Chapter 37 Bombardment of the City of An

Li Shen looked at the Han family's sons and daughters with a resolute expression on his face under the city wall, tears flowed from his eyes, turned his head, wiped the tears that flowed down, and said silently to Cheng Chu, "You will command this battle, and I will go and take a rest." ”

Li Shen turned his horse's head and walked towards the army behind him.

"Sword and shield soldiers ready, a hundred steps ahead." Cheng Chumo shouted loudly.

"Ha~~Ha~~Ha~~"

The soldiers holding shields shouted slogans in their mouths and began to move forward in an orderly manner.

"The catapult is ready, fifty steps ahead, and the projection is carried out."

The sound of "quack~~~" sounded, and thirty pitch-black catapults followed slowly behind the sword and shield soldiers under the impetus of everyone.

Cheng Chumo knew what was wrong with Li Shen, and he couldn't bear to see his compatriots die for no reason, and all the distance that let the sword and shield soldiers move forward a hundred paces, and a hundred steps away from the city wall was only a hundred steps away, and they had already entered the range of the archers standing on a high place.

Although the catapult has also entered the range of the archer, the arrows basically have no lethality after being shot here, and the farthest range of the catapult is only 300 meters, that is, the far point of the few units transformed by Li Shen, and there are several others that can only shoot to a distance of 150 meters.

More than 1,000 guards had also been trained, and they knew that the bomb would be dropped within five seconds of being ignited, or they would suffer, and after a few days of training, everyone would be able to start the catapult and drop the bomb immediately after the bomb was ignited.

"Ready to start reloading." Cheng Chumo shouted loudly.

"Ignition launch."

The force of the catapult is very strong, otherwise it is impossible to project dozens of catties of stones to kill the enemy, and then say a thing weighing four or five catties, the speed of projection is also accelerated, of course, if it is too light.

Cheng Chumo looked at the Goryeo soldiers standing on the city wall, took out his shield to block it, and smiled coldly.

More than 20 bombs exploded suddenly, the city wall was suddenly cleared out of an open space, blood mixed with brain stumps everywhere, the sound of miserable howls in the city continued to come, all the people were stunned, looking at the city wall not far in front of them with disbelief, the raging fire quickly engulfed the entire city gate tower, even the low-level people, all stunned in place and looked at the clay pots that flew over their heads one by one one with disbelief on their heads, and the clay pots that kept roaring sounded and made a thunderous sound, However, a few fell into their midst, causing a lot of deaths.

Cheng Chumo roared angrily: "Don't hurry up and run." ”

"Run, come here." The soldiers in the army reacted and yelled at them.

Gao Yanshou pushed away the soldiers who were pressing on him with an embarrassed face, looked at the brothers who fell in a pool of blood, looked at the people who were slowly fleeing below with a hideous face, stood up, drew his sword and roared angrily: "Shoot to General Ben, shoot these lowly Han people." ”

Countless sharp swords began to fall as if it was raining, and all of them were strung together by iron chains, as long as one person died, it would block the path of the advancing people, not to mention that under such a dense rain of arrows, the casualties were a large area, although it was not very far from the sword and shield soldiers, but the short distance was a horizontal ditch that was difficult to cross in this case.

Cheng Chumo watched with tears as he fell down one by one, some were still struggling to crawl on the ground, and the people who wanted to crawl over covered their hands tightly and shouted angrily: "Cast for Lao Tzu, blow up these beasts." ”

Then he shouted: "Sword and shield soldiers rescue the people." ”

Said to be a city, in fact, it is only a little bigger than a modern town, the city of a small country in Fanbang can not be compared with the city of the Tang Dynasty, there can be a twenty or thirty thousand, it belongs to a relatively large city, more than a hundred thousand cities are really remarkable, otherwise a small Silla, not as big as an egg, the number of cities is dozens, if each is hundreds of thousands, this is okay, it is estimated that Huaxia would have been annexed long ago.

The earthen city wall was soon blown into a huge gap, and from the gap, the ground was mixed with the blood of the stumps, and the Goryeo soldiers lying in the pool of blood rolled on the ground and wailed, and the Goryeo soldiers not far away were huddled together, looking at the bombs that fell not far away with frightened faces.

"Stop firing." Cheng Chumo shouted loudly.

Then he shouted: "The catapult goes seventy meters." ”

As the catapult advanced, a dense burst of shells exploded in every corner of the city.

Cheng Chumo smiled coldly and looked at the Goryeo soldiers who fled from all directions in the city, looked at the Goryeo soldiers who ran out of the gate, and shouted loudly: "Prepare for battle, the marshal said, don't let anyone go." ”

The use of gunpowder is something that no one has ever seen, such a sharp weapon, has already frightened the soldiers of Goryeo, has already put down the weapons in their hands, fled, where is there still the mind to continue the war, in their hearts, the Tang army must have the help of the gods, the falling jar is the means of the gods, and it is easy to harvest the lives of their brothers around them, the gods have come to help the Tang army, where are they mortals who are the opponents of the gods.

A sound accompanied by a tragic roar came, Li Shen sat on the top of the hill, guarding eight guards of the night, and sighed in a low voice, these people who died were all caused by his order, and he didn't expect that his subordinates would be stained with so much blood in his life.

The sound of artillery fire continued, the sound of shouting and killing continued, the sound of the remnants of the desolation before death continued, the drums kept beating, and the unique musical sound of the war scene was played, and the whole air was filled with the smell of gunsmoke, mixed with the smell of blood, accompanied by the smell of burnt corpses, which made people a little sickened.

"He who lays down his arms does not kill, and he who lays down his arms does not kill."

It feels as if the whole world is full of such a sentence, Li Shen raised his head to look at the sun in the sky that was gradually sinking in the west, and asked lightly at the dark three beside him, "How much time has passed?" ”

Dark San looked at Li Shen with a strange face, he really didn't expect that this gunpowder would be so powerful on the battlefield, and the more than 100,000 troops of Goryeo didn't have the slightest power to counterattack, and replied: "It's more than an hour." ”

"An hour?" Li Shen stood up, turned around and looked at the battlefield covered with gunsmoke, the fire in the city was raging, and sighed in a low voice, knowing that this was the first time that gunpowder was used, and there was a kind of unexpected result, and the soldiers of Goryeo only defended the city, if they came out to fight, they would not have the result they have now.