As the siege vehicles entered the range of the Ming army's artillery fire, the long-awaited salvo finally arrived......

The cannon barrel between the battlements of the grinding disc spewed out a large ball of fire violently, and the overwhelming iron whistled in, Yu Xuezhong fell to the ground for the first time in a frightened cry, and the rest could only keep chanting the Buddha, this kind of iron bullet will grind out a bloody path wherever it goes, and whether it can survive depends entirely on luck.

The iron pierced into the crowd and brought a piece of screaming, even the warlords were scurrying in horror, several shield carts were hit, broken wooden planks flew everywhere, and a piece of iron more than six catties cut over Xuezhong's head, and crashed straight into the shield cart behind,

Disheveled!

With a loud bang, the shield car instantly became shattered, dozens of large wooden planks screamed and flew up several meters high, and soon fell into the auxiliary group behind the shield body, Yu Xuezhong curled up, before he could blink, there were a few loud bangs, and two shield cars on his left and right sides were directly hit by the iron, and the iron broke the shield car and bounced on the ground, and pounced into the group of archers behind, the place where the iron bullet passed was full of bloody corpses, and the best result of rubbing down was also broken hands and feet, with the Ming artillery salvo, the coated front suffered heavy casualties.

Yu Xuezhong held his head, curling his body as hard as he could, the surroundings had become a hellish scene, a large stream of blood continued to ooze out under the wooden plank of a broken shield cart in front, and two black footboards were exposed, and the toes on the footboard twitched from time to time, and the rear was even more chaotic, a large group of Baoyi rushed through the interception of the armor soldiers, fleeing in panic, those swinging tooth leung bowstrings kept ringing, and every time there was a sound, a Baoyi screamed and fell. Yu Xuezhong looked left and right. didn't see Fan Jian's figure, and he didn't know if he was dead or not, Yu Xuezhong closed his eyes in pain. His most valuable assets have all participated in this battle, and Yu Xuezhong has always hoped that they will come back alive, which is his coat.

The poignant horn blew, Yu Xuezhong, who pretended to be dead, immediately jumped up, the smoke of gunpowder at the head of the city had begun to spread, and the next round of volleys of the Ming army was not ready, he had to quickly stand up and supervise the battle. It's all over if you're targeted by the Swing Tooth Soldiers.

"Get up!" Yu Xuezhong hit the trembling feet with a stick: "Hurry up and keep walking!" Who the pretended to be dead and hacked him to death, dog minion! ”

The owner of the feet was motionless, and Yu Xuezhong was immediately furious. kicked open the wooden board covering it, and then Yu Xuezhong saw the terrifying scene that he would never forget, the coat was cut off by the iron waist, and only half of his body remained. The colorful intestines are connected dozens of paces away. There lay his bloody upper body.

Wow!

Yu Xuezhong couldn't hold back any longer, bent down and vomited wildly.

After spitting for a while, Yu Xuezhong wiped his tears and the corners of his mouth, looking for the still alive coat everywhere, the horn sound became louder and louder, and more and more coats ran to Yu Xuezhong under the drive of the swing Yale, Yu Xuezhong turned around twice and collected more than 30 coats. His property, Fan Jian, was still there, shivering behind the shield cart. Yu Xuezhong gave him a stick: "Get up, take advantage of the gap in the next round of artillery of the Ming army and hurry up!" ”

Fan Jian put down the hand covering his face and glanced at Yu Xuezhong resentfully, the coldness of his eyes made the latter stunned for a moment.

Although many of the coats were already sweaty with fright, and their lips were pale, but under the slaughter of the armor soldiers, they still advanced towards the city with panic on their faces, and the shield car formation had become crooked, and even many of the coats carrying baskets and dirt bags behind them had passed over them, Yu Xuezhong looked back and looked a few times, his loss of this Niu Lu was not too big, at least it did not fall behind other Niu Lu, this discovery made Yu Xuezhong a little proud.

