gunfire!

The moment the fierce artillery fire struck, Gaizhou City was enveloped in clouds of black and gray smoke.

Those artillery shells exploded the moment they hit the ground, which was entirely due to the universal impact fuse they used. This simple fuse, which was born out of British hand grenades in World War II, became the damage multiplier of the artillery shells, even though the round projectile was flying

It rolls at will, and its landing posture is uncontrollable, but this kind of universal fuse can explode at any angle the moment it lands.

Instant artillery shells are undoubtedly fatal to infantry. After a grenade explodes, it can usually produce thousands of fragments of varying sizes. The speed of these fragments exceeds thousands of meters. Small ones are like four-shot bullets, and large ones are

Like blades flying at supersonic speed, they will cut the bodies wherever they pass to pieces.

For the Jiannu slaves who had experienced this kind of "rain of bullets", this was what they feared most in the past. The kind of battlefield where blood and flesh were everywhere was probably the closest place to hell for people.

Even now, when an artillery shell falls on the top of the city, thousands of fragments roar around in the shock wave of the explosion. Those small, peanut-sized and sharp blade-like fragments penetrate the nearby buildings like bullets.

The body of the slave, but it is different from ordinary bullets. Its shape is different. The moment they penetrate the body, they twist and tear apart the flesh, bones, and cut off their limbs...

Not only that, when the shell exploded, the shock wave tore through the surrounding objects like a knife. Some Jiannu soldiers were instantly blown into pieces after being hit by the grenade, with their limbs missing except for the cutting of shrapnel.

In addition, it was mainly caused by the damage caused by the shock wave, and the armor on their bodies was also torn to pieces by the shock wave, and pieces of iron flew around like flying knives.

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For those who are in it, this is undoubtedly a hell!

If everyone stood there unobstructed and allowed themselves to be baptized by shells, this war would no longer be a battle, but would become a massacre! A one-sided massacre!

But now, some changes have taken place in this massacre. Except for the Jiannu slaves on the top of the city who suffered losses, most of the Jiannu slaves are hiding in thick bunkers under the city wall.

Although the houses built with logs and thick soil may seem simple, they can withstand the baptism of cannonballs to the greatest extent. Even if the cannonballs that explode when they hit the ground accurately land on the roof, they will only blast out shallow holes.

pit.

Once upon a time, the most deadly instant-fire artillery shell for the Jiannu was completely useless. It could neither penetrate the ceiling of the fortification nor collapse the fortification. It only made bursts of violent explosions.

When the explosion sounded overhead and dust continued to fall from the gaps in the logs, all the slaves in the shed looked happy.

"Oh, this shack is really life-saving!"

As they spoke, the logs above their heads seemed to be overwhelmed, trembling on their heads. Although the dust fell more violently, in fact, those instant shells had no effect on them at all.

cause any harm.

It's even like scratching an itch and has no meaning at all.

"Artillery battle! Did you see it? This is the artillery battle of the Ming army! But it is of no use to us now."

Although the explosions outside were like summer thunder, in the civil shed, the slaves seemed quite proud.

"In the past, we just let them explode. Look at now..."

The man took a whiff of the smoke coming in from outside the door and said proudly.

"It's just a cigarette for us! It's just a sound."

When he was proud, he even took a couple of hard breaths and then said.

"Hmph, I dare say that the Ming army will definitely attack the city soon. Just in time, we will wait for them to come over and then use stone-haired muskets to blast them from across the city wall!"

While talking, he even deliberately patted the stone-haired blunderbuss in his hand. This was a big blunderbuss specially prepared for the Iron Man Army of the Ming Army. The bludgeon weighed 7 coins and could penetrate the Ming army at a distance of a hundred steps.

of iron armor.

For Jiannu, these flint-fired fire blunderbuss were undoubtedly an extremely advanced weapon. Although it was advanced, it was not an expensive weapon, not only because Mingshangou, which was later provided by Benxi area,

The more important reason is that compared to the hundreds of steel for knives and guns, only wrought iron can be used to make gun barrels. After all, gun barrels were made of wrought iron until the mid-19th century.

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Iron is cheaper than steel!

Much cheaper!

Of course, lead bullets are also cheaper than arrows.

They proudly and wildly wanted to wait until the bombardment was over, go to the city, and kill them all. But just as they were waiting for the bombardment to end, on the distant horizon, on the hot air balloon hanging in mid-air, two

The lookout soldiers are observing the effect of the bombardment. From time to time, they throw a bamboo tube from the hanging basket. Then the gunners will adjust the firing angle and even direction of the mortar based on the information in the bamboo tube, in order to strive to hit the shells more accurately.

, but in fact, the accuracy of the smoothbore mortar is extremely impressive.

"The effect of the shelling doesn't seem to be very good!"

Mei Chun frowned, then said to himself.

"If we attack directly like this, there will definitely be many casualties."

What if we suppress the city with artillery fire and attack the city at the same time?

If you attack the city like this, casualties are definitely unavoidable. However, some casualties can be reduced, but this kind of suppression will not last long.

If the casualties are too great, even taking this city may not be a credit.

How about giving it a try? And a normal siege also requires a tentative attack to test the enemy's defense.

After making a decision in her heart, Meichun immediately ordered.

"Left camp, prepare to attack the city with skirmishing lines."

Siege does not require a neat queue. Compared with a neat queue, a skirmish line can minimize casualties.

While Lin Wei was walking forward with his musket in hand, a few birds flew past the woods in the distance. Because they were too close to the battlefield, the deafening sound of cannons had already scared away the birds in the forest, and they were chirping.

passing through the air,

The summer sun was like fire, and crickets and grasshoppers were jumping from time to time in the grass. These insects stopped chirping. Only when the soldiers' boots fell next to them did they wake up from the grass.

"beep……"

The whistle reverberated in the air. Lin Wei, who was advancing rapidly with his comrades, did not forget to look up at the city wall as he advanced. Clouds of smoke exploded from time to time on the city wall. Under the fierce artillery fire, the city wall seemed to

Nothing happened.

Now, the Jiannu slaves must be running around to avoid the shelling. They will definitely be torn into pieces under such shelling. Even as if to confirm their speculation, they saw a piece of wood hanging on the treetops in the distance.

Intestines, in the sun, the bloody broken intestines were very eye-catching. He even saw a head that exploded from nowhere under his feet. The bloody head just lay on the grass, which looked very conspicuous. Although it looked a bit scary.

, but it made Lin Wei and his comrades laugh.

Such intensive artillery fire would definitely kill all the Jiannunu in the city.

After crossing the buffer slope, we can attack Gaizhou City. The height of its city wall is only one foot six...

Just when they were carrying bamboo ladders and preparing to attack Gaizhou City using the most primitive method, when they approached the top of the buffer slope in front of the city wall, the bombardment stopped to avoid accidental damage.

Suddenly, we fell into silence. This silence seemed a bit strange, and even made people a little uncomfortable. In this silence, violent sounds suddenly came out again and again. A bloody roar came from a distance.

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Lin Wei stopped in his tracks. He was stunned by the chaotic sound of gunfire in front of him, as if the whole world was being split open. The rifles screamed wildly, and the cannons heard violent explosions.

In the smoke of gunpowder and the deafening sound of gunfire, he saw clouds of smoke spurting out from behind the gunpowder smoke. Those white smoke balls produced various changes in Lin Wei's eyes...
Chapter completed!