Meng Yunhe looked at the squatting tiger cannon not far away and asked: "General Tan, can these squatting tiger cannons still be fired? How far can they hit?"
Tan Datong patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, sir. These Tiger Crouching Cannons have been inspected by the general and can be fired. There are forty-nine of them. Since the north gate is more important, the general placed twenty here, which is enough for them."
Have a drink."
"Okay!" Meng Yunhe nodded appreciatively: "That's good. I believe that with so many loyal and courageous soldiers and sophisticated artillery, the traitors will definitely be defeated by us."
"My lord is wise and mighty!"
Seeing that Meng Yunhe was in such high spirits, everyone bowed down in amusement.
"Excuse me, colleagues!"
Feeling proud in his heart, Meng Yunhe helped everyone up with his hands. He was very proud in his heart and showed his graceful demeanor. For a moment, he felt that even if Zhuge Liang was reborn, he would be nothing more than this. Am I still worse than the ancients?
"Dong dong dong... Just when Meng Yunhe showed his people-friendly appearance in front of everyone, bursts of drums suddenly sounded in front of him. The sound was in the distance at first, and then slowly came to the front, and then there was a sound of hey.
The "dark clouds" slowly approached the city.
"Then...what is that?"
Looking at the "dark clouds" approaching in front of him, Meng Yunhe pointed ahead and asked in surprise.
Tan Datong looked into the distance and felt a bitterness at the corner of his mouth. He said slowly: "It's the Zhou Army. They are finally here."
Since Pang Gang announced his separation from the Ming Dynasty, he changed the armor of his soldiers to black. Different from the red color of the Ming Dynasty, which represents fiery and passionate, black represents solemnity, mystery and ferocity, especially when tens of thousands of troops are posing in a neat queue.
As you move forward slowly, the overwhelming blackness and powerful aura can make you feel suffocated.
"Wow... Wow... Wow... Wow... The Zhou army that was slowly approaching was not moving very fast, but its formation was extremely neat.
, tens of thousands of people, no one made a sound while marching, but the majestic and solemn momentum slowly pushed towards the city, which made people's hearts tremble.
Slowly, the army moved closer and closer to the city. Finally, they stopped when they were one mile away from the city. The eyes of tens of thousands of soldiers were all fixed on the city wall. No one spoke, not even a cough.
No, there is no extra sound in the world except the howling spring breeze, but there are tens of thousands of people standing in front of you. These tens of thousands of people seem to line up all the way to the end of the world.
Looking at the silent army in front of him, Meng Yunhe couldn't help but murmured: "I finally understand why even the Tatars are afraid of them. That Pang Gang is indeed well-deserved."
The inspector Yan Hongwei, the governor Meng Yunhe and the officials behind him had never seen such a formation before. They were all frightened by the formation of the army in front of them and broke into a cold sweat. Even the commander-in-chief Tan Datong was also shocked.
He smiled bitterly and whispered to himself: "***, the date I estimated before that it would be able to withstand seven days was still too much."
Just as the people on the city were looking at the Zhou army below the city, a passage was opened in the originally dense military formation, and artillery pieces were pushed out from behind the people. These artillery pieces were all pulled by mules. From each artillery piece,
Judging from the appearance of being pulled by two mules, these artillery pieces are at least 700 kilograms of large artillery. Even if they are not as good as those Hongyi cannons, they are probably not much different.
Artillery pieces continued to be pulled out from the military formation, and Tan Datong counted them slowly. The more he counted, the colder his heart became. Judging from what he saw, the Zhou army in front of him had at least one hundred and twenty artillery pieces. These
The artillery was no better than the squatting cannons on Nanchang City that could only fire shotguns. These artillery were all large-caliber artillery. Tan Datong was very worried about whether the city wall under his feet could withstand several rounds of attacks.
Time seemed to pass very slowly or very quickly. At some point, more than a hundred artillery pieces were placed more than 800 meters away from the city. The black muzzles were pointed at Nanchang City, and countless gunners were
There was a lot of hustle and bustle around the artillery. At this moment, even a fool knew that the Zhou army on the opposite side was serious.
Tan Datong's neck was a little stiff and he turned around. He slowly said to Meng Yunhe, who looked a little stiff: "Mr. Meng, for your own safety, you'd better go down to the city with all the other lords."
"Okay...Okay." Meng Yunhe nodded hurriedly. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. He not only understood this principle, but also implemented it very thoroughly. He did not even want to say more polite words. He turned around.
Let's go to the city wall.
Just as Meng Yunhe turned around, a huge roar came from outside the city.
"Boom, boom, boom... a series of roars suddenly sounded, as if the thunder god in the sky roared, and bursts of thunderous sounds passed into everyone's ears. Soon Meng Yunhe seemed to hear a deafening roar from the sky.
came from behind.
