Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 278 Steel Wheel Fire Cabinet (Please Subscribe!)
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The Golden Crow goes down to the west, and the Moon Rabbit rises to the east.

Liang Shanjun is ready.

During the second half of the Korean campaign, Li Yan commanded dozens of siege battles, big and small, so he was already very familiar with sieges.

Therefore, Li Yan said to Le He very simply: "Order, let Yang Lin start attacking."

Lehe listened to the words and immediately sent a semaphore to the letter artillery.

After seeing the letter artillery, he lit the letter artillery.

"boom!"

After the sound of the cannon, the [-] infantry led by Yang Lin immediately began to attack the city.

Although no one was there, Li Yan could still think about the situation of the siege over there.

Unlike Song Jiang and his group of mobs, the current Liangshan Army is a regular army, so it has all kinds of siege equipment.

Siege equipment and siege tools such as unconscionable cannons, catapult carts, bed crossbows, rolling carts, ladder carts, wooden curtain carts, ladders, and wooden curtains can be said to be everything that Liangshan Army has.

Use unconscionable cannons, catapults, bed crossbows, and god-arm crossbows to suppress the defenders on the city wall, and then use wooden curtain carts, catapult carts, wooden curtains, and large shields to block the defenders' arrows and rush forward.

With the number of bows and crossbows in this small city, the Liangshan Army should be able to break through the city easily, and then attack the city with ladder carts and ladders, and then there will be a tragic siege battle.

In fact, it was almost the same as what Li Yan thought.

On Yang Lin's side, they attacked the city with less than ten casualties, and then the Liangshan infantry began to attack the city fearlessly.

Some people may ask, isn't this a feint? Why are Yang Lin and the others so desperate?

That's right.

It's a feint.

You can't be fooled just because it's a feint.

You know, the officers and soldiers guarding the city are not fools. It is impossible for them not to find out that there are still a lot of people in the west. How could they not defend the west?
Therefore, the feint must be realistic, so that Gao Lian can transfer people from the west to Yang Lin and the others.

In this way, the west side can successfully break through Gaotang City.

In fact, Yang Lin didn't tell his subordinates that they were feinting.

First of all, it is confidentiality. In terms of military deployment, the fewer people who know, the better.

Secondly, it is to make the performance of the infantry led by Yang Lin more realistic.

Some people may say, isn't this a bit too disrespectful to the lives of soldiers?
Compassion does not lead soldiers, righteousness does not raise wealth.

As a general, the greatest kindness is victory, and the greatest kindness is victory with less casualties.

If you can't even tolerate this level, then don't be a general, you will definitely harm others and yourself.

Yang Lin shouted and killed, Li Yan didn't move, and didn't give a second order, until the cheers of the Liangshan Army came from the other side, and then there was a letter cannon, Li Yan knew that there must be Liangshan The soldiers rushed to the top of the city before ordering: "Let's attack."

Lehe listened to the order and immediately issued orders again and again.

Soon, five hundred sailors in shorts appeared, and each of them had a four-five-foot-wide bridge wrapped in yellow leather.

As soon as they appeared, these navy troops rushed towards the moat with their respective bridge decks as shields.

Seeing this, the defenders on the city wall used bows and crossbows to stop them, but without exception, they were all blocked by the bridge planks in their hands.

Soon, these sailors rushed to the edge of the moat, and then launched into the water in an orderly manner.

Not long after, Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others saw a miraculous scene!
Those bridge slabs turned into three long and stable bridges in a very short period of time.

At this time, the Sandu heavy armored infantry, which had already been prepared, quickly rushed to the opposite side from the flying bridge with a large shield and a five-inch square steel box.

Heavy armored infantry and large shields are indestructible unless they are sharp weapons such as cannons, bed crossbows, and trebuchets. It's fate.

After more than [-] people were killed or injured, most of the three heavy armored infantry rushed to the opposite bank.

After that, they fixed the five-inch square steel boxes in their hands on the city wall very regularly.

It turned out that the five-inch square steel box was also developed by Liu Huiniang. Of course, Li Yan also helped a lot during the process, and gave Liu Huiniang many new ideas. Liu Huiniang named it "Steel Wheel Fire Cabinet".

The general method is actually to use a five-inch square steel box with gunpowder on the bottom, a shaft on it, and eight teeth on the shaft.

There is a winding cable at one end of the other shaft, which is connected to a large legal wheel, and the other end is held by a small pin, with a machine wheel next to it, which is similar to a self-sounding clock.

When he got to the end, he pulled out the splinter, and the dharma wheel pulled the coiled cables, causing the shaft wheel to spin, the agate sharp point collided with the steel bar, sparks burst out, and the gunpowder ignited.

It sounds powerful, and the principle seems to be sound, but to put it bluntly, it is actually a ticking time bomb for future generations.

After the heavy armored infantry installed the steel wheel fire cabinet, they immediately stepped back from the fly bridge.

Not long after, there was a "boom", a loud noise that Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others had never heard when they were beaten out of their mother's womb!
"Boom!"

Looking at the city wall again, it collapsed unexpectedly!

As for the officers and soldiers on the city wall, they no longer know where they are!
The strong city that Song Jiang and others failed to break through for more than 100 days opened the door to the Liangshan army in an instant!
Song Jiang, Wu Yong and other people from Erlong Mountain, including Chao Gai and Bai Sheng, were all stunned!

"What kind of magic is this?"

"Could it be that Li Yan is a god? Otherwise, how could he be so powerful?"

"With the godly method, what city in the world can resist Li Yan?"

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No one paid any attention to what Song Jiang and the others were thinking. Ruan Xiaoqi, Wang Dingliu, and Ma Ling each led [-] horse troops into the city immediately, and then Wu Song also led [-] infantry troops into the city.

Seeing that the Liangshan army had entered from the west, Yang Lin's defenders immediately fell apart. Yang Lin then personally led his Liangshan infantry to attack the city wall, and then opened the city gate, allowing all the Liangshan army to enter the city.

Next, there is nothing to say.

Yang Lin was lucky and Gao Lian was caught by him.

Seeing that Gao Lian was captured, the city guards lost even half of their fighting spirit and surrendered en masse.

Gaotang City is broken.

After Wu Song and others had cleared almost all the rebels in Gaotang City, Li Yan entered the city with an army of one thousand horses.

First pass down the order of the general, not to harm the people, and at the same time release the list to comfort the people, Qiu did not commit any crimes, and then Li Yan went straight to the prison.

Without much effort, Li Yan found Chai Jin's family and Chai Huang's family, but he couldn't find Chai Jin.

Later, Lin Ren, the jailer, took the initiative to approach Li Yan and said: "Yesterday, the attack on the city was tight, and the city was almost broken. The Kozhifu became angry and let the villain follow Chai and the officials. The man, then unshackled him, let him hide in the dry well in the backyard, and then lied to the Gao Zhifu that he had already sent him on the road, but now he does not know whether he is alive or dead."

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(End of this chapter)