Chapter 867
Among the artillery shells and the splashing mud, Shan Xiongxin saw groups of Wu soldiers fleeing in panic like frightened birds. Most of them were infantry. They threw away their flags and heavy armor, and some even threw away the horizontal swords and spears in their hands. Other cavalry also fled in panic, and the cavalry had no array or formation. They were desperately beating the horse's belly, urging the war horses to take them out of this place of death earlier.
There were only a few narrow passages between Jiangantan and Caishi City. For a moment, forty thousand people rushed to this place, and everyone wanted to leave here as soon as possible. The soldiers fought together, without formation, and no higher or lower ranks. Even the comrades fought fiercely between the robes, and several knights even relied on their horse's advantage, whipping on their comrades with long spears and trampled on a road.
It was really a desperate struggle, Shan Xiongxin looked as if he was ashamed. He never expected that just two rounds of attacks, a total of 40,000 troops would be scared like this. Sure enough, what is unknown is the most feared, otherwise 40,000 soldiers who experienced life and death would not behave like this.
Shan Xiongxin wanted to stop all this chaos, but his throat was hoarse and helpless. It would be fine if he had not had the previous order to retreat. Once the order to retreat was abrupt, the retreat had become a collapse in front of the whistling shells behind.
Chen Kefu stood on the high five-layer deck of the Anlan battleship, motionless like a statue. Outside Caishi North City, the pier and mudflats were once such a lively place. At this time, it was like a ghost domain.
The soldiers of the Wu army had fled in panic and evacuated the coast, but the hasty retreat had evolved into a collapse. Groups of soldiers were rushing to escape to Caishi City, trying to hide behind the high city walls. However, the more this happened, the slower the Wu army's retreat was. More and more soldiers were blocked in front of those small passages, with soldiers densely packed, more dense than the previous array.
"Architecture extends!"
The cannon commander on the ship issued a new order in time. One cannon quickly pointed the target to the distance. One round of shells gradually extended, extending straight from the fences on the shore to the underworld of Caishi.
One by one, the shells hit the Wu army, and the gaps were made in the Wu army's crowd, and huge deep pits were splashed with blood and broken limbs.
The gate of Caishi City has been opened, and all the Wu soldiers who rushed to the city first breathed a sigh of relief. Caishi City is more than 2,000 steps away from the fleet on the river. Those feared weapons can't hit this place.
However, they obviously underestimated Chen Jun's red-clothed cannon. Before they could be happy, waves of whistling sounds had already fallen from the sky. Huge shells fell like meteors, and the powerful shells hit the city, the city walls, and even the city gate tower.
The 20-pound cannonball hit the city, but the power was incomparable to the stone shell thrown by the stone caster. Wu Jun on the city only felt his feet shaking. Then the brick wall had been smashed to pieces. A shell hit the city gate tower directly, and the city gate tower collapsed directly with a blow.
The soldiers on the city also began to line up shield formations in panic, and iron shields stood up one by one. However, compared with the shells of the red-clothed cannon, Wuyi is a witch. Even if the shield formation is secretly ordered, once the shells hit the shield formation, the one who blocks the shield formation will die within a range of 1. There is no reason to survive. What's even more terrifying is that after these shells hit, they will not stop immediately, but will bounce several times, and the damage will stop.
The Jiang Feng lifted Chen Kefu's bright yellow battle robe and rolled it on his face, but he was not moved at all. He had heard the cheers of the soldiers on the ships coming from the Jiang Feng. However, Chen Kefu had no intention of joining immediately. Victory was only halfway and did not take the quarry for a moment. Victory was not counted. And at this time, he was also pondering in his heart that the appearance of the giant cannon warship might be the beginning of opening Pandora's box. [*you]
Although the cannons appeared hundreds of years ahead of time, he did not have much burden. History always advances. If you are afraid of progress, you must be self-confidence. This is actually no different from the seclusion of the country in later generations. You cannot treasure them just because you are afraid of kicks and horseshoes will make the grassland tribe more brave. You cannot give up if you are afraid of gunpowder cannons that will make other tribes rise.
Another round of artillery bombardment, the distance from the river beach to the quarry was a death zone at this time. The dense soldiers became the absolute target. Even if the accuracy of the cannon was not high, such dense soldiers were completely shot at every single shot. The killing rate increased exponentially. From the beginning to now, the artillery bombardment has exceeded ten rounds. He estimated that the casualties of the Wu army had exceeded three thousand at least, and it was possible that the number of five thousand was 5,000.
