At noon on the 23rd day of the first lunar month of the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty, Jiannu launched a fierce attack on Ningyuan City from four gates.

Teams of Jiannu rode on horseback and rushed towards Ningyuan City.

Yuan Chonghuan laughed and said, "Jiannu was so confused that he actually sent cavalry to attack the city. The soldiers, it's time for you to make contributions."

The soldiers on the city responded, and each took a crossbow to aim at the Jiannu cavalry under the city. They just waited for the Jiannu cavalry to reach thirty steps from the city wall and then fired the arrows.

Liu Xiaosan is an ordinary Ningyuan soldier with a very small monthly salary, which is only enough for him to spend alone. Hearing that the Jiannu cavalry attacked the city, his mind was active. The Mongolian Tatars took Jiannu's head to receive the reward, and each head was ten taels of silver. If he got Jiannu's head, ten taels of silver would definitely not be able to escape. He killed two Jiannu in the battle, and then he would have twenty taels of silver and get the money to marry his wife. He held the crossbow tightly, aimed at a shouting Jiannu, and said in his heart: "Come here, come here quickly."

Unfortunately, the soldiers on the city wall were so happy that the Jiannu cavalry were not close. They opened their bows and shot arrows when they were fifty steps away from the city wall. Waves of arrow rain shot towards the defenders on the city wall.

Jiannu's bow and arrow were not aimed, but this indiscriminate projectile made the defenders feel bad. The soldiers around Liu Xiaosan caught him off guard and fell to the ground, screaming and screaming. His sergeant was even more miserable. An arrow went in through his left eye and came out of the back of his head. The sergeant died without even humming.

Liu Xiaosan was so scared that he pulled the trigger with a "whisper" and the crossbow arrow flew out. Originally, the range of the Ming Dynasty crossbow was not as good as that of Jiannu, but now he didn't aim. The crossbow arrow was inserted ten steps away from Jiannu.

At this moment, thousands of arrows were fired at once on the city wall, but the arrows either did not hit the enemy, or even though they hit the enemy, they did not bring any damage. There is no way. Who made the Ming Dynasty's crossbows not as far as Jiannu's crossbows?

In this round of shooting, seventeen soldiers died on the city wall and twenty-nine were injured. Jiannu only had one cavalry who went back with the Ming arrow in his chest. Judging from his arrogant appearance, his injuries were not much worse.

Yuan Chonghuan, who was commanding soldiers to fight on the wall, was almost shot by a stray arrow. Fortunately, a personal soldier pushed him aside and survived. However, the personal soldier was shot in the temple by the arrow and died on the spot.

Yuan Chonghuan's eyes were red and he shouted: "Shield-holding soldiers came forward to protect the archers. The archers should not shoot arrows anymore, wait for the fighter plane. Jiannu was not within the range, so he was not allowed to shoot arrows."

"Where is the gunner? Where is the gunner?" General Man Gui shouted, "Has he been shot to death?"

The gunners were rare and protected animals even in the Ming Dynasty. They had special shields to protect them, and there was nothing they could do. They hurriedly agreed.

"If you are not dead, give me some cannons and kill those dogs | mother | raised them."

The gunners poured gunpowder into the barrel and filled the solid shells. One gunner lit the lead with the fuse around his neck. All the gunners tilted their heads and covered their ears with their hands. Only the shield hands were calm and they were ready. They had already stuffed their ears with cotton.

With a loud "boom", the solid shell rushed towards Jiannu with the rage of revenge.

The Jiannu soldier with a feather arrow in front of his chest was thinking about how many Ming women and how much money he had stolen from the feather arrow. The shells roared and hit him. He didn't even have time to hum, and together with his horse, he turned into meat paste. He could no longer tell where there was human flesh or horse meat. But it was okay, anyway, he was just a beast with his hands covered with the blood of the Ming people. Now his flesh and blood were mixed with the beast's flesh and blood. He did not insult him.

The shell hit the ground and bounced up again. This time, a soldier was knocked down from the horse, spitting blood, and he couldn't see it anymore. The cavalry behind had no time to stop, and the horse's hooves stepped on his head. Even his eyes were trampled out. Although he died ugly, he was finally relieved and he didn't have to cry for a long time before he died.

