When the road connecting Tacheng and Chisulphur Port finally penetrated, Antonio finally sent an envoy to the defenders. Based on "the last kindness and honor", he asked the defenders to hand over their weapons and open the city to surrender.

Serbiati and Leighton jointly promised that no Tanirians would be executed or tried after surrender.

But when the messenger held his shield and shouted at the city wall, only a dozen lead bullets responded to him.

William Kidd's attitude has been revealed.

The heavy cannon that could shoot thirty-two pounds of iron bullets was placed on a large cart and dragged little by little to the front of the city wall.

The defenders on the city walls were still far away and could hear the noise of their movement: the steering steed and the horses roared because they were beaten; the Vinetas who drove the car shouted and waved their whips; the creaking axles made a monotonous, continuous harsh sound.

If the Angel of Death could sing, the Angel of Death would definitely be everything the defenders of Tacheng heard now.

After the heavy artillery arrived at the front line, the Venetta engineer spent another day unloading the cannon from the vehicle with lifting machinery. Deployed to the gun position that was set up in advance and adjust the angle.

All the light and heavy artillery held in the Venetta army were divided into eight gun groups, each of which consisted of one of the heaviest artillery and other light artillery.

The Venetta soldiers affectionately called these gun groups "wolf packs" because each gun group looked like a head wolf with a group of little wolf cubs.

Taking the city gate as the division point, four gun groups were arranged on the east and west walls, aiming at the weak position of the city wall.

While the Venetta deployed heavy artillery, the defenders on the city wall tried their best to try to destroy the enemy's cannon with the light artillery in their hands.

However, these attempts have little effect. The Venetta people used wooden fences and soil to protect their cannons, so that the defenders could not find a suitable shooting angle.

Moreover, the Tanirian artillery was at an absolute disadvantage in number and was always suppressed by light artillery under the city walls.

The Tanirians could only desperately strengthen the wall while watching one cannon after another.

The next morning, the moment the sun shone on the walls of Tacheng City, the large-scale shelling began.

Before the heavy artillery was launched, they first fired a volley at the defenders on the city wall with muskets and light artillery equipped with shotguns.

Especially the mezzanine gunmen and artillery on the Triangle Fort, they are closest to them and do not need to aim at them at all.

In the past two days, the people of Vinetta worked like crazy and used bags of soil to increase the Triangle Fort. Now, the top height of the Triangle Fort is flush with the city wall.

The artillery deployed by the Tanirians at Triangle Fort are now being used by the Venettas against the defenders themselves.

The Tanirians who were looking out from behind the battlements were killed on the spot. Iron and lead bombs hit the stones, fragments splashed, smoke and dust spread everywhere, and the defenders on the city wall lay behind the chest wall, not daring to look up at all.

More defenders were hiding under the city wall. William Kidd was not a fool. Faced with this level of shelling, forcing soldiers to stay on the city wall was just to die.

Therefore, he asked most of the soldiers to hide in the hidden soldiers behind the wall, leaving only a small number of sentries waiting and watching on the city wall.

When the defenders on the wall were suppressed, eight heavy artillery began to roar.

The sound of cannons was like a terrifying horn blown at the end of the world. The iron cannonballs flew out of the gun and hit the city wall hard. The huge impact force made the entire city wall tremble.

The previous two-pound cannons only left a few white spots on the city wall, while the heavy cannons directly destroyed the volcanic rock wrapped in the outer surface of the city wall.

Even if the rock is not crushed, the huge stress generated by the impact has exceeded the tolerance limit of the mortar that binds to volcanic rocks.

At the point where the shells landed, the rocks on the outer wall of the city wall fell off one after another, revealing the inner wall made of volcanic rock concrete.

The solid inner wall was also made of a huge conical notch by iron shells.

The Venetta soldiers outside the city cheered louder than the roar of artillery.

And for the defenders hidden in the war cave behind the city wall, all this is like hell.

The huge noise, choking dust and the vibration transmitted to the Tibetan soldiers' cave when the city wall was hit by shells made the veterans who had been on the battlefield for the longest time frightened.

