Fortunately, the Song army has now abandoned its heavy armor and is fighting lightly, carrying at most a rifle on its back, otherwise he would definitely be exhausted.
At this moment, the Liao army split into two groups, bypassing the east city of Yumen Pass and heading towards the west gate.
Just when they arrived near the southwest and northwest corners of the city wall of Yuguan, they heard the roar of artillery and more than ten black shells fell from the sky.
However, these artillery pieces had almost no killing power. Apart from one unlucky guy who was knocked off his horse by stones splashed by a falling shell at a distance of more than ten feet, there was not even a single casualty.
The reason was that the Liao people fled in different directions, and the most important reason was that the water level of the Yuli River was relatively low.
Generally speaking, unless the water level rises sharply, the river cannot exceed the city and the riverbank will slope. Moreover, it is early winter now and the Yuli River has entered the dry season. It is already very good for the boat to be able to sail in, let alone let the boat float.
Therefore, in this situation, except for the two Flying Tiger frigates that were two stories high and could barely fire with the artillery on the second deck, the other ships could not hit the Liao cavalry.
However, the river embankment is originally high and low, some places are slightly lower, and some places are slightly higher, so except for some places, most areas can still be reached by ships, so that Shanhaiguan can be blocked and the Liao people can't cross the river.
"They really didn't have time to prepare for defense. Now we just need to charge through and enter the city through the west gate of Yuguan, and we can wipe out the enemies in the city. It's a pity that they destroyed the bridge."
When Shulü Chuoliji saw the Song army hurriedly changing their positions on the city wall, he felt relieved, as this meant that the Song people were really unprepared.
The only bad news was that the bridge over the Yushui River was destroyed by the Song people, and there were Song people's warships floating on the river. Even if he recaptured Yumen Pass, the people could retreat back to the boats, and then they could only look at the river and sigh.
"Forget it, let's recapture Yuguan first. Once we recapture Yuguan, we can mobilize artillery from the rear and drive away the surface ships from Yuguan or the riverbank."
Shulü Chuoliji thought.
There were only a few hundred Song soldiers in Yuguan City. Although the Song army's muskets should not be underestimated, and the city gate was narrow, it would be difficult for them to deal with them if the Song people used musket formations against them, but they were not without countermeasures.
Shulü Chuoliji touched the grenade at his waist. At present, the Liao Kingdom had only not developed the musket. Simple firearms such as grenades, cannons, thunder bombs, etc. had already been copied by them.
As long as they rushed to the city and threw grenades into the city, even if they could not kill many Song soldiers, they could disrupt their formation. They would be sure to win if they just rushed into the city.
"Hahahahahahahahahaha, the Song people's artillery is just so-so. Boys, kill them."
On the other side, Dieci Da also saw that although the Song army's artillery looked fierce, it could not hurt them at all. He suddenly felt heroic and shouted with great joy, rushing forward fiercely under the artillery fire.
Thousands of war horses galloped, shaking the earth and making a roaring sound as if the entire ground was shaking.
Amidst the dust and smoke, they quickly bypassed the north and south gates of Yumen Pass and soon gathered near the west gate. The Song army hurried over from the west gate and opened fire on them from the city wall.
However, if firearms were not used to form a firepower network, they would have no power at all. Facing the swift and fierce Liao cavalry, their accuracy was extremely poor. Among the 5,000 Liao cavalry, only a few were hit by bullets.
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
The Liao people roared fiercely, howling like wild wolves and shouting in various Liao languages.
They soon arrived outside the city. The troops in the front took out grenades from their waists and threw them over the city wall with all their might before they even got close to the city gate.
Except for the capital cities such as Chang'an, Luoyang, and Bianliang, whose city walls are more than seven or eight meters high, the city walls of other ordinary county towns are generally only three or four meters high, and at most five or six meters high, which can be easily thrown over by ordinary people.
A moment later, various explosions were heard in the city. When they ran to the west gate, they saw that the outside of the west gate was in a mess, with bullet holes everywhere and shells embedded in the brick and stone walls.
However, both rammed earth and brick and stone walls have great resistance to artillery, and there are very few cases of artillery collapsing walls. Therefore, these shells only make the walls dent, and the entire section of the wall does not suffer any major damage.
On the contrary, the city gate had been blown down. After all, compared to the thick city walls, even the iron city gate could not withstand the baptism of artillery shells. At this moment, through the city gate, you can still see many Song soldiers already lined up in the streets.
"kill!"
Dieci Dazaya, who rushed over first, roared angrily.
Then a large number of Liao troops began to rush in from the west gate, and then the Song people began to fire muskets. Some people took out grenades and threw them, and various explosions were heard incessantly.
Shulü Chuoliji had also arrived, but it was only then that he noticed the terrain behind the city of Yuguan.
Yushui is less than a mile away from the city. The terrain is a series of small steep slopes. The slopes of each layer are not very high, but they fold into many small reverse slopes, making it impossible to see the direction of Yushui.
Only two tall warships were floating on the river, sinking and sinking. One could vaguely see the black muzzles of their guns pointing towards Yuguan, but no one opened fire.
The reason is that if you open fire, it is easy to accidentally injure friendly forces.
"Just as I expected, after reaching the west gate, they dared not continue firing artillery."
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