Traveling through the divine eagle: the first sword of Quanzhen

Chapter 552

Seeing the Mongolian army approaching more and more, Tang Lan slowly raised the command flag at this time, and she said at this time: "The artillery is ready!"

Following Tang Lan's order, more than 30 artillery pieces began to be loaded in an orderly manner.

Then the artillerymen began to count: "One is good! Two are good! Three are good!."

This is the "artillery drill" that Li Qingwei formulated for them. Who made his military training instructor in college be an excellent artilleryman.

At this time, the Mongols' fast horses had already arrived at Guanxia. If the city walls of Tongguan were not too high, according to the Mongols' offensive routine, there would be a wave of arrows first.

Followed by random arrows to cover the engineering vehicle, the ladder stepped forward.

It's just that the city wall of Tongguan is too high.Only bed crossbows, artillery, and trebuchets can attack the city.

The Mongolian army stopped a few hundred meters away from Tongguan, and then began to erect trebuchets, artillery, bed crossbows and other siege equipment.

The front is also full of Mongolian soldier phalanxes. The front of them is holding a scimitar and holding a shield, while behind them are engineering soldiers carrying ladders.

These Mongolian soldiers holding shields were responsible for the first round of charge. They held their shields high to defend against the flow arrows on the city wall, thus covering the engineering soldiers from erecting the ladders.

After the bed crossbows, artillery, and catapults behind them are set up, under the cover of their siege equipment, they will launch the first round of charge.

Tang Lan was waiting for them to set up the siege equipment.

Tongguan has been dangerous since ancient times, and the city wall is very high. Like Jiange, it is a dangerous place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Only those large siege equipment can pose a threat to Tongguan.

Without these large siege equipment as cover, I want to break through Tongguan by force only by infantry ladders.Unless they also have a group of martial arts masters like the Vulture Palace, making an unexpected assassination attack.Otherwise, it would be a fool's dream.

Tang Lan ordered at this time: "Seeing their cannons, are there any catapults? Give me their siege equipment!" After finishing speaking, he waved his command flag and continued to shout: "Fire!"

The command to fire was passed on, and more than 30 cannons, flashing with vengeful flames, fired in salvo in no time.

With a roar, the shells hit the Mongolian soldiers.

All of a sudden, the Mongols were stunned. Their artillery was still erected, and they were about to move forward slowly and reach the range of fire.

But I didn't expect that the opponent's artillery was far superior to theirs in terms of power and range.

Tang Lan's shelling directly disrupted the Mongols' position.

The artillery projectiles ignited their gunpowder, and then a series of explosions immediately occurred on the artillery positions of the Mongolian army.

Their catapults and other equipment were destroyed by Tang Lan before they were used.

At this moment, Tang Lan looked at the Mongolian Tartars in the distance with a telescope and stared at the stars, and said, "Stop the bombardment!"

Following Tang Lan's order, all the shelling stopped.

At this time, Yunxian came to Tang Lan's side, and she asked, "Why stop the bombardment? Right now we still have enough shells and gunpowder, and we will repel the Mongols after a few more rounds. Then we will use that gunpowder again." A rocket attack or something can roughly wipe them out."

Tang Lan said: "Their siege equipment has been damaged right now, and they can no longer pose a major threat to us. Don't attack their engineers and put them under the city wall."

Although Duan Yunxian was puzzled, Tang Lan was now the "chief general" of Tongguan, and Duan Yunxian could only carry out her orders.

Duan Siying sat on the sidelines and watched Tang Lan commanding the battle, admiring her very much.

If this girl can enter her Vulture Palace, she must be another Ye Shuhan.

Seeing that the shelling above stopped, the Mongols quickly recovered their positions. After all, they were the army that conquered most of the Eurasian continent.

Although these are only security forces, their combat literacy is not too bad.

The series of explosions triggered by the shelling just now killed 500 Mongols. Although the casualties of these hundreds of people were not too large for the nearly [-] Mongolian army, they lost most of their siege equipment. .There are also "technical engineers" who erect and use equipment.

Right now they have basically lost the ability to attack the city.

If you follow the normal battle, at this time, after losing most of the siege equipment, you should retreat, and then set up camp in the distance, waiting for the follow-up supplementary equipment to arrive.

But the guard of Chang'an is now in a difficult position to ride a tiger.

If the battle is won, then everything will be fine.

If this battle is lost, then as Zhuge Qingyun said, it may cause a chain reaction. Moreover, if Wang Ping or Brother Ali come back, then he will be punished for several crimes.

The first crime was losing the city, the second crime was embezzlement of Mexican military supplies, and the third crime was mobilizing troops without authorization.

Just one of these crimes can kill him, and these three crimes together are enough for him to ransack his family.

But what the guard of Chang'an didn't know was that his most trusted "Master Master" had raided his home in advance and destroyed his door.

Now apart from her wife and daughter, younger siblings and elderly mother are still alive, his sons, younger brothers and nephews were all killed on the spot by Zhuge Qingyun's soldiers.

And his huge family wealth is now being registered by Zhuge Qingyun, and then filled into Datang's "national treasury".

However, the huge wealth of his family surprised Zhuge Qingyun. Although Zhuge Qingyun knew that he had been greedy for a lot of money over the years, he didn't expect so much.

The number is so large that Zhuge Qingyun hasn't finished counting it yet.

However, Chang'an's defender was not just an idiot. After gathering the troops, he immediately ordered the troops to launch a tentative attack with arrows.

But Tang Lan didn't order to use the firearm again, but started throwing with the crossbow.Successfully repelled his second round of attack.

After this trial, the guard of Chang'an had a solid mind at this time. He thought that the opponent's gunpowder and shells were exhausted, so he stopped firing and used crossbow arrows to fight back.

Duan Yunxian still couldn't figure out what Tang Lan was doing, she said: "We still have so many 'rockets' to destroy them directly, why don't we just shoot them closer?"

Tang Lan said at this time: "After all, this is the first actual combat. Our weapons have not been tested in actual combat. His Majesty's 'rockets' have been tested, and my improved artillery has also been tested. Only brother-in-law's three I haven’t tried the eye gun and the repeating crossbow yet. Try to see how powerful it is. If the three eye gun is really useful, then I can try to organize a team dedicated to using this weapon.”

Just as the two of them were talking, the next round of the Mongolian army's attack began.

The exploratory troops that had just been withdrawn went to the rear for a temporary rest, and the second round of the "reserve team" began to attack.

The sound of rumbling war drums and the sound of soaring shouts of killing rushed towards Tongguan. The horses and shooters of the Mongolian army rushed to the pass first.

However, Zhuge Qingyun has analyzed the Mongolian army's combat methods, and also prepared defensive methods for everyone.

That is the light and strong "Teng Dun".

Each of the soldiers guarding the city held up a shield to defend against the arrows flying from below the city.

The city wall of Tongguan was towering, and their flying arrows reached the top of the city, and it was already at the end of their strength, and it was difficult to cause damage to the defenders on the city wall.

Without siege equipment such as trebuchets and ballistas, the Mongolian army could not cause effective damage to Tongguan at all.

Soon their engineers rushed to the city and began to assemble the ladder section by section.

(End of this chapter)