The shouts of killing frightened the stickmen guarding Liaodong City. They had never seen such fierce shouts of killing in their lives.
As the important fulcrum of Bangzi Kingdom in the west, the Gao family gained the right to dominate here after the battle with Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty.
The person with the highest power in Liaodong City is Gao Jianwu's younger brother Gao Jianwen. Although he was not very old in the war that year, he was also involved in it. He had seen the power of the Sui Dynasty. The city was breached several times if not for the help of several times. They would have died long ago if they pretended to surrender.
Today's soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are more elite than those brought by Emperor Sui Yang, which made him feel a little worried.
Can you hold on this time?
Gao Jianwen felt that he had no confidence in his heart.
"What should I do, General Gao?"
"Hold and wait for reinforcements from cities like Baiyan, Houhuang, Hengshan, and Momi"
"yes"
But can they come to support?
In fact, Gao Jianwen himself had no idea. The Mohe tribe had gone south and was wreaking havoc on this land. Even if Gao Xiaojian followed the Mohe people to start negotiations, they had little effect. The Mohe people who had enjoyed the sweetness were not willing to stop at all.
Now that the battle in Liaodong City has begun, Gao Jianwen feels that he is still not prepared enough.
Gongsun Zan was the general sent by Li Mingda. He still didn't know the true strength of Gongsun Zan. This man had not been in Liaodong for a long time, but his control over Liaodong far exceeded his expectations.
The only thing that reassured him was that Gongsun Zan didn't seem to bring any large siege equipment with him this time.
Liaodong City is not low. The city wall is more than ten meters high. The outside is made of rocks and the inside is made of rammed earth. The city wall has three floors, including arrow towers and catapults.
According to the normal war process, there should be an exchange of envoys first, but neither side intends to do so, and there is no need for a feud.
Naturally, there are long-range weapons such as catapults and crossbows. Although the Bangzi Kingdom captured many craftsmen from the former Sui Dynasty, they were stupid and did not know how to treat these people well. They killed and enslaved many of them, so that Liaodong City The defensive equipment has not changed much in the past few decades.
In fact, it’s not that people with sticks don’t know how to use them. Even people like Gao Jianwu have them. How could they not have any IQ? That’s because of their inferiority complex. As a small country, they seemed to have defeated the powerful Sui Dynasty. In fact, they He knew in his heart that he did not regard himself as a human being, and that he could only achieve the so-called victory by doing the shameless behavior of an animal.
The combination of various complex situations such as narrow-mindedness, low self-esteem, and animal-like heart have created today's nation that is proud and arrogant on the outside, but dark, humble, treacherous and vicious on the inside.
Gao Jianwen couldn't help but feel relaxed when he saw a large, roaring shield-like vehicle exiting the Tang Dynasty's military formation.
Gao Jianwen still didn't believe that the whole car could break through their Liaodong City. Gao Jianwen pointed to the city and said to his trusted generals: "If the Tang Dynasty can break through our city gate with the whole thing, I, Gao Jianwen, stand on my head and eat it myself." .”
"Hahaha"
"Hey hey hey"
"The general said so, and we are willing to try it."
"Yes, the so-called Tang Dynasty is not the same as the Sui Dynasty."
"Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty couldn't defeat us with hundreds of thousands of people, and it's even less possible for them to have such a small number of people."
"Yeah, if I can break the city today, I'm willing to eat shit."
"I do too"
"together"
Everyone has known since ancient times: Don’t set up a flag, otherwise you will die quickly if you set up a flag.
At the foot of Liaodong City, at a distance of 300 meters, Gongsun Zan refurbished the small steel cannon escorted by Qingfeng, and got what looked like an armored vehicle at the door.
The so-called armored vehicle is a gun carriage with several steel shields wrapped around it and driven by five horses made of steel.
The inner steel structure came from Wang Meng's help, and the outer iron sheet was Gongsun Zan's crossbow arrows and trebuchets to prevent Liaodong City from defending the city.
I smashed this small steel cannon, which affected the progress of the siege.
The accompanying craftsmen adjusted the angle and stuffed the cannonball into the barrel under the supervision of Jin Yiwei.
"General is ready"
Gongsun Zan had no idea that Gao Jianwen and his group were cheating on the city, so he directly issued an order: "Fire, blow up their three city gates, and let the soldiers rush in."
"promise"
"The general has the order, fire the artillery"
"boom"
I remembered the sound of a cannon, followed by a brief sound of piercing the air. Then the generals who had just been cheating and drinking with Gao Jianwen on the wall of Liaodong City felt a huge force appear beside them, and they They pushed into the sky.
Wow
A hole was blown open above the gate of the city wall of Liaodong City, and the rammed earth layer inside leaked out. The surrounding area was pitch black, and the armors and weapons of the soldiers guarding the city were turned into pieces.
what's the situation?
Gao Jianwen, who had just walked out of that section of the city wall, looked back and saw that the wall had been blown open, and he had no idea what happened.
"Report to General Gongsun, the first shot was fired a little higher, and the adjustment has been completed."
Gongsun Zan nodded: "Go on."
"promise"
The second shell is loaded in
"boom"
Most of the gate of Liaodong City was blown open. The bronze bars covering the gate were blown into several pieces. The bronze nails inside were also blown everywhere. A group of stick soldiers guarding the gate tower were blown away. It was lucky that the fragments were concentrated and died on the spot. Those who were injured had either wooden thorns or bronze fragments and nails on their bodies, and the outcome was even worse.
When Gao Jianwen remembered the second cannon fire, he still didn't understand what happened. He heard his subordinate report: "General, the city gate is broken."
Gao Jianwen grabbed his subordinate's collar and roared: "Why is this happening?"
"General, I don't know~!"
"boom"
Their conversation was interrupted by the sound of cannons, and the city gate that had been blown open was once again widened by cannonballs.
The injured stick soldiers inside were originally injured and fell to the ground, but the debris flying from the second explosion hit them again, ending their pain.
Of course, things are not absolute. There are unlucky sticks that are not dead yet. One unlucky stick was hit by the city gate when it exploded, and for the first time a nail penetrated the chrysanthemum.
The miserable state was not over yet when the second explosion came again. A piece of wood completely drove in the nails that had only been partially driven in.
Blood and feces and urine flowed together, and the wailing sounds were released. He now regretted bullying those former Sui survivors, and also regretted following other sticks to humiliate those remains.
His misery didn't end there.
boom
The fourth artillery shell struck, directly destroying the last link of the rain city wall of the Liaodong City Gate, and the few remaining city gates collapsed from the outside to the inside.
Gongsun Zan looked at the results of the battle, nodded with satisfaction and ordered the craftsman who fired the cannon: "Go on, attack their second city gate."
To be continued
