I don't know if it's because God has eyes, or if these officers and generals are too lucky.

Throwing at them, a flowering bullet that roared down was unfortunate enough to hit the battlements in front of them and exploded. The explosion of the flowering bomb caused a huge force that uprooted the battlements and directly blasted them into a pile of rubble.

As for the few guards who approached the battlements, there was no doubt that they had been punctured into a hornet's nest covered in bloody holes by the flying fragments of shells and pieces of masonry. gave Xu Guohou and others who were standing behind him the most lethal fragmentation after the explosion of the flowering bomb.

It is conceivable that if this whistling flowering bomb flew one more step forward and landed on the city wall and exploded. At this moment, it was not a few guards who died, but thousands of officers and all senior officers above the rank of thousands.

While narrowly escaping their lives, these officers who were in shock were also awakened by the sound of explosions that shook the ground.

At this moment, deafening and violent explosions also sounded on the city walls on both sides of the city tower.

A dozen officers of all sizes, as if they had seen a picture that they couldn't believe, opened their mouths and looked dumbfounded.

Because, the city walls on both sides of the city tower have been completely enveloped in gunpowder smoke in the explosion of this round of flowering bombs.

Just as the thick smoke from the explosion of the flowering bomb slowly swept from the city wall towards everyone's location. General Qian, who commanded Xu Guohou's guards, finally reacted.

At this moment. He didn't care about his identity, so he directly subconsciously shouted: "What are you still doing stupidly, immediately protect all the adults from the city wall...... Hurry, it's too dangerous here. Leave the walls immediately......"

A cry of terror. The general who reacted from the shock. Escorted by the guards, he quickly left the castle tower. As for the generals who had not yet reacted from the shock, they were directly dragged away from the city tower by the guards around them......

A large group of people, who had just left the city tower, had already followed closely behind the second round of shells fired by the Northern Army, which exploded on the city wall behind them......

In this round of shelling. The one-foot tall castle tower was not so lucky.

As soon as the explosion sounded on the tower, the roar of the collapse of the tower reached their ears.

At this time, Xu Guohou, who was already far away from the area covered by the artillery of the Northern Expeditionary Army, finally reacted.

Look at the walls that have been shrouded in gunsmoke, and every now and then there is an explosion that rises into a ball of fire. As if he had been frightened by the shelling just now, he muttered to himself: "How is it possible, how can the rebel artillery be so powerful...... Who can sue the official, what the hell is going on? How did the rebels outside the city do it......"

This time. The officer artillery commander Qian, who escaped from the city tower with Xu Guohou, replied with a frown: "My lord." The last general can say with certainty that the power of the rebel artillery far exceeds that of the redcoat cannons we are equipped with. Not only that, but the rebels outside the city also used a type of shelling that we didn't know about. ”

Hearing this, Xu Guohou's face turned red directly from shame.

Because, just half an hour ago, he swore to his subordinates that the combat effectiveness of the rebels outside the city was not very good, and their artillery would not pose a threat to the city wall they had just fled from because of their timidity.

However, as soon as the words were spoken, the rebels outside the city sued everyone with flowering bombs and death, and all their judgments were self-deception.

At this moment, Xu Guohou, who was slapped hard by the Northern Army, and his face was flushed with shame, like an angry lion, and he said loudly: "Then what are you still doing." The artillery shells of the rebels have all hit us, why are you, the artillery commander, still standing here, why don't you order our artillery to counterattack......"

"No matter what method you use, you must not let the rebels' artillery continue to be so arrogant. Otherwise, under the attack of such powerful artillery fire of the rebels, we would not even be able to climb the city wall, let alone stop the siege of the rebels. ”

Although he knew that he used his only dozen Hongyi cannons to counterattack, not only would it not play any role, but he would also suffer heavy losses under the attack of such sharp artillery fire from the Northern Army.

However, when the artillery commander Qian saw Xu Guohou's murderous gaze towards him, he still decided to obey the order unconditionally.

Soon, the nine Hongyi cannons erected on the city wall and not covered by the artillery fire of the Northern Expeditionary Army began to roar under the death of the artillery commander.

Compared with the cannon, the Hongyi cannon with a range of just three miles has no accuracy at all.

The flowering shells that roared down from the air exploded directly at a distance of one or two hundred paces from the artillery positions of the Northern Army, and they did not even touch the slightest fur of the artillery positions of the Northern Army.

However, the counterattack of the Hongyi artillery of the official army still aroused the dissatisfaction of all the artillery on the heavy artillery positions of the Northern Army.

In the face of the Hongyi cannon that took the initiative to reveal its position, the gunners who became more and more confident did not hesitate.

A small group of five cannons quickly adjusted the target of the shelling and began to cover the Hongyi artillery exposed by the officers and soldiers.

When the flowering bullets flying in different directions smashed into the Hongyi cannons scattered on the city wall with a whistling sound. The face of the artillery commander Qianzong immediately turned pale......

Although when he gave the order to fire a counterattack, Mr. Qian expected this result.

However, when the facts really happened, Mr. Qian's heart was still full of regret. And after the regret, there is a burst of despair from the heart.

Qian, who already knew something about the artillery strength of the Northern Army outside the city, knew that once he lost these Hongyi cannons. In the next siege battle of the Northern Army, he had no ability to counterattack, so he could only be beaten passively.

At the same time that the explosion of flowering shells sounded on the city wall, Xu Guohou, the general soldier with an expectant face, also witnessed the tragic picture of the red-clothed cannon being covered by flowering shells.

In the violent explosion, the gunner standing next to the red-coated cannon was directly thrown into the sky by the air wave generated by the explosion of the flowering bomb, as if it were paper paste.

Of course, this is not the most shocking thing in this round of shelling. ‘

The red-coated cannon, which weighed several thousand catties and required more than a dozen people to move, actually had two cannons, which were directly lifted out of the city wall by the huge power generated by the explosion of the flowering bomb, smashed outside the city, and turned into a pile of scrap metal.

Seeing this, Xu Guohou's face also turned pale.

As the supreme commander of this official army, Xu Guohou knows very well that in the face of the sharp firearms of the Tiger and Leopard Army, many times, he needs to rely on the red-coated cannon to redeem the defeat.

But now, that hope has been dashed. (To be continued......)