Chapter 471 The first gunner in the Song Dynasty, Ling Zhen's layout
After the loud noise, Huang Kui was immediately swept away by the violent air waves. For a moment, he felt like the world was spinning, and the heavy mountain-breaking ax in his hand had already flown out.
Filled with gunpowder, the suddenly exploding shell not only collapsed a catapult, but dozens of gravel, iron flakes, and caltrops inside the shell also sputtered to the surroundings along with the fierce airflow, instantly destroying all targets within a hundred steps.
The bodies of dozens of soldiers were riddled with holes!
When Huang Kuigang sat up halfway, he suddenly felt waves of heart-breaking pain. Only then did he realize that the armor on his chest had been exploded, leaving a bloody mess! Not far away from him, Li Feibao, who had been knocked off his horse, also stared wide-eyed.
He closed his eyes with a look of astonishment, and now he still couldn't believe that the thieves from Erlongshan had such powerful firearms!
As soon as Li Feibao struggled to free himself, the pain caused him to twitch all over and even vomited a mouthful of blood! Several iron fragments pierced into Li Feibao's body, and his right leg's tibia was also hit by a shot of gravel.
Crush!
Seeing the sudden chaos in the army formation, Ling Zhen, who was standing on the top of the pass wall, squinted one eye and guessed the attack range covered by the boulder cannon, seven-tip cannon and tornado cannon on the inside of the pass wall, and then gave orders to the gunners below.
Said: "Seven cannons, eight cannons fired at once!! Then order the boulder cannons behind the second pass to eject at the same time and release fierce fire oil!"
There is only one steep mountain road in front of Erlong Mountain to go up the mountain. When Ling Zhen installed artillery behind several dangerous passes, he had already known the range and angle of his various catapults, as well as the range and angle of the artillery that could hit the pass when the enemy attacked the mountain.
The distance is estimated very clearly. During a siege, if the enemy wants to use cannons, stone and powerful crossbows to suppress the troops guarding the dangerous pass, and then let the infantry take the opportunity to climb the tower, then most of the siege infantry will be on standby behind the stone-fired artillery carts.
...In other words, Yun Tianbiao thought that he could overcome the dangerous situation with the help of siege weapons, but he didn't know that all the troops under his command were within the range of the various catapults set up by Ling Zhen!
Ling Zhen, who was standing at the top of the city, observed the explosion position of the first artillery shell, and after guessing the angle, straightness, and distance of the impact point of the catapult, he ordered the gunner Jun Jian behind the pass to adjust the winch, and immediately the rows of gun tips suddenly swung violently.
, and threw out the thunderbolts, fire caltrops and other artillery shells contained in the leather sheath!
Violent explosions sounded one after another. In the series of explosions, the Yizhou battalions at the forefront of the army were blown up, causing most of the casualties! The Yizhou regiment training commander Li Feibao, whose leg was broken by the explosion, could not escape, and was immediately provoked again.
The fragments of stone and iron that were shot were smashed into a sieve. Not only was the body covered in blood and flesh, but even a face was blown up beyond recognition!
Huang Kui was stunned for a moment, and then he screamed! He ignored the unbearable pain in his body, dragged his seriously injured body, and ran straight to the rear with all his strength!
Faced with the sudden artillery fire, many soldiers in the front line of Yun Tianbiao's formation were pierced by flying iron fragments. Nearly 200 people were killed immediately, and hundreds of people were even covered.
He fell to the ground with his wounds and howled heart-breakingly, his fighting power had been completely lost!
The officers and soldiers in the brigade subconsciously retreated, but the cavalry horses among the officers and soldiers couldn't stand the sudden explosion, and each of them screamed and stamped, not only knocking many cavalry off their horses, but also nearly a hundred who were close to them.
The infantry was trampled down by the galloping horses that bombed the camp, and was immediately trampled to death by random hooves!!
Before Yun Tianbiao even had time to react, dozens of cans of fire oil crashed down from mid-air. There was a ping-pong-pong-pong sound, and many officers and soldiers were covered in fire oil that was easily ignited.
The oil immediately burst into flames, and tens of thousands of golden snakes and fire dragons were seen raging crazily. In an instant, the area covered by the fierce fire oil burst into flames, turning into a blazing hell!
The screams of being devoured by the fire were endless, and Yun Tianbiao's three long beards, which were still some distance away, were actually curled up by the heat! Yun Tianbiao suddenly felt the heat steaming over him, the smell of his hair becoming mushy, and the smell of barbecued meat over a fierce fire.
