In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 337 The Song Army’s war is like a game

After lunch, Zhao Xiaotian found them: "Is there anyone willing to push the cart? Those who can shoot arrows will be given priority. There will be rewards when you come back."

Everyone on the scene looked at each other in shock. The civilians looked at me and I looked at you. Most of them were unwilling to go to the battlefield.

Dazazan looked at the shape of the carriage. As long as people were behind the carriage, the bows and arrows at the top of the city would not be able to shoot at all, unless the carriage was destroyed.

Why are you afraid of being so safe?
What he was waiting for was now.

"I'll go." Two people spoke at the scene almost at the same time.

Dazazan turned around and found that it was his companion Azanbi.

Azanbi stammered: "Captain Zhao, what's the reward?"

"Give me money and supplies. You can go to Diezhou City to get them after you return." Zhao Xiaotian said.

"Can I enter the city?" Azanbi asked directly.

Zhao Xiaotian smiled: "This is not enough, but if you perform well later, you will definitely be given priority to enter the city."

After that, he looked around and saw that his battalion consisted of 500 people.

Zhao Xiaotian said calmly: "After this battle, we should select five households in the camp to enter the city."

500 people represent five hundred households. Zhao Xiaotian said that if he wants to select five households to enter the city, he will choose one from a hundred.

"I'll go." Azanbi said seriously again.

"Me too." Dazazan also said.

Then more people started signing up.

Some people also asked, if I die in battle, what about my reward?
Zhao Xiaotian said that he would take it back to your family outside Diezhou City.

This will make everyone feel more at ease.

In the end, more than 500 people signed up for this camp of 20 people.

Zhao Xiaotian ordered the more than 20 people, and quickly gathered with the people selected from other battalions, pushing ten carriages to the front.

Dazazan discovered that a total of 50 people were selected to push the cart.

Their battalion obtained nearly 1.2 pieces of wood yesterday, all of which were about [-] meters long. Today they only used a very small amount of wood to build the carts. The Song Army only built ten carts, and now they are going to attack the city?
This time it was Zhao Xiaotian who led the team.

Zhao Xiaotian led ten Song soldiers, followed by fifty herdsmen. There was a Song soldier behind each cart, and the Song soldiers also carried shields on their backs.

"Don't move. Just listen to the order for a while. If I let you go forward, push me forward. If I let you stop, stop. Just like when you were training, follow the orders and prohibitions." Zhao Xiaotian walked behind the crowd and said: "Everyone will do it for a while. People carry bows and arrows on their backs and shoot as they please. If they want to shoot, they can shoot, and if they don’t want to, don’t shoot. However, if they kill a Mongolian soldier, they will be rewarded with a hundred coins and five kilograms of sugar, sugar, and salt. If more than ten Mongolian soldiers are killed, the whole family will be rewarded. Go into town.”

The herdsmen looked shocked and looked at each other with sharp eyes.

Dazazan couldn't help but reach out and touch the One Stone Four Dou Bow on his back.

The carts were two meters wide, and behind each cart were five herdsmen and a Song army. It was okay to stand side by side, but the Song army also carried a shield just in case.

Everyone stood there and waited quietly.

It was noon.

The various camps of the Song Army are gathering. Their fifty men and ten carriages are still five hundred steps away from the west gate of Shazhou, at the entrance of the Song Army's camp.

After a while, the Song army brought a large number of helmets, and each herdsman was given one.

Dazazan quickly took it and put it on his head. The helmet was a bit heavy and the anti-arrow effect must be good. Dazazan's confidence greatly increased.

After a while.

Someone arrived at the scene with a water bag and began to sprinkle water on the car, especially on the hemp rope tied to the car. A lot of water was sprinkled on it.

Zhao Xiaotian shouted on the spot: "The hemp ropes of these pieces of wood should have been soaked in water last night."

"Didn't Vice General Yan forget?" someone beside him muttered.

Song Jun wetted the top and bottom of the cart, and after that, he gave them many water bags, including two for each cart.

That's when they wet the cart.

Woo hoo, the horn sounded in the Song army camp, and then large groups of Song troops began to leave the camp.

Dazazan stood there, watching a steady stream of Song troops leaving the camp behind him.

The first to leave the camp were the five artillery pieces of the Song Army. A wave of artillerymen from the Song Army pushed the artillery directly behind them, and then stood still.

Then five more four-wheeled carriages were pushed behind them.

This four-wheeled carriage seemed to have just been built and was quite crude. Looking at it, Dazazan felt that the carriage would fall apart in a short time.

