Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 322 Liaoyang Attack and Defense
After Lu Zhihai led the rebel army to Liaoyang city, he actively prepared to attack the city.

Catapults, ramming vehicles, ladders, and even Lu Zhihai ordered logging near Liaoyang City, using local materials to build siege towers.

Although the siege towers that cost a lot of manpower to build are made of wood, they will be attacked by fire once they get close to the city wall, and they will often be burned if they can't hold a few waves of soldiers to climb the city wall, but it is undeniable that the siege towers still have some useful ones.

On the city wall of Liaoyang, Lin Shiyue, Yuan Kui, Zhang Shuo, Zhan Youwei, etc. were all observing the anti-military situation under the city.

"Luo Ying's troops are all iron cavalry. It's a waste to use them to defend the city. It's right to stay outside the city and roam around the rebel army. It can allow the rebel army to draw a large number of troops to defend the attack, and they can't attack the city with all their strength!" Lin Shiyue, dressed in military uniform, stood by her side. Watching the twelve female sword servants she has trained for several years.

Although she is a daughter, she looks elegant and dignified on the surface, but how can a woman who likes to dance swords not have any blood and violence in her heart.Facing this war, Lin Shiyue was not only not nervous at all, but was a little bit looking forward to it. She had to cooperate with Li Fei's strategy. Now that the [-] rebels had entered Anton, they would not even think about leaving.

"Looking at the appearance of the rebels, they should be attacking the city immediately. Use cannons and bed crossbows to destroy the catapults of the rebels immediately!" Lin Shiyue narrowed her eyes slightly, seeing that the rebel soldiers were about to put the stones on the ground. In the throwing plate of the catapult, it was expected that the rebel army would start to attack the city soon. In order to prevent the rebel catapult from throwing huge stones and causing casualties to the Liaoyang defenders, he ordered to destroy the rebel catapult first.

As the twelve white cloths were lifted, twelve cannons with hey yo cannon bodies were exposed.

Long before coming to Anton, Li Fei made the gunpowder according to the well-known gunpowder formula.And the ones that can perfectly exert the power of gunpowder are undoubtedly muskets and cannons.

When he came to Anton Governor's Mansion, with the development of various industries, Li Fei also started to develop thunderbolts, muskets and cannons.

Thunderbolt requires the simplest process, so it can be made quickly.Not only thunderbolts, but also a slightly smaller thunderbolt designed to deal with cavalry.

Only muskets and cannons require more complicated processes and there is no experienced technician, so the research and development of muskets and cannons has not progressed fast for more than three years.

Compared with muskets, the craftsmanship of cannons is lower, so half a year ago, the cannon technology finally made a breakthrough, and a qualified cannon was produced very quickly.

However, after all, this is the first time that cannons have been manufactured, and the production and pass rate are very low. It is impossible to mass-produce them so quickly. In half a year, only twelve cannons were produced, all of which were deployed on the city wall of Liaoyang. , as a killer weapon to defend Liaoyang City.

Hey yo yo's muzzle is like a black hole that devours people. Horrible things like cannons finally appeared in the world more than 400 years earlier because of Li Fei's relationship.

"Fire, fire!" Zhang said, ordering loudly.

The gunpowder and shells had already been loaded, and the soldiers lit the fuzes with torches.

swoosh-
The fuze was emitting white smoke and burning with a buzz.

Finally, the fuse burned into the barrel, igniting the gunpowder propellant inside.

"Boom boom boom—" With a stream of flames spurting out from the muzzle, ten shells pierced the air and flew out quickly.

under the city.

Lu Zhihai was about to give the order to start the siege.

In order to capture Liaoyang City, he prepared under Liaoyang City for two full days before starting to attack the city.

He is very confident that he will be able to win Liaoyang City!
"Prepare--" Lu Zhigai drew out his saber, pointed at Liaoyang City, and was about to open his mouth to give the order to attack the city.

Suddenly, ten loud bangs came from the direction of Liaoyang City, as if the air and the ground were trembling.

This is the first time that something like a cannon has spewed out its "fury" at the forefront of a war. Not only is the thunderous rumbling sound shocking, but it also heralds the arrival of a new era of war.

"What is this?" Lu Zhihai didn't know what happened, he saw ten fire snakes erupting from the wall of Liaoyang City, and ten black things were flying towards this side rapidly.

This is not only the first time that cannons have shown their majesty in front of the world, but also the first time that the bombardment method has been revealed, bombarding the target at a distance of hundreds of meters.

Lu Zhihai's pupils shrank uncontrollably as the shells flew towards him.Although he had never seen a cannon, and he didn't know that there was such an attack method as shelling, but just hearing this terrifying movement, Lu Zhihai subconsciously had a bad premonition.

"Boom boom boom—" the shell hit the area where Lu Zhihai arranged the catapult.

One hundred catapults, arranged in four rows, are between 300 and 400 meters from the city wall of Liaoyang.Theoretically speaking, this distance is the limit that the bow and crossbow cannot reach, and it happens to be the distance that the catapult can just reach.However, facing the twelve cannons on the city wall of Liaoyang, the distance of 400 to [-] meters is not a problem at all.

The twelve shells were all solid iron balls weighing more than ten kilograms, and they were extremely powerful.After one of the shells destroyed a catapult, it hit another catapult in the second row without diminishing momentum. Even after destroying two catapults, it was still powerful, hitting a densely populated area of ​​soldiers. There was a bloody road directly in the area, and five rebel soldiers were killed or injured. One rebel soldier was the worst. He was pierced by a shell through his chest, and his whole body was almost torn apart. His death was extremely miserable.

Twelve shells directly destroyed eleven catapults and killed more than 30 rebel soldiers.

For the first time in this world, the mighty power of the cannon was revealed. Not only was it more powerful than the catapult, but its power and shock to the hearts of the people were incomparable to that of the catapult.

"This is, what is this——" The rebel army, from the commander Lu Zhihai to the ordinary soldiers, all turned pale in shock, staring at each other, unable to understand what kind of weapon it was.

Not only were the twelve cannons attacked, but also fifty bed crossbows made with god arm crossbow technology were placed on the top of the city.

A giant arrow more than two meters long, with a special explosive package tied to the arrow.

Eight strong soldiers worked together to turn the capstan and pull the crossbowstring.

"Sigh--" After the fuse on the explosive pack was ignited, the giant arrow shot out with a whoosh.

The rebels hadn't recovered from the impact of the cannon, and fifty giant arrows tied with explosives also flew over a distance of more than 300 meters and shot into the rebels' catapult position.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The explosive package exploded.

Although the power is limited, it is no problem to blow up some parts on the catapult, and the shock wave generated by the explosion also killed some rebel soldiers in the area, causing great shock and panic to the rebel soldiers.

About a dozen rebel catapults and more than [-] rebel soldiers were killed or injured.
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