When he saw the Tang army camp stationed outside Mubang City, the noise like a heat wave, finally calmed down, the chief general of the Burmese army, Uchiyama Yujue, dragged his tired body and slowly walked down from the city.

With a dull expression and a confused gaze, he was like a puppet, coming down mechanically step by step from the road of the city wall.

Halfway through, he looked up and saw the dim moonlight in the sky, and couldn't help but let out another long sigh.

What should I do now?

Now that the Tang army is besieging the city on all sides, it is completely impossible to lead the nearly 40,000 soldiers who have just been defeated and demoralized to break through from Mubang City. So, can you wait for reinforcements to arrive in this isolated city with poor defenses and lack of food and grass?

He believed that these besieging Tang troops would definitely attack the city as soon as possible, so as to pull out this big nail leading to Ava, the capital of Burma, and completely open up the broad road to Ava.

So, what were the siege methods of the Don army?

Is it the traditional siege ladder siege method? Or is it an artillery siege that I have never seen before? Uchiyama's fallacy is completely bottomless.

Of course, he hoped that it was the former, in this case, he still had a military advantage in the city, and he could still confront the Tang army for a while, and maybe there was a small chance to hold out until reinforcements arrived.

And if the Tang army really brought powerful artillery, this poorly guarded Mubang City was only afraid of a worrying outcome. The final outcome of oneself will also be very sad.

Uchiyama had no answer to what choice Tang Jun would make, although he had been comforting himself in his heart, but his subconscious was still full of unspeakable panic.

In a night of anxiety, it wasn't until almost dawn that Uchiyama fell asleep in a daze.

When the first rays of morning light appeared from the eastern sky, there was a terrible sound of swan trumpets in the Tang army's formation, which sounded continuously.

At dawn, the Tang army finally began to attack the city.

Hearing the siege horn from outside the city, the Mubang city guard Uchiyama, who was still hungover, woke up from his sleep in an instant.

Uchiyama Fallacy rubbed his swollen eyes, and his heart was shocked and suspicious, could it be that the Tang army won a big victory yesterday, and today it will start to attack the city again?

At this moment, the door slammed open, and a panting soldier ran in quickly.

"Wonderful Valtius, big thing, big thing!" The little soldier replied with a frightened and panting face: "City, a large number of Tang troops outside the city, pushing nearly two hundred cannons, are attacking the south gate of our Mubang City, shouting all the way!" ”

Xiao Bing's words were like a scoop of cold water, pouring down from Uchiyama's head, and he stood up from the head of the bed, his eyes widened. The two blood-red eyes, which were red from insomnia, were full of expressions of shock and disbelief.

No way?!

Does the Tang army really have the ability to attack this Mubang City in just one night?!

"Let's go! Take Ben to see it! ”

"Yes!"

Coming to the south gate of Mubang City, Uchiyama Fallacy followed the direction of the small soldier's arm and finger, and was horrified to see that in the south of Mubang City, from the densely surrounded Tang army array, a total of as many as 180 heavy artillery pieces of the same size were launched, lined up in a straight line, and slowly pushed forward together. These heavy cannons that move forward silently, shining faintly silver in the reflection of the morning sun.

180 steel heavy dragon bombarders with a silver gray light were slowly pushed by the Tang gunners to a thousand meters outside the south gate of Mubang. Next, the Don gunners began to fix the gun mounts, adjust the angle of fire, reload gunpowder and shells, and soon made preparations for battle.

These 180 heavy dragon cannons, lined up along the right side of the city wall in the south of Mubang City, majestic and majestic, the black hole of the cannon mouth, straight towards the opposite side of the Mubang city wall, its dignified momentum, so that the enemy troops defending the city, frightened to begin to weaken their legs.

Good guys, these cannons look so terrifying, you can imagine how powerful they will be when they are fired.

The main general Uchiyama was wrong, and it was the first time in his life that he saw such a terrible cannon, and his face was also brushed with cold sweat.

At this time, at the head of Mubang City, there were many young men and women who were drawn from the people and came to participate in the defense of the city. For these people, it was the first time in their lives to see such a strange and huge cannon, and their faces were not only afraid and worried, but also inexplicably excited and curious.

They chattered in a low voice, unaware that these heavy cannons with huge black muzzles would be the best tools for them to ascend to heaven for free.

Seeing the Tang army coming with artillery so proudly, the battle-hardened general Uchiyama almost intuitively felt that if the Tang army was allowed to attack the city like this, it would definitely cause extremely terrible damage and blows to the walls of Mubang City, and such a result must be stopped before the Tang army began to attack the city.

