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Chapter 23 Siege and Defense

Woo--Woo--

The long horn sounded across the sky. The Jin soldiers began to attack.

Dozens of chariots that were several heads taller than the man advanced towards Wanghai Fortress under the push of the Jin soldiers, while the Jin soldiers crunched behind the chariot and the big shield and advanced along with them.

"The Jin soldiers are here! Be prepared for battle!" The Ming army at the top of the city reminded each other.

Chu Yun was standing at the position of the fort at this moment. Wanghai Fort was cliffs on three sides, and only one side could attack, so all ten artillery were arranged on the front by Chu Yun.

"Fill the cannons into solid bullets and aim at the enemy's car!" The artillery squadron leader David Dong began to direct his subordinates to load shells according to the methods of Western professors.

Solid bullets were taken off the ammunition pile by soldiers and then loaded them into the artillery according to the usual exercises. The distance measuring personnel quickly made distance observations. It was difficult to hit the moving car.

Artillery ammunition can be divided into solid bullets and shotguns. The solid bullet has a long range but has limited lethality. Shotguns can use explosive fragments to kill enemies on a large scale, but the range is relatively short, and it takes more time to clean the cannon chamber.

The dense Jin soldiers under the city entered the range of artillery's killing.

"Prepare, fire the artillery!" After the Jin soldiers entered a range of 500 meters to 600 meters, Dong David issued a shelling order.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A loud noise like thunder rose up from the ground, and even the city was trembling. Chu Yun, who was near the fort, felt that he could not stand steadily and almost fell down, and his ears roared.

Ten solid bullets roared out sharp arcs in the air and then fell heavily!

The moment the cannon sounded, the Jin soldiers on the battlefield were shocked and looked at the shells falling from the sky at a loss.

Bang! A car was hit by a solid bullet and was smashed into pieces by a terrible impact force in an instant! Several Jin soldiers near the car were even injured by the wood and iron pieces that splashed when the car collapsed! The car that they used to block bows and arrows and stones became a deadly killer at this moment.

There were nine solid bullets that did not hit the car and landed in the crowd, smashing more than a dozen unlucky Jin soldiers into meat sauce! After some solid bullets landed on the ground, they still jumped up on the hard ground, causing the second damage to the Jin soldiers behind them!

The Jin soldiers' offensive was a slam due to this round of artillery attacks!

Chu Yun was watching the city and couldn't help but shake his head. The moving car was really difficult to hit. One of the ten shells hit, and the actual damage caused to the Jin soldiers was only about ten people, and the deterrence to the Jin soldiers was far greater than the lethality. The power of black gunpowder was still insufficient. It had to wait until the cannons really rely on the lethality of the cannons, and modern gunpowder such as tnt, yellow explosives, smokeless explosives were developed.

Although the damage caused by the first wave of artillery bombardment made Chu Yun not satisfied, it was a nightmare for Mangergutai. He followed Nurhaci to fight Ningyuan and saw with his own eyes the power of the Ming army's artillery. Now the Wanghai Fortress of more than a thousand Ming soldiers actually has artillery, and the number is about ten, which is even more powerful than Ningyuan City, and even has a longer range! In the past, the small cannons and stone cannons used by the Ming army to bombard the car, and it could not even penetrate the car. However, the artillery now falls apart as the Ming car, and the car immediately collapses, and the high and low judging is judged!

"Continue attack!" The arrow had to be fired on the string. He had no choice, and he had to repay the hatred of his will being defeated by artillery under Ningyuan City.

"Hurry! Hurry up! rush to the city, and the Ming army's artillery will not threaten us!" Li Ruitai led the first batch of attacking Han troops to join us.

However, it is not necessarily easy to rush to the bottom of Wanghai Castle.

"Architecture No. 1 to 5 is loaded with solid ammunition, and cannons No. 6 to 10 are loaded with shotguns, and fire again!" David Dong commanded the artillery to load different artillery, causing medium-range and long-range firepower coverage to the Jin soldiers.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The artillery resounded through the sky again, and shells roared into the dense attack lineup of the Jin soldiers! Not only were solid bullets, but the shotgun with a closer distance, but a larger range of killing was also put into use. More than ten iron pieces burst by the shotgun penetrated several Jin soldiers in the center of the explosion!

"No!" A Jin soldier was frightened to find a shotgun at his feet. He had no time to scream, and his throat was pierced by iron pieces, losing consciousness forever.

Under a round of mixed ammunition bombing, more than 20 Jin soldiers died. In this round of artillery attack, one car was destroyed, and another car was blown off the axle due to the debris of shotguns, and it was stuck to the ground and unable to move.

"Clear the residue and continue shooting!" David Dong seemed to be crazy. He mechanically commanded the cannons to load different ammunition and continuously bombarded the Jin soldiers. The loud roar of the cannons made his ears temporarily deaf.

"Chang Chong!"

The Jin general Li Shutai was also hysterical. He kept falling down around him, and the explosion of shells made him feel distressed. He just wanted to lead the army to the city as soon as possible and take down the city of death as soon as possible.

In just six hundred meters, five rounds of artillery landed in the Jin soldiers' queue, causing hundreds of casualties.

However, one-tenth of the casualties had not yet defeated the will of the Jin soldiers who were hitting Wanghai Fortress. After all, their Eight Banners masters were supervising the battle behind him. Retreating was death, and moving forward might also avoid the Ming army's artillery by chance.

Chu Yun's army dug a trench two meters wide and one meter deep under the city of Wanghai Castle, and some iron nails were sprinkled inside to stop the Jin soldiers from moving forward. If the trench carts want to continue moving forward, engineers have to fill the trench. However, to fill the trench, you need to face the Ming army's bows and muskets on the top of the city.

Therefore, the Jin soldiers first tried to build bridges on the trench with a hook ladder, so that the archers could get down under the city under the cover of a large shield. Only when the archers suppressed the Ming army at the top of the city, the engineers behind could fill the ditch and the chariots could continue to advance.

"We finally arrived at our shooting range! Brothers, our limelight in front was stolen by the artillery. Now it's our turn to give the Jin soldiers a little color." Yang Tai, the captain of the First Infantry Brigade, Chang Yi, the captain of the Second Infantry Brigade, Xu Ji, the captain of the Third Infantry Brigade, and were impatient. Now it's their turn to show their power!

Black smoke rose from the top of the city, and rows of muskets roared!

The Jin soldiers outside the trench barely mounted a hook ladder. Before they could rush across the trench, they were hit by dense muskets and fell into the trench. Perhaps the city wall was not enough to make more than a thousand soldiers under Chu Yun line up, but these musket soldiers lined up in five rows on the city wall. After one row was shot, the other row stepped forward and continued to shoot, continuously! Compared with the ten cannons used for deterrence, dense muskets were truly deadly weapons. In just one minute, one or two hundred Jin soldiers fell down while rushing through the trench. The large shields of the Later Jin Dynasty were not very thick, which may be able to withstand bows and arrows and rough combs, but France's 1777 rifles could easily penetrate these large shields that were not iron shields.

Groups of golden soldiers came forward to die like moths to the fire under the full coverage of artillery and muskets.

Mangergutai looked at the dense artillery fire of the Ming army, and his scalp was numb. The artillery that was as far as six hundred meters was so close that it could attack the muskets under the city, almost making these six hundred meters a path to death on the Infinite Hell.
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