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"Boom, boom, boom......"

The roar of field artillery broke the silence of the battlefield. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the artillery captain proposed to use artillery to kill the artillery, Ye Qingyun immediately adopted this method.

Because it is located in the open plain, Tongzhou City has no danger on all sides, and the place where Ye Qingyun is located at this time is a freshly harvested rice field, and at a glance, the field of vision is very wide.

Deploying the soldiers only five hundred meters away from Tongzhou City, Ye Qingyun ordered an artillery bombardment.

More than 30 artillery pieces fired a salvo, and the shells smashed into the walls of Tongzhou City.

Ten artillery pieces were deployed on the front city wall of Tongzhou City, which were originally intended to prevent coastal invasions, but now they have become the first line of defense for Tongzhou City to defend against the Dengzhou army.

However, what King Wei and the other vassal kings would not have thought of was that Xiao Ming had left a hand on them from the beginning.

The Tongzhou soldiers who were originally going to use artillery to attack the Dengzhou army were shocked, the artillery of the Dengzhou army seemed to have eyes, and every time they fired the shells, they would fall on the side of the artillery, and for a time the Tongzhou artillery suffered heavy casualties, and the artillery on the city wall was also smashed out of position by the shells.

Moreover, the city wall of Tongzhou is far less thick than that of Pengzhou City in such a military town, and the front city wall was quickly broken to pieces, and the soldiers who defended Tongzhou City were in chaos for a while.

"Forward!" After solving the artillery on the city wall, Ye Qingyun ordered the soldiers to approach Tongzhou City.

When they reached a position two hundred meters outside the city, the soldiers stopped, and at this time the artillery reloaded and bombarded the front gate, which could not withstand the attack of the twelve-pounder gun, and soon collapsed in the shell.

At this time, Ye Qingyun led the soldiers to continue to approach the city wall, and when he reached the position of ninety meters, he ordered the soldiers to shoot.

At the same time, the Tongzhou soldiers also began to use bows and arrows to fight back, but compared to the more than 10,000 soldiers who used muskets, the Tongzhou archers at the head of the city were insignificant.

Under the heavy fire, the Tongzhou soldiers on the Tongzhou city wall could not raise their heads at all, and at this time, a thousand-strong team rushed towards Tongzhou.

The battlefield was filled with the roar of artillery and muskets, and the soldiers of Tongzhou City had never seen such a battle, and the city gates that had previously resisted the enemy were vulnerable in front of the artillery.

Outside the battlefield, the people watched all this numbly, they looked at Tongzhou City like this when the Japanese invaded the city, and they still look at Tongzhou City like this.

For them, it doesn't matter who rules Tongzhou City, because in their eyes, this Tongzhou City is a place where powerful and wealthy families live, and it has nothing to do with them, and they only have their own home in their hearts.

Ye Qingyun noticed this situation, just outside the battlefield, the people watched the two sides fighting as if they were watching a play, and none of the people raised their arms and came to help Tongzhou City defend the city.

He suddenly felt a sense of sadness, how could it not be the case in Qingzhou in the past, but now the people of Qingzhou are gradually awakening in the national consciousness of the country deliberately promoted by the newspapers.

The phrase that the rise and fall of the world is no longer exclusive to the mouths of the wealthy clans, and the people gradually understand the weight of this sentence.

And what does the kingdom have to do with me? This kind of words of death have also been thrown into the dung heap, and have become depraved words that everyone spurns, and anyone who flatters them has ulterior motives.

"Charge!"

The people outside the city made Ye Qingyun suddenly aware of the current situation in Tongzhou, if the officials and generals of Tongzhou won the hearts of the people, how could these people be so indifferent.

Presumably, these people must have lived a hard life on weekdays, and they have long hated the officials and wealthy families in the city.

With such a popular style, the combat effectiveness of the army in Tongzhou City can be imagined, and in addition, there have been several times when generals fled from Tongzhou City after the Japanese invaders landed, and Ye Qingyun's confidence has increased greatly.

The charge resounded throughout Tongzhou City at this moment.

After the thousand-man team entered the city, Ye Qingyun led other soldiers to rush into the city.

The Tongzhou army to the generals, down to the soldiers were frightened by the appearance of the Dengzhou army who was not afraid of death, against the arrows at the head of the city, the Dengzhou army wearing dark green robes was like a tiger entering the flock, seeing the soldiers of the Tongzhou army who came to meet them, the soldiers of the Dengzhou army stood still after a round of volleys, picked up their bayonets, lined up in a tight formation and rushed to the enemy.

"For Qingzhou! For the bounty! Ye Qingyun shouted a slogan.

This sentence stimulated the blood of the soldiers more and more, for Qingzhou means loyalty, for the bounty is for a rich life, before coming to Tongzhou, they have heard about the Southern Expeditionary Army.

This time, the spoils collected by the Pengzhou Chengnan Expeditionary Army finally totaled 3 million taels of silver, of which 300,000 taels of silver were taken out to reward the soldiers, except for the generals who were slightly more, each soldier basically received 12 taels of silver.

This war alone is equivalent to two years of soldier's salary.

At this time, whether it was for glory and loyalty or for money, they wanted to take Tongzhou City.

"Kill!" At this moment, the Dengzhou Army fully developed the advantages of combining hot and cold weapons.

In the face of the long-distance enemy Dengzhou army stood still and fired, and a salvo at close range charged with bayonets, and the Tongzhou army initially relied on superior forces to try to prevent Dengzhou from entering the city.

However, in the face of the Dengzhou Army's combination of far and near tactics, the Tongzhou Army suffered heavy casualties, and soon the Tongzhou Army collapsed, in order to save their lives, the soldiers lost their will to fight and fled, and the city of Tongzhou became a mess for a while.

In the chaotic situation, the Dengzhou army was like a bamboo, fighting along the north gate to the south gate, and after a fierce battle for a day and a night, the Dengzhou army fully occupied Tongzhou City.

Officially took over Tongzhou City militarily, Ye Qingyun organized soldiers to repair the city walls and gates overnight, this time they attacked Tongzhou to take advantage of the unpreparedness, and because of the advantage of artillery, they were able to enter the city quickly, which made many Tongzhou soldiers not react to what happened.

However, Tongzhou is an important port in Weidi, but now there are thousands of large and small merchant ships moored in the port, and now these merchant ships are under the control of Yue Yun.

At this time, the loss of Tongzhou King Wei must be angry, because this is equivalent to cutting off the foundation of King Wei's maritime trade, from Jinling City to Tongzhou distance of about four hundred miles, Ye Qingyun believes that King Wei will definitely send a large army to seize the city.

Therefore, he wanted to repair the city defense in advance, and let Yue Yun transport the city cannons on the battleship to the city, so that the Tongzhou city would become an iron wall.

Moreover, Tongzhou City was built near the sea, and at this time, Yue Yun's warships echoed at sea, and he was not worried about cutting off supplies.

This Tongzhou City can provide supplies, of course, they can also transport supplies, according to Xiao Ming's order, he wants to build Tongzhou City into a bridgehead to attack Jinling City.

After issuing many orders, Ye Qingyun immediately sent soldiers to Qingzhou to convey the situation of the battle in Tongzhou, and reported the details of the battle of Tongzhou to Xiao Ming.