The artillery battalion commander, with shocked faces, had just climbed down the watchtower and was eager to know the answer, Zhou Yuhong asked, "Battleman Wang... Can the rebels pile up so many partitions on the city wall with sandbags? Can they really defend our flowering bullets..."

A trace of helplessness from the heart quickly emerged on the face of the artillery battalion commander. He shook his head and replied: "General, those partitions cannot defend against our flowering bullets, but they can reduce the power of the flowering bullets to the lowest level."

Seeing the puzzled expression quickly revealed on Zhou Yuhong's face, the artillery battalion commander continued to explain: "If it was on the city wall without any obstacles, a flowering bullet could at least cause more than ten losses to the traitors. However, with these partition walls, the lethality of the flowering bullet can only be limited to the square piled up by sandbags..."

"Under our army's artillery attack, as long as the rebels scattered in the square are not directly hit by the flowering bullets and can fight easily, and there is no need to worry about the damage caused by the shell fragments to themselves..."

Zhou Yuhong finally showed a sudden enlightenment on his face. After taking a deep breath, he continued to ask the artillery battalion commander: "In other words, under the defense of the traitors, our flowering bullets will not cause a devastating blow to the traitors on the city wall, so there is no way to suppress them and cover the musketeers to approach the city wall..."

The artillery battalion commander nodded first, then shook his head, and finally said, "General, this is the reason... However, I have an idea here. I don't know if it is feasible..."

"What's your thought?" Zhou Yuhong asked quickly with a hint of expectation.

"We can increase the number of artillery.... We have a battalion of heavy mortars here, with six to eight flowering bullets hitting the city wall in each round. If we increase the number of mortars to three battalions, the flowering bullets hitting the city wall will increase to about twenty rounds..."

"If we concentrate all twenty flowering bullets on this section of the city wall centered on the city gate and with a width of seventy or eighty battles, the traitors on this section of the city wall may be devastatingly hit by the flowering bullet..."

Zhou Yuhong's eyes lit up and he said loudly: "You can try..."

"I will immediately upload the order of the general and transfer all the heavy mortar battalions in the other two directions of Baode County to here... aim at the city gate and bombard them. I don't believe that so many artillery will not be able to suppress the traitors on the city wall..."

Half an hour later, more than 80 mortars were all gathered together...

The raised black holes, without exception, are aimed at the wall with the city gate as the center and the width is exactly eighty.

When all the shells were stuffed into the barrel and inserted into the fuse and ready for firing, Zhou Yuhong, who was confident in the attack, climbed up the watchtower, raised his monocular lens, and ordered loudly.

"Architecture, fire the artillery immediately..."

The dull shelling sound just reached Zhou Yuhong's ears, and the sharp whistling sound of shells passing through the sky followed closely in the air.

As the dense explosion sounded on the battlefield two miles away, Zhou Yuhong, holding a monocular lens, saw clearly that at least twenty orange-red fireballs were like mushrooms after the rain, quickly rising on the city wall.

However, these fireballs that flew into the air did not achieve the huge results they had imagined.

As the artillery battalion commander said half an hour ago, after the explosion of the flower bullet, in addition to the devastating blows of the traits in the square, the traits in the square were still lying on the battlements with a serious face, quietly waiting for the appearance of the attacking troops.

More importantly, the first round of flowering bullets had just exploded. Hundreds of traitors rushed up to the city wall and rushed towards the squares that had just been attacked...

In just a blink of an eye, the gaps that were blown out by more than twenty flowering bombs were filled again.

Round after round, more than 80 mortars shot ten rounds of shells into the city wall. The section of the city wall, which was completely covered by gunpowder, was still not bombed with any defense gaps by the flowering bullets.

As for the chaos on the battlefield that Zhou Yuhong wanted to see, it did not appear...

Seeing this, Zhou Yuhong could only put down the monocular telescope with helpless face. Then, he shouted at his subordinates who were looking forward to his head at the watchtower: "Stop the shelling... All attacking troops stopped, turn to defense on the spot, and rest..."

Just as Zhou Yuhong looked bitter and thought about possible solutions, he heard that Wei Zheng, who failed to attack, came to the forefront of the battlefield surrounded by the personal guard camp.

After listening to Zhou Yuhong's report, Wei Zheng asked directly: "Even if the flowering bullet is under the defense of the thieves, it cannot maximize its power. However, with one flowering bullet, it can eliminate several thieves..."

"There are only 20,000 rebels in the city who are fighting. Even if they are blown up with flowering bullets, they can blow them all up..."

