In the night, Chen Qing stood on a high place on horseback, looking at Liangzhou City several miles away. Since Liangzhou City was captured by Xixia, it has not been overhauled for nearly a hundred years. The city is dilapidated, but the city gates and suspension bridges were built by the Song Army the year before.
They had just replaced it, and the moat was excavated together the year before last, but the city gate was not important. Chen Qing was concerned about the city wall. They had just successfully developed the Iron Fire Thunder, and they could use Liangzhou City to test it.
"Gao Dutong!" Chen Qing turned around and ordered.
Take one step out of haute couture, "The end will be here!"
"Immediately lead 20,000 cavalry to ambush ten miles north. When the enemy retreats here, annihilate them all. Those who surrender will be spared death!"
"I humbly obey my orders!"
Gao Ding took the order arrow and urged his horse to run down the hill.
Chen Qing said to Liu Qiong again: "You will be responsible for using iron fire and thunder to blow up the city. I will give you 10,000 troops and 500 firearms. Starting at the third watch, attack the east and leave the west, allowing the enemy to escape from the west city."
"I understand the humble position!"
The Xizhou Army at the top of the city was extremely nervous. Two thousand soldiers were deployed at the east and west city walls. The guard general of the Xizhou Army was called Pu Gumi, a captain of ten thousand men. Facing the attack of tens of thousands of Song troops, he was more nervous than anyone else.
, couldn't sleep at night, so he simply came to the top of the city to watch the Song army's movements.
It was already the third watch, and the Song army was very quiet, without any movement. He estimated that the Song army would not attack the city tonight. The Song army had just arrived today, and they should be full of energy tonight and start attacking the city tomorrow.
Thinking of this, Pugu secretly ordered: "Leave three hundred soldiers on each side of the east and west cities to guard the city. Everyone else should go back to the military camp to rest!"
After the military order was issued, the garrison on the top of the city withdrew one after another. Pugumi also felt a little sleepy, so he turned around and went down to the city.
Just as Pugumi came down from the city, a dozen black figures appeared in the south city. Carrying boxes and holding long wooden boards, a dozen black figures bent down and quickly approached the city wall.
There are also defenders at the head of the south city, but the number is very small, only fifty people. The main reason is that the ground outside the south city is uneven and covered with rocks, which is not suitable for large-scale operations.
However, the uneven ground gave a dozen soldiers great convenience. They used the terrain as cover and kept moving closer to the city wall, and soon reached the moat.
The moat was not wide, only three feet. It was paved with long wooden boards to form a convenient bridge. More than a dozen people ran across the moat, clung to the city wall, and moved eastward along the city wall.
This time the Song Army tested a total of two iron fire mines, one was a hedgehog loaded with five kilograms of medicine, and the other was a wild dog loaded with thirty kilograms of medicine, to test the explosive power in actual combat.
More than a dozen people quickly divided into two groups, one group was to the south of the city gate, and the other group was to the north of the city gate. They began to look for a place to place the iron fire thunder. The most standard place was to place it inside the city wall. Of course, it also depends on the city wall itself.
In some cases, some city walls are built so tightly that even a knife cannot fit into the gaps, so there is no chance.
However, Liangzhou City was dilapidated and there were many opportunities. The city walls were covered with cracks. Everyone worked together and effortlessly pried off a few city bricks, revealing a large dark hole filled with sand and soil. Two iron fire thunders were struck one after another.
Stuffed into their own big holes.
At this moment, a rapid alarm bell suddenly sounded above their heads, startling everyone. When they turned around, they saw countless soldiers appearing in the dark in the distance. Liu Qiong only gave them a quarter of an hour, and now the quarter of an hour is up.
"ignition!"
The two groups lit up the match ropes with fire ropes at the same time and ran wildly in the north and south directions.
Pugumi had just arrived at the gate of the military camp when a rapid siren suddenly sounded from the east city wall, "Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!"
Pu Gumi was shocked. The Song army actually attacked at this time. He shouted loudly: "Send the whole army to go to the city to fight!"
The alarm bell in the military camp also sounded, and thousands of Xizhou troops got up one after another.
As soon as Pugumi arrived in front of Dongcheng, he heard two dull loud noises, "Boom! Boom!"
