Sleeping in clothes...

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At the fourth watch, most of the Xixia soldiers in Pule City have fallen asleep. Even the four watchmen on the high watchtower in the city yawned and closed their eyes from time to time.

, dozed off...

…

At this time, a group of 3,000 Song Dynasty cavalry troops took advantage of the darkness and appeared two miles away from Pule City.

On the way, they also encountered a small number of Xixia scouting horses. They all shot and killed the enemy, leaving no one behind, and eradicated the enemy. Therefore, they marched here in a hurry without being discovered by the defenders of Pule City.

For these three thousand cavalry, Wu Jie, the new general among the Wu Jinshi selected by Zhao Guanjia, served as the vanguard officer, and Wu Lin and Yang Zaixing served as the deputy vanguard officers.

These three thousand people received military orders from the veteran general Guo Cheng: The soldiers in Pule City thought that it was impossible for our army to march to the city tonight, so they unexpectedly attacked Pule City...

Of course, even during the day, after Guo Cheng led his troops out of Mengjing City, the Song Army's scouting horses came to report and found that there were a small number of cavalry from the party in the distance. They should have come to spy on our army's movements...

At that time, the veteran general Guo Cheng thought of a plan to hide the enemy from the enemy. He ordered that the cavalry of the Xixia party should not be shot for the time being, and they were allowed to report the Song army's movements and confuse the enemy commander.

Not long after Guo Cheng led tens of thousands of troops to march, he set up camp in the wilderness a hundred miles away from Pule City. This was also to confuse the Xixia explorers and let them report wrong military information...

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Guo Cheng's troops set up camp, the Song Army's scouts came to report that they were the Xixia scout cavalry. After watching for a while on the hillside in the distance,

, so they all rode away and ran away.

At this time, Guo Cheng called Wu Jie, Wu Lin, and Yang Zaixing, who were deeply trusted by the Zhao family, to discuss matters in the Chinese army's tent.

Of course, in the process of Guo Cheng's contact with these martial arts scholars selected by the Zhao Guan family through martial arts examinations, he found that the Zhao Guan family was very good at selecting military talents, whether they were Yue Fei, Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, and Niu Gao who were sent to Han Shizhong's headquarters.

, Wu Jie, Wu Lin, and Yang Zaixing, who are still staying in their own units, are all outstanding military talents. If they go through many more battles, within a few years, their military merits and achievements will definitely be higher than that of Guo Cheng.

Guo Cheng entrusted Wu Jie, Wu Lin, and Yang Zaixing with important responsibilities, not only because of the kindness of Zhao Guan's family, but also because he discovered that in the previous battles of Zhejianghui and Mengjing, these Wu Jinshi came from biased backgrounds.

Generals are really useful. Send them to lead troops into battle, and use them with the personal gunpowder weapon developed by Zhao Guan's family. Every battle will be won.

In the Chinese army's tent, Guo Cheng expressed his thoughts. He wanted Wu Jie, Wu Lin, and Yang Zaixing to lead three thousand elite cavalry from the Song army to attack Pule City at night, taking the enemy by surprise and catching them off guard.

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The three of them happily accepted the order...

Guo Cheng also distributed six of the ten artillery pieces and most of the artillery shells to the 3,000 cavalry vanguard army led by Wu Jie and three others, leaving only four artillery pieces in his own army.

Although the artillery is a bit bulky, Zhao Ji also thought of this at the beginning of the design. Each artillery piece is like many artillery pieces during the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty. Each artillery piece is equipped with two cast iron gun wheels.

Each gun wheel weighs 30 kilograms, has a diameter of 0.7 meters, and has 16 spokes inside, which not only reduces the weight of the gun wheel, but also prevents the wheel from deforming easily.

Therefore, Wu Jie's cavalry vanguard army used four horses to pull one artillery cart, and 20 horses pulled six artillery carts respectively. The six carts loaded dozens of boxes of artillery shells, and their marching speed was not slow.

Where to.

When Wu Jie's three thousand cavalry arrived one mile outside the east gate of Pule City, they immediately set up their artillery. Dozens of artillerymen who accompanied the army on the expedition adjusted the firing angle of the artillery. Four of the artillery were aimed at the thick ground.

At the East City Gate, the other two cannons were aimed at the tall watchtower on the East City.

At the same time, the four lookout soldiers on the lookout tower in Pule City also noticed a large number of cavalry appearing a mile away through the faint moonlight, but they stopped where they were, as if they were in a fight.

With an unknown weapon like a big iron barrel...

The lookout soldiers in Pule City immediately became nervous and banged the gongs in their hands...

"Dang Dang Dang..."

"Dang Dang Dang..."

"Enemy troops found..."

"Song Jun is here..."

"Don't sleep..."

"Get up soon..."

"Ready to fight……"

Thousands of Xixia soldiers in the east city of Pu Le immediately panicked. Many people heard the sound of gongs and woke up from their sleep...

Before many Xixia soldiers and generals on Pu Le's east city could realize what was going on, they heard the deafening sound of cannons...

