Lin Yu was annoyed by the guns and bows and arrows of the Qing army on the other side of the moat, and it was a bit wasteful to use cannonballs too close, so he controlled the machine gun to strafe the Qing army.

"Doodoo ......"

A 7.62 bullet was fired out and hit the nearest Qing army, easily piercing through the armor, and the strafing Qing army fell down like a wave of wheat.

Lin Yu watched the number of bullets on the screen decrease rapidly, from 1,800 to more than 1,400, but because of the close contact with the Qing army, there was only a distance of 100 zhang, so the damage caused was not inferior to that of artillery shells.

According to a rough estimate, there were seventy or eighty Qing soldiers who fell under their guns, and at such a close distance, their armor could not resist the bullets fired by machine guns, and they were all shot out of the holes in the blood, lying on the ground and struggling and wailing, like a slaughterhouse.

Under the tremendous power of the machine guns, the Qing army was frightened and scattered, and the formation was in chaos, ignoring the constraints of the capital, and retreated like a swarm.

The bullets are limited, and Lin Yu plans to adopt the strategy of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, even if he can't kill the commander of the Qing army, Duoduo, he must kill the artillery battalion commander Nikan, so as to deter the Qing army and make them take the initiative to withdraw their troops.

Otherwise, the Qing army is as many as 100,000, even if his own Merkava can kill more than 10,000 Qing soldiers, when the shells are exhausted, they will become tigers without minions, and in the end they will not be able to save the people of Yangzhou City.

After making up his mind, Lin Yu no longer entangled with the Qing army on the opposite side, and turned around and sailed along the moat towards the north city wall.

The moat of Yangzhou is more than a foot deep, and if this is the depth of the river, the Merkava tank can easily cross it. But the height of the canal in this moat was more than two zhang, and Lin Yu was afraid that he would never be able to come up again after going down, so he didn't dare to wade into danger easily.

This ironclad beast is now not only related to the survival of the Ming Dynasty, but also to the life and death of 800,000 Yangzhou people.

There is a drawbridge on the city wall that can be lowered, but if the 60-ton tank drives up, I am afraid that the bridge will be crushed and broken, and it will still be difficult to escape the fate of falling into the water.

Lin Yu remembered that due to the heavy attack on the northern city wall by the Qing army, the moat had been filled with rolling stones and trees, and the Merkava tank could successfully cross the moat from there and enter the Qing army's formation.

The tank, weighing sixty tons, rolled north along the moat bank at the foot of the city wall, reaching a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, which was already extremely fast in the eyes of the Qing army.

The Qing artillery could only aim at one angle, and by the time they loaded the shells, the tanks were already out of range, and they could only watch the ironclad monster drift away until it reached the end of the eastern city wall, and then turned around and continued west along the moat.

Nikan monitored the whereabouts of the "Iron Monster" on the high slope, and kept issuing orders: "The Iron Monster is heading towards the north city wall, immediately transfer all the red-clothed cannons to the direction of the north city wall, and give me a concentrated fire to shoot, I don't believe that I can blow it up if I fight more or less!" ”

After receiving Nikan's order, the heavy artillery of the Qing army moved to the north city wall, looking for a favorable position to fire at the iron armor monster, and a group of fireballs flew out of the air with a roar, landing on the north city wall, and the Ming army on the bombed city wall could not raise their heads.

Lin Yu held the steering wheel in his hand and stepped on the accelerator to increase his speed, raising the speed to about 35 kilometers per hour, so that most of the artillery fire of the Qing army failed. Even if a few shells occasionally exploded next to it, the threat to this ironclad chariot with copper tendons was insignificant.

However, the Ming army on the city wall could not withstand the fierce artillery fire of the Qing army, and the flying stone chips splashed Shi Kefa and all the staff, and they were choked by the smoke of gunpowder and coughed incessantly.

Liu Zhaoji exhorted loudly: "Supervisor, the Qing army has transferred all the heavy artillery to the north city wall, it is too dangerous to stay on the city wall, you better go down to the city, right?" ”

"Zhenjiang is killing the enemy alone under the city, how can the old man be greedy for life and afraid of death, and retreat from the battle?"

