"What bastard fired without an order!"

The officer's anger was in his heart, not only to flout his authority, but more importantly, to disrupt the overall firing rhythm of the artillery team and the subsequent adjustment effect. However, this thought only lasted for a moment, and in the next second, a black line was seen in the line of sight, and after a slight staggering on the flat ground, it bounced slightly, and it bounced directly on the cannon that had just been loaded but had not had time to wave the flag to him.

With a "boom", the bounced shell smashed directly into the lower end of the muzzle with upward force, and then I saw that the barrel of the thousand-pound giant cannon was simply touched by such a small ball, and then it was directly overturned with the tail of the cannon as the origin.

At the tail of the gun, the gun commander of the artillery group had just taken the torch and was about to listen to the order to open the gun, but in this instant, the gun body in front of him jumped up and directly knocked him to the ground

The artillery commander saw that he was not alive, and he asked a person who was directly smashed into the mud by a big guy who was thousands of pounds, and his whole body was smashed into a puddle of mud, and the blood sprayed the guys around him, and there was really no way to call him a living person.

In such a situation, there is no need for any explanation, the Ming army did not have artillery with such a range, but it never fired. Whether it was because they were hiding their strength during the last war, or because the movement of their version of the Hongyi cannon was so great that the Ming army noticed it, so it didn't matter if they were specially transported from other places to assist in defense. The important thing is that the Ming army is a mortal threat to the artillery of the Qing army, and it is impossible for them to walk so leisurely!

Before the officer gave the order to shoot, the artillery shells from the Ming army came one after another. Although the number of artillery shells was far inferior to that of the Qing army, and no artillery had the same good luck as the good luck to directly hit the artillery, but like them, this was just a test firing, and compared to their test firing effect, the Ming army's test firing effect was obviously much better.

The shooting of the Ming army interrupted the shooting rhythm of the Qing army, and at the same time, those daydreams had to be stopped. It is impossible to storm the city wall and then launch a charge, after all, this human life is not as valuable as the Hongyi cannon. So, at the same time as the artillery sound on the Qing army's side sounded again, Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying's handsome banners pressed forward, and the green battalion soldiers drove the auxiliary soldiers and the men, women, and children collected along the way, carrying dirt bags and sandbags, repeating the trench filling work during the last attack.

The artillery positions of the Qing army occupied the central position of the formation, and the troops filling in the trenches had to bypass this area to avoid unnecessary casualties and interference with aiming.

After the war, the people fled in batches to the areas controlled by the Ming army, and the Qing army wanted to arrest people to fill the trenches, more of them came from the area west of the Lotus Mountains, and even more in terms of numbers.

Carrying heavy bags of dirt and sandbags, the people hobbled towards the moat. Fear, helplessness, and compulsion all turned into tears, but they didn't dare to cry loudly, because in the early days in the camp, it would inevitably cause a roar in the camp, and the Qing army had always been a knife to any people who dared to cry out loud. Even if the fate of almost certain death is about to come, the vast majority of people before the real advent will inevitably have the idea of stealing life.

The relatively close-range artillery of the Ming army, such as the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Franc Machine Cannon, was still not in a hurry to fire as last time, and in addition to the noisy faltering on the battlefield, some were only sympathetic to each other between the Hongyi artillery on both sides.

On the head of the main fort, aside from the main cannon, the other Hongyi cannons began to pour fire on the Qing army. In terms of size, caliber, and range, these Hongyi cannons are almost no different from those of the Qing army. At this moment, the artillery crew of the Ming army was also reset, cleaned and wiped the inner wall step by step like the Qing army, but when it came to loading, it was a little different.

Chen Kai was writing and painting near the left side of the main gun, this is the commanding height of the fortress, and he can see the whole state of the entire fortress. While writing something on the whiteboard with black charcoal, you can clearly glimpse that the red cannon on the next floor has entered the loading stage.

After wiping the inner wall, the gunpowder will not get damp. The loader of the Ming army carried one of the more than a dozen cloth bags from behind, pulled the thread, and followed the thick thread that the thread was originally sewn at the mouth of the cloth bag, and the originally tightly knit cloth bag mouth re-revealed the contents of the inside.

It was all granular gunpowder, and the two loaders raised their mouths and aimed them at the muzzle of the gun, and easily poured all the gunpowder in the entire medicine bag into it, without estimating the amount of gunpowder at all. Next, the compacted and cloth-wrapped shell slowly slides into the muzzle, and the gun commander, who manipulates the telescope, the gun gauge, the gun ruler, and the scale plate, also completes the target with the help of the distance markers that look inconspicuous in the distance.

The counter-fire was started again, and this time most of the Qing army's shots had already hit the moat, and two of the cannons were directly smashed on the parapet wall of the Half Moon Fort. The Qing army was too far away to see clearly, but if the Ming army could poke their heads out, they could already notice the crack in the parapet wall of the Half Moon Fort.

Compared to the previous test launch, the effect this time is obviously better. Moreover, the Qing army had seventy-three guns, and the huge numerical advantage of seventy-two Hongyi cannons was enough to dwarf the Ming army. However, due to the use of granulated gunpowder and fixed charge package technology, the speed of the Ming army in the loading process is far better than estimating the amount used, and it is also necessary to carefully clear the powdered gunpowder into the innermost part of the barrel carefully, after a series of operations are completed, the Qing army is far from putting in the shells. Then the shelling began, which further interfered with the loading of the Qing army.

