Of course, the Mongolian army would not let Liang Jun get what they wanted. When they constructed the defense line, they left gaps between trenches and ice walls to facilitate the deployment of troops to counterattack Liang Jun's cyclone artillery positions.

Standing on the wall of Yangwuyu Village behind several trench walls, Na He Yanzhen also noticed the artillery position three miles away, but the black cast iron pipes made him think that these were newly made by Liang Jun, similar to spring-loaded giant crossbows or

War weapons such as cyclone cannons are thought to need to be pushed within 500 steps of the trench wall to be effective.

The range of five hundred steps is exactly the effective distance for cavalry to charge at high speed.

Even if we know that the casualties of a short-distance charge by the cavalry will not be small in the face of Liang Jun's heavy crossbow fire, but if we can attack Liang Jun's cyclone cannon and other war equipment positions and destroy Liang Jun's war equipment as much as possible, even a single charge will result in death.

A hundred elites are also sacrifices that must be made.

Of course, in order to reduce the casualties of the attacking cavalry, Na He Yanzhen would first arrange for some infantry to surround the shield chariot and charge out, trying to hold down Liang Jun on the front flank as much as possible, as if Liang Jun was launching a counterattack.

At this moment, Na He Yanzhen still didn't know what kind of bleak fate would await him.

When the front-loaded smoothbore artillery was fired, Na He Yanzhen first saw the cast iron pipes in Liang Jun's array ejecting clouds of fire. After about five breaths, he heard the deafening roar of the thunder ship, and

The vibrations of earthquakes and mountain shaking came from under my feet almost simultaneously.

After he regained his composure, he opened his eyes and saw that the two outermost walls of ice and earth made of melted snow and mixed earth had collapsed, and frozen broken earth splashed towards the wall like broken bricks.

Although most of the broken frozen land was blocked by the ice and earth wall behind them, there were hundreds of soldiers behind the first and second ice and earth walls who were preparing to counterattack. By this time, they had been swept away, and the scene was horrific.

what happened?

The weapons deployed by Liang Jun at 1,400 to 5,000 steps turned out to be so terrifying!

Na He Yanzhen felt that his hands and feet felt cold and his body felt weak.

These ice and earth walls are not high. When a soldier mounts a war horse, most of his body will be exposed. However, each ice and earth wall is nearly one foot thick. Under the severe cold that drips water and turns into ice, layers of melted water are poured on it.

Snow water, ice is solid.

In order to build ice and earth walls and trenches, he requisitioned all the old, weak, women and children who could be recruited by force, and he didn't know how many people were beaten alive with iron whips to complete what he thought was a fairly complete defense in such a short period of time.

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Na Heyanzhen had done experiments before.

Using a cyclone cannon to throw stone projectiles weighing hundreds of kilograms from a distance of three hundred steps can crack the ice and earth wall, but if you want to collapse an ice and earth wall, it will only take one or two hundred hits.

Of course, the accuracy of the cyclone cannon is still somewhat unsatisfactory. Even if the trebuchet gunners trained skillfully by Liang Jun can smash a ten-foot-high city wall at 400 steps, it is already quite remarkable if they can hit one of three.

And looking at the black, iron-like projectiles, except for a few that passed over the head, almost nine out of ten hit the first and second ice and earth walls with great accuracy, destroying the two ice and earth walls with devastating force.

, the flying and splashing hard clods of earth also became a deadly blade for the generals who made the ice and earth wall stand by.

However, the iron bullets that passed over their heads fell into the village, destroying several mud houses like ice-wind bombs. One soldier was directly hit by the iron bullet, and his body was torn into pieces along with his armor.

The atmosphere on the battlefield fell into a deathly silence for a while.

Most of the generals of the Liang Army were also a little frightened. Previously, some of the artillery was dragged to various camps for test firing to make the generals adapt.

Mounting a smoothbore cannon and firing a salvo are two completely different concepts, okay?

Fortunately, several groups of cavalry were deployed far away in advance. If the horses hadn't screamed, it wouldn't have been so easy to control them.

As for the Mongol garrison soldiers within the defense line of Yangwuyu, everyone was thinking about a question. Is this the newly built war weapon by Liang Jun? Did the Mongol people offend the gods? Ask Liang Jun to take it out.

Such a powerful weapon to punish them?

There were even some soldiers who knelt down and prayed to the sky at this moment.

As a general, Heyan was much calmer than most of his generals. He immediately treated the casualties, counted the casualties, and even had someone pick up an iron bullet in front of him.

He found that the iron bullets fired by Liang Jun's new war equipment were much smaller and heavier than the stone bullets fired by the cyclone cannon. Each one weighed at most twenty kilograms, which was only equivalent to a medium-sized loose stone bullet from the cyclone cannon.

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However, when it comes to power, such an iron bullet is ten times more powerful than a large stone bullet weighing hundreds of kilograms and fired by a traditional cyclone cannon.

Taking into account the terrifying accuracy, wouldn't Liang Jun's new weapon be worth twenty or thirty traditional cyclone cannons?

