Chapter 1026.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One cannon after another spat out hot flames and shot out a solid bullet weighing dozens of pounds.
Across a distance of nearly five miles, they heavily bombarded the walls of Eastwatch City!
Before this battle broke out, the Cangqing Realm’s nations conquered and fought each other, and attacking cities was undoubtedly the most grueling and cruel action.
To take down a fortified city, one often needed to keep piling up human lives or carry out a long siege until the latter ran out of ammunition and food, all in all, it was time consuming and exhausting, and was a great test for both the attacking and defending sides.
And now, under the heavy bombardment of the cannons, the walls of Dongwang City were blasted out, countless debris splattered and flew about, and the wails of the defenders rose up.
Wang Dust took the lead in using this batch of cannons that were specially designed for attacking the city, with a large caliber and large charge, and the shells used were several times that of ordinary field cannons, with a range and power that far exceeded that of ordinary field cannons.
In order to transport this batch of cannons, five hundred pack horses alone were used, with thousands of matching gunners and auxiliary soldiers!
At this moment, they unleashed their firepower to their heart’s content, and proclaimed the dawn of a new era in warfare.
After a round of shelling, Dongwang City’s eastern wall is already scarred and a corner of it has been collapsed, and the artillery and crossbows and other weapons placed on the wall have suffered heavy losses.
The Yan troops defending the walls also tried to return fire with their artillery, however, their cannons were not even as good as Wang Dust’s first generation products, hitting solid bullets only two or three miles away, and were unable to threaten the Xi Liang army’s side at all.
As a result, they instead suffered hundreds of casualties under the bombardment of Xiliang’s cannons.
Not only that, the morale of these defenders was directly shattered.
Only those who had personally experienced the cannon bombardment could truly understand the horror of this weapon, and as the side that was hit, their minds and wills suffered an unprecedented shock.
One after another, they hid underneath the city walls not daring to venture out again.
At this time if the Xiliang army took the opportunity to attack the city, it might be able to play a very good role.
But Wang Dust didn’t have the slightest idea of taking risks, not to mention not being in a hurry, he ordered the Divine Machine Cannon Battalion to continue bombarding until the city walls were collapsed and the city gates were broken!
And so the rumbling of the cannons soon resounded once again, and the already broken Eastwatch City Wall had to endure another round of tests.
Anyone could see that it was only a matter of time before the wall was blasted through!
The Yan defenders could not sit still.
Just as the second round of shelling ended, a dark shadow suddenly appeared above the city wall.
They steeply leapt down and landed firmly on the ground, and then each of them swept towards where the Divine Machine Artillery Battalion was located like arrows out of the string, their speeds astonishingly fast.
This was obviously the dead soldier battalion set up by the Yan army against the Xiliang artillery, adopting the tactic of surprise decapitation!
Among them, the dead soldiers who rushed at the front all enchanted themselves with astral armor and wore gauntlets, paying great attention to defense.
These vanguards were undoubtedly the main force in breaking the formation!
However, how could Wang Chen be unprepared for such a trick from the Yan army?
Beep~
Accompanied by the sound of a loud whistle, the cannoneers guarding the perimeter of the cannon battalion immediately raised one of their long cannons.
“Shoot!”
Crisp gunshots rose and fell, a cloud of white smoke rose, and a single projectile was shot at the incoming enemy like rain.
After the first wave was finished, the second wave followed, a team of cannonsmen alternated to the front, forming an unending firepower!
Those Yan Army dead soldiers who had rushed to the front were instantly greeted with the first round of interceptions.
Their astral armor did come into play, surprisingly carrying down a projectile containing terrifying kinetic energy, but they were also halted, their forward speed dropping precipitously.
Then the second round of projectile rain came.
“Ah!”
Harrowing screams suddenly rang out – someone had broken the defense!
The cannoneers responsible for protecting the cannon battalion were using special heavy flint cannons, targeting precisely the expert strongmen in the enemy.
These Yan Army experts who acted as dead soldiers resisted the first and second rounds, but were unable to withstand the third and more rounds of shelling, and one by one, they were sent flying backwards, setting off a shower of bloodshed.
The killing power of the heavy flint cannons was amazing, they could easily pierce through heavy armor, and after hitting the human body, they would create horrible wounds, and if they didn’t die, they would have to be seriously injured on the spot.
This elite Yan army lost everything in just a dozen breaths of time, leaving behind more than a hundred miserable corpses.
The closest they were to the cannon battalion was two hundred paces away.
Not even touching the edge!
And such a result was obviously the last thing the defenders of Dongwang City wanted to see.
They seemed to be in despair as well, and instead of sending out a second death squad, they could only silently endure the artillery barrage from the Divine Machine Battalion.
The problem was that this had only just begun.
After Dongwang City’s eastern wall had been mostly collapsed and its gates reduced to pieces, the Western Liang Army didn’t capitalize on the opportunity to launch an attack, but instead extended their artillery fire into the city.
And they used the blossom shells!
Now the more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Dongwang City were plunged into even greater pain and despair.
As a shell exploded in the city and a house was shattered and blown to pieces, countless people were thrown into a frenzy as they screamed and ran around like headless flies, trampling each other to death abounded.
The Yan defenders were also in complete chaos, many of their officers were blown up on the spot, unable to organize a decent defense.
Everyone realized that the fall of Dongwang City was inevitable!
When the new round of shelling by the Western Liang army ended, a surrender flag was immediately erected high on the walls of Dongwang City.
The Yan army surrendered!
Before and after, they had only held out for less than an hour, and an outpost fortress that Great Yan had spent a huge amount of manpower and resources to build up had so easily knelt on the ground.
In fact, these defenders could not be blamed for their incompetence, as they were facing the Western Liang Divine Machine Battalion that had been prepared for two years, a powerful weapon and advanced tactics that surpassed this era.
Most importantly, the defending commander of Dongwang City had already died in battle.
He died on the way to charge the Western Liang Artillery Battalion!
The Western Liang army was victorious!
Without losing a single soldier, they had taken this Yan city.
Endless admiration flowed from everyone’s gazes towards Wang Chen.
“Enter the city!”
The job of taking over the city was handed over by Wang Dust to the group of generals under him.
Although he was personally leading the army on the western expedition this time, he did not want these generals to develop the habit of relying on himself.
If Western Liang wanted to conquer the world, there was still a long way to go.
And the first step that had just been taken was obviously very successful.
The takeover of Dongwang City went smoothly, and although there was sporadic resistance, it was promptly suppressed.
As for the captured Yan troops, along with the people of the city, they were relocated to Hanhai City, to be supervised and resettled by Wuji, and eventually digested to become part of Xiliang.
As for this scarred city, it will also be completely blown up!