At noon, outside the city of Hanzhou, a thin black line appeared on the horizon in the distance.

The people on the city wall couldn't help but hold their breath and silently told themselves in their hearts: "It's ...... coming"

Soon, the thin black lines gradually turned into thick lines, and from thick lines to endless wide squares.

At this time, in the center of the phalanx, a towering banner appeared, with a large "Han" character written on it.

Standing side by side with the Daxu flag is a golden dragon flag, on the flag, a huge and powerful golden dragon, fangs and claws fluttering in the wind.

With the golden dragon as the banner, except for the Northern Emperor Li Zhongyi himself, who dares to trespass?

Han Yunsheng, the envoy of the Baoning Army and the assassin of Hanzhou, held the wall with his hand, silently watching the Han army outside the city, and the momentum was overwhelming.

I saw that the phalanx of the Han army, even in the process of marching, whether looking left or right, was a neat and uniform phalanx, and the lines were not chaotic.

As the distance of the Han army's phalanx got closer and closer, Han Yunsheng saw more and more clearly.

Han Yunsheng straightened his waist violently, his eyes straightened, and he found that the soldiers in the first row of the entire Han army array, every time they took a step forward, they all stepped out of their left leg or right leg like one person, without the slightest mistake.

It's so hard!

Han Yunsheng was speechless for a long time, as a veteran general who had been in battle for a long time, for the first time, before the war started, he was already cold in his heart, and he had no intention of winning.

"Nourishing ......" beside Han Yunsheng, there was a sound of gasping sounds, one after another.

The layman looks at the liveliness, and the insider looks at the doorway!

There has always been border friction between Shu and Tibet, and Han Yunsheng has been guarding the western border of Shu before he was appointed as the envoy of the Baoning Army. The generals and colonels on his left and right are also border army officers who have gradually grown up in border conflicts.

The Tubo people are insidious and cunning, and they are brave and good at fighting, and they are not afraid of death, which made Han Yunsheng suffer a lot.

However, the unhurried marching momentum of the Han army alone far exceeded the shock of the Tubo cavalry's charge, how could Han Yunsheng not be surprised?

In the Han army's camp, there were not many shadows of cavalry, which made Han Yunsheng feel a little relieved.

However, in the array of the Han army, more than 100 long tube-shaped things dragged by mules and horses looked like cars, but not very much like cars, and Han Yunsheng couldn't understand it.

"Didida...... Dadi" accompanied by the sound of loud military trumpets, the large contingent of the Han army came to an abrupt end, whether it was looked horizontally or vertically, it was still a straight line.

Under Han Yunsheng's gaze, the more than 100 long tube-shaped things were placed at the forefront of the entire line.

"What is this?" Han Yunsheng really couldn't figure out what this was, so he turned his head and asked the people beside him.

Everyone shook their heads, what Han Shuai didn't know, how did they know?

Li Zhongyi stopped the restless "little blood killing", turned his head and ordered Li Anguo: "You go." ”

After Li Anguo received the order, he galloped away and went straight to the city of Hanzhou.

Han Yunsheng's location was easy to find, Li Anguo followed the direction where the flag was erected on the city gate, and soon galloped to the bottom of the city, a stone's throw away.

"Han Shuai in the city listened, according to the emperor's instructions, if Han Shuai opens the city now and abandons the darkness and turns to the light, he can keep his title and wealth forever." Li Anguo pulled his throat and shouted out Li Zhongyi's meaning completely loudly, "My emperor has a word first, as long as the city is successfully surrendered, the officials of the whole city will continue to settle down." ”

Li Zhongyi's position, in the middle of the entire phalanx, must not have heard what Li Anguo said.

However, Li Zhongyi understood that it was impossible for Han Zhengsheng to surrender in Kaicheng. According to the intelligence, when Meng Chang sent Han Zhengsheng to guard Hanzhou, he detained his only son, wife and concubine as hostages in Chengdu.

In the face of Li Anguo's shouting, Han Zhengsheng's most likely approach is to delay time as much as possible, delay one day is considered a day, and delay half a day is half a day.

Sure enough, as Li Zhongyi expected, Han Zhengsheng did not respond immediately after hearing Li Anguo's shouting clearly.

Li Anguo had already received the emperor's orders, and after waiting for a quarter of an hour, he immediately shouted loudly: "Han Shuai, listen well, in another quarter of an hour, if you don't respond, our army will officially attack the city." ”

This is an ultimatum!

Han Zhengsheng glanced at the officers who were fluctuating in people's hearts, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, Xiongguan Sword Pavilion was lost so quickly, not to mention Hanzhou, which was not in danger to defend?

Although Li Zhongyi was insidious and cunning, he had always kept his promises, and the promises he made in front of the entire Han army were obviously credible.

If people don't do it for themselves, heaven and earth will be destroyed!

The subordinates want to keep their wealth, and Han Zhengsheng wants to too. However, Han Zhengsheng is over fifty years old, but he only has one son!

"May I think about it for a day? Discuss with everyone carefully? Han Zhengsheng held the arrow stack in his hand, exposed half of his body, and shouted to Li Anguo very sincerely.

