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Since the Ming army went out of Datong Town to kill the tiger's mouth and entered the grassland, the artillery carried by the Huwei army artillery has played a huge role, but several artillery pieces have never fired. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

These three cannons have not fired, although they have not fired, but the most laborious and animal power is these three cannons when transporting, and it is also thanks to the method of connecting pack horses with soft leather ropes on the side of the Huwei army, which can discharge many horses on the column, and there are sixteen strong horses.

Even if it is an ordinary single-horse and two-wheeled cart, it can carry about 600 catties to 800 catties of goods, and the goods that can be dragged by sixteen strong horses are heavy.

In addition to the horses, there are also spare gun carriages and gun carriages that carry these three guns, which are specially dragged by several horses, and this gun carriage is nothing but an iron frame with large iron wheels or wooden wheels, and one gun is equipped with one set, and each of these three guns is equipped with two sets.

It was also troublesome to travel on the road, when the weather was very cold, and the north was extremely dry, and the road surface was hard, but it was actually crushed by the wheels of the gun carriage and deep ruts, and when it encountered potholes, it was either paved with prepared wooden planks, or pushed by manpower, but fortunately it also walked down the road.

After the Tartar captives were cleaned up under the Naturalization City, these three artillery pieces were dragged forward, and the cube became the focus of the entire Ming army, not to mention the soldiers and horses on the Jizhen and Datong side, and even the soldiers of the Huwei Army themselves were watching.

About two hundred and sixty steps away from the city, is the artillery position of the Shuwei army, and the queue of sixteen dragged horses is very long, and it is impossible to let the horses stand out too much, if the stone or mud bombs are fired in the city, disturbing the horses, it will be troublesome.

So the artillery stopped in front of the position, and the soldiers began to push and drag, and a group of people shouted trumpets and pushed the artillery towards the marked position.

Most of the artillery of the Huwei Army has been prepared in front of their own artillery positions, and many of the artillery on this side are the artillery of Jizhen, they are also full of spirit, and they are also full of expectations, such artillery, obviously the last artillery to be taken out, what kind of power does it look like.

At this time of the battle, the Ming soldiers were not nervous, and there were still people talking loudly in the cannon: "This artillery must weigh 10,000 catties, and there are almost hundreds of brothers who have come!" ”

Some people pushed the cannon directly, and some tied the rope to the cannon body and dragged it, and there was an old adult on the side who replied loudly: "If there are 10,000 sixteen horses, I'm afraid they can't be dragged, and there are still thousands of catties bigger. ”

"I helped carry the shells a few days ago, and the shells cost almost a dozen pounds!"

"The twelve people of their forbidden army are all called twelve-pound cannons, which is really amazing, our general's cannon is a cannonball that hits up and down ten catties."

"When will we have such artillery?"

"Listen to the adults above, this time when I go back to Jizhen, I will buy a few cannons with Tianjin Wei when I smash pots and sell iron!"

The artillery gradually fell into position, the artillery of the Huwei Army began to clean the chamber, loaded with ammunition >>, the ammunition loaded by the Huwei Army was wrapped in cotton cloth, what caliber of artillery, there are rations, after cleaning the chamber, directly stuff the cloth bag, and then load the shells, and then tamp it with wooden sticks: nearly 30 guns of more than six catties are aimed at the wall facing the trench, and the rest of the artillery is ready to move at any time.

Behind the artillery position, the infantry of each army retreated a certain distance, the generals shouted for them to line up and stand by, and the horse team also avoided, and Wang Tong and the personal soldiers of the generals at all levels rode across the teams, shouting for everyone to block their ears when firing the artillery, and the horse team was also ordered early, and the cavalry were all plugged with strips of cloth to the ears of their mounts, and their ears were also plugged with cotton balls.

At such a distance, what effect can artillery hit on the city wall, not to mention that it is still winter, at most it is to break the wall bricks outside, the rammed earth is still strong, and the defenders on the head of the city are hiding behind the battlements.

Artillery under six catties has been driven into the wooden wedge in the middle of the gun carriage to raise the muzzle, and if anyone pays attention, it will be seen that the amount of gunpowder of the three-catty cannon has also increased a little.

Wang Tong checked the strips of cloth on his mount's ears and said, "Yang Jin still doesn't believe that he can enter the city today, but he will believe it later, and give the order!" Fire!! ”

Ordered loudly, the soldiers around him waved the red flag to send a message, Mu En and Zhang Wu's eyes were always looking at this side, seeing the red flag split, Mu En and Zhang Wu glanced at each other, Mu En shouted loudly: "Are all the cannons ready?" ”

Starting from the periphery, the small flag of the artillery commander next to each cannon began to report one after another, and Mu En said loudly: "Remember to cover your ears, you won't be able to hear such a happy movement after being deaf!" ”

Everyone laughed in unison, and Mu En took a sharp breath and shouted at the top of his throat: "Fire!" ”

"Fire!!" "Cannon !!"

