"Push the cannon up!"

With a roar, a group of people pushed several artillery wagons to the front of the formation. There were three guns on each gun carriage side by side, and a total of twelve gun carriages were placed in front of the formation, making a total of thirty-six guns.

"Dog, let them compensate Lao Tzu for his power, bang the fuck, bang hard!" Ma Shoucheng shouted angrily and viciously.

With such a big movement under the city, the guards on the arrow tower at the south gate also discovered it for the first time.

"My lord, artillery, artillery, a lot of artillery!"

The shocked members of the Hydra team members were a little incomplete in their speech, and they stammered. Liu Jun was already holding a clairvoyant mirror and carefully watching the bandits' artillery.

Through the clairvoyant mirror, he clearly saw that about three hundred paces below the city, there were twelve artillery carriages lined up.

"It's a cannon!" Zhao Shun also stood next to Liu Jun with a clairvoyant mirror, and he recognized these cannons for the first time.

Zhang Shan hurriedly asked, "Is this cannon powerful?" ”

"It's not as good as the Hongyi cannon and the large Franc machine, but it's much stronger than our Tiger Squat cannon." Zhao Shun's answer made Zhang Shan and the rest of the team members feel some worries.

"Tell me about the specifics of the cannon." Liu Jun kept his composure and asked.

"Well, the cannon pushed up by the thief is roughly judged to be an ordinary exterminator from here. This kind of exterminator cannon is actually similar to the Tiger Squat Cannon, but it is more powerful. The exterminating cannon weighs 100 catties, is made of fine iron, the pipe is two feet long, there are five iron hoops, and it shoots one pound of lead bullets. The imperial court has long had this cannon, often equipped in the car camp, loaded with a captivating car, a shot can be five or six hundred steps, like a huge thunder. ”

"It is said that this exterminator cannon has three guns in one car, which is three hundred catties, and the gun truck is very convenient to load. Moreover, although the exterminator cannon uses one pound of lead bullets, the most powerful part of this cannon is the divergent bullet, which can shoot 200 small lead shots at a time, which is equivalent to 200 feather arrows. ”

Liu Jun was calm on his face, but he was already a little unsettled in his heart, dog, the rogue bandits actually have such an advanced guy, although for the border army, the exterminator cannon can only be regarded as a lightweight support artillery, but for the small tiger head fort, twelve exterminators, it is a bit of a big killer.

The artillery equipped by the nine-headed bird is the tiger squat cannon, which is only more than 30 catties, but the tiger squat cannon needs fifty guns and two salvos to collapse the city wall, and now the thieves have thirty-six more powerful extermination cannons, this battle is a little difficult to fight, and they were a little too happy before.

Fortunately, Zhao Shun talked about the shortcomings of the exterminator again, which made Liu Jun feel a little better. The strength of the exterminator is the scatter projectile, firing 200 rounds of lead at a time, which is much stronger than the tiger squat cannon that fires 100 lead at a time. However, firing a large lead bullet can only send one pound of lead bullet, while the tiger squat cannon can fire a large lead bullet of 30 taels, which is equivalent to more than twice the size of the exterminating cannon. In terms of design, the two kinds of artillery are not used to siege the city, the siege artillery is stronger with the general cannon and the Hongyi cannon, the defense of the city with the Franc machine is better, the extermination is more suitable for the car battalion, light and convenient for transportation, and the scattered bullet is suitable for the battle. The tiger squat cannon is suitable for infantry formation, because the tiger squat is more than 30 catties and a door, which is quite easy to move, but it has to dig a pit before firing the cannon, which has a great advantage in supporting the infantry to fight in formation and firing scattered bullets.

"The thieves are attacking the city with exterminators, and it seems that we don't need to worry too much." Liu Jun smiled, just a little reluctantly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the trumpet was sounded in the city.

"Get down, the thief is going to fire." Zhao Shun shouted.

