"How can these thieves have red-coated cannons?" Zhu Shichang's eyes were about to pop out, and Whitebeard didn't know whether it was because of excitement or fear, and he trembled vigorously: "Where did they get it?" ”

I saw that seven miles away from this section of the city wall, crowded in the crowd of rebels, suddenly scattered a large wide front, countless rags like beggars like the rebel soldiers shouted, drove out more than ten carts dragged by healthy horses, horses neighed, the people behind hand in hand, shoulder-carrying, soon put these carts one by one in the open field, lined up in a horizontal row, separated from each other more than two zhang away, from the city wall, like a wave suddenly appeared a gap.

After taking place, the soldiers of the Kuizhou Army wearing the clothes of the righteous army moved swiftly to remove the tarpaulin covered on the cart, revealing the true face inside, the dark red bronze cannon barrel is covered with a black muzzle, the huge gun carriage is equipped with huge wheels, and the barrel as thick as a beam is the reason why Zhu Shichang exclaimed, this is a large Napoleon cannon that fires ten catties of iron bullets, and in Zhu Shichang's eyes, it is the king of the red-clothed cannon--- General Shenwei.

Coincidentally, Wang Huan called this Napoleonic cannon also called the Shenwei cannon.

More than ten Shenwei cannons lined up, before they fired, the thick muzzle gave the Qing army on the city full deterrence, in the late Ming Dynasty, where firearms were widely used, any soldier who had been in the army for a few days knew the power of large-caliber artillery, let alone saw so many cannons at once.

The exclamations on the head of the city could be heard from miles away, Li Dingguo urged the horse to step forward, came to Wang Huan, who was standing behind the artillery team, and asked softly with a puzzled face: "My lord, although the Shenwei artillery siege is good, it is not as happy as the thunder, and the iron bullet is not as amazing as the power of the medicine bag, why don't you just bombard the sky and thunder, and use the Shenwei cannon?" ”

He had seen the thunder attack on the city, and the earthquake-like attack effect caused by the concentrated projectile of hundreds of catties of yellow explosives made him unforgettable, and the power of the Shenwei cannon was still not up to par, so he had this question.

Wang Huan stared at the head of Taiyuan City, where the figures were shaking, the flags were shaking, and it seemed that they were dispatching troops and recruiting people to deal with them.

"The range of the thunderbolt is too close, and if it is too far away, it cannot be shot under the city wall, which is equivalent to wasting gunpowder. And if we get closer, we will be exposed to the range of the Tartars' artillery, which will only increase the casualties, and we are not in a hurry to conquer this city, so there is no need to do so. Wang Huan explained indifferently: "And the long-range firepower of the Shenwei cannon is far farther than the largest red-clothed cannon in the Tartars, and if it is accurate, if it is placed here, it can accurately shoot on the city wall, and the firing angle is slightly raised, and it can also be projected into the city, so many benefits, of course, you have to choose the Shenwei cannon." ”

Li Dingguo suddenly sighed heartily: "Yes, the purpose of the adults is just to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, so that the Tartars in the city are terrified and frightened, but they just keep them breathing, let them keep the hope of guarding, so that they can hurry up and ask for help!" ”

Wang Huan smiled slightly, a trace of cunning slipped over his handsome face, and said: "Think about it, what kind of effect will the fear and anxiety of the defenders in the city convey to the ears and eyes of the leaders of the Qing army in Datong through the words of the letter and the words of the messenger?" ”

Li Dingguo's eyes lit up: "Taiyuan cannot afford to lose, the Qing army besieging Datong will definitely send reinforcements at all costs!" ”

"On the letter asking for help, it will definitely be pointed out that we have red-coated cannons, so the reinforcements coming will not be as perfunctory as a few Mongolian soldiers, and the Eight Banners must be the main force of reinforcements." Wang Huan's smiling face was full of murderous intent, and a chilling aura of murder permeated from every pore on his body, as if it were tangible, which made Li Dingguo subconsciously avoid it in fear: "It's exactly what I want!" I want the Tartars to know that the land of Shanxi is their burial place and the grave of ten thousand bones! ”

Li Dingguo's heart seemed to be lit with a burst of fire, which made his heart gradually become fanatical, ten thousand bone mounds! Hou Ye wants to make the Qing army, which is invincible all over the world, become a mound of bones! How heroic, this is something that many generals dare not imagine.

"You stay here and leave in three days." Wang Huan said to Li Dingguo: "The main force of the Kuizhou Army has rushed to Shiling Pass to set up an ambush, you only have 6,000 people from the Fengzi Battalion and some laying soldiers, and you have to guard against more than 20,000 Qing soldiers in the city, can you deal with it?" ”

"It doesn't matter! Rest assured! Li Dingguo replied lightly: "The Fengzi battalion is invincible, even if the Qing soldiers are doubled, I am sure that they will be blocked in the city!" What's more, there are more than 100,000 righteous troops cooperating, let alone worrying. ”

"The appearance of the righteous army is out of tune, the small abacus is crackling, and the combat effectiveness is extremely low, to put it mildly, I think that the 20,000 Qing soldiers in the city alone can kill them to the ground." Wang Huan reminded: "Don't place too high hopes on them, the most reliable is yourself!" ”

Li Dingguo respectfully agreed: "Yes, the last general will take care of it!" ”

"They have provided us with a lot of grain and grass, so that we don't have to worry about the long food road." Wang Huan said again: "Especially Han Zhaoxuan and Yu Yin, when you can take care of them, take care of them, don't let the two of them lose too much, and the governance of Shanxi in the future will be inseparable from these local snakes." ”

Li Dingguo agreed again, and between the two questions and answers, they set a plan for the next few days, and in all directions, the brigade of righteous troops was still rushing around the city in an endless stream, noisy like the people rushing to the market, and surrounded the Taiyuan city like an iron bucket in the midst of the commotion.

