Destroy!

For the Jiannu who were in those dirt-covered huts, when they woke up from their dreams, all they saw was death!

With a violent tremor, the thigh-thick log above their heads made a muffled cracking sound, and before they could react, a cannonball crashed in, slamming into the ground, the cylindrical tip even stuck on the ground, and its tail ignition plate was emitting white smoke and tail flames.

It stood out in the darkness, and the orange-red sparks that erupted from the tail of the cannonball dispelled the darkness in the house. Faces of panic were reflected.

"Ah, my mother......"

I don't know who let out a scream, they desperately wanted to rush outside, but the people who were scrambling to flee crowded the door, suddenly, accompanied by a violent explosion, the people by the door were blasted out of the door, were blown to pieces, and the house collapsed in an instant, and the blood flowed like a river.

What once seemed to be an impregnable earth-covered wooden shed would be transformed into a tomb, a tomb for the burial of Jiannu.

But what was even more striking was the sound of the cannonballs hitting the walls, which echoed across the ground like the slam of a sledgehammer.

The shell of the sharp cylindrical cannonball made of pig iron is extremely thick, its structure is somewhat similar to the armor-piercing bomb blasting shell in World War II, the special shape and solid shell give it a certain penetrating ability, maybe it can't penetrate the solid reinforced concrete, but it can easily penetrate the city bricks on the city wall of no more than half a foot, drill into the solid rammed earth layer, a few seconds later, the explosives in the cannonball were detonated, in the violent explosion, that section of the city wall seemed to be broken out of the shell of the city wall by a giant, and suddenly opened a city wall, The city wall collapsed between the roof-sized craters on the city wall, or a section of the city wall a width of a foot collapsed along the root of the wall, and the collapsed city bricks and rammed earth either collapsed into the moat, or directly collapsed in the inner city, burying the earth cannon shed under the root of the city wall, and those who did not flee in a hurry were directly buried alive inside.

The walls collapsed, and the slaves who were awakened from their sleep all escaped in fear, although they didn't know that only a few shells would hit their shacks, and only a few would be buried alive, but fear still allowed them to escape, at least they didn't have to worry about being buried alive outside.

Almost as they fled from the shelter in panic, on the hot air balloon in the distance, the lookout had already spotted their movement through the telescope, and a bamboo tube was immediately dropped.

After receiving the observation report from the lookout, the artillerymen rejoiced again. The sky over Gaizhou, which was shrouded in gunsmoke and explosions, was immediately enveloped by a strange whistling sound of shells breaking through the air.

Although they are also mortars, the 18-pound mortar shells and the 28-pound mortar shells are completely different, the initial velocity of the 18-pound cannonballs is faster, and the slower is slower, so the sound sounds a little dull, and the sound of "woo ......" is as if something is covering it.

But what is even more amazing is probably the roar of the fifty-pound howitzer, which has a nickname "Dragon Yin" in the Pingyu Army, which is said to be "Dragon Yin", but it sounds a bit like a roar "......Buzz", like a giant dragon roaring in the air, suddenly falling from the sky.

At the moment they landed, they immediately set off a bloody storm, sometimes the shells even fell directly in the middle of a group of people, directly blasting them into the air, in the explosion of the shock wave is like a sharp wind blade, easily chopping their limbs, even the head, is like a ripe watermelon, in the moment of limb mincing, "boom" by the shock wave squeezed hard.

When the severed arms flew in the air, thousands of cast-iron fragments made various whistling sounds like flying knives in the air, they easily penetrated the body of Jiannu, cutting their limbs into pieces, and when penetrating their abdominal cavity, those fragments full of jagged tears dragged out of their intestines and other internal organs, and the internal organs and severed limbs flew together into the air, and then fell, between the severed arms and stumps, Jiannu who fell in a pool of blood let out a terrible scream.

However, their screams did not last long, and soon another flying fragment took their lives.

In fact, death is a relief for them at all.

The moment he put down the binoculars, Zhu Guoqiang ordered.

"Order the infantry to attack!"

Artillery bombardment, infantry occupation......

After the bombardment that lasted for half an hour, the officers and soldiers of Huwei Town launched another attack, in the early morning sun, they held bayonets, along the parallel trench all the way to the base of the city wall, the once seemingly impregnable city wall, this will have become a thousand holes, under the city wall is full of earth slopes that fell after the collapse of the city wall, one by one the earth slopes make the city wall no longer an insurmountable obstacle, the soldiers only need to follow the soil slope to rush up the city wall.

"Quick, quick, the Ming army is coming......"

The smoke-filled Hun Tower roared loudly, and the minions he pushed hard to resist the Ming army's attack, but these minions had not yet recovered from the shock of the shelling, whether they were armed with firearms or spears, they all looked terrified.

But even so, when the Ming army rushed to the city, in the face of death, they still reacted, those Jiannu with spears in a panic, still picked up their spears in a panic, stabbed at the Ming army on the dirt slope, and in a hurry actually stabbed down five or six Ming troops.

The Ming army, which was charging below, hurriedly raised their muskets and fired at Jiannu. After a burst of gunfire, several Jiannu above the city wall fell, but the spear continued to stab downward.

"Earthquake thunder, fast, earthquake thunder......"

Zhao Deshi, who was hiding under the dirt slope, shouted, he had just been promoted to "soldier" a month ago, according to the rank of "military brave", "soldier", "regular soldier" and "sergeant" of the Pingyu Army, as a sergeant, he was equivalent to a sergeant in later generations, he directly touched out a sky-shaking thunder, which was different from the common earth-shaking thunder. The shape is similar to the wooden-handled grenade, its shape is closer to the M43 long-handled grenade drawn at the top, and there is a clay cover on the top of its projectile body, and when using it, the sergeant smashed the clay cover to the butt of the gun, and the clay cover was shattered to expose the ignition head, and at the same time, he slashed the flotting head on his clothes, and a puff of smoke erupted from the top of the "......" bullet body.

This is Zhu Guoqiang in the later generations of wooden handle grenades on the basis of the "development" of the new type of "earth-shaking thunder", because the structure of the fire pipe is relatively complex, so it draws on the principle of "wiping the cannon", using a wipe on the yellow phosphorus match as the ignition head, usually there is a clay cover to protect the waterproof, when using, you only need to smash the clay cover, to the body, the wall of a stroke, you can ignite the ignition head, although it is not as convenient to use as a grenade, but it is definitely more convenient than the ordinary earth-shaking thunder.

When the soldiers of Huwei City attacked, each of them carried two grenades, but the Ming officers and soldiers still used to call it "Earthquake Thunder", after all, it was one of the weapons they were most familiar with. It's like a Vauban siege, using dense firepower to disperse the resistance of Jiannu.

When the smoking "earth-shattering thunder" was thrown at the feet of Jiannu, those Jiannu, who were trying to stab the Ming army down with their spears, were stunned at first, and then shouted in horror.

"Earthquake Thunder!"

Before they could escape, one by one the "earth-shattering thunder" exploded under their feet one after another, perhaps because of the use of black powder, its power was far less than that of ordinary grenades, but even so, it still blew up Jiannu and couldn't find the north.

"Whoosh!"

Whenever they encounter stubborn resistance, they throw a flurry of grenades with force. The scene of dozens of grenades exploding one after another was quite spectacular. With a deafening explosion, for a while, black smoke billowed from Jiannu's side, and the fragments tore apart their bodies with dirt and grass clippings. In the face of death, they all instinctively retreated quickly, colliding with the people who followed them, and more grenades were thrown at their feet, and the people who were immediately blown up turned on their backs, and in the roar of "earth-shattering thunder", Jiannu's resistance was broken......