Chapter 230: The First Wave of Siege

Six or seven days have passed in a blink of an eye, and there have been as many as twelve fortifications dug and built by the Yuan soldiers, and the Song army has not fired a single cannonball, let alone sent troops to make trouble and sneak attack, and those Yuan soldiers who are working have begun to relax.

Dong Wenbing, who is outside the east city gate, can also receive military intelligence from Beicheng every day, and his judgment of the strange performance of the Song army in the city is that the cannonballs of the Song army at the head of the city are more precious. When the siege was not officially launched, the Song army was unwilling to waste artillery shells on the miscellaneous servants who were doing the work, even if he was defending the city, he would also stand still and wait until the attacking team's brigade would open fire.

However, Dong Wenbing's mobile log house has now been completed, and it can be used to carry out a strong advance together with the siege of the city, such as the towers, cars, and ladders, and fight with the Song army defending the city for a few rounds to test his tactics and the power of the brave artillery siege.

But he kept an eye on it, before Beicheng did not officially fight with the Song army, his rash attack may be counterproductive, and if Prime Minister Boyan is to blame, he will have to walk around without eating. Dong Wenbing is not a fool, Boyan doesn't pay attention to the Dongcheng army, and on the other hand, he attaches great importance to Ashu's side, and this city-breaking work is best left to Ashu.

Dong Wenbing made up his mind, as long as Boyan didn't give the order to let him cooperate with the attack, he would stay here to grind foreign workers, anyway, the Song army would definitely not come out of the city and take the initiative to start a war with him, so why should he take the initiative to attack and risk himself.

The two hundred cannons on the twenty gunboats, dismantled and transported and then installed on the city wall, was a huge project, thanks to the digging of fortifications by Ah Shu, which gave Zhao Tianyou enough time to install and debug.

In addition to the 50 new cannons that had been transported in advance, and the 250 cannons connected to the initial 88 Hongyi cannons, there were more than 300 cannons on the entire Guangzhou city wall, and they were mainly concentrated at the north gate and the east gate.

The difference between the two days was less than ten days, and the number of cannons had tripled, and if Ah Shu knew such a result, he would probably have wiped his neck with a scimitar. However, nearly thirty fortifications have been built, which can already accommodate seven or eight thousand soldiers, plus interconnected passages, which means that the Yuan soldiers can station a team of 10,000 people in the fortifications.

Ah Shu no longer had the patience to endure it, and the first wave of 30,000 horses was dispatched, pushing hundreds of engineering equipment, as well as carriages loaded with earth and stones, and marched towards Guangzhou in three columns.

Their task was to get as close to the city wall as possible, and fill in a section of the moat more than three zhang wide first, so that the soldiers carrying the ladder could pass, and as long as the Yuan soldiers could climb the city wall, the city would basically be taken.

Of course, this is the experience of attacking the city before, it can be said that these soldiers who participated in the war have experienced things, and what excites them the most is that after breaking the city, in addition to the property that is handed over, most of the property can be left for themselves.

With such a simple system, most of the things were grabbed and returned to themselves, and the Mongolian cavalry at that time could be said to be the most belligerent army in the world, and it was also the most motivated and powerful army.

In order to reduce the damage of the shells to the soldiers, each horse was equipped with two thick wooden planks in addition to the earth and stones, so that the soldiers had a hiding place in the event of shelling. From the arrangement of the team, it can be seen that the Yuan soldiers attach special importance to the cannons at the head of the city, and the first wave of siege teams still has the purpose of temptation, and Ah Shu also understands that the cannons in Guangzhou will not fire if they don't send some meat to eat.

In order to enhance some certainty when the follow-up large-scale siege of the city, these 30,000 people were reluctant to give up, and Ah Shu took a group of his generals to watch the process of the battle between the attacking and defending sides from a distance on the mound three miles away.

There are more than 180 cannons distributed on the north city gate, half of which is concentrated in the Guangzhou city defense cannons, and the soldiers of the Hong Kong Island Firearms Battalion also have a force of nearly 3,000 people, but they have long been insufficient. Because there were too many cannons transferred from the ship, and the firearms battalion stationed in Guangzhou was not enough, they simply sent the sailors who operated the cannons on the ship to the city wall.

At present, there are nearly 30,000 troops defending the North Gate, of which nearly 10,000 are directly under Hong Kong Island, stationed next to the densely packed cannons, and there are also short-range thunderbolt bombardment rockets, and the city wall is covered with all kinds of gunpowder weapons made on Hong Kong Island.

"God bless, if there is no Hong Kong Island for you, the siege of Guangzhou may be difficult to solve, that is, the whole city of the army and civilians swear to defend to the death, at most, it will drag on for a while longer, and the final result will definitely be the destruction of the city."

Zhang Zhensun is telling the truth, today, all the officials of all sizes in Guangzhou followed him to the top of the city, and they have seen the strength of Hong Kong Island's weapons, and they will soon see the results of actual combat.

The battle plan of the firearms battalion has been distributed to all squads, and Liu Changhai has been promoted to the commander of all the cannons, and is nervously estimating the distance of the Yuan soldiers' advance, waiting for the best time to open the artillery. If the cannon is fired too early and the speed of the Yuan soldier's retreat is too fast, although the range of the cannon can be extended and adjusted, it will reduce the accuracy and affect the killing effect.

The best distance is to wait until 300 paces into the city wall, outside the range of the thunderbolt cannon, the Hongyi cannon will have to run away more than half of the 30,000 people in a salvo. The soldiers of the firearms battalion are confident that no army can maintain their formation under the bombardment of Hongyi artillery, which is already a proven fact.

"All of them, each in place, put it!"

The red flag that symbolizes the attack is waved, and the largest caliber Hongyi cannon is the first to fire, they are aimed at the siege equipment that has been pulled over, and under those tall building carts, there are many soldiers and horses hidden in the shadows.

There were as many as thirty-six heavy Hongyi cannons in Beicheng, and after the sound of cannons in a line in front and back sounded, the long line of the Yuan army began to panic a little. The explosive power of the flowering bomb finally began to show in front of Ah Shu's eyes, and within a few feet of each bullet, there were almost no people who could stand up, and even the building car made of logs fell apart with a single shot, how could they protect the soldiers below.

One hundred and twenty medium cannons began to bombard, and their targets were all soldiers gathered together, and at this time the shots were already aimed at each other, and there was no need to maintain a salvo, and it was up to each gun commander to decide what to aim at and when to fire.

After the first round of shelling, there were many dead and wounded in the Yuan army, especially when they gathered together to avoid the frontal artillery, and the shells fired from another angle could not be dodged, and often a single shell could kill and injure dozens of people.

Hundreds of wagons carrying earth and stones were frightened, frantically pulling heavy loads and ramming in all directions, and the infantry who were dodging behind the carriages bore the brunt of the attack, crushing countless dead and wounded. Some of the wagons pulled heavy loads and turned around and ran back, and the horses and carts overturned into the newly dug fortifications, and the whole attacking team was in a mess.