stubborn thief

Chapter 341 Test
There was a roar in the distance mixed with a bang nearby, like a kicked ball, the head of the soldier in front of him was smashed to pieces by the shell, and Li Tianyu's brains were splashed all over his face.

Li Tianyu's throat seemed to be grabbed suddenly, and the words he hadn't finished speaking were suddenly choked off, and the palm that was raised by Encouragement was also frozen in mid-air.

It was the Fran's machine gun at the top of the city, to be precise, it was a stray bullet from the Fran's machine gun that exceeded the normal range.

The stray bullet almost took Li Tianyu away five hundred steps away, he cursed and wiped his face with lingering fear, not only did not wipe it clean, but evenly wiped the blood and brains on his face, making his expression look extraordinarily ferocious, raising his head The arm continued to shout at the soldiers without finishing.

"From now on, Hehuang will be turned upside down. The survival of the thirteen clans of chieftains is all up to us to fight for success today. The native soldiers of all families will be buried in Li's cemetery every year. There will be endless worship incense every year; Two grains and ten stones, one person is allowed to enter the Li clan school, and the native officials of each formation will follow me to fill in the trenches and attack the city!"

The artillery at the top of the city bombarded the bottom of the city, and Huang Shengxiao stopped holding it at the rear, and immediately ordered twelve heavy artillery to bombard the top of the city.

Originally, Li Tianyu asked Liu Chengzong not to shoot at the top of the city. After all, the attackers and defenders were both soldiers. Li Tianyu didn't believe that the soldiers on the city would kill them.

But now it seems that war has to look like war. No matter who is caught in the vortex of war and fights a real fire, there will be no warmth and compassion.

In other words, before these people were released by Ye Guoqi, the defenders in the city might still be merciless, but now that nearly half of the sand has been eliminated in the city, the people who stay behind are very clear about what they are doing.

Liu Chengzong immediately waved the command flag, and the artillerymen, who could not hold back their excitement for a long time, pushed the artillery forward fifty steps, transported the heavy artillery into the prepared position, and began to adjust the shooting angle.

Artillery like this kind of siege battle. Although the siege distance is closer this time, they are also within the threat of enemy artillery, but the position has built anti-artillery slopes, and the two sides use different artillery, so the probability of being hit is actually not high. .

In fact, they are not the most skilled gunners in the Marshal's Mansion. Two years ago, they were just carrying wooden cannons in the fort to clear the infantry of the defenders.

The most skilled gunners in the Marshal's Mansion are all under Cao Yao's command, and Huang Shengxiao's artillery is just infantry trained in artillery.

However, this artillery team consisting of twelve heavy artillery and 140 four gunners is far superior to their colleagues in the use of heavy artillery.

In the Battle of Bajiao City, they relied on artillery to offset the defender's city defense advantage to the greatest extent. At this time, they repeated their old tricks and bombarded the city with a closer distance and more skilled skills.

In fact, only four soldiers are needed to operate a gun. Even with two substitutes, a six-man gun crew is enough.

Huang Shengxiao organized the gun crew into 12 people to train the gunners. If the Generalissimo hadn't wanted to reform the system for the Ordnance Bureau and plan a more efficient workshop, which delayed the casting of guns, he should have 24 heavy guns on hand by now.

Not bad for now though, he has a gunner who can handle 24 heavy guns, and he will have 24 heavy guns soon.

Thinking of this, Huang Shengxiao raised his arms and ordered to shoot at the artillery: "Don't worry about the cannons at the top of the city, knock down all the battlements!"

A volley of heavy artillery blasted four gaps in the battlements in front of the West Gate Tower, and then organized twelve heavy artillery into two teams to bombard the left and right battlements one by one.

The howling iron bullets passed through the sky above the battlefield, destroying the battlements again and again, killing and wounding entire rows of defenders along the battlement breaches.

The gunners in the city also acted like they were crazy. They fired at full speed with the Frang machine gun, and the iron bullets sprayed towards the other side of the moat like they didn't need money.

At first they tried to shoot at the artillery emplacements, but at a distance of 350 paces, the hit rate of any gunner on fire was impressive.

In defending the city, this is a very embarrassing distance for the gunner.

A little farther away, even if you can’t hit the target, it will make people feel excusable; a little closer, whether it’s loading shotguns to make up for the shortcomings of the gunner’s unfamiliarity, or using solid bullets to shoot directly, you can get good results.

Only at this distance, solid bullets are inaccurate and shotgun bullets cannot hit.

Because their guns are Franco cannons, the five or six hundred kilograms of the Furwolf machine is a very good rapid-fire artillery, which can block endlessly with the advantage of rapid fire in defending the city, but the range is a little closer.

