Outside Songjiang City, the Ming army camp.

Taichang stood on the high observation deck, holding the telescope and slowly scanning, his face full of thought.

Lu Xiangsheng and Yuan Keli stood behind him one by one, but their faces were full of helplessness.

They can't persuade the emperor even if they live or die!

It's too dangerous here, but the emperor is just coming.

There was no way, they could only order the Iron Cavalry of the Shenwu Camp to surround the place.

Fortunately, the cavalry did not need to participate in the siege at all, and they did not cause any trouble to Shenji Camp and Shenwu Camp.

Now the temporary dock has been built and the artillery has also begun to move.

However, the speed of carrying the artillery is quite slow.

There is no way, it takes too much time to hang artillery and artillery from the Dragon-Tooth warship to the Wolf-Tooth warship. It is even more time-consuming and labor-intensive to lift the artillery and artillery from the Wolf-Tooth warship.

The artillery and artillery carts got on the shore, and it would take more than half a day to push them outside Songjiang City.

Therefore, it would be good if tens of thousands of navy soldiers could push more than a thousand cannons a day.

If you want to push all the artillery on the sixty Dragon Tooth Battleships, it will take at least seven or eight days.

This is still a bit slow.

Taichang put down the telescope and thought for a while, then said decisively: "Send 10,000 iron-armored cavalry to help. Using horses is faster than using human pushes, and there is no need to worry about it."

Uh, this one.

Lu Xiangsheng was stunned for a moment, but still bowed and said, "As for orders", then hurried down from the observation deck and went to Cao Wenzhao to explain.

Ten thousand naval soldiers and ten thousand iron armored cavalry worked hard for a day, and finally they could only transport two thousand 500 kilograms of Thunder God Cannons.

The next morning, Taichang couldn't wait again, so he didn't want to stand here and wait for six or seven days.

He stood on the observation deck and glanced into the city with a telescope for a while, then asked, "Jiandou, why don't we start bombing now, just push the cannon up and bomb at the city!"

My God, bang into the city!

At this moment, Songjiang City is full of people. If the shells are smashed into it, the scene will be unimaginable.

However, it was basically full of Japanese pirates, and there were not many civilians, and there seemed to be nothing to be sympathetic about.

Lu Xiangsheng was stunned for a moment, then bowed decisively: "The emperor is wise, and it is indeed much more useful to rush directly into the city than to rush on the city wall."

Anyway, their purpose is to take down Songjiang City as soon as possible.

If they set up artillery and bombarded the city walls and wanted to flatten the arrows and the female walls, they didn't know how many shells would be wasted.

And he couldn't kill a few Japanese pirates.

It would be different if you hit the city directly. The dense crowds of people can at least kill and injured a few people if they hit a shell in!

I guess the Japanese pirates will not be able to bear it after a few days of attack.

Taichang thought about it carefully before ordering: "Transfer Qi Jin to lead 100,000 infantrymen of Shenji Camp to push two thousand Thunder God Cannons one mile near the eastern city wall and bombard directly into the city."

Soon, waves of orders sounded from the camps in various places in Shenji Camp.

Teams of soldiers from the Shenji Camp gathered quickly to the east of Songjiang City. In less than half an hour, the east of Songjiang City was densely packed with neat square formations.

With Qi Jin's order, the soldiers of the 100,000 Shenji Camp protected two thousand 500 kilograms of Thunder God Cannons and slowly pressed towards Songjiang City.

When the Japanese pirates on the city wall saw this, they were so scared that they shrank their heads behind the arrowheads.

Of course they knew that there were so many guns and cannons in the Ming army. They all pressed them up. If they didn’t shrink their heads, they would definitely be beaten to the faces!

When Maeda Tatsuki heard the news, he had to go upstairs at the east gate to take a look.

He really didn't expect that there would be so many Ming troops rushing over. Outside the city, they were filled with Ming army's tents, and they were so dense that they could not see the end at all!

This is very similar to the scene he saw when he assembled a large army in Shino country.

In other words, there are at least 300,000 to 400,000 outside the city!

At this moment, they must have been trapped in the city and couldn't get out. If they go out, they would be looking for death.

