Chapter 884 Cannon Sound
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Three days after the beacon fire in Yunzhou City was extinguished, Yang Weili, who was performing a reconnaissance mission near Baishuili, and his brothers under him finally saw the flag of the Hu tribe coalition and the tribe coalition that could not be seen at first sight. The tribe coalition was like a huge pack of wolves, thickly covered with blackness, accompanied by a huge rumbling sound, and raised high dust, pulling a long team, winding forward on the mountain wasteland, sweeping towards Baishuili.
"Start a fire!"
Yang Weili looked at the army that was marching like an ant colony, and said in a high tone. The Hu people are indeed here, and the hunting has begun.
Nie-tie chicken ran over excitedly: "I'll light the fire, I'll light the fire!" This guy seemed to have a disease, and he had to grab anything, grab the heads and spoils, and now he even had to grab the small things like ignition. Everyone has almost gotten used to this guy, but in short, he snatched it for the sake of snatching.
Nie-twisted chicken ran to the thunder cannon, grinning, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and didn't know what he was excited about. He took out the lighter that was treasured like a treasure. Although this thing was produced by Qin Fan, it was still a rare thing, especially this golden shell and a collector's version of the lighter inlaid with gems, which was even more valuable. This was what he grabbed from a small tribe leader whose head was cut off by him. Although the Qin army had a military rule that in addition to collective seizures, individual seizures were also subject to the public, but it was not entirely subsidized. Some spoils were divided into three parts, half of which belonged to the public, and a quarter of which was used as rewards and pensions for the death and injuries of the battle in the battle, and the remaining quarter was owned by the soldiers. For example, some gold and silver jewelry, war horses, armor, weapons, etc.
This lighter was priced at ten cents, and the price of a cow was obviously underestimated. Originally, he could get a reward of two cents, but he wanted it himself, and he owed eight cents of troops. But he was happy and said he would leave this thing to his son Shi Jingtang.
The chicken rubbed the grinding wheel and sniffed a few times. A ball of flame came out, and he put the lighter close to the lead and ignited it.
The leads burned quickly with a string of sparks, and then with a loud bang, the gunpowder pack in the flying thunder cannon flew straight into the sky.
Bang!
The sound of cannons resounded through the mountains.
"Take up the guys and withdraw!" Yang Weili ordered decisively.
"I'll take the flying thunder cannon!" The two Lu soldiers pretended to actively lift the thunder cannon. Sure enough, Nieji ran over again and took the initiative to take the heavy equipment of the capital team. The two students looked at each other and pretended to force it, and then left in their hearts with a secret pleasure. After following this comrade who wanted to grab everything for a long time, everyone became smarter.
Because of its lightness and simplicity, the flying thunder cannon is now also a mass-produced "heavy equipment" and is equipped in the team.
According to the standard weapons and equipment of the Iron Cavalry, one of them has 100 people and two hundred war horses. In addition to each of them, each of them has two flying thunder cannons, and Fuyuan's double heavy crossbows, four three bows and eight cow crossbows, ten large shields, and one thousand iron caltrops. It can be said that the Qin army did not have any vassal states in terms of equipment, and even the Emperor's Shen Ce Army was far inferior to the Emperor's Shen Ce Army.
Such a combination gave the Qin army's small troops a strong explosive power, and often one of them could sometimes deal with a battalion of the Hu people.
However, when Yang Weili faced tens of thousands of Hu people, he did not want to hit the stone with eggs. This was just an early warning. The army on both sides was already approaching Baishui, and it was the fastest to use the sound of cannons to convey military information.
After the cannons from Yang Weili's team, sure enough, the sound of cannons began to keep ringing behind them, one after another.
At the end of the sound of the cannon sound. At the Baishuili Lake, the horn began to blow in the sunset, making a rapid whine. On the Baishuili Lake, a huge wooden fence was right by the lake. At this time, Qin soldiers were everywhere outside the wooden fences by the lake. At their feet, there were corpses of Hu soldiers everywhere, as well as broken swords and guns all over the ground, and chopped flags, blood flowed into a river, dyeing the water by the lake red.
Li Siyuan's subordinates, who were still cleaning the battlefield and finishing the Hu people one by one, did not look back at the Hu people who were constantly coming. They were just serious about finishing the Hu people and corpses of each Hu people. Their method was very simple, and they directly chopped off the heads of each Hu people. They had been in a desperate situation here and were defeated. The Hu people cut off the heads of tens of thousands of Shatu warriors' bodies and piled up countless Jingguans by the lake. Now, they are back, and tens of thousands of Hu people's defeated soldiers were deliberately let go by them, and then chased them all the way here.
