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Wang Fuhai hurriedly rubbed his eyes with his hands, then closed them vigorously, and kept taking deep breaths to relax his emotions as much as possible. According to his experience, if there is a hallucination, it must be because he is too nervous. It wasn't until his emotions were completely relaxed that Wang Fuhai slowly opened his eyes.

No cannon in sight.

Sure enough, it's an apparition.

Wang Fuhai breathed a sigh of relief.

People are scary, they are really scared to death, if the military households have cannons, then they still have to do it?

Suddenly I realized that something was wrong.

Why are there two more lumps under my nose?

Looking closely, Wang Fuhai was completely stupid...... Franco machine artillery!

It's not that I can't see it, it's that the Franc machine artillery has been pushed closer to the city!

"Artillery is a real ......"

Wang Fuhai muttered bitterly in his heart.

Because the military households successfully blocked Fushan City, the people inside didn't know what was going on outside, so Wang Fuhai and his son were unaware of the information that Zhang Zhun had captured the two cannons. Originally, they were counting on fifty or sixty muskets to block the attack of the military households, but they did not expect that the military households actually had cannons! How could a musket be an opponent for artillery?

For a while, Wang Shixin's family also became panicked. The military households even pushed up the artillery, and they must be more than lucky. However, their fate has been closely linked to Wang Shixin's fate, and even if they want to turn back on the water at this time, it will be too late. In view of the blood debts they had incurred when they suppressed the military households' wage arrears, they also believed that once the military households won the victory, they would definitely not let them go.

There is no way, only to fight.

It's just, do they have the capital to fight?

Outside the city, Zhang Zhun looked at Fushan City with a calm face. This was the first time he had observed Fushan Castle head-on. I used to pass by the side of Fushan Castle, and I never observed this city carefully. Now that the battle was about to begin, he finally had time, and it was necessary to take a closer look at the military fortress.

From the second to the seventh year of Hongwu, that is, from 1369 to 1374 A.D., the Japanese invaded the coastal area of Jiaozhou six times, and the people suffered greatly. Therefore, in the twenty-first year of Hongwu (1388 AD), in order to prevent the Japanese invaders, the imperial court set up the "Fushan Beiyu Qianqian Thousand Households" (i.e., Fushan Office) in the western foothills of Fushan Mountain, which has a natural barrier of coastal defense, and set up a member of a thousand households (Zheng Wupin), a member of a deputy thousand households (from the fifth product), and a hundred households and ten members (Zheng Liupin), whose grades are higher than the seven grades of Jimo Zhi County.

Subsequently, Fushan began to build the castle on a large scale. At that time, the city walls were built with rammed earth, up to more than two zhang (about 8 meters), and its surroundings were rectangular, long from north to south, and slightly narrower from east to west, and there were blue bricks and stones on the outside to reinforce the wall. The construction of Fushan Castle took 14 years before and after, and it was not completely completed until the fourth year of Jianwen (1402 AD).

At that time, Fushan Castle was quite strong, and after the construction was completed, the Japanese invaders had repeatedly harassed Fushan, but they were all repulsed. The fiercest battle took place during the Jiajing period, when about a thousand Japanese invaders landed from Heilong Bay and tried to occupy Fushan City, only to encounter Qi Jiguang. After a bloody battle, the Japanese invaders left hundreds of corpses behind and fled in disarray.

Decades have passed, and Fushan City has become much more dilapidated than in the Jiajing period. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified the book, the number of pirates gradually decreased, and the number of pirates gradually decreased. Fushan Castle temporarily lost the need for defense. Therefore, the imperial court no longer paid much attention to Fushan City, and even though Fushan City fell into disrepair, it did not allocate funds for repair. In fact, not only Fushan City, but also the entire Shandong coastal guard, this is the case, only Dengzhou Wei is slightly better.

If you look at Fushan Castle from 200 meters away, you can see rat holes on the city wall, the largest of which may be the size of a bucket, and the smallest of which is the size of a sea bowl. The brick joints between the green bricks and the stones have been completely cracked by the wind and rain, and the deep cracks have become as wide and deep as a gutter.

