There are three gunners next to the Furlong cannon, one for loading, one for aiming, and one for ignition. At this time, each Franc cannon had already been loaded with ammunition, and after hearing the order, the gunners next to each gun took out a flaming torch from a nearby shelf and lit it to the fire door, and the lead instantly "creaked".

"Boom, boom!" More than a dozen Fran cannons roared one after another, and more than a dozen iron pellets flew forward under the impetus of the kinetic energy after the gunpowder burned.

Because most of the siege equipment of the Qing soldiers were left under the city wall of Dezhou when the Mongolian soldiers attacked the city, it was too late to catch up with the shield car, so the Qing soldiers were also shirtless, and the two shield cars abandoned by the Mongolian soldiers because the workmanship was too rough were now picked up by the Qing soldiers as a treasure and rushed forward.

But as the old saying goes, "a gun shoots a bird". The goal of these two shield carts was so obvious, and naturally it was the first target of the gunners on the city wall.

When the cannon sounded, seven or eight iron pellets flew forward with wisps of green smoke in the hot air.

With a loud "boom", an iron pellet hit one of the shield carts from afar, causing the shield cart to be torn apart and sawdust flying. The Qing soldiers who were originally hiding behind the shield cart saw that the cannonballs were about to hit from a distance, and they were already frightened and fled.

"Whoa!"

After being hit by the iron pellet, the shield cart fell apart at the same time, and the workmanship of this shield cart was so poor that the quality of the things that even the Mongolian soldiers couldn't look at was naturally very bad. After being hit by a cannon, the projectile smashed the shield cart into pieces and flew sawdust under the powerful kinetic energy, killing and injuring several Qing soldiers in the vicinity from afar. There was even an unarmored Qing soldier who was covered with sharp wooden thorns on his body and face, and his whole body was dripping with blood and was shocked to the ground. But the Qing soldier, who was covered with wooden thorns, did not die for a while, but just rolled on the ground and screamed miserably.

This shield cart has already been broken, is it far from the next shield cart falling apart?

Seeing that a shield cart had been destroyed in the first round of shelling, the soldiers on the city wall thundered with joy, and the officers in charge of directing the artillery urged the gunners to quickly clear the bore loading but ammunition, and the gunners also cleaned the artillery as fast as they could.

A furlong requires three gunners to serve, one of the strongest of the unloaders, one aiming, and one gunner. Several pikemen were behind to keep them safe. As soon as the cannon was fired, the loaders of all the guns immediately stabbed the sub-gun into the iron rod and unloaded the sub-gun from the mother.

The Franc cannon has always been known for its fast rate of fire, it is composed of a mother gun and a sub-gun, each gun, is equipped with four to six sub-guns, the sub-gun is pre-loaded with ammunition, it is also the world's first rear-loading artillery, the firing is quite fast compared to today's artillery. It's just that because it's easy to get discouraged, the firing range is not very long, and the range of this Franc machine, which weighs more than 300 pounds, is about 500 steps.

After the loader removed the sub-gun, he immediately picked up one of the sub-guns placed next to him, placed them in the thick and long hole at the back of the mother, and hit them with a solid iron rod to align the two mouths of the child and mother.

These Franc cannons had lugs on both sides, which were mounted on ironwood mounts. It is possible to adjust the firing angle by pitching the gun body. At this time, the Qing soldiers had already entered a distance of more than 300 steps, and after all the loaders had placed their guns, there were immediately sighters who checked the front sight and the door on the gun, measured the range with the naked eye, and adjusted the aiming of the Qing soldiers from a distance.

When the aiming hand of the Franc cannon was adjusted one after another, the gun commander raised the torch in his hand and lit the lead at the end of the gun.

"Boom Boom"

More than a dozen iron pellets flew quickly forward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Originally, using solid bullets to hit people is tantamount to using anti-aircraft guns to hit mosquitoes, and the hit rate is naturally very low, but now the density of the Qing soldiers is too high, and all of them are densely packed with people. Niu Lu, who was wearing three layers of heavy armor and carrying a three-pole small flag on his back, happened to be hit in the chest by an iron pellet. The two-pound iron pellet hit the heart guard on his chest, and the Niu Lu was broken in two by the projectile before he could scream, and then the projectile passed through his chest, fell on the hard ground, and bounced up again, hitting the head of a vest soldier who followed the Niu Lu, ripping off half of his head, and white brains and red blood were scattered all over the ground.

Eventually, the projectile collapsed and rolled forward on the ground, breaking the calves of two Qing soldiers along the way.

The surrounding Qing soldiers looked at Niu Lu with only the upper body left, the vest with half of the head missing, and the two companions who fell to the ground and kept wailing, and their hearts were chilled, and these Qing soldiers, who had always been fierce, even slowed down the pace of charging for a while.

"Hurry up, all rush for me, but if you don't stop, you will be killed!" Jia Lazhangjing, who followed behind, raised the heavy knife in his hand and roared desperately, punching and kicking the Qing soldiers who had slowed down, driving them to continue to move forward.

In front of the southern city gate, nearly 8,000 Qing soldiers all rushed towards the city wall as if they were driven by their respective Niulu, Jialazhangjing, and Kushba, and there were also cloud ladders in the middle.

