Chapter 492 ?
The 11th year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, April 21, early morning.
At this time, the "Jinzhou Hamburg" had been bombarded by the Song army's 120 cannons for three days. Two of the three triangular forts, including Nanyi, Nanyi and Nan3, located in the south of Jinzhou City, had been smashed by tens of thousands of "meatballs" fired by the Song army's 10-pound long cannons! The last triangular fort was left, which was already smashed to collapse. There were holes on both sides of the walls, and they were about to collapse.
The shelling effect is so good. In addition to the "Jinzhou Hamburger" being a "uneducated fort" and not understanding geometry, I use a triangular platform as a triangular platform because the meatballs shot by the Song army's 10 kilogram cannon are not only accurate, but also large in number!
Although the firing rate of these cannons cannot be compared with that of the artillery in history, a process of "clearing the chamber - loading - aiming - firing" can be completed in five minutes. Moreover, the bronze has good heat dissipation performance, and firing one shot at a interval of five minutes is enough to prevent the bronze cannon barrel from overheating.
So on the three days of April 18, 19, and 20, 120 10-jin cannons maintained a roughly 20 rounds in one hour, and the "work intensity" was fired for 6 hours a day. In just three days, more than 40,000 10-jin pig iron cannonballs were knocked out... This is tens of thousands of 400,000 jin of iron!
Although it is just a "pig iron meatball", it is still a very amazing number!
Moreover, the Song army artillery can use artillery fire as if it is not expensive, which also means that their shells are no longer customized with the artillery, but can be unified in specifications and then produced in large quantities!
At the same time, it also shows that the caliber of the 120 10-jin cannons has basically been unified... Otherwise, there would be no way to unify the specifications of the shells!
There are also 10 kilograms of "pig iron meatballs" that can be cast in large quantities, so the last triangle fort on the south side of "Jinzhou Hamburger" will definitely not be kept, and there is no need to wait until tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or even this afternoon, and it will be finished this morning!
These Triangle Forts outside the core castle of "Hamburg" are like sharp teeth, protecting the safety of the "Hamburg" core castle. Once the "tress" on one side is knocked off, the enemy's heavy artillery can directly hammer the core castle, and the enemy's hot pot can also be arranged close to the core castle. Because the collapse of the Triangle Fort is not completely, the remaining part will block the cannons set up on the core castle, so a blind spot will be formed. So hot pot cannons do not need to be covered by trenches, and can be moved directly to the core castle to open fire!
Therefore, when all three triangular forts south of Jinzhou Hamburg collapsed, it was inevitable that Jinzhou Hamburg would be broken.
There is not much time left for Wanyan Zongxian... I don’t know if it’s true if he sees you again in the next life? But his balance in this life is close, so I’m so anxious!
Wanyan Zongxian, who was so anxious that he was desperate, had no way to recharge his balance in this life, so he had to send his personal soldiers to "risk his life" out of the city to ask for help from Wanyan Zonggan... For the sake of the Great Jin Kingdom and for the sake of his ancestors, help me!
And all of these personal soldiers who "risk their lives" out of the city did not die, and all went to Wanyan Zonggan, adding fuel to the crisis of Jinzhou hamburger and Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyan Zongmin and others said.
Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongpan, and Wanyan Zongmin were also very anxious!
They were not anxious for Wanyan Zongxian, the "Dajin sinner", but for themselves and for the Dajin Kingdom.
If Jinzhou hamburger is lost, the balance of the students in the Great Jin Kingdom will not be much. How long can the three of them survive is also a big question.
So starting from the afternoon of April 20, Wu Jie on the Kaiyi Front and the 13th Army he personally led were feeling "high pressure"!
On the 18th and 19th, the Jin thieves who were weak on the 19th, suddenly used all their strength to feed themselves from this time. At one wave of offensives, the artillery was pushed to the place as close as possible to the Song army camp, and the shells were fired out like money. In just one afternoon, the Jin soldiers fought six waves of offensives. Although they were all repelled by the soldiers of Wu Jie with hot and cold weapons, the north side of the Song army camp was still dangerous. In two times, the Jin soldiers broke through the outer walls and fences and broke into the camp. Finally, they relied on the red scarf cavalry sent by Wu Jie to fight a counterattack, and drove the Jin thieves out.
The Song army was placed in Luzhai, north of the camp, and the horses were destroyed in these six waves of offensives, and the trenches were almost filled with earthblocks and corpses. Where fierce battles occurred outside the Song army camp, at the late night of the 20th, there were ghost fires everywhere, and from time to time, dying people and horses let out miserable wails...
After nightfall, although the Jin army's offensive was suspended, neither Wu Jie nor the soldiers below dared to rest. In addition to fearing the Jin thieves' night attack, they had to start construction and reinforce the camp overnight.