He could only hope that his father-in-law would send reinforcements to rescue him, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable if the Ming army had been besieged for several months.

The food in the city is enough for 200,000 troops to eat for two or three months!

He really dared not think about what would happen after he had eaten up the food.

Of course, he was not worried that Songjiang City would be captured by the Ming army.

Because the city is full of people, the Ming army will definitely not be able to afford to fight the war of attrition!

He still has a certain understanding of the offensive and defensive battles of the city. Generally, the casualties of the siege are at least twice as high as those of the defending city.

In other words, if the Ming army wants to spend the 200,000 defenders in his city, it will cost at least 400,000 casualties.

Who can afford this price?

Therefore, he judged that the Ming army would definitely not afford to spend it.

As for the Ming army's muskets and cannons, they should not have any effect if they are blocked by the city walls.

How could he think that the Ming army would not bombard the city walls and directly bombard the city!

The front of the Shenji Camp formation is only about two miles away from the city wall, so it will naturally not take much time to advance one mile.

Soon, two thousand 500 kilograms of Thunder God cannons were pushed to about one mile away from the city wall.

Qi Jin looked at the city gate tower on the east side, estimated the height of the cannon after it was released, and then decisively ordered: "Two thousand Thunder God cannons are arranged in left and right, ten rows of cannon formations to avoid the city gate tower."

Ten rows of artillery arrays, that is, each row of 100 artillery, the width of which is about two miles, is about the same width as the sides of the city wall.

After the artillery array was arranged, Qi Jin ordered again: "Tell me, all artillery should adjust the angle of the artillery, starting from 30 degrees, each volley is fired one round, increase it twice, and first volley is fired ten rounds!"

Most of the areas in the city of Bofa are probably plowed by shells!

A wave of order flags, the two thousand artillery quickly adjusted the angle and loaded the shells.

The general in charge of commanding the gunner didn't need Qi Jin to give any more orders. He waved the flag in his hand down, and the two thousand cannons suddenly made a shocking roar.

Maeda Tatsuma was shocked by the roar of the cannons.

How many cannons are there?

How many casualties will be caused by so many shells smashing the city wall?

He subconsciously shrank behind the pile of arrows, and then quickly looked to the left and right sides.

It was strange that there was no sound on the city wall, and I didn’t know where the Ming army’s shells flew.

Is this too bad?

He was wondering when a shrill howling suddenly came from behind him.

It's over, the shells fell into the city!

At this time, he realized that the shells fell into the city more terrifying than falling on the city wall, because the city was full of people!

At this moment, the city wall near the west side was like purgatory, with two thousand shells smashing into dense crowds of people. The scene was simply indescribable.

In short, this round of artillery fire alone caused thousands of casualties.

Immediately afterwards, the roar of artillery outside the city kept ringing, and the howlings in the city never stopped, and more and more, more and more shrill.

After ten rounds of artillery attacks, not only tens of thousands of Japanese pirates in the city suffered casualties, but also the buildings in the city were smashed into pieces.

Because Japanese people basically use wood to build houses, they can't resist the bombardment of shells.

Maeda Taki was common in this scene, and his face was covered in blood and his face was full of fear.

It's over!

If the Ming army continues like this, the more than 100,000 troops in the city will be over!

Will Qi Jin be polite?

Of course not.

He only waited for about half an hour, and when the barrel had almost cooled down, he ordered another ten rounds without hesitation!

This time it was a carpet bombardment from east to west.

Although Qi Jin didn't know the term carpet bombardment, the effect of his bombardment was similar to carpet bombardment.

Of course, the shells could not blow the ground up at this moment, and he could only plow the Japanese pirates on the ground.

Who can stand it if you keep it like this?

Ten rounds of artillery will have at least 20,000 or 30,000 casualties!

In the next ten rounds, there may be fewer casualties, but at least 20,000.

Let’s go for ten more rounds, let’s go for ten more rounds...

The tens of thousands of cavalry sent to pull artillery in the Shenwu Camp were changed to moving ammunition. In half an hour, they happened to carry it.

The ammunition reserves of the Oriental Navy Fleet and the Beiyang Navy Fleet are hundreds of thousands.
To be continued...