The battle in Kaiyi City continued in full swing, but with the desperate resistance of the Xue clan, it became more and more intense.

On top of a half-section of a high-rise building that temporarily occupies a relatively open business, it was re-cleared and several temporary bunkers were piled up with large pieces of rubble.

And behind the rubble, there are vaguely busy figures

"Diagonally up three and a half degrees ,......"

Zhou Laoqi, the captain of the second team of the artillery regiment, hissed and gave the order

"37 Engraved Charge ......"

"The fifth group is responsible for calibration,"

"One to four groups, five breaths apart, fire in turn......"

"Ready, ......"

With his last order, pass. Open. Open. There were several loud sounds, and between the shiny backseat and rollers of the shiny gun carriage and the dust and gravel that were raised, the black iron barrel spewed out huge columns of smoke one after another, and the iron balls wrapped in huge kinetic energy flew out in an instant.

After drawing several slender arc trails, they fell one after another near the inner city, in front of and behind a certain barricade and fortification temporarily constructed by the remnants of the defenders using the more solid main body of the building.

Then it bounced unabated, slanting into the jumble of cover and bursting open, and behind the breached fortifications, limbs flew and exploded into a bloody color.

All of a sudden, the rain of arrows that were desperately shooting behind the bunker suddenly became much more relaxed and was rushed to the front by the foot soldiers, dragging and pulling to knock down the scattered bunkers, clearing several passages, and seeing that another fortification changed hands.

At the same time, the temporary position as a battery fortress was already filled with bitter and scorching gunpowder smoke; As the thick bristle brush filled with water is inserted into the barrel to clear the barrel, the smoky smell of water vapor evaporating the residue of the barrel is added. The smell of such a hot and steaming smell made the Luo Fan armor soldiers around them who were holding bows and guards couldn't help but turn their heads.

And for Zhou Laoqi, this is just a normal process of daily routine. You must know that this is already an improved collodion pack. If the old black powder was still used on the ship, the smoke and dust of the cannon could not open the eyes of the smoked people.

Although he is old, he also has a positive and motivated mind. Although he is a veteran of the artillery regiment, he has always had a conscious mentality of crisis and pressure that has been gradually replaced by young people with more flexible brains and better memory.

After moving from the sea to the land, he didn't want to be like other people who were getting old or in poor health, and he wanted to return to the field with the deed of the resettlement place so early, and he wanted to earn a little more capital and support for his death.

Therefore, after spending most of her savings to warm her feet, and having someone take care of her daily life, she had more time to specialize in gunnery and study mathematics and writing. Therefore, in the re-expansion of the field artillery regiment directly under it, with a cultural pass line that can meet the standards, it has become a newly promoted artillery captain as it wishes.

Now he commanded five groups of four-inch long-barreled light guns, as well as two ammunition carts, twenty cannons and horses in turn; Each group, together with the chief and deputy gunners, rotating operators, guards and auxiliaries, and grooms, was a full twelve. Coupled with the Xiao Qi and the drummer and trumpeter, the gunnery Yu Hou, the instructor, the material repairer and the baggage squad directly under him, the total number of people under his command is more than 130 people.

This was still the standard for the infantry team, and if it was equipped with a two-horse carriage to accompany the cavalry, he could have as many as one hundred and fifty men under his command.

He held up a small hourglass of standard timekeeping in front of the light and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, deviations and delays are still controlled between two breaths. Then he said a few data to Yu Hou, who was holding a horizontal vernier measuring tool and a small notebook on the side, and recorded it, and pressed his fingerprint as a signature.

As the gap was opened and widened, hordes of captives were escorted out of the neighborhood, but most of them were weeping old and weak women and children.

"Alright, let's get ready to shift positions......"

Old Zhou then commanded.

"Count the ammunition, check the equipment, and don't forget ......"

"I don't know what will happen to them......"

Yu Hou, who was quite a young artillery artist beside him, couldn't help but look a little uneasy, and followed behind him with Xiao Ben in his arms

"Do you want to deal with it together? Drop. ”

After all, some of the things he saw and heard in the past left him with a very bad impression and impression.

"That's not what you and I care about...... However, "

Old Zhou sighed slightly.

"Since, they have no intention of dealing with it on the spot......"

"Maybe it will be sold to Huaidong......

Zhou Laoqi said this to comfort the other party, but he remembered his Silla mother-in-law. Although the Chinese language is not good to this day, it does not prevent her from obeying and fulfilling her duties as a wife.

