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

The east wall of the entire Tongguan City, nearly a hundred big holes appeared in an instant, the edge of each big hole, the thick cracked lines were as dense as spider webs, unscrupulously spread to the siege, a large area of the city wall bricks splashed and cracked, a dust and mist filled, the entire east city wall, as if suffering from asthma, was trembling violently.

On the eastern city wall, a large number of Li Guobu soldiers who were shocked to the ears, eyes, nostrils and mouth bleeding together, everyone was shocked to the blood surged, and the eyes were shrouded in the dust and fog that choked their noses, and 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 screaming like broken leaves blown by the wind, and then fell into meat cakes.

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

Those soldiers of the Left Army who had battlefield experience were in good condition and could barely support them. 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! ”

Li Guo, who was hit by the surging sand and dust waves, and his hair and hair were scattered, as if he had just come out of the desert, and his appearance was extremely embarrassed.

He coughed violently, stood up against the battlements of the wall, and roared at the soldiers who fled wildly, to stop the chaos. It's just that in this chaos, although he shouted hoarsely, it didn't have much effect.

A young man who had been deaf from both ears was shocked and ran past Li Guo with a wail, completely ignoring the warning of the supreme governor of Tongguan City.

"Bastard, don't run!"

Li Guo was angry and angry, he brushed the ground and drew a sharp sword, shouted angrily, stabbed the sword fiercely, and stabbed the fleeing guy from the back to the chest, stabbing a big hole, the fleeing young man, his body shook a little, and he fell from the city wall and fell into a mess of meatloaf.

Finally, after Li Guo and his guards slashed and killed seven or eight people one after another, these defeated Shun troops re-stabilized, the escapees returned to their posts in fear, and the situation on the entire eastern 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.

Li Guo gritted his teeth, the anger in his heart was beyond measure, 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 four thousand elite horsemen in the city, after lowering the drawbridge at the east gate and opening the city gate, rushed out of the city with a clamour.

The 4,000 cavalrymen had just crossed the drawbridge when they heard another boom 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 Li Guo had done this, and he had decided to use them as outcasts, and as long as they led the army out of the city, there was only one way to go by dying on the battlefield.

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

And seeing the cavalry of the Shun army who came out of the city, when they left the city, they showed a state of hesitation and helplessness, Li Guo 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, General Ben will definitely not treat everyone badly, after you come back, General Ben will personally celebrate your achievements!" Li Guo was at the head of the city and shouted 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, Li Guo's words with a lot of false ingredients, what can he 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.

The horses' hooves rumbled, the dust was flying, and in the early morning of this early spring, the cavalry of the Shun army galloped like arrows off the string, shooting at the artillery position of the Tang army.

Eight hundred steps!

Six hundred steps!

Three hundred steps!

When they reached only about 300 paces away from that row of Tang artillery, a group of cavalry of the Shun army quickly dispersed into a straight line, and in the eyes of everyone, 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 Shun cavalry roared loudly like a group of crazy beasts, and in the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, these Shun 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 into the firing range, these Tang gunners will resolutely escape from the heavy arrows of the Shun army.

What these Shunjun cavalry didn't expect was that at this seemingly smooth time, an accident happened.

All the cavalry of the Shun army 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 firecrackers, because one row was standing, the other was kneeling, wearing a sizzling fire rope, holding a loaded fire gun, and quickly made an aiming posture, and the entire formation could not see the end from the beginning, and it was completely covered with the vacant land outside the entire Tongguan.

At this time, Li Guo, who was observing with a clairvoyant mirror at the head of the city, his light brown pupils suddenly shrank into a little in horror.

Depend on! In the Tang army's array, there are so many firecrackers, now, our cavalry, scattered in a row, won't we completely become the target of the beating?!

It's a slaughtering rhythm!

"Quick! Mingjin, Mingjin, let them come back! ”

When Li Guo shouted, on the opposite Tang army formation, with the shouting of a person who looked like a captain, his subordinates ordered the flag to wave down violently, and the two rows of firecrackers standing or kneeling, the four thousand firecrackers, suddenly fired together.

"Bang bang 。。。。。"

There was a dense sound of popping beans, which sounded violently, and the embers that floated from the mouth of the bell formed two bright yellow and dazzling lines of fire, and a large area of choking and thick white mist surged, instantly turning the entire Tang army into a fairyland on earth.

Of the 4,000 firearms, 3,600 were fired, and these 3,600 small lead bullets weighing three coins formed a dense curtain of death rain, roaring towards the cavalry of the Shun army, which was rushing wildly, and rushed away.

Li Guo could clearly see from the clairvoyant mirror that the rain of lead bullets that roared away shot the cavalry of the Shun army, either men or horses, who were rushing on the opposite side.

At least five or six hundred cavalrymen of the Shun army were shot at the moment of firing, and the screams of the cavalry were mixed with the mournful screams of the horses, like the laughter of death. The cavalry of the Shun army turned on their backs, and the entire cavalry formation that rushed forward fell into chaos and collapse in an instant.

It was only at this time that the sound of the Shun army's singing gold sounded properly, but it was too late.

Just when the remaining more than 3,000 cavalry of the Shun Army pulled out their horses and fled in a panic, the second round of shooting of the Tang army began again.

More than 400 cavalrymen of the Shun army rolled off their horses with wails, and they were killed and wounded.

The remaining cavalry of the Shun army, which was less than 3,000 men, was already terrified, like headless flies, scurrying around in the field.

