As soon as the sky was dawn, the soldiers were still drinking millet porridge and eating dry food in the trenches, and they heard a sharp voice shouting: "The Tartars are coming!"

Hearing this, all the soldiers threw down their meal, picked up the Tianque gun and went to the trench. They cleverly put two big cakes on their chests and put them on their chests. The battle had been fighting all day. During the break when the Tartars retreated, the soldiers who were so hungry that they were deflated looked at the soldiers who were fighting and gnawing on dry food, drooling.

The Tartars got up very early!

There is the tradition of making meals at the third and fourth updates. Although we arrived last night and we set up camp for half a night, a few hours later, the soldiers recovered their strength and had enough food. At dawn, they touched them while the other party was not prepared.

Last night, Alu was even more miserable. His army had not rested all night and had placed the Huihui cannons and crossbows in the designated position. All the parts were removed from the car and assembled them, making tens of thousands of soldiers exhausted.

It was dawn, and the positions of the Hui cannons and crossbows had been placed. In a short while, they would give the defenders a heavy blow with lightning speed.

Zhang Yang stood at the top of the city, looking at the hazy place in the distance, the gray wriggling things were the Tartars moving in front of the array.

It would be great if there was a telescope! Zhang Yang made up his mind that after he captured Pingjiang, he would find a place to burn porcelain, burn out the glass, make it into a concave lens, and distribute it to various commanders and soldiers.

The sky gradually became brighter and the Tartars were getting closer and closer, only a few miles away.

In the north, east, and south, the Tatars attacked together. Where is the main attack direction of the Tatars, or is it that the Tatars decided to attack three city gates at the same time?

Shi Nai'an stood behind Zhang Yang. After a while, after the battle started, as the supreme commander, they probably only knew the psychological pressure they were under.

Tutuo also stood at the highest point of the entire army, watching the army begin to slowly move towards the city.

The front is the garrison team drawn from the Secretariat. They have been fighting against various thieves, and their combat effectiveness is second only to the personal guards. Although they are not equipped with muskets, they are equipped with another long-range weapon: swarms.

This is a kind of "multiple-shot rocket". Thirty-two rockets are placed in a rocket barrel with a large mouth and a small bottom. Two layers of gratings are placed in the barrel for the positioning and orientation of the rockets. At the same time, the gunpowder lines of each rocket are clustered together. After ignition, the arrows fly together, and the launch surface is several meters wide, which is very similar to the modern rocket nest.

The size is not very large, just carry two people, as a powerful support for firepower during attack, and the range reaches nearly two hundred steps.

The only disadvantage is that this is a disposable product. After igniting it, the rocket is launched and the barrel is declared scrapped. Compared with other weapons, this is a consumable product. In order to fight this battle, they spent all their money: the 30,000 troops of the Secretariat Army carried 500 such swarms.

If both sides are on the plain, this weapon can give the opponent the maximum lethality. Adjust the angle and shoot to the top of the city. However, for the defenders hiding in the trenches, this weapon has an average effect, because the trench is only two feet wide, which is a kind of destructive weapon, and most of them will fall to the plain.

Tutuo defeated the war for a long time, and not only brought out the most elite army of the Secretariat in the province, but also prepared to launch Hui Hui artillery into the attack.

When using elite troops to fight the vanguard, although the first batch of soldiers who stepped onto the battlefield would suffer great casualties during the siege, there is no doubt that the effect is the best. To defeat one attack is the best ending. Otherwise, if you fall into a repeated battle to seize the city with the other side, it will seriously affect your morale.

Attacking the city will always have heavy casualties.

Either don’t move or move, just do your best. This is the strategy of Tutuo.

Behind this group are the armies of various provinces of Sichuan Province in Shaanxi Province. Their combat effectiveness is obviously lower. However, their number is very large, with more than 50,000 people. At that time, as long as the supervision team is arranged at the back, the soldiers behind will rush forward with all their might, and the soldiers in front will not be able to fight desperately.

On both sides of the siege troops are cavalry corps composed of personal guards. They mainly undertake the task of luring the enemy, and at the same time protect the safety of the two wings, especially to prevent enemies from appearing from Gaoyou Lake.

At this moment, it was already dawn.

The north is ready for battle, and the east and south are also in a grand situation.

To the east are troops transferred from various Khanate countries. Some of them wore leather robes with half of their shoulders exposed, while others were wrapped in a piece of cloth, revealing their heads. They were burly, making the defenders feel ashamed.

Although there were no firearms, they held up weapons such as maces and were not afraid. Their mission was to feint attack the city and restrain the opponent's defenders. If they could eliminate the enemy in the trench outside, it would be an additional result.

Although the troops transferred from the southern provinces in the south were large in number, they did not have the momentum to oppress people. Most of them were in a hurry. Compared with those two troops, their combat effectiveness was obviously not on the same level.

After the war, other generals couldn't help but envy Tang He, why did he be so lucky every time!

