"Boom" and "click".
Finally, a chain bullet fired from a heavy cannon hit the half-foot-thick elm gate of Yifeng Gate in Yingtian City, which was riveted with iron sheets.
The huge impact of the chain bullet tore a hole the size of a washbasin in the city gate.
Immediately afterwards, one round after another, solid artillery shells, chain bullets, and grape bullets hit the city gate.
More and more holes appeared, and eventually the entire city gate was torn apart.
A solid cannonball with a diameter of seven inches and weighing nearly a hundred kilograms hit the latch of the city gate.
The latch made of fine iron was bent and flew a hundred or ten steps in the air, knocking a man running away from the city street.
The unlucky soldier fell to the ground after cutting him in half.
The cracks in the three-millimetre-thick iron plate covering the city gate had rolled up into blossoming iron flowers.
At this time, the large and small mortars on the battleship began to cross the city wall and randomly throw cannonballs behind the city wall.
A large number of Han soldiers rushed to the shore along the springboard of the pontoon bridge.
The firepower of the Ming army at the top of the city had been completely destroyed.
The Han army's fusiliers passed through the broken Yifengmen gate and entered the city without any resistance.
And attack upward along the city wall stairs.
The Ming soldiers stationed at the top of the city had already been beaten to death by the fierce shelling.
A few brave soldiers organized themselves to try to intercept the Han troops coming up the stairs.
But amidst the banging gunfire, he was shot dead on the spot by a flintlock rifle with a bayonet.
A moment later, the flag of the Han army was flying at the top of Yifengmen.
Although Liu Bowen was sure that the Han army would not really attack the city from Yifeng Gate, he became panicked when he heard the increasingly fierce gunfire.
From time to time, he ordered people to find out whether it was because the Han army began to bombard other places again, which made the sound of artillery more and more intensive.
The answer that came was that the Han army only attacked Yifengmen from beginning to end and did not attack other locations.
Only then did he feel vaguely uncomfortable.
Just when he was about to tell his soldiers to prepare their vehicles and go to inspect the battlefield in person.
Another general-level soldier broke into Liu Bowen's house and shouted eagerly: "Report to your lord, the Han army has breached Yifeng Gate."
At this time, it was less than a moment since the last soldier reported.
Liu Bowen, who was having breakfast, was so shocked that his chopsticks fell to the ground.
He simply threw the other chopsticks on the table, got up and left.
As he walked, he ordered his servants and soldiers to prepare the carriage.
Then he asked the soldier: "How did Yifeng Gate be breached?
The Yifeng Gate city gate couldn't be blasted open even by ten giant blunderbuss within thirty steps.
It couldn't be destroyed even by the most powerful returning artillery.
Not to mention the city wall.
As for climbing up the wall, the hundreds of cannons and thousands of soldiers holding various bows and firearms at the top of the city are just decorations, let alone climbing the city.
As long as they go ashore, they will all be under fire.
"Turn into powder."
Without waiting for the soldiers to answer, he suddenly stopped and exclaimed: "Could it be that our army has a traitor general who rebelled against the enemy and dedicated the city gate to the Han army?"
"Lord Qi, the Han army used cannons and artillery to blow open the city gate.
You will know it when you go to the scene.
I don't know how to describe it."
Liu Bowen's personal soldier said helplessly.
"I know that the Han army's guns and artillery are powerful, but I didn't expect that the Han army's guns and artillery are so powerful.
But it doesn't matter, we still have enough troops in Xiutuan Mountain of Lion Mountain, Yingtian Camp and on top of the city to surround and annihilate those who enter the city.
Han army."
The Han army did not immediately rush into the city as Liu Bowen said, but occupied the Yifengmen tower and began to consolidate the position at the head of the city gate tower.
They also escorted a large number of Ming troops captured from the city to the outside of the city and asked them to remove the horse and deer antlers obstacles outside Yifengmen.
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Instead, these obstacles were used to consolidate the Han army's positions inside the city gate.
When Liu Bowen arrived at the Ming army camp in the north of Yingtian City.
The Han army had opened a passage from the riverside to the city gate.
Large quantities of equipment and materials were transported to the city in batches by horse-drawn carriages.
These include mortars of various sizes and multiple-shot eagle cannons for defensive positions.
And of course the ammunition they use.
As soon as Liu Bowen entered the camp, all the generals gathered around him.
Qi Qi advised: "Sir, the Han army's firepower is fierce.
We should quickly cover the royal family and the important ministers and their families to withdraw."
"Yes, Uncle Sincerity, the city gate has been breached now.
For the safety of the royal family, we cannot take risks and defend it.
Now, before the Han army enters the city in large numbers, we must quickly escort the royal family to retreat."
Liu Bowen glared and shouted loudly: "Anyone who dares to abandon the city and flee will be killed without mercy."
After seeing that the noisy generals stopped speaking, Fangcai slowed down and said: "Although the Han army has sharp weapons and fierce firepower, it is only a few thousand troops, and the ammunition they carry must be limited.
Why are you so lost?
When Chen Youliang's army of more than 100,000 people came to attack, we couldn't easily defeat them.
Are you defeated?"
Liu Bowen said some words to boost morale, and then began to deploy his troops.
He was still preparing to wait for the Han army to enter the city, and then surround the Han army between the North City Wall, Lion Rock, Xiutuan Mountain and the Ming Army camp to annihilate them.
In his haste, he did not understand the details of the Han army's capture of Yifeng Gate, otherwise he would never have made such a decision.
There was a loud "boom", and a heavy explosive bomb exploded in the open space of the Ming army camp.
Liu Bowen and the generals felt as if thunder was ringing in their ears during a summer thunderstorm.
Everyone was stunned in fear.
The Han soldiers on the Yifengmen Gate Tower began to use hundreds of various mortars and a large number of individual grenade throwers to throw ammunition at Lion Rock, Xiutuan Mountain, and the Ming Army camp.
Lion Rock and Xiutuan Mountain are only a few dozen meters above sea level, and the mortars set up at the top of the city can easily shoot cannonballs to their hills.
There was a loud boom, and the entire Yingtian City was shaking.
A warehouse where ammunition was stored in the Ming army's stronghold in Shizishan was accidentally hit by a shell and exploded.
Thick smoke suddenly rose from the top of the mountain.
All the returning cannons placed on the top of the mountain were reduced to ashes.
All the large blunderbuss at the mouth of the bowl were turned into scrap iron and scrap copper.
A moment later, the soldiers and generals at the Ming army stronghold in Xiutuanshan, who were afraid of suffering the same fate, also abandoned their formation and fled.
They all ran down the western foot of Xiutuan Mountain, a hill that was only about ten battles high.
This loud noise shocked Liu Bowen, who was pretending to be calm in the Ming army camp, and he could not sit still.
During this time, he had asked the soldiers in front about various details of the battle in detail, and only then did he learn that the Han army had super-era weapons such as mortars and explosive shells.
He knew that he could no longer wait for the Han army to get into the cage.
He had to take the initiative, otherwise the Han army would crush the Ming army with artillery bombardment.
"Send my military order and the whole army will attack.
We must retake Yifeng Gate and drive the Han army back to the river."
Liu Bowen shouted, he had never been so embarrassed in his life.
A considerable part of the people stationed in the Ming army camp were the elite of Zhu Yuanzhang's Twelve Guards.
Under the current situation, their fighting spirit was still intact, and they quickly formed military formations according to Liu Bowen's instructions.
To make a suicide charge against the Han army
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