Ma Xi heard Ma Cheng's question and hurriedly replied: "The last general has arranged three teams of people to patrol outside, if there is anything, they will use fireworks to warn, and at the same time, the guys from Xiaolingwei are in Tianbao Mountain, five miles away, and they will also warn if there is something!" ”

After Ma Xi finished speaking, he pointed to a light in the distance, Ma Cheng looked at the light in the Purple Mountain, and said uneasily: "Send a message to that Mei Chun of Xiaolingwei, if there is anything, you must report it in time!" ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he took his own soldiers down to the city, and as for the lack of soldiers that Ma Xi said, it was simply a deaf ear. Anyway, there's nothing to do here in Taipingmen, why do you leave so many soldiers for?

After leaving Taipingmen, Ma Cheng went to Zhengyangmen and Tongjimen, and the situation here is even better than that of Jubaomen, after all, Zhang Guozhu is an old military household, and everything is arranged in an orderly manner, so that Ma Cheng can't find fault.

Leaving from Tongji Gate, Ma Cheng returned to his command post and responded to the Tianfu Ya. After this day's battle, Ma Cheng was finally able to take a good rest.

The next day, Ma Cheng got up early, the Qing army must attack the city today, Ma Cheng didn't dare to be sloppy.

But Ma Cheng thought very well, and when he came to Jubaomen City, he found that the Qing army on the opposite side did not move at all, and he made a feint yesterday, and he had no intention of fighting at all today.

Ma Cheng looked at it with clairvoyance, except for some people on Yuhuatai Mountain who were busy, the entire Qing army camp was very quiet. Seeing that the Qing army did not attack the city, Ma Cheng relieved himself, and after ordering Ma Bao to do a good job of vigilance, he returned to the command post in the city with his own soldiers.

On the third day, it was still like this, and the Qing army did not make any moves. But the fourth day was different, except for the Qing army camp three miles away, the Qing army brigade came five miles away.

Ma Cheng used clairvoyance to see a white flag in the middle of the Qing army brigade, Ma Cheng didn't know what it was, and only after listening to Ma Bao's introduction did he know that it was called Daxu, which was a kind of military flag, and the appearance of this kind of military flag represented the arrival of the commander.

Hearing that Duoduo was coming, Ma Cheng hurriedly watched with clairvoyance, but because the distance was too far, he couldn't see who was under Da Xu, and could only see a group of soldiers in white armor standing there.

Duoduo is the owner of the white flag, and his personal soldiers are naturally wearing white armor, so it seems that Duoduo is really here.

With the appearance of Duoduo, several knights appeared in the former military camp of the Qing army, presumably the general of the Qing army, who went to report the battle situation to Duoduo. Seeing this scene, Ma Cheng secretly said that he was unlucky, and the heavy artillery he developed had not progressed, if there was a long-range heavy artillery at this time, and Duoduo would be covered by artillery fire, then the siege of Nanjing would be solved immediately.

Although Ma Cheng showed that he was not afraid of the Qing army on the surface, he was actually very afraid of Duoduo in his heart. After all, these ten kings were famous in later generations, and they were much stronger than Dorgon in terms of combat power alone.

At the same time that Ma Cheng cursed Duoduo for not dying well, Duoduo, the main general of the Qing army, was listening to Liu Liangzuo's siege report.

Liu Liangzuo, as a general, was originally cautious, and he lost a battle a few days ago, for fear that the ten kings would be unhappy and kill him. However, Duoduo was not dissatisfied after listening to Liu Liangzuo, but asked Kong Youde: "King Gongshun, how are you preparing over there?" ”

Kong Youde hurriedly bowed down and said: "Back to the master, the red-clothed cannon has been prepared, just wait for the master to arrive, and then pick a good day and an auspicious day to test the cannon!" (The Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty have different statements about heavy artillery, the Ming Dynasty is called the Hongyi Cannon, and the Manchu Dynasty is called the Red Cannon, as for what reason, everyone Baidu will check it!) ）

Duoduo said with a smile after hearing Kong Youde's words: "You Han people like to make these useless, find any good day and auspicious day, try the cannon now, and attack the city as soon as you succeed!" ”

After Duoduo finished speaking, he said to Liu Liangzuo and Li Benshen: "The two general soldiers, the two will attack the city in a while, and the king will not hold you accountable for the defeat a few days ago, but don't blame the king for the defeat this time!" ”

Liu Liangzuo and Li Benshen heard Duoduo say this, and broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to promise that they would personally lead the team to attack the city. Good Mood Literature Network

Kong Youde got Duoduo's order and came to the Yuhuatai Fort, where twenty 5,000-pound red-coated cannons and 30,000-pound red-coated cannons were lined up, and the gunpowder shells behind them were all over the ground.

Kong Youde arrived here and selected five cannons of the best quality, and then ordered the gunners to fire at the walls of Jubaomen. The Manchu cannon firing procedure was obviously more cumbersome than Ma Cheng's, and it took more than ten minutes of preparation before the first shell was fired.

The 5,000-kilogram cannon charge was three pounds and four taels, and the test firing of these five guns was really earth-shattering, and the cannonballs weighing 15 kilograms were shot out at the Jubaomen city wall two miles away.

Ma Cheng was watching the situation of the Qing army on the city gate at this time, and knowing that the Qing army's cannon suddenly sounded, Ma Cheng hurriedly squatted down in fright.

