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Volume 1: Saving the Three Thousand Beauties in the Harem Chapter 433: Bombardment of Shangjing (Part 2)

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    Di Lie gave the order, and the first one to attack was not the heartless cannon, but the missile launcher, which threw kerosene bombs. The target was the barrier on the city.

    The shield is a commonly used tool for defending the city. It uses log beams as supports and is covered with large pieces of cowhide or fence coated with lime and thick mud (when cotton became popular in later generations, wet cotton quilts were often used instead of cowhide).  From a distance, it looks like a slanting mesh greenhouse.  Hundreds of these low-cost shields can easily be made and lined up at the top of the city. They are mainly used to defend against arrows thrown by enemy troops attacking the city.  How was the effect? ??When Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Zhen defended Taiyuan, they held on for nine months without sinking under various siege equipment and arrows of the Jinxi Route Army. This barrier played a great role.

    The barrier can easily deflect tens of kilograms of boulders with huge kinetic energy thrown from outside the city.  But a twenty kilogram explosive bag would naturally fly away.  Therefore, before firing, this obstacle must be eliminated first.

    The missile launcher used by the Tenchu ??Army is an improved version. A huge iron-wood baffle is installed in front of the missile launcher to protect the gunner and facilitate close-range throws - that is, throws within a hundred meters below the city, and  Called "siege missile".

    Although the Tianzhu Army's missiles were within a hundred meters of the city, Wanyan Pujianu, the deputy marshal in charge of commanding the outer city, looked at his troops inside the city and then behind the circular wall 200 meters away. He was eager to try and prepare for the attack at any time.  The soldiers of the Tenchu ??Army who were preparing to attack gave up the tempting idea of ??sending sergeants down on ropes to destroy the enemy's siege equipment.

    "Launch!"

    "Launch!"

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    At the same time, one hundred and eighty missile launchers from eight brigades were assembled from four directions below the capital city. The long projecting arms ejected under the pull of the twisting tendons, trembling sharply.  Nearly two hundred three-pound kerosene bombs streaked across the sky over Shangjing and fell towards the city head filled with golden soldiers.

    The golden soldiers on the city screamed and scattered in all directions, each looking for cover to hide.  Most of them chose to hide behind the shelter, and the rest were hiding in battlements, some in crenelations, some in gate towers, turrets, and so on.

    On the second floor of the south gate of the outer city, Wanyan Pu's slave looked out through the window pane.  He was rather disdainful of the pottery bombs that were swarming like locusts - a bomb of this size could easily be bounced to the city walls by the barrier.

    Sure enough, the clay pot bombs hit the barrier with a bang, and the lime and mud on the barrier scattered one after another, while the clay pot bombs were bounced far away and fell to the bottom of the city.  After landing on the ground, the clay pot shattered and the kerosene spilled out. It was quickly ignited by the lead and burned fiercely.

    During this process, several clay pot bombs fell into the fuel trench. What would happen if a spark fell into the fuel?  Let's put it this way, orange-blue flames.  At a speed visible to the naked eye, it spread like a snake along the trench.  Wherever the tongue of fire touches, flames rise into the sky, thick smoke billows, and fire dragons surround the city, which can be clearly seen dozens of miles away.

    This sea of ????fire may cause a lot of trouble for the soldiers of the Tianzhu Army to attack the city, but it cannot prevent the kerosene bombs from smashing into the city walls and city walls.  Even under the wooden frame of the barrier Then, the fire broke out, burned, and was extinguished. One by one, the supports of the barrier were caught in the raging fire.

    This is the real purpose of the Tenchu ??Army's throwing of kerosene bombs - if they can't burn the barrier covered with lime and wet mud, then they will burn the bracket. If the bracket is burned, the barrier will naturally collapse.

