Fu Song

Chapter 146 Secret Weapon
Zuo Qiuming looked at the Guangrui army retreating back, and suddenly understood one thing, today is the day of decisive victory, not three days as he thought.

Just now, Wang Jun personally led his troops to appear.

Although this person is only a ruler, he is undoubtedly the number two figure in the Guangrui Army.And what he attacked with him was no longer those party members and the young men and prisoners of war they expelled, but the entire headquarters of the Guangrui Army.

The intensity of the attack rose sharply, and the losses of the defenders immediately rose in a straight line.

A quarter of an hour ago, Guo Peng and two Guangrui soldiers died together. He was hugged by these two men, and the three of them were entangled together not far from Zuo Qiuming, and fell into the city.

The enemy attacked the city wall with great danger.

In fact, they have already occupied a small position on the city wall.

He looked up at the sky, but it was only past noon, today, Xiao Ding would never rest.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat!" Someone shouted from behind, and baskets of steamed buns were brought up, and the broth, which is rarely seen in normal times, was also supplied in buckets these days.

Fighting takes strength.

I usually eat two meals a day, but these two days, it is three meals a day, and every meal is full of steamed buns and broth.

Sitting and eating next to the corpse of a comrade-in-arms is not a good experience for anyone.So although the food was good, the soldiers didn't have much joy. They just mechanically grabbed a few steamed buns, took a bowl of broth, and then walked to the side silently, hurrying up to eat.

If you don't eat enough, you will have no energy. If you don't have energy, you may die when the enemy attacks next time.Go with the brothers who are now neatly stacked against the base of the wall.

The city is eating, and the city is naturally eating too.

However, compared with the gloominess above the city, the city below is much more cheerful.

They have already seen the hope of breaking the city.

"Commander, give me another chance, and I will definitely gain a firm foothold in the city." Zheng Jihua said loudly.Just now, he was the vanguard of Wang Jun's troops who charged up the city wall. The knife marks on the fish scale armor on his body and the blood scab on his head showed the brutality and cruelty of the war.

"You've already tried it, it's up to me next time." Reid stuffed a steamed bun into his mouth in two or three gulps, and drank the steaming soup in one gulp, saying: "Commander, I would like to issue a military order."

Xiao Ding smiled and said: "Okay, Brother Zheng has already severely injured the enemy before, and Brother Lei will come again next time, but this time, we have to make a good arrangement. It is also good to save a few brothers from dying."

The so-called arrangement was presided over by Chen Qiao from the logistics battalion.

Huge slingshots were placed at the forefront of the battlefield.

In fact, they are tree branches that have been cut off one by one, the main pole is buried deep in the ground, and on both sides, it is tied with belts woven from tendon.

With a whistling sound, a stone bullet was ejected by the slingshot and landed on the city wall, making a muffled bang.

Next, more than a dozen stone bullets were shot out, some hit the city, and some flew over the city wall and landed inside the city.

The stone bullets fired by this thing are not big, and the damage caused to the enemies in the city is not big, but the advantage is that the firing speed is fast.

Of course Xiao Ding would not expect to rely on these things to break the siege situation.

What he was really counting on were the things behind Chen Qiao that were covered with felt.

It was a black ceramic jar.

And in the jar, it was filled with gunpowder.

For gunpowder weapons, Xiao Ding actually has no trust at all.Gunpowder weapons have been used in the Song army for some years, but the results have always been unsatisfactory.

Like a swarm of flaming arrows and a general's thunderbolt, the names of each of them are impressive, but the real performance on the battlefield makes the generals sneer.

It can still be bluffing when it first appears.

But that's about it.

Xiao Ding still remembers the scene when he put a nest of flame arrows into actual combat for the first time when he was in Tianmenzhai. With a loud sound, the Liao people's army formation became chaotic in an instant, and then he led the crowd to cover up the kill. He should have achieved good results, but then the rockets fired by another launcher all fell on his brothers. .

All of a sudden, his team was in disarray.

After several battles, the Liao people also figured out the basics of these things. When encountering these things again, the armored soldiers only need to cover their faces and charge forward. It doesn't work.

The general's thunderbolt is about the same.

But after his brother arrived in the army, he was a little obsessed with these things, and he even instructed Luo Gang to evacuate these things from the armory under the appeasement mansion.

Ma Xing is not stingy about these things. The key is that if you distribute these things to other troops, they find it difficult to carry them and manage them.

Before the expedition, Xiao Cheng took Chen Qiao and a group of people to hide in an independent house. I don't know what they were busy with. Anyway, it is said that not only can you see Mars in that house, but even iron things are not allowed to be brought in. One is as frozen as a monkey.

