Standing on the hillside, after visually measuring the distance, Xiao Tianjian laughed, pointed to the mountain in the southwest corner of Xiangyang City, and ordered: "The key to breaking Xiangyang is here!" Ordered Huang Shengqiang to concentrate all the heavy artillery on this mountain, arrange them one by one, build a solid artillery array, concentrate the firepower in the southwest corner of Xiangyang City, and concentrate the firepower to bombard Xiangyang! ……”

At this time, on the top of a corner tower in the southwest corner of Xiangyang City, some people also saw this group of people from the Xingtian Army who appeared on the hillside outside the city from a distance, and one of the officers and soldiers with excellent vision immediately shouted: "There are all thieves and generals there!" I wonder if the thief chief surnamed Xiao is also here! Where are they looking at the terrain! ”

A thousand generals of the official army also looked far away, and he did see a group of generals of the Xingtian Army looking at the city on the hillside outside the city, and the armor on their bodies was polished and shiny, and at a glance, he knew that it was not an ordinary soldier, and it seemed that there were still stars and moons surrounding a person, so he immediately became a little excited.

"Someone! Recruit the gunners to come up and give this officer a closer look! Shoot him! If you're lucky, kill a few thieves and let them know how good we are! The general manager who was patrolling the city immediately gave the order.

Soon a group of gunners of the officers and soldiers were called to the city wall, one of them was an old gunner, and it was said that he was the most accurate one in the army, so he was ordered to be responsible for adjusting the artillery aiming, and a group of officers and soldiers immediately surrounded a Hongyi cannon on the city wall, and after careful aiming, they were immediately ordered to light the fire......

But as soon as Xiao Tianjian's words fell, he saw a flash of fire on the city wall of Xiangyang, and in an instant, everyone heard a roar, a cannonball flew straight over, and fell near Xiao Tianjian, when the upper half of the body of a guard was blown away, and the lower half of the body was still standing on the ground, and after a while, it fell softly, and the surrounding generals even splashed a lot of blood droplets on Xiao Tianjian's face, and the cannonball was still castrated after shattering the body of this guard. It was only embedded in the mountain after hitting a long distance, if it was a little more biased, it was estimated that it would hit Xiao Tianjian and their crowd, which showed that this artillery hit was accurate and ruthless, and it would never be done by ordinary officers and gunners.

"My lord, be careful! ......" The iron guards and generals rushed over one after another, grabbed Xiao Tianjian and ran down the mountain.

Xiao Tianjian was also taken aback by the sudden shelling, and after shaking off everyone's arms, he said angrily: "What is this? Hugh be nervous! The cannonball that killed my surname Xiao hasn't been made by the official army yet! Grandma, Lao Tzu doesn't beat you, you have stared at Lao Tzu first! Do as I instructed, and bring all the heavy artillery here within a day! Fuck me! Seeing that one of his guards died so miserably, Xiao Tianjian was really angry this time.

This unexpected cannon also reminded Xiao Tianjian that the officers and soldiers defending the city were actually not powerless, and there were several Hongyi cannons in the city, which was a great threat to the Xingtian Army, according to Luo Rucai, some time ago they tentatively attacked Xiangyang City, and under the bombardment of these Hongyi cannons of the official army, the soldiers suffered heavy losses, so this time to attack the city, it is necessary to prepare for protection.

Therefore, after Xiao Tianjian went down the mountain, he ordered Huang Shengqiang, Liu Xiyao and the gopher to lead the soldiers and sappers to build thick earthen walls for the artillery on the hillside outside the city.

After nightfall, a large number of sappers and soldiers and artillery drove to this hillside, Huang Shengqiang personally sat in the town, chose the gun position, and Liu Xiyao and the drill gopher, Li Fusheng and them, they separately commanded their soldiers and sappers to help the artillery build an artillery array, in order to prevent artillery, they found a lot of bamboo baskets and bamboo baskets and other things, or found straw bags to load soil, piled up in front of the gun position, leaving only a gap for the cannon mouth to stretch out, and although there are explosive grenades in this era, but because they are unreliable, the firing rate is very low, And the danger is relatively large, so the official army's Hongyi artillery equipment is very few, even even the Xingtian Army itself, it is rarely used, so the main defense of the artillery is solid bullets, and the power of solid bullets mainly depends on ricochet, as long as the shells can't jump, they can play a good role in anti-artillery.

After a day and a night of intense construction, these men and horses not only built a number of solid artillery emplacements on the hillside in the southwest corner of Xiangyang City, but also carved out several criss-crossing passages on the hillside.

Of course, the defenders in the city were not blind, they saw it very clearly, and the experienced generals immediately realized what the Xingtian army was going to do, and quickly reported the situation to the general army stationed in Xiangyang City at the moment, fierce as a tiger, so he hurried to the south corner of the city, and looked at the hillside outside the city. Stop the thieves from continuing to work on the hillside.

At the same time, he also ordered Liu Shijie to immediately organize a group of men and horses to kill them from the west gate of the city, and go to the hillside to fight the Xingtian thieves to prevent them from continuing to build on the hillside.

There is no problem in judgment and command, it can be said that this is the most correct choice he can make at the moment, but his efforts have not played a role in the Xingtian Army, after having the General Staff, under the brainstorming, the current combat deployment of the Xingtian Army is quite perfect, after Xiao Tianjian gave the order, Li Xin and their staff officers naturally expected the reaction of the officers and soldiers in the city, and prepared troops and horses outside the gates in advance to prevent the officers and troops from going out of the city to counterattack.

Although fierce as a tiger mobilized a few Hongyi cannons to bombard the hillside, but after all, the number is small, as soon as the cannon sound in the city sounds, the construction personnel immediately find a place to lie down and dodge the cannon, and the continuous shooting of Hongyi cannon is easy to cause spontaneous combustion or explosion of high temperatures, and it is always necessary to take a break when shooting a few cannons, so although the power of Hongyi artillery is not small, but for the scattered construction, pay attention to the anti-artillery of the Xingtian military department, the killing is not very strong, even if it affects the construction speed, but it is not very big.

Therefore, after the artillery array was constructed, Huang Shengqiang took advantage of the night to drag a large number of heavy artillery brought by the army to the hillside, arranged them into the position overnight, and transported batches of ammunition up the hillside and stored them in several solid bunkers, ready for the bombardment of Xiangyang City.

(Chapter 3 arrived, just in time to catch up on this knot, the word count is a little less, sorry!) ）