Back at the coach's tent, Ming Hao repeatedly ordered to hold wine and celebrate tonight.

Whether it is Qucheng or digging tunnels, there are countermeasures in the city. If you are not careful, you will fail. Last time, the school Liu Zun offered a plan to dig tunnels. Ming Hao was always nervous, afraid that he would fail again. Today, after watching the cannon bombing the city, he immediately relaxed. Unlike Qucheng and the tunnels, the cannon bombing the city is simple and crude, because it is simple and crude, and it is impossible to defend in the city.

Everyone sat down, and Du Zhongxiao bowed to Ming Hao and said, "Ask the advice, when the firecrackers are set off in front of the city today, the subordinate promised the gunner that if they can collapse the female wall in the western section today, everyone would reward them. If there is a reward in the army, it would be better to cash out immediately, which would boost the morale of the army."

"Reward, reward!" Ming Hao waved his hand, "Each cannon gunner is one foot, one piece of silk, and each cannon cannon has hundreds of coins, go and discover money immediately!"

The recruits on the side agreed to the promise and went to find the officials in charge of military supplies to cash in the rewards.

In Du Zhongxiao's heart, it is not a good thing to reward the army before the army. A regular army with strict discipline should not use this method, but should use military merits and honors to inspire morale. This is not a matter of saving money. It is not a matter of implementing military merits and honors to be implemented, but will not be cheaper than directly giving rewards. In wartime, it is a good saying that there must be brave men under heavy rewards, which will actually cultivate bad habits of the army. Only recognize money in wars and lose their sense of honor and responsibility. However, an army without a sense of honor and responsibility will inevitably become a problem, and it is difficult to face complex situations, and it is even more impossible to persist in difficult situations.

However, the imperial guards are so accustomed to this. They have to pay money during festivals, exercises, and even more so on sending troops to fight. Once the money is less, or they are not satisfied with the items they have been sent, they may mutiny at any time. More than a month after the war in Beizhou started, the imperial court has issued special payments twice.

Tao Shiqi and the gunner surrounded the bronze cannon, drinking wine in big mouthfuls, and everyone was extremely happy.

As soon as the sky was getting dark, the army brought them wine and meat, half a pound of wine per person, and as much meat as it would be. They might turn the situation around the war, and the soldiers under the city saw it, and the wine was good wine and meat was good meat.

When the fire was fired in the afternoon, although I used water to cool down from time to time, I fired for an afternoon, the copper cannon was still like a stove. Tao Shiqi brought people to surround me, like burning fire around a stove. On this chilly spring night, it had a unique flavor.

After drinking for a while, Du Zhongxiao brought a few people over, and everyone hurriedly greeted him.

Du Zhongxiao said: "You are brave today and fight very well. The commander praised you, each person has a penny of money and a piece of silk. After you have enough wine and food, everyone will rest early. We will continue to smash the city tomorrow. After the city is broken, there will be a reward!"

The gunners cheered together, happily received the money and silk, and each put it away.

The money is the new copper coins from the warehouse a few days ago, and the silk is the newly collected autumn tax this year. Du Zhongxiao specially inspected it. The army was stationed here and spent a lot of money. Don’t make the officers and soldiers uncomfortable in these minor details. It has happened many times in recent years, because the quality of the silk is not good, causing a mutiny in the army. Now we must try every means to boost morale, strive to conquer Beizhou in one go.

The gunners who used iron cannons each had 100 quotas. They saw the power of the cannon next to them, and they knew they could not compare with them, and they were equally happy.

After sending the reward, Du Zhongxiao returned to the commander's tent and parted with everyone.

Seeing that the city was about to be destroyed, generals such as Wang Xin, Wang Kai and Hao Zhi dared not get drunk. After they had dispersed, they each returned to their own military camps and made detailed arrangements. The first achievement of destroying the city was undoubtedly the cannons brought by Du Zhongxiao. Other contributions, such as the capture of Wang Ze and a group of leaders, were still fighting for them.

