After noon, another group of shield carts of the Ming army came to the side of the trench, and sent lunch at noon, the city and the city were all beaten without spirit, and the city occasionally came out with a bird gun to put a shot, and then hid back, two four-pounder cannons slowly pointed at the battlements at the head of the wall, and the battlements on the Ying'en Gate were incomplete.

The walls were burned to the ground, and the first two batches of wagons were burned. However, there is a new batch of arrivals, the sand and gravel bags in the trench are higher and higher, and it is more convenient to erect the trench cars from behind, and the moat in front of the south gate is almost all paved.

The fire under the root of the city wall is raging, and it can't be attacked for a while, the soldiers and the cloth are eating steamed cakes behind the shield car, the soldiers light a cigarette to rest after eating, and a few people with a better personality also give the coat a hair, and those coats are grateful to take it, this kind of Wendengxiang is a luxury in Liaodong, and even the master of the armor soldiers can not often draw it.

When the soldiers were resting, two shield carts with wooden roofs slowly came to the side of the city gate, and a spear pole with a rope noose stretched out in front of them, and stretched out far away to drag the corpses in the door hole, it was a little far away from the root of the wall, and there were many muskets behind it. The two shield carts were like man-eating monsters, and the corpses of the rear Jin soldiers were constantly dragged over, eating from under the front guard plate, and then pulling out the headless ** corpse from behind, and they dragged all the corpses that could be dragged before slowly moving back to the edge of the trench.

And Jiannu also did the same, they stretched out long poles with rope sleeves from both sides of the inner doorway, pulled the Dengzhou soldiers who had just been killed into them one by one, and peeled off their armor and put it on themselves.

The general's cannon at the head of the city blew up two guns, and more Houjin soldiers were killed than the Ming army killed by the cannonballs. This kind of general cannon came from the capture of the Battle of Dalinghe, and I don't know when it was made, now it seems that Houjin is not well maintained, and Houjin only attaches importance to Hongyi gunners, and this old cannon is used to fill the number, and the operation is far less skilled than Hongyi cannon. However, it is still very powerful to block the door, and it is impossible to defend against artillery strikes at close range.

Liu Pojun observed for a while and said: "My lord, the head of the city is Wuzhen Chaoha, and what comes out of the door is the Tianyou Army." ”

Chen Xin nodded. Today's attack must first test the will of the defending army, and now it seems that Jiannu's determination to defend the city is still very firm, and it is all traitor army, and it is not heartbroken to lose any loss. Replenishment is also quick. If the strategic form is superior, Chen Xin can transfer craftsmen to make a large number of siege equipment, special large cloud ladders, civil engineering platforms to suppress the head of the city, and clap carts to deal with the defenders of the city, but this time he does not have the time to build slowly.

"Fuzhou may be the bottom line of the slave chieftain, Mang Gurtai and Dolgon don't dare to discard it lightly, our troops are not superior, and we don't have to attack if we can't fight. As long as we force Jiannu to mobilize the men and horses in Liaozhong, we will fight fiercely here, and the harassment of the sentinel to the north will also be effective. ”

Liu Pojun replied: "The plan of the special service team and the Chinese army sentry cavalry is to attack for two days, with a total of 20 teams. The destruction area to the pot shop, if it encounters the reinforcements of the red flag in Gaizhou, it will be returned in advance. ”

"Is there any new news from the Dongjiang Army?"

"This morning came a military intelligence report, which was sent from Golden State by our sentry horse. The Dongjiang Army was carrying out a raid on the coast of eastern Liaodong, and the middle route was dispatched to Changshan and Guanglu. The day before yesterday, the Yellow Bone Island Fort was breached, and more than 20 people were killed after the Jin soldiers and Baoyi, and now they have entered Xiuyan, and the North Road has sent troops from Phi Dao and Ludao Zhangzi Island, and attacked Zhenjiang, Tangzhan Fort, and Dangerous Mountain Fort, as far as Phoenix City and other places, and the plan of Mao Chenglu and Shang Kexi on the middle road is to collect troops in three days, and it is not clear when Huanglong and Shen Shikui will withdraw their troops on the North Road. ”

Chen Xin calculated that if Fuzhou urgently asked for help, it would probably take three days for Shenyang to gather enough troops, and if Fuzhou could not be defeated, he could evacuate after two or three days, so that the Shenyang reinforcements received the news and went halfway. He hopes that this time Dongjiang Town can also gain a little bit and boost the morale of the entire Liaodong region.