Sure enough, before the words fell, only a loud bang was heard, and then a sharp whistling sound sounded in the air.

"Get down!" Liu Jun shouted while squatting down against the women's wall.

The exterminator cannon with a range of 500 paces was fired at a distance of 300 paces, which was completely within the range, and the gunners of the thieves were also very sophisticated, twelve artillery carriages fired a salvo, and thirty-six exterminators came with a salvo, and the sound of the cannon was shocking.

Thirty-six pounds of heavy lead were the first to be smashed on the wall of the south gate, and a few more hit the wall of the arrow tower. Liu Jun squatted at the head of the city, and he could feel the shaking under his feet.

Fortunately, the city wall was rammed and re-wrapped bricks, and a pound of buckshot smashed into it only left some cobweb-like cracks. After the large lead bullets smashed into the city wall, they were followed by an overwhelming flood of small leads, each cannon was loaded with 200 small lead weights weighing five coins, and the 36 cannons fired more than 7,000 small lead at once.

The entire southern city wall, which is nearly 300 paces wide, is almost caged.

The sky was full of lead, and the momentum was indeed terrifying.

When the lead rain passed, Liu Jun hurriedly shouted, "How about the casualties?" ”

Everyone looked left and right, looked at each other, and found that after this terrifying round of shelling salvo, everyone was not harmed, with the four-zhang high city wall, the seven-foot female wall protection, plus the bright helmet on the head, and the cotton armor on the body, almost no damage.

Everyone went from nervous to happy, and they all burst out laughing.

Some even jumped on the battlements and writhed towards the city, making provocative movements.

"Come on, thief who killed a thousand knives, come and your father."

Liu Jun got up and looked at the city again.

The thief's exterminator cannon is cleaning its chamber in preparation for a second shot. At the same time, at the sound of the horn, a large number of bandits were already holding wooden shields and carrying ladders, taking advantage of the cover of the round of shelling just now, and were rushing towards the city wall.

"Grass, thieves will also attack with artillery and artillery, but they are not all fools." Zhang Shan spoke.

"These are not a group of big-pockmarks, they are all old rogues who have wandered in the Central Plains, they have seen a lot in the world, and they have fought a lot of battles, so it's not surprising that they have this ability." Liu Jun replied.

However, Liu Jun was not too worried, although the thieves had 36 cannons, which was much more than he expected, but they had a newly built tiger head fort, with a moat, a drawbridge, a four-zhang city wall, and a 36-window arrow tower. There is even an inner urn city with three gates inside the city gate, and although there is no outer urn city outside the city gate, there is a sheep and horse wall.

This is a three-dimensional city defense system, if the bandits want to break through and attack, it is not easy, they were able to climb to the top of the city last night, it was because Liu Jun deliberately let them come, and now, it is not so easy.

"Bell Bell Bell ~"

Here, the sound of the pipa sounded on the tower of the city behind, then the sound of drums, the sound of the flute, and the sound of the piano, Shen Man finally took the girls of the Red Sleeve Workshop to start singing and dancing to cheer for the nine-headed bird.

"Aim the Tiger Squat Cannon at the thieves' exterminators and knock them out!" Liu Jun ordered.

At noon, a round of scorching sun hung high in the sky, and the two soldiers and horses above and below the city each blew trumpets and beat drums, and the battle officially began.

This time the bandits were no longer a sneak attack but a strong attack, but their offensive strategy did not change much, facing the first line of defense trench of the tiger head fort, they did not choose to laboriously fill the trench, but directly prepared to continue to follow the wooden ladder to cross the trench.

Unlike last night, there were more wooden ladders prepared this time, and the bandits carrying the ladders in front of them also raised a wooden shield.

After the first round of artillery fire, the bandits immediately began to charge, and when they were halfway through, the exterminators behind them fired again in unison, bombarding the southern city fiercely.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the bandits stepped forward and soon rushed to the front of the trench.

