In the early morning of Youzhou City, the air was very fresh. The green grass leaves were still hanging on the dew that had not dissipated last night, and a faint white mist was shrouded in the sky. The sun had not yet risen, but the sky was already bright and the sky was blue.

Somewhere there are sparrows occasionally chuckling.

Guo Shao took his followers to strode past the cannon formation. He had to think that the Dragon Owl cannon cast in bronze was very beautiful and much better than the cast iron ones! Huang Cancan's cannon body was polished and smooth, and the workmanship was very good and looked very new.

Rows of cannon muzzles diagonally face the sky. When Guo Shao looked back, he could see rows of huge black hole muzzles.

The formation is very powerful! They are still just stone-killing mortars, and their actual functions cannot be bombed like howitzers that can destroy everything in their impression, and their power is very limited; but Guo Shao knows that as long as they are used properly, these things will have a great effect on siege!

"Yuan! Yuan..." Suddenly, a rooster screamed. Guo Shaoxun looked at him and was stunned.

It turned out that several soldiers killed a rooster and dripped the blood of a cannon on the cannon's barrel. The general beside him hurriedly said, "That cannon is the first to ignite, everyone is looking for auspiciousness."

After inspecting, Guo Shao left the artillery array, and he didn't need to ask about all the specific tactics himself.

After a long time, a bolt suddenly broke out from the blue, and a slight trembling on the ground, and the thunderous cannon roared through the tranquility of the sky. Thick white smoke rose into the air.

The horses neighed, the noise of people increased, and the birds in the distance were frightened and flew away desperately.

However, after one shot, it calmed down for a while, and then the sound of cannons in the camp stopped and stopped as if it was messy. The city towers and walls in the distance were not affected much. Instead, the Zhou army was filled with smoke and noisy people.

Guo Shao didn't say anything, of course he didn't blame him... The gun was designed by himself, so of course he understood. The accuracy of this kind of mortar is really limited, mainly because the casting technology and measurement tools are very rough; how can we hit the target? Yes, try it in one shot! Try out the elevation angle and charge amount, and because the size of the gun cannot be completely standard, the firing parameters of each gun are slightly different. Even so, it is still impossible to be completely accurate, and it is enough to be able to hit the target.

The cannon formation was tinkered for more than half an hour and stopped again.

Previously, the world was like a pool of clear water, the blue sky, the green earth, the fresh air had moist white mist; but now, the world seemed to be poured into a basin of sewage!

The sky above the Zhou army camp was filled with fog, as if dust was everywhere, and the smoke of gunfire and mist were mixed together. The camp was crowded and busy.

At this moment, a group of horses slowly rushed to the fortifications in front, and did not stop. Then they spread across the Mutu camp and slowly moved forward.

The cannon fire had not caused much damage to the city wall for more than half an hour. Most of them were not hit, but they only tried the cannons. Now the cannon fire stopped and never sounded again. In turn, there were crowds of horse riding.

The enemy's defense strength cannot be tested by bombardment alone, and this horse soldier is a test; and with the approach of the troops and horses to lure the defenders to the city, the first round of volleys can unexpectedly expand the results!

Guo Shao and the ministers watched the scene. The inside and outside of the camp looked a little messy, but he could feel the order in the chaos, and everything was going on in an orderly manner according to the plan.

The light horse team entered the front line as if they were rushing to the formation, first rectifying, then jogging, and then rushed towards the city wall.

The horse team was almost not attacked from a distance, and successfully arrived at the moat and quickly turned around and detoured. The horse team shot many arrows from the side door and shot them up the city wall. The moat in Youzhou City is not very wide, and it can even be shot on the top of the city when riding a horse by the river.

Guo Shao was hundreds of steps away and could not see the counterattack on the city clearly. But judging from the situation of the Zhou army, the defenders had almost no strong counterattack.

"Huh!" Wang Pu's mouth made a sound, and the following text disappeared.

The others didn't react much, but just looked at it, after more than half an hour of tossing around, the rhythm of the battle was not fierce, and everyone seemed to have a little lazy expression.

Guo Shao and Wang Pu seem to have the same intuition: the start is very strange.

He smelled some unusual smell.

Of course, the cavalry cannot attack the city. After all, horses cannot carry people to swim across the moat, and they cannot climb up the three-meter-high city wall on foot. But in common sense, close to the city will be attacked by defenders, after all, the distance is only twenty or thirty steps.

Why don’t the defenders fight back from afar? It’s very likely that there are not many people on the city wall...

The Zhou army cavalry in the distance moved around outside the city wall and shot, and then the head of the army gradually turned back. A cavalry seemed to have flowing water rushing to the wall and then flowing backwards.

Wang Pu said in a deep voice: "The situation seems to be different from what we expected."

Guo Shao did not act rashly. The Zhou army was too large and the deployment was relatively complicated. It was like a huge ship, with a slow steering... You should not change your strategy because of a little accident.

