The departing musketeers did not go far, and would wander back and forth as far as the officers and men of Fuzhou City could see.

It was not only for demonstration, but also to secretly pay attention to the movements of the Ming Dynasty officials and troops, and open the way for the rear army.

These musketeers would have been the best units to act as guerrilla vanguards. Combining the mobility of cavalry, the musket's ranged attack is only slightly inferior to that of archers, and it is also equipped with a round shield to protect it well. It can be said that it is a field force with a high cost performance.

It's just that such a unit is quite difficult to train. The range and accuracy of firearms in this era were not very good, let alone hitting the target when the cavalry charged, it was even more difficult.

However, it is much easier to wield a musket than a bow and arrow than a real cavalry archer.

Only 100 musketeers are needed, and at medium and close ranges, using guerrilla tactics is afraid that a traditional cavalry of 1,000 people can fly kites to death!

As a partial general of the city gate of Fuzhou City, he was in charge of more than 5,000 city guards, and General Zhang did not rise up by walking through the back door. I can see through the plans of those enemies at a glance, no, it should be said that the other party is deliberately showing off!

Looking at the foreign enemies in his field of vision, General Zhang's eyes were full of murderous intent.

Hmph, let you be free for a while, and when the siege is time, you will be better.

After snorting coldly, he turned his head to the herald next to him and ordered: "Let the guards ajar open the city gate to let the people who are still alive in, and pay attention to staying vigilant at all times." Other than that...... Forget the dead, everything is focused on the war, and the corpses can only be collected after the war. ”

The herald nodded heavily, and turned to deliver the order. In ancient China, it was a major event second only to the succession of ancestors. It is not uncommon to sell one's body to bury one's father.

Therefore, when the order was given, many survivors threw themselves on the corpses of their relatives and wept and wailed without caring about the blood.

But in the end, he had no choice but to enter the city. The dead are gone, and the living need to continue to live strongly.

During the time when the enemy arrived, General Zhang was also trying to prepare for a big battle.

Oil, falling rocks, rolling logs, bows and arrows were constantly moved from the warehouse to the vicinity of the city walls. Of course, the most indispensable are the artifacts and cannons that attack the city and seize the land!

Just looking at the thick cannon, the soldiers and officers felt infinite confidence in their hearts. In their eyes, no enemy could survive in the face of such a lethal weapon.

However, it seems that they have forgotten one thing, these cannons are imported and copied from the Portuguese.

In the distance, the horizon gradually appeared black, and the neat and dull footsteps clearly reached the city walls, and the heart seemed to tremble violently with the vibration.

The black clouds crushed the city and wanted to destroy it, and the armor light opened to the sun. At a glance, the crowd is like a pitch-black tide that is endless, surging continuously!

The Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, and the western frontier is full of disputes, but there are only a small number of pirates and pirates in the coastal area, and there are no large-scale battles at all.

Therefore, most soldiers are on the battlefield for the first time, where have they seen such a vast and terrifying battlefield wonder!

"Will be ...... Checkmate! Look! The enemy also has artillery! ”

"What!"

General Zhang exclaimed in surprise and immediately pushed away the soldiers in front of him and stepped forward to watch.

Sure enough, although the vision was blurred from a kilometer away, those big guys who were mounted on carts and needed to be dragged by carriages were not artillery!

"Damn! What the hell are those idiots on the front line defending! How could something so conspicuous as heavy artillery be quietly transported here! ”

General Zhang's face was cloudy, and he dared to confront the foreign enemy, because he expected that the other party would want to cross the front line and the battlefield could only be reduced to zero.

In this way, the enemy will certainly not be able to carry too many siege weapons. Relying on the strong walls of Fuzhou City, even if there are hundreds of thousands of troops besieging it, it can at least hold out until reinforcements arrive.

But now, the enemy actually has artillery and other siege weapons! Fuzhou City, in danger!

No matter how frightened you are, what should come will come.

Seeing the army outside the city approaching step by step, the heavy pressure on the face was overwhelming.

Thinking of hundreds of people in the city, their wives and children, relatives and friends. General Zhang's heart was crossed, and he shouted loudly.

"Combat readiness, check the artillery. Adjust your bearings, aim as far as you can at the enemy's artillery, and prepare for ......"

The gunners' palms oozed dense sweat, and their eyes did not dare to relax for a moment.

General Zhang's right hand was raised high, and at this moment, this hand carried the lives of countless people in the city.

There has never been a moment when he feels so important, that one person represents the center of the world! If he could, he would rather not pay this kind of attention, just as his little bias would be eaten and waiting to die. Unfortunately, if it's just if.

The enemy's footsteps were steady and firm, but in a moment, they were already approaching 800 meters away!

750 meters, 700 meters, 650 meters......

Just as they were approaching the 600-meter barrier, the Dutch and Portuguese forces suddenly stopped in unison!

General Zhang's heart suddenly chuckled, and a sense of foreboding came to his heart. Sure enough, the enemy gunners have already begun to adjust their angles and prepare for the attack! And six hundred meters away, it is not within the accurate range of the artillery defending the city.

But looking at the enemy troops who have already begun to tinker with the barrels, they can't care so much at this time.

"Prepare ......"

General Zhang waved his hand violently and shouted: "Shoot!" ”

"Bang~!"

A series of artillery sounds were deafening, and the pitch-black shells cut a rounded arc in mid-air, flying straight along the parabola for hundreds of meters and falling into the enemy position.

