In the third year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, on June 18th, it was Shenshi in the afternoon.
A cannon fort formed by filling sand and soil with straw bags and then stacking them up finally appeared on the grassland and river beach 250 steps away from the west wall of Wu Lahai City. If you look down from a high place, you can see that the fort is a rectangle surrounded by straw bags, more than 200 steps long and only more than 30 steps wide.
Among them, the side facing Wu Lahai City is the strongest. The straw bags are piled thickly. Near the Beihe section of the Yellow River, the barrier is about a hundred paces long and very high, eight feet high. If you look straight from the opposite side, you can't see the cannon at all - because this section of the fort is used to protect 32 25-pound hot pot cannons. These 32 hotpot cannons are the main force of this bombardment!
The bullet weight of 25 kilograms already makes this cannon extremely lethal to any castle! Even if it fails to hit the city wall and falls inside the city, whoever it hits will die!
A 25-pound iron ball or stone ball falls from the sky. How powerful is it? Not to mention that a person's head can't bear it, even the roof can't bear it. It still has to break a hole.
In addition, the artillerymen of the Song Army also set up a furnace in the fortress. They would heat 25-pound iron bullets, then put them on wooden boards, stuff them into the cannon bore, and finally blast them out! If you are hit by such a high-temperature iron bullet, you will not be smashed into meat paste, but you will be smashed into cooked meat paste!
It can be said that anywhere within the shooting range of these 32 hot pot cannons in Wu Lahai City, when the cannons start firing, there will be no way to stay... Why stay? You can be hit to death by iron balls and stone bullets falling from the sky anytime and anywhere. Those who can't be killed may also be buried in the sea of fire and become barbecued!
On the right side of this eight-foot-high barrier is a barrier more than a hundred paces long, three or four feet high, made of straw bags. 36 5-pound clay pot cannons were lined up behind this section of the fort. The muzzles of the 36 casserole cannons have been leveled, and they are all aimed at the gate wall of the west gate of Wu Lahai City. The gunners were all in place, and the 5-pound iron bullets had been stuffed into the barrel of the gun together with the medicine bag. The gunners all held long guns wrapped with match ropes, nervously waiting for the order to fire.
The infantrymen of the brigade, all wearing strong swords and carrying explosive pots, were lined up neatly behind the 36 5-pound clay pot cannons. They were all eager to try, just waiting for these 36 5-pound cannons to destroy Wu Lahai City. The city wall.
According to the plan, the 32 25-pound hotpot cannons will be mainly used to attack targets at the top of the city and inside the city, and to force the Jin soldiers away from the area close to the west wall of Wu Lahai City. The 36 5-pound clay pot cannons are used to "dismantle the city wall"... They will concentrate their firepower on a section of the city wall. As long as the demolition of the city is successful, the infantry belonging to the Shaanxi First Army will launch an attack and use explosive pots to open a breakthrough for the attack.
Then the cavalry of the Yulin Army will ride into the breach - the reason why the cavalry is used to conflict with the breach is not to launch a cavalry attack in the city, but to put the most troops into the breach in the shortest time... .
Yue Fei, Li Shifu, and Wu Jie all strode into a bunker located at the junction of two sections of artillery, one high and one low. The straight-line distance between this shelter and the west wall of Wu Lahai City is only about 200 steps. There is no obstruction in the middle. It is possible to see the situation above and below the city wall that is about to be bombarded without using a telescope.
The sky is still bright now, and there is plenty of time for the Song Army's 32 25-pound hotpot cannons to complete their sightings. As for the 36 5-pound casserole cannons, you don’t need to spend too much time on sighting... At a target more than 200 steps away, for artillery that can shoot directly, are you still worried about missing it?
Yue Fei raised his telescope and aimed it at the top of Wulahai City... There were quite a lot of debris on the top of the city! What a lot of cannons, forks and rafts, fighting boards, watchtowers, war tents, tower skins, and bamboo fences! There are also various flags, all of which are flammable!
It seems that the Jin soldiers in Wu Lahai City have not learned the lessons learned by the Western bandits in Shangyikou and Lingzhou Diba City, and are still using the old methods before the "hot pot era" to defend the city!
Yue Fei smiled and put down the telescope, and said to his left and right: "Send someone who can speak Jurchen or Khitan to tell the gold thieves in Wu Lahai City and give them a quarter of an hour to consider surrendering. If they refuse to surrender... .Then they are dead!
Also, ask the person to walk over and count the steps again...count carefully! "
"Got the order!"
Li Qiong, who joined the army, followed Yue Fei. After receiving the order, he immediately sent an officer from the Ever Victorious Army, holding a white flag and riding a horse to the gate of Wu Lahai City, and then opened his throat and started shouting.
"The gold thieves inside have listened. We, Lieutenant Yue, have asked you to surrender quickly... I will give you a quarter of an hour to think it over carefully. If you don't surrender after a quarter of an hour, we will start a bombardment of the city! Then you will These gold thieves are all going to be cooked in a pot!"
"Open the pot? What does this mean?"
Wu Qimai heard the Song Army officer's shouting. He was hiding behind the wall outside the west gate of Wu Lahaicheng City, and he stuck his head out to look out - he didn't know what he was looking at? There are now 36 5-pound casserole cannons pointing at his location. I wonder if he saw them?
