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The flag was waved, but a flag flower flew into the sky, and the Ming soldiers in the trench at the front took out grenades from the cloth bags almost every other person, lit them with fire folds, and threw them in the direction of Half Moon Castle with a loud shout.

Half Moon Fort is not high, and the distance from the zigzag trench of the Ming army is not more than twenty steps, that is, not even thirty meters. In the words of Brother Yunlong: Even a girl can throw grenades into the ring fortifications!

The grenades that the Ming army is equipped with today are still the kind of stupid and stupid hollow iron balls, but these grenadiers are also veterans with excellent arm strength, and after a long time of training, this distance is easy.

The grenades flew up and fell into the Half-Moon Castle after a perfect arc. Immediately afterward, the explosions rang out in a series of screams of horror, especially when some sparks rushed into the freshly opened powder kegs, and even from the main fort of the fortress, the flames and smoke even covered the interior of the half-moon fort.

"Grenadier, charge!"

When a clad officer jumped on the edge of the trench and brandished his saber and pointed at the Half Moon Fort, these Ming commandos also jumped out and rushed forward with shouts.

There was also a moat in front of the Half Moon Fort, and some of the charging Ming troops carried a ladder specially nailed to the wooden plank, and as soon as they put this thing before rushing to the moat, the other Ming troops rushed over.

The Qing troops in the Half Moon Fort were killed and wounded, and they were either stunned or stunned unscathed. The Qing troops in the main fort began to fire artillery to provide fire support for the Half Moon Fort. However, the Ming army did not hesitate in the slightest, crossed the moat, erected a ladder to climb up, and then wantonly killed the Qing troops in the fort like chopping melons and vegetables, and these Qing troops often died before they even reacted.

With the blueprints in hand, the Ming commandos knew the structure of the triangular fort very well. Each Ming army had a planned attack direction, and completed the cutting of the defenders with great speed, but they did not rush to completely kill these scattered Qing troops, but expelled them to the parapet wall facing the main fort of the triangle fort, while the other part of the Ming army rushed directly down the ladder and entered the bottom of the triangle fort to clean up the Qing troops who did not board the fortress to face the battle.

Half Moon Fort is located in front of the main fort wall, to cover the middle embankment and the fort gate behind it, the distance between the two is two hundred yards, theoretically the shooters of the main fort and the Half Moon Fort can cover the middle area, but when the Half Moon Fort falls, it can only attack it with the artillery of the main fort, and the Qing army without heavy arquebuses can not use the fire gun to effectively support the Half Moon Fort.

Only artillery can inflict damage on the Half Moon Fort at this distance!

"Bombarding that Half Moon Fort, you can't let the Ming army stand still!"

Liu Guangbi's order was not responded, the artillery crews of the main fort and the Half Moon Fort were all subordinate to the green battalion of Guangxin Mansion, even if it was the hand-to-hand infantry with bird guns and cold weapons, the men and horses of the green battalion of Guangxin Mansion accounted for the majority, although the relationship between Bu Shilong and Liu Guangbi seemed to be good, but the soldiers below only listened to their own generals.

"Junmen, there are still a lot of our own brothers below, if the cannon is fired, no matter whether it is injured by mistake or not, the military spirit will no longer be able to maintain."

The rabbit dies and the fox is sad, and the thing hurts it. If the lord can indiscriminately kill and injure the robes trapped outside the city, how can the soldiers in the main castle have any confidence that the lord will not be used as an outcast. It may be better on weekdays, but now they are just a lone army, and the instability of the army is likely to directly lead to the loss of the fortress and the destruction of the defenders, so naturally they dare not ignore it.

"If you don't open fire, the Ming army outside the city will stand still, and then those soldiers will still have to be killed by the Ming army, and we won't be able to fall well!"

Having said that, the soldiers around him were still faintly dissatisfied, especially the Qing troops in the green camp of Guangxin Mansion were all angry, Liu Guangbi looked at Bu Shilong, and knew that he would not agree, so he sat down on the chair and said nothing.

Liu Guangbi was right, the Ming army was going to use these green battalion soldiers as human shields to block the shooting of the Qing army in the main fort, so they were not in a hurry to do it now, and they didn't even come forward to threaten them, lest they turn over the Half Moon Fort as a last resort.

Due to the imminent attack of the Ming army, almost all the defenders of Half Moon Fort had already gathered in the upper echelons, ready to fight, and there were not many reserves in the lower echelons. As a result, the Qing army at the upper level was beaten by a grenade and was directly defeated, and the troops at the lower level could not stop the Ming army's offensive at all, and soon the entire Half Moon Fort was completely reduced to the advance position of the Ming army.

