Chapter 56: Mutation and Regeneration
"Attack with all your troops!" Just when Fu Youde couldn't make up his mind and Zhu Di and Zhu Su were in doubt, Mu Ying made a decision that surprised everyone.
He decided to go all in, gamble his entire fortune, bet big on a solo, and go all-in, ready to decide the outcome in one round.
After the recent blow, Mu Ying was like a gambler who had lost all his money and was determined to fight to the death.
The destruction of the ten giant chariots did not make him give up his desire for Songming City. Instead, it made him arrogantly believe that the defense of Songming City had exposed flaws.
Because he had just discovered that the city wall where Shangguan Wan'er was located, that is, the first wave of blasting crossbows shot out from the tower, while the second wave of covering attack was no longer the crossbows that could explode, but ordinary crossbows.
In the second wave of covering attack, the two city walls only fired out one round of explosive crossbows, and the rest were fired out with ordinary crossbows.
From this, Mu Ying concluded that the explosive crossbows in Songming City were limited in number or had been used up, and only ordinary crossbows were left.
Of course, Mu Ying couldn't be sure, but he was so desperate that he made such a crazy decision.
He had boasted to Zhu Yuanzhang that he would die if he failed in this battle. He didn't want to really fail under the city of Songming, so he had no choice but to attack.
However, in this round of attack, Mu Ying also used a tactic. Twenty giant chariots were all dispersed to charge forward, and each chariot was accompanied by three thousand soldiers.
All the huge chariots were pushed by thousands of people inside and outside the chariots. Mu Ying wanted to rush to the city wall as quickly as possible and decide the outcome of the battle in one battle.
Of course, when the siege troops charged, he also took cover measures, and his artillery fired at the Songming City Wall.
Because the roads in Yunnan and Dian are complicated and there are many rivers, the cannons brought by Fu Youde, Mu Ying and others are basically magic cannon chariot cannons. After all, the range of this kind of cannon is still quite lethal within one kilometer.
Especially this time, because of Mu Ying's suggestion, Zhu Yuanzhang specially approved nearly half of the country's gunpowder allocation to the southern expedition army.
So Mu Ying was so frustrated at losing that he naturally didn't care about hiding his strength and directly used his strongest attack method.
This time, Mu Ying had more than twenty magic guns and cannons. Of course, this was only the number of artillery pieces on his route. The total number of magic guns and cannons of the entire southern expedition army was nearly a hundred.
But Fu Youde, Zhu Di and others obviously would not go crazy with Mu Ying. Today's battle was terrifying.
They did not expect that Mu Ying's tentative attack would lead to the current situation. Whether or not they would support Mu Ying next would depend on the outcome of this wave of Mu Ying's attacks.
The armies brought by Fu Youde, Zhu Di and others were not as well prepared as Mu Ying's. It was not that they did not have large siege equipment, but that their siege equipment was not as good as Mu Ying's.
Mu Ying specially customized and prepared the Linchong Giant Chariot, which is the most powerful equipment for siege warfare. If so many Linchong Giant Chariots can't do anything to Songming City, then it would be useless for them to go up. It would be better to wait and see.
Of course, it was mainly because Mu Ying was going all in this time, risking his entire fortune, and the battlefield was already filled with Mu Ying's army.
No matter how big Songming City is, the front battlefield can only be occupied by tens of thousands of people, which is exactly the total number of Mu Ying's troops. Even if Fu Youde and others want to provide support, there is no room for them to do so.
The moment Mu Ying's army pressed forward, the twenty magic guns and cannons roared one after another, and the shells hit the city wall and main city wall of Songming City.
But without exception, most of these solid bullets could only hit the city walls. The outer walls were paved entirely with special cement. Facing such an attack, apart from causing the walls to vibrate a few more times, they could not cause any substantial damage.
Even if Fu Youde and others saw this and concentrated all their magic guns and cannons to bombard Songming City, it would be of no avail.
However, it seemed that the crossbowmen on the city wall were suppressed, because in the sight of Fu Youde and Mu Ying, there was no trace of anyone on the inner city and the main city wall.
Even if it is a solid shell, the damage it causes when it hits the city wall is still considerable, especially for those unlucky people who are hit head-on by the shell. They are 100% dead. Even if it is just a glancing hit, it will still cause serious injuries.
It was also because Mu Ying was smart this time. The magic guns and cannons he brought were all the latest products made by the Ming Dynasty, with an effective killing range of three kilometers. Therefore, the crossbows on the city wall of Songming City could not reach the enemy's artillery at this moment.
But Yuchi Gong was well prepared. The moment the enemy's artillery fired, he issued a new order. Almost instantly, no one disappeared from the city wall, which was exactly what Mu Ying wanted.
As long as we can suppress the enemy crossbowmen and keep bombarding until the Linchong chariot approaches the city wall, everything will be settled!
Sure enough, just as Mu Ying had thought, until the Linchong giant car approached less than a hundred steps from the city wall, both the main city wall and the city wall were silent, with only the muffled sound of solid shells hitting the city wall.
Seeing this scene, Mu Ying was overjoyed. He waved the command flag again and his army sped up again, quickly approaching the wall of Wengcheng.
When Zhu Di and Zhu Su saw that Mu Ying's army had already reached the foot of Wengcheng City, they looked at each other in surprise.
Could it be that Mu Ying really got lucky, and the people in Songming City only had that round of explosive crossbow volleys, and then they were suppressed by Mu Ying's artillery and dared not show their heads, and could only allow Mu Ying's men to attack the city at will?
When Fu Youde saw this situation, he felt a little confused. If something was strange, there must be something wrong. The situation before him was obviously not right. He had the same idea as Zhu Di and others, and felt that something might happen next.
But no matter how they thought about it, they could not imagine what means the people in Songming City would use to deal with the current crisis.
After all, Mu Ying's army has approached the city wall, and Lin Chong's giant chariot is less than fifty steps away from the city wall. At this distance, no one can turn the tide. You must know that they still have hundreds of thousands of troops here who can engage in battle at any time.
As long as Mu Ying's men climb onto the city wall, the battle will basically be declared over.
Mu Ying was actually very uneasy in his heart, but this uneasiness completely disappeared when Lin Chong's giant chariot was less than fifty steps away from the city wall.
At a distance of fifty steps, no matter what measures the people in Songming City took, it would be meaningless.
His army would be able to follow the giant chariots, climb the city walls, and charge into the main city. By then, it would be too late for the people of Songming City to resist.
But just as he was thinking about how his army would break into the city, something strange happened again.
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