One by one, the lookout carts with high platforms appeared behind the crowd of the Song army that had just stood. Since the hot air balloons that could carry people had not appeared yet, the lookout on the battlefield is now on the mountain, the second is on the stairs, and the third is on the lookout cart.

There is no mountain to go up to the Song army, but there are several buildings, but it is a little closer to the front of the Zhou army, and it is easy to be bombarded by the opponent with long cannons, so important generals dare not go up. Therefore, looking for cars became their first choice.

Although the car is at risk of being bombarded, this thing is much smaller than a house and is not easy to be hit. Moreover, there are often many cars on the battlefield, and no one knows where the real big shot is?

Zhao Liangjiang, dressed in gray, boarded one of the car watching, and went up quietly, but he didn't dare to rush in with the handsome flag. That would definitely bring shelling!

Holding up the telescope, Zhao Liang General first glanced at his own front, and now he advanced forward to the front line near the three courtyards for 10 miles. It was not a straight line, because the three courtyards were not straight lines, but were roughly arranged in a shape of a pin. The grain warehouse was located in the protruding part of the pin-shaped shape.

Because the three places are based on the courtyards, the front formation of the coalition forces of the Song Dynasty also formed the layout of the characters. Among them, there were three divisions in the prominent part, which seemed to form the main direction of the battle assault. There were only one division around the other two courtyards. However, the second formation of the coalition forces was arranged in a straight line.

Looking from Zhao Liangjiang's perspective, there was a gray ocean in front, back, left and right, with only a blue one on the right.

The infantrymen of the Western Song Dynasty were in gray military uniforms. Their lines were neatly arranged, the military flags were waving, and the sunlight reflected by the bright bayonets kept flashing, making people feel chilling.

As for the blue sea of ​​soldiers, it was the elite of the Eastern Song Dynasty. It was also a bayonet jungle, standing still in the sun. The visual effect it conveyed was definitely not under the "gray army" of our own.

General Zhao Liang turned his attention to the enemy again.

The Zhou army set up a formation of position defense. They took advantage of the opportunity of fighting in three courtyards to urgently dig trenches, piled up chest walls with sandbags, and built artillery barricades.

Now their yellow infantry squatted behind their chest walls, and they could not see any array.

However, depending on the speed of digging pits and building blocks, we can imagine how well they were trained. Anyway, the infantry of the Western Song Dynasty could not compare to these Zhou soldiers in terms of construction.

Oh, not only is the soldiers' construction ability not as good as others, but the entire Western Song Dynasty country is not good at this.

After moving west for more than 200 years, are there any magnificent buildings and cities in the Western Song Dynasty? There is only one Xiangyang Prefecture that looks a bit imposing, but it was built by Pan Xiao'an when the Song Dynasty did not split!

In contrast, in the Great Zhou Dynasty, I don’t know how many magnificent buildings have been built over the past 200 years. Even the “miracle project” like the railway has been built for hundreds of miles!

To compare basic construction, the Western Song Dynasty and the two neighbors, the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty, cannot be compared at all!

The infrastructure of the Great Zhou Dynasty was first-class, and the skills of digging trenches and repairing artillery were naturally not much worse.

General Zhao Liang was a famous general who was included in military textbooks. He could tell at a glance that the Zhou army's chest wall and building blocks were not easy to break through.

However, General Zhao Liang was still very confident in his own soldiers. Although the enemy's defense was good, it was impossible to block the elite soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty. After all, he prepared 10 infantry units of 10 divisions, with a total of 130,000 to 140,000, which was enough to break through the enemy's defense.

The question now is just how much price you have to pay? After paying those prices, can your army continue to advance towards Kaifeng Prefecture.

Zhao Liangjiang turned his head and asked his own advice, Chang Zong Yizhi: "Where did the follow-up troops go?"

Of course, he would not believe that 210,000 coalition forces could be used to conquer Kaifeng Prefecture and force the Great Zhou to seek peace.

So while launching a sudden attack, he repeatedly urged the follow-up troops to set off. He estimated that the amount of troops he had at hand would be almost exhausted if he could break through to Yingchang Prefecture.

If you want to attack and open the Feng Mansion in one go, you must obtain the subsequent 190,000 troops!

In addition, the two legions (one of which belongs to the Eastern Song Dynasty) deployed in Shanzhou and Huaixi should also launch an attack as soon as possible to restrain the forces of Zhou State.

Only in this way can Zhao Liang general be sure to defeat the main force of the Great Zhou Republic Army near Kaifeng Prefecture.