However, if pure artillery attack is not possible to completely annihilate the Wu army. After all, although the cannons have a long range, they are not large in number and their accuracy is not high. What is more important is that after the cannons are fired continuously for a while, they have to cool down for a while. Moreover, the Chen army does not have so many shells to support the continuous artillery attack.
For Chen Kefu, shelling is a means rather than an end.
He held up the Qianli Mile Mile and kept watching the Wu Jun's dynamics. When he found that the Wu Jun had almost all retreated to Caishi City and the defense line at the Jiangtan Pier was empty, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Slowly pulling out the Red Sword, Chen Kefu waved his long sword and shouted: "Transfer my order, and all the gunboats will continue to bombard the shells. In fact, all the ships are rushing to land on the beach and preparing to seize the city!"
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The various ways of sending messages were sent to the banner, horn, and lights were sent together. Soon, except for the Anlan and ten Huanglong warships, which continued to stay in the middle of the river, hundreds of other Qinglong warships and other large and small warships began to rush towards Caishiji.
Shan Xiongxin on Caishi City also discovered Chen Jun's actions, but he was powerless. From the riverside to Caishi City, it became a death zone, and it was simply a meat grinding field. At this time, the Chen army in the inner castle found that Chen Jun came to support, and he even organized a group of troops to counterattack. For this reason, he had to distribute a large number of troops to intercept.
The countless ditches, fences, deer antlers, pits and other defensive facilities on the riverside have been completely destroyed by the several bombings in front of them. Chen's warships soon relied on the docks by the riverside and nearby beaches. One by one, the small boats were put down, and Chen's on the boat boarded the boats to grab the beach.
The originally planned beach-grabbing battle did not happen. Facing the empty beach, Chen Jun's pilot battalion quickly climbed onto the beach, and then quickly formed a forward position.
But this was a bit futile, because the Wu army did not come to stop it in the end, and even a small army was not sent. In this way, he finally watched Chen army board the shore one by one, and then calmly put the whole team on the shore.
Chen Kefu did not continue to stay on the warship, and he then led the imperial guards to the shore.
"The artillery fire extends the attack, and the infantry and cavalry then launch an attack!"
Before the war, Chen Kefu had discussed with his subordinates for a long time. Since most of the troops who participated in the war were drawn from various places, although half of them were the best army of the Chen Dynasty, they had no experience in cooperating with each other. Therefore, after having giant ships and cannons, Chen Kefu simply created a warship and giant cannon to destroy the enemy's river bank defense line first, and then the infantry landed. Then artillery fire covered the infantry and cavalry's siege.
In fact, the current results show that this plan is still very successful. After Chen Jun, who had 400 cannons, launched the joint combat of the incisors, the Wu army was completely worried and panicked, and did not know how to deal with it. Apart from hiding in the city, they completely gave up the Jiang Fang and the battlefield outside the city.
Starting from the first round of artillery attacks, in less than two hours, all 90,000 Chen troops had landed on the shore and easily advanced to Caishi City.
"Boom the city gate!" Chen Kefu rode on Tel's pilgrimage, pointing his sword at the quarry's outer city gate and whispered aloud.
Because the journey was smooth, Chen Kefu simply asked the soldiers to dismantle four cannons from the ship and transport them to the shore, and drove them all the way to Caishi City.
The soldiers are very fast, and Chen Kefu is really unwilling to spend too much time under Caishi City, and Shen Luoyan's army is outside, which really makes him feel a little uneasy.
The four-wheeled cannons, pulled by four horses and pushed by many soldiers, were quickly pushed to the battlefield. Five red-clothed cannons weighing 3,000 pounds were only a short distance of more than 200 steps against the quarry city gate.
"Breaking open the city gate directly!" Chen Kefu did not hesitate at all.
The accuracy of the red-clothed cannon is indeed not high, but it means that it is at a distance of seven or eight miles or even ten miles. But if the distance is only three hundred steps, if it is said that it is not shot, it is really a ghost.
The artillery soldiers of the Engineering Battalion have quickly loaded the shells and are in their place.
"fire!"
"boom!"
Five artillery fired together, without any mistakes. Five twenty-pound shells directly hit the tall city gate. After a while of mountain shaking, the steel-wrapped city gate was directly bombarded into pieces. Even the city gate hole collapsed, which was amazing.
"kill!"
Before Chen Kefu's order was made, Li Xiuning, Zhai Wushuang and Zhang Chuchen, who had been waiting in front of the formation, had already taken the lead and led three female troops into Caishi City.
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