At noon on the 23rd day of the first month of the sixth year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, Jiannu launched a fierce attack on Ningyuan City from the four city gates.

A team of Jiannu rode horses and galloped towards Ningyuan City.

Yuan Chonghuan laughed and said, "Jiannu was dizzy, and he actually sent cavalry to attack the city. Soldiers, the time has come for you to make meritorious contributions. ”

The soldiers in the city responded in an uproar, and each took a bow and crossbow to aim at the Jiannu cavalry under the city, and only waited for the Jiannu cavalry to reach a position thirty paces away from the city wall before firing their bows and arrows.

Liu Xiaosan is an ordinary soldier in Ningyuan, and his monthly salary is very small, which is only enough for him to spend alone. Hearing that the Jiannu cavalry was attacking the city, his mind moved. The Mongol Tartars took the head of Jiannu and received the reward, and each head was ten taels of silver. If you get the head of Jiannu, you will definitely not be able to run away with ten taels of silver. If you kill two Jiannu in battle, you will have a reward of twenty taels of silver, and you will have the money to marry your wife. He held the crossbow tightly, aimed at a shouting Jiannu, and said in his heart, "Come here, Yinzi hurry up." ”

It's a pity that the soldiers on the city wall rejoiced, and the Jiannu cavalry did not bully close, and when they were fifty steps away from the city wall, they opened their bows and released arrows, and wave after wave of arrows rained down on the defenders on the city wall.

Jiannu's bow and arrow were not aimed, but this indiscriminate projectile made the defenders worse, and the soldiers around Liu Xiaosan were caught off guard and fell to the ground one after another, crying and screaming. And his Wu Chang was even more miserable, an arrow went in his left eye, and the back of his head came out, and Wu Chang died without even snorting.

Liu Xiaosan was so frightened that he pulled the trigger with his hand, and the crossbow arrow flew out with a "whoosh". Originally, the range of the Daming bow and crossbow was not as good as that of Jiannu, but this time he didn't aim again, and the crossbow arrow was inserted ten steps away from Jiannu.

There were thousands of arrows on the city wall at this moment, but the arrows either did not hit the enemy, or although they hit the enemy, they did not bring any damage. No way. Who made the Ming Dynasty's bow and crossbow not as long as Jiannu's crossbow?

In this round of shooting, seventeen soldiers were killed on the city wall and twenty-nine were wounded, and only one of Jiannu's cavalry went back with Daming's arrow in his chest.

Yuan Chonghuan, who was directing the soldiers to fight on the wall, was almost shot by a stray arrow. Fortunately, a personal soldier pushed him to the side, and he survived. However, the soldier was shot in the temple by the arrow, and died instantly.

Yuan Chonghuan's eyes were red, and he shouted: "The shield bearer stepped forward and protected the archers." Archers don't let go of arrows anymore, wait for the fighters, and if Jiannu is not within range, they are not allowed to release arrows. ”

"What about the gunners? And what about the gunners? The chief soldier Man Gui shouted, "Was it shot to death?" ”

The gunner is a rare and protected animal even in the Ming Dynasty. There were special shieldmen to protect them, and there was nothing to do, so they hurriedly responded.

"If you don't die, give me a cannon and kill those dogs."

The gunners poured gunpowder into the barrel and filled it with solid shells. One gunner lit the fuse with the arquebus around his neck, and all the gunners turned their heads and covered their ears with their hands. Only the shieldbearers were calm, they were prepared. The ears have been plugged with cotton.

There was a loud "boom", and the solid cannonball rushed straight towards Jiannu with a vengeful rage.

The Jiannu soldier with a feather arrow in his chest was thinking about how many stolen Ming women and how much property this feather arrow could allocate to him. The cannonballs whistled and hit him. He didn't have time to snort, and he and his horse turned into pulp, and he could no longer tell where human flesh was and where horse meat was. But it's okay, anyway, he's just a brute whose hands are stained with the blood of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and now his flesh is mixed with the flesh and blood of the beast. Nor did they insult him.

The cannonball hit the ground and bounced again, this time knocking a soldier off his horse, spitting blood from his mouth and not living at sight. The cavalry behind did not have time to stop, and the horses' hooves trampled on his head. Even the eyeballs burst out, although the death was ugly, but finally relieved, there was no need to cry for half a day to die.

