Without any surprise, shooting a fast-moving target with a wooden cannon at a distance without any chance of hitting.

After the first shot was fired, the tense heartstrings of the defenders completely broke, and all the wooden cannons were set off. For a moment, white smoke filled the city walls, and stone bombs rushed out of the cigarette and flew across about 7 and 80 steps.

The Zhiyuan cavalry quickly retreated a hundred steps away. The wooden cannon was "invented" by Xu Shiyang. Everyone knew the range, so everyone knew that it was safe and seemed very calm at this distance.

The smoke gradually dissipated, and the two sides faced each other again. The defenders were sadly aware that they had bombed out more than 10 cannons, but none of the enemies were hit!

"Reload!"

Mr. Fan's sons and nephews waved their swords and shouted on the wall:

"Prepare to set off fireworks! Don't let the dog thieves from the Xu family rush in! We'll be done when we rush in!"

"Young Master, didn't the instructor from the Xu family say that he couldn't pretend to be a second time?" a militia asked tremblingly.

"Get out!" The young master of the Fan family cursed: "You are more like the Xu family thief when you listen to me! If you ask you to load, you can load it!"

...

When Xu Shiyang stood in the distance, he could easily feel the chaos of the Fan family army. He suddenly realized that this battle might not be able to achieve his goal of using war to train.

‘Maybe it time to prepare for the next opponent right away?’

He pondered until Xu Er sat over and asked for instructions:

"Commander, the Divine Armtrooper is ready."

"Um……."

Xu Shiyang nodded. Anyway, he couldn't deliberately cause trouble for himself for training. It would be a good thing to end it quickly.

"Open fire!"

Beep tick tick!

The sound of the bronze horn sounded, and a flag bearer beside Xu Shiyang waved two small flags and issued attack orders to the artillery position.

boom!

A three-pound iron projectile flew out of the cannon chamber and then hit the city wall after a moment. In an instant, smoke and dust filled the city wall and gravel flew around. The entire city wall trembled slightly to the naked eye, and the panic screams were deafening.

During the Napoleonic War, the French army's 4-pound cannon (3 kilograms from Huaxia) could have a range of 800 to 900 meters when firing solid bullets. Xu Shiyang's first cannon was much worse in performance and its effective range was within 500 meters.

But no matter what, shooting a target of such a large city wall at a distance of 200 steps is no possibility of shooting missed at all.

Boom boom boom boom!

Then two more shells hit the city wall. This time it was the magic machine cannon. Their destructive power was obviously not as good as that of the general cannon, but the firing rate was extremely fast. The two magic machine cannons kept spitting out their flames, and they fired as many as 6 guns in half a minute.

The city walls that were constantly shocked were scattered and crushed sand and gravel were poured down. The shells did not hit the city walls, and in fact they did not cause any damage, but the morale of the defenders had fallen to the lowest point.

The sons and nephews of the Xu family and the leaders of the village braves shouted loudly and ordered the wooden cannons to fight back, and the cannons on the top of the city also crackled in a crackling sound.

The two sides were very lively, but neither of them effectively killed the enemy. The first artillery battle in the world was almost turned into a carnival.

But this is war after all, and it is impossible for no one to shed blood.

I don’t know if it was because the wooden cannon with fragile structure was reloaded or because someone made a mistake in panic, and a wooden cannon that shot the Fan family suddenly exploded, and the flying wood chips swept half of the city.

Xu Shiyang watched several twisted and struggling figures fall to the city, and the Fan family army's lively counterattack stopped.

"It's OK."

His order was indifferent:

"Strike!"

After firing three iron bombs in a row, the magic machine cannon also stopped dissipating heat. Only the general cannon that had completed the reloading fired again. The iron bombs flew into Fanjiawu Fortress against the wall, causing another round of screams from the defenders.

After the artillery ceased, the vanguards and soldiers holding large shields, long swords or battle axes lined up to move forward. Several vanguards and captains stood in front and shouted the "one, two, one" command to control the entire army to move forward at the same pace as possible.

The Divine Machinery Army followed closely. Because it was very inconvenient to use spears to siege the city, the sharp soldiers did not participate in the attack this time and were left by the battalion commanders as reserve teams.

Li Kui was at the forefront of the offensive team. As a veteran who participated in the Battle of Fort 153, his courage had been recognized, so this time the attack on the fort was used as the blade of the selection force.

He was wearing a set of iron armor seized from a Tartar chariot, holding a huge axe in his hand, and approaching the city gate, and with a roar, he raised his battle axe with both hands and chopped it on the city gate. Then another moment, wood chips flew across Li Kui's face, making him feel painful, but the black-faced man still chopped down his feet, just like he had gone to the woods to chop firewood, almost entering a state of selflessness.

Two colleagues of the two front-sellers set up large shields on his head to resist the bricks and stones falling like raindrops. Every time Li Kui cut, they could hear panic crying across the door.

About half a quarter of an hour later, deafening cheers suddenly sounded under the city.

"The city is broken!"

"The city is broken!"

Li Kui was still stubbornly competing with the city gate, but the other two selected soldiers had clearly felt that the stones thrown on the city had become much sparse.

After the new army approached the city wall, the will of the defenders completely collapsed. Most of the defenders on the city wall fled, including most of the sons and nephews of the Fan family. The selection soldiers used the long ladder to easily climb up the city. The leader of the Fan Jiaxiang became the only guard who died in battle.

Another half a quarter of an hour later, the city gate was opened from inside, and the selection soldiers and the Divine Machinery soldiers rushed into the city of Juzhou like a flood that broke the dam.

...

Maybe it was an illusion. Xu Shiyang, who was still standing there thinking about the next target, vaguely heard a woman's scream. He woke up suddenly and turned to yelled at the messenger beside him:

"Hurry! Order all the soldiers of the sects to enter the city! Go! Whoever encounters humiliation and plundering women and children, no matter who they are, behead them on the spot!"

At this time, the resistance of the Fan family had collapsed. Everyone was Han. There was no deep hatred between them, and there was no need to create too much killing.

Xu Shiyang also hopes to include the population that originally belonged to the Fan family into his own system. He cannot allow too much cracks to be left between the bottom, which is definitely fatal to the new army in the infancy.

The horse-riding sergeant soldiers and the authoritative new army instructors entered the city together and began to pick up the soldiers' violations.

When encountering those who insult women or rob and kill people, no matter which camp they belong to, they will beheaded with one sword. Those who commit misdemeanors will be tied up and taken out of the city.

An hour later, Xu Shiyang led the battalion commanders, a group of guards and coalition observers to enter the city together.

At this time, on the streets of Juzhou, there were new soldiers with solemn expressions standing everywhere, and dead defenders were lying in some corners, but the number of corpses was not large.

Under the supervision of teams of politicians and instructors patrolling everywhere, the soldiers did not dare to enter the residents' homes. After driving all the civil and Zhuang belonging to the Fan family back to their homes, the soldiers stopped pursuing them.
Chapter completed!