The first time the voice passed away, the artillerymen approached the bow line with red-hot iron nails, and the only thing that led the fire between the world seemed to be quiet in this sea.

1. "Boom ......"

I don't know if the artillery next to that cannon is moving faster, I don't know which one of the guns fired first, and the cannon group roared violently.

Even if you cover your ears and block your ears, you can hear this shocking loud noise, and the horses are all shaken and running around, neighing.

The ground seemed to be trembling and shaking, and some of the artillerymen in the artillery array could not even control their balance, so they sat directly on the ground, covering their ears with their hands and not daring to leave, and fell very embarrassed.

The foot soldiers in the back, the cavalry in the approach, and all those in the front row, stared at the wall in front of them with wide eyes, wanting to see what the effect of such an astonishing artillery bombardment was.

The smoke of gunpowder was filled, nothing could be seen, everyone's ears were buzzing, nothing could be heard, only the battlefield was extremely quiet, and it took a while to recover.

It was windy on the battlefield, and the smoke that filled the front of the city wall was quickly blown away, and in the process, everyone also saw the appearance of the city wall that was bombarded.

The upper part of the wall was mostly mutilated, as if some giant beast had bitten in mid-air, but in fact, at such a height, the foot soldiers could already climb and attack.

There was a burst of cheers in the Ming army's formation, but Mu En, who was covering his ears, frowned, he stared in the direction of the city wall, and said to himself: "The position of the cannon muzzle is wrong, and the medicine of the twelve catties cannon is less!" ”

"The artillery that suppressed the head of the city continued to fire, twelve catties of artillery plus four taels of medicine, the rest of the artillery hurried to prepare, and the second round of heavy artillery was still a salvo!!"

The cheers of the soldiers behind him, but the destruction of the city wall immediately raised the morale of the artillerymen, and they roared as they hurried to reload their ammunition > ammunition.

The light artillery on both flanks of the artillery array was much easier to load, their second round was already open, the raised muzzles hit the cannonballs as much as possible at the head of the city, the defenders behind the suppressed battlements could not even raise their heads, and many of the artillery guns did not have enough range, but the shells fell on the city bricks, and the debris was scattered, and they did not dare to let people appear.

In fact, on the city walls on both sides of the gap, there are not many people alive, and the volleys of dozens of artillery pieces, the tremors on the city walls are extremely strong, and some people have been directly shaken off the city walls, and even on the city walls, they have been shaken to death.

"Cannon !!"

The roaring order came out one after another, everyone hurriedly covered their ears, the ground trembled again, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and when the smoke that blocked the view dissipated, the array of the Ming army was first quiet, and then burst into a huge cheer, and the city wall that was bombarded collapsed.

The collapsed city bricks and rammed earth formed an inclined plane, and the buildings behind the city walls could even be seen in the position of the Ming army, and the Ming soldiers were all gearing up to step forward, but Mu En continued to urge his soldiers to reload

> pills and prepare for the next round of shooting.

At this time, Wang Tong's own soldiers rode over to give an order, shouting loudly: "The commander has an order, the twelve-pound cannon and the nine-pound cannon will fire three rounds into the gap, and the rest of the artillery will continue to suppress the defenders on both sides of the gap, the muzzle of the cannon will be raised, and the army will prepare to fill the trench!" ”

Mu En agreed loudly, and the artillerymen raised the muzzle of the cannon with a large mallet and a wooden wedge, and then began to shoot again, and there were not even the defenders who showed their heads at the gap, and the black artillery muzzles were facing each other, who would dare to rush up to find death.

But the city was opened this opening, the defenders must come up to block, otherwise what is the meaning of this city, when the third round of artillery is about to be loaded, there are Tartar soldiers in the gap, the formation is very confused, I don't know whether to plug the gap or defense: this Lihai has become the target of heavy artillery, the loading of three twelve-pound cannons is a little slower, but just in time for the moment when the defenders appeared, the artillery roared, and the defenders who had just appeared were immediately wiped out a piece, and the heavy shells flew high, and everywhere they passed were flesh and blood, unstoppable.

It seemed that there were people behind the Tartar soldiers, and one wave went down, and another wave came up, but the rest of the heavy artillery shells fell on the edge of the gap, and the masonry was blown up, and such a kill was like a shotgun, almost forming a barrage of death, and no one dared to come up again.

The firing of six-catty cannons, nine-catty cannons and twelve-catty cannons began to disperse, their firing range was long, they could hit the back of the city wall, and it was even simpler to fall on the head of the city, and under the range covered by heavy artillery, the trebuchets were also dumb fire, and the place where the light artillery suppressed, although there were no defenders at the head of the city, there were still sporadic stone bullets to shoot out, but it did not have any effect.

"Fill the trench!!"

Wang Tong's order was issued again, and the horses and carts of the captured Tartars were filled with the earth, rocks and wood that had just been demolished, and they began to move towards the trench, and the artillery had begun to fire sporadically, and the carts slowly went out of battle towards the trench.