Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 358 The Nine Earths Collapse (2)

"Yelubo?" Xiao Tachi was taken aback, General Suzhi Yelubo was always rebellious, how could he attack the city with such efforts?After thinking about it, he understood, "Yelubo is a Khitan after all, a Khitan surnamed Yelu." There was a feeling of incomprehension in his heart, because the excitement of Nanshan City's destruction also faded a lot, Xiao Tachi said in a deep voice: "Bai Diao The battalion follower stepped forward to supervise the battle!" He looked up at the front, and all the Liao troops had already covered them in a large scale, the cavalrymen were shaking thousands of torches, the iron hooves roared like thunder, and the ground was trembling.

The gun windows of the giant shield vehicle opened again.Someone in the shield car hesitated and asked: "Wu Dujian, the army is taking the city, do you still want to fire?" If you shoot rashly, you may accidentally injure your own people.

"This..." Wu Chun murmured undecided. As a Han, if he fired a cannon and killed the Khitan, he might not be able to afford it.After a while, I still didn't dare to make a decision.At this moment, a horse galloped up from behind, and the orderly asked loudly: "Xiao Dutong asked, why is the artillery dumb? If you can't take the city, you will all beheaded on the spot!" The gunner and driver in the shield car suddenly turned pale His face was pale, Xiao Tachi's military orders were strict, and punishments were always fulfilled.If the city cannot be captured, all the people in the shield chariot will be decapitated.

"Fire, hurry up, fire!" In desperation, Wu Chun unknowingly broke his throat.The gunner in the shield car ignited quickly, and after a while, there was a deafening "boom", and a huge stone bomb was thrown out, drawing an invisible arc shadow in the night sky, heading towards the section where the head surged. away from the city wall.

The crowd at the gap in the city wall was extremely dense. Neither the Liao army who dismounted to seize the city nor the Han army who defended the city desperately refused to take a step back.In the middle of winter, both sides wore thick armor and leather jackets.The people in the center of the battle group hardly yelled, not even the sound of "clinking" weapons intersecting. The soldiers on both sides used the simplest movements, stabbing, chopping, and chopping.Everyone faced several enemies at the same time, and no one could stop the enemy's weapons attacking from all directions. He could only demand the greatest price for his own life. Falling down like a log, some corpses were trampled under the feet of the raging crowd, and some rolled down the slope. In any case, these corpses were frozen stiff with blood and water, and became part of the gap in the city wall.

Zhang Ting was originally in the middle of the battle line of gunners, following the flow of people, he rushed to the front without knowing it.In this fierce fight, both sides of the war had the aura that they would not stop until they drove each other out of the gap in the city wall.Because of the narrow gap in the city wall, there were not many Liao and Han soldiers facing each other, and it was not easy for the soldiers behind to squeeze to the front.Although the weather was extremely cold, many soldiers were already sweating profusely before they reached the place where the two armies met.

Neither the Liao army's artillery barracks outside the city nor the Han army's artillery at the top of the city stopped bombarding them.From time to time, life-reaping shotguns flew over the heads of the crowd.When the soldiers charged upwards, they could only see the backs of their comrades. Only when they stood on the mound formed by the collapse of the city wall, could they see the torches all over the sky, and the boundless cavalry of the Liao army rushed here. Come.However, the scimitars and spears on the opposite side left the Han soldiers with no leeway.

"kill--"

Zhang Tie only had time to shout out before he was slashed heavily by the machete. Although the raised ribs on the shoulder armor blocked it, his shoulder blades were also sore from the shock.Seeing that the knife did not cut him open, the newly arrived Liao army instinctively froze for a moment. Zhang Tie resisted the numbness and moved his left and right hands forward at the same time. After touching the opponent's scale armor, Zhang Tie let out a muffled grunt and drew out the spear. This time he didn't dare to be distracted, and avoided the knife that was aimed at the ribs. , and then stabbed at the enemy's throat, the Liao army just dodged with his head sideways, and was stabbed in the heart by the Han army's firearms next to him.

Another Liao army rushed up. Holding a short spear in his hand, this Liao army stabbed at Zhang Ting's abdomen. Seeing that he couldn't dodge it in time, suddenly, there was a loud "boom", and a heavy stone bullet concentrated again. The city wall had already collapsed. The ruins were unbearable. The rammed earth collapsed one after another. The Han and Liao soldiers who were fighting fiercely at the gap fell down one after another. The dense crowd rolled down the slopes on both sides like collapsed mounds. The front fell down layer by layer, and the people behind couldn't hold back their strength, and they all got back.

Zhang Ting only felt his legs go limp, and the Liao army's spear slipped dangerously down his crotch, and the two of them fell down at the same time. "'Fuck'." Zhang Tie broke out in a cold sweat. With his left hand, he pulled out the dagger at his waist and slammed it down. "Insert", but the person involuntarily slid down the collapsed rammed earth until he was caught by an unknown object. Stopping it, Zhang Tie took a closer look, and it turned out to be the corpse of a Han army with wide-eyed eyes. He still knew this person, but he just disappeared.His mind was blank, and he didn't care about anything else at this time. He looked up at the gap in the city wall. After the shock of the Liao army's artillery bombardment, the Han army's original defense line of wooden piles and soil capsules almost completely collapsed.Because the soldiers on both sides fell, the gap in the city wall that was crowded with soldiers just now was actually empty.

