"Most of the Franc machines and invincible generals in the mainland are about seven feet long for each cannon, and the manufacturing process is not informal, but it is mainly strong. According to Mr. Mao Yuanyi's "Martial Arts Chronicles", the Franc machine in the mainland 'can be tested in the teaching field, and the effective range of the Franc machine we manufacture ourselves is only more than 500 meters! ”

Mai Tiansheng is very familiar with the situation in his professional field, and he is the first to say it.

"Moreover, after the three rounds are fired, they must be cooled down for a moment to prevent the guns from overheating, first, the range is not far, and second, there is a fear of accidents such as explosions."

"Old Mai!" Liang Kuan on the side opened his mouth with a grin.

"I just listened to your method, and inspired by you, I also have a solution, which is to make a little improvement on your method."

Liang Kuan's method is actually simpler.

Before the personnel who filled the Zhuang River set out, they first made a large group of men and horses to start attacking, or sent a small force to move outside the range of the Franc machine on the fence to lure the timid and panicked gunners in the Jiqing Siege to open fire, "Either we shout a few times, or we spend a little more money, fire a few guns, and lure them to open fire!" ”

"Even if you can't let their artillery explode, it's good to consume more of their gunpowder and guns!"

Mai Tiansheng punched Liang Kuan's chest hard, "Liang Kuan! You decrepit boy! It's up to you to think of such a lack of virtue and a smoking idea! ”

"Whether there is a lack of morality or not, it is a good way to make the opponent deflated!"

Chen Tianhua made the final decision for everyone's discussion.

"1. When the battalions go back, they will immediately build the fortifications and artillery positions of the camps. The fortifications must be completed before dark. 2. Dispatch troops to carry out activities around Jiqing Wai and lure the artillery fire on the fence to open fire! First, you can find out the strength of the artillery on the Jiqing Wai, and second, as you said, it's good to let them consume more gunpowder! ”

This tactic was known a few months later by Mao Yuanyi, who was far away in Zhangpu, Fujian, because of the mutiny of the Liaodong Army, and was caught by the opponents of the Korean and Chinese parties, Mao Yuanyi, who was demoted to serve as a garrison here under the pretext of being relegated, relied on the contents of the cup every day to entertain and relieve his mood.

"Unexpectedly, this group of Nanban. I also learned the tricks of building slaves in the north! Tempt me with empty guns and false cannons. After the ammunition of our army is fired, we will either assault with iron cavalry or bombard our army with guns! ”

Such tactics were in Liaodong and in the process of several times of Jiannu entering the customs and plundering. All of them were used in the process of confrontation between the two armies. It's very cliché, though. But it has been tried and tested. Whenever two armies are facing the enemy. Either send rangers to fire arrows to lure the enemy, or order the Han army to step forward and fire firearms to lure the Ming army into fire. After the Ming army fired, it took a long time for the guns to cool down and reload the ammunition, during which time the Jiannu would either cast guns or charge the battle with iron horses.

Known as the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called Liaodong Iron Cavalry, their psychological endurance and battlefield discipline are unbearable in the face of such tactics, and how can a clan encircled the village? Thinking of this, Mao Yuanyi felt at ease, and picked up a full glass of wine, "Good wine!" ”

On this night, the people of Jiqingwei spent a sleepless night in tension and fear.

From time to time, outside the fence wall, some people either shouted and threatened, or opened fire from east to west. At first, people fired back, but after a few false alarms, people's psychological and mental state became exhausted.

Good! Sporadic harassment, you ignore me! Then, the whistle-scale shouting sortie began.

In addition to supervising the troops who led the people to build barracks and artillery positions there, the battalions stationed outside Jiqingwei also assigned a sentry in each battalion to take turns to take on the task of harassing Jiqingwei on all sides.

Every half an hour or so, either east, west, or north, the sound of troops marching in, the sound of swords and guns, or whispering, or the sound of the moat and water, in short, is terrifying.

The other five enclosures, the southern encirclement and the northern enclosure, and the new enclosure, were attacked in another form.

"The rent is reduced to twenty or five, and the profit is only one and a half cents!"

