Baghdad City.

This time, Timur did not choose to flee as usual, but seriously strengthened the city defenses and built defensive facilities.

Because he has fought with Daming many times, Daming's weapons and equipment are almost informed, and almost all of the defense systems he built are aimed at Daming artillery and firearms.

After defending the city for three days and paying the price of tens of thousands of casualties, Baghdad was still not captured, and Timur felt that he had made the right bet.

Because of his military merits, Chang Sheng has been promoted from the commander of the first army to the commander of the three armies, commanding 200,000 troops.

Although he has a lot of troops in his hands, he doesn't feel much easier when he fights, but he is entangled in all kinds of trivial matters every day.

At this time, he was very envious of Lan Yu, not only was he not busy when he was the coach, but he had a lot of free time to wander around every day.

In fact, he also knows what the problem is, mainly because he is too careful and has to do many things himself, which takes up a lot of his time.

Although he knew what the problem was, he couldn't change it.

If he doesn't keep an eye on many things, he is always worried that something will happen.

Standing on the watchtower, Chang Sheng looked at the deep ditches and sandbags of the city of Baghdad, and the wrinkles on his forehead were twisted into a river.

He knew very well that this time it should have been kicked on the iron plate.

"Fu Zhong, is there still no call from Your Majesty?"

"No ......"

"Boss, we've been attacking for three days in a row, but we still can't break through the outer fortifications of Baghdad. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that Your Majesty will be angry. ”

"If we don't go back to the city to rescue, it's enough to be sorry for Your Majesty, if we fail in the siege, we can only commit suicide in front of the battle to apologize!"

Chang Sheng sighed secretly when he heard this.

"Even if Your Majesty is angry, there is no way, after all, no one would have imagined that Timur would find a way to crack our firearms so quickly!"

Fu Zhong also had a headache when he heard this.

"Who would have thought that this little sandbag would cause us such a big problem."

While the two were talking, the Western Expeditionary Army had already attacked again.

Three hundred cannons lined up and fired at the fortifications ahead.

After blasting the sandbag position in front of it, the Ming cavalry charged, and just rushed to the gap, they were stopped by the Timurid soldiers who came out of the tunnel, and the two sides fought to the death in the gap.

Later, the Great Flame Warriors appeared, weaving through the gaps in the cavalry, firing at the enemy on the opposite side.

Everything is going very well, and they will be able to occupy this position as soon as they push through the gap.

However, at this moment, a thousand-strong cavalry rushed out of the trench at the opening, waving and slashing into the formation.

While Timur's cavalry was killing indiscriminately, the infantry in the rear of Timur's cavalry was not idle, and they even launched Timurid imperial artillery to attack indiscriminately forward.

Although their guns don't have a long range and sometimes explode, shooting at such close range can do considerable damage even if the barrel is filled with iron sand.

Under the artillery salvo of the Timurid Empire, the cavalry and firecrackers of the Ming Dynasty suffered heavy losses, and the cavalry that rushed out to resist the Ming army fell in large pieces.

But they don't care, they just want to fight with Da Ming in this way of exchanging lives for lives.

After a major battle, both sides retreated.

Chang Sheng waited quietly until evening, and when he saw that the trench on the opposite side was pitch black, he immediately ordered someone to throw fire oil bombs.

After throwing thousands of fire bombs, Timur's line of defense was suddenly lit up inside and out.

Chang Sheng immediately ordered people to charge again, and under the cover of his own artillery fire, 5,000 cavalry and 20,000 firecrackers went into battle together.

This time the results were better than during the day, and a line of defense was successfully broken. But that doesn't mean victory, because there are two more behind this line, and those two lines are much stronger than this one.

The next day, Chang Sheng summoned his generals as usual to discuss how to quickly break through the enemy's fortifications.

"What are your plans for attacking the city?"

Feng Cheng was the first to stand up and shout.

"Where is the best way to siege the city?"

"I can't bear the child's wolf!"

"If General Xiang is afraid of wolves and tigers like this, I'm afraid that he won't be able to defeat the Year of the Monkey!"

"In my opinion, we are just bombarding with artillery, and after the bombardment, we will put the whole army on board and rush into the other party's trenches to catch and kill them, they are not our opponents at all!"

Chang Sheng directly ignored Feng Cheng's suggestion when he heard this, this thing has the same temper as his uncle Feng Sheng, and he only cares about rushing forward in the war, and he won't think about anything else at all.

Seeing this, Fu Zhong hurriedly pulled Feng Cheng back to his seat and sat down.

