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Chapter 1049 The Ming Army Uses Sorcery

There is no doubt that the news brought back by the personal soldiers is exactly the same as that of the messenger just now, but with a little more detail.

For example, the Ming army used [deafening] terrifying firearms, and the military strongholds were breached by terrifying firearms.

Most of the soldiers in the fortified army died or were captured, and only a few escaped and brought back news or they were bombarded with extremely hot iron balls.

The speed of the iron ball was very fast, and it directly smashed the gate of the military village, making the military village a mess. The military village made of wood was impossible to resist the bombardment of this iron bullet, and they had no way to defend.

After the defense of the military village was destroyed, the Ming army's attack became a field battle, or an extremely asymmetric field battle.

Therefore, the Song army was defeated like a mountain, and the loss was a mess.

It's not that they were cowardly or made a mistake, but that the Ming army used a new type of terrorist firearm that they had never seen before, which was different from any firearm in the past.

Wang Yan calmly listened to the news brought back by his guards.

He would not doubt what his personal guard said, but it was hard to believe such a fact, so he decided to go to Fancheng to see Zhou Benyuan in person.

After arriving in Fancheng and seeing Zhou Benyuan, Zhou Benyuan told him that everything was true, although he couldn't believe it, but the fact was that the seven military fortresses were wiped out and destroyed by the Ming army.

"And the Ming army may have no casualties at all. After our people escaped, they were crying, talking about magic tools that sound like thunder, and magic tools that emit fire and smoke.

They just met face to face, they were killed without getting close to the Ming army, their heads were directly smashed, their hands and feet were broken, and blood was spurting out, it must be the sorcery of the Ming army or something..."

Zhou Benyuan had a look of panic on his face, and his tone was panic.

Wang Yan was stunned for a while, and said angrily: "There is no magic weapon in the world! There is no magic! They are all deceptive tricks! It must be a trick! There is no such thing!"

"However, seven military fortresses were really destroyed."

Zhou Benyuan said helplessly: "Fancheng's defense has been destroyed by more than [-]%, if it continues, it will take three days at most, and the Ming army will fight Fancheng's offensive and defensive battle at the end.

Previously, we expected that even if the Ming army moved south, it would take at least a month to make a breakthrough, and it would take at least three months to completely wipe out the perimeter defense!Maybe it can be delayed for the first half of the year, but now..."

"You mean that the three-month thing can be done by the Ming army in three days? Three days? With such a large-scale defense, they can solve it in three days? Then what are we going to fight?"

Wang Yan couldn't sit still, stood up and walked around, anxious.

As far as the military information about the Ming army known to the Song army shows, the Ming army was indeed good at using firearms, and its typical firearms were large rockets and thunder cannons.

The big rocket uses a bed crossbow as a launching device. A bamboo tube containing gunpowder is tied to the crossbow, and the lead is ignited to launch the crossbow, so as to achieve the effect of long-range bombing.

This kind of firearm was widely used by the Ming army during the first Ming-Song War. The reason why the Song army navy was defeated like a mountain was the great contribution of this kind of firearm.

Another kind of firearm is called Thor Cannon, which is a spherical firearm. The Ming army often used catapults to launch it. The Thunder Cannon fell from the sky and fell to the ground, often causing violent explosions.

These two types of firearms have corresponding versions in the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty court also tried to use it on a large scale to fight the Ming army, but the effect was very poor.

According to the description, the Ming military firearms exploded louder and were more powerful than the Southern Song firearms.

Therefore, in recent years, the Southern Song Dynasty has also tried to improve firearms, hoping to achieve the effect of the Ming army's large rockets and Thor cannons, and use this as the main attack direction.

Nothing much has been achieved so far.

They tried their best to imitate them, but they were unable to obtain the powerful power of the Ming army firearms. For example, the explosion effect of the Ming army's Thor cannon was very terrifying. The scenes described by Song Jun and the explosion effects of firearms imitated by gunpowder craftsmen in the Southern Song Dynasty were seen with their own eyes. Differs greatly.

