Chapter 937 Luxury

In the past, this kind of transporting soil to fill the moat would have resulted in heavy casualties. No army defending the city would let the enemy attacking the city do this.

But this time, amid the roar of Hongyi's cannons, there was no one standing on the top of the city. There was nothing to cover them while they were standing. This was different from shooting arrows that could still be blocked by the door. The subway bullets could tear apart anything that blocked them.

Originally, these soldiers still had some worries in their hearts. Even if the prisoners on top of the city could not threaten them, if an iron bullet without eyes fell into one of them, they would be killed and injured.

However, after so many shellings, every iron bullet hit the city head accurately. At most, one of them occasionally went a little higher and flew into the city, but there was absolutely no shot that went low and fell on one of our own people. body.

These soldiers had to admit that the filling of the moat under the cover of the Hongyi artillery was really the safest ever. While they were relieved, they were even more happy. After all, this achievement was achieved just like that.

Completely opposite to their mood were the prisoners on the top of Anshan Post Castle, far away from the shelling section of the city. They could still stand on the battlements and pay attention to the movements on the south gate sideways. I could only watch the subway bombs destroying the city head unscrupulously, while the Ming army below was filling up the moat in an orderly manner. Farther away, racks of large siege equipment had been destroyed. Assemble it.

There was nothing the city could do to stop all of this, they could only watch it happen. Anyone who is not a fool will understand that in this situation where they can only be beaten and cannot fight back, the Ming army will definitely be able to attack the city from the south gate. The impregnable Anshan Posthouse, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack, became nothing more than a joke under the attack method of the Ming army.

If a war can be fought back and forth, even if it cannot be fought, even if there are heavy casualties, in such an atmosphere, many people will fight for it!

But now, in this situation, the Jianlu in Anshan Posthouse are in a situation where they can only be beaten and cannot fight back. This situation has a serious blow to the morale of the Jianlu. Everyone is a little pessimistic. How can the Ming army defend such a powerful offensive? How can it be possible to defend it?

Looking outside the city, countless Ming troops are making preparations. Their number is more than five or six times that of the defenders inside the city. How can we fight this battle? If it were in the past, these Jianlu might have ignored the Ming army's numerical advantage because they despised the Ming army's combat power.

However, after the Battle of Gaizhou, the New Army went out to fight in the city, which taught them a lesson and made them realize that the Ming Army's field combat capabilities were also very powerful. In addition, the battle for scouts that took place in the area between Haizhou and Anshan Posthouse for a long time also told Jianlu that the combat power of the Ming army was no longer what it used to be. It's time to be ravaged.

The Jianlu guard of Anshan Posthouse was hiding at the top of the city far away from the south gate, watching everything that happened in front of him with a pale face. The order he received was to defend Anshan Posthouse and not lose Anshan Posthouse, because it was the gateway to Liaoyang. But in this situation, he really had no idea whether he could hold the Anshan Inn.

But no matter what, we must defend even if we can't hold it. In addition to sending emergency reports to Liaoyang one after another, he also loudly ordered the guards around him: "Go on, pass the order, we have no retreat, behind us is Liaoyang, and our army Shenyang, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, has countless tribesmen to protect it. Even if we die, we must defend the dangerous position of Anshan Posthouse. Anyone who dares to take a step back will be killed without mercy!"

The Jianlu in Anshan Post followed his order and thought about the Qing Dynasty behind them. These Jianlu could not help but secretly encourage themselves, and their morale increased a lot.

However, as the "boom boom boom" sound outside the city sounded again and again, Jianlu had just gained a lot of morale, and it was like a deflated ball, slowly deflating.

On the contrary, the Ming army outside the city, with the roar of artillery, their morale increased every time. Every time they saw a piece of Anshan Post Castle's city head being smashed by iron bullets, their morale increased again. A bit of morale.

The morale of the entire Ming army is getting higher and higher!

On the siege force side, large siege equipment has been assembled. But these Ming troops were a little disappointed. Because they looked at the top of the city of Anshan Yibao. Under the continuous bombardment of Hongyi cannons, the city wall was being destroyed and collapsed section by section. It seemed that they could attack the city directly from the gap without using these large siege equipment. went.

Didn’t I say that Anshan Posthouse is impregnable? Didn't he say that Anshan Posthouse was not afraid of artillery bombardment? How could you lie like this and make us work in vain!

The soldiers of the Ming army who assembled the siege equipment complained happily while pointing at the city head, all with smiles on their faces.

The sound of "crash" sounded continuously, and a section of the city wall on the south gate finally collapsed under the continuous bombardment of Hongyi cannon. Suddenly, countless dust was stirred up, a gust of wind passed by, and the dust almost enveloped Anshan Posthouse. The Hongyi cannon paused for a moment, but it adjusted its muzzle, and then quickly started firing again. From this section of the collapsed city wall, it continued to bombard both sides to increase the width of the gap.

"Luxury, what a luxury!" Cao Wenzhao looked at all this and sighed with a smile.

Cao Bianjiao also laughed after hearing this. He understood what his uncle meant. If before, a section of the city wall had been blown down, then we could attack. But the emperor specifically said that if something can be solved without human life, don't use human life to solve it. The emperor personally inquired about the materials needed on the front line, including gunpowder. The Hongyi artillery just blasted away, blasting out greater results, blasting out the psychological shadow of the Jianlu, blasting out the advantage of civilization over barbarism!

"Commander, the Hongyi cannon's bombardment limit has been reached, and it must cool down and rest."

After hearing the report from the artillery general, Cao Wenzhao took a look at that section of the moat and found that it had long been filled in. He looked up at the sky again and estimated that it was almost noon. Then he looked at the collapsed city wall that was as wide as it could be and nodded, indicating that he understood. Then he looked at his nephew and said, "Then it depends on your new army?"

"Uncle, please watch!" Upon hearing this, Cao Bianjiao immediately replied proudly. Then with an order, the New Army siege troops, who had already had their stomachs full and were waiting, began to take action as the generals arrived.

At the same time, the first messenger sent by Anshan Yibao to Liaoyang finally ran sixty miles and rushed into Liaoyang City.