Chapter 201: Capture of Southern Taiyuan
The sound of artillery rang off intermittently all day, even at night.
In the city of Nantaiyuan, not only the head of the city, but even the soldiers and civilians in the city were also panicked, and no one knew when those damn shells would fall on their heads.
When Wang Si and his men learned to aim, Wang Si constantly adjusted the angle of the cannon to verify the principle of parabola. Therefore, the landing point of the cannonballs has also become unpredictable for the people in the city, which makes people feel frightened.
Li Guo still did not besiege the city, and Li Guo still hoped that he could intimidate and let Zheng Mi abandon the city and flee with his people.
Zheng Mo still did not escape, because South Taiyuan City is the gateway to Shenglong, the capital of the Houli Dynasty, if the South Taiyuan City is lost, the Houli Dynasty will no longer be in danger. Therefore, Zheng Mo can't retreat, and the Houli Dynasty is also his.
However, there were many people around Zheng Mill who wanted to retreat, and they gathered around Zheng Mill and used all kinds of euphemisms to persuade Zheng Mill, wanting Zheng Mill to know how stupid it was to insist on defending the city.
Zheng Mo responded to these people's words with the simplest move, that is, to cut off these people's heads.
Then, Zheng Mo ordered people to seal the gate of South Taiyuan City, and ordered the people of the whole city to defend the city together and live and die with South Taiyuan City. People were flustered from the beginning, but slowly calmed down, because now they can't get out, and there is no other way but to defend the city.
Because Zheng Miao's words were also very inflammatory, he portrayed Li Guo's troops as demons, Zheng Mi said that it must not be possible to escape now, because it is a trap, and everyone who goes out of the city will be killed. You can't surrender, you will still be killed. If you want to live, you can only resist!
Li Guo waited outside the city for three days. Not only was there no chaos in the city, but they also did not abandon the city and flee, although the people in the city were very terrified of Li Guo's troops. But because of this, morale is high.
Li Guo was very angry, so Li Guo decided to attack South Taiyuan City.
Although Li Guo has never fought a siege battle, Li Guo knows that if you want to attack the city, you must first have enough firepower.
As a result, more than 400 Tiger squat guns and other guns of various types, 20 heavy guns, and 8 red-coated cannons were mixed into the brigade. All of them were mobilized to the north gate of South Taiyuan City.
Li Guo didn't want to attack all the places, he only attacked the north gate.
Under Li Guo's order, the cannon roared. Hundreds of shells whizzed into the city or hit the walls.
Many people were killed on the spot, and blood and flesh were splattered all over the city.
Zheng Mian was not in the city, he was in the city, watching the north gate of the city almost wiped out. Zheng Mo waved his hand. A detachment of men rushed up the walls.
Zheng Mill knew some of the cannons of the Ming Dynasty, and in Zheng Mill's mind, the cannon had to cool the barrel when it was loaded again, and it would take a while for the shelling to be shelled again.
However, as soon as the soldiers ran to the head of the city, there was another loud noise, shrapnel, lead, and stones, and another miserable howl, and the hundreds of people who had just waited for the city to go to the city let Li Guo's cannon be lost again.
Zheng Mo scolded in his mouth. He ordered hundreds of people to go to the city, but it was a matter of moments. They were all killed again.
Zheng Mo was very strange, how many cannons did this Ming army have?
So, a group of soldiers rushed to the head of the city and were instantly beaten into pieces of meat.
By the eighth time, three or four thousand soldiers had been killed, blood flowed down the city, and the air smelled of blood. Moreover, there were no soldiers in the back who dared to climb the city wall, and they were forced to go with knives.
Zheng Mo gritted his teeth and decided to personally take his guards to the city, he wanted to boost the morale of the rear soldiers! He didn't believe it, how could the Ming army have so many artillery!
Zheng Mo ran up the city wall with hundreds of men, and there, he witnessed with his own eyes why Li Guo's artillery was fired so quickly.
