Gunfire!

The moment the fierce artillery fire hit, Gaizhou City was shrouded in clouds of black and gray smoke.

The shells exploded the moment they touched the ground, thanks to the gimbal bump fuse they used. This kind of British grenade simple fuze born in World War II has become a multiplier of the shell, although the round projectile body is arbitrary in flight, and the attitude of landing is uncontrollable, but this universal fuse can explode at any angle at the moment of landing.

Instantaneous shells are undoubtedly fatal to infantry, and a grenade explosion can usually produce thousands of fragments of various sizes, which are more than a kilometer in speed, as small as a bullet, as large as a supersonic flying blade, and they will cut the body to shreds where it passes.

For Jiannu, who has experienced this kind of "bullet rain" baptism, this is exactly what they feared the most in the past, and that kind of flesh-and-blood battlefield is probably the closest hell place for people.

Even now, when a cannonball landed on the city, thousands of fragments flew around in the shock wave of the explosion, and those small peanut-sized blade-like fragments pierced the body of the nearby Jiannu like bullets, but it was different from ordinary bullets, its shape was different, and the moment they penetrated into the flesh, they twisted and tore apart the flesh, bones, and shaved off their limbs......

Not only that, but at the moment of the explosion of the shell, the shock wave tears through the surrounding objects like a knife. After being hit by a grenade, some Jiannu soldiers were instantly blown into pieces, and their limbs were incomplete, except for the cutting of shrapnel, it was mainly caused by the damage generated by the shock wave, and the armor on their bodies was also torn to pieces by the shock wave, and pieces of iron whistled like flying knives to the surroundings.

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It's hell for those who are in it!

If all the people stood there so unobtrusively, baptized by shells, this war would no longer be a battle, but a massacre! One-sided slaughter!

But now, the massacre has changed a bit, and with the exception of the Jiannu at the head of the city, who suffered losses, most of them took refuge in thick bunkers under the city walls.

Although the houses made of logs and thick earth look simple, they can resist the baptism of shells to the greatest extent, and even if the shells that explode on the ground accurately fall on the roof, they only blow up shallow pits.

Once upon a time, the most lethal instantaneous shell for Kennu would have been completely useless, unable to penetrate the roof of the fortifications or blow them up. There was just a loud explosion.

When the sound of explosions came overhead, and the dust continued to fall between the cracks of the logs, the Jiannu in the shed were all happy.

"Oh, this shack is a lifesaver!"

The logs above their heads shook as if they were overwhelmed, and although the dust fell more violently, in fact, the instantaneous shells did not cause any damage to them at all.

It's even like scratching your boots, and it doesn't make the slightest sense at all.

"Artillery battle! Do you see, this is the artillery battle of the Ming army! But now it's useless to us. ”

Although the sound of the explosion outside was like summer thunder, in the civil hut, the Jiannu looked quite proud.

"In the past, we just let them blow up, look at the ...... now"

The man smelled the smell of gunpowder coming in through the door and said proudly.

"It's just a cigarette for us! That is, to listen to the sound. ”

In addition to being proud, he even took two hard puffs and said.

"Hmph, I dare to say that the Ming army will definitely attack the city in a while, just right, let's wait for them to come over, and then bombard them with stone hairbolts on the city wall!"

As he spoke, he even deliberately slapped the stone hair gun in his hand - this is a big gun they specially prepared for the Ming army's iron army, a gun weighing 7 yuan, which can penetrate the Ming army's iron armor from a hundred paces away.

For Jiannu, these flint fired firecrackers are undoubtedly an extremely advanced weapon, although it is advanced, it is not an expensive weapon, not only because the Mingshan Valley, that is, the Benxi area in later generations provided high-quality and cheap iron materials, but more importantly, compared to the hundred steels used for knives and guns, only wrought iron is needed to make guns, after all, until the mid-19th century, the barrels were made of wrought iron.

Iron is cheaper than steel!

Much cheaper!

Of course, lead bullet is also cheaper than arrows.

They were proud and rampant to wait until the bombardment was over, kill the city, and then kill it with pleasure. But just as they were waiting for the end of the shelling, on the distant horizon, on the hot air balloon suspended in mid-air, two lookouts were observing the effect of the shelling, and from time to time they threw a bamboo barrel from the hanging basket, and then the gunners would adjust the angle of fire and even the direction of the mortar according to the information in the bamboo barrel, in order to try to hit the shell more accurately, but in fact, the accuracy of the smoothbore mortar was extremely impressive.

"The effect of the shelling doesn't seem to be very good!"

Mei Chun frowned, and then muttered to herself.

"If you attack directly like this, there will definitely be no fewer casualties."

What if the artillery fire suppresses the city while besieging it?

If you attack the city like this. Casualties are certainly inevitable. However, some casualties could be mitigated, but the suppression did not last long.

If the casualties are too great, even taking this city is not necessarily a credit.

Why don't you give it a try? And a normal siege also requires a tentative attack to test the enemy's defenses.

After making a decision in his heart, Mei Chun immediately ordered.

"Left battalion, prepare to attack the city with a skirmisher line."

Sieges do not require neat queues, and skirmishers can minimize casualties compared to neat queues.

When Lin Wei was marching forward with a musket and a cat, a few birds flew by in the woods in the distance, because they were too close to the battlefield, the deafening sound of cannons had already frightened away the birds in the forest, and they were chirping in the air.

In the summer sun, crickets and gnats jumped from time to time in the meadows, and the insects stopped chirping, and only when the warriors' boots landed beside them would they be startled out of the meadow.

"Toot ......"

The whistle echoed in the air, and Lin Wei, who was advancing rapidly with his comrades, did not forget to look up at the city wall when he was rushing forward - clouds of smoke exploded from time to time on the city wall, and there seemed to be no movement on the city wall in the fierce artillery fire.

Now, Jiannu must be hiding from the shelling in all directions, and they will definitely be torn to shreds under such shelling. Even as if the evening confirmed their suspicions, they saw a section of intestines hanging from the treetops in the distance, and the bloody intestines were very conspicuous in the sunlight. He even saw a head that had exploded from somewhere, and the bloody head was lying on the grass, which was very conspicuous. Although it looked a little scary, it made Lin Wei and his comrades laugh.

Such a dense artillery fire will definitely kill all the Jiannu slaves in the city.

Only after crossing the buffer slope and then attacking Gaizhou City, its wall height is only one zhang and six feet......

Just as they were carrying bamboo ladders and preparing to attack the city of Gaizhou by the most primitive method, the shelling stopped as they approached the top of the buffer slope in front of the city wall, which was to avoid accidental injury.

Suddenly, there was silence. This silence seems a little weird, and even a little uncomfortable. In the midst of this silence, there were suddenly loud noises again and again. From afar, there was a roar filled with the smell of blood.

Lin Wei stopped, he was stunned by the chaotic sound of cannons and gunfire in front of him, as if the whole world had been split. The rifle screamed, and a violent explosion came from the cannon.

In the smoke of gunfire, in the deafening sound of gunfire. He saw clouds of smoke gushing out from behind the gunsmoke, and those white clouds of smoke produced all kinds of changes in Lin Wei's eyes......

But one thing is for sure, they are deadly......