The man called Commander Fan ran over and saluted Yang Yanzhao. Yang Yanzhao smiled and said, "Your Excellency, you are the commander of the artillery drill?"
The man cupped his fists and said, "Fan Chao, the villain, is the newly appointed commander of the artillery team by His Highness King Yan." It needs to be explained here that in the Yanyun Army, in addition to the ten major legions and naval forces, there are also troops directly under the Yan Palace.
This artillery unit is based on artillery teams. Each artillery team has one thousand people and one hundred and fifty artillery pieces. It is not affiliated with any legion and is directly under the jurisdiction of the Prince of Yan. Currently, there are five artillery teams in Yanyun.
, and Zhang Chao's team is the newest in the city. All the personnel have just been trained not long ago, and all the cannons have just been transported from the ordnance factory along with other ordnance supplies and food and grass baggage.
Having said that, by the way, all the personnel of this artillery team were recruited by relevant departments, and then received special training in the military academy. Within a few months, these people became artillery team officers. Prince Yan's Mansion
It has a unique institution of this era, the Military Academy, which is used to train various military command and military division technical talents. Chen Xiao is naturally the dean of this military academy. All senior generals are professors of command at the military academy. There is no permanent
Professors, whoever has time can go to class, while Ling Zhen, the director of the ordnance field, and the skilled technicians under him are professors in the technical department, used to cultivate technical talents in a programmed manner. This has definitely pioneered China's thousands of years of development.
First of all.
Xiao Feng said happily: "With the cannon, if we still can't capture the Great Wall Ridge, we won't be able to explain it to King Yan!" Everyone nodded. Xiao Duoli turned to look at the majestic Great Wall Ridge in the distance and frowned.
He said: "Even if there are cannons, it may not be easy to capture Changcheng Ridge!" Li Tian next to him raised his head and glanced at Changcheng Ridge, frowned, but said nothing.
Early the next morning, the roar of cannons shook the wilderness valleys with a radius of dozens of miles. The shells roared towards the mountains, stirring up dust and gravel, and from time to time, human bodies flew into the sky. The scene was thrilling.
After bombarding continuously for half an hour, the sound of artillery gradually stopped. Yang Yanzhao raised his spear and waved it forward, and the war drums rumbled loudly. More than ten thousand Yanyun Army infantry shouted and surged up the hillside like a tide, all the way to the foot of the mountain.
, rushed until halfway up the mountain. Suddenly, countless Xixia troops showed their figures, and then they saw rolling stones and trees rushing down. At the same time, arrows rained down in the sky like locusts flying around. Only Yan Yun troops were seen.
Either they were knocked away by the rushing rocks and trees, or they were knocked over by arrows flying in the sky, and the momentum of the attack was dampened.
Yan Yun's army was extremely brave, but under such circumstances, they still roared forward and rushed forward without any intention of retreating. Instead, they became more and more courageous as they fought. However, the situation was too unfavorable, and their bravery had no effect at all. Instead, one after another came one after another.
They were all knocked down and died on the path of the charge with their flesh and blood flying everywhere.
Yang Yanzhao frowned tightly, turned to the herald and shouted: "Tell them to stand back!" The herald immediately ordered his trumpeter to blow the horn, and only heard woo, woo, woo... short and continuous horn sounds loudly, far away.
The news spread far away. The red-eyed Yanyun Army soldiers heard the sound of horns coming from behind. Although they were very unhappy, they retreated without hesitation.
When the Xixia army saw that Yan Yun's army had retreated, they immediately cheered. The whole mountain was filled with people, banners were flying, and cheers soared into the sky.
However, at this moment, the terrible thunder-like loud noise suddenly sounded again, shaking the world. Before the soldiers of the Xixia Army on the mountain ridge could react, bursts of 'waves' suddenly set off in the crowd, roaring
The cannonballs smashed into the crowd, causing flesh and blood to fly everywhere. In the blink of an eye, the Xixia soldiers suffered heavy casualties. The Xixia soldiers came to their senses and hurriedly scattered for cover. There were chaotic shouts and shadows on the mountains.
The artillery team fired a few more rounds, then stopped firing, the horn sounded loudly, and another wave of Yanyun infantry surged towards the mountains. Seeing this, the Xixia army hurriedly resisted. The Yanyun army immediately encountered enemy resistance.
