The gunner on the city wall skillfully ignites the fuse rope on the cannon gun.

After a burst of fire, three-pound lead bullets flew towards the foreign soldiers.

After hearing the cannon sound, Ruan Youjing, who was supervising the battle in the rear, secretly complained that it was not good.

Three-pound lead bullets fell among the foreign troops.

The heavy lead bullets hit the rice fields. Because the soil is soft, the lead bullets hit the soil and even made big holes.

Some foreign soldiers with bad luck were hit by this sudden lead bullet, and blood burst out in an instant.

However, most of the soldiers were safe and sound, but they were scared by the sudden artillery on the city wall. They continued to rush forward under the angrily rebuked by the generals who were supervising the battle.

"Prepare for flowering bullets."

The guerrilla general of Pinghai Camp on the side saw that the small cannons on the city wall did not play much, so he hurriedly said.

Soon, the Ming army gunner quickly picked up and aimed a bowl-mouthed cannon with a wide and narrow body on the cannon at the front. At the same time, the cannon actually had two fuse ropes.

With the fire, thick white smoke rose.

The shells fell into the rice fields and smashed a larger pit than before.

However, at this moment, the foreign soldiers had no fear on their faces and rushed towards the Ming army's city walls with a roar.

But suddenly there were muffled thunder sounds from the big pits. The soldiers who had just crossed the big pit had not yet reacted, were flew into the air by the sudden explosion, accompanied by the splash of soil and stones.

The foreign soldiers, not far away, fell in large numbers, and some of the foreign soldiers were covered in blood and their faces were covered with mud.

"Reduce the medicine by half, hurry up." A gunner saw that the shell hit the rice field for a long time before it exploded, and hurriedly said to his companion beside him.

Soon, a few more guns fell straight into the army of soldiers who were only two hundred steps away from the city wall.

And this time the shell exploded before it landed.

The air waves directly lifted the nearby foreign soldiers, and the broken bullet fragments directly tore open the foreign soldiers' vine armor, smoke, mud, and blood clots.

The Ming army gunners on the city wall shouted after seeing this.

Flowering bullets refer to shells that can explode after being fired and hurt people with shrapnel.

In the 17th century, the flowering bullets contained gunpowder in the bullet body, and the medicine twists of the sub-cannon (flowing bullets) were lit and the fuse rope of the female gun bowl mouth.

After firing, the sub-cannon that is pushed out of the muzzle will explode when the medicine twist is extinguished, thus achieving an effect similar to that of later generations of grenades.

This kind of shell is equipped on the bowl-mouth gun, also known as the mortar cannon. It was equipped by the Ming army as early as the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

"Minghui Dian" records: The poisonous fire flying cannon is "made of cooked iron, like a general at the mouth of the cup, containing more than ten taels of gunpowder. In the mouth of the cup, there is a flying cannon containing five taels of sulfur poison, and the medicine line is always tied. When the fire is ignited, the big cannon will ring first, and the flying cannon will be knocked out and injured by 200 steps away."

The Ming army used the Ming army's bowl-mouth guns, poisonous fire flying cannons and improved lightning versions of thunder flying cannons.

"Thunder flying cannons are those who imitate poisonous fire flying cannons and rarely change them. The first thing that cannons are the iron tube, and the grinding stone is the Zi Si."

It was the modified mortar cannon that Weng Wanda fired a poisonous fire flying cannon during the Jiajing period, and his mother cannon was too heavy to lift and move. It was undoubtedly much lower than the previous generation.

The foreign soldiers outside the city were killed and injured by the sudden blooming bullet, but the Ming soldiers on the city walls were greatly boosted.

Li Liuyi looked at the bowl-mouth cannons on the city wall with a look of surprise. These cannons that could fire flowering bullets were less equipped in the Luzon Ming army.

In fact, the range of this kind of bowl-mouth gun is very close, only 200 steps. Compared with the Saiko cannon, the range of the Red Barbarian cannon is not enough to see at all.

In addition, the Luzon Ming army was defending the city except for the Mingcheng battle, and then they all conquered the city. Facing the Spanish bastions and warships, they all used solid bullets or grape bullets, so naturally they did not need such artillery with very close range. In addition, the Luzon Firearms Corporation had limited production capacity, so they had to give priority to supply the Folang machine cannons that the Ming army needed. Therefore, there were not many mortars that could use flowering bullets in the Ming army. The mortars equipped were basically seized from the city walls such as Vigan and Lavag, and were generally used to defend the city.

The poisonous fire flying cannons and thunder cannons on the city walls are constantly bombarding.

One by one, the cannons flew into the foreign army, exploded into pieces of different sizes, and hit the foreign soldiers' vine armor.

The thin layer of vine armor on these foreign soldiers could not stop the lead bullets fired by the Ming army's muskets, let alone the fragments of the flowering bullets.

Seeing the enemy entering within a hundred steps, the archers on the city wall also began to set bows.

Because he was afraid that the cannon would explode in advance and injured the defenders on the city wall, the Ming army's gunners dared not cut the cannon shorter the cannon medicine.

Flowering bullets exploded in the field one or two hundred steps away.

It actually effectively delayed the attack of the rear soldiers.

The foreign soldiers who rushed within fifty steps were served by Ming soldiers on the city wall with bows and arrows and muskets.

The foreign generals who were supervising the battle in the rear looked pale.

The power of Ming army artillery far exceeded their expectations.

Under the city, the eight hundred soldiers led by Mosin were defeated by Ming army artillery.

About 200 foreign soldiers were killed or injured by the flowering bullets configured by the Ming army.

Originally, Mosin planned to forcibly rush within a hundred steps with the Ming army artillery.

Who would have thought that the Ming army musketeers and archers on the city walls were not vegetarians either.

Hundreds of soldiers who rushed to the city were suppressed by the Ming army on the city wall.

The subsequent foreign soldiers were hit by the flowering bullets fired by the flying thunder cannon one or two hundred steps away, and they were wailing repeatedly.

Mosin gritted his teeth and had to retreat with hundreds of soldiers who rushed to the city, but was bombarded by cannons on the city wall.

After a few cups of tea, the eight hundred troops led by Moshin were beaten to less than five hundred men.

In the first round of attack, three hundred people were broken. Looking at the many soldiers under the city walls who were still breathing and wailing, Ruan Youjing's face turned pale.

"I didn't expect Mingren's firearm to be so sharp."

Ruan Youjing was really lucky that he did not send his soldiers to die.

However, the Ming people did not have so much gunpowder. Looking at the Ming army artillery that was still bombarding the wounded soldiers on the rice fields on the city wall, Ruan Youjing was also puzzled.

These days are rainy seasons, and the weather is humid, so it is not easy for gunpowder to avoid moisture.

The Guangnan and Zhenlafan troops were indeed equipped with some firearms, but due to the rain and humid climate a few days ago, all the gunpowder was soaked in water and could not be used due to moisture, which also left the cannons that came with the army useless.

In fact, as early as after the Minghai caravan learned that Zhen La attacked Dongpu, the caravan entered all the black gunpowder from the eight merchant ships on this trip into Dongpu, and Li Liu escorted the caravan and brought it to Nainong City.

As the rainy season approaches, all the black gunpowder of the Ming army is stored in thick wooden barrels and sealed with beeswax and other objects.

All the gunpowder carried by Ming soldiers was stored in advance by waterproof gunpowder paper bags. The paper bags were coated with special local resin, which had excellent moisture resistance and waterproofness.

During the more than a year in Luzon, the Ming army, based on firearms, naturally knew the importance of preventing gunpowder from getting damp, and for this reason, they also figured out many ways to store gunpowder.
Chapter completed!