The artillery unit has never been dispatched on such a large scale in the early years.
Now, this is the first time that three hundred Zhenguan general cannons have participated in actual combat together.
It was also because it was my first time to participate in actual combat.
The first wave of long-range strikes actually did not achieve the best effect.
Only thirty-four out of ten hit the target, and the remaining six or seven out of ten either flew too far and fell into the city, or flew too close and fell outside the city.
It can be said that those who fell into the city caused great damage to the people in the city, and all the people affected by the artillery fire were blown to pieces.
The building is leaning left and right and is crumbling. It won't take long before it collapses.
All the Qiuci soldiers in the city were so shocked by the scene before them that they were speechless.
When had they ever seen such a horrific scene?
The scene of the shells falling from the sky and the earth-shattering sound created after the explosion was like the howling of evil spirits in hell.
They all couldn't help but wonder whether these people in front of them were human beings.
How could human power create such a scene?
But before they could figure it out, the second wave of offensive arrived.
This time, it almost covered half of Duyan City, filling Duyan City with smoke and dust, and the screams could be heard very clearly even outside the city.
Li Chengqian was very satisfied with the attack effect of the artillery unit.
Seeing such a scene, Wu Yougou beside him couldn't help but speak.
"Your Highness."
"If future wars are fought like this."
Wu Yougou said with a smile: "Then I'm afraid we generals will have nothing to do."
"That's true."
"But a general is still a general."
"No matter how advanced the times are, generals are necessary."
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "Only those who can lead big guys to charge into battle, I'm afraid there will really be fewer..." "It will also cause many people to lose their jobs."
"But the change of times is a historical necessity, and time waits for no one."
Li Chengqian looked back at Wu Yougou, patted his shoulder, and said, "So, you also need to keep up with the times and learn from it in the future."
Hearing this, Wu Yougou was stunned.
Then, he laughed twice and said: "Your Highness, I am old, I can just run errands with Your Highness."
"Just running errands, how can you bring out your talent?"
Li Chengqian turned back and looked at Du Yancheng in front of him, and said: "In the future, Datang will still have many tough battles to fight, but these tough battles are the kind of battles that kill people without blood..."
His profound words made Wu Yougou think about them for a long time.
He pursed his lips and finally said nothing.
I just swore silently in my heart that I would serve the person in front of me with my life.
After all, it was with his help that I regained my life when I was at the lowest point in my life.
And Li Chengqian didn't say much on this matter.
He directly waved his hand and said: "Send the order to the siege troops and cooperate with the artillery troops to attack the city. Before sunset, I will drink tea in the palace of Qiuci and hold a celebration banquet for the brothers."
Hearing this, Wu Yougou stepped in to take the order.
Then, he galloped to Cheng Hualiang, who was standing at the forefront of the battle formation, and conveyed Li Chengqian's order.
Cheng Huailiang would naturally not hesitate.
"Brothers, His Highness has given the order."
"Tonight evening, His Highness will hold a celebration banquet for us in the palace."
He said straightly: "You have to run faster for a while. If anyone falls behind, don't blame me for bringing him to the general stage for the brothers to watch."
After saying this, he directly took off the spear from the victory hook, urged his horse and walked back to the battle formation.
Following Cheng Huailiang's order, the Liangzhou Army's siege phalanx advanced directly towards Duyan City amid artillery fire.
Because of the cover of artillery fire, they encountered almost no resistance when the infantry attacked the city.
In just a blink of an eye, they advanced to less than 500 steps from the city wall.
After arriving here, the Liangzhou Army's arrow formation also began to cooperate with the artillery unit to carry out long-range attacks on the Kucha soldiers in the city.
In an instant, cannonballs mixed with arrows fell into Duyan City one after another.
The Liangzhou Army's arrow array was passed down from ancestors.
Since the Qin Dynasty, the old Qin people's arrow formations have made people all over the world fearful.
And this round of arrows was shot out by five thousand soldiers.
The density is so dense that it can be said to block out the sky and the sun.
And those Qiuci soldiers on the top of the city who had escaped the artillery fire but had no time to hide fell down one after another under the arrow formation.
At the same time, the arrows and cannonballs that crossed the city's head also caused great damage to the residents in the city.
As a result, many people could not help but run out of their homes and seek refuge where arrows and cannonballs could not reach them.
Arrows followed one after another, shells followed one after another, and so on.
Every soldier of the Liangzhou Army has specially practiced bow and arrow skills, and the crossbows they use are all heavy bows.
A heavy bow should shoot an arrow at least fifty to a hundred steps farther than a light bow.
So a very embarrassing situation arose.
Although the Qiuci soldiers were in a condescending position, their arrows could not hit the Liangzhou Army's formation, but the Liangzhou Army could shoot at them.
The Kucha soldiers could only watch helplessly, either standing there and being beaten, or they could only run away.
They have never fought such a frustrating battle in their lives.
At this time, they were like lambs being slaughtered.
Just after the long-range attack, The Qiuci soldiers on the top of the city were basically all dead.
When the artillery fire stopped because the siege troops were too close to the city wall and were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people, few Kucha soldiers were left alive.
When he heard the artillery fire outside stopped, Bonatou also reacted.
He knew that the enemy was about to attack the city in a large scale.
Therefore, he quickly ordered the soldiers who were hiding in the city to climb to the top of the city to resist the enemy.
When they came up, they all picked up their bows and arrows and fired volleys at the Liangzhou soldiers below.
From time to time, soldiers from Liangzhou fell to the ground after being hit by arrows, but these could not stop their progress.
Like emotionless machines, they pushed the big wooden boxes and quickly rushed to a place not far from the city wall.
These soldiers immediately pulled out wooden boards from the wooden box to use as shields to resist the rain of arrows shot from above, and quickly used the rocker to shake the switch of the wooden box.
It was only at this time that everyone realized that these huge wooden boxes turned out to be ladder trucks.
The so-called ladder truck is much larger than the ladder.
At the same time, there are no stepped handles for climbing on it. It is made of a whole large thick wooden board spliced together through a circlip mechanism.
In fact, it is better to say that it is a cloud ladder than a siege cloud bridge.
Because it looks like a bridge has been built on the city wall.
Such a mechanism can better allow the soldiers to rush to the city head faster, and can also avoid many casualties.
Seeing that the ladder truck had been set up, Cheng Huailiang suddenly clamped the horse's belly and raised the spear in his hand: "Kill."
"kill."
Thousands of Liangzhou soldiers standing in the front row lined up in neat battle formations and rushed towards the walls of Duyan City like a tide.
In front of these people, there were hundreds of Liangzhou troops wearing light armor.
They were extremely fast and rushed onto the Cloud Bridge in an instant, then rushed towards the city head despite the enemy's arrow rain.