"Brother Feng, do you not know our Majesty's temper, if the casualties are too great, even if we take Baghdad City, we will not be credited, but will be condemned by Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty's casualty target for us is a total of 20,000 people, and according to your fighting style, it is estimated that one charge will exceed the standard!"

Feng Cheng sat on the chair depressed and complained when he heard this.

"How can there be immortals in war, that is, our majesty asks for more ......"

Chang Sheng slapped the table with a "snap" when he heard this.

"Slandering the king is a capital crime!"

Hearing this, Feng Cheng hurriedly stood up and explained.

"The last general didn't slander His Majesty, he just complained, and hoped that the general would forgive ...... sins."

Chang Sheng originally just wanted to beat him, but when he saw that he had already confessed, he didn't bother with him.

"Continue the discussion, how can Baghdad be taken with the smallest casualties!"

Fu Zhong said thoughtfully when he heard this.

"In fact, our Ming artillery has a very long range, and it is very powerful, so there is no need to spend it on the fortifications on the periphery."

"If we aim directly at the city, it may be more effective."

As soon as Fu Zhong's words fell, he was scolded by a young general.

"How do you go straight to the city?"

"The artillery must have enough angles, and the city of Baghdad is high and deep, and we can't hit it on flat ground. If you want to get in, you have to fill in the trenches that are in the way in front of you! ”

Fu Zhong's eyes rolled when he heard this.

"The Qianjiang army is angry, I don't know much about artillery, so I just said it casually. If we raise the cannon, will we be able to hit it farther? ”

Qian Yumin frowned slightly when he heard this.

"I don't know how high the pad is when General Fu is talking about?"

"If it's pointless to only fight three or two battles, we are now less than five miles away from the city of Baghdad, and the cannonballs can't fight at all."

"Unless we place the cannon higher than the city of Baghdad, condescendingly......"

Chang Sheng's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"As long as we pad the cannon that high, shall we?"

"Yes, of course!"

"It's just that in this case, we have to pad the cannon to a height of thirty feet......"

"Good!"

"General Ben, I'll give you a whole mountain!"

"Mountain?"

"Isn't the general playing a lowly job?"

"Where did this flat land come from?"

Chang Sheng smiled and said nothing when he heard this, and immediately disbanded the meeting.

Although Qian Yumin didn't quite understand what Chang Sheng meant, he quickly understood what Chang Sheng wanted to do.

Less than half an hour after the meeting ended, the soldiers outside the camp began to be nervously busy.

Chang Sheng divided the army of 200,000 into four groups, digging mounds of earth every day and night.

To speed things up, he also sent soldiers to rally the local population.

Of course, the local people are reluctant to work, but under the means of Chang Sheng's grace and power, they can only obediently comply.

Changsheng distributed food and money to the local people who were willing to work for the Ming Dynasty, and for the people who were not willing to work for the Ming Dynasty, they issued a one-stop service of killing and burning them all.

As for robbing, they are too lazy to rob, and the local people have nothing to squeeze oil and water, and their wealth is piled up in the city of Baghdad.

As long as Baghdad is hit, are you afraid that there will be no money?

With the concerted efforts of 200,000 troops and 500,000 people, Changsheng built a 30-zhang high mountain in only three days.

Standing on the rockery, not only the trenches below are clearly visible, but even the city of Baghdad is close in front of you.

Chang Sheng immediately set up his headquarters on a rockery, and while dispatching troops on the hill to dismantle the layers of fortifications on the outskirts of Baghdad, he ordered the artillery battalion to continue to bombard the city of Baghdad.

Inside the city of Baghdad.

After Timur established the identity of Ma Heima's heir, the whole person seemed to be ten years old, not only did he no longer have the vigor of the past, but he even needed help to walk.

During the seven days he spent in Baghdad, although he lived every day in fear, it can be said that he was at the peak of his life.

Who would have thought that the invincible Great Open Fire Weapon would be stopped by him five miles away from the city of Baghdad!

Every day, Timur climbed the city wall to look out, observing the movements of the Ming Dynasty and his own casualties.

Although he has suffered more than 50,000 casualties in just seven days, he is still very happy.

Because this proves that his method works, sandbags can indeed restrain Daming's firearms!

When he saw the sandbags piled up under the city walls, his heart was filled with a sense of security.

"Ma Heima, you have to remember the method I used to defend the city in the past few days, sandbags can defend against Ming artillery and firearms, as long as our people hide behind sandbags, they can keep the Ming army out of the battle line!"

"But we can't just squat in the trenches and not go out, that would be a dead battle...... Let's move, we have to live......"

