Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 690 Battleship Siege
On the Langshan Fort, Lu Wangjun dismantled a total of [-] red cannons from the warships and transported them to the top of the mountain.

At this time, after a few artillery test shots, the real bombardment officially began.

At this time, the war drum on the top of the mountain beat sharply, and a deafening cannon burst out from the fort, just like summer thunder.

The cannons fired one by one, the gun mounts retreated suddenly, thick white smoke covered the entire fort, thirty iron bullets weighing more than ten kilograms rushed out from the muzzle, and flew down to the top of the mountain. The people below looked at it, Like a meteorite falling from the sky.

These artillery shells hit the city wall, and countless gravels splashed, because they shot down at the top of the city, and the Qing soldiers above were not covered, and they were immediately killed by the gravel.

In the first battle of Jiangyin, the Qing army besieged the city for nearly three months, and finally the red cannons were dispatched to break through the city.

Seeing this, Gao Yuan's army, who lacked firearms, couldn't help jumping in their hearts. They sat on the ground two miles away from the city, but they could still feel the shaking of the city wall being smashed. This kind of experience has never been experienced before. Today Undoubtedly opened their eyes.

After a round, the gun positions on the fort began to reset immediately. They were all gunners on warships, and they were able to manipulate the cannons on rough seas, and they were even more handy on land.

The gunners of each gun began to clean the barrel with a stick wrapped in wet cotton cloth, and there was a squeaking sound from the shell, and then poked it again with a stick wrapped in dry cotton cloth, then reloaded the gunpowder and iron bullets, and started the second salvo .

The people below looked at the fort on the top of the mountain, which was already wrapped in thick white smoke. The shells shot out, and the flames splashed in all directions.

Outside the northern city, Xie Qian felt a little dry when he saw the situation. He had been running around and fighting before, and he had basically never fought any tough battles.

"Military division, can we make this artillery ourselves?"

Hearing his question, Zhao Shuxiang glanced at him, pursed his lips and said, "It's not impossible, but first you have to have a stable territory."

At this time, after three rounds of shelling, it stopped. The temperature of the cannon body was too high, and the chamber would explode if it was used again, so the cannon body had to be allowed to cool down.

As soon as the roar of the cannon stopped, the sound of bricks and stones collapsing in Nantong City, mixed with many screams, wailing, and panic, came over.

Seeing this, Zhao Shuxiang rode out on his horse and said to Xie Qian, "It is estimated that the city is about to be attacked. I will go to the west of the city to arrange it first." After he finished speaking, he took his horse and left, leading a few cavalry, and galloped away.

A quarter of an hour later, the artillery roared again. After three more rounds, when the smoke cleared, the artillery commander took a telescope to watch. Many places on the city wall had broken bricks and stones, exposing the rammed earth inside. Many Fran cannons at the top of the city were also smashed over.

These running positions are difficult to find and destroy because of the blocking of the city wall, but Zhang Mingzhen put the artillery on Langshan and looked down at the city wall, then the situation is quite different.

On the top of the city, the artillery smashed into a mess. A green battalion soldier dragged his wounded comrades to move slowly. Suddenly, a cannon hit him, smashing the wall around him, and flying gravel, smashing the entrusted green battalion. The soldier also fell to his knees on the ground.

Protected by several people, Liu Qingtai hid on the edge of a section of the city wall. There was billowing smoke and dust, and he couldn't see clearly. He could only hear wailing cries for help from all around, and a series of crashing sounds from outside the city.He felt that the entire city wall was shaking violently, and suddenly there was a loud "bang", and thick smoke and dust suddenly rose from the bottom of a distant section of the city wall, completely submerging that section of the city wall.

Liu Qingtai's heart trembled, Nantong was neither big nor strong, it must have collapsed.

After the shelling lasted for nearly an hour, the eastern part of the city wall was already riddled with holes. Liu Qingtai looked at the city wall after the smoke and dust had dispersed, and it really collapsed, and a slope of three feet wide appeared. He was about to order his men to prepare to reject the horses. , wooden boards, and temporarily spliced ​​a low wall on the slope, but the gate building at the east gate suddenly collapsed after being bombarded. All were buried alive.

At this time, there was a rapid drumbeat outside the city, and countless voices were buzzing. Liu Qingtai looked out and said in a hurry: "The bandit army is about to attack the city. Send 2000 people from the south gate to support."

