The moment he heard the sound of cannons, Zhang Zhixiang was already silent.

Since last night, he has let the warehouses open and grain be released. Every household has distributed grain, and then asked the people to dig tunnels at home or on the streets. He also organized the people to dig trenches. Everything is for this time, and the people have a place to hide.

However, even if he repeatedly emphasized, some people would not take it seriously.

Even if it is a coercion and inducement, it is unwilling to dig its own land. If someone checks it, he will just wave two hoes. As soon as the person leaves, he will fill the soil back, and he doesn't think that there will be a cannon that will bombard the city.

There must be not enough trenches organized by the people to dig.

I don’t know how many people would die before the Wang family’s shelling ended.

Behind the city wall, Peng Jin, the trembling magistrate of Lu'an, pulled Zhang Zhixiang and complained: "The artillery is on fire! Yang Zhao is on fire. Xiao Tianshi, you shouldn't have taken hostages to anger him!!"

"Will it be fine if the city is broken?"

Zhang Zhixiang asked back, and Peng Jin was silent directly. The Wang family army and the guards of the government were both foreign troops and would not have any feelings.

As the old saying goes, bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like castors.

An army like Zhang Zhixiang and others, which is indestructible, is a strange thing.

Since Lu'an has been "occupied by the rebels", as long as the court wins, the nine thousand troops outside will enter the city no matter what! Even the chief general cannot stop it!

Why?

Because this is the only opportunity for the soldiers to get rich, the imperial reward? How much money can only fall into their pockets? Only what they snatched themselves and put in their pockets is real!

Not only Lu'an.

They had to scan it all the way from Lu'an to Nanjing, and their name was naturally to pursue the rebels.

Peng Jin inexplicably felt a sense of scholar justice, and he scolded: "You! You shouldn't have escaped to Lu'an. No, it's all you. If you weren't Nanzhili, how could you survive this military disaster!"

Zhang Zhixiang was speechless. He took a deep breath and asked, "Why should a good person be pointed at by a gun?"

"you……"

Peng Jin wanted to say something, but Zhang Zhixiang had no intention of debating him. After the city gate was blasted open, Zhang Zhixiang asked someone to remove "Wang Yanghao".

The meaning is very clear. Don’t use guns to bombard the city and inside the city, and I won’t threaten hostages, otherwise everyone will be defeated by the death.

Anyway, you have an absolute advantage in your troops. If you want to win, come and attack the city!

Yang Zhao understood what Zhang Zhixiang meant.

He ordered the stop of shelling into the city and concentrated the artillery at the west gate. He had no intention of slamming the city. He wanted to slam the city wall and directly stomped the city wall. The cavalry rushed into the city directly. How could he give you the chance to seize the city and defend it?

The Wang family army received 9,000 shells from the Ministry of Industry and 1,000 of them himself.

A total of 10,000 shells were launched, let alone the city wall of Lu'an, even the city wall of Nanjing could burst out a vassal!

Three hundred cannons fired together, and the explosion sounded like an earth and the mountains shook.

There was no one standing on the top of the city wall at all. With just one volley, countless cracks shook out of the inside of the city wall. The overwhelming explosion was roaring at the world and announcing the changes of the times.

The era of immortal cultivators? No, it is the era of cannons!

The explosion silenced everything.

Even Yang Dun and the two battalions of cavalry were silent. Even though they were hundreds of meters away, the horses were frightened and uncontrollable. The shock of the soldiers was imaginable.

The idea of ​​these cavalry is probably the same as that of the Mongols.

Is cavalry better than infantry?

That was the idea of ​​the old era. Since the artillery and the Mongols lost the Central Plains, only riding and shooting were left, they began to become hospitality.

In the end, Mongolia attacked the border for only one thing...seeking trade.

Until Manchuria rose, there were no major problems in the north for more than two hundred years. The so-called Tumu Fort... I must have the ability first, and I will not die in four years and disperse the clan. He must be a new generation of geniuses.