"General Zhou, continue to shell the city walls. I want to see if it is the rebel's flesh and blood body that is powerful, or our flowering bullets are even more powerful..."

Zhou Yuhong did not take the order immediately, but replied with a embarrassed look: "Master... The general also wants to use shells to bomb... But we don't have so many flowering bullets at all..."

"At the moment when the artillery bombardment just happened, only one-third of the shells fell on the city wall. With the just now, we consumed thousands of flowering bullets. Because the production of flowering bullets was too difficult, we only brought five thousand... Five thousand flowering bullets, and only more than one thousand could fall on the city wall. The results of the battle were only four or five thousand... Therefore, with our shell reserves, it is impossible to take down Baode County in front of us..."

"In addition, if we use up all the shells here, we will lose artillery support in the future..."

At this time, Wei Zheng immediately remembered the limited production of the Equipment Department for the flowering bullets...

Due to the difficulty in casting the flowering bullet body and the large amount of shortages of the excellent craftsmen in the Equipment Department, even if Wei Zheng has invested a lot of silver to produce flowering bullets, the output of flowering bullets has reached about 100 pieces per day...

Therefore, apart from training ammunition and small and medium caliber mortar shells, after a full six months of accumulation, the Equipment Department has accumulated less than 8,000 large caliber mortar flowering shells...

Apart from the more than 2,000 shots brought to Wang Feng, the remaining flowering bullets are all here.

Thinking of this, Wei Zheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The production capacity of the Equipment Department is still too poor... After the imperial court arrived for his craftsmen, he must further increase his production capacity and come up with a simpler production process for the flowering bullet."

However, there is a saying that far away water cannot quench near thirst. Besides, these ideas are still invisible, and they cannot solve the difficulties they face.

Therefore, this idea just flashed through Wei Zheng's mind and was put behind Wei Zheng.

Then, under the gaze of a group of subordinates, he raised his monocular lens and began to observe the battlefield two miles away...

At this time, Zhou Yuhong, who had two rounds of bloody battles, also began to explain to Wei Zheng what he had learned about the enemy situation.

Before Zhou Yuhong could report, he was interrupted by Wei Zheng's words.

"Wait a minute... General Zhou... You just said that after the attacking troops entered two hundred steps, the traitors on the city wall began to launch artillery attacks..."

"Yes, Grandmaster... Although the range of the medium-sized Folang cannon can reach 400 steps. However, when firing a shotgun, the range can only reach 200 steps at the highest point..." Zhou Yuhong answered with affirmative expression.

"If the traitor wants to kill us in large quantities through artillery, he can only fire shots at us..."

Wei Zheng nodded and replied thoughtfully: "If this is the case, I already have a specific way to attack Baode County in my heart..."

Seeing the expression of expectation that instantly appeared on his subordinates' faces, Wei Zheng followed closely and said: "If you openly launch an attack on Baode County, the soldiers will definitely be exposed to the firepower of the rebels, and they will suffer heavy losses, and they will not even be able to connect to the city wall."

"Since we cannot launch an attack on the wall of Baode County on the surface, then we will attack secretly..."

"All offensive forces, under the cover of mortars, advance directly to a distance of two hundred steps from the city wall, which is the end of the range of the spy shots fired by medium or wolf machine guns."

"After pushing to the predetermined position, start digging the trenches directly... until all the soldiers can be hidden in the position."

Speaking of this, Wei Zheng directly picked up a wooden stick and drew a straight line on the ground.

Then, draw a few curves on the vertical line of defense in the straight line. And, under the gaze of pairs of confused eyes, he opened his mouth and explained.

"After the first trench is completed, several traffic trenches are dug in the direction of the city wall... One of the important reasons for digging so bent is to prevent the lead bullets that the trench may shoot at us, so as to ensure that the lead bullets cannot be shot directly into the trench and kill us."

"In addition, just in case, we can also find some wooden boards. The soldiers dug out a section of traffic trench and covered it with wooden boards. In this way, the lead bullets fired by the thief artillery at us will be blocked by the wooden boards and will be completely unable to do anything to us..."

"A few traffic trenches extend forward one hundred steps from the city wall, and then dug out a trenches parallel to the city wall. This trenches are trenches where musketeers hide and shoot at the city wall."

"As long as this trench exists, the soldiers can hide in the trench and shoot lead bullets at the traitors on the city walls, kill as much as possible and suppress them..."

"As for how to attack Baode County, a gap was blown up with explosives on the wall of Baode County, which was also based on the trench we were about to dig... and it was a trench covered with wooden boards..." (To be continued)
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