Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 926 Toyoe's Cannon Sound

After another day of hard fighting, the Dahua army once again pushed the front line towards Fengjiang by one kilometer.They paid the price of 3000 people, which is not a small number.

No one can easily bear 3000 casualties in a day. The cumulative number of such casualties is enough to collapse a country.

However, in order to capture Fengjiang as soon as possible, Zhao Chen couldn't care less: he must cut off the Tang Empire's support to Zhao Yu as soon as possible, and this is now the only chance for the Dahua Empire to win.

After finally advancing the position by another kilometer, the 250mm army heavy artillery in Zhao Chen's hand was finally able to shoot his own shells into Fengjiang City.

Since yesterday, Zhao Chen couldn't wait to push his artillery to the right position, and today he started shelling Fengjiang recklessly.

"Load the shell!" Standing next to a large enough cannon, the wheels of this cannon are even heavy steel cannons, and it takes a lot of time and manpower to move a little bit.

In order to get the cannon in the right position, the Dahua Empire even recruited several tractors to help—cooperate with the tractors and work together to barely do it.

Along the way, engineers were required to fill in countless bomb craters, and a company of guards was required to protect the safety. Most of the operations had to be carried out at night, because enemy planes harassed them during the day.

In short, using this level of heavy artillery is a big project, and it is also very time-consuming.In order to put enough pressure on Feng Jiang as soon as possible, Zhao Chen did not know how much effort he spent to complete this feat.

After pushing the shells into the barrel with the corresponding equipment, under the camouflage net, the loaders pushed the propellant into the gun in turn.

Because the caliber is too large, this kind of artillery can no longer use the standard propellant. Its propellant is independent and needs to be increased or decreased according to the range requirements.

In one command after another, the gunners closed the breech bolts and retreated to safety.

The gunner pulled the firing rope, and the gun's muzzle sprayed out amazing flames in the next second.The white smoke billowed and swallowed everything around, and the huge vibration made the surrounding gravel and soil dance violently.

A huge artillery shell pierced the sky, with a sharp sound, spanning a distance of more than ten kilometers, and finally landed in a slum on the edge of Fengjiang City.

There is no way, the most fringes of the city are often such slums, where the poor people in the whole city live. These people rely on hard work for a living, relying on urban industry, and live a poor life.

Because there is no money, the buildings in these places are actually very simple.The Dahua Empire itself used wooden structures all the year round, and reinforced concrete houses like the Tang Empire were in the minority.

Although a large number of buildings in the center of Fengjiang are made of reinforced concrete, there are still a large number of wooden houses on the periphery.

Now, it is the turn of these wooden houses to be unlucky: a giant 250 mm caliber shell falls, even if it does not directly hit the wooden house, the damage to such buildings is huge.

There was a loud bang, and a black column of smoke rose into the sky, rising and rolling continuously, which could be seen clearly even in the center of Fengjiang.

The surrounding buildings were all collapsed at once, and some houses caught fire directly, and the house that was directly hit by the shell could not even find much ruins.

There was a terrifying pit on the ground, and dozens of civilians living here died instantly.You must know that it is a 250-caliber shell, and it is very easy to kill the people around you.

The earth trembled with this loud noise, and the sudden explosion caused terrifying damage, but all this was just the beginning.

Another shell fell immediately: In order to bombard Fengjiang, the Dahua Empire prepared five 5-caliber heavy artillery, and this time the bombardment was launched together by these five heavy artillery.

Accompanied by the second loud noise, a huge black column of smoke rises again in Fengjiang City, which can be seen clearly in the whole city, and even most of the city can hear this deafening sound.

Such things cannot be concealed, and panic began to spread: many people began to flee to the east of the city, and refugees carrying bags could be seen everywhere on the streets.

The weather is not so cold anymore, so even if they sleep on the street, these people are willing to sleep on a safer street.

After all, it is safer to be close to the Tang Empire in theory. If it is not possible, it is also an option to take the risk of wading to the Tang Empire.

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Zhao Yu walked back and forth nervously in his room. He had just heard the sound of gunfire, and at the same time saw the smoke column rising from the city.

At this moment, he was a little irritable, because the place he was in was about to become the front line: "The enemy has already hit Fengjiang City! Why don't they fight back? Isn't it over if this goes on? Ah? Isn't it over?"

He didn't dare to question his counselor Xu Guo, and he didn't dare to go to Luo Xiao to yell, so he could only scold him, and only his housekeeper and confidantes were left with no real power. Toyoe general.