Just being so close made the native gunners on the top of the city feel a huge sense of frustration.

Ye Guoqi quickly realized this problem, and ordered the artillery not to aim at the enemy artillery positions, wasting gunpowder and shells, and instead ordered to take turns to shoot at the soldiers waiting to fill the trenches.

Although the artillery position is close to the front, it is protected by earth and rock fortifications. It is difficult for their shells to hit the artillery directly, and killing the two artillerymen will not make the artillery misfire.

On the contrary, it is easier to inflict fear on the siege army by bombarding those native soldiers.

In fact, the hit rate of the bombardment formation is even more touching, but the rapid-fire efficiency of the Fran cannon is very high. A blind cat can always hit a few people when it encounters a dead mouse, and some cannons will even fly to the bottom of the dirt mountain. He raised his shield and surrounded Liu Chengzong.

Liu Chengzong held the binoculars and shouted everyone away. He didn't care about this threat at all. He came out to fight for the sky and land. If he entered the war, he would not be absolutely safe. If he had to protect himself, it would only damage the morale of the army.

People preferred to fight under a lion-like leader than a quail.

What's more, if his horoscope is really soft enough to catch a cannonball at a distance of [-] steps, the probability of that cannonball hitting him through the gap in the shield is probably about the same as if no one is in front of him.

Huang Shengxiao's strategy was very effective. The artillery of the defenders lined up on the west side of the city wall. By the way, the bombardment of the battlements could suppress the artillery one by one from near to far. side sweep.

The defenders were also aware of the law of the battlements collapsing from the middle to the sides. These soldiers who had been defeated earlier lost their respective leaders and behaved very unprofessionally in the battle of the city. They actually pushed the cannons and moved to the wings to avoid the incoming incoming shelling.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Chengzong waved the command flag, and the war drum reminded the officers in front of the formation that Li Tianyu immediately ordered the whole team to move forward quickly with the soldiers pushing the chariot.

Scattered shells bombarded them, and the results of the battle were negligible. The three soldiers joined forces, two dragged in front with shields in hand, and one pushed the cart behind, advancing [-] steps at an extremely fast speed. Desperately pouring earth and rocks into the moat.

This is also the most dangerous moment. The Fran machine gun moat with scattered guns on the north and south of the city sprayed out a large number of cannons, and the lead pellets shot by the bird gun and the three-eyed gun made tinkling sounds on the shield, from time to time Lead shot through the shield and wounded the soldiers.

But this only lasted for a moment. Several injured soldiers were pulled up by their companions and even thrown on the Lele cart. Lead shot at their feet, and more soldiers dragged onto the Lele cart and rushed towards the main formation.

By the time the large number of moving artillery at the top of the city was stopped by Ye Guoqi, thousands of local soldiers had already run back and forth, sitting behind the formation and taking a rest, waiting for the women and children to add soil to the Lele cart.

Ye Guoqi looked at these Mongolian two-wheeled carts at the top of the city and hated his teeth. Liu Chengzong, an old thief from northern Shaanxi, where did he get so many Mongolian carts?

But then he was relieved, the leader of the western thieves had 1 to [-] Mongolian soldiers accompanying him to fight, and it seemed nothing strange to have thousands of Mongolian carts.

Seeing that the artillery at the top of the city had just entered the firing position, and the enemy's artillery shells had hit the adjacent battlements, Ye Guoqi was worried. Instead of watching the artillery being suppressed and destroyed by the enemy on the city, it is better to simply withdraw the artillery to the north and south sides. Forget about the city wall, which is dedicated to bombarding the enemy's siege army.

Anyway, with a long ladder, the enemy troops can only enter the city from those places. With artillery, there is a greater chance of repelling them with bursts of fire.

As soon as this order was issued, the defenders pushed the four-wheeled artillery carts to avoid the north and south walls as if they had received an amnesty.

Liu Chengzong on the dirt hill raised a smile, and if he can take one step back, he can take a second step. Immediately, he waved the command flag, and Li Tianyu led the second group of soldiers to push carts to fill the trench again.

Without the threat of artillery, the local soldiers were full of enthusiasm, and Li Tianyu also adjusted his deployment, changing a horizontal row of native soldiers into two teams, and filling the trench with a narrower width.

Although the blunderbussmen in the city kept attacking, the update of weapons in the northwest was slow. Now the common people in a county town in the northeast and southeast can get dozens or even hundreds of blunderbusses, and they can even select a group of good soldiers from among the people. However, among the Northwest soldiers, the firearms most used by people are still hundreds of years old firearms.

This thing is separated by tens of steps, even a shield can block it.

