Chapter four hundred and fiftieth chapters take the ladder
Violent explosions erupted in all directions with violent air waves. The shell exploded next to a squatting tiger cannon. The six kilograms and six taels of black gunpowder contained inside suddenly exploded, and the violent energy enveloped the shattered iron pieces.
It splashed around. After more than a dozen gunners around were shot by shrapnel, blood spurted out from the leaky leather bags. The gunners screamed and fell to the ground. [*You]
When the violent explosion was accompanied by the white smoke unique to black gunpowder, the city walls were filled with clouds of choking white mist. Looking from a distance, the walls of Nanchang City at this time were almost entirely shrouded in white mist. If
If there hadn't been explosions everywhere, destroying the scenery, it might have caused uninformed people to mistake it for a rare and charming scenery.
Only those involved know how terrifying it is to be shrouded in white mist, how much damage the flying shrapnel and explosive airflow have caused to the soldiers on the city wall. If we talk about the damage caused by the solid bullet just now to the city wall and the defenders,
The damage is only a point, but the damage caused by this explosive projectile is calculated in terms of surface. The explosion not only caused heavy damage to the soldiers, but also caused great damage to the artillery placed on the city wall.
Some squatting tiger cannons were forcibly overturned by the blast of air, and some even had their barrels bent.
"All artillery positions should correct their targets immediately."
"Target correction completed!"
"put!"
"Boom, boom, boom...the gunners outside the city did not have time to pay attention to the feelings of the defenders on the city wall at the moment. The order they received was to shoot the projectiles behind them on the city wall in front. The observers were still keeping their eyes on the city wall in time.
Carefully observe the impact point of your own projectile, and then tell the aiming hand behind you to correct the target.
In this way, after the more than 120 artillery pieces of the artillery camp fired a total of more than 1,000 and 600 explosive shells, they had to pause because the muzzles of the artillery were already red.
When Tan Datong slowly opened his eyes and got up, he felt that his ears were still buzzing, and there was a pain in his chest. He rubbed his sore chest. After spitting out the sour saliva, he finally
He looked around carefully and found that everyone around him was knocked down by the air wave when the cannonball exploded just now.
Tan Datong shook the few servants who were still lying on the ground to wake up, and said angrily: "Okay, get up, don't lie on the ground like a motherfucker, hurry up and take a look around, and take care of everyone."
Call out, if I'm right, they will attack."
"Yes, sir!"
The remaining servants struggled to get up, stumbled and ran around, and began to call out to the soldiers to get up quickly and prepare to defend themselves against the enemy.
"Get up quickly, everyone, stop standing up, the Zhou army is about to attack the city, brothers, get up quickly, grab your weapons. Get behind the battlements!"
Words of curses and occasional "snap" sounds rang out on the city wall. It was the servants whipping those village warriors and city defenders who refused to get up. The shelling just now frightened the defenders.
.Almost everyone has never experienced such a terrifying bombardment. This kind of bombing is exactly the same as the sound of God when he is angry. Many people were frightened by such violent explosions and lost their minds.
Under the continuous kicks, beatings and curses of the servants, the sergeants and village warriors who were stunned by the explosion gradually cheered up and came to the crenel. Some people picked up the bows and arrows that had just been lost on the ground, while others
They gathered up the stones and logs scattered on the side, and more often picked up spears, spears and other weapons scattered on the ground, preparing to resist the first round of attacks that was about to come.
Tan Datong also came to the crenel and stared at the neatly arranged and motionless formation in front of him. After the sound of the cannons stopped, the world seemed to become silent again, and it seemed that the only sound left in the whole world was his own heavy breathing.
Suddenly, the formation in front moved, accompanied by a burst of passionate drums. The sergeants in black helmets who had been standing motionless behind the artillery moved. Accompanied by the drums, they all let out a loud shout.
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"Protect!"
Cheng Kai, who had been standing in front of the team for a long time, held a tin trumpet in his hand and shouted with all his strength: "The Third Army is moving forward!"
After hearing Cheng Kai's order, the sergeant shouted again: "Guard... drink!"
"Whoosh... whoosh!"
Tens of thousands of soldiers stepped out in unison and stamped on the ground with all their strength. Even the solid earth couldn't help but tremble with that forceful kick.
Slowly, tens of thousands of soldiers approached the city wall with solid steps. Although it was broad daylight, the defenders on the city wall looked like hell at the soldier in black helmet in front of them.
Demons surged out of my heart and slowly approached, and I couldn't help but tremble in my heart.
The situation of the defenders was all in Tan Datong's eyes, "No, if this continues, the soldiers will collapse!"