Where can I get foreign tribes in Tumu Fort...

Don’t think that Manchus can fight the Ming Dynasty in the later period, but think that nomads are still very powerful. Manchus are powerful, because his artillery is powerful. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Works had been hollowed out long ago. The Ming army in Liaodong retreated to use ultra-low-precision weapons such as the three-eyed gun. Do you still expect the firearm to be the dominant?

Anyone who knows the firepower configuration of the Qi family army will know how bad it was in the late Ming Dynasty.

Cannons are the main theme of war.

Mongolia can sweep the world, besides cavalry and cannons, except for cavalry and shooting. Since the invention of artillery, any nomadic can achieve success is cavalry cannons!

In fact.

As long as there are enough artillery, the cavalry will only be left to clean the battlefield.

"The wall collapses! The wall collapses!!"

The artillery fire lasted for nearly 10 rounds and finally collapsed the city walls on a large scale. It was visible at a glance inside and outside the city, but after the smoke and dust dissipated, Yang Zhao's smile gradually solidified... Where is the person?

He thought he would see the panicked enemy, but he didn't see anyone at all.

Give up? Run away?

He was suspicious and deceitful, but Yang Zhao still did not advance rashly. He asked the soldiers to rely on their chariots to advance, do fortifications first, build a floating bridge on the moat, and then a large army entered the city.

But as soon as the five hundred soldiers advanced to the moat, a pile of ropes and muzzles burning with sparks suddenly appeared on the flat ground in the city...

Bang!!

A round of volleys and a few cannons made the vanguard panic, and dozens of people were killed and killed. The rest began to lean towards the chariot and set up shields in order to protect themselves.

"The defenders are underground?"

"No, they dug the trench..."

Yang Zhao understood it and intuition told him that the trench was useful when the opposite cannon was bombarded. At least the artillery was not easy to aim. In addition to the trench, the collapsed city wall was also a shelter for the defenders, and it was still difficult to charge head-on at this time.

"Keep blowing for me! Cover the front to build fortifications."

"A thousand people will go up, rely on the chariots and use firepower to suppress them with muskets. Whoever dares to show their heads will be named!"

"When the pontoon bridge is paved, let the cavalry charge!"

Yang Zhao fought very well, so steady that it was breathless and full of pressure. In the trench, Zhang Zhixiang and the others were blown up so hard that they couldn't raise their heads.

This firepower.

No matter how powerful your magic is, you have to avoid it.

"Little Tianshi, what should I do?"

Even though Xu Ding had served as the commander of the Nine Borders, he didn't know how to fight this battle. He had never seen this firepower density in his life.

This battle took only half an hour and was still far from dark.

I really don't know how to keep it.

This is why the Wang family's guards were tough enough. If they were other troops, their morale would have collapsed long ago.

"When they come in, the two armies will confront each other and it will be difficult to fire."

"But they have six thousand cavalry, how can we block it! The city gates on the other three sides were also blasted open. They could build a pontoon bridge to attack at any time. Our troops were not enough to defend the city walls on all sides!"

"If you can't defend, retreat! Fight street battles and public security battles. You must persist until dark anyway. Only when Yu Dayou comes will you have the hope of turning defeat into victory!"

"It's really hard to fight if he does good deeds! If I can seize those three hundred cannons, I'd like to have fun!"

Xu Ding spit out a mouthful of sand and felt ruthless in his heart. He fought, the more fierce the enemy's attack, the better. It would be better to rush into the city. When Yu Dayou arrived, he rushed to the artillery position and seized the artillery. Then he saw who would blow up whom!!

(ps: There is no intention of Xiyingzong. If you lose, you lose. No matter who you lose, you will lose and become the emperor. However, when we look at history, we cannot just look at labels, but we have to see how he loses, so that we will not "later generations mourn and ignore it.")
Chapter completed!