    There are many golden soldiers hiding behind the shelter.  He hurriedly tried to put out the fire, but ended up getting stained by kerosene. He hurriedly tore off his clothes and armor. What was even more unlucky was that he was directly hit by a kerosene bomb and the north wind blew.  The fire took advantage of the wind and turned into a blaze in a very short period of time, and the fire was so miserable.

    In just a short period of time, the missile troops of the Tenchu ??Army dropped as many as 5,000 kerosene bombs. More than half of them were bounced off the shelter and fell into the city. Thousands more kerosene bombs hit the city wall, and the flames were everywhere.  , the entire city wall of Shangjing was burned into a wall of fire; only a thousand kerosene bombs actually landed on the city, and only three to four hundred kerosene bombs could ignite the barrier But this was enough  Well, because there are only a hundred or so barriers set up on each city wall

    At the end of noon, all the shields on the eight walls of Shangjing City were burned to pieces, completely losing their defensive function and basically being cleared away. Next, it was the turn of the Heartless Cannon to show off its power.

    Aji was dressed in military uniform, with a leather helmet on his head and soft cowhide armor on his head. He held a sword in one hand and a red and yellow-edged triangular flag in the other. His face was flushed with excitement and his eyes were shining. He stood high on the earthen barrier facing the south gate of Shangjing.  On a mound behind the wall.

    With the approval of the military commander, Aji was awarded the position of commander of the artillery battalion and was fully responsible for directing the artillery bombardment on Beijing.  Hidden in the heart of every young man is a dream of commanding thousands of troops, and Aji is no exception.  Unexpectedly, today's dream would finally come true, and the capital of Gyeonggi Province would be bombarded by Beilu.  SoHow could it not make him proud and excited? He couldn't help himself.

    Aji raised the command flag in his hand high. At the last moment when he chopped it down, he subconsciously turned his head and glanced in the direction of the military leader - on the Chinese military command platform in the distance, the rock-like figure stood like a pine tree.

    Aji couldn¡¯t see the military commander¡¯s expression clearly, but he had a feeling that the military commander was watching him. He unconsciously puffed up his chest, took a deep breath, and decisively chopped down the flag¡ª¡ª

    The gun trumpeter, who had been paying attention to the commander, immediately lit three cannons with the skewer in his hand.

    Bang bang bang!

    Three cannons shot into the sky and exploded more than five feet in the air.  Then, one trumpet shot was fired from each of the east, west, and north directions, which was the response shot.  The next moment, two hundred heartless cannons roared for eight hundred years at the same time!

    The firing method and principle of the heartless cannon is very simple: at the bottom of the iron barrel-shaped barrel, there is a five-kilogram propellant package built in, and a disc-shaped explosive package weighing twenty kilograms is stacked on top of it.  When the gunner ignites the propellant package, the gunpowder burns and explodes, and the large amount of gunpowder gas generated is converted into power, throwing the explosive package far away, while the barrel-shaped gun barrel serves as a directional tube.

    After many tests, it was confirmed that its maximum range can reach 140 steps (about 200 meters), and no humans or animals will be left within the diameter of three feet of the impact point.  Although this kind of artillery has shortcomings such as short range, poor accuracy, short barrel life, and unreliable operation safety, it can only fire three to five kilograms of thunderbolt shells, and within a hundred steps, it can only fire two rounds per minute.  The missile launcher is already much better.

    On October 14, at the end of noon, the Tianzhu Army¡¯s deadly weapon, the ¡°heartless cannon,¡± was used for the first time, and Shangjing was the first to bear the brunt.  The Tianzhu Army artillery battalion fired five waves in a very short period of time.  Based on the calculation that each cannon ejected twenty kilograms of explosives at a time, the Tianzhu Army artillery battalion ejected twenty thousand kilograms of explosives at the head and inside of the outer city of Shangjing, which was only ten miles in circumference, in just one moment, with an average of one meter  The city wall section had to withstand the baptism of four kilograms of explosives.

