Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 376 Attack on Yanmen Pass
"Order everyone to go up the city wall. Also, if these rebels continue to shoot at us like before, they should first hide in the cave behind the city wall. Once the rebels stop attacking, go up the city wall immediately and organize a counterattack." " Xing Bingzhong looked at Baihu behind him and shouted loudly.

Baihu patted his chest, "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely finish this matter according to your instructions."

After Baihu finished speaking, he hurriedly passed on Xing Bingzhong's order.

Many defenders on the city wall looked at the densely packed team outside the city wall, and their bodies trembled involuntarily.

They swallowed a mouthful of saliva and panted heavily, forcing themselves to calm down a bit.

Zhao Wen stood behind the artillery position, holding up the binoculars and looking at the Dongxing Pass in front of him, with a calm expression on his face.

At this time, the artillery position has been prepared and ready to fire at any time.

Zhao Wen looked at the sun in the sky, drew out the long knife at his waist, pointed at the sky obliquely, and shouted: "The city wall in front of the target, high-explosive bomb, blast me!"

As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, Li Xiaosan led a dozen or so messengers into the artillery position and shouted at the top of his voice.

Within a few breaths, Zhao Wen's order was passed on by Li Xiaosan.

There are ten 152mm cannon howitzers, twenty 120mm mortars and ten 107mm rocket launchers in the artillery positions.

Zhao Wen carried more than these heavy weapons, but to deal with a Yanmen Pass, Zhao Wen did not take out all the artillery he carried.

After all, these numbers of artillery can completely handle it.

When Zhao Wen's order spread throughout the artillery position, the 152mm cannon howitzer at the forefront opened fire first.

Ten 152mm cannon howitzers roared one after another, firing high-explosive shells weighing nearly [-] kilograms in the barrels towards Yanmen Pass.

High-explosive bombs streaked across the sky, approaching Yanmen Pass with whistling sound.

Xing Bingzhong was lying on the city wall, and saw a few balls of fire in the distance, and then heard a few strange voices.

Before he could react, the shells fired by the 152mm cannon howitzer landed on the city wall of Dongxing Pass.

"Oh!"

A high-explosive bomb hit the wall of Dongxing Pass, and exploded violently the moment it hit.

The powerful force made the city walls tremble.

Where the high-explosive bomb exploded, the green bricks wrapped in the rammed earth layer were either blown away or shattered into pieces.

Even the rammed earth layer inside was blasted into a large hole several meters deep.

The dust spread all of a sudden, covering the front of the city wall.

Xing Bingzhong supported the crenel of the city wall and squatted behind the crenel, his body trembling constantly.

At this moment, several rounds of 152mm high-explosive bombs fell on the wall of the city wall.

Several of the high-explosive shells landed directly on the crowd above the city wall.

"Bang bang bang!"

There were explosions everywhere, flames filled the air, and thick smoke billowed.

The defenders around the center of the explosion were swept away like a wheat field swept by a strong wind, leaving only pools of blood.

"Ah, what is this? Is this God's anger? What is this?"

An arm fell from the sky and landed on the head of a stunned soldier outside the area covered by the artillery.

The soldier took the arm off his head with a dull expression, and looked at the blood-stained arm.

After a while, the soldier threw his arm on the ground, yelled like a madman, and ran around the city wall.

"Ah, God is angry, God is angry, run away."

The soldier who became crazy jumped down from the city wall screaming and fell behind the city wall.

The high-explosive bombs that fell on the city wall blew up the wall of Dongxingguan, which was full of large and small potholes.

The shell of the 152mm cannon howitzer weighs 43 kilograms and has a killing area of ​​22X[-] square meters. Even in later generations, it is still a powerful weapon, let alone the present.

"This, this, what kind of weapon is this?" Xing Bingzhong turned around and stared blankly at this scene.

He really couldn't believe that what happened in front of him was real. He had never heard of this kind of scene, let alone seen it.

Under the first round of artillery fire, the soldiers on the city wall became chaotic.

"Hoohoo!"

At this moment, the second round of shelling arrived as scheduled.

The second round of shelling was not just 152mm high-explosive bombs, but also 107mm rockets and 120mm mortars like heavy rain.

These shells were like rainstorms, falling towards the city wall one after another.

