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    Chapter 486: The siege ended hastily (first update)

    The power of artillery was once again displayed on the battlefield of cold weapons. Amidst bursts of thunderous explosions, sixty trebuchets turned into a push of wood fragments in just over three minutes.

    Sawdust mixed with countless flesh and blood were scattered everywhere. Many soldiers missing arms or other body parts were lying on the ground wailing desperately, which suddenly changed the atmosphere of the entire battlefield from majestic to tragic.

    Sun Chengzong was trembling as he looked at the location of the trebuchet. He didn't understand what kind of artillery could have such power. Could it be that the rumors were true?

    This burst of shelling made the hearts of more than 200,000 Ming soldiers and more than 80,000 Houjin troops tremble.  But there was no reason for the army of more than 300,000 to be frightened back by the opponent's shelling.

    "Order Zhao Zhijiao and Zu Dashou's troops to charge immediately!" Sun Chengzong's face turned pale and he gave the order to speed up the project.

    "Drive those Mongols to charge me!"

    We haven¡¯t seen the specific power of Taiwan¡¯s army guns yet, and Amin also plans to use the lives of Mongolians to obtain the most intuitive battlefield information for Hou Jin.  With this information, Houjin could determine what he should do.

    Under the strict orders of Sun Chengzong and Amin, tens of thousands of troops rushed towards the city wall of Yizhou like ants, hoping to overturn this tightly defended city through human life.

    However, when facing attacks from three directions, Kong Jie adopted a different defensive approach.

    On the Ming side, when the Ming soldiers were still four hundred meters away from the city wall, Kong Jie gave the order to open fire.  At four hundred meters, the Type 25 rifle is no longer very lethal.  Kong Jie hoped to scare the Ming Dynasty's generals back by causing more injuries and fewer deaths.

    This strategy worked on Zu Dashou's side. The soldiers in the front row were killed and wounded four or five hundred steps away, which frightened Zu Dashou.  At this distance, even the most powerful crossbow cannot reach the city wall.  In this situation where the enemy can hit you but you can't hit the enemy, how can you let others hit you?

    With this thought in his mind, Zu Dashou no longer actively urged his men to charge, and he no longer strictly urged those who were not seriously injured but were lying on the ground pretending to be dead.

    But it¡¯s different with Zhao Shujiao.  Zhao Shujiao said that in a good way, he was brave in battle and not afraid of death. In a bad way, he acted recklessly and didn't know how to use his brain. He would charge with a shin in every battle.

    Seeing that his soldiers were blocked four to five hundred steps away from the city wall, he was so angry that he directly ordered his servants to drive the soldiers to charge. He also personally killed several injured soldiers who fell to the ground.  In order to boost morale, he led his servants in a desperate charge towards Yiju City.

    "Hmph, don't bring so many people with you if you are looking for death! Concentrate your firepower and kill the generals who are at the front!"

    Sun Chuanxi, the regiment leader in charge of the defense of the east gate, saw that the enemy's charge intensity suddenly increased under the leadership of Zhao Lijiao, and immediately ordered some nearby soldiers to concentrate their firepower on Zhao Lijiao.

    Under special care, Zhao Shujiao and his hundreds of servants were shot into a hornet's nest by dense bullets as soon as they rushed within 300 meters.

    Seeing the fate of the hundreds of people led by Zhao, the morale of the soldiers behind them immediately fell to the bottom.  Especially when he saw hundreds of people in front of him being seriously injured and falling to the ground inexplicably. From time to time, someone's head would suddenly explode inexplicably.

    Under this situation, the courage of those Ming troops was completely defeated, and they retreated frantically.  At this time, Zu Dashou had already stopped attacking.

    Seeing this situation, Sun Chengzong was so angry that he was shaking all over, but he couldn't come up with a solution.  If Zu Dashou escaped from the battlefield, he could still drag him down and chop him down.

    But everyone has seen the situation on the battlefield. Under such circumstances, most generals will not do better than Zu Dashou, not to mention the example of Zhao Lijiao before them.  A desperate charge will only lead to everyone dying in vain.

    It was a cold start. The siege had just started for less than 20 minutes, but there was such a cold start.  This left Sun Chengzong to do nothing.  However, it was quiet here, but the fight at Ximen was fierce.

    Unlike targeting the Ming army, Kong Jie ordered his subordinates to decentralize the Hou Jin army and ordered them to open fire when they were within 150 meters.

    Hearing the intensive gunfire from both directions in the southeast, Amin immediately urged the Mongolians to speed up their pace.  But when they reached one hundred and fifty meters of the city wall and started shooting arrows at the city wall, there was suddenly a sound from the city wall that was denser than the two directions in the southeast combined.Sound.

    I saw thousands of Mongolian soldiers rushing at the front, and they fell down in large pieces as if they were pressed down by a huge palm.

    And this terrifying situation is not over yet. The gunfire on the city wall seems to have no gap, and it keeps ringing, killing more and more Mongolians on the spot.

    Although the Mongolian bows and arrows also shot onto the city wall, all the soldiers on the wall squatted under the crenellations to shoot, and the killing effect was really limited.

    The Mongols¡¯ dense offensive formation magnified the killing effect of muskets to a terrifying level. Basically, four or five bullets can kill or injure a Mongolian.

    Under this kind of killing effect, although there were only more than 6,000 United Guards soldiers on the city wall, nearly 20,000 casualties were caused to the Mongols in just ten minutes of shooting.

    Such a result left Amin stunned.  He had never thought that there was such a terrifying and efficient killing weapon in this world.  This made him completely lose the extravagant hope of returning to Liaodong.

    At this time, the artillery in the city rang again, and the intensive artillery fire directly hit Amin's central army. Amin was so frightened that he immediately ordered the army to retreat fifteen miles.

    But even so, under the artillery attack, there were still thousands of Houjin soldiers who did not participate in the attack.

    When the opponent had withdrawn from the range of the artillery, the artillery began to fire on the retreating Mongolian soldiers, so that the Mongols who participated in the attack eventually left nearly 20,000 corpses and seven or eight  Thousands of injured personnel.

    However, except for those who were not seriously injured, these injured Mongolians were basically dead, because it was impossible for Yizhou City to come out to rescue them, and their robes had long been frightened and did not want to  Dare to get even half a step closer to Yiju City.

    The first siege ended so hastily. Such a result was something Sun Chengzong never thought of at the beginning.

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