While the tanks and artillery were quickly moving to about 1.5 kilometers from the east gate, the Buyantu on the watchtower of the city gate was thinking.

This is a very funny scene, most of these guns have a range of more than ten kilometers, according to modern eyes, this distance is equivalent to the cannon muzzle has been put on the head of the Qing army, and in the eyes of the Qing army, this is still a safe distance.

After all, these Qing troops have not fought against the Tiance Army, and they are still judging by the inertia of old experience.

As a battle-hardened veteran, Buyantu didn't believe that any artillery could hit the target at such a distance, so he still stood there very steadily.

However, the artillery of the Tiance Army stopped for nearly three miles and did not leave, and then the muzzle of the cannon continued to rise, making preparations for artillery bombardment.

"Lord Buyantu, can you take advantage of the Tiance Army's adjustment of artillery, send cavalry out of the city, and kill these hateful gunners on the spot first?" A Manchurian officer next to him asked Buyantu urgently.

Buyantu bowed his head and groaned for a moment, and also rejected the general's suggestion.

"Our army has been put in a posture of holding on to the city, how can it be moved lightly. Besides, if these cavalry leave the city, if they are ambushed by the Tiance army, our army will not have to lose it. It is still important to rely on the city to hold on and frustrate the enemy's spirit. ”

After listening to Yan Yechen's negative words, the Manchurian general snorted and retreated sullenly.

And just when Buyantu vetoed the suggestion of the cavalry to attack out of the city, and was feeling uneasy, the artillery bombardment of the Tiance army suddenly began.

"Boom, boom!"

"Boom, boom!"

The 155 self-propelled howitzer and the Type 38 howitzer opened fire at the same time, raining shells on the head of Arthur City.

The power of modern artillery is amazing, especially at such a close distance, just the high-speed impact of cannonballs, such a brick-clad rammed-earth city wall as Arthur City is difficult to bear.

Every shell that hit the city wall brought the ground to shake, and the shell exploded and left a huge crater, and at the edge of each crater, the thick cracked lines caused by the shock wave were as dense as a spider's web, and they spread unscrupulously towards the siege, and a large number of city wall bricks splashed and cracked, and a cloud of dust and fog filled the air, and the entire eastern city wall trembled violently as if it had asthma.

The city gate had been shattered in the first round of shelling, and on the city wall, there were not a few Qing troops who were killed and shocked.

There were also a large number of Qing soldiers who were shocked to the ears, eyes, nostrils and mouths bleeding together, everyone was shocked to the blood surged, and the eyes were shrouded in the dust and fog that choked their noses, and the city wall under their feet shook violently like a pendulum, and there were nearly 100 Qing soldiers who stood unsteadily, and they fell from the city wall with a scream like a broken leaf blown by the wind, and then fell into a meat pie.

The fierce artillery bombardment of the Tiance Army caused the head of Lushun City to fall into chaos in an instant. A large number of Qing soldiers who were shocked and bleeding from their mouths and noses screamed in horror, turned around and fled from the road of the city wall.

"Don't run! Come back to Lao Tzu and continue to defend the city wall! Those who violate military orders will be killed! ”

Hit by the surging sand and dust waves, the dusty beard was scattered, as if he had just come out of the desert, and his appearance was extremely embarrassing. He coughed violently, stood up against the battlements of the city wall, and roared at the fleeing Qing troops.

It was only in this confusion, although he shouted hoarsely, but it had little effect, and a Qing soldier who had been deaf in both ears was shocked and ran past Buyantu with a wail, completely ignoring the warning of the supreme commander of the Qing army.

Seeing this, Buyantu was unconsciously angry and angry, he brushed the ground and drew his sharp sword, stabbed it fiercely, and stabbed the fleeing guy from the back to the chest, stabbing a big hole, and the fleeing Qing soldier's body shook a little, and then fell to the ground and died.

Finally, after Buyantu and his guards slashed and killed seven or eight people one after another, these beaten Qing troops re-stabilized, and the situation on the eastern city wall stabilized slightly.

At this time, sixty mortars also joined the shelling, and for a time the first bullets rained down on the city of Lushun, and the explosions came and went.

Shrapnel flew on the entire eastern city wall, blood flowed like a river, and the remaining Qing defenders suddenly collapsed completely. Under such a fierce shelling, even if the Qing army has been in battle for a long time, it will no longer have the courage to continue fighting.

They didn't need anyone to mobilize anymore, and I don't know who shouted, and these guys, who had been frightened, immediately abandoned their posts, howled and rushed down the city wall and road, and fled for their lives.

With such heavy artillery fire, Buyantu tried to stop the rout again, when suddenly a cannonball landed on him nearby, and the shock wave of the explosion carried shrapnel to tear Buyantu and his guards off the city wall.

"Poof!" Clothed in heavy armor, Buyantu fell heavily under the corner of the city, splashing up dust, "Poof! A mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth. His guards helped him block most of the shrapnel, but Buyantu was still injured, and then fell from a great height, and immediately lost half his life.

Buyantu, who was about to enter a coma, was carried away by the surviving Manchurian soldiers.

After more than ten minutes of shelling, the gate of Lushun City had been opened, the drawbridge had fallen off, and the Qing army was no longer visible on the city wall.

After the shelling stopped, the Tiance army took the armored car as the lead and launched an attack on the city, and the Qing army in the city gate cave tried to block the armored car was swept down by the vehicle-mounted machine gun piece by piece, and those who missed the net were not spared, and the armored car ignored all obstacles, crashed past, and rushed into the city by crushing the Qing army that was hit.

Other city gates were also broken one after another, after dozens of armored vehicles entered the city, the Tiance Army also followed into attack Lushun City, and the city immediately rang out a dense gunfire, and the soldiers quickly advanced to all parts of the city, and when they met the Qing army, they raised their hands and were all guns in a mess.

The city walls were also occupied, and heavy machine guns were set up at the head of the city, condescendingly firing at the Qing army.

In the face of such a sharp style of play, the Qing army was completely unable to parry, not to mention blocking, it was difficult to escape, as long as it was a pile of Qing troops, it would inevitably usher in a rain of bullets, and one by one the dead could not die again

The Tiance army had just entered the city, and the Han army defending the west gate suddenly burst into an uproar: "Surrendered, we surrendered!" "A huge white flag was waved back and forth by a Han soldier. Under the leadership of Xu Erxian, the surviving Han army banner soldiers laid down their weapons one after another, kneeling and shouting surrender.

Having witnessed the attack of the Tiance army just now, Xu Erxian knew that with the strength of the city, there was only one way to continue the confrontation.

There is a saying that those who know the times are Junjie. Xu Erxian, deputy chief soldier of the Han Army Banner, instantly understood that he must not die with these Manchurian soldiers and horses, but must seize the opportunity to surrender to the Tiance Army in time, so as to strive for a chance to make up for his mistakes.