"No, they're going to set off artillery."

A sharp-eyed Ming army general saw the clue and hurriedly shouted loudly.

Wang Dehua just wanted to open his mouth to scold Qin Chuan angrily, but when he heard this, he trembled violently, hurriedly turned the horse's head, and whipped it on the horse's buttocks.

"Hurry up, don't let them run."

Qin Chuan couldn't wait for his gunners to aim.

Immediately, one big Franc machine and four Franc machines roared in unison, and five shells whistled towards Wang Dehua and others.

It's a pity that Wang Dehua ran very fast, and the eunuch and several generals also ran very fast, and only two of their own soldiers were killed by five shells, and the rest were unharmed, and ran away in the blink of an eye.

"Let these shit go." Qin Chuan slapped the wall battlements in annoyance, "The red-clothed general and the big Buddha Lang machine raised the muzzle of the cannon, and fought a mile away to rest those Ming troops, first give them some hardships and reduce their morale." ”

"Yes."

Several artillerymen began to adjust the angle of the muzzle, using the standard of the ruler to group Ming troops a mile away.

The firing range of the big Buddha Lang machine gun in Qinchuan Lane is just one mile, and it should still be able to go up thirty or fifty steps on the city wall.

Wang Dehua ran back into the army, then tightened the reins of his horse and scolded angrily towards the city.

Just scolded a few words, the city suddenly spewed out two tongues of fire, and then "boom" twice, two cannons whistled, one of which fell from Wang De's incarnation, smashed one of his personal soldiers into a blur of flesh and blood, and then flicked on the ground, smashing the two Ming troops behind.

Another large cannonball fell two zhang away from Wang Dehua, instantly smashing out a bloody road nearly two zhang long.

The 10,000 Ming army and the 4,000 soldiers were briefly stunned, then they became agitated and retreated.

Wang Dehua and the others also changed their faces greatly, and hurriedly ran away, but fortunately, several staff officers and dozens of generals pressed desperately, so as not to cause the soldiers to be defeated.

Being shelled during a break was a big blow to morale.

It's like when two people are about to fight and are glaring at each other from what they think is safe, when the other person suddenly stretches out a long arm and gives you a big ear scraper.

At this time, you will feel shocked, and then lose your fighting spirit and confidence, because you think you are safe when you are suddenly beaten, and you can't beat you that far, you can't fight back, and your confidence is greatly damaged.

Today's Ming army is like this, no matter how many people there are, it doesn't work, because they can't hit each other, the eight-foot Franc machine they bring can hit so far, but those cannons are at the back of the team, and they don't push it up at all, if they don't run, they will be beaten in vain, and when they run, their morale will drop like when they fled.

ran three or four miles away in one go, and it took a lot of effort for the Ming general to barely put the messy team together.

Wang Dehua summoned Wang Kun, the supervisor of Xuanfu, Zeng Caofei, the general of the town guard of Xuanfu West Road, He Sheng, the general of Datong Middle Road, Zhu Dingchao, the general of Datong Jingping City, and four guerrilla generals to discuss the siege of the city.

Now there are still two hours before the dark, Wang Dehua and the others unanimously decided to give Jingle City a few shells before the dark, and hit the arrogance of the traitor surnamed Qin.

It didn't take long for the Ming army to be divided into two divisions, most of them led 4,000 servants, and set up camp on several mountain beams five miles away from Jingle City, and the troops pushed five eight-foot big Buddha Lang machine guns towards Jingle City, and the gunners and the Ming army guarding by the side, a total of only 3,000 people, stopped when they were one mile away, and while being frightened to guard against the artillery at the head of Jingle City, they fixed the Fran machine guns on the ground.

The Ming army brought a total of 80 artillery pieces this time, which could hit the five big Francos of Liberty one mile away, and the other Francos and Tiger Squat guns were only one or two hundred paces away.

On the tower of the city, Qin Chuan put down the binoculars and said: "The red-clothed general cannon and the big Buddha machine bombarded them, and the others immediately went down to the city wall to avoid the artillery." ”

"Yes."

The gunner next to him had already loaded, and after aiming, he lit the fuse on the fire door.

Hearing only two loud "booms", the red-clothed general cannon and the big franc cannon roared one after the other and spewed out frightening tongues of fire.

Although the Great Franc cannon has been improved, the range can barely reach one mile, but it has almost no accuracy to hit such a long distance, and whether it can hit or not depends on luck.

