After taking a deep breath, he ordered loudly: "Strategist, go to the city wall immediately." Since the Haw Par Army, then Ben Shuai must have a good look. Look at what kind of elite this officer and army that wiped out thousands of our cavalry and thousands of infantry in one fell swoop..."

"In addition, let someone inform the other commanders, go to the city wall immediately, the tiger and leopard army is coming..."

With the help of a monocular, the Tiger and Leopard Army two miles outside the city appeared very clearly in front of Wu Jingtian's eyes.

More than 1,000 Haw Par musketeers have formed a very tight defensive line outside the east gate. Not only that, a mortar that he had never seen before, had already raised his five-foot-long cannon body, and the black hole with the thickness of the bowl mouth, without exception, was all aimed at the city wall of Baode County, where he was located.

Of course, this is only what I saw the Haw Par Army...

Behind these Haw Par Army, a group of Haw Par Army Iron Cavalry wearing iron cavalry are patrolling back and forth on the battlefield in platoons. Seeing this, Wu Jingtian couldn't help but think of the tragic picture of the Tiger and Par Army Iron Cavalry slaughtering in the military camp outside the city two days ago, and in just over half an hour, they wiped out thousands of their brothers.

At this time, a chaotic sound of footsteps suddenly sounded behind Wu Jingtian.

The only remaining commander of the two musket battalions, the commander of the spear battalion, the commander of the three reserve battalions, and the commander of the artillery battalion, had already hurried to Wu Jingtian with an anxious face.

When they saw the Tiger and Leopard Army outside the city that had completed the encirclement of the county seat of Baode County, several people couldn't help but gasp.

Although they have not really made a deal with the Haw Par Army outside the city, they only rely on the military appearance and equipment of the Haw Par Army outside the city. These people are in their hearts. There is a trace of unprecedented fear and worry.

This time. The artillery commander was the first to speak: "The commander....the officers and soldiers have arranged their defensive line two miles outside the city, just outside the range of our army's medium-sized Franc machine artillery. Therefore, unless we take the initiative to send troops out of the city and launch an attack on the officers and troops outside the city. Otherwise, we who are trapped in Baode County will not be able to help the officers and soldiers outside the city..."

Wu Jingtian was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically with a puzzled face: "How can this be..."

"Didn't you see that the artillery of the official army was also deployed two miles outside the city....The small artillery of the official army could attack us from two miles away, and our medium-sized Franc machine artillery was so large. Why can't you attack the officers and troops two miles away...."

Under Wu Jingtian's questioning, the artillery commander hurriedly took the monocular handed over by Wu Jingtian and began to observe.

As time passed, the incredulity on the face of the artillery commander was slowly replaced by a hint of incomprehension.

After returning the telescope to Wu Jingtian beside him, he replied with a frown: "Marshal Qiyu....please forgive the last general's clumsiness....The last general has been an artilleryman for more than ten years, and he has never seen this kind of artillery on the position of the Tiger and Leopard Army..."

It will be a kind of artillery that will only appear hundreds of years later, and the traitor artillery commander has certainly not seen it.

In this half-year-long development, because Wei Zheng was not able to carve rifling for the barrel and barrel. Therefore, Wei Zheng was very cumbersome among the direct generals. The Franc cannons, which are still smoothbore, are all replaced with relatively at least twice as light. And a mortar that is very easy to assemble and has a very fast rate of fire.

However, in order to increase the range and power of the mortar, it was possible to suppress the possible heavy Francophone guns on the battlefield. Wei Zheng, who had an idea, directly made the decision to increase the number of mortar models.

The first mortar produced by the Armament Division, because the effective firing range was only 300 steps and the caliber was three inches, Wei Zheng directly designated it as a medium mortar and equipped it to the regimental level ....

In addition, at the request of Wei Zheng, the Armament Division specialized in the production of two other types of mortars.

Small mortars with an effective firing range of one hundred and fifty paces and a caliber of only two inches were equipped to the battalion level......

The effective firing range reached 800 paces, the caliber reached 5 inches, the barrel was 5 feet long, and the weight had also increased to more than 300 catties......

As for the future army-level troops, it is necessary to wait for the equipment department to produce infantry guns with the simplest structure and the easiest to produce in the eyes of the guards after the rifling of the barrel can be carved......

The artillery outside the east gate of Baode County in front of him is the heavy mortar that the Haw Par Army has just been equipped.

The artillery commanders didn't know what kind of artillery it was, and these people led by Wu Jingtian were even more unclear because they were infantry or bandits.

Therefore, as soon as the artillery commander finished speaking, Wu Jingtian, who had seen the endless levels of new weapons of the Tiger and Leopard Army, couldn't help but let out a sigh full of helplessness. Then, he said to himself: "I hope the power of this artillery is not too great." Otherwise, our brothers who are guarding the city wall will only be bombed..."

Frustrated to frustrated, Wu Jingtian did not forget his identity.

