Chapter 667: Drama Battle 8

"Cleaning the cannon chamber, loading solid bullets, opening the gap, and letting the infantry rush in, and everyone can rest!" Shang Jinzhong loudly inspired the Chu army artillery. The dozens of soldiers next to the two bronze cannons were already sweating profusely. Many people were wearing only a short shirt, and were smoked by the thick smoke from the muzzle, and they were even dark all over, like an evil ghost. Shang Jinzhong was originally from Luzhou, and he was in his home. His father was still there, and he had a brother from each other. He was a small sergeant in the artillery of the Wu army, and his family had a hundred acres of thin fields. He was originally a middle-aged man. However, since Lu Fang annexed Huainan, he has used troops to the outside world for many years, and he has a heavy burden on the people under his rule, especially the collection of labor. What the farmers in ancient times feared the most was that they were the most.

If the strong labor force in the family is levied and the farming season is missed, it will not be collected for one year, but these two taxes are indispensable. Even a wealthy family cannot withstand it in a year. Luzhou is an important town in Huaixi. Whether it is Shouzhou in the north or Jingchu in the upper reaches of Jiangxi, it is almost always soldier. Naturally, the people of Luzhou are also extremely burdened with labor. Shang Jinzhong's elder brother was conscripted as a civil servant when Tianyou attacked the Southern Han Dynasty in the tenth year. He died in the south due to the epidemic and did not even return to his hometown. In the 12th year of Tianyou, Ma Chu and Houliang joined forces to attack Wu, claiming to have a 500,000 army. Wu divided his troops to fight, and spread to Huainan, Jiangdong, Liangzhe, and Jiangxi prefectures and counties to transport grain. Shang Jinzhong's family originally followed the laws and regulations of Wu, and had a

In the army, another son had already been lost in the military service and could have been exempted from service, but his family was a small family in the village. He was colluded with a minor official by the local hero and secretly revised the Huang Book. He actually suppressed the labor of others on Shang Jinzhong's younger brother and forced him to recruit him. Shang Jinzhong's father was nearly fifty years old and weak and sickly. He was so angry that he had been lingering on the couch for half a decade. There was no man in the family, and Shang Jinzhong's wife had to remarry others with his children. When Shang Jinzhong got the news in the army, everything had already happened. He was a strong man, so he endured it and immediately became a deserter. He ran to the opposite Chu army. It happened that the Chu army saw that the Wu army was powerful and attached great importance to talents in this area.

Although Shang Jinzhong did not understand the range measurement and calculation of artillery, he still knew the other aspects of operation. In addition, he was very brave and had accumulated merits in recent years to the position of a hundred people. Although he did not understand the desperate situation in which the Chu army was in, he also guessed it based on his years of experience in the army. He also knew his own affairs. As a deserter of the Wu army, as long as he was defeated and captured, he would definitely be beheaded. Maybe he would also implicate his remarried wife and children. Wu Jinzhong used his strength to motivate his soldiers to fight. Seeing the leader's bravery, the morale of the Chu army's artillery was greatly boosted. The two bronze cannons kept spraying shells, which made the Wu army guards behind the low wall dare not show their heads.

Although the artillery fire of the Chu army was very fierce, the multi-faceted fort was built in accordance with the regulations of the Wu New Army. Its main target was the enemy with artillery. Its characteristics were that the wall was not high and thick. Not high could reduce the area of ​​the bomb. The thickness could not only increase the defense ability of the enemy's firearms, but also ensure that the fortifications did not collapse when the recoil was fired by the heavy artillery placed on it. The outer wall of the Wu army's multi-faceted fortress was an earthen embankment that was one and a half meters high and two feet thick in the wall base. Faced with this thickness of earthen embankment, the two copper guns of the Chu army fired up to six kilograms of solid bullets, which were about one foot deep, and at most, the hole was about one foot deep.

The hole was definitely not necessary to open a breakthrough. After Shang Jinzhong discovered this, he immediately stopped bombarding the Wu Bing archers on the walls on both sides to cover the infantrymen on the walls, and protected his infantrymen to step on the walls. This move was immediately effective. Under the close range of the shotgun, the Wu Jun grenade gunmen shooting on the earth dike fell down one after another like falling leaves. Even a few Wu Jun archers who were trying to shoot also found that their lead bullets could not be shot through the earth baskets made of wet earth baskets next to the Chu army cannon, so they had to retreat one after another. In this way, the Chu infantrymen immediately felt that the pressure was reduced, and they used bamboo ladders to climb the low wall and rushed in.

The battle situation in front of the multi-faceted fort was all in Zhou Hubiao's eyes on the Wanglou. He couldn't help but secretly glad that he was not attracted by the enemy's feint attack on the left wing just now, and threw the reserve team that was not many at hand to the gap on the left wing. Otherwise, he would have to open his eyes and watch the multi-faceted fort fall into the hands of the Chu army. He turned around and said in a deep voice to Li Yimin beside him: "General Li Shi, you lead the three capital troops and go to the multi-faceted fort. You must drive the Chu thieves out of the barrier again."

