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The Jurchen soldiers on the periphery were just randomly stabbing and slashing.
Wanyan Gou Shi was squeezed into the very center.
Even breathing feels difficult.
Suddenly I felt a relief behind me.
However, some Jurchen soldiers were terrified.
Choose to climb over the city wall and jump down.
I don't know when,
Wanyan Gou Shi's mind went blank.
His vision went black and he collapsed with a thud.
Getting a blow to the head wasn't the end of it.
Then another Ming soldier shot him in the throat.
On the west side of the city wall, Li Kui had already helped Song Jiang scale the wall.
The two killers were armed with elite soldiers trained by Zhao Li.
They charged forward with their soldiers.
More than four hundred Jurchen soldiers quickly fled.
They followed the horse trail from the city wall all the way into the city.
Numerous local militias,
And the man-eating demons of Shamen Island.
They have already stormed in through all the city gates.
They kill any man they see.
He would snatch any woman he saw.
They would seize any floating wealth they saw.
To put it bluntly, it was about massacring the entire city.
The Jin reinforcements to Liaoyang are arriving soon.
The Ming Dynasty will not hold out here to the death.
The best option is to quickly turn the city into a ghost town.
After sweeping through the entire city
Zhao Li even ordered the house to be burned down as well.
After the massacre and looting,
Discipline still needs to be emphasized.
That means everything stolen must be handed over.
Distribution will be made based on merits earned in battle.
Whoever dares to secretly hoard it will be discovered.
Reaching a certain value means beheading.
Even hiding a small amount of valuables can get you a beating!
In half a day, this place became a ghost town.
Some of the able-bodied men escorted the elderly, women, children, and valuables and supplies.
They traveled by boat in batches to Lushunkou.
The remaining troops and able-bodied men,
They were dragging more than ten cannons.
Head south to Gaojiawu Fort, which is more than ten miles away.
The army there,
There are even more than in the city.
Because the Gao family was also assigned to recruit soldiers.
In addition to the Gao family's private soldiers,
There were more than two thousand soldiers guarding Wubao.
Mainly Bohai people,
The equipment wasn't very good.
Because of the Gao family's true elite...
At that moment, they all followed Gao Biao to Yanshan Prefecture.
Brother Gao Liu is already very old and frail.
Looking at the enemy troops outside Wubao,
We can only hope that reinforcements will arrive soon.
If half of the tribe hadn't been relocated...
Brother Gao Liu will definitely surrender immediately.
He once fought for the Liao Dynasty.
Seeing that the Liao Kingdom was doomed,
Immediately, he took his son and quickly surrendered.
What's wrong with surrendering to the Ming Dynasty now?
But we cannot surrender.
His precious son
Half of the Gao clan in Gaizhou
At this moment, everything is under the rule of Wanyan Zongwang!
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We must hold our ground and wait for reinforcements.
Enemy troops outside the city,
Introducing one strange device after another.
Brother Gao Liu peered out carefully.
My old eyesight is failing, and I really can't see clearly.
"Boom boom boom!"
A series of cannon shots rang out.
The walls of Wubao shook violently.
The elderly and frail Gao Liuge could no longer stand steadily.
He suddenly fell to the ground.
The grandson quickly went to help him up.
They discovered that the old man had already passed out.
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In terms of external structure,
Wubao was essentially a smaller version of a city.
City walls, gate towers, arrow towers, parapets, ramparts, houses...
It has all kinds of facilities.
Therefore, the great uprising in southern Liaoning ten years ago
Tens of thousands of rebels besieged Hu Shajia's fortress.
They fought until food supplies ran out and people resorted to cannibalism, but they still couldn't break through.
But the Gao family fortress before us...
There is a fatal flaw:
When facing artillery,
The city walls are not sturdy or thick enough!
Its city wall base is 6.5 meters thick.
The top of the city wall is about 6 meters thick.
It barely meets the standards of a remote small county town.
The rammed earth layers of the city wall are only 5-6 centimeters thick.
Moreover, there was no rammed earth.
Its overall strength is similar to that of the Wubao fortresses of the Han Dynasty.
The formal city walls of the Han Dynasty
The rammed layers are generally over 10 centimeters thick.
Some large cities can reach 15 centimeters.
Large city walls built after the Tang Dynasty
The rammed layer can be dried to a depth of more than 30 centimeters.
The thickness of the rammed layer is not the most critical factor.
Without a rammed earth pit, it would be a real disaster.
It can cause differences between different rammed layers.
Unable to be securely fitted
Let alone encountering artillery bombardment,
Even large catapults could destroy it.
The terracotta army pits of Qin Shi Huang all have rammed earth pits.
It's not some high-end technology.
The local Wubao people don't do this kind of thing.
It was purely for convenience.
After all, they were only guarding against bandits.
How could bandits bring large catapults and cannons?
In just over ten rounds of shelling,
Cracks appeared in the walls of Wubao.
Most of these cracks are horizontal.
It is clearly a case of rammed layer displacement.
The drawbacks of not tamping the soil were exposed.
After another round of shelling,
The vertical cracks are increasing.
Severe displacement has caused the rammed earth layers to tear.