Near the inner city of Youzhou, the last bit of remaining resistance and large-scale enemies have been basically eliminated. At the cost, this is a city archway that was beaten and demolished, and there are ruins and embers that were burned after the fire. After all, as the blocking position that Pinglu Army spent a lot of effort to prepare, compared with other opponents who could only be hasty and long ago, there had been enough Chai Xin oil and carbon here. Once it was discovered that things could not be done, it would decisively set fire to the fire and burn both jade.

But as the saying goes, there are both advantages and disadvantages; therefore, the circle of buildings and residential areas surrounding the inner city were easily emptied out, and became the position where the Huai Army continued to siege and attack the inner city.

Although the Huai Army has not yet begun to formally send troops to attack the city, it has only bombarded the city walls with various cannons gathered under the city day and night; but the trembling city walls under its feet, as well as those incomplete city plates, bracelets and tower sites that are submerged in bricks and stone rubble, are enough to reflect the various moods of most people in danger.

What is also hopeless is that as the Huai Army gradually grasped the gates of the outer city and cleared more and more passages, the artillery and artillery arrays gathered under the city bombardment increased day by day, and there was a trend of no end to this day. Even the Huai Army gunmen who were facing each other were able to stand tall beside the artillery towers everywhere, and kept firing and suppressing them at the city.

In the roaring artillery base, Zhou Laoguan, as the deputy general of the artillery regiment, felt that he might not have talked about so many artillery in his life, such as small artillery, long artillery, short artillery, light artillery, heavy artillery, field artillery, mortar artillery, mountain artillery, cavalry artillery; city defense artillery, scattering artillery, rotary artillery, mother and son artillery,...

It seems that because the great efforts were taken before the war were particularly sufficient, and the advancement of the army was flat and rarely blocked plains, and the roads were opened to open roads and bridges that encountered water, and vigorously rectified and reinforced. Therefore, the transport and transportation of the rear were particularly smooth and sufficient. Therefore, a large number of various artillery produced and equipped in Huai land were gathered and sent to the front in batches.

Hundreds of various Huai Army artillery were concentrated within the range of the besieged camp on the three sides of the city walls with a circumference of only six or seven miles; the number of the cannon regiment alone was more than twenty, and the medicine consumed every day was calculated by carts. Thousands of exclusive laborers were required to be used for the water cooling of the gun barrel. An additional temporary channel was dug from the branch of the Gaoliang River passing through the city.

To him personally, perhaps for a long time in the future, there will be no more chances to gather so many artillery together; this particularly majestic Youzhou City is worth doing this and has such conditions.

However, the results were particularly significant. On the fourth day of attacking Youzhou City, the inner city walls were basically crushed and flattened. With speed and efficiency visible to the naked eye, there was no unnecessary thing to stand or move. As for the counterattack and sneak attack from the inner city, they were easily gathered and smashed into powder or destroyed on the spot under sufficient density of the artillery front.

In the end, the only ones that could threaten them were those throwing cars and stone cannons that were hiding behind the impenetrable walls and relying on unpredictable and observed parabolas to create finite damage probability and symbolic counterattack. However, it was obviously not enough in the eyes of the commander of this site.

So now, he is standing next to a heavy siege cannon with a flat body height that is taller than him, carefully looking at every detail up and down; he doesn't know how the Junhuo camp of Jiansheng Army in the rear transported this daunting big guy from Huai land and brought it into Youzhou City.

Just lined up among a bunch of big and small cannon cars and preset artillery towers, it was particularly eye-catching. And this super big guy who was stereotyped as a Yuan-style siege cannon is obviously still the starting lineup on the battlefield, so he specially transferred a senior old cannon like Zhou Laoguan, who was already responsible for command and coordination in the rear, to be responsible for the corresponding supervision matters.

Because of his age, he should have transferred to the second-line troops according to the original arrangement of life. He began to teach his experience of artillery in the army as an artillery instructor, and then settled down in the rear of Yuxin's Xinluo Po. However, this time the call for the expansion of the army in Huaizhen and the Northern Expedition made him take the initiative to give up his daily life that had been initially accustomed to stability, and once again devoted himself to this new expedition under the name of the Great Governor's Office of Beiping.

Because he had a feeling and intuition about this, if he missed this battle, he might have fewer and fewer opportunities to go to the battlefield in the future. With such emotions and thoughts, he meticulously completed the careful inspection of the cannon again, and then he blew the whistle in his mouth.

