Probably to the kilometer distance where mortars are more dominant, Zhao Rui stopped the ship, and the soldiers above also hurriedly placed the shells, and Xiong Er also wandered around the various deck areas to adjust their aiming positions and angles.

Zhao Rui looked at Dengzhou City from afar with a telescope, and saw that Shangman was slowly full of officers and soldiers, and at such a close distance, the other party had already noticed it, and at the same time was organizing defense.

However, the power of mortars, defending and not defending is no longer the same.

Listening to the various teams below coming to report on the completion of preparations, Zhao Gong asked, "Young Master, do you want to attack now?" ”

Zhao Rui smiled: "Don't worry, do you want to give people a chance to warn?" By the way, Zhao Gong, you go to the cabin and bring that trumpet-shaped ironcraft! ”

Zhao Gong had never seen this thing, so he went according to his words, and when he came back, he was already holding a heavy horn in his hand.

This is the megaphone that Zhao Rui additionally asked Wei Lu to build, just to come in handy at this time.

I saw that the thin place of this big horn is like a human face, and the thickest part even reaches the wooden basin, such a horn is not something that ordinary people can shout!

The volume of ordinary people is not able to make this iron horn reflect and resonate, so it will naturally not play the role of amplification.

Zhao Rui took it lightly and put it to his mouth, the power in his body was surging, and he shouted out with strength.

"Hey! Dengzhou City, listen, this is the king's fleet, you quickly surrender and open the city gate, otherwise the king will not have any mercy! There are also ordinary people, if you don't want to be affected, hurry up and get out of the city! Repeat! Get out of town! ”

After a pause, Zhao Rui seemed to give the other side time to digest the reaction.

At this time, Dengzhou City was originally like a great enemy, but Zhao Rui's fleet was still talking about ruthlessness at such a distance, and it really didn't scare ordinary officers and soldiers.

Although the muskets were powerful and terrifying, they were so far away from the ship that they naturally couldn't shoot them!

"My lord, Zhao Rui's army has artillery, should we avoid the limelight first?"

"Phew! It's all so far away, just a few shells or something! It's always Dengzhou that can't be lost, we still have an ambush near the shore, as long as you hold on, you will definitely be able to block the attack! ”

The Mongolian generals here said in high spirits, and the Yuan soldiers were also enthusiastic when they listened, but they were just suffering from Zhao Rui being on the distant river and couldn't have a good decisive battle with them.

Zhao Rui raised the megaphone again and said loudly: "Now, you decide whether to surrender or not!" Ten counts of time, and if you surrender, open the gates! If you don't surrender, the offensive will begin immediately! I advise you to think clearly, and when the war starts, you will not stop easily! ”

Zhao Rui also told the truth, at such a long distance, even the shells would have to fly in the air for some time, maybe as soon as they surrendered, the shells would fall on top of their heads.

"One, two,...... Ten! Zhao Rui really counted the numbers, but when he didn't see any movement on the other side at ten, Zhao Rui didn't look at the telescope, turned around and said, "Attack!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Gong received the order and went to the various decks to give orders.

About half a pillar of incense had passed, and Zhao Gong came back and said that he could already fire immediately.

Zhao Rui nodded, standing on a high place facing everyone, his fist raised high and fell down fiercely.

In an instant, the sound of "Boom Boom ......" was chaotic, and the deck was filled with smoke.

If you stay out and look at the warship, the entire warship is now full of fog, like a fairyland on earth.

"Ahem......"

The soldiers on the entire ship were also choked by the dense gunsmoke, but fortunately, there was a river breeze on the water, which diluted the smoke a lot in an instant.

In addition, because of the recoil, the whole ship is constantly shaking.

Fortunately, Xiong Er mentioned that he made accurate adjustments, otherwise he would lose accuracy by shaking like this, and then he would not be able to hit Dengzhou City.

The hull of the ship swayed, making the **** cover a larger area.

However, at this time, the number of Yuan troops in Dengzhou City was also quite large, and I originally heard that Zhao Rui was going to capture Linjiang City, so Borkin arranged a large number of Yuan troops here early.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Dengzhou City, which was originally safe and sound, instantly turned into a sea of fire, and at this time, countless people fled, and the huge explosion made them faster, and they even felt that the ground under their feet was shaking.

The city guard here is also a veteran equivalent to the position of earl of the Yuan Dynasty, and he originally thought that it might not be possible to capture it with his own experience, but if he defended the city, there was no problem at all.

But the dense explosions simply scared him to death!

The inside and outside of the city are full of flowers, and the city walls have also collapsed in many places during the bombing, which makes it look particularly messy.

But the most unacceptable thing is that the shelling continues, and there is no sign of stopping at all.

They have now changed positions several times, but they can't escape the range of the shells.

Oh, my God!

Is this the power of artillery?

Previously, their Yuan army in Dengzhou had learned that Zhao Rui's firearms were powerful through various channels, but no matter how powerful they were, your shell killed one piece, it was too powerful.

