The sound of cannons outside the city instantly resounded throughout the capital.
The guards on the city wall subconsciously huddled at the battlements. There were 200 cannons on the city wall. The soldiers of the Imperial Guard Patrol Division naturally understood the power of the artillery.
As soon as the sound of artillery sounded, their instinct made them want to shrink down and avoid the bombardment.
However, what the Imperial Guards did not expect was that the fifty artillery pieces under the city wall were not bombarding the defenders on the city wall, but bombarding the city gate holes and the frost hanging on the city wall.
Lu Tao thought for a moment and understood the rebels' intentions.
One is to use cannonballs to blow open the city gate, and the other is to blow up the ice on the city wall.
"Fire the artillery. It doesn't matter if the barrel is disabled. We must shoot down the rebel artillery."
After a round of test firing, the artillery on the city wall immediately adjusted its angle and aimed at the artillery deployed by the rebels.
Both sides had fifty artillery pieces, and they immediately started firing.
Several artillery pieces on the rebel position were blown away in an instant. The artillerymen on the side were inevitably killed tragically. It was so hard not to die when shells were blown up all around them.
However, the situation of the city gate is also not optimistic.
With the firecrackers of cannonballs, the bricks and rocks sealed in the city gate were loosened as they sprinted down.
Jiang Zhou and Lu Gui, who were supervising the battle, looked at the situation in the city gate with excited expressions.
"Blast them to death. Don't care if the artillery is disabled. As long as you attack the capital, the artillery on the city wall that is better than us and more powerful than us will all be ours."
"Not only cannons, but also all the splendor and wealth."
As the messengers conveyed Jiangzhou's orders to the artillery, the rebels opened fire even faster, not caring that the artillery barrels were already red.
As Jiang Zhou said, once it's worn out, there's always something better waiting for you.
Half of the masonry in the city gate collapsed instantly under the fierce artillery fire, and every cannonball fired was filled with thick smoke.
The ice on the city wall also shattered into the moat below the city under the bombardment of cannonballs.
The attack on the city gate went so smoothly that both of them sighed and marveled at the power of the artillery.
No wonder Ding Guogong Liu Mingzhi went to the Western Regions and conquered such a territory for Dalong in just two years. With such a powerful siege weapon in hand, what kind of city can withstand the footsteps of the Western Expedition army?
However, the two of them felt a little anxious when they looked at the cannon barrels blown up from time to time in the artillery position and the corpses of the rebels.
The artillery duel was not without brutality, especially since our own side did not return fire on the artillery fire on the city wall in order to break the city. Our own artillery fire on the city wall had already lost more than 20 artillery pieces in a short period of time due to the fierce artillery fire on the city wall.
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Jiangzhou glanced at the city wall that was no longer filled with ice. The flag in his hand suddenly waved.
"The three armies were ordered to begin attacking the city. The trebuchets came forward to suppress the speed of the cannon fire of the defenders on the city wall."
Following Jiang Zhou's order, the rebels, who had been preparing for a long time, began to attack the capital again amidst the thunderous sound of artillery.
"General, the rebel army has entered the range of the artillery. Do you want to use several artillery fire to bombard the rebels?"
Lu Tao frowned deeply as he looked at the rebels attacking with infantry and artillery, and shook his head resolutely.
"Irrespective of distinction, bombard the rebel artillery with all your strength. Those are the things that pose the greatest threat to us. Blow them up. Blow them all up."
"Got the order!"
Looking at the rebels approaching the city, Lu Tao waved his command flag with one focus.
"Don't stop the artillery, the archers fire arrows."
The rebels faced the dense rain of arrows and charged under the city wall again under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers.
Aerial ladders began to attach themselves to the city wall. The city wall without ice smoothly supported the rebels' aerial ladders. Even if the barbs were cut off, it would not be a big problem.
"Come on, capture the faint king alive, and make him a marquis of ten thousand households."
Following the encouragement from the captain, the rebels waved their eyes red and faced the thundering rocks and rolled the logs as they climbed up the city wall.
Turning a blind eye to the wounded and killed comrades, they charged forward one by one.
Each rebel was stabbed to bloody pulp by the pikemen on the city wall.
However, the disparity in strength was extremely great. As the first rebel climbed up the city wall, rebels one after another followed closely and attacked the city wall.
Lu Tao drew out his horizontal sword, killed two rebels, protected his artillery brothers, and continued to bombard the rebel artillery.
Suddenly, two waves of clearly armored armies on the city wall started a fierce fight.
"General, there are rebels at the West Gate who have also attacked the city wall. We can hardly hold them back."
"If you can't resist, you have to be humble. Our wives, children, and children are all in the city, so we must not retreat even if we fight to the last man."
"The city is alive and people are there, but the city is destroyed and people are dying."
"With the order, the city is there and the people are there, but the city is destroyed and the people are dead."
As Lu Tao's order was issued, thousands of gray-robed men wearing gray robes and bamboo hats rushed up from behind the stairs of the city wall and joined the battlefield.
These black robes have flexible physical skills, sharp attacks, and use a variety of weapons.
At least one or two rebels would be killed with one knife, one sword and one shot.
With their joining, the pressure on the Imperial Guard suddenly eased.
"Brothers, reinforcements are coming."
Following Lu Tao's shout, the morale of the Imperial Guards suddenly increased a lot, and they were inextricably linked to the rebels.
One of the men in gray robes, a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, killed two rebels and jumped in front of an old man in his early sixties who was holding a spear in his hand.
As soon as they stopped in front of them, the old man withdrew the spear in his hand, and the two rebels fell to the ground weakly with blood gushing from their chests.
"Great Elder, can you use your inner strength depending on the situation? This would be such a disadvantage!"
The old man shook his head seriously.
"No, it's too easy to accidentally injure the Imperial Guards if you use your internal strength and external force freely."
"Now it's a melee, and I can't hold back my strength at all."
"yes!"
"careful!"
The old man suddenly pulled the middle-aged man, picked up the spear smoothly, and directly passed a man in black through his body.
In an instant, countless men in black flew lightly along the ladder to the city wall and rushed towards the man in gray robe.
It goes without saying that the identity of the man in black is a martial arts master recruited by the Li Yunlong brothers.
With the addition of the men in black, the pressure on the Imperial Guards, who had just been somewhat relieved, suddenly increased again.
There were more and more sounds of fighting on the city wall.
At this moment, thousands of rebels under the city wall who were preparing to board the city suddenly turned around and charged towards the rebel artillery positions.
Tens of thousands of rebels were at a loss when they saw this. They looked at the captain and commander aside and didn't know what to do.
When Jiang Zhou and Lu Gui saw this, their expressions changed with shock.
"No, someone has defected before the battle. It is most likely King Jing's men."
"I'm going to report to the prince. You order five hundred personal guards to stop the attack. You must not let them destroy the artillery."
"Okay, go quickly."
After Jiangzhou left, Lu Gui drew his weapon and waved it: "Brothers, follow me to protect the artillery position."
The lookout on the city wall saw this and hurriedly informed Lu Tao, who was fighting.
"General, there are rebels turning against us!"
Lu Gui took the opportunity to glance at the soldiers and horses charging toward the rebel artillery position, and his face lit up when he remembered Li Baiyu's words.
"Send the order, turn the guns to help, don't hurt your brothers!"