Chapter 116 Artillery Battle
"Push the cannon"
With a roar, a group of people pushed several cannons to the front of the formation. Each cannon cart was lined up with three cannons, and a total of twelve cannons were set up in front of the formation, with a total of thirty-six cannons.
"Damn it, let them compensate me for my power, and blow my damn, and blow hard," Ma Shoucheng shouted angrily and hideously.
With such a big noise under the city, the guards at the South Gate Arrow Tower also discovered it immediately.
"Sir, cannons, cannons, lots of cannons"
The surprising Nine-Headed Birds team members were shocked and speechless, and they were stuttering. Liu Jun had already been holding up a thousand-mile mirror and watching the bandits' artillery carefully.
Through the Qianli Mile Mile, he clearly saw that the twelve gun cars arranged in one row about three hundred steps below the city.
"It's the cannon of destruction." Zhao Shun also stood next to Liu Jun with a thousand-mile mirror. He recognized the cannons as soon as possible.
Zhang Shan hurriedly asked, "Is this cannon powerful?"
"It's not as good as the Red Barbarian Cannon and the Large Folang Machine, but it's much stronger than our Tiger Squat Cannon." Zhao Shun's answer made Zhang Shan and the team members feel a little worried.
"Tell me about the specific situation of the Destroyed Cannon." Liu Jun kept calm and asked.
"Well, from here, the cannon pushed up by the thief is roughly judged as an ordinary cannon of the desperation of the barbarians. This cannon of the barbarians is actually similar to the tiger squat cannon, but it is powerful. The cannon of the barbarians weighs 100 kilograms and is made of fine iron. The tube is two feet long and has five iron hoops, and it shoots one kilogram of lead bullets. The court has long had this cannon and is often equipped in the car camp. It is loaded with a cannon of five or six hundred steps per shot, and it is like a huge thunder."
"Say it's said that the Mihu Cannon is one car and three cannons, which is 300 kilograms. The cannon car is loading, which is very convenient. Moreover, although the Mihu Cannon uses one kilogram of lead bullets, the most powerful part of this cannon is to fire spot bullets, which can fire 200 small lead pieces at a time, which is equivalent to 200 feather arrows."
Liu Jun was calm on his face, but he was already a little restless. The thiefs and bandits actually had such advanced guys. Although for the border army, the Destroyed Cannon cannon cannon cannons cannons cannons, for the small Tigerheads, the twelve Destroyed Cannons have a bit of a killer weapon.
The cannons equipped by the Nine-Headed Bird are tiger squat cannons, which are only more than 30 pounds, but the tiger squat cannons require fifty two-wheeled squat cannons to collapse the city wall. Now the thief has thirty-six more powerful enemy cannons, which is a bit difficult to fight. They were a little overly happy before.
Fortunately, Zhao Shun talked about the shortcomings of the Deluo Cannon again, which made Liu Jun feel a little better. The strong point of the Deluo Cannon is the shotgun. It fires 200 leads at a time, which is much stronger than the Tiger Squat Cannon that fires 100 leads at a time. However, it can only fire one pound of leads, while the Tiger Squat Cannon can fire thirty taels of large leads, which is more than twice that of the Deluo Cannon. From the design point of view, the two types of artillery, Tiger Squat and Deluo cannon are not used to siege cities. The cannons for siege cities are stronger with general cannons and red artillery cannons, and the Folang cannons are better for defending the city. The Deluo cannon is more suitable for chariot camps and light and convenient for transportation. The spot gun is suitable for battle. The Tiger Squat cannon is suitable for infantry formation battles, because the Tiger Squat cannon is more convenient for moving, but before firing the cannon, you have to dig a hole to fix it, which has a great advantage in supporting infantry formation battles.
"It seems that we don't need to worry too much," Liu Jun smiled, just a little reluctant.
As soon as he finished speaking, the trumpet was blown under the city.
"Let's go down quickly, the thief is about to set off firecrackers." Zhao Shun shouted.
Sure enough, before he finished speaking, he heard loud noises, and then a sharp whistling sound rang in the air.
"Lying down" Liu Jun shouted, squatting down at the female wall.
The Dehuo Cannon, which has a range of 500 steps, was launched at 300 steps, and was completely within the range. The thief's gunners were also very experienced. Twelve cannon cars fired volleys, and one of the thirty-six dehuo cannons came, and the sound of the cannons shook the sky.
Thirty-six pounds of heavy lead were the first to hit the south gate city wall, and a few hit the arrow wall. Liu Jun squatted at the top of the city and could feel his feet shaking.
Fortunately, the city wall was rammed and then wrapped. A pound of lead bullet hit it, leaving only some spider-web-like cracks. After the large lead bullet hit the city wall, there were small leads coming from the sky, which were loaded with 200 small leads of five cents per gun, and thirty-six cannons fired more than 7,000 small leads at once.
Almost all the entire southern city wall, which is nearly three hundred steps wide, was cage-related.
The sky was covered with lead, and the momentum was really scary.
When the lead rain passed, Liu Jun quickly shouted, "How are the casualties?"
Everyone looked left and right, looked at each other, and found that after this scary round of bombardment, everyone was not hurt. With the four-meter-high city wall, the seven-foot female wall, the bright helmet on their heads and the cotton armor on their bodies, they were almost completely injured.
Everyone laughed from nervousness to joy.
Some people even jumped onto the battlements and twisted down the city, making provocative actions.
"Come on, the thief who killed Qiandao, come and fuck your father."
Liu Jun stood up and looked at the city again.
The thief's enemy cannon was cleaning the cannon chamber and preparing for a second firing. At the same time, amid the sound of the trumpet, a large number of bandits were already holding wooden shields and carrying cloud ladders to rush towards the city wall under the cover of the previous round of artillery bombardment.
