The shelling lasted only a quarter of an hour before it stopped, and not only did the shelling stop, but even the Keqiu killing troops stopped firing. Two hundred men were killed, and in a short period of time, five rockets were fired at each gate, a total of 1,000, which could basically plow the entire military fort back and forth twice.

Less than one-fifth of the Soochow people still survived in the fort, mostly those hiding in sturdy buildings, such as hiding caves or near the walls of the city near where the rockets were coming from.

Four of the eight turrets collapsed, and the Soochow artillery inside either turned into meat sauce or fly ash.

Of the remaining four, two of the soldiers were also killed or seriously wounded, incapacitated.

Most of them were killed by the blast of air and shrapnel that rushed into the turret from the muzzle position.

Only two turrets still have active soldiers.

Their survival can only be described as miraculous, and luck is such an ethereal thing but it does exist.

On the battlefield where firearms of mass destruction are used, luck seems to be the most important factor in survival, and the role of other tactical literacy, mental intelligence, equipment, and even martial arts is not as good as luck.

In this environment of shrapnel and bullets, you never know when you will die, and you don't know how you will die, maybe death will come in the next moment, all you can do is lie on the ground tightly, hold your head in your hands and pray to the gods and Buddhas.

Perhaps it was the prayers of the soldiers in the two turrets who were stunned by the sound of the shells hitting the turrets, but they did not die.

After the Han artillery shelling stopped, they rejoiced and quickly remembered their duty.

Their duty, of course, is to strike hard at the enemy when the enemy is coming.

They quickly got up, loaded the gun~ artillery with ammunition, and prepared to fire at the enemy.

However, at this time, they realized that they didn't know where to shoot~ artillery, and they couldn't find the enemy's location.

If the city wall in the direction of the main attack of the Han army is taken as the front, the two remnants of the turret are exactly one on the side and the other on the back.

In other words, neither of these turrets could directly face the enemy, and if they needed to shell the enemy in front of them, they needed the soldiers on the front wall to help them observe the enemy outside the city, and then play a sign to inform them of the enemy's position.

However, where are the Soochow soldiers on the city wall who can stand up now?

Some were killed and lay quietly in pools of blood, while others were injured and fell to the ground, rolling and wailing in pain.

There are few people intact, and these are the same as the artillery of the two turrets, belonging to people with bad luck, and it is estimated that the ancestral tomb is smoking all the time.

But although they were not injured, they were also frightened and stupid, and they all spun around like headless flies, and there was still anyone who remembered to help the artillerymen observe the enemy's position.

Therefore, the soldiers in the turret could only be dumbfounded, and the loaded ammunition turned out to be useless.

Of course, the confusion of the soldiers on the city walls also has a lot to do with the paralysis of the chain of command.

The turret is different, a gun crew in the turret is ten people, as long as the commander is not dead, they can immediately issue an order to counterattack, in this kind of emergency situation that is obviously an enemy attack, they do not need to further ask their superiors to make a counterattack, this is a rule and regulations formulated for rapid response.

But unlike the soldiers in the forts, they were very large in number, and they needed clear orders from their superiors to act, especially in times of confusion, and even more so in order to avoid further riots.

However, almost all the high-ranking generals of the Eastern Wu Army were swept away, and they were all "taken care of" by rocket artillery

Arrive.

"CIA"

It has long been clear where the high-ranking generals of Soochow are resting, and those coordinates have long been determined and the launch parameters have been calculated.

Although the accuracy of the Keqiu killing is not very high, if several more doors are placed to bomb these places at the same time, it is still very effective to use the number to make up for the problem of low accuracy.

As a result, the high-ranking generals of Eastern Wu were killed at the first time, the command system of the entire military fort collapsed, and it was impossible to organize an effective defense after the Han army's artillery bombardment stopped.

Of course, if enough time is given to let them ease their strength, and let the remaining middle and high-ranking generals slowly gather their troops, it is still possible for them to regroup, but it is impossible for the Han army to give them this time.

Those who are familiar with modern warfare will know that when the large-scale shelling stops, it is time for a large army to launch a full-scale offensive.

As a defender, we must not slack off at this time, let alone have time to break the sorrow, but quickly gather our troops, reorganize our defensive line, check our weapons and ammunition, and prepare to withstand the enemy's fierce charge.

Sure enough, after all the shelling of the Han army stopped, a group of people in night clothes rushed out of the darkness, not only all the clothes on their bodies were black, but even the skin of the high-grade clothes on their faces, necks and hands were plastered black with charcoal plaster.

Each of them carried a wooden barrel the size of two people's waists on their shoulders, which could hold at least dozens of pounds of things.

The barrels were also painted black, so that they could walk very inconspicuously in the dark, and if there was no fire, they might not be able to walk even a few steps closer.

They are all athletic, even if they carry dozens of pounds of wooden barrels, they are like flying, and they are strong men in the army.

They quickly approached the gate of the military fort and piled all the barrels on their shoulders in the hole of the city gate, and the Dongwu soldiers on the city wall had long been blown up and stunned, and no one even noticed the arrival of this group.

After stacking the barrels, these people quickly ran back, and their shoes were padded, which made them run quietly, like cats.

The last person to run holds a bundle of rope-like things in his hand and releases it as he runs, until he reaches fifty paces away, when the rope is released.

When the rope was finished, he pulled out the fire breaker, approached the rope, lit the rope, and ran for his life.

I saw a fire point on the rope hissing sound, and quickly ran towards the city gate.

It is clear that this rope is not an ordinary rope, but a lead.

The wooden barrels piled up in the cave of the city gate are not ordinary wooden barrels, but fire~medicine barrels filled with fire ~ powder.

It didn't take long for the fire to run to the end, only to hear a boom, an earth-shattering explosion came, the entire city gate including the city gate tower above was gone, and what appeared in front of everyone was a gap ten meters wide.

Those men in black who had already run far away were all knocked to the ground by the powerful blast gas wave, and you can imagine how powerful this explosion was.

Although the explosive performance of black fire ~ medicine is far inferior to that of yellow explosive ~ medicine, it can't stand the large number, and the power of hundreds of catties of black fire ~ medicine is not a joke.

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