Chapter 1098: Swiftness

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The artillery fire rumbled like spring thunder.

After the first day of bombardment, the shelling of Wumu City continued for another three days.

During these three days, the other soldiers of the Central Army did not remain idle; instead, they took the Engineering Shovels they carried with them and dug trenches all the way to the foot of Wumu City.

There were also some Gun Cavalry who went to a small forest thirty miles away to cut down trees, tie them with ropes, and drag them back with horses to manufacture Scaling Ladders.

At dawn on the fourth day, the shelling stopped.

For Chang Wei, these three days of bombardment were already enough to deal a heavy blow to the morale of the Tusman Cavalry.

Under the continuous casualties from the shelling, the Tusman soldiers must currently have low morale, so there was no need to continue wasting Cannonballs.

After all, food was easy to obtain now, but ammunition had to be transported from Tongguan.

This would consume a large amount of manpower and material resources.

Overall, their fight against the Northern Di was equivalent to neither making a profit nor suffering a loss.

Because they not only obtained the cattle and sheep of the Northern Di people but also obtained the wealth of the Northern Di from the Khan Court.

As for this fight against the Tusman, it was truly a purely loss-making war, and a quite severe loss at that.

This was also the reason he demanded a quick battle to force a quick decision to achieve their strategic objectives as soon as possible.

However, even if it was a loss, they were still willing.

After all, in recovering lost territory, one cannot be too calculating.

Furthermore, once they recovered Tianshan and went to fight the Tusman Empire, the war at that time would be profitable again.

According to the Emperor Zhao Xu, as long as they defeated the Tusman Empire and controlled the order of Zhongtu, Da Song would control the switch to the next world's wealth.

This switch was Petroleum.

Regarding this concept, he still did not quite understand it.

He only knew that this thing would be very important for Da Song after its industrial upgrade.

But exactly how it was important, he still only had a half-understood grasp.

However,

since it was the Emperor's decision, he believed it must be correct.

In terms of having foresight, truly no one had yet surpassed this monarch.

"Are you ready?" The shelling had stopped, and next they would launch an assault on Wumu City.

At this moment, Chang Wei asked Bai Shang, Lv Chang, and Huo An.

"Ready!" the three replied in unison.

Chang Wei nodded, took out his Pocket Watch, and glanced at the time, "Launch the attack immediately!"

Responding with a "Yes," the three turned and left.

Before long, the bugler in the army blew the charge.

"Doo-doo... doo... doo-doo-doo..."

The clear sound of the charge spread across the battlefield.

The Central Army soldiers entered the trenches one after another, and the Grenadier Squads arrived at the very front of the trenches carrying baskets of Hand Grenades.

There were also soldiers carrying Scaling Ladders moving through the trenches.

Seeing the Da Song army launch an attack, the Tusman soldiers on the city walls immediately utilized their remaining Artillery to bombard them.

It was just that the sporadic Solid Shot fired by their Artillery posed little threat to the Da Song soldiers in the trenches and instead exposed their own positions.

The Artillerymen of the Central Army immediately locked onto the positions of these Artillery pieces, and they immediately used Rifled Cannons to bombard the enemy's Artillery positions.

The Tusman Artillery was silenced instantly in the bombardment.

At this time, the Grenadier Squads that had rushed to the foremost trenches had all reached their predetermined positions.

At this moment, they were only about thirty meters away from the city wall.

Each person took a Hand Grenade, and after receiving the order from the commander, they threw the Hand Grenades one by one onto the city wall.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The Hand Grenades exploded on the city wall, and a line of fire rose up along the wall.

According to experience on the battlefield, whenever they stopped shelling, the enemy would always take the opportunity to reinforce the city wall to deal with the impending assault.

This was the reason they used Hand Grenades to clear the city wall again before their assault.

After all, the margin of error for Artillery was too large.

If they let the Artillery bombard the city wall at this time, it would be easy to blow up their own men as well.

"Follow me and charge!" After the Hand Grenades exploded, the Central Army soldiers immediately climbed out of the trenches.

Led by their commanders, they carried the Scaling Ladders and climbed up the walls of Wumu City.

Although the Central Army soldiers were responsible for guarding the Capital City and no longer fought enemies on the frontier year-round like other armies, their daily training had not been neglected.

The soldiers moved nimbly, and in just over ten seconds, the first soldier had climbed onto the city wall.

The soldiers behind followed closely, climbing onto the city wall one after another.

At this time, only a small number of remaining Tusman soldiers were on the city wall, and the Tusman soldiers below the wall had not yet had time to reinforce them.

The Central Army soldiers immediately raised their Qin-style Rifles and pulled the Triggers at the Tusman soldiers rushing toward them.

"Bang, bang, bang..." After a burst of crisp gunfire, the city wall suddenly became quiet.

And the Tusman soldiers below the wall were all dumbfounded as they looked at the Da Song soldiers who had suddenly appeared on the wall.

They had never seen this way of fighting before and simply could not keep up with the rhythm of the Da Song army.

It was simply like racing to see who could run faster, only to have someone on horseback reach the finish line in an instant, which made one feel despair.

It was just that the Central Army soldiers clearly were not prepared to stand there in a daze with them.

Immediately, they began firing wildly at the Tusiman soldiers below the city wall, and a dense volley of gunfire erupted at once.

Other soldiers threw Hand Grenades into the midst of the Tusiman soldiers.

Under the cover of these soldiers, squads of troops charged down along the steps.

They were going to seize the city gate to let more soldiers enter the city and end this siege battle as quickly as possible.

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