"The thief can also attack in the joint artillery, but he is not all idiots." Zhang Shan said.
"These are not big-Mazi and their gangs. They are all old bandits who have wandered around the Central Plains. They have seen many people in the world and fought many wars. It is not surprising that they have this ability." Liu Jun replied.
However, Liu Jun was not too worried. Although the thiefs had thirty-six cannons that were as expected by him, they had a newly built tiger-headed castle, a moat, a suspension bridge, a four-foot wall, and an arrow tower with thirty-six windows. There was even a three-gate inner wall inside the city gate. Although there was no outer wall outside the city gate, there was a wall of sheep and horses.
This is a three-dimensional city defense system. If the bandits want to break through and attack, it will never be easy. They were able to climb up the city last night because Liu Jun deliberately let them over. Now, it is not so easy.
"Dangdangdangdangdang"
Here, the sound of the pipa sounded on the city tower behind, followed by the sound of drums, flutes, and piano sounds. Shen Man finally started singing, dancing and music with the girls from Hongxiufang to cheer for the nine-headed birds.
"Take the tiger squat cannon at the thief's chariot and knock them out," Liu Jun ordered.
It was noon, and a scorching sun was hanging in the sky, and two soldiers and horses in the city were blowing trumpets and drums, and the battle officially began.
This time, the bandits no longer attacked sneak attacks but attacked for force, but their offensive strategy did not change much. Facing the first line of defense in Hutou Castle, they did not choose to fill the trench with difficulty, but instead prepared to cross the trench as the wooden ladder.
What's different than last night is that there were more wooden ladders prepared this time, and the bandits carrying the ladder in front raised a wooden shield.
After the first round of artillery fire, the bandits immediately began to charge. When they were halfway through, the enemy-impaired cannons behind them fired again and bombarded the southern city.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the bandits rushed forward and soon rushed to the front of the trench.
In addition to the four-story arrow tower on the city gate, there is also a horse-top platform protruding the city wall every thirty steps. The horse-top platform can shoot on the horse-top after the enemy rushes under the city wall, forming cross fire with teammates on the city wall without leaving any blind spots. On the horse-top platform of the Tiger Head Castle, there are even two-story enemy towers built like some border towns, with one on each horse-top platform.
There are eight horse-topped platforms built on the south city, with eight double-story enemy towers on them. Archers and musketeers can stand on it and attack the thieves from a high point.
On the east and west corners of Nancheng, there is also a corner platform built, and there is a three-story corner tower on each corner platform.
On the front of the entire Nancheng, which is more than 300 steps wide, there is a four-story arrow tower, two three-story corner towers, and eight double-story enemy towers. On the city wall, there are multiple turrets, which are arranged on it, with six tiger squatting cannons currently owned by Jiutou and more than a dozen counterweight stone throwing cars.
"Put them closer and hit them, aim and then hit them."
There is a trench, a sheep and horse wall, and a city wall. Liu Jun doesn't have to worry about the thief breaking the formation in one fell swoop. He can completely put the thief in front of the trench and shoot calmly in front of him.
The thief rushed to the trench with artillery fire and then set up a ladder.
The nine-headed birds in the city were waiting calmly until they finally started stepping on the ladder to cross the trench.
"Free fire" Zhang Donggou held a nine-headed bird on the bracket and raised his gun. He aimed at the thief who was stepping on a ladder dozens of steps away from the second floor of the enemy building and crossing the trench dozens of steps away. He was a middle-aged man in his forties. He held his face with one hand and obviously made a temporary wooden shield. He didn't even peel off the bark. The shield looked heavy, rough, but also very strong.
He trotted on the ladder, holding a waist knife in one hand.
But he was on the trench and had no teammates to cover his left and right. He had a shield in his hand, but in the eyes of Zhang Donggou, who is a sharpshooter, there were flaws everywhere.
"Go to die." He pulled the trigger, and there was a loud bang. The thief in his sight was shot. He shook a few times to try to stabilize his body, but in the end he was confused. He finally fell off the ladder with a loud noise and fell head-on into the trench.
Almost at the same time, the archers and musketeers on the arrow tower, the enemy tower, and the corner tower were almost at the same time. With the sound of gunfire, dozens of thieves who were stepping on the ladder were shot nearly half and fell into the trench.
The tiger squat cannons and catapults on the top of the city also began to fire. The Nine-Headed Bird only had six tiger squat cannons, which were far less powerful than the thief's destroying cannons. Fortunately, the Tiger-Headed Castellation also has more than a dozen counterweight catapults, which can shoot five or six kilograms of stones. And it is condescending. If the accurate head is good enough, it can play a good role.
The first round of cannon stones was fired at the same time, six lead bullets and eighteen stone bullets directly hit a cannon car in front of the thief formation. The chariot of the destroyer was disbanded, and the three cannons on it were also blown to the ground. Several gunners and shield hands were hit and fell down.
Liu Jun held up the Qianli Mile Mile and happened to see this scene, and waved his fists happily.
"Master, I can use all the cannons to aim at a cannon, and it's a good idea." Zhao Shun quickly flattered.
Although the cannons of this era also had a sight-seeing star, the accuracy was still too bad. The cannon was not based on the accuracy. However, Liu Jun was very afraid of the thief's destroying cannons, so Liu Jun was also ruthless and ordered six tiger squats and eighteen stone throwing cars to directly aim at one of the thief's cannons. Twenty-four cannons fired volleys, which could always increase the hit rate.
This is true. Although many people were empty, in the end, a lead bullet and a stone bullet hit the target, which directly solved the three enemy-killing cannons of the thief in one round.
"Next goal, come again"
Cai Yuan, the head of the Artillery Department, excitedly issued a new order and selected the next target.
Chapter completed!