Chapter 40 The rain keeps falling
Lin Jun left more than 40,000 bodies and retreated. Sima Yiqing finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. The Lin Jun cavalry's lifeless charge made Sima Yiqing secretly surprised. These cavalry were brave and were not afraid of death. Sometimes they were really afraid that they would not be able to resist their charge.
"Victory!" Sima Yiqing gently revealed three words, and the pressure in his heart disappeared immediately. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. This victory finally took a revenge and found some face for himself.
Qian Xiaoxing and everyone came forward to congratulate him. Qian Xiaoxing said: "If my father-in-law had not dug the trench long ago, I'm afraid our army would suffer a lot this time. Congratulations to my father-in-law for a big victory."
Sima Yiqing said happily: "I didn't expect that King Lin would take the initiative. Could it be that he was afraid of a virtuous son-in-law and wanted to take action first?"
"Did Lin Wang Xiaosheng go up to the sky for the second time? This time he lost a lot. By the way, father-in-law, you know astronomy and geography. Look at the weather. Will it rain tomorrow?" Qian Xiaoxing asked.
The sun had already hid behind the white clouds, and the white clouds gradually became dark. The sky had turned cloudy, and cold winds blew by from time to time. Sima Yiqing looked up at the sky and said confidently: "There is rain, and it is a heavy rain."
"After waiting for so many days, I finally waited for it. My father-in-law will see me tomorrow. This time, I must make King Lin bleed heavily." Qian Xiaoxing said confidently.
The Shenwei cannons are fired by gunpowder, so gunpowder is naturally the most afraid of water, so Qian Xiaoxing’s plan is to launch an attack on Qidu City when it rains. If Lin Jun did not shelter the cannons from the rain, those cannons would only become a pile of scrap iron.
Of course, Qian Xiaoxing himself was prepared and set up many sheds on the Shenwei cannon to prevent the cannon from being wet by the rain.
Early the next morning, the weather was indeed as Sima Yiqing expected, and it started to rain heavily. The sky was rolling dark clouds and the wind was getting stronger and stronger. Depending on the situation, the rain was still growing.
Qian Xiaoxing didn't know how long the rain would last, so the opportunity was not to be missed. He immediately pushed five hundred divine cannons with sheds and led his troops to Shandu City.
Sima Yiqing saw Qian Xiaoxing going in a hurry and said, "Son-in-law, you used the rain to restrain Lin's cannons and make good use of the weather, but don't forget that Lin's army still has 40,000 cavalry. If they attacked, they would be afraid that the cannons would not be able to resist at such a close distance."
Qian Xiaoxing was stunned after hearing this, and only went to attack Qidu on rainy days. He really didn't think about how the Lin army cavalry responded. Qian Xiaoxing replied: "My father-in-law reminded that the 40,000 Lin army cavalry is really difficult. How should we deal with it according to my father-in-law's opinion?"
"As long as we make arrangements in advance, the Lin army cavalry is not a problem. In this way, if you attack Qidu, I will intercept the Lin army cavalry!" Sima Yiqing said confidently.
At present, the 40,000 cavalry of Lin's army did not enter Qidu City to station, but was stationed in the wild five miles west of Qidu City. The purpose of Lin's army was to enable cavalry to attack at any time without being trapped in Qidu City.
Then Sima Yiqing explained the plan in detail on the map, and he would lead 50,000 Si troops to intercept these cavalry, and Qian Xiaoxing and Lu Shengzhong led the remaining 100,000 troops to attack Qi Du.
The heavy rain made the road muddy, but fortunately the Sijun camp was not far from Qi, and the troops marched urgently for an hour and a half later, and rushed outside Qi's capital.
From a distance, Qidu City was shrouded in water vapor. Seeing that the smoke and rain were misty, Si Jun pushed up five hundred cannons and immediately ignited the fuse to attack the city wall south of Qidu.
The sound of cannons in the rain made people feel particularly shocking. The shells hit the city wall and exploded large holes. On the city wall, Lin Jun had already finished defending, and King Lin also came to watch the battle himself, but he was afraid of the power of the cannons, so he just hid under the city wall and did not dare to climb the city wall.
Seeing that Si Jun had fired a cannon, King Lin shouted: "Why not fire the cannon? Use the cannon to kill Si Jun!"
The confidant next to him didn't know how to answer after hearing this. He immediately ran to the city wall and looked at it and said, "Master, things are not going well. The cannon was poured by the rain and it can no longer be fired!"
