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Li Zicheng took hundreds of personal soldiers, together with Liu Zongmin, watching the battle from behind, Liu Zongmin was anxious, and several other city gates had already moved, only the west city gate was here, and there was no movement so far, and the artillerymen were still calibrating, "How did these two sons get to this point?" If there is a ladder, the other gates have already been taken down! ”

"Haha," Li Zicheng laughed, "sharpen the knife and cut the wood, the West City Gate attack is the latest, but it is also the most violent!" ”

"Boom...... Long ......"

Before Li Zicheng's words fell, the mountain artillery had already begun to shoot, the earth trembled violently, the sky changed color, and twenty flowering bullets, drawing a beautiful arc, after breaking through the sky, fell on the city one after another.

Gao Mingheng originally thought that the artillery outside the city would have to advance a certain distance, and even enter the range of the tiger squat cannon at the head of the city, but he didn't expect that the artillery of the Heavenly Mandate Army would have such a range!

What surprised him even more was that the cannonballs of the Heavenly Mandate Army were not the solid shells commonly used by the imperial court, and after falling on the city, there was another explosion, and he seemed to have some tinnitus from such a distance.

Blossom bombs!

Gao Mingheng seems to have heard of it, but the firearms bureau of the imperial court did not develop a flowering bomb, when Sun Yuanhua was in Shandong, he had a vision, but unfortunately, when Kong Youde made a rebellion, Sun Yuanhua was ambushed for his crimes, and he did not complete the design of the flowering bomb until his death.

Where did the Mandate of Heaven come to bloom?

Gao Mingheng witnessed the explosion of the flowering bomb and saw the broken bodies of the soldiers with his own eyes.

A flowering bullet fell in front of the soldier, and the unlucky soldier, without even making a shout, was blown apart, and his legs, feet, and arms, mixed with the flesh and blood on his body, were thrown in all directions like javelins, and even hit an innocent soldier, who fell down, but was silent and motionless, apparently fainting.

The flowering bomb exploded again after hitting the ground, and the surrounding area was in shambles, with headless corpses, mutilated torsos, half amputated thighs, and detached arms......

At the center of the explosion, craters of different depths were quickly flooded with blood, and when the sun shone, a blood-soaked brilliance was reflected......

Gao Mingheng retched for a while, almost coughing up blood, but his voice was soon drowned out by the cries of the soldiers, and after the initial numbness, the city was full of wailing, terrible, miserable, even though it was in broad daylight, the screams were still very terrible.

Some of the soldiers, who did not have any blood on their bodies and did not seem to be injured, covered their ears with their hands, and rolled from the top of the city to the bottom of the city, which was more painful than the wounded soldiers.

Gao Mingheng found that there were still some soldiers who didn't seem to be injured, but they were starless, standing at the head of the city in a daze, like fools, with a cold face!

What's going on? Could it be a devil's bullet?

Gao Mingheng didn't know what to do, in front of the artillery of the Heavenly Mandate Army, the head of the city was undefended, and he was completely passively beaten, at this time, Wang Xie hurriedly came over, approached Gao Mingheng, and said in a low voice: "My lord, what should I do?" There are heavy casualties at the head of the city, and if this continues, the soldiers at the head of the city will lose their combat effectiveness due to fear......"

What to do? If Lao Tzu knew, he would still use you to guard the city? Gao Mingheng scolded the Heavenly Mandate Army in his heart, they are all these strange artillery, I don't know how many such shells there are in the Heavenly Mandate Army, "I ......look at it as Lord Wang"

"Sir, don't we have artillery too?" Wang Xie hurriedly said: "Otherwise, we will also fire artillery at the city, no matter whether we can hit the Heavenly Mandate Army or not, the threat is also good." ”

Gao Mingheng thought about it, this is not bad, although because of the range problem, the tiger squat cannon cannot hurt the Heavenly Mandate Army outside the city, but it can give courage to the soldiers on the city, the Ming Army is not completely passive to be beaten, as long as the Heavenly Mandate Army is close, it will also pay the price.

There was artillery shelling on both sides, and in the midst of the loud roar, the soldiers might forget their fears......

Thinking of this, Gao Mingheng said: "Lord Wang is right, we also have a tiger squat cannon, order the gunner, open the cannon immediately!" ”

Liu Zongmin couldn't help laughing when he saw the artillery bombardment on the city, "Governor Dadu, is this the tiger squat cannon of the Ming army?" It's just for us to have fun, and another 500 steps forward won't hurt us in the slightest. ”

Li Zicheng's heart moved, the range of the tiger squat cannon is not as good as the mountain artillery, but after all, it is a long-range weapon, once the Heavenly Mandate Army approaches the city wall, or uses a rifle to strafe, it is very likely to be threatened, take advantage of this opportunity, maybe you can knock out the tiger squat cannon of the Ming army, once and for all, "Jiexuan, order the artillery, the target is changed to the tiger squat cannon of the Ming army!" ”

"Tiger squat cannon?" Liu Zongmin was stunned for a moment, but soon understood, knocked out the tiger squat cannon of the Ming army, and destroyed the Ming army's will to fight! With a wave of his hand, he beckoned two pro-soldiers, whispered a few words, and the pro-soldiers immediately ran towards the mountain artillery.

"Boom...... Long ......"

