The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 694
Di Qing was very pleased to see that the army's spirit was available, but he did not immediately order to start the siege. Instead, he asked the soldiers to rest and eat first, and then attack the city after recharging their energy.

Anyway, Mianyang City is right in front of you, and you can't run away, so there's no need to be in a hurry.

After the army rested for half a day, the soldiers regained their spirits and challenged Di Qing one after another.

Di Qing just let the army continue to rest, and did not promise them to fight immediately.

Morale is available, but not maxed out yet.On the battlefield, morale is extremely important, and it often ebbs and flows.

The ranks of officers and soldiers kept rising, and the longer the defenders in the city dragged on, the lower their morale would be.When the cannon blasts tomorrow, the morale of the defenders will collapse in the shortest possible time, and the difficulty of breaking the city will be minimized.

Di Qing is an eternally famous general invited by the Pantheon. He has mastered the skills and timing of these battlefields to the point of proficiency, so naturally he will not be in a hurry.

The general trend of the world has been fixed, even if Zhang Xianzhong jumps around, it will be useless.

When Di Qing was calm and unhurried, Sun Kewang in the city was confused and panicked.

If the officers and soldiers attack the city immediately, he can still fight to the death while the morale of the defenders has not fallen to the bottom, and maybe there is still a chance.

However, the officer and the army took all the time to spare, which made his plan come to nothing. He was so sad that he had nothing to do, but his face was ashen and he didn't make a sound.

Among the soldiers below, there were already rumors and panic, and many people had already begun to waver and wanted to desert.

If Sun Kewang hadn't killed dozens of people with obvious intentions by violent means, there might have been a large-scale escape incident at this time.

Sun Kewang led a group of soldiers to patrol the barracks. The whispering soldiers immediately shut up when they saw him coming, and just looked at them silently.

But what Sun Kewang saw in the eyes of those soldiers was not only fear, but also resentment.

This feeling made Sun Kewang very uncomfortable.If a few people dare to do this, he will just order it and watch it.But there are too many people with this kind of look, if he kills them all, there is no need to defend this city, just run away.

He knew very well in his heart that these soldiers hated him for breaking their way of survival.

"If someone speaks nonsense again and disturbs the morale of the army, they will definitely be killed. His Majesty has already sent reinforcements to rush over. As long as we survive tomorrow, the reinforcements will arrive. Once the reinforcements arrive, the officers and soldiers will have nothing to fear. "

As Sun Kewang walked, he asked the soldiers behind him to shout among the battalions, trying to use these words to stabilize the morale of the army.

As for how much it can play, no one knows.

This night, Sun Kewang didn't sleep well, and was always worried that there would be riots by soldiers at night.At dawn, I was so sleepy and exhausted that I barely slept for a while.

But he felt that he had just dozed off when he was woken up by the soldiers, saying that the officers and soldiers were about to attack the city.

Sun Kewang hurriedly washed his face with cold water, hurriedly led his people to the top of the North City Tower, and looked down.

The gates of the official army camp below the city were wide open, and groups of soldiers in gray uniforms came out of the camp in neat and solemn lines, and began to line up below the city.

In the middle are infantry phalanxes, flanked by cavalry guards.Just look at the queue, horizontal and vertical, no matter what angle you look at, the soldiers are all in a line.

For this alone, there are not many armies in the world that can do it.Being able to do this can already be regarded as half of the temperament of a strong army.

Of course, this formation is quite satisfactory. Although it is mighty and extraordinary, there is nothing too unusual about it.

What attracted Sun Kewang's attention the most was the hundreds of cannons lined up in the rear.Although those artillery pieces didn't look as daunting as the red-clothed cannons, they were enough to make one's heart tremble in fear in terms of numbers.

The black muzzles of hundreds of cannons are pointing obliquely at the sky, and the artillerymen are beginning to adjust the angle of the muzzles according to the army's instructions to ensure more accurate shooting.

The number of people exceeded ten thousand and boundless, and a large formation of officers and soldiers spread out under the city. I don't know how many people there are, but there are all gray figures as far as the eye can see.

But these tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of horses and horses are silent and solemn, except for the occasional neighing of war horses, which is the sound of adjusting the angle issued by the artillery officer.

