"put!"
A large number of Song army generals issued orders.
A few seconds later, the order was passed to the catapult camp, and then the soldiers lit the fuse with flint. With a "buzz", the rubber band loosened, and with another "whoosh", the scoop threw the pottery jar out fiercely.
Countless pottery jars drew a brilliant arc in the sky, many of them emitting gray smoke, and then fell accurately into the Liao soldiers' formation.
“Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!”
The sound of explosions came one after another.
Many of them exploded directly in the air, and some of their fuses were blown out by the wind in mid-air, but most of the pottery jars fell safely into the Liao army's formation, making a loud noise.
The Liao army formation was instantly in chaos, many soldiers were killed or injured, and some even wanted to run away.
However, the Liao Dynasty had strict military laws, and the tribal leaders and generals suppressed the riots, ordered the soldiers to rearrange their battle formations, and then continued to advance.
No one charged.
They would start running at full speed when they were only three or four hundred meters away. Even those with the best physical strength would be too exhausted to have any strength left when they reached the enemy's formation. They would just be fearlessly sending themselves to death.
Therefore, the most correct way to fight is to withstand the enemy's artillery fire, get close to about fifty meters, and then start a charge and attack.
Soon the riot was stopped and the Liao army continued to advance as if they had no fear of death.
The next moment, the Song army threw a second wave of thunder and fireballs.
On the hillside, Yelu Zongzhen watched this moment nervously, and behind the Song army, Fan Zhongyan was also watching this scene.
The Liao army soldiers were not fearless, but had to die under the cruel military law.
Fortunately, there were no large numbers of artillery pieces, and the killing power of thunder and fireballs alone was very limited. Even iron pieces could not break the heavily armored soldiers of the Liao army, let alone ceramic fragments.
Therefore, even after two waves of attacks, the Liao army was still able to hold its ground.
A moment later, the Liao army had closed to within 200 steps. They maintained a walking pace and expected that the two sides would engage in close combat in three minutes.
During these three minutes, the Song army fully utilized its firepower advantage and continuously launched thunder fireballs.
When they were a hundred steps away, the archers on both sides finally showed their power. Dense arrows replaced the clay pots in the sky and covered the sky like dark clouds.
The jingle-dong sound continued to ring out!
At this moment, the Liao army continued to advance, and was less than fifty steps away.
The grenade throwers in the rear of the Song army raised their grenades one after another. The distance they could throw them was actually only about twenty steps, or about thirty meters.
That's enough!
At thirty steps, the Liao army's general attack officially began!
In an instant, with an order, countless Liao soldiers rushed towards the Song army like a tide!
And at this moment, two cannons were slowly pulled up on the high slope of the Song army in the rear, and the muzzles emitted strange lights, pointing directly at the Liao army positions!
(End of this chapter)
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