Although the rebel city walls are easy to defend and difficult to attack, they are not a problem for new troops with mortars and howitzers. Whether it is mortars or howitzers, they can fire flowering shells. The chamber pressure of these two cannons is relatively low and can fire flowering shells.

Although flat-fired field guns can also fire flowering shells, they need to greatly reduce the amount of fired medicine and reduce the chamber pressure. Otherwise, the flowering shells may explode in the chamber. Reducing the launching medicine and reducing the chamber pressure will cause a huge shortening of the range. However, this problem does not exist in the curved cannons. Their chamber pressure is originally low, so they do not need to reduce the launching medicine to fire flowering shells.

"Design artillery positions and prepare to open fire!" Zhao Peng gave an order to the artillery battalion officer.

The new army to suppress the rebellion lined up five hundred steps away from the rebel city wall. Sixty twelve-pound howitzers and 200 twenty-four-pound mortars were set up by gunners, and the muzzles were aimed at the direction of the city wall.

Zhao Peng walked to the artillery position and personally measured the target by snoring his eyes. He then used a weather vane and an anemometer to test it, and then wrote down the data on the paper.

"I have never seen this trick of using a mausoleum." Zuo Xianmei appeared behind him at some point.

Zhao Peng turned his head and saw Zuo Xianmei wearing copper red armor, a red copper phoenix winged helmet, a big red cloak, and a horse spear in his hand. This outfit looked heroic, but the only drawback was that there was a sword missing. When Zuo Xianmei wanted to commit suicide, it was interrupted by Zhao Peng with a tiger-winged gun.

"Mr. Marquis, I will compensate me with a sword. You have broken my sword. I will not compensate me with a sword for so many days." Zuo Xianmei pouted and frowned slightly, saying a little coquettishly.

Zhao Peng asked someone to take a sword and present it to Zuo Xianmei with both hands: "Miss, this is my new sword that I will compensate you."

Zuo Xianmei pulled out the sword and saw the sword shining coldly, looking very sharp. She waved the sword and chopped off a stone on the ground. Mars flew everywhere, and the stone was cut into two pieces. Then she pulled out a hair, picked up the sword, aimed the sword tip at the hair, and blew it over, and the hair floated over and touched the sword tip, and it immediately broke into two pieces.

"What a good sword!" Zuo Xianmei was overjoyed, smiling like a flower, walked forward and kissed Zhao Peng on the cheek. Before Zhao Peng could react, she was already jumping away.

This sword was forged by Nanjing Iron and Steel Factory with a hydraulic forging hammer. The material for creating the sword is the best cooked iron from the blast furnace. Then it is forged with a hydraulic forging hammer to create a sword that is as sharp as mud. Because the texture of the raw material is close to hard deformed steel, it becomes a best sword after repeated hammering.

Zuo Xianmei was able to love her sword that Zhao Peng compensated her. In fact, it was not difficult for Zhao Peng to create such a sword. Just like the kitchen knife produced in later generations, if it traveled back to ancient times, it would definitely be a sword that cuts iron like mud.

Using a sword that is not worth anything to Zhao Peng can get the heart of a beautiful woman. Such a deal is really cost-effective.

Howitzers nervously cleaned the barrel. The first round of launch did not require too careful cleaning. There was no gunpowder residue or anything else in the barrel. It was just the dust and soil entering the marching.

The gunners put the wet mop into the barrel chamber, wiped it a few times, then put the dry mop into the barrel chamber and wiped it, then stuffed the fixed charge pack into the muzzle to push the bullet rod to the bottom. Then the gunner truncated the cork fuze tube according to the distance, inserted the fuze tube into the small hole at the head of the shell, and then aimed the end of the shell with the cork buckle at the muzzle to push the shell to the bottom with the push rod.

The howitzer's barrel wall mortar is long. When the scorching gunpowder gas expands in the barrel, it can ignite the fuse, so it does not need to ignite the fuse at the muzzle like the mortar.

