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Zhang Guozhu, the general of the Wu army, was holding his clairglass and staring intently at the city wall of Nanchang City, when he suddenly saw three dazzling fires flashing on the city wall in a row, and his heart tightened in vain, and then he saw three black dots whistling towards the location of their artillery camp. But then everyone saw that one of the three black dots fell dozens of meters away from the position of the Wu army's artillery battalion, smashed heavily on the dry and hard ground, and then produced a violent ricochet effect, bounced on the ground once, flew forward for more than ten meters, and then continued to roll for a distance before stopping.

The other one hit high, flew straight over the Wu army's artillery camp position, and landed far away on the open space more than 100 meters away from the Wu army's artillery camp position, stirring up a cloud of smoke and dust. The last one was not in the right direction, about thirty degrees off, and it was far away from any formation of the Wu army. This is also the Qing army gunners were too anxious to be urged by Rabu, and in a panic, where can there be any accuracy!

Seeing this situation, Zhang Guozhu breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately scolded: "Grandma, this Qing army actually has Hongyi cannons!" It was useless to be able to hold back during the first two sieges? Isn't it also a new shipment? Pass my order, the artillery battalion will work harder, and continue to fire artillery to Lao Tzu to bomb the fuck! ”

On the side of the Qing army, Rab and Hilgen at the head of the city were still a little disappointed with the results of the three cannons, but he also reprimanded the gunners again, this thing had just arrived, and the gunners were not familiar with it. It's simply not realistic to expect them to hit the target on the first shot. However, one of the three shots just now was already close to the position of the Wu army. The position over there is quite a big target. If you're lucky in the next round, you should be able to hit it!

"Quickly reload, don't panic, whoever can hit the Wu army's artillery array, the official will be promoted to three levels, and the reward will be a thousand taels of silver!" Hilgen, who was in command by the red-coated cannon, hurriedly gave the order and made a big promise at the same time, and Thashinotaka was very anxious but could not show it on his face, so he had to motivate the soldiers in this way. However, it is really a piece of cake to promote a few people with his status. The artillery crews on the entire city tower. The highest official position is the eighth grade, which is not considered to be in the stream, and even if it is promoted to the seventh rank military attaché, it is not a waste of much effort to skip the promotion from the sixth rank to the fifth rank and the fourth or fifth grade!

The gunners of the Qing army who controlled the three red-coated cannons were much more stable, and they were no longer as panicked as they were just now, and began to pour water into the barrels of the guns in an orderly manner, extinguishing the remaining gunpowder slag in the barrels and cleaning up the barrels. Although they seem to be not working together, those who are familiar with this will notice that these gunners are much slower, and therefore the speed of reloading is also slower. But the Qing army was selected to operate the gunners of the three Hongyi cannons. They are all veterans, and they are still relatively experienced. Although it was slow, it didn't go wrong this time, and the cannon was reloaded step by step.

The cannon just now, the strong recoil still shook the cannon backwards, and if the position was wrong, they had to be reset, so it was necessary for many Qing troops to work together. At this time, although the Hongyi cannon has cannon lugs, which can make it easier for the cannon to adjust the high and low firing boundaries, but there is no mechanism to adjust the left and right firing boundaries of the cannon. These three cannons had just been lifted to the tower, and there was no gun carriage to support them, so they could only get stuck at the battlements and raise the bottom to adjust their orientation.

Such a heavy cannon, if you want to accurately aim at the target, it will consume a lot of manpower, but under the supervision and encouragement of Hilgen, the Qing army broke out with great potential, and the three cannons of Helijiang were placed again and ignited the fire gate again. When fiddling with the three red-coated cannons on the city tower, the Wu army fired another round over, and unfortunately hit five on the city, which was one-tenth, and suddenly more than 30 Qing soldiers were injured, and eight people were killed directly.

Seeing this scene, Rabu, who was angry and watching the battle, wanted to go over and operate the cannon himself, but as the main general, he would definitely not do such a dangerous thing, like Hilgen, as if he had already ignored it. The horn himself knows very well, when he was in Shengjing before, the Han military flag was cast a lot of red-clothed cannons, although the Hongyi cannon cast in the past was quite powerful, but there were also many accidents of explosions, he once saw a red-clothed cannon when the tail of the cannon exploded when a few soldiers who operated the cannon flew out, and two died on the spot, and the rest were seriously injured, and then basically all died.

Therefore, he didn't have much confidence in the red-coated cannon at the moment, so even if he was in a hurry, he didn't dare to run to the red-coated cannon himself like Hilgen to direct the firing of the cannon. This time, the three cannons were finally ready again. There were three loud bangs, and three shells flew towards the Wu army's position again. The effect of this time was different, three shells actually did not miss a shot, and one directly hit the position of the Wu army's artillery camp, overturning a Wu army's cannon and knocking it into a crooked one, and wounding seven or eight Wu army gunners at the same time. The other two shells did not hit the position of the Wu army's artillery battalion, but hit the Wu army's infantry formation.