The naval warships of the King of Lu outside the city paddled their oars, swaying water patterns, one by one sailed from the diversion canal into the moat, some of the ships went north, then turned into the north moat, and some of the ships went south, directly Entering the east moat, the side of the warship facing the city wall was equipped with a guard plate, wiped with mud, and nailed with cowhide.

The sails on the ship were all furled, archers and musketeers were standing on the ship tower, and the cabin was full of elite soldiers with knives in one hand and rattan cards in the other.

It can be said that there are nearly [-] Gaoyuan troops around Nantong that can be used to consume, but Zhang Mingzhen went to the Lu Wang army to use all the best in the first battle. This can further buy people's hearts.When using miscellaneous cards in the future, psychologically, miscellaneous cards will not think that it is Zhang Mingzhen's intentional consumption by eliminating dissidents.The second is to save time. He needs to integrate the army before Duoduo presses down. If he fights in Nantong, it will consume his time.

What he wants today is a one-shot deal.

As the ships entered the canal, the side-mounted artillery began to roar, and the green battalion soldiers at the top of the city also began to fire back, but the firepower was obviously not as good as that of the warships, and the beaten ones cried for their fathers and mothers.

In the artillery battle between the two sides, the wall at the top of the city collapsed, and sawdust splashed on the ship. The soldiers on both sides were injured by gravel and sawdust, screaming and screaming, and the scene was tragic.

Rockets from the top of the city rained down on the warships. The Lu army's warships were tall, and the ship building was basically as high as the city wall. The soldiers hid behind the added guards and shot at the city.

A rocket was nailed to the ship, but the mud and cowhide controlled the spread of the fire.

Liu Qingtai saw that the bandits had widened the diversion canal, and unloaded the ballast stones and other excess heavy objects in the ships, so he judged that the bandits might want to use warships to directly attack the city, so he ordered them to deploy more weapons for attack, but The rocket had little effect, and he couldn't help shouting anxiously: "Throw the fire can! Burn the warship!"

The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty immediately smashed the fuel tank on the ship. A Qing soldier had just lifted it up. In the watchtower on the mast of the warship, a gunner of the Ming army happened to smash the oil tank with a bludgeon. The Qing soldier Being drenched all over his body, the raging fire instantly engulfed him.

There was a mournful howl, and the Qing soldiers ran around in despair, waving their bodies uncontrollably, and overturned the brazier by the wall, causing the surrounding Qing soldiers to disperse in a hurry. Seeing this, a Qing soldier immediately snatched a The spear stabbed the Qing soldiers covered in fire.

The boat was hit by a fire can, and the fire spread immediately, but the boat also had a way to deal with it. Several soldiers immediately took out bags of straw ash and SARS, and poured them on the fire.

At this time, the boats began to drop anchor in the river to stabilize the boat. The long ladder prepared on the boat tower immediately fell down and was placed on the top of the city. It's all useless.

There are [-] elite defenders in the city, [-] elite soldiers from the King of Lu Army, and [-] capable soldiers in the Gaoyuan Army. With the defenders guarding four sides and the role of the city walls being offset by buildings and ships, King Lu's side has already taken advantage of the battlefield.

At this time, when the long ladder was built, the elite soldiers hiding in the ship cabin rushed out immediately. They boarded the ship tower, and then followed the ladder to kill the city. The elite Lu army, but condescending, shot the two men one by one.

At this time, when the war drum changed, two miles away, among the Gao Yuan army sitting on the ground, a selected elite army, plus an elite Lu army of a thousand households, a total of 3000 people, immediately stood up to the sound of the big drum, and then carried more than ten soldiers. A long ladder advances towards the canal.

When they came to the river, they put the ladders on the boat, and then boarded the boat continuously, and then ascended the city from the long ladder on the top of the boat building, so as to form a continuous attack.

The elite soldiers of the Lu army with rattan cards rushed forward stepping on ladders. The archers on the city were suppressed by the firepower of the boat building, especially the Lu army on the Wangdou. Only sparse arrows were shot at the rattan players, and they also lost their aim.

The rattan player came all the way to the edge of the city and was about to jump onto the city wall when the gunman from the Qing soldiers who was hiding beside the city wall suddenly stabbed him face to face. The rattan player in front was stabbed by a spear and fell into the moat screaming. , Before he could close his gun, he jumped up high, threw the Qing soldier gunman down, and wrestled desperately on the ground.

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