It seems that a hot knife can easily cut off the grease. The red-hot round iron bullet will greatly increase its penetration on the wooden board. Not only that, the red-hot round iron bullet has extremely high temperatures, and there are flammable objects wherever it passes, which is even more powerful than setting fire to the tinder tank.

The seemingly calm "turtle shell" was already extremely chaotic. The solid round iron bullet penetrated the log shield, and scorching shells flew everywhere. The space inside the shield was extremely narrow. Although the shield car stopped, a large number of horses were led out, in addition to the 10,000 kilograms of giant cannons, there were horses that pulled the winch to load ammunition for the giant cannon, piled up like mountains of shells and gunpowder, and hundreds of sweaty gunners had almost no place to settle down. The scene here was like hell on earth, with hot shells piercing through the wooden shield without warning. The gunner ran away in panic. Once hit or rubbed by the shell, either the body and head were different or the limbs were broken, and the end was extremely miserable. The horse was whining while screaming, kicking and biting, and the driver couldn't even pull it.

Among the panicked crowd, someone stood still. Wu Chun looked at the solid shells that kept penetrating the wooden shield, his lips trembled, and murmured: "How is it possible...How could this be...Impossible..." He stood there blankly, standing straight, letting the running people knock him down, without hiding, and just murmured, "Why,...Why is this?" His lost pupil suddenly appeared in a hint of panic.

A dark red round iron bomb penetrated the wooden shield, and rushed straight to the pile of powder barrels with hot air, and smashed in with a "bang". Then, a ball of flames soared into the sky, "Boom--" "Boom--" "Boom--" The gunpowder exploded erupted a huge wave of air, sweeping in all directions. Everything in the shield car was blown up, and blood and dust flew everywhere. Not only that, the wave of air was like a giant hand, overturned the 10,000-jin iron barrel cannon, and then shattered the wooden shield car that was covering the outside, with wood chips, iron filings, and sand and stone flying everywhere. With a huge shock, a stream of smoke and dust rose into the air on the ground, which seemed particularly strange in the darkness of the rays of light.

At the city of Nanshan City, the Liao army and the Han army were both stunned by the power of the huge explosion. Zhao Xingde looked at the rising smoke and dust and let out a long breath. The ten thousand pounds of iron barrel cannon and giant shield chariot were the morale of the Liao army. After the explosion, outside the gap in the city wall, the panic Liao army was unable to stand the battle. Under the attack of the slapped raids on the city wall, they retreated one after another. The Han army seized this rare opportunity to repair the city wall.

Xiao Tachi was almost overturned to the ground. He finally controlled the frightened war horse. He looked at the huge smoke and dust with a blue face. A red sun was rising from behind the horizon, and thousands of golden morning lights were reflected on the ice. Just a moment ago, the Liao army was still in a rainbow of morale, and it was retreating in a hurry. Even Yelu Bo and Xiao Ping did not stop it. The Han army on the city wall burst out with huge cheers, which seemed to be ridiculously mocking in Xiao Tachi's ears.

"The city wall has collapsed, we want to conquer Nanshan City!" He pointed the horse whip in his hand forward. The damaged city wall, the corpse piled up into mountains, and the soaked red earth mound, was like a huge wound that kept bleeding.

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"General, the journey to Zhenzhou is only eight hundred miles away." said Shi Xiaobing, the chief of the marching army.

"Well," Zhu Yanheng looked up at the setting sun on the west side. After the march that day, his legs were also a little sore, but he still ordered, "March ten miles northward to the Yinma River to camp." "Yes." Shi Xiao was Zhu Yanheng's old subordinate and immediately went to set up a marching camp. Zhu Yanheng narrowed his eyes slightly and hid a sharp look in his eyes.

Beizhou was seized by the Meerbo people, and General Zhu Yanheng, the Anbei General, was extremely frightened and angry. Where is the Beizhou? Duhan City was the former Japanese military mansion of the Anbei Army, the fiefs of the three founding dukes and marquises of the founding kings and lords of countless Beizhou people. Even Your Majesty, because he had served in the Cavalry Army, Tiyelai also had the mantra of "I am a native of Beizhou". Now Beizhou was actually plundered by the small barbarians. Unexpectedly, the news reached Duhuang, and the court had a lot of criticism about the Anbei Army. After learning the news, Zhu Yanheng immediately handed over the military affairs to Zhuang Zuobang, the commander of the Anbei Army, leaving Duhan Army and the Tongqiu Army. 15,000 Yinhu Cavalry and the Andong Army continued to attack Datong Mansion. He himself led the Cavalry Army and 15,000 Yinhu Cavalry to quickly rescue the north.

On the way to the march, Zhu Yanheng received the military newspaper from Qin Duke Zhao and other Beizhou nobles to expel the Meerbo people from Beizhou. He breathed a sigh of relief and felt a deep shame. According to the court system, the regiment training troops could not cross the state boundary without the consent of the Guardian Mansion. However, after the Meerbo people left Beizhou and entered Zhenzhou, they not only did not restrain themselves, but instead robbed them all the way. Although Zhenzhou had already taken precautions, they were still in chaos everywhere.

