The bombardment continues.

It is naturally impossible to bombard the same place accurately, but with the power of heavy artillery, a large section of the city wall will be shaken if it goes down.

Just don't be too biased.

After four shells, the wall could no longer hold it up, and with a groan, it fell to the ground with a groan, and a huge gap appeared in the wall, and the soldiers standing on it had fallen into the dust, covered by masonry.

The heavy artillery still roared, and two more rounds were fired, greatly enlarging the city walls, before finally stopping.

The interior of Hezhou City was nakedly exposed in front of the 36th Division.

Immediately afterwards, another round of shelling, this time towards the city.

The officer, who was hiding behind the wall, heard the sound of the wall collapsing, and just turned his head to see what was going on, and in the next second, a cannonball had hit the female wall where he was.

The sturdy wall stones that could resist the bows and muskets could not withstand the shells of the Type 8 heavy cannons, and in one shot, the flesh and blood of the officers had been mixed with the masonry, and they could no longer distinguish each other.

Such scenes are constantly staged in various parts of the city.

After all, the female wall is not as good as the city wall, even if it has been reinforced, it is still relatively thin, and in the face of artillery, no matter how much iron armor you wear, it will not help.

There was a wail at the head of the city, and the soldiers fled in a hurry to the city.

By the time the attack was over, the city was in ruins and empty.

Even the city was bombarded, and there were deep pits and corpses everywhere.

In some places, even a blurry mass of flesh and blood is invisible, even the human form is invisible.

Zuo Liangyu had already fled from the city when the other party fired the second shot, and was watching all this from a distance under the city at this time.

As for going out of the city to harass and obstruct the other side's shelling......

Do you want to go out of town and die?

Looking at the artillery fire in the sky, as well as the mess at the head of the city and even under the city, the fear in his heart became more and more obvious, but he also knew that he couldn't retreat this time, and if something went wrong again, this official would also be the end.

"Go to the city and defend yourself against the thieves! Give me all the city, don't retreat, those who retreat will be killed! ”

Zuo Liangyu shouted loudly, and the elite families around him drew their swords one after another, raised their fire guns, and pointed at the rout army in front of them.

The rout looked at each other, and under the threat of death, they couldn't help but stop, and the training of the previous days had somewhat played a role at this time, and they gradually calmed down.

At this time, Zuo Liangyu shouted loudly:

"The thieves must have begun to attack the city, and when the time comes, the artillery will no longer be fired, so don't worry!"

"Repel the thieves, and each person will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver!"

Motivated by money, the soldiers hesitated, took one last look at the weapons on the opposite side, and turned back to climb the walls.

Zuo Liangyu breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and instructed again:

"The reserve army of 3,000 will press on and help defend Dongcheng."

He was a little helpless, he didn't expect that he would already use his reserves on the first day of the battle, but there was no way, just a few rounds of shelling, and the defenders of Dongcheng were already on the verge of collapse.

I didn't expect that the city wall, which had been painstakingly repaired for months, would be destroyed like this—what the hell is this, so powerful?

By the time the soldiers, organized by the officers, had returned to the city wall or blocked the gap, the 36th Division had already pressed over.

They marched in orderly steps, to the sound of military trumpets, in an orderly manner.

Soon, they entered the effective range of the Lu Mi gun, and the Ming generals immediately gave the order to shoot.

The salvo of hundreds of Lu Mi guns was really powerful, and even if they were on poor accuracy, nearly 200 people were still shot and fell to the ground.

But this is far from the limit that can make them collapse, and the era of queuing to shoot is more than a bearability.

The troops advanced at a rapid pace, falling hundreds more and finally coming into range.

"Ready!"

In the middle of the ranks, an officer shouted.

Immediately, thousands of soldiers raised their muskets, their eyes glistening with rage, now is the time for revenge!

"Bang!" The smoke filled the air, and in an instant, hundreds of Ming musketeers fell to the ground.

After all, the Lumi Gun is still in the category of arquebus, which leads to their inability to stand in a dense manner, and in terms of fire intensity, they are far inferior to the flintlock pistol.

The flintlock pistol reloads much faster than the Lumi Gun and some other firearms.

The continuity of firepower is extremely strong, and basically the Ming army has played one round, and the opposite side has played two or three rounds.

The soldiers of the Ming army, who were waiting for the battle, had fallen to the ground in groups in the smoke in an instant.

In the eyes of the Ming soldiers, the look of fear became more and more intense. Their morale had already fallen to the bottom, and at this time, seeing more and more of their colleagues fall to the ground, the string in their hearts has been tensed and will break at any moment.

Although the 36th Division also suffered a lot of casualties, it was obvious that their bearing capacity was much higher than that of the Ming army, and such casualties did not shake them.

With the end of the last round of attacks, hundreds of Ming soldiers fell to the ground, the Ming army finally could not support it, I don't know who shouted, so they all threw down their firearms and fled to the city in a hurry, while the soldiers of the 36th Division did not hesitate to put their bayonets on their guns and began to pursue.

At this time, even if Zuo Liangyu came again, he couldn't stop it.

What is the difference between going up and being sent to death?

And the division commander who was watching the battle with a clairing mirror in the distance, his clenched fist was finally released.

No way, siege warfare, that's it.

Ci is not in charge of the army, and many times even if you don't want to, you can only use human life to pile up. What he can do is clear as many obstacles as possible and reduce casualties.

Fortunately, now that the main force of Dongcheng has been defeated, the next thing is much simpler.

With the loss of the eastern city, the morale of the Ming army plummeted, and they did not have any idea of sticking to the inner city, as Zuo Liangyu took the lead in fleeing in a hurry, the rest of the soldiers also opened the city and fled, and if they didn't have time to escape, they surrendered directly to the 36th Division.

Hezhou changed hands, and Yuan Chonghuan's solid defense line has been broken through.

……

In the middle of the wilderness, an army of disarrays is marching through it.

They had been on the run for a day and a night, and at this time they finally left Hezhou City.

Zuo Liangyu breathed a sigh of relief, out of danger of his life, he could finally think about other things.

If you go back this time, you're afraid you're going to be jailed, right? No, it's not just that, Hezhou has fallen, and there is a big hole in the defense line, such a crime, together with the previous events, it is not uncommon for the emperor to kill him.

His eyes suddenly flashed fiercely.

Of course, he was not willing to end his life like this.

In that case, let's not go back.

He looked back and at his troops. Although the losses were heavy and their faces were full of panic at this time, these more than 3,000 people were also more effective than ordinary soldiers.

With them, the heavens and the earth are great, where can we not go?

Well...... In addition to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

(End of chapter)