Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 608
At noon, the [-] cavalry Liao army finally arrived at Baosai City in a mighty manner. Baosai City is the only way to go to Hejian Mansion. A wide official road directly passes through the county seat. Galloping directly from the wilderness, infantry can barely do it, but the heavy trucks will not work, and the heavy trucks must take the flat official road.

This is also the main reason why the Song army defended the big city. The big cities on the border are all strategic passages. If the Liao army just cavalry goes south, they don't need to consider official roads, but they can't attack the city, and it is difficult to get supplies. , but if you bring infantry and luggage, then they have to face the big city that lies across the official road.

Yelu Kunping, the leader of the West Route Army of the Liao Army, rode on his horse and looked at Baosai City from a distance. He frowned. If he captured this city, he might have to pay the price of thousands of casualties. Yelu Kunping also felt dizzy. Great, in the past, the Song army would fight against the two armies and fight fiercely. If they lost, they could retreat quickly. Mouth, had to gnaw hard bones.

"Order the army to camp on the spot!"

With Yelu Kunping's order, [-] Liao troops stationed in a large camp ten miles away from the county seat.

Soldiers of the Liao Army set up tents and buried pots for cooking, but they couldn't even find firewood for cooking. The woods were all wiped out, so they had to find some shrub branches, or dig out the roots and chop up the firewood. .

The Liao army did not bring a battalion fence either. It was too heavy to carry, and they did not use spears. It would take at least 20 spears to surround a large camp covering an area of ​​[-] acres. Multiple weapon reserves.

The Liao army simply dug a trench and sent a large number of ranger scouts all over the camp to prevent the Song army from approaching the Liao army camp with manpower defense.

Throughout the night, the Liao army camp was brightly lit, and thousands of artisans accompanying the army installed splicing siege weapons overnight. The siege weapons of the Liao Kingdom were learned from the Song Dynasty, but the precision was relatively rough, far inferior to that of the Song Dynasty. They were the most important There are three types of siege weapons in China, one is siege ladders, including cloud ladders, ordinary siege ladders and reverse siege ladders, the other is battering rams and trebuchets, and the third is nest cars and bridge cars. The Liao army did not carry battering rams and trebuchets, nor did they carry nest carts, which was really inconvenient.

They carried a large number of siege ladders and eight bridge carts. The bridge carts were used to deal with the moat. Each bridge cart was loaded with more than a dozen row bridges. , When the bridge is directly placed on the moat during the battle, the function of the moat will be invalidated.

Bridge carts are carts that carry this kind of bridges. Each bridge cart carries more than a dozen such bridges, which are pulled by four strong oxen and follow in the baggage team.

In the morning of the next day, the low drums began to beating. Ten thousand infantrymen of the Liao Army went out to fight, and five thousand cavalry cooperated with them. With a large number of Han craftsmen, their metallurgy and armor manufacturing levels have also advanced by leaps and bounds. The armor and weapons they made are no less than that of the Song army. Coupled with their powerful cavalry, the combat effectiveness of the Liao army is still far stronger than that of the Song army. Otherwise, the Song Dynasty It will not be humiliating to sign the Tanyuan Alliance and the subsequent additional coins.

Otherwise, Fan Ning would not have given up on the large-scale battles that he had been pursuing all along, and instead proposed the idea of ​​a national power war.

This time the infantry brought by the Liao army were mainly Han and Bohai people, and the cavalry were Khitan and Xi people. On the first day of attacking the city, it was naturally the turn of the Han army.

The [-] Han Chinese Liao soldiers assembled three miles away from the east city. Behind them, the [-] Xiren cavalry and archers were ready. With the earth-shattering sound of war drums, the [-] Liao troops took the lead in launching to the west city of Baosai County. attack.

The [-] Song troops and [-] militiamen on the city head are also ready for battle. The army is composed of [-] archers and [-] spear troops. Arrows, each big arrow is three feet long and has a range of five hundred steps. It is the weapon with the longest range in the Song Army.

Forty large trebuchets were also installed behind the soldiers, which could throw [-]-pound boulders two hundred steps away. However, with the development of firearms, the Song army no longer threw stones, but threw paper shells, thunder, Shell Fire Thunder and Porcelain Shell Fire Thunder.

Before the advent of the iron shell fire thunder, the porcelain fire thunder was the most powerful. A porcelain bottle weighed about [-] catties. After the explosion, it would be injured by the splash of porcelain pieces, but the killing range of this porcelain fire thunder was very small, with a maximum circumference of five meters And if it explodes too late, it will fall to the ground and shatter.

