Chapter XXVIII

The first day of June in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

It was summer, the weather was very hot, and after standing under the sun for a long time, I just felt that I could put on the iron armor on the teppanyaki.

The whole army of Xiao Yuan's battalion was dispatched, except for the thousands of old and weak people who guarded the camp, there was no reservation at all, and tens of thousands of soldiers covered the north of Kaifeng City.

One hundred and eleven cannons, reaching the city, hundreds of goose carts, lined up in front of the cannons, after the cannons, thousands of cavalry were in full formation, in order to correspond to the Kaifeng defenders, any dare to counterattack. Cao Ying and Chuang Ying also sent men and horses to supervise the battle, although there were not many, but they also made Yuan Shizhong have a sharp back and a little uncomfortable.

It's just that the situation is stronger than the people.

No matter how uncomfortable I feel, I can only endure it.

And above the head of Kaifeng City, it is also ready to fight.

Sang Kai was busy for more than a dozen years, day and night, according to the idea of iron mold casting cannons, building molds, collecting iron materials, and building artillery. It's just that the time is a little tight, Zhang Xuan's iron mold casting cannon method is developed step by step from the small cannon, and the various processes are not mature, but they can be regarded as certain rules. And Sang Kai started from scratch. Therefore, the speed is much slower than Zhang Xuan, and even now, it is only a dozen or so cannons of about a thousand catties.

However, with the beginning, the rest is much easier.

If you have time, you have to admit that the talent reserve of the imperial court is much more than that of the righteous army.

Zhang Xuan only has a Wang cannon by his side, but there are more skilled craftsmen than Wang cannons in Kaifeng City, I don't know how many. As long as you straighten out your thinking and prepare enough iron, the rest of the cannon casting will be much simpler.

And at this moment, all the cannons in Kaifeng City were sent to the North City Head.

For a time, there was a lot of artillery, which was not necessarily worse than the number of artillery under the city.

"Let's get started." Yuan Shizhong saw that it was not early, and it was hot at noon, so it was better to attack earlier.

Yuan Shizhong gave an order, and countless drums hit them heavily, even shaking the floating dust on the city wall.

"Kill ---。" A big flag swaggered, and countless people pushed the goose cart and rushed out.

The artillery at the head of the city opened fire first.

"Boom, boom, boom." One after another, from east to west, the flames were fired in turn. One shell after another was fired, and a few smashed on the goose cart, shattering the wooden goose cart, but most of them hit the open space.

When attacking the city, Yuan Shizhong still pressed his headquarters and Zhang Xuan's headquarters behind the formation. The rest of the soldiers are all centered on the goose cart, and there are as few as a few people as there are more than a dozen people near a goose cart. There is no formation at all.

There is no need for any formation.

Anyway, most of these poles are from their hometowns, and they are a team with the same surname, and they are not at all when they attack the city

Nothing needs to change. On the contrary, the queue is too dense, and it will be hit by the fire of the city.

"Boom----" The artillery under the city also fired.

Zhang Xuan was near the artillery position.

Of course, it's just nearby.

Zhang Xuan will not get too close to these artillery, although these cannons are all cast by Zhang Xuan, but Zhang Xuan does not dare to guarantee that these cannons will not have the worry of exploding, if they do not die in the hands of the enemy, but die in the explosion of their own artillery, Zhang Xuan is not whining and lamenting?

Moreover, Zhang Xuan is presiding over the artillery position here, and there is no way to do it.

The artillery here, according to the previous division, there are eleven guns that belong to Yuan Shizhong, and the remaining 100 guns are divided between Chuang Ying and Cao Ying. They wanted to divide the artillery, but Zhang Xuan kept in mind that the artillery should be used intensively. Therefore, Luo Rucai was persuaded to concentrate the three battalions of artillery together to attack the city.

Li Zicheng actually pushed the boat down the river and agreed to come down.

Zhang Xuan now remembered that after Li Zicheng agreed to come down, it was a little meaningful.

Anyway, this artillery is too important, given to Yuan Shizhong, even Luo Rucai is a little worried, plus these cannons are all in the hands of Zhang Xuan, for a while, only Zhang Xuan's hands can train enough gunners. Therefore, this errand fell on Zhang Xuan's head, and Zhang Xuan couldn't refrain if he wanted to.