When the Qing soldiers came to a hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall, the Franc machine on the city wall was already hot due to the fast firing speed, and the gunners had to stop and use different water to help the cannon barrel cool down frequently.

However, after reaching this distance, the Tiger Squat Cannon, which had been silent due to the firing range, began to speak, because the Tiger Squat Cannon was loaded with scattered bullets, so when the Tiger Squat Cannon was fired, all the shots from the barrel were dense lead bullets or iron beads, and when the projectiles from the sky fell from the sky, many Qing soldiers who rushed to the front were immediately hit by this kind of projectiles like rain.

"Ahh

"Ahh

Seeing that the Qing soldiers in front of him were hit by a projectile like hail and screamed and rolled on the ground, the corners of Abatai's mouth, who saw clearly at the back of the team, twitched involuntarily, these Qing soldiers who were knocked to the ground included two Niu Lu and more than a dozen Kush and a large number of horse armor soldiers, these people are all elites with blue flags, and now they are knocked to the ground by the artillery of those Ming people like cutting wheat, and his heart at the moment is like being imprinted by a red-hot iron.

Abatai's face had become extremely hideous, and he shouted loudly in front of him: "Rush, rush forward, I must disemboweled this general of the Ming Kingdom, and use his head to pay tribute to the dead Qing soldiers." ”

Under Abatai's strict orders, the Qing soldiers rushed forward desperately, and after paying heavy casualties, they finally rushed to the bottom of the city wall and began to climb the ladder.

"Fire!"

With a loud roar, there were bursts of gunfire like fried beans from the top of the city, and the Qing soldiers who were desperately climbing up immediately fell, and it turned out that the birds on the city wall had opened fire.

Although this primitive flintlock pistol is not very accurate, it can still hit this obvious target at such a distance of more than ten or twenty paces, and as the gunshots continue to sound, the Qing soldiers who are desperately climbing up are constantly knocked down the ladder. Falling from the two-zhang high ladder, those Qing soldiers had lost their combat power even if they were not dead, and they fell to the ground one by one screaming and moaning.

A bird-gunned soldier was very up, after loading the lead bullet, he poked out most of his body out of the battlement and shot ahead, suddenly a black shadow flashed, the bird-gunned soldier screamed and fell backwards, it turned out that he was hit by a heavy arrow shot by a Qing soldier, and the long arrow pierced into his chest, he lay on the ground and let out a terrible scream, and it seemed that he could not survive.

"Attention, everyone, be careful with the bow and arrow of the Tartar!" A small flag quickly opened his throat and loudly reminded the surrounding sergeants, but after just a few screams, he was hit in the head by a heavy arrow flying from nowhere, and fell to the ground without saying a word.

It turned out that at this time, the archers of the Qing soldiers had already caught up one after another, and they stood under the city wall and shot arrows desperately towards the city head to suppress the fire of the Ming army.

Pang Gang, who was standing on the tower of the city and commanded, saw such a scene and hurriedly ordered: "Order the bird gunners to quickly beat down the Tartar archers, and never let them suppress the city head, and in addition, you should quickly send a hundred bird gunners from each of the east, west, and north gates." ”

"Yes!" When one of the heralds received the order, he immediately descended the wall and ran backwards.

With the shooting of the bird gunners and the archers, they were powerless to suppress the Qing soldiers who were climbing up for a while, which made the Qing soldiers who were climbing the ladder suddenly feel the pressure greatly reduced, knowing that the opportunity was rare, they desperately stepped on the ladder one by one to climb up, and soon the Qing soldiers climbed up one after another.

Li Yuan saw more than a dozen Qing soldiers climbing up the battlement along the ladder with their hands and feet, looking down from the top as neat as a string of sugar gourds, Li Yuan shouted: "Golden juice, pour it all down for me!" ”

At this time, two heavy soldiers immediately lifted the cauldron with iron rods and laboriously carried it to the height of the battlement, and the iron pot was poured violently, and the boiling dung juice in it was immediately poured outward. Like a waterfall falling down, the heat rising in the cold wind. An extremely foul smell began to spread, and a terrible cry sounded from below, more than a dozen Qing soldiers who were climbing on the ladder, as well as a few unarmored Qing soldiers who pressed the wooden ladder under the ladder, were all poured all over their faces with boiling dung, and they immediately screamed and fell to the ground, rolling back and forth on the ground, making a howl that was not like a human voice.

Although those vests were holding big shields, but the big shields were built without taking into account the waterproof function, and the boiling dung juice that split the head and cover the face rushed down, and no one was spared, and one by one the skin and flesh fell down the ladder, and even the cotton armor on the body was sneering and smoking, and it was scalded to expose the iron armor inside. As for the unarmored auxiliaries below who had no shield protection, they were even worse, their hands and faces were all burned open, and even the white bones inside were exposed.

These people rolled on the ground and screamed, their dung juice poured on their bodies, all of them were severely burned, even if they did not die on the spot and were deeply corroded by the fecal juice full of germs, the wounds would be severely infected and rotted, and there was absolutely no chance of survival.

(To be continued)