Paper tiger! Outside the gold and jade, ruined in it!

This is Xu Muqian's most intuitive feeling, he didn't expect that this mighty yellow army would have such a pitiful siege ability.

Strictly speaking, it should be said that both sides are pitiful, and the result of the bombardment on both sides is to create a heavy death zone near the Hao River, where lead and solid bullets are flying everywhere, and they will be killed at any time if they enter this range.

But the problem was that a quarter of an hour after the artillery battle began, and the regimental warriors guarding the castle tower had not yet suffered casualties, and the guns and artillery of both sides were fired, but they were not lethal at all.

The effective range of the bird guns, lifting guns, and earthen cannons on the side of the Baibu Hui Tuanyong is only fifty or sixty paces, in fact, they can only barely cause effective damage before and after the Hao River, and it is possible to look at the character of the person to see if there are any unlucky people who have been hit by those stray bullets, although theoretically the stray bullets of these old guns can fly three hundred meters.

However, the artillery team of the Red Turban Army was equally pitiful, they fired dozens of shells, but most of the shells fell to the ground before they even crossed the Hao River, and finally a few shells flew over the outer moat, nor did they fly two feet and five feet high on the city wall, most of them smashed on the ground of the city wall and the moat.

Finally a few solid shells hit the city wall, and then were bounced back by the solid wall, and both sides poured a large number of shells and bullets into each other, so far, no casualties have been caused.

Xu Muqian understood the artillery level of the Red Turban Army, and judging from the current situation, he was still very sure that he could hold Hai'an City, but now he can say that he can't regret it.

Up to now, he has only a little more than a thousand hands on his hands, and he is still guarding the city wall with a circumference of 600 zhang, and considering the mobile forces, the strength is not enough to distribute at all.

If you can have a few hundred more regiments of courage in your hands, then you will definitely defend this Hai'an City! When I entered the city yesterday, I obviously had 1,500 or 600 white cloth regiments in my hands, and I was able to levy nearly 1,000 people in battle, all thanks to the poisonous plan of the Liu family.

Until now, he can only take one step at a time, Xu Muqian shouted loudly: "Levy all the people in Hai'an City, go up to the city wall, and break Hai'an City, they are also a dead end!" ”

But even after these people were requisitioned, the troops were still not enough to distribute, and the Red Turban Army had discovered their weakness in the artillery attack, Liu Chang personally went to the artillery position and shouted: "Bayonets on the artillery, bayonets on the cannons, push me to the front of the Hao River, and attack the Qing Demon!" ”

In terms of artillery performance, these cannons in his hand are obviously much stronger than the earthen cannons at the head of Hai'an City, but now the artillery position is more than a mile away from the city wall of Hai'an City.

"Bayonets on the cannons! Cannon charge! ”

It was Liu Chang's own artillery team that took the lead in pushing the mountain splitting cannon forward, and their actions quickly drove the entire artillery team forward.

The regiment in the city poured fire in the direction of their advance, although it was not as "bayonet on the cannon" as Liu Xiao said, but the entire artillery team advanced more than half a mile under the stray bullets flying in all directions.

At this distance, the artillery fire of both sides still did not have accuracy and sufficient effective lethality, but the distance of the bombardment of the two sides suddenly became closer, and the artillery team of the Red Turban Army found a little rhythm.

Most of the shells were still inaccurate, but most of them still flew over the moat, and even half of the shells hit the city wall, which could knock out several gaps, and occasionally one or two shells flew up the city, frightening the regiments above to flee in all directions: "Good! Bayonets on the cannons! Bayonets on the cannons, keep charging! ”

Qu Zhenhan was relieved to see this situation, he hesitated for a moment, and said: "If you want to go to Haiyang City, the cannon has to be bayonet, and you can't fight against the Qing demon!" ”

Liu Chang scolded: "Demons is really ineffective!" ”

He repeatedly asked Demmons to procure a few guns, even the weakest Western artillery, which could be like a fish in water on such occasions, not to mention the classic six-pounder and twelve-pounder guns, which could blast through such a small city with a few salvos from a few guns.

Even if you can't buy Western artillery, it's good to buy a batch of Mini rifles, the effective range of Mini rifles exceeds these old domestic artillery, and when the time comes, it can completely suppress the opponents on the castle tower.

However, he only had these light standard guns of the green battalion in his hands, and it was barely okay to use them for the anti-wounded personnel in the field, but it was extremely difficult to blast through the two-foot-and-five-foot-high walls of Hai'an City.

In particular, the gunners who operated these guns were almost all novices, and they refused to load more gunpowder for fear of exploding, nor did they dare to raise the elevation angle: "Check! These are all new cannons made by our green battalion, not the bronze cannons left by the previous Ming Dynasty, and they will explode if they are loaded with more medicine! ”

The level of cannon casting in the middle and late Qing Dynasty was very poor, the range of less gunpowder was too close, and more gunpowder would explode, Liu Chang was clear, Guan Tianpei once cast forty cannons, and the process of test firing exploded ten in one breath, and five of them had quality problems, but now they must first take Hai'an City.

"If you don't have more medicine, then push the cannon in front of the moat and bombard the city, listen to me, the cannon is bayonet! Or multi-loading drugs! ”

In this case, the gunner would rather put more ammunition and risk exploding the chamber than push the artillery under the moat to engage in a face-to-face confrontation with the earthen cannons, guns, and shotguns at the head of the city.

"Three catties of gunpowder, eight taels of lead, put it!"

"General Weiyuan, let's go!"

"Aim at the head of the city, release!"

Xu Muqian found himself a little too optimistic in the city, since the artillery team of the red turban thieves pressed up, their artillery skills have continued to improve, although the accuracy is still a little worse, but from time to time there are shells flying on the city, and even caused casualties of individual regiments.

There were more solid shells hitting the walls, and although they were not enough to blast open the gaps, it was not a good thing to go on like this.

The Red Turban Thief Artillery Team at the North Gate suddenly let out a cheer, and then several mountain splitting cannons began to move, it seemed that their goal was towards the Hao River, and it seemed that the entire artillery team was moving forward.

If the Red Turban Army put the artillery in front of the Hao River, it would definitely be a bayonet charge on the cannon, Xu Muqian was very anxious, and shouted: "Hurry up to the city for me, and bombard the red thief!" Blast them back! ”

Once the artillery of the Red Turban Army completed the placement of the artillery positions on the other side of the moat, it was equivalent to the guns of both sides launching a real hand-to-hand encounter across the moat: "Give me all up!" ”

This section of the city to the north was suddenly flooded with hundreds of regimental warriors, green battalion soldiers, and people, densely packed, and there were human heads everywhere, pouring fire on the moving Red Turban Artillery.

The artillery of the Red Turban Army in slow motion paused, and under such a roar of guns, their artillery inevitably suffered a small number of casualties, and Xu Muqian breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that now Liu Chang clenched his fists excitedly: "Change the gunpowder, use the pill!" With pills! ”

This time, the artillery team brought several barrels of imported and homemade granular gunpowder, which had already been distributed to those artillery with a long range, and an officer immediately shouted: "Use foreign medicine, use foreign medicine!" ”

"With foreign medicine! With the foreign medicine we distributed! ”

"Put!"

"Boom ......"

The sharp sound of cannons, the barrels of guns jumping backwards, and the smoke composed of white smoke formed a symphony of the god of war, and all kinds of lead balls, leads, and iron flew across arcs towards the Qing army crowded together on the city.

There is already a sea of blood!

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