The real artillery was guided by Liang Chuan and brought to this world by Ling Hu nearly a hundred years in advance.
This was probably the first time that artillery was used in warfare instead of fireworks.
The power of the artillery in the dark night was so brilliant, perhaps even the little Celestial Master, a monk, had never imagined it. .
Training was really different from real battlefield combat. The atmosphere was so solemn that even before the cannon was fired, his little hands were shaking a little.
He once killed a crocodile (falsely called an evil dragon) with a homemade grenade (falsely called a palm grenade to the outside world) in the south. Although that battle was extremely brutal, compared to using cannons to bombard people at night, the crocodile was His death seemed like playing house.
Longhushan told him that following the man in front of him could change his destiny. He never expected that this man was so playful that he even started playing war with him.
Just hit him, hit him!
The Shenji Battalion's position is nearly three miles away from the Shanxi Shang's village. This distance is beyond the range of the bed crossbow, but it is indeed within the artillery range of their Shenji Battalion!
The Shenji Battalion was in charge of firing artillery. In front was the Chengguan Brigade responsible for intercepting and killing the Shanxi merchant horse thieves who had escaped. At the back was the Tianxiong Army to break up the rear. If they couldn't make a difference at night, then the front army would become the rear army, and the Tianxiong Army would cover the Shenji Battalion. The battalion retreated.
The Liangchuan army armed with heavy artillery carried out a completely unilateral massacre. .
Zhou Shiguang, who was talking happily just a moment ago, was frightened when he saw the flames bursting out from the twenty-two artillery pieces. The sharp sound of piercing the air followed a brilliant arc and crashed into his camp. There were three thousand people in the camp. There were many people, more than 2,000 horse thieves, all gearing up at this moment, just waiting for the people outside the city to be exhausted before going out to take advantage.
They didn't expect that meteors would fall from the sky!
boom! The shell blasted a huge black crater in the valley, nearly ten feet in diameter. All the people and horses in the crater were smashed to pieces, and no bones were left!
Su Wei is not here, otherwise everyone with a little bit of culture should know this person, but everyone only thinks of a legend.
Wang Mang sent a million troops to fight against Liu Xiu in Kunyang, which was known as the Kunyang Battle in history. Poor Liu Xiu was surrounded by dumplings on three levels inside and three outside. Just when everyone was scared and wanted to surrender, Liu Xiu insisted that he would be able to break the siege if he held on for a while longer. Later, as he said, God helped him, and meteorites rained from the sky, and Wang Mang's 430,000-strong army was instantly wiped out.
This battle was even recorded in official history such as the Later Han Dynasty. The Battle of Kunyang also let the world know that Liu Xiu was the chosen son and his destiny. No scholar can give a reasonable explanation for such celestial phenomena. It has been passed down from generation to generation and has become more and more mythical.
Zhou Shiguang was also dumbfounded today. Is the person coming today not an alchemist or an expert, someone who knows the art of meteorites from outside the sky?
It’s endless fun to fight against humans, but to fight against heaven and seek death?
The ambition of the showdown in the camp of the Shanxi merchants was instantly destroyed. No one dared to fight against the sky. Every time the cannonball hit the ground, a gust of artillery wind was set off nearby, and the wind was wrapped with the blood of the dead and sprayed out. The faces of everyone nearby were covered in it, and then corpses, internal organs, and various parts flew down from the sky. They fell all over the ground. The originally well-organized camp became a Shura field in just a few rounds of artillery shells. Everyone didn't know where their opponent was, so they could only cry and run wildly, with nowhere to hide.
The tall stockade wall that was originally a natural barrier has now become a ghost gate for the Shanxi merchant camp, locking these people in tightly and leaving them with nowhere to escape. Artillery shells fell into the camp one after another, and each shot could take away dozens of lives.
It turned out that the chatter and laughter could be clearly heard along the direction of the wind, but now no one can laugh. Behind the wall of the village is the endless sound of moans and wailing, which can be heard for miles, making people's hair stand on end.
The people in the three armies only knew that this was Liang Chuan's trump card. They didn't know that this thing was so powerful. Could it be the secret technique of the Longhu Mountain Celestial Master. .
Everyone's courage is terrible. They would rather provoke the King of Hell than Liang Chuan.
The sound reached the direction of Yanzhou, which further strengthened Pang Ji's idea that he couldn't stand it. There was a vision in the sky, so he didn't dare to commit the wrath of the sky!
Almost each of the twenty-two cannons fired nearly twenty rounds of shells. After there was no particularly big movement in the camp, the Little Heavenly Master slowly asked Liang Chuan for instructions. Liang Chuan nodded. An order was given: "Adjust the cannon head, aim at the wall, and fire!"
The artillery shells hit the wall steadily. Even the wall with towering trees that were built over a hundred years ago could not withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the artillery shells. After a random explosion, a big hole was blown out of the wall. , there was no longer an organic man inside, everyone collapsed to the ground with numb expressions, and a fire broke out in the camp.
There's money in it, so you can't burn it. The battle ends very quickly, so you can't waste a whole night in vain!
"Come to me from the Cheng Guan team. I want the money inside, and I won't leave anyone alive. You know what? Tianxiong Army will guard the back for me. When the Cheng Guan team has finished moving the money, I will go back and share it with you!"