But they weren't that far away from Shazhou City, so there shouldn't be any problem with a wave of attacks, but they probably wouldn't be needed afterwards.

After a while, five trebuchets buzzed on the scene.

The trebuchet was also just assembled. Song Jun brought many trebuchet parts, but only five lever arms.

After capturing Shazhou, you can build a new lever arm there.

At this time, Dazazan determined that the main attack direction of the Song army was the west city gate, but he seemed to have brought too little.

Five cannons and five trebuchets, is this enough to siege the city?
After the trebuchet came out, a large number of Song Army archers and spear and shield soldiers also came out, one after another behind the trebuchet.

Among them, there are many people among the gun and shield soldiers carrying the ladder, basically two people carry one.

Finally, the Song Army cavalry came out.

At the same time as the Song Army cavalry came out, someone ran to Zhao Xiaotian and said something. Zhao Xiaotian waved his hand: "Let's go and push the carriage towards the west gate."

"Hurry, hurry, hurry." Daza praised the one in the middle and quickly told everyone to start pushing the cart.

With a buzzing sound, the cart began to push forward. Everyone bent down and looked ahead through the gap between the wooden sticks.

As soon as they moved their front legs, the artillery behind them also followed.

Dazazan looked back and saw that each artillery piece of the Song Army was pushed by four people. Later, he learned that each of them was wearing triple armor, with leather armor on the inside, zha armor in the middle, and cotton armor on the outside, covering from head to toe. , the protection is extremely strict, it should be to prevent the Mongolian army's arrows, because it has too many holes, it looks extremely clumsy, and it is relatively slow to push the cannon away.

In addition, each person was accompanied by a Song army holding a long shield.

This kind of long shield was something Dazazan had never seen before. He only knew that it existed in the Song Army, but had never seen it in other departments.

Behind the artillery were several carriages. The carriages were improvised and quite crude, but they contained shells for the artillery and kerosene bombs for the trebuchets.

Behind the carriage were camels, and several camels were carrying things, including gunpowder for artillery.

The camel is followed by the trebuchet, and behind it is the divine arm archer.

Then there are the pacers.

Then behind the spear and shield, and finally the cavalry.

The Song army's formation was clearly layered and relatively dense.

Because at this time, apart from the Song Army, there was no artillery that could hit fifty steps away, and there were no long-range trebuchets or powerful octagonal crossbows at the top of Shazhou City. Therefore, the Song Army was quite relieved. From the carriages in the front row of Dazazan to the back The distance between the two sides was less than thirty steps.

Almost at the same time as they moved forward, Song troops moved forward from all directions in Shazhou City.

Seeing the Song army beginning to attack the city, the Mongolian general in the city also hurriedly mobilized all personnel to the top of the city.

When the Song army moved forward, Adachi was already standing at the top of the city watching.

He is now at the west city gate. Because the terrain here is relatively flat, he estimates that the Song army will attack from this side.

I saw the Song army outside the city moving forward, blocking out the sky and the sun.

Shazhou City did not have a moat, so the Song army used a ladder to come up.

He took a brief look and saw that the Song Army had dozens of ladders on each side of the west city gate and slowly moved forward.

But facing the city gate, what was in front of the row was not a ladder, but a cart that I had never seen before, and behind it were artillery and trebuchets.

"The Song army may want to attack the west city gate." Adachi said immediately: "Continue to strengthen the city gate."

"No." Someone ran away next to him.

The Mongolian army began to reinforce the city gate yesterday.

Because when Wo Kuotai returned to the grassland last time, he ordered various places to be careful of the Song army's artillery attacks.

So yesterday Atachi saw the Song army arriving and immediately ordered to block the city gate with blue bricks and stones.

In the past, when the Xixia army defended, they would nail some wooden boards behind the city gate and then put dozens of people on top.

This was the most commonly used routine in Western cities during the Western Expedition.

Dozens or even hundreds of people were standing behind the city gate, and they couldn't push it open no matter how hard they pushed outside.

Now, in order to prepare for artillery, the Mongolian army has piled up a new brick wall nearly half a meter thick behind the city gate after continuous reinforcement yesterday and today.

"I want to see how powerful the Song Army's artillery is." Atachi sneered at this time, with a sinister look on his face, obviously not taking the Song Army's artillery seriously.

In addition, the Mongolian army also had kerosene. When the Song army arrived under the city gate, they poured the kerosene directly and set fire to the inside and outside of the urn city.