Although Tan Datong is just a big boss, he still knows this since he has been in the army for more than 20 years. He knows that he must do something now.
He summoned a servant and ordered in a low voice: "Hurry over and order those tiger crouching cannons to fire immediately. If you don't dare to hit them, fire immediately. Immediately knock down the enemy's morale. Otherwise, we will
It’s dangerous.”
After hearing this, the servant looked around in embarrassment and whispered: "Sir, all our artillery... have been blown up."
"What? Our artillery is gone?"
This news hit Tan Datong like a bolt from the blue, making him dizzy.
"Yes, just now the artillery of the Zhou Army opened fire specifically on our Crouching Tiger Artillery. All our artillery pieces were...all damaged!"
"Asshole!" Tan Datong's anger finally broke out. He grabbed the servant's collar and yelled: "I don't care about this. Go over and tell the man named Wei that I don't care about his artillery. He just gets it from other people."
It doesn't matter if the city wall is pulled up immediately, but I have to hear the sound of the artillery within two cups of tea, otherwise I will chop off his head."
"yes!"
The servant did not dare to talk back to the angry Tan Datong, so he responded in a low voice and ran away quickly.
Just when Tan Datong was anxious to mobilize artillery, the sergeants of the Zhou army who had crossed their own artillery position had already arrived three hundred steps away from the city. At the command of the officers, they stopped.
At this time, commands came from the military formation: "Everyone, start loading."
The sound of "clatter, clatter, clatter" sounded, and the sergeants immediately began to skillfully load their guns with ammunition.
"Raise the gun!"
"Wow!"
"aim!"
"put!"
"Bump, bump, bump... A burst of low gunfire unique to the Mini rifle sounded. At the same time, it was accompanied by screams one after another on the city wall, and many unprepared city defenders and villagers screamed.
Falling to the ground, some people simply had their heads blown off. Their heavy bodies collapsed like broken sacks, and their snow-white brains mixed with bright red blood slowly flowed on the ground.
"What the hell is going on here? How come their fire cannons hit so far!"
Tan Datong, who had a chance to escape because he hid behind the crenellations, looked at the Zhou army under the city wall in the distance with shock and anger. He felt waves of anger in his heart, and his heart seemed to be raised to his heart. What just happened
The rows of gunfire caught the defenders on the city wall off guard. Many defenders who survived the shelling were greeted by a dense rain of bullets. Moreover, the power of this rain of bullets was much greater than the explosive shells that had just exploded on the city wall.
Far inferior, but the accuracy far exceeded them, which also caused many soldiers who were watching to be shot.
"good!"
Seeing that the defenders on the city wall were being shot one after another under the rain of bullets, even the defenders who escaped the first round of attacks hid behind the crenellations and did not dare to show their heads. Sensing that the time was ripe, Cheng Kai, who was commanding from behind, turned around.
The order said: "Order the third battalion to start setting up ladders to attack the city, and the rest of the troops will take turns to cover!"
"Dong dong dong dong... With the sound of Cheng Kai's order, the drumming that had stopped started again. The formation in the middle separated, and more than 5,000 soldiers rushed towards the city wall carrying hundreds of ladders.
"Hurry, the enemy is attacking the city, come quickly, shoot the arrows, shoot the arrows!"
On the city wall of the north gate, Ming army officers were everywhere shouting at the soldiers and villagers to defend the city.
"You bastards, you usually take advantage of me and drink from me. Now it's time for you to repay me. Hurry up and shoot your arrows!"
Just like this, under the shouts of the officers, a sparse rain of arrows was shot from the city wall. Many soldiers hid behind the crenellations, not even daring to raise their heads, and just shot the arrows out.
"Rifleman, increase your firepower and suppress the enemy!"
Under the city wall, many riflemen, under the command of General Bai and Qian, were also calling names one by one for the enemy troops who dared to show their heads. Under the dense rain of bullets, the defenders on the city wall who dared to lean out of the city wall to fire arrows were like
They fell off the city wall like dumplings, so the defenders did not dare to pop their heads out. No matter how the officers and servants beat them, they just hid tightly behind the thick city wall, preferring to be whipped to death.
Don't show your head either.
And the officers and servants did not dare to really make them anxious. Otherwise, if they really made those soldiers angry when the enemy was in front of them, they would be doomed if they rebelled against Nanchang City collectively.
"Bang bang bang... Just when the officers on the city wall were helpless, the Zhou army below had already set up the ladders on the city wall, and soldiers climbed up to the city wall one after another... To be continued)
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