"Here!" Li Yimin hurriedly bowed to accept the order, but after getting up, he did not go downstairs immediately. Seeing this, Zhou Hubiao frowned and asked, "Military information is urgent, why don't you go quickly?"

Li Yimin gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "I will have a bad view, but I wonder if I should say it?"

Seeing that the other party was like this, Zhou Hubiao knew that there was something important to say, suppressing the impatientness in his heart and said, "Tell me quickly!"

"The last general thought that although the Chu bandits broke the tower, there was a second wall in the multi-faceted fortress, it would be fine for a moment. The artillery soldiers were the ones who were the ones who were in the heart. Although the two bronze cannons were not heavy artillery, they were just at the dead end of our artillery fire. They could use a shotgun to shoot all the guards on the wall. If these two cannons were not removed, they would be able to drive the bandits out of the fortress and they would not be able to defend them. They would only damage the soldiers in vain, and they thought they were quite unwise."

Zhou Hubiao snorted coldly when he heard this, and turned his eyes to the breakthrough in front of the multi-faceted fort. As expected, as Li Yimin said, although the Chu army had entered the fort first, the formation was chaotic under the second line of defense in the fort, and was hit by light cannon shotgun ambushed behind the second line of defense. He suffered heavy casualties and injuries. There was no threat for a while. However, the Chu artillery outside the outer wall continued to bombard the Chu army guards behind the walls on both sides with solid bullets and shotguns, posing a considerable threat to the defenders.

"Then what do you think you should do?" Zhou Hubiao asked.

Li Yimin obviously had a perfect plan in his heart. When he heard his boss' question, he replied without hesitation: "When the vanguard of Chu saw that our wall was broken, most of the soldiers rushed in and plundered wealth. The defense beside the artillery became weak. In addition, the two sides had been fighting for a long time, and the smoke of gunpowder was everywhere and the vision was not smooth. If I were asked to lead fifty light cavalry, and from the side gate, and attack the thief's cannon camp, kill his gunners, burn his ammunition, he caught him off guard, and then take advantage of the situation to attack him, and he would definitely win a great victory, which would prevent the Chu thief from looking sideways."

"Replace solid bullets and the muzzle is raised twice!" Shang Jinzhong ordered sternly. In this noisy artillery position, the only way to pass orders is to shout loudly. After he learned that there was a second line of defense in the fort, he ordered the muzzle to be raised and the Wu soldiers behind the barriers were ready to use solid bullets to taste his own power. Anyway, there were all Wu soldiers behind him. Even if the enemy soldiers behind the defense line could not be defeated, he could increase the morale of his soldiers.

Shang Jinzhong was leaning against a willow basket that was used as a barrier. Seeing his subordinates busy executing his orders, he couldn't help but shake his head secretly. Although he had been trained by his own painstakingly, these guys were still much worse than the Wu army on the opposite side. If it weren't for the dead corner of his position, otherwise the place would have been knocked into a corpse by solid bullets. Suddenly, a slight shock came from Shang Jinzhong's feet. "Enemy shells?" He squatted down like a conditioned reflex, but soon Shang Jinzhong found that this was wrong. This shock was more like the effect of a cavalry's impact.

"The reinforcements behind us have arrived?" Shang Jinzhong thought, but immediately his eyes widened nervously: "Impossible, this is a besieging the Wu bandit camp, what are the cavalry used? The Wu bandit cavalry is coming to deal with us!" Shang Jinzhong immediately stood up straight and shouted loudly: "Switch to the shotgun, there will be an enemy attack!"

Almost at the same time, dozens of cavalry and knights tore open the smoke that filled the Chu army's artillery positions and came over. The knights wore iron masks and held long spears and swords, looking like evil ghosts that were killed in the Infinite Hell. At this time, the Chu army's artillery didn't care about changing into a more suitable shotgun suitable for killing people, turned the guns and lit the fuse and bombed it.

Li Yimin leaned tightly on the horse's back to minimize the possibility of being shot. After he left the camp, he did not directly pounce on the Chu army artillery, but went forward and circled around the back of the artillery. On the way, he met several teams of Chu soldiers, who were mistaken for their own people and greeted him in a friendly manner. Li Yimin just ignored it and rushed straight to the area where the enemy artillery was located. But when he was still thirty steps away from the enemy artillery, he was still discovered. The enemy leader in iron armor shouted something loudly, and the two bronze cannons began to turn towards him. Li Yimin stared at the black and faint muzzle not far away, and when the two Chu soldiers extended the fire-induced object to the fire gate, his breathing almost stopped.

With two loud noises, Li Yimin felt a heat flowing across his head. After a while, he realized that he was still alive. The joy of escaping from death made him almost cry for a moment. He roared, raised the sword in his hand high, and squeezed the horse's belly violently, crossed the ground half a man high, and rushed into the Chu army.
Chapter completed!