At that time, the Song army will be burned to the point of crying like ghosts and wolves howling, and it will also be able to block the Song army's attack path.

At this moment, Atachi still thought that his arrangement was quite safe.

However, there is a disadvantage after blocking the city gate, that is, his own soldiers and horses cannot leave the city for a short time, making it difficult to make a surprise attack. However, he is now focused on guarding Shazhou and has no intention of going out for a surprise attack.

Just as Adachi was thoughtful, the horns outside the city were getting louder and louder, and the Song army was getting closer and closer.

The front carriage was now within a hundred steps.

The divine arm bow behind the carriage has reached about 120 steps.

"Stop." Zhao Xiaotian suddenly shouted.

The carriages all stopped.

Dazazan was surprised and happy. It seemed that the training was effective, and it was really forbidden.

"Get ready--" Dazazan heard someone shouting from behind again.

"shoot."

There was a buzz in the air, and the overwhelming rain of arrows headed towards the city.

Atachi was startled and reflexively squatted against the wall.

The subordinates around him quickly raised their shields over his head.

Dang dang dang, the scene was like rain, many arrows were shot directly on the crenellations of the city wall, and some were also shot on the city head.

Many Mongolian soldiers were caught off guard. Some were hit by arrows and some screamed.

"Song Gou's arrows are really far away." A La Gu cursed loudly.

"Let's go, let's go." Atachi didn't dare to stay here and moved slightly to the left.

"Go forward." Zhao Xiaotian called again.

The cart was pushed forward another ten steps, entering the ninetieth step.

"Stop." Zhao Xiaotian called again.

Dazazan is on the far left side of the center carriage.

The distance between the carriages and carriages is very close, only twenty centimeters.

He turned his head slightly and looked at the city head, and touched his bow. He felt that it could shoot so far, but it was definitely not lethal enough.

"Shoot." Someone shouted again from behind.

Buzz, buzz, the second wave of the divine arm bow shot towards the city.

The Mongolian army was shot with no temper, because their rifles and bows could not shoot so far, so they could only watch helplessly.

There was some brief panic at the top of the city. Many civilians who had been forcibly conscripted by the Mongolian army were also at the top of the city.

Those with shields held up their shields, and those without shields found the safest place to squat in a corner.

But everyone is fighting for the corner, and many people can't grab it.A Khitan man about 40 years old was holding a spear that was just issued today in his hand. He looked around, not knowing where to hide.

This was a newly recruited civilian husband who went to the top of the city to help. The first wave of arrows missed him.

He was looking at a loss when he suddenly saw people running away everywhere. He was about to run to the corner and squat down, but he found that everyone was running towards the corner. He ran back and forth for several times without finding a place.

"Luzhen, squat down, find a place to squat down -" a Mongolian soldier not far away shouted at him.

The Mongolian army was also a Khitan, and this 40-year-old man was recruited by his uncle.

Jinglu really wanted to respond.

Pu Chi Pu Chi, two arrows hit his forehead and chest.

"Ah" he screamed and fell to the ground.

After the man was on the ground, arrows fell one after another from the air, and several arrows fell on him in an instant.

"Damn you." The Mongolian soldier yelled, raised his shield in one hand, bent down and walked forward, trying to drag the Khitan to the corner.

"Be careful." Someone shouted again.

The Mongolian army turned around and saw the darkness in the sky from the crenel, and the Song army's arrow rain came again.

Damn it, Song Jun’s arrows don’t cost money?

Doesn't archery require any effort?
The Mongolian army cursed in his heart.

During the Western Expedition, the Mongolian army was famous for its rain of arrows. Usually, a few waves of arrows could make the opponent howl before the fight started. Now they faced the Song army. The Song army's arrow array was more powerful than the Qin army, and they were all equipped with weapons. Sheaths, arm guards and other items can save effort when shooting arrows, and the continuous shooting time can be long.

In a short time, five or six waves of arrows rained down on the city.

After the Mongolian soldier crouched past with a small buckler in his hand, he finally managed to pull his clan uncle, and found that his clan uncle had lost his breath, and there were various screams from all around.

He shook his head and sighed, and just as he was about to turn around, he felt a stinging pain in his back, and then there was a continuous clanging sound on the shield, and he knew he had been hit by an arrow.

He rolled back to the corner of the wall.

Sure enough, he was hit by an arrow in the back.

But when he left just now, his place was occupied by someone else, and now he came back and didn't stick to the corner.

