You know, building a cannon is not making a musket.

Among all the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, one of the ten may be able to find one who can make a musket. But artillery does not. Among a hundred blacksmiths, there is hardly a single craftsman who can make artillery.

Under such circumstances, Wei Zheng may have been lucky enough to create a musket that was even better than that of the imperial court. However, to create a better and more powerful artillery, it is not a matter of luck, but a long period of experience and technology......

Otherwise, in the great Ming Dynasty, only craftsmen under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War could build artillery.

In Xu Guohou's eyes, since the artillery equipped by the Tiger and Leopard Army cannot surpass the red-coated cannons of the imperial court in terms of power. However, they set up artillery three miles away, which proves that the combat effectiveness of the Haw Par Army is not as strong as everyone rumors. At least, their artillery is very timid on the battlefield. Otherwise, they would not have placed their artillery positions so far.

Seeing the puzzled expression of the general because of the mocking smile he made, because his judgment of the Tiger and Leopard Army was confirmed, Xu Guohou, who was in a good mood, directly opened his mouth and said his thoughts and analysis.

After listening to this, one of his subordinates directly asked rhetorically: "Lord Commander, you mean that the artillery unit of the rebels outside the city seems to be strong. But because they placed their artillery positions too far away, they simply couldn't threaten us......"

After receiving the affirmation of the chief soldier Xu Guohou, the nervous and worried expressions on the faces of the generals finally showed signs of dissipation......

Seeing this, Xu Guohou said with a relaxed face: "Since the artillery that the rebels are erecting can't hit us. Then we will stand on the wall. Let's take a look at the jokes of the rebels outside the city......"

In an instant. Half an hour passed.

The 50 cannons equipped by the Northern Army were set up in a row of 25 in a very neat manner on the site. The regular flowering shells in the boxes were also neatly stacked next to the artillery......

Looking at the heavy artillery regiment that was already ready in front of him, Wei Zheng, who was also ready to watch a big show, opened his mouth and ordered with an expectant face: "Heavy artillery regiment, you can start...... Let the officers and soldiers on the opposite side take a good look at what the real shelling is. ”

"Heavy artillery regiment. Get ready to fire now...... No. 1 cannon, immediately conduct a test firing, fire the cannon ......" At Wei Zheng's signal, a pair of eyes quickly shot out two rays of light The commander of the heavy artillery regiment shouted loudly at his subordinates in front of him.

On one of the gun emplacements closest to the regimental commander, gunners with torches quickly lit the arquebuses that protruded from the tail of the barrels of the guns.

The sparks that accompany the burning swarm slowly disappear into the tail of the barrel. A deafening roar sounded directly in the chamber of the cannon. Meanwhile. A cloud of orange-red flames mixed with a large amount of black smoke also erupted from the five-foot-long barrel. Intense escapade and black smoke. Quickly shroud the cannon that spews out itself.

The flowering bullets, wrapped in flames, flew into the sky with a sharp whistle that broke through the air......

As the whistling sound became farther and farther away from him, the flowering bomb that flew into the sky became farther and farther away from everyone.

The commander of the heavy artillery regiment and several artillery staff officers who were standing beside Wei Zheng raised their monoculars at the same time and looked at the shelling target three miles away. Prepare to readjust the angle of artillery shelling according to the impact point of the shell.

"Boom...... a violent shell explosion sounded on the battlefield. The flowering bullet that roared down exploded directly at a distance of about eighty paces from the city wall.

Seeing this, the head of the heavy artillery regiment only frowned for a moment, and then opened his mouth to order: "All heavy artillery, the shelling distance is increased by fifty paces...... Immediately open artillery and cover the officers and troops on the city wall with artillery fire......"

After the muzzle of the black hole was moved up slightly, the deafening sound of the cannons, like firecrackers, rang out on the battlefield one after another. The dense whirling sound of the artillery shells crossing the sky directly gave Wei Zheng a shocking scene of returning to the military exercises of later generations and the artillery group firing a salvo.

At this time, Wei Zheng also raised his monoculars, wanting to see how shocking the scene of his first large-scale artillery bombardment after coming to this world was. Fifty heavy artillery guns fired a salvo, whether it can really achieve the result of covering saturated shelling, and bring a devastating blow to the shelling target.

As a flowering bullet entered Wei Zheng's field of vision, it landed ten steps away from the city wall and exploded. Dozens of flowering bombs followed, as if it were raining, and they fell to the ground one after another and exploded.

Fifty flowering bullets, some fell on the city wall, and some fell on the ground in front of and behind the city wall. However, because the wall is so low, the height is less than a foot.

No matter where the roaring flowering bombs landed, the freedom created by the explosion of the flowering bombs could envelop the low city walls.

Therefore, in the blink of an eye, this section of the city wall, which was shelled by fifty cannons at the same time, disappeared in front of Wei Zheng.

Although the city wall was shrouded in smoke from the explosion of the flowering bomb, it disappeared in front of everyone. However, the heavy artillery regiment's heavy artillery bombardment of this section of the city wall had only just begun.

In the hands of the Northern Army, the dense flowering shells were as if they didn't need money, and they fired cannonballs at this section of the city wall, which was no more than 200 paces long, round after round, and kept ......

At this moment, Xu Guohou, the chief soldier of the official army who was guarding the tower of the city gate and preparing to watch the jokes of the Northern Army, not only did not lose the spirit he had just now, but became very wolf in the face of the sudden fierce blow.

When facing the flowering bomb that was test-fired in the first round of the Northern Army, Xu Guohou was shocked by the powerful power of the flowering bomb. However, the error of the shooting of up to 80 paces directly made this shock disappear completely.

Under such circumstances, the contempt and contempt for the rebels outside the city in the heart of the general soldier Xu Guohou became even stronger because of this.

And that's when the unexpected happened.

The next scene on the battlefield not only completely changed his impression and understanding of the heavy artillery unit of the Haw Par Army, but also almost caused them to lose their lives because of their contempt for the Haw Par Army.

Because, the fifty cannons equipped by the Northern Army were not coincidental and happened to shoot at a section of the city wall centered on the city tower.

When the dense rain-like flowering bombs whistled down, everyone's faces showed a stunned and shocked expression.

More importantly, because of the shock caused by the shelling scene that they had never seen before, they were stupidly frozen, motionless, watching the flowering shells smash towards their location, getting closer and closer. (To be continued......)