Chapter 199 Arrow Tower
The unlucky ship broke into two pieces in a blink of an eye, making people see Venus appear.
There is no doubt that the power of the cannon is huge, but no one expected such an exaggerated scene to directly smash a large ship into two pieces.
It was indeed a bit shocking. This time it was a lot of coincidences, because the several shells hitting the bow ship were all hit in the center of the ship. When the power was superimposed, such a striking situation occurred.
Zhang Shijie's ship also came up. This time the Mongolian ships were lucky and they escaped from the shooting range of the artillery.
They did not chase after him anymore because twenty miles upstream was the base camp of the Mongolian navy.
The transportation lines between Xiangfan and the two cities were opened again. After they were opened, they would transport troops, cement and supplies immediately. Anyway, there were a lot of supplies in Xiangyang City. After all, because of the existence of a cableway, various sources of resources were continuously transported to Xiangyang for twelve hours.
There is a reason why he is so anxious. After all, there are only a few ships coming this time. If the Mongolian navy is determined to make a lot of money, it will be a big question whether this line can be defended. After all, the number of his artillery is limited.
Song Chen and Zhang Shijie haven't met for more than half a year. He is still so stubborn. As long as he thinks it is right, it is difficult to change his opinion, but the two are still happy to get along.
This time, the navy generals Zhang Shun and Song Chen who came with him are old friends. If you want to say that Song Chen is his life-saving benefactor.
It was the little benefactor again after a while. The little benefactor called him and even introduced his elder brother Zhang Gui to him. The two brothers were experienced naval generals, and Song Chen attached great importance to it.
After a few people recounted the old days, Song Chen took the hot air balloons out again. Although he is not transporting people in Xiangfan, he can transport people from Highland No. 4 so that every point of strength can be mobilized.
Before, we mobilized troops in Xiangfan Second City, but we only moved one hand to the other without increasing the total force at all. Now, transporting troops from outside is the real reinforcement.
Now that the Xiangfan transportation line has been opened, Lu Wenhuan directly sent 3,000 people into Fancheng, so it would be a waste of valuable transportation capacity to transport troops with hot air balloons.
Transport troops from Highland No. 4, up to three round trips a day, which is far less fast than transferring troops from Xiangyang, but this is an external reinforcement, so one can increase your strength.
After just a few days, Mongolia finally took action. Tens of thousands of civilians carried sandbags and rushed over in artillery fire under the threat of the scimitar of Mongolian soldiers and threw the sandbag into the moat.
Fan Tianshun hesitated whether to fire a fire. These people are people from the north, and they are all Han people. Doing so may lead to the infamy of a butcher.
Niu Fu is also calling the Tartars cruel and bloodthirsty, how to drive the people away as animals to do such things.
Song Chen was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He didn't expect that the Mongolian army was so barbaric. Did he bet that they would not fire fires and deliberately treat the people as human shields.
The one who was most angry at the scene was Song Chen. This young man who grew up under the Red Banner saw no difference between the north and the south. Everyone was from China.
Unlike Fan Tianshun and others, after all, they have been divided from the north for hundreds of years, and their recognition of bloodlines is not so strong.
"Fire the cannon!" Fan Tianshun finally made up his mind and ordered.
Eight cannons fired shells at the same time. Those flesh-and-blooded bodies carrying sandbags had never seen such a bloody scene. Several people were blown to the point of blood. Seeing such a tragic scene, people ran back one after another.
The soldiers holding swords cut the retreating crowd without hesitation. When Song Chen saw this, he wanted a piece of paper and wrote a few big words on it, "The Han people will not kill the Han people", and then both hot air balloons were launched.
There were people on it, and each of them was a sharpshooter who had carefully selected them. Song Chen ignored the dissuasion and insisted on seeking justice for these people of the Northern Dynasties.
As soon as it arrived above, all the firepower was aimed at the firing squad. After a burst of gunfire, more than ten people fell down. Fearing death, no one could escape the vulgarity of the living instinct.
Although these people in the firing squads are dedicated to killing "desergeants", when it is their turn to have a death threat, these people's performance is not much better than others.
Song Chen asked the people he brought not to point the gun at the civilians, and to kill a general with great punishment, and to aim the gun at the execution squad.
After two rounds of shooting, there were less than 30 firing squads on the battlefield. Finally, they collapsed and began to run with the people...
Finally, they took action and came with ten pole number one. Even so, they were not afraid because they were two hundred meters above the altitude.
Even No. 1 cannot shoot, so it is safe, but they can kill the Tartars with peace of mind.
After a gunshot, another row of people fell down. Ali Hague, who was in charge of command, ordered the soldiers to stay away from the "killing basket".
In this way, a large gap was left on the battlefield. Wherever the hot air balloon went, there was chaos, because no one wanted to die. Seeing that the "killing basket" was close, they ran away. The people on the battlefield were like ants on a hot pan, in a mess, and caused several stampede accidents.
After Song Chen and his team left more than 100 bodies, they returned to refuel because the fuel was about to burn, and they would delay it and fall directly from the air.
If they fall down, whether they die or live, they will be eaten alive by these angry soldiers.
"What, I heard it right, 50,000 people, who had only thrown thousands of sandbags, were beaten back!" The head coach of the Mongolian army, A Shu, roared in the tent again. He had been like this many times, and the general's temper was getting worse and worse.
"I don't care, what is the 'killing basket', there is a number one here. As long as you hit the ball on it, it will fall off!" Ah Shuai didn't want to get angry casually, but he couldn't control himself.
"Let me find a way," A Shu shouted again, "Can't you do Arrow Tower?"
"Master, if you start with the Arrow Tower, you will definitely become a living target for the Song people and will be directly destroyed by the Song people's artillery. Moreover, the cost of an Arrow Tower is too high!" Ali Hague still reported these responsibly.
"No, use cement to build a tower for me!" A Shu said. The cement of these southerners was also learned by the Yin Wolf through infiltration, but it was only transported to me today.
"Master, if you have cement, that's great. After using the arrow tower with cement, at least we don't have to be afraid of the other party's hot air balloon." Liu Zheng keenly noticed the opportunities brought by cement.
In fact, what he didn't know was that Yin Lang didn't get the key information. He did learn the technology of cement with low technical content, but the cost was very high, more than five times that of Song Chen Cement.
This time, I can only build an arrow tower.
Chapter completed!