Just as the atmosphere on the city wall became more and more solemn because of this, Wu Jingtian's eyes quickly shot out two rays of murderous light. Then, he shouted to his demoralized subordinates behind him.

"Brothers, the Haw Par Army has completed the encirclement of us....Now, there is only one last way left for us, which is to fight to the death, kill and injure the Haw Par Army as much as possible, and force the Haw Par Army to take the initiative to retreat...."

"Only in this way can we leave Baode County alive and return to Shaanxi...."

"Of course, some people may think that as long as we surrender to the Haw Par Army, we can survive..."

"Here, I would like to tell you that people who think this way are wishful thinking and whimsical... Don't forget, tens of thousands of people and tun people in the entire Baode County died in our hands and in the hands of your brothers. Do you think that with the character of the tiger and leopard army, they will let us people go......"

"From now on, I will immediately pass on the original words that Ben Shuai just said, word for word....cut off the luck of the brothers under his command. Only in this way can the more than 20,000 brothers under our command be twisted into a rope and fight to the end with the tiger and leopard army outside the city......"

The faces of several people standing behind Wu Jingtian all showed expressions of deep understanding.

After thinking about it, he replied loudly: "Please rest assured, the last general will definitely let the brothers understand this truth..."

After solving the problem of the military's heart that worried him the most, Wu Jingtian immediately shifted his attention to the military division. He asked the advisor, "How are the musketeers and artillerymen trained?"

A wry smile quickly appeared on the face of the military advisor, and he said with a face full of helplessness: "Dashuai, one day and one night, although I taught the brothers how to load and release guns. However, it is very far from going to the battlefield. ”

"As for the artillerymen, for a day and a night, they can only be taught to carry out simple reloading...... As for aiming and firing, without a few months of training, you can't learn it at all..."

Wu Jingtian shook his head and replied: "Now this commander can't control so much....The soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army are pressing, and if you can't go to the battlefield, you have to go to the battlefield for me......

"This commander ordered, immediately transfer half of the gunners, plus the new gunners who have just learned to load, and immediately go to the city wall....On the infantry side, quickly transfer two thousand musketeers, and one thousand pikemen on the city wall, and prepare for battle....As for the remaining musketeers, continue to train new soldiers..."

"In order to let those recruits adapt to the battlefield earlier, after the Haw Par Army launches an attack, they can be pulled to the foot of the city wall and trained to listen to the sound of gunfire......"

When a dense crowd of traitors began to pour onto the walls, ready to prepare for the Haw Par Army.

Zhou Yuhong, who had already rushed to the outside of the eastern city, in order to give the traitors in the city a dismount and hit their defensive morale. At the same time, it is also to test the specific power of mortars. Zhou Yuhong, who had a stern face, directly ordered the artillery battalion of 27 heavy mortars to carry out ten rounds of shelling of the city wall of Baode County.

As a result, one by one, the fixed-loading flowering shells were quickly stuffed by the gunner through the muzzle.

The oiled paper wrapped in the propellant was quickly pierced by an iron nail through the ignition hole in the tail of the barrel. Subsequently, a two-inch-long fire rope was inserted into the ignition hole and into the propellant wrapped in oiled paper.

In the blink of an eye, twenty-seven heavy mortars were ready to fire.

Under the order of the commander of the artillery battalion, one by one, the fire folds that were braving sparks quickly ran into the fire rope sticking out of the tail of the barrel.

The ignited arquebus quickly emitted a dazzling spark, and along the arquebus, it quickly spread to the barrel ....

The dazzling spark had just disappeared from everyone's field of vision, and a deafening explosion sounded right in front of the barrel of the artillery cannon. Then, a cloud of orange-red flames mixed with a large amount of black smoke quickly erupted from the muzzle of the cannon.

Of course, along with the flames that erupted from the muzzle, there was also a conical mortar shell with a long tail.

Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of gunners, twenty-seven conical mortar shells with white smoke emitting their tails flew into the sky with a piercing and sharp whistling sound at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Then, after drawing a very beautiful arc in the air, it was like having eyes, and smashed steadily towards the city wall....

Although these mortars were tested many times at the request of Wei Zheng, and the firing angle and scale were marked. However, under this backward production process, these mortars still have a firing error of several battles.

However, even so, of the twenty-seven shells that roared, five shells still smashed directly on the city walls.

The shell hit the ground, and the time-delay fuse, hidden in the tail of the shell, also burned out.

Under the gaze of the traitors on the city wall in shock and bewilderment, the five shells that fell to the ground exploded like the grenades they had encountered....

As an orange-red fireball rose into the air from the point where the shell hit, the fragments of the shattered shell quickly formed a fairly dense storm of steel, sweeping towards the traitors who were still in a daze around them...

The shell exploded, sending a cloud of blood directly in the middle of the dense traitors. At the same time, on the city wall full of traitors, there were also five huge gaps in the center of the impact point.

As for the traitors in the gap, they were either reduced to corpses or collapsed on the city walls, letting out heart-rending screams. (To be continued......)