Shi Kefa looked at death as if he were at home, rejected Liu Zhaoji's proposal, took the drumstick from a drummer and beat the war drum, "The old man personally cheered for Zhenjiang!" ”

"The man beating the drum on the north wall seems to be Shi Kefa!"

Zhang Tianlu, the former general of the Ming Dynasty who had just surrendered to the Qing army, found Shi Kefa's traces with a telescope and hurriedly reported to Nikan, "The person wearing the red second-grade official uniform on the city wall is Shi Kefa!" ”

"Really?"

Nikan was overjoyed, looked at the telescope for a moment, and decisively waved his hand and ordered: "Bombard me on the north city wall and blow up Shi Kefa into powder!" ”

The deputy general next to him reminded: "Lord Beile, Prince Yu has an order, it is best to capture Shi Kefa alive, and then let him persuade the Nanjing court to surrender." just killed Shi Kefa rashly, just afraid that the prince would be surprised. ”

"I remember what you said, my uncle did give such an order."

Nikan was a little depressed, and waved his hand: "Then continue to bomb the ironclad monster under the city, the cannonball doesn't have eyes, and if it kills Shi Kefa, I can't blame me." ”

The Qing army continued to bombard the northern city wall, and as heavy artillery arrived to reinforce it, nearly 300 artillery pieces gathered under the northern city wall in a short time, and bombarded the tank driven by Lin Yu with dense artillery fire.

"Gather our artillery here to protect the Inspector and Lin Gongzi!"

Liu Zhaoji brandished his sword and commanded loudly, his voice hoarse, and he couldn't wait to go down to the city to fight hand-to-hand with the Tartars.

"Bang!"

A solid bullet whistled down from the sky and landed right on top of the tank's head, making a loud "clang" sound, sparks splashed everywhere, and the huge force smashed the solid tank into a dent.

Lin Yu, who was caught off guard, hit his head on the control screen, the stars flashed in front of him, and the nosebleeds also flowed down and dripped on the screen, bit by bit, like plum blossoms.

Seeing this, the general of the Qing army commanding the artillery shouted at the top of his throat: "All the red-coated cannons have been replaced with solid shells, and the flowering cannons are useless against this ironclad car, but the solid bullets are still effective." ”

The dozens of heavy guns of the Qing army were immediately replaced with solid bullets, and lead bullets weighing dozens of catties flew out of the barrel and smashed into the tank driven by Lin Yu, like a mutated hailstone.

Dense cannonballs fell from the sky, and although Lin Yu sped up to dodge, he was inevitably hit, constantly making a loud "clang, clang" sound, which made Lin Yu's eardrums in the cockpit buzz.

"The wild boar skin raised by the son of a bitch, the tiger is not powerful, when I am a sick cat?"

Seeing that the moat in front of him had been filled, Lin Yu immediately turned the steering wheel to the north, forcibly crossed the moat, and drove to the opposite bank.

Lin Yu held the steering wheel with his left hand, stepped on the accelerator under his feet, and controlled the screen with his right hand to rotate the barrel, aiming at the artillery position of the Qing army, and pressed "fire" seven or eight times in a row.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"

One after another, the shells flew into the sky with a whistling sound, and then fell into the formation of the Qing army, bursting out with a huge explosion sound, exploding a ball of fireballs, and making the Qing soldiers turn over on their backs, and the cannons flew crookedly, and the screams were endless.

Seven or eight grenades fell, killing at least more than 300 Qing troops, wounding countless people, and damaging more than a dozen artillery pieces, including two red-coated cannons.

Shi Kefa saw the ironclad car showing such great power on the city wall, and he couldn't help but be enthusiastic, and saw in his eyes the hope of waving his army to the north and recovering Beijing.

"Great, this ironclad car is a godsend! With the help of this artifact, why worry about the Qing army not retreating? ”

Shi Kefa received the drumstick and praised it, and asked Liu Zhaoji excitedly, "Mr. Liu, where did Zhenjiang get the ironclad car?" This guy is amazing, why hasn't the old man seen it before? ”