Huang Taiji was really dumbfounded, he didn't expect the Ming army to hoard so many tiger squat cannons in a small Haizhou city!

Although it is not very difficult to cast the tiger squat cannon in his opinion, but this thing is troublesome to process behind, just scraping the cannon chamber can scrape people to death, he has more than 1,000 tiger squat cannons but it took several years to accumulate, and the Ming army occupied Haizhou City for a long time, and it was actually hoarded seven or eight hundred tiger squat cannons!

This speed is simply terrifying, but no matter how terrifying it is, Haizhou City must be taken.

Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and decisively ordered: "Order, the Yellow Banner artillery will lift all the tiger squat cannons up, aim at the city wall, and give me a blast!" ”

He is also ruthless, the tiger squat cannon is either hidden and not used, and if he wants to use it, he will take it out and pile it up!

When the herald received the order, he immediately beat his horse and rushed towards the rear of the Zhenghuang Banner array, and soon, thousands of Zhenghuang Banner infantry pushed hundreds of siege vehicles from the rear formation and went straight to the direction of the city wall.

Jiannu's own formation moved, and Sun Chuanting, who had been paying attention to the battle situation, naturally quickly discovered that the Eight Banners infantry had launched hundreds of siege vehicles at one time, what did this mean?

Are they here to fill in the trenches?

It's impossible, this kind of dirty work is tiring and the slaves are generally not sent to do it.

Are they here to storm the walls?

It's impossible, there are more than a dozen trenches within a mile in front of the city wall, and the siege vehicles can't push it at all.

Sun Chuanting carefully observed the Eight Banners of Infantry under the siege vehicle with a telescope, and soon, he found that these infantry soldiers were carrying some strange boxes, these boxes were the same as wooden cages, surrounded by Xiang's railings, and there was no cover, and when these foot soldiers got closer, he finally saw the contents of the boxes, which turned out to be tiger squat cannons and ammunition!

He swept the telescope left and right again, and with his composure, he couldn't help but gasp.

Tiger squat cannons, all tiger squat cannons!

The chariot pushed by the foot soldiers of the Eight Banners was full of rifled tiger squat cannons and ammunition artillery underneath, and Jiannu actually had so many tiger squat cannons!

You Shilu had never seen Sun Chuanting lose his temper like this, he heard Sun Chuanting's inhalation, and couldn't help asking, "My lord, what's wrong?" ”

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he seemed to suddenly realize something, he didn't answer You Shilu's question, but turned his head and stuffed the telescope to Zheng Hua on the other side, and then said anxiously: "Jiannu has brought up a lot of tiger squat cannons, what should I do?" ”

Artillery battles, he hasn't fought yet, but he knows that Zheng Hua must have fought them, because naval battles are basically artillery battles, at least the naval battles he heard Zhang Bin mentioned were all artillery battles.

Zheng Hua heard that Jiannu brought up a lot of tiger squat cannons, not only did he not show a panicked look, but his eyes faintly showed an excited expression, artillery battle, I haven't fought for a long time, although the tiger squat cannon is the smallest caliber artillery, it is also quite enjoyable to bombard.

He raised his binoculars and looked at it carefully, and then said disdainfully: "They are carrying old-fashioned tiger squat cannons, although there are many of them, but the loading speed is too slow, so there is no need to be afraid." ”

The heart made the 10,000-year-old ship, Sun Chuanting asked: "Do you want to mobilize one hundred and fifty tiger squatting cannons from the south of the city and the north of the city, the number of Jiannu tiger squatting cannons is more than five hundred, and there are only two hundred and fifty in the west of our city, which is too much." ”

Zheng Huayu explained: "The city wall is so wide, it is difficult to dodge the enemy's shells if there are too many tiger squatting cannons, and in naval battles, it is whose artillery is fierce, whose artillery is fast, but the number of artillery in siege warfare is not the decisive factor, as long as the difference in the number of artillery between the two sides is not outrageous." Besides, the rate of fire of our artillery is faster than theirs, their old-fashioned Tiger squat cannon, ammunition loading is troublesome, and the barrel of the cannon has to be cleaned after firing, and it is good to be able to fire one shell in one tea time, and our Tiger Squat Cannon can fire five shells in one tea time, and we still have an advantage in terms of the number of shells fired. ”

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Do you still know how to fight artillery battles in siege warfare?" I thought you'd been in a naval battle. ”

Zheng Hua said proudly: "I have not participated in siege warfare, but our army lecture hall has a department that specializes in the use of artillery in siege warfare, and they are simulating the battle test summary every day, how to use various artillery in siege warfare, how to prepare for the bombardment of the enemy's various artillery, these have special courses in the army lecture hall, and I don't know how many classes." ”