The artillery on the city was withdrawn and most of the battlements were destroyed. Liu Chengzong immediately ordered to further suppress the defenders. Eight hundred heavy gunners and sixty gun carts lined up a hundred steps away from the moat.

Not only did the gunners shoot at the top of the city, but the heavy gunners also stood in the car to shoot, retreated to the back of the car to reload, and shot one piece after another towards the top of the city, so that the defenders couldn't even raise their heads.

At this time, they couldn't lift their heads, not because they were standing, but lying on the city wall and couldn't lift their heads. Many three-eyed gunmen had already prostrated on the city, stretched out their three-eyed guns and fired them.

Some people want to use a shield to protect the musketeer and shoot, but the shield is only inaccurate for heavy guns, as long as the aim is accurate, there is not much difference between whether there is a shield or not, and even the shield will die faster.

Originally, he missed the bone, and there was a chance of getting a penetrating wound. When the lead shot pierced through the shield, there was not much strength left, and it happened to make a big hole in the body, and the lead remained in the body, basically making it impossible to survive.

Once the defenders are suppressed, Huang Shengxiao has a lot of room to maneuver. This guy directly ordered someone to push the mortar to the side of the moat, and personally carried a slightly deformed flowering bomb and loaded it on the wooden horse. Leave it to the artillerymen.

Mr. Qian of the Ba Nuan Sanchuan Camp used this explosive bomb to fire it, but it was picked up because it didn't explode, and a new fuse was replaced. Huang Shengxiao promised the artillery: If you shoot it into the gate tower, it will definitely explode this time.

Huang Shengxiao deliberately didn't let the heavy artillery with solid bullets bombard the city gate building earlier, because they needed this building as a cover when they ascended the city.

But the inside of the city gate tower must be bombed with flower bombs so that the defenders can hide inside.

There was a muffled bang, and a large black bullet that Liu Chengzong could see hit the air in an arc trajectory, at a slow speed, and then fell heavily from top to bottom, smashing through the tiled roof of the gate tower.

Liu Chengzong frowned, the probability of misfiring is very high, he knew it.

If it wasn't for the high probability of misfire of the flower bomb, he would have been killed by a flying cannon a few years ago.

But a cannonball misfired many times... Liu Chengzong was thinking about this, and there was a bang, and he saw flames bursting out of the city gate building, iron pieces flew through the holes and windows, broke the door, pierced the beams and broken tiles, and a large amount of gunpowder smoke came out from the building. overflow.

He nodded with satisfaction.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers filled the moat for the third, fourth, and fifth times. Each time the formation became narrower and farther than the previous time. the way.

Until the sixth time, Li Tianyu's native soldiers moved the long ladders that the Mongolian soldiers rushed to make last night. A long ladder was erected at the last few steps of the moat that had not been filled. Under the city.

When the second troop of [-] native soldiers arrived with carts, they put away the long ladders and put them in front of the city gate, and climbed up one after another.

The musketeers and gunmen outside the city also fought more urgently, pouring lead like a dense shot to the soldiers standing up on both sides of the gate tower.

In the bloody mist, a row of soldiers lifted the ram against the long ladder and pushed outwards, and some people picked up the shattered battlement bricks and threw them down.

The soldiers below the city were also desperately escalating the ladder below, and some people climbed from the back, desperately falling down the long ladder with their bodies.

Liu Chengzong stared at the top of the city until a ladder was held up by the defenders and gradually failed to reach the top of the city. The soldiers on the ladder jumped down quickly, and then the ladder was pushed down and slammed on the ground.

He sighed slowly. This is why the long ladder is not as good as the ladder cart. The ladder cart has iron hooks at the head and tail of the city, and the ladder body of the body and the city wall can form a stable triangle, which is difficult to be pushed away.

It's a pity that he didn't have time to siege the city for him to make siege weapons, otherwise the battle would be much easier to fight.

But even so, the defenders could only overturn a long ladder, and more soldiers climbed up through the long ladder, and met the defenders close to the gate tower.

Then the soldiers spread across the west city wall. At every moment, artillery from the north and south walls bombarded the city wantonly. heavy casualties.

However, this predicament of being passively beaten did not last long, and soon Basang’s hunting battalion put more long ladders on the top of the city, and immediately a group of heavy gunners of the Han army disarmed and climbed up the city. , Based on the city gate tower as a cover, a volley of heavy guns was fired at the head of the city to shoot out patches of gunpowder smoke, killing and wounding the artillery one by one.

When Basang planted a waving Tianxia Taiping flag on the side of the city gate, Liu Chengzong finally felt relieved that it was only a matter of time before the fall of this small city.

There is still a strong city in the Hehuang Valley, but there is no way to stop his army. Now there is only one test left for him, preventing smallpox from entering the valley.

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)