Chapter 522: Take Xiangyang City, Dahan Navy, mighty!
The Xiangyang defenders who were gathering under the city wall and waiting to fight on the city wall were suddenly hit by two cannonballs falling from the sky and crashed into the military formation!
Two artillery shells plowed out two bloody passages in the military formation.
The soldiers beside the passage, who had not yet reacted but still looked stunned, were covered with red, green, and white unknown objects on their bodies and faces.
"vomit!!!"
Someone took off a severed arm from the shoulder and finally couldn't help but started to vomit.
You know, whether it's fear or nausea, it's contagious.
Someone took the lead in vomiting, and all of a sudden the entire military formation began to vomit crazily.
"I'm not going to do it anymore. This is not a fucking thing for humans to do!"
"I don't want to fight with these evil spirits, I want to go home!"
"Rebellion, we are rebelling!!!"
Under the premise that Cao Jun had exerted tremendous psychological pressure before, artillery finally became the last straw to crush the Xiangyang defenders.
The defenders, who were frightened by the artillery fire, began to raise their swords towards the supervisors behind them!
"Reverse!!!"
"No more fighting! We want to divide the fields, divide the houses, and get a wife!!"
"Open the city gate and let Cao's army enter the city!"
The situation seemed to have changed in an instant.
Su Fei obviously also discovered that something was wrong in the city, so he immediately stopped the artillery fire on the outer city wall. But even so, the artillery bombarded three rounds, and the city was already in a mess and devastated.
A single spark can start a prairie fire!
After someone took the lead in the rebellion, more Xiangyang defenders turned around and killed those guys who could only hide behind their own people and stab them with knives, and then joined the torrent of rebellion.
It doesn't take half a quarter of an hour,
The city gate is really opened!
Su Fei was overjoyed and immediately ordered the sword and shield men to provide cover for him and the soldiers behind him.
He will lead his soldiers to attack the gate of Wengcheng, echoing Gan Ning and Xu Sheng on the city wall until they capture the city wall and invade Xiangyang City!
Wenpin and Li Yan escaped, but Fu Tong was stubborn and refused to retreat.
However, although he was brave, his strength was still far inferior to that of Gan Ning. In the end, after more than ten rounds of fighting, he was seriously injured and captured by Gan Ning.
The soldiers rebelled and the city wall was captured. At this point, not only Wenpin, but also Pang Tong, Zhuge Jin and others who were watching the battle in the distance knew it was over. The defenders who did not rebel were almost all gone.
If it collapses, the thousands of guards who guard Liu Qi alone may not be able to make any waves.
Rows of Cao Jun's navy climbed up the city wall, and teams of navy rushed to the city gate!
Countless sailors shouted to kill Zhentian, climbed over Wengcheng, and poured into Xiangyang City like a tide!
Pang Tong knew that everything had come to an end.
As the initiator of the Northern Expedition and the soul of the resistance against Cao Jun, Pang Tong knew that he had long been hated by Cao Jun. If he was caught by Cao Jun, he would probably die.
Facing death, most people will probably be extremely afraid and will try their best to survive.
But Pang Tong didn't.
He just straightened his clothes, then bowed to Liu Qi respectfully and said: "My lord, everything has ended in this world. After all, we can't stop the ambitions of Lu Yan and Cao Cao.
My subordinates will shoulder all the blame for the crime, and with Cao Cao and Lu Yan's broadmindedness, as long as you surrender sincerely, they will not embarrass you too much, my lord."
The city guard's mansion was hit by several shells, which frightened Liu Qi and other officials.
Liu Qi's body was still trembling. After listening to Pang Tong's words, he forced himself to calm down and nodded in response.
The two brothers Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue also advised at this time: "My Lord, Pang Shiyuan is right. Now the only way is to surrender and ask the Prime Minister and Your Majesty for forgiveness."
Liu Qi actually wanted to surrender when he was besieged by Cao Jun, but at that time Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin kept cheering him up, and he barely managed to survive. Now, even if he was given ten more leopard guts, he would still be able to survive.
I really don’t want to resist anymore.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry, sir." Liu Qi still remembered Pang Tong's kindness to him.
When Pang Tong saw that Liu Qi was still thinking about him a little bit at the end, the last bit of regret in his heart was gone.
He bowed ninety degrees again to salute Liu Qi, and then said loudly: "Lord, please come down!"
After finishing speaking,
Pang Tong stood up, shook his sleeves, turned around and walked quickly towards Cao Jun.
"My lord has an order, surrender!"
"Down!"
"We surrender!"
After receiving Liu Qi's order to surrender, the Xiangyang defenders finally breathed a sigh of relief.
A large number of defenders began to kneel down and surrender. However, because Cao's army suffered too many casualties during the siege, they were all red-eyed. They cut down these officers and soldiers to the ground without any care, and they did not care about military discipline at this time.
War is cruel and extremely violent. When the soldiers kill each other, human nature is fully aroused.
What's more, the navy stays on the water for a long time and has no other way to vent the violent anger accumulated in his heart. Now that he is on the battlefield and is stimulated, this violent anger will be completely released.
During this Battle of Xiangyang, the navy violated disciplines and killed prisoners very seriously. Some of the defenders and even the people in the city were massacred.
After Gan Ning saw the bad signs, he immediately ordered to stop these people's actions, and even cut off the heads of two people as a last resort, which calmed down the murderous navy soldiers.
You know, Lu Yan gave Ma Chao a hard lesson when he drove civilians into battle; if their navy committed large-scale killings of prisoners and massacres of civilians, Lu Yan might not know what kind of punishment he would give them.
Fortunately, Gan Ning's reaction was quite fast, and the navy only killed about thirty prisoners and civilians before the atrocities were stopped.
The remaining defenders who were lucky enough to escape were all scared to death, sitting on the ground and wailing.
There are also many people in the city who are crying. In fact, they really don't want to fight. They are just implicated because they live in the city.
When Pang Tong was captured and news of Liu Qi's surrender reached Cao's military formation outside the city, more than 200,000 troops outside the city began to shout,
"Sailor, mighty!"
"Sailor, mighty!"
"Sailor, mighty!"
Cao Cao and other generals were also completely convinced and praised the navy's "advanced" combat methods.
Xu Chu was the only one who couldn't express the depression in his heart: "Damn it, if every army is equipped with cannons in the future, how can we fight this battle? Just give it a shot!"
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The air suddenly became quiet.
Because Xu Chu's worries are exactly what they worry about.
However, Lu Yan said lightly, allaying their worries: "Only we big men have artillery, and you are all generals of the big men, so what are you afraid of?"
Everyone then thought, "Yes! Only we have cannons!"
"But in future wars, we have to hit him twice first. Then fighting will not be enjoyable enough!" Xu Chu yelled again, but this time, no one stood on the same front with him.