A whole hundred artillery pieces were lined up in front of a large army, the black hole muzzle, the thick black iron cannon body, plus the murderous soldiers, the whole battlefield was full of murderous atmosphere, Xue Wanche looked at the towering fortress city in front of him with a grim smile on his face, he knew that today, it was the day of the city, a full sixty days of waiting, a full sixty days of attack, this day has finally arrived.

Sennasi, who was standing at the head of the city, was extremely worried, his brows were furrowed, on the one hand, he mobilized troops and horses to immediately strengthen the city wall, and on the other hand, he was in a hurry to transfer some very important things to the inner city, and all the soldiers were immediately equipped with shields, although they may not be able to protect themselves, but at least they could guard against those small stones that were swept up by the air current, and many soldiers died from these small stones, so they had to be guarded.

But even so, what can be done? He personally commanded the army to engage the Tang army with a weapon called artillery, and he was embarrassed to say how badly he was defeated, and it was his fate to escape back, before he didn't know why the Tang army didn't use artillery to attack the city, and the spies sent out to inquire about the news came back and said that the Tang army encountered a big flood and drowned the run, and he couldn't use it, so he didn't mention how happy he was at that time.

Although this fortress is very strong, if it is the artillery of the Tang Army, he really doesn't know if he can withstand it, because no matter how the ancestors calculated, they could not calculate that the Tang Army would have such a weapon against the sky.

So when a hundred artillery pieces were lined up, the sharp-eyed soldiers saw it, especially the veterans who retreated all the way from the north knew better what it was, and they almost ignored that the Tang army had such weapons after a few months, and the painful memories of the beginning came to mind again, and in an instant, a large number of veterans collapsed, and Senassi urgently ordered his guards to kill a lot of defeated soldiers before stabilizing the situation, and then he stood at the head of the city with a black face and a waist knife, without leaving a single step.

"That cannon is really powerful! So what! Because they have artillery, do we have to be defeated? Because they have artillery, are we bound to fail? We've been here for two months! Two months! Sixty days! More than 300,000 of them have nothing to do with us, and now that we have a hundred artillery pieces, are we going to collapse without a fight! Now I command! There is no order to retreat without permission! I will kill it myself! Senasi's roar shook all the soldiers.

They were ready to fight, but they showed that this time, the enemy was in a position that they could not attack directly under any circumstances, the enemy was too far away for all their long-range weapons to shoot at such a long distance.

But what did the Don Army put those terrible artillery pieces so far away for?

Senassi had seen the Tang army's artillery up close, but it wasn't until the Tang army's artillery began to shoot that he suddenly realized that the range of the Tang army's artillery was so far away and so deadly.

"I've been waiting for this day for two months, hehe, today, I'm going to settle accounts with them! Zhang Qi, you won't interfere with me anymore, will you? Xue Wanche was in a good mood, so he teased Zhang Qi with great interest, Zhang Qi glanced at Xue Wanche, and said helplessly: "If you are sure that you will not make a mistake again, then I will not interfere with you, a hundred artillery, I estimate that one round or two rounds of shooting the opponent's city will be over, what do you think?" ”

Xue Wanche's face changed greatly, and said: "No, no, no, maybe the city is finished, but the other side still has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and it needs to be bombarded with artillery, so let's use solid bullets to destroy the city wall in the first and second rounds of shooting, and the third round of shooting starts, use flowering shells to attack enemy soldiers, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Qi looked at the artillery helplessly, looked at the artillery, and countless ammunition, so he had to nod, after all, Xue Wanche is the commander, and he is the chief of staff, the senator military aircraft, without the commander's order and the emperor's order, there is no right to control the army, and Xue Wanche wants to go crazy, let him go crazy, anyway, the main responsibility is not his own, and now he has crazy capital.

Not only Xue Wanche, but also other Tang generals, the thirty-seven generals of the expedition to the west, as well as the Roman army and the Persian army, all with a feeling of almost madness, they looked at the city that could not be attacked for a long time, they really felt that there was an idea of wanting to destroy it with the most violent means, which is actually the same psychology as the Japanese who carried out a massacre in Nanjing after the Battle of Songhu, too confident, too arrogant, and suddenly frustrated, there will be a psychological impulse to be injured and need revenge, You need to vent your anger.

The Tang army has military discipline, and it is absolutely not allowed to have things like massacres, even if it is an enemy country, this is out of the need for future rule, Suning has a very famous discussion on this, war is necessary, but that is only a means, rule is a long-term plan, is the fundamental goal, in order to rule, you can't kill excessively, incur their resentment, we can make them afraid, but we must not make them resentful.

Therefore, no matter how angry you are, you will not let the soldiers do the same thing as beasts, that is the self-cultivation of soldiers, the grassroots officers born in the military academy must restrain their subordinates well, and never allow killing outside the battlefield, this is the most basic code of conduct of the Tang Army, special circumstances can be considered, but it is definitely not the norm.

But looking at the Romans and Persians who were sharpening their knives, Zhang Qi felt a little worried, after they entered the city, it was very likely that they would massacre the Arab army and civilians in the city, and the result would inevitably be the destruction of the fortress city, he actually didn't want to do this, but since this situation had already been born, he couldn't restrain the Romans and Persians too much, anyway, this was their mistake, and it had nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty.

