Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 147 Wuzhou City, Cannonballs
In the early morning of the next day, after breakfast, the army came out in a file. Wang Yan led four thousand soldiers and horses and stood on a high slope two miles outside the city. Lead the soldiers and horses and form a formation outside the city.

On the Pearl River, the baffles on hundreds of warships were also removed, revealing pitch-black muzzles facing the city walls of Wuzhou.

King Jingjiang's general, Yang Guowei, and his deputy, Fan Youxian, were wearing heavy armor. They stood on the tower and looked out of the city. "Wang Yan's soldiers actually carry so many firearms. I'm afraid the artillery on the city will not be able to suppress them."

"Boom~"

Before the two could speak, a cannonball hit the city wall, but it might be due to the adjustment of the artillery. It didn't hit the top of the city, but landed in the middle of the city wall, and the gravel splashed.

Seeing this, Yang Guowei couldn't help being surprised, his artillery team fired ten shots, but they might not be able to hit the target, but the opponent just hit the city wall with a test shot, the gap is too big.

"Boom~"

After the first shot, within a short time, another shot hit the top of the city, blowing up several people and causing confusion among the defenders.

"Wang Shiheng's reputation is well-deserved, his soldiers are so elite, and this cannon is amazing." Yang Guowei was shocked for a while, and suddenly thought that he would arouse others' aspirations and destroy his own prestige, so he calmed down, "Vice General Fan, Did you remember all the things I was going to explain last night?"

"General, don't worry, the general will practice in secret early on, and will never leak any flaws." Fan Youxian said seriously: "This time, it is thanks to Governor Ding, otherwise the general will really have no idea."

Yang Guowei looked at the officers and soldiers who had already set up a formation under the city, and waved to Fan Youxian: "In that case, you go to prepare immediately and order the artillery to fight back."

"No~" Fan Youxian clasped his fists in a salute, then bowed his head and retreated.

At this moment, Yang Guowei suddenly turned his head to look at him again and said, "That old man Ding Kuichu is full of tricks. Last time he was tricked by Jian Guo, and he was defeated in the end. Vice General Fan still needs to make more preparations later. Anti-Ding Kuichu's fake show is real."

"The final general knows." Fan Youxian nodded, put his hand on his waist knife, and walked towards the city wall.

Surrounded by many generals and schools on the high slope outside the city, Wang Yan watched the results of the bombardment with a binoculars and exclaimed in admiration: "Zhongtai has achieved great success in the use of artillery, and has completely inherited Xu Ge's mantle."

"Master Hou praised it instantly." Chen Yujie heard the words and clasped his fists in a salute, "The last general will follow Lord Hou and spend two months in the Yangzhou artillery battle with the northern captives. If he can't practice the artillery skillfully again, it will not violate Lord Hou's great trust."

Chen Yujie is Xu Guangqi's nephew. He has been with his uncle since he was a child, and he has studied firearms and western learning.In Wang Yanjun, that is, the artillery team, he didn't need to worry too much.

"Master Hou, Commander, all the artillery has been set up."

At this time, Wang Shixiu, a thousand households of the artillery team, appeared in front of Wang Yan and worshiped.

The Yangzhou Wang family had three scholars in one school, Wang Xu was sent to Beijing, Wang Shixiu, and Wang Ji were all in the artillery team as thousands of households.

"Since it's ready, let's send an order over there. The artillery team and naval warships will bombard Wuzhou for half an hour, and then Chen Bangfu and four people will lead the troops to attack the city."

On the high slope, under the flag of the Chinese Army, several chess and card officers with command flags on their backs and badges hanging on their chests immediately got on their horses, and then galloped out from the high slope to pass on Wang Yanjun's order.

"Boom~Boom~"

Not long after, bursts of artillery roar resounded through the heaven and earth.

The artillery team of the official army bombarded Wuzhou City with holes, but the artillery on Wuzhou City was completely suppressed, and it did not have the strength to fight at all.

"Brothers, kill!"

Half an hour later, the four Chen Bangfu who were standing outside the city pulled out their sabers, pointed at Wuzhou City, and roared loudly.

For a time, more than 1 officers and soldiers moved forward slowly. Sword and shield soldiers, cloud ladder soldiers, rushing cars, crashing into city cars, advanced slowly in front, and thousands of bird commanders and foot archers behind them, stepping on drums, Follow the army.

Not long after, the army had marched five hundred steps away from the city, and the entire phalanx suddenly let out a roar, and then rushed towards the city.

The sword and shield hands carried the siege ladder, faced the rain of arrows and birds on the top of the city, and rushed to the side of the moat in a short while, part of the long ladder fell down and was erected on the moat. The long swinging ladder came under the city wall, stepped on the ladder and climbed to the top of the city. The archers and bird commanders behind stood by the moat and shot at the city.

The sound of killing, gunfire, and weapons clashing immediately resounded through the heavens and the earth.

On the high slope, Wang Yan was watching the battle with a binoculars, while Liu Shun, Dai Zhifan and others beside him were also staring at the top of the city.

"Look, the banner of Dongcheng has been thrown down from the top of the city." After the battle lasted for nearly half an hour, Liu Shun suddenly pointed to the top of the city with one hand, "I didn't expect that the Guangdong army would be so brave today, and they would go up to the city so quickly. head."

Wang Yan heard the words, but put down the telescope in his hand, handed it to Liu Shun and said, "Ziming, do you think Chen Bangfu and the others are very brave?"

When Liu Shun was young, the northern captives broke through the barriers and invaded Beizhili. His father was killed, his mother was humiliated, and he was thrown into a well to die. Unattended, he became a well-known rascal. He had no words, but now he has He is the commander of the first battalion. He has no words, and it is very inconvenient to get along with others. Wang Yan then chooses the word Ziming for him, hoping that he can read more books in the future and become a great general just like Wu Xia Ameng. .

Hearing the words, Liu Shun couldn't help being puzzled. He took the binoculars and picked it up to look at it. After a while, he still couldn't figure it out. Then he was a little embarrassed and said: "Today's attack on the city was just to test the reality of the city, but Chen Bangfu and the others were able to lead the army. Killing the head of the city and cutting off the banner, the general will not see any problems in the end, so I ask Lord Hou to enlighten me."

In Wang Yan's army, there is a lack of generals. He Gang, Qu Congzhi, and Wang Yanjue are all civil servants. They can be counselors, but they are not suitable for decisive battles. Therefore, Wang Yan intends to let them return to their duties to handle the government affairs of Guangdong. .

Now in Wang Yan's army, the only generals who can fight are Wang Wei, Liu Shun, and Dai Zhifan and Yu Fangqi, two rising stars.

Now that Wang Wei is staying in Fujing, the generals around Wang Yan are even more scarce, so he asked Liu Shun to hand over the navy to Yu Fangqi temporarily, and return him to the central army to wait for the general's order.

At this time, Wang Yan wanted to train Liu Shun, and pointed out: "Zi Ming looked at the top of the city. Although the sound of shouting for killing rushed to the heaven and the earth, he did not see the soldiers chasing down the tower. And the defenders of the city, why don't they use rolling stones and beating trees?" , those who call for golden juice and fire oil?"

(The dung is boiled, which is called golden juice. It is poured into the city. If someone touches it, the wound will be infected. It is also a sharp weapon for defending the city.)
(End of this chapter)