"Choose a brave warrior to fight to the death! Charge forward..."
The pot-throwing soldiers gathered around Yue Fei were infected by the fearless spirit displayed by their commander Yue Fei, and they also shouted their loudest.
Yue Fei was not someone who shouted slogans in vain. After shouting, he raised his long ax and took the lead in charging towards the battle group in front.
He is now a high-ranking official who is worshiped as a Jiedushi, holds the post of military commander, has been awarded the rank of minister, and is about to be awarded a knighthood... He is even qualified to serve as the prime minister of the dynasty! A senior official of this level takes the lead in charging!
In the original Song Dynasty, this kind of thing sounded almost like a myth. But on today's Lingzhou embankment battlefield, high-ranking officials such as Yue Fei were on the front line, including Dong Jingang and Wang Gui, while the one leading the cavalry on the west bank of the Lingzhou Sichuan on security missions was the Prince Consort Li Fuchen. The official Zhao Kai and the imperial concubine Liu Tiannu (Guo Tiannu) are now on the artillery position only 300 steps away from the tower just south of the embankment walled city. They direct the artillery bombardment and supervise the infantry and engineers pushing the carts. Go up and fill the trench with earth bags!
The officials supervise the battle on the battlefield, and the military commander and deputy commander lead the charge. What else can the generals, deputy generals, and generals below say? All of them obediently took the lead and rushed to the front line!
As for the team leaders, team deputy, platoon leader, chief and grass-roots soldiers below, they have to put their life and death at risk!
The west gate of the current Lingzhou Dyke Walled City facing the Yellow River Dam, the east gate facing the Seventh Level Canal, and the north gate facing the roaring Yellow River were all under heavy attack. The east gate and west gate were even blown open with explosive pots. Inside and outside the gate, above and below the city, the soldiers from both sides were fighting in a mass. Especially the door openings of the east and west gates are the key points that the two sides are fighting for!
As long as one of the two gates is captured by the Song army, the Lingzhou Diba Walled City will have to change hands... How long will it take? Not even a day!
Although the Song army was very ungrateful in martial arts and used demonic methods, those who were armed with strong weapons and braved the Xixia people's arrowheads, crossbows, stones, and rolling logs to charge up the city were, after all, humans and not demons!
If the Xixia army couldn't hold on for even a day, wouldn't it be too embarrassing? If this continues, won't Dabai Gaoguo be doomed?
Seeing this situation, two party nobles, Li Liangfu and Weiming Renzhong, also took the risk. Each brought two to three hundred elites and several Tibetan eminent monks down the tower and went to the east and west gates to block them. Among them, Li Liangfu was responsible for going to the west gate to block Yue Fei. He was smarter and found two crossbows to trick Yue Fei's men, so he regained some of the situation and pushed the Song army's soldiers out of the city gate.
But Li Liangfu wanted to push it out again so that his men could re-seal the city gate hole with horse-repelling guns and gate-blocking knives, but he couldn't do it anyway.
Because Yue Fei has already led the pot-throwing soldiers to kill him!
The pot-throwing soldiers were strong men, otherwise they wouldn't be able to throw the copper pot! And in order to prevent them from being shot with an arrow after lighting the fuse of the copper kettle, they were also equipped with a full set of infantry armor. Therefore, this group of pot-throwing soldiers can not only throw explosive pots, but they are also very powerful in hand-to-hand combat. And there is also Yue Feiyue, the invincible leader!
However, Li Liangfu also took the risk at this time, and rushed into the city gate with his dead soldiers. He only saw him with a shield in one hand and a hammer in the front. He also knocked over several warriors of the Song Army, while hitting people and returning fire. While reciting sutras - recite sutras to subdue demons! The Song people are already so powerful now. If a few more Song monsters come, he won't be able to withstand them... Oh, he won't be able to withstand them anymore! Because a Song warrior with cheeks and a huge ax had already approached him.
Such a big ax seemed weightless in the hands of the Song warriors, and they could swing it so fast! But the ax hit the shield held by Li Liangfu with great force... His arm was numb! What can we do if this continues?
Just when Li Liangfu thought he was about to die under the big axe, he suddenly heard a harsh metal knocking sound!
"Dangdangdang..."
This is Ming Jin’s retreat!
It can't be the Xixia army who is calling for gold, because they have no place to retreat...so it must be the Song army who is calling for gold. As expected, the Song warrior who was chopping smoothly put away his axe, laughed wildly from behind his mask, and then roared: "Retreat!"
Then he and dozens of other tall Song armored warriors took a few steps back, then turned around and retreated.
Won?
Li Liangfu couldn't believe what was happening in front of him... He was about to be hacked to death, but the opponent actually retreated. Could it be that the sutra he just recited moved the Buddha?
At this moment, he suddenly heard the people around him shouting in panic: "Pot! Pot! There is a pot..."
pot? What pot? Could it be those "pots" that cast evil spells?
Li Liangfu quickly took a closer look and saw a large copper pot placed sideways in the open space less than twenty steps away from him. The copper pot seemed to be placed on a wooden shelf that looked a bit like a box, and the wooden shelf was set on a pile of sandbags. There are also several chains that tightly bind the cauldron, and at the other end of the chains are several spears inserted into the ground...
What does it mean?
