The Qing army in the Green Camp fought a siege. Although they did not need ladders or the like, they had to climb to the platform. Therefore, after the formation was in chaos, they were too lazy to reorganize the formation, but rushed towards the Dagukou Fortress in a swarm.

When the Qing army rushed within three hundred steps of the fortress, Zhao Peng gave an order: "Fire the cannon!"

The Ming army's cannons were all placed a hundred steps behind the city wall, with heavy protection from fortresses and sandbags in front. It was difficult for the Qing army's cannons to hit the Ming army's artillery positions, and the Ming army's gunners could fire guns and bombard the Qing army without any scruples.

Hearing Zhao Peng's order, his personal soldier Chen Xinyuan shook the flag and sent a signal to the artillery position.

The twelve-pound field gunners pointed the torches at the medicine twists on the fire door and stretched over. As the magnet-burning medicine twists quickly shortened into the fire door, a long tongue of flames spewed out of the muzzle, and the white smoke spread out from the muzzle and the fire door. Twenty twelve-pound cannons made a deafening roar.

"Red Cannon!" Hearing the sound of cannons, the Qing soldiers who were rushing towards the fortress screamed.

The twelve-pound field cannon sound and power are equal to that of the Red Cannon. The iron cannon barrel of the Red Cannon was replaced with a bronze cannon barrel, and the small four-wheel cannon mount was cancelled, and the large two-wheel cannon mount was replaced with a large range and power, but the loading speed was much faster. When the Qing army heard the sound of the twelve-pound field cannon fire, they thought it was a Red Cannon.

The moment the cannon was out of the bore, its initial speed exceeded the speed of sound. The cannonball, carrying afterimages, made a whistling sound of shaking through the air, and smashed towards the chaotic Qing army formation.

All twenty shells hit the Qing army formation. The shells drilled into the Qing army crowd in the Green Camp, smashing a row of Qing soldiers in front. Then the shells smashed the second row of Qing soldiers, landed on the ground, jumped up, and pushed forward crookedly among the crowd, causing a bloody storm wherever they passed.

After the first row of shells passed, more than 20 flesh-and-blood alleys were left in the Qing army formation, with incomplete corpses all over the ground, and some of them were missing directly. They were hit by shells and were smashed to pieces. In the first round of artillery attacks of the Ming army, twenty twelve-pound field artillery took away nearly a thousand Qing soldiers in the Green Camp at once.

The tragic situation of the Qing army's formation being bombarded scared the Qing soldiers of the Green Camp. However, the Eight Banners soldiers behind them were not allowed to retreat. The grassroots officers of the Green Camp cheered their soldiers: "Stop on quickly! Minggou's cannons will take a long time to load them! As long as we rush on, their cannons will be useless!"

There were always a few soldiers who were afraid of death and turned around and ran back. However, before the Eight Banners soldiers took action, the servants of the Green Camp soldiers would ruthlessly raise their swords and cut off the heads of those guys who disrupted the morale of the army.

The green camp soldiers had no choice but to rush forward with a tough bullet.

At this moment, a thunderous roar sounded from above the fortress, and rows of shells flew towards the Qing army formation with a low whistling sound.

"Why did Minggou fire again?" The Green Camp officers were very surprised. The cannons could not be loaded so quickly, but the sound of the cannon this time was different from the sound of the cannon just now. The sound of the cannon flying was relatively low, which means that the Ming army changed to a smaller cannon and fired.

The new army's six-pound field guns are now fired. The six-pound field guns are much smaller than the twelve-pound field guns. The twelve-pound field guns are bombarded with one shot. The shells hit the dense crowd. One shell can penetrate the formation of a hundred people! However, the six-pound field guns can penetrate about thirty people, and the power is significantly smaller.

However, the loading speed of the six-pound field gun is much faster than that of the twelve-pound field gun. The twelve-pound field gun can only fire one round in one minute and a half to two minutes on average. When the six-pound field gun is loaded at the extreme, it can fire two rounds in one minute, and even three rounds can be fired continuously within the first minute, and then maintain a normal fire rate.

