"What kind of firearm is this thief's weapon? How can it be so sharp?" The battalions and thousands of people watching the battle on the sand slope were stunned.

They've all seen firearms, but whether it's a gun or a cannon, it's a solid projectile.

Even if the mortars that some Westerners brought in can use flowering shells, the explosion can't be so lethal, right?

In fact, it is not surprising that these Qing officers and soldiers have not seen the world, in fact, similar things will not appear in China until more than 300 years later.

If Liu Yu is here on Luzon Island at this moment, I am afraid he will also be surprised.

The Ming army's mortars and catapults did not fire projectiles or flowering shells.

Rather, it was a powder jar filled with black powder.

When fighting in Anhua County, the Ming army used black powder canisters to inflict huge casualties on the Qing army.

Today, the bronze mortar cannons and catapults of the Ming army are fired by this modified black powder canister.

In order to increase the lethality, the Ming army also deliberately asked the craftsmen to modify a batch of black powder to increase the capacity of its can, which was more than twice as large as the black powder canister carried by the Ming army before.

And a large number of sharp objects are added to it, such as iron nails, iron spikes, etc.

Although the range of this thing is not high, even if it is fired with a mortar cannon, it is only two or three hundred paces away.

But the lethality is really amazing, just a dozen rounds of gunpowder canisters.

More than a dozen shallow pits emitting black smoke were cleared from the battlefield below the city.

The Qing officers and men who rushed forward were killed and wounded two or three hundred people in one time.

You must know that this is only tens of hundreds of breaths away from the Qing army's rush to the range of the mortar cannon.

If the Ming army defending the city had to use bows and arrows and artillery to repeatedly block them, I am afraid it would have taken a quarter of an hour to blow up this effect.

The effect of this artillery shocked even the Ming generals who were defending the city, not to mention the Qing officers and soldiers who were besieging the city at the moment.

For a while, the Qing officers and soldiers guarding the rear opened their eyes one by one, looking at the battlefield filled with gunpowder in front of them with a look of horror.

Where have the Guangdong Green Battalion soldiers present seen this battle?

After all, more than ten years have passed since the last war of the Ping San Domain, and these soldiers are all newly recruited, so it would be good if they were allowed to fight the thieves with real swords.

After all, those who can enter the barracks and dare to go to the battlefield are bloody.

But they really haven't seen this kind of scene where they haven't even seen the enemy, they haven't even touched the city wall, and they have become blood clots in a muffled thunderous explosion.

Looking at the dusty battlefield, even the generals of the Qing army were panicked.

"This must be a lot of explosives planted by thieves under this wall, it must be like this." Li Qidou, deputy general of the Humen Battalion of the Qing Army, pretended to be calm and said.

"Yes, yes, what the general said is that the thieves must have planted a large amount of gunpowder under this Qiongshan City." Several other generals present also chimed in.

After all, this scene under the city is indeed too terrifying, and it can only be explained in this way.

A large amount of gunpowder was buried under the city, and then ignited with rockets, which finally caused a large explosion.

At this moment, the generals of the Qing army can only find such a reason.

"Don't be afraid, soldiers, it's just that the thieves planted gunpowder under the castle tower." Li Qidou rode his horse to the Qing soldiers and shouted loudly.

"This thief and good woman have cheated and buried gunpowder under this sand, and now the vanguard has cleared the gunpowder array for us, and the soldiers can fight with peace of mind." Several thousand generals from the Humen battalion stepped forward to explain.

"The first one to storm the tower shall be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver." Li Qidou shouted.

As the saying goes, under the heavy reward, there must be courage.

Soon, some Qing troops who were not afraid of death continued to move forward.

In fact, most of the Qing soldiers didn't know what gunpowder was.

The reason why they were afraid was just the sudden thunderous explosion, and the inexplicable explosion of the comrades who rushed in front of them blurred their flesh and blood, and they fell in pieces.

