An hour has passed. The officers and soldiers of the Zhou army had been drinking and eating half an hour ago. Now they are all full of energy and gearing up, waiting for Ji Jie's order to read the full text of "The Love of the King" by Yin Reng.
Wang Jian led a group of generals to climb the city wall. He wanted to personally supervise the battle and boost the morale of the soldiers. In his opinion, as the defensive side, his military strength was almost the same as that of the Zhou army outside. It should not be difficult to defend the city. Wait. When the Zhou army was almost exhausted, they sent their elite cavalry out of the city. They defeated the Zhou army and the battle was certain to be won.
Wang Jian looked far into the distance and saw the three cannons placed at the front by the Zhou army. He pointed in that direction and asked the people around him: "What are those three things? Why did the Zhou army place them at the front?"
After several people looked at him, they all shook their heads.
Wang Jian smiled nonchalantly and said, "It must be Ji Jie's trick again. I don't believe anything can hit so far. It's six miles away from our city wall, right?"
"A full six miles!" A general concluded after careful calculation.
Behind the artillery, Ji Jie smiled and said to Ou Yan: "Xianyang City is five miles long from east to west, which means that more than 80% of the buildings in the city are within the range of my artillery! Ou Yan, the time is almost up, you can start running!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Ou Yan turned around and ordered the people he brought: "Check the artillery elements and prepare to reload!"
"No. 1 gun Zhu Yuan is good!"
"No. 2 gun Zhu Yuan is good!"
"No. 3 gun Zhu Yuan is good!"
The gunners of the three guns shouted in unison one after another. Ou Ming nodded and continued the order: "Load one round of armor-piercing shells. The target city gate is six miles away. Adjust the corresponding elevation angle and start preparations!"
The gunners immediately adjusted the elevation angle of the gun barrel to above "scale six", which represented a distance of six miles. One person opened the tail bolt, and the other loaded the shells into it. The skillful movements of the gunners showed that they had undergone systematic training.
The artillery shell did not have a cartridge case, but a warhead plus a high-explosive powder package. The technology at this time could not produce a cartridge case that could be fired by a firing pin in the true sense.
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Xianyang City, Xiangguo Mansion.
Lu Buwei angrily threw the tea cup in his hand to the ground and said angrily: "Wang Jian, a stinky boy, actually confronted me in the court. How can he be so good? He just won a few battles, what's the matter? So weird!”
A guest said with a smile: "Don't be angry, Mr. Prime Minister, it's not worth it! Who made the Qin State now have to rely on General Wang Jian? Just let him be happy for a few days. When the Zhou army is defeated, the Prime Minister will lead the group. The minister impeached him, but he couldn’t explain it even if he had eight mouths!”
Lu Buwei nodded and said: "What you said makes sense, why should I care about him? He is just a knife in my hand. If it is comfortable for me, I will continue to use it. If it is not, I will endure it for the time being and wait for the opportunity." Throw it away immediately, hum!"
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"Fire!" Ou Ming suddenly lowered his raised right hand.
"Bang...bang...bang..."
The three cannons were fired in sequence, with less than a second between them. The cannons ejected from the chamber and flew towards the city gate at high speed. The firing hand pulled the gun bolt, and a small amount of gunpowder smoke and gunpowder bag residues automatically slid out, and the loader reloaded.
"What is it?" Wang Jian's eyes widened. Three small black dots were flying towards this direction quickly. His heart trembled for no reason, and he had a very bad premonition.
"Boom boom boom..."
The three shells did not hit the city gate, but hit the nearby city wall. The violent explosion was deafening, and the generated air wave directly swept several Qin soldiers standing on the side into the sky, and then fell heavily to the ground. Come on, kill him immediately.
"What on earth is this?" Wang Jian took a step forward, leaned down and looked down. When he saw the location where the city wall was hit, he gasped!
A crater with a diameter of more than half a foot was formed where it was hit, and many of the surrounding city bricks were blown away, exposing the rammed earth inside.
The lethality is so huge and the range is so far. Wang Jian has never seen such a powerful weapon. This is not surprising. Artillery is a product of two thousand years later. How could he have seen it before?
Through the telescope, Ji Jie clearly saw the huge damage caused by the cannonballs to the city wall. He was very satisfied with this and said with a smile: "Go on, there is no need to aim at the city gate in the future. Blow up the city gate and the building first." Then attack towards the city, and finally blast open their city gate, and the brothers rush over together!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Ou Ming continued to direct the firing.
In the second round of salvos, one shell hit the city gate building directly, knocking off the top cover and killing many people nearby. Wang Jian was lucky to escape, but his face turned pale from the fright. .
"General, it's too dangerous here. Let's get down quickly!" Several generals picked up Wang Jian, who was already dead on the spot, and walked down without saying anything. God knows whether they really care about the general's comfort, or they are afraid of death and want to hurry up. leave.
"The artillery fire extends towards the city, one-tenth of a mile at a time!" Ou Yan pointed at Xianyang City and ordered the artillery: "Bombard me once and for all, so that the Qin people know how powerful our Zhou Dynasty is!"
The artillerymen immediately took action, and the shells exploded in the city. The city suddenly became a mess, and screams continued from the places where they were hit.
"Boom!" A cannonball landed in a side room of the Lu Mansion, directly blowing the house into rubble. The three servants in the room were killed on the spot, and several people around him were also injured to varying degrees. .
"How could the city be attacked?" Lu Buwei rushed to the yard and asked: "Why didn't you hear the sound of our counterattack?"
A frightened servant stumbled in and said: "Reporting to the master, I heard that the Zhou army fired artillery six miles outside the city. Our army's trebuchets have a limited range and cannot fight back!"
Lu Buwei took two steps back and murmured to himself: "You can't fight back, which means you can only get beaten. How could things develop to this point? How could the Zhou army be so powerful? Impossible, impossible..."
Speaking of which, the Lu Mansion was really unlucky. Three cannons bombed the city, but only his place was hit by two shells, resulting in numerous casualties. Lu Buwei also had his arm broken by a knocked down bookshelf.
The one who was most surprised was Wang Jian. At this moment, he and a group of generals were hiding at the base of the city wall. This was the safest place they thought.
Ji Jie specifically asked Ou Yan not to fire on Qin Palace. It would be a pity that such a luxurious palace was destroyed by war. Besides, Zhao Ji still lived in it. How could he bear to attack a poor woman like her.
"This is the distribution map of troops in the city!" Ji Jie gave Ou Yan the intelligence sent by the intelligence department and said, "The deterrent in my mind is almost done. The next step is to focus on attacking their trebuchet positions and barracks. I want to let The Qin people have completely lost confidence in this war, and the focus is on the trebuchet position!"
Ou Ming said with a smile: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely capture their trebuchet position. When our army charges, they won't even be able to fire a single shell!"