"The situation is not good, everyone, it has only been less than half an hour, the city towers have collapsed, and the siege firearms of the Luoyan army are too strong. I'm afraid the city will be difficult to defend. Chen Jue said in a dumb voice.

"Yes, I'm afraid this situation is troublesome, palace marshal, do we still have to go to the city? Do you want to report to Lu Xiang...... No...... Emperor? Zhu Zhirong, who has been promoted to the deputy privy council, said in a deep voice.

Chen Jue didn't answer, and Yuan Ping shouted beside him: "Two adults, time is pressing, although the city tower has fallen, the city wall is still there, at this time, we have to hurry up and go to the city to defend." Just because the tower is broken doesn't mean that the gate will be broken. How can you hesitate at this time? ”

Wang Jun also said: "Yes, outside the north gate, didn't the Jurchens also collapse the Beicheng tower and raze the fortifications above the city wall, don't we also defend it?" Two adults, maybe it's not that bad. ”

Chen Jue's face was calm, but he sneered in his heart. These two people have no brains at all, they don't know the fierceness of each other's firearms. Chen Jue knew that when the former emperor Guo Xu attacked Funiu Mountain, he was hit by a firearm on the mountain and hit the flame car, resulting in a series of explosions of the flame car. The Imperial City Division specializes in collecting all kinds of information, and Chen Jue has long developed the habit of collecting all kinds of information and finding it out. Not long ago, when he heard the roar of firearms, he rushed to inquire about it, and on the way, he met a soldier sent by the castle tower guard to report the situation, and he had already inquired about the details. According to the soldier's description, he had basically concluded that the firearm that the other party used to collapse the corner tower was the same kind of firearm that it had been.

Chen Jue's heart was a little chilled at that time, the other party had ten powerful firearms like this to attack the city, and he was afraid that it would be more than lucky. Still, he held out some hope that the firearms would not pose a threat to the walls. But at this time, he saw the collapse of the castle tower in front of him, and all this only happened in less than half an hour when the other party launched a siege of the city, and in the short time he galloped from the palace to the outer city, the castle tower was blown down. This is enough to show the ferocity of the opponent's siege firearms. Wang Jun compared the original Jurchen siege with the current siege of the Luoyan army, obviously the donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth, and there is no comparison at all. The Jurchens attacked the city and smashed a large number of siege catapults to the head of the city for several hours before the north city Fengqiu Gate tower collapsed. The Luoyan army only took half an hour, which shows the difference in the siege methods of the two sides.

However, Chen Jue will not argue with Wang Jun and Yuan Ping. He can live to this day because he always makes the most beneficial choice when he encounters problems, and he rarely makes enemies in the DPRK. Even if Wang Jun and Yuan Ping's official positions were under him, he would not reprimand Wang Jun and Yuan Ping. At this moment, Chen Jue was thinking about what was best for him.

"Lord Zhu, Wang commands the envoy, Yuan commands the envoy, so let's do it, the three of you immediately go to the city wall to organize defense. I immediately rushed back to the palace to report the situation to the emperor. At this moment, we must prepare with both hands, and defending the city is naturally necessary to defend the city to the death, but if the city cannot be defended, the emperor's safety cannot be ignored. My duty is to protect the emperor, and I must stay by the emperor's side at this moment. I must guarantee the emperor's safety. Let's go our separate ways, what do you think? Chen Jue said in a deep voice.

Zhu Zhirong suddenly scolded in his heart when he heard this, how could he not know Chen Jue's intentions, this dog day was going to sneak back and refuse to go to the city to fight. It's good for him, he wants to slip away, and tell the old men to go hard. This old thing is so cunning.

However, Zhu Zhirong didn't break it, and hurriedly said: "This is a good idea, let's go our separate ways, in case there is an accident, we can also keep the emperor safe." However, I am not very good at commanding wars, and my Privy Counsellor is only a nominal name, but I am not a real general. Getting to the head of the city doesn't help much. In this way, I can also discuss an idea with Lord Chen, and Commander Wang and Commander Yuan will go to the city to command and defend the city. What do you think, Master Chen? ”

Chen Jue knew what he meant, he didn't break it, and he didn't have to expose him, so he nodded and said, "It's okay, Lord Zhu really doesn't have much experience in fighting, and he really can't help much." If the two commanders have no objection, then it is decided. ”

Wang Jun and Yuan Ping had no choice but to nod in agreement. Although they don't think it's necessary. At this time, defend the city with all your might, the city is broken, everyone must die, and there is still a way out. Chen Jue and Zhu Zhirong want to protect the emperor, wouldn't it be too much. But time was pressing, and they heard the sound of killing in the city, and the two were so anxious that they didn't want to argue more, so they nodded in agreement.

Chen Jue and Zhu Zhirong turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the road they came, although Wang Jun and Yuan Ping usually disagreed, but today they were of the same opinion. The two shouted in unison, and led dozens of generals to pat their horses and go straight to the direction of the city gate.

Outside the Nanxun Gate, the roar of Shenwei's cannon was still deafening. The soldiers who operated the cannon were sweating profusely. After each shot, the chamber and body of the gun should be rinsed with plenty of water to cool down to ensure that the chamber does not overheat. Because the previous Shenwei General Cannon had the disadvantage of overheating the barrel and causing the barrel to deform, which would cause the gunpowder and shells to be stuffed inside, resulting in a serious explosion accident. Therefore, this time it is necessary to take precautions, cool down in time with clean water, and can flush out the impurities in the gun chamber.

