Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 270 Who is he?

Wu Yanrou could no longer maintain her composure, leaning on the battlements, she said to herself in a daze: "How could it be so accurate? I have never heard of such a catapult in Song State before. Most of this catapult was made by Ye Chen. This Ye Chen Who is it?"

When the Song army's siege troops rushed under the city wall, the catapults had already smashed five rounds at this section of the city wall. Except for a small number of catapults that missed the first two rounds, almost every stone in every subsequent round was accurate. hit the city wall.And after five rounds, the upper half of the city wall that hadn't been repaired for nearly a hundred years finally collapsed.

When the Song Army's ladder was built on this piece of city wall, the defenders on the city wall had already fled far away, but in order not to hit their own people, at this time the catapult could only shift its target and hit another piece of the city wall. After calling and beheading three more soldiers who wanted to escape, at the last moment, they mobilized men with rolling stones, giant logs, kerosene and other sharp weapons to repel the first batch of Song troops, which was regarded as a dangerous defense.

However, another half of the city wall was also smashed and broken. Fortunately, Wu Yanrou had a few experienced generals under his command, and some of his elite soldiers led them and scattered them everywhere, so they held the first wave.

"Five rounds, 170, five rounds, 130, six hits..." Ye Chen heard the instant report on the hit rate of the catapult, and immediately asked: "Why is the accuracy so low?"

Du Tou, who was in charge of the catapults, said: "Reporting to the general, after each round, several catapults will have problems or even break down. So the accuracy gets worse as you go to the back."

"It's not too low." Cao Wei next to him withdrew his gaze from looking at the top of the city: "It's more than [-]%!"

Today's siege is mainly led by Zhan Xiongwu and Wang Chao.

"The distance of only 150 steps, the hit rate is only 150-80.00%, which is much worse than I expected, and we need to further improve it later, and we need to re-study the materials for making the catapult." Ye Chen said.In Ye Chen's mind, the shooting range of the catapult had been calculated and tested in the artisan camp in advance, and the counterweight had also been determined.It's just a different launch site. At a distance of [-] steps, you don't want to hit every shot, and you should have a hit rate of [-]%!But I didn't expect it to be so easily damaged.

Cao Wei shook his head and said, "General! This new type of catapult is more than ten times stronger than the previous ones in terms of power, accuracy and speed. To be honest, the general originally thought that four out of ten shots would hit the city wall. , I was overjoyed."

While Ye Chen and Cao Wei were talking, the catapult was still projecting non-stop, throwing stone bullets weighing more than [-] catties towards the top of the city.Due to the astonishingly fast launch speed, the nearly [-] stones that had been prepared with great difficulty in the past few days were all projected out in less than an hour.Before all the stone bullets were exhausted, amid the cheers of the Song army, half of the seven city walls of Guizhou collapsed.The most important thing was such a precise strike that the morale of the defenders almost fell to the bottom.Wu Yanrou saw that many soldiers and even some generals were frightened and flinched.

He remembered the surrender of Shaozhou and Yongzhou guards, and called four confidant commanders, and asked each of them to take a hundred people to the four city gates to monitor the gate guards in the name of helping guards.He had discovered that the Song Army's catapults no longer fired stone bombs, and guessed that the Song Army's stone bombs had been used up.Although half of the seven city walls collapsed, fortunately, the city wall in Guizhou was high enough, and he had two or three times as many soldiers as the Song army, and he had enough equipment to defend the city. As long as the morale was low for a while, Guizhou City can be defended today.

Cruel offensive and defensive battles were going on on the city walls outside Guizhou City, but the Han army in charge of guarding the four city gates could only listen to the screams and screams from the top of the wall and outside the wall, holding knives and guns in their hands. Always pay attention to the movement outside the city gate.If someone was going to knock on the door from outside the city, they would firmly block it behind with the slate cart prepared in advance.

In the direction of the north city gate, there is a two-story attic on the side of the road, which is a place for the generals guarding the gate to rest.

In the hall on the first floor of the attic, Hu Sanguang was drinking tea while watching Ran Linfeng walking back and forth in the middle of the hall, while Xu Fangyi was sitting at the door with his back against the door frame and eyes closed.

It only took a moment to rush out of this hall. The key positions outside the gate were all Huaxia Guards. Although there were only a hundred people, they only accounted for one-fifth of the more than 500 Han troops guarding the gate. But these Huaxia Guards exist with a one-stop five, or even a one-stop ten.As long as the plum blossom drum sounds outside the city, they can occupy the main position in front of the city gate before other people react, keep others out, and then open the city gate.

Although Ran Linfeng agreed to join Ye Chen, Ye Chen himself did not promise him personally after all, and since Wu Yanrou told him a few days ago that the civil strife in the Song Kingdom and the Southern Tang Kingdom were imminent, it is impossible for Ye Chen's army to have reinforcements, and even the supply of food and grass will be very tight. After the military situation, he was somewhat not optimistic that the Song army would be able to defeat the Southern Han Dynasty.If the Song army was driven out of the Southern Han Dynasty, what would happen to him in the end? I am afraid that there is no good future for him to follow the defeated soldiers led by Ye Chen to the Song State.He had been thinking about it in terror all day.