Soon, the second round of salvos of the Ming army followed, beating the whole earth like a landslide and tsunami, the bouncing iron with a whistling smashed the shield cars, countless flesh and blood that were crushed by the coats flew sideways, the swing of the battle was getting closer and closer, and the clothes who broke down were killed one by one without mercy, Yu Xuezhong touched his face full of gunsmoke with his hand, and groped for a while, fortunately, there were no missing parts, he quickly jumped up, and the whole front was full of corpses and woodblocks, and many shield cars were scattered all over the ground, Many frightened Baoyi even screamed while running to Mopan City, Yu Xuezhong searched for a long time and didn't find Fan Jian, he was stunned as soon as he turned around, Fan Jian and three or four Baoyi were running away behind the Imperial Dynasty, and many swinging teeth with long-handled tiger tooth knives were coming.

Yu Xuezhong looked at Fan Jian's vague back in despair, he felt that he was afraid that he was going to lose this property, the countrymen, the bowstring kept ringing, and those baoyi ran and fell to the ground one by one, as if they had found something wrong, that Fan Jian and the remaining baoyi screamed, and turned their heads and ran towards Yu Xuezhong.

Fan Jian was thin and small, his two legs were running fast like wheels, and while he was running, the wrapper next to him suddenly rushed forward, and a crossbow arrow burst out of his chest, he squirted blood in front of him, and fell to the ground silently, and the swing behind him wiped out an arrow, Yu Xuezhong was shocked, and quickly jumped over with a stick to knock over Fan Jian, who was scurrying like a headless chicken, Yu Xuezhong gasped and pumped hard, and scolded in a low voice while pumping: "Dog minion, kill you dog minion!" I'll let you escape, I'll let you escape! ”

Fan Jian covered his head with his hands and rolled on the ground, Yu Xuezhong slowly blocked the sight of the swing while fighting, and scolded: "Hurry up and push the cart, if you don't get up, let the soldiers shoot you to death!" ”

Fan Jian covered his head and got up and walked to the shield car, Yu Xuezhong was frightened, fortunately, the crossbow arrow never came out, which made Yu Xuezhong breathe a sigh of relief.

After two rounds of salvo fire from the Ming army, there have been heavy casualties in the Baoyi formation, most of them died in the hands of the supervising team because of escape, although the morale was sluggish, but the retreat horn that Yu Xuezhong was looking forward to never sounded, Yu Xuezhong had no idea, and continued to drive the Baoyi forward: "As long as you walk another three hundred steps to the moat, then the artillery of the Ming army will not be able to hit"

Under the instigation of Yu Xuezhong, and also out of fear of the Ming artillery, these coatings pushed the shield cart fast, and they suffered another round of salvos, Yu Xuezhong and they finally arrived at the place of three hundred steps under the city, but there were only more than 20 coatings left in Niu Lu, and Yu Xuezhong knew that crossing the Ming army artillery was just an appetizer. Then came the real test.

In the north of the moat, there is a large area of flat open space on the outside of the moat, and the Ming army also leveled it with marl after laying the bricks and stones. Densely packed with iron branches, antlers, thistles, and even glass were all obstacles that were a nightmare for the shield carts and the coats of the river fillers, because this was the firing range of the Ming guns at the head of the city, and it would take an unknown amount of lives to clear them.

Lu Ruohan arranged six eight-pounder cannons in Beicheng. Fourteen six-pounder guns, and the rest of the battlements were equipped with the No. 4 small cannon of Furlong Machine, which could only shoot more than 300 meters of scattered shells. But the blows to the enemy at close range were even more intensive, and the tall stacked bridges, ladder trucks would be torn apart after just a few shots, and many gunners lay under the battlements. With the command to wait for the launch.

After a short cooling. Houjin's artillery team also began to counterattack, although Lu Ruohan organized the fire suppression of the eight-pounder cannon, but the Houjin general's cannon had a longer range, with the Houjin's counterattack, the casualties of the Ming army began to increase, and the head of the city was constantly hit by the roaring cannonballs, although these soldiers were wearing iron armor but could not block the high-speed gravel impact, many soldiers were beaten to the sternum. His ribs shattered, and he spurted blood and died. Occasionally, an iron hit the city wall and jumped into the middle road, stirring up the soldiers and artillery along the way, and the screams kept ringing out, and many medical assistants carrying the door panels hurriedly ran over and carried the wounded down for treatment.

Although from the top of the city, the battle line of Houjin was already in tatters, and the coats who had endured three salvos were also on the verge of collapse, but under the pressure of the fierce bullets of the swing yale, these coats finally broke through the coverage distance of the six-pounder guns, and many of them rushed towards the moat with dirt bags on their backs.