Of course, what made Na Heyan even more desperate was the terrifying range.

If Liang Jun's war equipment was four or five hundred steps away, he might have considered killing through the elite Liang Jun's interception regardless of casualties, forcibly assaulting it, and destroying Liang Jun's war equipment. But now Liang Jun's new war equipment is at 1,450 meters.

A hundred steps away, there are thousands of Liang Jun on both wings who can fill the empty barrier zone in the middle at any time, forming several or even dozens of interception arrays like copper walls and iron arms. How can they attack Liang Jun's weapon position?

Where?

Na He Yan really regretted that he did not pull his troops out of Yangwuyu before the battle and put up a decisive battle with Liang Jun. In that case, he could use the cavalry to attack Liang Jun's array from three directions instead of being surrounded by two sides now.

Restricted by the mountain, only a narrow assault passage more than 300 paces wide remained in the middle.

"Boom!" There was another thunderous explosion, and the already broken ice and earth walls on the periphery collapsed one after another, and the broken hard soil splashed everywhere.

Fortunately, the soldiers on the front side were all experienced soldiers. They had learned from the experience of being bombarded for the first time. The soldiers behind the outer wall of ice and earth all withdrew back, and they also knew how to use heavy shields to resist the flying debris. The casualties this time were not as tragic as the first wave.

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However, two iron bullets flew over the head and landed in the middle of the village. After landing, they bounced up again. After hitting the wall of the Middle East Village four or five times, they were embedded in the rammed earth wall. These two iron bullets passed by, and almost a dozen people or horses passed by.

They were crushed to death on the spot, and their bones were too horrible to look at. Or their arms were beaten to pieces and they were severely injured and left to die.

"How many breaths have passed since the first wave of bombardment?" Na He Yanzhen asked the soldiers around him. He wanted to find out the launch frequency and time interval of Liang Jun's new weapons, which would directly determine the tactical arrangements and rhythm of the assault.

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"One hundred and forty breaths!" Junjun replied.

The gap time is not much longer than that of firing a scorpion crossbow or a spring-arm bed crossbow. This is really chilling news. It means that Liang Jun cannot intercept in front of the formation, and the infantry and cavalry charge together to reach Liang Jun's war equipment position.

, it is very likely that it will have to withstand two bombardments.

In addition to the twenty-four large iron pipes, Na He Yanzhen noticed that there were also smaller cast iron pipes that were almost double the size on both wings of Liang Jun's war weapon array.

This is most likely a small new type of war weapon with a shorter range by Liang Jun.

Na He Yanzhen secretly estimated that if the infantry and cavalry coordinated the charge and were hit by a wave of volleys, if they were unlucky, they might kill or injure two hundred people at once. More importantly, the charge array would be torn into pieces and it would be difficult to break through Liang Jun's interception.

array, the only feasible combat plan is to send troops out to entangle the soldiers and horses on both wings of Liang Jun's front array and fight!

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As Na He Yanzhen expected, the range of the light front-loading smoothbore cannon was smaller than that of the heavy front-loading smoothbore cannon, but it definitely exceeded the distance between the artillery position and the Yangwuyu West Wall.

The reason why there are currently no more than twice as many light front-loading smoothbore cannons is fired, mainly because the light smoothbore cannons have a small charge, fire solid bullets, and have limited damage to ice and earth walls and rammed earth walls; except for the two firing accuracy

Outside the shell, forty-eight bottles of light smoothbore cannon were always on standby.

When the Mongolian troops in the Yangwu Valley massed their infantry and cavalry on a large scale and showed signs of coming out from behind the defense line to attack the defense lines on both sides of their forward line, the forty-eight-loaded light smoothbore cannon was finally given the opportunity to show off.

The light smoothbore cannon had limited destructive power against ice and earth walls and rammed earth walls at a distance of 1,500 steps, but its lethality against the flesh-and-blood Mongolian soldiers and horses was still terrifying.

Luoyang College has continued the development of new learning by Han Qian twenty years ago, and has long formed a strict new learning development system. The smoothbore cannon developed by Luoyang College has been put into actual combat, and its technology is already quite mature.

The cast iron bore tube and solid bullet have extremely high accuracy and ensure a considerable degree of air tightness. The recoil buffer and reset device effectively ensure the stability of the ballistic trajectory.

Supplemented by sights and gunners who spent half a year training and practicing in actual combat, the forty-eight 12-pound solid bullets fired in one salvo not only accurately fell into the enemy's dense array as they fought their way out of Yangwuyu in nine out of ten cases.

In the middle, a large proportion of them trigger ricochet, sweeping down a large area of ​​enemy troops like a harvester.

Although the direct casualties were probably only one-tenth of the number of men and horses killed from Yangwuyu, the tall and strong horses were directly pierced by iron bullets that were only slightly larger than a fist. Even three or four horses in a row were hit by an iron bullet.

The bullets penetrated continuously. Even if the Mongol people were known for their fierceness and ruthlessness, how many soldiers were left who still had the fighting spirit and courage to continue fighting?
Chapter completed!