Forty six-pound field artillery fired in a round of volleys, and the shells fell into the Qing army formation like hail. Although the power of each shell was much smaller than that of the twelve-pound field artillery, it was in large numbers. All forty shells were concentrated in the dense formation of the Qing army. The Qing army formation of tens of thousands of people was as large as that of the gunners, even with their eyes closed, they could smash the shells into the middle of the Qing army formation.

The hail-like six-pound cannon shells fell into the Qing army formation. The place where the shells landed, and the shells rolled and jumped again after they landed, colliding back and forth among the crowd. Wherever they went, fragments of human parts and various weapons flew everywhere.

This round of artillery bombardment killed and injured more than a thousand Qing soldiers, and the psychological shock left on the Qing army was even more powerful.

The two rounds of artillery bombardment of the new army caused more than 2,000 casualties to the Qing army. If the Green Camp Army had to bear the ability, about 5% or more than 57,000 Qing army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and these more than 2,000 were very miserable. Some people were directly crushed by shells, some people's heads were smashed by shells, and some people were hit on their shoulders by shells, and their upper half was gone.

However, the corresponding injured Qing soldiers, those who were beaten to death on the spot, were lucky. The worst of all were those Qing soldiers who were wiped by shells, their arms and legs peeled off from their bodies, fell in pools of blood and let out painful wails. In the end, they were still waiting for them. However, dying in pain is much more painful than being smashed by shells before they could feel pain.

"Roar up! The Minggou cannons and small cannons have fired, and they didn't have time to load them! Then they rushed up and won!" The Qing army officer in the Green Camp shouted.

At this moment, there was another dull sound of cannons. Twenty twelve-pound howitzers opened fire and shells flew out of the muzzle. In addition to shrapnel and socks, the shells fired by the howitzer were flowering shells, because if the twelve-pound howitzer fired solid shells, it would be less powerful than the six-pound field guns. Therefore, the twelve-pound howitzer fired only a piece of killing shells, rather than a straight line killing shell.

This time, the flowering artillery shells were fired. Twenty twelve-pound shells flew out from the muzzle, pulling out relatively high curves, but the ballistic curves were not as high as those of the mortar.

There is a cork fuze tube on the head of the howitzer flowering shell, and a cork fuze cradle is tied to the tail of the shell. After the fixed charge pack exploded in the barrel, the scorching gunpowder gas ignited the fuse inside the cork fuze tube.

The flowering fire-blazed the Qing army crowd. Twenty shells hit the Qing army formation two hundred steps away. Each shell was filled with three kilograms of new gunpowder and more than one hundred iron beads. The shell shells were also cast with very crisp pig iron. When casting the flowering shells, there were bumps on the mold, and there were grooves on the cast shells. The shells fell into the Qing army crowd and exploded. The shell shells exploded into dozens of sharp pieces, and flew out together with more than one hundred iron beads inside, forming nearly two hundred fragments and iron beads.

Twenty shells exploded among the Qing army crowd, nearly two thousand iron beads and fragments were blown up, sweeping across the Qing army crowd, only heart-wrenching screams were heard, and the Qing soldiers fell down in the flames.

However, it is obvious that the effect of flowering artillery shells was not that good. The twenty solid artillery shells fired by the twelve pounds of field artillery knocked down more than a thousand Qing soldiers, while this time, the twenty flowering artillery shells knocked down only more than 400 Qing soldiers, and their power was only half that of solid artillery shells.

In fact, the early flowering shells were not very powerful. Even during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the flowering shells fired by the Qing army were not very powerful, because the Qing army's flowering shells were used with black gunpowder, while the Japanese had already used picy sour shells at that time.

Although the new gunpowder made by Zhao Peng is much more powerful than the previous black gunpowder, it is still far less powerful than the various high-explosive explosives in later generations, so the lethality is not that amazing, but it just looks scary.
Chapter completed!