Chapter 118: After the fog clears

The Yuan soldiers' fierce and persistent attack exceeded Zhao Tianyou's expectations, and under the powerful lethality of gunpowder weapons, they were able to maintain continuous attacks, so that the troops in the entire city of Guangzhou were overstretched. All the young and strong people in the city were all engaged in the battle, and they barely fought a draw with the Yuan soldiers, and controlled the battlefield of the battle under the city, and were not attacked by the Yuan soldiers on the city wall.

The sun gradually rising in the east slowly dispersed the thick fog, and the soldiers, who had been fighting all morning in a situation where they could not see each other, finally did not have to listen to the blind arrows of the position. This is simply bittersweet for the ten Hongyi cannons that can still be fired, and the Hongyi cannons that cannot be aimed at can't even give full play to one-tenth of their lethality and deterrence.

When the soldiers under the city were completely exposed to the sight of the artillery squad, the gunners in charge of command and aiming cheered excitedly, adjusted their angles, and aimed at the building carts and catapults that were close at hand.

"Aim! Put! ”

"Lou Che! Put! ”

"Put!"

"Put!"

After rounds of fixed-point shelling, the building carts and catapults that could threaten and suppress the firepower on the city wall were blown up one after another, and the situation at these ten siege points took a sharp turn for the worse.

The Song army, which was not suppressed by the archers on the building car, was free to choose a target to shoot on the city wall, and how to supervise the battle of the Yuan generals behind Rao is Rao, the battle line of the Yuan soldiers began to slowly leave the city, and retreated back a little bit.

Although the accuracy of the Hongyi cannon still needs to be changed, the accuracy and power of the casualties within five steps are not covered, and the siege team has begun to have casualties among the generals under the command.

Li Heng's Chinese army tent had already been built, but he never went in to sit on the Taishi chair, but stood on a mound and watched the siege battle in full swing. He was used to hearing the continuous roar of the Hongyi cannon, and he knew that every time there was a roar, his men would be killed or injured, but the more he did, the more he needed to break through Guangzhou and snatch the Hongyi cannon!

If you have such a powerful cannon in your hand, what kind of city can stop you from moving forward? No matter how high and thick your walls are, they can withstand the bombardment of cannons, and if you want to say that using this cannon to defend the city is really delaying the good things, and the good steel is not used on the blade.

The area that Tang Lingfeng was guarding was still in crisis, and at the worst time, dozens of Yuan soldiers successfully rushed up from the cloud ladder, and briefly occupied a small area on the city wall. However, it was soon wiped out by the reinforcements from Hong Kong Island who rushed over to support, dozens of reinforcements with big pockets on their backs, and their pockets were full of thunder, and the ping pong bombing emptied the Yuan soldiers on the city wall and destroyed the ladder at the head of the city.

Lu Shikui shook his head, knowing very well in his heart that he had just passed by the victory, and when he heard the bombardment like firecrackers, he knew that the men who attacked the city wall were finished, and he had no chance to go up again.

The ammunition for the ballista thunderbolt was replenished, and there were a lot of hand-thrown thunderbolts here, but the Hong Kong Island firearms squad stationed here had already suffered casualties, and the bags containing the thunderbolts were all crushed under the boulders and had not been used.

Leading the support was Meng Hao of the special operations platoon, who carried bags of thunder on their backs, patrolling around the city, and when they saw which position was tight, they quickly rushed up and smashed it, and then went to find a new battlefield after blowing up the Yuan soldiers.

"Old man, you have too few people here, ask for help from the city!"

Tang Lingfeng shook his head and said, "My son's apprentice is not dead yet, I can still stand here, I don't need to ask for help!" You just leave these thunderbolts behind and teach my people how to use them! ”

Meng Hao looked at the corpses that had been sorted aside, more than 20 soldiers who had died on Hong Kong Island were deliberately placed in a secluded corner of the inner city, and there were twenty or thirty wounded soldiers sitting there, not shouting or crying.

Not only them, but also the wounded soldiers of the city guards and civilians were also concentrated in some relatively safe places, just bandaged to stop the bleeding, there were not enough doctors to treat them, whether they could survive or not, it depended on who could survive until the end of the war and wait for the doctors.

The dead soldiers and civilians were hastily carried over and placed on the ground, all of which were not very mutilated and could distinguish their faces, and some of the corpses that had been stoned to death by catapults could no longer tell who it was, so they were made into a pile.

There are 1,000 city guards stationed here, and there are seven or eight hundred civilians who support them in the later stage, and those who are still able to fight now are not enough for five hundred, which is really a heavy casualty! Tang Lingfeng also has a son alive, and there are only seven of the more than thirty apprentices left, who have become spontaneous small leaders in the army, all leading dozens of people to fight bravely.

"Old man, hold on, with our thunder, the Yuan soldiers can't attack it!"

Meng Hao nodded silently, leaving ten bags full of thunderbolts, and led his special operations platoon to continue to look for the next node that needed support.

Zhao Tianyou came to the North City Gate alone, where the city walls were thick and heavily guarded, and four crossbow beds and two Hongyi cannons were deployed here, which was the most important node in the entire battle situation. Similarly, Zhao Heng also sent four teams of men and horses to launch a fierce attack at the same time within a distance of one mile from the city gate level.

The guards here are Ling Zhen personally defending on the left flank, and Wang Daofu led a team to guard the main city gate, which is only a few hundred steps away from the other two guards, from the ballista bed to the cannon, they can take care of each other, forming a cross fire attack point.

The most important position, on the contrary, is the easiest to defend, because the two Hongyi cannons here are the two most efficient and deadly cannons. After the fog cleared, the main generals of the two Yuan soldiers had been killed, and the building car that posed the greatest threat to the city was not left, and all of them were blown up.

There were not many eighty flowering shells left, the efficiency of the two cannons was still the same, there was no threat from the archers of the building car, and there were only a few city guard soldiers with shields around the artillery squad for simple protection. The gunners didn't have to think about the threat of arrows and flying rocks, which is why they first concentrated on taking out the cart, and when the trebuchet lost cover, the thunderbolt cannon fired by the ballista bed was killed.

The main task of the Hongyi cannon is to find the possible position of the main general in the chaos of the army, and under the simultaneous bombardment of two shells, the two generals in charge of the command will be killed soon.

"There are not many cannonballs, the little ones have opened my eyes wide and looked at them accurately, and the ones with gold threads on their hats and beautiful belts have been found out for me, those are all generals who are officials, and one cannon must not be let go of me!"

Liu Changhai's face was full of oil smoke, and it was so dark that he couldn't see his original face, and every time he finished firing and cleaning up the gun chamber, he had to check it himself. The barrel of the cannon must be wiped clean, and there is no trace of sticky stains and ash, so as not to affect the firing of the next cannon, ensure the stability of the Hongyi cannon, and also prolong the service life of the cannon.