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"These guys really don't know whether they are alive or dead, do they think that with forty miscellaneous cannons, they can resist the general cannon of our Mawei Army?" Bai Xianzhong said disdainfully.

"Hehe, in the words of the Grand Duke, they are behind the times! They have not seen our artillery fire yet, and there is no point in simply defending the city, and they can only serve as targets under our artillery. If the imperial army is here to fight against our Mawei army, we will suffer a big loss, but in front of us, hehe" Yu Changlun, the commander of the first brigade of the first division, said with a sneer.

"Okay, the preparations are almost complete, since they are determined to defend to the death, then we have no choice but to fulfill them!" Bai Xianzhong put down the binoculars in his hand and said, "Order the artillery battalion, fire the cannon immediately!" ”

Not long after the order was delivered, a dazzling light suddenly flashed in the eyes of the defenders of the city, and then there was a roar like the shaking of the mountain, and just a few hundred meters outside the city, sixty pieces of artillery spurted out of the muzzles of the cannons, and the smoke suddenly rose and spread outside the city. Sixty cannonballs of different sizes immediately whistled through the sky and smashed heavily on the walls of Zhenzhou City, and then there was a violent explosion.

The first round of shooting is basically like this, and not hitting the target accurately all at once will always produce some deviations. After the first shot, the gunners immediately began to adjust the muzzle on the basis of the parameters just now, and then began to load ammunition to prepare for the second round of shelling. The defenders of the opposite city fell to the ground one after another, hiding under the bunkers of the city walls. A part of the officers of the garrison began to run around the city hysterically and shout. Ordered the defenders lying next to the cannons of the city walls to return fire.

The city of Zhenzhou, which had been bombarded, was like a pot boiling from this moment on. Flames continued to erupt from the muzzles of all kinds of cannons above and below the city. All kinds of projectiles whizzed and fell on the heads of the horsetails. No more than half of these miscellaneous guns can have a range of more than 300 meters, and the defenders use all solid bullets, which will not have any impact on the Mawei Army at all, and there is basically little hope of hitting the artillery battalion position.

At this time, the general cannon of the Mawei Army was once again powerful, and the city bricks on the city wall of Zhenzhou City continued to turn into powder under the bombardment of cannonballs, and the cracked masonry flew in all directions. Cannonballs continued to fall on the city walls, blasting the blue brick buttresses into slag, and even the defenders hiding behind the buttresses flew up, scattering stumps and broken arms everywhere, and blood raining down on the other defenders.

The commander of the artillery battalion below kept waving the command flag and constantly issuing one command after another. The gunners, on the other hand, sweated and operated their guns quickly, bombarding the walls incessantly. In just two quarters of an hour, eight shells were fired from each gun, and some of the guns were already starting to feel hot if the gunner's arm accidentally touched the barrel. It is immediately scalded off a layer of skin. It was also the first time that the soldiers of the artillery battalion of the 1st Division went out to bombard a real city with artillery. They didn't think about sparing ammunition at all, and they all suppressed the defenders of Zhenzhou City with the strongest firepower.

At first, the defenders of the city still fired back from time to time, but by the time the shelling had passed, two quarters of an hour had passed, and all the artillery in the city had been muted, and none of them could be called. Their cannons couldn't hit the Mawei army under the city at all, and they were beaten by the cannons of the Mawei army, so that they didn't have the slightest power to fight back. This fierce bombardment, originally arranged on the city wall on many wooden signs, wolf teeth and even cannons, many were scattered by the cannonballs of the Mawei Army, the original neat and beautiful battlements on the head of the city, at this time also by the Mawei Army's artillery bombardment into the old woman's front teeth, a lot of defects, the entire city wall in the south of the city is a mess, the defenders who were killed are not a few, many defenders in order to avoid the artillery, the dead basically escaped from the city wall, Mangui himself is no exception.

Such a ferocious artillery bombardment made the defenders of Zhenzhou almost unable to fight back, so they could only lie down and be beaten, and they were beaten to the point of crying father and mother. Some of the horsetail army's flowering bombs crossed the city wall and smashed heavily into the city, and immediately blew up a house near the south of the city, causing chaos in the city.

