The appearance of sniper gunners somewhat made the rebels look forward to it, but they were a little disappointed, looking forward to the power of the new type of muskets, disappointed that there were only a dozen gunners, and behind the defensive line of the defenders under the city, there were more than 20 return cannons alone, not to mention the phalanx of thousands of crossbowmen.

However, Liu Hanchao was full of confidence, and when he gave the order to shoot the sniper gunners, he was even more arrogant!

These gunners had no other skills than to wield muskets, and although they carried short knives, when the muskets were ineffective and the enemy was close, they were dead, and it was not much use to carry short knives.

Seeing that the sword players were protecting these gunners every step of the way, the rebels were even more disappointed.

However, these gunners are all elite carefully selected by Yang Jing from the Shenhuo Camp, not only can they use the old sleeve skillfully, but also have excellent eyesight, extremely accurate marksmanship, and even master the principle of firearms, and can complete disassembly and assembly, which is already a very rare talent!

Yang Jing left too hastily at the beginning, and after going north, he cut off the news, and it was only after reuniting with Zong Yun that he made such a decision, asking Lin Jue to send a message back to the south, and secretly mobilized more than a dozen of the most top-notch gunners in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Yang Jing is the benefactor and spiritual leader of the Grandmaster Craftsman Group, without Yang Jing, there would be no Divine Fire Battalion, as a gunner, everyone knows that it was Yang Jing who created the era of muskets, allowing them to master the most lethal power of this era!

Only these gunners can most deeply appreciate how terrifying the old sleeve is, and no musket in their cognition can compare with it!

As sniper gunners, they are Taishan collapsed in front of them, and they must not change their faces, even if there is no protection of the knife player, the fierce attack of the enemy cannot shake their firm heart and will!

Instead of having to fill gunpowder, use a stick to build up the gunpowder, or light the arquebus, these sniper gunners took cover, poked out the muzzle of the gunner's shield, and started the free-fire mode!

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

The sound of the musket was not very loud, and it was even more insignificant when drowned in the sound of fighting, but the sound of the gun was extremely rhythmic, although Liu Hanchao ordered free shooting, more than a dozen gunmen still took turns shooting.

Their shots were steady, accurate, and fast, with the butt against the shoulder socket, and although the recoil was a little greater, their figure was barely out of shape.

It is really reluctant to use this rifle as a sniper rifle, but in this era, it is already shocking!

The defenders of the city fell to the ground one by one, and many of them were directly headshots, and the artillery defense line was suddenly dumbfounded!

The rebels were already disappointed, and at this time, seeing that more than a dozen sniper gunners had easily killed the gunners of several guns, they couldn't help cheering, and their morale was suddenly boosted!

As gunners, the defenders are naturally no strangers to firearms, many of them have squinted eyes, which is caused by perennial aiming, and many of them have eye injuries, and even affect their eyesight, which is caused by the explosion of muskets.

At that time, there was no way to accurately calculate the power of gunpowder, and the quality was not guaranteed, so that the rate of explosion was extremely high, and the accidental injury caused by the musket was even greater than the threat of the enemy.

It is for this reason that the Southern Song Dynasty did not vigorously promote muskets, and the Mongols had foreign armies such as the Han army and the new annex army, and accidental injuries were no loss for them at all.

There are also people who have large and small burn scars on their arms, which are the marks left by the burning of the fire.

From all these signs, it can be seen that these gunners are definitely experienced, but even so, they have never seen such a terrifying natural firearm!

These gunners were the most proficient in firearms among the Mongol tribes, and the earlier Huihui Cannon, also known as the Western Regions Cannon, or Boulder Cannon, was a large counterweight stone thrower capable of firing boulders weighing 150 kilograms, destroying and destroying the dead, and the power was shocking.

However, it is recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty and the Chronicles of the Soldiers" that the so-called cannons in ancient times were all machine-fired stones, and the Western Regions cannons were obtained at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and the city of Caizhou in Jin was attacked with fire.

Gunpowder was invented in China in the seventh century AD, but it was not until the thirteenth century, the Song Dynasty, that tubular firearms were made to fire iron projectiles, and it was not until the late thirteenth century that some decent artillery pieces appeared.

However, these Mongol gunners already knew how to use the vehicles of the return cannon to fire shells that could explode, or hollow shells that included iron pieces and other contents, which shows their ingenuity.

It's just that even these gunners were shocked by the gunslingers' self-fired muskets!

When the first old sleeve was developed, Du Kefeng and the grandmaster craftsmen were all dumbfounded, and there was only disbelief and incredulity in their hearts.

Du Kefeng himself has made flintlock pistols, so he knows better than anyone that this new type of musket designed by Yang Jing is definitely leading the times and is absolutely unparalleled in the world!

The gunners felt the shock of the rifle most directly, which was also their obedience to Yang Jing, daring to risk rebelling against the imperial court, joining the rebel army, and daring to risk their lives to go to the city to snipe the defenders' gunners!

The defender's return cannon is huge, and it takes a lot of people to work together to launch, and the operation is also very troublesome, it was originally a siege artifact, but it used such a bulky ordnance to defend the city, and it was naturally no longer available at this time, and the sergeants on both sides were shocked and quieted down, and there was a scene on the battlefield that was short but weird to the extreme!

Everyone looked at the gunners, not knowing which one would suddenly fall, and they looked at the sniper gunners on the top of the city as if they were looking at the deadly Hades!