After retreating, the powerful storm blown by the cannon once again blew over the mountains, causing heavy losses to the Xixia Army. The Yanyun Army repeated this, first luring the enemy out with infantry attacks, and then retreating with infantry.
Artillery sweeps and each round of sudden fire attacks always caused great damage to the Xixia army. Li Zongdao had long seen Yue Fei's intention, but he really had no choice in the face of the situation in front of him. He could not defeat the Yanyun army.
Let the army hide behind when attacking the mountain!
This battle lasted for a whole day. At dusk, Yan Yun's army stopped attacking and retreated to the military camp. Li Zongdao stood on the mountain ridge, frowning as he watched the mountains covered with corpses and devastation.
General Li Yuantong rushed over, clasped his fists with a pale face and said: "Generalissimo, our army has more than 10,000 casualties. The exact number is not clear yet, it may be more!"
Li Zongdao couldn't help but feel his heart sink, and murmured: "More than ten thousand people, more than ten thousand casualties in just one day! What kind of terrible weapon did Yan Yun use?" There was a look of fear on Li Yuantong's face, obviously.
Thinking of the terrifying scene when the cannon was in full force, "It is said that the Yanyun Army used a terrible weapon that could fire thunderbolts during the battle with the Jin people. It destroyed the city wall as if it were dry and dry. It must be this kind of thing! I thought it was just a legend.
But I didn’t expect it to be true, really, really..."
When Li Zongdao saw the fear on Li Yuantong's face, his heart trembled, and he said calmly: "It's nothing." Seeing that the Grand Marshal was so calm and composed, Li Yuantong couldn't help but calm down his original panic and fear.
Li Zongdao asked: "What are the enemy's losses?"
Li Yuantong shook his head, "I'm not sure, I guess there are only two or three thousand people." Then he said worriedly: "If the enemy army makes up its mind to consume our army, our army may not be able to stand it for long! I don't know what the backup troops are.
When can we come up?" Li Zongdao said: "The mobilization of all aspects will take time. It is estimated that the reinforcements will not arrive until ten days at the earliest!" Li Yuantong did not speak, and his heart was very heavy. He felt that it was not easy to resist for ten days, so he suggested
: "Generalissimo, can you transfer General Li Fenglong's troops over?"
Li Zongdao shook his head and frowned: "If his troops are transferred over, the Shenyong Army Division and Xiangyou Army Division in the left wing may not be able to hold on. If only a part of them is transferred over, it won't have much effect."
Starting from the beginning, he looked towards the Yanyun Army camp at the foot of the mountain, frowned and murmured: "At this point, maybe the only thing we can do is to make a dangerous move!"
When Yan Yun's army returned to the camp, Yang Yanzhao immediately gathered all the cavalry, selected 3,000 particularly strong horses, and then gave detailed instructions. The 3,000 horses and 3,000 knights immediately went down.
In the middle of the night, Li Yuanzhong and Li Feng led nearly ten thousand Xixia war cavalry down the mountain quietly. At the same time, Li Zongdao led the main force on the mountain to prepare for an attack.
Li Yuanzhong and Li Feng led their war cavalry to slowly approach the Yanyun camp in the distance. The men were holding horses and picking bells. Nearly ten thousand horses were marching quietly. At this time, the moon suddenly hid in the clouds and then came out again, and the earth suddenly became bright.
Suddenly dark.
The Xixia army approached the Yanyun camp and looked into the camp. They saw lights like beans and it was quiet. The entire camp was obviously asleep. Li Yuanzhong became excited and felt that the time for revenge had finally arrived. He turned to Li Feng
He whispered: "Move the rejected horses outside the camp gate." Li Feng responded, called for more than a dozen soldiers, ran over, and moved all the rejected horses in front of the camp gate. Li Yuanzhong raised his hand and stepped forward.
He waved forward and shouted loudly: "Come with me!" Then he rushed into the camp gate first, and nearly ten thousand Xixia warriors followed Li Yuanzhong into the camp with a loud roar.
As soon as the Xixia army rushed into the camp, they rushed into the tents from all directions and wanted to kill people. However, every tent was empty and there was no human figure. "There is nothing here!" "There is nothing here!" "Everything is empty here!" they exclaimed.
The sounds kept coming and going. Li Yuanzhong realized something was wrong and shouted urgently: "Go back! Go back!" Before he could finish his words, thrilling shouts suddenly came from all around, and at the same time, countless torches came from all directions.