Yuwen Xing is also fateful, just now he was also running around in the city to supervise the battle, but he was lucky not to be killed by the shell, but he was just made a disgraced face. Seeing that the artillery of the thief army was so sharp, and Mangui, who was full of words that wanted to defend to the end, was gone, Yuwenxing didn't have much of the mind to fight to the end. Looking at the city wall that was bombarded by the artillery fire of the Mawei Army, and the more and more defenders who fled from the city wall, he sighed, and also retreated from the city wall under the protection of several family members.

Just as he had descended to the bottom of the walls, a new round of shelling began. According to Bai Xianzhong's intentions, he directly shelled for a while, defeated the defenders on the head of the city, and then began to attack the city, blast open the city gate, and it was simple to take the city, so as not to hurt the innocent people in the city by artillery fire. It was a coincidence that this round of shells flew out, and one of them landed in the city gate hole, and the entire gate was blown apart, and the entire south gate was completely exposed in front of the Mawei army.

As soon as the city gate was opened, the fighting spirit of the defending officers and soldiers instantly decreased a lot, and some of the defenders were directly frightened and lost their weapons directly, so they fled towards the city, this city could not be defended, the enemy army was too strong, and there was no hope of victory at all! And Yu Wenxing looked at the defenders fleeing in all directions, he was even more dizzy, pulled out his waist knife, and slashed over a soldier who wanted to escape from him with one sword, and shouted: "Guard the city gate for me, if anyone dares to escape, kill him!" Although he is a civil official, he shows the heroic spirit of a military general at this time, and the soldiers around him slowly come back to their senses under his leadership.

Although most of the defenders were frightened, after all, there were still a few capable defenders who still had some fighting spirit, and when they heard Yu Wenxing's order, they stepped forward to block a few roads, brandishing knives and guns to block the rout soldiers who were about to escape, and gathered these people together. At this moment, a burst of earth-shattering shouts sounded outside the city, and Yu Wenxing hurriedly climbed the city wall and looked out of the city. I saw a group of horsetail soldiers shouting loudly, and under the leadership of the standard-bearers of each battalion and team, the tide rushed towards the city wall.

The city gate has been opened, and it is impossible to repair the gate or block it with something for a while, so Yuwen Xing settled down and decided to fight to the death with the Mawei army at the city gate. In his mind, the strength of the Mawei Army is also in the sharpness of the artillery, if their thousands of defenders and the Mawei Army fight head-on and intertwine, it is impossible to say who will win and who will lose!

"The herald ordered all the troops to assemble urgently, and when the Mawei army entered the city gate, the whole army made a surprise attack and killed out of the city. There are no less than 3,000 people in our garrison, and there are only three or four thousand outside the city, so let's go and kill him by surprise! "Yuwenxing's order is really to the point, the two armies are intertwined and can give the Mawei Army the greatest damage, if they open the distance, they can't even touch the corners of the Mawei Army's clothes, and they will be wiped out by muskets and artillery.

The strength of the Mawei Army, that is, the strength of the long-range weapon, if it is really hand-to-hand combat, the Mawei Army may not be much stronger than the official army of the imperial court. What's more, the Mawei Army has never focused on cold weapon training, and if they fight with the defenders in a staggered manner, they are only afraid that they will suffer losses with their short weapons. Until now, the muskets of the Mawei army had not been equipped with bayonets, but each warrior was equipped with a waist sword, that is, a katana from the Wa Kingdom. However, in the past two years, the waist knife customized from the Wa Kingdom has made a slight change, and the style has returned to the appearance of the Tang knife, and the chopping is powerful.

The soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Mawei Army had advanced to the city gate, and from this direction, there was not a single defender in the city, and the empty streets could be seen far away. But the Mawei army was not careless, and steadily advanced towards the city gate with guns.

"Kill~~~!" Just as a dozen soldiers in the front row of the front row had just passed through the city gate, there was a huge shouting of killing from several street corners in the city, and more than 3,000 defenders suddenly appeared! (To be continued......)