Go down to the city, isn't that looking for death to write a note, and few people below know how to read. So Liu Rukui chose to shout.

At this time, the artillery at the head of the city was firing with all their strength to prevent the possible impact of Li Yan's troops. Although Li Yan's troops were only more than 200 steps away from the city wall, and the artillery could only be reloaded, the sound of firing was almost not weakened.

Liu Rukui gathered more than 30 of his personal guards and shouted loudly at the head of the city: "Go to the south gate, this gate will not be opened"

In the roaring cannonball, only a few of the soldiers in front of the city gate could hear clearly, and they began to circle to the south of the city. Others who didn't hear clearly, either ask and then keep up, or don't follow up regardless of three, seven, twenty-one. In times of chaos, people can only feel safe in the crowd.

The firelight almost illuminated the eastern wall of Taiyuan City, which was no longer a night battle, and there was enough brightness for the artillery to aim.

Li Yan hid behind the second bunker and was finally relieved to see a large number of Shun soldiers gathered near the city gate running to the south. If these thousands of enemies don't leave, he will have to deal with them before he can start fighting in the city. However, as time dragged on, the enemy forces in the city began to counterattack with all their might, and his siege plan may be affected by this. Now that they're gone, it's made things easier.

"Have the artillery aim at the gun emplacements on the city walls and wait for my orders. After a while, when the cannons were fired to suppress the artillery at the head of the city, the stone throwers and tiger squat cannons quickly stepped forward under the cover of shields and blocked the city walls, leaving only the position near the city gate. Fire canisters are used on the south side, and tiger squat cannons are used on the north side. Li Yan ordered: "Let people inform Qian Er, and when the signal from this side comes, he will also begin to suppress the north city wall." ”

"Understood." The pro-soldiers immediately advanced along the waist of the bunker and passed orders to the troops separately. The enemy shells on the head of the city came from time to time, and the open area was still relatively dangerous.

After the soldiers outside the city had basically run away, Li Yan gave the order to start shelling.

The three-inch artillery in the artillery rumbled and fired rapid-fire shells near the gun positions on the city wall, so that the Dashun artillery on the city wall could not shoot continuously and accurately. The stone throwers and tiger squat artillery troops, on the other hand, left the bunker under the cover of the giant shield through the gap left behind, and quickly approached the moat.

They stopped less than eighty paces from the wall. The Tiger Squat Cannon was quickly erected, and the enemy artillery positions on both sides of the bridge over the moat were covered again, allowing the flowering shells to explode around those guns, and clearing the potential danger again. The stone thrower, on the other hand, adjusted its direction and began to fire fire pots on the south side of the city wall, so that the Dashun army on the city wall had no place to stand.

A cannonball came from the top of the city, shattering the giant shield and smashing right on the catapult. The winch of the catapult was smashed, the throwing rod twisted and thrown out, and the fire pot that had just been lit was thrown sideways, igniting another stone throwing machine next to it. More than a dozen feathered arrows flew in from the damaged giant shield, and several soldiers were shot. Four or five operators were also burned, and the others immediately knocked them down and put out the fire with prepared dirt. The rest of the people hurriedly carried the canister to a safe place.

Liu Zongmin kept ordering on the enemy platform: "Come on, go to the various artillery positions and watch, let the artillery shoot me with a bow and crossbowman who doesn't know how to use rockets to release arrows."

With a bang, a shell hit the battlement next to the gun emplacement, and the masonry scattered in all directions. Liu Zongmin's personal soldiers hurried over and blocked Liu Zongmin behind him. Fragments of masonry crackled against their shields and armor.

Liu Zongmin pushed away the soldiers in front of him and shouted at the artillerymen squatting on the ground: "Go and open the cannon, otherwise you will be killed immediately."

The artillerymen did not dare to disobey, so they could only come forward with a cat's waist. But this is a front-loading gun, and the reloader has to go to the front, and the loader is dead just now, and no one wants to reload now.

Liu Zongmin saw the hesitation of the soldiers, he casually ordered a soldier and ordered: "You go and load the ammunition"

It was the gun commander who was pointed, so he had to slowly climb to the muzzle position. He didn't move at first, and waited for a while, until another cannonball came and hit the bricks below the gun emplacement, making a loud bang. After that, he quickly stood up, scooped out more than half a spoonful of gunpowder from the powder keg next to the gunfire, and quickly filled it. Then he took an iron solid bullet from the side and put it through the muzzle.

He didn't go to push it with a push lever, so he quickly climbed to the rear and gave a loud order: "Open the gun"

At this time, no one cared whether the artillery commander's operation was correct or not, they all lay on the ground with their heads bowed, for fear of being hit by Li Yan's shells.

The igniter had just lit the fuse with a torch when another cannonball hit. There was a thud on the muzzle of the cannon, and the cannon overturned and fell on the city wall. Then there was a boom, and the cannonball's shells were fired. Since neither the gunpowder nor the projectile were compacted, the strength of the projectile was not large, and the buttress was not broken, but the projectile was rebounded.

"Protect the Hou Ye" Liu Zongmin's personal soldiers immediately pulled Liu Zongmin to the side.

And those gunners also took the opportunity to slip away, and they all ran into the distance.

Before Liu Zongmin could stand firmly, several fire pots hit the city gate tower and the arrow tower, and the city gate tower was immediately engulfed in the fire. The soldiers in the arrow tower and the city gate tower all ran out of it in a panic.

Then the fire pot under Li Yan's command began to move to the south side, and a large fire was lit from time to time on the city wall, inside the city, and outside the city. In the flames, there were people running around screaming, and then they fell to the ground still burning.

On the north side of the southern city wall, countless flowering bullets were fired. The rumbling explosion enveloped the wall in shrenching and smoke, and the soldiers fled in panic, or were blown away from the shock and bleeding from their mouths and noses, unconscious.

The soldiers on the city wall did not dare to stay on the city wall any longer, and they all retreated to the adjacent city wall on their own, or went down the city wall directly. Some hid under the city walls and did not dare to move, while others ran into the city and began to rob the surviving rich families in the city. They knew that eighty percent of Taiyuan City would not be able to hold it, and it was important to leave with some gold, silver, brocade and silk.

"Master Hou, let's go." The soldiers escorted Liu Zongmin to the horse road in the lower city. Fortunately, they were close to the horse road, and they were the first to go down from the city, otherwise they would be huddled together like the people behind, and they would be injured if they did not die.

Li Yan waited for the entire south side of the moving city wall to turn into a sea of fire before letting the infantry start to ascend the city.

The infantrymen, carrying long ladders, crossed the moat and rushed under the walls. Find the gap left by the Tiger Squat Cannon, set up a long ladder, and climb up. When they went up, they found that there were almost no defenders on the wall, so they quickly signaled their artillerymen to stop firing, and then they quickly expanded the wall to the north. To be continued.

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