"My lord, it's all arranged, all twenty-eight guns are arranged," shouted a guerrilla general next to him.

"Okay, don't fire, do you wait until I cut off their heads?"

Ma Deli hated that iron could not be made of steel, gritted his teeth, stared at his subordinates with fire-breathing eyes and shouted, his subordinates broke out in a cold sweat, and accepted his reprimand in a panic.

"Zha, let's let them fire." The subordinates stood up in fear, bowed and retreated, and then in a panic ran to the gun emplacements on both sides with their own soldiers, shouting as they ran: "Fire, fire, fight those rebels." ”

The artillerymen were also busy and sweaty, although those old-fashioned red-coated cannons and general cannons had already fired at the enemy, but the enemy was too scattered, and the accuracy of the artillery fired by those cannons was pitiful, and it was at least every three to five minutes, or even eight minutes before one cannon could be fired, especially to defend on all sides, so these cannons were distributed to the four city walls, and now there was only one red-coated cannon, two general cannons, and three artillery shells on this side of the enemy. Enemies just need to be careful to dodge them.

For this reason, Ma Deli is very anxious, especially now that the enemy has jumped to the edge of the city wall, only one mile, the gang of rebellious sneaky, the formation is very open, and then close to two hundred meters, all the heavy artillery will not be able to hit them, at this time, the Qing army's Jingai 1 arquebus range is not enough, the range of the bow and arrow is even less enough, the only range is enough is the bed crossbow, but the bed crossbow also has shortcomings, the crossbow arrows are not easy to find, and they are all old-fashioned things, now we all know that it is the age of firearms, The war relies on cannons and muskets to win or lose, and the bed crossbow can only fire a crossbow arrow for a few minutes, although it is very sharp, but the accuracy is too poor, and it seems that the Huaxia army is simply killing chickens and slaughtering cattle knives with them, which is useless.

Therefore, the Huaxia army quickly advanced to a distance of 400 meters, and there were no injuries to a few people, at this time the artillery of the Huaxia army had been prepared, and soon the eighteen-pounder artillery opened fire fiercely, suppressing the heavy artillery at the head of the enemy.

A regiment of guards did not carry a lot of eighteen-pounder guns, only four, but these four were enough for them to deal with the enemy in a small county town, and the enemy wall faced them with only three guns.

Over the years, the artillery of the Chinese army has not improved much, the biggest improvement is that the quality is much lighter, battlefield mobility, combat, soldiers' combat quality has improved, artillery has entered the steel age from the bronze artillery age, the cannon sound is made of alloy steel, can withstand more charges, the firing range can be near or far, the maximum range of five thousand meters of eighteen pounder guns, can fire at the enemy five kilometers away, but there is no era of advanced sights, artillery generally advanced to two kilometers away to fire, that is, two kilometers away, four miles of edge fire, This is what is written in the Code of Combat.

"Bang bang bang," the four shells concentrated on firing at the enemy's one general cannon, this is because the accuracy and range of the general cannon at this distance are just about the same as theirs, with the height of the city wall, the general cannon can hit more than four miles, although the enemy's gunner accuracy is extremely poor, so far more than a dozen cannons have been fired and have not hit anyone, any of the Huaxia army's gun positions, but the Huaxia army never gambled on luck, they concentrated on the two general gun positions to fire.

Four shells flew through the sky, making a sharp whistling sound, which was terrifying.

The flowering bullet exploded on the enemy's city wall, on the city gate tower, and in the city, but unfortunately it did not hit any of the gun emplacements and did not hurt any Qing troops, after all, even the gunners of the Huaxia army could not hit the enemy with the first shot.

Soon, the enemy's artillery was already in place, 28 cannons, including the Qing army's 2,000-pound general cannon, the Ming army's more than 2,000-pound imitation of the Fran machine gun, and the Qing army's imitation of the previous 10-pounder cannon, 9-pounder gun, 6-pounder gun, four-pounder gun, three-pounder gun, and even the Ming army and the Qing army made their own tiger squat cannon small cannon.

