Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 359 The Nine Earths Collapse (3)

It seems that a hot knife can easily cut through the grease, and the red-hot round iron bullet will greatly increase its penetration into the wood. Not only that, the red-hot round iron bullet has an extremely high temperature, and the passage of the red-hot round iron bullet is extremely high. There are flammable things, which are worse than setting fire to a tin can.

Inside the seemingly peaceful "tortoise shell", the chaos has reached the extreme.The round iron solid bullets pierced through the log shield, and the shells "disordered" with scorching heat.The space inside the shield car is extremely narrow. Although a large number of reining horses were taken out after the shield car stopped, in addition to the ten-thousand-jin cannon, there were also reining horses pulling the winch to reload the cannon. With mountains of shells and gunpowder, hundreds of sweaty gunners had almost no place to stay.The scene here is like a hell on earth. Fiery shells penetrated the wooden shield without warning, and the gunner ran away in panic. Once hit or brushed by the shells, he would either be decapitated or have his limbs cut off. The end was extremely tragic, the driver screamed and kicked and bit randomly, and the driver couldn't even pull it.

Among the panicked crowd, there was a man standing still, Wu Chun looked at the solid cannonballs penetrating through the wooden shield, his lips trembling, and murmured: "How could it be...how could it be so...impossible... ..." He stood there blankly, standing there straight, even though the people running around knocked him to one side, he didn't dodge, he just murmured, "Why...why is this? "A trace of panic suddenly appeared in his absent-minded pupils.

A dark red round iron bullet pierced through the wooden shield, and went straight to the gunpowder barrel pile with a puff of heat, smashed into it with a "bang", and immediately, a ball of flames shot into the sky Then, "Boom——" "Boom, boom——" The explosion of gunpowder erupted a huge wave of air, sweeping in all directions, everything inside the shield car was blown up, and flesh and dust flew everywhere .Not only that, the air wave was like a giant hand, overturning the whole cannon of the ten-thousand-jin iron barrel, and then blasting the wooden shield car covered outside to pieces, wood chips, iron filings, sand and stones shot across fly.Accompanied by a huge shock, a puff of smoke and dust rose into the sky from the ground, which looked very strange in the morning light.

Up and down Nanshan City, the Liao Army and the Han Army were all stunned by the power of the huge explosion.Looking at the rising smoke, Zhao Xingde let out a long breath.The [-]-jin iron barrel gun and the giant shield car were the morale of the Liao army. After the explosion, outside the gap in the city wall, the panic-stricken Liao army was also unable to fight. Then seize this rare opportunity to rush to repair the city wall.

Xiao Tachi was almost thrown to the ground, he finally managed to control the frightened horse.He looked at the huge smoke with a livid face, a round of red sun was rising from behind the horizon, and the ice reflected thousands of golden morning rays.Just a moment ago, the morale of the Liao army was like a rainbow, and now they are retreating hastily, even Yelubo and Xiao Ping did not stop them.However, the Han army on the city wall erupted into loud cheers, which seemed like wanton ridicule in Xiao Tachi's ears.

"The city wall has collapsed, we are going to conquer Nanshan City!" He pointed the horsewhip in his hand forward. The damaged city wall, piled up corpses, and soaked red mounds were like a huge wound that was constantly flowing. with blood.

"General, the journey to Zhenzhou is only [-] miles away." Marching Commander Shi Shi Xiaobing said.

"Well," Zhu Yanheng looked up at the setting sun slanting to the west. After marching this day, his legs were a little numb, but he still ordered, "March another ten miles north and camp at Yinma River." "Yes. "Shi Xiao is Zhu Yanheng's old department, and immediately went to arrange the march and set up camp.Zhu Yanheng narrowed his eyes slightly, hiding the stern look in his eyes.

Beizhou was seized by Mierbo people, and Anbei General Zhu Yanheng was very frightened and furious.Where is North State?Duhan City is where the old Japanese military mansion of the Anbei Army Division is located, where the three founding princes were entrusted, and countless Beizhou people have been awarded military merits. Northerners" catchphrase.Now Beizhou has been looted by the little barbarians. I don't want to know it. When the news reaches Dunhuang, the court will definitely criticize Anbei Army Commander like a 'tide'.After hearing the news, Zhu Yanheng immediately handed over the military affairs to Zhuang Zuobang, the marching chief of the Anbei Army Division, leaving the Duhan Army and the Tongqiu Army, and [-] Yinhu cavalry cooperated with the Anton Army Division to continue to attack Datong Mansion.He himself led the hussars and [-] shady cavalry to rush northward.

On the march, Zhu Yanheng received the military report that Qin Guogong, Zhao Guogong and other Beizhou nobles personally went to battle and expelled the Mierbo people from Beizhou. He was relieved and felt deeply ashamed.According to the imperial court system, regiment training troops are not allowed to cross the state border without the permission of the Huguofu.However, after the Mierbo people left Beizhou and entered Zhenzhou, instead of restraining themselves, they plundered all the way. Although Zhenzhou had already taken precautions, they were still flying everywhere.

