In 1688, Duduo was buried alive by a collapsed arrow tower.
The little girl was shocked. She had never imagined that a siege could be fought like this.
Lin Yueru was also dumbfounded. These construction machines used to build roads turned out to be so useful when demolishing city walls. No wonder the master was not worried at all.
Just as they were surprised, with the roar of the whistle, they saw three excavators climbing up the city wall from the slope of the city wall's collapse, and then the crawlers, carrying their heavy bodies, pressed against the horse track of the city wall, making a huge friction sound.
All the bricks laid on the city wall were crushed by the crawler tracks. This kind of unglued crawler shoes caused serious damage to the road surface and the city wall.
The Mongols and Jiannu panicked. They had never fought against such a mechanical monster covered in steel. The three excavators advanced toward the city wall in a Z-shaped pattern.
Those who tried to stop him were caught in the tracks and crushed to death. Three heavy excavators drove by, and the city wall behind them looked like it had been smeared with red fuel. Even the people, armor, and weapons were all crushed.
The flesh and blood turned into mud.
These excavators drove forward along the city wall. The three excavating arms carried the bucket and swung it back and forth like a crab's pincers. The weight of several tons hit them, and they would die if they were touched, or they would fly away if they touched them.
Duduo watched in horror from the arrow tower as excavators from both sides demolished the tower.
The bucket of the steam excavator turned the wooden structure of the city gate building into a pile of broken wood in a few strokes. It collapsed immediately with a blast and a burst of dust flew up.
At this time, he realized that he was in the arrow tower in front of the urn city, and he could not go back. Because the semicircular urn city could only be left by reaching the main city wall. Now the main city wall was occupied by excavators.
A large group of defeated soldiers swarmed into the arrow tower. They were frightened by the excavator.
Yang Fan looked at the frightened Jiannu and Mongolians running around, and ordered: "Tell He Kui to use bulldozers to open up the collapsed sections of the city wall so that the militia can enter the city."
Tu Shanyue quickly asked: "Master, Master, the tanks haven't shown their power yet. Is this siege battle over? I haven't had enough of it yet."
Only then did Yang Fan remember, yes, tanks have not yet been put into actual combat.
"Let the tanks attack the archery tower. I saw many defeated soldiers fleeing into the east city gate and the Wengcheng archery tower." Yang Fan quickly ordered.
Duduo was completely dumbfounded. He just came to observe from the front line, but he unexpectedly found himself in a desperate situation.
"Master Beile, you see, those monsters did not continue to attack, they all stopped." Jia La E Zhen Wu Ya Bo Guoer shouted loudly.
Duduo wiped his sweat and saw that those terrifying monsters had indeed stopped. After they demolished the city tower, they did not continue to attack. He breathed a sigh of relief and considered how to get out of danger and return to the city.
A new whistle was heard.
He quickly turned around and ran to the arrow window in front of the arrow tower to look out.
He found that the steel monsters with guns had started to move, and the three tanks drove to a hundred meters away from the arrow tower and stopped.
Then, the turret rotated, and the black muzzle was aimed at the watchtower.
Although he didn't know what kind of weapons these were, he felt panic for no reason.
He Kui looked through the periscope and found that although the Wengcheng Archery Tower in Tianjin was not as majestic as the imperial capital, it still had three floors and was very strong.
They are all built with two-foot-long large city bricks, with a wooden roof covered with blue-gray tube tiles.
He wondered in his mind whether he could break these blue bricks with a 30mm Gatling cannon.
After repeated consideration, he felt that the problem was not big.
"Show the semaphore and fire the main turrets of all tanks at the archery tower until they are destroyed."
The messenger immediately got half of his body out of the hatch of the tank and used semaphores to notify the other two tanks and the twelve tanks behind them.
Suddenly, fifteen six-barreled 30mm Gatling cannons aimed at the archery tower.
"Using steel core armor-piercing bullets, let's make a base number of ammunition first."
As He Kui's words fell, the tank suddenly vibrated, and the six-barreled Gatling cannon suddenly rotated. The six barrels rotated at high speed, completing the cycle of loading, firing, ejecting, and loading in sequence.
A tongue of flame flew out from the muzzle. Countless brass metal bullet casings spurted out from the sides like hailstones.
The arrow tower in front was immediately hit by countless 30mm steel-core armor-piercing bullets. Gatling's high rate of fire could fire thousands of rounds per minute, and fifteen vehicles would be 15,000 rounds.
Although the 30mm artillery shells could not explode, their power was already considerable. The entire watchtower immediately flew into pieces. Almost the entire front was being shot, and smoke rose into the sky.
Seeing that something was wrong, Duduo quickly rolled on the spot. Immediately afterwards, the soldiers who were hiding in the arrow window and preparing to shoot arrows and fire blunderbuss were immediately beaten to pieces by the cannonballs fired from the arrow window.
The arrow windows of the arrow tower are at least one square meter in size. If there are such a dense number of shells, every arrow window must be unsafe, as there are dense shells fired in.
Although the blue brick city bricks look very big, they are actually not very strong. These city bricks are hundreds of years old, and many of them are rotten. After a few hits from machine guns, large areas were broken, cracked, and collapsed.
Fifteen main guns fired for less than five minutes before the entire front of the archery tower collapsed.
The entire wall collapsed from top to bottom.
Because of the previous shooting, each solid shell could punch a hole forty centimeters deep in the wall. Fifteen thousand rounds of intensive shooting quickly destroyed the entire wall in front.
Yang Fan looked at the shooting effect and was very satisfied.
In the future, there will be more and more means of siege. Excavators can directly tear down city walls. The defenders have nothing to do with this kind of armored steam excavator.
Tanks can also use machine guns to sweep away all the crenellations of the city wall. The enemies hiding behind will be smashed into a pile of pieces along with the wall. Without the cover of the crenellations, seven or nine Gatling machine guns can sweep across the city wall.
From now on, it will really be no more difficult to attack a city. In the face of these engineering machinery and weapons that are beyond the times, all cities are almost as good as being undefended.
"First, stop the machine gun for a while, and use the gas tank mortar to bombard the arrow tower several times to test the effect," Yang Fan said.
The machine guns stopped, and the arrow tower was littered with corpses, with broken limbs and broken arms everywhere. The front was completely exposed, and the surviving people in the arrow tower were looking for cover to hide.
Duduo was stunned to death. Those dense shells were like steel rain, breaking everything they touched into pieces.
Yang Fan thought, the gas tank mortar has not yet been tested in actual siege operations.
A truck drove over immediately with a gas tank mortar on the truck.
This is a homemade weapon commonly used on the Syrian battlefield. It is very powerful.
The scrapped gas tank that was delivered was filled with 40 kilograms of explosives made from sugar and chemical fertilizers.
With an order and a bang, a gas tank filled with 40 kilograms of explosives flew up. With its riveted tail fin, it maintained its direction and drew a parabola, falling towards the ruined watchtower.