Han Zhengsheng deliberately wanted to delay time, because the morale of the army in the city was already unstable.

Unexpectedly, after Li Anguo heard this, he turned his horse and left, never looking back.

When Han Zhengsheng was surprised, Li Yongtang, the commander of the artillery corps, had already ordered loudly: "All artillery groups pay attention, each is in place." ”

In the era when there were no telephones, in order to command more than a hundred artillery pieces to launch an attack, it was definitely necessary for the herald to be in the center to convey the instructions.

Shortly after the first wave of heralds set off, Li Yongtang's second military order was issued immediately after.

"I ordered that the three teams in the middle were only responsible for bombarding the direction of the city gates, and the rest of the artillery raised the ruler and fired at the enemy troops on the city walls."

"The red flag is down."

"Check the cannon, prepare, put it."

Accompanied by Li Yongtang's military order, before the large-scale artillery bombardment, one of the artillery pieces responsible for correcting the firing ruler Zhuyuan immediately let out an earth-shattering roar after it was ready.

"Boom ......" accompanied by the roar of artillery, the battle to attack Hanzhou officially kicked off.

The "Boom ......" cannonballs were wrapped in the divine power of destroying the world, roaring, and bombarded the city wall.

The city wall immediately became a large dent ......, and rubble and bricks flew everywhere.

Han Yunsheng only felt that the world was spinning, if it wasn't for his quick hands and holding on to the wall, he was afraid that he would fall to the ground.

Li Yongtang held a monocular, carefully looked at the landing point of the cannonball, and secretly felt a little regretful.

It was crooked, and it did not hit the city gate, but on the city wall under the city gate tower.

"Adjust the scale, lower it by two degrees." Li Yongtang once again issued a military order.

According to the regulations of the artillery drill code, the calibration gun must be fired three times, with an average of three rounds, to provide the most accurate strike scale.

The artillerymen dragged the retreating artillery back to its original position, washed the chamber, loaded the bottom medicine, loaded the iron projectile, adjusted the elevation angle of the artillery, and a series of actions were done like a cloud of water in the same direction, which was pleasing to the eye.

Li Zhongyi put down the monocular in his hand, nodded with satisfaction and smiled: "Okay, this is a little interesting." ”

According to Li Zhongyi's understanding, a series of tactical actions from washing the barrel to re-firing can be completed in one minute, and only then can it be a qualified operation.

However, there are no mechanical clocks yet. The so-called one minute is just a specially made hourglass made by using a special person to read it aloud sixty times, and it is inevitable that there will be errors.

Cooking makes perfect. The soldiers of the artillery corps, from being unusually unfamiliar to mastering the operation skills, have indeed paid a lot of hard work and sweat.

Sweating more in peacetime and bleeding less in wartime has always been the basic requirement of the Han army!

Yang Wushuang saw that the emperor was in a good mood, so he smiled and said: "Your Majesty, Hanzhou is a land of projectiles, and the defenders are only 20,000 people at best. ”

Li Zhongyi nodded, smiled and said nothing. The appearance of artillery really made it extremely difficult for the defending side.

In his impression, in medieval Europe, the fortress touted by the knights and lords could only choose to die in battle or surrender in the face of large-scale artillery fire.

When Li Zhongyi decided to attack Shu, no matter how difficult the Shu Road was, he never had the idea of giving up carrying artillery. It is because the role of artillery in siege warfare, no matter how emphasized, cannot be overemphasized.

With a terrible whistling sound, the "Boom ......" calibration shell shot out of the barrel and smashed viciously in the direction of Hanzhou City.

Li Zhongyi heard the sound of cannons, and almost subconsciously raised the monocular in his hand and aimed at the city wall of Hanzhou.

According to the experience of previous training, there is no precedent for calibrating artillery shells.

This time, there were no exceptions, and the shells still hit the city walls.

"......Boom" The soles of his feet shook again, Han Zhengsheng shook his body, and his whole heart sank to the bottom of the lake.

No matter how stupid he is, he knows that the large-scale collapse of the city wall bricks must have something to do with the Northern Army.

It's just that Han Zhengsheng only saw the white smoke rising from the front of the Northern Military Formation, near the long tubular object.

......A large hole was punched out of the blue bricks covering the wall, exposing the yellow rammed earth, and the continuous falling sound of broken bricks, like a talisman, knocked on the hearts of the defending generals.

"Correct the ruler, lower it by one degree, aim at the city gate hole, and put it." Li Yongtang's orders were always so calm and clear.

The "Boom ......" shell roared out again, and this time, it smashed right above the city gate.

"Ah......h

If it weren't for the dead hands pulling the arrow battlement, and the relatives helping each other, Han Zhengsheng would probably have fallen to the ground.

The long tubular object, launched three times, caused three violent vibrations under the soles of his feet, even if Han Zhengsheng was stupid, he understood that the general trend had gone.

However, before Han Zhengsheng could figure out the next steps of Xiancheng, Li Yongtang had already issued a military order for a total bombardment.

"Rapid fire, five shots." With the fluttering of the small red flags, more than 100 artillery pieces let out a deafening roar almost at the same time.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom......" In the roar of the earth shaking the mountains, the entire city wall was bombarded with holes.