He could only bear the pain and hold the shield above his head, fearing the Song army's missiles.

"Hold it, hold it, don't shoot yet." At this time, the shouts of the Mongolian generals were everywhere.

The Song army is approaching, shooting a wave of arrows every few steps. Anyone who gets up now will die.

Based on Bendachi's experience, the Song army had to get within fifty steps before they could counterattack, but if they wanted to have the best killing effect, they had to take 34 steps.

The Mongolian army mostly uses horse bows. Even now they are defending the city, they still use horse bows a lot.

Because most of the time, they will go out of the city to fight the enemy. The soldiers in the city are all cavalry, not infantry.

This is due to geographical restrictions. Here are all servant armies from Xixia, Xiliao, Jurchen, Turks and other places, and they are good at horse bows.

In Hebei, Shanxi and other places, there are more Han troops among the Mongolian army, so there will be a large number of infantry bows.

After Yingdachi finished speaking, he quietly looked over from the crenel. Song Jun from the city was pushing the cart forward slowly. The cart was getting closer and closer. Yingdachi felt a little headache just looking at it. The new tool looks good at preventing arrows, right?
For a while, it was almost impossible to shoot the people behind the chariot from the top of the city.

However, the Song Army's carts were relatively simple and made entirely of wood. Unlike the Later Jin Dynasty, which had stones and sand sandwiched in the middle to prevent fire.

So Yingda Chi immediately reacted and reached out to call a soldier: "Tell someone to prepare rockets. Later, we will use rockets to shoot the Song Dynasty's cart."

"Here" his subordinates immediately turned around and left.

The Mongolian army also used rockets, which were wrapped in cloth, dipped in kerosene and then fired.

But it was usually used at night, so Chi just remembered it, and his men hurried down to the city to find someone to make rockets.

After giving the order according to Da Chi, I looked back and saw that the Song Army's carriage had already entered about fifty steps.

"It's coming, it's coming, everyone, get up." The scene was filled with shouts, and officers at all levels of the Mongolian army shouted.

The Mongolian troops who were squatting under the corner of the city stood up one after another.

"Swish, swish, swish." The Mongolian army fired at the bottom of the city, and the Song army also fired at the top.

There were screams at the top of the city, and this wave of Mongolian troops suffered another heavy loss.

Many people shoot at the car, which is completely useless. They either shoot on top of the car or behind the car.

There are also those who push artillery towards the back of the carriage.

But next to each cannon pusher was a Song soldier holding a large shield.

This large shield was quite large. It was held high in the air at a 45-degree angle, just covering the tops of the two people's heads.

The arrows falling from the air hit the big shield intensively, completely useless.

In addition, there are carriages following the artillery on both sides of the artillery, which can also block the arrows.

The trebuchets behind the artillery stopped 150 steps away, and the kerosene bombs of the trebuchets were also unloaded.

The Song Army's carriage stopped temporarily after entering fifty steps.

Zhao Xiaotian squatted behind the cart, indicating that everyone could sit down and rest, and those who were willing to shoot could also shoot.

Dazazan and Azanbi both held arrows with eager expressions on their faces.

Dazazan was not in a hurry and looked back behind him first.

The artillery of the Song Army also stopped. The five artillery pieces were about ten steps away from them and about 60 steps away from the city gate.

The Song army was adjusting, and they probably felt that their carriage was a little in the way. A Song army ran over with a shield above his head, squatting slightly.

"Move this carriage two steps to the left and make room in the middle."

"Move that carriage two steps to the right."

The car was fine-tuned on site.

The Song Army's artillery retreated a few steps further.

During this period, the two sides were still shooting at each other, but it was still a bit difficult for the Mongolian artillery on the wall to reach [-] steps away.

There were carriages on both sides in front of each artillery piece, which not only blocked the line of sight, but also blocked arrows.

The gunners were all wearing body armor, and they were followed by people holding shields.

A Dachi at the top of the city gave orders from time to time at the crenel: "Shoot the Song Army artillerymen, shoot the Song Army artillerymen."

The Mongolian troops concentrated their fire and tried to shoot the Song army's gunners.

But the back row of divine arm archers and infantry archers of the Song army were all around the artillery, and they were also shooting at the city head.

There was a hail of arrows from both sides, and the Mongolian soldiers suffered heavy losses as they were short of arrows.

Dazazan squatted behind the carriage and watched for a while, and found that the Mongolian troops at the top of the city were shot by the Song army and did not dare to come forward easily. Many people stood up in a hurry and shot an arrow and then quickly retreated.