At this moment, 3,000 Tang Army flying harriers rode lightly, like tigers out of the mountain, swords out of the box, and swooped down on the scattered 700 cavalry of the Shun Army.

A chase without suspense, almost a complete massacre, horses' hooves rumbling, knives and spears, the cavalry of the Shun army screamed and died, almost without the power to parry.

In the end, only the cavalry of the Shun army, which was less than 1,000 cavalry, finally escaped with their lives under the blade of the Tang army, and they who had been beaten to the hood were scurryed around in the field for a while, and then hurriedly pulled out the horse's head and rushed back to the east gate to enter the city.

The cavalry of the Tang Army outside the east gate, after winning a great victory, did not pursue further towards the Tongguan gate, but let them go by themselves, and then returned with a clamour.

At the head of the East Gate, Li Guo, who saw this tragic scene clearly with a clairvoyant mirror, felt the pain in his heart like a knife.

Well, his own cavalry attacked this time, but even a Tang Army gunner didn't kill it, so he was all reimbursed outside Tongguan City, damn it, this is not a battle at all, but a massacre!

The Tang Army is so fierce and ruthless, well-organized and sophisticated, although there are still enough soldiers and horses under him, are they really the opponents of the Tang Army?

Thinking of this, Li Guo felt that he was cold from head to toe.

And seeing the defeat of the attacking Shun army, behind the Tang army formation in the east, a cold and smug smile flashed on the face of Tian Wei, the head of the first town of the Tang army.

Hmph, Shun Jun's tricks, he had already made corresponding arrangements in the battle plan, and it can be said that he has already been able to capture them in this out-of-town assault.

After seeing the remnants of the Shun cavalry, fleeing back to the city like a frightened rabbit, he was inexplicably proud, and immediately ordered coldly: "The cavalry of the Shun army has been destroyed, continue to attack the city with artillery." ”

"Order!"

The commander of the Tang Army's artillery, the red flag in his hand, was raised high again.

"Ready!"

"Put!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

……

Another hundred black 32-pound iron bullets roared in, and in the deafening sound of cannons, the broken bricks on the city wall flew like rain, and choking dust and mist flew up all over the sky.

Soon, after the Tang Army's 100 heavy dragon bombardment guns were fired for twelve rounds, and after reaching the limit of use, the entire eastern city wall was covered with dense cobweb cracks, and the damage of the entire wall reached a shocking level, like a dying patient struggling to die

All the defending Shun troops, including Li Guo, felt that the city wall under their feet was shaking back and forth more violently, and as many as hundreds of Shun soldiers who had no time to lie down or hold on to them fell from the city wall with screams. A large number of collapsed pheasants were also shaken down from under the city wall, falling in pieces, these shocked pheasants, smashed down from such a high position, immediately scattered into fragments, and buried those Shun troops who were shaken down, whether dead or alive, all together.

There were also a few scattered cannons placed on the city, which were also thrown around like toys that had been shaken away, and fell from the city walls, and then fell to the ground in a pile of scrap copper and iron.

Under the heavy dragon artillery of the Tang army, Tongguan City, this thousand-year-old Xiongguan, this city wall that has been carefully built since the establishment of Tongguan Wei in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, is also the same as the inland state capital, at least in appearance, it was also bombarded by the dragon bombardment of the Tang army.

The defenders of the Shun army, which had been hit hard by the Tang army one after another, suddenly fell into even more serious confusion than during the first shelling.

Under such a fierce and violent force, in the face of such an absolute death that no human power could resist at all, all the Shun troops on the eastern city wall, who had been fighting for a long time, were also seriously damaged in confidence, and the morale of the originally low level suddenly dropped to the level of almost impossible.

And those young men who were forcibly recruited to defend the city had already broken their courage, and many of them howled frantically, and immediately lost their weapons and fled for their lives.

At this time, there was no need for anyone to mobilize, and as soon as someone shouted, they immediately lost their posts, wailed and rushed down the city wall and road, and fled for their lives in a frenzy.

Although the head of Tongguan City is in chaos, and the Tongguan city wall is seriously damaged, its solidity is still very impressive.

This is because, although the Tongguan city wall is also the same structure as other Han cities, that is, the inner city rammed earth, under the bluestone way, but its outer wall, in order to be strong, all of them are made of hard cyan strip stones, first paste a layer inside, and then wrap the blue bricks outside, that is to say, this Tongguan city wall, equivalent to a two-layer outer wall structure, such a structure, can be more solid than the inland city like only one layer of green bricks.

In addition, the Tongguan city wall is also specially designed as a thick and thin mode under the city wall, and the entire wall is slightly inclined, so that the iron bullet of the shelling can not be very good frontal force, and to a considerable extent, the damage to the city wall is reduced. In addition, reinforcement methods such as protruding forward horse faces are also all used. Therefore, the defense of the entire city is much stronger than that of the cities and passes in the interior.

The entire eastern city wall is becoming more and more damaged, the appearance is hideous, and the collapse and leakage can be seen everywhere, but it is still barely supported and has not collapsed.

At this time, the 100 dragon guns in the Tang army's formation were red in the door cannon body, and the barrel of each dragon cannon was red and bright, with a strange beauty. When the gunners wiped it with a damp cloth, a large cloud of water mist, mixed with the choking smell of gunpowder, rose into the air with a snort, choking the gunners and coughing repeatedly.

Coach Tian Wei couldn't help but sigh lightly when he saw that the artillery had finally been fired in the 12 rounds, and it was on the verge of exploding, but Tongguan was still not too damaged.

What a sturdy thousand-year-old fortress!