Chapter 1403 - The Way to Say Hello
For this kind of greeting, the Datang army is basically very good at hundreds of artillery pieces lined up directly, and the soldiers on the city wall also saw the situation in the distance, but many people have just heard of it and never seen it, so they don't know how capable the Datang artillery is?
But soon these people saw that when they heard the sound, the cannonballs of the Tang soldiers had already shot directly at the city wall, and in an instant, the entire city wall burst open, and many people felt the bricks under their feet shaking.
They were all a little incredible, looking at all this in front of them, they originally thought that the walls of Luocheng should be quite strong, if the Tang army wanted to fight in, they would be able to hold out for at least a month, but today was only the first day, and they saw that the city walls were full of the biggest cracks, and they could even put them in a bowl.
The soldiers on the city wall were instantly dumbfounded, they didn't expect the power of Datang's artillery to be so huge, this is just the beginning, if it takes a long time, then wouldn't our city wall collapse with a bang? Looking at the majestic and majestic Datang army in the distance, they didn't know how to deal with it.
"Catapult."
Wu Yuanhao must not let them continue to be beaten, they must fight back against the Tang army, although he did not go to the city wall, but he can feel it from the vibration, the Tang army has caused a lot of damage to the city wall, and at this time we must let the Tang army know that we also have the power to counterattack.
Inside the walls of Luo City, more than a dozen catapults were ready, and they immediately threw huge stones out under the operation of hundreds of people.
Wu Yuanhao looked up at the soldiers above, they couldn't see the situation outside, I heard that if the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty found that there were catapults on the city wall, they would immediately name these catapults, so they put the catapults under the city wall, so that although they sacrificed part of the range, it was relatively safe, so that they would not be blown up just after the battle.
The two flags on it are waving together, which means that the army whose range is not up to the Tang Dynasty is not a fool, and there are also their spies in the city, how far can the catapult on your side fight? They probably know better than some of your soldiers.
At the beginning, it took a lot of effort to move these catapults from the city wall, in order to ensure their safety, but now the range is out of reach, in fact, even if it is put on the city wall, it is useless, and after putting it up, it is at most more than ten meters or even more than 20 meters forward, which is still not enough to reach the Tang army.
"General..."
The above said that they couldn't fight, and the soldiers below didn't know what to do, and if they continued to attack, they could only smash the ground outside, but if they didn't attack, our brothers would continue to be smashed down from the city walls, and we might not have any other weapons to fight back besides these catapults.
"Order everyone to hide."
Wu Yuanhao is still a very pragmatic person, if he encounters the kind of person who loses his mind, he will definitely order the catapult to continue throwing stones, even if there is no way to hurt the Tang army, then let them know that we people are still alive, according to modern people, it is to brush up on a sense of existence.
But Wu Yuanhao didn't do this, he knew that it was useless to brush this sense of existence, and the Tang army would not continue to attack today, seeing that it was about to get dark, they were doing this just to suppress us mentally.
Sure enough, it was about the same as he thought, and after nearly half a burn of incense, the sound of the artillery of the Tang army finally stopped, and the city wall was full of thick black smoke, and many artillery pieces hit the top of the city wall, and the short-lived soldiers couldn't even hide, so they could only follow the flying shrapnel and fell from the city wall.
As for the north side of the city wall, it is even more miserable, I don't know how many shells are directly on the city wall, now there are cracks everywhere, it looks crumbling, if the Tang army continues to shell, it is easy to open a gap in the city wall, once there is this gap, their cavalry is not dry, they can rush in from the outside in an instant, we still want to defend in Luocheng for a month, isn't this a dream?
Wu Yuanhao asked his subordinates to quickly transfer the wounded, these people have nothing important in his heart, but he can't continue to leave these people on the front-line battlefield, if he continues to leave them on the first-line battlefield, leaving those intact soldiers, seeing these people will also be afraid of the future when they fight, do these people still have the will to fight? Can't you find a place to hide?
"The general killed at least more than 1,900 people, more than 1,300 people were useless, and the remaining more than 3,000 people were injured, but we can still ensure the battle, and our medicine is not enough."
The results of the battle that his men quickly counted did not sound like a lot, but the two sides did not fight each other in a short battle, and they just fired shells at you in a safe area, causing you more than 3,000 casualties.
"Will the walls hold out?"
Compared with the casualties, Wu Yuanhao is most worried about this city wall, although when the war broke out in the Indochina Peninsula, they had already begun to strengthen the city wall, but they still far underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Tang artillery, and today's shelling also made them understand that it was absolutely correct to strengthen the city wall at the beginning, but some people also regretted it a little, it should be strengthened a little thicker.
"The thickness of our city walls is about 1.6 to 2 meters, although there are many cracks on the appearance, but we can still hold on, but if we come to similar shelling a few more times, I'm afraid the city wall will not be able to hold on, and we have to find a way to do it as soon as possible."
After hearing this, Wu Yuanhao was also relieved, if the city wall can't hold on, then there is no need for them to stay here, the outside of the city is relatively flat, which is more suitable for the Tang cavalry to attack the city wall, if you can't hold on, then all the people should retreat into the mountains and forests, at that time and the Tang army had a good mountain war, we grew up in this old forest, the Tang army will never be our opponent.
"General, now the brothers are impetuous, how should they fight tomorrow?"
Seeing that Wu Yuanhao was silent for a long time, the deputy general could only ask stubbornly.