Moreover, most of the Mongolian troops ignored the carriages and directly fired at the artillery and Song army shooters behind them.

He turned around and nodded to Azanbi. Azanbi understood and walked to the other side of the carriage.

There are two people, one on the far left and one on the far right.

The two looked at each other again and cocked their arrows at the same time.

Dazazan put an arrow in his bow and drew it half full.

His eyes were fixed on the city head.

I don't know how long it took, suddenly.

The figures on the top of the city were shaking, and a Mongolian soldier suddenly stood up from the crenel, drew his bow and arrow, and aimed it at the Song army's formation.

Dazazan quickly took a half-step to the left, moved half of his body out of the cart, raised his bow at the same time, and shot an arrow based on his feeling without even taking aim. As soon as the arrow left the string, he shrank back to the cart like lightning.

"One." Dazazan shouted.

He didn't even look at it, thinking that he would definitely win.

"Ah" someone not far away screamed and fell to the ground.

"Good shot." Zhao Xiaotian's voice rang out.

Zhao Xiaotian seemed to be smiling but was not smiling. He was squatting behind the cart and nodding to Dazazan. Zhao Xiaotian was from the infantry camp and was not good at riding and shooting, so he kept following them.

Zhao Xiaotian didn't hold a bow either, but he saw with his own eyes that Dazazan hit the target with an arrow.

This Dazazan is really powerful. He didn't even take aim and shot back instantly.

This type of archery based on feeling is also called blind shooting, and it is actually not difficult. Most of the Mongolian troops and grassland horseback people have practiced it since they were young.

But many people don't always hit the target, but they only have a certain hit rate.

When Dazazan heard Zhao Xiaotian's praise, he grinned, then he reloaded his arrow and looked towards the city head through the gap again.

After waiting for a few breaths, he went out again like lightning, shot out another arrow, and then retracted into the carriage.

"Plop!" A Mongolian soldier at the top of the city just stretched out his head. Before he could shoot an arrow, he was shot in the forehead by an arrow.

Zhao Xiaotian's expression changed slightly.

This time Dazazan was projectile.

Dazazan knew that there was someone in that direction, and he was squatting on the ground. He didn't even see the person, so he launched directly up.

The opponent was squatting under the corner, but as soon as he stood up, he was shot by an arrow.

This arrow is more difficult. In later generations' terms, it still has to calculate the parabola.

"Awesome." Zhao Xiaotian gave a thumbs up this time.

Dazazan grinned even wider, with a silly smile on his face.

After Zhao Xiaotian finished speaking, he turned around and walked away, looking for another Song Jun to pass the shield, then holding the shield on his head and back, he stepped back.

Dazazan didn't know where Zhao Xiaotian had gone, and continued to look for opportunities to shoot upwards.

He now specifically looks at the position of the Mongolian army, and then directly throws it up blindly. The hit rate is quite high. Of course, because there is a city wall blocking it, sometimes the hit is not sure.

Only Dazazan was calculating silently in his heart, and others could not see whether he had hit or not.

"Four." When Dazazan shot the fourth one, Zhao Xiaotian came back with two barrels of arrows on his back and a finger cot.

Dazazan took the finger cot and put it on his finger. He instantly felt that he could shoot another hundred arrows.

He shot several arrows one after another, and he felt that they were all hit, but because some of them could not be seen, he could not determine the number of people.

Not for a while.

"Squat down, squat down, cover your ears." Suddenly Zhao Xiaotian shouted.

People behind the carriages all around squatted down and covered their ears.

"Bang" a cannon sounded at the scene, and the Song Army's first cannon was fired.

The Song army brought a total of five cannons and fired at the city gate from about [-] steps away.

After the first round of five cannons were fired, none of them hit the wall, and all of them hit the city wall.

Dazazan was dumbfounded. The Song soldiers seemed to be used to it and were not in a hurry.

However, the sound of artillery still frightened the Mongolian troops. Many Mongolian soldiers did not dare to raise their heads when the artillery was fired and squatted down one after another.

A Dachi, who was at the top of the city, cursed and said that the Song army's artillery could not hit them, so don't be afraid.

The two sides exchanged shots again.

Dazazan took the opportunity to shoot several more arrows, and felt like he hit two more. Although he didn't know if all the six people he shot were dead, he estimated that he should have hit six.

It was really exciting. I don’t know why, but Dazazan suddenly felt that following the Song army to fight and play games was exciting and fun.

(End of this chapter)