"The accounts of the ancestral hall must be made public!"

"The public property income of the ancestral hall is shared by the whole family!"

"The officials and gentry pay the grain as an errand!"

"The apportionment of taxes should be based on property!"

Similar slogans, accompanied by the beating of gongs and drums, were sent far away in the deep night.

In the bright lights, Chen Tianhua looked at the camp that had begun to take shape, and nodded with satisfaction. "After the camp is built, let the brothers sleep for two hours, and then eat! After the meal, the battalions are dispatched! ”

When the sky broke at dawn, several fast horses rushed over from the direction of Xin'an County in a hurry. The rider on the horse looked at the black oppressive camp, and the muscles on his face twitched twice involuntarily in the dense artillery positions around Jiqingwei.

"This group of dog thieves, they are really fast!"

"Seventh Master, what should we do? Do you still enter the fence? ”

"Bastard!" Deng Qi waved the whip in his hand and struck the top of the bamboo helmet on the man's head, "Of course you have to go in, if you have eggs, you will rush in with Lao Tzu from the gap outside the fence and report to the master!" ”

Outside the enclosure, the lights are bright, like the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Near some passages, fires were lit with firewood to light the way for passers-by.

In the midst of the sparks, several of Deng Qi's fast horses rushed along the passage reserved for the battalions to attack the moat outside the enclosure.

"What! Four men rushed into the encirclement on horseback ?! ”

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Chen Tianhua got the report of the sentry officer on duty for the first time.

"Yes! These four people were supposed to be messengers who went everywhere to ask for help, and rushed to the edge of the fence by taking advantage of the gap between the two patrol detachments of our army, and the people on the fence immediately lowered the drawbridge and accepted them into the fence! ”

When four people go in, there will not be much change in the comparison of the strength of the enemy and us, and at most they will report the situation outside to the person in charge inside. Maybe. The bad news will affect their morale even more!

"What? Wu Wenming accepted our silver, but refused to come to mediate? Won't even go out of town? ”

In the enclosure, the old lady Deng Yuanxun was ruthlessly snatched away like the last bit of spirit, and sat on the chair all of a sudden, unable to say a word for a long time.

"Yes! The thief received 20,000 silver from us, but he only said that the surrounding county town is not stable now, and he was afraid that the county town would be lost, so he did not dare to leave lightly, but wrote a letter and asked his grandson to bring it back to the leader of the Nanzhong army. Let us either hand it over to the leaders of the South Chinese Army to negotiate peace with them, or we will avoid the front for the time being. Go to the county seat. ”

"! We're all in the family. How can you break out of the encirclement of all armies?! ”

"It seems that only dead horses are live horse doctors!"

Old lady Deng glanced at the letter on the table, and he pinned his last hope on the face of the magistrate.

"Go! Take my robe! In addition, send someone to prepare an incense case. Three animals. ”

Stroking the man's robe. Old lady Deng looked resolute. "Xiao Qi, remember, this dress. It is the shroud after the death of Ah Gong! ”

"If there is a mistake, you have to do everything possible to break out, keep a little blood of my Deng family, don't think about revenge, find a stable place to live quietly, it's ......"

Deng Qi was already full of tears, hugged Deng Yuanxun's legs and cried: "Ah Gong......"

"Get out of the way! Boneless thing! Lao Tzu is not dead yet! Deng Yuanxun put the hat on top of his white hair, and between his eyebrows was the overlord of the dominant side.

"Go! Gather the whole encirclement, young and old, go to the wall to defend, and tell them, life and death are just today! ”

Outside the enclosure, the South Central Army and the North Route Army had already completed the formation, and the brigade was assembled behind the artillery position. The battalion flags of each battalion became the boundary between the battalion and the other battalions, and the battalion flags and the flags of the battalion officers fluttered at both ends of the battalion phalanx. The trumpeters of each battalion communicate with each other in the battalion and relay information. From time to time, cavalry galloped through the passage between the battalions.

In front of the battalion phalanx, more than ten paces away from the artillery position, a column of dozens of ammunition trucks lined up in a line, providing ammunition supplies for more than 100 artillery pieces of various colors in front of them.

