"Report to the Metropolitan Governor, the various artillery battalions are ready to open fire at any time."

Tang Huai, the commander of the artillery battalion of the Blue Dragon Legion, ran quickly to Lu Xiangsheng, gave a military salute, and reported.

On the west bank of the moat outside the west gate of Gushan Fort, gun trucks were neatly arranged, and the dark muzzles of the guns pointed to Gushan Fort City.

After completely capturing the large camp outside the city of Tartar, Lu Xiangsheng did not stop for a moment, while ordering a brigade of crossbowmen to clean up the huge military camp, screen and interrogate prisoners, and immediately began to prepare to cross the river to attack the city.

And the first to start the action were the officers and men of Tang Huai's artillery brigade.

After a lot of hard work, the huge artillery position was finally settled.

Tang Huai, who was anxious, was full of blood when he thought that he was about to fight head-on with the Tartar army.

Therefore, as soon as the soldiers had set up the artillery positions, he couldn't wait to come and report.

"Pass my orders! After a quarter of an hour, immediately fire! ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded with satisfaction, and ordered Tang Huai, "In the first wave of attacks, you must blow up the city gate!" ”

"At the same time, in the area of each tower on the west city wall, three rounds of covering bombardment will be carried out at the same time!"

Lu Xiangsheng became more and more satisfied with the speed and efficiency of the artillery brigade of the Blue Dragon Legion.

Among them, Tang Huai, the brigade commander of this artillery brigade, is indispensable for his hard work, so he is very important to Tang Huai now.

This Tang Huai was born as a miner.

Spare him alone, and since the first round of the sweep of the Ming New Army, he has been rescued.

Later, he successfully passed the recruit test and became a recruit, and he quickly stood out as an artilleryman.

And his performance got better and better, and finally won from the fierce competition and became the brigade commander of the artillery brigade of the Blue Dragon Legion.

Lu Xiangsheng was now personally riding a divine white horse, at the forefront of the two cavalry brigades, ready to charge, intercept and encircle those Tartar cavalry.

This divine horse white horse was given to him by Cao Bianjiao, the commander of the Xuanwu Legion, more than three months ago.

At that time, Cao Bianjiao picked the Tartar warrior Wa Xing'a, and by the way, he got Wa Xing'a's best war horse, but he already had a big dark horse that was also a top war horse.

He knew that Lu Xiangsheng was a literati and liked white horses, so he gave this rare and superb war horse to Lu Xiangsheng.

"Someone! Send a message to Huang Weiguo, the brigade commander of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, asking him to set off with the 3rd Cavalry Brigade immediately after two quarters of an hour, from the direction of the East Gate, flanking the Tartars, and blocking the East Gate and the South Gate by the way! ”

"The rest of the departments, after the city is broken, immediately take the brigade as a unit and launch a full-army charge!"

For the huge Gushan Fort in front of him, Lu Xiangsheng, who is now very aware of the strong offensive power of the artillery brigade, did not take it seriously at all.

In this battle, the victory is decided.

The only thing that needs to be considered is how much the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Legion can achieve.

The current Tartar soldiers, although they are far behind the new army of the Ming Dynasty in terms of armament, they have one strong point, which is the vast majority of the soldiers of the Ming Empire, and they cannot be compared in any way.

That's riding.

These Tartars, who grew up on horseback, like all the tribes of Mongolia, are born cavalry, and even a teenager can play all kinds of tricks on horseback, not to mention these real soldiers who are one out of ten?

Then, as long as the Tartars run away with all their might, in the wilderness, under normal circumstances, they will not be able to chase them.

As time passed, on the edge of the moat outside the west city of Gushan Fort, the soldiers of each legion had all been prepared.

One by one, they lined up in a neat phalanx, with blazing battle intent in their eyes, and looked at the towering lonely mountain fort in front of them.

A quarter of an hour passed in a blink of an eye, and Tang Huai, the brigade commander of the artillery brigade, had a pair of thick eyebrows flashing with a thick killing intent in his eyes, and he waved his big hand vigorously forward: "Open the cannon!" ”

Now where he was, all the ninety cannons of the Blue Dragon Legion had been gathered, lined up in three rows in front and back, and it looked terrifying.

Yes, this is the three-stage firing pattern of the musket, which he imitated in order to maintain fire on the enemy and launch a real continuous bombardment.

For the Tartars, the strongest enemy they have encountered so far, no matter how hard they care, it is not an exaggeration.

Governor Lu Dadu has explained that if he can wipe out the Tartar army in this lonely mountain fort, he will kill them all, and there is no need to release any water.

The main reason is that everyone is disgusted and angry by the cannon fodder tactics of this blue flag tartar.

Therefore, at the pre-war meeting, the generals unanimously agreed to launch an unreserved decisive battle against the blue flag and the two yellow flags, and to pack up and educate them well.

Let these Tartars know that there are some things that cannot be done, and there is a price to pay for doing them.

You Tartars have no bottom line, so good, Lao Tzu will educate you and teach you barbarians, how to be a person, a real polite and civilized person.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Located in the front row of the artillery position, the first batch of 30 new Franco cannons suddenly burst out of the muzzle, and one by one the flowering shells rushed out of the muzzle, and in an instant, they had already fallen to the area of the west gate of Gushan Fort on the opposite bank.

Among them, ten flowering bombs, with lightning speed, brazenly bombarded the heavy city gate!

"Boom!" ……

There was a violent explosion, and the city gate and the gate tower were blown to pieces!

The soldiers of the Tartars did not know the horror of this new type of flowering bomb attacking the city.

They gathered a large number of soldiers in the area within a radius of dozens of zhang from this city gate, although most of them were soldiers of the Han army with blue flags, but they were also the targets of the Ming New Army.

At this time, the violent explosion suddenly emptied almost all the people and things in the area within a radius of 20 zhang of the west city gate!

The remaining twenty flowering bullets fell on the walls on both sides of the gate, and the main targets were the towers.

On these towers, there have been a lot of soldiers and generals of the Han army with blue flags, and one after another the flowering bombs exploded, and these towers were all blown up in the first time!

All of a sudden, this area of the West City Gate has truly become a hell on earth.

As the stumps and buildings flew all over the place, a mist of blood spread.

The blood-colored waves of qi filled this hundred-zhang square area, which was shocking.

And at this time, the first wave of bombardment has just ended, and the next round of bombing has begun to come!

In this second wave of shelling, some of the shells began to extend, and some of them continued to sweep in the area of the west gate.

In the current situation, the officers and men of various divisions and regiments are about to launch a charge, and the officers and men of those logistics engineering corps are using the cover of artillery fire to quickly start building several pontoon bridges to prepare for the charge of the army.

Therefore, it is necessary to ensure the absolute safety of the West City Gate area and within a radius of 100 zhang

Therefore, Tang Huai, the brigade commander of the artillery brigade, copied the three-stage firing pattern of the musket into the artillery brigade, in order to maintain continuous firepower, so as not to kill and injure the Tartar soldiers who were not afraid of death.

There is no way, because of the arrival of the great war, the Tartars have already destroyed the suspension bridge of the west city gate first.

If you want the army to cross the river quickly and start a big war, you must build several pontoon bridges as soon as possible to connect the two banks.

Otherwise, there will be no way to start a general attack.