"Rebel dare!"

Lu Zhongwei's face changed greatly, and he pointed at Qin Chuan outside the gate and scolded.

Before the scolding fell, a row of gunpowder smoke suddenly rose outside, the gunshots rang out, and a few screams suddenly sounded beside Lu Zhongwei, and there was a crackling sound of lead hitting the wood, and then he felt a shock in his shoulder, and a sharp pain suddenly came.

"Hold on! Hold on! ”

Lu Zhongwei covered his arms and staggered down the arrow tower.

Several of the private soldiers who followed him up to the arrow tower also fled with urine, and two of the ones who were shot were still lying on them and wailing heartbreakingly.

Lu Zhongwei didn't expect that the person surnamed Qin would really dare to do it.

This is a felony of treason, isn't he afraid of killing his head?

"Qin Chuan has rebelled, hurry, hold on!"

After running down the arrow tower, Lu Zhongwei yelled at the private soldiers gathered nearby to watch the excitement.

When those private soldiers first heard the gunshot, they were all stunned, not knowing what had happened, and only when they heard Lu Zhongwei's roar did they know that something was wrong, something was wrong.

These 300 private soldiers have been eating and drinking spicy food and spicy food all year round behind the buttocks of several officials and masters, and they have few skills, they will only rely on the prestige of their masters to run rampant and domineering, and few have even fought.

In the case of the sudden upheaval, the private soldiers were in a mess, and several generals took their horsewhips and jerked them violently, so that the gang could barely get the men to grab their swords, guns, bows and arrows and run towards the city wall.

Before he got up to the arrow tower, there was a sudden "boom" outside, and the heavy wooden door of the Ninghua Institute shook suddenly, and a hole burst out of the door panel.

"Artillery, they have artillery......"

The privates turned pale with fright, and fled in all directions.

"Steady! Kill those who retreat! ”

Lu Zhongwei pressed his shoulders and yelled at those routs.

"Quick, go to the arsenal, there's a cannon."

Several generals drew their knives and cut down a few fleeing private soldiers, and only then did they barely stabilize their positions.

A general and his men hurried to the arsenal, smashed the locks and rushed in, and turned out a dozen or so rusty bird guns in the pile of tatters, as well as two tiger squat cannons with thick dust.

There was also a vat of gunpowder next to it, but the black powder inside was basically damp and agglomerate.

The general was so angry that he smashed a bird gun in two, and hurriedly ran back to report to Lu Zhongwei.

Lu Zhongwei was so angry that he stomped his feet: "What about the generals of Ninghua Institute?" Let them lead their troops to guard the door, hurry, hurry! ”

"Yes."

His generals hurriedly led the soldiers to find someone.

When the gunshots rang out, Mo Dezai was startled and soon realized that something was wrong.

There was a dumbfounded man who stupidly wanted to run to see what was going on, but Mo Dezai pulled it back and scolded: "Go and die?" Hurry back to the barracks, no, go to the general building, and hold that building. ”

Jujianglou is the only double-storey building in Ninghua, it can be said that it is the last line of defense in the guardhouse, it is built on the hillside, the brick and stone structure, about two zhang high, it is circular, and there are sixteen arrow holes in the upper and lower floors.

In times of war, if the front door cannot be guarded, the remaining soldiers will gather in this building to defend the danger.

The advantage is that you can wait for reinforcements, and if the reinforcements arrive and the enemy retreats, the people in the building can save their lives.

The disadvantage is that if there are no reinforcements coming, a small building will be breached sooner or later, and the people inside will die.

Mo Dezai was very clever, so he asked his subordinates to carry some food and water, and then hid on the second floor.

Two hundred households also came with their men, about two hundred people, huddled in a small building and shivering.

The other two hundred households brought dozens of people to Lu Zhongwei to show their loyalty.

When the people sent by Lu Zhongwei found the Jujiang Building, the people inside were silent, and they didn't open the door even if they coerced and lured the private soldiers outside.

There is no winner in this battle, and they will not come out.

Hearing the report of his subordinates, Lu Zhongwei was angry and afraid, and the officers and soldiers of the Nuning Huachang actually hid, afraid that the three hundred people he brought would not be able to hold it.

Ninghua is a dangerous military fort that used to be a dangerous place in the north-south passage, but the military fort has been in disrepair for a long time, and the originally narrow city wall has collapsed a lot, and there are not many people standing on it.

Fortunately, there are also four arrow towers built on both sides of the gate, which can throw arrows down or throw stones and rolling logs, and the castle tower above the gate is barely intact, and can stand dozens of soldiers.

However, the firearms in the institute could not be used, and the three hundred private soldiers brought by Lu Zhongwei did not have many bows and arrows, and the rolling wood on the arrow tower and the gatehouse had already been taken to chop firewood for life, and only a small amount of stone was left, which could not last long.

Most importantly, the other side has firearms.

After the first round of fire, the gate was not penetrated, only a crack was smashed by a shell.

Qin Chuan looked at the form and said in a loud voice: "Advance sixty steps, the musketeers continue to suppress the enemies on the city tower and the arrow tower, the gunners continue to bombard the door, and the shield bearers pay attention to cover." ”

"Yes."

Under the cover of the shield, the Guan Emperor army advanced forward against the sparse arrows of the other party.

At sixty paces, the musketeers pulled back the torching faucets of their flintlock pistols, opened the lid of the medicine pool, took out a small paper bag from the leather pouch on their waists, bit it with their mouths, poured a little ignition powder into the powder pool, covered the lid, and poured all the gunpowder in the powder bag into the barrel.