When he turned around and saw Hu Sanguang's appearance, his heart trembled inexplicably. This person had always been kind in front of him, but for some reason he felt faintly afraid.

There were only six people in the room including Hu Sanguang and Xu Fangyi, and they were scattered all over the hall at this time, seemingly scattered, but in fact they were all within a distance of immediate support for each other.In addition, seven of his henchmen were scattered around him.

Different from Hu Sanguang's ruthless feeling, Ran Linfeng could feel a different kind of toughness from the behavior of the other six people. Some of his own men also participated in the war with South Vietnam, but few people had such tolerance.In addition to these people, Xu Fangyi dispatched 100 people from nowhere a few days ago in more than ten batches. Ran Linfeng found Han army clothes for them, and arranged them among the Han soldiers guarding the northern city gate. These people With an indifferent expression and a hard temperament, he can be seen as a tough person with every gesture.

"These people may not be the imperial guards of Song Dynasty, but people from Ye Chen's Huaxia Weifu." Ran Linfeng thought to himself.

In his heart, he has confidence in Ye Chen's strength, but he also thinks that the Song Dynasty will not be able to continue to attack the Southern Han Dynasty, so he is quite worried about this. However, he is even more unpredictable about Ye Chen. Martial law had already been imposed before the attack on Shaozhou, and being able to hide so many people in the city showed that they had made sufficient preparations long before.

Hu Sanguang and his people have been inseparable from him all the time. Ran Linfeng knew it was to monitor him to ensure that there would be no problems. Ran Linfeng had been mentally prepared for this, but he still felt nervous when it came to an end. He opened the door and glanced at Xu Fangyi's back at the door.

Xu Fangyi was sitting quietly at the entrance of the attic facing the city gate. He already knew the situation of this city like the back of his hand. The circumference of Guizhou City was nearly twenty miles. The wall is two feet thick, and the outside is completely covered with bricks. The moat outside the city is two feet wide and one foot deep. But there will be a lot of losses.Hou Ye only had 1 people, and more than 200 people died when he attacked Shaozhou City. However, less than one-tenth of the territory and state city of the Southern Han Dynasty were captured. The war has just begun, and the manpower cannot be lost.

In the hall on the first floor of the city tower, Ran Linfeng had also been on the battlefield. After hesitating and thinking wildly for a while, he calmed down and asked Hu Sanguang, "Brother Hu, when shall we open the city gate?"

Hu Sanguang replied lightly: "General Ran, don't worry. When it's time to open the city gate, I will tell General Ran that General Ran should try his best to control his subordinates for a while, and don't let them affect us from opening the city gate."

"And then?" Ran Linfeng asked again.

Hu Sanguang said: "Then... Naturally, we will desperately guard the city gate, waiting for Lord Hou to lead the army to break through the gate. Well...don't worry, as long as we guard the city gate for a while, Lord Hou's army will arrive."

Ran Linfeng was about to ask again, when his younger brother rushed over to report: "Brother! Wu Yanrou sent a confidant over and brought 100 people with him. It seems that he wants to guard the north gate with us."

Ran Linfeng muttered to himself, turned to look at Hu Sanguang, Hu Sanguang's eyes flickered, and said: "Let this person come here."

A moment later, one of Ran Linfeng's subordinates led a burly man into the tower, followed by eight Han troops, and after he entered, he cupped his hands slightly and said, "General Ran, the commander-in-chief, come here to assist General Ran in guarding the city. North Gate."

At the door, Xu Fangyi closed the door without a trace.

The confidant sent by Wu Yanrou was named Guo Kuicai, Ran Linfeng recognized him, he knew that this person was very brave, his martial arts were quite strong, and he fought against South Vietnam and Dali with Wu Yanrou, and his subordinates were also elite soldiers who had been on the battlefield.He looked carefully at Guo Kuicai's face, and knew that Wu Yanrou might be worried about all the generals guarding the city gate, so he sent his confidants to supervise.

"General Ran, under the order of the commander-in-chief, the defense of the north city gate will be in charge from now on. General Ran will lead people to help defend the last general." Seeing Ran Linfeng's strange expression, Guo Kuicai thought he didn't understand, and explained further.

Ran Linfeng stared at Guo Kui and did not speak. Guo Kuicai licked his lips lightly under his gaze. Before he came, Wu Yanrou said that he was worried that the generals defending the city gate would surrender and rebel, so he was asked to come.If he really had the intention of surrendering and rebelling, he might attack him, but he was very confident in the strength of himself and the eight guards who followed him.In this hall, the opponent has three or four more people than him, but he doesn't think that Ran Linfeng's personal soldiers can be the opponent of his group.

Ran Linfeng was even more hypocritical. What he was worried about was that Wu Yanrou already had doubts about joining Ye Chen, and even knew about it, so he sent Guo Kuicai to take over the defense of the North City Gate.Now it's just to stabilize myself and the people under my command, and I have to clean up after I have defended today.

Ran Linfeng thought about it, and finally said: "Why did Marshal Wu suddenly let General Guo replace me?"

(End of this chapter)