"Good!" Zou Shuangwen also waited for the buzzing in his ears to stop for a while before he let out this exclamation. He was indeed smashing Xiangning City with money. The cost of this heavy-duty punch truck alone is 45,000 taels of silver. Moreover, this time, the Blood Qijun only brought one, and because there were too many parts and too heavy, it was never assembled. It wasn't until the attack on Xiangning City that everyone proposed, just in case, to ensure that they could fight down, so they put this monster together. Originally, it was intended to be used in the unfavorable situation of ascending to the city, but what he didn't expect was that Zou Shuangwen actually used it regardless of it.

The loud explosion, the powerful blast wave, the scorching air current, and the scattered metal fragments caused permanent damage to Xiangning City. The city gate disappeared completely, the entire gatehouse collapsed, and the entire section of the city wall was burning violently, and the fire oil that had not been burned in the explosion just now was playing a powerful role, if it were not for the limited fire oil, it could almost burn the entire section of the city wall into powder.

"The heavy infantry still has reserves, right?" Zou Shuangwen asked. But now the situation is no longer at his command. Seeing the gate of Xiangning City collapse into a cloud of ruins, the front-line troops who had also recovered from the shock had already reacted. Two heavy infantry formations had assembled at the city gates, and the light infantry had already begun to climb towards the city gates, assaulting, clearing obstacles and facilitating the heavy infantry assault. Heavy infantry is a very powerful class, but it is also a very limited class, and the Blood Qi Army has deeply rooted the concept of reasonable mobilization and matching of troops into the bones.

On the contrary, Xiangning City was in chaos, and there were many middle and senior military officers concentrated on the city tower, as well as several gentry and celebrities in the city who were cooperating with the officers to deploy those who stayed in the city and organize the work of delivering supplies. At this moment, these people were by no means spared, and Xiangning City, which had never encountered such a thing, had its morale fall to the bottom. If they were only faced with an army that was stronger, better trained, and better equipped than them, they would not be so fearful, after all, they were defending their homeland, and the idea of defending their homeland was enough to make them burst out more powerful than usual. However, the situation is completely different now. The Blood Qi Army not only surpassed the defenders of Xiangning City in terms of military quality, but also took a terrifying lead in weapons and equipment. The equipment of the Blood Qi Army has been pushed to the top of the cold weapon era by Ye Tao in the past few years, and there are already some equipment, such as the siege vehicle that collapsed the city tower just now, and it organically combines the concept of the hot weapon era with the combat method of the cold weapon era. If it weren't for Ye Tao, these things might not have appeared in this time and space for decades or even hundreds of years.

"Let's settle in sections," the staff officer suggested. And Zou Shuangwen nodded. Tan Yan, the defender of Xiangning City, has been killed, and now the highest military rank is likely to be the generals who are in charge of the defense sections of each city wall. In the face of an army like the Blood Qi Army that they can't understand, they don't believe that they can all have the courage to fight to the end.

Sure enough, the order to surrender reached the front line, and when the soldiers of the Blood Qi Army, who had an absolute advantage, suddenly began to shout the order of "throw down your weapons, surrender and not kill", a large number of frightened Northern Liao soldiers threw down their weapons and fell to the ground. And Dong Daqiu, who was in charge of the defense section on the left side of the tower, almost immediately ordered his subordinates to disarm.

In just one hour, the combination of forcefully annihilating the stubborn enemy and actively recruiting surrenders, the entire city wall of Xiangning City and a part of the city area close to the city wall have been in the hands of the Blood Qi Army.

The ruins of the city gate have now been turned into ramps for heavy infantry. The scattered heavy infantry that had been guarding the light infantry near the city walls were all gathered together, ready to receive orders and march towards the center of the city. At this time, a letter came from the front: "The whole army should postpone the march, the smell of fire oil in the city is strong, and it is very dangerous." ”

Deflagration...... The word popped up from Zou Shuangwen's mind again. Only then did he notice that the heavy equipment battalion was still throwing fire oil bombs into the city, and after breaking through the city gate just now, the staff officer should have suggested or directly notified the heavy equipment battalion to stop the attack. And the battalion of the heavy equipment battalion should probably also ask for instructions himself. Zou Shuangwen glanced at the staff officer suspiciously, looking at the perseverance, bloodthirstiness, cruelty and determination in the staff officer's eyes, and listening to him say lightly, "I forgot", Zou Shuangwen's heart sank. That was to tell him that he was not ready to stop this kind of attack, and he was ready to teach the Northern Liao people a lesson with merciless actions.

"Don't make your own decisions." Zou Shuangwen sighed and commanded. "The heavy weapons battalion continued to shoot, the airship lowered its altitude, shouted to persuade them to surrender, and those who were willing to surrender immediately approached the surrounding city walls, and we took them in. No carry-on items are allowed. A quarter of an hour later, it caused a deflagration at the north gate, and then continued to persuade ......"