"boom!"

"boom……"

"boom……"

The first round of artillery bombardment by the Song Army used solid bullets. The east gate of Pule City in Xixia was blown to pieces, and the four lookout soldiers on the watchtower on the city were bombarded to death...

The Song Army's second and third rounds of bombardment used explosive shells. This was designed by the time traveler Zhao Ji based on the historical explosive shells he knew, and was submitted to a firearms manufacturer for development and mass production.

Explosive bombs are gunpowder and other materials hidden in the shell. There is no proximity or delayed fuse. They are ignited with matchlock powder. After being fired, they can explode and injure people with shrapnel.

Zhao Ji, the time traveler, developed the flowering cannonball based on the records in the "Minghuidian" he had read.

"Ming Huidian" records: the poisonous fire flying cannon is "made of wrought iron, like a general in the mouth of a cup. It contains more than ten taels of gunpowder. In the mouth of the cup, there is a pig iron flying cannon barrel, with five taels of sulfur poison inside, and the medicine line is always tied in one place.

.Ignite the fire, the cannon fires first, and the flying cannon will be hit 200 steps away, shattering and injuring people."

"boom!"

"boom……"

"boom……"

The Song Army's second and third rounds of bombardment used explosive bombs, and the target of the bombing was the Xixia generals hiding behind the battlements on the east wall of Pu Le...

On the city wall, in order to prevent the Song army from crossing the moat and attacking the city and climbing the city wall before the war, the Xixia army prepared a large number of rolling wood and thunder stones, and even set up dozens of oil cauldrons next to the stove.

A large amount of materials and grass were prepared to prevent the Song army from setting up ladders to forcefully climb the city wall during a long siege. The Xixia soldiers would use hot oil to pour hot oil on the Song army who climbed the city...

However, the current Song army no longer has to engage in traditional siege warfare because of the new cannons invented by the Zhao Guan family.

Twelve explosive shells from the Song Army hit the east wall. The explosion of the explosive shells, shrapnel and sparks flying around, not only caused serious damage to many Xixia soldiers around the impact point of the shells, but also the flames emitted by the explosive shells.

The flying sparks also ignited the wood and grass on the city, the oil in the large iron pot, and the rolling logs and other flammable objects nearby...

Fire borrows the power of wind, and wind aids the power of fire...

Two rounds of explosive shells from the Song Army bombarded Pu Ledong City, igniting a large amount of combustible materials on the city wall.

In the blink of an eye, the east city of Pu Le burst into flames...

The clothes that Xixia soldiers wore upwards were made of sheepskin, which was also the most flammable material.

The human body itself is also flammable...

"ah!"

"ah!"

"ah……"

Many Xixia soldiers and even primary school soldiers in Pule City were on fire. They were rolling all over the ground in pain...

What made the Xixia soldiers guarding the city even more angry and helpless was that the Song army was four to five hundred steps away from the east city. Their bows and arrows could not shoot there, and even the trebuchets on the city could not hit that far.

They can only be beaten passively...

After a while, many places in the east city of Pu Le were filled with flames, and the screams of hundreds of Xixia soldiers who were on fire were heartbreaking...

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Many people in the city were lucky enough not to be killed or injured by the shells, nor were they burned by the fire. Seeing the tragic situation in Paoze, their military morale was shaken.

"Damn it, why did Fei Tingyuan Shang send all his relatives out of Pule City early and escape this disaster, but let us die in vain by holding on to this city?"

“It’s okay if we don’t defend this city!”

"Run?!"

"run!"

"Run quickly..."

The army was defeated like a mountain. Many Xixia soldiers and generals on the east city of Pu Le rushed down to the city, abandoned the east city and fled...

At this time, Fei Tingyuan Shang, who was in the commander's residence in Pule City, was also awakened by the sound of several cannons just now!

"It seems that the remnants of the defeated generals who escaped from Zhejianghui and Mengxian City are completely false! The Song Army indeed has a new killing weapon that can 'draw thunder from the sky'!"

Although Fei Tingyuan Shang was horrified, as the commander-in-chief of a city, he felt that if he fled without a fight, the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun would definitely kill him.

"Come here, prepare your horses and go to battle!"

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Fei Tingyuan Shang led 4,000 elite cavalrymen who were close friends and galloped on the stone road in the city, rushing toward the east city.

On the way, Fei Tingyuan Shang saw several groups of Xixia soldiers who had fled from the East City. He shouted and ordered them to go back and defend the city. However, at this time, his military orders had no effect at all.

Those defeated generals who had deserted the army ran away when they saw Fei Tingyuan Shang coming with his troops and horses.

After Fei Tingyuan Shang personally bent his bow and arrows and shot several deserters, he encountered more and more defeated deserters from Dongcheng, and he no longer had the intention to shoot deserters.

He shouted: "Although the east city was destroyed by the Song army, the Song army was fighting in front of the formation. How could it be the opponent of our cavalry? You followed the general and rushed into the city. The Song army was heavily rewarded for your meritorious service. Right in front of you."
To be continued...