In the battle against Xixia during the reign of Song Renzong, this kind of porcelain fire thunder was further developed. The Song army installed hundreds of poison-hardened iron nails in porcelain bottles, and the iron nails flew and shot people and horses. Ten meters.

Before the advent of Tiehuolei, Song Jun's firearms were considered weak, ostentatious, good-looking and useless, and it was better to throw rolling stones, which can directly knock over a dozen people.

But it was not until the iron fire thunder came out that firearms had a revolutionary change. When a lightning strike was fired, the sound shook for dozens of miles, and within a hundred steps were all dust. Song Jun relied on dozens of iron fire thunders to scare the Three Buddhas Out of courage, he raised his flag and surrendered.

But today, Tie Huolei will be on the battlefield of Song and Liao for the first time, and I don't know what the effect will be?
The [-] Liao troops lined up in a long square formation and approached the city. They got closer and closer, and when they reached the [-]-pace line, Cao Wenjing yelled sharply, "Launch the bed crossbow!"

Five hundred bed crossbows were fired at the same time, and [-] large arrows flew up towards the densely packed Liao army.

Although the first Liao army of [-] people were all Han Chinese in Youzhou, on the battlefield, it was either you die or I live. The Song army will never show mercy just because the opponent is Han.

Fifteen hundred large arrows rained into the enemy's ranks. Liao soldiers greeted them with huge shields, but neither shields nor armor could stop the powerful bed crossbow. Liao soldiers fell down from the arrows. More than [-] people were killed or injured in one round.

The Song Army's bed crossbow opened the prelude to the war, and the Liao Army's drums suddenly accelerated, 'Boom!Boom!Boom! Boom!' The rapid drumbeat urged the Liao army to charge forward.

The Liao army also speeded up, shouting and running towards the city wall, with hundreds of siege ladders and bridges among them.

The soldiers of the Liao army gradually entered within three hundred steps, and a general whispered to Cao Wenjing: "General, use the iron fire thunder!"

Cao Wenjing saw that the enemy troops were relatively sparse and not dense enough, so he shook his head and said, "I'll use the iron fire thunder later, and project the porcelain fire thunder!"

Porcelain fire mines are as big as fish tanks, with round bellies and thin necks, and weigh thirty to forty catties. Forty trebuchets are installed one after another. When they opened their mouths, the catapults fired bang bang, and forty porcelain fire thunders shot at the top of the Liao army. After many years of fighting, the Liao army had already dealt with the Song army's firearms. 'boom!boom! 'Explosions sounded nearby, crackling iron nails hitting the shield.

After a round of explosions ended, Liao soldiers stood up one after another and continued to rush towards the city wall. A round of porcelain fire and thunder exploded, causing less than 300 casualties, which were far inferior to bed crossbows, so the Song army regarded them as tasteless.

The soldiers of the Liao army had rushed within a hundred paces.

"Archer launches!"

Cao Wenjing gave an order, the drums sounded, and thousands of arrows were fired from the city and the city.

The Song army deployed a total of 1 archers. In addition to the [-] archers on the top of the city, there were also [-] militiamen in the city. They stood in the city, raised their bows and shot arrows outside the city. head, shooting out of the city overwhelmingly.

The range of the city defense bow is not far. The key is that the arrow itself is very heavy. The arrow is streamlined and extremely sharp. Shields and leather armor are also difficult to resist, which are also the most powerful defensive weapons of the Song army.

There were screams and wailing from under the city, and pieces of the Liao army fell down like wheat. At this moment, [-] cavalry archers flew over like a cloud. They galloped past the city wall and rode on horseback. Arrows were shot at the top of the city, and the arrows were precise, and soldiers were constantly hit by arrows and fell from the top of the city.

People have to admire the high quality of cavalry and archery of the Khitan and Xi people. Although the Song Army equipped [-] cavalry with horses obtained from Kunzhou, nearly [-]% of the [-] cavalry can't ride and shoot, and the cavalry of the Liao Kingdom There is a big gap in the strength of cavalry, and cavalry cannot be trained in a few years, but requires long-term continuous training and honing.

But with the same Kunzhou war horse equipment, the [-] Northwest Army cavalry is much stronger. They took the road of heavy cavalry, trained [-] heavy cavalry, and used heavy cavalry to deal with light cavalry. To deal with scattered enemies, it is still very effective.

The Song army on the edge of the city wall squatted down one after another to avoid the arrows under the city. At this time, dozens of bridges were erected on the moat, and the iron nails at both ends were driven into the soil. Dozens of siege ladders were erected on it.

(End of this chapter)