The gunners on the city walls skillfully lit the arquebuses on the sub-cannons.

After a burst of fire, three-pound buckshot bullets flew towards the soldiers.

After hearing this cannon sound, Ruan Youjing, who was supervising the battle in the rear, secretly screamed badly.

Three-pound buckshot bullets landed among the soldiers.

Heavy lead bullets smashed into the rice fields, because the soil was soft, and the lead bullets smashed into the soil and smashed into large holes.

Some unlucky soldiers were hit in the legs and feet by this sudden buckshot, and blood flowers bloomed in an instant.

However, most of the soldiers were unharmed, but they were frightened by the sudden artillery on the city wall, and they continued to rush forward under the angry reprimand of the generals who supervised the battle.

"Prepare the flowering bomb."

The guerrilla general of the Pinghai battalion on the side saw that these small cannons on the city wall did not play much role, and hurriedly said.

Soon, the Ming gunners quickly picked up and aimed a wide and narrow bowl cannon at the front, and at the same time the gun actually had two fire ropes.

With bursts of firelight, thick white smoke rose.

One shell after another fell into the rice paddies, smashing out even bigger craters than before.

But at this moment, there was no fear on the faces of the soldiers, and they roared and rushed towards the Ming army wall.

But there were suddenly thunderous sounds from the big pits, and the soldiers who had just crossed the pits and had not yet reacted were swept into the air by this sudden explosion, accompanied by the splashing of dirt and stones.

The soldiers not far away fell in pieces, some of them covered in blood and covered in mud on their faces.

"The twist of the medicine is halved, fast." A gunner saw that the shell had hit the rice field for a long time before exploding, and hurriedly said to his companion on the side.

Soon there were several more cannons, and a few shells fell straight into the ranks of the soldiers who were only two hundred paces away from the city wall.

And this time the shell exploded before it hit the ground.

Qi Lang directly swept the nearby soldiers away, and the broken projectile body fragments directly tore apart the soldiers' rattan armor, and smoke, dirt, and blood clots splattered.

Seeing this, the Ming gunners on the city wall shouted.

Flowering shells refer to artillery shells that can explode after being fired and hurt people with shrapnel.

In the 17th century, the flowering bomb contained gunpowder in the body of the projectile, which ignited the twist of the sub-cannon (flowering shell) and the fire rope of the bowl of the mother cannon.

After firing, the sub-cannon that is pushed out of the muzzle will explode when the twist is extinguished, thus achieving an effect similar to that of a grenade in later generations.

This kind of artillery shell is equipped on the bowl mouth gun, also known as the mortar cannon, and the Ming army was equipped as early as the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

"Ming Huidian" records: The poisonous fire flying cannon "is made of wrought iron, like a general in Zhankou, and contains more than ten taels of gunpowder." In the mouth of the lamp, the pig iron flying cannon barrel is filled with five taels of sulfur poison, and the medicine line is always bound in one place. Ignition, cannon sound, cannon shot more than 200 paces away, explosion and injury"

The Ming army used the Ming army's bowl-mouth guns, poisonous fire cannons and improved light version of the thunder cannons

"Thunder flying cannon, imitation of poisonous fire cannon, and few of the changeables. Before the cannon, the iron is the cylinder, and the grinding stone is the sub. ”

It was Weng Wanda's improved mortar cannon during the Jiajing period for the bowl mouth cannon that fired poisonous fire flying cannons, and its mother cannon was too heavy to lift, and the weight was undoubtedly greatly reduced compared with the previous generation.

The soldiers outside the city were hit by this sudden flowering bullet and suffered heavy casualties, but the Ming soldiers on the city wall were greatly demoralized.

Li Liu looked at these bowl cannons on the city wall with a surprised expression, this kind of artillery that could fire flowering shells was less equipped in the Luzon Ming army.

In fact, the firing range of this kind of bowl mouth gun is very close, but it is only 200 steps, compared to the Saikou cannon, the range of the Hongyi cannon can not move for one or two miles, which is not enough to see at all.