After Li Jihe returned to the commander's tent, he wrote today's situation into a memorial and ordered people to send them back to the capital.

Ming Hao reported military information to the Privy Council every day, and Li Jihe's memorials were presented to the emperor, which were two different channels. Because Zouma had various privileges, the ones who were given to the emperor were secret memorials, which others did not know about, which was very likely to arouse suspicion from the generals.

In addition to reporting to the capital overnight, Minghao sent two thousand soldiers to build a high wall outside the city, about the city wall, etc. He had been delayed in the city of Beizhou for too long, and anything that was beneficial to the siege was done at any cost.

Early the next morning, Du Zhongxiao looked at the newly raised earthen wall and ordered the cannons to be moved east of the city gate and all arranged on the earthen wall.

Tao Shiqi commanded the gunner, set up cannons, loaded ammunition, looked at the top of the city wall, and asked Du Zhongxiao for instructions, and ordered a cannon to fire a cannon first and try its power. The power of the cannon was nearly twice as powerful as the upside down, which was not comparable to yesterday.

A shot was fired, the earth was shaking, and a corner of the city tower collapsed, and everyone cheered.

After hearing yesterday's battle situation, Wang Ze brought Prime Minister Zhang Luan and Privy Councilor Bu Ji to watch the city tower, but he didn't want the first shot to hit him here today. The city tower shook violently, and several people fell to the ground with their faces as dark as the faces.

Wang Ze was born in the military academy, and at this time he felt a fierce look and said loudly: "All up, we can also adjust our cannons and bomb the opposite cannon! There are also crossbows, all of them are transferred to shoot them to death!"

Buji looked at the cannons on the earthen wall outside and said to Wang Ze: "King, you are too far away, so I'm afraid it's useless."

Wang Ze sternly said: "If you can't hit them, it's okay to be scared. Are we waiting to die in the city?"

Bu Ji had no choice but to transfer the crossbowmen in the city to the south wall and shoot around outside the city. He ordered the whirlwind cannon arranged at the top of the city to load stone bullets and hit the newly built earth wall outside the city. The whirlwind cannon is not very large in shape, and it is named because it is flexible and can change the launch direction at any time.

After a shot, Tao Shiqi's life gunner reloaded. Before the loading was completed, the city was bending and crossbows were fired at the same time. The scene was very spectacular. However, the range of the crossbows was not enough, and it only reached half the distance of the earthen wall outside the city, and then it fell to the ground one after another. With the crossbows, several wind-selling cannons at the top of the city also started to attack, but the range was closer than that of the crossbows, and the stone bullets were even hard to see clearly on the earthen wall.

Tao Shiqi looked at it and smiled at the gunner, "The demon thieves in the city are already exhausted and can't imagine it. Compared with our cannons, their crossbows and stone cannons are like children's toys, making people laugh. Reload them quickly, and we will first knock out the battle shed on the east side of the city gate."

The gunner holding the torch to prepare to twig the medicine smiled and said, "The rabbit is anxious and biting people. This is the demon thief in the city who is forced to do it."

Everyone laughed together and did things more quickly. After the loading, Tao Shiqi directed the gunner, aimed at a battle shed on the east side of the city gate, and shot out with one shot. The flat shot was not only stronger, but also much more accurate. Unlike yesterday, it was often only a few shots to knock out a battle boron.

Minghao stood in the distance and saw the cannons blowing down a battle shed. He said to Du Zhongxiao beside him: "Looking at the movement of the demon thief on the city, I think the thief leader has arrived at the city tower. Why not use the cannons to bomb the city tower? Maybe he will kill the thief leader and make a wonderful achievement!"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Beizhou City has been surrounded and cannot be broken, and it is a dead place. As long as you attack the city, the thieves will not escape. The most important thing now is to attack the city. As long as the city is broken, the thief leader can only surrender!"
Chapter completed!