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"What's going on?" Xing Tizhong frowned and looked outside the city.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, but you were startled when you saw it, and saw a boundless army of soldiers and horses lined up neatly five miles away from Yanmen Pass.
Xing Tizhong looked at the soldiers and horses, his heart was beating violently.
Although Xing Tianzhong had already heard the news last night and had made sufficient mental preparations, when he saw it now, he became flustered.
Xing Tianzhong panted heavily, breathing heavily incessantly, to soothe his flustered mood.
"General, just judging from the scale of these soldiers and horses, there are tens of thousands of people. With so many soldiers and horses, I am afraid that Yanmen Pass will not be able to be defended." A hundred households stood beside Xing Tizhong.He looked at the soldiers and horses outside the city with a bitter look on his face.
Although Song Hu and Zhao Daniu took away 1 people respectively, Zhao Wen still had about 6 people in his hands.
Xing Tizhong pretended to cheer up and said: "It's okay, the terrain three miles ahead of Dongxing Pass is narrow, and there is no way for Zhao's army to deploy. So, we will not directly face these tens of thousands of troops."
"That's what I said, but general, the firepower among these soldiers and horses is extremely fierce. With the strength in our hands, I'm afraid we can't hold it." Baihu looked at Xing Tizhong with a tangled expression.
Xing Tizhong turned his head, looked at Baihu sternly, and shouted: "Do you know what you are talking about? You are disturbing the morale of the army. I don't think I will say anything about the crime of disturbing the morale of the army before the war." I also know that if you dare to say such things, don't blame me for being rude."
Of course Xing Tizhong knew that what Baihu said was right, but at this juncture, even if he was right, he couldn't admit it, otherwise, the morale of the army would be lost before the battle started.
Once the army's morale is scattered, no matter how strong the city is, it can't be defended.
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Chapter 376 Attack on Yanmen Pass
"Order everyone to go up the city wall. Also, if these rebels continue to shoot at us like before, they should first hide in the cave behind the city wall. Once the rebels stop attacking, go up the city wall immediately and organize a counterattack." " Xing Bingzhong looked at Baihu behind him and shouted loudly.
Baihu patted his chest, "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely finish this matter according to your instructions."
After Baihu finished speaking, he hurriedly passed on Xing Bingzhong's order.
Many defenders on the city wall looked at the densely packed team outside the city wall, and their bodies trembled involuntarily.
They swallowed a mouthful of saliva and panted heavily, forcing themselves to calm down a bit.
Zhao Wen stood behind the artillery position, holding up the binoculars and looking at the Dongxing Pass in front of him, with a calm expression on his face.
At this time, the artillery position has been prepared and ready to fire at any time.
Zhao Wen looked at the sun in the sky, drew out the long knife at his waist, pointed at the sky obliquely, and shouted: "The city wall in front of the target, high-explosive bomb, blast me!"
As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, Li Xiaosan led a dozen or so messengers into the artillery position and shouted at the top of his voice.
Within a few breaths, Zhao Wen's order was passed on by Li Xiaosan.
There are ten 152mm cannon howitzers, twenty 120mm mortars and ten 107mm rocket launchers in the artillery positions.
Zhao Wen carried more than these heavy weapons, but to deal with a Yanmen Pass, Zhao Wen did not take out all the artillery he carried.
After all, these numbers of artillery can completely handle it.
When Zhao Wen's order spread throughout the artillery position, the 152mm cannon howitzer at the forefront opened fire first.
Ten 152mm cannon howitzers roared one after another, firing high-explosive shells weighing nearly [-] kilograms in the barrels towards Yanmen Pass.
High-explosive bombs streaked across the sky, approaching Yanmen Pass with whistling sound.
Xing Bingzhong was lying on the city wall, and saw a few balls of fire in the distance, and then heard a few strange voices.
Before he could react, the shells fired by the 152mm cannon howitzer landed on the city wall of Dongxing Pass.
"Oh!"
A high-explosive bomb hit the wall of Dongxing Pass, and exploded violently the moment it hit.
The powerful force made the city walls tremble.
