Chapter eight hundred and eighty seventh attack Tongguan
Amid the dull and heavy impact, these 100 black 32-pound iron bullets seemed to have eyes, and hit the entire eastern city wall in a uniform distribution state.
Nearly a hundred large holes appeared in the east wall of Tongguan City in an instant. At the edge of each hole, thick and broken lines were as dense as spider webs, spreading unscrupulously to the surround. Large pieces of bricks of the city wall splashed and cracked, and a piece of dust filled the fog. The entire eastern wall was trembling violently like having asthma.
On the east city wall, a large number of soldiers from Li Guobu who were bleeding from ears, eyes, nostrils and mouths were all shocked. Everyone was shocked and blood was surging. The eyes were covered by choking dust. The city wall under her feet was shaking violently. Nearly a hundred soldiers of the left army who were unstable were even more shaking like broken leaves blowing from the wind. They screamed and fell off the city wall, and then fell into meat pie.
The Tang army's fierce heavy artillery fire this time caused the east wall of Tongguan City to fall into a considerable chaos.
The left soldiers who had experience in the battlefield were in good condition and could barely support them. However, the large number of young and strong men and women who were bleed from the mouth and nose, covered in dust, and had no combat experience, screamed in horror, turned around and ran away from the city wall horse road, turned around and ran away.
"Don't run away! Come back quickly and continue to defend the city wall! Those who violate military orders will be killed without any hesitation!"
Being impacted by the surging waves of sand and dust, Li Guo, who was covered in dust and hair, looked extremely embarrassed as if he had just walked out of the desert.
He coughed violently, stood up with the walls of the city walls, and roared at the soldiers who were fleeing to stop the chaos. However, in this chaos, although he shouted at the top of his lungs, the effect was not great.
A young and strong man who had been shocked and deaf in both ears ran past Li Guo wailingly, but did not hear the warning from the highest commander of Tongguan City.
"Bastard, don't run!"
Li Guo was angry and angry. He pulled out the sharp sword, shouted angrily, stabbed the escaped guy with a big hole from behind to his chest. The escaped young man shook his body for a moment, then fell backwards from the city wall, and fell into a pile of meat pie.
Finally, after Li Guo and his guards slashed seven or eight people in succession, the defeated Shun Army stabilized again. The escapees returned to their posts in fear, and the situation on the entire eastern city wall was slightly stable.
At this time, the Tang army gunners who had just finished the first round of volleys were clearing the chamber, loading and filling the bullets, preparing for the next round of shooting.
Li Guo clenched his teeth, and his anger was endless. He turned his eyes and ordered: "Put down the suspension bridge, all the cavalry immediately went out of the city to attack. Be sure to kill all the Tang army gunners! Let their cannons turn into squids, dead cannons!"
"Get orders!"
Soon, after putting down the East Gate Suspension Bridge and opening the city gate, the four thousand elite cavalry rushed out of the city together.
The four thousand cavalrymen had just crossed the suspension bridge when they heard another buzz behind them.
A cavalry looked back subconsciously, but saw that the suspension bridge was being pulled up by the soldiers on the city wall, and the city gate had already been tightly closed.
For a moment, all the cavalry's faces were filled with lonely and lonely expressions.
They knew that Li Guo had decided to use them as abandoned children when he did this. As long as they led their troops out of the city, they would have to go to the battlefield.
One general succeeds and thousands of bones are undone. This is the fate of a soldier.
Seeing that the Shun Army cavalry who left the city showed a hesitation and helplessness when they left the city, Li Guo couldn't bear it. He gritted his teeth hard, his eyes were blood red.
"Brothers, come forward quickly. As long as you kill the Tang army gunners, I will definitely not treat everyone unfairly. After you come back, I will personally celebrate your merits!" Li Guo shouted loudly at the top of the city at the top of the city.
Hearing the encouragement of the chief general, the cavalry who left the city knew that now, there was no other way to go except to fight to kill the Tang army gunners.
Sadly, what else can Li Guo do besides believing this false statement?
After all, it is difficult to violate the military law and those who disobey orders will be executed immediately. So, they shouted like beasts in unison, then pounded their horse's belly, rushed forward towards the Tang army artillery formation in the distance.
The horse's hooves were rumbling and dust was flying. On this chilly morning in early spring, the cavalry of the Shun Army galloped like arrows leaving the strings, shooting towards the Tang army's artillery formation.