"For example, the trenches must not be dug straight, they must be curved. At the same time, an ambush pit should be set up every fifty steps. ”

"Although the fire gun is powerful, the bullet will not bend, we can ambush in the pit and give the Ming army a fatal blow."

"There is another trick, I think I can also try, that is, to order someone to soak the quilt and hang it on the city wall, which is estimated to have a certain defensive effect."

"It's just that you haven't had time to try it yet, you can try it in the future if you have the chance."

"Yes......"

Just as Timur was teaching Ma Heima the secret of defending the city, he suddenly heard a roar, and hundreds of shells roared towards the city of Baghdad.

"Squat down!"

Timur was also considered to have been defeated for a long time, plus he captured many Ming soldiers, learned a lot of defense methods from them, and when he saw the artillery coming, he immediately adopted the correct way to dodge.

A rumbling explosion rang out, and the city of Baghdad was ablaze with hundreds of houses in ruins under the bombardment. Even the walls of Baghdad were punched out with two gaps.

Timur ordered people to strengthen the city defenses, and at the same time ordered people to send his grandson to hide under the city walls and hide in the tunnels.

As for himself, he picked up the telescope captured from the Ming army and continued to look in the direction of the Ming garrison.

He had to figure out why Ming's artillery was able to get into the city.

The city of Baghdad is already higher than the surrounding terrain, and he has set up several defensive rings outside the city of Baghdad, so it stands to reason that the cannons of the Ming Dynasty can't get in?

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!

Timur looked in the direction of Daming for a while, and soon realized that something was wrong, only to see that next to the Daming military camp, there was an extra mountain at some point, a mountain higher than the city of Baghdad!

"What's going on, when did there get an extra mountain?"

"Returning to His Majesty the Sultan, Da Ming grabbed hundreds of thousands of strong men from the surrounding area and piled up ...... overnight"

"Overnight?"

"No way, it's going to take at least three days!"

"It must be that you are not observant enough to let Da Ming pile up such a high mountain under our noses!"

"Your Majesty, it's not that we are not observing, it's that the artillery will be fired tomorrow, and there will be smoke everywhere on the position, so I can't see it clearly......"

"This ......"

Hearing this, Timur nodded depressedly in understanding.

In fact, even if he doesn't understand, it's useless, he can still send someone to fight over and stop Daming from making them pile up a mountain?

He can barely defend now, and he has already used his strength to eat, if he is urging his soldiers to storm the Ming military camp, the underground soldiers dare to rebel on the spot!

"Forget it, get ready to abandon the city......"

Timur got off the city wall in a daze, he no longer had expectations for holding Baghdad, he only thought about how to send Ma Hehema out of the city safely.

Changsheng bombarded Baghdad for a day, and when it was dark, he was just about to send someone to persuade him to surrender, when he suddenly received an urgent telegram from the direction of Kangdu.

"Commandment: Give me a personal purgatory and let the entire Western world see!"

When Chang Sheng saw this telegram, the expression on his face became solemn.

Seeing this, Fu Zhong hurriedly asked.

"General, but what are your majesty's latest instructions?"

Fu Zhong casually handed the telegram to Fu Zhong, and Fu Zhong hurriedly took it when he saw this, and his face was a little solemn after reading it.

"General, there are nearly a million people in the city of Baghdad, if ......"

Chang Sheng snorted coldly when he heard this.

"What about a million?"

"They dare to send someone to assassinate Your Majesty, that is the place where our Ming Dynasty died, even if all the people of the Timurid Empire are killed, it is not a pity!"

When Fu Zhong heard this, he immediately straightened up.

"Yes!"

"If they dare to assassinate our majesty, it will be a capital crime!"

"Not killing is not enough to anger the people, not killing is not enough to shake the west, and not enough to comfort His Majesty's grace!"

"The general gives the order, what are we going to do?"

Chang Sheng looked at Baghdad City and said to Fu Zhong on the side.

"Load the latest white phosphorus bomb from the Martial Arts Research Institute!"

"General, we don't seem to have many white phosphorus bombs, only a few thousand ......"

"And the people over there of the Martial Arts Research Institute said that this thing is extremely powerful, especially the smoke produced during the explosion, and people and animals will die when they hear it, so let's use it carefully."

Chang Sheng waved his hand indifferently when he heard this.

"It's okay, there are still a lot of them in Kangdu City, just let the baggage team bring more next time."

"As for the poisonous smoke......

"There will be a day when the poisonous smoke will dissipate, and when it is gone, won't we be finished entering the city?"