On the other hand, at the head of Mianyang City, the defenders looked fearful, looking at the formation of the officers and soldiers below the city, feeling the boundless spirit of murder rushing towards their faces, many people were already terrified, they looked at each other and whispered The sound kept ringing again.

Sun Kewang's heart was also extremely heavy, but he couldn't do anything at the moment, he just ordered to concentrate on guard, resist desperately, wait for reinforcements and other routines.

Not to mention the soldiers, even he himself didn't believe that there would be reinforcements coming.Under such fierce artillery fire from the official army, even if reinforcements did come, it would be of no avail. It could only be added to the credit book of the official army leader.

A cavalry came out of the formation of officers and soldiers below the city, rode the horse slowly to the point where a stone's throw away from the city, held a horn rolled up in a gray iron sheet in his hand, and began to shout to the top of the city: "The defenders on the city! Listen, this is the army of Marshal Di Qingdi, Marshal Di Qingdi of the Southwest War Zone under His Royal Highness the Regent of the Ming Dynasty. According to the order of His Royal Highness the Regent, Zhang Xianzhong and his loyal rebels will be wiped out. If you are forced by Zhang Thief, then put it down quickly If you surrender your weapons, Marshal Di Qing will spare you his death. If you are stubborn and our army’s cannon fires, you will have only a dead end. Give you time to think about it. After a stick of incense, if no one surrenders, our army will kill you. The siege of the city has begun. When the time comes, the bombardment will rage, and everything will be destroyed, and it will be too late to regret it."

The knight who shouted shouted again before turning back to the main formation.

The knight had a loud voice, but when he yelled through the iron horn, his voice became even clearer, and everyone in the city could hear him clearly.

Many defenders have already started whispering and talking, and it is obvious that some people have begun to waver.

Sun Kewang stretched out his hand and pulled a bow, pulled out an arrow and shot it at the shouting knight.

Just when the arrow was about to hit the shouting knight, an arrow flew out from Guanjun Town and knocked Sun Kewang's arrow to the ground, breaking it in two.

There was a sound of gasping for air from the top of the city.

Sun Kewang's face was livid, and when he wanted to shoot again, the knight had already moved into the formation.

The generals on both sides are very clear that the public persuasion to surrender before the battle is an offensive strategy. They don't really hope that the defenders will surrender immediately. Make it easier to break the city.

The officers and soldiers actually lit a stick of incense under the city. Although the stick of incense was very small, tens of thousands of eyes were watching the stick of incense burn slowly.

For the defenders at the top of the city, when the incense burns out, their doomsday will come.

For the officers and soldiers under the city, when the incense burns out, the order to make contributions is issued.

The air froze, the city was silent, no one spoke, but everyone's heart was trembling and restless, but the moods represented were different.

The atmosphere was extremely suppressed, and Sun Kewang felt that he needed to do something. He raised the long knife in his hand, with luck and strength, and shouted loudly to the city: "Jiang Chuan himself is a rebellious minister and a traitor. He used the emperor to order the princes. What face does he have in the name of the court?" Attack the city of our Daxi Kingdom? The officers and soldiers are incompetent. They have been repeatedly defeated by our Daxi Army in the past. Today, changing your appearance will not change the fact that you are incompetent. If you want to capture Mianyang, let's try your teeth. You are still the men of our Daxi Army Hard bones!"

The soldiers behind him raised their knives and shouted in solidarity with the coach.

"Sun Kewang is a little quick-witted, but it's a pity that his tricks are useless at all. I always agree with your Highness. Your Highness said that in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is useless. Now we have absolute strength. With his strength, Sun Kewang's move is just a way of comforting himself."

Di Qing watched all this from the cloud car in the Chinese army formation, shook his head calmly and smiled.

Indeed, Sun Kewang's words had little effect. Except for his own soldiers and the veterans of the Great Western Army, those soldiers who were captured from the army or forced to recruit from the local area were all out of their minds. , his eyes were only staring at the burning incense that was getting older and getting smaller, and the hand holding the weapon turned a little white.

The stick of incense finally burned to the end, and the little red spot slowly crooked down, turning into a pile of ashes.

"The incense has been burned." An officer in charge of the guard raised the flag in his hand and shouted loudly.

The faces of the defenders on the top of the city suddenly became tense, and many people's bodies began to tremble.