At this moment, the sound of breaking through the sky sounded loudly, and the Xixia soldiers immediately fell on their backs. Li Yuanzhong and Li Feng shouted and led the army to break out, but they bumped into the Modao army formation. The rushing momentum stopped immediately, only to
Seeing the rows of Mo Dao flying up and down, the sword light was like a wall of swords! The soldiers of the Xixia Army were flying with blood and screams. Even the heavy armored cavalry would be extremely disadvantaged when encountering the Mo Dao army, let alone these armors.
The light cavalry was of limited weight. Wherever the sword passed by, only the men and horses were broken into pieces, and blood flew!
At the same time, arrow rain continued to fall from both sides. The Xixia cavalry was not killed by Mo Dao's blade, but was also killed by the arrows flying in the sky. The screams of horses were heard, and the Xixia army for two years
Falling back, there is no way to break through.
Li Feng yelled and spurred his horse forward, trying to break out of the encirclement. Li Tian saw this and rushed out, intercepting him and fighting. Both of them used spears and roared for more than ten rounds. Li Feng was timid.
, the speed of his hand slowed down involuntarily, but Li Tian became more and more courageous as he fought, roared, and thrust the gun into his chest. Li Feng wanted to dodge and block, but was at a loss for a moment, and only heard a click.
There was a sound, and he saw that the spear in Li Tian's hand had pierced Li Feng's chest. Li Feng looked down at the spear that had pierced his chest with a look of fear. Li Tian pushed hard, and Li Feng flew out with a scream.
He fell heavily to the ground, his limbs twitched and then stopped making any movement.
The Xixia soldiers were already panicked, and they were even more frightened when they saw this scene.
Li Tianrui immediately raised his gun and shouted: "If you surrender, you will not be killed! If you do not surrender, you will be killed!"
The soldiers of the Xixia Army were in turmoil and were at a loss. Seeing this scene, Li Yuanzhong sighed and murmured: "The matter has come to this. If we continue to fight, we will only lose our lives in vain. What's the use?" As he said this, he put the soldiers in his hands away.
The blade was thrown down and fell to the ground with a squeaking sound.
Seeing that their commander had thrown away their weapons, the soldiers of the Xixia Army hurriedly threw away their weapons too. Immediately, the soldiers of the Xixia Army dismounted and knelt on the ground. Li Tian led his men to escort the soldiers of the Xixia Army down, while Xiao Feng led his men to collect their weapons and
Horses, these are trophies.
Although Li Zongdao couldn't see clearly what was happening in the Yanyun military camp on the mountain, he could see countless torches suddenly appearing in all directions. Li Zongdao's heart couldn't help but sink. Then he heard the sound of fierce fighting, and the sneak attack army obviously
Already trapped in a tight siege and a bitter battle. Li Yuantong on the side said urgently: "Generalissimo, let's go to meet them quickly!" Li Zongdao frowned and shook his head. The palm of his hand holding the handle of the knife turned white from excessive exertion, "No,
The enemy is well prepared. Not only will we not be able to save Yuan Zhong and the others when we go down the mountain, we will also fall into the trap ourselves." Li Yuantong knew that what Li Zongdao said was reasonable. He not only sighed, but this sigh contained a lot of helplessness.
Not long after, the sound of fighting stopped, and then I saw countless torches entering the camp, and then the torches were extinguished one after another, and the Yanyun camp returned to calm, as if the fierce battle just now had never happened.
After waiting for another half an hour, no one came back. Knowing that the 10,000 cavalry sent out were all destroyed, Li Zongdao felt so surprised that he felt like he couldn't breathe, but he couldn't show it at all in front of the soldiers.
It seems to us that he is still the cold and calm generalissimo.
Early the next morning, Yan Yun's army formed a battle formation and prepared to continue the attack on Changcheng Ridge. At this moment, a scout galloped over, reined in his horse, and presented a small bamboo pipe, "General, urgent military situation!" Yan Yun
When military scouts convey military intelligence information in front of the army, they often do not convey it verbally, but use slips of paper to convey information, because if there is bad military information, what they say will be heard immediately by the surrounding soldiers.
It will affect the morale of the military.
Yang Yanzhao took the small bamboo tube and found a small paper roll here and there. He unfolded it and read it over, his expression remained calm. Seeing this, the soldiers around him just thought it was nothing serious and didn't take it to heart.
Yang Yanzhao said to the scout: "Continue the investigation and report the situation at any time!" The scout responded, turned his horse and ran down. Yang Yanzhao looked at the Great Wall Ridge directly ahead and shouted: "Attack!" Boom boom boom... the artillery fire.
