Chapter 216 Breaking the City
Thirty new artillery pieces have been overheated, and the Liaodong army has replaced old artillery, which is heavy artillery with front loading and solid ammunition. These artillery are more bulky than new artillery. Logically speaking, it is difficult for old artillery to destroy city walls, and they can only destroy battlements and city towers. However, Yuguan City has been disrepaired for a long time, and the previous artillery has already made some of the city walls crumbling. At this time, the old artillery can also exert great power.
As the whistleman shouted at the top of his lungs, more than 60 heavy artillery fired together.
In an instant, the sound of buzzing through the air was endless.
All the soldiers looked at the sky at the same time, and traces appeared in the sky that were visible to the naked eye.
Jing Xiu also looked up and saw that it was not the first time he had seen such a scene, but every time he saw it, he would feel moved. He suddenly became a little curious. What kind of magnificent scene would it be if hundreds of cannons were fired together?
The solid iron bomb was more terrifying than the huge rock on the wall of Yuguan City. It was directly a pit, with countless smoke and dust rising, and gravel and dust falling from the gap, as if the entire city wall was trembling.
The solid iron bullet flew up to the top of the city, and the soldiers guarding the city who had no time to dodge were directly smashed into blood mud. Then the iron bullet continued to cast out, and then rolled and jumped for a distance, crushing out a path of flesh and blood made of broken arms and corpses.
Jing Xiu sighed lightly, calmed down a little, and said calmly: "Continue."
Another round of artillery fires was still landing in roughly the same position, and a piece of city wall that had not been repaired for many years was already shaking.
From beginning to end, Yuguan City had never had a fierce counterattack, because under the continuous bombardment, almost all the defending equipment on the city was destroyed, and the soldiers were completely brave and had to remove the city wall to avoid the shelling.
After several rounds of artillery bombardment, a section of the city wall was finally overwhelmed and collapsed with a huge gap.
A smile appeared on Jing Xiu's face and said, "It's OK, let's attack the city."
The whistleman immediately sent an order.
Not long after, the drumbeat sounded again, and many Liaodong auxiliary soldiers pushed the shield chariot and began to move forward slowly. The so-called shield chariots were tall and thick iron plates in front, covered with thick leather, which could effectively resist guns, cannons, bows and arrows, and rollers below, which could rotate flexibly. If the trenches were filled, they could push them all the way to the city.
Generally speaking, only artillery cannons can destroy shield chariots. Yuguan City is also equipped with artillery, but after the previous series of artillery fires, most of the artillery fire in Yuguan City has been destroyed and there is no way to fight back.
Wu Guang was not dead in the artillery bombardment. After the artillery stopped, he climbed up the city wall again and poked his head out to see that the siege queues in Liaodong were tightly distinguished. At the front were shield chariots, used to block bows and arrows and muskets, followed by small chariots with mud, or auxiliary soldiers carrying baskets to fill the gullies and moats. Behind were infantry wearing heavy armor, holding shields, raised high to form a shield wall, and finally, light armored soldiers holding muskets, used to suppress bows and arrows on the city and cover the infantry to siege the city.
When the Liaodong army was shelling, Wu Guang had to withdraw some of the soldiers. As soon as the artillery stopped, the soldiers returned to the city wall again and began to shoot arrows and fire guns to fight back.
There were also gunners who used to control artillery that had not been destroyed by luck and fired outside the city. However, these artillery were already old. After repeated shelling, the barrel of an artillery was damaged. At this time, the fire was fired and the chamber was immediately exploded. Several gunners were left without any bones.
The arrow rain continued, but he still felt like a drop in the bucket of water in the face of the black turbulent tide. Especially the shield car, whether it was an arrow or a lead bullet, it would not hurt the people behind it at all. If it could not break the shield car, it would be limited to killing the people behind it. The Liaodong army's muskets were far superior to those of the city guards in terms of the loading speed and range. They soon suppressed the city guards on the top of the city and could not raise their heads, and the arrow rain immediately became sparse.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the auxiliary soldiers behind the shield car immediately stepped forward to fill the trench with the mud and sandbags they carried for the shield car to pass through.
