Lu Zhongtian recovered from his dizzy state. He shook his head and found that everyone in the hall was staring at him blankly, with surprise and panic in their eyes.
"What's wrong? What are you doing? Why are you looking at me like this? The Luoyan bandits are attacking the city? Just let them attack. Can they still capture my rock-solid Bianliang City? Are you afraid? What? The Jurchens are so powerful, have they invaded?" Lu Zhongtian shouted angrily.
The officials did not dare to look at him anymore, they all looked away and looked at the ground in front of them.
Lu Zhongtian breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to find that Chen Bin, Zhu Zhirong, Wang Jun, Yuan Ping and others were all gone. He hurriedly asked: "Where is Chen Bin? Where are Zhu Zhirong, Wang Jun, Yuan Ping and the others? Why are there so many people missing?"
Liu Zhenbang rubbed his sore buttocks and stepped forward and said: "Master Chen, Master Zhu, Commander Wang, Commander Yuan, they and all the generals in the army rushed to Nancheng to defend against the enemy."
Lu Zhongtian nodded, glanced at the people in the hall and said: "Look, they have already gone to kill the enemy. What are you still afraid of and worried about? Look at you, each one of you is like a frightened bird, without any determination and unable to be used."
"I am ashamed. Please calm down, Your Majesty." Although the fear in the hearts of the officials did not diminish in the slightest, they had no choice but to accuse him one after another.
Lu Zhongtian snorted and suddenly fell silent while holding on to the armrest of the throne. He remembered what Chen Bin said just now. The Luoyan Army was using firearms to attack the city. What kind of firearms were they? Chen Bin said, "The firearms gather together inside and outside the city." , the Nanxunmen turret was destroyed in one fell swoop? Miles away? Such a long distance? The turret was destroyed? Such a powerful force? And... there were as many as ten of them? Is Chen Bin exaggerating? Or... Really?
Lu Zhongtian suddenly felt a sense of fear in his heart. Today is the day when he ascends to the throne. The Luoyan Army will attack the city today. Could it be that he has really offended God? God is going to disrupt the situation and let the Luoyan Army attack the city today. Those firearms are really so fierce If so, can Bianliang City be defended? If the city is broken, what's the point of my ascension to the throne today? They are about to invade.
"Your Majesty Lu, your Majesty, will this enthronement ceremony continue?" Liu Zhenbang asked cautiously and stammering from the side.
Lu Zhongtian turned to look at Liu Zhenbang, his eyes were bottomless, as dark as a black hole. Liu Zhenbang felt goosebumps rise on his body after seeing such a look, and his eyes were filled with despair and anger. and unwillingness.
"Why don't you continue? Of course you have to continue. Hahaha, is it because of the little people outside the city that my ascension to the throne has been ruined? Liu Zhenbang, continue, don't worry about external matters. The more they want to disrupt the situation, the more I will I want to ascend the throne. This emperor... No one can stop me from becoming the emperor. No one can! Absolutely not!" Lu Zhongtian almost roared out this sentence through gritted teeth.
Liu Zhenbang said quickly: "Yes, yes, I obey, continue, continue."
The sound of silk, bamboo and drum music sounded again, and Liu Zhenbang's high-pitched voice had a hint of trembling: "Your Majesty, please take the seat and accept the congratulations from all the officials! Your Majesty has ascended the throne!"
Lu Zhongtian straightened his clothes, calmed down, walked slowly up the wooden steps, walked step by step behind the treasure case, and then slowly sat down
On the dragon chair. To be honest, the dragon chair was a bit hard. Lu Zhongtian was already thin and didn't have much flesh on his body. Sitting on it made his buttocks very uncomfortable. But he still smiled and looked satisfied.
The ministers knelt down and shouted long live, bowing three times and kowtowing nine times. Lu Zhongtian looked at the people kneeling in front of him with a smile on his face, temporarily forgetting some of his worries and immersed in endless satisfaction.
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Outside Nanxunmen, after half an hour of preparation, all the Shenwei General cannons have been adjusted. The muzzles of the ten cannons are facing the location of the Nanxunmen city gate.
Lin Jue made an analysis before the war and found that the city wall of Bianliang City had been reinforced to an extremely abnormal level. The height of the city wall plus the various temporarily built fortifications had reached nearly four feet, and its width was even more staggering.
It is seventy paces wide. It can no longer be regarded as a wall, but like a continuous hill. In this case, the position of the city gate tower has actually become the weakest point in the entire defensive system.
The reason is very simple. The city wall can be widened and heightened, but the city tower cannot. There are buildings in the city tower, including city gates, thousand-pound stone gates, turrets and watchtowers on both sides, and several stone steps to climb the city.
If it is reinforced like a city wall, the overall layout will be completely changed, and some of the original functions will have to be re-arranged and constructed, which is an extremely troublesome matter. If the city gate is widened and heightened like a city wall at all costs, the city gate will
All functions will be lost, unless you plan to turn the city gate and tower area into a section of city wall, which is equivalent to completely sealing the city gate tower.