Because it was a down-and-down shot, the shell bounced only once, and it couldn't jump, but this did not prevent it from rolling high on the ground and smashing the hooves of four horses. The war horse neighed miserably and fell to the ground. The knight on the horse also fell off the horse with a scream, and the horse behind stepped directly on the soldiers who fell to the ground, trampling the soldiers to shreds, and when a horse that stepped on the soldiers lifted the horse's hooves, there was even a long steaming intestine on it, whose intestines it was, everyone did not ask.

After the gunners finished firing the cannon, they carefully observed the results of this cannon, and cheered in unison when they saw that six Jiannu were killed in one cannon. A gunner shouted happily: "Six guns are sixty taels of silver, and we four gunners can each share fifteen taels of silver." ”

Man Gui said coldly: "Two, the cannonballs directly killed two, and the Jiannu trampled on each other doesn't count." ”

The gunner muttered: "It's so stingy, if we don't fire the cannons, will they stomp on each other?" ”

Man Gui was furious and said, "If you go and bring the heads of Jiannu, count as many as you want." The court is about heads, there are no heads, and there is no reward for breaking the sky. We have plucked these rewards from between our teeth, and we are not satisfied. ”

Only then did the gunner fall silent. The degree of the Jiannu cavalry was very fast, and it had already left the range of the tiger squat cannon.

Man Gui shouted again: "What about the red-clothed cannon gunner? It's your turn. ”

The red-coated cannon is a cannon purchased from foreign countries in the Ming Dynasty, and many of them are imitated by Ming craftsmen, with an effective firing range of 4oo steps and a maximum range of about 13oo steps.

The red-clad gunners answered and began to reload with gunpowder and shells.

With a "boom", another solid cannonball rushed towards Jiannu.

The lethality of this shell was greater than that of the shell fired by the Tiger Squat cannon just now, directly killing 4 cavalrymen, injuring the legs of 6 horses, and guiding 5 Jiannu cavalry to be trampled to death by their own people. The Jiannu who was lucky enough to escape was very clever, and after falling off his horse, he immediately rolled to the side, avoiding the hooves of his own army.

Of course, this time, when the red-coated cannon gunners counted their exploits, they only counted 4 enemy kills.

Nuer Ha Chi was so angry that he jumped to his feet, this time it was just a feint attack, creating an opportunity for Neiying to open the city gate, but 15 Jiannu warriors died at once, why didn't he beat his chest. This is only the situation of the North Gate, the other three gates do not know the battle situation, if it is the same as this side, the total number of casualties of the Jiannu soldiers will really make him cry in pain.

Nuer Ha Chi has been fighting smoothly in these years, and the Ming army has always collapsed at the touch of a touch, or even without touching it, and then the Jiannu cavalry began to chase and cut down the fleeing Ming soldiers. After a battle, the casualties of Jiannu are usually only in the double digits. Unexpectedly, there were so many cannons in Ningyuan City, and the range of each cannon was far from the range of Jiannu archers.

The Jiannu battle was in a stubborn mode, first using several rounds of dense volleys, causing a large number of casualties among the Ming soldiers, and then causing the rout of the Ming army. Of course, this is based on the premise that the long-range firepower output of the Ming army is not as good as its own, and now that the Ningyuan defenders have artillery, it is a joke if it is compared to the long-range firepower output. No matter how penetrating the bow and arrow is, one arrow can only kill one person, but if a cannonball goes down, it will be several or even dozens of casualties. Nu'er Ha Chi remembered the legendary flowering cannonball, if that thing exploded in the dense charging team of Jiannu, the tragic situation was unimaginable. (To be continued!)

ps: (Thank you for subscribing to the book friends, by the way, roll the keyboard to ask for recommendations, ask for a monthly pass.) The second more is delivered. In addition, I recently found that the artillery power of the Ming Dynasty was not as great as imagined, and in the first few chapters of the pacification of the Cangzhou Rebellion, a hundred lives were written in one shot, but with a dense queue, forty or fifty lives were still possible. But it's too much work to change, so I won't change it in order to ensure the update, and I apologize here. ）

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