This was the heaviest blow to the Qing army since the beginning of the war, and the dense crowd on the city wall became the best target for the Red Turban Army's artillery fire, and earth-shattering shouts could be heard everywhere, and there was a gushing blood tide everywhere.

This round of rapid fire caused casualties among at least twenty or thirty regimental braves, Qing soldiers, and Minzhuang on the head of the city, and a solid lead bullet even knocked down three people one after another, some Qing soldiers rolled on the ground in pain, making their last shouts, and some Qing soldiers didn't even make a shout, they could only fall to the ground and let out a low groan.

It's horrible! There were many outlaws among Ren Shituanyong, and now they all fled from the city, throwing down the shotguns, guns, and earthen cannons in their hands, and shouting: "Retreat quickly!" Get out of here! ”

The psychological blow was worse than the actual killing, Xu Muqian's face was pale, he didn't expect that the artillery of the red turban thief seemed to become infinitely powerful all of a sudden, and now only the most courageous and stubborn Tuanyong leader and Tuanyong were left in the city.

It's just that although this round of rapid fire caused a lot of casualties to the Qing army, the losses of the Red Turban Army were not small, and the two guns exploded on the spot in front of Liu Chang's eyes, causing one death and four injuries to the gunner, and even Liu Chang himself was almost hit by the fragments after the explosion, and the remaining artillery did not dare to continue firing before cooling down.

Liu Chang was ruthless in his heart: "Continue to press, press!" Artillerymen, follow me, charge with bayonets! Bayonet charge on the cannon! After this battle, I will cast bronze cannons for you! Make copper cannons, make copper cannons! ”

The reason why the artillery manufactured in the middle and late Qing Dynasty is easy to blow up the chamber is that the Qing Dynasty's refining technology is quite backward, the furnace temperature is low, resulting in the molten iron can not be purified, containing a lot of miscellaneous music, and the cast artillery pore bubbles can not withstand the pressure when applied, and it is easy to explode.

To fundamentally change this situation, in addition to buying new Western artillery, Liu Chang can only consider spending a lot of money to cast a few copper cannons.

It's too extravagant, it's definitely extravagant to lose!

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to save precious copper resources, most of the guns and shells of the People's Liberation Army used steel shells, and even the shells of the main artillery shells were gradually replaced by copper-clad steel shells.

And in this time and space, copper coins are the most important currency, and copper cannons are even more extravagant, Liu Chang loudly assured the artillerymen: "Isn't it a thousand eight hundred copper coins?" I'm out, I can't buy foreign cannons, let's cast bronze cannons ourselves! ”

But Liu Chang also had a pain in his heart, this was really an extravagant behavior.

You must know that in this era, the Hunan army only needed 2,000 yuan to make an improved mountain splitting cannon, that is, 20 yuan, 4,200 yuan to make a carrying gun, and as for the most commonly used bird gun, it only cost 1,200 yuan.

But now, not to mention anything else, just the materials, a cannon will cost at least four or five hundred copper coins, enough to make about twenty mountain splitting cannons.

But if you don't solve the problem of artillery, don't think about taking the city, and Liu Chang is also helpless.

As soon as he roared like this, the morale of the artillerymen rose all of a sudden, and they even risked the explosion of the artillery and asked, "Check, how much foreign medicine do you have issued?" With your words, we promise to blow up Hai'an City! ”

Although after the change to granular gunpowder, the danger of the artillery explosion has increased greatly, but the range and power have increased by at least one percent or more, so the artillerymen are very interested in this magical foreign gunpowder, Liu Chang replied to them: "As long as you can take Hai'an City, you can bomb as many as you want!" ”

The granular gunpowder he is now issuing to the artillery is not real foreign gunpowder, but the self-made granular gunpowder made by Xian Na, the leader of the battalion team, which is inferior in quality to the real foreign gunpowder, but it can produce more than ten catties every day, and it can be produced continuously.

After the foreigner Duncan came over, he gave some pointers, and Xian Na was ready to increase production on the existing base, and strive to produce at least thirty catties of granular gunpowder every day, so Liu Chang also opened Haikou: "Don't worry, I brought dozens of barrels of foreign gunpowder!" ”

With Liu Chang's assurance, the artillery team continued to move forward, and it was the dragon lance whistle that covered them, and the platoon commander of Juton, who was at the forefront, shouted to his soldiers: "It's time to kill!" It's time to kill! It's all ready for me! ”

Since he did not purchase a pistol for the officer, he now also holds a shooting pistol in his hand and acts as the most ordinary rifleman: "Brothers, get ready to kill, and when the regiment bravely goes to the city, the guns will be released together!" ”

Seeing that the artillery team of the Red Turban Army had advanced more than a dozen steps, Xu Muqian shouted at the head of the city: "The red turban thieves are coming, the red turban thieves are coming up, all of them will go up to the city wall for me and block the red turban thieves!" ”

Now there are only one hundred and ten Tuan Yong at the head of the city, and there are many bird guns, guns, and earthen cannons that are not controlled, so he personally took a short Tuan Yong to catch up with the retreating Tuan Yong again: "As long as the red turban thief is blocked, I Xu Muqian will give out a thousand acres of fields!" ”

Although he is a super big landlord with 100,000 acres of land, but taking out 1,000 acres of land, even if most of these fields are in Yueqing County, which is occupied by the Red Turban Army, it is a more defeating behavior than Liu Chang's bronze cannon, so Tuan Yong, who retreated, heard Xu Muqian's reward, and rushed to the city again.

It's just that they haven't even stood on their heels and set up their guns, Liu Chang has already clenched his fists: "The Qing Demon Brigade has gone to the city, let me go!" Put it on me! ”

This time it was not only the artillery that participated in the bombardment, but also the firing rifles and flintlock muskets of the entire dragon lance whistle were joined in the salvo at the same time, although most of the bullets either landed halfway or were fired on the city wall, but still a small half of the rifle shells flew up the city with a roar, and together with the cannonballs fired at the city head, a blood tide was formed.

This time, the regimental warriors slipped their heads a lot, and as soon as they saw that the Red Turban Army had stopped moving and was ready to fire, they immediately retreated, but they were still killed and wounded more than ten people.

But even if Xu Muqian once again promised the lure of 2,500 acres of land, no one was willing to act as a ghost to send him to death.

Although up to now, the Red Turban Army has only killed and wounded thirty or forty people, but there are almost no people in sight at the head of the city, and they are all hiding behind the hidden soldiers' caves, and the rain of bullets is really terrifying.

Xu Muqian understood that the movement of the artillery team was just a lure tactic of the Red Turban Army, and he wanted to deceive the regiment on his side to go to the city and slaughter him, he couldn't help but think: "The red thieves are full of poisonous schemes, I don't know what will happen next!" ”

He doesn't have much confidence in defending Hai'an City anymore, who is calling the other side a Liu Juehu who specializes in making desperate plans!

"More than 30 people from the Qing Demon Team have already left the south gate and fled!"

As soon as Liu Chang heard the news, he knew that after these rounds of guns and cannons, the confidence of the defenders had been shaken, and he knew that today's Wai Sanque was a trap, and he had to drill into the trap.

"It's time!" Liu Chang shouted at Sun Huzi: "Give the regimental commander in the city some knowledge!" ”

It's just some hors d'oeuvres, and that's the meal!

This is the real desperate plan.

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