People in the Song Dynasty were lawless

Chapter 315: Carpet bombing, taking Shenglong directly

After Yongjiguan Ancient Road, there is Lang Son Ancient Road.

The Lang Son Ancient Road is not long, only less than 20 kilometers, and there are not many curved places. It is almost a straight road.

But why did Guo Kui prefer to take a long way around instead of going here during the Song-Yue-Xining War?

Because it is between two mountains, like a line of sky. The Vietnamese army built a stronghold in the middle and occupied the mountains on both sides. Not to mention tens of thousands, even 200,000 people could not break it.

It is as difficult as the road to Shu.

Therefore, since ancient times, Yongji Pass and Lang Son Road have been the boundary between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Vietnamese Dynasty. Vietnam occupied this natural barrier to avoid the risk of national subjugation.

But now, times have changed, little brother.

In the middle area of ​​Lang Son Ancient Road, there is a high mountain with an altitude of about three to four hundred meters. This is already the highest mountain ridge nearby.

The top of the mountain was cleared of flat land, and all the weeds and trees were cut down. Three or four meters away from the cliff, rows of large and small gun barrels glowed with a strange silver light in the August autumn sunshine.

Almost as soon as the fort was assembled, the gunner just pointed the muzzle in the direction of Langshan Pass in Li Dynasty without much calibration. Di Qing gave the order and opened fire on the enemy.

"fire!"

He didn't know why, so he had to continue reading.

"Beep beep beep beep!"

what's the situation?

Guo Shengyi felt that his head was filled with questions. Could it be that the general of the Song Army opposite him was a fool?

Are they about to start an attack?

Almost as soon as the whistle sounded, the crew members of both large and small artillery began to act instantly.

Huh?

what is that?

Guo Shengyi stared blankly.

What's more, the end of the mountain road is full of Li Chao's camps, and there is no need to aim. As long as the direction is right, you can basically fire casually and hit the Vietnamese army.

But it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand it. Guo Shengyi thinks that since Song Jun is so stupid and chooses this way of hitting the wall, why wouldn't he do it?

If Song Jun goes that way, there may be a chance. But here, not to mention that the Song army only has tens of thousands of people, even an army of 200,000 people will be defeated and sink into the sand.

He actually didn't understand. It was clear that the Song army couldn't break through their passes, so why did they persist?

If he were a Song army, he would definitely choose to take a long way to Beifu. Although they also deployed heavy troops there, there were many branch roads on the other side of Beifu, some of which could even lead directly to the Ruyue River.

Is that a mirror?

He couldn't understand the situation on Song Jun's side at all.

He shouted: "Boom!"

A huge sound came, and white smoke billowed from the mountains in the distance.

Huh?

Why did the Song army leave the camp?

Guo Shengyi saw the Song army outside the pass in the distance, and many people rushed out and began to form a formation outside the camp.

Attack heavily guarded passes.

White smoke billows.

Are you still installing mirrors on the top of the mountain?

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!"

Camp where there is less water.

"fire!"

"fire!"

Several messengers shouted loudly.

However, Guo Shengyi did not immediately arrange his troops to prepare for defense.

The roar suddenly resounded throughout the world.

So he stood on a high platform on the top of the mountain and continued to look, his eyes wandering around the Song Army's camp and the top of the mountain occupied by the opponent.

Because the enemy was so far away, it would take at least half an hour to get here, so I was not in a hurry and continued to wait and see.

The entire position was filled with the harsh and sharp sound of whistles breaking through the air.

I really don’t understand why Song Jun did this.

Precision strikes only require calibrated shooting, while carpet coverage only requires direction.

The next second, the gun crew leader fired. The first to fire was the small steel cannon crew. Their barrels were short and their firing speed was extremely fast. Under normal circumstances, they could fire four or five rounds in one minute. At the maximum output, they could fire in one minute. It can fire ten rounds, which is very scary.

After a few seconds.

he thought.

Therefore Di Qing was too lazy to waste time.

Huh?

How come I see white light flashing on the mountain occupied by Song Jun?

Guo Shengyi was confused.

Muzzle flames burst out.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of black balls drew a gorgeous arc in mid-air and hit the Vietnamese army at the pass.

Some stuffed cannonballs, some poked them in with a shovel, and some took out a fire sickle and lit a small torch they carried with them. In an instant, everyone had finished loading.

Then the whistle blew loudly.

At this time, on the mountain ridge on the right side of Langshan Pass, Guo Shengyi was still watching on the top of the mountain, wanting to see what the Song army was doing after being silent for several days.

The other party acted as if he didn't understand military affairs.

This was the only thought that flashed through my mind.

But after only two or three seconds, Guo Shengyi knew what it was.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Those black balls fell into the Vietnamese army camp behind the pass and exploded suddenly.

