After the heavy artillery ship fired a salvo, it slowly turned and turned the other side of the ship to face the city wall, and then came another salvo. These ten heavy artillery ships were equipped with a total of thirty heavy artillery pieces. Ten artillery pieces were fired at a time, and these two salvos fired a total of thirty solid rounds. Since these two rounds of firing were test firings and were not very accurate, most of them did not hit the city wall, and none of them hit the newly attached artillery. It's just that these cannonballs are extremely powerful, and everything in their flight path, whether they are people or objects, are smashed to pieces. When the city wall was hit, the wall cracked, and many people were injured by the flying rocks; when the wooden beams and pillars of the houses in the city were hit, they turned into splinters and powder; there was even an unlucky guy who was hit, and his body directly transformed. It was reduced to minced meat, and the shells were still powerful enough to destroy a house.
Ouyang Xuan has always believed that elite troops are more important than large numbers, so he has always followed the route of elite troops. Compared with before, each company of the naval brigade now has fewer gunboats and artillery, but its reliability and firepower have improved a lot. Take the heavy artillery equipped on heavy artillery ships as an example. The solid iron bullets fired by this artillery can weigh up to 10 kilograms and have great potential. They can easily break through any city gate under concentrated fire, even the armored iron gates like Yokoyuan Castle are no exception. . The cannon bore produced by the new manufacturing process can also withstand more charges. In addition, each round cannonball has been polished, which not only reduces the wear and tear of the rifling, but also makes the cannonballs more accurate and has a range of three miles. About half. This kind of artillery is obviously not something that the artillery at the head of Pengshan City can fight against. Compared with the original artillery casting technology of the Mongolian army, the artillery technology of the Perak Army has been iterated several times. In addition, it attaches great importance to quality and quality control. Even the artillery equipped by the second-line troops can crush the artillery of the Mongolian army.
The new auxiliary troops in Pengshan City were unwilling to be beaten and unable to fight back, so they increased the charge of their artillery, hoping to hit the warships in the river. Not only was the effort in vain, but two cannons were exploded due to excessive charges, and many gunners were killed. In desperation, they had to stop. After the Pili Army's test firing, the accuracy of the artillery became increasingly higher and higher. Le Quan'an, who directed the artillery bombardment, ordered concentrated fire and called out the artillery on the city wall one by one. After a few rounds, the Pili Army's heavy warship stopped firing due to overheating of the gun barrel. At this time, more than half of the artillery on the Pengshan City Wall had been destroyed. Seeing that a large number of city defense facilities and artillery were destroyed by fierce artillery fire in a short period of time, the new auxiliary troops who had lost their support knew that the city would be defeated before the arrival of reinforcements, so they began to think of surrender. Some who were unwilling to surrender were also preparing to flee to Meizhou. As for the Mongols sticking to their orders, screw that!
The Perak Army warship fired a round of cannon after cooling down slightly, and the white flag was raised on the city wall. During the shelling just now, the new annexed troops in the city shouted in unison: "We surrender," but it was only covered up by the deafening sound of artillery. They had heard that the Perak Army often required the surrendered party to raise a white flag, so they tried it out and took a white cloth as a flag and waved it on the city. Unexpectedly, the Perak Army actually stopped the bombardment. Just when the new vassal troops at the top of the city were preparing to surrender, the south gate of Pengshan City was quietly opened. This was the new vassal army that was unwilling to surrender and was preparing to go to Meizhou City. There were more than a hundred people in this group. These people are either determined to be traitors, or their hands are stained with the blood of innocent people and they know that there will be no good results if they surrender.
Before attacking Pengshan, the Perak Army learned that a plague might have occurred in the city. Just before the flood reached Pengshan, the special brigade sent scouts to lurk on the mountains beside the city. Through binoculars, they could clearly see the city several miles away. Currently, the Pili Army has been able to produce glass on a large scale, but it is very time-consuming to grind out qualified concave and convex mirrors. Therefore, not many telescopes are produced. In addition to being equipped by commanders above the battalion, they are only equipped in small quantities in reconnaissance battalions and special battalions. During the flood, the Perak Army scouts saw people constantly falling ill in the city and throwing their bodies into the river every day, so they made a special report on this abnormal situation. Medical expert Tang Shun and others judged based on the patient's symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, and believed that this plague was most likely a disease called "evil evil" in the "Huangdi Neijing", which was what Ouyang Xuan called cholera.
