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"Boom, boom, boom!" With the sound of a huge cannon, countless shells smashed hard on the wall of Penglai Water City.

Immediately, stone chips flew together, leaving a rough pit on the stone wall.

"Come again!" Fatty Zhang frowned, and ordered again.

Not long after, when the thirty "Red Barbarian Cannons" in front of him were fully loaded, countless shells poured down on the opposite city wall again.

Seeing that Penglai Water City was motionless, Deputy Commander Bai Dengyong and others who were startled couldn't help but stand up again: "Let's fight, let's fight hard!"

"My city wall is built with stones and rammed earth inside. It is as solid as gold. Even if it is a red barbarian cannon, what can it do to me?"

"Sir, doesn't it seem like this is going to work?" Fatty Zhang couldn't help hesitating when he saw that the walls of Penglai Water City were still motionless after shooting for two consecutive rounds.

For the rebels, what they lack the most is time.

If you spend too much time here, if you can't meet Huang Sunmao's navy, I'm afraid you will fall into a situation of fighting alone.

"Where is this? Let's shoot a few more rounds!" Unexpectedly, Bo Li Mingzhong said disapprovingly.

"This section of the city wall looks solid, but it actually collapsed once during the Denglai Rebellion a few years ago."

"This stone is not a solid rock, and the soil is not a solid soil, so it is very easy to be destroyed. General, don't worry about it!"

It turns out that although the Penglai Water City was built extremely solidly, it became the last base of the rebels during the Denglai Rebellion in the fifth year of Chongzhen.

In order to capture the city, the Ming army had to dig tunnels, and then used gunpowder to blow up a section of the city wall before entering the city.

At the beginning, the first martial arts champion king in the late Ming Dynasty came to hire him, and he died in this battle.

Although the city wall has been repaired now, the materials used are far inferior to those in the early Ming Dynasty, so Li Mingzhong regards it as a flaw.

"Okay, then it's up to you!" Fatty Zhang thought for a while, and found that he had no choice but to go all the way to the dark.

"Boom, boom, boom" as the heavy shells hit the wall of the water city again and again, the rustling sand continued to fall from the cracks in the stones.

The city, which was originally impregnable, also trembled slightly under the repeated blows.

"Hey!" The soldiers on the city couldn't help gasping, and couldn't help admonishing Bai Dengyong, the deputy commander, "General, it's too embarrassing to just be beaten and not fight back."

"Why don't we set up artillery and bombard him?"

"Bomb him?" Bai Dengyong couldn't help laughing angrily when he heard the words, pointing to the rebel artillery positions outside the city, "Are you going to bomb him?"

"If there is no ghost here, my head can be twisted off and kicked as a ball!"

Do you know why?

It turned out that Fatty Zhang only brought five golden cannons and five field cannons when he came here. In fact, he did not have a strong siege ability.

However, Denley is not.

The Denglai area was not only the base for the Ming army to attack the Liaodong Peninsula, but also the place where the "Western French Party members" trained their troops and cast their guns.

In the Denglai Rebellion alone, Li Jiulong, Kong Youde, and Geng Zhongming confiscated more than [-] Hongyi cannons and more than [-] Western cannons from the city of Dengzhou.

And these artillery and captured craftsmen later became the main reliance of Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and other "San Shun Kings" after they invested money.

After the chaos in the Denglai area, although the loss was serious, but fortunately, the craftsmen and technology still remained, so many cannons were quickly cast.

This time Fatty Zhang used the ten cannons he brought, the other twenty red barbarian cannons weighing two to three thousand catties were collected from the city by Li Mingzhong.

After the artillery was transported outside the city, Li Mingzhong remonstrated to Fatty Zhang: "Shuicheng was occupied by Kong Geng and two thieves in the past, and it is urgent to get down. Liu Liangzuo, who was the guerrilla general at the time, suggested that Yongfu Temple bombard Shuicheng."

"This Yongfu Temple is located in the southwest corner of Shuicheng. People can hide in the temple, but it is hard to see from the top of Shuicheng."

