explosion, Halle Zhuo and Liu Jing were surrounded by heavy shields of the guards, and the explosion did not hurt them at all.

"This, this, was last night, that, was there any movement?" Halle Zhuo looked at the miserable scenes around him, stunned, and stammered to himself.

"Run!" Liu Jing reacted quickly, and quickly gave him a hand: "Song Jun will launch again soon, let's go to the city to take shelter first."

Liu Jing was right. Yu Daguang was dissatisfied when he looked at the dozens of bombing spots on the artillery field outside the city, and shouted loudly, "Prepare for the second round of bombardment! Give me the right time!"

Following Yu Daguang's command, under the command of the gunner, several artillerymen stepped forward, pulled the gun mount, and adjusted the design angle slightly while returning the gun; Fill water, extend into the gun barrel to cool down, and prevent fire during loading; the loader first loads the fixed gunpowder packaged in oil paper from the muzzle, and then loads the blooming shells with the fuze set by the ammunition hand, aligning the angle, using The wooden rod is pushed to the deepest point and compacted; the gunner uses a long needle to stretch into the fire door, pierce the gunpowder bag, insert the ignition tube, and finally hook the flint ignition device inside the ignition tube with the hook at the front of the gun rope, and everything is ready.

A skilled gun crew can do all this in less than 1 minute.

"fire!"

Yu Daguang gave the order, and the gunner pulled the gun rope. In an instant, there was a loud bang, a lot of gunpowder smoke rose from the position, and another round of shells hit the city head in a parabola.

Then came the third round, the fourth round, and the fifth round.

After five rounds of shelling, gunpowder smoke filled the top of the city, the towers collapsed, many gaps appeared in the walls, and there were basically no living Liao troops on the top of the city.

Of course, this is not because the bombardment had a significant effect, but because the Liao army saw that the Song army's weapons were powerful, and regardless of the generals' obstruction, they ran down the city in a swarm and hid at the root of the city wall.

It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. There has been no war between Song and Liao for a hundred years, and the current Liao soldiers have long since lost the glory of their ancestors.

The artillerymen stopped shelling to cool down the overheated gun barrels. The Liao army waited for a long time, but when there was no movement outside the city, the generals drove them to the top of the city again, hiding behind the wall and looking out.

"Two more rounds of flower bombs!" Yang Ponu, who had been observing the top of the city on the high platform, was immediately happy. He was waiting for this moment, and immediately ordered again.

Yang Ponu's troops did not bring siege equipment, facing the strong city of Chenzhou, he did not want the soldiers to rush up to die.Yang Ponu had already made up his mind that if he wanted to break through the city quickly, he had to use cannons to destroy the morale of the enemy and let them understand that they could only be passively beaten while guarding the city wall. Afterwards, the Liao army pursued and killed them, blasted open the gate of the city, rushed into the city with all their strength, and took Chenzhou.

Of course, if the Liao army was determined to be a turtle, Yang Ponu had no choice but to camp on the spot, cut down trees, and temporarily build siege equipment, and then suppress it with artillery fire and attack the city with ants.

The artillery battalion received the order and immediately shelled the city again.

"Run!" "Downtown!" "Mommy!"

Accompanied by the sound of explosions and the screams of crying parents and mothers, the Liao army who had just returned to the city wall huddled together again and rushed down to the top of the city.

"Haler passed the verdict, this battle can't be fought! The Song army hasn't attacked the city yet, but just made some explosions, which made our soldiers panic and showed signs of collapse!" Liu Jing didn't mention at all that he took the lead and ran down. The guard on the city wall frowned, and said worriedly to Halezhuo: "The Song army is too cunning! Obviously they don't want us to defend the city wall! They are too far away, and the trebuchets can't reach them. Being bombed on the city wall, it is better to lead the army out of the city and fight them!"

"Oh! Miscalculation! General Wu shouldn't have led the cavalry out of the city last night! If there were cavalry..." Halle Zhuo sighed: "How could the Song army have made such a weapon! In the current situation, I am afraid that we can only As General Liu said, leading the troops out of the city, defeating the Song army outside the city in one fell swoop, capturing or destroying their weapons, can turn the tide of the battle! But I am afraid that the Song army will play new tricks! General Liu, look at the Song army in the back Army, they didn't bring swords, guns, swords and halberds, it's absolutely abnormal!"

"It doesn't matter! If this motherfucker comes here a few more times, our army may collapse! What city is still defending!" Liu Jing shouted angrily: "Then trouble the general judge to dispatch some of the Bohai Navy from the north of the city to defend In the end, the general will bring [-] Han troops from his headquarters out of the city to attack the enemy, vowing to destroy all the new weapons of the Song army!"

