Just as Li Yanqing used a trick to capture Yuncheng County, the situation in Jeju also turned around due to the arrival of the imperial transport fleet. The imperial transport fleet brought 300 catapults to the official army. Although the power of this catapult was not strong and not enough to destroy the city wall, it was specially developed for the thunder of the sky. Its arrival brought the official army the opportunity to raid the Liangshan Army camp.

Of course, the more important reason is that Li Yanqing captured Yuncheng County, and Zhong Shidao felt that the time for attack was ripe.

As night fell, Zhong Shidao's army divided into two groups. Zhong Shidao personally led 10,000 officials to bypass Juye County and quickly advanced towards the Songjiang camp. This was actually a raid. Juye County was about twenty miles away from the Liangshan Army's main camp, while Lu Junyi's military camp in Rencheng County was about fifty miles away from the Songjiang camp.

Although Juye County and Liangshan Army main camp are mutually supportive, the army of Juye County dare not easily send troops out of the city to provide assistance. The distance between Rencheng County military camp is too far from the main camp, and it will take at least half a day to get there fifty miles away.

In front of the team were three thousand infantry led by the vanguard Suo Chao. They drove fifty twin-bulk carts, carrying fifty catapults, followed by four thousand crossbow troops, which was the first round of attacks after the Liangshan army broke out of the Dazhai.

Behind the Bow and Crossbow Army are three thousand heavy armored infantry, which is a powerful brigade composed of elite troops selected by Zhong Shidao, which is good at fighting fiercely. In addition, there are 10,000 spear infantrymen, led by veteran Zong Ze, who will be the main force to attack the enemy's camp and will also ambush the reinforcements in Juye County.

Zhang Shuye led 5,000 troops to defend the camp to prevent the enemy from stealing the camp from the opposite direction.

When about 300 steps away from the Liangshan Army camp, the official army stopped advancing. The wilderness here was more than ten miles wide, which was the best place for the two armies to fight. With Suo Chao's order, the soldiers took action to lift the catapults off the large cart, and fifty long pole catapults quickly appeared on the high ground three hundred steps away.

Just as the official army gradually approached the Liangshan Army camp, the Liangshan Army was also actively preparing for defense. Song Jiang and Wu Yong appeared on the camp wall together. At this time, Song Jiang was very worried about the situation in Juye County. He was afraid that Lin Chong would be so angry that he led his army to support the camp. In this way, Juye County was empty and the enemy was just perfect.

Song Jiang has sent someone to inform Lin Chong that the troops remained unmoved. Logically, there should be news sent back, but there is no news yet, which makes Song Jiang extremely worried. Could something happen in Juye County? Or is his sending troops intercepted by the enemy?

Song Jiang was worried and worried, but today's generals Dong Ping and Li Kui were not so far away. Their attention was all on the official army ahead. After observing for a long time, Dong Ping ran back and asked Wu Yong: "The spy said that the enemy only had 10,000 attacks, but they chose to attack at night. Does the military advisor think that Zhong Shidao would have other tricks?"

Wu Yong sighed softly, "Frankly speaking, I don't know. I thought that Master Zhong would hold his troops, but now they are launching an attack, which makes me puzzled. I think Master Zhong has always been scheming. If he is not sure, he should not attack at night. He must have something to rely on. We must not be careless."

"Is it a besiege to attack the aid?"

Song Jiang finally couldn't help but speak. The official army had only 10,000 troops. With this army, what about the other troops? Song Jiang suddenly became a little nervous, "Military advisor, if I'm not wrong, another 10,000 troops must be ambushed outside Juye County, and wait for Lin Chong to lead his army out of the city to aid the camp."

Not only Song Jiang, but almost all the generals were extremely afraid of Zong Shidao's various strategies. In the past two days, many generals have demanded to withdraw their troops back to Yunzhou and defend Xucheng County to the death, and to respond to changes in the same way as they remain unchanged.

At this time, General Li Kui, regardless of whether the other party had any plans, gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "No matter what conspiracy they had, everything turned into powder in front of our thunderbolt artillery."

Li Kui ran forward and shouted, "Pi Li cannon is ready!"

This is the first time that the Liangshan Army has used firearms. Their firearms are thunderbolt cannons, which are emitted by the cannons with thin shell thunderbolts that look like coconuts.

The Thunderbolt Cannon is the primary version of the Thunder. It is not only small in size, but also has a thin skin. It is usually made of wooden shells. This is because the explosion intensity of gunpowder is not strong enough to explode the iron shells, and the shock wave is not strong. Therefore, it is usually mixed with iron nails, poisonous iron sheets or lime. The lethality of this Thunderbolt Cannon is very weak and often only plays a role in disturbing the enemy.

Thirty cannons creaked and the Liangshan Army soldiers put the five-pound thunder cannon into the firing bag. At this time, Li Kui's eyes turned to the viewing tower next to the gate. If there was a fire on the four-meter-high viewing tower, it meant that the enemy had entered the range, and Li Kui was waiting for this moment.