The cannons of the ten divine cannons were bubbling with white gas. The soldier with gunpowder carefully filled the sac into the chamber. The loaded soldier wiped the solid iron bullet with a dry cloth towel and put it into the chamber of the cannon with great gentleness, and then ran away, covered his ears, and squatted down with his mouth open. The cooperation of these newly selected gunners was still very rusty, and they were still a little busy, and they did not cooperate with each other tacitly. But as one shell after another was fired, their cooperation became proficient, and they seemed to be accustomed to the roar of the Shenwei cannon, and they were not as frightened as before.

After the collapse of the city tower, Lin Jue gave Liang Qi the order to bombard the city walls around the city gate. Lin Jue marked the specific location, and it was within a radius of several zhang from the top and bottom of the three city gate openings. Lin Jue even made a key mark on the isolated position of Zhang Xu Kuan in the middle of the three city gate openings. Lin Jue's thoughts are obviously easy to see, and the position between the arches of the three city gates is actually an important bearing point. It was precisely because of the fear that the arch would collapse that the shape of the three gate arches was designed. The span is too large for the arched door opening to withstand the pressure from above. And the Nanxun Gate is the largest city gate in the south of Bianliang, the flow of chariots and horses is huge, and it is necessary to ensure the smoothness of the city gate, so the appearance of the three arched door openings in the city is designed. The two walls in the middle are actually extremely important support points. Lin Jue is the support point that wants to collapse the arch of the city gate.

Of course, this kind of requirement may be too harsh for Liang Qi, after all, although the Shenwei General Cannon has a simple aiming scale, the error is very large. To concentrate the wall between the arches in the middle of the mile is like an archer who has to walk through the poplar in a hundred steps. It was only half a month before Liang Qi and his soldiers came into contact with the Shenwei cannon, and they didn't have a chance to practice, because they couldn't afford it and time didn't allow it. But it is indeed too difficult for them to complete such a difficult task. But Liang Qi is extremely shrewd, at the beginning on Peach Blossom Island, everyone who went with him basically died, but Liang Qi was able to hide under the cliff alive, and finally completed a series of impossible tasks with Lin Jue Gao Muqing, which shows that this person is by no means an ordinary person. Lin Jue put him in charge of the infantry firearms battalion, not only because he was an absolute confidant, but also because Liang Qi was willing to study and ponder and use his brain. In today's actual combat, it is military training. Exploring the temperament of Shenwei's general artillery, the heavy responsibility of completing the proofreading goal can only fall on Liang Qi.

The cannons rumbled, and the cannonballs burst through the air with a dull whistling sound, and at first blossomed in all directions above and below the arches of the city gates, seemingly irregularity and accuracy. But soon, the cannonballs began to hit the position near the left of the city gate hole, and Lin Jue's frowning brows only began to relax from this time, he knew that Liang Qi and they had already found their senses. Once you know the temperament of each Kamui gun and know the angle of deviation of their shells, you can adjust the angle of the muzzle to minimize the error. When three of the iron bullets in a round hit the hole in the city gate, Lin Jue knew that it was only a matter of time before they hit the middle partition wall.

At the moment when the artillery was constantly bombarded, more than 6,000 infantry of the Luoyan Army also rushed to the moat facing the city gate. Nguyen Binh's engineer battalion pushes dozens of huge flatbed trucks stacked with layers of wooden rafts several feet high. This is exactly the part of the rapid construction of the pontoon bridge designed by his engineer battalion.

Within sixty or seventy paces above the city entrance was a ruin, and there were no defenders for a long time. Only the bows and arrows of the defenders within a distance of a few dozen paces on the walls on both sides were able to shoot at the soldiers of the engineer battalion. The shield soldiers of the Luoyan Army, who were in charge of the escort, simply set up a shield array on both sides to protect the soldiers of the engineer battalion in the middle to safely carry out the action of building a pontoon bridge. Although the arrow towers on the city wall of the defending city, the high-throwing arrows and the long-range bed crossbows continued to shoot the soldiers and horses of the Luoyan army, but without the attack of the frontal dense firepower, the action of the Luoyan army engineer battalion to build a pontoon bridge could not be stopped.

The two carts were pushed by the soldiers to the moat, and then the frame in front of the flatbed was removed, and the cart quickly leaned forward, and the large wooden rafts on the cart slid into the water like folding fans, and quickly stretched open. Each cart was loaded with ten hinged wooden rafts, about a foot wide. This kind of wooden raft quickly expanded into a large floating raft with a length of 20 paces and a width of 20 feet. The floating rows on the two carts were quickly hinged together to form a more stable wooden raft two feet wide and twenty paces long.

Numerous sappers drove piles on the shore to quickly fix the wooden rafts on the shore stakes, and more than 200 soldiers carried huge iron anchors on both sides of the wooden rafts to anchor them. After the wooden raft quickly stabilized its position, the next cart was directly pushed onto the wooden raft and went straight to the front end of the wooden raft to unload. The wooden rafts were extended again, and so on, pushing the pontoon bridge forward at a rapid pace.