Brilliant sparks erupted from the muzzles of the cannons, tongues of fire erupted, thick smoke billowed up, and the entire green grassland was filled with smoke, and the cannonballs let out a screech and flew towards the opposite wall. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This time the Mongols not only could not laugh, but also suffered extremely heavy losses.

The walls were smashed, the rocks collapsed, the walls were struck, and at once a large area was recessed, and the masonry fell from mid-air. A large number of potholes immediately appeared in the originally mirror-like city wall.

A few shells fell on the city tower, the bricks and stone tiles that were hit collapsed, and there were bursts of exclamations on the city tower, and some people jumped directly from the city tower and landed directly on the ground more than ten meters high, making a loud bang.

More and a large number of shells fell on the top of the city, among the thousands of completely unsuspecting defenders, and the shells flew down, and collided with the crowd again, countless people were hit by the shells, but this round of bombardment, at least more than a hundred lives were harvested, and there were many more wounded.

The results of the first round of artillery bombardment were very brilliant, and the second round and the first round were separated by only a dozen breaths, and the guns were cleared and recharged faster than the guns, and with the efforts of the seven-man artillery crew, the guns were reset, cleared, loaded, and then the fuze of the powder bag was lit again, and the gunpowder bag burst, spraying fire, and the shells flew out again, flying straight to the place where the target was.

From Zhang Han's point of view, this is a very spectacular scene!

Although someone died under this scene, Zhang Han did not feel sorry or regretful.

It's war, war to the death, and as they wail, think of the heinous sins they or their fathers committed decades ago.

If someone likes to forgive and convince people with virtue, then even if they do it in their own way, in Zhang Han's heart, at this moment, he can only appreciate the situation in front of him, and everything makes him feel extremely proud.

The rocks collapsed, blood splashed, people were blown up by cannonballs, these descendants of the Mongolian iron cavalry who once crisscrossed Europe and Asia, once broke the border entrance many times, and brought endless pain to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

After twelve rounds of shelling, there was a dead silence on the city, only the strong smell of sulfur permeated the city, and the light smoke kept rising, and the city was full of corpses, and the people who had been blown apart shed not only blood, but also internal organs, and everywhere there were severed arms and stumps, heads, arms, thighs, human intestines, blood flowed everywhere, shells and rubble piled up, spears and bows and arrows were thrown all over the ground.

Liang Xing observed from the height of the command vehicle, he felt a little regretful, if he had prepared earlier, it was very likely that the ant annexed to the city would have broken the city directly after this round of shelling!

After all, the northern captives have not experienced such an intensity of artillery bombardment, continuous and rapid multiple rounds of shelling directly collapsed the defense on the entire southern city wall, a large number of city walls were shattered, the city head was in chaos, there were stumps and dead bodies everywhere, the action was slightly faster had already run down the city tower, hiding in the corner of the city or directly ran away, there were also people hiding in the cave of hiding soldiers, the city wall built by Altan Khan imitated the military system of the Ming Dynasty, most of the city walls of the Ming Dynasty had hollow hidden soldiers' holes, and there were many northern captives on the head of the city who were quite anxious, When fleeing for his life, the cannonballs whistled down, the city head is not safe, but the hidden soldier hole is very thick, the cannonball on the side of the city wall only breaks the city bricks, punches a small hole, it is difficult to break through the defense, threatening the inside of the hidden soldier cave.

The tower of the south gate is also damaged in many places, and it seems that there are still beams and pillars that have been hit, and the entire tower is still filled with violent smoke and dust, which makes people see clearly, and they can't see what it looks like.

"My lord, it's a pity." After the shelling stopped, a few more frightened captives came up, but they learned their lesson and did not pile up near the forts, but mostly stayed under the city or in the caves.

The northern captives collapsed at the time of the bombardment just now, but after the shelling stopped, the nobles in the city forced the herdsmen and armor soldiers to walk up to the city again, these people were shocked, but as long as there were people in the city, it meant that the city defense system had not completely collapsed, Liang Xing's regret was that he did not prepare equipment such as ladders or rushing cars in advance, otherwise he would have broken through the city directly.

"It's not that simple." Zhang Han smiled and said: "The trapped beast is still fighting, the northern captives are surrounded by us on all sides, the way of life is cut off, after the ants attach to the city, the northern captives also stuffed tens of thousands of people in the city, our army has to pay considerable casualties to attack it, I want to take this city earlier, but if you have to pay considerable casualties, it will be worth the loss." ”

Liang Xing nodded and said, "In this case, I will call the artillery to fire a round every half an hour." The soldiers and civilians are making preparations, and they can start moving in the afternoon. ”

And Yusheng's artillery an ammunition base is a continuous twelve rounds of bombardment, which is determined according to the load of each towed gun truck and ammunition truck, a large car in addition to pulling shells, there are also ammunition stored in wooden barrels, there are quite a lot of artillery aids, in the future may also be loaded with shotguns and grenades, in the high-speed march ammunition truck may also have to bear the gunner, at present, after twelve rounds of bombardment, the barrel also needs to be cooled for a long time, and then it can continue to be used, the base ammunition of the entire artillery, It was also determined after many training sessions and live-fire drills.

