On the sixth day of the April 19th year of Hongwu, the seventh year of the Song Dynasty.

Just as the Great Jin Kingdom's "Shuigou Combined Fleet" came along the Juma River to the Baigou River. On the battlefield on the north bank of the Baigou River, the sound of shouting and shelling bombings were ringing. This narrow and long battle area is now fighting like a thunder purgatory.

This should be the first "artillery master" war in human history in this time and space!

Because both sides of the war have a large number of artillery or stilettos, and they all formulate tactics around artillery and stilettos.

Before Wanyan Xiebao's army came up, the Song army had two main forces reaching the north bank of the Baigou River through the floating bridge built on the Baigou River. After Wanyan Xiebao's army came over with fierce force, Yue Fei quickly pulled the main force of another army across the Baigou River.

As of the fourth night of April, before the artillery soldiers of the two sides broke out fierce firefighting on the north bank of the Baigou River, Yue Fei had already transferred five infantry generals of the Second Army, four infantry generals of the Sixth Army, four infantry generals of the Ninth Army, as well as the artillery generals of the Second Army (owing a 5-jin artillery team), the artillery generals of the Sixth Army (owing a 5-jin artillery team), the artillery generals of the Ninth Army (owing a 5-jin artillery team), the artillery generals of the Ninth Army (owing a 5-jin artillery team), the commander generals of the Second, Sixth, and Ninth Army, the cavalry generals of the Sixth Army, and the total number of 24 generals across the Baigou River. The total force crossed the river was less than 42,000, and there were 100 artillery units of various types.

The Wanyan Xibao troops were pressed up, with more troops, with a force of more than 80,000, which was twice as many as Yue Fei's! There were 108 large tubes and 202 hot pots, with a total of 310, which was more than three times that of Yue Fei!

In addition, Xibao also has a mobile artillery team that imitates the Xitang Army of the Western Tang Dynasty. It is equipped with dozens of small artillery guns that can be easily disassembled and assembled and can be controlled by twelve people. This weapon has an effective range of only sixty or seventy steps, and can only throw a five or six pound bomb at a time.

However, because it is easy to make, repair, and transportation, and the five or six pounds of fried pots weighing 5 or 6 pounds is also very powerful, it has become a powerful tool for the Western Tang Dynasty to sweep the Western Regions.

Wanyan Xiebao participated in the war to recapture the four towns of Anxi in the Western Tang Dynasty. Of course, he knew the wonderful uses of this small-sled cannon - they are not good at dealing with moving targets, but they are very effective when attacking the enemy's camps, castles and infantry that are still arrayed. Especially when one has the advantage of cavalry, can firmly control the battlefield and limit the enemy's movement ability, these small-sled cannons are simply killing weapons!

However, during the battle on April 5th and April 6th, Wanyan Xiebao's small gun was not useful. Because from the first wave of fierce firefighting between the artillery soldiers of both sides broke out, the Song army dominated the battlefield!

Because the terrain north of Baigou River was not wide and the Song army was lined up with the backs of the water, the Jin people's iron pagoda and the kidnapped horse could not be used at all. Therefore, whoever has the more powerful cannon can take the initiative in the battlefield.

The power of the 100 cannons of the Song army was obviously greater than that of the more than 300 cannons of the Jin army!

The Song army's cannons, especially the 52 5-jin cannons, not only fired quickly but accurately, but even the effective range was farther than the 10-jin cannons in Wanyan Xibao!

What made Wanyan Xibao even more troubled was that these 5-jin cannons were flexible and light, and could move quickly on muddy and messy roads on the north bank of the Baigou River... Therefore, they could concentrate their firepower to support the Song army's offensive against a certain section of Jin soldiers' positions.

The 10-pound bronze cannon that was slanted and weighed several thousand kilograms, and it was very difficult to move and could not be used in a concentrated manner. It had to be evenly distributed on a battlefield that lasted ten miles long.

So in the past day, the 80,000 people who have been under the eccentric protection have been beaten by Yue Fei's more than 40,000 people!

If it weren't for the proper dispatch of the slant guarantee, two lines of defense were laid out from the beginning, and his 80,000 troops would have probably been defeated by Yue Fei!

Yesterday, he first asked his subordinates to use grain trucks to load soil to form the first barrier; then ordered the soldiers and generals below to use grass to pile up soil with grass and erect wooden fences to form the second barrier.

As a result, before his second line of defense was built, Yue Fei's cannon began to roar!

76 long-drilling cannons (including 52 5 catties cannons and 24 10 catties cannons) were concentrated together, aiming at the left wing of the Jin army's defense line for an entire hour!

Wanyan Xibao, no, all the Jin soldiers did not expect that the artillery fire preparations before the enemy infantry attack could last for an hour! 76 cannons fired continuously during this hour, at least 5,000 shells were tilted towards the left wing of the Jin army's defense line!

The Jin soldiers' grain truck defense line was riddled with holes, and the positions were covered with bullet marks, and corpses killed by shells were everywhere, and they were terrified of death. The artillery bombardment lasted for three quarters of an hour, and the Khitans and Han troops who were thrown in front of the formation could not withstand it. Before the Song army could attack, they hugged their heads and cried and retreated to the second line.

