"You who have suffered a thousand knives, hurry up to Lao Tzu, King Chuang has an order, if you can't blast the Qingbo Gate before noon, everyone will be beheaded!"

On a gentle slope more than a mile away from Qingbo Gate, more than a dozen general cannons were lined up. These guns consisted of two Hongyi cannons, three Furang cannons, and seven Tiger squat cannons.

Among these artillery, the Tiger Squat cannon has too close range, mainly relying on firing shotguns, and has little effect in such siege warfare, so today's protagonists are the three Furlong cannons and the two Hongyi cannons.

In particular, the two Hongyi cannons, which were introduced from the West more than 20 years ago, have the characteristics of long barrels, thick walls and large calibers, and the overall shape is gradually thickened from the muzzle to the tail of the gun, which conforms to the principle of high to low bore pressure when gunpowder burns, so the firing range can reach two kilometers.

These cannons were captured by Li Zicheng when he conquered the Huizhou Mansion, and when he first got these things, Li Zicheng was like a treasure, but then he made a difficulty, because the gunners who could control these guns escaped to death, and finally after a check, only three gunners who had no time to escape were found.

In order to make use of these artillery, Li Zicheng gave the two gunners a death order, and they must teach a group of qualified gunners within half a month, otherwise they will all be beheaded.

When they first received this order, these gunners were also confused and helpless, and if they wanted to train a qualified gunner on weekdays, they didn't have to think about it for one or even two years, not to mention anything else, just adjusting the angle of fire, changing the range with the amount of gunpowder, and then calculating the trajectory according to the parabola, it was not something that ordinary people could learn.

But the problem is that our King Li Chuang is just a rough man from a post man's background, and he can barely recognize two or three baskets of characters, but if you want to tell him these things, it is purely playing the piano to the cow.

Under the threat of death, the gunners had no choice but to catch the ducks on the shelves. After half a month of assault training, the gunners assigned to them had at least learned such chores as moving the guns and cleaning the chambers.

The power of the artillery is certainly great, but its shortcomings are also obvious, that is, it is too heavy, the weight of one or two thousand kilograms makes it very difficult to move or turn, in order to get it from Huizhou to Hangzhou, the Liukou can be said to have tried their best, until yesterday to transport these more than ten guns to Hangzhou.

After learning of the arrival of the artillery, Li Zicheng couldn't wait to order the artillery to attack the city.

Now the problem comes, although the Liukou has two Hongyi cannons and three Furlong cannons in his hands to bombard the city wall, there are only three gunners who can really handle the cannons, so the three gunners also began to be miserable, and the three of them jumped up and down in the middle of the five cannons, checking the gun chamber, adjusting the gun angle, measuring the distance, etc., and were busy sweating profusely.

A rogue wearing leather armor and a meaty face shouted to several gunners: "Are you all right, King Chuang said, if you can't knock down this Qingbo Gate today, King Chuang will cut off the heads of several of you!" ”

A busy and sweaty gunner looked away from behind the chamber of the Hongyi cannon, nodded and said, "Okay, okay, the artillery has been debugged and ready to fire!" ”

"Smack!" The flesh-faced rogue's whip struck the gunner's body, and the gunner's back clothes immediately cracked, and a red whip mark became red and swollen at a speed visible to the naked eye.

I saw Liukou shouting angrily: "Since it's okay, what are you still doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and fire!" ”

"Yes Yes ......"

This middle-aged gunner didn't dare to tell that this rogue was sent by Li Zicheng to supervise them, and he had the power of life and death over them, and he didn't dare to use his head to test the sharpness of the opponent's knife.

"Fire!"

With the order of the middle-aged gunner, several guns let out a roar of rage.

With the addition of Liukou's artillery to the battlefield, the defenders at the head of the city had a harder time, and Ma Sidi also ordered the artillery at the head of the city to suppress the Liukou's artillery, but was told that the range of the Liukou's Hongyi cannon was farther than that of his own Fran machine and Tiger Squat cannon, and there was no way for his side to suppress it.

Looking at Ma Sidi's frowning brows, a Qian general suggested: "My lord, why don't we send someone out of the city to blow up a few of the thieves' artillery, it's too embarrassing to let them fire like this." ”

Ma Sidi rolled his eyes and ignored this brain-dead suggestion.

"That's it, at best, the other party only has two Hongyi cannons, and the time to fire the cannons can't be too long, so it's just two flies chirping." After weighing the pros and cons, Ma Sidi decided to endure the anger for a while, and it was a big deal to be careful.

Ma Sidi's concern was right, on the back of a nearby hillside that they could not see, two thousand cavalry led by Li Laiheng himself were lying in ambush there, and if the Ming army dared to go out of the city to raid the artillery team, what awaited them was the net laid by the Liukou.

Time passed slowly, and the casualties on both sides gradually increased, especially the rogue as the besieging side, but even so, the rogue attack did not decrease at all.

Pan Ruzhen stood on the tower of the city gate, and beside him were a number of Zhejiang officials such as the inspection envoy, the political envoy, and the prefect of Hangzhou, as well as many wealthy gentry in Hangzhou, with more than 200 people.

That's right, these people were forcibly brought in by Pan Ruzhen, in someone's words, the soldiers are fighting bloodily at the moment, even if you can't help, it's always okay to cheer for the soldiers on the city wall.

The people standing at the gate of the city clearly saw that there were black crowds of people everywhere outside the city, some of them were rogue shield soldiers, but more of them were hungry soldiers with spears and wooden sticks, in addition to a red scarf wrapped around their heads, they were wearing a variety of clothes, the only thing that was the same was that they were all pinned and skeletal, and their faces were yellow and thin.

Not only that, but their flags were also very chaotic, many of them were sticks of cloth with a stick of wood on them, and they probably didn't recognize what they were.

These men shouted hoarsely as they charged, their faces distorted and frenzied, their eyes shining like beasts, and although they were knocked to the ground by arrows from the city or projectiles from tiger cannons on the way to the charge, the people around them still rushed forward frantically under the drive of the warlords.

The crowd at the gates could even hear the shouts of the rogues below.

"King Chuang said, rushing into Hangzhou Mansion for three days without sealing the knife, everyone can be fed and clothed!"

"Big guy rush, after rushing in, everyone will get rich!"

"Puff"

A gentleman who looked like a blessed man finally couldn't hold it anymore, and sat on the ground and cried.