With a bang, the shells exploded, and the fragments of shrapnel exploded, and all the enemies within a radius of more than 10 meters were injured by shrapnel. This is a flowering bomb with gunpowder added to it!

"It's over!"

Seeing this scene, General Zhang's face was pale, his body was weak, and he fell to the ground. A whole sixteen cannons fired a salvo, and not a single shot hit the target!

And at this time, accompanied by the coalition gunner's "Fire! "Shouting. Except for a few shells that flew over the city wall and landed inside and outside the city due to angle problems, most of the shells hit the city wall accurately.

"Boom~!"

In the roar of the explosion, the solid cannonballs blasted out large holes in the hard city wall, and the walls around the bullet marks were covered with cracks. Two more cannons were unfortunately hit, and the barrels of the cannons exploded instantly!

The flesh and blood were like paper paste in front of the cannonballs, and in the blink of an eye, the city wall was full of mourning, and blood splattered red the surrounding walls and ground!

"No!"

General Zhang, who was lucky not to die, roared angrily, witnessing the tragic death of Pao Ze in front of him, and at this moment he had already put life and death aside.

"Fight back! If you don't want to die, fight back with all your might! If we don't destroy the enemy artillery, we will all die! ”

The Ming army regrouped between the shelling, while the combined forces of the two countries were also reloading.

No way, who let it be the era of front-loading smoothbore guns. Every launch has to go through, clearing, loading, etc., and the rate of fire is so sad that it is calculated in minutes!

Under the threat of death, the soldiers of Fuzhou united as one.

And in the coalition of the two countries, the Portuguese commander Blaise with a two-goatee smiled contemptuously.

"Stupid Ming Dynasty people, their artillery is what we Portuguese have eliminated. It's ridiculous to want to win with these inferior products. ”

The Dutch commander next to him, Ogden, shrugged noncommittally, as if he didn't pay much attention to his statement.

Well, of course, that's right. Although Portugal is still powerful, the Netherlands is now rising rapidly, and now its strength is not weaker than Portugal.

In particular, maritime trade and colonial rule flourished. With this trend of skyrocketing strength, I am afraid that it will not be long before the position of sea supremacy will be handed over to the Netherlands!

There was a faint glint in Blaise's eyes, the arrogant Dutchman wanted to challenge our Portuguese dominance a hundred years earlier.

It just so happens that this is the time of war, so I will find an opportunity to send you to God.

The two bigwigs were leisurely sipping tea, and the battle outside had been loud again. Perhaps it was life and death that stimulated the potential, and this time the Fuzhou gunners were ten seconds faster than usual.

Ten seconds meant they still had the upper hand, and under the watchful eyes of thousands of pairs of eyes, the shells flew out again and landed sharply on the coalition positions.

"Boom!"

A brilliant spark bloomed in the crowd in an instant, accompanied by severed arms and stumps, and blood splattered. The artillery fire and blood compete with each other, but they reveal a little demonic beauty.

"Hit! The general shot! Not only did you blow up three enemy guns, but one of them detonated your ammunition box! ”

The young soldier, who looked to be no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, cheered, and a smile was on his gray face.

The next moment, a "fireball" just fell beside him and exploded violently, and the whole body was swept away by the air wave like a rag doll and hit the wall!

The smoke cleared, and the young soldier collapsed to the ground in a blur of flesh and blood, motionless. His eyes were hollow, and the smile on his face that had not yet faded was distorted by pain, and it seemed so shocking.

General Zhang looked at this scene in amazement, one moment the young man was still smiling excitedly at himself, and the next second the young man's life was over.

The astonishment was followed by anger, the suffering of the family and the country, and the incomparable monstrous anger.

"Damn bastard! I'm going to kill you all! Where's the trebuchet, the eight-bull crossbow! Bring me everything you can use! Shoot these bastards! ”

Finally, the eight-bull crossbow, which had been delayed by the shell bombardment, was ready. This three-bow bed crossbow has an incredible tension, and it takes a full forty people to pull the crossbow apart!

Only a whoosh was heard on the spot, and three three-edged crossbow arrows shaped like spears rushed out, spanning a distance of more than 600 meters in the blink of an eye.

Two of them hit the cannon body, and the powerful force pierced the cannon barrel in half! The remaining one penetrated five people in a row before it was deeply inserted into the ground, and the tail of the arrow trembled more than once!

Compared to the slightly backward artillery at this time, the accurate range of the bed crossbow has increased by more than a notch.

General Zhang immediately clapped his hands and shouted excitedly: "Okay! I didn't expect this thing to be so powerful. Quickly change people and re-fire the crossbow. ”

In the coalition army, Blaise frowned unhappily: "The intelligence does not say that there is such a powerful large bed crossbow in the DPRK. ”

Ogden pondered for a moment, and suddenly thought of such a piece of information that he had read before.

During the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu summoned craftsmen to invent a large bed crossbow with a range of up to 1,000 yards.

However, due to the popularity of artillery, the bed crossbow required dozens of people to pull it apart at a time, so it was gradually eliminated.

Ogden frowned and said, "I didn't expect them to abandon this backward weapon, and now it seems that there is some trouble." ”

But Blaise suddenly didn't hurry, and smiled mysteriously at him: "Don't forget, it's not us who are eyeing the fat of the Ming Dynasty." We can't just let us help, but our allies will benefit in vain. Hey, hey, hey, ......! (To be continued.) )