"Yes." This order, which had never been seen before in the history of the Blood Qi Army, was issued like this. However, this time, the entire Blood Qi Army accepted the order very happily.

It was really a bit difficult to let everyone in the entire city leave everything behind and surrender, and after a quarter of an hour, there were only more than 10,000 people who ran under the various city walls, were contained by the Blood Qi Army and then sent out of the city to be guarded, plus the Northern Liao soldiers who surrendered one after another, it was only less than 30,000, which was only a quarter of the population of Xiangning City. Zou Shuangwen did not hesitate to verify the order to trigger the deflagration, and the airship quickly lifted off, circled, and accelerated...... Then drop a fire oil bomb suspended by a white parachute, and immediately accelerate out of the area.

The white parachute looked elegant, but as the oil bomb approached the ground, the four-petal shell on the outside was lined up, revealing the silver-white metal structure inside, and the four nozzles sprayed fine droplets of the oil bomb outward, which quickly ignited the droplets, and the entire oil bomb exploded like a fire cloud at a low altitude, and the entire area near the north gate exploded.

The power of deflagration is really not great, but as long as the concentration of oil and gas in the air is high to a certain level, it will definitely make people in the explosion range have nothing to hide. And the gorgeous effect of the deflagration, and the power of the blast wave that dragged in all directions, as if to blow everything away, made all those who knew and did not know the deflagration equally afraid.

"Observation report from airship......" The herald sent a paperwork.

Zou Shuangwen took the paperwork, pressed it on the table in front of him without looking at it, and said, "I don't need to report, carry out the second round of surrender." ”

This time, no one doubted the Blood Qi's determination to mash the entire city to pieces. After a little hesitation, the people hiding in the houses came out one after another, and the people hiding in various corners left their things behind and walked towards the nearest wall. About an hour later, several local gentry and the middle and senior officers who participated finally stood in front of Zou Shuangwen and officially surrendered to the Blood Qi Army.

There are a lot of things hoarded in Xiangning City, including a large amount of food, ordnance, and horse food that the Blood Qi Army has begun to run out of. The strength of the Northern Liao military horses, of course, is because of the variety, but also thanks to the careful breeding of the Northern Liao military, the Northern Liao really has a set of horses in serving horses, although the horse material is rough compared to the bean material of the Blood Qi Army, it can be regarded as fine. The Blood Qi Army left a battalion to guard the prisoners, and after the oil and gas dissipated, the residents were sent back to the city in batches, and another battalion quickly cleaned up all kinds of supplies in Xiangning City to replenish the needs of the Blood Qi Army as soon as possible. It was also their job to care for the wounded, clean up the bodies of the dead, and arrange funerals for the fallen soldiers of the Blood Qi Army. And Zou Shuang's Ministry of Culture and Culture almost immediately began to reorganize and repair, preparing to rush to the aid of Ye Tao's department.

As early as before the battle ended, the cavalry troops, scout troops, and a part of the heavy weapons battalion began to prepare to move in the direction where Ye Tao's department was. The cavalry units and scout cavalry have always moved extremely quickly, and they have nothing to do in this battle, and they have always retained relatively good physical strength, and by the end of the battle, they are almost out of the land. Due to the relatively high intensity of this operation, the heavy equipment battalion needed to rest in place for a while, but they still took turns to pack up all the ballistas, load the fire oil bombs into the wagons, and the team even lined up according to the requirements of the marching configuration and rested. Basically, after two hours, they were up and gone. Zou Shuangwen himself handed over all the aftermath of Xiangning City to a few of his subordinates, and set off first with the staff officers and the guards of the overseer. Whether it is from the perspective of military affairs or personal friendship with Ye Tao, he can't allow Ye Tao to have any problems.

The attack on Xiangning City was the most bloody and domineering in the history of the Blood Qi Army. In order to win enough time to rescue Ye Tao's department, but although Ye Tao is quite far from Zou Shuangwen and other veterans in the Blood Qi Army in terms of specific tactical command, he is indeed a good commander, and he is a person who can use all kinds of advantages in a whimsical manner. Although facing an unknown number of enemy troops but at least several times their own, under Ye Tao's arrangement, the situation was far less tense.

When Gao Senqi led the vanguard cavalry to the place where Ye Tao's department was stationing, he saw that it was stationed on a hill on the edge of the river beach, and the defense system already had some rudimentary whole camps. Xiao Yong did not choose the most convenient place to defend, but the most suitable place to cross the river in the Gao Sen Banner. If Gao Senqi was carrying tens of thousands of people, which was similar to the combat strength of the Blood Qi Army, he might have bypassed. But now he has gathered an army of nearly 200,000 that claims to be 300,000, and many of them are the elite of the Western Route Army. With such a disparity in strength, if he still avoids fighting, how will he command the troops in the future? Moreover, the army really needed such a location to cross the river, and it was not a day or two to choose other locations.