Zhang Xuan could only supervise the formation in the artillery position.

In fact, Zhang Xuan's so-called artillery position is nothing to look at.

Zhang Xuan had already placed the cannon on top of the gun carriage, and placed three large spikes around the gun carriage, as if they were spears. Nail to the ground, connected to the cannon with iron chains, and above the ground, the ruts are cleared, and each cannon keeps the relative displacement of the gun carriage within a controllable range.

Zhang Xuan originally intended to fix it with a hard one, as if it was a cannon hoe, fixed directly on the ground, but I don't know if Zhang Xuan underestimated the recoil of the artillery, or the iron of this era was not good, or Zhang Xuan's own design was problematic. If you don't have a lot of artillery, the hoe will break.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan had to use this method of pushing the second.

"Boom." A cannonball came from somewhere, smashing heavily on a cannon, and the three iron chains couldn't control the thousand-pound cannon, and the whole cannon came with a gun cart and a dragon swinging its tail and spun out. Although it was not far away, it had already stoned several gunners to death, and finally smashed on one person. Crushed the lower half of the gunner's body alive.

He looked at his lower body in disbelief, as if he couldn't accept that his lower body was suddenly gone. Shouting loudly, he couldn't say anything, only "Ah---h---h

The roar of artillery above the position stopped in an instant.

Zhang Xuan's eyes shrank,

The palms of the hands were slightly sweaty.

To be honest, Zhang Xuan has seen a lot of people alive and dead, but the injuries caused by knives and guns are rarely so miserable. Zhang Xuan felt miserable, let alone other gunners.

These gunners were just ordinary people before, after all, the elite soldiers who can really fight face-to-face are not easy to cultivate, and it is really a waste to let him be a gunner, and Zhang Xuan felt that artillery should be a technical class, so he selected more literate people from below to join the artillery.

In these years, people who have the ability to read and write, even if they are not from a well-to-do family, can at least eat enough, how can they ever see such a situation, and they are all stunned all of a sudden.

Zhang Xuan even heard the cheers above the city, and said secretly: "It can't go on like this." He strode forward and stabbed the half-gunner to death with a sword, he knew that such an injury in this era would be hopeless, and it would be better to give a painful one.

Then he drew his bloody sword and said, "Everyone is aiming at the city and bombarding it." No order, no stop. ”

Zhang Xuan was dressed in armor, the long sword in his hand was still dripping with blood, and there were more than a dozen guards around him who followed Zhang Xuan under the leadership of Zhou Fuchen. Immediately calmed down all the gunners, and they immediately began to fire again, but their speed was a little slow.

Zhang Xuan looked at the head of the city, watching the shells coming from a distance, under his sight, slowly getting bigger and bigger, getting bigger and bigger, "boom", smashed near the artillery position, how did he not understand that the head of the city had already regarded the artillery position as an attack target.

It's just that the accuracy of the artillery of this era is too gratifying, and it can't be hit for a while.

Zhang Xuan thought for a while, moved his position, stood in the position of the overturned artillery just now, and said secretly in his heart: "I remember that there is a saying that the best way to avoid the cannon is to hide in the gun pit, I don't believe it, he can still shoot another cannon and hit this position." ”

Zhang Xuan's mouth and tongue were dry, his back was sweaty, and he didn't know if he was nervous or hot.

In this case, Zhang Xuan is not afraid, the cannonball does not have eyes, but Zhang Xuan also knows that if he retreats, he will lose the heart of the army, and the most admired thing in the army is the brave, and he hates cowards. Zhang Xuan didn't show his courage, and I'm afraid there wouldn't be many people in the army to follow.

Without the support of the army, even if Zhang Xuan did not die under the cannon, he would inevitably die from other things.

Therefore, he can only be stiffened, and then he will be killed with one shot. Zhang Xuan also had to stand here, waiting for the cannonball that belonged to him to hit.

Above the city, they almost cheered because of the sudden hit of this cannonball. Sang Kai was overjoyed and said, "This cannon is raised at this angle, and all of it hits seventy percent of the medicine." Launch. Sang Kai immediately went to the lower artillery, he wanted to adjust them one by one, the parameters of the artillery, not to be accurate, but to make all the artillery fall within a certain range.

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