Faced with the hostility of the Ming army on Xianxia Pass, Chen Mingyang was unwilling to delay any longer, and immediately ordered an attack. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

A dozen or so elite soldiers put on plate armor and walked towards the pass with thick shields, behind which dozens of musketeers with the best marksmanship were covered.

Seeing that the Chongming army dared to attack, Shi Fu was furious, and immediately ordered people to open fire, Xianxia closed was a Franco machine artillery, it was a son-mother gun, a total of five sons, one cannon fired the gunner immediately began to load the second gun, the rate of fire was very fast.

The first cannonball roared down on the mountain road, rolled forward and grazed past the front Chongming soldiers, hit the boulder on the side, rolled and stopped, and rolled over with the second cannonball, and hit the big shield of the Chongming soldiers, the thick shield covered with iron was torn apart, and the two arms of the soldiers behind were broken by the huge momentum, and they fell to the ground spitting blood.

The artillery on the closed was too sharp, and the soldiers of the Chongming Army hurriedly left the narrow mountain road and took refuge in the rugged mountains on both sides.

The sides of the trail are tall and rugged, covered with dense bamboo trees, which are not suitable for a large army march at all, but it is still possible to climb with bamboo and trees. In Chen Mingyang's army, there are hundreds of soldiers who have lived in the mountains since childhood, all of whom are accustomed to climbing mountain roads, and Chen Mingyang immediately ordered these soldiers from the mountains to climb along the mountain towards Xianxia Pass. As for the large army, it continued to attack Seki along the mountain road.

Since the army on the mountain road could not be deployed, Chen Mingyang sent dozens of soldiers to attack along the mountain road in batches, they were all clever light infantry, no longer wearing plate armor with huge shields, that thing was useless against fire artillery.

The scattered attack of the Chongming army made the artillery on the gate useless, and the shells were still firing continuously, but they rarely hit the Chongming soldiers who were hiding behind the stones.

More than 20 Chongming musketeers were the first to come to the pass, hiding behind the stones and began to shoot at the defenders of the pass. With the sound of crackling gunfire, several defenders fell and were hit by muskets. Not to be outdone, the defenders at the head of the city launched a counterattack with bows and arrows against the Ming army under the city.

Another group of Chongming army musketeers came to the pass, and the projectiles that shot at the head of the city were dense, and the suppressed defenders did not dare to stretch out their bodies to shoot arrows. The Ming army under Zheng Zhilong was born as pirates, and later incorporated tens of thousands of Ming troops in Funing Town. It's just that more than 20 people were shot by muskets from the city, and the others were reluctant to shoot arrows at the beginning.

Seeing that the defenders at the head of the city were suppressed by the musketeers, more and more Chongming soldiers came to the pass, but looking at the towering pass, they were helpless at all.

Chen Mingyang frowned and looked at Xiongguan in front of him, and ordered his officers and soldiers to start cutting down bamboo and making siege equipment. First made more than a dozen simple catapults, put the special gunpowder bullets made by the Ordnance Department on them, ignited the fuse and threw them on the top of the city, more than half a year, under the supervision of Ren Siqi, Chen Yujie led the Chongming Ordnance Department to design a lot of firearms for combat, this gunpowder bullet is one of them, and the grenade grenade of later generations is very similar, but the volume is larger than the grenade, so the catapult is needed to catapult them on the Guancheng.

As more than a dozen catapults started, the gunpowder bullets flew towards the city like meteors, and after a short time, the Xianxia Pass City issued a series of explosions accompanied by a miserable scream.

Each gunpowder bullet was filled with two catties of gunpowder, which was packed in a cast iron container, and the power of the explosion was enough to sweep the space around several battles, and the firelight came out one after another at the head of the city, and then accompanied by a violent sound, the gravel fell like raindrops to the pass, and the Chongming soldiers under the pass were faintly painful.

Brushing aside a severed limb that fell beside him, Chen Mingyang calmly watched the movement on the gate, after this round of covering explosions of gunpowder shells, presumably the defenders on the gate had suffered heavy casualties and there were few left. Even now he couldn't help but be horrified by the power of gunpowder bullets, which were the first time they were used on the battlefield, and they had not yet been designed when they fought Nanjing.

Since there is going to be a bombing, you have to give it a good time, and the second round of explosions starts right after, this time extending to the gate, and then the third round. Chen Mingyang's army carried a total of 300 gunpowder shells, this time he ordered all of them to be thrown out, and when the last gunpowder bomb exploded, the entire Xianxia Pass City had fallen into a thick smoke, and before the smoke dissipated, Chen Mingyang ordered an attack on the Guancheng. Seven or eight ladders made of felled bamboo were erected at the head of the city, and the numerous small branches on the ladders were not removed.

The first batch of Chongming army warriors carefully climbed up the gate, through the broken battlements to look inside, they saw that the gate was in a mess, everywhere were broken limbs, broken walls, the defenders at the head of the city were killed and injured more than half, and the rest of the people were all frightened, just dumbfounded to watch the Chongming soldiers fall from the sky and walk in front of them.

More and more Chongming soldiers climbed up the gate, collected the weapons of the defenders who had survived the explosion, and then followed the stairway into the gate, opening the gate from the inside.

Xianxia Pass, the first Xiongguan connecting Zhejiang and Fujian, fell into the hands of the Chongming army.

Shi Fu, the bloodied general of the defending army, was pulled in front of Chen Mingyang, and he was hit in the head by a flying stone in the explosion just now, and he is still in deep shock.

Looking at Shi Fu, who was speechless, Chen Mingyang waved his hand and ordered him to be imprisoned together with the other captured defenders, waiting for King Chongming and his old man to personally send him down.

There are a total of 2,000 defenders stationed on Xianxia Pass, of which only 300 are stationed on the wall, because Xianxia Pass is too narrow, and there are not too many people at the head of the city. The rest of the officers and soldiers stayed in the barracks in the pass, but the gunpowder bomb offensive of the Chongming army also involved the barracks, and hundreds of defenders who stayed in the camp were killed and injured by the gunpowder shells.

After conquering the city, taking prisoners, treating the wounded, and issuing a series of instructions, Chen Mingyang immediately repaired the book and reported to Ren Siqi in the rear, reporting the good news that Xianxia Pass had been taken. At this time, the army led by Ren Siqi had already met the Qing army in the Xianxia Ridge and entered the battle mode.