The spring breeze warmed up, the earth faintly revealed a hint of green, and after a crazy toss in a harsh winter, Zhou Huchen finally ushered in the season he was waiting for.

This time, Zhou Huchen personally came to the city of Tianjin, and a real attack came, because Zhou Huchen brought his steel behemoth this time, and not long after Zheng Sen and the others set off, Zhou Huchen's spring land offensive in Jihua began.

There are only five giant cannons, but five huge cannons are still too much, the city walls of Tianjin City are too dilapidated and too thin, according to the opinion of the commander Zhou Qian, he only needs one cannon to collapse the broken city walls of Tianjin.

The head of the city of Tianjin is full of people, and there are a lot of Qing troops defending Tianjin, but unfortunately, the real Jurchen soldiers are probably only a thousand people, plus those Eight Banners Han army, the Qing army in Tianjin City absolutely trusts Liliang In fact, there are only about 10,000 people, and the rest of the army is all the new Han army and some ordinary people who have just joined the army. Liliang is weak, this is the real situation in Tianjin.

"There's nothing unusual about those Han troops, right?"

The one who opened the question was responsible for the defense of Tianjin, Jianzhou Melle Zhangjing Atu, Attu is the old Eight Banners general, can fight habitually, he has followed the old man Nurhachi since he was a child, he is almost sixty years old this year, he is considered a veteran figure in Jianzhou, this time the Tianjin defense battle due to the lack of major generals, Attu was transferred to Tianjin.

"I didn't find anything abnormal, those generals were all closely watched, and now they are all in the city."

"Let Luo Yangxing and a few other important generals and officials come here."

Atul has rich combat experience, but he is not at ease with those new Han troops, he knows that those Han people are very unreliable, and always do not do the surrender properly, especially in winter, Attu faintly heard some rumors, some generals come and go too often, because there is no real evidence and it is the time to employ people, Attu only warned these new Han army generals to pass it. The moment of the present. Atul is not at ease, and it is considered a good case to let those generals stay by his side.

Zhou Huchen's army was about to attack, Luo Yanghe and the people he contacted were ready, as soon as the cannon sounded, he saw the signal flare in the air and immediately began to carry out the operation, anyway, Tianjin is destined to not be able to defend, for the future, must fight. It's a pity that now Atul has disrupted Luo's Jihua.

The generals were all at the head of the city, and Luo Yangxing, who was waiting in his own palace, slowly got dressed. Then he saw the little officer of the Eight Banners who came to summon him. The man was young, wearing a leather armor, and his arrogant eyes told Luo Yangxing that he had no other choice.

Out of the living room, Luo Yangxing suddenly said to the young junior officer: "Please wait a moment, although this Fuyuan is a civil official, but now it needs to defend the city, it is more appropriate to go back and change into armor!" Please wait a moment, the general will be fine immediately. ”

The young junior officer frowned, but Luo Yang's words were reasonable. He had no reason to object.

When Luo Yang returned to the house, fine beads of sweat immediately oozed from his brain, because he understood what Atul meant, which was a sign of distrust. It is also a precaution. As long as you go to the top of the city, the chances of surviving are slim! Luo Yangxing felt that he was a little unlucky, according to the agreement, the signal flare would be lifted into the air soon after the cannon sounded, and those generals must act. The possibility of being killed himself was too great, so Luo Yangxing was delaying time, how he wished that the cannon would sound sooner. Before he could go up to the city, the flare was raised.

At this time, Zhou Huchen's steel giant beast approached Tianjin City under the traction of horses.

Tianjin's city walls are very short, but Tianjin's defense has an advantage, Tianjin has a lot of water, so the moat is very wide, almost twice as wide as the general moat, in addition to the width, this moat is also very deep, under normal circumstances, it seems that it is not easy to take Tianjin easily.

Tianjin is the firearms center of the northern Ming Dynasty, and there is no shortage of artillery and firearms, of course, no one dares to use those firearms and no one wants to commit suicide. However, there are several red-coated cannons at the head of Tianjin, and this red-coated cannon is still reassuring, plus those large numbers of artillery such as general cannons, Tianjin's defensive ability is actually not weak.

Of course, this is not weak and not easy to take down just for the general army, as for Zhou Huchen, this is too easy.

Far away, Zhou Huchen's giant cannon stopped, and then the soldiers were busy and began to set up the gun position. This distance seems to be a bit too far to shoot with a red-coated cannon, and the Ming army actually started shelling at such a distance, is this useful?

As a tried-and-true veteran, Atul knew the importance of artillery for siege and defense, and this distance did not look like a real siege. However, Atul could not let these Ming gunners place their artillery so easily.

"We also have red-coated cannons, bombard them with red-coated cannons for me."

The gunners at the head of the city of Tianjin had already loaded their artillery, and the gunners of these commanders' red-coated cannons were the so-called Wuzhen Chaoha, the first Han people who were familiar with artillery and surrendered to Houjin. Following Atul's order, several gunners reached their red-hot iron drills into the fire doors of the redcoat cannons.

After a few jagged loud noises, the visible projectile flew out, targeting the gunners of the Ming army who were positioning artillery outside the city.

The projectiles fell in arcs one by one, and it was a pity that these projectiles were only less than a dozen steps away from those people in the Ming army. The range seems to be insufficient, the Ming gunners continue to be busy without panic, this distance is actually calculated haode, the range of the red-coated cannon is boasted very powerful, in fact, the range is very limited, and the current threat is not enough to mention.

"Increase the amount of gunpowder, and give me a follow!" Atul gritted his teeth and ordered:

"My lord, the amount of gunpowder used in this red-clothed cannon can't be increased, and if it is increased, it will explode!" An officer, apparently in charge of artillery, hastened to alert Atul.

Atul frowned: "Then try it with a red-coated cannon, and let these hateful Ming soldiers know how powerful we are." "The red-coated cannon is very precious, but Atul can't help it, he can't watch the Ming army place the artillery so calmly and leisurely.

Facts have proved that the quality of the red-coat cannon cast by the Ming army is really not very good, the gunner hurriedly loaded and increased the amount of gunpowder to fire decisively, the result is not surprising, only fired once, the red-coat cannon used for experiments increased the amount of gunpowder after exploding, and the flying huge artillery fragments also caused a wail to the nearby gunners.

At this time, the five huge cannons of the Ming army were in place.

The distance is a little far, and the Qing army at the head of Tianjin can't see what the artillery of the Qing army looks like. And Zhou Qian, who was in charge of commanding the giant artillery, didn't care about the artillery bombardment of the Qing army, he calmly watched the Qing army at the head of Tianjin open the artillery, and watched his subordinates adjust the steel giant beast step by step.

According to his own habits, Zhou Qian took a few steps forward, and he stretched out his hand to stroke the huge cannon barrel in front of him, this action was gentle as caressing his own child. Immediately after, Zhou Qian turned around and left the vicinity of the artillery.

Although it was far away from the artillery, Zhou Qian could clearly see Zhou Huchen on the horse baring his teeth and expressing his attitude, which clearly meant the beginning. This action made Zhou Qian have the urge to laugh, but unfortunately, this was a battle scene, and Zhou Qian didn't dare to laugh.

Zhou Qian waved his decisive hand: "Ready to fire!" (To be continued......)