The gates of Fushan City are equally dilapidated. The city gate, which was originally bright red, has now turned completely black, and the traces of insect moths are clearly visible. The city gate can actually be broken open with a piece of wood, and Zhang Zhun believes that it does not cost much to break the city gate. However, now that there is artillery, what else do you need to do with the wood? If you use sassal wood, after all, you will have to pay the price of casualties. The defenders at the head of the city, in addition to the firearms, also had bows and arrows, rolling stones, fire oil, bricks, stones, and so on. At the last moment, it was impossible for Wang Shixin not to move out all the defensive weapons stored in Fushan City.

The effective firing range of the Franc cannon was only about 500 meters, and now when pushed to a position only 180 meters away from the city wall, the hit rate can be greatly improved. As long as you hit accurately, you can easily blow the city gate open. Of course, even at a distance of only 180 meters, it is quite difficult to hit the gate accurately. Because, these two Franc machine guns do not have a crosshair and a door, and they completely rely on the experience of the gunner.

Since Yang Guohua and the others decided to take refuge in Zhang Zhun and were approved to join the escort team, they naturally had to work hard to gain Zhang Zhun's deeper trust. They are still relatively familiar with the cannonball. When Rubinker went ashore, just in case, what was left on the ship was professional gunners. For Yang Guohua and others, it was much easier to place the cannon in a fixed position and attack the fixed city gate than to attack the enemy's sailing battleship on a rocking warship.

"Team A is ready!"

"Team B is ready!"

"Team C is ready!"

……

Each squad sent people one after another to report to Zhang Zhun that they were completely ready for battle.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

Zhang Zhun nodded to Yang Guohua.

"Fire!"

Yang Guohua immediately roared hard.

The original pirate gunners are all showing themselves especially aggressively today. They skillfully placed the projectile and cannon into the breech, and then quickly lit the fuse. The fuse burned slowly, constantly blooming dazzling sparks, mixed with sneering sounds.

Soon, the fuse burned out.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

A deafening loud bang was heard, and the surrounding land shook slightly.

Two Franc cannons spit out huge flames one after another, firing the projectiles. A cloud of fire at the muzzle of the gun, accompanied by a large amount of black smoke, completely enveloped both the gun and the gunner.

The caliber of the Franc cannon is about 80 mm, and it fires spherical solid shells. The projectiles are made of pig iron, and the weight of each projectile is about fifteen catties. After being launched, the destructive power is still quite large.

"Dang!"

There was a faint voice over there.

Zhang Zhun stood upwind, avoiding the obstruction of black smoke and carefully examining the impact point.

Didn't hit.

A cannonball must have hit the wall near the city gate, and smashed a hole the size of a pot lid on it, and rubble, bricks, and dirt fell down one after another. The other shell did not know where it flew, and the impact point could not be found at all.

The hit rate of the smoothbore gun is really flattering. However, this is also something that cannot be helped. If you want to be accurate, you need to add rifling in the breech. However, the technical difficulty of rifled guns is quite high, not to mention rifled guns. Since you miss the first hit, keep coming until you hit.

Although the two solid bullets did not hit the city gate, and one shot even flew completely, it was already a great shock to the defenders at the head of the city. At the moment when the cannon was fired, someone was even so frightened that he peed his pants. There is no way, the military households are so afraid of firearms, let alone artillery. The power of artillery is much greater than that of firecrackers. How could Wang Shixin's family members not be afraid of artillery? At present, the escort team still fires solid bullets, and if they switch to flowering shells for a while, the lethality will be even stronger.

It was Wang Fuhai, who was all dead at this time, feeling that his heart was beating rapidly. He could clearly feel that he was really scared and timid. The convoy actually even sent out artillery, and they were not opponents at all. Pressed and beaten by the artillery of the convoy like this, how many of them are enough to die? If Zhang Zhun promised to give them a way out at this time, maybe they would have raised their hands and surrendered without hesitation. It's a pity that Zhang Zhun never refused to give them such an opportunity.

"Well played!"

"Well played!"

"Well played!"

The military households applauded.

Compared with the frustration and horror of the defenders, the military households outside the city were full of joy and raised their eyebrows. These dogs said that just now they were indiscriminately setting fire to scare Lao Tzu, and now, they have finally tasted the consequences, right?

You've got guns, we've got cannons!

Fire guns and cannons, see which one is great!