No one can understand the damage to the city wall better than the Tanirians in the Tibetan soldiers' cave. A new recruit said in horror: "The city wall is shaking!"

Yes, the huge impact force of the shells caused the entire city wall to tremble, and the defenders empathized with this.

When the artillery was still shooting stone shells, the city walls of the old era began to show fatigue. The stone shooting cannon was like a sledgehammer, smashing one city wall after another, and also smashing the will of the defenders to pieces.

Now the cannons that poured rage into Tacheng are more powerful than stone cannons. The advancement of material forming technology allows the cannons to cast lighter, thinner, stronger, and longer tubes.

The weight ratio of the shells and gunpowder of the stone-firing cannon is between twenty and forty to one, while the eight thirty-two-pound cannons outside the city can fill sixteen pounds of gunpowder each time, and the bullet weight is astonishing as one for the drug.

Even though iron shells are lighter than stone shells, their penetration is even better than that.

The city walls trusted by the Tacheng defenders are falling apart in front of the artillery of the new era.

In the Tibetan soldiers, Tanirian soldiers who were praying to "let me survive today" heard the alarm bell ringing by the sentry.

The process of carrying out the shelling is the landfill operation of the trench.

Antonio and Leighton selected two offensive points on the east and west sides of the city wall, both of which were weaker areas of the city wall mentioned in the intelligence.

The two legions were each responsible for the attack direction, not only to destroy the city walls, but also to fill the trenches here.

Amid Captain Hoffman's loud shouts, the defenders hurriedly ran up the city wall, and the sentries at the top of the city shouted at the top of their lungs: "Triangle Fort! They are coming fromTriangle Fort!"

A large number of soldiers pushing chariots came from the Triangle Fort occupied by the Venetta people. They rushed into the trenches and filled the trenches with the dirt and firewood from the chariots.

"Chain them! Shoot them!" Hoffman, the officer of the Federation on the wall, roared and woke up his stunned subordinates.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The defenders who came to their senses immediately used crossbows and muskets to shoot at the Vineta people under the city. The distance between the two sides was too close, and there were too many Vineta people. Just one shot would fall down.

There were a few more sounds of rock cracking, and the light cannons outside the city fired again to suppress the defenders on the city. The gravel was flying all over the sky, with a power comparable to that of a bow and arrow.

Captain Hoffman, who was still ordering just now, screamed and waved his arms randomly, his face covered in dust, and blood flowed out of his closed eyes.

The gravel shot into Hoffman's eyes, and the strong man fell into madness in severe pain and darkness. Hoffman's soldiers tried to hold him down, but Hoffman roared and pulled out his sword and slashed randomly, forcing everyone around him to avoid it.

Hoffman could no longer hear what the people around him were saying. He roared and slashed at the imagined enemy, standing and retreating. His men watched weakly as the captain fell backwards from the destroyed chest wall to the city and killed him on the spot.

Outside the city, the Vineta muskets had arrived. The Vineta musketeers used the walls of the trench as a cover and fired fiercely at the defenders on the city walls.

The temporarily excavated moat outside the city wall is very shallow, with a depth of less than two meters, about one person high. The musketeer stood in the trench and could just put the musket on the edge of the trench.

The battlements on the chest wall at the top of the city wall were already broken in the shelling of the previous few days, and they could not provide any decent protection to the Tanirian soldiers on the city wall. As long as they leaned out, they would be killed by several melee guns.

However, the Tanirians on the wall know that once the moat is filled, the next one is the wall, and everyone will die by that time.

The fierceness of the defenders was also aroused. The Tanirians howled and braved themselves, poked out their bodies and killed the Vinetas crowded under the city with their crossbows and muskets.

Their position was condescending, and they looked down, and the Vineta Musketeers in the moat were almost unblocked.

The two sides were fighting a tragic exchange of lives at a distance that was almost "squeezing the forehead with a musket".

Staff, the crossbowman on the city wall, suddenly thought that he could use "blue fire" to burn the Venetta people.