After chasing here, they were worthless. With the order of the King of Qin, they had more than 20,000 troops, under the command of the King of Qin, and defeated the more than 10,000 defeated soldiers and the five thousand tribal auxiliary soldiers left behind in Muzha.
They didn't let a single Hu man go. They controlled their speed for three days and three nights and achieved a complete victory with the smallest casualties. Now, the Hu man's troops finally appeared as expected.
Behind them, a large flag was erected high in the center of the captured camp, with a huge character Li embroidered with gold thread.
Everyone knows the meaning of this flag. It is the flag of the Grand Marshal of the Tang Dynasty, Shangshu Ling, and Qin King Li Jing. With this flag, although they face more than 70,000 Hu troops, they are fearless and full of fighting will.
Li Jing, who was standing on the high arrow, smiled and watched the Hu people enter the hunting ground calmly. For some reason, Li Jing was as calm as water, and he had no excitement or tension. He had experienced a lot of battles that were even more intense than this, let alone the battle that was going on exactly the same as he planned?
The faces of the Hu warriors became clearer and louder, and the sounds of horse hooves became closer and closer.
Hunting began. When the cannon sounded, it not only represented the message that the Hu people had arrived, but it was also an agreed sound. The four teams lying ambushed not far away here would immediately come to surround them when they heard the cannon sound. This would be a perfect hunt. Their prey still thought they were hunters, but regarded them as prey.
The Hu cavalry that were constantly approaching began to divide two troops to the left and right.
Assault in the middle and encirclement of two wings is probably the first tactic to be derived from hunting.
"Environment of three quors and one!" Gongsun Lan, behind Li Jing, raised her two small eyebrows, frowned slightly, and sneered mockingly.
Li Jing was moved by her cute appearance and said with a smile: "In fact, the Hu people's military use is just the norm."
"But this is not a regular battle at all."
In front of the gate of the camp south of Yingzha, Yelu Fenggu pointed at the King's Flag of Li, which was flying high in the camp, and laughed loudly: "Li Jing is indeed here!"
Yelu Shilu was scared heavily, frowned and said with a stern face: "The Southern Barbarians are so deceitful, and Li Jing is even more cunning. We should be cautious first in using military forces. It is better to be careful, and we must not fall into the trap of Li Zhe."
"Yes." Yan Gu only pretended to be respectful, but he was dissatisfied with Yelu Shilu's attitude. Since Yunzhou was defeated and withdrawn, Yelu Shilu was always suspicious, making the wind and shudder. People were panicked and completely lost their courage. If he hadn't always stopped and explored left and right along the way, they wouldn't have walked 350 miles for three days and three nights. If he had sent a cavalry to come, then it wouldn't have been that Tiemushu would have fought for three days and three nights for a bloody battle here for three days and three nights. He hadn't waited for rescue.
Five thousand warriors, the blood was sprinkled with white water, which was a pity.
"If you send the order, send 10,000 troops from all sides of the east and south to attack the city, and let go of the north gate alone!"
"Master General, if you let the north gate go without attacking, wouldn't it be that Li thief escaped? We finally surrounded him, so we can't let him run away." Shi Yan was still following Yelu Shilu's army at this time. He wanted to see the one who killed Li Jing the most. As soon as he heard that he wanted to let the north gate go, he immediately persuaded him.
"General Shi doesn't know that surrounding three palaces and one is the best strategy for siegeing the city. Letting go of one side can disintegrate the morale of the defenders in the village and make them unintentional to fight. Besides, I am not worried that Li Jing will run away. In fact, I am hoping that Li Jing will abandon the village and escape. As long as people escape, the cavalry chases and fights on the wasteland, isn't this the specialty of our grassland wolf men?"
The last time the small Yunzhou city was frustrated, Yelu Shilu was a little scared of siege. Yunzhou, which had 100,000 people, was not captured, and the guards were still auxiliary soldiers. Although Li Jing was surrounded in this small village this time, the people inside were the famous Li Jing after all. And he still had more than 20,000 troops. If he didn't have to fight the siege, it would be the best. He lacked confidence in the siege, but if he fought a cavalry war on the grassland, he was still very confident.
