Chapter 811: The Tiger Squat Cannon Blocking the City Gate

As the three hundred giants were running, the ground seemed to tremble, and as they got closer and closer, the golden soldiers on the city could already see these monsters that had never been seen before.

These giants were huge, almost as tall as the low walls of Macheng, their heads were full coverage of skull double-horned helmets, they were wearing heavy steel armor with blue-black and terrifying ornaments, and they carried maces and double-edged axes that were larger than normal people.

The Jin army has a large number of marksmen, and they shoot arrows accurately at the vital points of these monsters, but they do not have any delay or killing effect other than a few sparks.

Countless arrows clanged at the giants, but they were angry, and Marg, the leader of the giants who rushed to the front, leaped to his feet, picked up the terrifying mace in his hand, and slammed it into the gatehouse above the city gate from top to bottom.

The deputy general of Jin Bing, who was standing on the city tower, looked at the mace that was smashed down at him above his head in horror, and before he could react, the weapon weighing hundreds of pounds shattered the masonry and stone, smashed the beams and pillars, and directly turned the entire city tower into ruins.

The same scale of attacks also took place on the walls on both sides, whether it was the mace in the hands of the giants outside the fortress or the double-edged giant axe, they all wiped out the golden soldiers stationed on the city walls.

In front of Emperor Li Nan, the leader of the giants, Marge, said that the city would be broken in five minutes, but before it was three minutes, they had already violently swept away all the resistance on the city wall, and by the way, they also demolished several city walls and city gates.

The wilderness people outside the Saiwai had already overfulfilled their tasks, and Li Nan could not let them fight alone, so he immediately commanded the whole army to attack, which was the start of the general attack.

It stands to reason that there are less than 40,000 Imperial Forest Legions, and they can't surround the equal number of Jin troops, but in this small Macheng, this thing has really come true.

Macheng is not a tall city wall, which not only gives the Jin people some safety guarantees, but at the same time, it also traps tens of thousands of Jin cavalry who are good at running here.

At this time, Wanyan Zongwang, who had already assembled the army, quickly made a decision, and ordered the generals of the Song army who commanded the Song army to fight together: "You take people to block the attack of the south gate, open the other three gates, and rush out with me!" ”

After hearing Yan Zongwang's words, Zhang Tong, the deputy commander of the Song army, who took over the Song army after Xu Ping's death, immediately confessed, and said with a sad face: "His Royal Highness the King of Wei, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for the young general to resist the enemy army......"

Wanyan Zongwang had just seen the terrifying attack power of those giants, and knew that even if these Song people were sent to death, they wouldn't last long, so after thinking about it, he asked the many generals of the Jin Kingdom around him: "Who wants to go with General Zhang?" ”

"Uncle, the last general is willing to lead his headquarters to meet the enemy!"

The person who spoke was Wanyan Zongwang's distant nephew Wanyan Qing, seeing this young man in his prime taking the initiative to ask for battle, although he couldn't bear it in his heart, but as the main general in the army, Wanyan Zongwang still nodded and agreed.

Wan Yanqing and Zhang Tong led 3,000 people to the south gate that had been broken by the imperial army, and the Jin people also opened the closed east, west, and north gates, and the torrent of heavy cavalry, which was very small even in the Jin country, also charged outward at the same time.

In this era, there are very few things that can stop the onslaught of cavalry troops, if there are elephant troops of the Zhenla Empire in the south, and the heavy cavalry in armor in the north can be called the strongest class on land.

The thousands of Jin heavy cavalry who came out of the city gate, their hooves thundered, and they were about to enter the range of bows and arrows, and all the Jin cavalry bent their bows and arrows, and shot a rain of arrows diagonally upward, covering the defensive positions of the imperial army in front.

The golden man's bow and arrows flew into the air, and after reaching the highest point of strength, they began to land, and the sound of the arrows breaking through the air after falling was like the breath of death, and fell on the Imperial army not far ahead.

When Wei Xiangman saw the Jin man's bow and arrow attack, he snorted coldly with disdain, and slowly raised his hand.

The bull roar barbarian hoplites who were also wearing steel armor, as well as the imperial musketeers holding shields, didn't care about the bows and arrows shot by the golden people at all, and after seeing Wei Xiangman's movements, all the hoplites standing in the front row put down the masks on their helmets, and at the same time held their long sharp Mo knives in front of them, ready to attack.

"Six, seven, eight......" Wei Xiangman has been silently counting, and when she found 'ten', she immediately waved her raised arm hard, and shouted at the same time: "Fire!" ”

Several small guns with this two-wheeled gun carriage were lit by the gunners one by one, and then there was a loud bang, and a large number of metal water chestnuts, nails and projectiles rained down on the oncoming Jin cavalry.

This particular small artillery is the latest development of the Imperial Arsenal and is inspired by a book that Li Nan brought back from the Caribbean world, called "The Practical Record of Military Training".

This book was obtained by Li Nan when he was dealing with Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general, and the book not only has the training methods of the Qi family's army, but also records in detail the production and use of tiger squat cannons.

Tiger squat cannon, this device is also named because of its shape. It is also a sharp weapon, but the body is easy to jump, and it is placed twenty or thirty steps away. When our army fires this cannon, it must go out of the camp wall and go to the artillery station, but the artillery fire on the camp wall will not dare to fire, and the fire will be suitable enough to hit the ears of the people who fire the cannon. The cannon is rare, and the number of cannons cannot be retreated, and the group of cannons is behind, and they cannot be fired together, which is suitable for defeat. If you want to put the cannon between the walls, the fire will be easy to jump, and it will hurt the people in the camp, so it is suitable to use it to harm them. Jinnaite specially made wrought iron cannon, two feet long, more than two inches thick in the abdomen, five hoops for the outside, polished like a mirror, and the edge is lovely.

Usage: first enter the medicine line and tie it with cloth; Six or seven taels of medicine, with a Trojan horse, subject to the mouth, sent to the two hoops flat, with a little soil, into a layer of lead, and a little soil, and then under the son, the child is small to hundreds, and the child is large to fifty; The mouth is made of a stone, half of the lower mouth, slowly built, and the mouth is flat; The rear tail is slightly used to remove the soil three or four inches, the height of the place, the front under the two claw nails, and the back with the tips of the double claws trip after the four hoops, and the front and rear hoops are forward to the shoulder of the cannon body hoop, and the hoops do not retreat. This cannon only goes to people for five inches without worry, and there is no way to avoid the small cannon. If this cannon is exhausted, all guns can be fired concurrently, and the secondary cannon can be reloaded as before.

Each tiger squatting cannon, a hammer, a hammer, a pair of iron scissors, an iron (gold chase), a medicine wire box, a medicine liter, a wooden send, a wooden hammer, two leather baskets, thirty wooden horses, thirty stones, fifteen pounds of gunpowder, nine hundred leads, fifteen medicine wires, two fire ropes, and a pair and a half of panniers.

The modified Tiger Squat Cannon has a stronger barrel, and is also equipped with a movable gun carriage and a mechanism that can be quickly fixed during combat, and the scattered bullets fired have been replaced from stones and lead to metal nails, water chestnuts and projectiles.

People of this era still don't understand the power of shotguns, and people of later generations generally have learned about it in film and television dramas.

In fact, it is dealing with enemies who maintain a dense formation, and this tiger squat cannon, which can fire thousands of shots at a time, has a terrifying lethality that makes people feel chilled.