Staff ran down the wall. Soon, he ran and waved again with a pottery with blue fire.

He shouted, "Blue Fire! Blue Fire!" He rushed to the chest wall, and was about to throw Lan Fire out of the enemy in the moat. A lead bullet shot from under the city and hit Staff's chest, knocking him back and falling on the city wall.

The sulphur burning in the clay pot in his hand sprinkled on him, and the screams and the smell of burnt meat even reached the Vineta people under the city.

However, Staff's actions reminded others that the trench was seven or eight meters away from the base of the city wall, and even boiling oil and asphalt were not that far away, but it was enough to put it in a jar.

Just as the defenders on the top of the city sent people to find the pottery jar, William Kidd led reinforcements to the east wall, and the reinforcements carried two short-barrel cannons over.

"Here! Don't be facing [slutty]! Hit from the side!" Seeing that the gunner was so stupid that he wanted to lift the cannon directly, the angry artillery captain Berta kicked the cannon away and cursed angrily: "Bad! Get out!"

Two short-barrel cannons were taken by Berta to a small arc on the city wall, facing the Venetta people under the city.

The gunners were rushing to assemble the gun stand and load the ammunition. Berta aimed and ignited it.

Two roars, the shotguns ejected from the short-barrel cannon caused a flesh-and-blood storm under the city.

"Okay! OK! OK!" The artillery captain roared three times and urged his men to sternly: "Continue to load! Keep fighting!"

When the Tanirian artillery slaughtered the Venetans under the city, the Venetan artillery outside the city was also cleaning the Tanirians on the walls.

The Venetta gun group, two hundred meters away, saw the smoke and fire generated when the cannons were fired on the city wall, and immediately adjusted the direction and opened fire at the two short-barrel guns.

A four-pound shell hit one of the short-barrel cannons, knocking the cast iron cannon up from the gun mount, breaking half of the gunner's arm.

Berta immediately carried another short-barrel gun to change position.

One side was on the wall and the other side was under the wall. The Tanirians and the Venettas were almost fighting with guns against each other.

Everyone will die here, it's only a matter of time before the difference is.

Before today, the Tanirians understood that Triangle Fort was the key, but it was not until this time that they truly realized that they had underestimated the importance of Triangle Fort.

Losing the Triangle Fort would mean losing control of the moat. If the Triangle Fort was still in the hands of the Tanirians, the Venetta army would never dare to rush into the moat like now, because the side-firing cannons deployed on the Triangle Fort would beat them into pieces of meat.

Moreover, when the Venetta people used a corridor to connect the Triangle Fort and the Siege Barrier, they did not need to pass through the killing area in front of the city wall and could directly enter the trench from the Triangle Fort.

Not to mention the long-range firepower on the Triangle Fort suppressed the defenders on the city walls.

However, the biggest problem with losing the Triangle Fort is not just these...

Just as the offensive and defensive sides were killing each other around the trenches, behind the city gate, the most elite Montane Guard under William Kidd was gathering.

These brave warriors in heavy armor are the most warlike and trustworthy troops in the Tanirian Federation. In the empire, the Montani Guards are the emperor's guards. They are not under William Kidd's subordinates, but the Supreme Council temporarily handed over two of the companies to William Kidd's command.

William Kidd has always regarded these more than 200 Montane Guards as their pro-guards and supervising teams. Montane Guards are the key to William Kidd's ability to control the army.

However, the situation was urgent, so he could only send out the elite troops at the bottom of the box.

Without any warning, the double-storey gate of Tacheng suddenly opened.

The Monta warriors let out a terrifying battle howl and came out of the city gate. The soldiers divided into two groups and penetrated into the moat, slashing the Vineta people in the moat like the legendary berserkers.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Captain Zenus held up the battle axe and rushed to the front, slashing into the Vineta man's sky spirit cover in front of him with an axe. The axe blade was completely trapped in his head. After Zenus pulled it twice but didn't pull it out, he simply abandoned the sharp axe and drew out the armed sword to fight.

No matter when it is time to stand on the city wall and try to stop the siege from filling the trench.
To be continued...