The third watch has arrived! The sound of attack horns and the sound of war drums resound throughout the world.
"Report to your lord! Houjin is attacking the city!!!"
Looking like a soldier fished out of blood, he hurriedly came to the hall to report.
Sun Chuanting took a deep breath, picked up the sword from the table and said decisively: "All the generals will follow me to the city wall!! Waiting for counterattack!!"
"yes!!!"
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Boom! Boom! Boom! War drums rumbled, like thunder from the sky. From outside the horizon, a cloud of smoke and dust rose. Thousands of horses galloped, and the shaking earth roared endlessly!
There was a lot of activity on the city wall, and tools such as rolling stones and logs were ready.
Bundles of arrows were placed on the city wall. The archers bent their bows and nocked arrows, ready to go. One by one, wounded soldiers sat slumped on the city wall, holding stones in their hands, ready to give their last effort.
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A group of soldiers and horses in the city were guarding the city gate, seeming to be waiting for the moment of a deadly battle to break through the city.
The city's 20,000 troops, under the command of Sun Chuanting, exerted maximum efficiency and performed their duties.
Sun Chuanting put his hand on the sword on his waist and looked sharply at the steady stream of Houjin soldiers coming to kill him.
Sun Chuanting raised his hand and waved, and in an instant, war drums sounded on the city wall, flags were waved, and all the archers received the order and immediately started shooting arrows.
The arrows fell like raindrops, killing many Houjin soldiers. However, this number was only a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of sieges.
In this battle, Sun Chuanting did not intend to defend the city alone, because even if he defended it, it would only delay the city for some time, and the city would inevitably be destroyed.
If you want to make a comeback, you must try to believe Xue Hong's words and wait for Xue Hong to attack the enemy!
If you want to get the maximum result and win a big battle with a small amount, then you must lure Chi to bring all the troops up!
Sun Chuanting's eyes narrowed, he pulled out his sword and ordered: "Except the archers and the wounded soldiers who are unable to move! Although the other generals will go out of the city to fight!!"
As soon as this statement came out, there was an instant shock and an uproar. You can't even defend against the city wall, so you go out and fight the other side? Is it possible?
But all the soldiers also knew that once the Hou Jin soldiers broke through the city, they would probably leave no one behind. Instead of letting others slaughter them, it would be better to fight to the death and bring a few Hou Jin soldiers to support them!
Besides, Mr. Sun Shilang has personally gone out of the city to kill the enemy. His life is very valuable. Maybe Mr. Sun has a clever plan to defeat the enemy? Let’s do it!!
Perhaps it was the hatred between the nation and the country, or perhaps it was the last battle. The fighting spirit of the soldiers was once again ignited.
At this time, two groups of Hou Jin's cavalry were covering the siege equipment on both wings as they advanced.
Relying on the advantages of numbers and equipment, the siege equipment was immediately pushed down the city wall.
Suddenly! I saw the west gate of Liaodong Town opened wide, and a group of people came out of the gate!! The leader turned out to be a civil servant on horseback!!
Sun Chuanting saw the siege equipment close at hand, pointed his sword, and led a group of soldiers to kill them.
The soldiers of Houjin never expected that the Ming army would dare to go out of the city to counterattack, and they were caught off guard. A large number of siege equipment were directly burned and destroyed by Sun Chuanting's men!
After Sun Chuanting burned the siege equipment, he did not retreat back to the city. Instead, he ordered his men to defend within fifty steps of the city wall.
At the same time, the archers on the city wall launched an indiscriminate attack on the city wall a hundred steps away. The arrows were thrown out for free.
More than a dozen crossbows aimed at the cavalry and targeted them crazily! The battlefield fell into a stalemate for a while.
Chi, the leader of the Later Jin Dynasty, was not surprised when he heard the news that the Ming army had come out of the city to counterattack. He directly ordered all three armies to attack!!
In Chi's view, this was the Ming army's last desperate counterattack.
At the same time, about three miles behind the Houjin camp, Xue Hong led a group of soldiers, loaded the bullets, and all 120 mortars were inspected and installed, ready to go!
A scout galloped over on horseback.
"Lord Qi! Houjin has fully attacked the city!"
Xue Hong led everyone to quickly approach the Houjin camp. Taking advantage of the darkness and the chaos of fighting on the battlefield, Xue Hong led the people to a place about one mile away from the Houjin camp!!
Xue Hong immediately ordered: "Everyone takes action immediately. As long as I give the order, all the cannonballs will be fired immediately!!"
