Zhang Ergou carried a bag of soil and stumbled forward with a group of people. Their task www.biquge.info to fill in the dry moat with the soil in the bag to facilitate the offensive operations that followed. According to the military master above, as long as he throws three bags of soil into the moat today, he will have something to eat. The food was farther back, and a few large cauldrons were there, steaming hot. When Zhang Ergou passed by, there was a smell of rice that hit his nose. Zhang Ergou couldn't remember how long it had been since he had eaten rice, and even he felt that he had completely forgotten when he had eaten rice last time and what the days when he had rice to eat were like. But this aroma made him think of all this at once.

"If you have rice to eat, you are alive! If you don't even have to eat rice, what's the point of living? Isn't that the same as salted fish? Isn't it just a pile of meat? Zhang Ergou stretched out his tongue and licked his chapped lips, and didn't look up at the front, just lowered his head and stared at the road a little ahead of his feet, walking forward step by step.

"Boom!" It was the cannon at the head of the city, and from the barrel of the cannon spewed out a vicious death, which swept through the crowd like a broomstick, and crackled like hail in the fields. In these sounds, the people around Zhang Ergou were like wheat in a hailstorm, pouring a piece, and Zhang Ergou's eyes suddenly brightened a lot. The raindrops of shrapnel hit the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust, and Zhang Ergou's nose was full of the smell of dust. But Zhang Ergou didn't notice all of this, and he didn't care. He was used to death, to all kinds of death. Nothing compares to rice, shells, death, nothing compares to rice.

Zhang Ergou continued to move forward, and more, people who were not dead were also carrying dirt bags. The moat is getting closer.

"Boom!" The cannon sounded again, and the rain-like shotguns swept past Zhang Ergou, and many people fell from his front and back, left and right, but Zhang Ergou seemed to have a divine protective body, unharmed. Of course, this is not a divine body protector, and this is not to say that Zhang Ergou has the aura of the protagonist, this is just a probability. Sometimes life is a matter of chance, God casts a dice, and then man has no choice but to accept it. It's like no one knows who the next shotgun will knock down, or if a singer will pass by the next second and apply for a piece of two-way foil for cleaning.

Of course, Zhang Ergou won't think about this, he only knows that he is still alive and has the opportunity to eat another bite of rice porridge. And to eat rice porridge, he has to continue to walk forward, pour the soil in the bag into the moat in front of him, and then take the bag back, three times back and forth, and then he can eat rice porridge.

In the distance, a trumpet sounded on the city wall, this was the archers in the city preparing, Zhang Ergou and the others would soon enter the range of the archers. However, Zhang Ergou didn't know about these and didn't care too much. All he knew was that the goal was not far away.

Trumpets sounded again on the ramparts, followed by a buzzing sound. It was the sound of the city's archers shooting arrows, and from a distance, it sounded like the buzzing of a swarm of poisonous bees. And the arrows they shot swooped down like a swarm of poisonous bees towards Zhang Ergou, who looked like skeletons or zombies and living dead in post-apocalyptic films.

The light arrow, which is very difficult to use when fighting the armored Jianzhi, is very useful when dealing with these outcasts. Coupled with the height advantage of the city walls, if the wind direction is favorable, these light arrows falling from the sky can even inflict serious damage on those displaced people at a distance of one hundred and thirty or forty paces.

Unlike shotguns fired from artillery, light arrows are often not fatal, even to unarmored targets. But in fact, for people like Zhang Ergou, it may be better to take a shotgun than to take an arrow. Because if you are hit by a shotgun, you will die faster, and if you are hit by an arrow, you will not be able to die for a while. But don't think that someone will treat you here, you can only slowly become inflamed and rot to death.

A person with two arrows stuck in his chest fell in front of Zhang Ergou at once, forcing Zhang Ergou to stop and go in a different direction. This person fell to the ground, his mouth was ringing, his hands were still touching on all sides, Zhang Ergou bypassed him, he knew that if he was caught by this person's hand, he would not be able to struggle for most of the day.

The moat was in front of him, Zhang Ergou squatted down on the edge of the moat, lifted the straw bag full of soil, and poured all the clods of soil into the channel of the dry moat. The straw bag was not easy to come by, and it had to be used to hold soil, and even at night, he had to use it to keep out the cold, so it could not be thrown away.

At this distance, archers and musketeers can already fire at a single target. At this time, the artillery of the invading army also began to bombard the city wall to cover, not to take the opportunity to eliminate the archers and musketeers who were shooting directly at the city.