Luzhai, horse-rejecting, door-to-door knife, etc., the Song army never brought too many red scarves... These things are very heavy, expensive, with a short "shelf life", and are easily damaged during transportation. It is better to bring more cannons than to bring these things!
So on the evening of the 20th, they had to dig trenches to build a building, then dismantle some big trucks, take out the wood, peel out wooden stakes, and finally they dug a trench and inserted many wooden stakes behind the camp wall. At the same time, they piled a low wall with sandbags filled with soil behind the camp wall.
The construction started from darkness until it was about to be bright. The soldiers and generals who had been busy for the middle of the night retreated back to the camp and squinted against two low walls (one of which was the camp wall).
Wu Jie was also exhausted. When he walked, he seemed to be stepping on cotton underneath, thinking about whether to go back to his tent to take a moment to nourish his spirit. Suddenly, he found that the ground began to shake, and there was a rumbling sound of hooves.
What's going on? Wu Jie was a little confused. Could it be that he was tired and had hallucinations?
It is impossible for the Jin thieves to use cavalry to attack their own hard villages!
Although this village is not particularly hard, there are 24 5-jin cannons, 8 25-jin hotpot cannons and more than 200 8-jin camel cannons... With this firepower, are you afraid that your cavalry will rush to the camp?
Wu Jie, who was unable to figure out the situation, hurried to a lookout platform behind the second low wall, then used his hands and feet to climb up along the ladder.
Standing on the platform, taking advantage of the disappearing moonlight, in the vaguely dim darkness, groups of animals with unknown animals suddenly appeared in the distance of sight. Wu Jie vaguely saw the light of fire and appeared among the running animals... and he also heard waves of "moothing" sounds!
Is this... the cow called?
Fire bull formation?
Not only Wu Jie, but also the soldiers on duty behind the wooden fence, also found these "fire cows" appearing in front of them. In addition to "fire cows", these "fire cows" also drove away the cavalry of the Jin thieves behind them. Under their drive, these fire cows made a "moothing" sound, while spreading their hooves and running wildly, rushing like a tide!
No one can see how many "fire bulls" and how many golden thieves are there. They can only see that they blocked the line that had already shined slightly in the sky... It seems that the army of golden thieves is pressing up layer by layer!
The soldiers of the Song army already shouted shrillly: "The enemy attacks... Fire Bull Formation!"
Then the harsh sound of golden drums resounded in the camp!
The soldiers resting in the camp were alarmed, and their armor was rolled around. The first thing they did after being alarmed was to help each other wear armor.
When they finished wearing armor, the officers also shouted. Under the command of the officers, the Song army, who had been busy for a long time, had just sniffed for a while, soon finished the whole team in full spirit. Then, under the dispatch of officers at all levels, they picked up spears, knives, axes, bows and arrows, and took their own positions!
Wu Jie also reacted and quickly got down from the tower, pulling his already hoarse voice and making a loud order: "The fire bull from the golden thief is most likely to bring a pot with him! All the people guarding the north wall retreat to the second line, and they are ready to explode the thunder!
The artillery also moved backwards, retreated to the second line artillery base, and filled with shotguns..."
Fire bulls and thunder, also known as suicide bombing, have appeared in small-scale battles between the Song and Jin dynasties in the past few years. The first method to use this method was Yelu Dashi's army, and later the Jin thieves also learned it. Later, the Song army sometimes had a luxury to drive the fire bulls away with bombs to rush into the enemy's camp.
But it is usually done on a small scale... After all, beef is not cheap! Isn't it good to keep it for yourself?
But this time, the Jin Thief seemed to have made a desperate attempt. He invested so much suicide bombing at one time, and it seemed that he was going to fight to the death!
Thinking of this, Wu Jie took a deep breath and shouted again: "I inform all generals that after taking their seats, they must stick to the spot. Those who take a step back will be killed immediately!"
Most of the personal soldiers behind Wu Jie immediately responded to the promise and sent the order loudly. Wu Jie, surrounded by the remaining personal soldiers, strode towards his central army tent. He wanted to command there and dispatch the troops in his hands to attack the Jin thieves!
Just as he ran towards his central army tent, the sky was a little brighter, and the scale of the fire bull and the golden thief that was attacking could be roughly seen.
There were at least thousands of "fried bulls" driven by the Jin thieves! The cavalry and infantry following behind were so numerous that they could not count them, almost filling their entire sight!
The Song army infantry who had retreated behind the second low wall all took the bows and arrows in their hands. Under the command of the officers, they shot a wave first. The white arrow tail was inserted into the black soil, which was extremely eye-catching... This is the maximum range of the bows and arrows they used.
Everyone held their breath and watched as the bomb bull driven by the golden thief gradually approached the range of the bow and arrow!
Chapter completed!