Immediately, there was a bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang! Then Meng Yunhe felt his feet shaking, as if the seemingly solid city wall was about to collapse. He trembled for a while, and Meng Yunhe, who was unsteady on his feet, also swayed and fell down.
On the ground.
Immediately there was a commotion on the city wall, and then there was a loud noise, "The cannon is fired, the enemy is firing!"
Countless village warriors and city guards were all in chaos, running around like flies on the city wall. No matter how the officers tried to stop them, it was of no use.
After Meng Yunhe fell to the ground, a soldier also helped Meng Yunhe who fell to the ground, and said anxiously: "Sir, are you okay? It's dangerous here, so I'd better let you go by my humble duty."
After saying that, the soldier didn't care about anything. He grabbed Meng Yunhe and put it on his back, and hurriedly ran to the bottom of the city wall. Behind him was a long line of Nanchang Mansion people.
Officials...
At the same time, observers outside the city were also visually observing and evaluating the effect of the first round of shelling. Some people shouted: "Add two to the height, move one to the left, and load solid bullets!"
"put!"
"Boom, boom, boom...there was another burst of loud noises like shaking the mountains and the earth. Projectiles as thick as a bowl flew out of the gun barrel at a very fast speed and flew towards the city head. They kept coming.
Hitting the city wall or hitting the top of the city, the seemingly solid city wall was quickly punched with holes. The blue bricks originally wrapped in it were shattered piece by piece, and the city top also emitted sounds from time to time.
There were bursts of screams, the sounds made by some unlucky people who were hit by projectiles.
Seeing the bullets constantly hitting the city wall and the screams one after another on the city wall, Pang Gang, who was watching the shelling with a telescope, sighed slightly. The power of artillery shells in this era is still not good. Solid bullets hit the city wall.
It can only make a medium-deep crater. If you want to use artillery to blow down the city wall, it will probably be difficult without using up all the ammunition you carry.
As if he could see the flash of dissatisfaction on Pang Gang's face, Cheng Kai, who was standing behind Pang Gang, said: "Your Majesty, the defenders on the city wall have lost their morale for a long time. Please let the general attack the city first.
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Pang Gang shook his head and pointed to a certain section of the city wall in front of him and said: "No, although the defenders on the city wall are in chaos, there are still dozens of artillery pieces. I estimate that they should be tiger crouching cannons. These tiger crouching cannons have a range of at least
Three to five hundred steps, if you rashly lead troops to attack, and the enemy suddenly fires artillery, our losses will be great, and we cannot do this loss-making business."
After saying that, Pang Gang turned around and said loudly: "Come here, run immediately and tell Dong Guo to use explosive bombs and level the area where the artillery is placed on the city wall for me!"
"yes!"
Soon, hundreds of artillery in front of the city slowly raised their muzzles. The angle of these muzzles even exceeded forty-five degrees. A famous gunner was busy loading projectiles for the artillery with his feet up, and the person responsible for testing
The gunner at a distance was busy re-gauging the distance.
Yes, this is the new style of play trained by Pang Gang's artillery battalion. This style of play is also the principle of the mortar that Pang Gang heard in his previous life. The mortar attacks the enemy's trenches through the principle of the artillery's curved trajectory.
Infantry inside and targets on the opposite side of the slope.
Feeling that the current artillery can only hit the target in front of him, Pang Gang suddenly had a whim after watching the artillery battalion shooting training some time ago. Anyway, these artillery, like later mortars, are loaded from the front.
, why can't the muzzle of the gun be raised and used as a mortar? When Pang Gang told Dong Guo about this idea, Dong Guo, a guy with great artillery talent, redesigned the gun mount in only half a month.
, and started test firing, and the effect was pretty good. Today is the first time that they have used the curved firing method in actual combat.
"Boom, boom, boom... another stream of flames spurted out, and the projectiles were shot out of the gun barrel with burning fuses. Different from the previous rounds of shelling, these projectiles were shot very high, as if they were shot into
the sky.
"Well, what are those Zhou troops doing?"
Seeing the bullets being shot into the air, not only the city defenders and village warriors on the city wall who were avoiding the artillery fire, but also Tan Datong, who had been in the army for most of his life, was shocked.
"***, are the artillerymen of the Zhou Army collectively going crazy? How come they are shooting all the projectiles into the sky?"
Tan Datong, who was confused, was like many soldiers. His eyes kept moving following the projectiles flying rapidly into the air, but their doubts were soon answered.
After a short while, dozens of projectiles fell from mid-air on the wide city, and heavy projectiles landed on the city wall one after another.
Tan Datong's eyes were fixed on a projectile that was slowly rolling towards a squatting tiger cannon, and it slowly stopped.
At this moment, time seemed to have stopped.
"Boom... As a violent explosion sounded, Tan Datong, who was not far from the explosion point, only felt a wave of heat coming towards him, and he fell to the ground in an instant... (To be continued)
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