Chapter 418: The abused red-clothed cannon
I don’t know if God is aware or if these officials and generals are lucky.—
When they smashed at them, a flowering bullet whistled down, it happened to hit the battlement that blocked them and exploded. The huge power generated by the explosion of the flowering bullet uprooted the battlement and directly blew it into a pile of gravel.
As for the guards close to the battlements, there was no doubt that the hornet's nest was tied into bloody holes by flying shell fragments and bricks. Xu Guohou and others standing behind him blocked the fatal damage after the explosion of the flower bomb.
It can be imagined that if this whizzing flower bullet flew forward and fell on the city wall and exploded. At this moment, it was not a few guards who died, but all the senior officers of thousands of officers and more than 1,000 generals.
While escaping by chance, these shocked officers were also awakened by the sound of explosions that were shaking the ground.
At this moment, a deafening explosion sounded on the walls on both sides of the city tower.
The dozen or so officers who had passed by were as if they saw a picture that they couldn't believe, with their mouths open and their faces stunned.
Because the walls on both sides of the city tower were completely shrouded in the explosion of the flowering bullets.
Just as the strong smoke from the explosion of the flower bomb slowly swept from the city wall to everyone's location, Qian Zheng, who commanded the Xu Guohou's guards, finally reacted.
At this moment, he didn't care about his identity and directly shouted subconsciously: "Why are you still standing stupid? I'll protect you all from leaving the city wall immediately... Hurry up, it's too dangerous here. Leave the city wall immediately..."
Amid the screams full of horror, the general who reacted from the shock quickly left the city tower under the escort of the guards. As for those generals who had not yet reacted from the shock, they were directly dragged away from the city tower by the guards beside them with both hands...
A large group of people had just left the city tower. The second round of artillery shells fired by the Zhengbei Army were already following closely behind, and an explosion occurred on the city wall behind them...
In this round of artillery attacks, the city tower as high as ten feet high, was not so lucky.
The explosion just sounded on the city tower, and the roar of the collapse of the city tower reached their ears.
At this time, Xu Guohou, who was already far away from the artillery fire of the Zhengbei Army, finally realized.
Looking at the city wall that was already covered by gunpowder and exploded from time to time, a ball of fireballs rose. As if he was scared to death by the shelling just now, he murmured to himself: "How is it possible, how can the rebels' artillery have such great power... Who can tell me what's going on? How did the rebels outside the city do it..."
At this time, the official artilleryman Qian, who fled out of the city tower with Xu Guohou, frowned and replied with a frown: "Sir, the last general can say with certainty that the power of the rebel artillery is far greater than the red-clothed cannons we equipped. Not only that, the rebels outside the city also used a kind of artillery attack method that we didn't know."
Hearing this, Xu Guohou's face turned red because of shame.
Because, just half an hour ago, I swear to affirm my subordinates that the combat effectiveness of the rebels outside the city was not very good, and their artillery soldiers would not threaten the city wall they had just escaped because of their timidity.
However, as soon as he said that the rebels outside the city used flowering bullets and death to tell everyone that all their judgments were self-deception.
At this moment, Xu Guohou, who was slapped hard by the Northern Army, was blushed because of shame, and was like an angry lion, saying loudly: "Then why are you still stunned? The rebel shells have hit us. Why are you, Mr. Qian, still standing here? Why don't you order our artillery to counterattack..."
"No matter what method you use, I must not let the rebel artillery continue to be so arrogant. Otherwise, under the attack of such powerful rebel artillery fire, we will not even be able to climb the city wall, let alone block the rebel's siege."
Although he knew that using his only dozens of red cannons to counterattack, it would not only not have any effect, but would also suffer heavy losses under the attack of such sharp artillery fire of the Northern Army.
However, when the artillery General Qian saw Xu Guohou looking at him, he decided to obey the order unconditionally.
Soon, the nine red cannons, which were set up on the city wall and not covered by artillery fire in the Northern Expedition Army, began to roar their own roars under the death of the artillery General Qian.
Compared with cannons, the Red Cannon, which has a range of just three miles, has no accuracy at all.
The flowering bullet whistling down from the air landed directly at a distance of one or two hundred steps away from the artillery position of the Northern Army, and the explosion occurred without even touching the skin of the Northern Army's artillery position.
However, the counterattack of the red artillery artillery of the official army still caused dissatisfaction among all artillery soldiers on the heavy artillery positions of the Northern Expedition Army.
Faced with the Red Cannon that took the initiative to reveal his position, the more confident the gunners were getting more and more confident.
A team of five cannons quickly adjusted the target of the shelling and began to cover the red cannons exposed by the official army.
When the flowering bullets flying in different directions smashed the red cannons scattered on the city walls with a whistling sound. The face of the artilleryman, Mr. Qian, immediately turned pale...
Although President Qian expected this result when he issued a counterattack order.
However, when the facts really happened, Mr. Qian was still full of regret. After regret, he felt a burst of despair from the bottom of his heart.
Mr. Qian, who already knows the strength of the artillery of the Northern Army outside the city, knows that once he loses these red artillery artillery, he has no ability to counterattack in the subsequent siege battle of the Northern Army, and can only be beaten passively.
While the sound of the flowering bomb explosion sounded on the city wall, General Xu Guohou, who looked expectant, also witnessed the tragic scene of the red-clothed cannon covered by the flowering bomb.
Amid the violent explosion, the gunner standing next to the red-clothed cannon was thrown into the sky like a paper-paste by the air waves generated by the explosion of the flower bomb.
Of course, this is not the most shocking thing about this round of cannonage.'
The red-clothed cannon weighing thousands of pounds and requires more than ten people to lift it actually had two cannons, which were directly lifted out of the city wall by the huge power generated by the explosion of the flower bomb, smashed outside the city, and turned into a pile of scrap iron.
Seeing this, Xu Guohou's face turned pale.
As the supreme commander of this official army, Xu Guohou knew very well that in front of the sharp firearms of the Tiger and Leopard Army, he often needed to rely on red-clothed cannons to save the defeat.
Chapter completed!