Wanyan Xiebao had to lead the Jurchen soldiers to supervise the battle himself. He cut off three or four hundred heads in one breath to calm the situation and forced the Han people who had no "martial morality" back to continue getting shot.

However, they did not do much except block the cannon... because when they returned to their positions, the infantry of the Song army had already begun to line up and move forward.

That was not an ordinary infantry, but a row of "armored grenadiers" - everyone was wearing armor and everyone was carrying bombs!

This is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that more than a dozen 5-jin cannons actually move forward with the "armored grenades"!

These cannons were pushed and dragged by people and arrived dozens of steps away from the Jin soldiers' positions, and then they were shot with unscrupulous shotguns!

Is there any need to say more about the power of the shotgun sweeping the position? After several rounds of shotguns, Wanyan Xibao's left wing was destroyed directly. The Khitan soldiers and Han soldiers who had just been forced back to the battlefield happened to hit the opponent's shotgun head-on. Under the shotgun, there were corpses layered, and they were simply beaten into a pile of large corpses.

The Song army's "armored grenades" did not even throw grenades, but directly launched a charge and stepped on the corpse of the Jin soldiers and broke through the front line of Wanyan Xibao's left wing!

Fortunately, Wanyan Xibao still had a second line, and he immediately joined the Jurchen cavalry to fight back, and finally forced the breaking Song army infantry to form a square formation and temporarily switch to defense.

Wanyan Xibao took advantage of this opportunity to withdraw his first-line troops and artillery back to the second line (and lost some cannons, but most of them were still there) and re-arranged defenses. At the same time, he also dispatched troops to launch several counterattacks, trying to delay Yue Fei's attack, and gain more time for his subordinates to repair and strengthen their fortifications.

The counterattack launched by Xibao played some role. Yue Fei was forced to disperse the concentrated 5-pound cannons to support the attacked infantry generals. When Yue Fei's army repelled several waves of counterattacks from the Jin soldiers and stabilized the newly captured positions, it was dark.

After dark, the two sides did not engage in a large-scale night battle, but only launched several harassing attacks. Their main energy was to adjust the defense line, strengthen defense and prepare for a new offensive the next day.

What the officers and soldiers of Puluhun's Shuigou Fleet heard when they marched towards Baigou River on the sixth of April was that the artillery of Yue Fei's troops were concentrating firepower to bombard the middle of the second line of defense of Wanyan Xibao's troops!

Perhaps the endless shelling seemed to attract everyone's attention, perhaps the Song people did not know that the Great Jin Kingdom actually had a strange army like the "Drop Fleet".

So when Puluhun's fleet turned a river bend and suddenly appeared on the Baigou River, the Song army on both sides of the Baigou River was unprepared!

Along the river bank were lined with a large group of Song army baggage vehicles. The Song army generals guarding the fleet all stared at the "ditch warships" that suddenly drove from the Juma River. They didn't know how to attack them for a while?

Some people who were collected from Hejian Prefecture and Daming Prefecture exclaimed even more when they saw these warships!

"Not good! The golden thief is coming from the ditch! The golden thief has become a water thief..."

The sound of the alarm horn and the sound of the gong suddenly rang out. Pu Luhun shouted angrily: "The surprise attack was successful! Men, try harder and rush over!"

When the sound of horns and gongs rang out, the battle began immediately!

The people guarding the large baggage carts were all the baggage soldiers of the Song army. They were not civilians, but mostly old men. They were not interested in making achievements. They just wanted to complete the military service safely, so they became baggage soldiers. But their ability to kill the enemy is still there!

Moreover, because they were escorting large chariots on weekdays, there was a place to place the Divine Arm Bow. Therefore, the Song army's baggage troops have become a group of troops equipped with Divine Arm Bow!

With the orders of the baggage officers, some of the veterans escorted the car took out the divine arm bow from the car, opened the bowstrings, and took the wooden feather arrows, then aimed at the golden warship on the water and shot.

Some veterans escorted the car yelled and yelled at the storm, directing them to take off the shields from the car, and then supported them one by one to form a shield wall.

But what use are these wooden feather arrows for Puluhun's "ditch battleship"? No matter how penetrating the wooden feather arrows are, they cannot penetrate the shipboard and the wooden slugs supported on the deck. The light sounds made by the arrows on the wooden boards stimulated the Jin soldiers' oarsmen to try their best to pull the paddles. The bow of the boat hit the white waves and the speed of the boat also increased. The entire "ditch fleet" also flew along the water flow of the Baigou River toward the floating bridge connecting the two Song troops in Henan and Hebei.

When Puluhun saw the floating bridge from afar, he saw the people on the bridge panic, discarded their vehicles, and ran towards the two sides. The north bank of this section of Baigou River was empty and there was nothing. It was the back of Yue Fei's troops one mile away from the river bank.

On the south bank are evacuating vehicles.

The raid was really successful!
Chapter completed!