Bang!

A gun sounded from the city wall.

Xue Mu, who was riding on the horse, was shocked when he heard the sound and hurriedly looked at whether he was injured.

I didn't breathe a sigh of relief until I didn't find any wounds on my body.

"Sir, the rioters in the city are obviously stubborn, let's go back first!" The personal soldiers on the side persuaded Xue Mu to return to his camp.

Everyone knows that most of the weapons of the Tiger Flag are muskets. Now the bandits on the top of the city have only fired one gun, and no one can guarantee whether they will fire the second gun, the third gun, or even more.

Xue Mu nodded.

The sound of the gun just now scared him. Even if no one persuaded him, he would not continue to stay under the city wall to persuade the bandits in the city to surrender.

Immediately, he left outside Xinpingbao City with his personal soldiers who were guarding the surroundings.

Pan Yi lay in front of the trunk and saw that the person had left, so he withdrew his gaze.

"If I had fired just now, I might have stayed." Staff Officer Cheng Ping said from the side.

Xue Mu and others were not within the range of the musket, but within the range of the cannon.

Pan Yi waved his hand and said, "As the saying goes, two armies will not kill the envoys when they fight. He is just here to persuade him to surrender. Killing him will only damage our reputation as the tiger flag, and it will not be worth the loss."

"Prepare to defend the city, the imperial army is afraid that it will attack the city soon." Cheng Ping said.

Who knows if the persuasion of surrender fails? What comes next is the imperial army that attacks the city.

Pan Yi said: "You go to the artillery team to stare. The imperial army outside the city brought more than a dozen cannons. When they attacked the city, they would definitely fire the cannons first. After a while, they would see the cannons of the official army and let the cannons bombard them with them."

Due to the range of cannons in this era, the two armies went to war, and it was difficult to hide the cannons in a certain place to bombard the enemy's formation. The cannons in this era were always placed in front of the army formation or on the top of the city to defend the city.

No matter where you put it, as long as you want to use cannons to fight against the enemy, these cannons cannot escape the eyes of your opponent.

"I'll go here." Cheng Ping nodded and ran to the artillery team.

As soon as Xue Mu returned to his camp, he said to Yang Guozhu directly: "General, the rioters in the city are stubborn and unwilling to open the city to surrender. If he wants to recover Xinpingbao, he can only use his army to break through the city and wipe out the rioters in the city."

Yang Guozhu nodded expressionlessly.

He sent people to persuade the bandits in Xinpingbao City to surrender, but he didn't want to lose too many soldiers and horses when attacking Xinpingbao. He didn't feel a pity, but he just killed and injured more soldiers and horses.

"General Yang, don't waste your time. Recover Xinpingbao earlier and go to clear out the rioters in other places in Datong earlier." Wang Bao said.

Lingqiu is the old nest of the tiger flag in Datong.

If Xinping Fort had not been captured by the Tiger Flag Army, the imperial army would not have come to Xinping Fort, but instead rushed straight to Lingqiu.

"Send the order to push the cannons under Xinpingbao City and bombard the rioters on the Xinpingbao City walls. The vanguard battalion is ready to climb the city at any time." Yang Guozhu ordered.

In order to deal with the cannons with the tiger flag, the general cannons he brought were all the cannons that defend the city. They were powerful and had a long range, and were stronger than the cannons that were usually carried in the camp for field battles.

However, this kind of gun also has its disadvantages, which are that it is bulky and inconvenient to move.

If these cannons were not originally in Datong, transporting these cannons alone would be enough to drag down the army's marching speed.

The firearms and battalions of the government army pushed the cannons and pushed them towards Xinpingbao.

The lightest one of these cannons weighs three or four hundred pounds, and it takes several people to push it, but the speed of pushing it is not much faster.

After all, the official army is not like the tiger flag, with special animals and cannon cars. The cannons cast by the tiger flag are more advanced than those built by the Ming Dynasty and are lighter in weight, so it is much easier to carry.

Unfortunately, the firearm battalion under Yang Guozhu's tent did not have so many cannons at all, so he could only push the camp forward one by one.

The official army moved its own cannons, but it could not hide Cheng Ping's eyes from the top of the city.

Monoculars have basically become popular among officers at the brigade commander level in the tiger flag. As the chief of staff of the military barracks, Cheng Ping naturally has his own monoculars.

Through the monoculars, he clearly saw that the official army was transporting cannons in front of the formation.

"Captain Lin, it depends on your artillery team next." Cheng Ping said to Lin Ping, the captain of the artillery team beside him.

Lin Ping nodded, raised two order flags, and used the order flags to convey a few flag words to the gunners of the artillery team.

When he lowered the order flag, he heard more than a dozen four-pound cannons on the city wall open fire almost at the same time.

The target of the attack was the official cannon in front of the army.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The roar of cannons resounded through the world, and the cannons flew out.

More than a dozen cannons fired at the same time, and more than a dozen cannons were shot out.

Although these cannons have been calculated by the gunner, they cannot guarantee that they will hit it. Therefore, the first round of cannons is basically used to measure cannons and does not require a target to hit it.

If you hit the target, you naturally don’t need to adjust it. You just need to continue firing the cannon. For the cannon that does not hit the target, the gunner will readjust according to the landing point of the cannon to ensure that the second cannon can hit the target.

Even so, two cannons fell on the cannons from the government army under the first round of artillery attacks.

Seven or eight gunners of the official army were killed or injured by gunfire.

Fortunately, each cannon on the official army was far apart, otherwise there would be more casualties and injuries.

"Take people to suppress the formation, and the people from the Firearms Battalion continue to push the cannons to the front of the formation." Yang Guozhu noticed that some of the soldiers in the Firearms Battalion in front were frightened by the artillery just now and had chaos, so he ordered his personal soldiers to suppress the formation.

A team of personal soldiers rode horses behind the camp soldiers in the firearms camp.

As a result, the almost chaotic firearm camp slowly stabilized.

However, this is just the beginning.

Soon, the second round of artillery shot down from the head of Xinpingbao Castle.

The second round of artillery fire after adjustment is far more threatening than the first round of artillery fire.

"When the heavenly soldiers arrived, do you really think that the chaotic bandits in your city could defend Xinping Fort?" Xue Mu shouted, "Liu Heng was in the grassland, but he sent you to Xinping Fort. This is to let you die. Why do you want to be an enemy of the court for a person who doesn't care about your life? As long as you are willing to open the city to surrender, my general can take you under your command. At that time, he will be a court official and glorify his ancestors. Isn't it better to be a chaotic bandit who is not safe?"

Pan Yi shouted to the city: "Stop talking nonsense. If you have the ability, come to attack the city. I want me to surrender and be your dream of spring and autumn."

Then, he said to the musketeers beside him: "Give them a gun and drive people away."

In order to guard against the bows and arrows on the city, Xue Mu and others were always a hundred steps away from Xinpingbao.

At such a long distance, even if you hit the low, you need a sharpshooter to shoot.
Chapter completed!