The Mongolian army's artillery group outside the city has entered the range of the returning artillery.
Li Chunzhu immediately asked, "Your Majesty, can the artillery group fire, with stone bullets or sky-shaking thunder?"
Zhao Tai kept his beard and said, "Use stone bullets first! Don't scare Kublai Khan."
Sky-shaking thunder is a precious thing, and each one is expensive to make. Using it too early can easily shake Kublai Khan's heart.
If Kublai Khan saw that Pizhou was not easy to fight, and turned to attack other states and counties to sweep away the Zhongyi Army's garrison, it would inevitably cause huge losses to the Zhongyi Army.
At this time, Zhang Rou commanded the Han army to push the assembled artillery carriage forward so that it could enter the firing range, and then directly launched a bombardment.
Because after Mongolia entered the Central Plains, in many siege battles, they encountered situations where the defenders placed artillery carts behind the city walls to carry out counterattacks.
If the Mongolian army assembles within the firing range, it will first be counterattacked by the artillery group in the city, resulting in a situation of heavy losses before the battle begins.
"Your Majesty, we are almost within range of the city's artillery batteries!" Yang You said in a deep voice.
Kublai Khan was very relaxed, "I have so many artillery carriages. Even if some are destroyed by the artillery group in the city, the rest will be enough to destroy the city wall. When the army swarms up, there is no reason to break Pizhou!"
At this time, the Han army pushed the artillery cart and was about to enter the firing range, and everyone began to become nervous.
Zhang Rou stood in the team, waving his sword and commanding, "We're about to get into position. Move faster."
The Han army drove their cattle and horses to push the artillery carts hard. When they were about to enter the position, huge stones suddenly rose up from behind the Pizhou city wall.
Under the banner of the Mongolian army, many generals were a little surprised when they saw the flying artillery stones. Wu Lianghetai wondered: "What's going on? Two hundred and fifty steps, is Zhao Tai crazy? Its artillery carriage can hit so far"
Before he finished speaking, the flying artillery stones had already crossed the top of the city and roared towards the moving Mongolian artillery group.
The Han troops who were escorting the artillery carriage forward didn't react when they saw the sky darken and huge rocks directly hit the moving artillery carriage. The wooden artillery carriage instantly fell into pieces. The soldiers escorting the carriage fell under the sweeping blow of broken wood. A slice.
"Shoot!" Behind the city wall, thousands of loyal soldiers shouted orders.
For a moment, the soldiers finished loading again. They hammered it down, and the live hook fell off. Under the action of the counterweight, the throwing pole violently swung upwards, and the huge boulder in the leather pocket was thrown into the sky.
The cannon stones roared across the sky one after another, and then slammed into the Mongolian army's artillery group.
Under the banner of the Mongolian army, Kublai Khan's eyes bulged, his face full of shock, "It's so fast!"
The Huihui Cannon not only has a long range and great power, but its shooting speed is also much better than the trebuchet at this time.
"Cannon stones!" The soldiers in the Han army's formation exclaimed and fell into panic. They didn't know whether to continue moving forward or turn around and run away.
Zhang Rou stood in the artillery group and was horrified when she saw the cannon stones smashing the artillery carts to pieces and the cattle and horses being pulled into pieces.
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The firing range of the artillery group in the city was too far. The Mongolian army had to advance a hundred steps before they could set up the artillery bombardment. This distance, based on the shooting speed of the artillery group in the city, was enough to destroy all the Mongolian army's artillery group on the road.
Zhang Rou saw the flying cannon stones and heard the screams all around, and immediately shouted loudly: "Quickly, get back!"
For a time, the Han soldiers were waking up from a dream and ran away one after another. Those soldiers who were in a daze, together with the artillery carts, were smashed into pulp by the artillery in the city.
Under the flag, Kublai Khan looked at the scene before him and his expression became serious. He glanced at Yang You and didn't say anything. He just had a dark face and waited for Zhang Rou and his subordinates to retreat in embarrassment.
"Your Majesty, forgive me!" Zhang Rou, who had run with her armor crooked, came to the Chinese army and knelt down to apologize, "This is a despicable position and incompetence. The artillery group is completely destroyed."