Immediately afterwards, the ground shook, as if the earth was shaking and the mountains were shaking. The soldiers around him were so frightened that they squatted down one after another. The war horses screamed "Hi yo yo!" in fright, and raised their front hooves high.
Pugumi fell off his horse and felt the world spinning. A strong earthy smell hit his face, and masonry, mud, and sand fell from the sky.
After a while, he sat up. The ground was covered with sand and sand, and his body was covered with sand. His ears were buzzing and he couldn't hear anything.
"Captain of Ten Thousands, look here!" the soldier pointed at the city wall.
Pugumi was startled when he saw a large V-shaped gap in the city wall, from which mud, sand, bricks and stones all over the ground were thrown out.
At this time, a soldier pointed to the other side of the city wall and trembled, "Captain, the wall over there. The wall has collapsed!"
When Pu Gumi turned around, he was stunned. He saw that a full mile of the wall to the north of the east wall had disappeared. He suspected that he had seen it wrong. He shook his head and looked again. Yes, it had collapsed, just like the one here.
, but it’s much more serious in the north.
"Woo——"
The horns on the city wall sounded, the earth-shattering war drums rumbled, and some soldiers rushed down to the city and shouted: "Captain Ten Thousands, the main force of the Song army is coming."
Pugumi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "Send the whole army to retreat to the west city, retreat immediately!"
Not caring that he sprained his foot when he fell, he struggled to get up, got on his horse, and ran towards the west gate with hundreds of cavalry.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
The sound of Pugumi's order to retreat spread throughout the city, and groups of Xizhou Army cavalry quickly fled toward the west city.
On the high ground in the distance, Chen Qing looked at the progress of the war. The explosion effect of the five-pound iron fire thunder made Chen Qing shake his head. The Liangzhou City in front of him was not a solid city wall, but a dilapidated city wall that had not been repaired for a hundred years. To be precise, it was a
In a siege of a city, if such a wall only opens a gap, then it will be almost ineffective against a solid wall.
The five-pound iron fire thunder was rejected by Chen Qing and could not be used to bomb cities, but could be used in water battles.
However, a thirty-pound mad dog is not bad. It caused chain collapse and destroyed a mile-long city wall. If it was a strong city wall, it could at least open a gap several feet wide.
The explosion effect of the Mad Dog is similar to that of the previous box-type Rhino, except that the former weighs thirty kilograms and the latter weighs five hundred kilograms. The biggest advantage is that the cost is reduced. This is particularly important, which means that it can be widely equipped in the army.
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"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The drums of war were beating like thunder, and Chen Qing silently watched as Liu Qiong led a surging army across the moat and entered Liangzhou City.
At this time, thousands of fleeing Xizhou Army cavalry were also ambushed by 20,000 Song Army cavalry. Thousands of them were immediately shot and killed. Twenty thousand began to surround the remaining Xizhou Army cavalry. In the darkness, horns wailed and shouted.
The sound of killing was loud. The master, general and servant Gu Mi were experienced. He knew that the Song army was encircling them. Once they were surrounded, they would be unable to fly. He threw away thousands of his subordinates and led dozens of personal guards to rush to the northwest. There were still people there.
There is a gap.
In the darkness, at the last moment when the Song army gathered together, Pu Gumi led a dozen of his men to rush out of the gap and fled in panic toward a forest several miles away.
The Xizhou Army in the encirclement had no chance to escape. Some soldiers were killed mercilessly by the Song Army in their desperate efforts. Some soldiers chose to surrender in despair. In half a time, thousands of Xizhou Army disappeared.
Two thousand three hundred people were captured, and the rest died in the siege of the Song army.
As the day dawned, 50,000 troops entered Liangzhou City. The oppressed and exploited tens of thousands of Han people in the city discovered that it was the Song army who entered the city. They were immediately overjoyed and beat gongs and drums to welcome Chen Qing's army into the city.
Dozens of old men knelt down in front of Chen Qing, presented the jars containing Liangzhou soil to Chen Qing, and said with tears in their eyes: "Prince, please accept it! Don't lose it again."
Chen Qing took the earthen jar, raised it high, and said loudly: "I promise all my fellow villagers that as long as I, Chen Qing, are still here, Liangzhou City will always belong to our Han people and will never be lost again!"
