Not long after, a dazzling light suddenly flashed in the eyes of the defenders of the city, and then there was a roaring sound like the mountain shaking, just a few hundred steps outside the city, dozens of cannons of various types were almost connected, and the muzzles of the cannons spewed out a ball of flames, and the smoke suddenly rose outside the city and spread.

Dozens of shells of various sizes immediately whistled through the sky and smashed heavily on the walls of Ruzhou City, and countless officers and soldiers immediately fell to the ground one after another, leaving only a few officers who ran hysterically and shouted in the city, ordering the officers and soldiers who were lying next to the cannons on the city wall to fire back.

Suddenly, Ruzhou City was like a boiling pot, and flames continued to spit out from the muzzles of all kinds of cannons above and below the city, and all kinds of projectiles whistled and fell towards the enemy's head.

The bricks on the city wall of Ruzhou City continued to turn into powder under the bombardment of cannonballs, and the cracked bricks and stones flew in all directions, and there were constantly cannonballs falling on the city wall, blasting the blue brick buttresses into slag, and even the human bodies hiding behind the buttresses also flew up, and the stumps and broken arms were scattered everywhere.

Huang Shengqiang crossed his waist and kept waving the command flag, and where his arm pointed, there would immediately be a cannon sound, which was really majestic, and more gunners of the Xingtian Army threw off the thick clothes outside, and simply wore thin clothes inside, sweating like rain to operate their artillery, and kept bombarding the city wall.

In less than half an hour, at least dozens of shells were fired from each gun, so much so that some of the guns were already hot, and the gunners were immediately scalded off a layer of skin as soon as their arms accidentally touched the barrels.

This was the first time that the Xingtian Army had concentrated so many artillery pieces on one battlefield and bombarded the enemy, and Xiao Tianjian also personally ordered not to spare ammunition and suppress the defenders of Ruzhou City with the strongest firepower.

At first, the defenders of the city still fired back from time to time, but by the time the shelling had passed, the artillery in the city had basically been muted.

How could the officers and soldiers have ever been subjected to such abuse! In the past, they have always used cannons to bombard the thief army, but now their cannons are out of reach, and they are beaten by people's cannons, so that they have no power to fight back, this one is a fierce bombardment, originally arranged on the city wall many wooden stands, wolf teeth and even cannons, many were scattered by the cannonballs of the thief army, the original neat and beautiful battlements on the head of the city, this time was also bombarded by the artillery fire of the Xingtian Army into the old woman's front teeth, a lot of defects, the entire city wall in the south of the city is a mess, and there are not a few officers and soldiers who were killed. In order to avoid the artillery, many officers and soldiers simply fled from the city wall.

In particular, the Xingtian Army pulled a few newly made eight-pounder cannons this time, this time they were used to attack the city for the first time, and they played a huge role, although the eight-pounder cannon of the Xingtian Army was not as powerful and ranged as the Hongyi cannon used by the Ming army, but it can be said that the eight-pounder cannon is also a miniature version of the Hongyi cannon.

This newly cast eight-pounder cannon together with the gun carriage weighs more than 1,200 catties, the caliber exceeds 100 millimeters, the barrel length is also close to two meters, the effective firing range exceeds 600 steps, and the farthest can hit four miles away, and the shell weighs nearly 10 catties.

But the eight-pounder gun was not too stupid, and the cast cannon was placed on an elaborate two-wheeled gun carriage, and if you did not count the ammunition carts that accompanied it, two strong mules and horses could be towed, and could travel at a relatively fast speed, although it was not as mobile as the lighter three-pounder and six-pounder guns, but it was basically used for mobile combat.

Coupled with the cooperation of the six-pounder gun and the three-pounder gun in front, such a ferocious shelling made the Ruzhou defenders almost unable to fight back, so they could only lie down and be beaten, and they were beaten to the point of crying dad and mother.

From time to time, Huang Shengqiang also ordered several eight-pounder cannons to fire a few flowering grenades into the city, and these flowering grenades crossed the city wall and smashed heavily into the city, which immediately blew up a house near the south of the city and collapsed, causing chaos in the city.

He Zigang is also considered to be fateful, running around in the city to supervise the battle, but he was stunned that he was not killed by the shells, but was just made a disgraced face, seeing that the thief artillery was so sharp, He Zigang already had no mind to fight to the death, looking at the city wall that was bombarded by the thief army's artillery fire, and more and more soldiers who escaped from the city wall, lamented that he also retreated from the city wall under the protection of several family members, and he just went down to the city wall, and heard a huge roar from the city gate tower, One of the thieves' flowering bombs happened to hit the city gate tower, exploded in the city gate tower, and the explosion also triggered more than a dozen barrels of gunpowder placed in the city gate tower, and immediately the entire city gate tower was blown up to the sky in the violent vibration, turning into a rain of bricks and falling down, even if it caused an exclamation up and down the city wall, many officers and soldiers were smashed on the spot and fell to the ground with blood and blood, and there were not a few people who died on the spot.

