Chapter 1029: Attacking the city with all its might
"Da Ming actually has such a powerful character, I would have liked to meet him." After listening to Shuha's explanation, Wu Man now understood, it turned out that Beiyuan wanted to use Narsha to restrain Li Yuntian, and then his face showed an excited look and said with interest.
Although Wu Man felt that the generals of the Ming Dynasty were vulnerable, otherwise they would not have been defeated in Blackwater City and Blue Leaf City, but Li Zixi led more than 10,000 people to escape from his pursuit, which made him angry, and he did not take advantage of the two sides in a few battles during the pursuit, which made him look at Li Zixi with admiration.
Now, Li Zixi's top boss and King Zhongwu of the Ming Dynasty is about to be sent by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to fight in the Western Regions, so Wu Man naturally wants to compete with King Zhongwu.
Hearing this, the corners of Shuha's mouth couldn't help but flash a sneer, a general of this level like Wu Man is not worthy of being the opponent of the Ming Zhongwu King at all, and the Great Khan of their Khanate is almost the same.
"Two generals, our army has finished arranging, can we attack the city?" At this moment, a general galloped up on horseback and asked Wuman and Shuha in a deep voice.
"Let's get started!"
Shuha and Wu Man glanced at each other and nodded to the general, looking up in the direction of the city, he also wanted to know that the explosives captured outside the city of Heishui City could blow up the walls of the city of Beshi Bali, if this was the case, then the Northern Yuan army would no longer be afraid of attacking the city in the future, and fighting in the field was the strength of the Northern Yuan army.
Along with Shuha's order, a group of Northern Yuan soldiers pushed a wooden cart loaded with explosives captured from the Western Expeditionary Army outside Blackwater City.
According to the confession of the captured Ming soldiers, the explosives developed by the Ming Lecture Wutang were amazingly powerful, and one car was enough to blow up the walls of Beshi Bali City, after all, with the current construction technology, it could not effectively resist the explosive explosion, unless the city walls were piled up with huge hard rocks like Qinglong City.
It is a pity that the outside world has neither mastered the advanced technology of the lecture hall, nor the equipment made by the lecture hall that can greatly improve work efficiency, so it is impossible to build a city as magnificent as Qinglong City.
"Kill!" Under the command of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan generals, the besieging soldiers waved the weapons in their hands one after another, carrying siege equipment and shouting and rushed to the city wall of Beshbali City.
Although the explosives were the weapons for the siege of the city this time, Shuha played a trick in order to confuse the defenders on the city wall, that is, to let the soldiers carry siege equipment to attack the city, so as to distract the attention of the defending troops, and better cover the wooden carts transporting explosives to approach the city wall smoothly, and he chose a city wall far away from the fierce battle area as a breakthrough point for explosives to blow up the city wall.
Generally speaking, the siege troops have easier access to the city walls, and the biggest problem is how to climb the walls guarded by the defenders, but with explosives, this problem is solved, and the seemingly impregnable and high walls have lost their original power.
Since the Northern Yuan soldiers used explosives for the first time, there was no tactic at all, that is, pushing the cart loaded with explosives and rushing to the city wall under the protection of the foot soldiers.
On the tower of the West Gate, Monte Khan and Bai An and others looked expressionlessly at the soldiers of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty who were surging over like a tide.
"Quick, take a closer look at the people below to see if there is a vehicle, and if you find it, immediately attack it with all your might, and be sure to stop the vehicle."
Several generals ran back and forth on the city walls, shouting at the nervous guards that they had learned about the explosives from Gurrusa, so the high-ranking generals such as Monte Khan and Baian focused on the explosives.
Although Shuha and Wuman prepared some siege equipment, it was obviously not very effective for a city of the level of Beshi Bali City, so both Monte Khan and Bai An could guess that those siege equipment must be used to cover those explosives, as long as they could prevent the explosives from exploding, then Beshi Bali City would not be captured.
After all, the strength of Shuha and the Wuman was comparable to that of the defenders of Besha Bali City, and they could not capture a fortified city like Besha Bali City, and if they attacked it, they would definitely cause a lot of casualties.
"There are cars in the crowd below, surrounded by shield soldiers." After receiving the loud warnings from the generals, the soldiers on the city wall looked down the city, and soon someone spotted the wooden cart full of explosives mixed with the charging siege troops, and shouted at the top of their voices.
"Attack that car with all your might, don't let it get close to the walls!" Hearing this, a general on duty nearby hurriedly ran over, leaned on the wall and looked down, and then pointed to the wooden cart and shouted.
Monte Khan had given a death order not to let those explosives under the city walls under any circumstances, so that the explosives would be much less powerful even if they exploded.
With the shouts of the general, the city wall suddenly rained down rounds of arrows on the wooden cart protected by the shield soldiers, although there were shields to protect them, but many people were shot by the dense arrows, fell to the ground and groaned in pain.