Kill you dogs with artillery!

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Two Franco-machine guns continued to fire.

The sound of artillery rumbled, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and black smoke billowed out.

Outside the west gate of Fushan City, two huge pillars of smoke rose up and reached the clouds. A gust of wind blew the plume away, but it wasn't long before the plume of smoke gathered again and continued to move higher into the sky.

One after another, solid projectiles were fired out, and on the city wall over there, there was an intermittent sound of dangdang. Most of the solid bullets hit the city wall, smashing holes in the city wall with large pot lids, causing gravel, bricks, and dirt to fall down. Not to mention the damage caused by the projectile to the enemy for the time being, I feel quite powerful on my side, and the howitzer firing of later generations is not so powerful, but there is too much black smoke. The gunners were smoked into black-faced Guan Gong in a moment.

In fact, the Franc machine artillery was used to siege the city, and the power was far worse than that of the red-coated artillery. If the solid bullets fired by the red-coated cannon hit the city wall, it would definitely be as simple as smashing a hole. It is not impossible to completely collapse a section of the wall. In fact, based on the appearance of Fushan City in disrepair, it is estimated that the red-clothed cannon will at least collapse if it goes down. The caliber of the Franc cannon was too small, and the barrel was not long enough, and the power was greatly insufficient. But, whatever one may say, after all, artillery is not?

Zhang Zhun believed that under the bombardment of artillery, Wang Shixin's family would not last long. He transferred the Franc machine artillery, and what he valued most was actually the deterrent effect of the artillery on the enemy. The pirates shelled the beach near Yangjiatun at the beginning, and the psychological effect on the escort force was also quite shocking. How else to say that recruits are afraid of artillery, and veterans are afraid of machine guns? Under the huge shock caused by the artillery, the psychological quality of the family members will definitely collapse slowly.

Sure enough, under the constant bombardment of the Franc machine artillery, some of the enemies on the head of the city could not resist. Wang Shixin's family is a little better, after all, they are fed with a lot of silver and armed, and they are quite loyal to Wang Shixin. However, the other personnel who were forcibly recruited by Wang Shixin to fight with the family could no longer bear it. They had begun to look around, closely watching the movement around them, and tried to retreat.

Even the deputy thousand households, hundreds of households and other officials of Fushan City were already frightened at this time. They couldn't believe that Wang Shixin's fifty family members could resist the bombardment of Zhang Zhun's artillery with firearms. At the moment, Zhang Zhun is still bombarded with solid bullets, which will not cause them a large number of casualties for the time being, but after a while, Zhang Zhun will definitely switch to flowering bombs. When the time comes, it is very likely that these people will be sent to the Western Heaven Elysium with one shot.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The Franc cannon continued to bombard the city gate at a rate of about 1 round per minute. The morale of the enemy in the city was getting lower and lower under the artillery bombardment. The morale of the soldiers and guards outside the city was getting higher and higher, and they were full of confidence in the victory of the battle.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, there was a loud bang.

Zhang Zhun looked at it intently, and it turned out that a solid bullet hit the city gate, and suddenly smashed a big hole in the dilapidated city gate, and sawdust fragments flew everywhere. Through the large hole that was smashed open, it could be seen that behind the city gate, some of the enemy were gathering. As a result, after smashing the city gate with solid bullets, he continued to advance and knocked down the enemy behind the gate in a straight line. Blood splattered, flesh blurred. The frightened enemy hurriedly dispersed.

"That's the angle!"

Yang Guohua exclaimed excitedly.

As the firing position continued to be adjusted, more solid shells began to hit the city gates. The gate of Fushan City was not very strong in the first place, and a big hole had been smashed in with a shot just now. The second shot went down, and it was a big hole again. It didn't take a few shots for the gates to be smashed to pieces. Finally, after six or seven solid bullets were hit in a row, there were multiple gaps in the city gate, and finally it collapsed with a bang.

"Cannons shoot at the castle tower!"

"The guns take turns!"

"Fire cover!"

Zhang Zhun immediately gave the order.

The Franc cannon raised its muzzle and bombarded the towers to suppress the enemy's muskets. At the same time, the musket team led by Yang Zixuan and others continued to release guns less than 100 meters away from the city wall to suppress the enemy on the city tower together.

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