In addition to heavy cannons, medium and small Franc cannons did not have to be breeched, because gunpowder, lead, and shrenchel were not in the barrel, but long ago. It is contained in an iron barrel slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the cannon barrel, which is called a sub-gun. The barrel of a cannon is called a mother gun.
This was invented by the Ming Dynasty in Longqing at that time, and the troops were equipped. When firing, put the child gun into the mother gun, light the launch, and then pull the child gun out. Then put in a sub-gun and continue firing. It's called a son-or-mother! It's not high-tech, it's there at the time.
And the general son and mother are four, and Li Guo's son is ten! In the future, Li Guo will have to configure more sub-guns!
With more sub-guns, it ensures that there is no interruption in firepower, so that the enemy has no chance to breathe, and the enemy can be killed anytime and anywhere!
After Zheng Mo understood what was going on, the ninth round of artillery rang out again.
This round of artillery almost scared Zheng Mian to death!
When the cannon rang out, Zheng Miao's lieutenant wanted to pull him down the city, but Li Guo's firepower could not be resisted by flesh and blood. But there was a whistling sound, and only a click was heard, and the adjutantant's head was cut off in half by shrapnel, and his brains and blood splattered all over Zheng Miao's face. And although the lieutenant general was dead, his hand was still tightly gripping Zheng Miao, and he stood motionless and straight like that.
Zheng Mian screamed in fright, desperately shook off the adjutant general's hand, and shouted like crazy, "Run!" Come on! ”
But no one responded to him, and the hundreds of people brought by Zheng Mo were all beaten into blood gourds.
Zheng Mo ran to the city with a roll, and it took him half a day to recover.
At this time, the tenth round of artillery sounded, and the target of this artillery attack was the wall of the north gate. Including the red-coated cannon, various models of Franc cannons bombarded the north gate!
I saw the north gate tower shaking, and suddenly, it collapsed, making a loud noise that shook the ground and the mountains, and suddenly the sky was full of smoke and dust!
Li Guoyi waved his hand, "Kill!" "Killed with tens of thousands of soldiers.
Liu Tichun and the others didn't look at it for a while, watching Li Guo rush to the battlefield, and scolded angrily! It's too dangerous!
So, Li Guo scolded and killed in the city, and Liu Tichun and others scolded Li Guo in the back, while closely following and protecting.
At this time, Zheng Mi in the city had already come to his senses, and seeing that the Houli soldiers were about to collapse the camp, Zheng Mi killed several Houli soldiers who wanted to escape, preparing to meet Li Guo.
Li Guohu came up vigorously and ran to the front of the team, and the soldiers saw Li Guo's charge regardless of life and death, and their morale was immediately boosted. However, many soldiers were worried about Li Guo's safety, and while rushing forward, they protected Li Guo in groups.
Chen Ping, the guard general of Xikou Pass, is now also the general who led the troops, and this time he commanded the front army. Chen Ping was startled when he saw Li Guo rushing up, and ordered the soldiers to rush forward quickly, while not leaving Li Guo an inch.
Li Guo led the people to finally cross the ruins of the city wall, through the smoke and dust, Li Guo found that although the army in the rear was gathered in front, everyone was frightened.
"Kill!" Li Guo raised his knife and continued to shout!
At this time, Chen Ping suddenly found that an arrow was shooting at Li Guo. Chen Ping didn't think about it, and went straight over.
Just listen poof! sounded, and the arrow hit Chen Ping's face. Chen Ping screamed and fell to the ground and died.
Li Guo was shocked and hugged Chen Ping, but Chen Ping was already dead and couldn't die anymore.
Li Guo's eyes widened angrily and shouted, "Let go of the gun!" Shoot the arrows! ”
Birds, firebolts, and arrows rained down on the soldiers, killing a large number of the enemy in an instant.
The Houli soldiers couldn't hold it anymore and fled one after another!
Li Guo pulled out the arrow on Chen Ping's face, and saw the word Zheng Milling written on the shaft.
"Slaughter the city! Slaughter the city! Li Guo yelled. (To be continued......)