Cheng Yaojin and Chai Shao, watching from behind, were greatly alarmed!
Four hundred paces!
And it was fired from a small cannon they had never seen before.
They quickly spurred their horses to check.
Fang Er scratched his head.
Well, he hadn't mentioned the mortar in the victory report.
Father-in-law, Elder Brother Cheng, how is this little cannon?
Fang Er followed, smiling and asking them.
These two fellows had snatched a mortar from an artilleryman.
They were looking at it with curiosity.
Kid, can this thing of yours shoot four hundred paces?
Chai Shao could not believe it the more he looked.
The thousand-jin heavy cannon could only shoot three hundred paces.
Yet this thing, which could be carried with one hand, had shot four hundred paces!
Damn it, is this a divine technique?
Didn't father-in-law see it with his own eyes?
Fang Er was very satisfied with their reactions.
"Hmm.
I like your ignorant expressions.
See, I've shown off again.
Come, brother, teach me how to fire a cannon."
Cheng Yaojin lifted Fang Er off his horse.
Fang Er was speechless!
Damn it!
Are you carrying a child?
There's nothing to teach. Just watch how they fire.
Tie Lao Ba, keep firing, what are you standing there for?
Fang Er said to Tie Lao Ba standing aside.
A great general, a duke, and their own young lord were all here to guide the work.
Without orders, Tie Lao Ba could only stand there.
Now that his own young lord had spoken, what was there to wait for?
Brothers, aim your muzzles at mine and blast them!
Tie Lao Ba fired the first shot.
Cheng Yaojin and Chai Shao stared intently at the shell flying out.
Until the shell once again accurately hit the city wall, splashing a sky full of brick fragments and shrapnel.
This type of shell is called a blooming shell. It explodes after landing, so be careful.
This is the fuse. When not in use, it must be stored separately from the shell. It is installed when needed.
Fang Er picked up a shell and carefully attached the fuse.
He looked at the angle of Tie Lao Ba's cannon, then adjusted the muzzle of his own.
The shell was loaded.
Under the effect of gravity, the primer was struck.
The shell flew towards Pyongyang.
Upon landing, the fuse was ignited, detonating the gunpowder inside the shell.
The entire shell broke into countless fragments, scattering in all directions.
Come, let me fire a shot!
Cheng Yaojin pushed Fang Er aside, imitated him, attached the fuse to the shell, and then loaded it into the cannon.
Boom!
The shell was fired, but it landed somewhere unknown.
It turned out that the recoil from Fang Er's previous shot had caused the mortar to shift in position and angle.
Hey! This is fun, more fun than hand cannons!
Old Chai, go, you try it too.
Cheng Yaojin, as if he had found a new toy, pushed Chai Shao towards another mortar.
The artillerymen on the other side were depressed.
Bandits!
They can't fire it themselves, and they're snatching our cannons!
But what could he say?
These were a duke and a great general.
They could kill him by pulling out a single hair.
Chai Shao was also full of interest.
He began to fire the cannon, imitating them.
They were having a great time.
King Rongliu in the city was bewildered.
Why did they come so quickly!
Similarly, the civil officials were also bewildered.
They had dismissed the words of Dan Dong's commander Wu Zhixing as Wu Zhixing's excuse for abandoning the city.
But listening to the continuous thunderous roar of cannons outside the city, even the ground beneath their feet was trembling.
They had no choice but to believe!
Your Majesty, the Tang army has reached the city walls and is bombarding them!
It was only then that the soldier guarding the city was allowed in by the palace guards.
As soon as he entered the hall, he knelt on the ground with a look of terror.
How many troops did the Tang army have? How many cannons?
King Rongliu's heart sank instantly when he saw his expression.
About ten thousand men! The cannons were too far to see clearly, but there were probably a few dozen!
It would be a ghost if they could see clearly from four hundred paces away without a telescope.
They only had ten thousand men and dared to attack our royal city? Your Majesty! I request to send out a hundred thousand troops to defeat these Tang rebels!
In the civil official faction, upon hearing that the Tang army only had ten thousand men, they immediately looked disdainful.
The soldier kneeling on the ground looked at the official who spoke as if he were an idiot.
Didn't you see those flying shrapnel?
Pyongyang was the capital of Goguryeo.
Ever since Fang Er occupied Shenyang, King Rongliu had feared this day.
Therefore, in Pyongyang, he had stationed a full three hundred thousand troops!
All the soldiers of Goguryeo at the borders of Baekje and Silla had been recalled!
He no longer had the energy to concern himself with Baekje and Silla.
If Pyongyang could not be defended, then the entire country would be lost.
If the troops were recalled and the Tang army repelled, Baekje and Silla would not dare to cause trouble, no matter how bold they were.
And Wei San, Da Shi Dong, Yi Zhi Lü, and others who had escaped from Shenyang had only kept telling King Rongliu how powerful the Tang army's firearms were.
But they had never voluntarily mentioned that the Sky Fire Army only had two thousand men!
Thinking back to the arrangements made outside the city these past two days.
King Rongliu also felt full of confidence!
Three hundred thousand troops against ten thousand Tang troops!
It was settled!