Xue Wanche began to order: "Artillery preparation!" The first and second rounds, solid bullets, destroy the enemy walls, and the third round begins, flowering bullets, free fire! Raze this fortress to the ground! ”

The anger that Xue Wanche had been accumulating for a long time exploded at this moment, and in the same way, the anger of the army being suppressed and beaten also exploded, and the anger from the artillery also exploded.

The anger of the artillery is the strictest, no artillery, no gunpowder, no shells, artillery is equivalent to waste, other troops are desperate to fight on the front line, the most elite artillery repeatedly asked to go to the battlefield was rejected by the chief of staff Zhang Qi, not allowed to leave the barracks half a step, the artillerymen almost have depression, this is good, the artillerymen are all out of the line, a hundred guns are fully fired, solid ammunition loading, gunpowder loading, fuse ignition, retreat, preparation, shooting!

"Boom, boom, boom, boom......" The rumbling cannon sounded, one after another with a blazing breath of iron bullets rushed out of the cannon body, towards the strong fortress that could not be attacked for a long time, once Sennacy still had a little luxury, extravagance that the city wall could block the artillery of the Tang army, but when the cannonball and the city wall were in close contact for the first time, Sennasi was desperate, he instantly knew that the fall of the fortress was only a matter of time, and the two months of successful defense were about to end.

The cannonball successfully hit the thick city wall, and the solid iron cannonball will naturally not lose to the stone, on the tough Cheng dù, of course, the iron bullet Cheng dù is a little higher, so it is not difficult for the iron bullet to destroy the city wall with the help of gunpowder, maybe a cannonball will not bring much change, but what about a hundred? What about two hundred in two rounds?

Anyway, in Senasi's limited memory, this cannonball breaking battle is something he will never forget, he can even clearly recall all aspects of that battle, bit by bit, that qiē seems to be engraved in his mind, as long as he wants to recall, that scene of that day will be reproduced like a movie, of course, he doesn't know what a movie is.

An iron bullet hit the city wall with a degree that he could barely detect with his naked eye, and then there was a shock, he looked under the city wall, only saw pieces of broken stones, but there was no trace of the cannonballs, and then, he saw, I don't know how many iron cannonballs of the Tang Army hit the city wall, he only remembered that one of them broke through the thick wall battlements and broke the soldier hiding behind the battlements......

The explosion of flesh and blood at that moment completely had the impact of collapse, and this scene was not only born in front of his eyes, but also in front of other people's eyes, the cannonballs of the Tang Army not only came towards him, but also towards the four auxiliary cities, concentrated fire bombardment, dozens of big iron bullets destroyed the city wall in all directions, crumbling, but this is not the end, this is just the beginning, there was a roar in the distance, and Senacy, who was holding on to the battlements, once again felt the breath of despair rushing towards him.

The walls were almost crumbling, and how desperate was it for Senassi to see the walls of the first auxiliary city collapse? How many people screamed and shouted and were crushed into meat sauce and died in the collapse, how many troops were killed, how many people lost their loved ones, and they will miss them infinitely for the rest of their lives, but this is only a prologue, and the cruelty is still to come, the Tang army began to use flowering shells to bombard the already broken city walls, and to continue to expand the results of the war.

Xue Wanche's reason is that there are more broken stones, the impact of the air waves will be stronger, and the lethality caused by broken stones will be greater and more terrifying, and more people will die from broken stones than the gunpowder itself.

The theory is correct, the practice is also successful, countless Arab soldiers died under the fire of artillery, died of flesh and blood, died of blazing temperatures, and many more died from the iron nails and small stones contained in the gunpowder and the small stones of the originally destroyed city wall, the strong air flow made these small stones splash around, even if they did not die, as long as they were touched, they were injured, in case they hurt the vital places, such as the eyes, the nose, the head, the little brothers, etc., it was also very fatal. The shields originally equipped seemed to be unable to withstand such an impact at all, but the iron shields were very few, and they could not protect the vast majority of people and things at all.

Under the ravages of artillery, under the impact of this powerful firepower, the era of Arabia may be over, because the artillery here is not a product of the times, but a product of the Yue era, such a powerful firearm has the power that ordinary people cannot have, everyone feels that the army stormed the city that could not be captured for two months, but it was destroyed in less than an hour under the power of artillery, the artillery fire was raging, the stones were splashed, and the five once towering cities could no longer see the majestic figure of the past.

This degree is amazing, from their beginning to the end, the soldiers in the army can see it together, which has caused a huge shock to their psychology, and the era of cold weapons hegemony seems to be coming to an end, because there is a firearm with a blazing temperature has been born, and it has a powerful destructive power that cold weapons do not have, which is comparable to the repeated attacks of 300,000 troops in two months.

The power to change the times, the power to change this qiē, is in the gestation, maybe it is not mature enough now, it is just the Cheng dù of the breech gun, but who knows what it will become in a few years? So it may seem a bit biased to assert that it is the end or beginning of an era, but there is no doubt that this is the call of the times. r1152

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