Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

The defenders on the top of the city saw that Cao Jun stopped at a distance of five hundred paces, and some Monks Zhang Er were really puzzled.

When Pang Tong, Zhuge Jin and others, accompanied by Wenpin and other generals, went up to the west wall in person, they also looked at Cao Jun outside the city with puzzled faces.

Standing so far away, what kind of trouble do you want to make?

Just when everyone was wondering what the hell Cao Cao and the others were doing, Zhuge Jin suddenly frowned and said, "I heard that the navy led by Lu Yan used an unknown weapon to destroy the walls of Chaisang City. It collapsed. Are they trying to repeat the old tricks to break through the walls of our Xiangyang City?"

Pang Tong also felt that this possibility was very high, so he nodded and replied: "It is indeed possible. But our city wall is not comparable to that of Chaisang City. We can observe the power of their weapons for a while, and then we can go back to the city. It’s not too late to make plans.”

Lu Yan had fulfilled Pang Tong's wish. Before Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin had finished speaking, he let them see the power of the artillery.

The sound of war drums suddenly sounded outside the city, followed by roars,

"ignition!"

"Fire the cannon!"

Following the order to fire the cannons, nearly three hundred cannons fired concentrated fire at a designated area of ​​the city wall.

With the sound of "rumbling" shelling, the earth shook and the mountains shook, and the shells immediately smashed into the city wall of Xiangyang City like hail!

The loud bang from the artillery was very intimidating.

In order to achieve the best results and to defeat the will of resistance of the defenders in Xiangyang City in the shortest possible time, all these heavy artillery were aimed at a fixed section of the city wall and fired.

Not all of the hundreds of shells had such a good aim, and some of them would fall towards the city from time to time.

More than half of the dozen or so shells that flew into the city fell into the urn, but there were still a few "anti-aircraft guns" that flew into the city and landed in the areas where the people lived.

Immediately, where the shells fell, many houses in the city were knocked down. Even the State Shepherd's Mansion in Xiangyang City was lucky enough to be hit by a bullet, causing a corner of the roof of the lobby to collapse.
As the key target of the bombardment, the section of the city wall in the middle was instantly smashed into pieces by shells.

Although the city wall was still standing tenaciously, Pang Tong, Zhuge Jin and many defenders on the city wall were frightened and fled down the city wall immediately.The soldiers panicked and fled everywhere to save their lives.

The more than 200 powerful cannonballs almost shattered the bluestone bricks outside the city wall and flew away. The cannonballs were either bounced off or deeply embedded in the city wall. It seemed that they were still struggling unwillingly and wanted to go further. !
Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin had recovered from the initial shock, and they quickly ordered the soldiers to fight back.

After a wave of shelling, the Xiangyang defenders naturally wanted to fight back.

But after trying a counterattack, they found that neither the trebuchet nor the ballista could reach the artillery position more than 500 steps away.

When the counterattack was ineffective, the navy's second wave of shelling came again!
"Fire the gun!"

This time, it was the bombardment of another three hundred artillery pieces.

Lu Yan deliberately divided the artillery into two batches, just to use the shortest time to carry out high-frequency attacks, and strive to knock down a section of the city wall in the shortest time, so as to shock the enemy's mind and exert extreme pressure. .

Cao Jun's shelling outside the defensive distance of the defenders in Xiangyang was undoubtedly a nightmare for the defenders.

Wave after wave of gunfire hit Wenpin so badly that he didn't even dare to send people up the city wall.

But the defenders did not dare to return to the city wall, but the navy outside the city started with shelling and transported all kinds of iron cables, planks, and even small boats for crossing the river to the river outside Xiangyang City, and built a bridge by the river. A fortification to defend a place from arrows.

As long as the bombardment stops, the sailors can use these wooden boats, planks, etc. to start building a pontoon bridge on the city river, and they can also use boats to transport soldiers across the river.It's just that these movements look more like a drill, or a gesture.

The defenders in other areas of the city wall saw the actions of Cao Jun's navy, so they sent soldiers to rush out of the city gate, vowing to burn down these pontoon bridges.

Due to the barrier of the moat, Cao Jun from the other two gates could only use bows and arrows to attack the Xiangyang defenders who had left the city.

But these defenders were specially protected by large shield soldiers, and they could only watch helplessly as they fired rockets and then smashed them with kerosene tanks, burning down dozens of pontoon bridges that the navy had worked so hard to build.

Seeing that the first attempt failed, the navy had to retreat temporarily.

After re-choosing the plan of crossing the river, they mobilized the peasants to come back carrying cloth bags, wooden boards and other objects.

This time, they were still building the pontoon, but this time the cloth bags contained a lot of explosives.
When the defenders of Xiangyang City tried to use the same tricks to destroy the pontoon bridge, unexpectedly, the navy soldiers ignited the explosives one after another, and then threw them across the river with their bare hands.

"boom!"

"boom!!"

"boom!!!"

Countless explosions sounded!
The huge impact force when the explosive package exploded made the large shield completely useless, and directly knocked the defenders out of the city with the large shield in a dizzy state.

Many people's eardrums have been shattered, and some have lost arms and legs, or simply went to see their ancestors.

The navy under Lu Yan's command allowed Cao Jun's other troops to see a completely different fighting style from the past.

This advantage of absolute fire suppression makes people wonder if they are bullying primitive people
Cannonballs weighing more than ten or twenty kilograms whizzed and hit the city wall fiercely, making each cannon cause a miniature earthquake, and then large pieces of city bricks were shattered and flew away, exposing the Rammed earth walls.

Compared with stone bricks, rammed earth is more resistant to earthquakes. Many shells can crush bluestone bricks as hard as iron, but they can only make a big hole in the rammed earth.

After six rounds of repeated bombardment by [-] cannons, the city wall on the southwest side of the city quickly seemed to be stripped naked, revealing a large area of ​​rammed earth city wall.

And after more than ten rounds of bombardment again, the rammed earth city wall finally couldn't bear it anymore, and began to fall off in large areas!But even so, it is still far from the level of collapse.

Lu Yan was also furious, and the cannon fired for nearly four hours.

From morning to evening, apart from the fact that the gun barrels were overheated and had to rest, Lu Yan damaged more than [-] cannons, among which the blasting of the barrels killed and injured many sailor gunners.

This is also the first time that the Navy has used so many artillery to attack the city, and Xiangyang City is also strong enough.

But no matter how strong its city wall is, it can't withstand so many artillery shelling an area repeatedly!

Finally, when the sun was about to set, the city wall, which had long been overwhelmed, could no longer hold up.

A large number of cracks first appeared in other areas of the wall,

The section that has been beaten all the time began to fall off in large pieces, collapsed, and even collapsed
Seeing this kind of situation, even the civilian husbands who hid behind Cao Jun to watch the excitement knew that this section of the city wall might not be able to hold on anymore.