As Qiao Laoer said, the collapsed city walls filled the moat and formed a gentle slope. Taking advantage of the smoke and dust, the first brigade of infantry, which had been on standby for a long time, quickly broke into the gap, but the imagined fierce battle did not happen.

After searching, only a group of civilian troops who were obviously over-scared, covered in dust, and holding simple weapons were found. The "Gurams" fled into the main building in the castle before the city was broken, leaving only their cannon fodder.

The city has a small space, which is not conducive to cavalry combat, and there is no fierce resistance. The large group of people is easily attacked by the enemy. So Ma Wei ordered the large army to stop entering the city, and only use one infantry brigade to enter the city to control the commanding heights and clear away the remaining enemies.

The cavalry expanded the search scope to prevent the enemy from reinforcements and escape, while the Hussars continued to rest, and the Second Infantry Brigade shrank and surrounded the encirclement and served as a reserve for the general offensive.

As the second wave of troops entered the city, Mawei climbed the city wall, and the personal soldiers cleared out a piece of open space from the rubble and became a temporary command post. The smoke and dust gradually dissipated, and the scene in the city gradually appeared in front of him. He couldn't help but frown.

The city's defensive facilities are not only one main building, but a unique world. It is not easy to easily occupy the entire castle, especially the thick and tall main building standing in the center of the city.

The situation inside the fort is like the inner city in a large city in the Central Plains. It is an independent and complete defense system composed of the main building and surrounding ancillary facilities. Its rigor is like a composite small fortress. All signs indicate that this castle was not built in one go.

Successfully, the castle had only this main building at first, but now it seems to be just a part of the garden. But the low wall covered with green vines should be part of the fortifications of the old site, and the stream flowing around the main building was the main building.

moat.

As the castle grew in existence and the owner's wealth increased, this composite building with the main building as the basics gradually expanded to the surrounding area, and defense measures including outer city walls and arrow towers were added. It gradually evolved into a city wall with internal walls.

Fortresses and large composite castles with arrow towers. In this way, even if the outer city is captured by foreign enemies, the defenders can still defend themselves in the main building for the final defense, delaying the fall.

The basic key point of castle defense is to put the siege into the highest danger and expose the most enemy situations as much as possible; the opposite is to minimize the risks that the defender bears. Under normal circumstances, a castle with complete defense facilities only depends on

A small force can ensure safety by guarding the castle, but the siegemen need to use more troops larger than the defenders to conquer it.

Because the latter needs sufficient troops to control the rural areas around the castle, repel the rescued troops, directly attack the strongholds or siege them, these are extremely consuming actions. This is also the great military force of Grand Duke Feichia dared to use his thin armed forces

The reason for challenging the Song army that he had several times his own. It was just that he did not expect that the Song army would adopt this kind of tactic without any technical content and use brute force to destroy the city walls and arrow towers and other defense measures. Otherwise, even if he failed in the battle,

It is impossible for the Song army to break through the periphery in a short time.

Even if the Song army breaks through the periphery now, it does not mark the fall of the entire city. The main building can still become the last fortress for Grand Duke Feiqia to stick to. Its thick outer wall is even stronger than the city wall. The height and smooth outer wall make the attacker

Difficult to climb. Try to narrow the doors of the main building as much as possible, and the attackers cannot easily advance by relying on the advantage of numbers. However, the defenders in the building have the advantage of strong protection and shooting downwards, giving the enemy powerful damage and sufficient

Material reserves and huge water storage pools can also make them persist until the enemy retreats exhausted.

It was already evening, and the heavy artillery had not been delivered. Considering that it would be more difficult to enter the main building after dark to clear it out, Hu Lie, the commander of the Border Brigade, hoped to use machine guns and rapid-fire cannons as cover to block the arrow holes and platforms on the upper floors.

, He led his troops to fight once, and tried to end the battle before the darkness. However, his proposal was flatly rejected by Ma Wei, and he did not want major casualties at this time.

"Deputy Commander, why don't Hu Lie try? They have been on the boat for tens of thousands of miles. Haven't really fought a war yet!" Li Quan leaned over and said, obviously after Hu Lie was rejected, he was in love.

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"Precisely because brothers follow us thousands of miles away from our country, it is not easy for us to get here alive, and we cannot let them lose their lives under this small city when it is about to end." Ma Wei said in a deep voice.

"Deputy Commander, I heard that the bullshit man hid the family's savings for several lifetimes in this big barrel. If the cannon was bombed, it would be smashed to pieces!" Li Quan said unwillingly.

"Yes, we have been busy for several days and if we only picked up a pile of rags and went back, wouldn't our face look too ugly?" Wang Gang also said with some fun.

"Is your face so valuable? You have to exchange the lives of the soldiers!" Ma Wei looked at the two and teased.