Eight hundred steps!
Six hundred steps!
Three hundred steps!
When they reached the right time, only about 300 steps away from the row of Tang army artillery, the group of Shun army cavalry quickly dispersed into a row of straight lines. In everyone's eyes, the Tang army gunners who had already been watching him and were about to kill him in front of him. While taking out a bow and arrow aimed, they were pounding the horse's belly harder and rushing forward quickly.
The effective attack distance of the bow and arrow is 60 steps, so they have to speed up and rush to this distance, so that the Tang army gunners can taste the power of the fast bow and heavy arrows.
"Roar, rush over and shoot all these Tang army gunners!"
As they ran closer and closer, the Shun Army cavalry roared like a group of crazy wild animals. With the rumbling sound of horse hooves, these Shun Army cavalry with bows and arrows pulled the bowstrings to the Tang army gunners opposite.
It can be expected that as long as they run within range, these Tang army gunners will definitely escape from the heavy arrows of Shunjun.
What these Shun Army cavalry did not expect was that when this seemed to be smooth, an accident happened.
All the Shun Army cavalry clearly saw that these Tang Army gunners turned around and fled backwards like bunnies chased by eagles, but behind them, there were dense rows of musketeers.
To be precise, it was two rows of musketeers with more than 4,000 people. Because they stood in one row, knelt on one row, covered with burning fuses, holding the loaded muskets, and quickly set up their aiming posture. The entire formation could not be seen from the beginning, and it was completely covered with the entire empty plot outside Tongguan.
At this time, Li Guo, who was observing with a thousand-mile mirror at the top of the city, his light brown pupils suddenly contracted into a little in horror.
Damn! There are so many musketeers in the Tang army. Now, our cavalry scattered in a row have become targets for being beaten?!
This is simply a rhythm of massacre!
"Hurry! Sing the gold, quickly sound the gold, let them come back!"
As Li Guo shouted, on the Tang army opposite, with the shouting of a captain, the two rows of musket gunmen who were standing or kneeling, suddenly started together with the four thousand musket guns.
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang..."
The sound of muskets with explosive beans sounded violently, and the remaining flames floating from the muzzle formed two bright yellow and dazzling fire lines. Large patches of choking and heavy white mist surged, instantly turning the entire Tang army formation into a fairyland on earth.
Four thousand muskets, three thousand six hundred poles, were fired. These 3,600 small lead bullets weighing three cents formed a dense rain of death, and roared towards the Shun Army cavalry that were rushing towards them.
Li Guo could clearly see from the Qianli Mile Mile Mile mirror that the whistling rain of lead bullets shot the Shun Army cavalry, people or horses, rushing towards him.
At least nearly five or six hundred Shun Army cavalry were shot at the moment of fire. The screams of the cavalry and the wail of the horses were mixed together, like the laughter of the god of death. Shun Army cavalry people were on their backs and overturned, and the entire cavalry formation that was rushing forward was instantly in chaos and collapse.
It was not until this time that the sound of the sound of gold from Shunjun sounded out loud, which was a pity that it was too late.
Just as the remaining 3,000 more than 3,000 Shun Army cavalry were all chaoticly pulling their horses back to flee, the second round of shooting of the Tang army began again.
More than 400 Shun Army cavalry rolled off the horse wailingly, killing and injured.
The remaining less than 3,000 Shun Army cavalry were already full of souls and courage, and they were like headless flies running around the wild.
At this moment, three thousand light cavalry of Tang army flying kites were like tigers coming out of the mountain, swords coming out of the box, and rushed towards the scattered cavalry of more than 700 cavalrymen.
A suspenseless pursuit was almost a complete massacre, with horses rumbled, knives and guns stabbed, and the cavalry of the Shun army screamed and died, with almost no power to resist.
In the end, the Shun Army cavalry, which had less than a thousand cavalry, finally escaped under the sword of the Tang army. They were already beaten to the point of being covered in the wild for a while before they hurriedly pulled their horses back to the east gate to enter the city.
After the Tang cavalry outside the East Gate won a complete victory, they did not pursue the Tongguan city gate further, but allowed them to go by themselves and then returned.
At the entrance of the East Gate City, Li Guo, who saw this tragic scene with a thousand-mile mirror, felt aching in his heart, as if he had cut a knife.