"Give me the spirits! Shoot these people to death! Shoot them to death!" The guard general was also so frightened that his face turned pale, and he still roared loudly and inwardly, but he subconsciously retreated a long way.

More than half of the gunners have been killed and wounded, the return artillery can no longer complete the blockade, and if the bow and crossbow phalanx cannot be suppressed, the rebels will have to rush in under the cover of the sniper gunners!

Although the bows and crossbows of the Mongolian defenders are powerful, the tired victorious army has made sufficient preparations in order to attack the fortifications, their strength is great, and their shields are inlaid with iron sheets, and they are not afraid of bows and crossbows at all!

Those crossbowmen were shouted by the guards, and they also came to their senses, and they bent their bows and shot arrows, and another ** arrow rain was poured on the city.

It's just that the bow and arrow are weapons, especially in siege warfare or when the two armies are facing each other, there is a lot of attention, especially in phalanx combat, not about technology, but about tactics!

If it is condescending, the power of the bow and arrow will naturally increase a lot, but at the moment, the defenders are in a low place below, but the righteous army is on the head of the city three zhang high, and the defenders' defense line is also a certain distance from the city gate.

Now that they were frightened by the sniper gunners, their morale was low, and they had almost reached the bottom, and many people had already retreated in their hearts, allowing fear to take over their hearts, and the threat of the bow and crossbow was not as fierce as before.

More than a dozen sniper gunners finally relieved the crisis of returning artillery, and the victorious army slaughtered from the top of the city with a large shield!

They swooped down like wolves into the defenders' phalanx of crossbowmen, and like wolves crashed into a lamb's nest, the defenders had no power to resist!

"Knife players are all in front for me! Hurry!"

The defender was also afraid, he didn't let the crossbowmen retreat at all, he would rather them die on the front line than easily retreat behind the defense line, otherwise the crumbling morale of the army would collapse completely!

Both the return cannon and the bow and crossbow have lost their deterrence and suppression, and if they can't transfer the sword players and shield spearmen to the front army, I am afraid that the victorious army will soon kill their phalanx!

But most of the defenders of Luoyang are concentrated behind the city gate, the flow of people is extremely crowded, coupled with the death of also Kugai, many generals compete for military power, which has already made the defenders chaotic, even to the point that the generals do not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, some people are desperately waving the flag, summoning their own headquarters, and there are also soldiers constantly shuttling in the flow of people, trying to find the organization.

In this chaotic situation, many people believed that relying on the return cannons and crossbowmen would never allow the rebels to move forward, so neither the generals nor the soldiers, nor the swordsmen and shield-gunners thought that there would be no accidents.

It is precisely because of this kind of thinking that it still harms them after all

When the guards are about to mobilize the sword players and spear and shield soldiers, these bloated teams want to get through the flow of people in a short time, and it will be difficult to support the city head in time unless they kill their own phalanx!

While the sword players and spear and shield soldiers were still rushing forward, the brothers of the victorious army had already rushed down the city under the leadership of Liu Hanchao and Zheng Gongyu!

Liu Hanchao was still in the lead, and seeing that the defenders were overwhelmed in the defensive line, he immediately took a sky-shattering thunderbolt and threw it out!

The fuse of this earth-shattering thunder was too short to fly above the defenders' heads and explode!

Even so, the coverage area of the fragments was increased, and the killing range was even more covered, and stray bullets and fragments were fired in all directions, and the crowded crowd was suddenly empty!

Seeing that the earth-shaking thunder worked, Liu Hanchao threw another one, this time he also targeted the gunpowder car that returned the cannon, the lead of the earth-shaking thunder was not burned out in advance, and finally detonated the gunpowder car!

The gunpowder cart was loaded with cannonballs, explosive or non-explosive, and there were also the most primitive round stone bullets, which were detonated by the earth-shattering thunder, and the splash damage could be imagined!

"Boom Boom Boom"

The successive explosions almost destroyed the entire defense line, and the sword players and shield spearmen who were crowded to the front line were suddenly blown up in large swaths like wheat!

A return cannon was even exploded, countless fragments were splattered everywhere, and after the defense line collapsed, the breach was amplified by the explosion, and the defenders finally retreated like a tide!

The defenders were in chaos, trampled into uncountable flesh, and there were countless people who threw away their armor and abandoned their armor and ran around, but the morale of the rebels was like a monstrous flame, under the leadership of Liu Hanchao and the tired army, more and more rebels entered the city, constantly impacting the defenders, wantonly covering up, it was really corpses all over the place, and the blood flowed like a river!

Zheng Gongyu took advantage of this opportunity to lead dozens of brothers to turn the winch hard, the city gate was hoisted up with a bang, and the rebels shouted to kill the heavens, and finally killed them!

The defenders were horrified, they had long since lost their fighting spirit, and they were wantonly killed by the rebels, and from late night until dawn, the city was full of corpses, and blood flowed into the canals in the city, staining the river red, and the whole city was filled with a strong smell of blood!

Guo Dongjia's rebels wrapped red scarves around their arms and besieged them from the east gate, and the Mongol defenders made matters worse and went to the north gate without their lives.

At this time, it was already dawn, which should have been the most beneficial time for the defenders, but unfortunately the defenders had gone, and dawn had become their fatal disadvantage, because they couldn't even hide!

The righteous army killed heartily, after the city gate was opened, 20,000 vanguard troops entered the city to strangle, and Luoyang City was a sea of corpses and blood!