Liang Pengfei seemed to be talking about politics and reasoning seriously, but how did he say this, it made people feel coke, and those guys laughed like his mother's crooked melons and bad dates, and Brother Li Pao took off his steel helmet and scratched his scalp. "Yes, young master, start the artillery bombardment on time at noon. ”

"I said, Brother Cannon, can you really guarantee that these two city gates and buildings will be destroyed within an hour?" Liang Pengfei reached out and put it on Brother Li Pao's shoulder, took out a cigar from his pocket, handed it to Brother Li Pao, an old cigarette gun with shiny eyes, and asked in a low voice.

"Young master, you don't have any confidence, right? Isn't it just two city gates, it's not completely a masonry structure, what kind of cannon are we using? This time, our artillery brigade can bring 150 48-pounder guns, 300 36-pounder guns, and 400 other types of heavy artillery. The straight-line distance from Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate is not more than five miles, such a distance, with our gunners who rely on tens of thousands of shells, how can they not hit?

Those Manchu artillery, tsk, compared with ours, it is simply a heaven and an underground, we are now using unpowdered gunpowder, they are still using black powder, and the ratio is still wrong, the gap between our artillery caliber and the shell will not exceed two millimeters, their cannonball can only use a smaller one, why, the inside of the artillery barrel is like a damn casserole, and the eyes are holes, and the diameter is uneven. Brother Li Pao said with a disdainful face while igniting the fire.

"Hitting these two city gate buildings is like smashing eggs with a hammer, smashing one accurately, counting an hour, I still throw everyone to pee and drink water and brag and fart idle work, if you can't get these two broken buildings in an hour, my brother Li Pao's name is written upside down."

"Your uncle, why do you talk to me one or two?" Listening to Brother Li Pao's praise of his own guns, Liang Pengfei, who was listening well, couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, and glared hatefully at Brother Li Pao, who was smoking a cigar there. "That's right, Ni Ming!"

"What do you command?" Ni Ming, who was also secretly happy on the side, hurriedly agreed.

"Have you all arrived? Don't forget to raise that thing up when the time comes, and scare those bastards who are full of feudal superstitions. Liang Pengfei rushed to Ni Mingdao.

－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－

"Hehe, my lord, you can rest assured, the things are already in place, Wang Jing is supervising them over there to check the equipment, just wait for Brother Cannon to fire them, and we will start working over there, ensuring that we can give this capital a big surprise!"

In the distance, there is a wide open space in the center of Liang Pengfei's camp, and in the middle of the clearing, there are four silk cloths that look like ovals spread on the ground, and at the lower sharp corners of those silk cloths, there is a large bamboo basket that can fit two or three people, and there is a strange thing like a steam engine in it, and the lower sharp corners of the silk cloth are erected above the big bamboo basket, which happens to cover a small and half position, if someone travels from the 21st century to this era at this moment, At first glance, you must know the name of this thing: hot air balloons!

Hot air balloon, in the eyes of later generations, this kind of aircraft, which is almost the earliest use of human beings, may have some entertainment at most, and has no practical use, but it is going to fall into this era, and the hands of absolute artillery are definitely a treasure, plus the people on the land of China today make the court more and more superstitious, such a big thing is really going to the sky, and it can really play a great psychological deterrent role for those ordinary people.

The city is very leisurely, but the Qing soldiers above the city are different, with a tense posture, the city wall is already full of fully armed Eight Banner soldiers, whether it is a bow or a crossbow, or artillery, they have already been prepared.

And the artillery brigade of the Liang family army set up a position in the middle of the city wall between the two city gates, that Hengrui and Yi Mianke can see it clearly, but they can only stare dryly, because now the artillery range of the Qing court is about three miles, all of which are arranged near the two city gate buildings, and the distance between the other party is completely outside the range of the artillery.

On the city wall, the needle shadow of the crown is slowly approaching the noon, Hengrui stared at the needle shadow with his eyes, and the thick cotton armor with iron sheets and copper nails on his body could not make him feel the slightest warmth in the bright sun near noon.

The roof is more than ten feet above the ground, and the tall and majestic Chaoyang Gate City Gate Tower feels so indestructible no matter how you look at it, but the more you look at the artillery position that the Liang family army has put out, the more Hengrui mutters in his heart. One cannon at a time, just looking at the black hole of their artillery, they feel that they have room to stuff into their heads, and the total number of large and small artillery pieces is at least seven or eight hundred.