As I explained before, it is now winter, although Jiangxi belongs to the south, but the weather is also dry and rainless, the ground outside Nanchang City is dry and solid, after the Qing army's two round solid shells landed, they were effectively bounced up again, and continued to fly forward, producing a ricochet effect. After the shells fell into the military formation, they instantly opened a bloody alley in the densely assembled Wu army's military formation. Wherever the shells passed, the flesh of the Qing army could not stop them, and the flesh of the Wu army was of course the same. Immediately, they were also torn apart one by one, and the stumps and severed arms suddenly flew up in the blood mist, and their condition was unbearable.

This time, the three Hongyi cannons on Nanchang City played a big role, and they really shocked the Wu army, and the cannons of the Qing army could still hit them. Although Zhang Guozhu was surprised by the Wu army, he was not afraid, seeing that there were few red-clothed cannons of the Qing army in this way, and his own artillery could completely suppress the Qing army artillery in the city, so he gritted his teeth and ordered loudly: "Don't stop, the Qing army has few artillery, work hard to destroy them, break Nanchang City, the artillery battalion will count the first merit, and the reward will be doubled!" ”

"Good!" The six hundred or so people on the side of the artillery battalion applauded loudly, and the trace of timidity that had just risen was also left behind, and it was quickly reloaded again. So the two sides bombarded each other on both sides of Nanchang City, the shells came and went, and the fight was very lively, but the Wu army's artillery was always more than the Qing army, and the Qing army's side seemed to be lively, but in addition to the three red-coated cannons, the other cannons could not hit the Wu army at all, and the red-coated cannons on the Wu army's side could all hit Nanchang City. And their target is the entire Nanchang City, they are easier to hit the target than the Qing army, as for where to hit, Zhang Guozhu can't control.

For half an hour, the Qing army on the side of Nanchang City could no longer stand it, the head of the city was damaged in many places, the soldiers were killed and wounded heavily, the city head had been replaced, the dead and wounded Qing army exceeded 3,000, and the Wu army, so far there were less than 200 people who died under the artillery of the Qing army. On the Wu army's side, nearly one-third of the shells fired in the past half an hour actually hit Nanchang City. A large number of residential houses near the south gate also collapsed, and more than 3,000 ordinary people were killed and injured in the city, and the city began to be disrupted when it was first subjected to shelling, and at this moment the city was full of rumors, all thinking that the city would not be protected, and for a time people were panicking, and even the young men in the city who were called up to help defend the city began to flee.

There are many people who packed up their things and dragged their families to escape from the city gates such as the east gate and the north gate, but the city gates were blocked by a large number of Qing troops, and how could they open the city gates at this time, so the Qing army and the people also clashed at several city gates.

With the continuous shelling, the losses of the Qing army at the head of Nanchang City are getting bigger and bigger, and their morale is slowly being depleted, and even Rab and Hilgen are desperate at this moment. Holding on is certainly a dead end, but is there a way to survive when you go out of the city and fight to the death with the Wu army? In fact, there may be hope for the Qing army to lead the whole army out of the city at the beginning of the death, but after the 3,000 men and horses who went out of the city were broken and fled back to the city by the Wu army's artillery, the Qing army did not dare to continue to send troops out of the city, and the delay was more than half an hour, which completely lost the opportunity to turn defeat into victory.

Of course, Rab and Hilgen can also choose to escape, but anyone can run, even if he Hilgen can't run, if he still escapes this time, it will be the third time to escape. The first two times were defeated in the hands of the Mawei Army, and this time he was defeated in the hands of the Wu Army and lost Nanchang City, not to mention that Kangxi would not spare him, even he himself could not spare himself, and he was ashamed, what kind of face did he have to go back to the capital?

"Victory!"

"Victory!"

"Victory!"

Outside the city, the Wu army stood in several phalanxes for so long, but they didn't feel tired at all, their own artillery was powerful, and the Qing army on the city head had no power to fight back, although most of the soldiers couldn't see the scene on the city head clearly from such a distance, but the Qing army banner on the city head was shot down by the cannon, and the city head was blown up or could still be found. In addition, there were also his own generals holding clairvoyant mirrors to observe, and they reported the situation from time to time, which greatly boosted the morale of the Wu army.

"Boom" a loud sound, a section of the city wall on the east side of Guangrun Gate in the southwest of Nanchang City can no longer withstand the continuous bombardment of artillery, and suddenly collapses a piece, forming a gap of nearly ten meters wide, and at the same time, it also happens that a cannonball just smashed open the gate of Guangrun Gate, and Nanchang City is completely exposed in front of tens of thousands of Wu troops with extremely strong morale. (To be continued......)