Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 354 Yan Liang Changes Several Times (3)

Under the city of Nanshan, the corpses of the Liao army were piled on top of each other. Snow and blood, freezing the corpses and soil bags together, piled up seven or eight feet thick under the city.The highest stacked place is already more than ten feet high.The Liao army used human lives to fill it every day, and the soil was increasing day by day. Once the accumulation reached the height of the city wall, the Liao army could pour into the city along the slope.

There was a disgusting smell inside and outside the city walls.In addition to the dead bodies of the centaurs, there were wrecked goose carts, shield carts, and crash carts everywhere.In order to reduce casualties under the city, the Artisan Battalion of the Liao Army also built a special shield car.A giant shield made of several layers of thick wood and rawhide is placed on a rotatable pallet. When the Liao army advances to Nanshan City, the direction of the giant shield can be flexibly rotated to resist the shotgun bullets from the side.The Han army had to switch to solid bullets to destroy these shield vehicles. Taking advantage of this rare gap, the Liao army was able to transport more soil bags to the bottom of the city wall.

The horns of the attacking Liao army were extremely shrill, and Ge Lu walked in the middle of the queue tremblingly. Although he was fully armored, he was as guilty as if he was naked.He watched the infantry of the Liao army with soil bags on their backs, one by one, slowly approaching the city wall of Nanshan.Compared with the pale craftsmen, these pawns are more like walking dead.

"Bah, Jurchen savage!" Ge Lu cursed in his heart.

These infantry were all Jurchen soldiers who surrendered in Liaoyang City, Xiao Tachi used them to attack the city, so he might have the idea of ​​using up these Jurchen soldiers under Nanshan City.In order to prevent the Jurchen soldiers from rebelling against rebellion, the Khitan and Xi troops were the main sieges in the first few times, and later more and more Jurchen soldiers were used to attack the city, while the Khitan cavalry watched from afar. .The Liaodong Peninsula is so small that even if these Jurchens wanted to escape, they had nowhere to escape.

"Suddenly—" a round iron bullet almost flew past Ge Lu's head, and there was a scream behind him. Ge Lu's teeth were chattering, and his whole body was trembling. At this moment, he just wanted to turn around. run back.The infantry soldiers could retreat by throwing their soil bags under the city, but Ge Lu had to wait for these water dragons to pour water into the city.The wheels creaked and creaked, and the urging sound made him gasp for breath.

The thick smoke in front had already risen, and when they were more than 200 steps closer to the city wall, the Liao army dispersed, and the shield chariots that were originally in front of the formation were pushed to both sides, forming two shield walls.Some shield vehicles were piled full of soil bags, while others carried lit smoke balls, and the battlefield suddenly became chaotic.The artillery at the head of the city used shotgun shells and solid bullets. Some shield vehicles were smashed by the solid bullets, and the Liao army infantry used the cover of these shield vehicles to run forward desperately in the rain of bullets flying across.People fell down screaming everywhere, Ge Lu huddled next to a shield car, and witnessed the scene of blood and flesh flying all over the place, he was almost scared out of his wits.Arriving here, going forward is death, and retreating is death. The Liao army pushing the water dragon carts had to bite the bullet and move forward. In less than a quarter of an hour, four or five water dragon carts were destroyed as shield carts. .

"Damn it, it's coming again." Tong Yunjie frowned, and the thick smoke blocked his sight again.

Although it may not be very effective, the Liao army will release thick smoke as soon as it gets close to the city wall. Under the interference of smoke and dust, the Han army has difficulty aiming, and the solid bullets do not hit the shield car that much. Chance.In this regard, the Han army didn't have much to do. They could only use solid bullets and shotgun bullets at intervals, and fire at full speed near the city wall.Accompanied by the sound of "booming" firing, projectiles whizzed towards the city. Although no effect was seen, Tong Yunjie believed that no one could penetrate the barrage and attack the city of Nanshan after many days of fighting. head.

"Hey——" Ge Lu swallowed hard. Under the cover of the shield car, the water dragon car finally retreated to a place within [-] steps from the city wall. The bullet rain here is also the most intensive. According to the prior plan Arrangements, a number of shield cars full of earth and rocks, and goose carts circled around to resist the rain of bullets pouring from all directions for the water dragon.Under the cover of thick smoke, the Han army at the top of the city did not notice them.

"Quick, quick—"

The craftsmen hurriedly propped up the water pipe head, and the soldiers hurriedly pressed down on the handle, and with a sound of "Zi--", cold water spilled out like a white line.Ge Lu's hanging heart finally let go of half.From the place where he started to the city wall, he felt that it took an extremely long time, and he even worried that the water in the water tank might have frozen.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Ge Lu huddled tightly behind the shield car, and shouted loudly: "Quick, quick—refill the water!" Pour water into the tank.Compared with the siege of the city with the slow-acting soil bag, filling the city with water dragons sounds fresh and fast, so Xiao Tachi also paid a little attention to it, and specially assigned thousands of soldiers to carry the water bags for filling the city with the water dragon convoy.