Zhenzhou was originally the former home of the Liao State Northwest Recruitment Division. It was captured by the Xia State decades ago and renamed Hengzhai Fort. The Anbei Army Division and Hussar Army were moved here to station.However, Xia Guo's influence in this area is not as deep-rooted as Beizhou and Lingzhou.Just near Zhenzhou, there are still many tribes that are hostile to Xia.A few years ago, the Haidu Khan Mierbo tribe that Zhu Yanheng conquered was, strictly speaking, also within the boundaries of Zhenzhou.Therefore, the Mierbo people made waves in Zhenzhou, which was even more powerful than that in Beizhou.Zhu Yanheng received the news that several neighboring tribes and the Mierbo people had become united, trying to attack Hengzhai Fort, avenge Haidu Khan, and completely wipe out the power of the Xia Kingdom from this generation of grassland.

Since the discovery of the Mierbo cavalry, the Xia Guo cavalry who stayed behind in Zhenzhou sought out the enemy and invited them to fight many times, but they did not achieve much results.Wu Mingchang, the commander of the Duhan Army, noticed that the horse thieves seemed to be hiding a conspiracy, so he urged the strategy of shrinking troops and waiting for help.Zhenzhou is not suitable for farming, and no warehouse city was built in the past.Nearly [-] soldiers of the Duhan Army were dispersed to various counties, and the shady households were gathered together to form a large camp of tens of thousands of people to defend against the looting of horse thieves.The remaining [-] cold soldiers and [-] hussars continued to guard Hengzhai Fort.

A round of blood-colored setting sun was ahead, Zhu Yanheng narrowed his eyes slightly again: "Jumping rats, but bullying is not good for the blade?" Under the drooping eyelids, the eyes were as sharp as the blade, and disappeared in a flash.Four thousand five hundred hussars meandered behind Zhu Yanheng.It was a silent march, its long shadows slowly sweeping across the undulating weeds.

Except that the horses are generally taller, the Hussars are almost the same as other cavalry, even more ordinary.The armor was covered with rough leather jackets and cotton jackets of various colors, and the army robe was worn out with holes, and it was only rough patched with a piece of sheepskin.The sergeants were dark-faced and marched silently most of the time.All weapons are covered in thickly sewn leather holsters.In the marching ranks, the only conspicuous ones were the white eagles on the shoulders of the scouts, and the vigil hounds playing around the horses.Following behind the hussars, the shady cavalry looked very honest.

On the grassland, the hussars are powerful.This is the only imperial guard army in the Anbei Army Division, with iron hooves all over the desert north and south, invincible.The prestige of the Hussars even spread far and wide to the Liao Kingdom. Every time the envoys of the Xia Kingdom went to Beijing to meet with the Liao Emperor, the Liao Emperor would always ask about the current situation of the Hussars.

Ever since Emperor Weiyuan Chen An served in the Hussar Army when he was young, it has become a tradition for the crown princes of the Xia Kingdom to serve in the Hussar Army to show the royal family's importance to the Anbei Army.At that time, the crown prince Chen Chong had already served as a captain in the Hussar Army, and he was leading the battalion to defend Hengzhai Fort together with the Du Han Army. This was also the reason why Zhu Yanheng immediately returned to help Hengzhai Fort.

Above the heads of [-] cavalry, hovered an eagle. This eagle flew around and around, as if looking for prey, and finally swooped down in one direction and landed on a man's shoulder. The great sweat of the Mierbo people, Bo Shenghuo Mierbo.While stroking the eagle's feathers gently with his hand, he said to the generals beside him: "Look at the situation of the eagle, the Xia*** team should go to the Luqu River, and come to meet all the ministries of the alliance." How's the situation?"

"Eleven tribes have already set off. We will meet at Tuwula River Bend to stop Zhu Yanheng, the villain!" Brave general Timur Bing said, subconsciously looking around vigilantly as he spoke.In order not to disturb the Xia army, Bo Shenghuo Mierbo only brought [-] cavalry to approach, while the army of the Mierbo people was in the far north, one step earlier arrived at the Tuwula River and waited for the meeting. Allied tribes.According to news from the Datong Mansion, Zhu Yanheng only brought [-] cavalry, while the tribes of the Mierbo League combined had a total of [-] cavalry.

Over the years, all tribes on the grassland have been in panic.Different from the appeasement policy of the Liao and Song Dynasties, each time the Xia State conquered a tribe, it completely disregarded the interests of the original tribal nobles, and only selected warriors as sergeants, and the others as shady households.If the tribal nobles are slightly dissatisfied, they will die.Because of this, these tribes elected Tuoule Mierbo as Haidu Khan, and planned to jointly fight against the Anbei Army Division.Unexpectedly, before the alliance was successful, the Anbei Army Division raided the Mierbo tribe and beheaded Haidu Khan.From the east to the south of Xiaohai, the tribes on both sides of Luqu River are like frightened birds.For the past two years, apart from recruiting his followers under the aegis of the Liao Kingdom, Bo Shenghuo Mierbo secretly contacted various tribes to fight against the Xia Kingdom.

Some of these eleven tribes were afraid of the expansion of Xia Kingdom's power to the east, and the leaders were unwilling to be dismembered and reduced to ordinary soldiers or shady households.Some were bought by Bo Shenghuo Mierbo with a large amount of tea and cloth, and some were dispatched by Bo Shenghuo as the recruiter in the northwest of the Liao Kingdom, and led the army to help in the war.Many tribal cavalry marched towards the bend of the Tuwula River at the same time, the number of which was nearly ten thousand, and the number of small ones was more than a thousand.