"Steady, steady, don't be in a hurry, let them come closer!" Instructor Huang Erman commanded at the head of the city with his hands behind his back, although there were constantly deafening loud noises around him, and from time to time there were rubble whistling around, but Huang Erman still had an unmoved expression.

Disheveled!

There was another loud bang, and a seven-pound iron directly hit the eight-pound gun on the left, and the barrel and gun carriage weighing more than 1,200 pounds flew high and smashed heavily on another six-pound gun beside him, and the two barrels were twisted like twisted flowers.

"Ready!" Huang Erman saw that more and more coats began to prepare to clear the obstacle area by the moat, and the fighter plane had arrived.

As the red light continued to flicker after the city was stamped, countless iron pieces of two taels to one pound screamed happily and pounced on those uncovered coats, after the Franc machine fired, many soldiers also carried a swarm of bees, a hundred tigers running together, fire dragon arrows, divine fire crows and other equipment, according to Yang Bo's instructions, try to leave the fire gun for use at critical moments, so these defensive equipment allocated over the years came in handy,

A round of shooting by the Fran machine is like a hail covering the coating in the range, the flying iron easily cuts the flesh, the screams of those coatings can be heard clearly even at the head of the city, taking advantage of the gap, the soldiers began to launch rockets, and suddenly the fire snake at the head of the city of Mopan City is running around, and a large cloud of gunpowder smoke rises, accompanied by the scream of the rocket launch, but it is also amazing, but the quality of these rockets is not different, looking at the spectacular scene, in fact, it did not hit many people at all, according to the statistics after the fact, The rocket salvo caused more than 60 casualties to their own side, and many soldiers were shot in the face or in the eye by the hovering rockets.

Under Yang Bo's urgent order, the remaining rockets were sent back to the warehouse, this kind of thing was still left for the enemy to land on the city and then used, if in case of random ignition of gunpowder or cannonballs, it would be troublesome, with the second round of Fran machine fire again, with the joint efforts of the Ming army and the warlord, these coatings approaching the obstacle area have been killed and wounded, and many of the surviving shield carts were abandoned on the battlefield alone.

"Houjin seems to be testing our firepower, and he didn't attack with all his might." A clerk from the General Staff Department reported back to Yang Bo.

Yang Bo nodded and said, "Put up my big banner and tell Huang Taiji that I'm here."

After the document left, Yang Bo said to a person beside him with a somewhat pale face: "Huang Taiji is nothing more than that......

Although the man's face turned pale from the fierce artillery fire, he still forced a smile and said, "The little one thinks that the slave chieftain has not yet exerted his full strength, and these are just slaves sent by the slave chief to fill in the moral clearance." ”

Yang Bo snorted a little dissatisfied, and said: "In front of the artillery, no matter whether they are elite armor soldiers or coats, if they hit, they will die, and they will be crippled when they are wiped out. ”

The man was a little embarrassed, and said repeatedly: "Don't worry, the general, my lord will definitely send troops to suppress the slave chieftain, and when the time comes, he will fight with the general on both sides, why worry about the undefeated Tartar slaves?" ”

Yang Bo squinted at the hot battlefield under the city, shook his head and said: "I have to fool the ghost with this, and besides, Mopan City is as solid as a rock, my guerrilla battalion has repeatedly defeated the slave chieftains, and Huang Taiji does not have three heads and six arms, where are he afraid?" But then again, if you want to calm the anger of the court and the superintendent, you still need to be pretentious, but if you can't hand in a single head when you send troops, it's not good to explain to the court, right? ”

The man couldn't help but feel angry, bowed his head and said, "General Yang has something to say for the villain to take back, but it's okay to say it, the villain will definitely be able to bring it to Young Master Zu." ”

Yang Bo nodded: "I beat the banner out, Huang Taiji hates me to the bone, I will attack the city with all my strength in the next few days, you go back and tell Lord Zu, just say that I have many Tartar heads here, good quality and low price, what other Tartar flags, equipment, golden helmets You also saw, are piled up in the warehouse for mold, if Zu Shaofu is interested, you can come to negotiate with me to negotiate the price, with the head, he can also report to the imperial court, isn't it?" (To be continued......)