As a result, this shell was not very lucky, it fell to the ground a few zhang before the Ming army, and jumped forward a few times in the smoke before it moved, and no one hit Zheng

But the effective range of the red-clothed general cannon can reach two miles, and the accuracy of hitting the target within one mile is very high, and the power is also very fierce, and the shell roared into the Ming army, smashing out a bloody road full of broken arms and bodies, killing and wounding five Ming soldiers.

There was a sudden commotion among the 3,000 Ming troops, and dozens of generals with knives and horsewhips kept shouting beside them, and the commotion gradually subsided.

After firing a shot, remove the empty gun, remove the remaining sheepskin washer in the barrel, replace it with another preloaded ammunition gun, twist it half a circle and clamp it, and then drive it into the wooden bolt to fix it, and then you can fire the gun again.

The whole process only took about twenty seconds, and the big Franc cannon at the head of the city roared again and spewed out fury, this time, the whistling cannonballs smashed into the Ming army's formation, smashing the two unlucky ones to pieces.

Qin Chuan has been paying attention to the movements of the Ming army with a telescope, and when the opponent's five Franc machine guns were loaded, aimed at a good angle, and lit with torches, Qin Chuan shouted "dodge the cannon", and then took the lead in squatting behind the female wall.

The Guan Emperor army at the head of the city also lay down one after another, and soon heard the rumbling and silent cannonball, followed by a shock, and the loud sound of cannonballs smashing on the city wall sounded in his ears, and there was a sound of tiles falling.

Three of the five shells landed on the walls, one on the roof tiles of the towers, and the other crossed the walls and landed into the city.

With the exception of one hapless Guan Di soldier who was stuck in the ass with flying tiles, there were no casualties.

The cannons of the Guan Emperor army were all placed behind the female wall, and only one barrel protruded from the battlement, and the probability of being hit by the opponent's artillery was pitiful.

After firing a round of artillery, the Ming army hurriedly adjusted the angle and aimed at the head of the city.

At the head of the city, the gunners of Emperor Guan's army were not to be outdone, and immediately fired two more cannons.

The other party also spewed out a round of flames again, and the two sides just kept banging back and forth.

……

Mengjiazhuang, Lou Fu Town.

Wang Jizong led more than a dozen officials from the newly established Department of Agriculture into a conservatory, and then squatted on the ground to uncover a straw that had been changed from a sand trough.

The conservatory was rebuilt on the basis of the original house according to the style of Qinchuan design, and a total of six rooms were built to raise seedlings.

In the past, Wang Jizong's soil taro was directly sown into the field and so on to germinate, this way not only consumes too many seeds, but also in the spring because the air is too cold, it is difficult to germinate, the germination rate is also very low, the residuals are uneven, some seedlings have grown, and some have not yet germinated.

When Qin Chuan and Wang Jizong studied the cultivation technology of new grains, they proposed the method of cutting pieces and raising seedlings in the greenhouse in later generations.

After the greenhouse was erected, Wang Jizong took more than a dozen officials to cut the taro, and the ones below two fingers could not be cut, because they were too big to cut the buds, and the two fingers or more were cut into two pieces, and the big ones were cut into three or four pieces.

The taro he bought from his friends in Shunfu were all carefully selected varieties, which were larger and rounder, and could basically be pulled

Before cutting, the knife should be roasted on the fire, after cutting, put the taro pieces into the plant ash, apply a layer of plant ash to the incision, and then let it stand for about two, wait for the taro incision to scar, and dig a few to a dozen long mud troughs in the greenhouse in advance, and prepare damp fine sand, sacks, and straw.

After the taro is dried, put a layer of taro blocks in the mud tank, spread a layer of wet fine sand on top, then put a layer of potato pieces, and then spread a layer of fine sand, a total of five layers, cover the top with a soaked sack to keep the moisture in the sand, and cover it with a layer of grass to keep warm.

By now, the taro has been buried for twenty years.

Wang Jizong uncovered the grass, then uncovered the linen underneath, and then heartily pushed away the fine sand, revealing a few pieces of taro with white buds.

"It's done, it's budding."

The official of the Department of Agriculture next to him was delighted.

Wang Jizong took out a piece of taro and looked at the two short thin buds on it, with uncontrollable excitement on his face.

"Go and inform the head of each mile to sow taro."

"Yes."

Several attendants hurried out.

It didn't take long for Lou Fu to burst into cheers.