And in the battalion, another big killer weapon of the Nanzhong Army, the rocket, was very aggrieved and hid behind the battalion, waiting for him to go into battle.

Today, Chen Tianhua does not plan to use this kind of weapon, and there are many things in Jiqingwei that he urgently needs. Those things were more important than food, gold, silver, cloth, knives, guns, and gunpowder. It must not be burned!

With the power of the end, Chen Tianhua's goal was achieved.

The old and young of the Deng family on the wall of the polder, seeing the momentum of thousands of people outside, and then looking at the people around them, their morale was even lower.

A white flag appears on the wall of the fence.

"Ladies and gentlemen! My Deng family is full of old and weak, and I am willing to pay money to the Nanzhong Army, and from then on, under the banner of the Nanzhong Army, I will respect a qiē order, but the general is the head of the horse! ”

It was Deng Yuanxun who spoke, and it was difficult for him, in his last years, he was still able to have such confidence and lung capacity, and shouted out his meaning clearly.

However, the artillery team, which was 200 paces outside the moat, received a military order from Mai Tiansheng, "Don't care about him!" Attention guns, fire! ”

A group of cannonballs swept low across the moat and went straight to the wall made of green bricks, stone strips, burnt ash and glutinous rice slurry, and the huge impact force sent the cannonballs into the wall, and the people on the wall felt the shock under their feet.

The Nanzhong military artillery replied to Old Lady Deng's suggestion.

"Shoot back!"

Deng Qi waved his sword and shouted and scolded.

The gunners on the fort hesitated, "Seventh Master, this cannon was harassed by the Nanzhong Army all night last night, and I don't know how many cannons were fired. ”

"Bastard! Who wants you to shoot at night! Don't fight during the day and fight at night?! I don't care if anything happens to him, the group of dog thieves in the South China Army has entered the fence, and no one is better! Fire! ”

Several gunners were scolded, so they had to carefully reload the gunpowder and shells, and just waved the fire rope to ignite the cannon, an earth-shattering loud bang sounded on the fort in the southeast corner of the enclosure.

Because the barrel was overheated, the big franc machine exploded!

The exploding Franc machine triggered the powder keg next to it, where did these gunners understand the norm of a safe distance between artillery and ammunition? Time. The waves of gunpowder from the explosion pushed the guns onto the nearby horses and walls, splashing blood flowers.

"Good! Well fried! ”

Seeing that his idea had come to fruition, Mak was so happy that he applauded.

"Raise the muzzle of the cannon by five degrees, face the position of the battlement, and give Lao Tzu a bang!"

At a range of less than two miles, it happened to be the optimal range for eight-pounder guns, twelve-pounder guns, and those big francs that were as powerful as ten-pounder guns.

The rain of bullets from the artillery was mixed with the broken bricks and stones that had been broken by the shells, and the people hiding behind the battlements were unable to lift their heads.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the artillery of the South Central Army focused on taking care of the two horse faces adjacent to the fort where the explosion had just occurred, and the raindrops of shells fell one after another, and the shells of the two eight-pounder guns fell on the gun position of the invincible general's bronze cannon placed on the horse surface. Instantly knock the barrel of the Invincible General's cannon into the air. At the same time, after a few jumps, the hot cannonball swept the powder keg on the side, and suddenly a small cloud rose above the horse's surface. Mixed with shells and human torn bodies.

The cannonballs flying everywhere are not so powerful, although the kinetic energy is not so powerful. But through the bodies of people encountered nearby. Let them be the same as stump and pulp, or fall on the ground crying and moaning, and they can still do it. And those scattered pieces of masonry and stone. It also caused huge casualties to people, and from time to time there were cries, moans, and wails from the rising smoke, mixed with thick blood reverberating on the wall.

In the blink of an eye, from the southeast corner of the fort to the west, two horse faces were destroyed by artillery fire, and after two rounds of artillery fire, there was no one who could stand up independently on the wall of this section of the wall.

