This is exactly the effect Li Dingguo wanted.
The bombardment lasted for nearly an hour and had to be stopped temporarily because the artillery heated up severely.
"General, shall we attack the city?" asked the Ming army general behind Li Dingguo.
"No hurry!" Li Dingguo smiled slightly: "His Majesty said that we will have enough artillery and ammunition for entering Yunnan this time! We only have 30,000 soldiers and horses, so we must reduce our casualties as much as possible."
When the defenders in the city saw that the artillery fire outside the city had stopped, they thought that the Ming army was about to attack the city, and they all climbed up the city wall to resist the enemy.
When they arrived at the top of the city wall, everyone was stunned.
The battlements on the city wall that were nearly one person high had disappeared, leaving only the bare city wall.
"Where are the battlements?" someone asked.
"Do you even need to ask? They were all destroyed by the Ming army's cannons."
"What should we do? Without the battlements as cover, wouldn't we be sitting ducks standing there?"
"Go and report to Lord Sha!"
After receiving the news, Sha Yimin had no solution but to ask the soldiers to temporarily dismantle the houses and move the wood and bricks onto the city walls as shelters.
Li Dingguo, who was outside the city, sent someone to inquire about the situation. After learning that the artillery had cooled down, he waved his hand and said, "Pass the order down, pretend to attack the city."
"Kill! The Ming army is mighty!" Thousands of Ming soldiers pushed trench bridges and ladders and rushed towards the south city wall.
Hearing the noise outside the city, the defenders on the city wall raised their heads to check the enemy situation.
Li Dingguo waved his hand again: "Pass the order down, continue bombarding the city!"
boom!
Six hundred cannons spewed out flames again.
The makeshift shelters on the city walls were unable to withstand the impact of the shells and were directly smashed to pieces by the rain of bullets.
The defenders hiding behind suffered heavy casualties.
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