These walls were only made of temporary trees, and although the bottom was fixed with sand and gravel, how could such a temporary fortification, which was built in just a few days, be able to withstand the bombardment of such a solid ball shell weighing almost five pounds.

The cannonball hit the wall, directly knocked out a big hole in the wall, and the sand and wood chips flew sideways, but the shell still did not stop the pace, but continued to roll forward, directly hitting several Ming soldiers who were just behind the wall!

The Ming soldiers who withstood the impact of the shells, a few of them died on the spot, but there was also a broken leg, and this broken leg was almost completely twisted and unformed, which was no longer as simple as a fracture, but completely shattered.

The soldier with his broken leg was also driven to fly several meters before he fell to the ground, but before he could fall to the ground, he was already letting out a terrible scream!

This scream sounded like an air defense siren in later generations, sounding in the sky above the Ming army camp, warning other Ming soldiers: The thieves have fired, run!

Sure enough, a few seconds later, there was another loud bang on the position of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side, and it was another shelling!

And the loud bang continued to sound after a few seconds, and with the continuous rumbling loud sound, white smoke rose from the artillery position of the Tang Army, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke instantly filled the entire artillery position.

And with the continuous shelling, one after another shells were projected into the camp of the Ming army, and these shells were directly towards the wall of the Ming army.

Part of the walled wall with bowl mouth cannon emplacements is the focus of the shelling direction!

A section of the walled wall on the east side of the city, which is no more than 10 meters wide, was subjected to concentrated shelling by three artillery pieces of the Second Artillery Battalion, because the Ming army here arranged several relatively large-caliber artillery, including two or three hundred pounds of artillery.

Just a few minutes later, this section of the walled wall has been destroyed and unformed, the artillery arranged here has also fallen down, and there are still more than a dozen Ming artillerymen lying on the ground, and the few Ming soldiers who are not dead are letting out a howl of pain.

These howls made the Ming soldiers run around even more to avoid the shelling!

However, there are not many Ming soldiers who can dodge in time, and they are still qualified to dodge, many soldiers are subconsciously running around, and some hide themselves behind the wall, and the Ming soldiers standing on the wall are lying down and shrinking, but hiding behind this wooden wall to avoid shelling, in fact, there is no protective effect at all, on the contrary, the possibility of injury is greater.

Because if it is in an open area, as long as it is not unlucky to be directly hit by a shell, the chance of death or injury is not very large, but if it is close to the wall, then there is a great possibility of being hit by wood fragments and gravel that are knocked by the shell.

In the face of the shelling of solid shells, either hide behind a solid bunker or simply stand in an open area away from the crowd!

In this kind of offensive warfare, the first goal of the heavy artillery artillery is the artillery and the wall, which will cause great obstacles to their own attack, so they will clear the enemy's artillery and wall and other obstacles as soon as possible, followed by the enemy's living force.

In order to kill and injure the enemy's vital forces, they often target the dense crowd and carry out artillery bombardment, so as to cause the maximum enemy casualties.

The artillerymen are not going to shell scattered enemy soldiers, that's a waste of shells!

However, in the East Asian theater of this era, there were still not many soldiers who knew how to effectively dodge shells, and many times they could not dodge, especially when they were arrayed.

Otherwise, how can you see that when the modern army is fighting, the infantry are lined up in a row to resist the enemy's artillery bombardment, because if you want to fight, you must maintain a formation, if you scatter the formation in order to avoid the shelling, then it means that this army has not fought with the enemy, and it has already broken on its own.

In modern troop operations, in addition to killing and injuring enemy troops, the role of artillery is actually a very important role in dispersing the enemy's dense formation.

Once the enemy unit is unable to withstand the shelling, and then the morale is low and chaos, then the unit will basically no longer be able to play an important role in the future.

Therefore, at this time, although the Ming army camp was still under continuous artillery bombardment from the Tang Army, most of its troops were always in a tight formation, ready to meet the attack of the Tang Army infantry at any time!

Why? Because when the First Artillery Team and the Second Artillery Team of the Second Artillery Battalion of the Datang Army continued to carry out artillery bombardment, the infantry units of the Datang Army were not idle, and at this time, the dense phalanx of infantry had continued to advance to the direction of about two hundred meters away from the Ming Army camp!

At this time, the battalion artillery teams under the jurisdiction of the two infantry regiments and the third artillery team under the jurisdiction of the second artillery battalion continued to move forward, and they would advance to a distance of about 150 meters from the Ming army camp, set up artillery and launch a scattered artillery bombardment of the Ming army, and cooperate with the heavy artillery in the rear to launch an artillery bombardment of the Ming army's camp.