There is a lead at the bottom of the medicine bag, and a small piece of parchment mat soaked in tung oil, which is padded under the lead, stuffed into the barrel, and then used a tong->>

Strip poked into it and compacted.

The size of the lead is slightly smaller than the caliber of the barrel, and it can be smoothly pierced into it after being padded with sheepskin, speeding up the reloading, and the parchment pad can also increase air tightness in the case of thermal expansion and cold contraction, improving accuracy and range.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the French Old Guards could complete a reload in twenty seconds, and the Prussian army was even faster than twenty seconds.

In fact, Huang Liuxi is the instructor of this group of musketeers, and his terrible face always reminds those musketeers that they must strictly follow each step to load and fire, and they must also pay attention to the maintenance of the muskets in their hands, otherwise the end will be worse than Huang Liuxi.

The speed of one round in thirty seconds is actually not slow, it can shoot almost two rounds in a minute, which is nearly twice as fast as the arquebus.

The training of these musketeers is still very short, the distance of sixty paces, the hit rate is only less than thirty percent, which is still very low, but for Lu Zhongwei's private soldiers who have long been hollowed out by wine and meat women, this hit rate is enough.

What's more, there is also a deterrent of a tiger squat cannon.

After three rounds of flintlock muskets were fired, the private soldiers on the arrow tower and the city tower threw down a pile of corpses and wounded soldiers, and the ghost cried wolf and fled.

After five rounds of shelling, the gate had already broken a few holes, Qin Chuan saw that the tiger squatting cannon was overheated, so he suspended the bombardment and let the barrel cool down, and the thirty flintlock guns also stopped, waiting for the barrel to cool down.

At the same time, continue to advance twenty steps.

Seeing that the gunfire outside stopped, Lu Zhongwei had the courage to climb up to the arrow tower and glance out, then quickly retracted and shouted: "Qin Chuan, I can hand over the murderer of your brother to you, or I can return the three corpses to you, you collect the troops immediately, let's clear the two of us, and I will treat it as if this incident did not happen today." ”

There was no response outside, only the sound of footsteps.

Lu Zhongwei's face turned pale, and he almost pleaded: "Qin Chuan, I don't want those lands, I don't want an acre of land, and I can still lose money, a thousand taels...... No, three thousand taels of silver, how? ”

There was still no one outside to respond to him.

"Five...... Five thousand taels! ”

"Qin Chuan, if you dare to kill me, Lord Dou and Lord Wei will definitely not let you go, not to mention, you are a rebellion, a big crime of punishing the nine clans, and when the news reaches Yangqu and Taiyuan, the entire Lou Fu will be razed to the ground, and your brothers will also be arrested and killed."

The footsteps outside stopped, and the guns did not go out, only quietly, without movement.

Lu Zhongwei had the courage to glance out again, only to see that the army surnamed Qin had already reached a distance of forty paces, but did not attack, but was waiting for something.

"Quick, get everyone back."

Lu Zhongwei shouted to the generals below, wanting to take this opportunity to reorganize the team.

Outside the gate of Ninghua Station, Qin Chuan looked around, and then said to a red-clothed attendant beside him: "Send a hundred tiger and leopard battalions to cruise near the military fort, and don't let any of them go out, especially pay attention to the west side of the city wall, where the terrain is flat, you can escape over the wall." ”

"Send someone to tell Luo Daniu again, let him empty all the living people within a radius of twenty miles, and those hungry people will be taken care of, and none of them will be allowed to escape."

"Yes."

"How's the barrel cooling?"

"It's still a little hot."

"Well, wait a little longer."

Half an hour later, the tiger cannon roared again, and the whistling buckshot blasted a hole in the wooden door again.

Lu Zhongwei's soldiers and horses, which were finally gathered together, were in a mess again.

The shelling lasted for three rounds, and Qin Chuan waved his hand to stop the artillery, and said, "Fifty people and ten flintlock muskets broke the door." ”

"Yes."

Fifty Guan Emperor troops were quickly selected, wearing a layer of cotton armor and a layer of iron armor, wearing iron helmets, forty people holding axes, ten people holding flintlock pistols, and a large shield improvised with a few dovetail cards, approaching the gate.

Qin Chuan took off the black gauze hat on his head, took off the official uniform on his body, and two red-clothed attendants helped him put a set of shining metallic armor on him, tied the rope, and tied shoulder pads, arm guards and heart goggles.

Finally, Qin Chuan put a bowl helmet on his head, then drew out his long knife and waited quietly.

When he heard the sound of the axe cutting through the gate, Lu Zhongwei's face changed greatly: "Quick, hold the gate, don't let them in, and send a team of people to the city tower to throw stones." ”

Some of the private soldiers, who were barely calm, hurried behind the gate, and just as they wanted to stab their spears out, ten barrels suddenly protruded into those holes, and after a burst of gunsmoke and gunfire, the private soldiers who rushed in front fell down.

The other part ran up to the tower, and before they could throw stones, a burst of gunfire rang out.

So, the gang threw down several corpses and ran down in a row.

Lu Zhongwei's face was like gold leaf, his hands and feet trembled, and he sat on the ground with his buttocks.

A general suddenly ran over: "Lord Lu, come quickly with the humble position, there are long ladders and ropes in the guard, and the humble duty will take you out from the western city wall." ”

As if he had grasped a life-saving straw, Lu Zhongwei hurriedly got up, only took a dozen henchmen, and crawled away with the general to the west.

The door was quickly split into a large hole for two people to pass side by side.

"The red-clothed squire comes with me!"

Qin Chuan carried a long knife and strode forward.