"Quick! Hit the wall where there are many people! Don't let them put up the bricks and stones!"
"No, aim at the entrance of the tunnel, aim at those who are transporting soil in and out, and give me a hard beating! The Kaiyuan thief still wants to dig holes! What a beautiful idea!"
"No, let's attack the auxiliary soldiers who built the bridge first. We must not let them build the pontoon bridge! Fight quickly!"
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Ningyuan Ximen City Head.
Forty or fifty ancestral servants were scurrying around the city like headless flies, waving their scabbards and riding whips.
After they gave random instructions, the Liaozhen gunners, who were already panic-stricken, looked even more frightened. Each of them held up a red-hot iron rod and didn't know where to thrust it.
Within one mile outside Ximen City, nearly 100,000 strong men were moving around in the western Liaoning wilderness like ants moving. Some of them were digging holes, some were building cities in the distance, and more people were rolling in. Behind the carriage.
An unspeakable huge fear shrouded the top of Ningyuan City, making the defenders feel uneasy.
Maybe in the next second, Kaiyuan soldiers will emerge from the ground, jump from the top of the city, rush out from some unknown place, and kill them all.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the servants quickly gave up their disputes and quickly reached an agreement to build earth walls first, then build carts, and finally deal with the tunnels.
After cooling down, the Hongyi cannon finally roared again.
Hundreds of giant cannons sprayed white smoke, turning the top of Ningyuan City into a terrifying world of red flames and white mist.
The servants ordered the gunners to turn around and fire violently at the earthen wall one mile away.
Everyone knows that the huge earth wall poses the greatest threat to the city. If the enemy is allowed to complete the construction slowly and attack the city from a high position, it will be a disaster for the Kaiyuan defenders.
Two large iron balls weighing eight pounds hit the construction site one mile away from the west gate city wall.
A piece of scaffolding that had just been erected was hit by an artillery shell, and the load-bearing bamboo poles were broken with a clicking sound. The scaffolding lost its balance and collapsed.
A group of plasterers who were laying bricks fell from a height of three to four feet and hit the hard and cold ground. Their bodies made sounds of broken bones.
Almost at the same time as the bombardment occurred, countless divine fire flying crows rose up on the hillside a hundred steps away behind the scaffolding. The rocket rose to the highest point in the sky, then roared down, dragging a long tail flame, and landed on the top of Ningyuan City like a rain of fire.
The rocket capsule exploded after the rocket hit the ground. Thousands of porcelain shards and iron nails were flying on the top of the city, just like the wood chips of the carts that had been smashed by the gunners just now, and they were shooting out like bullets in all directions.
The Liao Town gunner used the Hongyi cannon to add fear to the pusher. Now, the Shenhuo Flying Crow doubled the fear and returned it to the gunner.
After three rounds of rockets washed the ground, more than one-third of the gunners on the top of Ximen City were injured or killed, but this only further stimulated their fighting spirit, and more red-coated artillery began to join the attack on the rockets.
The Hongyi cannon was condescending and adjusted the firing angle to the maximum, barely able to reach a range of two miles. However, as the projectile angle of the cannon increased, it no longer bounced much after landing, and its lethality was greatly reduced.
No matter what, the two-mile range is roughly equivalent to the Kaiyuan Divine Fire Flying Crow's range on the opposite side.
Some gunners gave up attacking the siege soldiers, and instead pointed their muzzles at the rocket positions farther away, and fired against the Kaiyuan Rocket Force.
As Kaiyuan continued to advance, the gunners of Ximen Liao Town soon discovered that they would have to face threats from five directions at the same time.
The thirty Hongyi cannons set up at the west gate were also forced to be divided into five, and they were aimed at the large carriages that were quickly passing the pontoon bridge, the tunnels where people were constantly coming in and out, the earth walls that were rising rapidly, and those who were still shooting at them. Divine Fire Flying Crow.
Coupled with the Hongyi artillery that constantly bombarded the defenders at the top of the city, the Liao Town gunners needed to deal with enemies from five directions.
Thirty Hongyi cannons were divided into five. From this point on, they no longer had an overwhelming advantage in any direction.
Despite heavy casualties, the auxiliary soldiers finally completed the construction of the first pontoon bridge, followed by the second and third bridge.
The six red cannons that came out continued to bombard the moat until the barrels became hot and hot to the touch.
The Kaiyuan Army prepared thirty red cannons at the foot of Ximen City. These red cannons captured from the ancestral home were extremely powerful. After being put into the battlefield, they immediately began to bombard the defenders at the top of the city.
The cannonballs landed on the top of the city and bounced everywhere, with a sharp roar, smashing a group of gunmen into pieces, and many people's intestines were shed on the ground.
Under the attack of Hongyi's artillery, the defenders at the top of the city quickly dispersed, staying far away from the iron ball.
The gunners who were attacking the carriages turned their guns around and aimed at the red-coated cannon that had just bombarded the city.
Get on the approaching car, the gunners quickly
Since then, the casualties of the foreign Liao people working around the earth wall have been greatly reduced. They endured the casualties they could bear and accelerated the construction of the earth wall.
One after another, pontoon bridges were quickly erected on the moat filled with ice floes. The carriages drove over the pontoon bridges, and the bridge deck made an unsettling creaking sound.
Groups of Liao civilians followed the carts and quickly passed the pontoon bridge. There were crackling firecrackers all around, and layers of corpses fell on both sides of the pontoon bridge.
"Quick! Rush over! Push the corpse in front of you away!"
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