There is no doubt that the news brought back by the personal soldiers was exactly the same as the one who was just now, but there were a little more details.

For example, the Ming army used the [deafening] terrifying firearms, and the military camps were attacked by the terrifying firearms.

Most of the soldiers who were captured in the military camp were killed or caught, and only a very small part escaped, and they brought back news or were bombarded by extremely hot iron balls.

The iron ball was very fast and directly smashed the gate of the military camp, killing the military camp in a mess. It was impossible for the military camp made of wood to resist the bombardment of such iron bombs, and they had no way to defend.

After the defense of the military camp was destroyed, the Ming army's attack became a field battle, or an extremely asymmetric field battle.

Therefore, the Song army was defeated and lost a lot.

It was not because they were afraid of fighting or made mistakes in operation, but because the Ming army used an unprecedented new terrifying firearm, which was different from any previous firearm.

Wang Yan calmly listened to the news brought back by his personal guard.

He would not doubt what his personal guard said, but it was hard to believe such a fact, so he decided to go to Fancheng to meet Zhou Benyuan in person.

After arriving in Fancheng and seeing Zhou Benyuan, Zhou Benyuan told him with a sad face that everything was true. Although he couldn't believe it, the fact was that the seven military camps were destroyed and were all destroyed by the Ming army.

"And the Ming army may not have any casualties at all. After our people escaped, they were crying, saying something like thunder, and magic weapons that would bring fire and smoke.

They were just a meeting, and they were beaten to death before they even got close to Ming Jun. Their heads were broken, their hands and feet were broken, and blood was spurted out. That must be Ming Jun's magic or something..."

Zhou Benyuan looked frightened and his tone was panicked.

Wang Yan was stunned for a moment and said angrily: "There are no magic weapons in the world! There are no magic tricks! They are all deceiving tricks! They must be deceiving tricks! There are no such things at all!"

"But, seven military camps were really destroyed..."

Zhou Benyuan said helplessly: "Fancheng defense has been destroyed for more than 30%. If it continues, at most three days, the last general will fight the offensive and defensive battle with the Ming army.

What we expected before was that even if the Ming army headed south, it would take at least one month to make a breakthrough, and it would take at least three months to completely eliminate the external defense! Maybe it would be delayed for the first half of a year, but now..."

"You mean that Mingjun can complete the three-month task in three days? Three days? They can solve the defense of such a large scale in three days? Then what else can we fight?"

Wang Yan couldn't sit still, stood up and walked around, anxious.

According to the military intelligence that the Song army knows about the Ming army, the Ming army is indeed good at using firearms, and its typical firearms include large rockets and Thunder Cannons.

The large rocket uses a bed crossbow as a launching tool, and has a bamboo tube filled with gunpowder on the crossbow arrow. After igniting the lead, it fires the crossbow arrow to achieve the effect of long-range bombing.

This kind of firearm was widely used by the Ming army during the First Ming and Song War. The reason why the Song army's navy was defeated was that it made great contributions to this kind of firearm.

Another type of firearm is called Thunder Cannon, which is a spherical firearm. The Ming army often fired with a catapult. The Thunder Cannon fell from the sky and fell to the ground, which often triggered a violent explosion.

Both types of firearms have corresponding versions in the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty court also tried to use large-scale counter-attacks against the Ming army, but the effect was very poor.

According to the description, the sound of the explosion of the Ming munitions is louder than that of the Southern Song munitions, and it is more powerful, and it is more powerful when it explodes. The Southern Song munitions do not have such good results.

Therefore, in recent years, the Southern Song Dynasty has also tried to improve firearms, hoping to achieve the effects of the Ming army's large rockets and Thunder God Cannons, and use this as the main attack direction.

There are not many results at the moment.

They tried their best to imitate, but they could not obtain the powerful power of the Ming munitions. For example, the explosion effect of the Ming army's Thunder God cannon was very terrifying. The scene described by the Song army that they had seen with their own eyes was far behind the explosion effect of the firearms imitated by the gunpowder craftsmen of the Southern Song Dynasty.