He didn't even dare to trouble Zhao Zheng and Zhao Feng—in his opinion, these two people were "his own people" worth wooing, and they couldn't be offended easily.

But he couldn't help but scold a few words. After all, the Dahua Army had already smashed the shells into the urban area of ​​Fengjiang. If he didn't express his opinion, wouldn't it be no different from clay sculptures?
"Your Highness! Zhao Chen has a heavy army in his hands, and he will attack at all costs. The soldiers have tried their best..." Zhao Zheng, who was relieved of his military power and now a totem, said, "If there is no air dominance, there will be no pilots." Bombing desperately, I am afraid that the Dahua army has reached the urban area by now."

As a general, Zhao Zheng still has vision.He simply looked at the map left by the Tang Empire Advisory Group and some documents, and he roughly guessed part of the plan.

After all, it is necessary to invite credit and sell miserably, so the loss of dwarves and goblins will not be hidden from Zhao Yu.These days, more than 1000 dwarves have died in battle, more than 1300 goblins, and 1000 orcs have died, which is not too small.

Thousands of people are killed every day, which is not a small loss for the defenders - this is actually very telling, at least it can prove that these mercenaries are really genuine.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the contribution of the Datang Empire in this matter: Although it is said that Fengjiang paid for the foreign army to participate in the war, in fact it was the Datang Group that paid.

The payment for hiring these soldiers is real money, and the market price is even much higher.The request of the Tang Empire is actually very simple-since I have given enough money, you must contribute!

Countries are also giving Datang Empire a lot of face in this regard: they know very well whether they can reverse the trade deficit, whether they can have the money to pay the loans provided by Datang Empire and the war indemnity they owe... relying on this "employment Soldier" is active.

As a result, many of the troops heading to Fengjiang were elites directly drawn from the main forces of various countries for the purpose of military training.

The Datang Empire, which is on the money-spending side, will also check the quality of these troops, and use the Datang Empire's own standards for certain logistical supplies.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of these mercenaries from various countries participating in the battle in Fengjiang is very strong. Even if they are not as good as the real Tang army, they are also comparable to the army of their opponent, the Dahua Empire.

This can be seen from the offensive and defensive battles of the two sides: the battle loss ratio of the two sides is about 3 to 1. Basically, this loss ratio is the offensive and defensive battle loss ratio of equal strength.

"But, but..." Of course Zhao Yu knew that his side had actually played pretty well.Leaving aside other things for the time being, let's just talk about the troops going south. Haven't they all occupied the Jiange and won a big victory?
Zhao Feng on the side is also persuading: "Your Highness! Don't panic! Our troops going south have captured Guiguangjian Pavilion! Victory is already waving to us! As long as we guard Fengjiang, everything will be fine."

"Don't worry! Follow-up support will continue to come!" Xu Guo, a counselor sitting there as stable as Mount Tai, calmly comforted Zhao Yu and said, "His Royal Highness is safe! If the situation in Fengjiang deteriorates, we will go to Shanping. Is it the same?"

"That being said..." Zhao Yu really wanted to go to Dongfeng River, to Datang.But he really couldn't say it, and he himself knew that he should really stay in the territory of the Dahua Empire.

Looking at the fifth column of smoke rising from the horizon outside the window, Zhao Yu felt that he was still very nervous—those shells seemed to have landed in front of his face.

On the other side of the Fengjiang Bridge, there are more people fleeing.In order to ensure that Fengjiang will not become an empty city overnight, the speed at which the Tang Empire accepts refugees is still controlled within a very reasonable range.

But civilians and local rich people don't care so much. For them, when can they go to the Tang Empire, and when can they confirm their safety.

So they kept running in the direction of the Tang Empire, even though they knew that the Tang Empire would not let it go, but they still had illusions: What if, what if the Tang Empire suddenly allowed it to pass?

"Is there no other way? Let the shelling stop?" Zhao Yu still didn't give up, looking at his two relatives and asked.

"It's not impossible, I know the enemy's artillery position, and use the large-caliber artillery of the coastal defense to destroy it..." Zhao Zheng gave his suggestion.

"Or send out the air force, find the enemy's artillery positions, and directly bomb...destroy these long-range artillery." Zhao Feng, who was on the side, also gave his own opinion.

"Then do it quickly!" Zhao Yu's tone was full of dissatisfaction, and he said to the two of them, "Go! Hurry up...I don't want to hear the cannon anymore! I don't want to hear it!"
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There is another one that will be finished sooner, and it will be delivered around 12:20. If you don’t want to stay up late, you can watch it tomorrow morning.

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