The day after Chen Wen defeated Chen Jin in Quzhou, the Anhua Town Bastion, the northernmost end of the Ming army occupied the area, was once again besieged by the Qing army.

The location of the bastion was on the only way for the Qing army. There were sufficient soldiers and supporting weapons, equipment and food inside the fortress, which was enough to stick to it for a long time. Moreover, during this period, the Ming army also vigorously repaired and reinforced it, and also built some peripheral fortifications, which were easier to defend and difficult to attack than before.

In contrast, the Qing army that appeared on the battlefield was the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, which were besieged several months ago, the three elite Qing troops in northern Zhejiang, namely the Zhejiang Admiral Biao Camp and the Zhejiang Governor Biao Camp. Although they tried their best last time, they could not do anything to this bastion at all, this time, they came with confidence in winning, because their coach Jin Li had already brought a weapon that could not be resisted by any strong city.

The detective had already made early warnings, and even without warning Lin Zhongxiao and his subordinates knew that their head coach Chen Wen was trying his best to fight against the main force of the Qing army on the front line of Quzhou. It would be strange if the Qing army on the front line of Hangzhou did not come. After all, entering Jinhua from here is the safest route for such a large army.

After the siege a few months ago, the Ming army renovated the city wall and led a moat. Although the rammed earth wall that was demolished by the Qing army was not renovated, it was transformed into a low wall using the original foundation, which could also hinder the Qing army's attack speed. If it were coupled with the half of the Dongyang Camp that was always on standby on the flanks to attack at any time, the difficulty of this fortress could be said to be even more difficult to conquer than before.

The previous defensive operations and the unswerving determination in the face of Cao Conglong's rebellion made Lin Zhongxiao very good reviews from Chen Wen, but for Lin Zhongxiao, who has always been honest and responsible, it was actually just a fulfillment of his duties. His hometown was in the village at the foot of Dalan Mountain. If Chen Wen had not covered the people's evacuation, he would have died a long time ago, let alone his current official position and gradually enriched family business. In his opinion, all this was given by Chen Wen, and he was also Chen Wen's subordinate. If he could not even do his duty, he would be too conscience.

He guarded the Anhua Town Fortress and shared the pressure in order to do his best to relieve the pressure on the southern line. Lin Zhongxiao knew very well where he was located. So when the Ming army set out to fight in Quzhou, he began to wait for the battle every day. But he didn't expect that the Qing army was really here, and it seemed that it was no different from before.

"No! What's that thing?"

Looking from afar, in the Qing army's battle formation in the distance, a giant cannon with red silk was slowly moving forward by the Qing army using livestock to pull the cannon carts. Although it was close to each other, the long-term experience of the army made Lin Zhongxiao and some veterans of his subordinates quickly realized that the fearful caliber of the giant cannons was not in the Ming army's equipment at all.

"Red Cannon!"

The sharp weapon brought by the Qing army was indeed the Red and Barbarian artillery. This type of artillery was not unused in previous offensive and defensive battles, both the Ming army and the Qing army. However, the Red and Barbarian artillery were not all of the same caliber. Most of the artillery of the Ming army came from capture and did not have the ability to cast such a huge caliber. In order to take into account field battles, the Qing army also underestimated the defense ability of the battalion and the way of Yiwu County, which last time, had no city walls, so the Qing army did not carry artillery with too large caliber.

Most of the Jiangnan has been pacified today. Many generals of this giant cannon used to attack cities have begun to forget their existence. However, Jin Li was a Han general who had already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty during the Nurhaci era, and he also existed among the Six Tribes and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty in the era of Huang Taiji. He also knew very well about the heavy troops of Wu Zhenchaoha, the predecessor of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. After entering the pass, he and Ye Chen, Gushan, used artillery to break the city with cannons when they attacked Taiyuan. There is no reason not to understand the advantages of this kind of cannon.

Not to mention Taiyuan, the large-caliber red artillery he brought this time could not resist even a giant city like Yangzhou, let alone such a fortress in front of him that could only be equipped with hundreds of people.