Later Xiao Cheng explained it to Xiao Ding.

It's not that gunpowder is not good, but that the production technology is not good enough, so its power is relatively poor.As for him, although he is powerless to fundamentally change all of this, he can also slightly increase his explosive power.

Those black jars were also specially made, mainly because they were painted with a layer of paint on the outside.In Xiao Cheng's words, the previous jar was full of trachoma, and the airtightness was not good.

After doing all this, Xiao Cheng filled the jar with a lot of finely ground white flour, filled it with a gunpowder bag that he had improved, and sealed the mouth of the jar.

White flour is for eating, but Xiao Cheng uses it as a weapon.

Xiao Ding, who was puzzled, saw Xiao Cheng experimenting with such a jar in a valley, and immediately regarded these jars as treasures.

"Chen Qiao, have you measured the distance? If there is a problem with the wind speed and distance, then the flying cannon will be of no use!" Xiao Ding grabbed Chen Qiao, who was busy, and asked.

"Commander, don't worry, the stone bullets we used just now are exactly the same weight as the flying cannons, and the wind speed has not changed now. The villain guarantees that every flying cannon just landed on the top of the city." Chen Qiao said loudly.

"Okay!" Xiao Ding laughed, "If it's true as you said, after this battle, you will definitely be credited with credit, and by then, you will also have an official status."

"Thank you Commander!" Chen Qiao said happily.

After a day and a half of fighting, Xiao expressed to Zuo Qiuming that he would fight him to the death in the East City, and he also thoroughly implemented this idea during this day and a half, asking Zuo Qiuming to use all his elite forces, They were all transferred to the East City. Now that the battle has reached a fever pitch, Zuo Qiuming has put out all his strength, and Xiao Ding is also going to take out his treasures at the bottom of the box to solve the problem once and for all.

"Lei Dejin, are you ready?" Xiao Ding looked at the attacking team that had gathered behind him.

Lei Dejin reached out his hand and took out two balls of cloth from his ears, and said: "Commander, I have already told my brothers that when we attack, there will be thunder from the sky, and there will be a thunderbolt sound. This is God helping me, don't You have to panic, just follow the commander and work hard to kill the enemy."

"Very good!" Xiao Ding nodded in satisfaction.

"Wang Jun, my second wave!" Xiao Ding patted Wang Jun on the shoulder. "You're right behind me."

"Zhou Huan, after breaking the city, the cavalry you lead must enter the city as quickly as possible to control all strategic points, such as warehouses, barracks, and government offices, and these places must be controlled as soon as possible."

"As ordered!"

"Xin Jian, your iron kite will block the roads outside Yanzhou City and defeat all the troops that escaped from the city." Xiao Ding said.

"Obey!" Xin Jian said loudly.

Xiao Ding turned his head to look at the city wall not far away, clenched his fists, and shouted sharply: "Beat the drum, attack!"

Lei Dejin rushed to the front of the team with a shield in one hand and a simple knife in the other.

As the only generals in the Dingbian Army who were retained and promoted by Xiao Dingrong, both of them were eager to show their abilities in front of the former generals of the Guangrui Army.And to do this, there is only military exploits.

On the city, arrows are like locusts, and stones are like rain.

The running soldiers didn't care about all this at all.

Life and death depend on fate, wealth depends on heaven.

Holding their shields, they ran forward crazily. The further they moved forward, the safer they would be, until they met the layers of Distressed Army on the slope made of straw bags.

The Difficult Army could not remove these bags, but they deployed layers of guards on this slope that was more than [-] meters long. Behind the parapet built by sandbags, there were dense spears and dense bows and crossbows. It is the focus of the Guangrui Army's attack, and it is also the essence of the Dingnan Army.

Lei Dejin who was running looked up at the sky.

The black jar pierced the sky, and on the spinning black, there were dots of flames that could not be distinguished unless one looked carefully.

Redkin grinned.

"Brothers, follow me!" He roared with all his strength, but the voice in his ears was very small, and his soldiers probably couldn't hear any impassioned, but his body movements already represented everything.

There was a huge impact force on the shield, which was the feeling of a lance being poked on it. With his shoulder against the shield, he spun vigorously and unloaded the long lances to the side. His men followed this rotation and snatched Going in, the knife swung up, and the blood burst out!
Zuo Qiuming stood on the top of the city, looking at the black things falling from the sky with some doubts. As a general with the most keen intuition, he knew that it must not be a good thing.

The next moment, the sound of loud explosions sounded one after another, and Zuo Qiuming's ears were buzzing, but he couldn't hear anything in an instant.

(End of this chapter)