Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1019, kill another two hundred thousand

Erzincan city.

"Boom boom~ boom boom!"

Accompanied by the sound of rumbling shelling, the entire city of Erzincan was trembling constantly, as if it had been punished by the gods. Countless shells fell into this small city like rain.

Loud bangs resounded in every corner of the city. There were ruins everywhere, corpses strewn across the field, blood stained every inch of the ground here, and bomb-blown stumps filled every place here.

"Hell on Earth~"

Ibrahim stood up from the ruins, shook off the dust and some broken limbs and arms, and stared at the strange world in front of him with his eyes wide open.

This is the first time that Blossom Bullet has demonstrated its terrifying power. It almost razed the entire city to the ground, and there is no longer a decent building. All you see are ruins, and all you hear are Pain, miserable wailing, and shells still whistling in the sky.

"What kind of shell is this?"

Ibrahim's head was buzzing.

He has also seen all kinds of artillery, and he has even seen the Urban Cannon of the Ottoman Empire. This super cannon is 17 feet long, weighs 30 tons, and has a caliber of 1500 inches. Fires granite shells weighing up to 680 pounds (about [-] kilograms).

The Ottoman Empire once blasted away the strong castles in Europe with this terrible giant cannon, but even the Urban cannon must not have such terrible power.

What a terrible thing to destroy a city into ruins.

What's even more frightening is that this kind of bomb will explode when it falls on the ground, causing unprecedented damage to the defenders of the entire city.

An army of [-] people gathered in this city to guard against death. Every place in the entire city of Erzincan was full of people. It was originally planned to use people to form a steel wall to firmly block the advance of the Ming army.

But now, looking up, no matter on the city wall or inside the city, there are corpses everywhere, too many dead people.

On the hillside outside the city.

"Haha, with these explosive bombs, at least we will save tens of thousands of losses."

Yang Yun is naturally very satisfied with the effect of the flower bomb.

It can be clearly seen through the telescope that the city of Erzincan has become a ruin. The densely packed defenders on the original city wall have been flattened, and there are corpses all over the city wall. of.

As for the city, it is in ruins at this time, and there is no decent thing to see.

"Are we ready to attack?"

Liao Yuan slightly licked his lips and said.

"Well, it's almost there."

"There are not a lot of bombs sent this time, so let's use them sparingly. There are still [-] Ottoman troops waiting behind, and they will attack other cities of the Ottoman Empire."

"Attack!"

Yang Yun thought for a while and nodded slightly.

"Yes~"

When Liao Yuan and Huo Ying heard this, they quickly saluted respectfully, and then rode on their horses and quickly commanded the army to attack Erzincan City like a tide.

The rumbling shelling finally stopped, and the world seemed to be quiet, but for the survivors in Erzincan City, their heads were always buzzing, the shock formed by the explosion of countless shells.

Before they recovered, there were bursts of shouts of killing outside the city. Surviving people on the city wall saw that the Ming army had already begun to attack the city.

"Defense~"

"Defense~"

Ibrahim shouted hysterically, and many people who heard the voice stood up from the ruins, looked at everything in front of them in confusion, and then walked towards the city wall numbly.

However, there were so many dead people in the city walls that even the road was blocked, and they could only walk up by stepping on the corpses.

"Clap~Clap~"

However, just when they came to the city wall, the Ming army outside the city had already stood up in rows, aiming their muskets at the people on the city wall. As long as anyone showed their heads, they would immediately be attacked intensively.

"Boom~"

Soon, at the gate of the city, there was a terrible loud noise, and the city wall trembled. The gate was blasted open by the Ming army with gunpowder bags, and countless Ming soldiers rushed in immediately.

There was almost no suspense in the remaining battles. The defenders of Erzincan City, who suffered heavy shelling and suffered heavy casualties, were not opponents of the Ming army at all.

The city of Erzincan, where [-] defenders were stationed, was breached in just one day, and almost all the defenders were wiped out by the Ming army. Only a few people fled in a hurry to report to Bayezid II .

Yang Yun rode a tall horse into the city of Erzincan. The road had been cleared, and corpses were piled up on both sides of the road.

"Now I finally understand what Liu Gong said."

After pondering for a while, Yang Yun couldn't help sighing.

"What did Mr. Liu say?"

Beside Yang Yun, Huo Ying and Liao Yuan asked with some doubts.

"Yes, when he followed Liu Gong to sweep the Western Regions, Liu Gong once told me that in the future, the range is the truth, and the caliber is justice!"

