Including Yang Yi, he didn't expect Pennsylvania City to become the main battlefield between Song and Yue.

The 100,000-strong army swore to fight to the death for the small city of Pennsylvania, and the crowds of people above and below the city were like a sea, and blood and rain were flying.

If Ruan Zhishun wins, nine times out of ten, he will get two wide lands, or even more, so that he has the capital to compete with the Great Song Dynasty.

Yang Yisheng, the so-called Dayue disappeared, and finally became a county of the Great Song Dynasty. And the small city of Pennsylvania will surely cause a sensation in the world because of this war.

Ruan Zhishun had no reservations, and the 70,000 army forgot about life and death, and went forward one after another, besieging the city of Pennsylvania to the ground, and kept storming, and the corpses under the city were pressed layer after layer, and the torrential rain could not dilute the bright red blood.

Five hours passed, the city of Penn was in danger, the Vietnamese army attacked the city again and again, and was driven down the city by the Song army reserves again and again, although the Song army fought very hard, but always firmly controlled the city of Pennzhou.

The rain was sometimes heavy and sometimes small, and it never stopped, and the arrows of both sides could not be used, which was a disadvantage for the besieging side, because the weapons such as rolling stones, wood, and fire oil on the defending side would not weaken its power because of the rain;

The besieging side needs to overpower the defenders with arrows, otherwise the defenders can easily knock down your ladder and smash the stones on your head, and you will only be a threat to the defenders after you have broken through the barriers of death.

Ruan Zhishun stood on the high slope and looked at the entire battlefield coldly, the fierce tearing and heavy casualties could not arouse the slightest emotional fluctuation in him. In Ruan Zhishun's eyes, including himself, 70,000 Vietnamese troops were already dead the moment they set off from Yongzhou City.

Now there are only 70,000 corpses vying for the opportunity to be human; Won. You can be a man; If you lose, you will always be a corpse, dying with dead leaves.

It's brutal!

But. This is war.

The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and Ruan Zhishun could turn a blind eye, because he had long been prepared to make heavy sacrifices, but it was the loss of those war elephants that made Ruan Zhishun's heart ache.

The gunfire in the city was sparse, and most of them spewed fire from some watchtowers, which once again confirmed the fact that Song firearms could not be used in the rain, and the watchtowers could be sheltered from wind and rain. It can ensure the normal use of flintlock pistols, but after all, it can't accommodate many gunners, and it can't cause a lot of damage to Vietnamese soldiers, but those war elephants are in danger.

The war elephant was huge and not very fast, so it became the most conspicuous target, and the effective range of the Song army's flintlock pistol was more than a mile. As long as each war elephant is hit by one or two bullets, even if it does not die, it will go crazy because of the pain, and it will be difficult for the elephant soldiers to control.

After losing control, many war elephants will rush into the besieging Vietnamese army, trampling to death and injuring countless people. Nguyen Zhishun had less than 2,000 war elephants in total, and three or four hundred were killed or wounded in the first round of charge, and almost none of the war elephants could rush under the city of Pennsylvania.

Seeing that rushing forward was also in vain, in the face of such a result, Ruan Zhishun had no choice but to order the war elephants to stop attacking.

These war elephants can not only be used to charge into battle, but also bear heavy logistics and transportation, and even if they take Pennsylvania, the Vietnamese army will be weak to follow, and it will be difficult to achieve the strategic goal of quickly leveling Lingnan.

Nguyen Chi Soon collected a lot of information related to the flintlock pistol, and after careful analysis, he believed that although the flintlock pistol had a long range, it also had many weaknesses;

In addition to not being used in rainy weather, its rate of fire is not as fast as that of a bow and arrow, and due to the cumbersome operation, the soldier cannot be armoured, which makes the soldier with a flintlock pistol lose his protection, as long as he can use the terrain to close the distance, the bow and arrow can completely defeat the same number of flintlock guns.

The mountains of Lingnan are densely forested, and it is extremely easy to find the terrain that inhibits the flintlock pistol, just like Kunlun Pass, even if the Song army has flintlock pistol, it can't be attacked. …,

This time, as long as he takes Penn Zhou and destroys Yang Yi's tens of thousands of troops, Ruan Zhishun will be confident that he will take the entire Lingnan and block the subsequent counterattack of the Song State.

The lookout of the watchtower on the city has been widened a lot, which not only makes the field of vision wider, but also accommodates more gunners, the front seven or eight soldiers are responsible for shooting, and there are more soldiers in front of the city to be responsible for loading, and the gunfire in the watchtower on both sides has never stopped, so that the war elephants of the Vietnamese army can not get close to the city wall at all.

But this kind of non-stop shooting filled the watchtower with gunsmoke, and Xian Lingzhu couldn't stay for a long time, and even Yang Yi could only withdraw soon after, because not only did the smell inside choke, but also blocked his vision so that he could not observe the battle situation.

Yang Yi was armed with a sword at his waist and stood at the head of the city with an umbrella in his hand to watch the battle, because the Vietnamese army's bows and arrows could not be used, the guards did not have to worry about him being injured by stray arrows, so they did not dissuade him.

The four city walls are respectively in charge of Bao Yi, Guan Yingqin, Lan Jilong, and Liu Fengming, and the remaining Han Zheng commands the reserves, and reinforces wherever the situation is critical.

Due to the full preparation before the war, there was actually nothing to do with Yang Yi when the war came.

The Song army laid 3,000 men on each wall, and there were 20,000 reserves in the city. Among the three messages that Yang Yi sent to Ruan Zhishun, the shortage of food in Pennsylvania and the inability to use firearms in the rain are true, only the miasma rampant is false, in fact, there are more than 30,000 soldiers in the city who can fight, even if it is a field battle, it may not lose to 70,000 Vietnamese troops. Now defend the city, if you can't hold it, then it's better to hit your head and die.