Li Liangfu became anxious and shouted for help: "There is a magic trick! Master, help me..."
Unfortunately it's too late!
The monks who followed him down the tower stood far behind, unable to save him in time... and it seemed that those monks couldn't fight against a twenty-five-pound gun loaded with shotgun and laid horizontally. Mortar?
This mortar is not a magic weapon, its power comes from chemistry and physics!
Seeing that Yue Fei and others had retreated, Huang Wubing, who was controlling the cannon, did not use the fuse to light the fire. Instead, he directly inserted the burning end of the match rope wrapped around a short gun into the cannon's fire door.
I only saw the cannon shaking violently. It first tried to jump upward, but was caught by the chain, and then fell back and was blocked by the sandbag. At the same time, smoke, fire, and thunderous roars came one after another. A large bag of gravel and a piece of cork were simultaneously pushed out of the barrel by the high-pressure gas released by the deflagrating gunpowder.
The linen cloth wrapped with gravel shattered as it was sprayed out of the barrel. The stones inside continued to fly forward under the action of inertia, and soon turned into a whirlwind of death, heading straight towards the door... ...The Xixia people inside the doorway had no place to hide, so they could only stand upright and wait to die!
With just one shot of shotgun, they were all beaten to a bloody pulp, making their deaths look ugly!
This is the power of the bayonet on the cannon!
"Choose the vanguard and charge!"
Yue Fei, who had just retreated from the doorway, saw the opportunity coming. Without hesitation, he raised his ax and pointed forward! The warriors who chose the vanguard flocked to that doorway like a tide!
At about the same time, Dong Jingang also climbed up the city wall near the east gate of the embankment city - it had just been swept by mortars with shotguns, and it was full of dead bodies and dying wounded!
This is war in the age of gunpowder... As long as the energy of gunpowder is used correctly, a door to the world empire can be opened!
As thousands of soldiers led by Yue Fei and Dong Jingang successfully broke into the Lingzhou Diba City Fortress, the most important stronghold outside Lingzhou City had actually been captured by the Song Army!
This means that Lingzhou will fall soon!
Because the dyke walled city not only controlled the floods that could submerge Lingzhou City, but it was also a civil fortress... By taking down the dyke walled city, Zhao Kai obtained a large amount of wood that could be used. Used to build long ladders to climb the city, and can also be used to make cannons!
The tip cannon can also be used to throw "explosive pots"!
Zhao Kai brought many "explosion pots" this time to blast the Xixia people. With ten "hot pot cannons" and so many "explosion pots", how could the Xixia people continue to fight?
Moreover, Brother Cha had already lost several thousand elite soldiers in the battle of Lingzhou Embankment Walled City. The remaining Lingzhou soldiers were also frightened. How could they still think about defending the city?
Most of the soldiers in Lingzhou are Han people... they are descendants of the soldiers from Shuofang Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty!
The Commander-in-Chief of the Western Xia Army and the King of Jin Wei Mingcha Ge stood on the west gate tower of Lingzhou City and stared dumbly at the walled city that was supposed to be unbreakable. It changed hands in just a few hours...looking at the warriors of Xixia He and the eminent monks from Tibet were completely defeated, and he was already in tears.
Because he already knows that times have changed!
This is no longer an era where war can be won simply by being brave and aggressive. Now is the era of...demon magic, no, it should be immortal magic!
If you want to win, you have to become an immortal!
The spells of the great monk of Xingqing Mansion are not as powerful as the spells of the fairy from Shenxiao Sect, so Dabai Gaoguo can only lose the battle.
If you want to win, you have to hire more powerful monks... Otherwise, it won't be a matter of losing Lingzhou, but a matter of losing the country!
Moreover, no matter how many troops his brother Qian Shun brings, it will be in vain - Qian Shun's general mobilization will not be completed in a day or two. By the time he brings his troops to Lingzhou, Zhao Kai will have already won it for a long time.
What can Ganshun do then? If you can't fight with martial arts, how can you survive with your own life? This is simply impossible...
Thinking of this, Wei Mingcha brother immediately said to Cao Mian, who knew the affairs of Xiping Mansion next to him: "Cao Dafu, you come to defend the city...Gujia, Gujia personally go to Zhangye Grand Buddha Temple for help!"
What? Go to Zhangye Buddhist Temple for help?
Cao Mian was stunned when he heard this. What did King Jin mean? Why go to the Great Buddha Temple to ask for help?
"Great, great king, the monk of Zhangye Great Buddha Temple..."
Before he could finish speaking, Brother Cha nodded and said, "Yes, the monks from the Zhangye Buddhist Temple don't work... I have to go deep into Tubo, where the monks are more powerful!"
"Your Majesty, as for Xiping Mansion..." Cao Mian doesn't want to stay in Xiping Mansion. He is Qian Shun's father-in-law! And although he is a Han, he is not from a large family in Lingzhou, but from a large Han family in Guazhou. His ancestor was a military envoy of Cao's Guiyi Army, and surrendered to Xixia when Yuan Hao conquered the Uighurs in Guazhou.
Brother Cha glared at Cao Mian and said in a deep voice: "Your Cao family has been so kind to me, Dabai Gaoguo, for more than a hundred years. It's time to repay the favor! Xiping Mansion is left to you, so you can take care of yourself!"