In addition, the Luzon Ming army except for the battle of Mingcheng is to defend the city, and then they are all attacking the city, facing the Spanish fortress or warship, all use solid bullets or grapeshot shells, naturally do not need this kind of artillery with a very close range, and the Luzon firearms division has limited production capacity, so it has to give priority to the supply of the Ming army urgently needed Franc cannons, so the mortars that can use flowering shells are not much equipped in the Ming army, and the mortars equipped are basically captured from the city walls such as Vigan and Laoag, and are generally used to defend the city.

The poisonous fire cannons and thunder cannons on the city walls are constantly bombarding.

One by one, the cannons flew into the army, exploded to form fragments of different sizes, and hit the rattan armor of the soldiers.

The thin layer of rattan armor on these soldiers could not even stop the lead bullets fired by the Ming army's guns, let alone the fragments of the flowering bullets.

Seeing that the enemy army was within 100 paces, the archers on the city wall also began to build their bows.

Because they were afraid that the sub-cannon would explode in advance and injure the defenders on the city wall, the Ming artillerymen did not dare to cut the short cannon powder twist.

Blossom bombs exploded in the fields one or two hundred paces away.

It effectively delayed the attack of the rear troops.

The soldiers who rushed within fifty paces were served by the Ming army on the city wall with bows and arrows and firearms.

The generals who supervised the battle in the rear turned pale.

The power of the Ming artillery far exceeded their expectations.

Under the city, the 800 soldiers led by Mosin were repulsed alive by the Ming artillery.

More than 200 soldiers were killed or wounded by the flowering shells deployed by the Ming army.

Originally, Mosin also planned to resist the Ming artillery and forcibly rush to within 100 paces.

Who would have thought that the Ming army gunners and archers on the city walls were not vegetarians.

The hundreds of soldiers who rushed to the city were suppressed by the Ming army on the city wall.

The soldiers who came later were hit by the blossom shells fired by the flying thunder cannon one or two hundred paces away, and suffered heavy casualties, wailing again and again.

Mosin gritted his teeth and had to retreat with hundreds of soldiers who rushed to the city, only to be bombarded by the artillery on the city walls.

In this way, after a few teas, the 800 army led by Mosin was beaten to less than 500 people.

This is only the first round of attack, and there are 300 people, looking at many soldiers under the city wall who are still panting and wailing, Ruan Youjing's face is pale.

"I didn't expect Akito's firearms to be so sharp."

Ruan Youjing was really glad that he didn't send his soldiers to die.

However, where did the Ming people get so much gunpowder, looking at the Ming artillery on the city wall that was still shelling the wounded soldiers on the rice fields, Ruan Youjing was also puzzled.

These days coincided with the rainy season, and the weather was humid, so it was not easy for gunpowder to avoid moisture.

It is true that some firearms were also deployed in the Quang Nam and Chenla Fan armies, but due to the rain and humid climate a few days ago, all the gunpowder was soaked in water and could not be used due to moisture, which also made the artillery that came with the army useless.

In fact, as early as after the Minghai caravan learned that Zhenla had attacked Dongpu, the caravan imported all the black powder from the eight merchant ships on the trip into Dongpu, and brought it into Nainong City when Li Liu escorted the caravan.

And it coincided with the arrival of the rainy season, and all the black powder of the Ming army was stored in thick wooden barrels, sealed with beeswax and other substances.

All the gunpowder carried by the Ming soldiers was stored in advance by waterproof gunpowder paper packets, which were coated with local special resin, which had excellent moisture-proof and waterproof properties.

During the more than a year in Luzon, the Ming army, which was based on firearms, naturally knew the importance of keeping gunpowder from getting wet, and also figured out many ways to store gunpowder.

"You don't have to panic, you can see that the Ming artillery only exploded one or two hundred steps away, which proves that the Ming artillery can only hit one or two hundred steps." Ruan Youjing saw that the might of the Ming army's artillery made the Fan troops present panic, and hurriedly pointed to the distance and said.