Wu Lin said, "Continue with artillery suppression."

The city gates were blasted open, and the artillery's attack was shifted to the city walls.

The city walls were overwhelmed by the powerful artillery fire and had no chance to fight back.

This is not simply a matter of being attacked with firearms throughout.

This weapon, from the very beginning, deeply impressed the Ghaznavid soldiers with its imposing presence.

My ears were ringing. I saw my comrade, who I had been bragging with that afternoon, get hit by artillery fire. His head was split open, and the blood on his face was still warm.

The Ghaznean soldiers were filled with fear and their whole bodies were trembling.

With morale shattered, the resistance on the city walls collapsed the moment the city gates were breached.

Next, the Song army adopted a three-pronged attack tactic.

The artillery continued to suppress the city walls and the front lines inside the city, directly paralyzing Ghazni's counterattack.

The vanguard of the attacking force pushed ladders and pressed towards the city wall, with each soldier shouting the charge slogan in a neat and rhythmic manner.

The vanguard battalion then began advancing toward the breached city gate.

The resonance created by their synchronized steps seemed to make the earth tremble.

This is a moving river of steel.

This six-meter-high city wall posed no challenge to the Song army.

The Imperial Military Academy has countless case studies on siege warfare. Generally, the city walls within the Song Dynasty are higher and stronger than this.

In addition, the Ghaznavid soldiers on the city walls had lost their will to fight.

When the vanguard entered the city gate, there was already some chaos inside.

The vanguard, armed with long spears, pushed their spears forward, forming a sharp forest of spears to prevent the enemy from getting close.

Meanwhile, the musketeers and crossbowmen behind them fired in an orderly fashion.

The hand-to-hand combat at the city gate had barely begun when Ghazni's defensive line was easily breached.

Amu Muzaffar shouted, "For the glory of God!"

The Ghaznean soldiers seemed to have been given a shot of adrenaline by this shout. They were initially somewhat panicked, with some even retreating and trying to escape, but suddenly many of them began to shout, "For the glory of God!"

Clang clang clang...

The first and second rank of the Song army charged forward and pierced the flesh of seven Ghaznavid soldiers with their spears.

Snap, it pierced into the bone.

Blood flowed from their flesh, and the Ghaznavid soldiers showed expressions of pain on their faces.

Boom boom boom...

Cannon fire ripped through the sky, sending stone chips raining down from the city walls.

The two armies engaged in a fierce battle at the city gate.

Swords and spears are like flesh and blood, and muskets can penetrate the skull.

Desperate screams filled the air.

The fierce battle ended quickly.

Because one side was fully armed, wrapped themselves in steel, and had undergone extraordinary physical training.

The other side's equipment and physical fitness are incomparable.

This is similar to how the NBA played against the CBA in later generations.

It's not that CBA players aren't hardworking or timid; it's that their physical training, equipment, tactics, philosophy, and beliefs are simply not on the same level.

People kept falling to the ground, being impacted, crushed, and trampled by the Song army's steel torrent, their flesh deformed and their bones broken.

Faced with such a wild and powerful impact, all of Ghazni's resistance was like rotten wood.

Amu Muzaffar and Mudar were deeply impressed by the Song army's fighting prowess.

They were seasoned veterans, but they had never seen such a formidable army.

In their despair, they cried out: This is impossible!

After the fierce battle at the city gate, it was time for the Song army's vanguard to advance into the city.

All the merchants and soldiers fled in terror and despair.

The siege of the city walls was also drawing to a close, with all resistance being torn apart.

Under Wu Lin's personal command, the Song army began to enter the city in an orderly manner.

Two hours later, it was already dark.

The street fighting gradually came to an end.

A bright moon hung in the sky, illuminating the ancient city of Fulousha in a snowy white light.

The Song army has basically occupied and controlled the entire Fulousha City.

The arrival of the powerful enemy army caused panic among the residents of the entire city.

Everywhere there were cries of despair and resistance.

A rumor quickly spread throughout the city:

"The army of the Great Demon Zhenni has occupied Fulousha City. We must rise up in resistance and drive the demon's army out."

It was nearly dawn at the former Governor's Mansion.

Wu Lin sat at the conference table in the Governor's Mansion's main hall, flanked by the four military commanders and sixteen deputy commanders.

Wu Lin's mission is complete.

They captured Fulousha City before nightfall that day.

But the resistance in the city was unusually fierce, which was beyond Wu Lin's expectations.

Before the western expedition, the emperor had already collected detailed information about the Arabs through the Western Expedition Intelligence Command, which was then printed and sent to various war zones.

When each war zone formulated its pre-conquest strategies and tactics, it conducted an in-depth analysis of the Arabs.

Strictly speaking, the Arabs of today are not the same as the Arabs of the Tang Dynasty.

The present-day Seven Rivers region and the Central Plains region were inhabited by Turks who were driven out by the Tang Dynasty.

They adopted the beliefs and culture of the Arabs of that time.

The Central Plains dynasties were more accustomed to referring to them as the Arabs.

The Arabs have a deep level of faith.

Based on this, there will be strong resistance.

The most effective way to deal with this kind of resistance is to suppress it with swift and decisive measures.

Wu Lin's concern was that if he went on a killing spree at this time, it would inevitably weaken the logistics of Fulousha City.

He wanted to find other ways to quell the resistance in the city.

His generals all agreed to use swords to suppress the rebellion.

However, he still proposed a plan: capture Amu Muzaffar and use him to temporarily quell the resistance in the city, then proceed gradually.

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