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Twenty general cannons have been erected, and boxes of shells are neatly stacked in the rear. These 20 cannons were originally placed on the Dingyuan and Fuyuan, the Zhenyuan was Wang Zhenbang's ship, and Geng Jingzhong was also on it, in order to ensure space, so the 600 soldiers of Geng Jingzhong's escort battalion who came with him, as well as these cannons were placed on the three third-class battleships of Dingyuan, Fuyuan, and Pingyuan.

It is true that the naval battleship only carried twenty general guns, and the others were not prepared in advance, after all, the army was following behind. And if there is a real need, it is completely possible to disassemble some of the guns on the battleship for temporary use. At this moment, all the 400 members of the artillery team were gunners on the naval battleships, and the army artillery division did not follow. However, the naval gunners were not inferior to the gunners of the army artillery divisions, and their familiarity with artillery was even higher than that of the artillery divisions, after all, the naval gunners of the Yuanzi formation were formed much earlier than the artillery divisions!

The temporary commander of the artillery team is Bian Weihang, the captain of the Fuyuan, who is considered a senior naval officer, and he was the first to seize this opportunity. The army that went ashore to attack was going to shoot at the Qing army with this artillery team, so Bian Weihang also knew that Geng Jingzhong, the governor of Dadu, would definitely pay close attention to this artillery bombardment. And several other big men in the navy are also watching from the side, as long as the Qing army fort on Lion Rock is destroyed, they can also let go of their hands and feet to attack Jinchuan Gate.

Artillery training generally has to learn more than other arms, and the most important thing is, of course, how to manipulate the cannon and adjust the muzzle according to the trajectory. After five or six years of exploration. Plus Geng Jingzhong's foundation in physics. The ballistic table, which was summed up after many times of practice, has been used very well in artillery divisions and warships. This is also the reason why the Mawei battleship had such a high hit rate when shelling the enemy. Even the current hit rate of the shelling of the troops of various European countries is not as high as that of the Mawei Army, this is science! Of course, this ballistic table is very rough, and there is no ballistic formula of later generations, and this Geng Jingzhong will not know at all, and can only draw conclusions based on the continuous firing of shells from the cannon under various conditions.

"Reload!"

"Ready!"

"Fire!"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

From the twenty cannons of the Mawei Army here, the artillery of the Qing army on the opposite side has already fired a round, and the Mawei Army is just about to fire at this moment. The cannon fire on the opposite side also rang out, but the result was still the same. Although the Qing gunners had adjusted the muzzles again, their cannons were old, and the firing range was hard, and they couldn't reach the horsetail artillery team at all. And at this moment, in the rumbling cannon, under Bian Weihang's order, twenty flowering shells smashed towards the Qing army fort on the Lion Rock.

It's just the roar of twenty generals' cannons, of course, not as shocking as the thousands of cannons fired by the navy, but don't look at the few cannons on the Mawei Army's side now, but they are accurately flying towards the Qing army battery. Geng Jingzhong, Wang Zhenbang and others were holding binoculars on the gate tower of the Waijinchuan Gate at the moment. Watching the sky, due to the distance is not far. The naked eye can see these twenty flowering shells, sparsely roaring towards the Lion Rock Fort.

Bian Weihang, as the commander, really showed the strength to eat milk at this moment, in peacetime, the navy either fights collectively, where is the opportunity to show himself alone in front of Geng Jingzhong! At this moment, Geng Jingzhong behind him is already being watched by many generals, and if he doesn't show his best level, when will he wait? Therefore, the landing point of the twenty flowering bombs, basically there is not much error, all of them fell on the west side of the Lion Mountain where the fort is, seeing this scene, Bian Weihang's originally somewhat nervous mood also calmed down, hehe, although the number of twenty flowering shells is not much, but the hit rate is quite high, at least six or seven of them fell directly in the center of the fort in this round, and the other explosions around the perimeter will also bring a lot of casualties to the Qing army!

"Not good!"

The commander of the Qing army on the Lion Rock was also paying close attention to the movements of the Mawei Army, and when the cannonballs were fired, he also found these cannonballs from his clairvoyant mirror.

"Hide!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the cannonballs fell on the perimeter of the fort with a screeching sound.

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Boom Boom"

"Bang la la"

"Ahh

"Ahh

All kinds of voices rang out, and the scene was chaotic, which can only be described as a mess. Among them, three shells fell directly in front of the three Qing artillery, and after the explosion, the three guns were directly lifted into the sky, and the surrounding Qing troops howled miserably, and none of the guns were intact, and the dead were okay and relieved. Those who didn't die were all seriously injured, especially five people who were extremely unlucky, they were hit by the cannons that lifted up into the sky and then fell, and their tendons were broken and fractured. This cannon body is cylindrical, and it is not honest when it falls to the ground, but it has to roll continuously, which increases the chaos of Cheng dù.