"From the military situation around, the target of the Tartars' main attack this time is still the North City Gate." Shi Nai'an said.

"In a while, wherever the Tartars' Huihui cannon is arranged, the main attack direction is." Zhang Yang said. If you want to obtain a breakthrough, the powerful attack ability of Huihui cannon is indispensable.

"How about we transfer Bian Yuanheng's naval army to the north to support it." Shi Nai'an said.

"Don't worry, the navy is our last means of support. We cannot expose all our family background before the Tartars use all their strength." Zhang Yang said.

In terms of specific tactics, when it is time to keep a backup plan, you must keep a backup plan, and all your strength will be exposed at once, and the Tartars will be wary of it and improve their offensive methods.

This time, the Tartars were too many people, and there were black people in all directions. They had enough strength to attack separately, so the reserve force must not be easily used.

Zhang Yang kept thinking that if he was an attacker, he would not use the North City Gate as the main attack direction. He would choose the East City Gate because it deviated from Gaoyou Lake and could not get the firepower support from the navy.

Therefore, although the formation set up by the Tatars is the main attack from the north, Zhang Yang cannot rest assured. After a while, he must always be wary of the group of Tartars in the east. They are all soldiers among the ethnic minorities! Even Zhang Yang was envious of that person. After just one look, Zhang Yang knew that some of them were the Northeast Han Han, and most of them were ethnic minorities in the Western Regions.

Tuotuo stood on Gaogang, watching the shaman have finished making a wish to the sky, and he spit out a few words: "Attack, start!"

"Woo!" The horn of the attack began to sound.

After hearing the sound, the infantry in front began to move forward steadily. They lined up in neat square formations, and the thousand-person team marched forward!

The cavalry on both sides also rushed over like a tide, and they quickly passed over the infantry and charged forward. They were not the main attacking team, but just used the mobility of the cavalry to approach the position and shoot arrows to cover their own attacks.

Zhang Yang looked at the city wall, and it seemed that the Tartars still had not gotten rid of the conventional siege tactics: attacking the sea of ​​people. They kept adding people forward, relying on the number of people to attack the city wall.

All of this doesn't work at all. At least it needs to be covered from a long range. Why has the opponent's catapult not started attacking yet? This made Zhang Yang a little worried. The opponent's rewind cannon will be put into use with the attack. Which direction is it?

The formation of the Tartars gradually approached from eight miles away, five miles, three miles...

Finally, Zhang Yang saw clearly that after that sea of ​​people, Huihui cannon was hidden in the opponent's military formation and was slowly moving forward.

According to Shi***, the range of the Huihui cannon is 250 steps, the projectile weighs 150 kilograms, and it lands at seven feet!

Now, the Tartars are likely to increase their range by reducing the weight of the projectile. After all, the Tartars knew that their army had long-range attack weapons, but they didn't know that their war god cannon could hit ten miles away, and even the opponent's military camp was within their firepower range.

"God of War Cannon, prepare to aim, distance: one thousand steps." Zhang Yang said.

It is absolutely impossible for the Tartars' Huihuan to get close to the top of the city at 250 steps, because the three trenches outside the city had already been dug up to 300 steps away, and the range of the Tianque gun was enough to snipe the Tartars' vanguard at 600 steps away. Therefore, Zhang Yang asked the War God Cannon to be adjusted to 1,000 steps, and tried to eliminate the opponent's Huihuan before it was fired.

The flag at the top of the city was waving in the wind. Zhang Yang looked up at his flag. Suddenly, he thought of something and his face darkened.

Today is the north wind! The Tartars' bows and arrows can be shot farther away with the help of the wind.

"Shoot!" Shi Yi immediately issued an order when he saw that the Tartar cavalry had entered a range of 300 steps.

"Bang, bang." Countless Tianque guns fired, shooting at the speed of the Tartar cavalry. Suddenly, Tartar cavalry fell off the horse.

At this moment, the Tartar infantry suddenly accelerated its advance, from moving to running, and its speed became faster and faster.

The shouts of killing sounded in full swing.

Zhang Yang stood at the top of the city, and saw everything clearly. He saw the Tartars in front running, while the Huihuan behind stopped moving forward and began to prepare for the launch.

Trap, this is a trap. Zhang Yang suddenly figured it out. The Tartars are not fools either. They have come up with a way to fight against their own trenches!

There is one bad thing about the trenches, that is, although they are relatively low, they can eliminate the Tartars while hiding themselves and reduce the danger of being eliminated due to exposure. However, because the trenches are relatively low, the commanders in the trenches lack a general understanding of the battlefield, or in other words, the tall cavalry blocked their sight, and they didn't know who was behind the cavalry.

Those cavalrymen are simply used as bait to expose their trench location!

Although Zhang Yang didn't know what the Tartars had, he knew that the Tartars must have a backer!

"Hurry, let Shiyi retreat into the second trench." Zhang Yang said to the commander.