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Seeing that there were people who were not afraid of death leading the team to continue to rush, these Qing soldiers naturally rushed forward as well.

"My lord, the Qing army continues to attack the city."

Looking at the Qing officers and soldiers who continued to rush towards the city, Wang An sneered.

In fact, he originally thought that these flying thunder canisters did not have much effect.

Who would have thought that it would bring such a big surprise to the Ming army defending the city.

The current Wang An can't wait for the Qing army under the city to continue to rush and kill.

In this way, the Ming army could kill and wound more Qing troops under the city, and avoid the Qing army from attacking and killing states and counties in other directions.

"It seems that seven or eight hundred Qing troops are killing the distant fort." A co-chair said.

"There are only 300 defenders in the fort, will something happen?" Several generals of the Ming army looked sad when they saw the Qing army dividing their troops and killing towards the fort.

"If the elite of Tiger Ben Town, which Lord Governor relies on the most, can't stop the eight hundred green battalion soldiers, then he, Zhu Linyue, should commit suicide and apologize." Wang An snorted coldly and did not pay attention to the direction of the fort.

After all, the war under the city is even more fierce now, and there are at least 2,000 Qing troops under the city.

"Brothers, rush." This time, Mr. Huang learned wisely and did not personally lead the team to kill.

The last time he died, the nearest fire and thunder canister was twenty or thirty paces away.

However, he was only stabbed in the eye by the flying sand and rocks kicked up by the explosion.

But he still stayed in front of the Chinese army, and he couldn't help but make the Qing soldiers present enthusiastic, shouting to kill the enemy and serve the country, and kill towards the city wall in front.

But they were greeted not by the arrows and projectiles of the Ming army, but by pitch-black clay pots one after another.

These pots are reinforced with a layer of copper plating.

It also avoids that it will explode when it hits the ground.

And the fire rope ignited quite quickly, giving the Qing army only a second or two seconds to react.

Another burst of muffled thunder sounded.

With it came a rush of sand and shards of flesh and blood.

Every few tens or hundreds of breaths, more than a dozen gunpowder canisters will fly over.

Every time it is a baptism of ghost crying and howling.

The battlefield was full of gunsmoke and dust.

Coupled with the large number of iron nails and iron pieces filled in the gunpowder jar, a large number of Qing officers and soldiers were killed and injured in an instant.

Some Qing officers and soldiers were some distance away from the gunpowder canister and were not injured, but the iron pieces and nails that flew out of the explosion stabbed them in the arms and thighs.

The explosive effect of black powder is naturally not as strong as that of gunpowder in later generations, but the use of cans and cans, dozens of catties and dozens of catties, the effect is different.

At this time, under the city wall, there were corpses of Qing officers and soldiers everywhere, but more of them were wounded soldiers rolling on the ground.

Many Qing officers and soldiers were covered with iron nails and iron pieces, crying there.

In just a few rounds of artillery bombardment, most of the 100 Qing troops were lost.

The 1,200 Qing officers and soldiers who rushed to the city wall were baptized by the copper fire and thunder of the Ming army.

At this moment, the city wall was densely covered with hundreds of corpses of Qing officers and soldiers, and hundreds of Qing soldiers were covered in blood, lying there wailing.

In less than half an hour of attacking the city, the Qing army lost 100 people.

This made the besieging Huang Zongbing still in place for a long time and could not return to his senses.

"Thieves, thieves!" Huang Zongbing held a steel knife and roared, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was forcibly pulled away by several Qing soldiers beside him.

In this battle, the Qing soldiers who besieged the city were all frightened.

They did not attack the city and set up a ladder, and they did not even see the shadow of the enemy, so they lost a hundred men.

Looking at the entire battlefield, hundreds of corpses of Qing soldiers were lying there, and hundreds of wounded Qing soldiers were lying on the ground wailing.

The blood pooled into streams, and the flesh that exploded and flew out of it turned the sand red.