Chen Xin had lunch on the southern slope of the land gang, and when he was halfway through the meal, a drum sounded under the city of Fuzhou, and more than a dozen newly made chariots rushed through the trench and began to dig holes again.

As soon as the cart came to a stop, the arms of many Houjin soldiers appeared at the head of the city, throwing out many ash bottles and smashing them on the ground, and the white lime splashed high. Riding on the white smoke brought up by the ash bottle, the figures at the head of the city swayed, throwing down piles of oiled straw bundles and quilts, and some people scattered gunpowder powder with cloth bags, and the black gunpowder powder flew wildly, and the position under the wall seemed to be shrouded in black smoke.

As soon as the top began to throw things, the Ming army on the side of the trench shouted loudly, let the cart retreat, the coat under the cart struggled to retreat the car, the four-pounder cannon under the city continued to shoot at the battlements, the masonry of the place where it was hit flew sideways, and the screams continued, and the officers in Dengzhou reminded loudly that the soldiers were responsible for their respective battlements, and they only shot when they saw the figures.

More than a dozen torches were quickly thrown out of the city, and the gunpowder flying under the city was ignited, and the entire city wall was covered with sparks, and the rotten quilts and grass bundles immediately ignited a raging fire. More than a dozen carts had retreated a little at this time, and there were still two slow ones that fell into the fire.

"My lord, it seems that the Houjin soldiers are well prepared, and it is not easy to defeat them with these simple weapons." Liu Pojun looked at the several burning men rolling under the city wall, and felt that it was time to dissuade them. Although most of the casualties were coating, this kind of situation had a great impact on morale.

Chen Xin said lightly: "Are there any other plans?" ”

"There are also tunnels to be dug, but it is more time-consuming, the moat of Fuzhou is five feet long, if you ...... it from below"

"Cover with shield wagons, dig from the inside of the moat, first dig a trench against infantry, build a breastwork, and then dig a tunnel behind the trench."

Liu Pojun was surprised: "Isn't that digging a tunnel under their noses, Jiannu can easily determine the location, fill smoke or water, or even dig a tunnel." ”

"It's okay, it's going to be an elephant, how dare they risk letting us dig a hole so closely, we can't attack it, it's best to lure them out, you send someone to tell Wang Changfu, let the heavy weapons flag team also try their skills, and the infantry don't rush to the city gate again."

The herald quickly went to give the order, and the rest of the chariots were parked a dozen paces away from the city wall, lined up with the shield carts that were covering, and the quilts and straw bundles thrown by the Houjin soldiers could not be thrown so far, and now the most threatening ones were those ash bottles and fire bottles.

After Chen Xin's order arrived. The eight-pounder cannon also retreated slightly, bombarding the wall with live ammunition, and the battlements near the city gate were almost flattened under the blow of the four bronze cannons, and the broken bricks and broken bricks hit the bird gunners and archers with heavy casualties, and the other shooters who were mobilized had nowhere to hide, but could only spread out to both sides, and the frontal fire of Jiannu was completely suppressed.

The coat under the cart began to dig the earth, and the excavated soil was piled up between the shield carts, and the Houjin soldiers on the city wall kept probing their heads. Observing the movements of the Ming army.

