The collapse of the city wall on the Great Wall defense line indicates that the strongest shell in the Great Wall defense line has been forced to crack a gap by the Western Regions army led by Zhuang Fudi. Admittedly, the Great Wall's defenses were laid out like iron buckets, so that anyone who tried to attack it would be smashed to the ground, but that was about it. Once a gap is knocked out of such a defensive line, the slightest delay in rescue will be torn apart by the attacking enemy through this small gap. It's like an egg, it's very difficult to break it before a crack appears, but once a crack appears, the originally strong eggshell is as brittle as paper, and it will shatter with a slight pinch, revealing the soft inside.

Under the cover of artillery, the Western Regions Army held a round shield and a ladder, and launched an attack on the Great Wall defense line from the direction of the assembly outside the camp. Of course, as the main force of the impact, it is still those Mo sword soldiers who are heavily armoured. In Zhuang Fudi's words, these Mo sword soldiers are just iron cans that can move on their own. The armor worn by these tin cans may not be able to penetrate even if crossbow arrows are fired at close range, let alone bows and arrows thrown from the city. As a result, with the cooperation of artillery and heavy armor, as one of the most powerful weapons of the defending side———— the towering walls can no longer be used as a barrier to hinder the attackers.

Under the efforts of the attacking Western Regions Army, siege ladders were hung on the top of the city. After activating the delicate self-locking device at the foot of the siege ladder, the ladder was firmly fixed to the edge of the city wall, and could no longer be moved. Subsequently, after the soldiers who carried the ladders also fixed the ladders, they turned over and climbed the ladders and climbed towards the top of the city. Although the soldiers at the head of the city could not use the bows and arrows in their hands to injure the Western Regions army who were climbing up the ladder in the slightest, they still hoarded a large number of rolling wood and thunder stones and other sharp weapons to defend the city. Although these weapons do not play a role in the enemy's approach to the city walls, they can show a very terrifying effect when the enemy army begins to erect ladders and prepare to enter the city to fight.

So in order to protect themselves, the Liang Shidu army on the city wall picked up the rolling wood thunder stones that were hoarded next to them, and threw them down from the city head along the ladder, and smashed them into the Western Regions army that was ascending the city. Because the Mo Dao soldiers were all wearing thick armor, they could not climb the Great Wall by climbing the ladder, so they all stayed under the ladder to be ready to receive the wounded, and at the same time, they were also ready to meet the soldiers of the Western Regions Army who were not firmly held because they were attacked on the ladder.

However, thanks to these heavily armored Mo sword soldiers who responded under the city, many soldiers of the Western Regions Army who were climbing up the ladder at this time were smashed down the ladder by the soldiers of the Liang Division who were defending the city. Except for some soldiers who were really unlucky and touched the ground with their heads when they fell, most of the others still breathed a sigh of relief. The Mo Sword Soldiers hurriedly stepped forward to protect the wounded who fell from the ladder, in order to prevent them from being injured by the arrows that fell immediately from the city wall. The Mo sword soldiers relied on the thick armor on their bodies to shield the wounded from the city from the danger of falling from the cloud ladder.

However, no amount of rolling wood will run out one day. Moreover, the soldiers who climbed up were not defenseless, and under their shields were two short muskets. They can shoot twice, and this is the only weapon with ranged attack that they can use when climbing ladders. In order to throw the Rolling Wood Thunder Stone from the top of the city, the soldiers defending the city must poke their heads and half of their bodies out of the walls. Therefore, in the process of defense, many people were attacked by the muskets carried by the Western Regions army who climbed the ladder and died. Therefore, the defense strength on the city wall is sometimes weaker, and sometimes there is even a vacuum period of defense, which also makes more and more Western Regions troops climb the ladder to the head of the Great Wall.

After ascending to the top of the city, these Western Regions soldiers drew their long knives and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the defenders on the city walls. As more and more troops from the Western Regions ascended to the top of the city, the soldiers of the Liang Division who were originally on the defensive on the city wall were gradually squeezed closer and closer to the edge, and after the battle line outside was stabilized, the soldiers who later boarded began to use the long-barreled muskets they carried behind their backs as weapons to fire outside in the crowd. Suddenly, thick smoke rose on the city wall, thunder roared, and after the thunder sounded, the soldiers of the Liang Division and the capital army who surrounded the periphery of the Western Regions Army who climbed to the top of the city fell to the ground one after another, and the wounds on their bodies continued to gurgle outward.

There were not many Turks stationed on this section of the wall, and most of them were some elite troops under Liang Shidu. Although it is an elite unit, it is actually only slightly stronger than those troops that pull strong ding, and if it is used to suppress the place in peacetime, it can still make a little achievement, but it can be brought to the battlefield to fight hard-fought at all. This piece of information was not mentioned by the night owls, but it was all obtained after Zhuang Fudi sent his military owls to inquire in detail during this time.

After getting this information, Zhuang Fudi carefully consulted it, and finally decided to use the powerful artillery in his hand to smash through the Great Wall defense line carefully arranged by the Liang Division. Because it was a siege operation, it was very far away from the pass on the Great Wall, in order to let the army pass as soon as possible, with Zhuang Fudi's order, the collapsed part of the Great Wall that had been bombarded by artillery was excavated more flat, and a pass was built on the Great Wall by relying on explosives and manpower. Then the entire army officially broke through the defense line through this gap and entered Lingwu County.

Liang Shidu was also furious after learning that a gap had been torn in the defense line of the Great Wall, and several ministers were held accountable one after another, but no matter how strict the accountability was, it could not solve any problems. The Western Regions Army left behind a legion to clear out the Liang Division's troops stationed along the Great Wall defense line. The remaining two legions had already crossed the Great Wall defense line and entered Lingwu County. It was clear that the sword blade was pointing at Lingwu County this time, so at this time, even if the heads of all the ministers in charge of defense arrangements were cut off and put on the ground as a ball, it would not be able to stop the advance of the Western Regions Army. So Liang Shidu lost his temper in the court, and after pulling these ministers out and scolding them one by one, he knew that he still needed a plan to solve the current crisis, and this solution still had to rely on the waste ministers in front of him to think of.

(End of chapter)