When Sun Chuanting heard him say this, he wanted to go to the Dongfan Army Lecture Hall to study hard for a while, but this was not the time to think about this problem, because Jiannu was about to bring the artillery over, he looked at the location of Jiannu's siege vehicle, and hurriedly asked: "Then you say, what should we do now?" ”

Zheng Hua thought for a while, and then said solemnly: "I can't tell you this for a while, otherwise, I will command this artillery battle." ”

Sun Chuanting nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, you give the order, Shilu and I will listen to you." ”

When Zheng Hua heard this, he looked at the arrangement on the left and right city walls, and then ordered: "Order, all the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers on the city wall will be withdrawn, and the musketeers will also be withdrawn by four thousand, leaving only one thousand gunners and one thousand musketeers, in addition, let the pikemen, sword and shield soldiers and musketeers who have withdrawn all huddle together against the root of the city wall, and try not to stand ten steps away from the city wall." ”

"This!" , You Shilu heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, in order to resist Jiannu's attack, but he pulled up all the 10,000 horses responsible for the defense of the west city wall, and the city wall was densely packed and neat, Jiannu wanted to attack it, it was really unlikely, at this time Zheng Hua actually ordered him to withdraw the people on the city wall, how to defend this city?

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting hurriedly ordered: "General You, do as General Zheng says." ”

This is not called a general, which proves that the governor is giving a formal order, although You Shilu is not happy, he can only order the guards to pass the order.

Soon, the dense Qin army foot soldiers lined up on the city wall went down eighty percent, and the entire city wall seemed much empty.

Zheng Hua then ordered: "Order, all artillery to push the artillery to a position one step away from the arrow stack, and the muzzle of the gun is aimed at the gap in the middle of the arrow stack. ”

This time You Shilu didn't hesitate any longer, and with his order, the artillery on the city wall immediately became busy, and at this time, the eight banner foot soldiers below had already pushed the siege vehicle to a position almost a mile away from the city wall, and their artillery also began to set up artillery under the siege vehicle.

Zheng Hua took a general look at the location of their siege vehicles, and then waved his hand to summon his personal guards Xing, waited suddenly, and then waved them to disperse to command the artillerymen and musketeers on the city wall.

The artillery of Jiannu under the city wall has not yet set up the artillery, all the artillery on the city wall has been pushed to a position only one step away from the arrow battlement, and all the musketeers have also squatted under the arrow battlement under the command of Zheng Hua's personal guards, and the entire back half of the city wall is empty.

Zheng Hua saw that the musketeers and artillery were already in place, and immediately ordered without hesitation: "Open the cannon, take turns to shoot, don't stop." ”

This time, not only You Shilu was stunned, but Sun Chuanting was stunned, they understood the meaning of firing the cannon, and what did it mean to take turns to shoot?

Soon, they understood, "boom, boom", with a burst of artillery roar, ten siege vehicles in the siege vehicle array of Jiannu in front of the city wall were smashed and scattered, and the foot soldiers and artillery of the Eight Banners below were also smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, almost all of them died, and those who did not die also kept rolling on the ground and wailing, which was extremely miserable.

It turned out that Zheng Hua asked his guards to divide the artillery into ten groups, and each group of 25 tiger squat guns was aimed at a siege vehicle, and concentrated the firepower to fire, and one blow was effective.

This really frightened the foot soldiers and artillerymen of Jiannu, but they had a total of three hundred siege vehicles, and the impact of being smashed ten at a time was not very great, although their faces were slightly panicked, they were still preparing in an orderly manner, and soon, they completed the first loading, with their commander's order, "boom boom", in a dense artillery roar, more than 500 shells smashed into the city wall like hail, the power was simply terrifying.

However, this effect is a bit miserable.

Zheng Hua's guards have been paying attention to them, as soon as they finished loading ammunition and were ready to fire, these guards immediately ordered all the artillery men to stop adjusting the angle of the artillery and squatted behind the arrow stacks to hide, so even if their shells hit the city wall, they couldn't hit a person, because of the angle relationship, they couldn't even hit the artillery on the city wall, and their accuracy was ridiculously poor, more than 500 shells, about 200 rounds smashed to the top of the city wall, and the others either hit the city wall or flew over the city wall.

After Jiannu finished bombarding this cannon, it was a long preparation period, and soon the roar of artillery sounded on the city wall, and ten more siege vehicles were smashed to pieces, and the foot soldiers and artillery of the Eight Banners below were also smashed with heavy casualties, wailing.

The two sides are bombarding back and forth like this, and after ten rounds, there has not been a single casualty among the Qin soldiers on the city wall, but nearly a hundred Jiannu siege vehicles under the city wall have been bombarded!

There was already a lot of mourning under the city walls, but there was not a single injured person on the city walls.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Hua couldn't help but smile and said: "This Jiannu doesn't know about artillery warfare at all, and I don't know what they are doing with so many artillery!" ”

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