The infantry phalanx stopped temporarily, because this distance was already a relatively dangerous distance, and if they got closer, they would be shelled by the Ming army's shotguns and projectile attacks from archers, so they stopped at a distance of two hundred meters!

The soldiers of each unit began to form once more and prepare for the final attack!

The officers were riding on horses one by one, observing the situation of the Ming army camp in front, and at the same time always paying attention to the movement on the hill where Hao Bonian was located in the rear!

Once Hao Bonian conveyed the order to attack through the flag, then these infantry in front of him would launch a tidal attack as soon as possible.

However, at this time, Hao Bonian in the rear was not in a hurry to attack!

Because it's not him who is in a hurry, but those Ming troops!

These Ming troops on the opposite side continued to be shelled, and their wooden village battalion could not give them effective protection, now these Ming troops in front of their own heavy artillery, and in the field is no different, these Ming troops either take the initiative to rush out to fight to the death, or continue to withstand their own artillery bombardment!

This time, he brought with him all the shells in reserve, thousands of shells!

Thousands of large iron balls smashed down, even if a solid ball cannonball only kills one person, it can kill and injure thousands of enemy soldiers!

Of course, it is unlikely that all of these shells will be fired, because the Ming army will not be stupid to stand there all the time to withstand their own shelling, and over time they will definitely make corresponding changes, or take the initiative to attack, or collapse and escape, or retreat!

After raising the single-pass telescope in his hand again for observation, Hao Bonian smiled and said: "Lao Chen's artillery is not bad, it seems that he has worked hard to learn this artillery!" ”

At this time, Fang Dongquan on the side also said: "Yes, when Lao Chen wanted to say that he was going to learn this artillery, we didn't laugh at him a lot, but I thought that it had only been a few months, and this artillery shot just slipped away, and when the artillery battalion continued to be upgraded in the future, a major general was afraid that he would not be able to run!" ”

When Fang Dongquan spoke, he still showed an envious tone!

After so many months, he felt more and more that his prospects in his career were bleak!

Although he has continued to be promoted, from battalion commander to regiment commander, and then to the deputy brigade commander of the First Infantry Brigade, and his rank has also been promoted to colonel, he already knows that it is unlikely that he will be able to become a brigade commander of the main infantry brigade like Hao Bonian in a short period of time.

Because when he was the regiment commander, he felt that he was unable to command an infantry regiment of more than 2,000 people to fight, and after serving as the deputy commander of the First Infantry Brigade, he followed Hao Bonian and felt the great difficulty of commanding 5,000 or 6,000 or even tens of thousands of people to fight.

He also thought about learning new tactics like Butcher Chen, and then reborn like Butcher Chen, but he was already in a high position, but he never settled down to learn, even if he learned some in a hurry, it was just scratching the surface.

Recently, when he followed Hao Bonian to fight in the south, watching Hao Bonian command the troops to fight, he became more and more worried!

Even if His Majesty asked him to be the commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, he would never be able to command such a huge corps to fight with his own ability!

But you can't wait like this, although I have heard that Your Majesty has prepared to set up the Third Infantry Brigade, but the commander of the Third Infantry Brigade is definitely not himself, if he wants to continue to rise to the rank of major general and keep up with Hao Bonian, I am afraid that he can only find another way.

The brigade commander of the main brigade doesn't need to think about it, if he wants to be promoted to major general, I am afraid that he can only go to the Privy Council to serve as an idle post in the future, because the ranks of several directors of the Privy Council also continue to rise with the expansion of the army, and Zeng Ziwen is very likely to become the third or fourth major general in the Tang Army!

In other words, the posts of several directors of the subsequent Privy Council will be the posts of major generals in the future.

Or transfer to the garrison brigade to serve, although the commander of the garrison brigade is the rank of colonel, but there will definitely be a larger garrison force in the future, if there is a garrison division, it will definitely be a position with the rank of major general, and if he becomes the commander of the garrison division at that time, this rank of major general will naturally be in hand.

But I think so, but he is still a little unwilling to leave the main force, he was the big boss of the bandits in Huangzhushan at the beginning, His Majesty was the one who helped the emperor to the throne with his own hands, no matter what, the merit of supporting him is indispensable.

And he also came all the way in the main force, and the promotion speed is not slow, if he leaves the main force in the future, he is worried that he will be more marginalized.

If you serve in the First Infantry Brigade, you won't be able to get the credit, but you can make a little hard work after Hao Bonian, and often brush your face in front of Your Majesty, and there is hope for continued promotion in the future.

When Fang Dongquan was thinking like this, the artillery in front of him was also continuing to bombard, and the rumbling cannon sound continued to sound on the bank of the Liujiang River, and it kept spreading far, far away!