Now Yuan Jun felt that the bow and arrow and scimitar he held in his hand were just children's toys, and in addition to being able to commit suicide, they were completely useless in this battle where there was no enemy in sight!

At this time, Zhao Rui set up the telescope, but he was reluctant to take it down.

Zhao Rui, as the initiator, was also amazed at this time, the scene of the salvo of 888 mortars was too amazing.

Now that there have been two rounds of volleys, the entire Dengzhou City looks dilapidated on the outside, and it is almost about to be moved to the ground!

At this time, the shells of the second salvo flew again.

From Zhao Rui's side, the dense cannonballs were like black raindrops, and they all fell within the range of Dengzhou City.

In the field of vision, the city wall has completely collapsed, and there are no buildings in the city, Zhao Rui pouted, feeling that this method of assault still has disadvantages, although the Yuan army stationed in the city was defeated, but the entire city was also destroyed.

Waiting for Zhao Rui to occupy this place, he will have to rebuild it.

But let's build it, anyway, there is a lot of money now, and it is not bad to build some new houses for the people of Dengzhou and build a solid city gate!

Zhao Rui had actually discovered iron ore in the mountains near Xiangyang, and if he hadn't been busy with the Yuan army, a second steel processing center might have been built now.

Zhao Rui does have the idea of moving the industrial center, the main reason is the climate problem over there in Jiaozhi, which is too uncomfortable.

After living in Xiangfan for so long, Zhao Rui didn't want to go back more and more.

Moreover, the Central Plains is vast and rich, and when it comes to mineral resources, it is naturally more than a small Jiaozhi!

Almost......

The appearance of Deng Zhou in the telescope is already full of devastation.

At this time, the buildings inside also ignited a raging fire, and the entire Dengzhou City was about to be burned.

At this time, Zhao Rui felt that it was about the same, so he didn't let the third round of mortars fire again, but ordered twenty ships to dock to clean up the battlefield and occupy Dengzhou City at the same time!

Originally, in the water near the shore, there were some troops in ambush, trying to destroy the warship.

However, because of the violent shaking of the hull, the range of the mortar was greatly increased, and all the troops in the water were directly killed.

By the time the twenty medium-sized warships were about to dock, the water on the shore was red mixed with earthy yellow, turning into a rich brown liquid, which was really muddy.

Although it is difficult to clean up the battlefield, Zhao Rui and the others still have to continue to fight, and small things like this are left to the soldiers to worry about.

The soldiers on the big ship were elated, and they felt that it was not too cool to be able to fight with Zhao Rui!

The battle was fought too easily, and only two shells were fired, and Deng Zhou was defeated.

The horror is the horror in the number of mortars, in fact, one shell is enough for Dengzhou to bear.

Zhao Rui did not stop, gave an order, followed the river, and continued to the next city, Yingzhou!

During the ship's journey, Zhao Rui secretly summed up that the number of mortars is a bit large, and if they are all fired like this, it is a bit of a waste of ammunition!

So Zhao Rui divided them into three groups on the spot, which were distinguished according to the three decks, with one at the bottom and three at the top, which was clear and clear.

When the time comes, I will go to Yingzhou and shoot in groups, at least I can reduce some losses for the local people!

The sky was clear and the water was fast.

Zhao Rui's fleet went down the river at an extremely fast speed!

There are still some small cities along the coast, Zhao Rui doesn't bother to pay attention to it, his goal is the big city, since he wants to fight, he will completely hurt the Yuan Dynasty.

On the one hand, the news that Dengzhou was razed to the ground was being transported to the imperial court of the Yuan and Song dynasties.

But the speed of the news was not as fast as Zhao Rui's fleet, and finally arrived in Yingzhou City on the morning of the second day.

Speaking of Yingzhou City, it is not ordinary, this is the largest city along the river in the Yuan Dynasty, because of the attention, Liu Zheng rushed to Yingzhou thousands of miles away, and arranged various means here, waiting for Zhao Rui to come!

But when Liu Zheng stood on the city wall, looking at the huge warship from afar, his mouth could even be stuffed with eggs.

It's too big, it's too big!

As the commander of the navy, Liu Zheng has never seen any ships.

Thinking that no matter how powerful Zhao Rui is, it would be good to be able to make a big cargo ship like the Song Dynasty.

But this kind of warship, which is three times the size of Shenzhou on the river, simply makes Liu Zheng feel incredible!

It seems that many of the means laid out by yourself are useless!

Zhao Rui estimated the distance, but still stopped the boat at a position of nearly a kilometer, took out the loudspeaker-like megaphone, and shouted towards Yingzhou City with the same words.

When the people in the city heard this, they all fled quickly, and the big war was about to begin, although they didn't know what the power of firearms was, but as ordinary people, they were naturally extremely panicked about the war.

Are you going to get started......

Liu Zheng was blowing the river breeze in front of him at this time, and he only felt that his heart was cool and cool.

It seems that the legend that Zhao Rui is invincible is true!