Chapter 6: Overcoming Yique Pass
Li Jing led the Beiwei Army and Shenji Camp to outside Yique Pass and met with Xu Da.
"Order the artillery to build a heavy artillery position and bombard Yique Pass hard for me. I must take Yique Pass today."
Li Jing ordered the artillery to take action immediately, push the field heavy artillery to the high slope, occupy favorable terrain, and aim at Yique Pass for debugging.
The artillery filled the gunpowder with gunpowder and ignited the ignition material, stabbed the rod into the muzzle and compacted it, stuffed it into the shell, and finally ignited the lead with a torch.
After this operation, it will take as fast as two minutes. Although it fires slowly, it has great power and there is no problem in bombing the city wall.
The guards of Yique Pass climbed to the city and watched the situation outside the city. They saw Li Jing's army waiting outside the city, without attacking immediately, and were puzzled.
Because the heavy artillery positions were far away, the Yique Pass defenders did not find the existence of this firearm unit.
"General, the rebels remained motionless outside the city. What should we do?"
Deputy General Yiqueguan asked.
"What else can I do? Just guard Yique Pass for me. I believe the court is mobilizing a large army to suppress the rebellion. I just need to hold on to Yique Pass and wait for the imperial army to arrive, the rebels' death date."
The guard of Yique Pass said.
He didn't know that a crisis was coming quietly.
"Boom boom boom..."
At this moment, a loud noise rang out of the pass, and countless artillery shells drew an arc in the air. One by one, one shell fell on the top of the Yique Pass, smashing the walls of Yique Pass into huge numbers.
The pit, countless cracks spread around the pit, and the ground under your feet vibrated!
The defenders of Yique Pass were shaking and almost lost their balance and fell to the ground.
After the first wave of shells, the artillery immediately cleaned the barrel, cleaned the remaining items inside, poured in cold water to cool the barrel, so as not to explode too much.
After cooling down, the artillery teamed up to lift the cannon, poured out the water inside, tied the clean cloth to the rod and put it into the cannon chamber, wiped it clean, and filled it with ammunition again.
"What the hell is going on? What exactly is the rebels using? Will there be such a big deal?"
The guard of Yique Pass was still buzzing at this moment. It was so loud that he almost deafened!
"I don't know, but this iron bullet is bound to be twenty or thirty kilograms. If this one goes down, it will smash our city wall into four or five feet in size. If you come a few more times, the city wall of Yique Pass will be destroyed.
I'm afraid it's going to collapse."
Deputy General Yiqueguan said, pointing to the bumpy wall.
The guard of Yique Pass frowned. If this is the case, can Yique Pass still be guarded?
Just when the guards of Yique Pass were at a loss, the artillery outside the pass bombarded Yique Pass again.
boom!
The shells blasted towards Yique Pass again. With a loud bang, the already holey wall became even more fragmented, the pits on the wall expanded again, and the cracks on the wall became bigger and bigger.
Li Jing was overjoyed when he saw this situation. If he bombarded again, he would be able to collapse the city walls of Yique Pass.
Without the blockade of the city wall, his army could drive in and kill the Yique Pass defenders without leaving any armor.
The Beiwei Army is an elite of the elite. When fighting against the Jin army, it defeated the Jin army with 20,000 troops.
There are only tens of thousands of defenders at Yique Pass. Without the protection of the city wall, these tens of thousands of defenders are like toothless tigers, and they are not enough to control them at any time.
"Send the order and follow me to kill the enemy!"
Shoot the man and shoot the horse first, and capture the thief first!
In the current situation, only by leaving the pass and joining the rebels can you have a glimmer of hope. Staying in the pass is not necessarily safe. When the city wall is knocked down, the only thing waiting for them is to die in battle.
"Here!"
Deputy General Yique Pass left and summoned his troops to rush out of Yique Pass to fight to the death with the rebels.
Just as they were assembled and were about to open the gate of Yique Pass, Li Jing's artillery launched the third artillery bombardment. Under this artillery bombardment, the wall could not bear it and was bombarded by artillery shells, and stones splashed everywhere to kill many guards.
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"kill!"
The walls of Yique Pass were collapsed, and Li Jing immediately commanded the army to launch an attack on Yique Pass.
"kill!"
"kill!"
As Li Jing's army launched a charge, the Yiqueguan defenders fought to the death, and the two sides fought in a regiment.
Facing the Beiwei Army with a strong combat power of 20,000 and an elite army, the Yique Pass defenders were defeated at once and were quickly defeated, and were killed by Li Jing's army and abandoned their armor.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the governor of Yique Pass had to ride a horse and rush to Dongdu to report the situation to the Empress Dowager Wu Zhao.
"Criminal! We will capture a general of the enemy and capture ten thousand surrendered soldiers!"
Guo Jin came to Li Jing and reported to Li Jing.
Li Jing nodded and said, "Bring him up, I will interrogate him carefully."
Guo Jin took the order and waved his hand to bring the enemy generals up.
"When I see my prince, why don't you kneel down quickly!"
Guo Jin scolded loudly and thumped. The other party knelt down decisively and shouted that the prince would spare his life!
"Who are you? Where are your guards now?"
Li Jing rode a white horse and descended from a high place.
"If you come back to the prince, the youngest one is Situ Yun, the deputy general of Yique Pass, who was ordered to guard Yique Pass. The general had already seen that the situation was not good, and he had escaped."
Situ Yun, deputy general of Yiqueguan, answered truthfully.
Li Jing asked Situ Yun another question, and Situ Yun answered it in detail.
"Where are the food and grass in Yique Pass? Take me there!"
Li Jing sent someone to search Yique Pass, but there was not even a single piece of food. The guards of Yique Pass really knew how to hide. As the deputy general of Yique Pass, Situ Yun should know where the food and food in Yique Pass were placed.
Situ Yun was stunned. The food and grass in the pass were ordered to be burned when the city wall collapsed, and now it was probably gone.
Situ Yun met Li Jing's cold eyes and his legs became weak!
Nima!
How should I tell him this? What if I tell the truth and annoy the plague god in front of me and chop him up?
"Crown Prince, the food and grass in Yique Pass had been destroyed by the guard general Qiu Fei. Qiu Fei was worried that Yique Pass could not be kept, so he ordered someone to set fire to the food and grass. Now there is no grain in Yique Pass!"
After hearing this, Li Jing's face changed drastically. There was no food in Yique Pass. He sent troops in a hurry and did not prepare any extra food and grass. He thought that after conquering Yique Pass, he could replenish food and grass on the spot. Who would have expected Yique Pass to pass.
The food and grass were burned.
"You are the deputy general of Yique Pass. I plan to hand over 10,000 surrendered troops to your commander. From now on, you will be the guardian of Yique Pass. Are you willing?"
"I am willing to serve the prince, it is my honor!"
Situ Yun immediately fell to the ground, and he had no objection at all. Anyway, he would not follow any boss, and only a fool would object.
Chapter completed!