So they think that it is difficult for the Ming army to master black technology or magic that they don’t know about.

Despite this, this type of firearm cannot cause any dimensional reduction attack on the Southern Song Dynasty.

Xiangyang City and Fancheng are also equipped with a large number of firearms and gunpowder. He believes that these things are enough for him to fight against the Ming army, regardless of whether the Ming army will use gunpowder weapons on a large scale.

Moreover, in terms of the power of existing gunpowder weapons, it is impossible to easily break through the defense line of the military camp. Some of the military camps were made in a hurry, but many were built by the defenders of the Xiangfan area. Not only was the terrain dangerous, but it was also very strong, and it was definitely not threatened by ordinary firearms.

Anyway, it is difficult for the Song army's own firearms to destroy these military camps unless the catapult attacks on a large scale.

However, the accuracy of the catapult is a problem. Throwing a hundred stones may not necessarily hit three or five pieces. It is mainly more effective in dealing with the city wall.

As for the bed crossbow, it does have a certain threat, but the various protective facilities used to deal with the bed crossbow are also quite in place. Wang Yan personally inspected it before entering Xiangyang City.

So he couldn't believe that this would happen before his eyes anyway.

Did Ming Jun indeed use magic?

Wang Yan couldn't figure it out, and Zhou Benyuan was powerless, and neither of them slept all night.

But they would not make the decision to surrender easily, and it is far from this time now.

As soon as the next day dawn, the Ming army seized the time to start the next day's demolition of the military camp.

The general's artillery was still open to the road, and the chariots and general's artillery followed closely to consolidate the results of the battle. Then the infantry and cavalry of the Shenji Camp and the musketeers advanced step by step, launching a harsh blow to the Song army in the military camp.

Wang Yan and Zhou Benyuan climbed up to look into the distance, trying to see what strange weapons the Ming army used, but the distance was too far, and they couldn't see them clearly, but they just saw balls of smoke coming out, and then a sound like thunder came.

The military camp collapsed one after another, and the Song army in the military camp was constantly killed by artillery shells and fired by muskets. Their defense line of the military camp was flattened bit by bit.

A military camp that was built with great effort, hundreds of soldiers operated crossbows, bed crossbows and firearms to resist, but when they did not even make a counterattack, they were dizzy and dizzy by the Ming army with the artillery of the general.

When they finally gained a foothold and prepared to launch a counterattack, another round of artillery fire broke down their remaining defense and fighting will.

There were almost no Song army who could still fight after two rounds of artillery attacks, and there were only a few who dared to fight, some used crossbows, some used bed crossbows, and some used firearms.

There were brave Song soldiers who shot arrows when the Ming army marched, but were blocked by swords, shields, and the number was too small to pose any threat.

A Song soldier yelled at the use of bed crossbows to shoot the Ming army formation. He did fire one or two large crossbow arrows, posing some threat to the Ming army formation, but it was quickly destroyed and failed to continue firing.

As for firearms, they are better than nothing, mainly to listen to a sound.

The sound of the deafening thunder used by the Song army was loud and occasionally caused some fire effects, but the power was too small, and many of them were squibs. The fire thorns had some effect. They set up gunpowder inside, mind igniting and ignition, and then exploded.

The power of the iron shell is not great, but the porcelain shell is unexpectedly somewhat lethal. A few people in the Ming army were injured by broken porcelain pieces.

As for other fireballs, rockets and other firearms are dazzling, and in terms of quantity, there are quite a lot.

Large-scale use may have some effect, but there were not many living people in the Song army camp after being bombarded by artillery, and even fewer people insisted on fighting. Faced with the Ming army's absolute advantage, they were basically killed without using the second firearm.

During the entire battle, Xu Tong even felt that the army had not even had the time to defeat the military camp for a long time to re-adjust the deployment of the general artillery.

If it weren't for waiting for the huge and bulky general's gun to be transferred from its original position to a new shooting position and then prepare for shooting, maybe it wouldn't have been waiting for that long.

After suffering slight casualties, at the sunset that day, He Feihu led his troops to wipe out three Song army camps again.
Chapter completed!