When the wind blowing from the direction of the ocean blew away the smoke from the explosive bombs fired by the mortar cannons, a hellish scene appeared at the gate of Malacca—

In the center of the circle where the two shells exploded, a large amount of stumps and blood fell radially around the explosion point. Further afield are some well-preserved corpses.

This scene completely shattered the morale of the group of defenders, and most of them did not put up any resistance when facing the expeditionary force that seized the opportunity to charge towards the open gates, but simply threw down their weapons and fled the hellish scene.

Only a small number of enemy defenders were still standing, but they were not brave, and 1 was obviously too frightened by the tragedy in front of them to run away.

It wasn't until the first expeditionary soldiers rushed to their side that they dropped their weapons on the ground as if they had just reacted, as if they were made of red-hot metal.

"One gun for shotguns, one gun for double shells. Then he rushed in after everyone." Realizing that the situation had changed, Liang immediately issued a new order.

So after a quick reload, Liang En and the others followed the soldiers of the other expeditionary forces into the city from the open gate, and then launched an assault on the fortress in the city.

Unlike cities in Europe or the Central Plains, cities in Southeast Asia rarely have a complete urban defense system, and the largest defense measure is the huge wooden fence that surrounds the city.

That's why elephants were so important in the Southeast Asian Wars, because these behemoths were able to charge not only in the field, but also in siege, often opening up the city's defenses with a single charge.

If the wooden fence is breached, then only the fortress as a royal city can be used for the last resistance, and the residential area is a complete defensive tabula rasa, which can be completely ignored.

Therefore, when Liang En rushed into the city with artillery sweating profusely, he found that there was almost no resistance in the city, and there was not even a sound except for the whispering of the soldiers just now, so he came to the last fortress without any problems.

Unlike the rudimentary wooden fences outside, the castle looked significantly stronger, with almost all of the battle positions covered by cover and able to cover each other.

Liang saw arrows from time to time, javelins and stones flying out of the weapons ports. The expeditionary forces that tried to attack had to retreat to avoid these attacks.

Judging from the dozen or so wounded who were moved to the side, if they couldn't suppress the guys who were standing in bunkers and constantly firing fire, they would not have been able to storm the city at all.

"Mr. Liang, you're here with artillery, it's just amazing." After seeing Liang En arrive with his artillery, the deputy Qianhu of Li Yun, who had greeted Liang En before, quickly walked over, and then pointed to the gate of the fortress not far away.

"This gate is stronger than the city gate outside, we have used simple rams and explosive charms, and we have sent a few cultivators, but we have not been able to open this heavy gate."

"Didn't you use the rush?" After looking at the gate with only some traces on the top, Liang En asked with some puzzlement. "I think if I use a rush, the door should open soon."

"I thought about it before, but the chassis of those rushing cars is too low to get by." Deputy Li Qianhu smiled a little helplessly, "Who would have thought that the road in the city here is not as smooth as the wilderness."

Compared to those countries that have the right technology tree in terms of cities, Malacca is obviously far behind, and the so-called roads are actually just the gaps between buildings, and the standard sunny day is covered in dirt, and rainy day is covered in mud.

"Alright, leave the matter to me." Liang nodded, then directed his soldiers to fix the cannon, and then ignited the cannon with solid iron projectiles.

"Boom—bell—"

A cannonball flew out of the muzzle and slammed into the door, but unlike the previous one, the shell hit the black gate and did not open the door, leaving a huge crater and digging a sound like the metal striking.

"What's the situation?" Liang En quickly

turned his face to look at Deputy Li Qianhu next to him, and found that he also had a shocked expression on his face, even looking even more shocked than Liang En.

"No, that's not what the gate looked like just now." Deputy Li Qianhu subconsciously shook his head and said, "That door just now was just a thick wooden door, otherwise we wouldn't have left so many traces on it."

"—you're right." After studying it for a while, Liang En nodded and admitted that what the other party said was all true, because the marks on the door were the same as what he said.

Realizing that there was something strange about the gate, Liang quickly ordered the artillerymen to reload the cannon and fired another shell at the nearby wooden fence, sensing with all his might where the cannon hit.

Sure enough, the moment this cannonball hit the wall, Liang En felt that spiritual power suddenly gathered at the place where the two touched, and blocked the heavy blow of this cannonball.

"No wonder both the other party's ship and the other party's outer city walls looked so fragile before, it turns out that this guy used all his extraordinary resources on his castle."

With the second shell fired, Liang immediately understood why everyone's attack had failed, and to test his idea, Liang En commanded another gun with a shotgun to fire at the bunker above the castle.

Dozens of grape-like projectiles flew swiftly towards the bunkers on the city walls, and Liang En saw several of them fly into the narrow shooting holes.

Under normal circumstances, no flesh and blood could stop such a shell. But when the soldiers tried to take advantage of the opportunity to rush forward, the holes paused for a moment and then fired arrows and stones as before.

"Stay away, everybody."

After summoning the Qinglian Sword to block a few stones and cover the soldiers, Liang En, who sensed that the life reaction behind the wall had almost no change, turned his head and said to Deputy Qianhu Li, who was beside him.

"It's best to distance everyone except the cultivators from the fortress now, because the next problems are beyond the ability of ordinary people to solve."

"Understood." Deputy Li Qianhu nodded neatly, and then commanded the troops to begin to retreat.

The title of Bachelor of Gezhi Academy made Liang En very persuasive, so Deputy Li Qianhu listened to his advice and immediately followed it, and at the same time passed the news to the other troops, without asking why.

Soon, the army that had originally besieged the castle withdrew, leaving only Li Qianhu and two officers to stay where they were.

"What's the situation? Why stop attacking?"

Just as the personnel had just finished evacuating, the general soldier of Ping An rushed over with most of the cultivators in the army and asked.

"Because this castle is completely different from what we imagined." Liang pointed to the cannonball on the gate and said, "It looks like a magic weapon in the form of a building."

Hearing Liang En say this, the overseer quickly took out a golden compass from his robe and measured it. In just a few minutes, he came to a conclusion.

"Master Liang is right, this building is indeed not a normal building. Let the ordinary soldiers stand back, except for the cultivators, ordinary people here will only have the opposite effect."