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Chapter 233: Storming the City

There was no problem with Ling Zhen's command, and the young men of the firearms battalion were also very efficient, and the hit rate of the shells remained stable at about fifty percent.

Dong Wenbing's brave cannon was covered with a wooden shell, and his walking speed was very slow, so it was mixed with other siege equipment in order to cover his tracks, just to avoid being bombarded by the concentrated artillery fire at the head of the city.

He thought well, but when Zhao Tianyou left, he had already made it clear, and ordered Ling Zhen to set fire to the wooden shell, and all the cannons were the first to bombard the target, and they were aimed at the Shenyong cannon.

"Boom, boom!"

Waves of shells fell, and it was very obvious that they were aiming at the Shenyong cannons, and in the blink of an eye, five Shenyong cannons were hit by concentrated fire. The sturdy wooden box could not withstand the violent explosion, and was scattered all around, revealing the hidden cannons and soldiers inside.

"General Ling, you see, the Yuan soldiers are transporting cannons under the city, which are even bigger than ours!"

"Ah, yes! Where is it? ”

The sharp-eyed soldiers at the head of the city discovered the thick barrel of the Shenyong cannon, and after Ling Zhen saw it clearly, he immediately understood Zhao Tianyou's advice when he left, it seems that General Zhao already knew that they had a secret weapon.

"Brothers of the firearms battalion, concentrate all the artillery fire, bombard those wooden boxes, and hit me hard!"

At first, I didn't care, but when several brave cannons were blown over and lay on the ground, the soldiers at the head of the city paid attention. The Yuan soldiers were really cunning enough, if these forty cannons were mixed under the city wall, they would be caught off guard as soon as they suddenly fired, and the soldiers of the firearms battalion at the head of the city would definitely suffer heavy losses, and even the firing of the cannons would be seriously affected.

"General Dong, fifteen cannons have been blown up, although the wooden house is very strong, but it can't withstand four or five bombardments and it will fall apart, we can't do anything!"

The herald reported the military situation with a crying voice, and the destruction of each cannon was a heavy loss, there were only forty Divine Courage cannons in total, and fifteen were lost in just half of the way, and when they entered the firing position, how many could they be left?

Dong Wenbing was so anxious that he waved the whip in his hand and shouted: "Zhang Qiang listened to the order, led all the cavalry to rush to the city, and increased the cannon to suppress the city, so as to buy time for the Shenyong cannon." ”

The whole camp was shocked when the order was issued, but as soon as the order came out, Zhang Qiang snatched a shield from the side with one hand, shouted all the cavalry, and rushed to the east gate with the strength of the whole army.

Cavalry warfare has always emphasized mobility and flexibility, and once it has an advantage in attack, it will increase its efforts to attack the enemy, and continue to expand the results of the battle and defeat the enemy. Once the enemy was found to be strong and the attempt to attack failed, the Mongol cavalry never fought hard, but changed their tactics to adopt the tactics of fighting and retreating. One will harass and the other will attack, so that the enemy is tired and show his flaws, and then bite off the enemy's flesh in one bite, and when the advantage is expanded, then launch a general attack to annihilate it in one fell swoop.

This time the siege of the city with a large number of cavalry is a tactic that the Mengyuan cavalry has never used, it is tantamount to committing suicide by hitting the wall with his head.

There is no need to make assumptions, once the more than 20,000 cavalry begin to accelerate, but when the bow and arrow in their hands are finished, they must turn around the river in a roundabout way to make room for the cavalry following behind them, so as to effectively form a wave of arrows fired at the head of the city in batches.

But when the first wave of their cavalry approached the city wall at a rapid pace, the giant crossbows on the head of the city lit the fuse, and hundreds of crossbow arrows and thunderbolts came at the horses.

"Boom, boom!"

The explosions continued one after another, and the cavalrymen who rushed to the front turned on their horses, and the horses and soldiers who fell to the ground formed a natural tripline, tripping more horses. The cavalry that followed behind began to leap forward, turn around, and so on, but the formation of the forward charge was suddenly disrupted.

The ballista bed kept firing, for the cavalry in motion, this kind of accuracy is not high, but the weapon with a faster rate of fire is better than the effect of the Hongyi cannon, which caused huge trouble to the Yuan soldiers.

The battle line of the cavalry became more and more scattered, and some cavalry began to rush to the moat with shields, and countless soldiers fell into the river because they could not restrain the reins of the horses, and many of them were wounded by arrows, and the horses jumped into the moat out of control.

"Damn, I'm bold enough, I want to fill the moat with people, that's not a pipe dream!"

Ling Zhen was shocked, but the moat was connected to the Pearl River, and although the water was not very fast, it was not something that could be filled with corpses, whether it was a person or a horse, it quickly rushed into the river along the current.

However, the situation was already very dangerous, and the archers who rushed to the city had already started to fire arrows at the head of the city, although because of the distance and position, the lethality was not enough to cause too much damage, but it had begun to affect the normal operation of the firearms battalion with artillery.

"Armor-piercing cone! Armor-piercing cone! ”

There are many city guards, and they have not been able to participate in the battle with long-range weapons that they are good at, and they have long been jumping on the side, watching the brothers of the firearms battalion go on a killing spree, and they can only snort on the side.

The main force of cavalry rushed to the east gate, and Zhang Qiang forcibly pressed the battle line forward, and had already cut several soldiers who were unwilling to rush forward. In the absence of long-range weapons to attack the city, and the building carts and arrows stamped to cover, these Yuan cavalry could only rely on the bows and arrows in their hands to fight hard with the artillery on the city.

Zhang Qiang's lips have already bitten out blood, and it is okay to fill in with human lives, that is, whoever goes first will die first, if the main general who leads the team to supervise the battle is not ruthless, how can the soldiers under his command rush up.

"Whoosh! Buzz ......"

Because of the heavy body of the arrow, the armor-piercing cone was a little difficult to shoot with an ordinary military bow, and the sound of leaving the string was also loud, and the sound of thousands of people firing a salvo was even more humming, and the sky was overcast when it flew out from the city.

"Puff, puff, puff......"

"Ahh Poof, poof. ”

The soldiers who were hit by the arrow were like cutting wheat, and they fell on the spot one by one, even the war horses under their crotches were not spared, and what kind of cowhide armor and hard chain mail were like paper paste under the strong penetration of the armor-piercing cone.

"Armor-piercing cone, armor-piercing cone! Salvo! ”

The Song army at the head of the city shouted the trumpet, and thousands of troops launched armor-piercing cones at the same time, and flew densely towards the Yuan soldiers under the city.

Zhang Qiang roared angrily: "Press me forward, press forward close to the moat, and rush in for me!" Storm the moat! ”

The men shouted and neighed at the horses, and the cavalry rushed from behind, squeezing the comrades in front, and with unstoppable inertia, the cavalry rushed under the city walls.