Taiping Inn

Thirty new artillery pieces were already overheated, and the Liaodong army replaced them with old artillery pieces, which were heavy artillery pieces that were front-loaded and used solid bullets. These artillery pieces were actually more cumbersome than the new artillery pieces. Logically, it was difficult for the old artillery pieces to destroy the city walls, and they could only destroy the battlements and towers. However, Yuguan City had been in disrepair for a long time, and the previous bombardment had already made some of the city walls shaky. At this time, the old artillery pieces could also exert great power.

As the sentry officer shouted hoarsely, more than sixty heavy artillery pieces fired at the same time.

In an instant, the buzzing sound of whistling through the air was endless.

All the soldiers looked up at the sky at the same time, and visible traces appeared in the sky.

Jing Xiu also looked up. It was not the first time he had seen such a scene, but he would sigh every time he saw it. He suddenly became curious. What a magnificent scene it would be if hundreds of artillery pieces fired at the same time?

The solid iron bullets on the wall of Yuguan City were more terrifying than boulders. They directly created a pit, countless smoke and dust rose, and broken stones and dust fell from the gaps, as if the whole wall was shaking.

The solid iron bullets flew to the top of the city, and the soldiers who defended the city without time to dodge were smashed into bloody mud. Then the iron bullets continued to move, and rolled and bounced for a distance, crushing a bloody road made of broken arms and corpses.

Jing Xiu sighed lightly, calmed down his mood a little, and said calmly: "Continue."

Another round of artillery salvos, still falling in roughly the same position, a section of the city wall that had not been repaired for many years was already crumbling.

From beginning to end, Yuguan City had never had a fierce counterattack, because under the continuous bombardment, the city defense equipment on the top of the city was almost completely destroyed, and the soldiers had no courage and had to withdraw from the city wall to avoid the bombardment.

After several rounds of bombardment, a section of the city wall finally collapsed under the heavy load, leaving a huge gap.

Jing Xiu showed a smile on his face and said, "It's OK, let's attack the city."

The sentry immediately passed the order down.

Not long after, the drums sounded again, and many Liaodong auxiliary soldiers pushed the shield carts and began to move forward slowly. The so-called shield carts have a high and thick iron plate in front, covered with thick leather, which can effectively resist guns, cannons and bows and arrows. There are rollers underneath, which can rotate flexibly. If the trench is filled, they can be pushed all the way to the city.

Generally speaking, only artillery can destroy shield carts. Yuguan City was also equipped with artillery, but under the previous continuous bombardment, most of the artillery of Yuguan City had been destroyed, and it was completely unable to fight back.

Wu Guang did not die in the bombardment. After the bombardment stopped, he climbed up the city wall again and looked out, only to see that the Liaodong siege team was tight and clear. In the front were shield carts, used to block arrows and muskets, followed by carts loaded with soil, or auxiliary soldiers carrying backpacks, used to fill up ditches and moats, followed by heavily armored infantry, holding shields, raised high, forming a shield wall, and finally lightly armored soldiers holding muskets, used to suppress arrows and muskets on the top of the city walls, and cover the infantry siege.

When the Liaodong army bombarded earlier, Wu Guang had to withdraw some soldiers. When the bombardment stopped, these soldiers returned to the city walls and began to shoot arrows and muskets in return.

There were also gunners who operated the artillery that was lucky enough not to be destroyed and fired at the outside of the city, but these artillery were already old. After repeated bombardment, the barrel of one artillery was damaged. If they fired again at this time, the barrel would explode immediately, and several gunners would be killed.

The rain of arrows continued, but facing the black surging tide, they still felt like a drop in the bucket. Especially the shield cart, no matter arrows or lead bullets, they didn't hurt the people behind them at all. If they couldn't break the shield cart, the damage to the people behind them would be limited. The fire guns of the Liaodong army were much better than the soldiers defending the city in terms of loading speed and range. Soon, the soldiers defending the city on the top of the city were pressed down so that they couldn't raise their heads, and the rain of arrows became sparse.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the auxiliary soldiers behind the shield cart immediately stepped forward to fill the trench with the soil and sandbags they carried for the shield cart to pass.