"Rush!" "Rush up!" Several gunners have already shouted.

"Rush!" Zhang Tie's face was already covered with dust, and the thought was extremely strong. He turned over and got up, raised the firecracker gun in his hand, and crawled towards the gap above the mound. Two soldiers of the Han army rushed up together with him, and the shocked Liao army just got up and looked up. "After all, we climbed up first!" For some reason, Zhang Ting felt a sense of pride and ecstasy in his heart. He looked down at the Liao soldiers and shouted loudly: "Brothers, let them go!" , the first to rush to the Liao army under the mound.The other Han soldiers who climbed up the gap also shouted together, raised their spears, and rushed down staggeringly.

Liao Jun's face became bigger and bigger, from the initial blankness to fear, his eyes widened, and it was almost too late to resist. Zhang Tie stabbed a man's chest, and his brain was full of blood. He has rushed into dozens of Liao troops alone.However, almost in a moment, dozens of Han troops rushed down, while the Liao army turned around and ran towards the bottom of the mound.The bombardment of the [-]-jin cannon and the bravery shown by the Han army overdrawn the courage of the Liao army who had been fighting desperately just now, and finally collapsed.

Seeing that the Liao army turned around and fled, Zhang Tie breathed a sigh of relief. His hands and feet had already weakened after fighting so far. "Huh—" There was a smile on his face, the standing Khitan people could no longer be seen on the mound, and the Liao army was like a sea of ​​people in the distance. He was about to climb back to the top of the gap, when suddenly, countless forces Arrows were 'shot' from the darkness, and in an instant, more than a dozen gunners were hit by the arrows.Zhang Tie's chest, neck, waist and abdomen were full of arrows, and he felt dizzy and fell under the mound. When he saw the Liao army's chaotic footsteps for the last time, a stream of blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth Come out, "'Fuck', Zhou Yu, you son of a bitch, fire, fire—" After leaving this last thought, Zhang Tie lost consciousness again.

"Hurry up, grab the gap in the city!" Xiao Ping directed the arrows to shoot and kill those reckless Han gunners. He didn't care about reprimanding those subordinates who retreated, and drew his waist knife, intending to lead them to the gap himself.The only places where the chaotic battles occurred in the gaps in the city walls and earth mountains were the places where the artillery shells of the Han army could hardly exert their full power. Shotguns attack upwards, but they have to pay double, several times their lives.

"Boom——" "Boom——" the artillery at the top of the city began to bombard the bottom of the earth mountain, and countless shotguns "chichi" flew in all directions. "Fire!" "Hurry up, fire the 'powder'——" Zhou Yu shouted expressionlessly. The gunners charged just now and bought precious time. A line of defense was built at the gap in the city wall.

In Zhenyuan Terrace, Zhao Xingde's face was serious. He personally picked up a red-hot round iron solid bullet and put it into the barrel. The medicine bag and the wet soil isolation layer had already been put in. Once the round iron bullet is put in, the fuse must be ignited immediately.The red-hot round iron bullet was tremblingly put into the barrel, and many gunners secretly sweated. Although they were separated by gauze wrapped in wet soil, everyone was worried that the red-hot round iron bullet was just like that. Detonated the 'medicine' package.Zhao Xingde pushed the solid bullet into the bottom of the chamber, but the 'powder' bag was not ignited immediately, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, stepped aside, and nodded to the gunner.

The cannon had already been aimed at the heavy and huge tortoise shell of the Liao army, and the gunpowder fuse was burning "sizzling", and soon burned into the gun hole, only a wisp of black smoke rose, and soon— - There was a loud "boom", and the ground seemed to shake more violently than normal firing.In the darkness, the red-hot round iron bullet flew towards the artillery barracks of the Liao Army's heavy artillery with an arc that could be seen.

Including Zhao Xingde, almost all artillerymen were looking at the dark red arc, flying out at an extremely fast speed, and when they were getting closer and closer to the "turtle shell", almost everyone's hearts were suspended. Get up, success or failure depends on it.The red dot hit the tortoise's shell with great inertia, then sank into it and disappeared.Because the shield chariot of the Liao Army was [-] paces away, the sound of gunfire outside the city was intertwined, and no one could hear the sound of solid bullets hitting the tortoise's shell. All of this seemed to be happening in silence.

Zhenyuan Terrace was also silent, and after a while, I heard a faint voice: "It should be worn in." Zhao Xingde stared at the darkness, and said in affirmative tone again, "It has been worn in!" Brightness, it should be a little bright when it pops up.Everyone was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood, Tong Yunjie shouted loudly: "It's been punched in!" More people shouted excitedly: "It's been pierced in!"After finally suppressing it, the gunners of each gun position shouted: "Come and give me a red-hot bullet!" The blacksmiths hurriedly clipped the hot round iron shells in the furnace.

"One more red hot bomb!" "Boom—" "Boom—"

"Boom—boom—boom—" A round of fiery round iron bullets passed through visible red arcs and sank into the huge tortoise shell.