Chapter 294 Artillery attack!
Brother Richard's face turned pale. He watched the envoy he sent out beheaded in front of the Song army and sacrificed flags to the enemy.
When the two armies fight, the envoy comes without killing them!
This is the most basic war rules. The Song State is the orthodox Chinese. Didn’t this set of rules be invented by you Chinese!
Now you will cut off my messenger without asking. You are not afraid of laughter from all over the world!
The sound of war drums sounded and fluctuated outside the city.
When Brother Richard was depressed, he saw the Song army below suddenly parted and pushed out the black iron tube mounted on the wheel from behind. He didn't know what the thing was for, and it looked very strange.
The soldiers of the artillery battalion pushed all thirty artillery directly in an orderly manner and arranged them neatly.
These thirty artillery were all artillery in the Song Dynasty, and they were the first batch of artillery that was urgently manufactured.
Zhao Huan dragged all the artillery out without any hesitation.
Thirty artillery that were useful, which were all aimed at the main gate of Qingzhou City.
If he can blow it away directly, Zhao Huan will never use the second method. As he said, he will never give them any chance to survive.
Brother Richard still felt strange in his heart. What was the Song army going to do if it didn’t launch siege cars or ladders?
Could this thing still be able to conquer the city?
Just as Brother Richard looked confused, the Song army's artillery battalion pulled out his sword, raised it, and shouted, and all the soldiers began to install iron bullets!
They loaded the iron bullet into the cannon barrel, and then began to ignite the leads together as the sword in the officer's hand fell.
Bang bang bang bang...
Thirty artillery aimed at the center of the city tower and fired together!
The vibration sound made Brother Richard on the city tower completely confused.
Boom boom boom boom...
Thirty iron bombs hit the city tower, and an explosion occurred, immediately knocking the city gate to cracks.
The city tower was shaken several times. Brother Richard almost fell to the ground and was supported by his generals. They quickly reacted and waited for people to go down the city tower and began to organize the army!
With the arrival of the Song army, the spies had already reported the situation to him, and he was also prepared to fight a protracted war with the Song army. Anyway, he was sure that the Song army would not be able to attack Qingzhou so quickly.
But the war was completely beyond his expectations, and his heart was trembling and a bad premonition emerged.
Brother Richard shouted, "Hurry! Go and mobilize all military forces and fight in full!"
Boom boom boom boom...
There was another sound of artillery bombardment, and thirty shells bombarded out at the same time, smashing on the city gate, and an explosion occurred, blowing the city gate upside down.
The archers on the city tower shot arrows and tried to shoot the hateful Song army gunners below to death, but when the bows and arrows were shot below, they fell down weakly, and the range could not reach the position of the artillery.
Even the stone cannons on the city tower cannot reach the location of the cannon.
Brother Richard's face turned pale. He rode his horse and ran wildly into the city, roaring wildly.
The Xia army gathered in the city urgently.
Brother Richard immediately ran to the military camp where Iron Harrier was stationed in the city. Everyone began to organize their armor, put on their helmets, put on armor for the war horses, picked up spears, battle axes, swords, and hammers, and quickly lined up.
Boom boom boom boom...
The sound could be heard clearly in the city, which made people's hearts break.
During the fifth round, the city gate was completely bombarded, and even the city wall was bombarded so that somewhere collapsed.
Immediately, the artillery began to turn around and fired onto the city tower.
A total of five times, one hundred and fifty iron bombs were fired, and the city wall exploded, collapsing the city wall wall and killing the Xia army on the city wall.
All the shells were bombed, and the guards on the city tower were already very weak. The ladder that had already begun to advance was built on the city tower. The Song army began to climb the city tower through the ladder.
The war drums are getting louder and louder.
In the city, a large number of Xia troops rushed to the top of the city and began to climb the city tower.
The defense of the city tower was quickly replenished, but the Song army had already climbed to the top of the city.
The city wall immediately entered the fierce battle stage, and the two sides started hand-to-hand combat at close range.
A cavalry rushed from all directions to the south gate of the city, east, west and north gates, and heavy troops had been sent to guard it.
There are 130,000 Xia troops in Qingzhou, and their strength is not weak.
The city gate was open, and the Song army was not in a hurry to attack the city.
The artillery battalion began to withdraw the artillery in an orderly manner, and three hundred musketeers appeared in the front row.
Behind them are archers, and behind them are the most elite infantry armor in the Song Dynasty, and on the left and right are cavalry.
Such a formation is a typical example of waiting for the Xia army to rush out, the muskets will start first, the archers will fire, and then use heavy infantry to resist head-on, charge left and right with cavalry, and take down the city tower with suicide squads, occupying the commanding heights.
All the elite troops of the Xia army gathered at the South City Gate and stopped inside.
Brother Richard did not dare to attack rashly, and the best way was to defend the city gate with heavy troops.
The Song army's vanguard battalion did not rush into the city gate, because the city gate was relatively too narrow and it was impossible to allow large-scale troops to attack at the same time at one time.
If you rush in, you will go in and be killed. This is a typical operation of giving away a head.
The two armies had a tacit understanding and confronted each other.
The real battlefield has been moved to the city wall, where bloody and cruel battles have begun.
Once the city was captured, the Song army looked down at the Xia army in the city from a high place, and could respond to the Song army attacking through the city gate and launch an offensive against the Xia army.
Therefore, the Song army sieges the city in two directions, with the city gate and the city head!
At the same time, we also made a defense for the enemy to suddenly attack.
More and more Song troops rushed towards the ladder, climbed up the city, and continued.
More and more Xia soldiers climbed up to the top of the city from the city. As soon as they climbed the city tower, they immediately carried the battle axe and chopped towards the Song army.
The fierce war on the city wall lasted for an entire hour, and the corpses on the city wall were already piled up, and people were almost unable to stand.
The Song army continued to increase, and finally began to suppress the Xia army on the city wall.
Bu Renjia suddenly reached the front of the formation. Everyone held a large shield and began to advance towards the city gate, guarding the city gate tightly.
Next, a large number of archers and crossbow archers began to climb the city tower with ladders to seize the high point.
After the Song army occupied the city tower in the south, they began to prepare for defense and blocked the intersection of the city tower from the city. They came up and killed one by one, and began to quickly clear the bodies on the city tower.
Make room for the musketeers who are about to board the back.
The Song army below was approaching the city gate. When the musketeers were climbing the city tower, all the soldiers were waiting for the city gate. They would never allow any mistakes when the musketeers climbed the city tower.
After the musketeers also climbed the city tower, the squad formation of the Infantry Armor was pushed forward. The soldiers behind them were holding crossbows and arrows, ready to cooperate with the Song army on the city tower and attack the Xia army in the city at any time.
This is the first time Brother Richard has encountered such a war.
Even a veteran like him who has been through the battlefield, he is still a little confused now.
Why was the gate of Qingzhou City broken so quickly?
The defense at the city wall was quickly suppressed!
They are all those black iron guys!
Song Jun actually came up with such a powerful thing!
Brother Richard still beats the drums in his heart.
He had already felt the anger and strong will of the Emperor of Song!
Chapter completed!