"Can!"

After being bombed twice, Halezhuo learned to be obedient. After Liu Jing led the Han army to line up in the city and replaced the Bohai Navy to defend the city, Halezhuo ordered the Liao army not to return to the city wall in a hurry, but to hide in the At the root of the city, only a few sentinels were sent to the top of the city to observe the movement of the Song army, and to notify them when the Song army showed signs of attacking the city.

Outside the city, Yang Ponu was not in a hurry when he saw the situation. It was still early in the morning, but the general had only carried out two shellings, and the effect had only just appeared. He could completely wait and make an attack plan according to the Liao army's next reaction.

Sure enough, a quarter of an hour later, the detectives came to report that the suspension bridge on the north gate of Chenzhou Prefecture was lowered, and the city gate was opened. Nearly ten thousand Liao troops rushed out of the city gate, crossed the suspension bridge on the moat, and were surrounded by the generals. Under the command, the offensive formation is being quickly arranged.

Liu Jing is not stupid. The Song army attacked the city outside the west gate, and the explosion hit the top of the city. Naturally, he would not lead the troops out from the west gate. As long as the Song army attacked while the Liao army was halfway across the moat, Then there is no need to fight this battle, it will directly become the target of Song Jun!Therefore, Liu Jing deliberately took a detour to lead the troops out from the north gate, avoiding the unknown weapon of the Song army.

"General, I would like to ask for instructions, should the artillery battalion position be moved to the left to bombard the Liao army who are out of the city at the north gate?" On the high platform of the Chinese army, a messenger from the artillery battalion hurried over to ask for instructions.

"It's not necessary to move all to the left. According to the general's order, the fourth and fifth infantry battalions in the rear army formation will go out to the left and form a large hollow formation. Part of the artillery battalion will enter the formation and prepare to meet the enemy from the left! Engage in battle! At that time, the Sixth and Seventh Infantry Battalions outflanked from the flanks, trying to gather and annihilate the invading enemies! The rest of the Infantry Battalions, stay alert!"

It was just nearly ten thousand Liao army infantry, but Yang Ponu actually sent four infantry battalions directly, more than ten thousand musketeers to meet them, and a third of the artillery battalion.There are more people than the opponent, and the weapons are more advanced than the opponent. This is really a bit of a bully!Yang Ponu was planning to use the power of a lion against a rabbit to quickly annihilate the Liao army.

Unfortunately, at this moment, an unexpected situation disrupted Yang Ponu's arrangement.

Outside the north gate, the Liao army crossed the moat, lined up in a loose formation away from the north gate, made a circle, stopped at the northwest corner of Chenzhou Fucheng, and formed an offensive formation under the urging of all the generals.

The archers shoot at the ground, and at the front are two rows of heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, which are used to resist the impact or attack the enemy; behind the sword and shield soldiers, there are three rows of crossbow soldiers. The Khitan took the land of Yanyun, They also obtained the casting method of the Han people, so there are naturally bows and crossbows; behind the crossbow array, there are rows of ordinary soldiers holding long spears.

Such an army formation should have cavalry protecting the two wings, but unfortunately, the only two thousand cavalry in the Han army were taken out of the city by Wu Hongyi last night.At this time, only a few generals and their personal soldiers in the eight thousand Han army had horses to ride.

The battle array is good, and the distance is less than three hundred feet, which is the hollow phalanx of the Song Army.

A total of 400 people from the two battalions were arranged in a square formation, with 350 people on each side, arranged in three rows, and fired in three stages alternately when attacking; the large formation was hollow, and artillery was deployed. Use shotguns to deal a fatal blow to the enemy.

Liu Jing rode on his horse and looked at the formation of Song Jun from a distance. In the middle of the formation, there was a strange weapon that had just caused the city to explode. Liu Jing calculated silently in his heart, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead instantly.

It's too tight!Just now the Song army was able to shoot explosives into the city at a distance of [-] zhang, but now his troops are less than [-] zhang away from the Song army. Isn't this just giving his life to the enemy's sword!

Although he didn't understand why he was already in range and Song Jun hadn't attacked yet, Liu Jing knew in his heart that he couldn't wait any longer!

Ordering the four infantry generals under his command to call to his side, Liu Jing quietly gave the commander a wink, and looked around the four generals suspiciously.

"General Liu, the battle is imminent. We are about to meet the enemy. What's the point of calling me here? If there is nothing wrong, we will go back to our headquarters to command the battle!" One of the generals said in a doubtful tone asked politely.This general was called Xiao Moye, and they were the only two Khitans out of the five commanders in the Han army, the other one commanded the cavalry and was not here.Relying on his identity as a Khitan, Xiao Moye has always bullied his colleagues. At the same time, because Liu Jing is only one of the two lieutenants of the tribal army, Xiao Moye also refuses to obey Liu Jing's control at all.

