"Tiger Squat Cannon! I saw that there were also a lot of tiger squat cannons on Haizhou City, all of which were transferred to the southeast and southeast, first bombarding the cavalry and then bombarding the shield vehicles! ”

When Yang Chao inspected the city defense, he saw that there were many large and small tiger squat cannons on Haizhou City, as well as general cannons, and there were no heavy cannons like red-coated cannons, but it was more than enough to capture the soldiers.

So let Li Wuliu mobilize it.

At this time, Yang Chao was still in the stage of integrating the Haizhou guard forces, and Song Lian supported Yang Chao in power, but Song Lian himself could only focus on civil affairs in the city, so Yang Chao had the final say in the city.

Li Rui immediately clenched his fists: "Xiaguan go with Master Li." ”

It is naturally best to have Li Rui, the head snake of the land and the nominal highest military attache of Shanghai Prefecture, Yang Chao nodded.

"There are thousands of households."

There are hundreds of cannons in Haizhou City, and the powerful general cannons are less than thirty, and the rest are small cannons such as tiger squat cannons, with weights ranging from thirty to eighty catties.

Soon they were all arranged to the southeast side, plus Yang Chao's twenty tiger squat cannons, there were fifty on each city wall, but unfortunately the city wall was too wide, Haizhou City was more than nine miles, the average of each city wall was more than two miles, and the average of fifty cannons was only one several zhang, which was equivalent to twenty meters in later generations to place a cannon.

Fortunately, at this time, the captives were filling in the river, so they gathered in a narrow area, giving Yang Chao the opportunity to gather artillery bombardment.

What made Yang Chao dissatisfied was that an hour later, he heard the sound of cannons.

The control of Haizhou's power is still too loose, and it is obviously very inefficient to organize it just now, as for Yang Chao's own artillery team, it can fire artillery at any time, but Yang Chao wants to pursue the density of firepower, so he wants all the cannons to arrive. before they are willing to fire.

At this time, the captives had already filled in the moat in the south of the city ten zhang long, and penetrated into a section of three zhang in the river, which could be filled in more than two zhang. And at this time the cannon finally sounded.

The captives and cavalry were on the other side of the river, a hundred paces away. The distance that the bird guns could not threaten, saying that they were pressing the captives who filled the river, it was better to say that they were supervising and preventing these coats from escaping, and suddenly they were met with a dense attack of fifty tiger squat cannons.

For a while, people roared and neighed, and the scene became chaotic.

However, the captives were trying to control, rather than fleeing immediately.

Behind one of the shield carts, a captive soldier was stretching his bow and arrows. The hand trembled at once, and the bow and arrow fell to the ground without any accuracy, and it did not even hit the city wall, let alone the people on the wall.

Dressed in heavy armor, this man was obviously not an ordinary captive, but he could only hide behind the shield cart and shoot arrows, and was watched by the cavalry behind him.

The shelling made the captive very panicked, his hands trembled, and his legs couldn't help but want to run back, but he was afraid of the cavalry behind. He still held back, but his eyes were fixed on the city, at the puffs of white smoke that were emitting. He knew that under every white smoke, there was a cannon that swallowed death, but it was blocked by the city wall, and he couldn't see it, and only when the cannon was fired, the light little cannon would be lifted up.

The reason why this captive is so familiar is because he has suffered losses.

This person is Dunbai, and he is a red flag of Jia Lazhangjing, and with his position, he will not be driven here to cover the coat. Instead, he should stand in the back on horseback, arrogantly monitoring the coat in front. But who let the lost Beizi in the flag let him cover the coat. In fact, it is a punishment.

Although Dunbai has no regrets, he is really afraid.

It's not that he hasn't seen a cannon, he also came from a bloody battle in Liaodong, the red-coated cannons of the Ming army have not been less seen, he used to think that defending the city is the red-coated cannon is useful, but he didn't expect that the tiger squat cannon encountered in Haizhou City made him even more afraid, because this kind of small cannon can be fired at a short distance, whether it is the head or the bloody killing, it is not comparable to the red-coated cannon fired a few miles away, death happens in front of him, how can he not be afraid.

What he didn't know was that the tiger squat cannon was actually not accurate, but Yang Chao had been using it intensively, and the captives were standing intensively, so it was strange that only those who could not die in the past could be killed, and there was a compound probability of one death.

Yang Chao looked out from the arrow holes in the Nancheng City Tower and saw that the first wave of artillery bombardment caused at least more than ten casualties among the captives, and more than 30 horses were killed, and he was still very satisfied with this effect.

The captives arranged hundreds of cavalry on the other side of the river, all in dense formation, a cannonball hit over, as long as it is not crooked, the cannonball can only be released on the cavalry and war horses, and the kinetic energy is absorbed by these horses, and the damage caused is naturally great.

However, the captives did not run, because it took time for the Tiger Squat Cannon to be reloaded, which was much slower than the Furlong machine, and much slower than the Bird Gun.

But Yang Chao didn't plan to use it, because there were not many shells, and the rate of fire of the Fran machine was really fast, but the machine that did eat shells was used to bombard the captives last time, and the shells were consumed a lot, and Haizhou City had no production capacity for the time being, so it had to be kept for critical time.

Therefore, only the tiger squat cannon is used to bombard, and these tiger squat cannons can be cast in Haizhou City, so there is no need to worry about consumption.