As long as this goal is achieved, the Great Zhou Republic can only seek peace... It’s not that Kaifeng Prefecture is so important to the current Zhou State, but Kaifeng Prefecture is just a medium-sized city.

However, there is a large section of the Yellow River dam in Kaifeng Prefecture, which is the real fatal thing!

In the past 200 years, the water conservancy engineers of the Great Zhou Republic have well maintained the Yellow River, canals, and Huaihe River waterways, and there has been no large-scale flooding.

However, the problem of silt in the Yellow River channel is unsolvable!

Faced with the rising river channel, the water conservancy experts in Dazhou could only use the method of continuously increasing the middle and lower reaches of the dam to protect the farmland and cities on both sides of the strait from being submerged.

Therefore, the Yellow River flowing from Kaifeng Prefecture itself is a weapon of mass destruction that is enough to force the Great Zhou Republic to seek peace and truce!

However, it is not easy to get this weapon. Without a few decisive battles, you should not even think about it.

General Zhao Liang took a deep breath and said to Zong Yizhi beside him: "The enemy's main force should be attracted to the center, right?"

"It should be done," Zong Yizhi smiled, "Now the initiative is our side, and the four divisions in our second formation can be flexibly dispatched. And they can only deal with it passively."

Zhao Liangjiang smiled: "Since they think that the king's goal is in the middle, then let's follow their wishes first!"

...

"The prince said, let our 7th Division take the lead! The first team to break through the Zhou army's defense line will be the first-class merit! The captain was promoted to a first-class level, and everyone in the military households will be rewarded with half a farm, and the gun doctor will be promoted to a first-class fame... Brothers, the opportunity is here!"

"Thousands of victories! Thousands of victories! Thousands of victories..."

As the four battalion commanders of the 7th Division of the Western Song Army loudly announced the orders and rewards of General Zhao Liang, cheers immediately resounded throughout the battlefield.

There is now a saying in the Western Song Dynasty that "half a farm" is the word "half a farm". Half a farm is 30 mu of paddy fields and 60 mu of dry fields. In fact, less than half is, it is just half.

However, the reward of 30 acres of paddy fields and 60 acres of dry land is also a huge asset for the poor Western Song military households.

Moreover, the Western Song Dynasty court could only give such a small reward... If you have to give this half of the farm, you don’t know where to get it? If you can cut the land from the Great Zhou Dynasty, you may be able to cash it out, otherwise you will have a headache.

Chen Youliang and Chen Youren are also military household soldiers of the 7th Division. However, they don’t have to consider where they come from.

No matter where it comes from, it will definitely be fulfilled! Because King Zhao Liang of Jingchu is the one who will do what he says!

...

"Captain, the enemy has begun to attack! There are so many people, there are 4 battalions, right? The first wave is half a division of infantry..."

Han Shantong spoke, put down his telescope and turned his head to look at Wuyuan Town.

"Boom boom boom..."

The shelling of the Song army also began. The shelling was participated in the 20 artillery companies, which were arranged around the two courtyards on both wings in the Pinzi-shaped courtyard.

Just when the Western Song army was attacking the grain warehouse, the engineers of the coalition forces were renovating the two courtyards. They pushed the wall towards the northwest to turn them into temporary artillery towers. There were 10 artillery companies arranged behind these two temporary artillery towers, all of which were long cannons or mountain cannon companies. There was no howitzer company because the performance of Western Song's howitzers performed poorly in previous battles. Zhu Xinglong had no confidence in them.

The two chief artillery and mountain artillery positions were all fired with side fire at this time, and the solid artillery shells were fired at the part of the defense line on the east side of the Zhou army, close to the eastern foot of Jiangshan. This part was facing the center of the Song army's front, which was the opposite of the grain warehouse.

"Good fight!"

Watching waves of artillery shells fly out from both sides and land on the Zhou army's position, bursting out clusters of smoke and dust, Chen Youliang and Chen Youren's soldiers cheered.

They are now forming a three-row lineup, walking behind a battalion. In front of them are six musketeers. And before the musketeers, there are gun doctors who have already scattered their formation.

It's really pitiful. It should have been high above... Oh, it was the Yuan Dynasty now, and there were no literati. However, the literati has been doing this until now, holding a rifled rifle, and raising her waist carefully in the wheat field. It was really a bit miserable.

可, 可, 可...