Because it was a dive shot, the shells could not jump up only once, but this did not prevent it from rolling at high speed on the ground, and injured the hoofs of four horses. The war horse neighed and fell to the ground. The knight on the horse also screamed and fell off the horse. The horse behind it stomped directly from the soldiers who fell on the ground, trampling the soldiers to pieces. When a war horse that stepped on the soldiers lifted the hoofs, it even carried a long steaming intestine on it. Whose intestine was? Everyone can tell.

After the gunners set off the cannon, they carefully observed the results of the cannon. When they saw that six Jiannu killed one shot, they cheered in unison. One gunner shouted happily: "Six shots are worth six, which is sixty taels of silver. For the four of us gunners, each of us can get fifteen taels of silver."

Man Gui said coldly: "Two, two cannonballs kill two, but Jiannu trampled on each other."

The gunner yelled: "So stingy, aren't we fired the gun? Will they trample on each other?"

Man Gui was furious and said, "If you go and bring Jiannu's heads, it will be counted as many. The court is talking about heads, and there is no head. There is no reward for the sky. We have all picked out these rewards from our teeth, and we are not satisfied."

The gunner then calmed down. The Jiannu cavalry was very fast and had already left the range of the tiger squat cannon.

Man Gui shouted again: "Where is the red cannon gunner? It's your turn to show off your power."

The red-clothed cannon was purchased from foreign countries in the Ming Dynasty. Many of them were copied by Ming craftsmen. The effective range was 400 steps and the maximum range was about 1,300 steps.

The big cannoner in red responded and began to load gunpowder and shells.

With a "boom", another solid shell ran towards Jiannu.

The lethality of this shell is even greater than that of the shell fired by the tiger squat cannon just now. It directly killed 4 cavalrymen and injured the legs of 6 horses, causing 5 Jiannu cavalry to be trampled to death by their own people. The lucky escaped Jiannu was very clever. After falling off the horse, he immediately rolled to the side and avoided the horse's hooves of his own army.

Of course, when the red-clothed cannon gunners calculated their military achievements, they only counted as killing four enemies.

Nuer Hachi was so angry that he jumped straight into his feet. This time he was just a feint attack, creating an opportunity for the inner guard to open the city gate, but 15 Jiannu warriors died in an instant. Why didn't he let him beat his chest and stamp his feet? This was just the situation at the North Gate. The other three gates still don't know the situation of the battle. If it was the same as here, the total number of casualties of Jiannu soldiers would really make him shed tears in pain.

Nuerhachi's war has been smooth sailing over the years. The Ming army has always been defeated with one touch, or even if it is not touched. Then the Jiannu cavalry began to chase and chop off the fleeing Ming soldiers. After a war, Jiannu's casualties were usually only double digits. I didn't expect that there were so many artillery in Ningyuan City, and the range of each artillery was far beyond the range of Jiannu archers.

The Jiannu wars all launched a defensive mode, first using several intensive rounds of volleys to cause a large number of casualties to the Ming soldiers, and then causing the Ming army to defeat. Of course, this is based on the premise that the Ming army's long-range firepower output is not as good as that of itself. Now that the Ningyuan defenders have cannons, it is a joke. No matter how penetrating the bow and arrows are, one arrow can only kill one person, but if one shell goes down, it will be several or even dozens of casualties. Nuerhachi remembered the legendary flowering artillery shell. If that thing exploded in the Jiannu's dense charge team, the tragic situation would be unimaginable. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

ps: (Thanks to the book friends who have subscribed. I'll go to the keyboard and ask for recommendations and monthly tickets. The second update is here. In addition, I recently found that the power of the artillery in the Ming Dynasty was not as great as I imagined. When I quelled the Cangzhou Rebellion in the previous few chapters, one shot was a bit too much for one hundred lives, but there was a dense line, forty or fifty lives still possible. However, the workload was too high for changes, so I won't change it in order to ensure updates. I apologize here.)
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