Such an explosion almost made the officers and soldiers defending the city all frightened, and many officers and soldiers were so frightened that they directly lost their weapons and fled towards the city.

He Zigang looked at his officers and soldiers fleeing in all directions, he was dizzy, pulled out his waist knife, and slashed over a soldier who wanted to escape from him with one knife, and shouted: "Block them for me, if anyone dares to escape, they will be killed!" ”

Although most of the officers and soldiers were frightened, but after all, there were still a few capable officers and soldiers who still had some fighting spirit, and when they heard He Zigang's order, they stepped forward to block the horse roads on the various city walls, brandished swords and guns to block the rout soldiers who wanted to escape from the city wall, and drove them back to the city wall, and for a time the city wall was a mess.

At this moment, some people began to feel that the fierce artillery fire outside the city gradually began to subside, and was replaced by a shocking sound of killing.

So He Zigang hurriedly climbed the city wall and looked out of the city, only to see a group of Xingtian army soldiers shouting loudly, under the leadership of the standard-bearer, the tide rushed towards the city wall, and all kinds of attack tools were also pushed by them, and slowly squirmed in the direction of the city wall.

At the front of the line were rough but sturdy carts, advancing towards the city walls in a line, while more people were carrying sandbags or logs and other things, like ants, following the carts towards the moats.

More of the Torture Heavenly Arms Gunners lined up in a neat line carrying swarthy bird guns or self-made firearms followed up, and after approaching the distance of dozens of steps to the city wall, they stopped according to a row of tall oars, and under the command of the officers, a column stepped forward, put down the firearms on their shoulders, began to load ammunition, and set up the firecrackers on the top of the oars in rows, and the dense mouths of the guns were aimed at the top of the city wall.

He Zigang saw that his scalp was numb, the thief army had obviously been practicing for such a siege for a long time, and it was not like other thief armies at all, a swarm of shouts poured up, but the echelons were clear, the division of labor was clear, and at the same time, he also paid great attention to their protection, so he hurriedly shouted loudly: "Send arrows, hurry up and send arrows and cannons, and don't let the thieves get close to the city wall!" ”

Although the officers and soldiers were beaten one by one at this time, there were officers behind them who were forcing them with knives, and there was really no way to do it, so they had to return to the broken battlements in a panic, and picked up bows and crossbows from the rubble on the ground, and began to follow He Zigang's instructions to release arrows at the Xingtian Army surging under the city.

The scene of hundreds of people firing arrows together was also quite impressive, and all kinds of arrows and crossbows were sprinkled down one after another, and they swished down in the formation of the Xingtian army that was already close to the moat.

A lot of arrows and crossbows made a tuk tuk sound, shaking and nailed to the front of the cart, and a small number of arrows were thrown into the crowd behind the cart, and suddenly shot over a group of people who accompanied the army to help the battle, but such a blow did not play any role at all for the morale of the Xingtian Army, even the people who accompanied the army to help the war, as if they did not see it, continued to shout to cheer for themselves, and continued to run forward with the cart.

A few cannons that were dumb for a long time in the city, under the command of He Zigang, were resurrected again, after a long busy work, the chaos began to sound, the scattered cannons full of iron particles, after a bombardment, this time it caused a certain amount of damage to the attacking Xingtian army team, after a few cannons, a blood mist suddenly rose in the dense shock team, and a few open spaces appeared, and dozens of people were suddenly concentrated by the cannons, and fell to the ground screaming.

"Fire!" An officer commanding the gunners stood behind the second-line cart and waved the small flag in his hand.

Immediately, nearly 100 firecrackers pulled the trigger, and a bean-like sound immediately sounded at the second-line carriage, and more than 100 guns rained down on the city wall, and some officers and soldiers who were leaning over to release arrows immediately spewed out a cloud of blood mist on their chests or heads, and fell on the city wall with their backs facing the sky.

The battle between the two sides under the city began, and a team of people who helped the soldiers finally rushed to the side of the moat with the oar, and quickly dumped the dirt bag on their shoulders into the moat, or threw the log into the moat, and then turned around and rushed towards the back quickly, without stopping under the city, during which some people paid the price of their lives, and rolled into the moat with arrows or bullets.