The city wall of Dongxing Pass was quickly covered by artillery fire. Explosions continued to resound on the city wall. There were shattered corpses everywhere, there were blind-eyed, rout soldiers everywhere, and broken bricks everywhere. watt.

The surviving defenders on the top of the city dropped their weapons and fled towards the bottom of the city wall regardless of whether there was an order or not.

At this moment, they had no intention of defending the city at all, they just wanted to find a place without artillery fire and hide well.

"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!" Looking at this scene, Xing Bingzhong couldn't care less, shouted loudly and led his guards to flee under the city wall.

In fact, even if Xing Bingzhong didn't call to retreat, the soldiers on the city wall would not stay on the city wall.

Soldiers in this era have at best seen ancient smoothbore cannons like red cannons. When have they seen this kind of powerful artillery filled with high-energy explosives from later generations?

"Oh!"

A 120mm mortar shot landed [-] steps away from Xing Bingzhong, and the fragments from the explosion directly pierced many of Xing Bingzhong's personal guards to death.

Xing Bingzhong didn't care to look back, and fled to the depths of Yanmen Pass in panic.

With the continuous shooting of artillery fire, the soldiers who had not retreated from the top of the city were shrouded in artillery fire, and their lives were mercilessly harvested in the powerful explosion.

Zhao Wen held up the binoculars and looked at the city wall of Dongxing Pass in front of him, without any expression on his face.

Under the attack of weapons that have surpassed this era for hundreds of years, Zhao Wen firmly believes that no city can withstand this level of attack, not even the famous Yanmen Pass in history.

The high-explosive shells of the 152mm cannon howitzer kept falling on the city wall of Dongxing Pass. Every time it exploded, the city wall of Dongxing Pass would tremble.

Not long after, the city wall of Dongxing Pass was blown up badly.

Under the powerful artillery, Dongxing Pass was like a small earthen wall, which was destroyed bit by bit by huge explosions.

Through the binoculars, Zhao Wen saw that the area of ​​Dongxing Pass had been covered by dust, smoke and flames from the explosion, making it impossible to see the true appearance of Dongxing Pass at all.

At this time, Xing Bingzhong led the remaining guards, Sakai Yazi, and ran towards Yanmen Pass without stopping.

In addition to them, the soldiers who retreated from the city wall followed behind them, running non-stop.

When Xing Bingzhong fled to Guancheng, he looked at the soldiers following him with grief and indignation.

None of the soldiers who escaped survived, and all of them were panicked.

"My lord, this battle can't be fought, let's surrender!" A personal guard took Xing Bingzhong's arm and shouted at Xing Bingzhong with fear on his face.

"Sir, surrender, if you don't surrender, you will die."

Not only the guards, but even the soldiers who escaped looked at Xing Bingzhong with despair, and shouted words like surrender at Xing Bingzhong.

"Surrender?" Xing Bingzhong was trembling as if he had lost his soul.

If they surrendered, Yanmen Pass would be completely lost, but if they did not surrender, Yanmen Pass would not last long.

Earlier, Xing Bingzhong thought that if he had strong troops, it would not be too difficult to hold Yanmen Pass.

But now he sees clearly, even if he is given tens of thousands more, under this level of attack, let alone defending the city, whether he can survive is still a problem.

Xing Bingzhong's body was trembling non-stop. He sat on the ground, watching the rising flames of Dongxing Pass, his expression changed again and again within a few short breaths.

The defenders at Xixing Pass looked in the direction of Dongxing Pass with horror on their faces.

They really couldn't imagine what kind of weapon it was to create such a scene.

A soldier at Xixing Pass pointed in the direction of Dongxing Pass outside, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said with a bitter face: "I'm afraid the brothers above Dongxing Pass may not survive."

"Dang!"

A soldier next to him loosened his hand and dropped the long knife in his hand to the ground.

"Ken Ken will definitely not be able to survive. This level of attack, even a god can't survive."

"Then what shall we do? Are we going to guard the Yanmen Pass?"

"Guard the Yanmen Pass? What nonsense are you talking about? Can you save your life and keep the Yanmen Pass?"

"Then what do we do now?"

"What should I do? Run, what else can I do."

"But the general didn't give an order. Escaping on the battlefield is a death penalty."

"The capital crime of bullshit, it's too late if you don't run now."

Shocked by the artillery fire at Dongxing Pass, the defenders above Xixing Pass also began to panic and fled downward one after another.