Thanks to Yue Fei's benevolence and righteousness, he had to persuade first and then kill. Otherwise, if all 36 cannons fire together, the whole door wall might be destroyed...
"The meaning of opening the pot is..." Wu Qiu replied that it was his son Wanyan Zongpan who was buying, "It means to capture us and put them in a big pot to cook!"
"Cooked?" Wu Qimai took a breath, "Why are you so cruel?"
"Yes, Zhao Kai's people are so cruel!" Wanyan Zongpan gritted his teeth and said, "Their military song says: Ambition eats Huns' meat when hungry, laughs and talks about thirsting for Huns' blood...and eats human flesh. Those who drink blood are simply not human! Father, why don’t we go back to the palace first..."
"Hmph!" Wanyan Wu Qimai snorted, "This Yue Fei is nothing more than that. He hasn't even fought a battle yet, so he just asks us to surrender. This shows that he underestimates the enemy!
And he doesn't even know that I am still in Wu Lahai City, otherwise it would be impossible for someone to persuade me to surrender. This is because he does not know the enemy... He does not know the enemy and underestimates the enemy. This is a sure way to defeat! We will definitely win this battle! "
"Father, what you said makes sense!" Wanyan Zongpan said the compliments while sticking his head out to look around. He found that the Song Army officer was walking slowly and with extremely neat steps, as if he was being inspected... something strange. !
Thinking of this, Zong Pan said again: "Father, there is still time, you should go back to the palace to rest first... After dark, we will have to attack at night!"
Wanyan Wu Qibian waved his hand and said, "Let me take a look at it for a while...the Song Dynasty's forts and forts were built strangely. Why are one side high and the other low?"
"Then let's just hit it from the lower side and that's it!" Wanyan Zongpan said, "Dad, let me take the lead tonight!"
Wanyan Wu Qimai glanced at his son, and then looked at the Song artillery for a while, "Let the Hebule people fight in the first battle, and you fight in the second... Be careful! Remember , grab a big tube and come back.
As long as we grab the big tube, we can still win even if we can't defend Wu Lahai City. "
In fact, Zhao Kai just bought a casserole cannon for Wu Qi, and the Jin Dynasty couldn't use it!
Because there is currently no good propellant (gunpowder) in the Jin Dynasty, the gunpowder used to launch projectiles must be more reliable and the quality must be more stable. It cannot be powerful one moment and weak the next.
"Okay!" Wanyan Zongpan responded, and then said, "Father, let's go back."
Wanyan Wu Qimai nodded, "Okay, let's go back together."
After saying this, Wu Qimai turned around and strode toward the city gate, surrounded by his son and his guards.
As soon as he walked into the city gate, his feet suddenly trembled, and then there was a loud noise behind Wu Qimai!
"boom......"
The earth is really shaking!
Wu Qimai was so frightened that his calves trembled, and he almost fell down. Fortunately, someone helped him, and he was able to maintain his imperial dignity.
But the huge roar was not just one, but came endlessly!
"Boom! Boom! Boom..."
The huge roar was also mixed with Wanyan Zongpan's yelling and cursing: "His N, the one named Yue is a despicable villain...it's not even a quarter of an hour yet! Why is he giving out the tube?"
Yes, it’s not even a quarter of an hour yet! How can you Song people fire cannons? This is a breach of trust! Who will dare to believe you in the future?
As soon as Wanyan Zongpan finished cursing, there was an even louder exclamation.
"It's collapsing, it's collapsing...the wall is collapsing!"
Is the wall about to collapse?
This city wall looks very thick, two feet thick. Why is it about to collapse? What quality is this?
Now Wanyan Wu was so frightened when he was begging for money... He was in the city gate cave! If this thing collapses, won't it mean that it will be buried alive? Isn't this death too inexplicable?
"Hurry up, run away to protect the emperor! I will cut off the queen!" Wanyan Zongpan was a filial son after all. He shouted to the guards around him to protect Wu Qimai and escape into the city. He wanted to cut off the queen himself! I don’t know if you want to ask Dad to block a 5-pound solid bullet?
After arranging for his biological father to run away, Wanyan Zongpan pulled out his scimitar, turned around and shouted: "Hold it all...kill those who retreat!"
"Rumble..."
Another loud noise!
The wall collapsed!
It's not that the city wall collapsed, but the gate wall blocking the city gate collapsed!
This wall is not very thick at all. It is just used to block the enemy's sight. How can it withstand the hammer blow of a 5-pound solid bullet? After only being hammered a few times, it collapsed, burying all the Jurchens hiding behind the wall. Although Wanyan Zongpan was not buried, the collapse of the city wall produced countless dust, making the city gate hole full of dust. It was impossible to see anything, and it was even difficult to breathe... Everything inhaled was dust!
Now Wanyan Zongpan couldn't stay still anymore, so he had to cover his mouth and cough while running towards the city gate. It was a little better when he got inside the city and he could breathe again, but before he could take a breath, he heard A denser roar sounded, and the ground beneath my feet shook even more.
The Song Dynasty's 25 kilograms of arson bombs have fallen from the sky!