"Naturally, there is something important to explain!" Liu Jingyin gave him a suspicious look, and replied in a deep voice, "The Great Song Dynasty is our Han Zhengshuo, and the Song Army is the king's master! All the eight thousand soldiers we waited for were Han Chinese. Why do you have to sacrifice your life for the Khitan and kill each other with your own people? This general is determined to lead the soldiers to change their ways, what do you guys think?"

As soon as the words came out, the three Han ginseng generals looked at each other, and they all sensed the emotion in each other's eyes. Only Xiao Moye couldn't distinguish the situation, and became furious. He pulled out his waist knife and pointed at Liu Jing. , shouted angrily: "Liu Jing! How dare you surrender to the enemy!? You are not afraid of your majesty... uh!"

Before Xiao Moye finished speaking, he saw Liu Jing squinting his eyes, and the commander of the soldiers standing quietly behind Xiao Moye quickly pulled out his waist knife, and stabbed it into Xiao Moye's back heart.

Because of the barrier of the armor, the knife slipped slightly, and did not pierce Xiao Moye's heart. Under the pain, Xiao Moye was shocked and angry, and just turned his head to see who the attacker was, but saw the soldier The commander quickly pulled out the waist knife, swung it round and then chopped it out again.

With a knife owl's head, hot blood sprayed out two meters high, scattered into a rain of blood and covered the surrounding ground.The soldiers in the army formation were stunned and turned their heads to look this way in disbelief.

However, Liu Jing got off his horse in a calm manner, leaned over and picked up Xiao Moyeyou's unsatisfied head, casually removed the helmet on the head, grabbed the hair bun and held it in his hand, and kindly rushed at the three generals smile.

That smile is permeating!The three participating generals couldn't help trembling all over, immediately knelt down on the ground, and shouted in unison: "I will obey the general's order, change my course, and go to the king's division!"

When Liu Jing's hundreds of soldiers saw this, they immediately shouted in unison: "The general has an order, we and the Song army are all Han people, and we must not kill each other! The whole army stops advancing, puts down their weapons, and welcomes the king's army!"

With this order, all the officers and soldiers of the army looked at me and I looked at you. They all stood there for a while, and finally, whoever was the leader, threw the spear in his hand on the ground with a clang. The sound of swords and guns throwing the ground.

"Huh!" Liu Jing let out a long breath quietly, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his body wobbled as if he had collapsed, and his personal commander hurriedly supported Liu Jing.

"Don't worry about me." Liu Jing stabilized his mind, reached into his clothes and took out a letter, handed it to the commander of the soldiers, and said, "Liu Dan, get on my horse and go quickly to the Song army's formation. Give this letter to the chief general of the Song army and tell them that we surrendered!"

"Yes!"

Watching Liu Dan, who was beating his horse and galloping towards the Song Army, Liu Jing was in a trance and rejoiced: 20 years!I finally waited for Master Wang to come, and I can go back to Song Dynasty!

Agreed to let the cavalry out of the city, reducing the number of defenders in Chenzhou; after the city was shelled, he took the lead in fleeing as a defender, which broke the morale of the defenders; out; immediately after leaving the city, they surrendered without hesitation.

All of this, whether to follow the trend or make the best use of the situation, was all planned by Liu Jing. Liu Jing's true identity was a secret agent of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty lurking in the Liao Kingdom. Naturally, he wanted to work for the "Song Army".

"Hmph!" Yang Ponu read the letter of surrender with a gloomy face. He was silent for a long time, and suddenly he crumpled his heart and threw it aside casually.

"Order Liu Jing, our army is under the command of King Wu of the Song Dynasty, and was ordered by the emperor to conquer Khitan in the north. Since Liu Jing is willing to surrender, he should lay down his weapons. He will send people to send them to the rear of our army, and His Highness will make the decision! , you go back! The people of this general will arrive soon!"

"Yes." Liu Dan bowed respectfully and stepped back.

After another infantry battalion was arranged to receive the surrendered troops, Yang Ponu rubbed his forehead depressedly.

Liu Jing's surrender completely disrupted his battle plan!

The defenders in the city are not blind, so Liu Jing put down his weapons outside the city, so the defenders don't know what he wants to do!I'm afraid that while cursing Liu Jing in despair, he will hide in the city for help, and will not go out of the city to fight in the field!
My own plan to drive away the rout soldiers and take the opportunity to enter the city is no longer feasible!

"Order the entire army to set up camp two miles back! Send people to cut down trees and build ladders! Report the situation here to His Highness!"

(End of this chapter)