A large number of Li Dynasty soldiers were still taking a nap and resting. In their sleep, they heard a huge roar, which shocked everyone.

"what happened?"

"The earth dragon has turned over, the earth dragon has turned over."

"Run quickly, run quickly."

Various Chinese languages ​​are mixed with the local Beijing dialect of Annan, Jiaozhi and even unknown languages.

But all the words reveal one meaning - panic.

No one knows what happened.

Judging from the sound alone, it was like an earthquake, filling every Dai Viet Li Chao soldier with panic and fear.

Many of them didn't even have time to put on their clothes and ran out of the camp in a panic. Before they could see clearly what was going on, they felt that the surroundings were filled with dust and smoke, and there was a strange smell in the air.

Many people ran out of the camp and looked around, and noticed that there was no violent shaking under their feet. It seemed that there was no earthquake. In the midst of confusion, a few seconds later, someone pointed to the sky and said in horror: "What is that?"

Some people raised their heads and saw a large number of black balls sweeping towards them.

But they had no time to react, because the artillery came out very fast. It only took a few seconds to reach a distance of four to five kilometers. Almost the moment they saw the black balls, those black balls had already landed. It came down and a huge noise broke out again.

"Bang bang bang bang!" The bomb exploded after landing. Some tents were blown away, some wooden towers were blown up, and some people were in the center of the explosion and were torn apart. The blood turned into rain and sprinkled on everyone. .

A Vietnamese soldier stood blankly on the spot. More than ten meters away from him, one of his comrades disappeared. One leg flew into the air and landed in front of him.

Blood was stained on his face. It was not his blood, but the warm feeling touched his skin. The roaring sound in his ears made him temporarily absent-minded. He could no longer tell whether it was his own blood or the enemy's blood. .

He couldn't even tell if he still had control of his body.

After a few seconds, he came back to his senses with difficulty, his legs trembled, and then he screamed, stumbled, rolled, and started running back.

As he ran, he shouted in a trembling voice: "The gods are angry, the gods are angry!"

His shout immediately caused a chain reaction.

"Oh, oh, oh, god, don't punish me, god, don't punish me, I don't want to fight."

"We have offended the Kingdom of Heaven, and the gods have sent down their wrath."

"Run."

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die! Someone save me, my legs are gone."

They shouted and howled. Everyone prayed to God for forgiveness either in Chinese or in Li Chao’s native Beijing dialect.

The Li Dynasty was in the period of the development of Vietnamese local culture. Their first national mythology, "Biography of Lingnan Monsters", was written at this time. Therefore, at this time, Vietnamese people believed in ghosts and gods very much.

The terrifying power of the artillery made many low-level soldiers think that God was angry and sent punishment, causing everyone to be terrified at this time.

Some people's legs are so weak that they can hardly walk.

Some can still hold on, running around like crazy demons.

Some simply rolled their eyes, foamed at the mouth, and fainted from fear.

However, no matter how much they prayed to God, it was in vain. The sound of explosions was still heard, and the atmosphere of terror still enveloped them.

Even if more than 200 artillery were to attack in a covering manner, the number of people that could be killed by each shot was not very many, only a few hundred at most, but it almost caused the Li Dynasty's army of 50,000 to 60,000 people to collapse.

The camp inside the pass was in chaos. Amidst the smoke, a large number of soldiers fled in all directions, running around like monkeys.

Guo Shengyi on the top of the mountain was so shocked that he was speechless.

It was not until two or three minutes later that the Song Army's artillery had fired more than ten rounds, and the entire Langshan Pass was in a mess, did he wake up and tremblingly shouted: "Retreat!"

But at this time, the camp was in a state of chaos. Not to mention the gongs, drums, trumpets, horns, and whistles commonly used in marching and fighting could not be transmitted at all. Even the flags were completely ineffective.

The entire command system, without taking any blow, was completely ineffective because of the chaos below.

On the ridge opposite, the Song army was still covering it with artillery fire.

The blooming bullets they used this time were not as powerful as expected, but the benefits were obvious. That is, the sound of explosions is very intimidating and very useful against monkeys who have never seen firearms.

In just thirty minutes, the Song army poured out about 20,000 artillery shells, with each cannon firing two to three times per minute on average. The entire mountain road was almost destroyed, and the ground was full of potholes, broken trees, broken tents, and scattered tents. Equipment is everywhere.

There are also many unlucky corpses lying on the ground. Those who are lucky are only scratched by the iron fragments splashed out by the shells. Those who are seriously injured can still groan when they fall on the ground. Those who are unlucky are directly torn apart and their bodies are not human-shaped.

That is to say, fighting in ancient times required teamwork, and the roads were narrow. Otherwise, in the era of thermal weapons, soldiers would disperse and not gather together, and carpet bombing would not have much effect.

