"Order everyone to go up to the city wall. Also, if these rebels still fire at us like before, they should first hide in the hiding cave behind the city wall. Once the rebels stop attacking, I will immediately go up to the city wall and organize a counterattack.

." Xing Bingzhong looked at the hundreds of households behind him and shouted loudly.

Baihu patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, sir. I will definitely handle this matter according to your instructions."

After saying this, Baihu hurriedly passed on Xing Bingzhong's order.

Many defenders on the city wall looked at the densely packed troops outside the city wall, and their bodies trembled involuntarily.

They swallowed, gasped for air, and forced themselves to feel calmer.

Zhao Wen stood behind the artillery position. He held up his binoculars and looked at Dongxing Pass in front of him, with a calm expression on his face.

At this time, the artillery position has been prepared and can fire at any time.

Zhao Wen looked at the sun in the sky, pulled out the long knife from his waist, pointed it diagonally at the sky, and shouted: "Bomb the city wall in front of the target with high-explosive bombs!"

As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, Li Xiaosan led a dozen messengers and rushed into the artillery position, shouting at the top of his lungs.

Within a few breaths, Zhao Wen's order was passed on by Li Xiaosan.

There are ten 152mm cannon howitzers, twenty 120mm mortars and ten 107mm rocket launchers in the artillery position.

Zhao Wen carried more than these heavy weapons, but to deal with one Yanmen Pass, Zhao Wen did not take out all the artillery he carried.

After all, these numbers of artillery can completely handle it.

When Zhao Wen's order spread throughout the artillery position, the 152mm cannon howitzer at the front was the first to open fire.

Ten 152mm cannon howitzers roared one after another, firing high-explosive shells weighing nearly 60 kilograms in the barrel towards Yanmen Pass.

High-explosive bombs streaked across the sky, whistling and approaching Yanmen Pass.

Xing Bingzhong was lying on the city wall when he saw a few fires coming out in the distance, and then heard a few strange sounds.

Before he could react, the shells fired by the 152mm cannon howitzer landed on the city wall of Dongxingguan.

"Bang!"

A high-explosive bomb hit the city wall of Dongxingguan and exploded violently the moment it hit.

The powerful force caused the city walls to tremble.

Where the high-explosive bomb exploded, the green bricks wrapped in the rammed earth layer were either blown away or blown into pieces.

Even the rammed earth layer inside was blasted out with a large hole several meters deep.

Dust suddenly spread, covering the front of the city wall.

Xing Bingzhong held on to the crenellations of the city wall and squatted behind them, his body shaking constantly.

At this moment, several rounds of 152mm high-explosive bombs landed on the city wall.

Several of the high-explosive bombs landed directly on the crowd on the city wall.

“Bang bang bang!”

There were explosions, fire and smoke.

The garrison soldiers surrounding the center of the explosion were swept away in an instant like a wheat field swept by a strong wind, leaving only pools of blood.

"Ah, what is this? Is God angry? What is this?"

An arm fell from the sky and landed on the head of a stunned soldier who was outside the area covered by the artillery.

The soldier took off the arm from his head with a dull look on his face and looked at the blood-stained arm.

After a while, the soldier threw his arms to the ground, yelled like a madman, and started running around on the city wall.

"Ah, God is angry. God is angry. Run away."

The soldiers who became crazy screamed and jumped off the city wall and fell behind the city wall.

The high-explosive bombs that landed on the walls of the city wall blasted the walls of Dongxingguan into large and small holes.

The shell of the 152mm cannon howitzer weighs 60 kilograms and has a killing area of ​​43X22 square meters. Even in later generations, it is still a powerful weapon, let alone now.

"This, this, this, what kind of weapon is this?" Xing Bingzhong turned around and stared at this scene blankly.

He really couldn't believe that what happened before him was real. He had never heard of such a scene, let alone seen it.

Under the first round of artillery fire, the soldiers on the city wall fired into chaos.

"Hoo ho!"

At this moment, the second round of shelling arrived as scheduled.

The second round of shelling was not just 152mm high-explosive shells, but also heavy rain of 107mm rocket launchers and 120mm mortars.

These cannonballs were like heavy rain, falling one after another towards the city wall.

The city wall of Dongxingguan was quickly shrouded in artillery fire. Explosions continued to ring out on the city wall. There were corpses everywhere, eyesightless, broken soldiers everywhere, and broken bricks everywhere.