After the Ming army attacked the Half Moon Fort, the soldiers and auxiliaries of the brigade began to climb the fort wall as planned, and many auxiliary soldiers carried sandbags to fill the moat at the front end of the Half Moon Fort. After those auxiliaries boarded the Half-Moon Fort, they directly used ropes to hang one after another large baskets full of soil onto the Half-Moon Fort.

The more time passed, the more stable this forward position became, and although it was the first time in history that the Qing army had engaged in a defensive battle of the fortress, Bu Shilong quickly reacted.

"Let them jump off, quick!"

The distance of two hundred yards was only more than one hundred and eighty meters, and the chorus of the soldiers that Bu Shilong responded to reached the ears of those Qing soldiers in an instant.

Although the Half Moon Fort is lower than the main fort, it also has a certain height, and it has a good chance of falling down nine times out of ten, but the master has an order, and soon there is a Qing army attached to the parapet wall began to turn over, climbing the wall with his hands and relying on his height to shorten the fall height.

The first one succeeded, and although he fell down, he lost his foot, but his life was saved, and he limped in the direction of the main fort.

This scene immediately triggered a wave of Qing troops climbing over the wall, and one after another climbed down the parapet wall. Some succeeded, while others failed to climb the parapet wall in a panic and fell straight down, taking some of the Qing troops who were climbing down with them. There were even many who were squeezed down by the Qing troops who were farther away from the parapet.

In this regard, the Ming army did not react in the slightest, but continued to do their things step by step. The Qing troops on the Half Moon Fort were getting fewer and fewer, but the city was full of broken wails mixed with cheers for the escape. But at this time, the auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army ran forward together with those large baskets full of soil under the protection of the soldiers, which triggered a wave of "jumping off the building" of the only remaining Qing soldiers.

This part of the Qing army has been dominated by fear, and it is inevitable that they will panic. However, the Ming army did not press further, but stacked those baskets not far from the parapet, and soon formed a simple new parapet.

"Whoa."

The parapet wall collapsed from the inside out, and some baskets fell off the Half Moon Fort, smashing the Qing troops who had just climbed down to the bones, and a few Qing soldiers who had not had time to jump down were buried inside.

The collapse did not cause the subsequent auxiliaries to stop, but instead doubled forward, and the reinforcement of the parapet wall was quickly completed. At this time, several artillery crews of the Ming army also transported to the Half Moon Fort one after another, and began to reload after this simple artillery fortification.

"Fire!"

The Qing army at the head of the city launched a shot after the simple parapet wall was knocked down by the Ming army, but the aiming technology of the Qing army's artillery was already problematic, and they subconsciously did not want to accidentally injure those comrades, but they were too restrained. In addition, the original targets of the artillery of the main fort were near the Half Moon Fort, which was used to provide fire support for the Half Moon Fort, and the red Yi guns on the front were even pointing into the distance, and now they were going to bombard the Half Moon Fort, and in a hurry, the already low hit rate was even more pitiful.

In the first round of shelling, only the right side of the Half Moon Fort was bombarded against the parapet wall, and the shattered stones hit several Ming troops on the left, causing some casualties.

At the same time, taking advantage of this time, the Ming army auxiliaries had also completed the frontal reinforcement of the improvised parapet wall and began to use these baskets to reinforce the sides. The artillery crew of the Ming army also completed the first round of reloading, and was stuck in this gap in the firepower of the Qing army and launched an attack on the Qing army in the main fort.

"Fire!"

The captain of the artillery team stepped on a powder keg, and the long knife in his right hand pointed directly in the direction of the main fort, and gave an order, but only the Qing army's own artillery in the middle was turned by the Ming artillery group and began to shoot at the main fort in turn.

The professional training made the Ming army's artillery hit rate far better than that of the Qing army, and the main fort was already slightly higher than the Half Moon Fort, and the cannonballs fired by the guns with a slightly raised muzzle angle played a deadly movement on the female wall of the main fort and the head of the city in an instant.

"Get down."

As he spoke, Liu Guangbi and Bu Shilong were thrown to the ground by their own soldiers. The shells hit the women's wall, the artillery of the Qing army, the gunners of the Qing army, and more on the frontal wall of the main fort.

The bastion can use the angle of the wall to offset the shells and strengthen its resistance to shelling, but this does not include the frontal fort wall, because the frontal fort wall is essentially no different from the ordinary city wall in the face of shelling, so it needs a peripheral fortification such as a triangular fort as a cover. However, when the triangle fort became the advance position of the Ming army, at least it returned to the original point.