    The sun is blocked by thick smoke and the cold wind is blowing.  Thousands of soldiers in the inner city of Shangjing and outside the city all witnessed this tragic and horrific scene that they will never forget for the rest of their lives:

    A dark cloud appeared in the sky, but upon closer inspection, there were numerous explosive packets. These millstone-like things wrapped in linoleum jumped into the sky from all directions, carrying flames and thick smoke, flying, rolling, and whistling.  With.  A series of terrifying trajectories were drawn in the air, and then they fell densely, hitting the head of Shangjing City, which was full of fire

    Then, a violent explosion occurred.

    The shock wave ravaged the ten-mile city wall, and everything was turned upside down.  First, the city wall cracked, and then the ground deformed. The soil on the surface was pushed up and down by the force of the explosives, rising and falling like waves.  The soldier-hiding caves in Wengcheng collapsed one after another, and nearly a thousand gold soldiers hidden in them were all buried alive.  Large and small rocks can actually be ejected from the soil under the squeezing force of the earthquake, flying high and smashing people's heads and bleeding

    The outer city of Shangjing was almost flattened by the bombing.  The gate tower and turrets completely collapsed, all kinds of defensive equipment were shattered, and no buildings on the city remained. Rolling stones, hammers, and woks piled on the top of the city were blown away by the shock wave to the foot of the city wall.  The hugging flagpole and yellow dragon flag that represented the symbol of the Kingdom of Jin were missing.  Soldiers with good eyesight could actually see through the smoke a long fire stick with one end resting on the top of the city and the other end inserted upside down in the kerosene ditch

    What¡¯s even more frightening is that the bombing triggered an even bigger explosion¡ªthe explosive bags imitated by the Jin Kingdom from the Tianzhu Army were piled up in the storage rooms on all sides of the city, with a total amount of no less than 30,000 kilograms.  Although the effectiveness is only one-fifth of the Tenchu ??Army's standard explosive package.  But I can¡¯t stand the huge volume!  This detonation simply added fuel to the fire.  The explosive was originally intended to treat the other person's body in his own way, but in the end it all worked on himself.  If you really do it yourself, you will not be able to live.

    The city of Shangjing was ravaged by 50,000 kilograms of black explosives. It was horrific. The city was covered with corpses, piled on top of each other.  Some were curled up in the soil, some had their bodies half out of the ruins, and some had only two feet exposed Many people had no wounds on their appearance, but they were bleeding from seven holes. They were all obviously killed by the shock wave.

    Shangjing became a scorched earth.  At least one third of the more than 10,000 golden soldiers and civilians deployed to guard the outer city were directly wiped out.  The remaining survivors were either stunned to death, deafened by the gunfire or stunned.  The golden soldiers who survived and were still conscious had earth-colored faces and could not stand up at all. When they ran away, they crawled on all fours and trembled

    The ground at the head of the city, filled with rammed earth and gravel, was in a mess. It had been compacted by giant mills hundreds of times, and trampled on by countless feet. It was blown up and became as fluffy as batter.  A hibernating snake was actually shaken out of the ground and lay strangely among the remaining bricks and rubble.  The original crater has been filled up, and new explosion traces have filled the surrounding area again, some are dark, some are scorched, and the plowed soil is mixed with fractures.?Knives, guns, bows, cards, broken armor, and even unexploded explosives.

    When the bombing reached its peak, the south gate tower collapsed, and Deputy Marshal Wanyan Pujianu and his group of Hezha guards were all buried in the rubble.

    In the dark sky, Wanyan Pu¡¯s slave¡¯s ears could no longer hear. It was as if he had dived into deep water, and only the murmur of ¡°wuwu-gugu¡± remained in his eardrums.  His vision also became blurred, and there was chaos all around. The sky and the earth were filled with a mass of brown and red, and it was difficult to distinguish between the diffuse dust and the explosive flames.  It was very difficult to breathe, and all the air seemed to be burned out and squeezed out.  He tried hard to open his mouth, but with every gasp, all he breathed into his body was the choking gunpowder smoke.  The hot smoke was burning in the throat and between the lungs, as if it was about to explode again in the chest.