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The surviving defenders on the top of the city threw down their weapons and fled towards the bottom of the city wall regardless of whether there was any order.

At this moment, they had no intention of defending the city. They just wanted to find a place without artillery fire and hide well.

"Retreat, retreat, retreat!" Xing Bingzhong looked at this scene and couldn't care less. He shouted loudly and led several of his guards to escape under the city wall.

In fact, even if Xing Bingzhong did not call for retreat, the soldiers on the city wall would not stay on the city wall.

At best, soldiers of this era have seen ancient smoothbore cannons such as red cannons. When have they seen such powerful artillery from later generations filled with high-energy explosives?

"Bang!"

A 120mm mortar landed twenty steps away from Xing Bingzhong, and the fragments produced by the explosion directly penetrated and killed many of the personal guards guarding Xing Bingzhong.

Xing Bingzhong didn't bother to look back, and fled deep into Yanmen Pass with a panicked look on his face.

As the artillery fire continued, the soldiers who did not retreat on the top of the city were shrouded in artillery fire, and their lives were ruthlessly harvested in the powerful explosion.

Zhao Wen held up his telescope and looked at the Dongxingguan City Wall in front of him, with no expression on his face.

Under the attack of weapons that surpassed this era for hundreds of years, Zhao Wen firmly believed that no city could withstand this level of attack, not even Yanmen Pass, which has long been famous in history.

The high-explosive shells of the 152mm cannon howitzer kept falling on the city wall of Dongxingguan. Every time there was an explosion, the city wall of Dongxingguan trembled.

Not long after, the city wall of Dongxingguan was blown into pieces.

Dongxingguan was like a small earth wall under the powerful artillery, which was destroyed bit by bit by huge explosions.

Through the telescope, Zhao Wen saw that Dongxingguan was shrouded in dust, smoke and fire caused by the explosion, making it impossible to see the true appearance of Dongxingguan.

At this time, Xing Bingzhong led the remaining guards and ran towards Yanmenguan City without stopping.

In addition to them, the soldiers who retreated from the city wall also followed behind them, running non-stop.

When Xing Bingzhong fled to Guancheng, he looked at the soldiers following him with a look of sadness and anger.

Only one out of ten soldiers escaped, and all of them looked panicked.

"Sir, this battle can't be fought, let's surrender!" A guard pulled Xing Bingzhong's arm and shouted at Xing Bingzhong with a look of fear on his face.

"Sir, surrender, otherwise you will die."

Not only the personal guards, but also the soldiers who escaped looked at Xing Bingzhong with despair and shouted words such as surrender at Xing Bingzhong.

"Surrender?" Xing Bingzhong seemed to have lost his soul, his body trembling non-stop.

If we surrender, Yanmen Pass will be completely lost, but if we don't surrender, Yanmen Pass will not be able to hold on for long.

Previously, Xing Bingzhong thought that if he had strong troops, it would not be too difficult to defend Yanmen Pass.

But now he can see clearly that even if he is given tens of thousands more troops, under such a level of attack, let alone defending the city, whether he can survive is still a question.

Xing Bingzhong's body was trembling constantly. He sat on the ground and looked at the rising fire in Dongxing Pass. His expression changed again and again in just a few breaths.

The defenders at Xixing Pass looked in the direction of Dongxing Pass, with horror on their faces.

They really couldn't imagine what kind of weapon could create such a scene.

A soldier at Xixingguan pointed outside in the direction of Dongxingguan, swallowed, and said with a bitter look on his face: "I'm afraid the brothers above Dongxingguan won't survive."

"Clang!"

A soldier next to him loosened his grip and dropped the long knife in his hand to the ground.

"Ken Ken will definitely not survive. Not even a god can survive such a level of attack."

"Then what should we do? Can we still guard Yanmen Pass?"

"Guarding Yanmen Pass? What nonsense are you talking about? Are you still guarding Yanmen Pass even if you can save your life?"

"Then what should we do now?"

"What should I do? Run away, what else can I do?"

"But the general has no orders. Running away from the battlefield is a capital crime."

"This is a bullshit capital crime. If you don't rush now, it will be too late."

Under the shock of the artillery fire at Dongxingguan, the defenders above Xixingguan also began to panic and fled downwards.
To be continued...