The cannonball hit the city wall, and each shell will bring a shock, and Liu Guangbi and Bu Shilong, who were thrown to the ground by their own soldiers, can be said to feel the most really, and even every shock will make their hearts shake suddenly, and the frequency of their heartbeats will fluctuate because of this.

The cannonballs hit the women's wall, and the flying stones splashed out, although most of them either flew out or hit their own soldiers, but a few of them also hit Bu Shilong's neck, and Rao was also beaten with rough skin and thick flesh. And the shell that hit the Qing artillery, although it ran out of kinetic energy at that moment, stopped in the summer, but the cannon body turned from the tattered gun carriage with the tail of the gun as the origin, and swept directly on the two Qing gunners behind.

The cannon of thousands of pounds just turned around, and the two Qing gunners who were swept away were sent several meters away by the artillery that they had been serving for many years without even making a sound, and fell to the ground as if they had no bones. The first gunner who was swept fell next to Liu Guangbi, and a pair of dead eyes met his gaze.

At the end of the Ming army's shelling, Liu Guangbi, whose hands had involuntarily begun to tremble, was helped up by the same palpitating pro-soldiers, and he hadn't even thought about what to say, but when he inadvertently cast his vision to the protrusion on the left, he found that they were "lucky" to bear the shelling here, and they were really lucky.

The artillery of the Ming army was not all pointed at the main fort, only a few of the guns used by the Qing army were pointed at the main fort, and the other artillery pieces were all aimed at the protrusions on both sides, where the Qing army was the greater threat to the Ming army around the Half Moon Fort and the Half Moon Fort.

At the same time as the shelling of the main fort was unfolding, the artillery of the Ming army pointing to the sides was also waiting for orders. The first artillery in the direction of the main fort sounded, and with the order of the officer, the shelling of the flanks also began at the same time.

Different from the front, although the number of artillery on both sides of the Ming army is small, they are all specialized artillery groups, and they also use fixed charge packs, and they have a better grasp of aiming and angle.

The first cannon pointed to the right side of the Ming army rang out, and the cannonball streaked across the sky between the forts, hitting one of the Qing artillery pieces in a perfect parabola, but it only smashed the cannon and caused no casualties. But at the same time as the deafening metal impact sounded, the second cannon of the Ming army was also ignited with a fuse.

The fuse burned, and the sparks penetrated into the cannon at a very fast speed, and it seemed to be a little itchy, and the swarthy cannon sneezed, and an equally swarthy shell flew out in the flames and smoke.

The cannonball crossed the perfect parabola of the same cannon, but it didn't hit anything, but when it hit the ground of the fortress, it bounced off and continued to fly off into the distance.

The moment it bounced, the shell burrowed into the arms of a Qing loader and passed straight through his chest. The loader was brought to the ground, but the cannonball continued to gain momentum, flying diagonally upwards and hitting the head of a gunner a meter behind him like a football.

The "football" still did not stop, but the head of the Qing army exploded like a watermelon, and the white and red splashed a large area around it before it collapsed.

After reaching a peak diagonally upward, the cannonball turned diagonally downward, whistling and smashing on the shoulders of a Qing soldier before touching the ground again. However, it didn't stop, at least until the kinetic energy ran out, and the bounce continued!

Next, the shells began to form a ricochet effect on the protrusions of the fort wall, killing eight Qing soldiers in a row before stopping. But until the cannonball finally fell to the ground, it still broke the calf of a Qing army.

The Qing army in the protrusion was in a mess, although only the cannon just now flew to the city wall on the other side in the process of bouncing, but the protrusion was full of ricolletant shots.

The shelling to the side was over, and the Ming army's reloading continued, and Liu Guangbi, after being stunned for a moment, kicked the ass of an officer of the Green Battalion of Guangxin Mansion who was in charge of directing the artillery of the frontal fort wall.

"Hurry up and reload, fire!"

A word woke up the dreamer, and the officer of the green battalion of Guangxin Mansion did not wait for Bu Shilong's order any longer, and immediately gave an order to the artillery group under his command, and even kicked the gun commander of the unresponsive artillery group next to him, just begging them to suppress the artillery bombardment of the Ming army as soon as possible.

Zigzag trenches, ricochet firing, and a number of other methods were used in combination, and this was how Marshal Vauban, the father of modern sappers and skilled in building and attacking forts, won the siege of Atta. In the face of different situations, Chen Wen's methods are also more cunning, and the effect is also very obvious, but this is not an end, just a beginning of this siege war.

"Zhang Gongyan, pull up Lao Tzu's Italian cannon!" (To be continued.) )