Unlike siege engines and other siege devices, the Imperial Elephant did not need to be too close to the city walls, and when the guns reached range, the elephant tanks turned backwards and dragged the tail of the gun cart towards the walls.

The artillery of the empire has also been improving over the years, but unfortunately due to various technical limitations, the progress has not been great, so many craftsmen have turned their attention to cannonballs.

Solid bullets with cork stoppers make it easy to reload and stabilize the trajectory.

Bound together a large number of scattered shells, it looks like a bunch of grapes, hence the name grapepeball, although the range of this shell is not as good as that of solid shells, but after firing at close range, a single shot can instantly knock down a large number of enemy soldiers.

The elephant tanks sent by the Imperial Army this time were equipped with two kinds of shells, one was a solid shell used to deal with the city walls and gates, and the other was a newly developed trigger shell.

Of course, the Empire does not yet have electronic or light-triggered technology, but it is still possible to rely on flammable chemicals to generate and burn after being forced, and this is the case with this kind of triggered cannonball.

After more than a dozen elephant tanks were in position, the heavy steel plate at the tail was raised, revealing the artillery, and then the soldiers fixed the guns and began to test fire.

After years of warfare, the empire has cultivated a large number of excellent artillery, and when the test firing is over, solid cannonballs begin to bombard the city walls, and the kind of cannonballs that can be triggered and exploded are aimed at the defenders at the head of the city and the inside of the city.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom ......" The continuous sound of cannons resounded through the sky.

Flesh and blood could not withstand the artillery attacks, and those defenders would be killed even if they hid behind shields and battlements, and for a time bricks, stones, wood, and broken corpses flew everywhere, and the scene was extremely tragic.

The city gate had been blasted open by cannonballs, and the defenders on the city wall were also blown up, and at this time, Han Shizhong and the cavalry led by him finally had a place to use.

When thousands of imperial cavalry troops poured into this small city, the morale of these Khitan soldiers and Han troops, who were under-equipped and trained, finally collapsed, but it was impossible to escape at this time.

Seeing that these Han people who were willing to be people of different races desperately resisted the attack of the empire, Han Shizhong's previous thoughts in his heart also changed, and he turned from sympathy to anger, and issued an order to kill.

Without the obstruction of the city wall, the infantry would definitely not be able to outrun the cavalry, and these Khitans and Han Chinese, who were scattered and fleeing, were hacked to death one by one by the galloping imperial cavalry wielding swords......

The army is a powerful killing machine, and when they enter an enemy town that they will not surrender, there is only one thing left to do.

In less than an hour, the small city was transformed into a ghost land, and the imperial army of 70,000 people was also stationed in the city, and according to the plan, the next step of the arrangement began.

Hunyuan County belongs to Datong Prefecture, so the west side is close to Datong Mansion City, and the east side is far away is Ulzhou City, both of which are heavily guarded by the Jin State.

It stands to reason that after the defenders of Hunyuan County lit the beacon fire, the Jin soldiers stationed in the two cities of Datong and Ulzhou should come to the rescue, but the imperial army had already expected this.

At the same time that Li Nan, Han Shizhong and others led their troops to attack Hunyuan County, an infantry corps of the empire also appeared outside Datongfu City and Ulzhou City and launched an attack on it.

The defenders of Datong Mansion City and Ulzhou City were afraid that they would fall for the imperial army's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, so they did not immediately transfer troops to support Hunyuan City.

The Imperial forces attacking these two important towns attacked fiercely, but in reality they were thundering and raining.

The two major infantry legions, both firing guns on the periphery of the Jin country's defensive line, although they looked huge and sounded full of movement, they did not really attack the city at all.

At this time, Wan Yan Yuan, the general of the Jin State stationed in Datong Mansion, also realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly sent an army of 5,000 people to support Hunyuan City.

Encirclement and reinforcement is to encircle the enemy in a town and use it as bait to attract reinforcements from the enemy in other places, and its real purpose is to fight the reinforcing enemy and achieve the campaign goal of annihilating the enemy.

From ancient times to the present, the tactics of encircling points to send reinforcements have been tried and tested repeatedly, and the imperial army has used the reinforcements of the Jin State, not knowing that the defenders of Hunyuan County have all been killed, and an ambush circle has been set up here.

Datong Mansion City is relatively close to Hunyuan, so the first to come is naturally this reinforcement army of 5,000 people.

This army with the Jurchen tribal army as the main body is all cavalry, the combat effectiveness is very strong, and the speed is fast enough, when they came to Hunyuan County, the Jin general who led the army secretly breathed a sigh of relief, because he saw the Jin State banner on the city wall and the Jin State defenders who were all wounded.

Glancing at this small city that had just experienced a major battle, the reinforcement general ordered someone to call the golden soldiers on the city wall to open the city gate.

With a very humble smile, the Han soldiers in the city opened the city gate and welcomed the reinforcements into the city, but the golden soldiers under the city did not find the hidden meaning in the smiles of these Han soldiers.

The five thousand Jin cavalry slowly walked towards the city, and the Jin soldiers who came to help swept a few glances left and right, and asked the Han army at the head of the city unhappily: "Where is your city lord, why don't you come to meet me?" ”

It seemed that the other party had long expected that the other party would ask about the young patriarch of the Pucha Tribe, and the leader of the Han army at the head of the city hurriedly replied: "General Hui, the city lord was injured when the imperial army attacked the city and is being treated in the city. ”

It stands to reason that there is nothing wrong with this answer, but he didn't expect that the general of the Jin soldiers who came to help was an old friend of the city lord here, and he knew that this person was cowardly and would never go to the dangerous place during the siege, so how could he be injured?

So after hearing this, the face of the Jin soldier general changed greatly, and he shouted: "The whole army is on alert, there is fraud here!" ”

Although I don't understand why the people of Jin Guo saw the flaw, but at this time, they can't delay, and the general of the imperial army dressed as the Han army at the head of the city decisively shot a signal flare into the air.

"Kill!" A large number of Imperial troops appeared on the city walls and behind the houses in the city, and they immediately used their muskets to shoot at the golden soldiers, and the rain of bullets covered these enemies.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "There were repeated explosions near the city gate, and the people who bombed the golden soldiers turned on their backs, and the two city gates were also closed, dividing the golden soldiers into two.

"I've been tricked, get out of here!" Seeing that the situation was not good, the general of the Jin soldiers ignored the cavalry that was stopped in the city, and hurriedly turned his horse's head and prepared to lead the troops outside the city to flee in the direction of Datong Mansion.

The Imperial Army has been preparing for reinforcements for this encirclement for a long time, how can they let them go?

Tens of thousands of imperial troops hiding outside Hunyuan City poured out, and grapeshot shells fired from dozens of artillery pieces set off a rain of death on the way of the Jin soldiers' escape.

Powerful shotguns can form a sea of blood, coupled with the muskets and grenades thrown by the Imperial soldiers, they use the web of death formed by guns and cannons to directly block all the escape routes of the enemy army.