The heavy weapons flag team of the 1,000th headquarters of the guards took the place of the eight-pounder gun, three large furlong planes were aimed at the city gate, and there were two fire chariots next to it, that is, two-wheeled rocket vehicles (see related works: rocket cars), which were larger than those used by the Ming army in Dengzhou Town. The honeycomb-like wooden launcher is filled with rockets, and the rockets are only front

Half of it was in the emitter, arrows and bundled medicine packs emerged from the front, and behind the firing space were long flotine ropes dragged in three strands, one hundred each. There were three spears in the lower part and on each side of the carriage, which could play the role of a light knife carriage when advanced in rows, and a beam was erected on top of the bar. Two layers of hanging cotton are hung on it, which can protect the operating soldier from the projectile of the bow and arrow. At this time, the wheels of the two-door fire chariot were padded with wooden wedges in front and rear, and the two brackets on the pusher were placed on the two spare ammunition boxes, so that the direction of the emhole was aligned with the door opening.

This is the first appearance of Dengzhou's new heavy weapons flag team. Only the Mandarin Duck Formation Thousand Headquarters has this formation, and Chen Xin's purpose in designing this team is because the Mandarin Duck Formation has fewer firearms than the phalanx, and this flag team can be used as a firepower supplement. The Big Furlong's one-pound cannon can deal with shields and shield carts at close range, and rocket carts can output a lot of firepower in a short time. If used in one place. It can provide cover for the killer team to engage enemies, and can also be used to guard special positions such as bridges and doorways.

The coaters dug quickly, the earth in the shield workshop was quickly piled up, and the two eight-pounder guns continued to bombard both sides, and the shooters on the Houjin city wall had to retreat farther and farther.

At this time, a military horn sounded on the left flank, Chen Xin turned his head to look, only to see half of the cavalry infantry and all the cavalry were on the horse, they moved to the rear of the infantry on the left flank under the guidance of Zhu Guobin's banner, and soon a cavalry with a blue flag appeared outside the west city wall, about five or six hundred people, they came out of the north gate, and were discovered early by the Dengzhou sentry cavalry, this Houjin cavalry seemed to want to contain the Ming army from the flank, but it could only stop a mile away, in front of them was a thousand strict infantry phalanx, in the face of this disciplined heavy infantry array, Even the heavy cavalry did not dare to attack head-on, not to mention these lightly armed cavalry of Houjin, and the Ming cavalry in the flank and rear was also extremely deterrent.

"They didn't dare come up." Chen Xin smiled faintly, "If they are brave enough, they can go to Niangniang Palace from the western hills, and then the official can block them again." ”

Liu Pojun also said: "It's different if we have cavalry, at least in Fuzhou, Jiannu can't play any tricks." However, Jiannu led our troops to the flanks, do you still plan to storm through the city gate, do you want to fill in the other division of the first general guard? ”

Chen Xin shook his head and smiled: "That heavy weapon flag team can be useful, Jiannu has seen more Furlong machines, but they have not seen Furlong machines operated by professional artillery, just transfer the first general detachment, and the other division is still serving as a reserve." ”

Not far from what the two expected, before the detachment arrived at the edge of the moat, a flag in the southwest corner of Jiannu waved, and after a hoarse shout of killing in the south gate, the tide of Houjin soldiers poured into the door.

The shooters of the Fran machine and the fire chariot lit the torches at the same time, and the three large Fran machines immediately let out an angry roar, and a pound of iron bullets in the sub-gun flew out of the extra-long body tube with a diameter of 55 times, beating the front row and the rear golden soldiers to the sideways, and the four-man artillery crew quickly pulled out the iron bolts fixed at the tail and began to replace the sub-guns, and the musketeers who were waiting for the battle also began to shoot in turn.

At this time, the two sides suddenly erupted into a continuous sound of sighing, sparks on the frame of the fire chariot were full of sparks, the tail was instantly submerged in the white smoke, the red tail flames were like a fire dragon swept by, the fire chariot kept vibrating, six hundred rockets with white trails rushed to the door, drowning it in a white smoke, the rocket that hit the city wall and the armor fell to the ground, the unburned propellant powder with the arrow body scurried everywhere on the ground, the screams of the Houjin soldiers and the screams of countless rockets were mixed together, The passage of the Guò Gate Cave spread far away, and the flying rockets brought countless sparks on the cave wall, and the entire city gate was filled with white smoke and white smoke, like a grand fireworks exhibition.