Uchiyama thought about it quickly, and shouted at these soldiers and Qingqiang who were defending the city: "Everyone, panic! In my Mubang City, there are enough soldiers and horses, and the Tang Army wants to capture this Mubang City, but I'm afraid that he doesn't have such a good mouth! In addition, there are still 2,000 cavalry in our city, and after these Tang artillery pieces approach, our army can send cavalry to kill them out of the city, catch them by surprise, and make their artillery a pile of useless scrap metal! “

As soon as Uchiyama said this, the soldiers at the head of the city were greatly encouraged, and the people's hearts were much calmer, and the degree of panic was much less.

It's just that although Uchiyama said so, he didn't have a bottom in his heart.

Will these Tang army artillery really be wiped out so easily by the cavalry who sneaked out of the city, and will the Tang army commander really guard against such negligence? Could it be just wishful thinking?

Uchiyama's fallacy was forced to calm down on the surface, but he couldn't help but sigh quietly in his heart.

Do your best, let it be the fate of heaven. After all, if you want to stop the Tang army from attacking the city, this is the last feasible way.

Uchiyama took a long breath and quickly began to arrange the battle, he ordered the 2,000 cavalry in the city to wait at the south gate, wait for the Tang army's artillery to get close, and then go out of the city to raid, and this southern city wall was also guarded by him with elite soldiers.

To his surprise, the artillery of the Tang Army, which was slowly advancing, all stopped when they were eight hundred steps away from the south gate of Mubang City. Then these Don gunners were extremely skilled in loading the fixed gunpowder on the spot, measuring the spacing with a gun gauge, adjusting the angle of fire, and began to prepare for firing.

Uchiyama's eyes widened suddenly.

No way?

You must know that among the contemporary artillery in his impression, the most powerful Hongyi artillery can only hit about 400 paces away, why did these Tang artillery stop at 800 paces away and start preparing to shoot, can their artillery hit so far?

Could it be that it was because the Tang army was afraid of death and was afraid that its own cavalry would sneak attack out of the city, so they stopped at such a distance, planning to bombard indiscriminately without aiming?

Uchiyama is so cranky, of course, because he doesn't know that the accurate firing range of the Tang army's artillery can actually reach 1,000 steps, and the reason why it is 200 steps ahead now is because considering this Mubang City, compared to the surrounding terrain, the bottom of the city wall is specially heightened, so the Tang gunners should consider the elevation angle and projectile degree, and the Tang army will further advance these artillery distances in order to break the city wall more effectively.

Just when Uchiyama was suspicious, at this time, they heard a faint shout from a distance in the Tang army's array.

"Ready!"

"Put!"

Uchiyama saw from a distance that in front of the Tang Army's artillery array, a person who looked like an officer was holding a red flag in his hand and waved it down vigorously. At the same time, he shouted violently, and 180 steel heavy dragon bombers with a huge caliber and 32 pounds of shells fired in unison.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

……

In the continuous huge sound of cannons that shattered the eardrums, the muzzles of 180 heavy dragon bombers immediately floated crimson afterburners, flashing with dazzling golden fire, and in the dense billowing white smoke, 180 huge black iron bullets weighing 32 pounds, with the whistle of death, slammed into the southern wall of Mubang City.

In the dull and heavy sound of huge impact, these 100 jet-black 32-pound iron bullets, as if they had eyes, hit the right side of the entire southern city wall in an evenly distributed state.

On the right side of the southern city wall of the entire Mubang City, nearly a hundred large holes appeared in an instant, and at the edge of each big hole, the thick cracked lines were as dense as spider webs, and they spread unscrupulously to the siege, and a large number of city wall bricks splashed and cracked, and a piece of dust and mist filled the city, and the entire southern city wall was trembling violently as if it had asthma.

On the southern city wall, a large number of soldiers of the Uchiyama Fallacy Division were shocked to the ears, eyes, nostrils and mouths bleeding together, everyone was shocked and bloody, and their eyes were shrouded in the dust and mist that choked their noses, while the city wall under their feet shook violently like a pendulum, and nearly 100 soldiers of the left army who were unsteady on their feet fell from the city wall with a scream like a broken leaf blown by the wind, and then fell into a meat pie.

The Tang army's fierce heavy artillery salvo this time actually caused the southern wall of Mubang City to fall into a lot of chaos in an instant.