This is of course impossible. The importance of the city gatehouse in the battle to defend the city is self-evident. It is not only a temporary storage place for a large number of materials and equipment, but also the headquarters for the battle on the city wall, where orders are issued and
Use the height of the tower to quickly communicate to the defenders. Moreover, the defense of the tower itself is many times more complete than that of the city wall. A large number of soldiers and horses gather near the tower to prevent the opponent from breaking through.
City gate, therefore, city gate is the most vulnerable place to be attacked, but it is also the most difficult place to attack.
If it is an ordinary siege method, it would be unwise to attack the city gate. However, the goal Lin Jue wants to achieve is not to climb the city, but to destroy the city wall. Therefore, the city gate is the most ideal attack location for the Shenwei General Cannon.
Because there are various facilities at the city gate, it is not monolithic. Not to mention that the three gate openings of Nanxunmen City are the weak points. Even the other parts of the city wall that appear to be solid actually have empty rooms inside. Installation
There are the shafts of the city gate suspension bridge, the shafts of the thousand-pound dragon-breaking stone, and the holes for the piles dug for the three-story tower above.
In short, the city wall is a completely solid barrier made of rammed earth and rocks. Although the area near the city gate is like a hill, there are many holes inside, and there are also door openings below. From a structural point of view,
It is said that it is not as solid as the city wall. Lin Jue's goal is to blow down the gate of Nanxun City. All Shenwei General's cannons will focus on this point and carry out fierce bombardment to achieve the goal.
Lin felt that after Liang Qi gave the signal that everything was ready, he urged the five-flowered horse to step on the horse with a serious expression.
He took a few steps forward, then reached out and pulled out the Tanlang Long Knife from his waist, holding it high in his hand.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the long knife raised by Lin Jue. The tassels on the handle were fluttering in the wind, and the light of the blade was dazzling in the sun.
"Attack!" Lin Jue let out a powerful roar and swung his long sword down, leaving a golden shadow in the air.
"Fire!" Liang Qi let out a heart-rending roar. He put the torch in his hand close to the fuse protruding from the small hole in the rear barrel of the Shenwei General Cannon and lit it.
The fuse was burning with blue smoke. Everyone turned around, turned their backs to the Shenwei General Cannon, blocked their ears with earplugs, covered their ears with their hands, and opened their mouths. This is what Lin Jue told
Their method of reducing the damage caused by loud noises. They covered their ears and waited with their heads down.
Time seemed to have frozen, and a few breaths of time seemed as long as a lifetime. All the troops around were silent, and even the spring breeze seemed to have stopped, waiting for the moment of explosion to come.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" A sound like the earth was shattering resounded on the ground. The ground shook violently, and then two puffs of yellow and black smoke and dust rose up from the earth platform where the Shenwei General Cannon was launched.
It's the dust that comes from the soil being violently shaken, and the black smoke is the black smoke from gunpowder explosions.
Even with full psychological preparation, even with cotton plugs in their ears and hands covering their ears, many people still temporarily lost their hearing amidst the roar of these ten cannons, and some people had hearing loss in their ears.
Blood flowed out. The huge sound shattered their eardrums and caused them huge injuries.
Hundreds of steps ahead, there was a commotion among the tens of thousands of Luoyan Army cavalry. Although they were hundreds of steps away, the roar of the explosion still caused the horses to convulse, and some formations became chaotic. The generals and soldiers struggled to restrain them.
And comfort the war horses, allowing them to regain their composure.
In short, for everyone present, the roar of this mighty general cannon was the most shocking sound they had ever heard in their lives. It was louder and more shocking than the roar of a summer thunderstorm, and it was a huge sound that shocked the soul.
ring.
Lin Jue reined in the panicked five-flowered horse and endured the buzzing sound in his ears. His eyes were firmly fixed in the direction of Nanxunmen Gate Tower outside Lixu. What he was most concerned about was not the power of the divine cannon.
It's about whether they can hit the target and what effect they will have.
In the eyes of everyone, more than ten huge clouds of smoke and dust erupted from the top and bottom of the city tower of Nanxunmen in Bianliang in the distance. The mud and dust were like giant flowers blooming on the top and bottom of the city tower, terrifying but spectacular. Ten large solid flowers
All the iron ball cannonballs hit the top and bottom of the city tower. Due to errors, some of them concentrated on the tower buildings above, some hit the city wall near the city gate opening, some concentrated on the fortifications near the city battlements, and one hit the tight wall by coincidence.
The closed city gate knocked wood chips flying from the tightly closed heavy city gate, revealing a huge black hole.
These were all the results of viewing from a distance, and it didn't seem to cause much damage, but in the telescope in Lin Jue's hand, he saw more details. The scene was really shocking and amazing.