Three hundred and sixty soldiers were ready, and rows of shells were placed next to the mortars.
Because these cannonballs were hand-rolled by craftsmen and had some other technical problems, they could only travel a distance of about three miles. They were incomparable to those in later generations that could easily reach more than ten kilometers.
But this distance can just cover the opponent's rear and central camps.
Xue Hong ordered everyone to turn their guns, adjust their angles, and aim at the enemy's center.
After everything was finished, Xue Hong gave the order: "Let go!!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! There was a crisp sound of artillery muzzle, and all 360 rounds of the first round were fired.
The leader of the Houjin Kingdom, Chi, who was originally sitting in the main camp, was waiting for the news of success. Suddenly he heard bursts of artillery fire!!
Chi quickly ordered people to go check, and after a while he got the news that someone was attacking the Chinese army with cannons!! And there were a lot of cannons, at least hundreds!!!
The leader of the Hou Jin Dynasty, Chi, didn't want to believe it. Not to mention how heavy the cannon was, how could the enemy transport such a heavy thing behind him? It was just a few hundred guns. No matter how you heard it, it was nonsense!
Regardless of the soldiers' obstruction, Chi opened the curtain of the tent and walked out of the tent. It happened that a cannonball exploded about Chi Baibu.
Chi saw two soldiers killed by artillery shells!!
Chi looked around and saw shells falling everywhere and causing explosions!!
After just one round of bombing, the Chinese army was already in chaos! The flames caused by the explosion also began to engulf the military camps and spread.
The second round of bombing has begun again!!
Artillery fire covered the entire Chinese army camp, and all the soldiers were running to avoid it.
Chi was a hero after all, so he immediately ordered two trusted generals to lead five thousand cavalry to find the enemy's artillery positions and destroy them!!!
Chi could see that these cannonballs were not as powerful as general cannons, but they were more numerous. If such a large number of cannons were to be transported to his rear, they must be lighter cannons.
Moreover, the range of this kind of cannon is definitely not as wide as the red cannon. In other words, the enemy is no more than two or three miles away from you!!
Two generals led five thousand cavalry and rushed towards the artillery camp where Xue Hong and others were located to attack.
And Xue Hong had already made preparations and ordered the cavalry to line up in three teams and form a wall-mounted formation. With bullets loaded, as soon as he saw the light of a torch ahead, he would immediately cross fire and shoot indiscriminately!!
Not long after, the Five Thousand Hou Jin Cavalry arrived at a distance of three to four hundred meters away from Xue Hong's group.
Xue Hong saw the cavalry chasing him from the front and gave an order! More than two thousand soldiers sprayed tongues of fire from their guns.
A row of bullets flew out, instantly knocking down a group of cavalrymen.
In just a few seconds, three teams of soldiers from the Shenji Battalion fired alternately with non-stop firepower. After three rounds of gunfire, nearly one-third of the five thousand cavalry had fallen!
Hou Jin's cavalry also bent their bows and set arrows to fight back, but their bows and arrows could only shoot a hundred steps at most, and they could not reach General Xue Hong's troops who were several hundred meters away.
Soon, the second round of shooting began! As a row of flames lit up, the massacre of the Houjin Cavalry was announced!
After two rounds of attacks, out of 5,000 cavalry, only less than 2,000 were left!!
We didn't even see the enemy's face, and three thousand of them were killed! How can we fight like this?
General Hou Jin made a prompt decision and led his cavalry to retreat.
During this period, the artillery fire from behind Xue Hong's camp never stopped!! More than 3,600 artillery shells! All of them accurately landed on the central and rear armies!!
Xue Hong ordered everyone except the 360 artillerymen to stay at their positions to mount their horses and advance with guns in hand!!
More than 2,000 cavalrymen, led by Xue Hong, marched towards the Jin position in a mighty manner!!
There were continuous artillery fire and flames in the Houjin position. Not only the soldiers of Houjin saw it, but Sun Chuanting also saw it.
Sun Chuanting met on horseback and slashed to death a Houjin cavalryman who was surrounding him with his sword. Then he wiped the blood with his sleeve and wiped the blood with his sword, shouting loudly: "Reinforcements are here!! Soldiers! The end of the Houjin barbarians has come.
!!Follow me and kill!! The time has come for meritorious service and knighthood!!!Kill!!!”
When the soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty saw that the Chinese army was on fire, they already wanted to retreat. At this moment, when they saw the Ming army in front of them, they were defeated immediately as if they were beaten to death!