"Seventh brother, eighth brother, our army's first wave of attack will be initiated by you. If we break through the city, you will be the ones in the city first!"

As the boss of the Eight Kings, Wang Er naturally would not be the first to take the lead. After all, in the siege, the first wave of attacks would often lead to blood, so he ordered Wang Hu, the smallest force, to take the lead.

Wang Hu and Dahonglang knew that they were not good things just by hearing the names. In fact, they were both bandits. Although they were a little clever, they were fooled by Wang Er’s promise to “You will pick the girls first”. He responded quickly: “Abide by the order, King, I, Wang Hu [Big Red Wolf], will not disappoint the king!”

"Brothers! After breaking the city, you won't seal your sword for three days, so you can rush!"

"Brothers, come and snatch money and rob girls!"

The refugee army had no particular concerns. Wang Hu and the big red wolf each roared, and more than 6,000 people under their command rushed towards Tongchuan City in a swarm.

"Kill!"

"Snatch money and rob girls!"

"No sword sealing for three days!"

Seeing the refugee army rushing towards the city wall with all kinds of messy slogans, the musket soldiers lined up on the city wall couldn't help but feel a little panicked.

Although this is not the first time they have participated in a battle, the Tianwu Army has only been in a few months after all, and it is the first time they have participated in such a large-scale battle. The number of people is at an absolute disadvantage, so panic is naturally inevitable.

So as the five thousand thieves rushed over, many soldiers began to feel a little panic. Even the hands holding the muskets were shaken violently, and the muskets almost fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting turned around and gave an order to a messenger beside him. The messenger immediately rushed to the artillery position arranged in the bunker.

The artillery battalion commander Li Yunlong had just calculated the most suitable area for artillery attack. The messenger sent by Sun Chuanting quickly ran to Li Yunlong and said, "Battleman Li, General Sun has an order to order the artillery team to concentrate the firepower of the Folang machine cannon and tiger squat cannon to cover the artillery attack, and give the enemy a warning first.

In addition, the general ordered you not to use red cannons for the time being. You should hide your strength first. After the enemy launches a general attack, you should then push the red cannons to blow over the enemy!"

Li Yunlong quickly responded: "Abide by the order! Please go back and tell General Sun that our artillery battalion will never embarrass the general. Use me to the first battle, and I will win!"

The commander nodded and ran back to report to Sun Chuanting.

Immediately, Li Yunlong ordered the gunners under his command: "Brothers! Push my Fran cannon up, and the tiger squat cannon, start calculating the distance, aim at loading, and fuck him!"

With Li Yunlong's order issued, hundreds of artillery soldiers in the artillery position became busy and pushed the Folang machine cannon and tiger squat cannon to the position. The ferocious muzzle was facing the thief army rushing towards the outside of the city wall.

"Target two hundred steps! Aim!"

The Franco machine is actually the misname of the Ming people for the early Portuguese who came to China. The Franco machine gun is the medieval artillery brought to China by the Portuguese.

This kind of gun is also the world's first after-mounted artillery. Due to its simple production, relatively lightweight, and rapid replenishment of gunpowder, it was very popular in Europe from the 14th to 15th centuries.

During the Battle of Xicao Bay in 1522, the Ming Dynasty seized several small Franco cannons, which were the smallest. Since the Ming Dynasty used various types of muskets for a long time, its level did not exceed the level of science and technology in Europe in the mid-14th century, it was a treasure for seizing the Portuguese Franco cannons.

The Ming Dynasty spent twenty years beginning to imitate and gradually popularize it. In the next hundred years, the Folang machine cannon was used as a magical artifact for border defense and coastal defense.

As a full firearm unit, the Tianwu Army was naturally equipped with a large number of Flang machine cannons. As for the small tiger squat cannons, they were even regular firearms for the Ming army.

Li Yunlong came from the Shenji Camp and was a very experienced old gunner. He personally demonstrated the gunners and adjusted the position of the Folang machine cannon.

The gunner in charge of aiming was also constantly adjusting the elevation angle of the artillery and finely adjusting the artillery mount. After about sixty breaths, the gunners reported to Li Yunlong: "The target has been aimed, please instruct!"

Li Yunlong shouted: "Reload the shells!"

"Yes, battalion commander!"

More than a dozen breaths passed, and the gunners reported to Li Yunlong one after another: "Report to the battalion commander, the shells are loaded!"

"Run!"

"Get into the city!"

"Kill the Bright Thieves!"

Seeing a large number of thieves entering the coverage of cannons, Li Yunlong immediately shouted: "Fire the cannon!"

After the gunners heard the order, twenty-four Furang machine cannons and thirty-six tiger squat cannons flashed with flames, and the shells spurted out of the gun mouth and roared towards the thieves outside the city wall at an astonishing speed.

Hearing the sudden sound of cannons from the city wall, the six thousand thieves couldn't help but pause and stopped involuntarily.

Some thieves who had never heard of the sound of shelling were even more shocked on the spot and thought the sky was thundering.

Only those old thieves who had seen Ming army shelling were frightened and trembled, hiding behind other thieves, treating rookies as their human shields.

As the old thief king, Wang Hu naturally had seen the powerful artillery attacks of the Ming army. When he heard the whistling of shells, he immediately exclaimed: "No! The official army actually has cannons. Don't stop, just rush under the city wall and it will be safe!"

It has to be said that Wang Hu's order has some truth. As long as the refugee army rushed under the city wall to launch a siege, the cannons on the city wall naturally could not do anything to them.

But at this time they were still two hundred steps away from the city wall. This distance became a natural barrier that they could not cross under the undifferentiated coverage of sixty cannons.

"Boom boom boom..."

The deafening explosion kept sounding, and then only a fire and rolling smoke were seen. The entire earth trembled violently, like an earthquake.

"Oh my God!"

"Oh my god!"

"It hurts so much!"

The first round of sixty cannons bombarded together, and a dead curtain wall formed at 200 steps outside the city wall. The bandits were torn to pieces by shells, and screams continued to sound.

After the shell landed, the iron sand lead bullet exploded and splashed, like the Tangmen hidden weapon, pear blossom needle, and flew towards the bandits from all directions. Once the bandits were shot by lead, they would cause unbearable pain even if they did not die.

After a round of artillery bombardment, the refugee army was killed and injured, and at least more than 100 bandit soldiers were affected. It would be fine if they were torn apart by shells at the first time, and everything would be fine if they died. However, those injured rolled on the ground in pain and wailed wildly, which had a great impact on morale.

Seeing the bandits suffering severe damage, the musket soldiers on the city wall gradually calmed down. When the bandits rushed over in a swarm, the musket soldiers were still trembling, thinking that they would be torn to pieces by the bandits.

But now seeing the traitors being bombarded, I couldn't help but think: "It turns out that the traitors are just paper tigers, but in fact they are vulnerable at all!"
Chapter completed!