The Longguang Tower, which collapsed with a bang, finally destroyed the will of the defenders of Xishan Fort......

In fact, they are already tenacious.

In the course of a day and a night, the twelve mortars on the Toumao Peak rained nearly three thousand flowering shells on the fortress, and the defenders, who had never been bombarded by such a thing, had been tormented by explosions since yesterday. The buildings in the fort were all destroyed, and they could only hold on because these flowering shells were not powerful enough, and there was a perfect system of trenches and forts on the battery, and the power of eighteen catties of flowering shells could not destroy these.

But.

They also have no ability to fight back.

Although they have an eighteen-pound cannon, which can be said to be a real giant artillery, they cannot bombard a target at an altitude of two hundred meters at an altitude of seventy meters.

The elevation angle is not enough!

Moreover, the artillery position is actually not on the peak of Toumao Peak, but the highest point of the peak is slightly back, in fact, in addition to the smoke of gunpowder can be seen in the Xishan Battery, there is no mortar artillery at all, even if the elevation angle can be raised to the limit, but you can't even see how to attack?

The only thing the defenders of Xishan Fort could count on was their own counterattack on Toumaofeng, but when the counterattack could not stop the mortar bombardment, and even the counterattack had failed, the defenders were already on the verge of rout, and the fall of Longguang Tower became the last straw that crushed them.

Before the dust from the collapse of the seven-story tower could clear, the defenders had already begun to flee.

"After all, it still doesn't work!"

Yang Xin said with emotion.

However, his plan to use the cannon on this fort to bombard Huishan Fort also failed, because the defenders were defeated too suddenly, and the Dangkou army did not rush up to capture it quickly, so the last to evacuate the defenders detonated the powder magazine of the fort, and the entire fort was now turning into a magnificent flame, and even a mushroom-shaped pillar of smoke was rising.

At the moment when he said this, a huge explosion that had been transmitted for more than ten seconds finally arrived.

The sound of the explosion spread across the entire Huishan battlefield like the sky was shattering, and all the militiamen who were fighting, even the militia who were digging under the Hengshan Fort, were all shocked to look up at the mushroom cloud rising from Xishan.

This spectacular mushroom cloud rises higher and higher, and against the background of the blue canopy, it resembles a black magic dragon rising into the sky.

"Look at what? Go on! ”

Yang Dudu said.

The militiamen in front of him hurried on.

At this time, the parallel trench had been dug, and the first cannon was dragged in behind Yang Xin, moving slowly forward little by little along the road that was specially tamped and paved with logs, and the eight ploughing oxen in front of them were crowded in the trench with the sound of whips, and the cannon was surrounded by dense soldiers struggling to push.

They still have to keep opening the Yokoyama Fort.

Even if the Xishan Fort is destroyed, it is only to solve the flank of Huishan Fort, at most the mortar cannon will be pulled over to bombard Huishan Fort, but it is still very difficult to storm this fort, and when Hengshan Fort is opened, you can directly attack Wuxi City behind, even if you don't attack Huishan Fort at that time. In fact, if Hengshan Fort is really opened, there is no need to attack Huishan Fort, because it is impossible for the poor people in Wuxi City to let the Changsheng Army hold on in Wuxi, as long as the Dangkou army reaches the city of Wuxi, then the poor people in the city will solve other problems.

The difficulty of storming Huishan Fort is too high.

However, the storming of Hengshan Fort can already be said to be all ready, only the east wind is owed.

The east wind is these cannons.

Yang Dudu took off the python robe on his body, threw it directly to his nephew, and then walked among these militiamen in person.

"One, two, push!"

He shouted.

Joined his power......

Actually, not much has changed.

He is indeed infinitely powerful, but that is for human beings, and he may not be able to have a ploughing ox to be more effective, but Yang Dudu personally took action for those militiamen, it was obviously like injecting something into the body, and everyone was in high spirits, and the cannons they were pushing did not seem to be so heavy.

The 5,000-pound cannon kept moving forward in the narrow trenches.

Soon it came into the fire cover of Fort Yokoyama.

Cannonballs whizzed.

But it was a pity that it was at ground level, and the excavated earth was all piled on the side, and the shells only stirred up the dirt to fall overhead, and had no effect on the people inside.

In the whistling of the cannonballs, Yang Xin and the militia pushed the cannon together, and moved forward little by little, and finally pushed the eighteen-pound cannon to the predetermined gun position. The firing boundary in front of the gun emplacement has been cleared, and even the parapet wall has been piled up, and in order to avoid being bombarded by the cannons of Hengshan Fort, part of the parapet wall is simply built with sacks. There is only a narrow gap between the two parapet walls, and directly opposite the gap is Hengshan Fort, a fortress built at an altitude of nearly 100 meters above sea level, which is constantly spewing flames outward, and even cannonballs can hit the parapet wall.

"Reload!"

Yang Xin patted the cannon in place and said.

The artilleryman next to him immediately began to load the ammunition, the silk-wrapped gunpowder bag was put in, the eighteen-pound heavy shell was put in, the gunner began to adjust the muzzle, and the soldier next to him pierced the powder bag with an awl, and then inserted a fuse.

The gunner got up and stepped back and took the ignition lever.

"Fire!"

Yang Xin said.

The gunner lit the fuse.

