On April 23, the 23rd year of the Yuan Dynasty, which was the second day after Chen Youliang arrived in Hongdu, Chen Youliang, who had rested for a day and night, fully recovered his physical strength, and assembled all his troops, horses, and food, issued the order to attack the city.

The Battle of Hongdu officially begins.

When he first started preparing to capture Hongdu, Chen Youliang encountered a problem.

I think the root cause of this problem lies with Chen Youliang, or to be precise, with Chen Youliang's mentality.

I think Chen Youliang didn't take Hongdu City seriously at all.

He should despise Hongdu, even ignore him.

Because before the attack on Hongdu, Chen Youliang, the plaintiff, could be said to be completely ignorant of the current situation of Hongdu City. He should also be unclear about the overall military defense information of Hongdu City. He did not even do anything to Hongdu.

Conduct the necessary investigations and intelligence gathering before the war.

Perhaps in Chen Youliang's eyes, there should be only one place that he really likes, and this place is Yingtian Mansion.

Hongdu City was just a passer-by when he captured Yingtian.

It's something that needs to be done incidentally, and there is no need to put in any effort to attack on your own.

It was in this situation of near-indifference that Chen Youliang, who had just launched the attack, encountered a problem.

He found that the warship he had carefully prepared was of no use at all.

Before taking Hongdu, Chen Youliang discovered that the defense measures here were fundamentally different from those in Taiping City that he had defeated. He still clearly remembered his experience of easily breaking through the city wall when taking Taiping City. At that time, his warship was close to Taiping's

The city wall and the warship were almost as high as one side of the city wall. Under the circumstances at that time, I could use the method of pressing the stern of the ship with huge rocks to break through the enemy's defense and gain peace.

It was also for this reason that Chen Youliang, who had learned from previous experiences and was determined to make the current ships wider and bigger and taller, found that in his mind these were perfect and iron-clad walls with no loopholes to speak of.

The giant battleship was actually useless in front of Hongdu City.

These shipyard warships, all designed and built by me personally, with absolute intellectual property rights that do not allow them to be pirated or infringed, are like useless ships in front of Hongdu City, a city that does not seem to be very high and is not far away from fighting.

Props and decorations that look but cannot be used, these ships are made of reinforced iron sheets inside and outside, just like iron-shelled bastards stuck in the mud and unable to walk or move.

These giant warships, which were a complete nightmare for the enemy at sea and on the river and could inflict heavy damage to the enemy, were now turned into piles of useless snacks.

The reason for all this is that Zhu Wenzheng ordered people to advance the city wall inward by thirty meters in parallel.

This seemingly small move seemed more like a superfluous move in peacetime, but it played an indelible and huge role in wartime.

Because when he captured Hongdu, Chen Youliang found that his giant warships had no contact with the city walls of Hongdu. If he wanted to capture Hongdu, the only thing he could do was to abandon the ships and attack the city on foot.

From the perspective of Chen Youliang, a thug who made his fortune at sea and was proficient in naval warfare, Taiping City's tactics were completely replicable, and the nearly zero-casualty combat experience of Taiping Battle could definitely be pasted and used again in Hongdu.

But when Chen Youliang actually launched a military attack, he realized that his idea was wrong.

This is totally wrong.

In front of Hongdu City, a city that looked almost the same as Taiping City, the battleships that he was proud of and painstakingly built were like piles of useless scrap metal in front of Hongdu City.

The city wall is inaccessible, and it is impossible to attack it with battleships.

Faced with this situation where the battle had not really begun but was already outmatched, Chen Youliang, who had the absolute initiative, decisively ordered to abandon the ship and land on foot.

The first target of Chen Youliang's attack was: Fuzhou Gate.

This is basically consistent with Zhu Wenzheng's prediction before the war.

The reason why Chen Youliang chose Fuzhou Gate as the first target of attack was because it had unique advantages.

First of all, the territory here is open, and all personnel and troops can be spread out.

Secondly, Fuzhou Gate is the closest to me and has the widest view. You can have a full view of the battle situation from the boat.

The last point I think should be related to Chen Youliang's personal character. From the perspective of Chen Youliang, a thug, since I want to hit you, I will choose the most difficult one to hit you. Only in this way can I show my personal temperament and my personal strength.

Charm can also match my personal identity.

It was under this situation that Chen Youliang launched an attack on Fuzhou Gate.

At this time, Deng Yu, who was guarding Fuzhou Gate, had already made preparations.

Facing Chen Youliang's unruly army of wild wolves, Deng Yu, who had already been mentally prepared, first prepared a delicious stone fire meal for Chen Youliang.

When the opponent ran to the city and prepared to build a ladder to climb up the wall, Deng Yu, who was well prepared, first threw down huge rocks that could kill people and crush the ladder.