When he came, he could only shout loudly: "Every unit retreats and reorganizes! Anyone who flees in fear of the enemy will be killed without mercy!!"
Ling Zhen, who was on the top of the pass wall, squinted his eyes and looked down. He noticed that the defeated officers and soldiers were retreating to the rear. He immediately ordered: "The boulder cannon behind the first pass, wait for my command and throw the boulder!"
The boulder cannon that Ling Zhen mentioned was a new type of artillery that he and Xiao Tang had studied and later developed through his long-term research and development. This type of artillery was similar in power to the Huihui cannon that came out decades later, capable of projecting a weight of three hundred meters.
The range of this type of trebuchet can reach more than 250 steps with a weight of about 500 kilograms of stones. This type of trebuchet is far more advanced and more powerful than the various types of trebuchets currently equipped in various countries.
In fact, sharp weapons such as catapults are not only powerful siege weapons, but can also be used to kill enemy troops attacking a city on a large scale. For example, during the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, Shi Siming led a hundred thousand rebels to invade Taiyuan. The Taiyuan garrison at that time, Taiyuan
Li Guangbi, a famous Khitan general in the Tang Dynasty, used trebuchets to kill as many as 20,000 to 30,000 Anshi rebels.
With the rapid development of gunpowder in the Song Dynasty, firearms with relatively high explosive power such as "Thunderbolt Cannon" and "Thunderbolt" have been widely used... Yun Tianbiao originally thought that the pass in front of the traitor's Dazhai
Although it is steep, with the power of cannons that can throw rocks and bomb the walls, which can make the Erlong Mountain bandits frightened and defeated, how could he expect that the artillery equipment installed in the Erlong Mountain Pass is more advanced, and there is absolutely no such thing as
Unexpectedly, among the leaders of Erlong Mountain, there was also Hongtian Lei Lingzhen, who was known as the "First Gunner of the Song Dynasty"!
After the fire god Zhurong wreaked havoc, he smashed down more than a dozen huge rocks from mid-air! The officers and soldiers who had just escaped from the sea of fire suddenly heard the heart-stopping sound of breaking wind in mid-air, as if the sky was shattering and the earth was shattering. When these soldiers
When he looked back in panic, he immediately let out another shrill scream! The impact of the falling rocks shook the heaven and the earth, and everything it hit was really destroyed!
At this time, most of the catapults set up by the officers and soldiers were smashed and dismembered. The falling rocks smashed down countless officers and soldiers to bloody pulps and broken bones! He worked in the same military town as Yun Tianbiao.
General Lou Xiong was shouting orders to the commanders of the ministries and quickly gathered his troops, when he suddenly heard a strong wind blowing, and a huge boulder smashed towards his face!
Lou Xiong couldn't dodge. As soon as he let out a desperate scream, the boulder knocked him off his horse and "embedded" his entire upper body into the ground! Half of Lou Xiong's body was smashed.
In human form, his legs twitched violently and then stopped moving!
On the other side of the battlefield, Ha Yunsheng, a militia officer from Guihua Village in Qingzhou, his face covered with blood, dragged his injured leg and ran straight to the rear. He was suddenly blown down by a sudden wave of air behind him, and Ha Yunsheng fell.
A dog ate its shit, and another half of a mutilated corpse fell straight from the air, falling right next to him.
When Ha Yunsheng saw the mutilated corpse, he was so frightened that he screamed! Wasn't that mutilated corpse from the same hometown as him, and came to respond to Yuntianbiao's mission to exterminate the Erlongshan bandits!
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I saw that half of Mian Yixin's blown-up head was blooming, and the white brains were flowing out along the cracked Tianling Gai. Half of his body had long been blown away, and his exposed internal organs were burned.
A half-burnt pig in the water looks disgusting!
Ha Yunsheng was so frightened that his three souls were wandering and his seven souls were wandering. The thieves were so extravagant and sheltered. How can we, the militiamen and villagers, do nothing? He ignored the pain in his legs and limped desperately to escape from this mess.
The dangerous place of Abi Hell!
When they witnessed the extremely tragic scene on the dangerous wall of Erlong Mountain, Li Zhong, Zhou Tong and other leaders turned pale and their legs could not help but tremble. But in the past, among all the leaders in the mountain, they were inconspicuous, taciturn and low-key.
Ling Zhen frowned and watched again, then turned around, clasped his fists at Xiao Tang and said, "Brother, if you can still hit him with two rounds, you can take advantage of the opportunity to chase down the bastard!"