<>Jin Li, full of ambition, gently stroked the body of the red cannon wrapped in red silk, as if he was stroking the smooth skin of his newlywed wife. This color was so beautiful that even Tian Xiong, Yu Fenqi, Xu Xin, Chang Jingong and other senior generals of the Qing army could understand, and they always felt a little uncomfortable.

"Let's get started."

As he said that, Jin Li brought the Qing generals back to the Central Army's flag, and then the special artillery teams of the several cannons began to be busy.

The Red-Black Cannon can improve its hit rate by calculating the parabola by adjusting the gun stand, controlling the amount of gunpowder, and using sightseeing, gates and a series of special measurement tools. However, although the Ming and Qing armies of this era learned the technology of casting Red-Black Cannons and could also be used, they could only rely on experience in aiming, rather than scientific calculations.

With the busyness of the Han Eight Banner artillery, it took a long time to complete the work before the transfer. After Jin Li's order, the several red cannons immediately made a deafening roar. Accompanied by the buzzing in the nearby Qing army's ears, the orange-red flames erupted like a volcano eruption in the mouth of the muzzle, and the black shadow that could not be seen clearly flashed and flashed.

The first test shot was not very effective, but the huge cannonballs smashed the pit on the land in front of the low wall and the mud that stirred up immediately changed the color of those low walls.

Looking at everything in front of him, Lin Zhongxiao and his subordinates couldn't help but swallow. This time, it was indeed not hit the city wall, but if he really hit the city wall, it was hard to say what would happen.

However, after this time the artillery was fired, about ten minutes later, the second round of artillery came late under the attention of the crowd. Two of them hit the low walls for a moment, and then collapsed the two rammed-earth low walls without any hesitation.

The Qing army in the distance seemed to have cheered. Although it was too early, the Ming army who saw all this looked like earth. Because they knew very well that although the rammed earth wall was far less solid than the wall of the castle where they were, it was still a rammed earth wall. It collapsed suddenly, which really made them unable to keep their hearts in their stomachs as they had before.

The attention seemed to slow down. The Qing army's gunners were probably resetting, clearing the slag, loading, and making all preparations, but in the eyes of the Ming army, it had been a long time since they were speechless. What made them speechless was that the Ming army had no choice at all with such an amazing range.

After a long wait, the third round of artillery began under the high-than-hopeful gaze of Jin Li, who had stretched his neck.

The black shells shot out from the muzzle, and after passing through perfect parabolas, they hit the walls of the castle at an astonishing speed. Only one shell was obviously not strong enough, and simply hit the mud bank of the moat, splashing another piece of mud rain.

However, the huge kinetic energy carried by the cannons that hit the city wall scared the recruits who were already squatting on the ground and covering their ears, and even felt that the ground seemed to have shaken.

But after a moment, the new recruits soon realized that their actions might arouse the dissatisfaction of the officers. Fortunately, the officers were not interested in paying attention to them at this time. They all took the city walls to see the huge shells, and seemed to be shocked.

A new recruit who was the first to return to normal quickly crossed the city head like others to see a shell hitting the convex corner where they were, but what they saw was the shell that should have been embedded in the city wall quietly landed on the ground at the corner. The city bricks on the convex corner where they were located were broken - after they broke along a spider-like brick, they broke more and more shallower, pointing directly to the angle between the two protrusions.

The shell began to traverse the side of the convex corner after the concentrating the wall brick. The final energy was removed until the corner was included, and finally fell to the ground weakly. In fact, even if it hit the corner directly, the shell would not cause too much damage, because although the raised angle is integrated with the prism, it is also an outer building of the inner city wall. There is also a thick city wall at the top of the corner that has to carry the enemy.

"I remember the general mentioned that the Ji Liao commander said that the old slave was injured by the guy with this kind of red barbarian cannon, and he died of his old injury after half a year."

Hearing this, a trembling voice sounded as the sound of swallowing saliva sounded. "Is that still a human being? He was not going to fight Ningyuan City with the bastion under our feet?!"

