The fierce artillery fire lasted for half an hour before gradually stopping. The wind blew away the smoke of gunpowder. At this time, the majestic East City Tower had collapsed, and the raging fire was rippling, and it was hard to escape the fate of becoming ruins. The defense measures such as the battle sheds built on the city walls were almost intact. The ashes after the curtains burned were like black butterflies flying all over the sky under the urging of wind and smoke. As for the catapults and crossbows, they were destroyed on the position without launching them, and they did not show their due combat power; and the bodies of the soldiers guarding the city were scattered all over the city, with shock and despair on their faces.

‘Dongdongdongdongdong…’ The drum sounded suddenly, and the shouts of soldiers also sounded. The soldiers who were waiting to attack the city began to gather and move to the city. Then, Mongolian Yuan soldiers emerged from the city. While busy extinguishing the fire, they hid behind the city walls and bent their bows and arrows to block the soldiers who were siege. At the same time, a large number of Ding Zhuang, who assisted in defense, also went to the city to rescue the injured and clean up the bodies of the dead. At the same time, they repaired the destroyed defensive equipment, transported rolling wood and stones, and replenished the bombed combat supplies.

‘Boom boom boom boom…’ Just as the Mongolian and Yuan soldiers on the city were clearing the battlefield in an orderly manner and preparing to resist the Song army’s siege, the Song soldiers gathered under the city stopped and the cannon sounded suddenly. In amazement, the overwhelming artillery fire had arrived, and the city exploded above and below, and the people on the city were instantly engulfed by fire and smoke. At this time, they understood that the Song army was using fraud, pretending to attack the city to attract them to the city, and then suddenly launched artillery fire. But it was too late to come here. Most of the soldiers and civilians in the city were killed and injured, and everyone fled down the city was injured. Outside the city, the Song army laughed loudly.

Liu Zhixue understood very well that the purpose of the war was to consume the opponent's vitality and logistics supplies. Whoever could persevere to the end would be the winner. Therefore, he set a plan to lure the enemy into the city to defend with the sound of advancing drums after the artillery attack, and then carry out artillery fire strikes again to kill and injure the enemy soldiers and consume their defending power to reduce the resistance they encountered during the siege.

This time, the artillery not only participated in the bombardment, but also the Baizi Guns and the Thunder Guns equipped with frontier infantry were also added. Although these guns that fired shots had a powerful but had a high killing surface, they could achieve greater results. The Weiyuan Guns also changed their positions and shot flat on the temporarily piled up high platforms with the city walls, and added shotguns. The projectiles that flew out could easily penetrate the shield armor, and those who were in the middle could almost survive.

Next, the Song army re-used the same tricks to lure and kill the enemy guarding the city. This was like a difficult death situation. If we didn't go to the city, the enemy might attack and seize the city. But if we went up, who could guarantee that the Song army would not be fake this time, and if we went up, we would not come back, which was no different from sending death. In this way, we wanted to see how big the shadows were in the hearts of the soldiers who were urged to go up. After all, the taste of death may not be uncomfortable. If we knew it was death but still wanted to go, it would definitely be worse than death, and our morale would be greatly reduced.

After several repeated recurrences, the Mongolian Yuan defenders also learned to be smart and no longer drilled into the trap. Instead, whenever the Song army's artillery stopped, they just sent a few enemy soldiers to the city to observe the virtual and real situation. Most of the troops were lying behind the city walls, but they no longer rushed up to the city like a rush. The changes in the city were seen by the lookouts, and the Song army was not so luxurious.

However, the Song army's artillery attack did not stop because of this, but became even more fierce. Liu Zhixue knew that siege by climbing the city wall not only required repeated struggles, and suffered huge casualties, but also delayed time. The city gate has always been the weakest place in the city, so he decided to concentrate his efforts to break through the city gate. Therefore, while completely suppressing the enemy's troops on the city wall, he concentrated several Weiyuan artillery to bombard the East City Gate, and ordered rocket artillery to shoot into the city to further attack the morale of the enemy, causing chaos, and winning the opportunity to break through the city gate.

Since the gates of each city are the weakest link in defense, the city gate will focus on the city gate, and the city gate will be considered as the focus. Therefore, strengthening the defense of the city gates has become a problem that needs to be solved. The ancients built ancillary buildings connected by city walls on the left and right sides of the city tower, which are connected with the corresponding city walls and the city walls, forming closed areas at the city gates that protrude outwards and are called "urbans", which plays the role of moving the defense line of the city tower outwards and enhancing the dual role of protecting the safety of the city tower.

The gate of the Wengcheng will not be opposite to the main gate, but needs to bypass a bend to enter the main gate to reduce the impact of the enemy. When personnel and materials enter the city, they must enter the Wengcheng through the Wengcheng gate, and then enter the city through the city gate. On the contrary, they can leave the city through the Wengcheng gate. The Wengcheng can also play the role of "catching turtles in the jar". When the enemy enters the Wengcheng, they close the city gate, trap the enemy in the Wengcheng, and then kill and hurt themselves. Therefore, the city gate of the Wengcheng is also different from the conventional door-leaf-opening gate.