The commander quickly ran out of the city gate, passed the suspension bridge, and ran towards the position.

Unfortunately, the order had not been transmitted to the front position yet. As usual, Shi Yi faced the living target in front of him, so he naturally could not let go. The Tianque gun was firing continuously.

Suddenly, the cavalry retreated to both sides, and behind them, rows of infantry were exposed. Everyone in the front was holding something like a wooden barrel in their hands. The twist was already lit, and two hundred steps away, the sparks burning from the twist were still visible.

Some things flew from the sky in a dark way, and all the secret weapons of the Tartars were used!

Tutuo stood on the high ground and watched all this quietly. Whether it would go well, let’s first look at the performance of these weapons.

Although Shi Yi didn't know what was flying in, the fighting on the battlefield made him feel alert to danger. He remembered his elder brother's advice, and all tactics were to attack the Tartars as much as possible and save himself. The thing in front was obviously something he didn't know, so it would be better to be careful. Even if he was ridiculed and ran away when he went back, he could not lose too much.

"Retreat!" Shiyi gave the order. Through observation, he saw that the things flying in the sky landed above his position.

The soldiers had already been extremely skilled in training. When they saw a large number of infantry from the other side coming up, they wanted to knock down a few more, but when they heard the commander to retreat, they immediately took weapons and evacuated the second trench from the traffic trench behind without hesitation.

The second pillar was fighting vigorously, and the sound of the Tianque gun covered Shiyi's command. He focused on the infantry in front of him, noticing that there was no one around him.

The infantry in front seemed to be fools. Although they were knocked down one by one, one would immediately add one to the next, straightening the wooden barrel-like thing, making Erzhuzi curious about that thing.

"Bang!" Suddenly, the wooden barrel made a loud noise, and huge black smoke came out from it. With the black smoke, flames emerged.

Erzhuzi opened his eyes wide and saw clearly. What shot out from the wooden barrel were countless arrows. Each arrow was carrying a small flame. It didn't require a hard bow and it actually flew into the sky!

So many wooden barrels released countless arrows one after another, flying towards this side like locusts.

Erzhuzi felt a thorn in his heart. He turned his head and said, when was there no one around him?

Oops! Erzhuzi knew that the team had retreated, so he picked up the Tianque gun and hurried to the traffic trench next to him.

"Dong!" A huge thing fell down and just hit Erzhuzi's leg. Suddenly, the meat on his legs was battered. A choking smell was smelled in his nose. Erzhuzi's chest was stuffy and spit out a mouthful of blood. His eyes became less and less open, and darker...

This is Tuotuo's secret weapon: the Huihui cannon fires not the stone bomb, but the fireball!

In the Song Dynasty, fireballs were already used in wars. Black gunpowder balls with low content of nitr and good combustion performance were mixed into balls, and toxic or smoke-producing substances were added to it. Then, paper, hemp or thin porcelain pieces were used to wrap the gunpowder balls with several layers, and grease was applied to prevent moisture and aid combustion. When used, ignite the fireballs, and then throw them to the enemy, killing the enemy with the flame or poisonous smoke generated by their combustion.

There is no Geneva Convention in this era, and this is a naked chemical weapon.

Tuotuo had a sudden idea and used the Huihui cannon to fire the fireball.

The Huihui cannon is a powerful weapon for siege. The range of stone bullets with a fifty kilograms can be 250 steps and seven feet into the ground. However, the opponent's firearm has a longer range. In order to prevent the Huihui cannon from being attacked by the opponent, Tutuo lets the Huihui cannon fire only 20 kilograms of fireballs, and the natural range will be greatly improved, and at least six or seven hundred steps can be shot.

I just asked the cavalry to raid, just luring the opponent to attack and expose their hidden location. Once the cavalry retreated, the infantry attack began. They rushed forward and the Hui Hui cannon attacked behind. They swarmed with dense rain of arrows to eliminate the opponent. The fireballs fired by the Hui Hui cannon completely lost their combat effectiveness with thick smoke.

Now, all the killing weapons have been taken out, just to see if they can work.

Even God gives me such a face. Today it is the north wind. The ferry that is fired can use the wind to increase the range. The thick smoke can be blown south. Even the defenders on the top of the city have to suffer under the thick smoke.

With the launch of the rush, the infantry immediately charged forward quickly and prepared to rush forward to fight with the enemy. However, when they passed by, the other party might have lost their combat effectiveness. At that time, they would stab all the other party to death on the position without hesitation. This is the end of those who dare to resist the court!

"Boom, boom, boom!" The God of War Cannon at the top of the city also began to fight back, and the target pointed directly at the opponent's catapult position. However, the number of God of War Cannons was still too small, and the scattered fireworks could not shoot that far on the top of the city.

The range of the scattered fireworks is only 500 steps, and even at the top of the city, it is only about 600 steps, just enough to reach the Tartar infantry in the front.
To be continued...