After receiving a message from Zhao Bingzhang of the Guazhou Western Expedition Command, Zhao Chun, commander of the Northwest Military Region, Lin Shaozhang, chief of staff, and a number of division commanders at the front line of Saman City held an emergency pre-battle meeting.

The meeting had only one agenda: to discuss the formal commencement of the decisive battle for Samantha City.

After adjusting their troop deployment, the five infantry divisions and three cavalry divisions at the front line surrounded the entire city of Saman.

Although the army on the western front was still somewhat short-staffed compared to the large army in Saman's city.

However, the western expeditionary army had a firepower advantage that the Samans could not match!

Moreover, there were also a large number of Western Region reclamation troops and militia forces in the rear, responsible for transporting food, supplies, ammunition and equipment to the Western Expeditionary Army!

In this decisive battle, there is only one strategy!

Artillery fire! Infantry charge!

Several artillery regiments stood side by side in the open field, hundreds of cannons with their dark muzzles pointing straight to the sky, aimed at the Saman city walls.

At nine o'clock that morning, with an order from Zhao Chun, commander of the Northwest Military Region, hundreds of cannons began to bombard the area.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

A dense barrage of shells streaked across the sky, raining down on the Samanian walls. It was like a torrential downpour, a fierce torrent of shells falling from the heavens.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In an instant, hundreds of cannonballs landed on the outer city walls of Saman.

The deafening explosions echoed continuously. Even the tall rammed earth and brick walls of the outer city of Saman could not withstand the relentless bombardment.

Each shell that landed and exploded shattered a large section of the rammed earth city wall, sending up yellow dust that filled the air, mixed with a strong, pungent smell of blood.

Some Saman soldiers near the city wall were hit by shrapnel from the exploding cannonballs, their bodies instantly covered in blood, and they died on the spot.

Blood stained the rammed earth city wall, and some severed limbs were stuck to it, which was quite shocking!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Large swarms of cannonballs, streaking with light, hurtled through the air and exploded on the walls of Saman. The entire wall was instantly engulfed in countless blinding flashes of light. The dense, interwoven flames of the explosions resembled a vast, fiery jungle!

Amidst the raging flames, the nearby Samanian defenders were instantly engulfed by the fire. Those defenders struggled fiercely, but within moments they collapsed to the ground, motionless.

The rammed earth and brick city wall gradually became fragmented in the explosion, and some battlements and arrow towers were also directly overturned and destroyed.

The shrapnel from the explosion scattered through the air, claiming the lives of the Saman defenders and Samans on the city walls!

Some cannonballs hit the tung oil on the city wall, and after the explosion, the tung oil splashed out, and flames instantly ignited, further fueling the fire on the city wall.

Not only on the outer city walls, but occasionally some cannonballs also hit houses near the outer city. Even in stone houses, some wooden beams caught fire.

The entire city of Samantha was engulfed in flames!

On the earthen slope outside the city, in the front-line command post.

Zhao Chun and Lin Shaozhang, holding binoculars, watched the enemy soldiers on the walls of Saman City writhing and struggling in the sea of ​​fire, being devoured one after another by the flames, or simply torn to shreds by shell fragments. Everyone was slightly moved.

I've seen this scene many times before.

But this time, it was especially moving!

After all, it was hundreds of cannons firing at the same time.

The spectacular scene was unforgettable!

This barrage of shells lasted for a full fifteen minutes. In total, thousands of shells were fired!

After thousands of shells exploded, the smoke cleared, and the entire Saman city wall was reduced to scorched earth, with most of the rammed earth walls collapsed. Along the entire city wall, apart from the wounded soldiers groaning on the ground, there was hardly a single unscathed Saman defender to be seen on the long defensive line.

Countless charred corpses still lay scattered on the city walls. Even after the smoke had cleared, they still crackled and smoldered.

Some charred corpses, mutilated, with half of their bodies, arms, and legs scattered all over the ground!

The entire city wall resembled a living hell!

Even hell is probably no better than this!

After a fifteen-minute artillery duel, on a high tower in the inner city of Saman, the Saman Khan Kuli Saman frowned and trembled violently.

Even though they were far apart, Kulisaman could see the devastation on the outer city walls clearly.

What a tragic scene that was!

A large section of the city wall collapsed, and it was almost impossible to find any living people.

If this bombing continues, Saman City probably won't even last a day!

no!

Samantha must not be lost!

If Saman is lost, the entire Samanid Khanate will be finished!

Thinking of this, Kulisaman immediately came to his senses and hurriedly said, "Quickly! Send reinforcements immediately to support the city and repair the walls! Be fast! We can't let the Da Gan army break in!"

"yes!"

The attendant quickly responded.

Once the order was given, the Saman garrison in the city, along with the Samans temporarily conscripted, formed a large reinforcement force.

These reinforcements, carrying stone slabs and blocks dismantled from inside the city, quickly moved towards the city walls that had just been bombed.

Stones and blocks were thrown into the gap in the city wall in an attempt to fill it.

Samanian reinforcements also began to take over the city's defenses and clear the wounded from the walls.

However, after arriving here and seeing the horrific scene on the ground, these people still couldn't help but feel like vomiting.

Some of the Samanids had never been on the battlefield before. When they first saw such a scene, they were so frightened that they trembled and their legs shook.

fear!

hell!

However, due to the guards of the Samanid garrison, these Samanids had no choice but to hold out on the city walls.

More and more Samanian reinforcements arrived at the ruined city walls.

However, the artillery of the large army outside the city did not stop for long.

After the first round of artillery fire lasted for a quarter of an hour, it paused for less than a quarter of an hour before resuming its indiscriminate bombardment. Hundreds of large-caliber cannons began to pour shells down on the city of Saman.

The cannons of the divisional artillery regiments began to roar in unison.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Shells rained down on the walls of Saman and exploded, sending up bursts of fire. Amidst the flames, a storm of steel swept through the city.

Countless shrapnel fragments flew everywhere on the city walls. As the shrapnel swept through, the Samanid reinforcements were instantly severed from their bodies and limbs.

In the relentless bombing, hundreds and thousands of Samanian reinforcements were killed or wounded on the spot...