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What exactly are the weapons used by the Liao army?

Except for Mao Jun, the coaches here who heard about it, no one else knew about it. Mao Jun also came from hearing, and he did not dare to open his mouth and talk nonsense.

Li Hu didn't dare to say that, worried about disrupting the morale of the army. His impression of artillery came from his father's description. In his father's words, it was a magic weapon, a enemy of thousands of people, and the most powerful weapon. He suddenly thought of the box left by his father. His father said that the box was enemies of thousands of people, was it a cannon? No, his father once drew a cannon for himself on the beach. The cannon barrel was very large, how could such a small box be able to hold it?

He was thinking about the iron box, and Chai Yun spoke, "That kind of weapon is called a firearm, and the army that uses this kind of firearm is called the gunner army. There is only such a gunner army in the entire Daliao army."

Firearm? Not artillery? Li Hu looked at Chai Yun in confusion.

A group of coaches looked at Chai Yun together and waited anxiously for him to continue talking.

"Firearm?" Dong Xiaohou suddenly remembered that he had heard of this when he was working in the Huanglong Mansion Guards' Personal Army, but he knew nothing about the Gunners' Army. "You know very well about the Firearms? What's going on with the Gunners?"

"I also knew by chance that there was a gunner army using firearms in the Great Liao Dynasty." Chai Yun said, "After the Prime Minister of the Southern Prefecture, Zhang Lin, was demoted to the Liaoxing Army as the governor. Because of my father, I went to Zhang Lin as a military judge. Once, with Zhang Lin inspecting the ordnance workshop, he suddenly talked about the gunner army." Weapon manufacturing is difficult and requires skilled craftsmen. Special materials and professional workshops, and the army using firearms also needs special training. The Liao people knew that the Song people had firearms for a long time, and they tried every means to steal them, but in the end, they had to give up because of the lack of craftsmen.

The people of Xixia and the people of Song continued to fight, so it formed an alliance with the Liao people to serve as a support. In order to win the trust of the Liao people and get assistance from the Liao people, Xixia sent part of the firearms seized from the battlefield to the Liao people. The firearms of the Song Dynasty were mainly rockets and fireballs, and the two were subdivided into many types. With these physical firearms, the Liao people made great breakthroughs in the manufacturing of firearms, but many years later, the Liao people gave up because it was not only difficult to manufacture, but also had very limited practical results. This was also the main reason why the Song people used firearms to defend the city.

The Song people defended the city. Heavy weapons were stone throwing cars and crossbows, which were also subdivided into many types. Firearms were only auxiliary weapons. From this, it can be inferred that the actual combat effectiveness of the firearms was indeed very poor, otherwise the Song people would not have listed them as auxiliary weapons.

Since firearms were difficult to manufacture, preserve and use, their cost and practical effect were far less than crossbows, and of course they could not replace crossbows. Therefore, the Liao people immediately gave up and only retained a workshop and a gunner army.

After the outbreak of the Liao-Jin War, the firearm was brought up again. The emperor accepted the advice of the ministers and handed over the development of the firearm to the Marshal's Mansion of Nanjing.

"According to Zhang Lin, Yelu Chun attaches great importance to firearms, invests a lot of money, and uses all kinds of means to steal several craftsmen from the Song Dynasty and creates fire bows, crossbows, fire caltrops and thunderbolts." Chai Yun said, "The explosions on the battlefield tonight must be from these firearms."

Brother Huo Liu was still scared when he thought of the violent explosion on the battlefield. "Tonight I opened my eyes. Firearms can not only defend the city, but also be used in field battles. It seems that Yelu Chun can be invincible with these firearms."

After saying this, the coaches were all terrified. If Yelu Chun had these firearms everywhere, how could there be an opponent in Liaodong?

"This is absolutely impossible." Chai Yun found everyone's confidence in one sentence.

"These firearms are very difficult and dangerous to manufacture because of the severe lack of craftsmen. I heard from Zhang Lin that there are frequent explosions in the firearm workshop in Nanjing, and it is common for death to die. If firearms can be manufactured in large quantities like crossbows and equipped with large amounts of troops, will the Song army be defeated by the Xixia people repeatedly? Will the Liao army be beaten by the Jurchens so hard that they can't raise their heads?"

This makes sense, but the problem is that the Liao army used a large number of firearms last night and won this battle. Who dares to say that the Liao gunners' army will not appear next time the war is in the war? The Liao army may not have firearms now, but there should be inventory in the Liao army's arsenal, right? Can't the firearm workshop work overtime to make firearms?

Thinking too much about these things is useless and will not help solve the immediate problems. The most urgent task is to go south.

Now no one knows whether Dong Zhongsun has captured Yizhou, and he is even more worried about heavy snowfall in the sky, so Li Hu discussed with several commanders and made preparations. He deployed a blocking formation on the front line of Changyili. If the Liao army continues to attack the city, the troops will be divided into two groups, one will cover the people and the baggage, and the other will go south to fight day and night.

In the morning, the scouts reported that the Liao army did not attack the city, but retreated and evacuated to the front line of Chuanzhou and Xingzhong Prefecture.

Li Hu and a group of generals were unbelievable. This was the most unlikely place to happen, but it happened.

In the battle of Chengzhou, the Liao army was already sure to win. The Jin army was seriously damaged, and Wanyan Zongwang had no reinforcements. If the Liao army continued to attack the city, his only choice was to retreat to the Targasus Mountain. He would never ruin his army in a city that was not of great significance to him. As for the rebel army, it was at the end of his strength and had no power to fight again. At this moment, the resentful army had lost its combat effectiveness, and the Tiger and Lieutenant Army and other armies were exhausted, and they could no longer support their morale or physical strength. If the Liao army fought, it would be very likely to collapse.