Also falling with the stones were cold short arrows that were quenched with extremely poisonous poison and would die at the sight of blood.

Chen Youliang seemed to be well prepared. Under the cover of wooden planks and bamboo shields, Chen Youliang ordered his troops to attack the city by force.

And issued strict military orders: Anyone who retreats without fighting will die!

It was under this almost cold and strict military order that the Fuzhoumen, who had held on for three days, finally died.

Along with the Fuzhou Gate, the more than thirty feet of dilapidated Hongdu City Wall fell.

Faced with an extremely passive situation, Deng Yu, as the guarding general, must have been furious.

I'll beat your lungs out!

Deng Yu must have given the death penalty to the contractor of this project because of this completely shoddy city wall.

You bastard, you dare to fool even me, you'd better hope that I don't make it to the battlefield alive, otherwise I will have to stew you when I get back.

The city gate was breached and the city wall collapsed. This was long-lost good news for Chen Youliang, who took three days to capture Fuzhou Gate. It was also a rare victory for Chen Jiajun, so he immediately ordered everyone to launch a second attack on Fuzhou Gate.

Attack violently.

Just as Chen Youliang was happily leading his army to enter the city through the dilapidated Fuzhou Gate, they were greeted by a pair of people whose faces were white with red, red with black, and black with sinister smiles. And this pair

The centaurs were holding long, pitch-black barrels of black guns.

The slight green moss covering the barrel represents its almost antique-like age.

Yes, this is the box-pressing artifact that Zhu Wenzheng has treasured for a long time.

These black barrels have a very appropriate name: Fireguns.

And its inventor is also famous overseas, his name is: Kublai Khan (the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty).

The original firecrackers were loaded with round stone bullets, but with Kublai Khan's almost genius-like research and development improvements, the firecrackers' ammunition has gradually evolved from the original stone bullets to the current lead bullets and iron bullets.

Under Kublai Khan's perverted psychology, he almost creatively made the originally small firecracker thicker and longer. The processed firecracker could hold dozens of shells at the same time, and because of its

Its benign characteristics of bronze casting greatly extend its service life.

When Chen Youliang's army stepped into the city gate, these firecrackers that had been improved and processed were instantly ignited and detonated.

In the era of cold gun delivery that had no ballistics at all and no bullet marks to trace, this kind of shameless, perverted, shocking and massacre firecrackers were like placing them in front of the enemy one by one.

The timing**.

The moment the gun fired, it was an inexplicable thing that was as powerful as today's shotguns or even dozens of times more powerful than shotguns. It caused great psychological shadow and crowd harm to Chen Youliang's army.

Chen Jiajun, who had never heard of, let alone seen, such a thing as a sacred object, was killed and injured the moment the gun fired.

Although the fire gun is much easier to use than swords and guns, and can defeat the opponent in terms of momentum, it has a huge disadvantage, that is, this kind of thing that is completely manually opened and closed requires specialized hands to load ammunition for it.

This will invisibly create a war gap.

At this time, another pair of troops came into use, and their leader was the second lieutenant Zhao Desheng.

Zhao Desheng and his group were standing behind the gunmen, holding rows of wooden fences tied with long spears and short arrows.

The city wall has been broken down, and the fence has come up.

Behind the fence, there are bricklayers.

Yes, he is indeed a bricklayer.

If Zhu Wen is a rare genius, then Deng Yu is definitely a rare talent in the world.

In that intense battle situation, Deng Yu, as the defender, should have been in a hurry, but this dear friend taught us a truth.

As a general, you not only need to know how to attack and defend, but you should also learn to be flexible.

Didn’t the city wall collapse?

Easy to handle!

Very easy to handle!

Get a group of people to repair the collapsed city wall.

At this time, a group of people were urgently recruited by Deng Yu. As masons, what they held in their hands was no longer swords and guns, nor ferocious firecrackers, but actual handles for chopping bricks and mud.

The tile knife used.

Their mission is no longer to engage in head-on combat with the enemy, nor is it no longer to carry out military defense with short, bladeless tile knives that can only be used for mixing mud and materials and have no military use. Their mission this time is

There is only one.

That is: repairing the collapsed and damaged city walls.

In that extremely fierce battle situation, you might as well imagine the scene at that time.

The people in the front were fighting with others head-on with long guns and short cannons. The lightning, flint and weapons were loud and bullets were flying, and blood was flying everywhere, while a group of masons in the back were busy mixing mud and materials, and a group of people were busy cutting bricks and breaking tiles to build the city wall.

When that almost impossible scene comes to mind, I think everyone can't help but laugh.

While I was laughing, I couldn't help but feel respectful.
To be continued...