The gunners picked up an iron vertebrae and stabbed it through the fire gate, pierced the medicine bag, inserted the medicine twist, and completed the preparation before launch.

"Each cannon is ready!" The Qiang General of the Artillery Battalion reported to Zhao Peng.

"Fire the cannon!" Zhao Peng shouted.

The howitzer gunners ignited the cannon directly from the fire gate. The mortar gunners were divided into two people. One person in front ignited the fuse tube from the muzzle. When the gunner in front ran away, the gunner behind ignited the medicine twist at the fire gate.

"Boom boom boom" One howitzers emitted a deafening roar, and the muzzle was emitting flames. The shells carried white smoke and flew towards the rebel city at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After the howitzer was fired, the mortars made a dull roar one after another. The shells rose into the air, dragging the light of fire, and the fire rain flew towards the rebels' walled city like a meteor.

The rebel soldiers hid behind the wooden skeleton of Tucheng, watching white smoke rise from the imperial army positions a mile away opposite, and the sound of roaring cannons sounded. The rebels came down from the top of Tucheng and hid behind Tucheng to avoid shells.

The howitzer shells fell to the top of the city, and the rebels hiding behind the city heard a violent explosion sound at the top of the city, and then they felt the earth shake violently, as if an earthquake occurred.

"Rumbling" Amid the continuous explosions, the Tucheng City began to collapse, and huge bomb craters appeared on the top of the city, and soil was constantly lifted up, and the lumps of soil that were raised into the air fell like rain. Judging from this posture, the Tucheng City could not last long, which made the rebels full of despair.

"No, it's a flower bullet! Our Tucheng can't resist it at all!" a rebel officer shouted.

But something even more desperate is still behind. After howitzer shells fell and exploded, then there were overwhelming mortar shells flying over. The mortar shells hit the rebels even more. Originally, twenty-four-pound shells were twice as much as the twelve-pound shells, and many shells even crossed directly above the Tucheng and landed behind the Tucheng to explode.

"Boom" A shell landed exactly one meter behind Tucheng, and exploded in the air two feet away from the ground. Fireballs flashed in the air between the rebel soldiers, shrapnel and iron beads spilled like rain. The rebels hiding behind the city wall screamed and fell down a large area.

Then several shells fell down, some exploded in mid-air, some exploded after landing, and some fell on the ground and rolled over and exploded.

Behind the Tucheng, explosions were heard and flesh flew everywhere. The rebels hiding behind the Tucheng were killed and injured.

The gunners who had finished the round began to reload the shells. The howitzer gunners first reset the cannon, then used a wet mop to clean the cannon, and then cooled the cannon chamber. Then wiped it with a dry mop, then loaded it into a fixed loading pack, and then loaded it with a flowering cannonball.

The reloading of the mortar cannon is much simpler, because the barrel of the mortar cannon is short, the caliber is large, and the body is light. After firing the shells, the gunmen poured a bucket of water directly into the muzzle. Then the two people lifted the mortar cannon, poured out the water, and then turned the muzzle back, holding a rag in his hand, stretched it through the muzzle, and wiped the barrel clean.

Because the mortar is placed on the ground, it is almost unnecessary to even reset the work.

Then a gunner held a fixed-loading column and stuffed it into the muzzle, stuffed the plunger directly into the medicine room at the bottom, and then picked up a flowering shell. The end where the fuze tube was located was facing the outside, and stuffed the shell into the barrel, leaving the fuze tube exposed outside. A gunner pierced the medicine column from the fire door behind and inserted a medicine twist into the fire door.

In less than twenty breaths, the mortar was loaded.

The gunners in front and rear cooperated with each other. The gunner in front ignited the fuse, and the gunner in back ignited the medicine twist at the fire gate.

"Bang bang bang" accompanied by a dull sound of gunpowder gas expansion, two hundred mortar cannons spit out flames, and the white smoke filled the entire mortar cannon position. The shells dragged the white fire and flew towards the Tucheng.

After the second round of the mortar was launched, the gunners began to load shells again, and then the howitzer fired the second round of shells.
Chapter completed!