Although the Qing army's artillery was quite loud, because of the backward gunpowder formula, the power was not much stronger than Ma Cheng's new artillery. Two of the five shells hit the city wall, knocking out several bricks, and one hit the watchtower of Jubaomen, where several sentries fell from the watchtower and fell half dead. The remaining two shells entered the city, hitting two houses, but there was no damage.

There was no loss in the city, but Ma Cheng was scared enough, and the two shells that hit the city wall, one of which was only ten meters away from Ma Cheng, could hit the battlement in front of Ma Cheng if it was a little higher. You must know that this kind of heavy artillery has a great potential energy, even if it is broken stones, it is comparable to a musket projectile. So when Ma Cheng saw that the landing point was so close to him, he was frightened and sweated.

Just when Ma Cheng was in shock, the artillery on the side of the Ming army began to fire back, Ma Bao had already ordered the gunner to prepare, the amount of gunpowder and the angle of fire had been adjusted, and under Ma Bao's order, one hundred and ten new artillery pieces at the head of Jubaomen City sounded.

Kong Youde on the heavy artillery position of the Qing army saw three out of five, one of which also hit the watchtower on the city gate, although I don't know whether there are any senior generals of the Ming army in the watchtower, but the watchtower was destroyed to the morale of the Ming army.

Kong Youde smiled at those gunners: "Children, you fought well, now that the Ten Kings have an order, they will immediately start bombarding the city wall, and we will be the first to do it after entering the city!" ”

The Manchu Han army flag gunners heard Kong Youde say this, and they were about to pat their ass, when they heard a loud noise on the city wall, and the entire Jubaomen city wall was six miles long from east to west, emitting hundreds of fires, and a burst of smoke rose.

Kong Youde was shocked to see so many artillery pieces of the Ming army, and was about to call the Qing gunners to dodge, but it was too late, and the first wave of Ming artillery shells had already arrived in front of him.

The first shell hit Kong Youde, who was standing on a high place, the king of Sanshun, who had made countless military exploits for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and was smashed to pieces by a ten-pound buckshot without even letting out a scream. Immediately after that, hundreds of shells fell on the artillery positions of the Qing army, and a large number of Qing gunners without bunker protection died under the artillery of the Ming army.

Because the new artillery of the Ming army is loaded as a whole with ammunition packs, the reloading speed is very fast, and it can shoot two rounds per minute. Some of the shells that came this time were not solid shells, but new shells of the Ming army, that is, flowering shells.

Flowering shells have been equipped with troops in the early Ming Dynasty, but this old-fashioned flowering bomb cannot control the ignition time, and when it explodes is completely at the mercy of heaven, so except for the necessary moment, the Ming army will not use flowering shells. According to the investigation of later archaeologists, Nurhachi, who was injured outside Ningyuan City, was the result of the Ming army's flowering and bullet work.

This time, the Ming army's flowering shell was improved by Ma Cheng, in fact, the fuse on the original shell was replaced with a safer wooden fuse, which was made of hollow cork, and there was a hole in it to fill with gunpowder. After being placed in the chamber of the cannon, it is ignited by gunpowder, and when the gunpowder in the fuse is burned out, the gunpowder in the cannonball is ignited, and then the enemy is wounded with fragments.

This new type of flowering bomb is much safer than the original old flowering bomb, and it will not be exploded, but the accuracy is still not guaranteed, after all, this kind of flowering bullet cannot accurately control the time of ignition. In the second wave of 110 shells, 30 of them were flowering shells, and these flowering shells had ten explosions, including two volleys, which caused great damage to the gunners who had no protection for the Qing army.

Regardless of flowering shells and solid bullets, with the blessing of new gunpowder, the power is far stronger than the old red-coated cannon of the Qing army. The Qing gunners reacted and dodged only after the third wave of shells landed. However, in order to maintain the vision of the artillery, the Qing army cut down all the woods in front of Yuhuatai, so that it was natural to have an unobstructed view, but the Ming army also had a clear view of the Qing army's artillery positions.

At the same time, today's climatic conditions are good, the sky is cloudless, and you can see Yuhuatai without clairvoyance standing on the wall of Jubaomen, so that the Ming gunners are even more unscrupulous, and they shoot 20 waves of shells in a row in ten minutes. Waiting for the Ming artillery to stop, Ma Cheng showed one eye from behind the battlement, looking at the rain flower platform shrouded in smoke.

At this time, Yuhuatai has completely changed into a different appearance, the red-clothed cannons of the Qing army are twisted and crooked on the ground, and many Qing gunners wearing red clothes died on the spot. Ma Cheng saw some soldiers in red clothes scattering and fled, and knew that the heavy artillery unit of the Qing army was completely finished.

Artillery is a technical branch of the army, and the most important thing in an artillery unit is those skilled gunners. Back then, even if Huang Taiji captured a lot of artillery pieces of the Ming army, because of the lack of skilled gunners, he could only look at these powerful artifacts and sigh. This situation lasted until after the Dengzhou Incident, when Sun Huayuan's artillery unit that spent several years of hard work training became the elite unit of Huang Taiji because of a chicken. Since then, the Qing army has a way to deal with the castles all over Liaodong, spending tens of millions of silver in the Ming Dynasty, and dozens of castles all over the Liaodong corridor were uprooted by the Manchu artillery troops one by one.