Wu Guang did not expect that the artillery of the Liaodong army was so fierce. The various preservation equipment they had prepared before they could play a role, and they were destroyed in the artillery fire. The young and strong men who were originally going to climb the city wall to help defend the city had already dispersed. It was okay to let them go to the city wall to throw stones. If they fought with real swords and guns, it would be a dream.
Now the defenders can only use limited arrows and guns to resist the offensive of the Liaodong army, but the city wall has been collapsed for a while, and the Liaodong army does not even have to use cloud ladders to attack the city. It is enough to attack fiercely at the gap position.
Soon, the Liaodong army filled all kinds of trenches and moats and pushed them all the way to the city. Infantrymen wearing heavy armor and holding shields rushed into the city from the gap of the collapsed city wall.
The northern wall of Yuguan City was lost, and Wu Guang had to lead his army to retreat into the city and engage in the most brutal street battle with the Liaodong army.
Jing Xiu personally entered the city and led the way.
After all, Jing Xiu was born in the Butian Sect and a great master of the Heavenly Realm. He is really not afraid of such fighting.
At this time, Wu Guang had already brought his own soldiers to fight to kill the enemy. Although he was not as good as Jing Xiu's level of cultivation, his sword skills were quite good, at least he had the innate realm cultivation, and even reached the threshold of Guizhen realm. His sword energy was like rainbow, and there were more than twenty Liaodong soldiers who died under his sword.
Unfortunately, he is not a immortal person who can turn the situation around the war, nor is he a great master of the heavenly realm who can kill all the heads in front of him by his own strength. No matter how brave he fights, there are more and more enemies in front of him, but fewer and fewer personal soldiers beside him.
The bodies piled up like trenches.
In the end, he was the only one left.
The Wu Guang family, who was covered in blood, stabbed a Liaodong elite armored soldier to death with a sword, but was slashed on the shoulder by the Liaodong elite armored soldier on the other side.
Wu Guang shouted angrily and cut off the man's head with a backhand sword, but then a long sword was stabbed into his body from behind.
But Jing Xiu arrived.
Even if the two fight fairly, Wu Guang is not Jing Xiu's enemy in one combination, let alone Wu Guang at this time is already at the end of his strength.
Wu Guang's mouth was covered in blood and said vaguely: "I have... my heart to kill... the thief, I can't... turn the world back!"
Wu Guang, the garrison of Yuguan City, fell to the ground and died. His head was beheaded by Jing Xiu and sent to the central army tent outside the city.
Qin Qing did not make things difficult for this loyal general. He showed the mind that an emperor should have. He ordered him to be buried with good life and not to implicate his family. Other surrendered generals were concentrated and detained to observe the future. All the original defenders were dispersed and reorganized into various battalions. At the same time, Qin Qing also ordered that after the army entered the city, they must not violate any crimes, not to rob property, not to kill people at will, and not to force plunder women and women. If there is any violation, they will be engaged in military law.
Afterwards, Qin Qing left more than 10,000 troops to guard Yu Pass, and then the army continued to move south, and had already entered Zhili.
At this time, there is no danger to guard the imperial capital.
When the news reached the imperial capital, the whole day was shocked.
Some people expected that Yu Pass could not be defended, but no one could have expected that the Liaodong army had only taken a day and a night to break Yu Pass.
Emperor Tianbao urgently summoned the Governor of Jinzhou, the Governor of Qinzhong, and the Governor of Jingchu to lead troops to defend the king and block the Liaodong army. At the same time, some people in the court proposed to move the capital and retreat to Longmen Mansion or Jinling Mansion, but they were all rejected, and the court's ministers and ministers were quarreled.
At this time, the people of the Confucian school also began to gather in the imperial capital.
Unlike those noisy ministers, the great figures of the Confucian sect were not afraid of the Liaodong army. No matter how powerful the artillery was, they could not hit their heads. Just as the female sect attacked the Xuannv Sect and the Yin-Yang Sect attacked the Zhengyi Sect, no great master of the Heavenly Realm died under the artillery.
Chapter completed!