The bombardment just now has just finished a base number, and according to Liang Xing's arrangement, it is estimated that the Mongols will not be able to stop this day.

"Don't be too fixed." Zhang Han reminded: "Otherwise, they will hide when the point comes, let's remind them to eat." ”

Liang Xing agreed with a smile, and Li Shenming on the side said with a rare sigh: "In this way, the people who have stayed in the city for the past two days are really like a year." ”

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In the afternoon, the soldiers and civilians had prepared about the same amount of earthwork, and a large number of sacks were put into use, and Yusheng had never lacked materials, not only sacks, but also quite a lot of shovels and various tools with very sharp steel mouths.

With more than 20,000 people and 20,000 soldiers, the amount of earthwork dug up in one afternoon is already very amazing.

In the evening, the soldiers began to pile sacks in the selected places.

At this time, the city has experienced five or six rounds of artillery bombardment, and there are also half a regiment of artillery in the north of the city, so that the north captives on the city head have tasted the same taste as the south gate, and when the soldiers appeared, only a small number of observation posts on the city head were still there, and even half of the city tower at the south gate was blown down, which made many military personnel feel sorry...... Obviously, after taking Qingcheng, everyone will have to spend effort to repair the city tower, and after each round of shelling, there are many military officials who regard Qingcheng as something in their pockets and howl wolf.

When the soldiers and the people appeared in front of the battle, the northern captives at the head of the city were also in a commotion, probably because they did not understand the meaning for a while, and after the first round of earthen bags were placed and reinforced according to the guidance of the sappers, in the eyes of the northern captives at the head of the city, a half-human-high mound of two hundred paces long and about thirty paces wide suddenly appeared.

Obviously, the northern captives at the head of the city were in a panic, and someone rushed down the city tower, which should have been reported.

Zhang Han and the others looked at the performance of the city head with great interest, they all looked forward to the telescope, the people on the city head looked like mole crickets in the telescope, they screamed, ran, the expression on their faces could be vaguely seen, this was a very interesting experience.

On the battlefield, the people seem to have become cruel, taking pleasure in seeing the pain and panic of the enemy.

Even all the civilian officials watched it with relish, and the war in front of them was very important to the overall situation of the entire Heyusheng, which caused many civilian officials who were usually very busy to come to Qingcheng together, and for them, the war in front of them was not tense at all, but like a kind of leisure and relaxation.

Before dark, a large group of Beiyu finally ran up to the city again, and Zhang Han saw that it seemed that many Taiji had taken the risk to run up to see the mound.

The sealing mound is very close to the city wall, the frontal distance is only about one hundred and fifty steps, the soldiers and the people are like a large swarm of ants, after setting up the pedestal, they begin to spread forward, one by one the dirt bags are thrown in front of the pedestal, seeing the mound forward, the people at the head of the city are obviously panicked.

At first, there were Beilu shooting arrows downward, at this time they were not very worried about being bombarded by artillery, after all, the distance of 200 steps was too close, and even Beilu understood that this distance was likely to bombard their own people, and it was unlikely that the merchant army would fire artillery.

But this distance was too far for the bows and arrows of the northern captives, and the northern captives at the head of the city gathered a lot at once, densely packed like a large swarm of ants, and they hurled them downward, but more than ninety percent of the bows and arrows fell down in less than a hundred and fifty paces, and were inserted diagonally on the turf, and only a few arrows could float to the top of the mound, but there was a group of warriors on the periphery, and they held aloft the cards of one man high, and blocked most of the arrows out of the mound.

After such a defense, only a small number of arrows could hit the baggage, and the outermost baggage soldiers, wearing chain mail, did not care about these exhausted arrows at all.

It may be that seeing that bows and arrows are useless, there was another rush in the city, and the northern captives began to manipulate and raise artillery.

There was no reaction from the city, and the artillery of the northern captives was fixed on wooden gun mounts, and they had no way to adjust the muzzle of the guns to fire flat or down, and there was no threat to the baggage and sappers who were carrying out civil engineering work.

After the artillery was fired, the people were threatened, and some shells fell among the people who carried the dirt bags, and large pieces of turf bounced up.

"Don't panic, don't be afraid!" The cavalry were in charge of the two flanks, and the old bell rode on his horse and shouted to the panicked people: "The power of the Tartar cannon is small, and we have soil and turf here, and the cannonballs can't jump down, so it's right." ”