A simple sentence instantly boosted the enthusiasm of the three teams. The Chengguan Brigade is the king of the teams, and harvesting heads is their specialty. The Tianxiong Army is the one who gnaws hard bones. The children of Guanzhong have the strongest will. The three services cooperate. Unfortunately, the Shanxi merchants who had been running rampant in the northwest for decades did not fall at the hands of Song Taizu, but were blown to pieces by Liang Chuan with artillery!
They proved the power of the Shenji Battalion with their lives, and fighting seemed to have become easier. The Shenji Battalion came up with a random bombardment. No one had the strength to resist under the bombardment, and then the teams separated to harvest human lives. Tianxiong After the army's attack was over, this. . It is the simplest infantry and artillery cooperative operation.
This is just like the situation when the machine gun came out. Who the hell can ride a horse with a machine gun? The grassland people have also become good at singing and dancing.
"Remember that each underground kiln must be dug three feet down. The Shanxi merchants like to hide their silver in the underground kiln. Whoever digs it out will be rewarded with a thousand guan!"
Qianguan was like a dose of chicken blood to strengthen the heart, injected into everyone's heart, and the adult management team slaughtered them one by one until there was no one left alive in the entire camp, and they immediately started looking for money and food in the camp.
Sure enough, there was grain on the ground, and the underground kiln was where the money was hidden. The Shanxi merchants had a trick: they could lose the people and the land, but not the secret of hiding the silver. When their descendants grow up, they can rely on this secret passed down by word of mouth to make a comeback. .
Su Wei counted exactly how much grain was moved from the Shanxi merchant camp that night for three days but couldn't figure it out. He just smiled from ear to ear and reported a rough figure to Liang Chuan. If we don't increase the number of people in Dingchuan Village, This amount of money and food can last about three years.
Liang Chuan cursed angrily, how many lives of frontier soldiers and civilians were exchanged for money and food. .
The only fly in the ointment was that Pang Ji and his men chased him out after dawn, and happened to run into Di Qing who was wearing a mask. Pang Ji mistakenly thought it was Li Yuanhao's elite iron kite, so he returned to Yanzhou City in a hurry. Afterwards, Pang Ji had to report Shanxi merchant horse thieves. The regiment was wiped out and no one was left alive. In addition to the ghost crying that night and the loud sound of cannons, everyone only thought of one person - Di Qing, although they did not know Di Qing's identity. Identity, but Di Qing's mask quietly began to spread legends among the Song army.
Legend has it that Di Qing was an evil ghost who descended to earth, and some said it was a god who descended from heaven to destroy the group of Shanxi merchants who had been causing trouble to the northwest for many years. The rumors became more and more mysterious. .
Liang Chuan's belly was full of profit after destroying one Shanxi Merchant Gang. Everyone couldn't wait to turn their attention to the only two remaining grain gangs. Legend has it that they had more food and money than the Shanxi Merchant Gang. .
The only trouble is that the two gangs, the Hanshui Gang and the Sichuan Gang, are on the same side. If one side is in trouble, the other side will respond. This will further test the coordinated combat capabilities of the Dingchuan Army.
The Shenji Battalion's attack power is unparalleled in the world, but once people get close, even a peasant army armed with only a knife can kill them. They must have the cooperation of the Tianxiong Army to make up for the lack of defense.
This time is the real test.
Sure enough, when they met these two merchant gangs, they did not have the unique camp advantage of Shanxi merchants. Whenever there was a dispute, they would directly start a field battle. The two gangs attacked from both sides, which actually caused a lot of pressure on the Sichuan army.
At the critical moment, Di Qing led the Guanjing cavalry to contain the horse thieves of the Hanshui Gang and shared half of the pressure from the Tianxiong Army. They joined forces with the Chengguan Brigade and suppressed the Sichuan Gang's onslaught under the cover of artillery fire from the Shenji Battalion. , used artillery fire to disintegrate their momentum, and then harvested the heads.
Because the trade route was cut off, the two merchant gangs were unable to transport a large amount of grain to Tiandu Mountain smoothly and were unable to complete the transaction with the Dangxiang people. Not only the Dangxiang people wanted to cause trouble for them, but the people from Liangchuan on the grassland kept beating them in the autumn wind. The days were no longer as bright as before. After the battle, their old nest was taken away by Liang Chuan. They scraped the ground three feet and found a few supplies.
There is nothing to add to this battle.
However, Liang Chuan was quite satisfied with the method of training troops in battle. After these battles, there was no doubt about the power of the artillery, and the cooperation between the several teams became more and more coordinated. Li Yuanhao's cavalry relies on its super high mobility, coming and going like the wind. If they can't cooperate well and use foot against cavalry, a lot of blood will be shed!
Whether it is the direct adult members he brought from Fengshan or the old beggars from Guanzhong who were recruited from his hometown, he now has deep feelings for them. He cannot accept the death of any one of them. The soldiers he raised with his own hands, They are all treasures!
Today's artillery really can only be activated at the last moment. It would be better if it is towed by motor vehicles. If it is purely human-powered, there are still many problems that need to be improved. These problems cannot be solved in the military camp, and they can only be revealed on the battlefield. Come out, the teams you have at hand can only be tempered in the flames of war!