As the whistle sounded, dozens of stacks of fire paper-packed medicine cakes were filled with thick and deep inner tubes one by one, and then the thick cannons raised by the turntable machine also slid into the inside along the obliquely warped muzzle. However, unlike the spherical cannons used in the siege cannon, the cannons used in this siege cannon was a round-headed cylindrical shape, and finally the wooden cover stuffed in the air-retained cannon was compacted over and over again.

Then, the wedge-shaped hole on the body of the cannon was inserted into the lantern-like firing device. In the terms and commands reported by the sightseeing hand, the thick wheel axle that was filled with oil was turned to carefully adjust the direction and shooting range. Finally, the Zhou Laogong, who was left alone, personally pulled down the fire rope on the cannon.

A moment of delay was an extremely heavy bang, which made him feel that something had been broken invisibly. In an instant, he lost all the sounds of everything in the world. The huge fire balls and smoke that covered the sky and the sun almost filled and covered everyone's vision ahead; then there were countless inverted waves of people, and the dust and gravel that shook the ground and drowned his lower body in an instant, making him tremble from his feet to his legs.

The moment when Zhou Laogong felt that he could no longer control his urine and was about to be incontinent, it seemed like the stagnant time that was flowing, and all kinds of sounds and noises seemed to be coming suddenly, with roars coming from afar, rumbling sounds that were smashed and peeled off or splashed, mixed with them were slogans and commands around him, and vague whine and screams in the distance.

His nose and ears felt a little wet, but it was the blood flowing out of himself after touching it. Then, while his dizziness was filled with residual buzzing, he remembered to find and explore his own results, and saw that a large hole was missing from the city gate in the distance, and a slightly deformed cannon was deeply embedded.

"It seems to be a little bit off..."

Old Guan Zhou couldn't help but sighed and continued to order to adjust the angle to prepare for the next round of gunfire.

"Prepare to get special bullets... aimed directly at the city gate."

Before he finished speaking, his eye sight holding the instrument beside him couldn't help but scream.

"Look, fall down..."

Then, Mr. Zhou saw that the pits were larger than ordinary than the pits of the field and cracked like a spider web. The cannon suddenly fell down heavily, and the pulling circle of bricks and stones on the edge of the door collapsed piece by piece. Large pieces of dust and smoke were built during the fall, and vaguely exposed the inside of the rammed earth and the thick gate frame.

However, this was like an invisible signal and a sudden start. In an instant, the doorway of smoke and dust suddenly opened from the inside out in the rapid sound of the frame, and fierce roars and horse hooves that were thunderous. However, it was a cavalry assault that gathered in the city at some point. They rushed out of the city gate like surging waves, and spread privately like mercury.

I saw these cavalrymen who quickly dispersed into groups of three or five, with superb riding skills and tacit cooperation, flying over them one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one, and countless horses were wearing armor and galloping, and the reflection of the ripples were like a group of fish that were flashing and swimming, and they instantly came towards the foreword.

The vibration and sound of many horse hooves flying up, smoke and dust, even interrupted and suppressed the bombardment of the front-line artillery, which made some of the closer artillery positions clearly show signs of morale shake and turning around and running away to varying degrees, causing them to rush straight to a distance of fifty or sixty steps.

Then, the small cannons and long cannon arrays that were preset in front of the artillery base, which had always lacked the corresponding presence because of their relatively small size and lightness. In an instant, they seemed to be alive and suddenly opened fire in a row. In an instant, these cavalrymen who were only a few breaths were within reach, felt that the sky suddenly darkened, and the coarse-grained shots and iron balls that were gushing over the sky were already swept and ravaged by most of them like a storm.

The blood mist that bloomed one after another and the torn limbs suddenly tear open a long blood-colored storm out of thin air from the unruly cavalry cluster, and the pungent and strong bloody smell spread in front of the formation for a long time.

Although these small front rows of light cannons only had time to roar for a while, and were hacked and destroyed by the remaining cavalry rushing in, the result of this raid and encounter was basically destined from the beginning; as more gun troops gushed out from behind the cannon barracks, they quickly filled the knocked and overturned cannons with the spikes of the guns, and the remaining cavalry that lost their speed and mobility because of stopping and chopping were caught in a sense;
Chapter completed!