Okay, my cavalry attacked, and it was a Tang army gunner who was reimbursed outside Tongguan City before he could even reach the attack. Damn, this was not a battle at all, but a massacre!
The Tang army is so fierce and cruel, with a strict and precise organization. Although there are enough troops under his command, are they really opponents of the Tang army?
Thinking of this, Li Guo felt that he was cold from head to toe.
Seeing the attacking Shun Army defeated, behind the Tang Army formation in the east, a cold and proud smile flashed on the face of Tian Wei, the head coach of the Tang Army's first town, who was attacking the formation.
Humph, he had already made corresponding arrangements for Shunjun's tricks in his combat plan, and he was able to deal with their attacks on the city.
After seeing the remaining Shun Army cavalry and fleeing back to the city like a little rabbit that was scared, he felt inexplicably proud and then coldly ordered: "The Shun Army cavalry has been destroyed, continue to attack the city with artillery."
"Get orders!"
The Tang army artillery commander raised the red flag in his hand again.
"preparation!"
"put!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
...
Another hundred black 32-pound iron bullets roared. In the deafening sound of cannons, the broken bricks on the city wall were like rain, and the choking dust fog flew up all over the sky.
Soon, the Tang army's hundred heavy dragon beating guns were launched for twelve rounds. After reaching the limit of use, there were dense spider web cracks on the entire eastern city wall. The damage of the entire wall reached a shocking level, like a dying patient struggling to death.
All the defending Shun Army, including Li Guo, felt that the city wall under their feet was shaking back and forth even more violently, and as many as hundreds of Shun Army soldiers who had no time to lie down or hold them down were shocked and screamed. Large areas of collapsed swaggered from the city wall and fell from under the city wall. These shattered stolen stolen stolen scattered from such a high position and immediately scattered into pieces, burying all the shooked Shun Army, whether alive or dead.
There are also several scattered cannons placed on the city, which are thrown around like toys that have been shaken away, and they fall from the city walls, and then fall into a pile of scrap copper and iron on the ground.
Under the fierce bombardment of the Tang army's heavy dragon striking cannons, Tongguan City, this thousand-year-old pass, was carefully built since the establishment of the Tongguan Guard in the early Ming Dynasty. It was like the mainland prefectures, at least on the outside, and was also bombarded by the Tang army's dragon striking cannons.
After being hit hard by the Tang army, the defenders of the Shun Army were immediately in a more serious chaos than when they were in the first shelling.
Under such a fierce and violent force, in the face of such absolute death that human power could not resist, all the Shun army on the east wall, even those who had been fighting for a long time, were seriously damaged, and their morale, which was originally not high, suddenly dropped to a level that was almost impossible.
And those young and strong guarding cities who were forcibly recruited were already brave enough. Many people howled wildly and immediately lost their weapons and fled.
At this time, no one needed to mobilize. When someone shouted, they immediately lost their posts, wailed down the city wall and fled wildly.
Although the city of Tongguan is in chaos and the Tongguan wall is seriously damaged, its solidity is still very considerable.
This is because, although the Tongguan city wall also adopts the same structure as other Han cities, that is, the inner city rammed earth and bluestone are placed under it, in order to prevent sturdyness, all the hard blue stones are used, firstly pasted inside, and then blue bricks are built outside. In other words, the Tongguan city wall is equivalent to two layers of external wall structures. Such a structure is more solid than the mainland city's blue brick method that only covers one layer.
In addition, the Tongguan city wall is also specially designed in a thick and thin pattern under the city wall, and the entire wall is slightly inclined, so that the shelling iron bullets cannot exert force well on the front, which to a considerable extent reduces the damage to the city wall. In addition, reinforcement means such as the front horse face are also used. Therefore, the defense of the entire city is much stronger than that of the city and passes in the mainland.
The entire eastern city wall is becoming increasingly damaged, with a hideous appearance, and can be seen everywhere with collapsed corners and leaks, but it still barely supports it and does not collapse.
At this time, the one hundred dragon guns in the Tang army had their cannons red, and the barrels of each dragon gun were bright red and had a strange beauty. When the gunners wiped with a wet cloth, a large cloud of water mist mixed with the choking smell of gunpowder, they sizzled up and sobbed into the air, causing the gunners to cough repeatedly.
The head coach Tian Wei saw that the artillery was finally on the verge of the explosion after the 12 rounds of fire, but Tongguan was still not damaged much, so he couldn't help but sigh.
Chapter completed!