Tang Ding saw the defenders working so hard and sneered: "I don't know whether to live or die. Come, gather your artillery and blast in that direction."
With a command, the cannon fuses were ignited with a hiss and sparks.
"Boom~Boom~Boom~"
For a time, the bricks on the city wall were shattered, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties.
Cao Minxiu's hair was messy, and there was still a little blood on his hair and face. Although he was not injured just now, the Ming army's cannon really shocked him. He looked at the Ming army outside the city with a livid face, and the knuckles holding the handle of the knife turned white. It was obvious that he was holding it very hard.
He has been fighting all his life, and he can be considered a person who has fought hard from the battlefield, but he has never encountered such a frustrating battle in his life.
He should be at an advantage when defending the city, but now he is being suppressed and beaten by the Ming army. He has no power to fight back and is out of reach!
Cao Minxiu took a deep breath and immediately asked people to disperse. He was prepared to stop the river filling if possible. If he couldn't stop it, he didn't care. He was prepared to wait until the Ming army attacked the city and then fight with the Ming army.
When attacking a city, the Ming army couldn't use cannons to blast their own people, right?
Under the weak resistance of the defenders, the moat was quickly filled in.
The battlefield suddenly calmed down at this time.
Cao Minxiu was on alert, preparing to give the Ming army a hard blow when they attacked the city.
Han Du also asked people to step back temporarily and prepared a specially made siege vehicle. The roof and sides of the car were covered with thick wooden boards. There were no huge logs used to ram the city gate inside, but they were filled with gunpowder.
After a moment of repair, the Ming army began to attack again.
Different from the previous scene where countless people rushed up to attack the city carrying ladders, this time in addition to the continuous bombardment of cannons to suppress the Korean soldiers at the top of the city, there was only one siege vehicle slowly heading towards the city gate.
Cao Minxiu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he saw such an unusual scene. He naturally recognized the siege engines, but there were too few attempts to break open the city gates with the siege engines alone. Most of them occupied the city walls and then came down to open the city gates from the inside.
However, although Cao Minxiu could not understand the Ming army's tactics, he had no intention of letting the Ming army easily reach the city gate. An order was given immediately, and unmanned arrows were fired at the siege vehicles.
The thick wooden boards of the siege vehicle instantly became like hedgehogs, filled with arrows.
Naturally, Han Du would not let the defenders attack the siege vehicles. All the artillery fired at the city wall, suppressing the archers with all his strength, and doing everything he could to give the siege vehicles a chance.
The siege vehicle arrived under the city wall step by step, facing the rain of arrows from the sky. In an instant, countless stones fell, and the wooden planks on the top of the stone fell. Fortunately, the planks were thick enough. Although there were some damaged areas, they did not completely collapse.
When the siege vehicle entered the city gate, more than twenty naval officers quickly pressed the siege vehicle against the city gate. Each of them took a pair of shields and rushed to the city gate. They hid under the city wall and protected themselves with their shields.
The last person took out a fire stick, blew out the flames in one breath, and without daring to delay lighting the fuse, he quickly ran to the wall and hid.
The siege vehicle entered the city gate, but there was no sound of impact. The Goryeo defenders behind the city gate and Cao Minxiu on the city wall were all wondering what the Ming army was up to.
Suddenly, Cao Minxiu felt everything was quiet, and a strong sense of danger came from beneath his feet. He has been through life and death in his life, but he has never felt such a strong sense of crisis.
Before he could speak, a huge fire burst out from the city gate hole, accompanied by a huge plume of smoke.
But Cao Minxiu heard nothing. The moment the sound reached his ears, he became deaf, and everything around him instantly became a silent world. He felt that his fragile internal organs were instantly bombarded by countless giant hammers, and he did not even feel the pain. The bright red blood in his mouth mixed with the internal organs fell down like a waterfall.
His eyes just glanced at the Ming army camp, and then his vision went dark and he no longer felt consciousness.
Han Du saw smoke and dust bursting out from the city gate. The entire city gate was emptied and the city gate had long since disappeared without a trace.
"The city is broken, and the whole army attacks the city."
Following Han Du's roar, navy officers on both sides immediately swarmed in.
Tang Ding led a team of naval forces to charge at the front. Although he thought it was a good idea to use gunpowder to break the city when Han Du mentioned it last time, he had never seen it with his own eyes.
Even he was shocked when he saw it today.
So relaxing, so easy. He saw clearly just now that at the moment when a large amount of gunpowder exploded, the entire city gate building seemed to be lifted up by a huge hand, rubbed it a few times, and then put it down again. Needless to say, the city gate looked like it was made of paper. It fell apart in an instant and turned into debris that filled the sky and exploded in.
As soon as the city gate was broken, the morale of the Korean defenders suddenly dropped to the freezing point, and they could no longer resist. How can they care about the Ming army now? Their minds are full of thinking about how to escape before the Ming army enters the city.
However, the Ming army broke through the city so fast that many people did not react.
Xin Yu originally thought that Kaijing could be defended. Even if it could not be defended, at least it would be after all the troops and supplies were exhausted. Therefore, he calmly continued to perform his indispensable daily entertainment program in the palace.
But a loud noise instantly spread throughout the city. Even Xin Yu, who was hiding deep in the palace, was shaken and shook the wine glass in his hand, and the wine spilled all over his python robe.
"What's going on?" Xin Yu stood up in a panic. The sound of the cannons that started roaring didn't even move him, but the loud noise gave people a bad feeling.
"Your Majesty, there seems to be a loud noise coming from outside the city. I don't know what it is yet." The eunuch quickly stepped forward and replied.
Xin Yu looked panicked and quickly ordered: "Send someone to find out immediately. I am waiting here."
"yes."
After waiting like this, Xin Yu no longer waited for the eunuch to return, but instead waited for the Ming army.
Tang Ding led a group of troops straight into the palace. The Korean soldiers along the way could not even stop him for a moment, and were massacred one-sidedly under the intensive firepower of the Ming army.
Tang Ding, who came to the entrance of the palace, was not in a hurry to attack, but instead had people surround the palace first.
After the navy had firmly taken control of Kaijing City, they and Han Du came to the gate of the palace.
Han Du smiled and glanced at the palace door for a few times, then raised his head and motioned for someone to step forward and call the door.
"Listen to the people inside and open the door wisely. If they wait for us to attack, they will be killed without mercy." After saying that, he proudly moved towards the palace door and made several gestures with his revolver.
Before he could be happy, Han Du slapped him on the back of his head. "What did you say? What does it mean to kill without mercy? This is the palace, and inside is the King of Korea who has been conferred by the emperor. How can you be so presumptuous?"