Where the high-explosive bomb exploded, the green bricks wrapped in the rammed earth layer were either blown away or shattered into pieces.
Even the rammed earth layer inside was blasted into a large hole several meters deep.
The dust spread all of a sudden, covering the front of the city wall.
Xing Bingzhong supported the crenel of the city wall and squatted behind the crenel, his body trembling constantly.
At this moment, several rounds of 152mm high-explosive bombs fell on the wall of the city wall.
Several of the high-explosive shells landed directly on the crowd above the city wall.
"Bang bang bang!"
There were explosions everywhere, flames filled the air, and thick smoke billowed.
The defenders around the center of the explosion were swept away like a wheat field swept by a strong wind, leaving only pools of blood.
"Ah, what is this? Is this God's anger? What is this?"
An arm fell from the sky and landed on the head of a stunned soldier outside the area covered by the artillery.
The soldier took the arm off his head with a dull expression, and looked at the blood-stained arm.
After a while, the soldier threw his arm on the ground, yelled like a madman, and ran around the city wall.
"Ah, God is angry, God is angry, run away."
The soldier who became crazy jumped down from the city wall screaming and fell behind the city wall.
The high-explosive bombs that fell on the city wall blew up the wall of Dongxingguan, which was full of large and small potholes.
The shell of the 152mm cannon howitzer weighs 43 kilograms and has a killing area of 22X[-] square meters. Even in later generations, it is still a powerful weapon, let alone the present.
"This, this, what kind of weapon is this?" Xing Bingzhong turned around and stared blankly at this scene.
He really couldn't believe that what happened in front of him was real. He had never heard of this kind of scene, let alone seen it.
Under the first round of artillery fire, the soldiers on the city wall became chaotic.
"Hoohoo!"
At this moment, the second round of shelling arrived as scheduled.
The second round of shelling was not just 152mm high-explosive bombs, but also 107mm rockets and 120mm mortars like heavy rain.
These shells were like rainstorms, falling towards the city wall one after another.
The city wall of Dongxing Pass was quickly covered by artillery fire. Explosions continued to resound on the city wall. There were shattered corpses everywhere, there were blind-eyed, rout soldiers everywhere, and broken bricks everywhere. watt.
The surviving defenders on the top of the city dropped their weapons and fled towards the bottom of the city wall regardless of whether there was an order or not.
At this moment, they had no intention of defending the city at all, they just wanted to find a place without artillery fire and hide well.
"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!" Looking at this scene, Xing Bingzhong couldn't care less, shouted loudly and led his guards to flee under the city wall.
In fact, even if Xing Bingzhong didn't call to retreat, the soldiers on the city wall would not stay on the city wall.
Soldiers in this era have at best seen ancient smoothbore cannons like red cannons. When have they seen this kind of powerful artillery filled with high-energy explosives from later generations?
"Oh!"
A 120mm mortar shot landed [-] steps away from Xing Bingzhong, and the fragments from the explosion directly pierced many of Xing Bingzhong's personal guards to death.
Xing Bingzhong didn't care to look back, and fled to the depths of Yanmen Pass in panic.
With the continuous shooting of artillery fire, the soldiers who had not retreated from the top of the city were shrouded in artillery fire, and their lives were mercilessly harvested in the powerful explosion.
Zhao Wen held up the binoculars and looked at the city wall of Dongxing Pass in front of him, without any expression on his face.
Under the attack of weapons that have surpassed this era for hundreds of years, Zhao Wen firmly believes that no city can withstand this level of attack, not even the famous Yanmen Pass in history.
The high-explosive shells of the 152mm cannon howitzer kept falling on the city wall of Dongxing Pass. Every time it exploded, the city wall of Dongxing Pass would tremble.
Not long after, the city wall of Dongxing Pass was blown up badly.
Under the powerful artillery, Dongxing Pass was like a small earthen wall, which was destroyed bit by bit by huge explosions.
Through the binoculars, Zhao Wen saw that the area of Dongxing Pass had been covered by dust, smoke and flames from the explosion, making it impossible to see the true appearance of Dongxing Pass at all.
At this time, Xing Bingzhong led the remaining guards, Sakai Yazi, and ran towards Yanmen Pass without stopping.