Sudden gunfire, and the scattered soldiers of the Zhou army squatting in the trenches were fired. They were of the same military service as the Western Song Dynasty’s gun doctors, both of which were used to shoot black guns. For the past 200 years, the Western Song Dynasty gun doctors have always been a well-known military service on the battlefield, but the scattered soldiers of the Zhou State were not very famous.

However, now, the black guns of the scattered soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty were not bad at all. They shot first before the Western Song Dynasty gun doctor opened fire, and they shot very accurately.

During the process, the scholars, Juren, and even a Jinshi in the Western Song Dynasty who did not hide themselves well were shot and fell to the ground. They either died immediately or let out heart-wrenching screams.

However, the gunshots and screams were covered by the constant sound of cannons. Therefore, the musketeers and hand artillerymen in the Western Song Dynasty did not know that the gun doctors in front had suffered heavy losses. They were just covering their heads and moving forward now.

Nearly 2,000 musketeers and artillery soldiers under the four battalions formed four square formations that advanced side by side, with bayonets like forests and soldiers like tides, rolling forward and pounced forward.

The first four square formations that welcomed the fierce rise of the Song army were the fierce firepower fired by the Zhou army's howitzers.

The Zhou army had 6 howitzers on the Jiangshan front line, with a total of 36 5-inch howitzers.

After discovering that the Song army was concentrated in the direction of the "grain warehouse", they were immediately dragged to the corresponding preset position to unfold. Now they are just launching the most brutal shrapnel rounds in waves!

Grenades are the product of the hybridization of grenades and shotguns! They are to stuff iron beads into the "abdomen" of a flowering grenade to enhance lethality.

The performance of Zhou Guo’s grenade line bombs with wooden brackets and wooden fuses in actual combat is much better than that of Western Song grenades. About 20% of grenades will explode after landing or before landing. This is a pretty good result!

Moreover, the Zhou army's howitzers were shot accurately, and they could maintain a hit rate of 30% when bombarding large mobile targets three to four miles away.

In other words, about 6% of shrapnel will explode in the pile of people! The result of 6% multiplied by 36 is more than 2. Probably, the result of a howitzer salvo is that 2 shrapnel shots are impartially landing in the pile of people and then explode.

Oh, there is also a certain chance of exploding over the crowd's heads.

That was a huge casualty!

The shrapnel flares that kept falling and exploded almost turned the two or three miles in front of the Zhou army's trench defense line into a life-devouring forbidden area. The gray Western Song army soldiers, led by the captain and platoon leader, plunged in. Then the neat and dense square formation was blown out of gaps of large and small. The shrapnel flares and iron beads flew around, easily piercing through the human body, and the flesh and blood immediately splashed out in the wheat fields, grass, and the heads and faces of the comrades.

Chen Youliang's body was also splashed by sticky blood and other things, and what he sucked in his nostrils was air mixed with the smell of blood and smoke. However, he had no idea of ​​retreating!

As a military soldier, he was instilled with the idea of ​​using his life to fight for wealth since he was a child.

Life is just a bet! It is a bet used to fight for wealth.

The future of the Western Song samurai today cannot be compared with 200 years ago, and it is generally poor. However, the situation of profit-making has not changed. If you climb up, you have to make meritorious contributions!

If you escape at the battle, you will not only be shot, but also become a shame to the family. You will not even be able to enter the ancestral tomb and will be removed from the family tree.

So now he can only join his comrades, charge forward with his teeth, rush into the trenches of Zhou's army, and use the bayonet in his hand to kill them.

However, this charge range of more than a thousand steps seemed far and long. Especially when they rushed to 200 steps in front of the Zhou army's trenches, a mountain artillery team and a long artillery team also opened fire.

They fire horrible shotguns!

A shotgun will hit a large number of people from the Western Song army. In front of the trenches, there are all over the corpses who have been knocked down, some of which are not dead yet, screaming heart-wrenchingly.

But the rest of the people continued to move forward without hesitation!

Because they have no way out!

Lieutenant Liu Futong, the captain of the 8th Team of the 3rd Battalion of the 55th Division of the 18th Army of the Republic of China, stepped on his waist and walked from the shallow traffic trench into the trench that was about to be attacked. The scattered soldiers who entered the trench before them were firing fire, while the screams of Western Song soldiers had already passed through the sound of cannons, gunshots, and explosions.

Now it’s Liu Futong and his brothers in the hand artillery team take action!

Their mission is to first use hand cannons to strike the Song army infantry that rushed towards them. Then, it is a bayonet assault to repel the enemy's first wave of attacks.m.
Chapter completed!