Chapter 63: Who Hits First

Dawn, outside Quang Ninh City, at the west city wall.

More than 50 large and small cannons lined up and bombarded that section of the city wall.

Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao stared nervously at the small section of the city wall, and the hands holding the reins turned white.

The soldiers who had been assembled behind him also looked at the still impregnable west city wall with suspicious faces.

"Lao Zhao, can Your Majesty's plan be successful?"

Man Gui was a little breathless.

"Let's not talk about it if it doesn't succeed, whether our gunner can hit on time, it's been two rounds, and there hasn't been a single hit, if you can't hit, it's all nonsense."

Seeing that the gunners couldn't hit accurately, Zhao Shujiao was also a little anxious.

"Send a message to the gunners, and those who hit will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver each."

Seeing that this round of shelling did not hit, Man Gui added a silver reward.

Man Gui firmly believes that under the heavy reward, there will be those who are lucky.

As soon as this order was issued, the entire artillery position was boiling, and several artillery crews slowly pushed the artillery forward at the risk of being hit by the city's artillery fire.

And in the city, the Eight Banners Niu Lu, who defended the west city wall, was also confused.

Even if the artillery is fired early in the morning, they still shoot in one place, could it be that this group of Ming troops is counting on this iron lump to break through the city wall?

Guangning City is more than two feet thick, and the middle is rammed earth.

The defenders of the city panicked at first, thinking that the Ming army was going to attack the city again, and the bows and arrows, oil and rolling wood and stones were all ready, and they waited for the Ming army to attack the city, so that the Ming army would know the difficulty of attacking the city.

But left and right, just seeing the Ming army firing artillery, that is, not seeing the Ming army moving, and the artillery is still firing in one direction.

Unable to wait for the Ming army to attack the city, some bold Tartars began to look at the small section of the city wall where the Ming army concentrated their shooting from the position of the horse.

But there was nothing unusual about that small section of the city wall, just more craters, but there seemed to be something different between the trances.

The Tartars took a closer look again, and only then did they see the clue.

The edge of a crater seems to have some small tubes with a metallic luster, the tubes are not big, the length of a person's palm, the thickness of a thumb, and they are lined together side by side, which is quite beautiful.

Although the Tartars didn't know what this thing was, their years of experience in the army still made them feel that something was wrong, and after quickly reporting it, a Niu Lu Zhangjing also ran to the city to look down.

After watching it for a while, Niu Lu Zhangjing didn't see any clues, but Niu Lu Zhangjing felt a burst of danger in his heart, and his years of experience in the army told him that something was going to happen.

Na Zhang Jing didn't think much about it, and then ordered those things to be removed.

Soon, a brave bayala was placed in the hanging basket, ready to descend to get rid of the metal.

The Ming army besieging the city naturally saw this scene.

In the astonishment of the crowd, Man Gui rode alone to a distance of a hundred paces in front of the city wall, drew his bow and shot, and struck the head of the Bayala with an arrow.

Then the horse galloped back, and dozens of feathered arrows chased after him.

When Man Gui returned to the battle unscathed, all the generals breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that the Ming army attached so much importance to these small metal pipes, the Tartars in the city also knew the seriousness of the problem.

After pulling the dead bayala in the hanging basket up, he soon sent another bayala down the city.

Now there is no need for Man Gui to go into battle in person, the Ming archers stepped forward and quickly shot the Bayala into a sieve.

The Tartars were fierce, and when they saw that two Bayalas had been shot and killed, several more Tartars came down from the city, not even the hanging baskets, and they were about to come down with a rope.

But the archers of the Ming army did not allow it, and the power of a thousand feathered arrows in a salvo was still not small, and soon those fierce and abnormal Tartars also turned into hedgehogs.

Seeing this, the Tartars on the city quickly formed a bow and arrow team of hundreds of people to shoot at the Ming army under the city, and turned the muzzle of the cannon to bombard the Ming archers who protruded to the front, so as to cover the Tartars who were about to go down the city.

For a time, the Tartars on the city could not come down, the Ming army under the city could not attack, and there were also dense cannonballs smashed on this section of the city wall, which was very lively.

And that Niu Lu Zhang Jing saw that this had become a stalemate, and suddenly had a plan.

Hurriedly found a few people with big shoulders and round waists and strong arms, ran to the side of the city wall, lifted dozens or even hundreds of pounds of stones, and threw them at the metal pipes, trying to destroy these unknown objects.

Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao watched several large stones smash at those metal pipes under the city, and they were all stunned for a while.

The Ming army fired shells with all their firepower to hit these metal tubes, and these Tartars took the initiative to move stones and smash them.

Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao glanced at each other, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

At this moment, a burly Bayala threw a stone weighing about 100 catties in his hand straight towards the metal tubes.

At the same time, a heavy shell shot out from a Hongyi cannon on the Ming artillery position also went straight to the tube.

So a strange scene happened, the Tartars in the city looked at the stone, and the Ming army under the city looked at the iron ball, and both sides thought that they could hit first.

And only Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao looked at the stone and the iron ball at the same time, silently praying in their hearts 'Zhongzhongzhong'.

In the midst of the lightning and flint, the tartars of the city cheered as the stone struck the pile of metal pipes.

But then, their cheers were forever frozen in this moment.

There was a loud bang, and the whole world fell silent.

"Sons, kill the Tartars with me!"

The smoke dissipated, and a huge gap in the western city wall of Guangning appeared in front of the Ming army, and Man Gui slapped the war horse under his crotch with the back of his knife and rushed out first.

The Ming army was still in great shock, just now the stone and the iron ball hit that section of the city wall one after another, and then accompanied by a loud noise, suddenly the fire soared into the sky, and the masonry and stone rammed earth on that section of the city wall was instantly thrown into the air.

Not only the Ming army, but the gunner who had just fired that shot was instantly stupid, he had been fighting for more than 20 years, and he had never seen his forehead shell have such great power.

"This is Your Majesty's plan, the heavens are helping me to be Ming, you have the opportunity to make contributions, and the sons and daughters will kill the Tartars with me!"

Seeing that the Ming army did not come to their senses, and Man Gui only rushed out with more than a thousand family members, Zhao Shujiao hurriedly stepped out of the horse, and after some agitation, he also led the family to rush out.

Seeing that the commander and deputy commander rushed out, tens of thousands of Ming troops rushed towards the gap under the leadership of their respective generals.

Compared with the rapid response of the Ming army, the Tartars in the city were not so lucky.

One hundred and fifty kilograms of TNT not only blew up that section of the city wall, but the Tartars on the city were also blown into slag in an instant, and the subsequent waves of air and bricks also knocked the Tartars a little farther to the ground.

Before the Tartars could catch their breath, Man Gui took the lead and rushed to the gap with more than a thousand families.

Man Gui thought that there would be a bloody battle, but when he reached the gap, he did not find a single tartar that could still move.

Man Gui held a big knife in his hand, looked at the fragments of the Tartar corpses all over the ground, his throat swelled, and before he could open his mouth, a family member behind him spit out.

"Haha, bitch, I haven't seen blood, it's good to finish this battle."

Man Gui swallowed back the breakfast, and then patted the family Ding Dao.

"Man Shuai, outside Ningyuan City last year, I killed the Tartars, but I have never seen such a tragic scene, these Tartars were blown up, I'm afraid my mother won't know it."

After the family finished speaking, it immediately caused a burst of laughter.

"Haha, too, don't laugh, hurry up and line up, guard this gap, guard against the Tartar counterattack, and wait for our Ming army to arrive."

Man Gui also laughed loudly for a while, and then led his family to form a formation, preparing for the Tartars to fight back.