In addition to them, the soldiers who retreated from the city wall followed behind them, running non-stop.
When Xing Bingzhong fled to Guancheng, he looked at the soldiers following him with grief and indignation.
None of the soldiers who escaped survived, and all of them were panicked.
"My lord, this battle can't be fought, let's surrender!" A personal guard took Xing Bingzhong's arm and shouted at Xing Bingzhong with fear on his face.
"Sir, surrender, if you don't surrender, you will die."
Not only the guards, but even the soldiers who escaped looked at Xing Bingzhong with despair, and shouted words like surrender at Xing Bingzhong.
"Surrender?" Xing Bingzhong was trembling as if he had lost his soul.
If they surrendered, Yanmen Pass would be completely lost, but if they did not surrender, Yanmen Pass would not last long.
Earlier, Xing Bingzhong thought that if he had strong troops, it would not be too difficult to hold Yanmen Pass.
But now he sees clearly, even if he is given tens of thousands more, under this level of attack, let alone defending the city, whether he can survive is still a problem.
Xing Bingzhong's body was trembling non-stop. He sat on the ground, watching the rising flames of Dongxing Pass, his expression changed again and again within a few short breaths.
The defenders at Xixing Pass looked in the direction of Dongxing Pass with horror on their faces.
They really couldn't imagine what kind of weapon it was to create such a scene.
A soldier at Xixing Pass pointed in the direction of Dongxing Pass outside, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said with a bitter face: "I'm afraid the brothers above Dongxing Pass may not survive."
"Dang!"
A soldier next to him loosened his hand and dropped the long knife in his hand to the ground.
"Ken Ken will definitely not be able to survive. This level of attack, even a god can't survive."
"Then what shall we do? Are we going to guard the Yanmen Pass?"
"Guard the Yanmen Pass? What nonsense are you talking about? Can you save your life and keep the Yanmen Pass?"
"Then what do we do now?"
"What should I do? Run, what else can I do."
"But the general didn't give an order. Escaping on the battlefield is a death penalty."
"The capital crime of bullshit, it's too late if you don't run now."
Shocked by the artillery fire at Dongxing Pass, the defenders above Xixing Pass also began to panic and fled downward one after another.
Not long after they ran out, they met Xing Bingzhong who was leading the remnant soldiers.
"General? Are you still alive?" A soldier pointed at Xing Bingzhong and stopped in a panic.
There was no expression on Xing Bingzhong's face. He looked at the soldiers who escaped from Xixing Pass, and said in a hoarse voice: "You don't have to be afraid that I will punish you. I decided to lead the army to surrender!"
"Is what the general said true? Really surrender!"
"Do you still have to persevere if you don't surrender? Do you think you can persevere?" Xing Bingzhong asked rhetorically.
"General, let's surrender."
The soldiers who escaped from the Xixing Pass looked at Xing Bingzhong, and the tight strings loosened a lot.
"Stop the bombardment!" Zhao Wen looked at the city wall of Dongxing Pass in the binoculars, and said to Li Xiaosan beside him.
Li Xiaosan hurriedly led the messengers towards the artillery position ahead.
After a dozen or so breaths, the shelling stopped.
After the smoke cleared, Zhao Wen found that the city wall of Dongxing Pass had been completely blown into ruins.
The tall city wall was cut away by the artillery fire, leaving only a short base.There are broken bricks and tiles everywhere, and there are big pits and holes everywhere.
Zhao Wen looked at the city wall of Dongxing Pass that had been blown into ruins, and said to Li Xiaosan behind him, "Send the order to the first and second thousand households to prepare and launch an attack on Yanmen Pass in two quarters of an hour."
Li Xiaosan cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, then headed to the rear.
At this moment, Xing Bingzhong led the remaining defenders in Yanmen Pass to appear on the ruins of Dongxing Pass.
"What's going on?" Zhao Wen held up his binoculars and looked at the defenders who suddenly appeared, with a puzzled look on his face.
"Could it be that you have to surrender?"
Just when Zhao Wen was puzzled, Xing Bingzhong kept waving a white flag.