Wang Jun and Yuan Pingping have already rushed to the city wall. However, facing the current battle situation, they are powerless. The opponent is not attacking the city wall with the entire army, so even if there are a large number of defenders on the south city wall, they cannot send any troops at this moment.
It comes in handy. No matter how many soldiers and horses are defending the city, and how well the materials are prepared, what does it matter? The Luoyan Army bombarded them with firearms outside Li Xu, and the opponent's formation was also five or six hundred steps away from the city wall. Even the most powerful bed crossbow had no range.
To four hundred steps, let alone an ordinary bow with a range of only more than a hundred steps.
There are two people fighting. One person holds the strongest shield, wears the best armor, holds the best weapon, and occupies the most advantageous position. However, the other party does not fight you head-on, but uses arrows from a distance.
Shooting you will make you unable to do anything. It will make you unable to use all your strength. The best martial arts and equipment and the most favorable terrain will have no room to display. The key is that the opponent's arrows are quite accurate.
The force is quite strong, and it hurts a lot when an arrow hits the body. It is very likely to penetrate the armor on the body and break the shield. In this kind of fight, you will definitely lose in the end.
The only positions that can hit the opponent are the ruins of the collapsed Nanxunmen gate tower and the nearby position. But that is where the opponent's firearms attack. At this moment, the city wall there is mottled, cracked and riddled with holes, and a lot of smoke and dust are filled.
On top of the ruins of the city gate tower, the soldiers could not climb onto the ruins to fight. They could only rely on some archers and long-range attack weapons on both sides who were within range to attack. However, this kind of attack could not prevent the opponent from building a pontoon bridge.
This is really worrying.
The opponent's attacks came one after another, with a pause, but after the pause came an even more ferocious bombardment. The city wall was riddled with holes, the city bricks peeled off like rain, and there were many cracks in the city wall. Large and small.
, like cracks on the winter ice after a heavy blow.
"Master Wang, this is not the way to go. I wonder if you can see it. The Luoyan Army seems to want to collapse the city gate. Could it be that they want to completely destroy the city wall near the city gate. If it had been before, I would have thought that this was
It's a crazy and ridiculous move, but now, I don't see it that way. You see, the opponent's firearms are indeed very ferocious. It's hard to tell if they keep firing like this." Yuan Ping, the commander of the Guards Infantry Division, felt that he couldn't do this.
After waiting, he found Wang Jun to discuss countermeasures.
Wang Jun also realized the same problem. In fact, the other party's intention was very obvious. There were huge crowds of soldiers guarding other city walls, but the other party did not use firearms to shoot them, but just aimed at the empty city.
There was a bombardment near the gate. The opponent's soldiers and horses were building a pontoon bridge, which led to the location of the city gate. This actually explained everything.
"Master Yuan, you and I agree. I am also worried that the city wall at the city gate will really be blown down. However, now we can only watch and be unable to stop it, completely in a passive position of being beaten. What should we do? You have
Is there any good way?" Wang Jun frowned.
Yuan Ping said in a deep voice: "It seems that we must be prepared to break the city. Be prepared to fight in the outer city. If the opponent breaks through
The soldiers and horses of Nanxunmen must rush into the city. The plan for now is to fight with them in the outer city. Now there is no way to retreat, we can only fight to the end and make all preparations."
Wang Jun looked into Yuan Ping's eyes and said: "Master Yuan, are you sure we can fight with them on the street? You and I both know the current situation. Speaking of which, there are 200,000 soldiers and horses defending the city, but among them there are only a few who can fight.
How much? Those are all temporarily recruited to fill up the number. Street fighting is the most cruel and bloody battle. Even regular soldiers and horses are ashamed of it, let alone these people?"
Yuan Ping sighed softly and said: "Why don't I know, but is there any other way now? We can only fight to the death. They are the ones taking the initiative now, not us. We can only make passive choices. Outer City
If we can't defend it, we can still defend the inner city. At least we can fight them, which is better than doing nothing."
Wang Jun nodded slowly and said in a deep voice: "Well, what you said is right. You and I can only do our best. Mr. Lu treats you very well. Back then, you and I came from a humble background, but we were respected by Mr. Lu and sent into the army.
After practicing in the Forbidden Army, I have finally made my mark. Now it’s time for you and me to repay Prime Minister Lu.”
Yuan Ping chuckled and said: "Yes, it's time to repay. A drop of kindness should be repaid by a spring. Hey, the situation was not originally like this, why is it now like this? Prime Minister Lu... Prime Minister Lu is still busy now
As for ascending the throne, hey, why bother with this? If Lu Xiang hadn't wanted to be the emperor, the situation might not have been like this. This is a road of no return."
Wang Jun chuckled and said: "It's useless to say this. You and I have no way to retreat. We can only follow Mr. Lu and rush forward. Whether it is the road of no return or the road to hell, that is your and my life. We..."