When the Liao army was sure to win, it chose to give up and evacuate. This was incredible.

In addition to being shocked, the generals of the rebel army were also excited and joyful to escape defeat. This news quickly spread throughout the army, and the soldiers cheered and people shouted "Tiger King" to celebrate the victory. In their opinion, the retreat of the Liao army was equivalent to defeat. If the Liao army was defeated, the rebel army would of course be the winner. The Tiger King was invincible and the blocker was invincible.

Li Hu no longer asked to cut off the rear. He wanted to personally select the front line, lead the front army to conquer the city and kill Jinzhou directly.

"After the Liao army retreated to Chuanzhou and Xingzhong Prefecture, we must advance east along the Daling River, attack Qianzhou and Chuanzhou, and surround us in the Daling River line." Li Hu stood in front of the map, pointing to Jinzhou on the map. "If the army was blocked by Yizhou, we would definitely be defeated, blocked by Haibeizhou and Quyizhou, and we would also be defeated, so we must attack Jinzhou as quickly as possible, and then use Qianzhou and Yizhou to block Liao army, use Haibeizhou and Quyizhou to resettle the people, spend the winter, and Chen's army was in Jinzhou. He tried every means to conquer Jinzhou and arrived in Heishan smoothly."

Li Hu looked at the generals in the tent and immediately ordered.

Luo Qinghan, deputy commander of the rebel army, was the commander of the rear army. He led the commander's office, the second and third armies of the resentful army and the tiger lieutenant army, to cover the evacuation of the people and the baggage.

He led the First Army, Fourth Army, and Five-Road Alliance to travel with horses, traveling day and night, and heading south to fight.

The moment the order is issued, the time when the army sets out.

Li Hu invited the secretary-in-chief Ma Liang to write to Wanyan Zongwang. Now he heard that Yelu Dashi, the governor of the Liaoxing Army, had reached Jinzhou and stationed 50,000 troops. Our army would definitely be blocked from going south to Heishan. If the Jin army could attack Jinzhou from Xianzhou, it would be restrained. It would be beneficial for our army to break through. If the governor was willing to send troops to help and join forces to attack Liao again, he would be able to report the victory again like the Chengzhou War.

The 13th day of breaking through.

At the beginning of Si time.

Li Hu, the chief commander of the rebel army, led eleven generals of the six armies and the Iron Guard camp, with about 26,000 troops, all with two horses, and rushed south quickly.

Breakthrough on the fifteenth day.

In the morning, Chen Shi was right, and the rebel army's selection army arrived at Daling River.

Dong Zhongsun, the head coach of the Black Mountain Army, and Chu Xiaoyao, the fifth general of the Tiger Lieutenant Army, led the generals to the north bank of the Daling River to welcome Li Hu.

On the day when the Chengzhou War broke out, Dong Zhongsun and Hu Jiayong led Qianyiying to Yizhou City. Qianyiying soldiers were recruited in Yizhou. Although most of them fled from the Northeast Road, some of them were local Han people in Yizhou and stationed in Yizhou for a period of time. Therefore, Hu Jiayong was very arrogant and took Qianyiying to the city, and he was going to enter the city in a grand manner.

The governor of Yizhou doesn't understand and doesn't know what's going on, but since the former commander of Yiying has arrived, he must meet him and ask.

Hu Jiayong brought thirty entourages into the city. When he arrived at the governor's mansion, he rushed in like a wolf or a tiger. The governor's mansion was an official office, with only a dozen guards inside, so he dared not resist, and they all surrendered. Hu Jiayong grabbed the governor and asked him where the Chongyi army was? The Chongyi army was all in the Tarras Mountain, and there were only 500 local troops in the city, and there was an empty city.

The governor was very angry and asked Hu Jiayong, "You want to rebel?"

"Of course, why would I run to you if I don't rebel? Visit me?" Hu Jiayong laughed, put the knife around the governor's neck, and asked him to order the city gate to open.

The city gate was opened, and the troops in front of Yiying were not bloody and captured Yizhou City.

Dong Zhongsun urgently sued Zuo Chuanrong from Qianzhou Qianxian Camp, and Yizhou captured it. The old camp of the resentful army and Xingzhong Camp immediately evacuated, while Zuo Chuanrong led his army to defend it in Qianzhou.

Because of concerns about the leak of the news, Dong Zhongsun asked Hu Jiayong to take the 500 horse army to the governor and rushed to Shuangshan Village. Shuangshan only stationed troops in the past two years. There was a city in the village, and the local army was used to eat and drink, but it was useless. In the blink of an eye, Hu Jiayong was captured and wiped out the entire army.

After crossing Shuangshan, it was Haibei Prefecture. Dong Zhongsun had no strength to attack, so he could only force the Yizhou governor to report to Haibei Prefecture, saying that the front-line war was tense, and blocked Shuangshan in the name of King Xi, thus cutting off the ties between Yizhou and Haibei Prefecture.

Just one day later, Chu Xiaoyao and Hu Lie's selection army arrived.

Hearing that the Tiger King had led his army to break through the Targas and Chengzhou and was heading south, Dong Zhongsun was extremely happy and immediately prepared to attack Haibei Prefecture. However, Chu Xiaoyao's next words immediately confused Dong Zhongsun and his enthusiasm disappeared.

"There are 50,000 troops in Jinzhou."
Chapter completed!