The number alone is dazzling, the scalp is numb, and it really takes seven or eight hundred doors to fire together, and the power is afraid that the sky will fall apart.

"My lord, aren't these guys stupid? There are still almost five miles away from us, so they opened the posture and posed, could it be that what they want to knock on is not our two city gates, but the middle of the city wall? Next to him, a leader with a yellow flag asked Na Hengrui.

Hengrui helped his helmet and thought about it for a long time, but he always felt that his heart was hanging very much, like hanging people in the air, without a sense of security. "Probably not, forget it, General Ben will go over there to take a look, and you must not leave your post without permission, tell the brothers to cheer up, and do not let those thieves approach the city."

"Wow!"

Hengrui pulled a group of personal soldiers out of the Chaoyang Gate, and after walking about two or three hundred steps, he stopped, came to the edge of the city wall, continued to look at the artillery position of the Liang family's army, and asked the personal soldiers around him. "How long is it until noon?"

"My lord, less than half an hour." The soldier immediately replied. "My lord, shall we go forward?"

"Don't go, Lao Tzu's leg and foot were injured just yesterday, rest first." Hengrui rolled his eyes and pretended to rub his legs, and the pro-soldiers next to him also listened to Hengrui anyway, so naturally they had no opinion. And the reason why Hengshun did this, naturally he was afraid of death, since the other party dared to let Changlin pass the word, and bombarded the Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate within an hour, there must be some means, although Hengrui is also a fierce general, but at least he still has a little brain, at this time, he really wants to stand under the city gate tower, in case the other party really has a way to bomb the city gate, he is equivalent to dying in vain.

Therefore, he simply used the excuse of patrolling to temporarily leave the city gate building, if the other party wants to attack the city, two or three hundred steps, the other party really wants to rush over to attack the city, even if he can climb back in time.

"It's noon." A soldier who had been staring at the pocket watch whispered, and before the words fell, Hengrui felt that his eyes seemed to be dark, and then brightened, and then he felt that the earth was used as a war drum and trembled.

The 850 guns that had already completed their aim began to fire one after another, and every fifty guns began to spit out tongues of fire in the direction of the Chaoyang Gate.

The earth trembled, and even the moat beneath the walls rippled in circles.

A screeching sound that pierced people's eardrums was still roaring in the sky after the thunder-like cannon fire, and a staff member standing on the arrow tower on the third floor of the Chaoyang Gate Tower drilled into the arrow window, trying to open his eyes wide, looking at the sky, only to see a small black sky from far and near, falling in his direction like a rain of arrows, the scream was from far and near, and a black shadow suddenly became bigger and bigger in his sight. Before he lost consciousness, he felt as if something was gently pushing.

When the red and black flames collapsed in the area of the Chaoyang Gate Tower, the Qing soldiers defending the city didn't have time to react at all, but the cracking shrapnel, the broken bricks that were blown away, the torn wood slag, and the strong shock wave immediately turned the Qing soldiers around the light flames into humble and ridiculous rag dolls.

Hengrui looked dumbfounded in the direction of the Chaoyang Gate Tower, the first wave of heavy artillery shells had just collapsed, and the second wave of heavy artillery shells had already ravaged the poor city tower again like the sickle of death.

The flames almost completely covered the Chaoyang Gate Tower, which was more than ten feet high, without the screams of human beings dying or the desperate wails. Only the sound of the explosion of the shell, which shook the ears and bleed, shredded human hearing.

Standing more than 200 meters away from Chaoyang Gate, Hengrui and the others had already shrunk to the edge of the walled city, their eyes were terrified at the city tower that was covered by artillery fire, and the debris that flew over hit their armor and made people feel painful, and a personal soldier next to Hengrui was directly hit by a brick that flew over his head, and he fell to the ground directly without saying a word, frightening those people like a nest of quails. Some of the broken bricks even flew over their heads and farther away.

Under the continuous explosion, the city wall seemed to be unable to withstand such a terrible impact and explosion, and kept trembling, Hengrui and the others were like ants sprinkled in a hot pot on the city wall, and they were shocked on the city wall.

(To be continued)