If it weren't for all the horses who were probing the horses, Li Jing had only more than 20,000 troops, and he was really alone and went deeper. He deliberately delayed the journey for a while and repeatedly confirmed that Li Jing had gone deeper and then surrounded him in one fell swoop. As for this, more than 10,000 troops died in battle, Yelu Shilu didn't care. Anyway, those were tribal soldiers and horses, so he wouldn't care how much those guys died. On the contrary, it would be very cost-effective to let them consume more of the Qin army's troops and physical strength.
But even so, he refused to surround the tactics of all sides. Once surround the tactics of all sides, with Li Jing's ferocity and the desperate method of fighting to the death, he was worried that even if he could win in the end, his own soldiers would probably not win much.
Therefore, Yelu Shilu planned to use the best tactics of the grassland people to surround three and one, and force Li Jing to abandon the village and escape. As long as he is willing to escape, everything is easy. They chased behind, like wolves driving the deer, constantly driving the back, and then grabbed and ate the left behind, repeating this, and finally rushed up to annihilate them when the enemy was exhausted.
Yelu Shilu even thought that if he could surround Li Jing in the end, he would eventually capture him alive. A living Li Jing would be much more valuable than the dead. He would capture Li Jing alive and force him to withdraw his troops. Withdrew the Lin Wei army and Guo Chongtao army in Huangshuituhe, withdrew their Zeng Yuanyu and Zhou Dewei army in Bohai, withdrew their Liu Xun army in Daibei, and Zhang Zimian army. He wanted to send Li Jing back to the grassland to house arrest, and then he didn't need to rush back. He could shoot the horse and take down Datong again.
Looking at the Bala who was under the command of the camp, who was preparing to attack the city, the guys Chi, a trace of contempt flashed in Yelu Shilu's eyes. After forcing the Qin people to retreat, they first swallowed the Bohai Sea to restore their vitality, and then they would annex and assimilate the miscellaneous fish tribes on the grassland one by one. Their Khitans wanted to establish a real Khitan dynasty with the Yelu family of Dieshu tribes. A central dynasty as powerful as the Han dynasty, unify the north and go south to the Central Plains.
"King, the Hu people gave up from the north and did not attack. It is better for Your Highness to evacuate this place first, so as to avoid the dangers and unpredictable battlefields." The military supervisor Zhang Chengye persuaded him with some concern.
"No, I'm just a flag. A large army of more than 100,000 people is fighting, and the battlefield is tens of miles away. At this time, the soldiers below are like this? In the mild case, it will also cause a huge morale blow. In severe case, it will even cause the soldiers to misunderstand that we have been defeated. If one is not good, it will easily cause major problems and even lead to defeat. Zhang Jianjun Envoy, Gu knows that you are considering Gu's safety, but at this time, it is a battlefield during wartime. If you damage the morale of the army, don't say it anymore. Don't say that our tens of thousands of people are coming from all directions, even if I really encounter this siege here, do you think Gu will be frightened and fleeing in a panic?" Li Jing looked around the generals around him and said loudly, "We have been here for three days. It's not really taken three days to wipe out the more than 10,000 fish. It's time to show their skills to these fish."
"King of Qin, will this scare away these barbarians?" Wang Chong asked. The Qin army buried a lot of gunpowder mines outside the camp, and even this time it carried a large number of light thunder cannons and gunpowder. The flying thunder cannons have poor accuracy but convenient equipment. In such a hot July, it was truly the sharpest weapon in a battle of more than 100,000 people.
"Don't worry, the more we fight at the beginning, the more the Hu barbarians think we are fighting to the death. Let the cannon battalions prepare. This time we want the Hu people to truly compensate for what it means to make thousands of cannons ring together, the mountains shaking and the earth shaking, the sky collapses and the earth breaks!" Li Jing said coldly. The Hu people are really not human in his eyes, especially these Hu people who invaded the south. He will not feel uneasy even if they kill them.
Li Jing brought a lot of gunpowder this time, and the gunpowder was very sufficient, so it would allow them to have a saturation attack. Although gunpowder was expensive, if he could use gunpowder to severely damage the Hu people and reduce the casualties of his soldiers, Li Jing was still willing to spend money.
Yelu Shilu stood under the commander's banner and shouted loudly at the generals under his command: "Those who can win Li Jing's head will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold, and those who can capture Li Jing alive will be rewarded with 50,000 taels of gold. For each Qin soldier, he will be rewarded with two cattle, kill an officer below the fifth rank and five cattle, kill a Qin army officer below the fifth rank and three rank, and reward ten cows and ten taels of gold. For each Qin army officer above the third rank, he will be rewarded with 100 cows and one hundred taels of gold!"
Chapter completed!