So they think that the Ming army has mastered black technology that they don't know, or magic tricks and the like, and it is very difficult to deal with.

Even so, this type of firearm is unlikely to cause any dimensionality reduction blow to the Southern Song Dynasty.

Xiangyang City and Fancheng are also equipped with a large number of firearms and gunpowder, which he thinks is enough for him to fight against the Ming army, regardless of whether the Ming army will use gunpowder weapons on a large scale.

And from the perspective of the power of the existing gunpowder weapons, it is impossible to easily break through the defense line of the military villages. Some of those military villages were made in a hurry, but many of them were built by the original defenders in the Xiangfan area. It is also very sturdy, and it is by no means a threat to ordinary firearms.

Anyway, the Song army's own firearms are difficult to destroy these army villages, unless the trebuchets attack on a large scale.

However, the accuracy of the trebuchet is very problematic. Throwing 100 yuan of stones may not be able to hit three or five pieces. The main thing is that it is more effective against the city wall.

As for the bed crossbow, there is indeed a certain threat, but the various protective facilities used to deal with the bed crossbow are also in place. Wang Yan personally inspected it before entering Xiangyang City.

So he couldn't believe that this situation would happen in front of his eyes anyway.

Did the Ming army really use sorcery?

Wang Yan couldn't figure it out, Zhou Benyuan couldn't do anything, and the two of them didn't sleep all night.

It's just that they won't make the decision to surrender easily, and it's still far from this time.

When the next day just dawned, the Ming army seized the time to start the second day's demolition of the army village.

The general artillery still opened the way, followed by the chariot general artillery to consolidate the victory, and then the Shenji battalion and the musketeers advanced step by step to deal a severe blow to the Song army in the military village.

Wang Yan and Zhou Benyuan climbed high and looked into the distance, trying to see what kind of weird weapons the Ming army was using, but the distance was too far, and they couldn't see it clearly. sound came.

The military villages collapsed one by one, and the Song army in the military villages was continuously killed by shells and muskets, and their defense lines were leveled little by little.

A hard-built military village, where hundreds of soldiers operated bows, crossbows and firearms to resist, but before they even fought back, they were dizzy and dizzy by the cannonballs of the Ming army. .

When they finally stood firm and prepared to launch a counterattack, another round of artillery fire broke their remaining defense and fighting will.

After two rounds of shelling, there were almost no Song troops who could persist in fighting. The remaining few dared to fight. Some used crossbows, some used crossbows, and some used firearms.

Some brave Song soldiers released arrows when the Ming army was advancing, but they were blocked by swords and shields, and the number was too small to pose any threat.

Some Song army soldiers shouted and used bed crossbows to shoot the Ming army formations. They did fire one or two large crossbow arrows, which caused some threats to the Ming army formations, but they were quickly destroyed and could not continue to fire.

As for firearms, it is better to talk than nothing, mainly to listen to the sound.

The thunderbolt used by Song Jun is loud and can occasionally cause some burning effects, but the power is too small, and many of them are squibs. The fire brittle is somewhat useful. It contains gunpowder, mind if it is ignited, and then it explodes .

The power of the iron shell is not large, but the porcelain shell is unexpectedly lethal. A few people in the attacking square Ming army were injured by the broken porcelain pieces.

As for other fireballs, rockets and other firearms, there are a lot of them.

Large-scale use may still have some effect, but after being bombarded by artillery, there were not many survivors in the Song army's military camp, and even fewer insisted on fighting. In the face of the absolute superiority of the Ming army, they were basically beaten without a second firearm. died.

During the entire battle, Xu Tong even felt that the time it took for the army to destroy the army was not as long as the time it took for the general artillery to be re-deployed.

Maybe it wouldn't have been that long if it wasn't for waiting for the huge and cumbersome general cannon to be moved from its original position to a new firing position and then ready to fire.

After paying minor casualties, He Feihu once again led his troops to level three Song army camps at sunset that day.

(End of this chapter)