Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 240 Reporting to Jian Guo, Jiangling has been broken!
The dignified general was so frightened by the enemy artillery that he almost rolled down the stairs. Ren Guangrong felt very ashamed.

But when he got down from the city wall and saw Meng Changgeng not far away, he suddenly felt a lot more balanced in his heart.

Under the eyes of everyone, Meng Changgeng was looking at Jiangling City and crying repeatedly.

"Jiangling City, my new Jiangling City..."

Seeing that Meng Changgeng was still feeling sorry for Jiangling City, Ren Guangrong was annoyed and funny, and was about to comfort Meng Changgeng when he heard the third round of cannon fire.

Then there was a bang on the city wall, but the two-storey city gate tower could not withstand the shelling after all and collapsed.

Ren Guangrong was afraid for a while.

Fortunately, he came down, otherwise, those who survived the shelling would be buried in the ruins of the city gate, and the soldiers would probably be panicked, and Jiangling City would not be able to defend.

"The Ming army has crossed the moat!"

After the shelling, there were soldiers shouting loudly at the top of the city.

Ren Guangrong spit again after hearing this, and shouted: "Damn it, let them cross the river, let them kick the city!"

The soldiers hurried to pass the order.

Probably because there was no sign of the Shun army at the top of the city, or the gun body needed to cool down, the Ming army cannon did not fire the fourth round after dozens of breaths.

Ren Guangrong was feeling strange when he heard the loud shouts of the soldiers at the head of the city.

"The Ming army pushed the cannon forward!"

Push the cannon forward?

What is this operation?
Ren Guangrong was confused.

In his opinion, the cannons of the Ming army seem to have the power of the rumored Hongyi cannons, which can hit as far as two miles.That being the case, what is the need to push forward?You can't think about hitting the city, can you?
Hiss~ It's really possible!
Because there are many soldiers gathered under the city wall, there are barracks nearby, as well as defensive facilities in the city such as urn city and arrow tower.

If the Ming army bombarded these defensive facilities with cannons first, it would be much easier to fight when they entered the city later, and even under sudden shelling, they might kill many of their soldiers.

In addition, the Ming army had explosive bombs, and the shelling might cause a fire in the city.

Thinking of this, Ren Guangrong immediately ordered the evacuation of the soldiers gathered near the southern city wall and the people in a small number of residential areas.

These people are all members of the Shun army family, if there are casualties, it will hit their morale more than the casualties of the Shun army.

Not long after the evacuation took place, Ren Guangrong heard soldiers shouting from the top of the wall again.

"The general is not good, the Ming army seems to be bombarding the city gate!"

"what?!"

Ren Guangrong was taken aback when he heard this, and then turned pale with shock, and hurriedly shouted: "Quick! Send someone to block the city gate with all available things!"

Earlier, Ren Guangrong hurried back to the city with his soldiers and horses, thinking that he could cooperate with Bai Wang to defeat the Ming army that had been attacking Jiangling City for a long time, so he didn't let anyone block the city gate.

After all, the new gate of Jiangling City seemed very strong to him, and the gate tower above condescendingly attacked the enemies who tried to break through the gate.

But after experiencing three rounds of shelling by the Ming army, Ren Guangrong no longer had such confidence.

He felt that with the power displayed by the cannons of the Ming army, if he had to bombard the city gate for more than a dozen rounds, the seemingly solid city gate would definitely not be able to withstand it.

Fortunately, there is still a chance to remedy it now.

If the city gate is blocked, the Ming army will still have to play with him honestly. When the time comes to fight with real swords and guns, he Ren Guangrong must teach the Ming army to be a man...

boom! !

A louder than before, a truly earth-shattering cannon shot interrupted Ren Guangrong's thoughts.

The second after the huge cannon rang, he felt that the ground seemed to shake, and then there was a loud bang from the city gate.

Ren Guangrong supported the soldiers next to him to stand firm, and then he suddenly realized what happened.

The Ming army has changed the cannon!

Replaced with a more powerful cannon that can shoot flat!

Why didn't the troops of the Ming army who crossed the moat first carry ladders to attack the city?Why did the cannons of the Ming army have to move forward?

Ren Guangrong understood.

It turned out that the Ming army did not plan to fight against the city at the beginning, but wanted to use cannons to break through the city gate, then suppress the city head with cannons, and attack directly from the city gate!

"Quick! Send people to block the city gate! Let the soldiers go to the Wengcheng to prepare to meet the enemy!"

When he came back to his senses, Ren Guangrong immediately gave orders.

Then he took a large group of soldiers and ran to Wengcheng himself.

After a while, the cannons of the Ming army rang again.

This time, hundreds of cannons were fired together with the cannon that was attacking the gate of the city. The sound of the cannons was really earth-shattering, shaking the city of Jiangling.

Many shells fell from the sky, landed on the urn city and exploded!

Some Shunjun soldiers who went up to the wall of the Wengcheng first were killed and wounded by the blast.

'Sure enough, the Ming army bombarded the city with cannons! '

Although the actions of the Ming army were expected, Ren Guangrong's expression was pale.

Because at this time he suddenly had a terrible premonition - Jiangling City might not be able to hold it!

Ren Guangrong continued to walk up the urn city, and the soldiers on the left and right couldn't hold him back.

"General, the Urn City is also dangerous, go down quickly."

Ren Guangrong turned a deaf ear, or he could only hear the howls of soldiers on the wall of the urn.

He wanted to see what happened to the casualties of the soldiers.

He just came to the wall of the urn, and before he had time to take a closer look, he heard the sound of cannon outside the city again.

Then there was a completely different strange noise from the city gate.

Then, there was a scream in the city gate.

He looked around, and ran many soldiers from the inside into the city, crying for their parents and mothers.

More soldiers were shouting——

"The city is broken!"

For a time, the morale of the Shun Army fell into despair.

A lot of shells fell from the sky, one of which exploded not far from Ren Guangrong.

In fact, the cannonball couldn't hurt Ren Guangrong, but the left and right guards were afraid that he would be hurt, so they rushed over directly, but they didn't want Ren Guangrong to hit the city wall and fainted on the spot.

Before he fell into a coma, Ren Guangrong's last thought was——

'Damn it, I've never fought such a useless battle! '

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outside the city.

In the Ming army formation.

Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan stood on a soil slope, each holding a telescope and looking at the gate of the city.

I saw that the gate of the city was broken by three bright-type 40 cannons, and the border guards who had already crossed the moat carried seven or eight light tiger squat cannons and placed them at the gate of the city, and fired another round of small cannons into the city, and then Shouting and rushing in.

Even if the battle was commanded by two people, they couldn't help but lose their minds when they saw that the soldiers under their command had so easily invaded Jiangling, which they thought could be called a tall and strong city.

"Jiangling City was taken by us just like that?" Yang Zhan murmured in disbelief.

"It is indeed breached." Zeng Ying nodded blankly.

Then he came back to his senses, and immediately shouted: "This is the general's order: the East and West Artillery Battalions continue to suppress the city wall, and don't let the Shun army step on the city to fight back.

The second battalion of the second town of the border defense army, the first battalion and the second battalion of the third town of the border defense army, all attack and take Jiangling! "

"Yes!"

The messenger led the order away, and Zeng Ying then took out the walkie-talkie from the box in the arms of another soldier, tuned up one of the channels, suppressed her excitement, and said, "Report to the supervisor! Jiangling has been broken!"

(End of this chapter)