Someone leaned diagonally on the battlements of the wall, and kept stuffing the pale blue intestines and other dark red and dark green internal organs into the stomach through the huge wound on the abdomen, but soon, those internal organs and intestines would slide out of the wound silently. He thrust it back again and again, and the great spasm of his body from the pain pushed out the intestines and internal organs silently, and in this back and forth, his pupils gradually widened.

The other person crawled the wall, from time to time with his left hand to pull away one body after another, and carefully searched for the place that was blocked by them, "My right hand, my right hand, without my right hand, how can I help the plow to plow the field?" His right wrist was still bleeding outward, and I don't know what slashed off his right hand.

Under the wall, several trumpeters raised their brass trumpets to the sky at an oblique angle of 45 degrees, and told the brothers behind them with a loud trumpet sound that they could fill in the trench!

At the sound of the trumpet, a thousand recruits, shouting like arrows, rushed out of the passage between the battalions, carrying straw bags full of dirt on their shoulders, and under the cover of four hundred firecracker brothers, they came straight to the moat.

There are all kinds of messy things floating on the surface of the moat, and people take advantage of the smoke that has not yet dissipated on the wall, and they run quickly by the river, throwing straw bags into the river, causing a splash on the surface of the river.

"Nanban wants to fill the river!"

Seeing the straw bags gradually emerging from the river from the smoke, Deng Qi couldn't help but wipe away the blood that was stuck in the corners of his eyes, "Brother of the fire, follow me!" ”

From the wall, there was a bang with the sound of fire, more than a dozen projectiles flew down from the holes in the battlements at the head of the city, and several recruits with straw bags on their shoulders fell to the ground.

"Quick! Drag it away! Send it to Lang Zhong in the back! The captain who led the team threw the straw bag on his shoulder into the river and shouted at several soldiers to drag his wounded comrades down for treatment. The team and progress of the river reclamation were slightly delayed due to the chaos.

"Good! Just hit it like that! ”

Seeing that his tactics had taken effect, Deng Qi couldn't help but shout proudly.

Another round of bullets flew down from the city, and several soldiers were knocked to the ground, and blood was gurgling out of their bodies and heads, and they could not see that they were alive.

"Ahh

When the two recruits saw such a tragic situation, the corpses of their comrades who were still talking and laughing with them fell to the ground in a blink of an eye, and they immediately panicked, threw the straw bag on their shoulders at random, turned around and fled backwards, not paying attention to where the straw bag was thrown and whether it tripped over anyone.

"Cowardice, chaos and nuisance, beheaded on the spot!"

After running a few steps, he ran head-on into the Guards Battalion team covering and supervising the battle behind, and was caught by Liang Kuan.

Several sword and shield soldiers rushed forward, pinned the two fleeing recruits to the ground, stripped off their armor, and said, "Kneel!" ”

Before the words fell, a sword and shield soldier violently swung the big knife in his hand and slashed forward, "Poof! The skull had been severed with a large knife, and the section of the neck seemed to shrink into the ribcage. Instantly, the huge pressure in his body spurted blood, and several people around him spilled it all over their heads.

"Look! Retreat from the formation, disrupt the formation, and that's how it ends! Not only is he dead, but his parents, wife, children, brothers and sisters will be discriminated against in the future! This is a deserter! ”

The two captains picked up the two heads with their spears and announced loudly to the people.

"If you are killed in battle, you have a pension, you are disabled, you have a place to pay for money and work to earn money to eat, and if you escape, it is also a capital crime, and it will affect your family, which way to die, you all choose for yourself!"

In the face of harsh, almost cruel military discipline, no one dared to retreat.

And the firecrackers also rushed forward one after another, firing at the positions where the projectiles were fired just now, and for a while, the city and the city were constantly firing!

"Let's go! Let's get it! ”

The two large Franc planes were dragged to the bank of the river by the gunners, who quickly loaded their guns and began firing shotguns at the city.

Under the cover of artillery and firearms, the filled river became wider and wider, and kept stretching to the other side of the river, and finally, a few straw bags were exposed on the opposite side of the moat!

"Shop the door panel!" (To be continued......)