Not long after they ran out, they met Xing Bingzhong who was leading the remnant soldiers.

"General? Are you still alive?" A soldier pointed at Xing Bingzhong and stopped in a panic.

There was no expression on Xing Bingzhong's face. He looked at the soldiers who escaped from Xixing Pass, and said in a hoarse voice: "You don't have to be afraid that I will punish you. I decided to lead the army to surrender!"

"Is what the general said true? Really surrender!"

"Do you still have to persevere if you don't surrender? Do you think you can persevere?" Xing Bingzhong asked rhetorically.

"General, let's surrender."

The soldiers who escaped from the Xixing Pass looked at Xing Bingzhong, and the tight strings loosened a lot.

"Stop the bombardment!" Zhao Wen looked at the city wall of Dongxing Pass in the binoculars, and said to Li Xiaosan beside him.

Li Xiaosan hurriedly led the messengers towards the artillery position ahead.

After a dozen or so breaths, the shelling stopped.

After the smoke cleared, Zhao Wen found that the city wall of Dongxing Pass had been completely blown into ruins.

The tall city wall was cut away by the artillery fire, leaving only a short base.There are broken bricks and tiles everywhere, and there are big pits and holes everywhere.

Zhao Wen looked at the city wall of Dongxing Pass that had been blown into ruins, and said to Li Xiaosan behind him, "Send the order to the first and second thousand households to prepare and launch an attack on Yanmen Pass in two quarters of an hour."

Li Xiaosan cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, then headed to the rear.

At this moment, Xing Bingzhong led the remaining defenders in Yanmen Pass to appear on the ruins of Dongxing Pass.

"What's going on?" Zhao Wen held up his binoculars and looked at the defenders who suddenly appeared, with a puzzled look on his face.

"Could it be that you have to surrender?"

Just when Zhao Wen was puzzled, Xing Bingzhong kept waving a white flag.

"It turned out to be surrender." Zhao Wen turned around hastily, and said to the messengers behind him, "Send the order and tell Li Xiaosan to let the first and second thousand households go to accept the prisoners."

Xing Bingzhong held up a white flag and looked at the team ahead with a bitter face.

Growing up so big, he had never encountered this kind of thing, and he had never seen this level of attack.

As if God was angry, he destroyed the city wall of Dongxing Pass in an instant.

"Boom!"

The soldiers of the first and second thousand households, led by their respective thousand households, rode their horses to Dongxing Pass.

Xing Bingzhong held up the white flag and looked at the cavalry approaching, his heart hung up again.

"Are you the defenders in Yanmen Pass?" Qi Dazhuang, a thousand households of the No. [-] Thousand Households Office, looked at Xing Bingzhong who was holding a white flag, and asked sharply.

Holding a white flag, Xing Bingzhong stood there respectfully, "We are the defenders in Yanmen Pass, and I am the general of these defenders. My name is Xing Bingzhong."

Qi Dazhuang rode a war horse and led his men to quickly surround the group of people.

"Now you line up for me, follow us, remember, don't have the idea of ​​running away, otherwise you will die miserably."

Qi Dazhuang looked at the captives, flicked the whip in his hand, and led his men and the No. [-]th Household to bring the captives back.

Xing Bingzhong looked at the increasingly obvious army in front of him, and a trace of relief suddenly appeared on his face.

Not only him, but many of his subordinates also looked relaxed, and they were not at all depressed because they were captured.

The shelling scene just now really frightened them. Although they surrendered now, their lives were saved.

When Xing Bingzhong passed the artillery position, he looked at the artillery above the artillery position with a blank expression on his face.

"Could it be that the attack just now came from these things? But these things don't look very powerful." Xing Bingzhong looked at the 152mm cannon howitzer and kept muttering.

To be honest, compared with the red cannons of this era, the 152mm cannon howitzer is indeed much smaller than the red cannon.

Because the smelting process and casting process are backward, in order to prevent the chamber from exploding, the body of the red cannon is very thick.

Compared with the heavy red cannon, the barrel of the 152mm cannon howitzer is indeed much smaller than the barrel of the red cannon.

Not long after, Xing Bingzhong and his party were brought in front of Zhao Wen.

"How many people are left now?" Zhao Wen looked at the prisoners and asked.

Qi Dazhuang led his men to count, and then said to Zhao Wen: "Master, there are a total of 100 people."

(End of this chapter)