Chapter 20: The Tiger Squat Cannon Shows Its Power

"Rush."

"Kill"

……

The number of Liukou troops has reached 160,000, shouting and killing all day long (in order not to involve sensitive words being blocked, the Dashun army is collectively referred to as Liukou, and the Qing army is collectively referred to as the Eastern Invasion)

Zhu Youzhen held a telescope in his hand and stared closely at the Liukou army, and Huang Ming, who was beside him, also held the single-barreled telescope tightly, measuring the distance between the Liukou army and them.

Seeing Tang Tong's army enter the firing range, Huang Ming hurriedly reported:

"Your Majesty, the former army of the Liukou has entered the range of effective artillery bombardment."

This is the first time Zhu Youzhen has seen such a big scene, although he is a little nervous in his heart, but the desire to fight has also been aroused.

In order to give Liukou greater damage, he specially explained to Huang Chao:

"Huang Chao, don't be in a hurry and wait, wait for the rogue army behind to also enter the firing range, and then shell me in turn."

"Obedience"

After observing with the telescope for a while, Zhu Youzhen pointed his finger at the Liukou artillery and said:

"Huang Chao, seeing that their artillery is gone, it's best to destroy those artillery first, and don't let them have a chance to fire."

"Obey the order, rest assured, the emperor can rest assured, we will definitely destroy all the rogue artillery."

A kilometer below the city, the three generals Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, and Qi Jiguang stood in front of the formation on horseback, coldly looking at the rogue army coming from the pavement.

When their horses smelled the smell of war, they all neighed and raised their front hooves, and the soldiers behind them were ready for battle.

Qi Jiguang held the waist knife at his waist, his eyes stared at the army of Liukou, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Two generals, my Qi Jiguang hasn't fought for a long time, you see, this shouldn't be the elite of the rogue, their formation is a little chaotic."

"That's right, this is Daming's soldiers, they are all still wearing my Daming's armor, I really don't know, how effective our Daming's tiger squat cannon is against them."

"Haha, general, don't worry, you will soon see the tiger squat cannon devouring these traitors and rogues."

When the war came, Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting Qi Jiguang, the three generals talked and laughed freely, without any nervousness at all.

Liu Zhongmin rode on his war horse, looking up at the head of the capital city triumphantly, thinking about those beautiful palace maids and powerful women.

Especially Chen Yuanyuan, the first beauty of the Ming Dynasty, if he breaks through the Beijing Division, that is his biggest goal, he wants to taste the first beauty of the Ming Dynasty, what is it like.

Suddenly, the head of the artillery battalion came to ask:

"Report to General Huanghu, enter the effective range of artillery, whether to put the red-coated artillery position here."

Liu Zhongmin laughed:

"Okay, immediately set up artillery to bombard the city, aim at the city gate, bombard all the artillery together, and General Ben will take the Beijing division in one go."

The Liukou troops approached two kilometers, and the 100,000 Liukou recruits gradually entered the range of artillery, and Huang Ming reported to Zhu Youzhen again:

"Your Majesty, half of the rogue army has entered the effective range of the cannon."

Zhu Youzhen saw the rogue army in the distance from the telescope and found that they had begun to set up red-coated cannons, and the muzzle target was the city gate where they were.

With a wave of his hand, he ordered:

"The muzzle of the cannon is aimed at the Liukou artillery position, bombard me fiercely, and open fire."

"Obedience"

Huang Chao received the order and waved the command flag in his hand:

"Artillery preparation, aiming at the rogue artillery positions, carpet bombardment, artillery fire!"

"Boom ......"

A violent cannon fire rang out, and the entire city trembled, and one hundred and fifty red-clothed cannons spit out tongues of fire, instantly covering the Liukou artillery position.

After the first round of shelling, before the shells landed, the second round of shelling sounded at the same time, and the rogue who was setting up the red-coated cannon heard the cannon and looked up, and was frightened at that time.

I saw that the cannonballs in the sky were flying towards their heads, like a dark cloud flying quickly, and before they could react, all the shells fell above their heads and around them.

"General Liu, the big thing is not good, Minggou shelled our artillery position, and it must be transferred immediately."

"Boom ......"

Transfer, it's too late.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, almost all the shells of the red-coated cannon were solid lead bullets, one weighing several kilograms, falling from such a high altitude, the lethality can be imagined.

After two rounds of artillery bombardment, the artillery positions of the rogue army were completely destroyed before they could be established, and the stumps and broken arms of the rogue soldiers were everywhere, and the scene was full of wails.

"Report to General Huanghu, our artillery positions have been destroyed, and the artillery brothers have almost been killed in one pot."

Suddenly shelled, Liu Zongmin, under the protection of some personal guards, hurriedly retreated some distance, and then the Chinese army came to report.

"What? The artillery is all gone, grandma's, all rushed up to Lao Tzu, and those who retreated were killed. ”

Liu Zongmin was furious, drew his waist knife and commanded the recruit battalion to rush forward, before his words fell, the upper artillery bombardment at the head of the city began again, and the recruits in front fell in rows.

But these rogues were really brave, almost no one retreated, and continued to rush forward, but they were quickly blocked by the Ming army in front of Tang Tong, and they could only slow down.

Qi Jiguang, Sun Chengzong, and Sun Chuanting, after hearing the sound of cannons, saw a chaotic army of rogues, and they all laughed:

"Look, our emperor is not bad, this round of artillery is really good, everyone is ready for battle, and it will soon be time for us to make contributions."

"Boom ......"

The artillery bombardment of the city continued as well, and the Liukou army suffered heavy casualties again, and the Ming army began to retreat.

"Quickly retreat, the artillery fire is too fierce, when will our Ming artillery fire return to its former majesty, I knew it was like this, I really shouldn't have surrendered, the rogues don't treat us as human beings at all."

"Don't talk much, beware of being heard by the rogues behind, otherwise they will all die, and ...... withdraw"

Some of the Ming soldiers began to waver in their hearts, and some people complained and retreated.

Withdraw, some of them are so simple, the overseers sent by the rogues raised their big swords, and when they saw someone retreating, they corrected the law on the spot one by one.

"Rush up, the cannon can't hit the city if you rush to the city, and all those who retreat will be corrected on the spot."

There was no way, Tang Tong had no choice but to take the Ming army to surrender and rush forward desperately again, but the shells still fell beside them, and people kept falling one by one.

"Tang Tong, you bastard, quickly change the formation and impact."

Liu Zongmin, who was behind, didn't see it well, shouted and cursed, and ordered to change the formation and continue to attack.

However, because the artillery fire was so dense, no matter what formation they used, there would be a large number of casualties.

The Chinese army soon sent the battle report from the front to Li Zicheng's command center.

"Report to Your Majesty, the artillery fire at the head of the city is very fierce, and our army has suffered heavy casualties."

But Li Zicheng didn't care about the casualties of those Ming army surrenders and recruits.

These people were originally his cannon fodder, seeing that Li Zicheng didn't speak, Niu Jinxing waved his hand at the Chinese army:

"Order, order the vanguard to storm quickly, after approaching the position of the Ming army, the shelling will stop, no matter what the price is, the Beijing division must be taken down today."

"Yes"