Mouth cannon, Ma Degong is obviously no longer an opponent, after all, it is less than 300 years of heritage, which is understandable. In response to Chen Kai's provocation, the Qing army knew that it was invincible, so they simply responded with artillery, which effectively suppressed Chen Kai's clamour.

As soon as the cannon sounded over there, Chen Kai already realized that the Qing army was about to exert all its strength. In this regard, the Ming army is not without larger artillery, but the city wall has been as high as seven meters, and the recoil of the cannon with too large caliber is huge, which is likely to collapse the city wall. However, in the age of firearms, they were not as strong and difficult to defend as the much shorter fortresses on the European continent.

The artillery in the distance was thundering, the shells were whistling, and the first round of test firing was very bad, and the Qing gunners were all based on experience, and the hit rate should be slowly increased in the shooting again and again, which was inevitable. But the attitude of the Qing army has been revealed, Chen Kai, who was only responsible for sitting at the head of the city and boosting the morale of the defenders, simply handed over the task of guarding the city to Lan Deng and Zhou Quanbin, and sat on a Taishi chair in front of the city gate building, holding a telescope to look at the movements of the Qing army in the distance.

In the process of test firing, the Ming army was ready for battle, and the Qing army made final preparations. Immediately after Ma Degong's order, the handsome flag was pressed forward, and the more solid lookouts and rushing cars widened the distance between each other, separated the front and rear levels, and walked slowly. And those Qing soldiers carrying ladders hid behind the lookouts and rushing cars, and used these siege equipment to resist the long-range fire of the Ming army.

The siege equipment slowly moved forward, and the artillery on the Ming army did not start firing until the Qing army's charging vehicles entered the firing range. These siege machines were used to ram the walls and gates, and were very dangerous. Compared with the last time, this time the Qing army not only had more siege equipment, but also increased the threat, and the pressure on the Ming army to defend it increased sharply.

The artillery bombardment of the Qing army continued, and the shelling of the Ming side began. As far as Chen Kai's eyes could see, a cannonball tore through the air, smashed on the top of a rushing car in a daze, and directly collapsed the two rushing vehicles, which caused cheers from the Ming artillery crew.

The rushing car collapsed, and the Qing army behind didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly rushed to a lookout on both sides and one or two rushing cars, and continued to avoid the shooting of the Ming army. The wood of the rushing car was carbonized and ignited, and then it burned, and by the way, the Qing army that was not dead when it was smashed down was also burned as flammable, adding a screaming tune to the explosion of the wood.

The Qing army was still advancing, and after a while, the lookout was far from getting close enough, but a cannonball crossed a black parabola and hit a battlement on the south side of the east city wall.

"Minfu, come up and save people!"

After all, Langzhong was scarce, and the lightly injured would have apprentices bandaged on the city, and then continue to fight, while the heavier ones would have to be carried or carried down to the city by the people to the wounded and sick for treatment.

The wailing sound was heard here, and the people in the city listened to the order, and hurriedly rushed up from the stairs, and according to the command of the apprentices and officers, they sent down the soldiers and men who needed to be sent to the wounded and sick for treatment. The painful voice is easy to attract people's attention, damaging the morale of the defenders, and the Lang Zhong who were sent down to the injured and sick place were treated and cared for, and there was also the consul general of Shen Yan, Chen Kai did not hesitate to use medicinal materials, and always wanted to save his life as much as possible. And those who are still in the city need to grit their teeth, suppress the pain, and continue to fight.

The battle had not yet entered the white-hot stage, and the casualties on both sides were still only sporadic and probabilistic, but as the Qing army continued to approach, especially when the lookouts were close enough to start firing, the casualties on both sides increased in time.

