I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 108
"Go ahead!"

Behind the Ming army's formation, in front of the dragon tent guarded by three thousand imperial camps, Zhu Yijiong, wearing a dragon robe and half armor, put down his telescope and issued an order.

On the stand nearby, the flag-talking soldiers who had been waiting for a long time received the order and quickly waved their flags.

Except for the first town of Zheng Dingrui's headquarters, the rest of the Second Army are all new troops. Although they have little actual combat experience, they know much more than the officers and soldiers of the First Army and even the Third Army.

The most commendable thing among them is this flag. After all, the battlefield is changing rapidly. If the messengers rely solely on running on their feet, there will always be delays.

In contrast, this semaphore is much easier to use. You only need to pick out one or two spirited ones and learn to recognize the waving flag command, and you can quickly issue orders on the battlefield at any time.

In an era before radio was invented, this semaphore was already the fastest and most useful short-distance communication method.

At the Ming Army's artillery battalion position, a flagman said to the artillery battalion officer below: "Report, supervise the country's commander-in-chief's order to attack immediately."

"Go back, I know!" The battalion officer didn't even look back.

"Yes!" The flagman waved his flag several times.

A moment later, there was a sudden commotion in the front of the Ming army. A total of ten red-coated heavy artillery slowly rolled out from the military formation. Each heavy artillery was manned by eight gunners.

After pushing the heavy artillery to the designated position, these people immediately started loading the artillery shells and filling the gunpowder with a slightly unfamiliar movement.

The battalion officer on the side drew his sword and shouted angrily without hesitation: "Light the fire and hit me!"

"Boom~Boom~"

Under the roar of artillery fire, even the ground shook. The ten heavy cannons all moved back more than ten centimeters due to the strong recoil under the thick smoke.

Ten bullets flew towards the city wall several miles away. However, because the angle was not adjusted correctly, all of these shells hit the city wall without exception.

In the cold winter, the city wall was already frozen solid when the cold wind blew. So many cannonballs hit it, except for shaking up a cloud of gray and shaking the feet of the Qing troops at the top of the city. By the way, they were frightened and hid under the battlements. Didn't happen.

Seeing this scene, the battalion officer of this artillery battalion was a little embarrassed, and he immediately cursed: "Damn it, I taught you before, I made a mistake in the first shot, and whoever does it again will do it again." Wrong, let me take care of everything."

In fact, except for this battalion officer, the entire artillery battalion is composed of new recruits.

But this is easy to understand, otherwise the Ming army would not have so many gunners.

Because of this, eight gunners were assigned to each heavy artillery piece, purely due to the gunners' lack of experience.

These new gunners were just crammed with the corresponding knowledge. Whether the gun could hit or not actually depended on luck and how well they learned.

When Zheng Dingrui attacked Wenzhou Fucheng earlier, he took advantage of the location where the main force of Fucheng was taken away by Dai Kun. The Wenzhou defenders were short of troops, and [-] real thieves came to attack. The scene was too terrifying, so let the veteran gunners from the first town take over. Front fuck.

Finally, he used the coffin cannon to secretly defeat Chen Cang, and then he won easily.

It looked like he was winning easily, but in fact every step was planned by Zheng Dingrui and he played extremely steadily.

Now Zhu Yijiong personally led the Second Army to attack Chuzhou. On the one hand, he wanted to completely annex southern Zhejiang, and on the other hand, he was also taking this opportunity to train troops.

Around the artillery, a total of eight gunners struggled for five or six minutes before finally reloading the artillery shells.

"Light it up, fire it up!"

"Boom boom boom..."

Another round of artillery fire roared. With the previous failure experience, this time it was finally much better.

Fully six marbles instantly flew over the city wall with strong kinetic energy, and then landed in the city in the form of a parabola. By coincidence, one of the marbles hit a residential house and broke the beam on the spot.

Fortunately, the owner of this residence is a single gangster, and he was jailed by the government yesterday for spreading rumors, but no one was killed.There were four shells left, three of which hit the battlements, followed by a splash of masonry.

Only one hit the city wall and killed a Qing soldier who was unable to dodge on the spot. There was a commotion in the corresponding city area, but it was quickly suppressed again by the officers involved.

"These thieves are so shameless." Xue Shijie pressed his hands on the city wall, his face full of helplessness.

You know, red cannons like those of the Ming Army are heavy artillery. In the Qing court, they were often used to defend cities or as coastal defense artillery.

The cannons used in field sieges were all short-barreled cannons, bowl-mouthed cannons or squatting tiger cannons.

How could they be so extravagant as the Ming army and actually use red cannons to attack the city? It would be hard to overstate how wealthy they were.

And Chuzhou capital is located inland, and peace has lasted for a long time. Even temporary cannons cannot be cast so many heavy cannons to fight against the Ming army.

Xue Shijie was cursing there, but Dai Kun remained calm. He firmly believed that the Ming thief would not just act like this.

Although the Ming thief's artillery was superior to Chuzhou City's light defense artillery in terms of power and range, this siege was still a winter siege, and it was absolutely impossible to just use artillery to bombard the city indiscriminately.

Even if it works, it will still consume a lot of time and gunpowder bullets. Since the Ming thief is aiming at Zhejiang, there is no reason to be so unwise.

Outside the city, the Ming army's red-coated heavy artillery was still bombarding them. They originally wanted to pull out the Qing army's artillery at the top of the city. Unfortunately, the Qing army's city-defending artillery was all at the top of the city, and they were too scattered. , and the farther away the red-coated heavy artillery is, the lower its accuracy is.

So far, only one unlucky cannon has been hit, but it did not explode, but the barrel was collapsed.

In the front army formation, several first-camp camps have already assembled.

"Brother Niu, the city is about to be attacked, are you scared?" A dark-faced strong man in the first camp asked in a low voice.

The strong man known as Brother Niu immediately said: "What's so scary? People die and birds fly to the sky, and the prison country is watching from behind! We brothers finally chose to go to camp first, so we can't let it go to waste. This opportunity.”

The black-faced man nodded: "That's true!"

The two of them were just chatting, and suddenly, there was a shout from the front row.

But it was this battalion officer who came to the camp first and shouted in front of everyone: "You are all the soldiers selected from thousands of miles to be the first to camp. The supervisor just said that everyone who goes to war today will be rewarded. If the city is captured, the prisoner will personally give you wine!"

"Okay! Long live the prison country!"

"Long live the prison!"

The soldiers who first arrived at the camp were instantly delighted. Of course, they didn't know what it meant to drink with Jian Guo. They only knew that they would be rewarded for going to battle. Jian Guo was really grand!

Seeing that he had successfully boosted the morale of the first campers, the battalion officer stopped talking and shouted directly: "In that case, brothers, follow me and kill! The Ming Dynasty will be victorious!"

"Ming wins! Long live Jian Guo!"

"Ming wins! Long live Jian Guo!"

……

These soldiers shouted three times, then carried the ladder and held the rattan sword. Under the leadership of the battalion officer, they shouted and rushed towards Chuzhou City in front of them.

Seeing this, Dai Kun at the top of the city immediately stretched out his hand and patted the battlements: "We are finally here. Pass the order to the army of this town, and the whole army is ready to defend the city!"

　I have a headache and feel like I won a lottery.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)