Kong Youde was a long-standing battlefield and had rich experience in the battlefield. But when he saw the Chu army digging trenches and building walls around Gaizhou City and building a fort, he felt a suffocation in his chest. ⊙,

Two trenches and one chest wall, and now there are more earth slopes and high platforms, with cannons installed on the platforms.

A variety of thoughts flashed through Kong Youde's mind, and were immediately interrupted by a low horn sound.

He looked forward, only a few miles away from the city, which was the central army camp of the Chu army. There were red flags flying, sun and moon flags, and nine-headed bird flags. He seemed to vaguely see a tall tower under his command, as if Liu Jiye was standing. He had never seen Liu Jiye before, but he felt that the person was him.

It has been ten days since the siege of the city.

On the battlefield in western Liaoning, there were frequent reports of victory. After the Battle of Songshan, Wu Sangui took the initiative to attack the Qing army camp, and won the victory of the Dasheng Fort, killing more than 300 enemies, capturing more than 500 prisoners, and seizing the Dasheng Fort. Subsequently, Wu Sangui, Zu Dashou, Ma Ke and other five generals led their troops across the Xiaoling River and launched a large-scale attack on the Qing army on the other side.

In ten days, the five towns successively captured thirteen fortresses, including Liushui Fort, Damao Fort, Xiaolinghe Fort, Kaizhou Fort, Dading Fort, Tuanshan Fort, Dakang Fort, Taiping Fort, Gouhesai, Dajing Fort, Daqing Fort, Zhenyi Fort, Daling River Fort, etc.

The soldiers and horses of the five towns point directly to Yizhou City.

To the west of the Daling River, except for this Yizhou City, the other forts and villages have been defeated by the Ming army.

The five towns defeated the 13 castles in a row and wiped out more than a thousand enemies, with a gratifying record.

The court was cheering for the rapid progress of the troops in western Liaoning. Hong Chenghong, Gao Qiqian, Qiu Minyang and other governors and generals also led their troops away from Ningyuan Xingshan and other places, and the army rushed to Jinzhou Yizhou.

At this time in Liaodong, Liu Jun led more than 30,000 Ming troops, but surrounded the trenches dug outside Gaizhou City and were filled with inscriptions.

Liu Jun stood on the tall building car and raised his right hand suddenly.

The messenger behind him immediately responded.

All eyes were shocked, followed by the flag bearers touching their legs at the same time, making a loud sound of leather boots. Liu Jun raised his hand higher and higher than his head. Then, he waved it heavily.

"Attack!" The flag plaque roared hard, and the sound was like a tiger's roar.

"Attack!" The captain of the military band also ordered loudly.

The gunners from six field artillery battalions under the six associations stood in front of their gun positions, and the gun muzzles pointed at Gaizhou City.

The battalion officers of the heavy artillery battalion of the two divisions also shouted. "Article fire!"

The guerrilla general, the heavy artillery bidder under the eighth town, also drew out his sword and raised it high, "Prepare!"

In front of the central army, Zhu Chenggong was excited to hold the high nine-headed bird flag and strode forward nine steps, and then leaned forward!

The deputy general of the First Division outside the East Gate of Gaizhou was raised high and shook.

The deputy general of the Third Division outside the West Gate also raised high and shook.

After the two deputy generals of the division responded to the flag, the six-sided assistant generals also raised the flag according to the general. Then each guerrilla flag was marked, each battalion flag raised the flag, then each franchise flag, and finally countless team flags were raised to echo.

"Report to the commander, the two divisions and six associations of the flag battalions are completed!" the flag plaque official shouted loudly.

Liu Jun pressed the sword around his waist with his hand and looked at Gaizhou City. He nodded slightly.

"Start the attack!"

"Attack!" the flag plaque shouted again.

The red and blue flags swayed above the high looking car. The drummers of the military band beat the cowhide drum vigorously, and the trumpet players blew the trumpets.

"put!"

Almost at the same time, artillery fired on countless artillery batteries behind the earthen walls on all sides of the trenches outside Gaizhou City.

While the artillery soldiers nervously began to operate the cannons to bombard the Gaizhou city walls and bombard the Gaizhou city and poured out the shells to the fullest, the soldiers from each cavalry battalion lined up to watch the battle, while the soldiers of various infantry targets stood in the trench, under the earthen wall, staring at Gaizhou City.

The sky is shaking and the earth is shaking.

The sound of cannons shook the sky like thunder, and the smoke filled the battlefield. The muzzles of the cannons were spraying fireworks, and shells of various calibers blasted towards Gaizhou City.

The straight and flat ones were blown straight towards the city wall with a faint white smoke. The Gaizhou city wall that smashed it was shaking continuously was the solid iron ball of the long and short cannons.

With dazzling fireworks, the howitzers and cannons hit the city and the city in an arc, and the shovels were fired.

It fell from the sky like a meteorite, and with a shadow was a huge mortar shell, especially the twelve-inch mortar that belonged to the heavy artillery target, and a huge rock of 120 kilograms fell from the sky.

On the city of Gaizhou, the rebels became panicked and disturbed, and everyone looked at the roaring in front of them and looked at countless shells.