The icy cold water was poured on the top of the city, and the gunners who were lying behind the battlements were immediately drenched all over, and they all opened their mouths and cursed: "Damn it, why does it rain in the winter?" It's snowing weather.These musketeers were drenched, their teeth "clacked" and they lay on the top of the city and looked down. When they saw the Liao army's chariots, they all cursed: "It turns out that the Liao dogs are at fault, hurry up and bombard him!" Damn!"

Zhao Xingde was also quite surprised that the Liao army attacked the city with dragon carts.It turned out that the thick smoke ignited by the Liao army below the city obscured the sight of the city, making it difficult for the artillery to aim at the shield car.This artificial rain poured down, and immediately washed away most of the smoke and dust.The layout of the Liao army under the city can be clearly seen.

Zhao Xingde immediately ordered: "Change to solid bullets, and blast that side!"

Before the words were finished, the artillery positions had already fired. Round iron bullets, stone bullets weighing tens of catties, and with the sound of howling wind, all went towards the formation of vehicles.The goose chariots and shield chariots of the Liao army could only resist shotgun bullets. Under the bombardment of the artillery with solid bullets, they immediately turned into pieces of wood flying horizontally. The Liao army gathered around the chariot formation also suffered disaster.All kinds of shells fell like raindrops, denser than under the city wall.In less than a quarter of an hour, dozens of water dragons were turned into pieces of wood.Seeing this, the Xi Jun officer behind him immediately asked the soldiers to drop their water bags and retreat, with cold water flowing everywhere.

Ge Lu was caught between the defeated soldiers and ran back in a daze.Water dragon siege is a joke.There was a dead end ahead, Xiao Tachi's knife was waiting for him, but the artillery of the Han army behind him killed him immediately.And he was trapped in the middle by the broken soldiers, so he had to run away.He miraculously escaped from the Nanshan city back.

This offensive ended with the destruction of the water dragon that Xiao Tachi had hoped for.Under Nanshan City, blood and ice water mixed together and flowed in all directions. It didn't take long for the condensed ice surface to be extremely slippery.Countless Liao soldiers fell to the ground and cursed one after another.The Han army on the city could see this scene of embarrassment clearly, and everyone laughed while firing shells.Liu Zhijian also suggested to Zhao Xingde that after the Liao army released thick smoke, they would pour water dragons into the city to clean the smoke and create ice surfaces at the same time.Although Nanshan City is small, there are three wells in the city, and there are all kinds of cool water.

"That's a good way." Zhao Xingde nodded, and added, "Every night, pour cold water outside the city wall, and then pour water along the slope of the enemy's soil bag, and teach them to play on the ice slide." Thinking of the Liao Army This is quite a funny siege method, and he couldn't help showing a smile from the corner of his eyes.

The generals agreed with a smile, and went down to arrange to pour cold water on the city.The Liao army piled up soil bags to attack the city, and the soldiers had to throw the soil bags on the slope to gradually increase the height. After the Han army poured the slope into ice, the Liao army had to brave the rain of bullets flying across the city. Climbing up is not an easy task, and pushing the shield car up is even more difficult like climbing to the sky.

"General Zhao, this is Yan Liangyi's record."

Zhao Xingde took it and read it carefully.Because Li Sihai wanted Suzhou Guannan to become the main port of the Xia State Navy, he recorded in detail the temperature in Suzhou Guannan in the past few years, as well as the freezing and melting of sea ice.After Zhao Xingde was stationed in Nanshan, he sent people to record the temperature every day, and at the same time asked the Han army navy to monitor the situation of sea ice.Comparing the data trends of temperature and sea ice for several years, he found that this winter seems to be warmer than previous years, and correspondingly, sea ice will melt slightly earlier.

"If this trend continues, there will be more than 20 days before the sea ice will melt."

Zhao Xingde thought secretly, he handed over the record of Yanliangyi to the soldiers, and said in a deep voice: "Tell the commander-in-chief, inform Captain Li, the sea ice may melt in advance, if the Liao army still has heavy troops stationed in Guannan, Please Lieutenant Li break up the ice, and use artillery to attack the passage to and from Guannan with us," he said with a slight smile, "How can we not charge some interest after staying for so long?"

The personal soldier took the record and looked at Zhao Xingde in surprise, as if looking at a living god.There have been many rumors about General Zhao, and this one is no different.His mouth is tight, and he will not spread this kind of news to the outside world.At least wait until the sea ice melts and interest is charged to Liaogou.

At this time, in the Liao army camp, Ge Lu knelt on the ground and begged for mercy like an eggplant beaten by frost.

Xiao Tachi was about to order someone to drag him down and cut him down, but Guo Baoyi persuaded him: "Xiao Dutong, this Ge Lu also wants to contribute to the army, if he just beheaded like this, it would be chilling." He approached Xiao Tachi , whispered: "Ge Lu's younger brother is the prince's confidant, if he is killed like this, I'm afraid it will be troublesome. He is a Khitan, and he lost the battle. It's better to let the North Court punish him."

Xiao Ta's face was red and gloomy, but he finally agreed.Guo Baoyi hurriedly asked Ge Lu to kowtow to thank him, and after he retreated, he asked again: "Xiao Dutong, it has been a few days since we conquered Tieshan Fort, why haven't you reported victory to Your Majesty?"