"Therefore, I can hit him, but he can't hit me. Why don't you follow suit today and break it with one blow!"

It was also because of this that Bai Dengyong, the deputy chief soldier, was convinced that there was an inner ghost who had joined the rebel army.

"Quickly, quickly call up a gunner, ready to meet the enemy!" Now that Bai Dengyong had confirmed the plan of the rebel army, he couldn't help but hastily ordered.

"Why is that?" Left and right couldn't help asking in surprise.

"Someone will come out with gunpowder in a while and try to blow up the city wall!" Bai Dengyong explained with a look of godliness, "Our army also used this strategy when they broke the city!"

It turned out that although the Hongyi cannon was fierce, it would be quite difficult to use it to knock down the solid city wall.

At the beginning, the Ming army first bombarded the city with artillery to attract the attention of the city, and then secretly sent soldiers to plant gunpowder, which destroyed the city wall.

That Bai Dengyong thought that the rebel army was repeating their old tricks, so he took precautions early.

Not long after, an elite gunner rushed over, and Bai Dengyong hid behind the parapet, ready to shoot when the rebels approached.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, there was no movement.

Just when Bai Dengyong was in doubt, he only heard a click, and then the city wall under his feet loosened.

He subconsciously stepped back, took two steps, and then retreated to a solid place, but heard a loud noise.

Bai Dengyong took a closer look, but saw nothing in front of him. It turned out that half of the huge city wall had collapsed, and only half was still under his feet.

And on the collapsed half, there was originally an elite gunner hidden, but most of them fell down together in a moment, and now they are wailing endlessly below.

Cold sweat immediately dripped from Bai Dengyong's forehead. If he had taken a step slower just now, he might end up in the same way.

After a while, the smoke cleared, and the scene in front of me became clear.

After the collapsed half of the city wall slid down, a slope was formed, and there were some elite gunners who had just been thrown down on the slope.

Some were half buried and were crying there; some were thrown off the slope and hit the flat ground with a pool of blood on their bodies.

Others were lucky enough to escape the catastrophe, but were thrown so badly that they didn't react for a while.

But at this moment, a burst of heart-pounding drums sounded, and a group of rebel soldiers in armor and helmets rushed over.

"Kill, kill, kill!" They yelled as they skillfully harvested the elite gunners who hadn't died yet.

"Quick, quick, stop them!" The deputy chief soldier Bai Dengyong just woke up like a dream, came back to his senses, and couldn't help but ordered loudly.

Just where is it too late?

He had no idea, he never expected that the rebel army planned to bombard the walls of Shuicheng with Hongyi cannons.

Now not only Bai Dengyong was dumbfounded, but even Li Mingzhong, who offered advice, was surprised: "How is this possible?"

"Hey, thanks to you!" Fatty Zhang smiled self-effacingly, expressing his complacency.

This time the rebel army was able to quickly smash down the walls of Shuicheng. Of course, it was because of Li Mingzhong's guidance that they found the weak point, and it was also because the rebel army's gunners were good at attacking the city.

When the rebel gunners repeatedly projected shells at a certain position, they continued to destroy the structure of the city wall.

When the structure is damaged to a critical point, it will naturally lead to the collapse of the city wall.

"Kill, kill!" The soldiers of the rebel army quickly rushed to the city wall. Bai Dengyong resisted desperately, trying to concentrate his strength to drive the soldiers of the rebel army down the city.

However, at this moment, another burst of cheers was suddenly heard: "The door is broken, the door is broken!"

He couldn't help turning his head to look, but saw the rebels swarming in at the south gate of Shuicheng, and the defenders were beaten and retreated.

It turned out that there were not many soldiers in Bai Dengyong's hands. Now most of the soldiers were transferred by him to defend the collapsed city wall, but the rebel army seized the opportunity of the empty city gate and broke through in one fell swoop.

By this time, why didn't Bai Dengyong understand his situation?

It's over, it's over, Penglai Water City is going to be gone!