The rate of fire was increased by the increased speed of reloading, and the accuracy of the Ming army's shooting was much higher through the use of the number of rangefinder tools. Even though, due to the uncertainty of the front-loading smoothbore cannon itself, but in the second round of firing, Beibao, which only had a dozen Hongyi cannons, once again destroyed the two Hongyi cannons of the Qing army in just a few breaths.

Three to zero!

Even if you count the damage to the half-moon fort parapet, such a battle loss ratio is enough to dwarf the artillery teams of both sides. With the better use of technology, even if the same weapon is used, its power is completely different, and sometimes it even seems as if you are using two weapons.

With the passage of time, the tragedy of the trench filling has also reached a climax, the Qing army drove and killed, the Ming army was forced to return fire, and the casualties were mostly borne by those people. Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer. Or it is not as good as a peace dog to leave people in chaos, and the ancients have long had such sighs and regrets.

The firing continued, and the artillery on the Ming army's side may occasionally have results, but sometimes a round of artillery will shoot down a cannon, and even a Qing army can't hit it, and even the one that is obviously aimed at it turns out to hit the next door or the Qing army next to it. On the other hand, on the side of the Qing army, through continuous adjustment, although the rhythm was slow, especially the slowdown of the firing speed caused by the interference of the Ming army's artillery, but with continuous attempts, the Qing army's artillery range could soon cover the Half Moon Fort, and even approach the main fort.

The structure of the main fort has been enlarged, with an acute platform on the next floor and an upward turret, but the half-moon fort on the left and right sides has been removed, leaving only the front one. The shape of the fortress is more complicated, but at first glance it still looks just weird. But when the first shell that hit the main fort made contact with the fort wall, everything became completely different.

A few rounds of firing just now caused unnecessary casualties in the Ming army's Half Moon Fort, and these casualties also greatly reduced their interference with the Qing army in filling the trenches. Even at the same time as this round of shelling, the Ming army had already issued an order to abandon the Half Moon Fort.

This was a phased achievement, the interference of the Qing army's trench filling work was greatly reduced, the speed of trench filling also increased rapidly, and the moat was gradually filled by the Qing army at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, the purpose of the Half Moon Fort was not the goal, the purpose was to collapse the fort wall of the main fort, when the Ming army was unwilling to continue to pay casualties for the death and death of the Half Moon Fort, the artillery bombardment of the Qing army also further extended to the main fort. The cannonballs whistled, this is the crystallization of an eighteen-pound Hongyi cannon, the Hongyi cannon of similar caliber has caused a lot of damage to the Half Moon Fort, once it hits at this moment, the kinetic energy it carries is converted into a vibration to the fort wall, which really makes the Ming army on the wall tremble.

However, on the other side of the fortress wall, the Ming army was stunned to see that the cannonball not only did not smash the outer masonry and stone, and then destroyed the rammed earth wall inside, but also after a little contact, it was drawn to the angle between the two city walls along the oblique angle, and it was pressed to the ground by its own weight before it even reached the corner.

All that remains of the wall is a partially dented crack in the masonry and scratches that continue to move towards the angle. Nothing else.

A discerning person can already see clearly that this is clearly the force of the slope to unload the cannonballs, and the fortress that is lower than the ancient Chinese and European medieval cities and castles, and even the part that is higher than the ground is rammed with earth, the force acting on it is no longer only borne by the city wall, but by the whole castle and even the earth. Its sturdiness is naturally extraordinary.

The artillery bombardment of the Qing army was more and more concentrated on the main structure of the fortress, and the Ming army also knocked out the Qing army's Hongyi artillery or anti-personnel artillery groups one by one. Compared with the last time with dense hot weapons in the defensive war to kill and injure the cold weapons of the army is no longer there, but it is not that the Qing army has completed the firearms, the main body of the army is still the cold weapons army, but the number of these Hongyi cannons is too much, with the absolute superiority in numbers, it can fight with the Ming army's firearms defense system.

Gradually, the moat was filled in for the Qing army, and the Qing army and those siege equipment of the brigade also entered the range of the impact slope step by step, and then there was no great obstacle to the moat that had been filled with earth bags, sandbags and human lives.

The battle had been going on for several hours, during which the Hongyi artillery on both sides had to enter an embarrassing period of overcooling due to the excessive number of shots. Soon, the siege engines of the Qing army crossed the moat. Qing shooters fired at the Ming army from the towering lookouts, and occasionally a few were destroyed by the Ming artillery, but other lookouts were soon pushed into range that could threaten the defenders, and the pressure continued; The ladders have been pressed on the city wall, and they have been shot from multiple angles by the Ming army, and from time to time the Qing army has fallen from above, but there are more Qing troops to make up for it, as if to use the numerical advantage to overwhelm the Ming army; And those rushing cars, while constantly suffering from the baptism of artillery fire and oil of the Ming army, are also trying their best to hit the city wall.

The two green battalions had already been pressed up from both sides, and those Han army flags were also rushing up, and even Lian Decheng, the right-wing general of the Jingnan Domain, personally stepped forward to supervise the battle.

Because the shooting of the Ming army dealt a heavy blow to the Qing artillery team, the Qing army had to choose to complete the battle. The battle has entered a white-hot stage, and every minute and every second there will be the death of the Ming army or the Qing army. At this time, Chen Kai, who was still standing on the main fort, casually put the whiteboard on the parapet wall, stroking the copper body of the main gun on the main fort, and couldn't help but skim a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"The twelve-pounder and eighteen-pounder red cannons are also embarrassed to take them out and show them to shame, it's time to give you a long look!"