Thundered!

Half of the gate tower collapsed!

Xie Cheng, who was lying on his stomach, didn't have time to dodge and was buried directly inside.

Fortunately, although the others were gone, the surrender order he issued was spread, and the soldiers got the news, and when they saw the collapsed city tower, they no longer had the fighting spirit, and they scattered one after another.

Outside the city, in the formation of the Ming army, the soldiers who watched the battle were shocked when they saw the collapsed city tower!

"Is this the real artillery?"

Hu Hai's eyes were glazed and he muttered to himself, seriously suspecting that the military cannons he used before were counterfeit and shoddy products.

The continuous sound of artillery echoed in the ears of the generals of the Ming army, and at this moment they really saw what it meant to be a bombardment!

The shelling of the Shenji battalion was not over, and after the reloading was completed, the shelling began again, and after a while, the originally good city wall of Puding City had become potholes, the battlements had been swept away a lot, and the city tower had completely collapsed.

Sun Lei shouted at the top of his throat and opened fire, his face turned red, and he couldn't help but be excited.

"This is the fucking war, happy!"

Li Wei couldn't help but clap his hands, at this time he felt like he was playing a game, seeing who killed whom, and he didn't accept everything!

In the camp of the Chinese army, the herald hurriedly rushed in and shouted:

"Report! The Shenji battalion shelled the city gate, and now the gatehouse has collapsed! ”

"What? It's true? ”

Fu Youde stood up abruptly and asked in shock.

"It's true, my subordinates saw it with their own eyes!"

The herald's face was full of shock, and he was very sure of the report.

Fu Youde couldn't sit still, and hurriedly ran to the watchtower, his guards hurriedly followed, and the heralds also followed.

After a while, Fu Youde ascended the watchtower, and the guards on the watchtower hurriedly gave up their time and bowed to him.

Fu Youde couldn't take care of him, and stepped forward to look at the gate of Puding City.

I saw that the city gate at this time was obviously shorter than what I had seen before, and it was dusty everywhere, and the scene was chaotic, and it was difficult to distinguish for a while.

Fu Youde frowned and looked at it for a moment, his heart moved, and he suddenly remembered a treasure that His Majesty had rewarded him before leaving, saying that he could see through thousands of miles and see the scenery of extremely distant places.

"Go and get the wooden box from my tent next to my bed!"

Fu Youde shouted to the guards below.

"Yes!"

The guards received the order, hurriedly patted the horse away, and after a while, took the wooden box, climbed up the watchtower and handed it to Fu Youde, who opened the wooden box and took out the telescope inside.

Learning from Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance at that time, he put this thing in front of him, adjusted it back and forth, and through the lens tube, the Puding City in the distance gradually became clear, and he also saw the ruins above the city gate!

In addition to the city gate tower, the battlements on that section of the city wall were also bombarded to pieces, and without the battlements, the defenders on the city wall had no shelter, and fled to other places in panic, or went directly to the city to flee for their lives.

Fu Youde put down the binoculars and was extremely shocked in his heart.

He didn't expect that the oil bottle given by His Majesty would be so powerful, which is this oil bottle, it is clearly a big baby!

"It looks like the war is about to change!"

Fu Youde took a long breath and sighed faintly.

Among the generals of the Ming Dynasty, his military talent was definitely among the best, and now that he saw the power of these artillery, he immediately realized the changes brought about by these firearms.

Coupled with the flintlock pistols that Li Wei showed before, as well as the telescope in his hand, these things are all changing the form of war.

"Order, let the Shenji Battalion stop the shelling, and order Hu Hai to enter the city and surrender!"

Fu Youde ordered loudly.

He had already seen it just now, there were several white flags hanging on Puding City, the people had surrendered, and the Shenji Battalion was still there.

"Yes!"

The herald, who followed closely, immediately took the order and left.

Ahead, after getting the news, the herald in the Shenji Battalion immediately reported to Li Wei:

"My lord, the general ordered the attack to be stopped."

Li Wei was slightly surprised: "Why?" ”

"Uh," the soldier hesitated for a moment, and reminded in a low voice, "My lord, there are already several white flags hanging on the city wall!" ”

Li Wei was stunned for a moment, and quickly turned his head to look, only to see that as he said, there were only a few white flags fluttering on the city wall now, and there were no people on them.

"Stop fighting, don't you see that people have raised the white flag?"

Li Wei immediately shouted to Sun Lei, who was yelling.

Sun Lei stopped yelling, turned around and said, "See, I thought you wouldn't accept surrender!" ”

"I, you......" Li Wei was so angry that he gave him two kicks, what does it mean not to accept surrender, and it is not a deep hatred, as for killing them all?

"Stop fighting, tell Hu Hai to come out and wash the floor!"

Li Wei ordered angrily.

"Okay." Sun Lei agreed, and shouted in the direction where Hu Hai was: "Hu Hai, come out and wash the floor!" ”

The herald was stunned, there was no such thing in the banner, and he didn't know how to spread it.

