There is no variable siege mode, and under the protection of the musketeers, the Mingcao defenders have not even had the idea of going out of the city to harass.

In fact, in the past few years of fighting, the musketeers have been taught enough lessons again and again, so that the Ming army no longer wants to use the tactics of the Cold War period to deal with the tactics of this hot weapon era.

It was not until the Hong Dynasty army built a turret three miles away from Xiangcheng that the Ming army began to attack the Hong Dynasty army.

Over the years, it has been plagued by the powerful firearms of the Hong Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty has also poured more manpower and material resources into the study of hot weapons.

And secretly, those Westerners who were also unwilling to be left out in the cold secretly sold their artillery casting technology to the Ming Dynasty government at a high price, in exchange for money, and at the same time, it could also give the unique overlord of the Eastern Sea, the Hong Dynasty, a containment, weaken their strength, and kill two birds with one stone.

Why didn't Westerners simply sell advanced firearms to the Ming government?

Isn't that obvious?

Unless it is a large number of firearms from the Western Silk Road into the Ming Realm, it is an extremely difficult thing to transport a large number of firearms from the sea to the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to continue to do business under the nose of the Hong Dynasty, then the Westerners must more or less abide by the rules formulated by the Hong Dynasty, otherwise they will annoy the rulers of the Hong Dynasty, and when the anger arises, no Western force has the courage to accept their thunderous anger. ::Fastest update on PC::/

Even if most of the Hong Dynasty's energy was focused on the struggle for hegemony in the Eastern world at this time, it was no longer a situation where their Westerners were dominant.

The Flying Dragon Gang, which was friendly with the Hong Dynasty, is now openly hanging a banner in Malacca, claiming to be the Duchy of the Great Song Dynasty, and the king is Zheng Zhilong, the original leader of the Flying Dragon Gang.

On the other hand, although the Han forces only control a small island in Timor-Leste, the ruler behind it, Li Tiansheng, is not only the brother of Li Tianyang, the founding king of the Hong Dynasty, but also in these years of trade, the strength of the other party is not just the strength on the island of Timor-Leste.

Coupled with the garrison of the Hong Dynasty's naval fleet in the Luzon Islands, the allies of these three forces alone are enough to compete with the Westerners.

After Zheng Zhilong, the Duchy of the Great Song Dynasty, mastered Puluozhong, the throat of the Strait of Malacca, he listened to the advice of Li Tianyang, an ally, and surrendered the important place of Puluozhong to the Westerners, and reached a ceasefire agreement with the Westerners, and in exchange for the price of forming a federation of all Eastern and Western forces in the Indonesian archipelago at that time to jointly maintain the security of Puluozhong, and at the same time, at the same time, the Westerners gave up the right to use force to confront the Hong Dynasty, the Duchy of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Wild Sand Gang.

If the Westerners wanted to repent, then it would mean that they would have to give all the benefits they had built up in the East, which was something they did not want to see.

It was precisely in order to prevent Westerners from causing trouble to him, Li Tianyang chose to find Zheng Zhilong, and instead of putting aside his hatred, he created such a foundation in the Indonesian archipelago, but now it seems that it is a very correct choice.

"Boom! Bang! ”

The artillery opened fire on the city wall, and the Ming garrison took the lead in launching an artillery bombardment of the Hong Dynasty's army, and countless smoke and dust with gunpowder smoke appeared on the vast position of the Hong Dynasty, and then dissipated into the air.

Artillery tactics are no longer unique to the Hong Dynasty army, although at this time the caliber and power of the artillery in the Ming Dynasty army is still inferior to the Hong Dynasty army, at least single-handedly on the defensive front wall like Xiangcheng, it is already a normal standard to place dozens of artillery pieces.

It's just that artillery alone is not enough, in order to shorten the gap between the Ming Dynasty army and the Hong Dynasty army, the Ming Dynasty army spent a lot of money and force to equip the army with artillery, but among the artillery they are equipped with, whether it is power or range, it is not at the same level as the Hong Dynasty army.

Especially for the gunners who operate the artillery, now the Hongchao army has a scientific calculation method, and now it is using angle-based shooting, and the Hongchao gunners have been able to ensure that the shells fall at the point and the target they shoot at, the difference is no more than five zhang.

Under the intensive artillery attack, the gap of five zhang is actually equivalent to nothing, at least at the time of the siege, the city gate that the Hongchao artillery fire force is aiming at, or a certain section of the city wall, the sinking speed does not need to be as strong as the original more than ten days of blows.

Of course, after the Ming Dynasty army had a certain counterattack strength, it was naturally indispensable to bring trouble to the Hong Dynasty army, and the sound of artillery fire on Xiangcheng also made the Hong Dynasty army, which had always given the opponent artillery blows, felt the devastation brought by the artillery fire.

Fortunately, when the Hong Dynasty army was building a defensive line, it had already used sappers and infantry in advance to dig trenches on the position, and under the trenches, there were special anti-artillery bunkers, except for a few unlucky Hong Dynasty army soldiers, the successive Ming artillery fire to the Hong Dynasty army hit the damage, in fact, it was not too much.

Under the bombardment of the artillery of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the artillery regiment of the Third Army accelerated their speed, built forts and forts in front of the trenches.

The distance of three miles, in the eyes of the artillery troops of the Hong Dynasty, the impact on shooting accuracy is actually not great, but for the vast majority of artillery above Xiangcheng or the artillery of iron artillery, if you want to achieve a certain degree of accuracy, it depends on whether God favors them.

After a stalemate for almost half a day, the more than 30 artillery pieces brought by the Hongchao Artillery Regiment were unfortunately hit and deformed by Ming artillery shells, and the rest were also transported to the forts and fortresses, and the correction and aiming had been completed.

"Five degrees, fire!!"

The artillery commander gave an order, and the artillery door of the Third Army, which had worked hard for most of the day under the sound of Ming artillery fire, was finally able to launch a counterattack.

"Boom, boom!"

"Boom, boom!"

The almost continuous sound of artillery fire sounded, with a terrible sound that tore through the air, and smashed fiercely near the gate of the east city of Xiangcheng, and many people of the Ming army in the city were smashed out of the city wall by artillery fire, screaming and falling down the city.

On the city wall of more than ten zhang around the gate of the east city, countless gunpowder smoke and dust flew up, enveloping this piece of city wall, and when the gunpowder smoke and dust dissipated, the city wall within a radius of more than ten zhang was already covered with more than 20 potholes of all sizes.

"Brush, brush!"

Without the herald's orders, the gunners of the artillery regiment picked up planers and quickly cleaned the breech gunpowder residue, while filling the fixed gunpowder and shells into place.

"Second shot, fire!"

"Boom, boom!"