"Tong Xi, as well as those large-caliber Franc machine guns, aimed at those watchtowers and hit Lao Tzu hard. Foot archers, suppressive shooting, bird guns and other artillery, don't waste gunpowder, your range is not enough, what to fight, how to fight on weekdays, how to fight the day before yesterday, how to fight today, which one dares to embarrass us in front of Chen Shenjun, don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless! ”

An officer shouted for the restoration of the broken section of the wall, and Landon could no longer care about it, and he looked at the approaching rushing carts, and ordered the firewood to be lit under the oil pans that had been prepared.

The lookout dispersed too much of the Ming army's firepower, and the damage to the rushing car and the casualties of the Qing army after the rush were reduced. The Qing army relied on the bedding on the roof of the car and the thick layer of earth on it, and the Ming army's bird guns and burning arrows were helpless against them. However, after entering this distance, the plum blossom piles of the Ming army began to show their effect, and the Qing army had to clean them up to ensure the passage of the rushing car, but this also gave the Ming army a chance to shoot.

A moment later, after paying a certain number of casualties, the car approached a suitable distance. With the orders of the grassroots officers, groups of Qing troops rushed to the city with cloud ladders and shouting.

"The marshal has an order, after the city is broken, the knife will be sealed in three days, and the children's jade silk will be returned, etc., and the marshal will not take a penny!"

The order to slaughter the city was given, and the morale of the Qing army suddenly rose. Thinking of the gold, silver and jade silk in the city, thinking of the beautiful girls in the city, and thinking of the pleasure of wanton killing when slaughtering the city, it was like smelling the smell of blood, shouting, screaming and running wildly, carrying the ladder, rushing to the city like flying, and directly erected the ladder.

One by one, the ladders were erected, and the Qing army climbed up with shields, while the Qing army behind was still advancing in an orderly manner. After waiting for a while, the first rushing car was pushed under the city wall, and the shooters on the lookout in the distance, the pickers who climbed with shields, and the giant trees that shouted the trumpets pushed the rushing cars to hit the city wall, and the Qing army's attack on the city center and left was instantly overwhelming the Ming army defending the city.

The pressure of the defense increased sharply, the arrows pierced the sky, the vibration of the city wall under the feet, the sound of the clanging, accompanied by the sound of squeaking bamboo and wood being pressed, the energy of the Ming army defending the city had to be divided everywhere, and in this way, the counterattack of the Qing army from any angle would inevitably be thin.

The so-called siege warfare, no matter what kind of tactics it is, in the final analysis, is nothing more than whether the besieging side crushes the defenders, or the defenders exhaust the forces of the attacking side.

This time, the Qing army's offensive was far more fierce than the day before yesterday, which shows that after the last siege, this Qing army has begun to face up to the Ming army defending the city, and it is no longer as careless as before.

The pressure of the Qing army hit, and the officers at the grassroots level of the Ming army shouted loudly, urging their subordinates to kill and injure every Qing army in their sight according to the weapons they used.

The strength of the Ming army was less than half of the opponent's, and the pressure had to be shared by the people who assisted in the defense. With the order of the Ming army officer, the people who had already prepared behind the Ming army defending the city held the rolling wood and stones and followed the Ming army's point, poked their heads out and smashed down the climbing Qing army.

The stone fell, smashing heavily on the shield of the Qing army, its own weight plus gravitational acceleration, the arm of the Qing army holding the shield twisted and deformed at the speed of the naked eye and invisible, and it was not just the mouth that screamed first, or fell first, only one Qing army was thrown down the ladder by the stones thrown by the city, and even the unlucky guy who had just climbed the same ladder was smashed below.

At this moment, there was no need to cheer, and there was no need to cheer, the officer hurriedly ordered those people to go down to the city, and carried a few wounded soldiers of the Ming army down for treatment.

This time, because they were stuck in the gap between most of the Qing army's shots on the nearest lookout, there was no sniping, and the people's movements were not disturbed. Chen Kai didn't know if the officer was deliberately stuck at this point in time, but sitting there, he secretly wrote down this experience.

However, at the same time, not far from his concentration point, a cannonball whizzed, breaking through the battlement, and at the same time, it slammed straight into a crowd of people who had just carried their guards up the city ladder......