Chapter 256: Barbarians Help in the Battle, Cannons Blast Against Each Other

Yangcheng, the capital of Nanyue.

At this time, the capital was already in a state of panic.

Although Tang Bo, the prime minister of Nanyue, invited the barbarians from the Atlantic Ocean to help in the war at the cost of "ceding land for money", and equipped the walls of the capital with the barbarians' copper cannons;

However, the wealthy and powerful court officials and relatives in the capital of Nanyue still secretly sent the gold, silver, and the elderly, weak, and women and children in their mansions out of the city and sent them to the barbarians' fleet before the 100,000 Dragon City troops arrived at the city.

Even Li Zongmin, the Tiande Emperor of Nanyue, thought about moving the capital.

If he hadn't been suffering from the loss of face, he would have run away long ago!

Of course, after the brave general Pang Xianchu personally led an army of 100,000 to surround the capital of Yangcheng, Emperor Tiande could no longer run away, and had to bite the bullet and stay in the capital, vowing to live and die with the capital.

In the battle of Yongzhou, the 100,000-strong Nanyue army was completely wiped out, almost exhausting three-quarters of Nanyue's military strength.

At present, there are only more than 50,000 Nanyue defenders stationed in Yangcheng.

Even if the forced civilians who defended the city are included, there are only more than 80,000 people, plus a 2,000-man Atlantic "mercenary".

From the perspective of military strength, there does not seem to be much difference between the attacking and defending sides.

But in terms of individual combat capabilities, the soldiers of the Longcheng Southern Expedition Army from the [Born Emperor Fate] system can easily deal with three or five Nanyue defenders.

Not to mention that the Longcheng Southern Expedition Army also has the red cannons of the Shenji Camp to help.

Logically speaking, under such a comparison of advantages and disadvantages, the best strategy for the Nanyue people in the capital is to stop the war and negotiate peace in time, at least to save a life.

However, the Nanyue Kingdom wanted to rely on the tall and solid walls of the capital and the thirty copper cannons brought by the two thousand barbarians to fight head-on with the Longcheng Southern Expedition Army.

The attitude of Emperor Tiande Li Zongmin was that he did not expect to completely annihilate the 100,000 Longcheng Southern Expedition Army in Yangcheng, but at least he had to show the prestige and momentum of the Nanyue Kingdom in order to gain the initiative at the negotiation table in the future.

In this way, the two sides fought the first battle after the siege on the ninth day of the ninth month of the second year of Lingwu in the old calendar.

Outside Yangcheng, the capital of Nanyue, Fan Wuji, the deputy general of the Southern Expedition Army, wearing Mingguang armor and a ring-headed sword on his waist, rode his horse proudly in front of the three armies.

His eyes were like torches, staring straight at the Yangcheng city wall thousands of steps away, and his eyes flashed with the desire to be a marquis and a prime minister.

The commander Pang Xianchu finally failed to resist the request of this old friend for many years, and appointed him as the vanguard commander of the Southern Expedition Army to attack the city personally.

Behind Fan Wuji were the soldiers of the Shenji Camp.

One hundred red cannons had all been pushed to the foot of Yangcheng, with the black muzzles pointed at the heavily guarded city walls.

On the two wings of the Shenji Camp were the soldiers of the Xianzhen Camp carrying siege vehicles, siege hammers, ladders and other large siege equipment.

On the two wings of the siege army were the cavalry responsible for providing flank cover for the Shenji Camp and the Xianzhen Camp, led by Tang Ziyi, another deputy general of the Longcheng Army.

As for the brave general Pang Xianchu, he stabilized the central army lookout and kept a close eye on the dynamics of the front army.

It was three quarters past three.

The soldiers of the Shenji Camp were making the final preparations before firing.

Fan Wuji, who was also the vanguard commander, was also adjusting his breathing rhythm, ready to lead the soldiers of the Xianzhen Camp to attack the city and seize the flag under the cover of the Shenji Camp artillery.

At the same time.

On the wall of Yangcheng, the capital of Nanyue, the Nanyue wolf soldiers guarding the city were nervously holding their swords, spears, and halberds in their hands, looking through the battlements of the wall with fear and cowardice, looking at the rows of black muzzles;

"Your Highness, tell your men not to be nervous, just do as we trained before!"

The leader of the Yi people, Markel, who was wearing European Crusader armor, shuttled on the wall to check the position of the copper cannon, and said to the crown prince Li Shiyu who was on the city to supervise the battle in fluent Chinese:

"The enemy's red cannon is indeed powerful, but the walls of our capital are reinforced. As long as the soldiers do not lose their composure in the enemy's bombardment, the enemy's artillery fire will have limited damage to them!"

Well!

Prince Li Shiyu nodded and ordered randomly: "Did you hear me? Immediately follow the order of Lord Ma and tell the soldiers defending the city not to lose their composure!"

"I got the order!"

Then, Li Shiyu asked again: "Lord Ma, since we also have copper cannons, why don't we use copper cannons to bombard the Longcheng bandits before they attack the city?"

Uh——

Markel hesitated for a moment and said: "Dear Prince, I'm sure you've seen that we only have thirty copper cannons. The enemy outside the city has hundreds of artillery pieces;"

"If we open fire rashly, let alone the range of these thirty cannons, whether they can reach the most densely populated areas of the enemy, once exposed in advance, these copper cannons will lose their advantage, and the gun positions will be the focus of enemy artillery;"

After a pause, Markel said: "Your Highness, your father's order to us is to defend the capital and kill the enemy as the primary task, rather than actively seek combat with the enemy;"

"So-"

Hmph!

Li Shiyu snorted coldly, and with an unhappy expression, he went to inspect the city defense.

Obviously, he was quite contemptuous and disdainful of his father Li Zongmin's attitude of wanting to fight but not daring to let go and fight the Longcheng bandit army.

If Li Shiyu wanted to follow his will, he should have gone all out and fought the Dragon City bandits to the death. It was a life-or-death battle.

However, with the disastrous defeat in the battle of Yongzhou, most of Li Shiyu's confidants were buried in Yongzhou City. Even if he wanted to use force to force his father to obey his arrangements, it seemed unrealistic.

What's more, these barbarians from the Atlantic Country would never obey him.

Li Shiyu had to wait for his fate to be bombarded by the red cannons of the Shenji Camp in the Dragon City Army with a lot of grievances.

Outside the city, the position of the red cannons of the Shenji Camp.

"Report--"

"Report to the governor, the red cannons have been loaded, please give instructions!"

At this time, the captain of the Shenji Camp reported to the admiral Qi Jiguang, who was also the commander of the Shenji Camp, that the Shenji Camp was ready and could fire at any time.

Qi Jiguang did not reply to the commander immediately, but cast his eyes on the deputy general Fan Wuji beside him.

The latter had a solemn expression and nodded to Qi Jiguang with a firm look.

Qi Jiguang immediately ordered: "Shenjiying, fire!"

"Fire!"

Almost at the same time, the commander of the Shenjiying repeated the order to fire, and the flag soldiers around him also waved the triangular flags in their hands to convey the order to fire.

Accompanied by a series of "hissing" sounds from the burning fuses, the 100 artillery pieces on the red cannon position of the Shenjiying successively roared like evil dragons.

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

A moment later, shells exploded on the walls of the Nanyue capital.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!