Without incident, a wooden cannon was used to shoot at a fast-moving target at a long distance without the slightest chance of hitting.

After the first shot was fired, the defenders' tense heartstrings were completely broken, all the wooden cannons were fired, and for a time the city wall was filled with white smoke, and one after another stone bullets rushed out of the smoke, flying sideways at a distance of about 7 or 8 paces.

The Zhiyuan cavalry quickly retreated to a hundred paces away, the wooden cannon was "invented" by Xu Shiyang, and everyone knew very well what the range was, so everyone knew that it was safe to stay at this distance, and they were also very calm.

The smoke gradually dissipated, the two sides faced each other again, and the defenders sadly found that they had blasted out more than 10 cannons, but not a single enemy was hit!

"Reload!"

Master Fan's sons and nephews brandished big knives and shouted on the wall:

"Prepare to fire! Don't let the Xu family's dog thieves rush in! Rush in and we're all done! ”

"Young master, didn't the instructor from the Xu family say that he couldn't pretend to be the second time?" A militiaman asked tremblingly.

"Get out!" The young master of the Fan family scolded: "You listen to me, you are still quite a dog thief of the Xu family!" If you are told to reload, you will reload quickly! ”

……

Standing in the distance, Xu Shiyang could easily feel the chaos of Fan's army, and he suddenly realized that this battle was likely to fail to achieve his goal of replacing training with battle.

'Maybe it's time to prepare for the next opponent right away?' ’

He pondered until Xu Er sat down and asked for instructions:

"Commander, the Divine Soldier is ready."

"Uh-huh......."

Xu Shiyang nodded, anyway, you can't deliberately make trouble for yourself for the sake of training, and it's a good thing that you can end it quickly.

"Fire!"

Tick tick tick!

The brass horn sounded, and a standard-bearer beside Xu Shiyang waved two small flags and issued an attack order to the artillery position.

Rumble!

A three-pound iron projectile flew out of the cannon chamber and smashed directly on the city wall a moment later, and in an instant the smoke and dust were filled, the gravel flew indiscriminately, and the entire city wall trembled slightly visibly, and the panicked screams were deafening.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the French army's 4-pounder gun (3 catties on the Huaxia side) could reach 800 to 900 meters when firing solid bullets, and Xu Shiyang's first cannon had a much worse performance, with an effective range of less than 500 meters.

But in any case, shooting at a target as large as the city wall at a distance of 200 paces has no chance of missing at all.

Boom Boom!

Immediately afterwards, two more cannonballs smashed on the city wall, this time it was a god machine cannon, their destructive power was obviously not as good as the general cannon, but the rate of fire was extremely fast, and the two god machine guns continued to spit out tongues of fire, and as many as 6 cannons were fired in half a minute.

The walls were constantly shaken and sprinkled with sand and gravel, and the shells did not collapse the walls, and in fact caused no damage, but the morale of the defenders had fallen to their lowest point.

The sons and nephews of the Xu family and the leaders of the township shouted loudly and ordered the wooden cannons to fire back, and the cannon bodies on the city also crackled.

Both sides were very lively, but neither of them had an effective effect on the enemy, and the world's first artillery battle was almost turned into a carnival.

But this is war after all, and it is impossible for no one to shed blood.

I don't know if it was because the wooden cannon with a fragile structure was reloaded, or because someone made a mistake in the panic, and a wooden cannon that hit Fan's house suddenly exploded, and the flying debris swept half of the city.

Xu Shiyang watched several twisted and struggling figures fall under the city, and Fan Jiajun's lively counterattack stopped.

"That's it."

He was pleased with the commands:

"Attack!"

After firing 3 iron bullets in a row, the Shenji cannon also stopped dissipating heat, and only the reloaded general cannon fired again, and the iron bullets grazed the wall and flew into Fanjiawu Fort, causing another round of screams from the defenders.

After the artillery ceasefire, the drafters with large shields, long knives or tomahawks lined up, and several leaders of the drafters stood at the forefront, shouting the command "one-two-one" in order to control the whole unit to move forward in as unison as possible.

The Divine Soldiers followed, and because it was very inconvenient to use spears for the siege, the sharp soldiers did not participate in the attack this time, and were left with the battalion commanders as reserves.

Li Kui was at the forefront of the attacking team, and as a veteran of the Battle of Fort 153, his bravery had been recognized, so this siege was used as a blade for selecting vanguards.

He was wearing a set of iron armor seized from a Tartar Pu Ran, holding a huge axe, and after approaching the city gate, he raised his battle axe with both hands and slashed at the city gate with a tiger roar, followed by another one, sawdust flew sideways, some splashed on Li Kui's face, and it hurt him, but this black-faced man still forgot to slash down, just like he used to go to the woods to chop wood, almost into a state of selflessness.

Two fellow Drafters propped up a large shield over his head to ward off the rain of falling masonry. Every time Li Kui slashed, they could hear the panicked cries on the other side of the door.

About half an hour later, there was a sudden deafening cheer from the city.

"The city is broken!"

"The city is broken!"

Li Kui was still stubbornly fighting with the city gate, but the other two soldiers had clearly felt that the stones thrown on the city had thinned out a lot.

After the new army approached the city wall, the will of the defenders completely collapsed, including most of the Fan family's sons and nephews, most of the defenders on the city wall fled, and the Feng soldiers used long ladders to easily climb to the city, and the leader of Fan Jiayong became the only defender who died in battle.

After another quarter of an hour, the city gate was opened from the inside, and the Fengfeng soldiers and the Shenji soldiers poured into the city of Juzhou like a flood that burst the embankment.

……

Maybe it was an illusion, Xu Shiyang, who was still staying in place and thinking about the next target, vaguely heard a woman's scream, he woke up suddenly, turned his head and shouted to the herald beside him:

"Quick! Order all the troops to enter the city! Go for them all! Whoever is humiliated and plundered women and children, whoever it is, is to be beheaded on the spot! ”

At this time, the resistance of the Fan family had collapsed, everyone was Han, there was no deep hatred for each other, and there was no need to create too many killings.

Xu Shiyang also wanted to incorporate the population that originally belonged to the Fan family into his own system, and he couldn't allow too much rift between the bottoms, which would be absolutely fatal to the new army in infancy.

The cavalry pacifiers entered the city together with the instructors of the new army, who were becoming more and more powerful, and began to picket the soldiers for disciplinary violations.

Those who insult women, rob and kill people, regardless of the battalion they belong to, will be beheaded. Those who committed misdemeanors were also tied up and taken out of the city.

An hour later, Xu Shiyang led the battalion commanders, a group of guards and alliance observers into the city together.

At this time, on the streets of Juzhou, there were solemn-looking soldiers of the New Army standing everywhere, and there were dead defenders lying in some corners, but the number of corpses was not large.

Under the supervision of groups of pacifiers and instructors patrolling everywhere, the soldiers did not dare to enter the residents' homes, and after driving all the people belonging to the Fan family back to their homes, the soldiers stopped pursuing.

Xu Shiyang was satisfied to find that the killings made by the new army in Juzhou were not large, and this kind of discipline was also the focus of training, and he could already feel relieved to be able to do this.