The sound of the mountain artillery, when it sounded again, the target had been changed to the location of the tiger squat artillery, although the tiger squat cannon could not be seen, but when the tiger squat cannon was firing just now, the artillerymen had already calculated the approximate location according to the trajectory of the solid shells, and twenty flowering shells were all poured down towards this area.

Liu Zongmin saw the smoke and fire rising from the city, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Governor, even if you can't blow up the tiger squat cannon, as long as the artillery of the Ming army is gone, will Gao Mingheng open fire himself?" ”

Li Zicheng's face was filled with a faint smile, there were only four or five tiger squat cannons on the city, and twenty flowering bombs went down, even if the tiger squat cannon could not be burned into molten iron and copper water, as long as some spare parts were burned out and could not be repaired for a while, the tiger squat cannon would be destroyed.

The Mandate of Heaven Army fights, not only to give full play to the advantage of numbers, but also to give full play to the advantages of technology, which era is the same, the technical advantage, not only twice the result with half the effort, casualties will also be reduced, like the battle of the West City Gate today, so far, the Mandate of Heaven Army has not suffered casualties, and the Ming army on the head of the city, I am afraid that it has long been bitter.

If the Ming army loses its combat effectiveness due to fear, it would be even better!

After another round of shelling, the solid bullets fired by the tiger squat cannon could no longer be seen in the city, Li Zicheng said: "Jiexuan, our supplies have not been delivered yet, we can't waste the flowering bullets, let the gunners get on!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" According to Liu Zongmin's temperament, he still wanted to have a few more rounds of shelling, but he also knew that the supplies did not know when they would be delivered, and once the ammunition was gone, the second regiment would almost lose the ability to fight, and use the waist knife to fight hand-to-hand with the Ming army, which was definitely not the director of the second regiment.

A hundred steps is an ideal distance, and the hit rate of the rifle can reach the maximum, while the Ming army in the city, whether it is a fire gun or a bow and arrow, is out of reach, and can only stare dryly.

Although the gunners aimed, they did not shoot for the time being, and the Ming troops on the head of the city were already frightened by the artillery, and they could not see their shadows from the city at all.

Li Zicheng had no choice but to give Liu Jianyi an order, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the soldiers of the third regiment of the independent battalion hurriedly approached the city wall!

Liu Jianyi was impatient for a long time, he used the thunderous sound to drive the soldiers closer to the city, the soldiers have adapted to Liu Jianyi's loud voice, on the battlefield, the louder the voice, the better the effect of the order.

In a moment, the soldiers of five thousand households, already carrying all kinds of sacks on their shoulders, shouted and rushed to the city wall one by one, they had just seen that under the blow of the Heavenly Mandate Army's flowering bombs, the Ming army on the head of the city had already been scattered, and there would not even be a shadow.

The moat outside the west city is really wide, and the river is as wide as five zhang as far as the eye can see, and thousands of sacks full of earth and stones are thrown down and completely sunk in the river.

Liu Jianyi was urging the soldiers to work harder, and the soldiers who were observing hurriedly ran to remind him: "General, the Ming army has begun to appear in the city!" ”

He looked up and saw that the battlements of the daughter wall were indeed full of shadows, and the number of Ming troops was not large, but they obviously found the Heavenly Mandate Army that was filling in the moat.

Liu Jianyi frowned, looked at the location of Liu Zongmin's gunner, and saw that the gunman was aiming, and immediately relieved, "Don't worry, as long as the Ming army appears on a large scale, it will definitely not be beneficial, maybe the Ming army is too small to be worth the brothers of the second regiment of the fourth battalion!" ”

Fortunately, the river did not flow, and hundreds of bags of mud and rocks were thrown down, and the corners of the sacks were already exposed on the surface of the river, and the soldiers were overjoyed: with more efforts, the moat would be filled!

"Bang ......"

The gunners of the Mandate of Heaven finally fired, and the head that had just poked out of the city disappeared in an instant, and I don't know whether they were hiding behind the daughter wall or falling out of the shot.

Liu Jianyi suddenly grinned, "Brothers, hurry up and fill the moat, with the brothers of the second regiment of the fourth battalion to protect you, you don't have to worry about your own safety." ”

The soldiers really sped up, and many soldiers waved to the city while running, "If you have a kind of show your head, see if your head can be harder than our bullets......"

Gao Mingheng wants to cry without tears, the artillery of the Mandate of Heaven has a long range, and it is okay to suppress the tiger squat cannon at the head of the city, the artillery is fired for a long time, and the accuracy is not high, as long as the soldiers learn to dodge, or simply evacuate the city, the casualties will not be too great, but the guns of the Mandate of Heaven are also so sharp, and they can be shot at the head of the city from a hundred steps away......

Surprise, what a surprise!

How many other firearms are so sharp in the Providence Army?

Such a battle is so difficult that the soldiers cannot emerge from the battlements, how can they shoot arrows at the city? And how to use rolling wood stone accurately?

Don't say that the young man who has just been recruited, even he himself has lost confidence in defending the city, what's wrong with Daming, even the firearms of the rogue are not as good as ......

The soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven took advantage of this opportunity to quickly fill in the moat, and although there was only a small path in the middle, the soldiers were already passable.

The soldiers who attacked the other city gates only put one hundred households at a time, but Liu Jianyi directly put one thousand households, who made the West City Gate the main direction of attack?

Of the remaining four thousand households, two of them continue to fill in the earth, and it is better to fill in a few more roads from the moat, and the other two thousand households are resting, ready to replace the soldiers who are besieging the city.