Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1352 Shelling Tongguan
Hauge stood on the enemy's platform and looked outside the pass wall, and found that one mile away from the pass, the Ming army built a low wall outside and dug many trenches.

At first he was a little puzzled, why did the Ming army seem to be locking the city when they wanted to tackle key problems?
Generally speaking, when attacking, in order to make it easier for equipment to approach the city wall, don't you hope that the front of the city is as flat as possible?

However, Hauge looked at the crowds of people in the trenches, and quickly understood that the Ming army was doing this to avoid the shelling and allow the army to approach the wall safely.

In fact, with the development of cannons and firearms, many of the bulky equipment used to be difficult to use.

For a moment, Hauge couldn't help admiring Wang Yan's whimsical ideas. This guy is really an expert at digging soil. He can use digging to solve it no matter defense or offense.

Just when Hauge was a little surprised, out of the corner of his eyes, he suddenly noticed a group of people moving in the deep ditch in the distance, and a few cows were leaking from their backs, as if they were pulling a giant.

Hauge couldn't help pointing and asking. The attention of many generals around him was attracted to the outside of the city. Tang Tong pushed aside one of the generals, strode onto the enemy platform, and looked in the direction Hauge pointed. The man drove the bull and pulled the giant he saw that day, and was slowly approaching Guancheng along the ditch.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is probably the artillery of the Ming army, which was just transported into Li Guo's camp more than ten days ago." Tang Tong looked at it, turned his head and saluted.

Hauge took a closer look and found that it was covered with a red cloth, and it was extremely huge, and it was slowly moving forward under the traction of many strong bulls.

It is so heavy, it should be artillery, but what did the Ming army do when they pulled such a big artillery under Guancheng?

Tang Tong looked at the huge figure covered by the red cloth, which was daunting. He glanced at Hauge, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the city is dangerous, please go down the city as soon as possible."

Seeing the gunners and civilian husbands of the Ming army driving the cattle along the deep ditch, Hauge turned his head to look at the many cannons on the wall of the Xiaguan, but shook his head and said, "Don't worry, let's see what tricks the Ming army is playing. "

The Ming army's cannons were still being transported, so he was frightened and left the pass wall, inevitably inferior to the Ming army in terms of momentum.

Now the Ming army's cannons haven't been set up yet, and the Ming army wants to bombard the pass wall, so they can't put the cannons in the ditch. When he shows up, hundreds of cannons in the city will bombard him, I'm afraid he won't succeed.

Seeing that Hauge was unwilling to go to the city, Tang Tong couldn't help feeling a little impatient. The cannon doesn't have eyes, and if Hauge was killed by one shot, the situation would be bad.

Tang Tong was about to speak again, but Hauge turned his eyes back and landed on the enemy platform where he was.

This enemy platform protrudes from the pass wall. It is three feet thick from wall to chest and can withstand a certain amount of shelling. There are many shooting holes in the wall.

An enemy tower can control a large section of the city wall, so that the defenders have no shooting blind spots, can shoot and kill enemy troops close to the corner, and can also bombard enemy troops attacking other enemy towers.

Hauge took a few steps back, walked to a small cannon beside him, couldn't help pushing the cannon himself, and aimed up and down.

In addition to the Hongyi cannons on the enemy platform, there are mainly many small cannons. Their range is short, but they are easy to rotate, just like the ballista in the past.

These small cannons were not fixed by the turret like the red cannons. Most of them were placed on the cannon mounts. However, Jin Guo's cannon mounts were influenced by the Raksha people. The wheels were bigger and it was easy to rotate.

Hauge fiddled with it twice, straightened up, patted the dust on his hands, and said with satisfaction: "Can this small cannon hit the low wall outside the pass?"

"It can indeed hit for a mile! Hitting to the side can also take care of the enemy platform next to it." Tang Tong said hastily, "Your Majesty's body of ten thousand gold is related to the community, so please hurry down to the city!"

"No hurry, the Ming army's artillery hasn't been set up yet. When they start to set up the cannons, it won't be too late for me to go to Guancheng!" Hauge shook his head. There are so many artillery pieces in the city, he wants to see how the Ming army is attacking him. Guns under the nose.

After Fang finished speaking, he was about to step forward to continue checking the defense of the wall, when a "cracking" sound suddenly came from a mile away from the city...

"Huh~ Why did you start offering the cannon before the cannon was set up?" the accompanying golden general Bai Guangen asked in confusion.

Bai Guangen was also a Ming general, and he is very familiar with the things of the Ming Dynasty.In the past, the artillery of the Ming army, especially the heavy artillery weighing more than [-] kilograms, had to have the title of general. Before firing the artillery, it was necessary to set off firecrackers and light incense candles to worship, hoping to be able to fire more accurately. However, this ceremony usually waits for the artillery to be mounted. will be carried out later.

Hearing the words, Hauge couldn't help but brought the binoculars and looked out, but only saw a cloud of smoke from firecrackers, while the giants and crowd just now disappeared completely underground.

"What's going on?" Hauge couldn't help wondering.

"It's really wrong. Judging by the size, the cannon is at least a few thousand catties. It stands to reason that the bigger the cannon, the farther it can hit. The Ming army should set up the cannon at a distance. There is no need to pull the cannon down and give it to us. target."