Because where she came, even a normal stomach was a rather luxurious thing, and as the daughter of the superfluous population, she had to go barefoot in the snow in winter to find firewood. Even if it's easy to live a little older, I can't wait to be sent to the feudal family to be a rough slave, that is, there is just one more place to stay in the wind and rain.

Where is it like after arriving in Huaidong, as long as you are well fed and clothed, as long as you wait for the man named husband, you can live very contentedly.

Of course, he wasn't exactly comforting the other party. Because as one of the non-commissioned officers of the technical arms, he also vaguely knows that today's Huaidong can be said to have surplus food, but it is quite short of manpower and labor.

Whether it is to the three states of Jiqibin in the north, or the three states of Denglai Jiao in the east; Or the two states of Si and Su in the south, which are in urgent need of a lot of manpower reclamation and construction.

Therefore, as long as these captives keep to themselves and work diligently for three or five years, they can easily escape from the highly regulated labor and quarantine camps and become the most basic administrators. Then, in five to ten years, in the local cantonment farms or mining workshops, gradually obtain the corresponding occupation and identity.

"We don't have the right and the capital to pity them......"

The other sturdy instructor was a little unceremoniously

"But if we don't work hard enough......"

"This may be the lesson of tomorrow for our Huaidong father, wife, and children......"

So the artillery master Yu Hou stopped talking.

They hurriedly followed the horse-drawn gun carts, trotting through the streets.

Suddenly, several armored soldiers who were at the forefront of the drive were suddenly knocked to the ground by the arrows that flew without knowing it.

Then, the nailed doors of several rooms not far away suddenly collapsed with a bang, and a group of armed men armed with sharp blades rushed out and fought hand-to-hand with the escort force of the towing artillery carriage.

Then, some of the fish that had slipped through the net too late to stop them bypassed the fighting warband, and pounced on the horse-drawn artillery carriage, slashing at the nearest pack horse that could not dodge.

Only a dozen crisp ping-pong sounds were heard, but it was the artillery soldiers on the left who hurriedly began to counterattack with short guns carried by them. The fine pieces of lead sprayed at close range suddenly slammed these attackers, who were all over the face or bleeding on their bodies, and fell to the ground or dropped their weapons, screaming and screaming.

As a result of this delay and obstruction, the other guards in the artillery corps also caught up and stabbed the wounded and fleeing enemies to the ground with bayonets.

Then the battle was soon over, and seeing that the situation was not good, the attackers left more than half of their bodies and fled back into the streets and alleys, but unfortunately they were met by Huaidong's artillery team.

A moment later,

The muzzles filled with scattered shells were fired directly at close range on the towed carriage, and the enemy's possible hiding places were immediately bombarded, and then several fire and thunder bullets were thrown into it, and in an instant, in the faint screams of exclamation, both the doors, windows and the walls exploded, spewing out large clouds of smoke and dust.

Then, as the debris and debris of the building collapsed to the ground as it could not be supported, there was a large pool of blood flowing from under the dust. It looks like there are quite a few people hiding in it.

As a result, this section of the street became clean again.

Stopping to examine the bodies revealed that the enemies had little armor or other protection other than the swords in their hands. And there are people of all ages, except for the courage of the moment, it seems to be hastily hasty.

"What the hell are you eating......

Zhou Laoqi scolded unceremoniously, the leader of the clan soldiers who was responsible for protecting the artillery team

"How can there be such a lurking fish that slips through the net?"

However, the chaos and casualties caused by these attackers who popped up from time to time were nothing more than a kind of final struggle for the overall advance of the Luo Fan Alliance.

With the sound of artillery from different directions, the vanguard of the Luo Fan coalition army still pushed the battle line to the vicinity of the inner city before dark. At the cost, large swaths of the city and neighborhoods were burned to ruins or demolished into white ground.

As a result, a large number of city residents who had no time to flee and hide were captured by the coalition forces amid the cries and cries of the earth.

And Xue Dingfeng, the general of the Xue clan who retreated to the head of the inner city wall, was like most people on the city wall, trembling in his hands and gritting his teeth, watching this scene, but his heart was full of sadness and despair.

Among them, there are many of their wives and children, old and young, or relatives and family members.

Is this the power of firearms in the Southern Dynasty, after seeing the end of many barricades being broken, even the seemingly tall and thick city wall under their feet does not look so safe and safe.