Fortunately, after gunpowder, there was a bronze cannon that could blast the city walls.

But Wei Han's artillery was not the artillery on Si, and Wei Han did not have full-time engineers. The military system was still the old military system, at least there was a big gap between the use of gunpowder weapons and Si.

The main attack direction has been chosen. If it is the offensive ability shown in the battle of Si Shang's attack on Dangshan, facing the old-time city defense like Xin Zheng, the city wall may collapse completely within two days with only artillery and engineers.

Wei and Han cannot do it, and it will take at least five or six days or even longer to open enough gaps.

It takes at least a gap of twenty or thirty feet to deploy attacking forces. Otherwise, the gap is too small and it is easy to be counter-shocked when attacking. The people in the city can quickly block the gap in the city wall with stones and earth.

Now that the city is bombarded outside the city, it will be repaired inside the city. The speed of bombardment may not be as fast as the speed of cultivation. This is where Wei Han is in a dilemma.

The most important thing is that for Wei and Han, the time for dividing Zheng State this time is limited.

It is difficult to determine the attitude of Chu, Qin and Si. If you really attack Xinzheng for two or three months, you can't fight, once the countries send troops, it will be a waste of work.

Now the main attack direction is shaking, and the soldiers have begun to approach filling the trench. At this time, it is really unacceptable to choose to change the main attack direction.

So even though they knew that the Mo family had made moves in the city, the Wei and Han coalition forces could only choose to continue attacking.

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Three days later, the weather is clear.

After a few cannons, accompanied by a shocking collapse, a gap of about twenty feet was finally revealed in Xinzheng's city wall.

The Wei and Han allied military drums were loud, and the selected elite soldiers who dared to fight were wearing three layers of leather armor and rushed in through the gap first.

There were also rows of soldiers following behind. Many of Wei and Han soldiers thought that Xinzheng City had contributed, and as soon as the city wall was broken, the city would fall within a day.

The elite men who were the first to cross the city wall did not encounter the expected warriors of Zheng who were blocked in the gap and executed and fought back.

However, just after crossing the collapsed city wall, a sound of cannons came from a distance.

Several corporals who were leading the way looked at the white smoke coming out from the distance opposite in fear. A few iron balls flew past them, smashed them to the ground and knocked several Koreans to the ground.

"There are cannons!"

A corporal from Wei shouted, and in fear, he found that the city wall was not what he imagined.

On the open space one hundred and fifty steps forward from the gap, it turned out that there was no trace of the house. There was a piece of open space. The people in Xinzheng City actually demolished all the houses near the gap within a few days, and there was no cover for a full hundred and fifty steps.

A hundred and fifty steps away, a strange city wall that looked not high and was only more than ten feet high suddenly appeared in the eyes of the soldiers of Wei Han.

It winds for more than three hundred steps and is connected to the city walls that have not collapsed.

The thick earth slope, like a star-like bulge, the cannons placed on the front, the soldiers guarding the new city wall... Everything fell into the eyes of the soldiers of Wei Han who had just entered the gap.

There was a loud drum sound behind him, and another lieutenant general shouted: "You have entered the city, don't retreat! Once the city wall is broken, the people of Zheng will be frightened. We will do our best to get to the top first!"

After inspiration, the first elite group of Wei Han soldiers rushed in from the gap hurriedly gathered in front of the gap.

Because the gap is not flat, it is a uneven ground accumulated by some collapsed soil.

In theory, it is the most dangerous to attack the gap first, and it is very likely to encounter elites in the city who fight back to death. Therefore, the role of the first group of people entering the city is to control the gap and gain time for the subsequent main force to attack.

They were wearing three layers of leather armor, and some of them were also wearing iron armor exchanged by Wei Han from Si for gold, copper or silver. It was heavy, so it was impossible to directly attack the new simple city defense that was 150 steps away.

As elites, they also understand the consequences of charging a hundred and fifty steps ahead of time... Not to mention wearing armor, even if they don't wear armor, they can't fight 200 steps.

Moreover, Wei and Han were all princes who started with heavy infantry. Although the Xihe Pirates were a reform of the entire military system, the Wei Kingdom could not fully implement it, but the training method of the Xihe Pirates was inherited by fighting in heavy infantry phalanx instead of following the chariots in a mess.

An army without formation will die in the age of cold weapons.

In addition, the uneven gaps made the formation of people coming in scattered, so they could only choose to reorganize the team in an open space.

But the whole team takes time. Zheng Guo is not an artillery, although there are few, it is not without it.

Originally, the building was not allowed within fifty steps near the inner side of the city wall. It was the road to patrol the city. Now the Mo family has demolished or burned all the buildings within fifty steps. How could it be so easy to complete a team of huge open space?

There were a few more cannons, and the elite soldiers who had just approached the entire team of elite soldiers under the organization of the officers once again appeared. After two bombardments, these people could no longer withstand the feeling of being bombarded by artillery as a target, and shouted, "Why would you die on the city, you would be better than being killed by Tiewan here!"

Hundreds of people immediately marched into the distance, and subsequent soldiers continued to pour into the gap behind. There were soldiers from Zheng further away from the gap on both sides of the city wall, and the two sides were also competing for it.

When the first batch of elite soldiers approached the Xincheng defense about forty or fifty steps, their formation had already dispersed, and many gaps were made by the artillery of Zheng's army defending the city.

Their front is a concave angle, forty or fifty is the distance from the front, and the concave surface on the side is also forty or fifty steps away from them.

There was another cannon sound on the defense of the new city, followed by loud drums in front and on both sides, either crossbows, hand cannons, or muskets.

The three sides were intertwined, making the front three times the direction of Wei Han's attack. Almost instantly, the first group of Wei Han soldiers collapsed.

Left behind the comrades who were shot to death, the remaining people shouted and retreated. The gap was in the limit range of the city guns. A bombardment, coupled with the collapsed soldiers, the first round of the city wall was broken by the gap.

Seeing this, the general of Wei Han outside the city had to choose to withdraw his troops, reorganize his troops outside the city, and reconsider the means and methods of attack.

I thought that once the city wall was broken, there would be no intention of fighting in the city. Whenever the counterattack was won, the city would be defeated.

Who would have thought that he would clench his fist and hit the cotton? What’s even more disgusting is that there is a sharp wooden wedge hidden in the bag of cotton.

In a mess, more than 200 elite soldiers were sent first. The chief generals of the Wei and Han Allied Forces were extremely distressed. These elite soldiers were different from ordinary soldiers. Many of them were private subordinates of the generals and nobles, and they were not ordinary soldiers.

Taking advantage of the gap in the city wall, the chief general of the Wei army used a telescope to see the situation behind the city wall. After thinking about it, he finally understood.

He frowned and said, "It's really like this? It's unprecedented to abandon the main wall without having to set up a small wall. It's a real trick. The Mohist school's city defense that does not abide by etiquette and law... is really difficult to break."
Chapter completed!