"Chase!"
The Song army's military system has now been standardized, with specifications for weapons, camps, uniforms, ammunition, equipment, and supplies.
As a result, he became the highest commander of the North Gate.
At its peak, Xijin City had more than 800 cannons on its 36-li city wall, with an average of one cannon every 24 meters. This shows how strict the Liao army's defense was.
"Um."
He saw a large number of Song troops gathering under the city, seemingly intending to attack the city, and suddenly felt a little panicked.
Each soldier carried 70 rounds of ammunition in a bag hanging on the right side of the horse.
The battalion commander immediately jumped on his horse, waved his hand and went to trouble the artillery behind him.
“Hahahahahahaha.”
Firstly, artillerymen are usually very safe and can fire their cannons from a great distance, unlike them, who often need to fight with the enemy at a distance of one or two hundred feet. If they are not careful, the enemy may rush to their front to fight with them.
Looking north, the outline of the gatehouse on the north gate of Xijin can be barely discerned, and in the distance a cluster of green mountains stretch across the edge.
But in fact, this estimate is an average. Many soldiers on the front line fired far more than 20 rounds of bullets, and the soldiers in the rear who did not have time to go to the battlefield might even end the war before they fired a single shot.
Everyone gathered around.
The team commander felt his scalp tingling for a moment.
"There are eleven more."
"yes."
After Zhang Kang finished assigning the tasks, he said, "Set out immediately and follow orders."
"yes."
Several generals had almost 5,000 men under their command, plus Zhang Kang's 8,000 men, the Song army assembled about 30,000 troops to attack Xijin.
At this moment, there were Song army troops everywhere in the wilderness.
Before he finished speaking, there were suddenly several roars in the distance, followed by dozens of huge shells drawing an arc in the air and flying towards the small woods near the river in the distance.
Some people withdrew from the front line when they ran out of bullets, some simply looted the artillery, and some just caught up, crossed the soldiers in front of the front line, and continued to bravely move forward to chase and kill the Liao people.
Someone made a suggestion to the battalion commander.
At this moment, a galloping horse came from the city wall and shouted: "The Song army is now attacking Tongtian Gate fiercely."
As a member of the royal family, Yelu Begut had rarely been on the battlefield. This time the Liao people retreated in an orderly manner, and they should have left Yelu Renxian in the city to lead the troops out.
Although this small cannon had a short range of less than two kilometers, far inferior to the Song army's heavy artillery, it was light and highly maneuverable, and the Liao people were simply unable to get artillery support in time.
"Sir, the artillery in our rear has arrived, along with a large amount of bullets and shells."
The green grass is covered with trees of all sizes, a little sparse, and some are just small saplings, but they grow tenaciously.
"I will be here."
"I will be here."
However, the advantage of the city wall, which is three zhang (nearly ten meters) high, is still very obvious. Even though the Liao army mostly has bronze or iron cannons, and their flat-shooting range is far inferior to that of the Song army's steel cannons, their high altitude increases their range, posing a considerable threat to the Song army.
“Boom!”
Outside Tongtian Gate, the Song army was bombarding the city gate with Weiyuan cannons. Due to the lack of heavy artillery, after just over ten minutes, the Weiyuan cannons blew open the city gate under the combined bombardment.
"Where is Zhe Jimin?"
Zhang Kang pondered and said, "Attacking the city is inferior, attacking the heart is superior. We are making a feint to the east and attacking in the west. Where is Zhou Mei?"
Within a range of at least five or six kilometers north of Xijin City, the number of Liao troops was decreasing. A large number of Liao troops were defeated in the first wave of Song Army's surprise attack, and even Xijin City was under fierce attack.
Zhang Kang held the telescope in his hand, staring intently at the city. After a moment, someone said, "Sir, General Zhou, General Zhe, General Zhang, General Wang, and General Fan are here."
From noon to late afternoon, almost an hour and a half had passed. The Liao army went from being in chaos at the beginning, to trying to organize its troops, fighting a life-and-death battle with the Song army in the chaos, to gradually being defeated now, all in just three hours.
The rolling hills and slopes are like mountains. After the spring, the land of Youyan has changed from its former withered and yellow color to lush green and full of vitality.
Someone cursed.
The musketeers were at the forefront. The artillerymen could not carry heavy artillery and could only carry the 200-jin Weiyuan cannon on a gun carriage.
Secondly, in this pre-information age, manual operations are prone to accidents. Sometimes artillery fire can even kill its own people, so such accidental injuries are inevitable.
Zhang Kang pointed to Xijin City in the distance and said, "I want to seize Xijin."
However, facing the Song army's siege tactics, the Liao army's artillery was useless no matter how many there were. Therefore, when they retreated, they dismantled a large number of artillery pieces and dragged them away with difficulty using artillery carts, leaving only about 300 pieces in the city.
As soon as he said this, everyone immediately realized it. Someone said, "That's right. We are here to protect them, so why would they need bullets?"
Yelu Begut did not mobilize the artillery from the west gate and the east gate, but mobilized the artillery from the Tongtian Gate. The Liao army struggled to push the artillery weighing two thousand pounds over the city wall. It took more than twenty people pulling and pushing to finally concentrate the more than twenty cannons from the Tongtian Gate to the Gongchen Gate.
Zhou Mei said: "There should still be tens of thousands of Liao troops in the city, with a lot of artillery fire. I'm afraid it won't be easy."
So when he discovered that the Song army was feinting to attack Gongchen Gate, Yelu Begut thought that the Song army was launching a general attack and quickly ordered all the surrounding artillery to be pulled to Gongchen Gate.
"Go attack Anton Gate and Yingchun Gate."
For a time, the Song army was suppressed. Even though the Song army had far more field artillery than the Liao army and a better firing rate, the Song army was still slightly at a disadvantage due to the inequality in range and the protection of the Liao army with city walls.
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