"What!" King Lin said angrily: "Then why can Si Jun start!"
The confidant replied: "There is a shed on the cannon of Si Jun, which blocks the rain."
"Ah..." Wang Lin sat in his seat and murmured: "It must be Qian Xiaoxing. We have been hit by Qian Xiaoxing's trick again. I told you why he attacked the city when it rained. This was the purpose. We didn't have cannons, so what should we do?"
Seeing that King Lin was at a loss, my confidant had to remind him: "Emperor, if you are bombarded by the Si army like this, the city walls on the south side of Qidu will be collapsed. I don't think we should take the initiative for the sake of the present plan."
King Lin had no cannons, and seemed to have less support in his heart. He almost had no hope for this battle. He shook his head and said helplessly: "That's all, you can do it, you can arrange it..."
Seeing that King Lin had no fighting spirit, his confidant naturally understood King Lin's mood, but he could not sit still and wait for death, so he had to issue two orders, one was to order 40,000 cavalry outside the city to attack the artillery group of the army to destroy these artillery soldiers, and the other was to send 100,000 infantry from the South Gate to cooperate with the cavalry to launch an attack.
Explosions were heard everywhere on the city wall, and many Lin soldiers were killed and injured by the bomb. The remaining Lin soldiers looked at the shell leads in the cannon that they could not light up, so they hurriedly retreated the shells and poured out the wet gunpowder. Under the attack of artillery fire, they hurriedly wiped the cannon dry. Some soldiers also found umbrellas to carry shells that had not been in the rain.
With the efforts of Lin Jun, several cannons finally fired fire. Qian Xiaoxing immediately commanded the artillery to bombard those places. Before Lin Jun's cannons could fire a second time, they were blown up.
"It can still be fired!" Qian Xiaoxing couldn't help but make the artillery start shooting, and blasted the shells into the city wall. The shells all over the sky fell from the sky and bloomed on the city wall like flowers. Lin Jun's blood became the color of the flowers.
Lin Jun just knew how to fire the cannons again, but was blown up by the Si Jun. The cannons fell and the soldiers were wailing in pain. Occasionally, when shells were fired, they would be counterattacked by a large number of shells in the Lin Jun. Therefore, the fire of the Lin Jun will only cause dense shells, and the soldiers who fired the cannons will be killed.
At this time, Qian Xiaoxing saw the south gate of Qidu slowly opening, and knew in his heart that Lin Jun could not help but go out of the city to attack. Qian Xiaoxing had already arrived with this move, so he made arrangements. He saw that there were sixty cannons at the city gate that had been prepared long ago, and he was waiting for Qian Xiaoxing to give the order.
The Si Jun cannons are only three hundred meters away from Qidu City, so once the Lin army can break through these three hundred meters, the Si Jun cannons will lose their function. Of course, Qian Xiaoxing would not let such a thing happen. Seeing that Lin army had already run out of Qidu South Gate, he immediately ordered: "The cannons in front of the door!"
The sixty cannons in front of Qidu City were not bombarded together, but were divided into three teams, one team of twenty gates took turns to bombard the city gate, and the huge explosion caused a wave of air, exploded a large pit, and also knocked Lin Jun who had just run out to the ground.
Lin Jun swarmed out, and the sound of cannons continued. One group of people came to blow up and killed one group. After a while, the city gate had already flowed into a river, and Lin Jun's corpse was blown to pieces and none of them were complete.
In Qidu City, when Lin's infantry saw that the way out of the South Gate was firmly suppressed by the Si Jun, they had to turn around and go out to the east and west gates of Qidu, hoping to detour out of the city.
Because the Si army started shooting, the shells were not eye-catching. King Lin, who was afraid of death, had already left the city wall. His subordinates came to report the latest battle reports from time to time. Every time they reported, the battle situation was a little worse. King Lin was so angry that he slapped the table and smashed things. When he heard that the cannons on the city wall could no longer fire, and the troops in the South Gate could not go out, King Lin was even more angry. Although the inner team of the city had already gone to the east and west gates, Qi Du City was so big that when these infantrymen walked around, they were afraid that the South Gate would have been lost.
King Lin’s only hope at present is on the 40,000 cavalry outside the city. Fortunately, he is wise and did not let the 40,000 cavalry be stationed in the city, otherwise even these troops would not be able to leave the city.
Chapter completed!