"I didn't quite understand this sentence at first, because although the artillery at that time was powerful, but because they were all solid bullets, unless it was very unlucky, generally speaking, the damage that the artillery could cause was very limited."

"But now, everyone, take a look at this city of Erzincan. Under the bombardment of flowering bullets, the whole city has been turned into ruins. There are [-] defenders here."

"A [-]-strong army, if we fight head-on against us in the field, even if we can win, I'm afraid there will be tens of thousands of casualties."

"However, under the attack of the explosive bombs, the entire city was reduced to ruins, and the [-] troops disappeared in smoke. We easily captured the city and annihilated the [-] enemy troops almost effortlessly."

"You said, if the power of this artillery becomes greater and the range becomes longer, what will happen?"

Yang Yun pointed to the ruins in front of him and asked.

"I am afraid that future wars will not be head-to-head fights between people, but rely more on advanced artillery and muskets."

Huo Ying thought about it and said.

For this point, he already had a certain understanding and saw the development trend of future wars.

"Yes~"

"So what Liu Gong said is completely correct. Whoever can have a longer range and more powerful artillery will take the initiative, and that will naturally grasp justice and truth."

"There is no right or wrong in this world at all, only the jungle of the jungle."

Yang Yun nodded solemnly.

"What the Duke said is true!"

Huo Ying and Liao Yuan hurriedly said in unison.

"Haha, that's not what I said, it's also what Mr. Liu said."

"Liu Gong once said that the land and resources in this world are limited, and we can only occupy as much land and resources as possible when our Ming Dynasty is strong, so that our future generations can have a broader living space."

"And we soldiers have to bear this historical responsibility!"

Yang Yun immediately smiled and shook his head.

He was also quite happy after taking down the city of Erzincan and then killing the [-] troops of the Ottoman Empire.

After this battle, the Ottoman Empire will really be in turmoil.

The total strength of the entire Ottoman Empire is about one million. Huo Ying wiped out [-] in the river area before, and now he has wiped out another [-]. That is to say, up to now, the Ming army has wiped out half of the Ottoman Empire's troops.

Coupled with the [-] troops personally led by Bayezid II, the Ottoman Empire has very few troops stationed in other places, and the neighbors in all directions will definitely not miss this opportunity.

"Liu Gong is the son of a master, and he has always been far-sighted. His vision is always very long-term, far beyond the reach of ordinary people like me."

Hearing Yang Yun mentioned Liu Jin again, Huo Ying couldn't help but sigh.

He had a detailed understanding of the lives of Yang Yun and Liu Jin. Yang Yun was originally just a very ordinary frontier soldier. At the time when the military household system was still in place, Yang Yun was a military household and a frontier army. He was very poor. , Even the whole family can't even have enough to eat, and he can't even get a wife.

Later, the little Tatar prince led his army to the south. At that time, the whole country of Ming Dynasty raised tens of millions of taels of silver to reward the generals who killed the enemy. A Tatar head was worth fifty taels of silver. The military households who are dying.

In that battle, Ming won and wiped out the Tatar army that entered the Central Plains. Yang Yun killed the little Tatar prince with a single shot and was made a marquis.

He successively followed Liu Jin on expeditions to Japan, Liaodong, Nanyang, Western Regions, and Hezhong, and made many contributions, and was finally named the Duke of Australia.

This is very typical of following the right person, so he was able to follow all the way up, and now the famous Duke of the Ming Dynasty in the Ming army has become the new rich and noble of the Ming Dynasty.

And the road that Yang Yun has traveled along the way is exactly the road that Daming has continued to expand externally over the years.

Fight the Tatars in the northern grasslands, the Japanese pirates in the east, the Jurchen in Liaodong in the north, and sweep the Southeast Asian countries, and then conquer the Western Regions and Hezhong.

Da Ming used troops abroad next year, and every time he was able to win a complete victory, he not only spread his might and conquered all directions, but also continuously incorporated a large amount of land into the territory of Da Ming.

Grassland Province, Liaodong Province, Nanyang Provinces, Iwami County on the Japanese side, Western Regions, Hezhong... The territory of the Ming Dynasty became wider and wider, and the figures of descendants of Yan and Huang began to spread in every corner of the world.

Massive amounts of wealth flowed into Daming continuously, allowing everyone from the emperor, relatives of the emperor, honorable ministers, and ordinary people to benefit from it and enjoy the dividends of Ming's continuous external expansion.

And the core of all of this, everything, started from Liu Jin.

(End of this chapter)