The camp of the thief army.

"Hahahaha, the old-fashioned artillery of the Ming Military Region also wants to compare with Ben Hou's red-coated cannon, and give the order to Ben Hou to concentrate firepower to bombard the cannon on the Jinan city wall." Liu Zongmin laughed, realizing that the garrison cannon on the city wall would threaten the soldiers to attack the city, and planned to take advantage of the longer range advantage of the red-coated cannon to defeat the garrison cannon of Jinan City first.

The red-coated cannon is really a sharp siege weapon, although the accuracy is not high, but under the bombardment of nearly an hour, the six city-guarding cannons on the Jinan city wall were still destroyed, only two were left, and the red-coated cannon was also fired continuously for nearly an hour, the barrel was hot, and it needed to be cooled before it could be fired again.

"Order, push all the general's artillery forward, and the army will begin to attack the city!" Twenty old-fashioned general cannons all advanced forward to assist the army in attacking the city.

The reason why the red-coated cannon is a siege weapon is because of its long range and great power, in addition to bombarding the city wall and hitting the opponent's morale, the most important thing is that it can knock out the opponent's siege cannon first, so that the opponent has no power to fight back against the cannon on their side.

As the twenty old-fashioned generals opened fire at the same time, bombarding the Ming army on the city wall, countless thief soldiers carried ladders and other siege equipment and rushed towards the Jinan city wall.

"Fire!" The only two old general's cannons on the walls of Jinan had finally been able to return fire, but their numbers were too small to pose an effective threat to the besieging bandits.

Liu Zongmin's army was like a black pressed ant, pressing towards the Jinan city wall in pieces, dozens of cloud ladders were erected on the city wall, a famous thief soldier climbed up along the cloud ladder, and hundreds of thieves escorted a siege vehicle to attack the city gate.

"Boom, boom!" The twenty general cannons of the thief army continued to fire, and from time to time one or two shells fell on the thief army's own crowd, but most of them still fell into the crowd of Ming troops on the city wall, bringing up bursts of blood mist and stumps and broken arms.

Originally, when the red-coated artillery bombarded, because the thief army did not attack the city, many Ming soldiers on the city wall went down to the city to hide, but at this moment the thief army attacked the city, and all the Ming soldiers could only resist the thief army on the city wall under artillery fire, and faced the artillery bombardment of the thief army for a while, and suffered heavy casualties.

"Bang! Boom! "With the destruction of the last garrison cannon on the city wall, in the face of the cannons of Liu Zongmin's army, the garrison cannon on this city gate completely lost the ability to counterattack.

"Boom!" At this time, three iron balls weighing more than ten pounds bombarded the city wall from a greater distance, breaking many bricks and stones.

"Oh no, the red-coated cannons of the thief army have also joined in." Many Ming soldiers turned pale.

After a period of cooling, Liu Zongmin's three red-coated cannons were finally able to fire again, and although it was only three, its deterrent power was no worse than that of the twenty generals.

"Overseer, our fortified cannons have all been destroyed, and we are powerless to fight back against the cannons of the thief army!" A safe place in the city, where Shi Kefa and Lu Yanshou watched the battle from afar.

"Supervisor, or immediately order the soldiers to disassemble and transport some cannons from the other city gates to replenish here." Lu Yanshou suggested.

"It's useless, the cannon itself is extremely heavy, and it's okay to transport it down the tower after dismantling, but it is extremely difficult to transport it, and it will be difficult to do it for a while, besides, if the cannons of other city gates are dismantled, the thief army can attack at another city gate, but it is impossible for us to transport the cannons back and forth to the various city towers." Shi Kefa shook his head and said.

"That's good!" Lu Yanshou said anxiously.

"Newspaper"

At this time, a herald suddenly rushed over to report it.

"Report to the overseer, there is a thief army attacking the city wall."

Shi Kefa stood up abruptly and shouted: "Follow this superintendent to the city wall to supervise the battle, and defeat the thief army!" ”

"Think twice, the thief army is sharp, and the city wall is dangerous." Lu Yanshou grabbed Shi Kefa Dao.

"As the governor of Shandong, this governor is trusted by the emperor to guard Shandong, and he must not tolerate Jinan's loss! With this superintendent supervising the battle, the morale of the soldiers must be strong, and the thief army wants to break through Jinan City, which is simply wishful thinking! Shi Kefa suddenly shook off Lu Yanshou's hand, and led a few of his own soldiers to brave the artillery fire to climb the city wall to supervise the battle.

Lu Yanshou gritted his teeth and shouted at a few stunned generals next to him: "What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you follow Lao Tzu to follow the superintendent to the city tower to supervise the battle, and defeat the thief army!" ”

Shi Kefa took a group of generals to the city tower to supervise the battle, and all the Ming soldiers were really demoralized, and soon killed the thieves who rushed to the city wall.

The battle intensified and continued until dark, with heavy casualties on both sides.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Liu Zongmin had a gloomy face, originally thought that he would be able to capture Jinan City today, but he failed to do so, and he was beaten down several times on the city wall, and his soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the siege equipment such as the siege ladder was also burned by the Ming defenders.

"Master Hou, inquire clearly, the general of the defenders of Jinan City is named Shi Kefa, the new governor of Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, and the chief military officer, and he also served as the secretary of the military department in Nanjing City, and he is an old minister of the Ming Dynasty!"

From the beginning of the stubborn resistance of the defenders, Liu Zongmin wanted to know who the defender general of Jinan City was, so he sent someone to inquire, but he didn't expect it to be such a big man.

"Scofa! When the marquis breaks through Jinan City, he will take your head to drink wine. Liu Zongmin gritted his teeth and said.

Today, more than half of the siege army are his direct subordinates, who have followed him to fight in the south and north for many years, and he can't imagine that he will lose so much under the city of Jinan in just one day, which really makes him feel distressed.

"Order the rear, and transport all the old-fashioned general's cannons that have been dismantled from the city walls of Dezhou and other places to this Hou Ye here." Dezhou City surrendered without a fight, a total of twelve cannons defending the city on the four city gates were all intact, before the surprise attack on Jinan City, Liu Zongmin ordered the generals who stayed in Dezhou to remove all the cannons on the city wall, Dezhou is not far from Jinan City, and the general cannon is not as heavy as the red-coated cannon, and it will definitely be transported to Jinan City in two days.

Liu Zongmin ordered the army to rest and wait for the twelve general cannons from Dezhou City to arrive.

Two days later, together with the 12 general cannons transported from Dezhou City, Liu Zongmin collected 32 general cannons and 3 red-coated cannons to bombard the Jinan city wall.

"Boom!" Liu Zongmin's thirty-five cannons fired at the same time, more than 30 cannonballs pierced the air and hit the Jinan city wall almost at the same time, the masonry and stone debris, the entire city wall shook violently, more than ten Ming soldiers on the city wall were hit by the cannonballs, and the whole body was torn apart by the powerful force, this place was like a rain of blood, blood, broken meat, stumps and broken arms were lifted into the sky and fell.

"Ahh

"The cannons of the thieves are too fierce, quickly withdraw from the city wall to hide." The Ming soldiers on the city wall were too dense, and a general who was supervising the battle in the city tower called on the redundant soldiers to temporarily escape from the city wall first, and wait for the thief soldiers to really attack the city.

Liu Zongmin spared no effort to bombard a section of the city wall, and after a full hour of fierce bombardment, just when the bodies of all the cannons were red and hot and ready to stop the bombardment, a city wall collapsed more than a zhang wide.

"The walls are falling!"

"Hahahaha! Rush, kill in! ”

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