But it's good if this tactic can be used successfully once, as it has already established the victory of the entire battlefield.

As Lang Son Pass was washed away by 260 artillery pieces and the mountain road was in a mess, Di Qing finally gave the order to stop shooting.

The artillery positions of the Song Army were almost submerged in white smoke at this time, and the mountain ridges almost turned into celestial palaces. In such a clear and clear weather, the visibility actually became very low.

"Army attack!"

Di Qing stood at a high place and could only vaguely see the completely collapsed Li Chao position through the smoke blown thin by the wind, and then issued a military order.

Immediately, messengers came to the edge of the cliff and waved flags toward the bottom of the mountain.

Since the top of the mountain is about four to five hundred meters away from the bottom of the mountain, it is difficult to pass on ordinary gongs, drums, horns and the like, and semaphores are basically used.

Leading the team at the foot of the mountain were several of Di Qing's lieutenants. In addition to the commanders of the two firearms corps, there was also Zhang Yu as his deputy capital commander of troops and horses, as well as the commanders of Guangnan Road Qianju, Yongzhou Xiangdu and other places. general.

Zhang Yu led the musketeers and Xiang troops to hold the battle in front. When he saw Di Qing's signal on the top of the mountain, he shouted: "The enemy has been defeated, brothers, kill!"

"Kill!"

The morale of the Song army was suddenly high.

This battle was too easy to fight. Even before the close combat started, the enemy had already collapsed, and the credit was as good as picking it up for free.

The huge Song army surged towards Langshan Pass like a tide.

When Zhang Yu arrived at Langshan Pass, there were almost no living people in the pass, leaving only a tragic scene.

The result of the carpet-like coverage of more than 20,000 explosive bombs was that craters were everywhere, fresh soil was splashed everywhere, and almost half of the originally lush woods on both sides of the road were destroyed.

There were corpses, sawdust, earthen pits and the tattered tents and weapons of the Vietnamese army everywhere. The wall outside the pass was intact, but the ground inside the pass was in a mess. Under the artillery attack, the Li Dynasty was defeated.

Zhang Yu stood at the door and watched all this in shock.

This is actually the first time artillery has been used on a large scale on the battlefield. In the past, there were only a small number of artillery, or they were only used for deterrence. The artillery position composed of hundreds of cannons was so terrifying, which also made him experience Song Xia, Veterans of the Song-Liao War were horrified.

More than two hundred cannons were already so terrifying, but the imperial court deployed tens of thousands of them on the borders of Song, Liao and Song Xia. If the Xixia and Liao armies come again, I am afraid they will be blown to pieces this time.

Even Zhang Yu was shocked, let alone the local Xiang army and the minority soldiers.

Everyone looked at everything with horror and fear.

Zhang Yu quickly came to his senses and shouted: "Give me the order, don't be in a daze, chase the enemy three hundred miles away, and go straight to their capital, Shenglong Mansion!"

"Yes!"

The surrounding lieutenants also hurriedly responded.

Immediately, the Song army, which had been prepared for a long time, was so powerful that it did not bother to clean up the battlefield. It crossed Langshan Pass directly and pursued the retreating Vietnamese army.

It was only then that Di Qing came down the mountain. The main troops were chasing people, and he, the general, was still behind.

He went down the mountain with Nong Chigao. After ordering the artillery groups to wait for the barrels to cool down, dismantling the cannons and going back to camp, he and Nong Chigao entered Lang Son Pass together.

The formation in Guanzhong also surprised Di Qing. The artillery array was really terrifying.

Nong Zhigao was even more frightened and kept mumbling to himself: "This is the power of God, this is the power of God."

As he said this, he suddenly became proud without realizing it, and murmured to himself: "I am the heavenly official of the Shangguo. I am the heavenly official of the Shangguo. The imperial court gave me the title of Tongzhi of Yongzhou, and I am a member of the imperial court."

At this moment, he was grateful that while fighting against the Li Dynasty, he had always maintained his loyalty to the Song Dynasty and kept asking for surrender.

Otherwise, if he imitates Li Yuanhao and establishes himself as king, he may die without knowing how.

"Tongzhi, I'll leave this place to you."

Di Qing glanced around, and then warned: "Ask the civilians to clean the battlefield and bury or burn the corpses. If you don't do it, it will cause epidemics. Then come with the artillery and rear ordnance and supplies. I will go with the troops first." rush ahead."

"Yes Yes Yes."

This time Nong Zhigao no longer dared to question any of Di Qing's orders and quickly agreed.

After giving the order, Di Qing took his personal guards and began to chase the large troops in front. He planned to stab Shenglong directly with a stick, and with lightning speed, the Li Dynasty would be destroyed!

(End of this chapter)