The roar was earth-shattering.
The soldiers of the Xixia Army on the mountain were all hiding on the back of the mountain. They could only hear the crackling and rumbling sounds of the entire mountain. The entire mountain seemed to be shaking. From time to time, there were roaring shells flying over the heads of everyone. Many Xixia soldiers
The soldiers were swearing at each other, some of them were scolded one by one by the ancestors of the Yanyun Army for eight generations. After yesterday's battle, the Xixia soldiers were no longer so afraid of the Yanyun Army's cannons.
However, Li Zongdao still frowned. He knew that Yan Yunjun had made up his mind to use this attrition tactic to deal with him. If there was no way to solve it, based on the situation yesterday, his side would only be able to hold on for five or six days.
Yes! What should I do?
At this moment, the general Li Yuantong and an officer rushed over, and the message was endless: "Generalissimo, good news, the reinforcements have arrived in Hongzhou!" Hongzhou is located in the north of Changcheng Ridge, close to the Great Wall.
Ridge is only a little over thirty miles away, and the infantry can reach it in a day's march.
When Li Zongdao heard the news, it was like good news from heaven. He was both endlessly surprised and unbelievable, because according to his previous estimate, it would take at least ten days for the reinforcements to arrive. He was at a loss when he arrived, but he didn't expect
The reinforcements had actually arrived in Hongzhou. Li Yuantong pointed to the officer beside him, "This is the messenger sent by General Li Cunxiao!" The officer immediately paid homage to Li Zongdao: "I pay my respects to the generalissimo!"
Li Zongdao asked happily; "Is it Li Cunxiao who is here?" The reason why Li Zongdao was so happy was because Li Cunxiao was the most talented general in Xixia. His arrival made him feel like he was sharing the burden; Li Cunxiao was originally stationed in the Snow Mountain
, to prepare for Tubo, he had already transferred them over, which shows that Xixia has now made up its mind to fight to the death with the Yanyun Army!
The officer replied: "It's the General of the Right Wing." General of the Right Wing, this is Li Cunxiao's official position.
"How many troops are coming?"
"Reporting to the Grand Marshal, my general has brought a total of 80,000 infantry and cavalry, all of which are elite troops stationed in the snowy mountains!"
Li Zongdao was overjoyed and said, "Great!" Then he asked in confusion: "Why is Li Cunxiao so fast?" The officer said: "As soon as my general received the order from the court, he realized that the situation was serious and immediately left 20,000 troops.
We guarded the snow-capped mountains, and then led a large force to advance lightly, traveling day and night. We did not enter the state or government along the way, nor did we contact other armies or any government officials. We just rushed on the road with all our strength, so we arrived at Hongzhou in only three days!"
"Good! Well done! Li Xiaochun is indeed a famous general of the generation, and I really did not misjudge him!"
The officer continued: "My general is leading his army to Changcheng Ridge! The general sent a villain to inform the generalissimo that the 'Snow Mountain Army' will arrive on the battlefield this afternoon. Please don't worry, generalissimo!" "Okay, okay, Li Xiaochun is here.
, I have nothing else to worry about!”
At this moment, the deafening sound of artillery stopped, and only someone heard loudly shouting: "The enemy is coming up!" Li Zongdao frowned and immediately ran towards the mountain. The surrounding soldiers all headed towards the mountain together.
He ran. When he came to the mountain, he saw Yan Yun's army rushing towards the mountain. Li Yuantong cursed, and then shouted at the top of his lungs: "Get ready! Get ready!"
The Yanyun Army rushed up the hillside, and the Xixia Army was ready to attack. The hand of a sergeant who was responsible for pushing the wood slipped, and the wood rolled down with a rumble. The other sergeants were startled and rolled the rolling stone with their hands without control.
Lumu retreated. At that time, Yan Yun's army had just climbed up the hillside, and they were still far away. The rolling stone Shimu could not reach them at all.
The retreat horn sound came from the Yanyun Army, and the Yanyun Army who had just rushed up the hillside immediately turned around and ran back. Seeing this, the Xixia Army on the mountain immediately knew that the Yanyun Army was about to fire, and they turned around and ran towards the back of the ridge without waiting for orders.
Go. Almost at the same time, the Yanyun Army's cannons made an earth-shattering roar. In an instant, the mountain ridge was like a pot exploding. The unlucky Xixia Army was smashed to death by the roaring cannonballs.
