MTL - Unparalleled Concubine-v2 Chapter 1076 Three days of bombardment!

   Chapter 1076 Three days of bombardment!

  The capital has indeed been fighting.

After Hou Jingde took two Zhechong mansions out of the city, and they were dispersed overnight, the court's attitude towards the Southwest Army turned conservative, even if the strength of the army was superior, they could not hold on to it, so that Li Shuo only brought more than 50,000 people. Abruptly pushed to the capital city.

   This is a humiliation unseen in the more than 100 years since the founding of the Jin Dynasty!

Even when the Northern Zhou Dynasty was the most powerful, there were 200,000 iron cavalry and 300,000 string-controlling men who were eyeing the Southern Jin Dynasty. Thanks to the efforts of the ancestors of the Great Jin Dynasty, they never hit the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty. The thief, only dispatched 50,000 people, has really come to the capital city.

   Hundreds of thousands of Gyeonggi Imperial Army, too frightened to hold on!

   Even if the Southwest Army can't conquer the capital, this incident will be recorded in the history books, which will make the people of the Jin Dynasty humiliated!

  The personal reputation of Emperor Yuanzhao also dropped to freezing point as the Southwest Army arrived under the capital.

  The Great Jin Dynasty was founded more than 100 years ago, and there were nine emperors in total. He was the first emperor who was beaten to the door of his house. Even if the people couldn't say anything about him, and he would come underground, most of the ancestors would not spare him.

Li Shuo took more than 50,000 people and arrived at the base of the capital. He was not in a hurry to attack, but slowly pushed out the catapults he had built in the past few days. A total of 30 catapults were driven to the capital. West Gate.

   Next, Li Shuo sent people to shout to the capital, persuading them to surrender in Kaicheng, depose the monarch, and welcome the sixth prince to the capital to take the throne.

   Of course, this is just a routine. At this time, no one dared to open the door, and no one would respond to it. Although there were thousands of guards on the city wall, it was silent and no one dared to make a sound.

  Li Shuo didn't talk nonsense to them either. With a big wave of his hand, his catapult began to move forward unhurriedly.

Ordinary catapults, because they throw stones, are too heavy, and their range is not even comparable to that of bows and arrows, especially when the city wall has the advantage of being commanding. In the case of projectiles, bows and arrows can reach three or four hundred steps, generally If the catapult wants to attack the city wall, it will definitely be shot by the local bow. However, the weight of these pots is far less than that of the stone, but it is not too light, which leads to the range of this catapult can reach four. A hundred steps or even five hundred steps was already beyond the distance of a single arrow, and the longbows that were thrown from the towers were also powerless to use these catapults.

Before he started his expedition to the east of Shu, Li Xin had someone deliberately trained a group of slingers. These people had a good grasp of distance and accuracy. The pots hit the city wall with great precision. Then it exploded!

  Although the loading speed of the catapults was horribly slow, they exploded in less than half an hour, and each catapult threw more than a dozen clay pots and hundreds of thunderbolts, blasting above the city wall!

Because at this time, the court's response to firearms was far from comparable before, so there were not too many people standing on the city wall, only a small number of people were arranged to hide behind the bunkers, watching the movements of the Southwest Army with a telescopic mirror, and then at any time. The chief behind him reports.

Because of the small number of people, these pots exploded on the city wall, and the number of natural killers is not large, but the city wall must always be kept in a state of people. If one person dies, the Imperial Army will send someone to fill it up. After half an hour, there are also people on the city wall. Hundreds of casualties.

   Li Shuo, who was attacking under the city, also held a telescopic mirror and watched the situation on the city wall. He was not in a hurry, he only ordered the catapult not to stop and kept throwing thunder.

that's it. The Southwest Army drove down to the capital city in the morning, and after three or four hours of indiscriminate bombardment with catapults, the Ningzhou army commander waved his hand and led his men around the catapults to withdraw his troops. Back to their camp.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Shuo still took his soldiers and pushed thirty soldiers and bombed the wall of the capital for three days. All of them felt a little more panic in their hearts.

   The most terrifying thing is not how strong the enemy is, but the inability to counterattack on their own side. If these southwestern troops do not attack the city, the forbidden army will have no way to go out of the city to attack them.

   More importantly, although the city walls of the Dajin capital were sturdy, it took a few days to blow up, and the entire west city wall was still solid, but there were many potholes, and even some gaps appeared, which was extremely terrifying.

   The general of the forbidden army, Chong Xuantong, withdrew from the city wall with a gloomy face, wiped the black ashes from his face with a towel, and rode to the imperial city.

   In the Weiyang Palace, the emperor is discussing with several prime ministers, mainly discussing how long the food in the city can be eaten and how to maintain order in the capital when the capital is closed.

   This was during the war. Chong Xuantong was taken directly to the Weiyang Palace, and soon saw the emperor. He knelt in front of the emperor and bowed his head: "Your Majesty, the Southwest Army has retreated."

   Emperor Yuanzhao looked at the time, and then said expressionlessly: "Every day, the sound of thunder from the sky rises at sunrise and ends at sunset. These southwestern troops are really like working in the yamen."

Chong Xuantong lowered his head and said abruptly: "Your Majesty, although the number of casualties of the Imperial Army has not been many in a few days, people in the capital are already panicking, and none of us know how many useless firearms these southwestern rebels still have. If we continue like this without any counterattack, there may be chaos in the city."

   He bowed his head and gritted his teeth: "Not only the people in the city, but even the soldiers of the forbidden army. If hundreds of people die every day like this, I'm afraid there will be dissatisfaction in my heart..."

Emperor Yuan Zhao frowned slightly, and then said: "The Southwest Army is too small to use human life to attack the city. They did this to attract the forbidden army to go out of the city to fight with them. fell for them."

   Having said that, the emperor remembered something and frowned even more deeply.

   "Mr. Ram has been out of town for so long, but he hasn't come back yet..."

  Chong Xuantong knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, since a thing like gunpowder ignites and explodes immediately, the minister's intention is that we can send a special soldier out of the city to find the firearms warehouse of the Southwest Army, and set it on fire..."

   Now that the craftsmen in the capital have already created Tianlei, it is not surprising that a general like Chong Xuantong is no stranger to the nature of gunpowder, and he has come up with a way to deal with it.

  The emperor shook his head slightly, and said abruptly: "The old general should know that my teacher is an extremely cautious person."

"Now the one who is attacking the city under the capital is Li Shuo of the Southwest Army, and the soldiers he leads are the Ningzhou Army in the Southwest Army. The arms quota of Ningzhou is distributed every two days by the so-called General's House in the Southwest. One call, even if we destroy their firearms, it's only a day or two of firearms, and it's not very useful."

   Having said that, the emperor looked at Chong Xuantong and sighed slowly.

"Old General, let's stick to what I want. If the city wall is damaged, I will let the Ministry of Industry repair it overnight. For the people in Beijing, I will let Jingzhao House to appease the old general. Just bring the forbidden army to stick to it. ."

  Chong Xuantong lowered his head and smiled wryly.

   "Your Majesty, if you keep defending, the spirit of the Imperial Army may be dissipated..."

  The emperor still shook his head stubbornly. He stepped down from the throne and personally lifted the old general from the ground with a firm gaze.

   "Old General, give it to me again and buy some more time..."

   I fell asleep yesterday, making up for yesterday’s…

   (end of this chapter)