Before Wang Jun could finish his words, suddenly the soldiers on the city wall beside him let out a horrified cry, and they heard a huge crashing sound, and the city walls erected violently shook. But in the direction of the city gate, smoke and dust were billowing.
Bricks and stones flew in all directions and fell over, just like a mountain falling apart and the ground cracking. The situation was extremely horrifying.
"The city wall collapsed!" Yuan Ping said blankly.
Wang Jun's throat was dry, he swallowed, and his heart was filled with fear and shock. The city wall really collapsed. Although he thought things were going to be bad before, he still retained some hope in his heart, thinking that such a thick and wide city wall would not be destroyed by the other side.
It collapsed. But now the fact is before our eyes, and the last glimmer of hope has turned into a cannon shadow.
Smoke and dust billowed up, rising into a huge yellow mushroom cloud of dust. Hundreds of thousands of people above and below the city witnessed this scene, and they were all horrified. Even the Luoyan Army officers themselves actually thought it was impossible.
It is possible to destroy such a tall city wall with the Shenwei General Cannon, but the facts have proved everything.
Twenty-nine rounds of bombardment had been carried out, and the Shenwei General Cannon was actually a little overwhelmed due to the continuous firing. The soil on the platform was shaken loose, and the Shenwei General Cannon was sunk into the soil half a foot deep. The angle of the muzzle was adjusted several times.
, the angle has also been adjusted many times. Liang Qi and other thousands of operators are exhausted. The hundreds of iron bullets fired have also smashed the city gate arch holes with holes, and they are facing each other.
Many layers of blue bricks and stones have peeled off, and the deepest depression has reached a depth of several feet. Although the entire city wall is still intact on the outside after suffering a huge impact, in fact the bricks and stones that are several feet deep have been damaged.
The city wall was damaged and cracked. However, in order to demolish the city wall, it is necessary to destroy its key part, which is the load-bearing partition wall in the middle of the arch.
Lin Jue himself was also worried. He decided to go into battle in person. Taking advantage of the opportunity to sort out the positions of the Shenwei General Cannon, Lin Jue personally went to the earth platform of the Shenwei Cannon position, calculated the correction angles of each frame, and adjusted each one himself. Liang Qi
Following him with a sullen face, he saw Marshal Lin using tree branches to draw various complicated and weird symbols on the ground, and he was mumbling various incomprehensible words such as 'ballistic', 'resistance', 'initial velocity' and so on.
, full of confusion. Fortunately, he had seen Marshal Lin do this before, and knew that he was making precise calculations to make the strike of the Shenwei General Cannon more accurate. Otherwise, he would have thought that Marshal Lin was drawing talisman.
Pretend to be a ghost.
After a long time, Lin Jue finally told Liang Qi in a deep voice to continue firing. Liang Qi quickly loaded the ammunition and ordered to fire. This time, seven of the ten shells directly hit the load-bearing partition wall in the middle of the arch, on the left.
Three on the right and four on the right. The green bricks fell one after another, seemingly without any effect. But the next round of nine hits, five on the left and four on the right. The load-bearing partition wall about ten feet wide was finally penetrated. At the moment of penetration, the arch of the city gate hole
The roof began to collapse, and then there were continuous collapses like dominoes. After the load-bearing wall was shattered, the severely damaged wall lost its final support. Once it began to collapse, it triggered a chain reaction, and this is what everyone saw.
situation.
In the stunned eyes of everyone, the yellow dust in the sky slowly dissipated, and the scene in the dust appeared in front of everyone. The five-foot-wide city gate wall did not completely collapse, only the front half collapsed. Together with the Dragon Broken Stone,
The first half of the inner city wall collapsed, exposing seven or eight empty chambers in the inner walls. Large noose shafts and other objects in the empty chambers were suspended in the air. Because of the collapse of the city wall, the huge suspension bridge also collapsed and was destroyed.
The iron-cast dragon-breaking stone collapsed outwards and was smashed to pieces. The huge iron-cast dragon-breaking stone was now leaning on the rocks, as if someone had deliberately built a flat slope on the ruins, sloping across the ruins.
Head up the ruins.
"There is still time, it has not completely collapsed, it is still half way. Mr. Yuan, we still have time, so we will do as you said and prepare for street fighting. We will fight to the death." Wang Juan shouted loudly.
Yuan Ping woke up from his fright, and immediately shouted and mobilized his men to go to the city, preparing for a desperate fight.
The roar started again. Although the last half of the city wall still standing was two or three feet thick, it was as thin as paper and as brittle as wood under the bombardment of solid artillery shells. After four consecutive rounds of bombardment, a cannon shell penetrated the city wall and flew into the city.
, leaving a large hole running through it.
When the bombardment went on for thirty-two rounds, Nanxun Gate collapsed into ruins, leaving a gap of nearly 40 steps full of ruins between the east and west city walls. The city wall of Bianliang City, the strongest in the world,
Finally, it was penetrated and conquered by the bombardment of siege weapons that did not belong to this era.