The Vietnamese army built thousands of ladders, lined up the four city walls, 70,000 horses took turns to fight, as far as the eye could see, there were dense figures everywhere, tens of thousands of shouts and kills gathered together, the sound spread for dozens of miles, the Vietnamese army was like a hurricane set off a huge wave, wave after wave slapping Penn City.

The rolling stones of the Song army rained down, and the Vietnamese soldiers who climbed the ladder fell down the city in a string, and the blood was more than the rain falling from the sky, and the Vietnamese army got the death order of Ruan Zhishun, even if the casualties were heavy, there was no intention of retreating, the soldiers in front were stoned to death, and the soldiers in the back immediately stepped on the corpses of their accomplices and struggled to climb to the city.

The height of Penn City is no more than four meters, and the corpses under the city are piled up more than one meter high.

And Ruan Zhishun actually came up with a strange trick to make bamboo to make spears, the land of Quang Nam. There are bamboos everywhere, and the arms are thick, and one end is sharpened. can be used as a weapon.

Countless Vietnamese soldiers carried these bamboo poles, which seemed to grow patches of forests under the city, and these bamboo poles were ten meters long. Standing under the city can directly stab the Song army in the city to death and stab it, which greatly makes up for the defect of suppressing the Song army at the head of the city without bows and arrows in the rain.

Although Ruan Zhishun's trick is simple, it is very effective for the current situation, both sides cannot use bows and arrows, and the city wall is low, as long as the Song soldiers show their heads, there are often several bamboo poles to pierce them, if they hit the front door. Death was inevitable, and even if the armor was pierced, it was enough to stab a person to the ground, thus providing cover for the Vietnamese troops who had landed in the city.

Under the city gate, the Vietnamese army pushed a huge rushing cart and constantly hit the south gate, and the rumbling sound of the impact shook the city. The Song army smashed down the rolling stones, smashed the Vietnamese army's head and split their brains, the flesh and blood were blurred, and buckets of boiling oil were poured down, and the people who were drenched were immediately covered with blisters. Fell to the ground and howled.

But there are too many Vietnamese troops, the first batch falls, and the latter group continues to rise, which is clearly using human lives to fight for attrition.

As far as the eye can see, there are overwhelming Vietnamese troops, and Ruan Zhishun has obviously done whatever it takes to take Penn City.

"Be careful, sir!" The guards beside him let out a loud shout, and raised their knives to cut off a bamboo pole that was stabbing at Yang Yi.

Yang Yi was unmoved, holding an umbrella and continuing to inspect the city, Xian Lingzhu followed him, and asked puzzledly, "Isn't your gun very good?" Why is it hidden? The casualties in the city are not small. ”…,

Yang Yi replied casually: "Of course, my gun is at stake, but I can't use it indiscriminately now, I have to wait until the right time." ”

The two of them asked and answered, and in the ears of a group of guards around them, they suddenly looked weird, and some of them couldn't help laughing.

Xian Lingzhu was puzzled, but Yang Yi suddenly realized that this answer was indeed easy to misunderstand, he glanced at the group of lewd talents around him, and said lightly: "Pass my order, and reward the monkeys under the city with five hundred grenades." ”

"Whoa!"

The guards responded and left, and soon, a lot of torches were lit at the head of the city, only to see the Song army bring up a ball-sized straw ball, each straw ball was wrapped in a grenade, and then the fuse was lit, and then these straw balls were thrown directly under the city.

Due to the heavy rain for several days, the water under the city has reached the surface of the feet, and with these straw wraps, the grenades will not fall directly into the water.

Five hundred grenades were thrown down, and the four walls suddenly paid continuous explosions, and the firelight and churning smoke made the entire battlefield stagnant;

The swords, guns and bamboo poles in their hands were swept up by the shock wave and ejected in all directions, indirectly killing and injuring many Vietnamese soldiers, some severed limbs and stumps were blown up to the city, and the scorched black fingers were still twitching, and Xian Lingzhu wanted to vomit.

This bombing made the city empty, Ruan Zhishun saw it in his eyes, his chest was like pouring lead, he was not heartbroken for the heavy casualties, but worried that the Song army's bombardment would form a fatal blow to the morale of the Vietnamese army.

An army, no matter how heavy the casualties, still has hope of victory as long as the morale is still there.

On the contrary, if you lose morale, even if you have a million people, it won't help.

Seeing this scene, Ruan Zhishun had to order Ming Jin to withdraw the troops, and he personally went to inspect and comfort those wounded soldiers, hoping to appease the morale of the army.

The bamboo pole should have been swept into the soldier's thigh after being swept away by the shock wave of the grenade, and Ruan Zhishun looked around the battlefield through the vast rain curtain, and patches of bamboo forests were undulating in the wind and rain......

An hour later, tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops flocked to Penn City again, and the huge shouts of killing seemed to be able to destroy the city wall at any time.

Yang Yi stood at the head of the city and couldn't help but be surprised, is Ruan Zhishun a god or a human? In such a short period of time, the morale of the Vietnamese army suddenly soared, and even boiled.

As the Vietnamese army got closer and closer, he could finally see that there were a few more bamboo poles two or three feet long in each Vietnamese army's hand, and the word "throwing guns" suddenly appeared in Yang Yi's mind, and he couldn't help but be shocked.

Even if tens of thousands of Vietnamese soldiers threw five muskets each, they would add up to 300,000.

Imagine what it would be like if 300,000 throwing guns flew up to the city of Pennsylvania...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )