"Pillar! If you can blow up that city gate tower with one shot, young master will reward you with a jar of Drunken Immortal Brew!"
Fang Er said with a chuckle.
"Young master, just watch!"
Pillar picked up a cannonball and carefully screwed on the fuse.
Then he looked at the city gate tower and slightly adjusted the direction of the cannon barrel.
The cannonball slid into the barrel, and the primer was detonated by the impact.
With a "whoosh," the cannonball flew towards Liaodong City.
Boom!
Unfortunately, it did not hit the city gate tower.
It landed and exploded about ten paces from the city wall!
Even so, it terrified the Goguryeo defenders on the city wall!
"What is this thing?"
"Isn't it an iron ball?"
"How can it explode?"
"And aren't cannons only able to fire three hundred paces?"
"Looking at the distance of the Tang army, it's almost four hundred paces away!"
"Pillar! You shot crooked, damn it!"
Fang Er was a little displeased.
This guy had fired a lot of cannons when dealing with mountain bandits.
But he was not accurate with the distance.
Pillar looked at the cannon and then at the point where the previous shell had landed.
He adjusted the cannon barrel again.
Then he fired another cannonball.
Boom!
This time it hit the city wall, but still missed the city gate tower.
The Goguryeo defenders on the Liaodong city wall were so angry their noses were almost crooked!
"Damn it, you can't bully people like this! You're relying on your long range, right?"
"Retreat!"
If they couldn't hit it, they couldn't just stand here and be bombarded, could they?
The Goguryeo defender, Zhang Ning, directly issued the order to retreat.
Pillar hadn't had his fill yet when he saw the Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall becoming fewer and fewer.
Until finally, not a single defender could be seen on the city wall.
"Young master, these bastards… have they run away?"
"Guan Chang, Zhang De, take some men to check."
Fang Er turned around and said to the two behind him.
Guan Chang and Zhang De urged their warhorses and rushed out of the army formation, holding their Mo blades, and galloped towards Liaodong City.
They didn't notice anything unusual until they were a hundred paces from the city.
When they reached the city gate, Guan Chang dismounted and kicked the city gate.
The city gate remained motionless.
There was no sound from inside either.
He remounted his horse and retreated.
"Young master, it seems like no one is in the city!"
Liaodong City was a small city for Fang Er.
Therefore, he did not surround it from all sides, but only bombarded the southern side.
He treated it as practice for the artillerymen.
"They must have run! Bypass the city and pursue!"
"Want to run?"
"Do you think it's that easy!"
"You are my reserved human sandbags!"
All the members of the Skyfire Army mounted their horses and bypassed Liaodong City, following the main road towards Shenyang City in pursuit.
After running for less than a quarter of an hour, they saw the Goguryeo infantry falling far behind.
"Kill!"
Fang Er urged his warhorse, drew his pistol, and charged forward.
The Yan Yun Eighteen Riders held their Mo blades and protected his sides.
For them, Mo blades were more handy for cavalry combat!
The Skyfire Army quickly followed.
Two thousand men, four thousand cavalry, directly crushed through the Goguryeo formation.
Leaving only bodies and blood everywhere!
Some surviving Goguryeo soldiers sat on the ground, stunned, looking at the hellish scene before them.
They muttered incoherently.
"Too terrifying!"
After breaking through the infantry formation, they saw the Goguryeo cavalry ahead.
They were less than a hundred paces away!
"Free fire!"
Following Fang Er's order, the two thousand Skyfire Army soldiers took their firearms from their backs.
They skillfully loaded their weapons on horseback and then aimed at the Goguryeo cavalry and pulled the trigger.
Zhang Ning heard the gunshots from far behind and knew that the Tang army had caught up.
He urged his warhorse to its maximum speed, leading his subordinates to flee desperately.
The Skyfire Army pursued and killed all the way.
Fang Er was not interested in prisoners.
He directly ignored those who knelt and begged for mercy.
One day later.
About a hundred miles from Shenyang.
By the Liao River.
Fang Er was shocked by what he saw!
Last year, when he came here, due to the heavy snow, he only thought they were small hills.
But now the snow had melted!
They were not hills at all!
They were clearly Jingguan!
Jingguan piled up with the corpses of former Sui soldiers!
Countless bones were exposed!
Fang Er, who came from the future, had never seen such a scene!
He almost fell off his horse in an instant!
Guan Chang behind him quickly held him steady.
"These are all fallen warriors of the former Sui."
Guan Chang's eyes were also a little red.
The Skyfire Army that followed also looked at the Jingguan before them in shock.
Some even shed tears.
Many of them were descendants of the former Sui warriors!
"When did we, sons of China, suffer such humiliation!"
Fang Er clenched his fists tightly.
His fingernails dug into his flesh.
"You! Don't you feel ashamed?"
Fang Er turned his head and looked at the Yan Yun Eighteen Riders and the two thousand Skyfire Army.
"On the battlefield, falling in battle and dying is inevitable. Yet Goguryeo dares to desecrate our ancestors like this, can you endure it?"
"We cannot endure it!"
The two thousand soldiers of the Skyfire Army shouted in unison, raising their weapons.
"Since you cannot endure it, what should we do!"
Fang Er's eyes were bloodshot.
He didn't know why.
Logically speaking, these bones had nothing to do with him.
But he just felt uncomfortable!
Perhaps, this was the Chinese blood boiling within him?
"Kill! Pay blood for blood!"
"Pay blood for blood!"
"Pay blood for blood!"
"Since that is the case, then let us build the Great Wall with the corpses of Goguryeo soldiers!"
Fang Er's voice was a little hoarse, but he said every word with all his might.
"Build the Great Wall!"
"Build the Great Wall!"
"Build the Great Wall!"
His words ignited the Skyfire Army!
"Yes!"
"They dared to build Jingguan with the bodies of former Sui soldiers!"
"Then let's use their corpses to build the Great Wall!"