In addition to the four-story arrow tower on the city gate on the south gate wall, there is also a horse face platform protruding from the city wall every thirty steps, and the horse face platform can shoot on the horse face after the enemy rushes under the city wall, forming a cross fire with the teammates on the city wall, leaving no dead ends. And on the horse noodle platform of Hutou Fort, there are even two layers of enemy towers built on the horse noodle platform like some border towns, one on each horse noodle platform.

There are a total of eight horse-faced platforms on the south city, and there are eight double-storey enemy towers on them, on which archers and firecrackers can stand and fight thieves more condescendingly.

And on the east and west corners of the south city, there is also a corner platform, and there is a three-story corner tower on the corner platform.

The front of the entire southern city is more than 300 steps wide, and there is a four-story arrow tower, two three-story corner towers, and eight double-story enemy towers. On the city wall, there are also a number of forts, on which are arranged six tiger squat cannons now owned by the nine-headed bird, as well as more than a dozen counterweight stone throwing vehicles.

"Put them close and fight, aim and hit again!"

There are trenches, sheep and horse walls, and city walls, Liu Jun doesn't have to worry about the thieves breaking the formation in one fell swoop, he can completely put the thieves in front of the trench and shoot calmly in front of them.

The thieves rushed to the trench under the cover of artillery fire and then set up a ladder.

The nine-headed birds in the city waited calmly until they finally began to step on the ladder to cross the trench.

"Free fire!" Zhang Donggou held the nine-headed bird on the bracket and raised his gun, and on the second floor of the enemy building, he aimed at the thieves who were stepping on a ladder and crossing the trench dozens of steps away in the distance. It was a middle-aged man in his forties, holding a wooden shield that had obviously been improvised in one hand, and had not even peeled off the bark, and the shield looked heavy, rough, but also strong.

He trotted on a ladder and carried a waist knife in one hand.

But he was on top of the trench, there were no teammates to cover him on the left and right, and he had a shield in his hand, but in the eyes of Zhang Donggou, who was a marksman, there were flaws everywhere.

"Die!" He pulled the trigger, and with a loud bang, the thief in sight was shot, and he shook a few times, trying to stabilize his body, but finally became unconscious, and finally fell off the ladder with a thud, and fell headlong into the trench.

Almost at the same time, the archers and firecrackers on the arrow tower, the enemy tower, and the corner tower buckled the sheet metal machine almost at the same time. With the sound of gunshots and arrows, nearly half of the dozens of thieves who were stepping on the ladder were shot and fell into the trench.

The tiger squat cannons and catapults on the head of the city also began to fire, and the nine-headed bird only had six tiger squat cannons, which were far less powerful than the thieves' exterminating cannons, but fortunately, the tiger head fort also had more than a dozen counterweight catapults, which could throw five or six pounds of stones. And it's condescending, if the accuracy is good enough, it can also play a good role.

The first round of artillery stones, six lead bullets and eighteen stone bullets, directly hit a gun carriage in front of the thief formation, the killing car fell apart, and the three guns on it were also blown to the ground, and several gunners and shield men were hit and fell to the ground.

Liu Jun held the clairvoyant mirror and just saw this scene, and waved his fist very happily.

"My lord is clever, use all the cannons to aim at a gun cart, and it's really a good way." Zhao Shun hurriedly patted his ass on the side.

Although the artillery of this era also has a crosshair, the accuracy is still too poor, and the cannon is not based on the target. However, Liu Jun was very jealous of the thieves' exterminating cannons, so Liu Jun was also ruthless, and directly ordered the six tiger squats and eighteen stone-throwing vehicles at the head of the city to directly aim at one of the thieves' artillery carts, and the twenty-four vehicle cannons fired a salvo, which could always improve the hit rate.

In fact, although there were many misses, in the end, one buckshot and a stone bullet hit the target, and the thief's three exterminators were eliminated in one round.

"Next target, come again!"

Cai Yuan, the general manager of the artillery department, excitedly gave a new order and selected the next target.