At this moment, torches lit up on the overlooking tower.

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After the crossbowmen, Zhong Shidao immediately looked at the dark Liangshan Army camp from afar. Although the moonlight was dim, he could still vaguely see the two high towers standing on both sides of the gate and the flashing fires on the towers.

Today is the first battle for the main force of the official army to attack the Liangshan army. This battle is crucial to him, and it is related to the morale of tens of thousands of soldiers and follow-up strategic plans. He does not intend to directly capture the Liangshan army camp, but he wants to put strong pressure on Song Jiang and the Liangshan army soldiers to cooperate with the influence of Li Yanqing's capture of Yuncheng, and eventually force Song Jiang to retreat north.

If there were no thunder and new trenchers sent by the imperial court, he could only attack the Liangshan Army camp with strong attacks at any cost. Now with the thunder and new trenchers, his losses would be reduced to at least the minimum, and even no losses. At this moment, he was full of expectations for the battle tonight.

At this time, Suo Chao ran up, clasped his fists and said, "Report to the old general, the catapult has been equipped, it is confirmed that it is correct and can be fired at any time!"

Zhong Shidao looked at the dark Liangshan Army camp in the distance again, nodded, and issued an order, "Start tincture first!"

Fifty small trenchers creaked and opened, and all the casting rods were pulled into bow shapes. The tincture oil contained in the clay pot was placed in the clay pot. This was inspired by Li Yanqing and used thin-skinned clay pots to fill the tincture oil. A clay pot filled with tincture oil weighed forty kilograms. Like the tincture lightning, he was not in a hurry to use the tincture lightning, but first used tincture oil to create momentum.

At this moment, the artillery in the Liangshan Army was launched with a bang, and thirty thunderbolt cannons rose into the air, forming a row of black dots, roaring towards the official army's positions.

The thunderbolt cannon landed with a bang and then exploded, with a thunderous sound, and white smoke filled the air. Although the thunderbolt cannon was only two hundred steps away, the iron nails and iron pieces in the cannon burst into pieces, and shot towards the officers and soldiers like rain.

"Hold the shield to defend!"

Suo Chao shouted, and the soldiers raised their shields to defend themselves, but many of the soldiers were still slow to move and were hit by iron nails, making screams.

Mr. Zhong said with a slight face: "Don't pay attention to the other party and launch it immediately!"

"emission!"

Suo Chao shouted loudly, and the soldiers lit the pot with torches. Although the pot was sealed with mud, the outside of the pot was also covered with tinder oil, and the entire pot immediately burned.

Fifty long poles were thrown out, fifty blue flames burned and suddenly fired out. The flames in the air flew towards the Liangshan Army camp. The advantage of tinder oil was immediately revealed. It would not be extinguished in the air, nor would it easily spill out from the fine-necked pots of mud-sealed mud. They rolled in the air and rushed towards the Liangshan Army camp.

"Official arms attack!"

The soldiers of Liangshan Army shouted one after another. Song Jiang and Wu Yong also saw the fire points in the sky. They were shocked. The official army could actually project a fire pot from four hundred steps away. But before he could think about it, the fire pot had reached the top of his head. Dozens of personal guards rushed forward and raised their shields to resist to protect Jiang and Wu Yong.

There was only a crackling sound, and the clay pots fell to the ground one after another. This clay pot was specially made for fire attack. The clay wall was as thin as paper and it was broken with a light knock. Together with the burning clay pot fragments, it splashed everywhere. A clay pot would splash dozens or even hundreds of fire balls.

They hit the camp wall, trenchers, looking at the tower and the group of soldiers, and fire suddenly caught on all sides of the Liangshan Army camp.

Dong Ping shouted in a hurry: "Put out the fire quickly!"

Although the Liangshan Army never uses tincture oil, it does not mean that they will not extinguish the fire. They defeated the imperial officers and soldiers several times and had already learned how to deal with various firearms and tincture oil.

The Liangshan Army knew that water could not be used to extinguish fire oil, but mud and sand had to be used to extinguish fire. The Liangshan Army camp specially prepared a large amount of fire-fighting mud and sand. Countless soldiers dumped baskets of mud and sand on the burning tincture and stepped on them to extinguish the fire.

But this only extinguished the tincture oil that fell to the ground, and the fire that hit the fire cannon and the outer wall of the camp could not be extinguished. At this time, the second batch of fire cannons roared again, the clay pots shattered, countless fire points splashed, and the fire took advantage of the wind. Several fire cannons were engulfed by the flames, and a raging fire broke out on the camp wall, with thick smoke everywhere. Many Liangshan soldiers were also stained with burning tincture oil, and were so scared that they shouted, fled for desperate times, or rolled on the ground.
Chapter completed!