Both sides repeated such actions, and the Xixia army officers and soldiers felt numb.
The Yanyun army started shelling again, and the Xixia army hurried to hide behind the ridge. However, at this moment, three thousand Yanyun cavalry troops, led by General Li Tianrun, suddenly rushed out of the army formation and headed towards the west side of Changcheng ridge like a whirlwind.
The steep slope rushed away. All the energy and attention of the Xixia people were attracted to the gentle slope. It was not until the Yanyun warriors rushed up the hillside that the Xixia people suddenly woke up. Then they screamed and shouted loudly, and some Xixia soldiers
He hurriedly ran towards the steep slope. At this moment, the warriors led by Li Tian rushed up the hillside and charged into the Xixia army. They killed the Xixia army with their machetes and swords. The corpses of the Xixia army were covered with blood and flew into chaos. Li Zongdao saw the Yanyun army.
The war cavalry actually broke through from the steep slope. They were shocked and hurriedly mobilized their troops to fight back. Facing a group of desperate Xixia troops, Li Tianrun shouted loudly and led the war cavalry forward without hesitation.
However, the mountains are not conducive to cavalry charge after all, and soon the Yanyun army fell into a hard fight. The Xixia army surrounded them one after another, as if there was no end; the Yanyun army fought hard to kill, and the Xixia army was flying with blood and flesh, but each Yanyun army
However, the officers and soldiers fell on their backs under the opponent's mountains of swords and spears; there were roars and screams. Although the Yanyun army was unstoppable, the Xixia army was also completely crazy!
When Yang Yanzhao saw Li Tian successfully charging up the mountain, he couldn't help but cheer. He immediately ordered Xiao Duoli to lead 5,000 infantry troops up the steep slope, while he himself led the main force to attack from the barren slope.
The guards on the gentle slope could not help but change their colors when they saw the Yan Yun army coming down the mountain like a surging tide.
The Yanyun army swarmed up the mountain and attacked with all their lives despite the rolling stones and rain of arrows. Some soldiers were constantly beaten to death by the rolling stones and trees. However, other soldiers completely ignored this; the Xixia army officers desperately pushed the rolling stones and wood away.
Go down and shoot arrows with all your strength, but the main force is now going to counterattack the Yan Yun army who is attacking up the mountain. As a result, the manpower here is very tight, and the suppression force is obviously not as strong as before.
After paying a great price, the Yanyun Army finally rushed to the top and immediately charged in frantically with their weapons. Although the Xixia Army fought back hard, they fell into a pool of blood one by one.
The Yanyun Army broke through the frontal defense line of Changcheng Ridge, attacked the mountain ridge, and fiercely attacked the Xixia Army that was besieging Li Tian. The Xixia Army was originally very crazy, but suddenly saw Yanyun's large army coming up, and their fighting spirit collapsed in an instant.
Under the fierce attack of the Yun army, they suffered heavy casualties, retreated continuously, and finally collapsed.
The Yanyun army took advantage of the situation and pursued them down Changcheng Ridge. They saw the Xixia army running around in panic. Soldiers were constantly being cut down to the ground by the Yanyun army that was catching up. There were scenes of massacres all over the mountains and plains, like a huge slaughterhouse. Li Tianrun
He rushed to the front and slashed at the defeated army wildly. Wherever his group of cavalry passed, corpses littered the fields.
Just as Li Tian was rushing forward to pursue the defeated troops, a herald caught up with him, rode alongside Li Tian, and shouted loudly: "General Yang reminded the general that the 80,000 enemy troops led by Li Cunxiao have already passed."
Hongzhou, don't go deep into it rashly, be careful!" Li Tian suddenly heard the news, but he didn't feel anything at all. He nodded, "I got it!" and then led his army to continue chasing the enemy.
Not long after, Li Tian led more than a thousand war cavalry over a mountain ridge, and suddenly saw an enemy war cavalry of more than 2,000 people approaching. The war cavalry was obviously different from the Xixia army he had seen before. They were all dressed in white.
His shirt is impressive and he is obviously an elite warrior.
Without hesitation, Li Tian led his war cavalry to charge forward, running at full speed, with murderous intent fully unfolded; and the white-robed Xixia war cavalry also launched a charge, and their momentum was not weaker than that of Yan Yun's army. They were indeed among the elite.
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What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.