To the horror of the soldiers pushing the cart, there were rockets among the arrows that came down from the city walls, but they knew what the carts were carrying, and they were so frightened that they almost couldn't pee their pants, and they hurriedly extinguished the rockets that hit the wooden carts, and many more people were hit by the arrows at this opportunity.
"Quick, Mingjin retreats!" Shuha was taken aback when he saw this, it seemed that the defenders of the city already knew about the explosives, and it must have been leaked by that damn guy in Gurrusa, so he didn't have time to shout at one of the generals on the side.
If the explosives on the wooden cart were ignited by the rockets fired from the city walls and exploded, the consequences would be unimaginable, and the surrounding Timurid Empire and Northern Yuan soldiers would face annihilation.
"Can't stop, if you stop now, it will give the people in the city a chance, since they know that you have transferred the firearms of the Ming army, then they will definitely not stay in the city honestly, in case they escape, we will have to spend a lot of effort."
As soon as Shuha's words fell, the Wu Man on the side spoke to stop him, "Besides, this will also hurt the morale of the brothers, as long as you rush to the wall with all your might, then Don't lose Bali City is ours." ”
"Attack with all your might!" Shuha was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and saw that Wu Man's eyes showed a fierce light and knew that he wanted to use the soldier's life to open a road to the city for the wooden cart, and after hesitating for a moment, his face sank, and he gave the order to the general on the side again, "Pass the order, as long as the car arrives at the city, then the meritorious person will first select the spoils of war after entering the city." ”
Shuha's "selection of loot" refers to the first robbery of property and women, and although Shuha disdains this, he has to do it in order to boost the morale of the army.
As the Uman said, once the people of the city broke through, they would have to pursue them, not to mention the painstaking efforts, and important figures like Narsa and Monte Khan were prone to escape from the chaos, so Shuha had to give the order to attack the city with all his might, which was the most worry-free and effort-saving way.
As long as the soldiers of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty attacked the city, then the city of Beshi Bali would become the world of Shuha and the barbarians, and Shuha believed that the defenders in the city were powerless to resist in panic.
Knowing that Shuha had given the order to "select the loot first", the soldiers besieging the city immediately rushed towards the city wall like a tide of doping, and the people who followed after someone was hit by an arrow would immediately make up for it, and everyone had long coveted the treasures and women in the city, which became the biggest motivation for them to desperately attack the city.
For the soldiers of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, the spoils of each war were their greatest income, so the besieging soldiers were eager to get the booty first, which meant that they would get more wealth and more beautiful women than others.
"General Bai, Ben Khan has entrusted the two princes to you, I hope you can take them back to the Ming Dynasty, as long as they are in our Chagatai Khanate, there will be a day of recovery."
On the gate tower of the West City, the Great Khan of Monte looked at the soldiers of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty who were frantically surging under the city, and then called out to the two princes who changed into Ming army clothes, and bowed to Bai An, who was standing on the side to watch the battle, and said in a deep voice.
"Great Khan, rest assured, Benhou will do his best to protect the two princes!" Bai An knew that Monte Khan was preparing to fight to the death with the enemy army besieging the city, so he solemnly agreed, and the Ming Dynasty really needed the Eastern Chagatai Khan royal family to win over the hearts of the people of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.
"You're going to listen to Aunt Narsa." There was a hint of relief on Monte Khan's face when he heard this, and then he admonished the two princes with a serious expression.
The two princes, young men of fifteen or sixteen years old, nodded reluctantly to the Great Khan of Monte, who had already understood that the Great Khan of Monte Khan would stay in the city and fight against those hateful enemy troops.
"Let's go!" Monte Khan hugged the two princes and waved his hand, and now he was too short to say goodbye to them.
"Great Khan, take care!" Knowing that it was time to go, Bai An bowed his hand to the Great Khan of Monte and led the two princes down the city gate in a hurry, and according to the plan, they would break through the eastern gate, where the weakest troops outside the city.
Not long after leaving the gate tower of Ximen City, just as Bai An and the others were hurrying all the way to the palace, preparing to go to the palace to pick up Narsa, who persuaded Princess Anali to leave together, there was a huge and earth-shattering sound behind them, like a thunderclap falling to the ground, and the entire city trembled.
Where have the residents of the city experienced such a thing, one by one they turned pale with fright, their expressions were frightened, and they were quickly enveloped in an atmosphere of panic, and no one knew what was happening.
Bai An, who was marching, was also startled by the loud noise, and as soon as the reins of the horse turned around the dock and looked in the direction of Xicheng, he saw a huge cloud of black smoke rising from the sky above a city wall, slowly rising upward.
"Alas!" Bai An had seen the power of the Xiaowu firearms, and knew that the huge black smoke was the smoke produced after the explosion of explosives, and it seemed that the walls of Bali City were more auspicious, and then he sighed helplessly, and ran towards the palace with his legs between the horse's belly.