Since the discovery of the presence of the Meerbo cavalry, the Xia cavalry left behind in Zhenzhou have sought the enemy to fight many times, but they have not achieved much results. Wu Mingchang, the commander of the Tayan Army, realized that the horse thieves seemed to have hidden tricks, so he insisted on shrinking their troops and defending the strategy of waiting for assistance. Zhenzhou is not suitable for farming, and there has never been a warehouse city built before. Nearly 3,000 Tayan Army soldiers and 300 Cavalry soldiers were scattered to various counties, gathering Yinhuo, forming a large camp where tens of thousands of people gathered to defend the robbery of the horse thieves. The remaining 1,500 Tayan Army and 200 Cavalry soldiers continued to guard Hengzhai Fort.

Hengzhai Fort was originally the capital of the Zhaoyao Department of the Northwest Liao Kingdom. It was seized by the Xia Kingdom decades ago and renamed Hengzhai Fort. The Anbei Army Command and the Cavalry Army were moved here to garrison. However, the power of the Xia Kingdom was not as deep-rooted as Beizhou and Lingzhou. Near Zhenzhou, there were many tribes who were hostile to Xia Kingdom. A few years ago, the Haidu Khan Meierbo tribe that Zhu Yanheng captured was strictly counted and was also in the boundary of Zhenzhou. Therefore, the Meierbo people started to stir up trouble in Zhenzhou, which was even more powerful than Beizhou. Zhu Yanheng received the news that several nearby tribes and the Meierbo people were actually connected together, trying to attack Hengzhai Fort, and they were delusional to avenge Haidu Khan and occupy the plump grasslands of the Tuwula River and the Luqu River basin.

"You jumping rats, how dare you deceive me and your general's blade is not good?" Zhu Yanheng narrowed his eyes slightly again. His sharp and cold eyes flashed away. A bloody setting sun was slowly sinking under the horizon in the distance.

Four thousand and five hundred cavalrymen were walking behind Zhu Yanheng. This was a silent marching formation, with long shadows slowly sweeping through the undulating weeds. Except for the general taller war horses, the cavalry army was almost no different from other cavalry, and even more ordinary. The armor was covered with various rough fur coats and cotton jackets. The military robe had worn holes and only a piece of sheepskin was thickly patched. The soldiers were dark in their faces and marching silently most of the time. All the weapons were covered in thick sewn leather hoods. In the marching formation, the only conspicuous ones were the white eagle on the scout's shoulders and the night watch hounds that were joking around the war horses. Following behind the cavalry, the Yinhu Cavalry seemed particularly honest.

On the grassland, the Cavalry Army was a powerful force in all the tribes. The only guard in the Anbei Army Division had iron hooves all over the desert and was invincible. The reputation of the Cavalry Army was even spread to the Liao Kingdom. Every time the envoy of the Xia Kingdom went to Beijing to meet the Emperor of Liao Kingdom, the Emperor of Liao always asked about the recent situation of the Cavalry Army.

Since Emperor Weiyuan Chen An served in the Cavalry Army when he was young, it has become a tradition for the Crown Prince of Xia Kingdom to serve in the Cavalry Army to show the royal family's importance to the Anbei Army. The Crown Prince Chen Chong of the current dynasty had served as a captain in the Cavalry Army and was leading the base camp to guard the Hengzhai Fort with the Tayan Army. This is also the reason why Zhu Yanheng immediately returned to the Hengzhai Fort.

Above the heads of 20,000 cavalry, an eagle flew around, as if looking for prey, and finally dived in one direction, and stopped on the shoulder of a man. It was the Khan of the Meerbo, Boshenghuo Meerbo. While gently stroked the feathers of the eagle with his hands, he said to the generals beside him: "Looking at the situation of the eagle, the Xia army should have gone to the Luqu River. What is the situation when the various divisions of the alliance come to meet?"

"Eighteen tribes have set out. Everyone will join the alliance in Tuwulahewan and intercept Zhu Yanheng, the evil thief!" said Timur, the brave general, who said, subconsciously and vigilantly looking around. In order to prevent alarming the Xia army, Boshenghuo Meierbo only brought twenty cavalry to approach, while the Meierbo army arrived in the far north, waiting for the tribes that came to the alliance. According to Datong Prefecture, Zhu Yanheng only brought 20,000 cavalry, and the tribes of the Meierbo League had a total of 40,000 cavalry.

Over the years, all tribes on the grassland have been frightened. Unlike the strategies of the Liao and Song dynasties to appease and detain, the Xia Kingdom conquered a tribe, completely ignored the interests of the original tribe nobles, and only selected warriors as soldiers, while the others were taken as Yinhu. If the tribe nobles were a little dissatisfied, they would die and destroy. Because of this, these tribes elected Tuoer Melbo as Haidu Khan and planned to jointly fight against the Anbei Military Office. Unexpectedly, before the alliance was successful, the Anbei Military Office raided the Meerbo tribe and killed Haidu Khan. To the east of the Xiaohai, the tribes on both sides of the Luqu River were like frightened birds. In the past two years, in addition to recruiting tribes under the wings of the Liao Kingdom, Boshenghu Melbo secretly contacted various tribes to become enemies with the Xia Kingdom.

Some of these eleven tribes were afraid of the expansion of Xia's power to the east, and the leaders were unwilling to let go of the tribes and became ordinary soldiers or Yinhuo. Some were bought by Boshenghuo and Meerbo with a large number of tea cloth, while others obeyed Boshenghuo's dispatch of the Northwest recruitment envoy of Liao Kingdom and led his troops to assist in the war. Many tribe cavalry marched towards the river bends of the Tuwula River at the same time, with most nearly 10,000 and more than 1,000.

Note: Luqu River, Yinma River, and the current Klulun River.
Chapter completed!