However, the cannon of the Chuang army is originally small, and the range is not as good as those cannons in Kaifeng City, you know, since the Zheng family began to sell "Hongyi cannons" to the imperial court, the price of Hongyi cannons has dropped slightly, which makes cities like Kaifeng can already be equipped with some Hongyi cannons.

Fortunately, even if it is a long-barreled "Hongyi cannon", its shooting accuracy is very limited, when using solid shells, it is almost impossible to accurately hit the opponent's cannon, that is, it is almost impossible to use it to perform counter-battery tasks, and in this era, although there is already a so-called "flowering shell", but this thing is not a high-explosive bomb in later generations, it is similar to "fire dragon out of water" and the like, basically there is not much practical value. And the shotgun can't hit that far. Due to technical secrecy, the Zheng family also did not sell shrapnel to anyone else.

Therefore, the small cannons of the invading army can also be pushed far enough away for their solid shells to hit the city walls, and launch artillery strikes at the walls. Of course, they also used solid shells. If they continue to advance to a distance where they can shoot shotguns at targets in the city, the shotguns in the city will be enough to reach them.

The destructive power of these small cannons against the city wall is limited, but if they can be hit, their shells can cause significant damage to the female wall above the city wall, as well as to the towers. Occasionally, a cannonball hit the female wall of the wall, shattering it to pieces. The flying shards knocked down several archers at once.

Zhang Ergou dumped all the soil in the bag, and was about to turn back, but a person next to him who was also pouring soil was hit by an arrow, his body was crooked, and then he fell down like a sack, rolling directly into the dry ditch.

Zhang Ergou turned around and ran back, and a light arrow flew past his face, startling him. It's just that Zhang Ergou had to stop after running a few steps, his extremely weak body because of hunger couldn't withstand such a strenuous exercise, he gasped for breath and bent over like a shrimp. But the people in the city no longer regard him as a target, and they prioritize shooting those who are still carrying bags. So although Zhang Ergou stood there panting, he was never attacked.

Zhang Ergou gasped for a while, the people around him either died or ran back, he could be regarded as passing this breath, at this time, there were few other targets around him, and those archers in the city were increasingly unable to ignore Zhang Ergou's existence. So one arrow after another flew towards Zhang Ergou.

Zhang Ergou turned his back to the city, and he didn't know about these situations, but he knew that this was the third time he had poured soil into the river, and as long as he went back, he would have a bowl of porridge to drink, so he walked forward slowly.

Whoosh thin, a few arrows were inserted in the place where Zhang Ergou was standing just now. Zhang Ergou walked slowly like this, one arrow after another swept past him, but none of them hit him until he was out of the range of the bow and arrow.

"Who is that kid?" In the distance, Liu Zongmin pointed at Zhang Ergou with a horsewhip and asked.

"It's just a ditch filler. Luck is really good! One of the soldiers replied.

"That's a good kid!" Liu Zongmin said with a smile, "Good luck is the greatest ability." In this world, no skill is as good as luck! You go over, bring that boy over, give him a good meal, give him a shield, and let him be a soldier. Well, this time, those who have not died three times will be soldiers, and tomorrow let them climb the city wall or dig city bricks, if this kid is not dead, let him be a personal soldier for Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu estimated that after this siege was captured, Lao Tzu's subordinates and King Chuang's subordinates would have a lot of soldiers who could fight. ”

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Shengjing, school field.

Huang Taiji is watching a team's drill.

This is an artillery team, but it is completely different from the artillery of Kong Youde's Tianyou Army, this artillery team uses small cannons.

"Duoduo, your people suffered in front of this kind of small cannon last time, right?" Huang Taiji asked Duoduo.

"Starling, according to the minions who came back, it's a small cannon that is almost that big. It's just that the Dutch's cannons are super fast, much faster than ordinary muskets, and they can fire shotguns far. So before we could go up, our queue was disrupted by these cannons. And he was forced not to charge in advance. I don't know how these cannons made by the starlings compare to those Dutch. Dordor replied. At this time, Huang Taiji has been the emperor for a long time, and everyone else is used to calling it the emperor, but relying on his own strength, Duoduo is still called a starling and a starling.

"This is according to your minions." Huang Taiji said, "Just listen to what you say and do it, where you can do it as good as the original." If nothing else, we don't understand how the shotgun can hit so far. However, in the past, we all thought that this cannon was only useful for attacking and defending the city, but now with this cannon, it can also be used in field wave warfare. As for speed, let them practice it first, and we'll see. ”