Solid bullets flew all over the sky, and the purpose of these cannons was to hit the musketeers of the Huaxia Army, and the musketeers of the Huaxia Army had already jumped to a distance of 300 meters, and 28 solid bullets flew out of the city wall, some hit 1,500 meters away, some hit 1,000 meters away, some hit 900 meters away, some hit 800 meters away, some hit 300 meters away, some hit 100 meters away, some hit more than 300 meters away, and several enemy shells fell at each distance.

This time, even the soldiers of the Chinese Guards Regiment who were very careful were injured, and several soldiers of the Chinese Army who could not dodge were soon seriously injured, either broken legs or broken arms, the soldiers of the Chinese Guards Regiment felt the pressure given to them by the enemy this time, and there were constantly shells falling around them, and those who could not dodge were either seriously injured or killed, and the casualties skyrocketed, and the wounded soldiers of several battalions soon reached more than thirty people, and the soldiers had to move forward, while leaving the soldiers to carry the wounded soldiers to a distance, and beckoned the medical staff to come up and deal with the wounded, Summoning the stretcher team of the people, come, carry the wounded to the rear.

Soon the artillery of the Huaxia Army found position, and the twelve-pounder gun entered a distance of 1,500 meters and joined the bombardment of the enemy.

The twelve-pounder cannon could actually fire at the enemy at a distance of 2,500 meters, and their maximum distance was three kilometers, but it was enough to suppress the enemy at a distance of 1,500 meters.

Four eighteen-pounder guns, six twelve-pounderers, and the twelve-pounder guns fired solid shells, because their target was the city gate and the city walls, and when the city gates were opened, the musketeers could rush into the city and strike the enemy.

Just after the twelve-pounder cannon fired a round, the eighteen-pounder cannon finally made a contribution, and the four flowering shells destroyed the enemy's two generals' cannons, and by the way, an old-fashioned two-thousand-pound general's cannon of the Qing army next to the enemy's artillery position was also blown up, and at the same time, there were nearly 100 soldiers of the enemy, either dead or wounded.

These artillery pieces are operated by the enemy's Green Battalion, who are not well-trained soldiers of the New Army's firearms unit, and their literacy and tactical skills are really limited, so they can only waste shells.

After the second blow, the morale of the enemy dropped, and many soldiers looked left and right, thinking about how to escape from the wall, and from time to time the shells of the twelve-pounder cannon smashed on the wall, causing the wall to shake, and everyone was pale, flustered, and had no heart to fight.

The green battalion soldiers of the Qing army near the city gate were quickly affected, and the twelve pounder cannon shells swept across the city wall, blew up the parapet wall, the battlement, and then swept all the way down the city wall, five or six Qing soldiers could not dodge, were hit by cannonballs, and even the corpses with weapons were swept under the city walls, and hit the other green battalion soldiers waiting for support under the city walls, causing the city walls to be busy for a while.

One thousand meters, the nine-pounder cannon was in place, the fierce artillery fire quickly destroyed the enemy's artillery position, the artillery of the Qing army was destroyed one by one, the city wall was already the Shura hell, the crying, the pleading, the screams, the officers' angry scolding, the sound of whipping, the sound of driving the soldiers to continue to operate the artillery and fire back, intertwined, even the soldiers of the Guards Regiment who jumped to a distance of 200 meters and were ready to suppress the enemy could hear it.

But what Ma Deli saw was blood, severed limbs and arms, panicked, running like headless flies of the green battalion soldiers, many people jumped directly from the city wall, regardless of it, seeing that the enemy had jumped to a hundred and fifty meters away, Ma Deli did not have time to take care of them, and repeatedly issued orders to let those surviving cannons fire at the enemy, but those artillery weighing thousands of pounds could not hit the enemy, and could only suppress the artillery behind the enemy and the people who carried stretchers to transfer the wounded.

In the rear, Zhang Qiang shook his head, the Guards Regiment no longer has the original pioneering spirit, with the spirit of not afraid of death The elite of the founding period of the People's Republic of China, their casualties in this battle were small, but this battle became a decent siege battle, but it made him feel helpless, it seems that the Guards Brigade has wasted their efforts.

(End of chapter)