‘Hu, Hu, Hu…’ The heavy hammer hit the crossbow of the stone thrower. The heavy hammer fell sharply, and the tip arm suddenly raised and hit the crossbar. The tip arm stopped, and the bullet pocket on the arm end still took advantage of the momentum to rise under the powerful inertia. The huge stone bullet inside broke away from the constraints, rushing into the sky with a breathtaking roar, and then fell down after exhaustion.

‘Boom, boom, boom…’ The falling stone bullet hit the grass dozens of steps in front of the Song army formation like a meteor. The land that had just absorbed the rain became very soft. The heavy stone bullet fell deeply into it. Under the huge impact force, it aroused several feet of grass clippings and mud, and fell like a sudden rain.

"Haha... why are they not afraid?" Seeing the huge power of Huihui cannon, Shi Bi couldn't help laughing loudly, but suddenly it stopped like a duck caught on his neck.

When he thought that when the Song army saw the stone cannon showing its power, they should be shocked by it, panic, and dodged everywhere, or even turned around and ran away without fighting. However, the Song army's formation in front of him was not at all, and even the soldiers in the front row did not take a step back, and even the mud and sand splashed on their faces and bodies did not raise their hands to wipe them away, and they still stood solemnly with guns. The situation he imagined did not appear at all.

"Reload again and shoot again!" Shi Bi was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that these Song troops were different from the Song troops he met before him, but he still turned around and shouted unwillingly.

Alihan looked bitter when he heard this. The Huihui cannon mount was huge and suitable for placement in a vast area to facilitate the deployment of gunners. Fancheng is a big city. The top of the city wall is more than ten feet wide, and it can be two cars in parallel, and the turret is wider. However, for a guy like Huihui cannon who is extremely large and requires hundreds of soldiers to operate, it will appear narrow.

Therefore, Hui Hui cannons should not be placed on the city at all, but on a wide area behind the city to facilitate the operation of soldiers. However, in order to demonstrate their force, Shi Bi insisted on moving the Hui Hui cannon to the top of the city, so he had to take a lot of manpower to disassemble the cannon stand and transport it to the city to reassemble it, and hang the heavy stone bullets onto the top of the city. Now it is not easy to reload the bullets.

"Haha... Are the children of the Southern Dynasty scaring me?" When the war was about to break out, Shi Bi suddenly stood on the wall and laughed.

"What did the supervisor discover?" Alihan asked with a wry smile.

"Alihan, look at the Song army's formation, there are only a few bridge vehicles, and there is no one siege equipment. Do they have ribs and wings, or can fly over the eaves and walls? I really think Fancheng is paper-filled!" Shi Bi pointed to the Song army camp that had already begun to change formation and sneered.

"Oh, that's true. Could it be that the Southern Army is just a demonstration in front of the city? It's not that they want to dig tunnels and sneak into the city!" Alihan looked closely. Sure enough, there were no large siege vehicles and other large siege equipment in the Song army formation under the city, and there were not even a necessary ladder for siege. He was shocked and puzzled.

"Digging the tunnel?! Although Fancheng is a city of earth, it is also based on huge rocks. And yesterday it rained heavily, and water could be seen by digging two feet of the ground. They are not afraid of drowning themselves, so they can dig it!" Shi Bi sneered and said disdainfully.

"The General Manager said very much. They rushed to attack the city, which was a way to die. It seems that the little emperor is very good at using troops and is invincible. It seems that he is just Er." Alihan also smiled.

"It's just a child with yellow mouth, and the southerners are very hypocritical. After winning a few small battles, they boasted and beheaded several times. They dared to claim more than a thousand, but in fact they were just a fool!" Shi Bi said with great disdain when he touched his beard.

"Main-General, what is the Southern Army doing?" As the two of them spoke, Alihan looked at the city, but when he saw the Song army vanguard suddenly dispersed, crouching on the ground, and retreating from more than a dozen cannon cars behind him, he said in surprise.

"They wanted to use firearms to collapse the city walls, but they were really dreaming. Even the huge rocks fired by the Hui cannon this time were difficult to easily smash the city walls. Don't worry too much, just be prepared to block them!" Shi Bi had seen the Song army's firearms, but he still thought it was not enough to be afraid and said with a smile.

"Maintain, the firearm is sharp, so it's better to go down to the city to avoid it!" Alihan said cautiously.

"I walked by the guns and swords, how could I be afraid of mere firearms!" Shi Bi said with a straight back and said very hard.

‘Boom, boom, boom…’ Suddenly there were bursts of explosions under the city, but with the roar of thunder before the rain, fire flashed, smoke rose, and projectiles as big as bowls roared.

There was a loud bang, and a cannonball hit the female wall. Suddenly, bricks and stones splattered, and the squadrons were smashed. The soldiers hidden behind them flew backwards, spitting blood in their mouths, and their chests collapsed, and they saw that they were not alive. In an instant, the entire city wall was bombarded. Some projectiles fell directly onto the city wall, and those who were in trouble were either dead or injured; some hit the city tower, and the projectiles passed through the wall and fell to the city; while some hit the catapult, and the two-foot-thick bracket was instantly smashed and the cannon frame collapsed.