Those Burmese soldiers who have battlefield experience are in good condition and can barely support. But a large number of men and women, who were shocked to the point of bleeding from their mouths and noses, and whose faces were covered with dust, and who had no combat experience, screamed in horror, turned around and fled from the road of the city wall.

"Don't run! Come back to Lao Tzu and continue to defend the city wall! Those who violate military orders will be killed! ”

Hit by the surging sand and dust waves, the dust and hair of the inner mountain are scattered, as if they have just come out of the desert, and their appearance is extremely embarrassing.

He coughed violently, stood up against the battlements of the wall, and roared at the fleeing routs to stop the chaos. It's just that in the midst of this chaos, although he shouted hoarsely, it had little effect.

Finally, after Uchiyama and his guards slashed and killed seven or eight people one after another, these defeated Burmese troops re-stabilized, the escapees returned to their posts in fear, and the situation on the entire southern city wall stabilized slightly.

At this time, the gunners of the Tang Army, who had just finished the first round of salvo fire, were already clearing, charging, and reloading ammunition in preparation for the next round of shooting.

Uchiyama clenched his teeth, the anger in his heart was incomprehensible, his eyes rolled, and he immediately ordered: "Put down the drawbridge, all the cavalry immediately go out of the city to attack, and be sure to kill all the Tang gunners!" Let their cannons turn into squibs, dead cannons! ”

"Order!"

Soon, the two thousand elite horsemen in the city, after lowering the drawbridge at the south gate and opening the city gate, rushed out of the city with a clamour.

The two thousand cavalrymen had barely crossed the drawbridge when they heard another bang behind them.

Some cavalrymen subconsciously looked back, but saw that the drawbridge was being pulled up by the soldiers at the head of the city, and the city gate had already been tightly closed.

For a while, the faces of all the cavalry were full of gloom and loneliness.

They knew that Uchiyama had done this, and he had decided to use them as outcasts, and as soon as they led their army out of the city, there was only one way to go.

Once you succeed, your bones will wither, this is the fate of soldiers.

And seeing the Burmese cavalry who came out of the city, when they left the city, they showed a hesitant and helpless state, and Uchiyama couldn't bear it in his heart, he gritted his teeth fiercely, and his eyes were already blood-red.

"Brothers, come forward quickly, as long as you kill those Tang Army gunners, Ben General will definitely not treat everyone badly, after you come back, Ben Hou will personally celebrate your achievements!" Uchiyama was at the head of the city, shouting at the cavalry.

Hearing the encouragement of the commander, the cavalry who went out of the city also knew that they had no other way out than to kill the Tang gunners in desperate despair.

Sadly, Uchiyama's fallacy has a lot of false words, what can I do but believe.

After all, military discipline is difficult to disobey, and those who disobey orders must be immediately executed. So, they let out a beastly shout in unison, and then slammed the horse's belly, rushed forward towards the Tang army's artillery array in the distance.

Horses rumbled and dusty, and on this early spring morning, the Burmese cavalry galloped like arrows from a string, shooting at the artillery position of the Tang army.

Eight hundred steps!

Six hundred steps!

Three hundred steps!

When they reached about 300 paces away from that row of Tang artillery, a group of Burmese cavalry quickly dispersed into a straight line, and in everyone's eyes, it was the Tang gunners who had already seen what they were going to kill in front of them.

The effective attack distance of the bow and arrow is sixty paces, so they should speed up and rush to this distance, so that those Tang gunners can taste the power of the bow and heavy arrows.

"Rush, rush over, shoot all these Tang gunners!"

After running closer and closer, a group of Burmese cavalry roared loudly like a group of crazy beasts, and in the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, these Burmese cavalry with bows and arrows pulled their bowstrings to the Tang gunners on the opposite side.

It can be expected that as long as they run within the firing range, these Tang gunners will not be able to escape from the Burmese army's arrows.

What these Burmese cavalry didn't expect was that when this seemed to be going well, an accident happened.

All the Burmese cavalry clearly saw that these Tang gunners were like a flock of rabbits chased by eagles, turning around and fleeing behind, and behind them, a dense row of musketeers appeared.

To be precise, it was two rows of more than 4,000 musketeers, because one row was standing and the other was kneeling, holding the loaded muskets, and they quickly made an aiming posture, and the entire formation could not see the end from the beginning.

At this time, Uchiyama's light brown pupils, which he was observing with a clairvoyant mirror at the head of the city, suddenly shrank into a little in horror.

It's over, as soon as the Tang Army's musketeers attack, won't the cavalry scattered in a row completely become a target for beating? !

It's a slaughtering rhythm!

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