Kublai Khan was riding on the horse, his hand clenched on the whip, his face as heavy as water, and the surrounding Mongolian generals were also silent.
Zhang Rou knelt on the ground and couldn't help but feel fear in her heart. But at this moment, Kublai Khan suddenly laughed: "Haha, Zhao Thief really has something to rely on! But this is so interesting!"
Everyone was stunned for a moment when they saw that Zhao Tai had not smashed the artillery carriage and Kublai Khan was still laughing, but then they became relaxed again.
After all, they have an army of 100,000, so the setback in front of them is nothing.
Yang You was shocked when he saw the Pizhou garrison's artillery group destroying the Mongolian artillery truck halfway before it entered the range. At the same time, he was relieved for Zhao Tai.
Kublai Khan was riding on a war horse. He realized that he had underestimated the enemy and immediately changed his attitude, "Yang You warned me well before! The Zhao thief really cannot be underestimated! This guy is used to using strange skills and using gunpowder to blow down the city walls. Now that there is an artillery truck with a far greater range than ours, what do you think we should do?"
Wu Lianghetai and others frowned, whispered to each other for a while, and saluted, "Your Majesty, although Zhao Tai's artillery carts can hit far, there are so many artillery carts in this small Pizhou. I think if we swarm up and attack from all sides, we will definitely be able to Fight into Pizhou."
Kublai Khan was not satisfied with this method. He could not blow down the city wall and launched a direct attack. The Mongolian army would inevitably suffer heavy losses.
If he loses troops and generals in Pizhou along the way, it will not only affect his status in Mongolia, but also affect his continued attack on the Southern Song Dynasty.
Kublai Khan waved his hand and looked at the many Han generals, "Wuliang Hetai's suggestion would cause too many casualties. Do you have any other opinions?"
Many Han generals discussed for a while, but there was no good solution. They all said that it would be better to try to attack by force first.
At this time, Zhang Rou felt that this was an opportunity. He performed very poorly in the battle against Zhao Tai. The Mongols were quite dissatisfied with him. He had to make meritorious deeds, otherwise his status as a prince would not be guaranteed, so he saluted and said: "Your Majesty, I didn’t expect Zhao Tai’s artillery car to be able to shoot so far. However, Zhao Tai wanted to defend Pizhou based on this, and I think it was just a dream for him.”
"Oh?" Kublai Khan asked, "What can you do?"
Zhang Judao: "Your Majesty, because our artillery group did not enter the range just now, it was unable to fight back against Zhao Tai's artillery fire and could only be passively beaten. First, we assembled the artillery carts and then transported them to the city. The purpose is that once we enter Within the range, we can bombard the city wall. Now it seems that the artillery carriage is heavy and heavy, and if we want to transport the artillery carriage directly to the range, it is simply impossible to achieve it."
Kublai Khan nodded: "What is your plan?"
"Your Majesty, this is Pizhou!" Zhang Rou drew out his knife, drew a square in the snow, and then drew a horizontal line in front of the square. "My humble idea is that we take advantage of the night to build a building in front of Pizhou City. Then the dismantled artillery carts will be transported to the wall for assembly at night. By then, at dawn, the artillery carts will be able to bombard the Pizhou city wall, and the artillery groups in the city will not be able to destroy our artillery carts on the road. "
Kublai Khan's eyes lit up, but this was building a wall and rebuilding a gun carriage, which would definitely waste a lot of time.
Wokuotai's army is gathering in Luoyang and is scheduled to launch an attack on Kaifeng at the end of December. By then, Kublai Khan's army must clear out the enemy forces in Shandong, advance into Huainan, and cut off the connection between Kaifeng and Jiangnan.
Calculating this, there was not much time left for Kublai Khan, only more than a month.
Kublai Khan immediately ordered, "Zhang Rou, I will give you ten days, by which time I will see your artillery group under the city!"
When Zhang Rou heard this, she immediately clasped her fists and said, "I accept my order from my humble position!"
Kublai Khan nodded, "I hope that you will be able to bear the crime and perform meritorious service, otherwise I will hand over the Daming Mansion to others!"
Zhang Rou's heart trembled, sweat broke out on her forehead, and she quickly saluted, "The humble position must live up to the mission!"