"This... we don't mean that, deputy coach!" Wang Gang blushed and said embarrassedly.

"Did you all forget the emperor's teaching?" Ma Wei actually understood the thoughts of the two. These days, they have been fighting for the vanguards. In the record, Shi Guo and Bosaro seized a large amount of spoils, and the infantry and cavalry were just acting as

The porter had no results. Today, I wanted to take down the castle in full and get some spoils, which would also make the Army look better.

"If you can solve it with a cannon, you don't need a gun, if you can solve it with a gun, if you don't need a knife, if you can solve it with a knife, you don't need a fist!" Li Quan murmured.

"Fortunately, I remember, but don't you understand why the emperor asked us generals to do this?" Ma Wei asked again sternly.

"The emperor means to eliminate the enemy with absolute firepower advantage and reduce casualties on his own side!" Wang Gang murmured.

"It's good to know, otherwise the emperor would spend countless money to equip you with such excellent weapons and build giant warships just to place them there to save face? If the soldiers were killed or killed, you would bring the entire castle back to the emperor.

It will kill you too!" Ma Wei pointed at the two of them and said, his fingers poking their foreheads.

"The emperor probably won't kill us. He must have cut our heads with Tao. How expensive are bullets!" Li Quan muttered softly.

"You?" Ma Wei sighed, "The emperor traveled thousands of miles to launch this expedition to open up the commercial routes of the Western Regions. At that time, our Song Dynasty merchant ships could travel unimpeded in the Seljuk Empire.

The money you earn is not comparable to that little thing in a castle. Just wait to take the boat back and transport it!”

"Haha, we are short-sighted!" Li Quan said with a smile, "Deputy Commander, but Baghdad is said to be comparable to our Bianjing City in the Song Dynasty. When we go there, we have to adjust some good things and bring them back to the emperor.

Otherwise, there would be no face to see the boss!"

"Hmph, you'd better save your life. I guess the emperor would be happier than seeing you jumping back alive!" Ma Wei said with a sneer.

"Oh, I miss the emperor a little. Since we arrived in the southeast, we have not seen him for seven or eight years..." Li Quan looked at Dongfang with a gloomy expression and said...

It was not until the moon was on its way, and all the soldiers besieged the castle had dinner, and four heavy artillery arrived at the battlefield under the escort of a commanding Marine Corps. Qiao Laoer, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately took over with all the naval gunners who accompanied him.

He directed everyone to push the heavy artillery along the simple road that had been repaired onto the city wall, arranged it on the selected artillery position, fixed, loaded, filled the bullets, aimed, and everything was unfolded in an orderly manner.

'Boom, boom...'The four cannons began to test the fire. The fire of gunpowder burning in the dark seemed extremely bright. The huge cannon sound came from a distance in the quiet night, and its power was not comparable to those light cannons.

Yes, a shell hit the platform of the main building, instantly destroying it, turning into a pile of debris and falling down.

After the test shot was completed, the heavy artillery fired again after the re-adjustment. Qiao Laoer did not inherit his father's talent in doing business, but took over his prudent advantages. He changed the shooting method of destroying the Arrow Tower and should start from the top of the main building.

When shooting, it is necessary to make the bullet point of each gun fall at one point. Of course, this requirement is a bit high. It is confusing to use the cannon to concentrate one point, but it is not difficult to do if the bullet point is spread within a smaller range.

After two rounds of volleys, the stones wrapped in the outer layer of the main building became loose under the action of huge impact, cracked and fell off one after another. After the third round of volleys, a huge hole was opened in the main castle, tight

Then it was replaced by a flowering bullet and it was shot through the hole. After a few explosions, it was estimated that there were no living creatures in this layer, and even if they were not killed, they were still shocked. Next, the same trick was repeated, opening the hole, dropping the bomb, and then

Go to the next level.

Qiao Laoer's move was very harmful. He knew that it would be very difficult to use a cannon to destroy such a tall main building even with heavy cannons. After he changed this way, he would pull the enemies hiding in the building from top to bottom layer by layer.

Drive it down and gather it all together. More importantly, you can preserve many of the property in the fort, and it will be enough for the two chief officials to wish it. It is really a killing of multiple goals!

After an hour of shelling, the majestic main building had become riddled with holes and was shaking. At this time, Qiao Laoer concentrated his firepower to shoot at the gate, turning the door that only allowed three people to run parallel into a gate that could accommodate two carriages.

The infantrymen rushed into the building to clear out the remaining enemies. What disappointed them was that they ended the battle without encountering decent resistance and escorted out a group of prisoners with dull eyes.

While cleaning the battlefield, people found the bodies of the Grand Duke of Feichia and his wife. Before they could escape from the secret passage, they were killed by a falling stone. The Knight Chiton was smashed to his head by shells, which was exciting.
Chapter completed!