"Maintain, the enemy's artillery fire is fierce, so let's go down to the city for a while!" Alihan sighed inwardly that Shi Bi is worthy of being a veteran on the battlefield. Seeing that the artillery fire is fierce, he saw that he was old and immediately bent down and hid under the battlements. After a round of artillery fire, he hurriedly pulled him up and shouted.

"No, how can I fear the enemy's cannon stones and launch a cannon to fight back immediately!" Shi Bi refused, shook the soil on his body and shouted loudly.

"Send the cannon quickly!" Alihan turned around and looked at the city. Although a stone thrower was hit and damaged, most of them could still be used. He shouted at the soldiers, asking them to speed up the loading and counterattack immediately.

But before they could prepare, the second round of artillery fire of the Song army had sounded again, and this time the fire was not solid bullets, but flowering bullets. For a moment, shrapnel flew in the city and fires soared into the sky. The soldiers in charge of artillery were injured and fell to the ground. The soldiers in charge of artillery gathered together, and only one shell fell into the crowd and exploded, causing heavy casualties from the gunners.

"Flame the cannon, fire the cannon..." The Song army's artillery fire was fierce, but his side was silent. Shi Bi was furious and drew his sword and threatened.

Under the threat, the gunners raised up again to operate the stone throwing machine, but the interval between the artillery fire of the Song army was getting lower and lower, and more artillery added to the artillery fire, and the firepower became denser, and the casualties of soldiers in the city continued to increase. The enemy's artillery fire pointed more at the stone throwing machine, and the gunners were destroyed here to take care of the guns, and all the soldiers were killed and injured. After the two stone throwing machines barely fired the stone shot out, the gunners could not hold on and scattered and dodged. As for the attack but no one paid attention.

Alihan shrank at the base of the female wall and did not dare to move at all. He listened to the weak sound of the cannon and poked his head out and glanced downward from the squadron. However, he found that the Song army was pushing forward. More than a dozen big guys were still firing intermittently, but there were smaller muzzles moving forward. There were dozens of small cannons that could be operated by a few soldiers. They had moved to a place less than 200 steps away from the city wall and fired quickly onto the city.

What frightened Alihan the most was that the Song army was divided into two teams under the cover of artillery fire to advance. There were four gates in the north gate of Fancheng, and the enemy rushed to the Pingxiang Gate on the east side and the Chaojin Gate on the west side. Because they were suppressed by the Song army's artillery, they did not organize an effective counterattack, and the sparse arrows could not stop the enemy's attack at all.

Alihan felt a chill in his heart. The siege point chosen by the Song army was very tricky. He knew that although these two city gates were small, they had not built a urn city. As long as the city gate was broken, they could directly break into the city. What puzzled him was that the Song army was still as before, with the two axles pushed by the vans advanced, and the soldiers who were subordinate behind did not carry siege equipment except the weapons in their hands.

Shi Bi pushed away the soldier holding the big shield. He had a city wall in front and a large shield and a flesh shield behind him, but it was unscathed, but it was inevitable that he was covered in dust. He looked out and saw smoke in the city, killing and wounding everywhere. When he looked at himself, all the "treasures" had fallen down and turned into piles of waste firewood, he couldn't help but wail: "How come my Huihui cannon is completely destroyed!"

"Master, please don't be sad. If you destroy it, you can rebuild it. The enemy has now forced to the city and started building bridges and crossing the trenches!" Ali rarely saw this and reported while comforting her.

"Come troops to guard the city quickly, and never let them enter the city!" At this time, the artillery fire of the Song army began to shift, and they were shooting at the city gates on the east and west sides to suppress their own troops who were trying to counterattack. The vanguard of the Song army who attacked the Hajj Gate had already pushed the bridge into the trenches and was adjusting the position and fixing the floating bridge. He hurriedly sent the order.

The Yuan army stationed under the city quickly followed the horse road leading to the city. The archers bent their bows and arrows to shoot at the city. However, just after one round of shooting, gunfire sounds from the city. Archers who were not as good as retreating were shot and fell to the ground. They missed the Song army's artillery fire, but did not escape the Song army's musket shooting. Only then did someone find that the Song army's follow-up troops had been pressed up, and lined up in series under the protection of the big shield to shoot forward and shoot towards the city.

So a "long-range" duel between hot weapons and cold weapons broke out in the city. One side archers fired thousands of arrows at the city, and the other side fired with muskets upwards with platoons. In terms of firing rate, flintlock muskets were not as good as bows and arrows, but could be compensated by wheel shooting; in terms of range, bows and arrows would fall at a disadvantage, and the Song army could hide outside the range of bows and arrows to shoot, and the power and accuracy of the bows and arrows would be weakened.

In terms of power, bows and arrows are far inferior to muskets. Muskets can penetrate iron armor and be either killed or injured when hit. Even if they do not hit the vital point, they will lose their combat effectiveness. Even if the Song army only has simple breastplates, bows and arrows cannot shoot through the lining porcelain plate. As long as the person being shot is not hit the vital point, the injured can still maintain a certain combat effectiveness.
Chapter completed!