After hesitating for a moment, he could only follow Sun Lei and shouted, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion didn't know why when they heard it, they saw them shouting, and knew that it was the Shenji General who was going to give an order, so they helped convey it!

So in the end, it became the Shenji Battalion, and many soldiers shouted at Hu Hai in unison: "Hu Hai came out to wash the floor!" ”

Hu Hai, who was stunned in the distance, heard so many people shouting his name, and suddenly came back to his senses and looked over, and after hearing the content of their shouting clearly, his face turned black in an instant!

Fortunately, Fu Youde's order also arrived at this time, and after Hu Haide's order, he ignored these people in the Shenji Battalion and immediately sent a team of soldiers to shout to the city.

In Puding City, Dalu Huachi and Yin Xie Chengdu are gone, and now only a Tongzhi and two thousand household officials are left, and at this time they are leading the soldiers defending the city to shiver inside the city wall to avoid the shelling.

Soon after the cannonade stopped, he heard shouts from outside the city, and knew that this was the other party's acceptance of surrender, so he was overjoyed and hurriedly led people to open the city gate.

Hu Hai saw that the city gate was open and the defenders went out of the city to greet them, so he sent people into the city to disarm these defenders, and then took over the city defense.

After confirming that nothing went wrong, Fu Youde led many generals into the city to surrender.

In the lobby of the mansion, Fu Youde was in the first place, and Mu Ying and Wang Bi were on the left and right.

The other generals stood at the bottom, trembling with the knowledge of thousands of households.

The process of surrender was very smooth, and without saying a word, Tongzhi handed over the seal letters of Yin Xie Cheng and Daru Huachi, and denounced Meng Yuan's cruelty and praised the merits of the Ming Dynasty.

Fu Youde bowed his head lightly and put away the seal letter, after which the Ming court would send someone to cast a new seal letter to the new prefect and take over the Puding City.

After the surrender, Tongzhi and Qianhu officials retired, and the Zhu continued to deliberate.

"General Li has made great contributions to the capture of Puding this time, and I will send someone to show His Majesty later and ask for credit for General Li." Fu Youde said softly.

Li Wei hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, it's just a small city, as soon as the cannon swings, it will naturally open after two days and three days, it's not a big achievement, the general has won the award!" ”

Soldiers: "......"

Hu Hai's face was pale, Zhang Yi was silent, and Wang Bi didn't hear it, only Mu Ying smiled.

The others couldn't say anything sarcastic.

There is no way, if you want to say that he took advantage of the firearm, then this artillery was also made by him, and in terms of it, it is still his credit.

Of course, before Li Wei bombarded Puding, Hu Hai had been fighting for several days, and it was not impossible to say that he was picking up cheap, but everyone had seen the power of the artillery with their own eyes, and it would be self-deception to compare this truth, without Hu Hai's fight for a few days, Puding might not have been able to survive two days, and the result was not much different.

"General Li doesn't have to shirk, you deserve it." Fu Youde said with a smile.

"No, no, I mean that the siege of the city is not my credit alone, and Hu Dudu is also indispensable!" Li Wei said.

When Hu Hai heard this, his face changed slightly.

"If Hu Dudu hadn't fought for a few days first, I might have taken Puding City a few days ago, Hu Dudu has worked hard!" Li Wei continued, and after speaking, he cast a condolent look at Hu Hai.

Hu Hai's face turned red again in an instant, and finally he couldn't bear Li Wei's cynicism, and said to Fu Youde in a deep voice: "General, the last general is unwell, please retire first!" ”

Fu Youde glanced at Li Wei, and then nodded lightly to Hu Hai: "It's okay, you have really worked hard these days, go back and rest, I will also ask Your Majesty for credit for you!" ”

Although Hu Hai failed to capture Puding as promised this time, his performance in the past few days is still very good, but Li Wei is hanging, and there is no comparison at all.

Hu Hai arched his hand, and left without looking back under the gaze of the generals, Li Wei glanced at him, and snorted coldly in his heart, telling you to talk a lot!

Zhang Yi and the others looked at Hu Hai who was leaving in a gray manner, and their mood was also very low, after seeing Li Wei's artillery, they all realized that in the future, I am afraid that these brave and good veterans will be gradually eliminated.

"This battle can be regarded as a general who has seen the power of firearms, and when I go back, I will ask Your Majesty to promote these artillery in the army and distribute them to all armies, and you should also ask General Li more about the use of artillery."

Fu Youde said softly.

When the generals heard this, their hearts suddenly rekindled hope, if as Fu Youde said, artillery can really be widely equipped in the army, then they can also rely on artillery fire to easily defeat, as for asking Li Wei for advice, as for Li Wei's pure fire and indiscriminate bombardment, there is no technical content at all, as long as they can get artillery, they are confident that they can use it better than Li Wei.

"The last general understands!" Everyone said yes.

"Hmm," Fu Youde nodded, and then discussed the next city ahead with everyone.