Zhu Shichang roared loudly and roared, and ordered his soldiers to move the two red-coated cannons that were stationed elsewhere, plus some furlong cannons, and all of them were carried here.

Fortunately, the city wall is wide, although the cannon is heavy and thick, but it can't stand the crowd, under the efforts of the Qing soldiers who are attached to the front and back of the cannon body like ants shouting the trumpet, the two red-clothed cannons slowly came to this section of the city wall one after the other, the rope has been prepared, the fixed iron nail has been nailed down, everyone worked together to put the iron cannon weighing like a thousand catties firmly on the firing battlement.

Zhu Shichang took a long breath, only then did he realize that he was actually sweating profusely, as if he was one of the people who pushed the cannon just now, he wiped the sweat on his forehead, and scolded secretly, this is all caused by the thieves under the city.

After this toss, several hours had passed, the sun was setting in the west, the light was dimming, and it was about to enter the dusk before night.

The rebel brigade outside the city began to cut down trees and build a wall, and many people surrounded the city and dug trenches far away, which was the standard siege method in the cold weapon era, digging ditches and besieging the city.

Tomorrow looks like there's going to be a big fight.

Zhu Shichang thought with some apprehension, he was not too worried about the Ming army and the righteous army, even if Darhan and others were wiped out, it did not make him too anxious, and the confidence in his heart was the rock-solid city defense of Taiyuan, the solidity of this city was no less than that of Datong, Jiang Hao could hold out for several months under the siege of tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers, what reason did he have to be afraid?

However, Wang Huan under the city matched his thoughts.

"Have you dug the trench?" Wang Huan asked, and several generals of the Fengzi battalion were standing in front of him sweating.

"Dig it up." Several people replied, stretching out their hands to wipe the sweat on their faces: "My lord, the trench is one foot five feet wide and five feet deep, and it surrounds the front five miles of the artillery camp, and the cavalry will definitely not be able to jump." ”

Wang Huan nodded, and looked forward with Li Dingguo, who was standing beside him, only to see that three hundred steps in front of the artillery column, a wide trench had been formed, and the spoil dug out of the trench was still piled on the outer side of the trench, forming a low bag of soil.

"Yes, that's all right." Wang Huan looked at Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo realized this, turned his body suddenly, and shouted angrily to the gunners who were silently standing beside a divine cannon, ready to fire at any time: "Open the cannon, bomb the damn!" ”

Yan Mingde has now handed over the post of head of the Kuizhou Military Bird Command and has been promoted to the commander of the artillery team of the Fengzi Battalion, and he is very satisfied with this job, because he can not hide in the rear to teach people, but can go into battle to kill the enemy and obtain military merits.

He stood on the side of the first Shenwei cannon, his eyes kept staring at Li Dingguo, and as soon as he spoke, he immediately turned around and stood solemnly, grabbed a red flag erected high on the ground, swayed it in the air, and then waved it down suddenly, and shouted at the same time: "Open the cannon!" ”

There are more than ten soldiers beside each cannon, and a captain also holds a red flag in his hand, the difference is that the red flag in their hands is shorter than Yan Mingde's, and the flag is smaller.

The captains looked at Yan Mingde's red flag, as soon as the red flag moved, they also moved, and more than ten red flags fell almost at the same time, and the ignition hand picked up the iron chisel that had already burned red, and ignited the fuse in the eye of the Shenwei cannon.

Boom Boom!

A series of loud noises rolled like spring thunder, and like a summer thunderbolt, a sound wave swayed in the sky at dusk, and the aiming men took advantage of the last ray of sunlight to aim the lookout mountain on the cannon body at the tall city wall in the distance, at this time more than ten iron bullets with a sharp whistle, out of the disembowel, pounced on the wall.

No one thought that the Kuizhou army could still fire artillery at this time, whether it was the righteous army outside the city or the Qing army in the city, they were all stunned, and they looked at the shells that could almost see the trajectory with the naked eye with a puff of gunsmoke.

The deafening sound of artillery made the rebel generals who had never seen much of the world stunned, they stopped their work, put down the wooden stakes of the wall that were being erected, and watched this spectacular scene with their mouths wide open.

Under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes, the first iron bullet struck the brick-clad city wall with precision and violence.

The wall was three feet and five feet high, and the cannonballs hit two feet high.

"Bang!" With a loud bang, standing on this city wall, the Qing soldiers couldn't dodge, as if they were bounced up by an earthquake, jumping up high, the iron bullet with huge kinetic energy smashed the wall bricks that seemed to be like mud, and fell deeply into the rammed earth, making a deep black hole on the wall, the hole was emitting green smoke, and countless cracked cracks appeared in all directions of the black hole, just like a flat tofu façade, a hole poked out by chopsticks appeared.

The Qing soldiers who were so shocked that they jumped up fell to the ground, bleeding from their mouths and noses, and were paralyzed on the ground, and the people around them had not had time to rush up to treat them, and one after another iron bullets hit the city wall.

It was like a violent earthquake, shaking over the city walls.

(End of chapter)