Chapter 866
The Qing army on the top of the city quickly noticed the abnormal movements of the Ming army.
The soldiers sounded the alarm bell, and everyone's attention was attracted outside the city. The Qing soldiers rushed to crowd around the city wall and looked out.
Doni squinted his eyes and looked at the Ming soldiers dragged a giant object covered with red cloth and slowly left the camp.
"Qianli Miles!" Doni reached out and shouted.
From the personal guard, he took the Qianli Scene, and Doni pulled out the lens barrel and placed it in front of him. He saw that the giant thing was several feet long and more than ten feet tall. He walked slowly forward under the guidance of many mules, horses, cows, and nearly a hundred soldiers.
The giant moves very slowly, and he can see his heavy weight, which makes Doni's heart tighten.
What is this thing that requires so much manpower and cattle and horses to drag?
Doni couldn't help feeling a little nervous. Although he was Prince Yu, the gap was too far from his father Duoduo, and he did not inherit his father's bravery and good at fighting and decisive killing.
Although he has followed Ajig to fight north and north over the years, he was actually full of fear in his heart when facing Zhao Ming and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops.
Doni looked at the giant object approaching, and couldn't help but panic, and hurriedly turned around and ordered: "Send the order to the artillery team, prepare to fire!"
When the Qing army at the top of the city heard the order, they immediately hurriedly controlled the red cannon on the gun platform, quickly loaded, adjusted the angle, and aimed at the moving giant object.
The Qing soldiers, holding torches, were waiting for the giant object to enter the range and immediately launched a cannon to bombard the enemy.
"It's so heavy and covered with red cloth. Could it be a cannon?" Huang Ting frowned and asked.
Many Qing generals were filled with fear. Ming munitions were powerful. In recent years, new firearms have emerged one after another.
From the explosion bags shot by the trencher, to the thunder of the sky, to the flintlock firing, and finally to the siege mortar cannon and flowering bullets, it can be said that the Qing army was defeated by the Ming army's firearms.
For a moment, the uneasy feeling on the city wall began to spread.
Doni had no time to appease his subordinates, but he stared at the moving giant, but saw that the giant was three miles away from the city and stopped.
This distance is just outside the effective range of the red-clothed cannon on the front of the city, and it is basically difficult to hit.
"Prince! This distance cannot be hit!" Hu Maozhen, commander of the Qing army artillery team, said loudly, with a hint of panic in his tone.
The Qing army on the city sank because they realized that if this giant object was a cannon, it would mean that the cannon on the city would be difficult to hit it, and it could bombard the city walls with will.
At this time, after the giant stopped, the Ming soldiers began to build fortifications, built a position with sandbags and mounds of soil, placed sacrifices, and lit firecrackers for sacrifice.
"What a cannon!" Huang Ting exclaimed in surprise when he saw this.
It seemed to be for verification. After the sacrifice, the red cloth was pulled down by the Ming soldiers, revealing an extremely huge cannon.
Looking at the giant cannon, the Qing army on the city was stunned.
The red-clothed cannon was already scary enough. The Qing soldiers never thought that there were such huge cannons in the world.
Doni shouted with a gloomy face: "Don't panic! It's just a cannon, and it can't threaten the city defense of Xuzhou!"
When the generals heard the words, they barely calmed down. At this time, nearly a hundred Ming soldiers began to use pulleys and levers to load gunpowder and shells, adjust the gun position, and aimed the huge muzzle at Xuzhou City.
Nearly half an hour later, the cannon was loaded, and the giant cannon suddenly spewed out a 10-meter-long cannon, and a thick ball of white smoke rose. Then, a shocking sound came.
Everyone in the city exclaimed, and saw a huge black shell flying against the ground and smashing towards the city wall quickly.
In an instant, the shell went from small to large and reached its sight.
"Protect the prince!" The guard roared wildly and blocked Doni.
A loud "boom" sound was like a drought thunder exploded in my ears. Everyone felt that their feet were smashed and moved backwards, and they were shocked to fall to the ground, or they were squatting on the top of the city in horror.
Thick smoke and dust rose from the city walls, countless splashing gravels rose to the sky, and then fell like hail, splashing white flowers in the moat, hitting the soldiers and Doni.
The power of a shot is so terrifying.
Huang Ting and others squatted on the ground for a while, before shaking the dust on their bodies. They stood up, but were frightened to find that the entire section of the city wall was actually sunk inward by a shot, and the wall was tilted and broken, which was already threatened to collapse.
The four or five hundred kilogram shell had already smashed a huge gentry pit on the front city wall. The shells were inlaid into the city body, and the broken wall bricks were still peeling off from time to time, rolling into the moat, causing a turbid wave.
Doni got up from the ground with a pale face, and looked at the city wall in horror, his two twitches couldn't help but tremble slightly.
At this time, outside the city wall, a team of Ming cavalry galloped over, pinned their war horses under the city wall, looked at the dazed defenders on the city, and shouted loudly: "The Regent's dictatorship, Guide, Haizhou will be captured by the heavenly soldiers. Xuzhou is already an isolated city, and I advise you to open the city within three days to surrender. Otherwise, the giant cannon bombards the city, and on the day of breaking the city, all those who resist the heavenly soldiers will be killed!"
After the cavalry shouted, they pulled out their horses.
On the top of the city, Doni's face turned pale, and Huang Ting exclaimed: "What should I do with the prince?"
Doni had lost his inch and was frightened by the power of a giant cannon.
At this time, he had no strategy at all. Fortunately, the Ming army outside the city only fired one shot and did not continue to bombard it. It seemed that it was just firing one shot to warn the defenders in the city.
Doni said in a deep voice: "Repair the city wall!"
He led his guards and rushed down the city like a fleeing, leaving Huang Ting and other generals standing on the top of the city.
That night, a Niulu, a Zhengbai Banner in the north gate of Xuzhou City, wanted to lead his troops to escape, but was caught by the Han soldiers guarding the gate.
The next day, early in the morning, just as dawn, a large number of Ming troops appeared under the city wall again. The Qing army guarding the city hurried to report. When Duoni came to the city, he saw the Ming cavalry who threw a large number of Qing army flags to the ground.
A general of the Ming Dynasty took up a man with a braid with a spear, rushed back from the city, and shouted loudly: "Nisha, the commander of Haizhou, has been killed by heavenly soldiers, and the Ming Dynasty will restore Haizhou!"
The Ming general was at the city and showed off his might for a while before he withdrew his troops to the camp.
Jin Shenghuan led 50,000 troops to Haizhou. The defenders in the city wanted to resist stubbornly. At this time, Zheng Chenggong and Guo Zhong led the navy to Haizhou and bombarded the city by ships.
The Ming Navy warships lined up on the sea outside Haizhou City, with hundreds of red-clothed cannons firing at the city.
Before the navy's shelling ended, the Qing army in the city was afraid, led by deputy general Wang Jiaping, and killed the Qing Bernethha and surrendered the city.
At the top of the city, the Qing soldiers looked at the scene in front of them and remained silent. Doni stood on the city and saw many soldiers, all of whom were looking at him.
This made Doni feel a creepy sense of fear in his heart. He pushed Huang Ting away who was about to ask again and hurriedly fled down the city.
Chapter completed!