Kong Youde's lips were trembling.

Ten days ago he expected this day, and now, this moment has finally arrived.

"I'll fuck you 18 generations of ancestors, Liu Jiye!" Kong Youde roared, and then ran down the city without caring about the majesty of Marshal.

"Bang!"

A thirty-two-pound solid iron ball hit the Changganon on the fort and hit the city wall hard. The defenders on the city wall felt a huge vibration coming from their feet, and their ears were buzzing at the huge cry.

A large piece of bricks on the city wall was smashed down, revealing the yellow rammed earth inside.

Bang!

Another shell was bombarded, this time it was a shrapnel, which flew over the defenders of the city wall with arc shells, and then suddenly exploded, and countless shotguns scattered and knocked down a group of soldiers.

A huge stone bomb blasted out of the huge muzzle, roaring over the Gaizhou city wall, and then fell into the city, smashing a house with a bang.

As soon as Kong Youde ran away, the female wall he was standing there was hit by a shell, half of which was smashed, bricks and stones sputtered everywhere, smashing the defenders there, shattering the flesh and blood.

Under the Chu Army Commander, Liu Jun stood in the car and looked at Gaizhou City, which was bombarded by countless cannons, with a cold look.

"Stop for half an hour and then stop for an hour, and then continue to bombard. The daytime cannon is resting at night, and bombard two days to rest for one day!" Liu Jun ordered.

"yes!"

After watching for a while, Liu Jun got out of the car. There was smoke everywhere, and nothing was good at it.

Entering the Central Army camp, Fu Zonglong and Fan Zhiwan and other civil servants were there. Fu Zonglong listened to the rumbling of cannons, his face was drunk and red, his eyes were full of excitement, while Fan Zhiwan's face was pale, and the director Wang Kun was even more restless.

When they saw Liu Jun coming in, everyone stepped forward to greet him.

"The artillery fire of Chu is really eye-opening. Thousands of cannons are slamming together, shattering everything."

Fan Zhiwan praised that this kind of artillery fire simply subverted his understanding. He never thought that artillery fire could have such great power.

"Military Gate, will you charge and seize the city after the artillery fire?" Fu Zonglong asked. In his opinion, the city walls of Gaizhou City could not withstand such artillery fire attacks at all.

Unexpectedly, Liu Jun just shook his head. "Today, only bombardment will not attack the city."

"Don't charge and seize the city?"

"Don't take it."

Fu Zonglong was very surprised.

At this time, someone outside shouted, "The city wall was blown down, and the east wall collapsed."

The person who shouted was Fan Zhiwan's entourage. After he saw the cannons collapse the east wall outside, he immediately shouted to tell Fan Shenwan.

"Duke Chu, the city is broken, order the charge to seize the city!"

Liu Jun just shook his head, "No hurry."

In the city of Gaizhou, the defenders in the city felt like they had fallen into hell and the shells on their heads kept flying by, and no one knew when one would fall to them.

That kind of panic that has nowhere to hide can drive people crazy.

"Master, the East City Wall is broken!" A servant rushed to Kong Youde's side and reported loudly as if he was a broken dog.

"Damn Liu Jiye." Kong Youde cursed angrily, pulled out his knife and roared, "Where is Geng Zhongming, he is responsible for Dongcheng. Let him immediately bring someone to block the break."

Geng Zhongming had already seen a hole in the city wall at this time. Without hesitation, he rushed forward with a group of subordinates and began to use wooden bags to block the hole.

The artillery fire outside the city was still roaring. Geng Zhongming fought for a long time and finally blocked the gap. It was not until this time that he realized that after breaking such a big hole and an excellent opportunity to seize the city, the Chu army was indifferent. He was just firing artillery continuously.

After wiping the blood and sweat on his face, Geng Zhongming felt a little unbelievable, "What is his mother Liu Jiye doing? Why didn't he attack?"

"Master General Town, maybe Liu Jiye knows our reputation!"

"Maybe." Geng Zhongming said casually, but no one could solve the doubts in his heart.

Kong Youde received a report that the gap in the East City Wall was blocked, and he was relieved. "How many people died?"

"No one died."

"No one died?" Kong Youde asked in confusion.

"The Ming army did not send troops to compete for the gap."

Kong Youde nodded unexpectedly.

The bombardment continued. Fu Zonglong and others outside the city boarded the car and were very sorry to see the gap in the East City being blocked little by little.

"Report! Nancheng, the south city wall was bombarded by cannons!"

Fu Zonglong's servant came to report.

This time, the hole in the south city was blown open was larger than that in the east city just now.

Fu Zonglong hurriedly looked at Liu Jun, "Military Gate, attack."

Liu Jun still shook his head, "The time has not come."

After saying this, Liu Jun ignored the stunned gaze of the governors, the military censors and the internal officials, and said to the commander, "The commander's engineer battalion will start digging the third trench!"

Fu Zonglong and others all had inexplicable expressions. At this time, what else should I dig a trench or what should I do?

However, they soon discovered that the people from the Engineer Battalion began to dig the third trench, but instead dug behind the first two trenches, they ran to the front to dig, and dig closer to the Gaizhou City Wall.
To be continued...