    Wanyan Pujia Nu felt as if he was trapped in a brown bottle. Outside the bottle was a blood-red purgatory, and the storm of purgatory was beating the wall of the bottle over and over again, trying to remove his life from this.  Drag out of the fragile hiding place and throw into the inexplicable abyss

    Although it was only a short moment, Wanyan Pu's slave felt as if it had been years since the shaking earth finally calmed down.

    The Wanyan Pu family slave finally managed to climb out of this living hell with the hard work of the seven surviving Hezha guards.  At this moment, the deputy marshal of the Jin Kingdom was no longer human: his helmet was flying off, his beard was burnt, his eyebrows were cracked, his teeth were missing, his eyes and face were severely swollen, his armor was in pieces, only half of his trouser legs were left, and only his boots were left.  One As soon as he took a step, his legs felt weak, he felt dizzy and nauseated, and his whole body was shaking. He pushed away the guards who were supporting him, fell to his knees in the ruins, and started vomiting

    The dignified deputy marshal met such a miserable end. All the soldiers and civilians who witnessed the incident were frightened and fled for their lives.  Within two moments after the bombing stopped, all the soldiers who were still alive fled. The entire outer city of Shangjing turned into a Shura field with only dead bodies and ruins left in an instant.

    In just a short moment, artillery fire destroyed the outer city of Shangjing that Jin Taizu Aguda had spent several years building. It also turned the solid defense of the final Qiancheng, which the kings and ministers of Jin had worked hard to build, into a ridiculously broken fence.

    Although the inner city of Shangjing was not directly attacked, the strong shock made the Jin Army soldiers guarding the inner city feel like they were sitting on a broken boat in a violent storm, shaking so hard that they could hardly stand.  Witnessing the power of destroying the heaven and the earth, all of them were afraid to fight and their fighting spirit was completely gone.  No matter how hard their king beat the drum, it had no effect at all.

    The fate of going to the capital is already foreseeable.

    At the moment when the bombardment stopped, the eight gates of the circular Dazhai were opened, and 8,000 engineering auxiliary troops and 5,000 siege soldiers surged out like a tide amidst the astonishing sound of war drums and rushed towards the moat dozens of feet away.

    The moat was very wide and had abundant water, but in the eyes of the soldiers of the Zhouqiao Battalion of the Tianzhu Army who had flown across the Yellow River twice, it was little more than a small stream.  It is actually not difficult to build a profile bridge on the city moat. What is really difficult is the crazy attack from the city head during the process of building the bridge.  There were casualties and all the bridges were destroyed. Then the attackers continued their attacks, and the defenders continued their attacks. This cycle started over and over again, making the offensive and defensive battles of the city long and protracted.

    However, after a large-scale carpet bombing by the Tenchu ??Army Artillery Battalion that pioneered this era, Ruoda went to the capital. During the two moments when the Tenchu ??Army's pontoon bridge troops were erecting the pontoon bridge, not even a single arrow was fired.  .

    When the four outline bridges in the direction of the four gates were built, the kerosene trenches were instantly filled with black soil by eight thousand auxiliary soldiers, and four channels were filled in, and five thousand soldiers rushed forward, the fate of the Jin Kingdom was already sealed.

    On October 14th, at the last moment, the north wind roared and fireworks rose into the sky.

    A young sergeant wearing fine Dang Qing armor, holding an iron cone gun in one hand, and a Tianzhu army flag in the other, was the first to leap onto the ruined outer city of Shangjing - hundreds of feet away on the opposite side, there were thousands of golden soldiers, but no one.  One person has the courage to lift a bow and wield a sword

    The trip to Beijing is over, the Kingdom of Jin is over.

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