In the shock of the huge power of these red cannons, and also in the shock of the terrifying ability of this castle to resist the attack, the Qing army, who was too far away and did not know how much damage it caused, continued their preparations. Until the Ming army had just recovered, a new round of artillery bombardment began again...

After several rounds of artillery, the expected collapse of the city wall did not happen, and Jin Li was full of doubts and had no answer. Seeing this, Tian Xiong hurriedly proposed the ants' attack on the city. Even if he could not take down the fortress in one go, he could always figure out the effect of those rounds of artillery.

The reasonable suggestions were immediately approved, and the Qing army, who had been ready for a long time, moved forward one after another. The head was the nephew of the general Xu Xin, the son-in-law of Yu Fenqi, who was in charge of the general of the Central Camp, and Xu Lei, the brother-in-law of Chen Wen's favorite general. He was already in charge of the garrison of the Zuoying Central Army as a guerrilla general. This time, several generals of the Qing army in Hangzhou had high hopes for all the red barbarian artillery, and of course they had to send elite soldiers to "rob" this first landing.

As Jin Li's military order was issued, Xu Lei led most of the Luiba Zuoying, and the old-fashioned mandarin duck formation in his hand was personally directed by his confidant Liu Da. As long as the red artillery can collapse the city wall, or even cause a relatively large degree of damage to the city wall, he would dig the city wall at all costs, and finally rushed in with the mandarin duck formation in his hand to complete the city breaking.

The Qing army in the brigade began to roll forward, and Lin Zhongxiao quickly commanded his subordinates to take their place. Among them, the fortress artillery positions and artillery on the city walls would bombard the siege equipment as before, especially the watchtower.

However, the shock brought by the shelling just now and the bastion's ability to resist the strike was far from subsided. After the order was issued, a group of gunsquats panickedly opened the fixed charge package and poured the gunpowder into it for loading. However, they forgot that they had already completed the transfer of the cannon before the shelling...

A moment later, a loud bang sounded on a long wall of a ridge. The Qing army did not have the basic concept of infantry and artillery coordination, so when the watchtower reached a sufficient distance, they did not dare to fire the gun rashly. Naturally, this gun was not fired by them, but the gun was filled with twice the gunpowder - it exploded!

Blasting of the chamber is very common in historical records, and it is often recorded such as "cannon explosion" and "cannon cracking". After Chen Wen came to this era, he learned from Li Ruixin that Huang Degong's troops never used the Ministry of Works to make firearms, because those firearms were basically definitely fried according to normal loading, but if they were loaded less, they had no power, which was far less useful than cannons made by local or military towns.

Since Chen Wen led his troops, the artillery used either came from his own craftsmen or seized. Maintenance is second-hand, but there is definitely no product from the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Works, which is not afraid of boiling water. In addition, the gunners knew the power of artillery, so they had never had the habit of loading at the limit. However, no matter how good the artillery was, twice as much as the normal loading amount of gunpowder, it would be strange if the chamber was not fried.

In a blink of an eye, the officers and soldiers on the convex corner were almost wiped out by the power of the explosion, and even the nearby area was affected.

Lin Zhongxiao, the commander of Anhua Town Bastion, fell to the ground. He was standing on the wall behind the protrusion, but the explosion of air waves still knocked him to the ground. With a piece of fragments from unknown origin, he cut down the fingers that were still pointing forward at the Qing army and directing the attack.

With his right hand, a general holding a weapon's right hand, his index finger and middle finger were gone, and the splashed blood stained his other hand red.

The battle to defend the city was about to begin. As Lin Zhongxiao endured the heart-wrenching pain, he quickly got up and commanded the fire soldiers to move the bodies of the wounded and soldiers to the city, cleaned up the damaged guardrail on the convex corner, and then asked the reserve team to bring spare cannons to fill it.

After a busy period, the garrison was finally restored. It was not until this time that Lin Zhongxiao had the opportunity to allow the military doctor who had just been pushed to the ground by him because he was hindering the command and fighting for examination and bandage. However, his eyes were not his right hand, which was still in pain, but his brigade of Qing troops who had already used the rushing car to destroy some of the low walls and rushed in.
Chapter completed!