The next city is called Pu'an, which is similar to Puding, and it is not a big city, but it must be attacked.

Li Wei naturally had nothing else to say, and he just bombarded his mother, the only difference was that no one laughed at him anymore now.

In fact, there is nothing to discuss, since the power of the artillery has been placed here, of course it cannot be wasted, Fu Youde also supports him in doing so, but still like yesterday, he told him not to charge into battle for long-distance artillery bombardment.

Li Wei didn't have the consciousness to take the lead at all, and he didn't even plan to let the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion under him charge, and he said, "Let Hu Haihai!" ”

The army rested for a day, leaving 3,000 troops to garrison Puding, and then continued its journey to Yunnan.

After Puding was captured by Li Wei's artillery, there were people loyal to the Northern Yuan who reported to Pu'an in the back that day.

However, the description of the artillery in this report is a bit exaggerated, and the collapse of the city tower has become a direct collapse of the city wall, and the distance of the artillery bombardment of the city has also changed from one mile to three miles away.

When the Northern Yuan general Erzhileke who was guarding Pu'an heard about it, he said that the heroes of the grassland were fearless, and ordered the soldiers of the whole city to stand by and hold on to it!

Then he secretly slipped away from the west gate with a few guards that night, and when the next day Pu'an's mansion Yin brought people to him to discuss the city defense, he found that his mansion was empty......

On the side of the Ming army, the 200,000 army stopped and stopped, and there was Tusi attached in the middle, and Fu Youde appeased them one by one, and sent people to garrison them in dangerous places.

Five days later, the army approached Pu'an, and it was still four or five miles away from Puding City, and I saw Puding Mansion Yin on the road with many fellow intellectuals, pushers, and some officials.

He didn't dare not go out to greet him, but the person who reported the news could say that this artillery could blast through the city wall three miles away, and Puding's Fuyin was too late to vote and was bombed into slag.

As for sticking to it, fuck it, the guards of the Northern Yuan Dynasty have all run away, and he is a civil official.

The Ming army did not make much effort, took another city, and after leaving people to garrison, the army continued to advance.

The road is getting more and more difficult to walk, Li Wei is bumpy, and occasionally gets out of the car for a walk, and gets in the car again when he is tired, otherwise he really can't stand it.

As they broke through Pu'an Puding all the way, the Northern Route Army led by Guo Ying and others also launched an attack on Wusa from Yongning.

The news that the Ming army had arrived spread quickly, and King Liang soon got the news, and was immediately frightened, and hurriedly sent the general to lead the army to garrison the dangerous place.

To be honest, he didn't want to start a war with the Ming Dynasty, and the envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty were also forced to kill by the envoys of the Northern Yuan.

Now that the Northern Yuan Dynasty is thinning, although the Tusi in Yunnan still nominally belong to the Northern Yuan, they are actually all yang and yin, each in charge of their own affairs, and no one will support him, the king of Liang.

As for the Dali Duan family, they have had a lot of festivals with him, and it's good if people don't come to fight him, let alone help him fight against Daming.

Now, all he can rely on is the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands and the dangerous terrain of Yunnan!

Qujing, Situ Pingzhang Darima under the command of King Liang, led more than 100,000 elite soldiers of King Liang to garrison here.

As Zhu Yuanzhang said, this is the throat of Yunnan, and if you keep this place, Yunnan can be safe, and if you lose this place, everything will be closed.

Erzhilek, who slipped back from Pu'an overnight, made himself disgraced, looking like he had just experienced a big battle, and cried in front of Darima about the thrilling process of the battle of Pu'an:

"After I learned that Puding was lost, I ordered the whole army to be ready for battle, and I also sent a strange army five miles out of the city to ambush the Ming army on the road......"

If Pu'an Mansion Yin heard his words, he would be surprised, wondering how he knew that he was out of the city for five miles to ambush the Ming army.

"However, the Ming army had artillery, and ten miles away from the city began to bombard Pu'an, and within a while, the city wall was collapsed by them!"

"You fart!" Darima was furious: "How can there be such artillery in the world, if you dare to talk nonsense and disturb the hearts of our army, I will kill you!" ”

Erzhiluck was taken aback, and quickly changed his words: "No, no, it may be that the last general has misestimated, it should be seven or eight miles." ”

Darima was furious, and shouted directly: "Someone! ”

"General!" The two pro-soldiers immediately stepped forward and surrendered their hands.

Erzhilek was horrified in his heart, and hurriedly changed his words again: "No, no, the last general is mistaken, the place where our side went out of the city to ambush is only three miles, and the other party fired cannons five miles away!" ”

"Drag him out and cut him down!"

"Sanli, the last general swears to the sky, the other party is attacking the city with artillery three miles away from the city, you have to believe in the last general!"

Frightened, Erzhiluck couldn't hide it, and directly reported the "true" news he had gotten.

"Really?" Darima was still a little unconvinced.

"It's true! After the walls were blown down, the last general held out for seven days before being forced to retreat! Erzhiluck swears by God. (End of chapter)