The horse team ran very fast, and in a short while, a row of triangular flags were inserted fifty steps away from the city wall, and then flocked back.

When he was away from a hundred steps, a roar of shaking mountains suddenly echoed throughout the world. Guo Shao turned his head and looked, a row of white smoke rose above the camp, and big rock bombs flew into the sky.

Before the stone bomb could fall on the city wall, for a moment, the cannon sound of "boom boom boom..." roared again, the flames shone, and a row of white smoke rose.

The earth and rocks splashed on the top of Youzhou City, and you can see the scene of a female wall collapse from afar.

The artillery fired from far and near the Zhou army camp one after another, and the scene was very shocking. The muzzles seemed to be spraying fire and flames, and the smoke was rolling. The sparse arrow tower observation posts between the cannon arrays seemed to be standing up from the clouds.

The deafening sound of cannons continued, and the shelling was madly blowing, with no sign of stopping at all.

Outside the first fortification, a large number of wheelbarrows had spread forward in the sound of cannons and smoke. Countless soldiers pushed the soil near the moat like a flood.

The real siege has just begun, and the Zhou army sieges roughly fills the river in the front!

When the crowd forward approached the pennant flag that had been placed before, the cannons on the cannon array stopped one after another, everything was in order and coordinated with each other.

The crowd who fill the river only needs to take the opportunity to advance twenty or thirty steps to reach the moat, and pour the soil into it. The moat is not a living river. The water flows very slowly and is almost static. It is very easy to fill the river, but it is just a matter of the amount of soil and rocks!

Unexpectedly, at this moment, suddenly there were black shadows above the city wall, and stones flew out like hail. The Zhou army's engineers were very dense, and they screamed everywhere. From time to time, wheelbarrows fell down and soldiers fell down.

As soon as this situation occurred, the ministers and generals who were looking at the central army immediately started to whisper.

Wang Pu said: "Youzhou City Defense has been prepared for a long time, and it seems to be a special gun for ours! The opponent's guarding weapons are not on the city wall, but in the city. Our previous guns are mainly aimed at the city wall, and they have not effectively destroyed their weapons."

A general said, "Our cannons are hit far away and we will reboot the equipment in the city."

Wang Pu frowned and said, "We can't see the city. How do you know where they are? Besides, if the enemy keeps moving, we have no way to know."

Everyone looked at Guo Shao in a slanted manner.

Guo Shao said nothing, stood on his horse with his sword, looking at the situation ahead.

He still had no intention of changing his tactics... First, he was considering the first wave of siege. If he was defeated immediately, it would affect morale. The opponent used a catapult to smash people and horses, and his lethality was worse than that of a mortar. The proportion of the Zhou army's engineering soldiers was not high, and it was far from the level of being defeated. People would die in war! Even if there were casualties, they should not act rashly.

Second, he didn't think of a countermeasure now. Even if he retreated, how can he attack again? If he stopped siege at the beginning, it would not be a good choice.

At this time, Guo Shao felt as if ten thousand animals had rushed by, which was very disturbed, but he still performed a calm and composed look. The tactics he had formulated himself would have to bear if he was frustrated.

He had to reexamine the "barbarians" of the Liao Kingdom.

Both artillery and tactics are new things in this era, but those people do not seem so ignorant and slow. They can adapt to and understand the new mode of war so quickly.

It can be guessed that Xiao Siwen and other Khitans understood Guo Shao's siege skills through the tactical details of the Jinyang Battle, and it seems that they have truly understood the tactical logic.

Guo Shao looked carefully at the stones flying out of the air. It was a parabola... In fact, by drawing a model diagram, you can roughly calculate the position of the opponent's throwing cart. However, the Liao army still had a simple way to deal with it.

Guo Shao could immediately think of two methods: First, as Wang Pu said, constantly moving the position, the Zhou army could not know when they moved outside the city. Second, put the catapult cart close to the city wall. The trajectory of the Zhou army's artillery shells was still a parabola with angle restrictions; there was an area inside the city wall that was a dead corner.

At this moment, a general asked, "How should we deal with it?"

Obviously there is no perfect method, but no matter how bad the method is, you must take one out immediately, at least let the soldiers know what they should do!

Guo Shao immediately said: "Send the order, all artillery artillery battalion will immediately increase the elevation angle and let the shells be thrown into the city."

Wang Pu answered with his fists and immediately asked the military officials to arrange for the orders to pass on the orders.

Guo Shao pointed to the front again and said, "When the first batch of people filling the river return and the artillery formation begins to be bombarded, the engineers are ordered to reorganize the formation, and the two men are at least one meter apart, and continue to fill the river with sparse deployment."

"Abide by the order."

After a long time, the crowds in the distance gradually disappeared from the moat. It was also seen that Zhou Jun paid the price hundreds of steps away. The ground outside the moat was in a mess, with many wheelbarrows being damaged and thrown there, and there were many corpses on the ground. More people were injured and brought back.
Chapter completed!