Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 187
Wanyan Loushi did not continue to answer Wanyan Zonghan's words. He is considered a relatively pure soldier among the Jin army, unlike Wanyan Zonghan who has a strong political atmosphere.

As a soldier, he was more concerned with the interests of the soldiers in the army. Because he had fought too many bitter battles, Wanyan Loushi knew the consequences of a battle with heavy losses, so he did not want to be angry and raised troops.

But this time, he felt that Fan Zhuoyuan was the biggest threat. Regardless of whether he could win Yandi in this battle, Fan Zhuoyuan had to be eliminated.

Otherwise, according to his intuition, the Kingdom of Jin will never have peace in the future.

After all, he was the first Song general who defeated the many with less and broke the myth that Jurchen was invincible, no matter how overestimated he is.

In Tongzhou County, Fan Zhuoyuan summoned his troops at this time to quickly deploy city defenses.

At present, Fan Zhuoyuan has five partial generals, who usually lead two thousand soldiers and horses, namely: Chang Fu, He Lubu, Gu Huaizhen, Zhang Jin, Wu Yu, and a military judge Fu Yan who is upright and serious. A thousand law enforcement teams.

With his establishment, he had several private soldiers. Otherwise, under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for him to appoint all these subordinates. It can only be said that Tong Guan had indeed given Fan Zhuoyuan a lot of private equity authority before.

When arranging the city defense, the first thing to consider is how to defend the artillery. The amount of gunpowder stored in Shanhaiguan is not small. When Liu Yanqing ran, he left all his brains to the Jurchen, which made the situation very passive now.

After Fan Zhuoyuan thought about it, he asked people to prepare a large number of sacks filled with sand and hang them on the four sides of the city wall with ropes.At the same time, sand and sackcloth were spread everywhere in the city.

Only in this way can the impact force of the projectile be slowed down as much as possible.

The matter was called to the army in the city to deal with it. They were busy all night, and every household of the people contributed their efforts, and the laying was completed soon.

Then it is to push out the artillery in the city, put it on the top of the city, and confront the enemy tit for tat. At the same time, they rush to make trebuchets, prepare spikes and other defensive equipment, and wait for the opponent to attack the city.

The next day, the Jin army with 15 horses and more than tens of thousands of civilians were pushed to Tongzhou County.

Most of these people came from Jizhou, except for some who were sent to Liaodong as slaves, and some old, weak, sick and disabled who were not wanted, they were all driven to attack the city.

When everyone stood at the top of the city and saw this, their teeth were itching with hatred. Most of the soldiers guarding the city were from the Yan people, and many of the people below were related to the soldiers in the city.

At this time, the Jin army was mixed among the people, so it was naturally impossible to open the city to save people, otherwise the city gate would be easily lost.

However, Tongzhou County has a single defense and no urn city. Once it is lost, the consequences will be very serious.

Fan Zhuo saw that the Jin army was in the east and hadn't begun to besiege the city yet, so he had a plan in mind to prevent the Jin army from using the people to drain their morale.

He ordered the cavalry to get ready. Three thousand cavalry went around the north gate, ready to go out to fight at any time. Three thousand infantry rode to the south gate, and the remaining two thousand infantry stayed at the gate of the city and entered the cave.

Then he ordered the eight cannons placed on the top of the city to get ready. These were dragged over from Yanjing City overnight, and they were all heavy cannons of [-] jin.

Fan Zhuoyuan used his mathematical knowledge to calculate the elevation angle, and asked someone to replace the specific elevation angle bracket, aiming at the golden army formation behind the common people.

With one order, eight artillery salvos were fired. At this time, the Jin army had not yet formed a formation, and the formation of 15 people was relatively tight during the march.

Eight shells drew an arc in the air, flew out seven or eight miles, and smashed heavily into the golden army's marching formation.

The sprinting and tumbling projectiles carry kinetic energy that ordinary people cannot resist, like a glass ball smashing into cheese, and Zilara plows out five bloody alleys!

Jin Jun was terrified and wanted to dodge, but after the projectile hit the ground, the angle at which it sputtered on the ground could not be predicted at all. It was obvious that the shell was going to shoot in the middle, but it bounced to the left when it hit the ground!

The golden army who followed and dodged to the left was equivalent to directly hitting the projectile. Even if it was wearing thick armor, it would be torn to pieces in an instant.

The eight iron balls stopped within the bloody corpses, but there were already more than a dozen dead bodies and seven or eight soldiers who were completely disabled and incapacitated in their path.

Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Loushi were several miles apart, and they both saw the damage caused by the five shells at this time, and their hearts were shocked.

The artillery captured in their hands also has a regular range of seven or eight miles, but it will definitely not be able to hit the target on the city wall, and its lethality will be weakened a lot.

The opponent occupies the advantage of the height of the city wall, not only hitting far, but also hitting accurately, which is extremely threatening.

Both of them ordered to stop advancing at the same time, and only sent cavalry and some infantry to mix among the people, looking for an opportunity to seize the city gate.

Wanyan Loushi patted the saddle heavily, and said angrily: "The Song Dynasty has developed such a brutal weapon of war. If they are allowed to continue to develop, how can we have a place to live in the future?!"

He had previously discussed with Wanyan Zonghan, and he had thought about continuing to go south to bloodletting the Song Kingdom. Now it seemed that the war was really going to be protracted. When the Song Kingdom's military equipment became stronger and stronger, they would no longer be rivals sooner or later.

Taking advantage of the advantage now, and the emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty are cowardly and cowardly, they should eliminate the heroes of the Song Dynasty as much as possible. Only in this way can the Jin Kingdom truly defeat this behemoth in the future.

From the current point of view, after Tong Guan left, those people who can stick to Yandi are all heroes of the Song Dynasty, even if they kill one, they will still make money!
Wanyan Loushi's expression became gloomy, and not long after that, he heard eight more gunshots, and his expression changed in surprise.

This time, after Fan Zhuoyuan ordered the barrel to be cleaned, he shifted the muzzle and aimed four artillery pieces at the area where Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Loushi were located.

That's really easy to aim, after all, where the main general's army is, there must be a big banner, which can be clearly seen from several miles away.

These eight bullets were aimed at them respectively, which was most likely to cause turmoil in the army.

Sure enough, projectiles with erratic trajectories are actually more deterrent than projectiles that are shot precisely, because no one knows whether watching a projectile floating to the left will suddenly turn to the right without thinking.

And after landing, will it turn to the left again after being ejected?

There are many martial arts masters in the Jin army, facing such unstoppable firearms, they can't help feeling afraid, and they persuaded the two generals to retreat quickly.

On the way to withdraw troops, the most taboo thing is confusion. The main general Dazhuqi can retreat, but he can't be too hasty. He must command the troops to cover each other and retreat, so as not to give the enemy's chasing troops an opportunity.

Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Loushi are both veterans of hundreds of battles. Seeing the shells falling into the crowd, although their hearts were pounding, they still followed the established law and commanded the troops to cover alternately while retreating slowly.

At this time, the cavalry and cavalry infantry sent by Fan Zhuoyuan to the north and south had all left the city. Their mission was to isolate the main force of the Jin army and cover the east city troops to rescue the fleeing civilians.

But if there was chaos when most of the Jin army retreated, Fan Zhuoyuan would naturally not let go of this opportunity.

It is a pity that under the command of the famous general of the Jin Army, the various ministries of the Jin Army alternately covered, and the retreat was orderly, with no flaws at all.

(End of this chapter)