Tang Tong also had many questions in his mind, but he didn't have time to delve into them, "Your Majesty, the king thief is good at ingenious thinking. In recent years, he has innovated many kinds of firearms. Could it be some new guns?" He bowed and said, "Your Majesty, For the sake of safety, let’s go to the pass as soon as possible! Your Majesty is closing the pass, and the soldiers will inevitably be distracted when there is an artillery battle.”

Ming army firearms have indeed changed rapidly in recent years, and new tricks have emerged one after another. Hearing what Tang Tong said, Hauge also felt a little guilty.

Although he didn't see the cannon aiming at the top of the city, he didn't want to stay at the top of the city anymore. As the Emperor of Great Gold, it's better to be cautious and put safety first.

At that moment, Hauge sneered, and took the steps Tang Tong gave him, "Well, I will go down to Guancheng first, so as not to affect the soldiers to fight."

A mile away, the Ming army dug deep pits on the ground, and twenty mortars were erected in these deep pits, and the people were completely in the pits, so the closed Jin army could not be seen at all.

At this time, the gun cover on the mortar had been lifted, and dozens of soldiers were working together to load the shells.

In the deep pit, a long ladder was placed on the ground, and Chen Yujie climbed up the ground along the ladder.

He stood on the ladder with only one head exposed, and then took a telescope to observe Tongguan.

Suddenly he put down the binoculars, stretched out one hand, made a thumbs up gesture, closed one eye and gestured for a while, then turned his head and said anxiously: "Four inches to the left, the muzzle is one inch lower, fire one shot first, quick!"

At this time on the Guancheng, Haoge had been persuaded by Tang Tong and was about to go down the city, but at this moment, there was a loud noise outside the city, and a cloud of white smoke immediately rose from the ground in the distance .

Hauge only felt his feet tremble, and the city wall trembled slightly. When he looked up in astonishment, he saw an iron bullet soaring into the air.

At first, the iron bullet was just a black spot, but in the blink of an eye, it rapidly enlarged, and it had already drawn an arc in the sky, hitting Guancheng.

The iron bullet was at least [-] to [-] catties, which was four to five times the bullets of the red cannon. When such a huge object flew in, several guards were frightened and rushed to protect Hauge.

At this time, only a loud noise was heard, and the shell passed the old pass city, fell on the ground between the new pass city and the old pass city, smashed a deep hole, then bounced up suddenly, and exploded instantly.

The violent explosion blew a gust of wind, blowing the flag on the city, flying in the opposite direction, and then falling down quickly.The loud noise produced by the explosion was deafening, the smoke and dust billowed, and there was a gray cloud between the two city walls.

The soldiers on the city squatted on the city in fright, and it took a while to recover.Hauge pushed away the guard lying on him, stood up, shook off the dust on his body, walked quickly to the inside of the old wall, looked down, and saw several trebuchets placed between the two walls , has been bombed into a mess.

The generals of the Jin Army scolded angrily, what the fuck, I was startled, what the hell, such a big commotion?
Hauge's face was livid, because the power of the explosion was too great. Fortunately, it landed behind the old wall. If it landed on the city, he might be directly killed by the Ming army.

Tang Tong, Bai Guangen and the others were also dumbfounded. The Jin army had seen the Ming army's flower bombs before.Jin Jun also made some by himself, but the key fuze problem has not been solved, so the effect is not ideal.But in general, Jin Guo still has some understanding of flowering bombs, but they have never seen such a huge flowering bomb.

Everyone looked at the bombed mess between the old wall and the new wall. Just as they were in shock, another series of loud noises came.

The soldiers of the Golden Army on the city saw more than a dozen black iron bullets streaking across the sky, getting closer and bigger, and said without fear: "Zhi Niang, here we come again!"

"Your Majesty, squat down quickly!" Seeing Tang Tong's roar, Hauge and the accompanying generals squatted down almost at the same time, hugging their heads, and at this moment, shells roared and smashed over, making loud noises.

The old wall, the new wall, and even the back of the new wall were hit at the same time, and thick black smoke billowed up. With the explosion as the center, the soldiers of the Golden Army fell down a large area, and the city was full of screams and wailing.

There was a mess at the place of the explosion, thick smoke billowed inside and outside Tongguan, and black smoke rose into the sky. The wounded soldiers wailed and rolled on the ground, and those who were not injured were stunned in place, staring blankly at the ground, and some were terrified. run around.

"Don't panic!" Tang Tong stood up and shouted.Hauge stood up with a face full of astonishment, and the future let out a sigh of emotion, and the surrounding guards and generals rushed up, "Your Majesty, I can't wait anymore, and go with the minister!"

The generals couldn't help but hugged Hauge and walked down the city. This was too damn exciting, and they couldn't stay in the city any longer.Tang Tong didn't intend to stay in the city either, and followed closely behind the group of people.

However, as soon as everyone stood up and took a few steps, a shell fell in front of the group of people, and the guards leading the way were blown up immediately, and Hauge was also thrown back a few steps by the blast, his butt Sitting on the ground, his expression was a little dazed with fright.

Outside Guancheng, several gunners who had fired a cannon waved the gunpowder smoke with their hands, looked up at the general flag standing on the ladder observing, and couldn't help asking anxiously: "General flag, did you hit it?"

"It seems to have hit..."

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