The gate of the urncheng takes off and lands vertically, shaped like a gate, which is commonly known as the "Shenzhen Gate", which is equivalent to the security door in the family today. Two or three meters behind the city gate, there is a stone trough about half a foot wide. This stone trough is the takeoff and landing track of the urncheng gate, which leads directly to the top of the city wall. When the city gate is opened during the day, the urncheng gate is received at the top of the city wall. In this way, when the war comes, the urncheng gate can be lowered and closed the urncheng gate passage is used to defend and block the enemy's invasion, and there is no need to worry about the enemy's use of fire attacks and impacts to attack. In normal times, it can be lifted and opened to the urncheng gate passage to facilitate traffic between the material transporters inside and outside the city.

The thousand-jin gate is mostly made of solid wood wrapped in iron sheets, and is covered with reinforced iron nails, so it is very heavy and weighs more than a thousand jin. In the legendary story, Confucius' father Shu Lianghe is very brave and once lifted the thousand-jin gate to allow soldiers to escape. In "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", Xiong Kuohai strives to lift the thousand-jin gate, allowing heroes from all walks of life to pass quickly, while he is exhausted and killed under the thousand-jin gate.

Qianjin Gate has made many heroes and become a well-known cultural symbol, but it is a legend after all. In fact, at least several individuals need to operate simultaneously on the Qianjin Gate. The soldiers guarding the city need to turn the winch on the two wooden pillars on the city platform to control the take-off and landing of the gate with simple machinery, which cannot be done by manpower. In order to protect the gate, a gate building is built on the wall of the city wall. Its shape is like the arrow tower No. 1, with arrow windows on three sides, and can also be used as a defensive fortification.

It is precisely because of the special structure of the gate, which is integrated with the upper and lower parts, and there are no weak parts such as the gate pivot, so in the past, the gate could only be destroyed by the siege cone. Shouzhou City had complete defense measures, and the city tower and the arrow tower were destroyed by the head wheel artillery fire, and the take-off and landing machinery was naturally destroyed. To break this obstacle, of course, it is easier to use a more powerful artillery than a human force to crash, and at the same time it can reduce casualties.

After several rounds of cannon fire, the gate was smashed to pieces, but the defenders seemed to have been ready to defend the enemy. The city gate hole had been filled with sand and gravel. It was still difficult to pass by just destroying the gate. To get close to the city gate, you had to cross the moat, and the bridge had long been demolished. At this time, the soldiers on standby began to fill the moat under the cover of artillery fire. Fu Jian claimed that he could "snap the whip and cut off the flow". Although it was bragging, he could not regard the saying that there were too many people and the power was great.

At this time, the enemy troops on the city were completely suppressed by artillery fire. Tens of thousands of Song soldiers carried firewood and soil and rushed forward to the moat. As the assembly line-like operation, the moat was gradually filled with speed visible to the naked eye, paving a road. The engineers first stepped forward to clean up the fillings in the city gate. Those who could move were quickly cleared out. Those who could not move were placed with gunpowder and then cleaned up. It was difficult to clear a path.

While the engineers cleared the path, the artillery was still shooting and suppressing the enemy troops on the city and under the city, and the rocket launcher also poured out its anger at the fastest speed. Anyone who knows a little knows that the biggest feature of the rocket launcher is that it is not accurate, and it becomes very willful after leaving the orbit, and often deviates from the predetermined target; the second is the terrifying lethality. The large-charged ceramic warhead exploded and shattered into countless thin shrapnels, and produced huge flames, leaving no creatures within a radius of more than ten feet.

In addition, the characteristics of the rocket launcher itself make its ballistic high. During the fall, it produces a high power through the power effect, which can easily penetrate the top of a building dominated by bricks and tiles in this era. In addition, the rocket makes a heart-wrenching whistle during flight, making it a very terrifying weapon.

Of course, in the eyes of the Shouzhou military and civilians who had witnessed the terrifying power of artillery and rocket launchers for the first time, they quickly changed from curiosity to fear. The long range of the rocket launcher was enough to fly from the east to the west of the city, making people feel unavoidable. The rockets flying around carried out indiscriminate bombing the entire city, no matter whether you are a wealthy family or a humble house in the middle of the city.

While the rocket launcher caused casualties and panic in the city, it also created fires everywhere. You should know that the current houses are still mainly wooden structures. When dry matters are dry in early spring, a little spark may cause fires. The city is adjacent to it, so it is difficult to curb the fire once the fire rises. For a time, thick smoke in the city is rolling, covering the sky and the sun, just like adding a canopy over the city, and even the sentries on the watchtower can see clearly the situation in the city.

However, the Song army outside the city did not know the specific situation in the city. After the engineers opened the gate of the city, the commando followed and entered the city with shields made of door panels, but they were surprised to find that they did not wait for the rain of arrows like locusts and the rolling wood and stones like hail. They could only hear the sound of explosions mixed with shrill shouts.
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