The three Fran guns and flintlock musketeers kept firing at the smoke-filled doorway, and by the time the rockets were finished, their small firing position was almost completely empty, and even the cannon assembly and filling could only be carried out slowly.

After five rounds of gunfire, there was only a miserable groan left in the doorway, and the edge of the white smoke did not see any Houjin soldiers rushing out, and the artillery crew and the musketeers looked at each other, and after the musketeers fought another round, everyone stopped.

The wind passing through the city gate slowly dispersed the white smoke, and layers of corpses appeared inside and outside the city gate cave, the cave walls were full of black traces smoked by rocket tail flames, and the corpses of the Houjin soldiers in front were pierced with arrows like hedgehogs, and even the grass roofs and wooden beams of the houses on both sides of the street inside the city gate were messily filled with arrows. Some of the wounded Houjin soldiers were crawling on the ground with difficulty, trying to crawl back into the city.

Liu Pojun held the telescope handed by Chen Xin, and looked at the scene in the doorway with his mouth open, Dengzhou Town did not attach importance to rockets in the past, because rockets were commonly used weapons in the Ming army, hundreds of tigers and arrows, a swarm of bees, etc., can be carried by individual soldiers, and the one-wheeled fire chariot can carry one hundred and sixty, and the salvo power is not small, but they rarely have excellent expressions when they are on Jiannu, and they did not expect the power of qualified rockets to be so shocking.

Because the manufacture of these two weapons is not simple, and Dengzhou Town does not have many applications, so except for the frame and launcher, it is not produced by Dengzhou Town itself, all of them come from Dengzhou Arsenal, and Dengzhou Town only selects them when they accept them.

Chen Xin smiled at Liu Pojun and said, "What's like this rocket? ”

Liu Pojun shook his head lightly, "It's amazing, I didn't expect it to be so fierce at close range." The result of the heavy weapons flag team test is that the rocket acceleration is not completed at close range, the lethality is not high, the rocket is the most powerful at a distance of 100 steps, it can penetrate the chain mail, and the iron armor is still not enough, and a large number of salvos can make the enemy's military formation fall into chaos, but it is really used in the door hole today...... The power is greater, not whether to shoot or not to kill people, the subordinates looked at the scene inside the doorway, I am afraid that no one has the courage to continue to rush, most of them are crowded inside and are killed by the Francos and firearms. ”

Chen Xin laughed and said: "I really look forward to the scene of fifteen fire chariots of the heavy weapons flag team firing a salvo together, but it is not easy to make arrows, and we don't make them ourselves, so let's save some and come back next time." ”

Liu Pojun licked his lips and said, "My lord, if you don't ask Lord Wang for more arrows, let's build some rockets ourselves." ”

Chen Xin said triumphantly: "Of course we have to build it, but the kind we use now can ask the imperial court, we don't have to build it ourselves, we will build it big in the future." ”

"Big?" A question mark appeared on Liu Pojun's head, the rockets he had seen were all so big, almost no different from ordinary arrows.

"It's big, and it's iron, and the official will look good at that time." Chen Xin threw down a sentence and rode his horse down the mountain.

"Or is it iron-clad? Can you fly? Liu Pojun scratched his head and hurriedly followed......

The bricks and stones flew inside the city gate, and the Houjin Baoyi and the traitors kept piling up obstacles in the door hole, looking like they wanted to block the city gate.

At the city gate, the two shield carts slowly approached the city gate, a sleeve rod stretched out, and caught the feet of a wounded soldier who was crawling back, and dragged it back, then the golden soldier screamed loudly, and grabbed on the ground with both hands, but he was able to beat several Dengzhou soldiers in the shield car, and soon was dragged into the belly of the shield car from under the shield car guard, and there was a scream inside, and a headless corpse was quickly thrown out from behind the shield car, and the wooden monster squirmed twice, and drove forward.

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