Everyone quickly retreated to the protective trench dug nearby......

These days, cannons are very fond of blowing up their chambers.

Especially this level of artillery, which is filled with more than a dozen catties of gunpowder, is basically all around the bombardment, so the fuse is used to ignite and dig a protective trench next to it, in fact, European artillery will pray before firing, not to pray that the shell will hit the target, but to pray that they will not be killed because of the explosion after the cannon is fired.

Fortunately, not this time.

With the earth-shattering sound of cannons, while the giant cannon retreated ferociously, the eighteen-pound shell flew out at supersonic speed, and hit the outer wall of Hengshan Fort almost in the blink of an eye, and the huge force made the outer wall without bricks collapse a large piece immediately. There was an immediate cheer in the trenches, and then the artillerymen swarmed out and quickly pushed the cannon back into place, then began to clear the chamber and reload.

At the same time, three eighteen-pound cannons were left in place.

However, the excavation of the trenches continued, and the trenches in which the zigzag advance had been extended down the hill, because there was no need to push the cannons through, and these trenches were deeper and narrower, and even water had been dug out.

However, the soldiers completely avoided the direct artillery fire from the heights in the trenches, and could easily advance to the parallel trenches at the forefront, and then launch a final assault from the parallel trenches

The digging didn't stop.

The zigzag trench continued to stretch forward.

Along the mountain, like a zigzag crack in the ground, approaching Yokoyama Fort......

"Victorious cavalry!"

Yang Huan suddenly shouted.

Yang Xin turned his head to look into the distance, and a large number of cavalry were surging in the direction of Hengshan Pass.

"It's not the ever-winning army, it's the Tianxiong army!"

He said.

These cavalrymen were armed with spears.

The cavalry of the Changsheng Army and the Chang'an Army are pure musket cavalry, even if the cold weapon combat is also a saber or the like, only the cavalry of the Tianxiong Army and the Huwei Army retain spears, especially the former, which is the same training as the Liaodong cavalry. Lu Xiangsheng is still in Shenyang as a soldier, and he knows the latter's training very well when he mixes with Cao Wenzhao's department every day, so the cavalry of the Lu family's Tianxiong Army is also the same training, and the same training is also the same for the Dangkou army.

"But how do they wear the uniforms of the victorious army?"

Yang Huan said suspiciously.

"It seems that the Tianxiong Army does not want to be openly involved, so it can only wear the uniforms of the victorious army to participate in the war."

Yang Xin said.

There's nothing strange about that.

The Tianxiong Army is similar to the Huwei Army, their territory is not within the scope of Yang Xin's round of scourge, but as an alliance, they can't sit back and watch the battle collapse here, and send a support army to change the vest of the Changsheng Army even if they fail, there is a way out.

In other words, the hearts of the people of this alliance have begun to disperse.

In the face of failure, they began to think about the way back.

"After all, it's still an alliance of eighteen princes!"

Yang Xin said with emotion.

At this time, the Tianxiong army had already begun to charge, their purpose was to attack the excavation here, but at the same time, the cavalry of the Dangkou army, which had been standing guard on the periphery, also began to move forward. The artillery on the Hengshan Fort immediately shifted the target and began to bombard the cavalry of the Dangkou Army, but this was useless, and the artillery at this time was not able to really play blocking, and soon the two cavalry with the same tactics collided together and started a melee......

"What's the matter, the Holy Decree again?"

Yang Xin said while admiring the battle between the cavalry.

Liu Shimin was standing not far away.

"Master Hou, there is also a holy decree, a nine-thousand-year-old letter, and a letter from the Ministry of War, you have to listen to that one first."

The latter said with a wry smile.

"The military department has thrown it away, and the holy decree doesn't need to be recited!"

Yang Xin said.

"The nine-thousand-year-old letter said, let's stop forcing them, they have promised that the gentry can be used as errands to pay food, and in addition, they have agreed to re-clear the fields and conduct an inventory of their hidden fields, so that we can accept them when we see it. And our move is causing the indignation of the governors in various places, several governors have already played, saying that the local gentry are uneasy, and some people have even begun to call for the organization of group exercises, in addition, Sun Chengzong wants to transfer the ancestor of Liaodong to the south to quell the rebellion, and transfer back to the governor of Liaodong. He also said that if the governor refused to listen to the order, he ordered the officers and troops of Nanzhili to come to Wuxi to isolate the two armies, and he didn't know that there was a fight here.

In addition, the gentry of Jiangxi also sent a letter to the people, accusing the governor of ignoring the people of Jiangxi and staying in Jiangxi to quell the rebellion, and also said that if the two kings of Huaiyi were in danger, the governor would be guilty of trapping the feudal domain.

The provincial governors have played according to the imperial history, saying that the governor's move is a disaster to the world, and he wants to do Wang Mang's move to buy the hearts of the people, with bad intentions, and asks the lord to remove the governor from his post and recall him to the capital to punish the crime. The officials of Nanzhi in the capital have been lying in the dark many times, asking Long Live Lord to come forward to explain their doubts, whether they want to take over the gentry of the world, Jiu Qiansui is almost unable to suppress it, Gu Bingqian also ran to see Jiu Qianshi and said that he was going to hang himself. ”

Liu Shimin said.

"Well, why didn't he just hang it up?"

Yang Xin said speechlessly.

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