After the surrender of the newly affiliated army, the Perak Army did not enter the city. Instead, they asked the prisoners and the people in the city to organize themselves and go to a ravine twenty miles away for isolation. The escorting Pili Army soldiers stood far to both sides and behind them, wearing cotton masks that Ouyang Xuan had designed urgently on their faces. After learning that there might be a plague in Pengshan City, Ouyang Xuan summoned medical school personnel for urgent discussions. In addition to preparing Chinese medicinal materials according to Tang Shun's request, Ouyang Xuan drew a schematic diagram of a mask and asked people to sew it urgently. Ouyang Xuan's impression is that the disease is transmitted through the digestive tract, and the main cause of death is water loss. If the transmission channel is cut off and water is replenished correctly, it will not spread on a large scale, and the patient will recover quickly. Therefore, he also wrote a formula for oral rehydration salts to be used in conjunction with treatment. This oral rehydration salt is actually very simple, that is, 100 pounds of boiled water mixed with 5 pounds of sugar and 90 ounces of salt. This is actually normal saline.
A total of 2,200 people went to the ravine for quarantine, and they will not be able to leave until the quarantine period is over. During this period, the Perak Army will provide drinking water and doctors will provide free consultation. After the plague is over, the people will decide on their own to stay in the Pengshan countryside for farming or to settle in the plains of western Sichuan. Pengshan City definitely cannot go back. The strategic location of this place is extremely important. The Perak Army has decided to turn it into a fortress city similar to Yokoyuan Fort. It will be built after it is completely sterilized with quicklime. As for the labor force, it will be captured. The more than 1,700 new auxiliary troops. After they complete the construction of Pengshan Fortress, they will continue to perform hard labor in the mines according to the sentenced sentences.
Compared with the hard labor, the fate of those who escaped and the new vassals were miserable. At first, they fled directly to Meizhou, but after only escaping for a while, they discovered something was wrong - there were people following them leisurely on the mountains on both sides of the road, and there were cavalry following them from a distance. These people were soldiers of Dong Hu's special brigade. They warned these new auxiliary troops that there might be a plague, and they only needed to kill them with long-range firepower.
Seeing the pursuers, these new auxiliary troops turned around and headed towards the hillside where the Mongolian cavalry was hiding. However, before they got close to the cavalry camp, dozens of people were injured by flying arrows. The Mongols did not allow them to get close at all, for fear of attracting the plague. Seeing that the pursuers were getting closer and closer, the newly attached troops had no way to retreat. They had no choice but to cry out that Pengshan City had been lost and begged the Mongols to take them to Meizhou. Unexpectedly, these Mongolian cavalry were extremely angry when they learned that Pengshan City was lost. They fired another round of arrows at them to punish them for not resisting desperately, and then rode towards Meizhou.
These newly attached troops suffered two rounds of arrows from the Mongols, and only about 70 people were left. Seeing that the Perak Army was getting closer and closer, he had no choice but to walk in the mud towards Meizhou. The special brigade has three cavalry companies and can easily catch up and destroy them, but Dong Hu has no intention of doing so. On the one hand, he wanted to drive these people to Meizhou City, kill these traitors with the help of the Mongolian army, and let those lackeys see the consequences of surrendering to the Mongols. The other aspect is that he is unwilling to take risks. Although the five hundred Mongolian cavalry were far away, there was no guarantee that they would set up an ambush in the front. After all, the Mongolian army liked this tactic of false defeat the most. Although his special brigade has a thousand men, he is not sure how to deal with the 500 cavalry in the field. Only by marching steadily and slowly according to the method of infantry marching on the ridges on both sides and cavalry dragging behind on the middle mountain road, can we remain in an invincible position.