Yang Chao also saw that on his side, sandbags were piled up behind the city wall to the battlement, and a group of gunners next to the sandbags were cleaning the chambers and reloading, and once they were filled, they immediately put them on the sandbags and waited for other artillery, and then fired together.

After the captives were hit by the first wave, they had no experience in dealing with them, not only did they not run, but they quickly resumed their formation, but they also looked at the city with some horror, not knowing whether to run or stay, so they could only report to their masters.

Dunbai lay on the shield cart, revealing a pair of eyes, looking at the city, not looking back at the cavalry behind.

He really wanted to tell the master above that he should not insist under the cannon, this Ming army is different from those people in Liaodong, the speed of their artillery is very amazing, but he can't, because he dares to take a step back, he will be killed by the cavalry behind, these are not the people they are red flags, but the white flags, and there will be no hesitation to kill his head.

The loading speed is not slow, but after loading, the cannon must be fixed and tied to the sandbag with a stone-thick hemp rope to prevent the cannon from jumping out after the cannon, and these gunners are afraid of shooting arrows under the city, so they are all bent down and dare not show their heads, which affects the speed.

But the cannon was finally fired, and on the opposite side were the cavalry, which had been recovering their formation for a long time, and they were suddenly bombarded again, repeating the previous regain of control.

It looks very stupid, but Yang Chao saw the discipline of the captive soldiers, no wonder they can win the Ming army, in terms of discipline alone, the captive soldiers are completely victorious.

Dunbai had already seen clearly, the Ming army would squat and squat on the cannon mount before firing.

During this period, the Ming army rarely showed its head, and even if it showed its head, it was occasionally one or two people, and they would not show their heads together, so he couldn't snipe if he wanted to, but Dunbai found that the moment the Ming army fired, they would gather together in the back and ignite, although they were behind the cannon and did not show their heads, but if they could hang and shoot, that moment would definitely affect the ignition of the other party.

Thinking of this, Dunbai immediately beckoned the armored soldiers who were covering with arrows nearby, among which more than 50 people he brought back were here, and he told the others that after all the guns of the Ming army were erected, listen to his command to shoot at the head of the city together, and they would definitely be able to kill the gunners.

Finally, when the third shelling was carried out, Dunbai suddenly shouted, and dozens of captive archers, who had already prepared heavy arrows, suddenly ventured to stand up from behind the shield cart and threw it towards the city.

At the same time, Li Wuliu also shouted: "Open the cannon!" ”

Dozens of burning ropes stretched out at the same time to the powder pool, fifty cannons rang out, heavy arrows fell to the ground, and at the same time someone wailed loudly.

Li Wuliu was in disbelief to see that more than a dozen gunners had heavy arrows, three of them were shot through the neck on the spot, and seven or eight heavy arrows were in the shoulders and chests, and some were bruised.

Li Wuliu couldn't help but swallow, the shooters of the captives were indeed more elite than those he had trained, which he had already discovered, but he didn't expect them to be able to shoot so many people in a place where they couldn't see it, which was also too godly.

But soon he was angry, and those who dared to kill Lao Tzu were looking for death!

Li Wuliu ordered the wounded to be carried down, and then continued to load, and at the same time looked outside, and found that after the captive cavalry was shelled again, it was already a little unstable, but it still did not run, the shield cart was still there, and the trolley was still filling the river, and it had advanced another zhang, and it seemed that it was only more than a zhang away from crossing the river.

"Continue to load Lao Tzu's cannon, and the bird gunners will come up for me!"

Li Wuliu mobilized his bird-gunners, all of whom were loaded and on standby, because they couldn't kill anyone, and after the shelling fired, they were all on the side.

Li Wuliu quietly waited for the cannon to be loaded, then set up sandbags, and then pierced with ropes when he suddenly shouted.

"Bird gun shoots a shield car for Lao Tzu!"

After saying that, he himself climbed up to the battlement with a bird gun and fired a shot.

Rows of bird guns sounded, the shield car sawdust splashed everywhere, for a while Dunbai couldn't raise his head, the bird guns just sounded, he heard the sound of cannons, and sighed in his heart, feeling that this time the Ming army won.

At this time, farther away, on a high ground, several captives were observing under the guards.

"Well, that Dunbai looks good, I'm afraid what he said is true, this Ming army is different from the previous ones. It's a pity that such a strong army Ming Ting was not transferred to Liaodong, and it was a big pity that he couldn't fight before! ”

Chief Turg said with regret.

But then ordered: "Tell Guoke, continue to hold on, and urge Baoyi to speed up the river reclamation." ”

Goko was a Baya Rajangjing, the leader of the cavalry who was in charge of overseeing the battle by the river, and a distant relative of the Aisin Jueluo family.

He is a white flag and is Turg's henchman, but seeing that the river is about to fill in the other bank, it is impossible to give up his efforts, so even if his henchmen are suffering casualties, Turg must still let him insist.

One of his men immediately rode to herald the order.

Turg added: "Tell Hilgen to be ready, and as soon as it is filled, rush across the river and overwhelm the city with heavy arrows." ”

Hilgen is the Manchurian Yellow Banner Baya Lazhang Jing, with a thousand elite horsemen, and is the strongest combat force in Turg's hands at this time.

The two sides have been around the moat for two days, and they are finally about to fill it in, and it is time to let the strongest combat force in their hands rush once.

―――――――――――― (To be continued).