"Then let's get started, these guys must be waiting impatiently." Di Qing laughed lightly and ordered.

The herald quickly gave the order to begin the attack in semaphore.

The order was passed down layer by layer, and the commander of the artillery division gave the order to prepare for shooting.

The officers in charge of observation and calibration in each row held up the small red flags in their hands, clenched the whistle used to convey orders, and only stared at the position of the command platform.

"Six rounds of salvo, fire!" The artillery division commander ordered decisively.

The small flags in the hands of the officers suddenly fell, and the sharp whistle sounded at the same time.

"Boom boom boom!" More than 200 cannons sounded one after another, sending out earth-shattering roars.There were bursts of white smoke, and hundreds of shells whizzed and made a sharp sound across the sky, and smashed heavily towards the head of Mianyang city.

Most of the shells accurately landed on the head of Mianyang City, and immediately the rocks flew, and the debris swept across. The defenders were swept to the ground like mowing grass.

The soldiers who were lucky enough not to die began screaming and running around, colliding with each other, and chaos began on the top of the city.

Some clever soldiers lay on the ground, trying to avoid the sweep of shell fragments.But because his body was close to the ground, he was shocked by the huge explosion of the shells and spit out blood, and his internal organs were all injured.

Although Sun Kewang was considered a brave general in the Daxi Army, he swore that he had never experienced such a terrible shelling.

When the shells flew across the sky towards the city, he even forgot to dodge and stared blankly at those dark things getting closer.

If it weren't for the commander of the personal soldiers behind him who pulled him down and then protected him tightly, the general of Mianyang might have been killed in the first round of shelling.

Although the defenders were already terrified by the terrifying power of the cannon, they realized that the horror they had imagined was far from enough when the shells really fell on their heads.

Every cannonball was like a messenger sent by hell. It landed, exploded, and the fragments swept away, and then took away a lot of lives.

Human life is worthless, and it is vividly expressed at this moment.

On the top of the city is hell on earth, the world of Shura.But the officers and soldiers under the city were excited and excited.

Especially those soldiers of the National Guard formed later were astonished, and then secretly rejoiced.

They were astonished that the artillery of the official army was so terrible, but fortunately they did not become the enemy of the official army, otherwise they would be in hell like the defenders on the top of the city.

More than 200 cannons fired in turn according to the array. After half an hour of shelling, white smoke almost enveloped the artillery positions.

The artillerymen even took off their jackets and carried shells shirtless.

At this moment, they are the gods on the battlefield.Cannon is the god in their hands, the god of war.

After six rounds of shelling, there was a dead silence on the city.

"Infantry siege!"

Before the smoke cleared from the battlefield, Di Qing gave the final order for the infantry to attack the city.

The main force of this siege was the soldiers of the newly formed National Guard. They held guns in their hands and big knives on their backs in regiments, roaring towards the city.

The ones who rushed to the front were the ladder soldiers carrying ladders, and the engineering soldiers carrying long wooden boards.

The engineers rushed to the front and put the long planks on the other side of the moat.The ladder soldiers galloped along the long plank like flying, and leaned the ladder against the city wall.The hook at the top of the ladder was tightly hooked on the crenel of the city wall.

The infantrymen of the National Guard who followed were shouting and struggling to climb up the ladder.

The wide walls of Mianyang City are covered with ladders, and the ladders are full of soldiers climbing up quickly.

There has been no movement on the top of the city, and there has been no counterattack in the slightest.

The first officer and soldier rushed to the top of the city, followed by the second and third, countless officers and soldiers rushed to the top of the city.

After the initial silence, cheers came from the top of the city.

The defenders were completely broken.After six rounds of violent shelling, there was no one alive on the city except for the broken arms and blood of the corpses all over the ground.

Looking into the city from the top of the city, there are panicked and fleeing crowds everywhere.

There is no suspense in this siege battle, and it is basically similar to every previous siege battle.Just a few rounds of violent shelling made the enemy completely lose the courage to resist.

Although this result was expected, it dissatisfied the soldiers of the National Guard who were on the main mission for the first time, because they did not have the right opportunity to prove their bravery and prove that they were also qualified fighters.

The city has fallen, leaving only remnants of the enemy.

(End of this chapter)