Wu Guang didn't expect that the artillery of the Liaodong army was so fierce that the various defense equipment prepared before were destroyed in the artillery fire before they could play a role. The young and strong men who were supposed to climb the city wall to help defend the city had already dispersed. It was okay to let them climb the city wall to throw stones, but if they fought with real swords and guns, it would be a fool's dream.

Now the defenders can only use limited arrows and guns to resist the attack of the Liaodong army, but a section of the city wall has been blown down, so the Liaodong army does not even need to use ladders to attack the city, as long as they attack the gap.

Soon, the Liaodong army filled up various trenches and moats and pushed all the way to the city. Infantrymen wearing heavy armor and holding shields poured into the city from the gaps in the collapsed city wall.

The north wall of Yuguan City was lost, and Wu Guang had to lead his troops to retreat into the city and engage in the most brutal street fighting with the Liaodong army.

Jing Xiu personally entered the city and led the way.

After all, Jing Xiu was from the Bu Tian Sect and was a great master of the Tian Ren realm. He was not afraid of this kind of battle.

At this time, Wu Guang had also led his personal soldiers to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Although he was not as advanced as Jing Xiu, his swordsmanship was quite good. He was at least at the Xiantian realm, and even touched the threshold of the Guizhen realm. The sword energy was like a rainbow, and more than 20 Liaodong soldiers died under his sword.

Unfortunately, he was not an immortal who could turn the tide of the battle, nor was he a great master of the Tianren realm who could kill all the people in front of him by himself. No matter how bravely he fought, the enemies in front of him increased, and the personal soldiers around him decreased.

The bodies piled up like trenches.

In the end, he was the only one left.

The Wu Guang family, who was covered in blood, stabbed a Liaodong elite armored soldier to death with a sword, but was slashed on the shoulder by the Liaodong elite soldier on the other side.

Wu Guang shouted angrily and cut off the man's head with a backhand sword, but then a long sword was stabbed into his body from behind.

But Jing Xiu arrived.

Even if the two fight fairly, Wu Guang is not Jing Xiu's enemy, let alone Wu Guang is already at the end of his strength at this time.

Wu Guang's mouth was covered in blood and said in a vague way: "I have... my heart to kill... the thief, I can't... turn the world back!"

Wu Guang, the garrison of Yuguan City, fell to the ground and died. His head was beheaded by Jing Xiu and sent to the central army tent outside the city.

Qin Qing did not make things difficult for this loyal minister and general. He showed the mind that an emperor should have and ordered him to be buried with good life and not to implicate his family. Other surrendered generals were locked up to see the future. All the defenders were dispersed and reorganized into the battalions. At the same time, Qin Qing ordered that after the army entered the city, it was necessary to not violate any crimes, not to rob property, not to kill people at will, and not to force plunder women and women. If there was any violation, it would be carried out in military law.

Afterwards, Qin Qing left more than 10,000 troops to guard Yu Pass, and then the army continued to move south, entering Zhili.

At this time, there is no danger to defend the imperial capital.

When the news reached the imperial capital, the whole court was shocked.

Some people expected that Yu Pass could not be defended, but no one could have expected that the Liaodong army had only taken a day and a night to break Yu Pass.

Emperor Tianbao urgently summoned the Governor of Jinzhou, the Governor of Qinzhong, and the Governor of Jingchu to lead troops to defend the king and block the Liaodong army. At the same time, some people in the court proposed to move the capital and retreat to Longmen Mansion or Jinling Mansion, but they were all rejected, and all the ministers and ministers in the court made a quarrel. piece.

At this time, the people of the Confucian school also began to gather in the imperial capital.

Unlike those noisy ministers, the great figures of the Confucian sect are not afraid of the Liaodong army. No matter how powerful the artillery is, they cannot hit their heads. Just as the female nun sect attacks the Xuannun sect and the Yin-Yang sect attacks the Zhengyi sect, they have no I saw a great master of the Heavenly Realm die under the cannon.

What they were worried about was the Taoist people who came with the Liaodong army. It was not a secret that the Taoist people gathered in the East China Sea. Their momentum was better than the last rebellion of King Ning. When the Liaodong army was approaching the imperial capital, It is the time of the second decisive battle between Confucianism and Taoism.