Under the oppression of the 90,000 army, the Khitans outside Fanyang City chose to retreat and move instead of rushing forward to fight.

After Li Zhongyi learned the news, he immediately guessed the thoughts of the Khitans. The Khitans obviously wanted to adopt the procrastination tactic.

Annihilation of the enemy in the movement is not only the tactics that the Li family army is good at, but also the advantage of the Khitans.

However, in addition to the advantages of mobile warfare, the Li family army has more advantages in attacking after having artillery.

The next morning, after the soldiers of the Li family army had enough food and drink, they drove out of the camp in a steady stream under the command of the officers.

The highest commander of Yelu Xiuge's line stationed on Fanyang was Yelu Hengchang, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council in the north. Yelu Xiuge has always served as the Privy Councilor in the north, which means that Yelu Hengchang is the de facto deputy marshal of the Khitan soldiers.

Yelu Hengchang is over 50 years old this year. In the past years, he went south to hunt Caogu many times, and the maids and slaves at home were all beautiful Chinese women.

Before this battle, when Yelu Xiuge gave a face-to-face explanation, he repeatedly emphasized one key point: try to delay the final battle.

To put it bluntly, the task that Yelu Xiu Ge gave to Yelu Hengchang was actually to defend Fanyang City with a heavy army group and wait for change!

Yelu Hengchang is an old man. He is in his fifties. He only wants to provide shade for his descendants and allow the glory of his family to continue better and longer.

This is also the fundamental factor that Yelu Xiuge sent him to guard Fanyang.

The Khitans were good at riding and shooting archery and horses, and their advantage was that they could eliminate the enemy maneuver during movement.

But the problem is that the Li family army, which has achieved mule-horse transformation in the entire army, not only learned mobile warfare, but also had the advantage of positional warfare.

Today, the siege of the Li family army was extraordinary. Yelu Hengchang replaced 10,000 Han troops guarding the city from the city wall out of caution.

In case, when the battle was at the most intense time, the Han army in the city suddenly had an accident, Yelu Hengchang was afraid that he would not have time to react.

Li Zhongyi sat high in the command car. He glanced at Li Yongtang, the commander of the artillery army standing respectfully in front of him. Li Yongtang hurriedly beat his chest and saluted, saying loudly: "Please ensure that the task is completed."

"The key to this battle is whether the artillery army can successfully blast the wall of Fanyang on time." Li Zhongyi raised his hand and pointed at the combat map in the hands of Zhang Sanzheng and Gao Qiang. "There are urns in all four city gates in Fanyang. It is obviously not enough to blast the outer city gates."

Li Yongtang narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "The master, the city gate with the city city is obviously a pit. My subordinates think that our artillery army should concentrate the firepower of more than a dozen nine-pound cannons and nearly a hundred six-pound cannons to attack a certain point outside the city gate."

Li Zhongyi nodded and smiled and said, "It has always been my principle to leave professional things to professionals. Old Li, listen well, you only have two hours."

Seeing Li Yongtang open his mouth and want to bargain, Li Zhongyi waved his hand first and said, "I can only give you two hours. After the time comes, the army will launch a general attack."

Li Yongtang's heart suddenly shook. When the army launched the general attack, if he had not yet destroyed Fan Yang's southern city wall, who could afford the losses?

Li Zhongyi saw that Li Yongtang's forehead was sweating slightly, and he couldn't help but smile with satisfaction. When he met on a narrow road, the brave won. Without applying any pressure, how could Li Yongtang and the artillery army make rapid progress?

This person was forced out!

Perhaps because he was forced to do so, after Li Yongtang returned, he completely abandoned the safety of the artillery Caodian and pushed the nine-pound cannon to two hundred steps in front of the southern gate of Fanyang before he was willing to give up.

Li Zhongyi turned the monocular lens in his hand, observed it carefully for a while, and then smiled.

Li Yongtang's maturity was extremely staggering. Under his deployment, all the 6-pound cannons raised their muzzles and aimed at the arrows on the city wall.

The nine-pound heavy artillery guns were all concentrated in one piece and lined up in three rows. The distance between each row and each row was no more than one zhang, and the muzzles were pointed in the same direction.

Li Zhongyi understood at a glance that Li Yongtang planned to use a 6-pound cannon to suppress the counterattack power at the city, concentrate the firepower of more than a dozen 9-pound cannons, and blast a fixed point on the southern city.

The main function of the 6-pound cannon is to disrupt the Khitan offensive rhythm in mobile warfare. One wave of iron projectiles, one wave of chain bullets, and another wave of shotguns are enough for the Khitans to drink several pots.

Li Zhongyi pulled the monocular telescope closer and saw that the soldiers of the artillery army put solid iron projectiles on the 9-pound cannon, while the 6-pound cannon was chain projectiles.

Well, isn’t it just a solid iron projectile to hit the city wall?

As for the 6-pound cannon chain bullet, even if Li Zhongyi used his toes to think, he knew that he wanted to kill the Khitans on the city wall as much as possible.

As for the shotgun, it is indeed not suitable for siege battles, but it is quite suitable for street fighting or position fighting.

To be honest, after taking over Kaifeng City, which was extremely rich in supplies, Li Zhongyi gained a lot. Just tens of thousands of well-trained craftsmen were enough to make Li Zhongyi wake up when he fell asleep.

It is precisely because of the addition of nearly one million kilograms of pig iron that Li Yongtang's artillery army is not worried about the problem of insufficient iron projectiles.

According to the information obtained by Li Zhongyi, since he had not encountered the threat of war in many years, Fanyang City has been at least thirty years and has not experienced serious repairs.

The Khitans were originally good at attacking but not defending. In addition, the southern barbarians in the south were very strong in writing articles and knowledge, but their ability to fight collectively was not worth mentioning at all.

Without a huge threat, the Khitans had never thought about strengthening the city defense.

However, after Li Zhongyi led his troops into the Youji Plain last year, the Khitans hurriedly strengthened the city defense of Youzhou. Fan Yang, which was relatively minor, had no time to repair it, and Li thief Zhongyi rushed in again.

After seeing Li Yongtang's troops clearly, Li Yongtang felt very relieved. Li Yongtang had already done the principle of training that he sweated more and bleeding less during wartime, and did a great job.

"Everyone has it. When the red flag falls, fire cannons in turn. Those who violate the order will be killed!" After Li Yongtang completely opened the rack, he decisively issued an order to prepare for an attack.

"One-shot test, calibration test."

"Team A's Arctic Cannon, set off!" The red flag fell sharply.

"Boom..." Accompanied by a earth-shaking loud bang, the prelude to the general attack on Fan Yang was quickly pulled open.

Before mass artillery fire, the firing distance and firing boundary must be calibrated first. This is a scientific approach refined by Li Yongtang under Li Zhongyi's point.

"Bang!" The entire southern city of Fanyang seemed to be struck by lightning, shaking violently.
Chapter completed!