Although A Xixu and the others were not around the fort, but in the pavilion on the hill forty meters higher to the east of the fort, they were also paying attention to the battle situation, and the explosion and the subsequent miserable howl made the faces of all the Qing army magnates change. Their cannons fired two rounds, and they didn't even touch their hair, but their artillery fire caused huge casualties to their own side. How can this be embarrassing? What's more, you can't reach others, but the enemy can sweep the mountains, so how many rounds can you hold on? Looks like it's not safe here anymore!

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

It was only a few minutes before another round of artillery rang out again. With the example of the previous round of artillery fire, when the cannon fire rang out again. All the Qing soldiers immediately felt bad. "Dodge!" The commander of the Qing army on the side of the fort hurriedly shouted. His face turned very pale at the same time. For the power of the cannons of the Mawei Army. He knew it thoroughly. The cannons of the Mawei Army are completely pressing them to fight, and there is no chance on their side.

At this moment, A Xixu and other Qing court magnates couldn't stay any longer, and reacted quickly one by one, and they all ran desperately down the mountain without the need for orders from others, preparing to run back to their own mansions in the inner city to hide.

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Boom Boom"

"Bang la la"

"Ahh

"Ahh

As the cannonball fell again, it was as if it had fallen into a fire pit in an instant. Countless screams rang out. This desperate exclamation before death, resounding through the sky and tearing hearts and lungs, can definitely shake everyone's heart, even the hardest heart. At this time, if there is anyone who is not aware of the danger, it is the idiot of idiots. Therefore, when they heard the sound of cannons, all the Qing gunners ran away from the battery without their lives. It's a target here.,It's a little life that will be played out at any time.。 They looked around for a place where they could hide from the bullets. The woods of Lion Rock have become their best choice. For a while, there were shaking and running figures everywhere on and off the mountain, all of them wolf.

Someone may have run too fast and ended up not noticing their feet and tripped as a result. He fell to the ground hard, rolled his eyes, and then fell unconscious. What's more, he was directly thrown to death. This is on the mountain, except for the fort, which is a platform, the other places are still a little steep, once you fall, plus the number of people, it is easy to fall to death.

In fact, those who were killed by the fall were, in a sense, lucky, at least not to continue to suffer the fear and trembling caused by the shelling of the Mawei Army. The other survivors were still trembling in the falling shells and explosions, constantly struggling to survive. Whether they can survive or not depends not on their own efforts, nor on the blessing of the Immortal Heaven, but entirely on the favor of God and whether the king of Yama takes them in.

A Xixu, the governor of Liangjiang who was running, saw a flowering bullet with his own eyes in a turn of his head, and landed not far in front of him, where it happened to be where a wooden fence was, and after the shell fell, it smashed on the wooden fence and exploded, and the violent explosion sounded not far from him, and his ears were really buzzing. What's more, the flowering bomb exploded, causing the wooden fence to completely explode and shatter.

Before the end of the qiē, the wooden fence that had been blown open, splashing fragments mixed with shrapnel from the flowering bullets, shot at the bodies of seven or eight Qing soldiers who were approaching at once. The one he could see most clearly, a thick wooden barrage smashed on the head of a Qing soldier, as if it were a hammer on a watermelon, and it suddenly shattered completely. The flying brains flew three or four feet away, snapped, and sprinkled on a large bluestone on the side, as if rendering a red Chinese painting. But the Qing soldiers, who had no heads, were still in the posture of continuing to run, and they hadn't fallen yet, the scene was really weird.

"Poof! Burst! ”

As he ran, a fierce stream of blood suddenly rushed up from the neck of the soldier, like a fountain, splashing up into the sky. It flew more than a foot high before it flew all over the sky. For a while, there was a rain of blood around this headless soldier. But the lower body of this Qing soldier just shook a little and continued to run forward. To be sure, Axixu is definitely not without seeing bloody scenes. In his early years, he also fought with the Qing army and the Southern Ming army, not to mention that he had experienced a hundred battles, but he still experienced some bloody scenes. But at this moment, Axixu was indeed afraid, indeed afraid. The headless Qing soldier, still facing the bubbling blood, rushed straight forward. If it was himself who was hit horizontally just now

"Bang"

Suddenly, the headless Qing soldier ran forward for two or three seconds, and the center of gravity of his uncontrollable body was unstable, and then he hit the big bluestone on the opposite side, and then fell backwards.

"Smack!"

Ah Xixu's legs went limp, and he fell to the ground involuntarily. It hurts, it hurts, it hurts. Ah Xixu felt as if his knee had hit something, and his heart was in pain, and his tears were about to come out for a while. At the moment of falling, Axixu was unable to make any movements. It's as if the whole body is condensed. He felt it. Their own little life. It seems like it's going to end here. At this time, if a shell landed nearby, he could directly blow up his bones.

Fortunately, the guards around him reacted quickly, and the two guards quickly grabbed his arms and pulled him up, and then rushed down the mountain desperately again. The strength of the two pro-soldiers was very strong, and they directly set up the thin A Xixu and ran towards the Lion Rock without touching the ground.

"Boom"

Suddenly, there was another deafening loud bang. A cannonball landed very close to him, and the violent explosion shattered a stone, and the stone fragments and the shrapnel of the cannonball flew in all directions, and two of the guards beside Ah Xixu were hit by the gravel at once, one of them was stopped by a large relatively thin stone fragment, and the upper and lower parts of the body were suddenly broken into two parts. The upper body fell backwards, the upper body fell forward, and the flesh in the middle was blurred.

Fortunately, there were more guards around him, and two died, but the others still surrounded him. He was carried by two guards and continued to run, with the afterglow of his eyes. It seems that you can still see the upper body of the guard who was cut in two.

What they are really afraid of will come, except for Axixu's side, the situation of other Qing court officials is not good there, they have to run down the mountain when the Mawei army is bombarded, plus the Mawei gunners will not take much time to launch one round to the next round, and they are also very slow to come down from the mountain, plus the steps on the side of the fort are still the only way to go down the pavilion above, so the two sides just come together.

Ten of the shells in this round hit the inside of the fort, and the other ten exploded nearby, not far away, and only half of the dozen Qing army officials were left at the moment. Vice General Tang, who has been following Ah Xixu's side, as well as General Hong and General Xiang, at this moment, General Xiang has disappeared, Vice General Tang is wearing a cloak, and General Hong is also panicked like a lost dog.

Just now, a flowering bomb fell from the position where Vice General Tang had just run. After the explosion, the two guards behind him were also killed, but his luck was not good, the guards who were killed quickly loaded on his body, and the huge force knocked him down. By this time, Vice General Tang no longer had the appearance of a powerful general in Jinling City. His body was covered in mud and dirty, his hair was messy, and his clothes were completely torn, and he looked like the legendary leader of the beggar gang. However, no one laughed at him, because the others were not much better either.

Finally, a group of officials and guards, oh, plus some of the Qing army fort defenders who had fled together, finally fled to the bottom of the mountain, and everyone only stopped for a moment, but in about ten seconds, everyone ran forward again. It's not that they're worried about the Mawei army catching up, there are moats on the west, north, and east sides of the lion mountain, oh, wrong, it's part of the moat, the wider and deeper Lulong Lake, a small lake is blocked, and the Mawei army can't catch up. But they were afraid that the cannonballs would catch up, so they all continued to run forward with their lives.

They didn't laugh at each other, laughing at others was just laughing at themselves, and it was already the greatest honor to be able to save their lives under the shelling of the Mawei Army. I don't know how many sergeants were killed in the shelling just now, and there are quite a few officials. Listening to the tom-tom, boom-boom sound coming from afar, even the bravest people shuddered. Because, on such an occasion, no matter how brave you are, there is simply nothing you can do.

No matter how strong the shield, no matter how tough the armor, in front of the shells it was all scum. Even two arm-thick earthen walls could not stop the raging of these shells, let alone small shields and armor. In front of the cannons of the Mawei Army, the only way to survive is to dodge and leave far away.

"The Qing army has no counterattack!"

"Artillery Fire Extension"

"Marines, Sortie"

The Qing army began to retreat from Lion Rock, but there were quite a few Qing troops here, and it was not so easy to go clean for a while. The Marine Corps soldiers, who had already been waiting in the east, led a group of naval soldiers to quickly chase after the Qing army, the distance was a little far, that is, as much as they could catch up, as long as the Mawei soldiers approached a distance of about 150 meters, the Mawei soldiers could shoot from a distance.

From the time the artillery team began to set up artillery to the Qing army's A Xixu fled with his subordinates, the Mawei Army fired ten rounds of shells in the whole process, and the total was only 200 shells. However, the hit rate of these 10 rounds of 200 shells was quite high, after all, this was neither the sea nor the river, there was no bump at all, and there was basically no more error when the muzzle was adjusted, and the hit rate was almost 50%, and a full 100 shells fell on the open space of the Lion Rock Battery, which was not large, and the result was not exaggerated.

There are a total of 53 large and small artillery pieces on the side of the Qing army's battery, and although there are still many of them still intact at this moment, there are still many who stay on the battery, but none of the gunners who operate the guns are gone. Originally, there were more than 600 Qing troops in this place, including gunners, and there were thousands of people around the mountain road steps and the pavilion above, but around the open space of the fort that was taken care of, less than 20% of the 600 people remained, and 500 people were killed and injured, and most of them were injured, the whole scene was unbearable, and the continuous shelling broke the psychological defense line of the Qing army, and Axixu's courage was almost exhausted, and all the Qing troops hated their parents for giving birth to two legs for themselves, so they ran into the inner city faster! (To be continued......)