At that time, whether it was five hundred meters, six hundred meters or seven hundred meters, the range of cannons far exceeded the range of bows and arrows, so the Qing Dynasty could directly bombard the walls of Songshan City five or six hundred meters away.

"Cannon?" He Xuan was shocked.

"The Qing army added cannons." Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu, felt his scalp numb.

In this era, muskets and other things have not been widely used, and muskets are not very useful.

However, artillery is really useful, especially when siegeing cities.

"The Qing army has cannons, and we also have cannons, just bombing." He Xuan said in confusion.

"There is no such thing as you said. The number of cannons in our army is not as good as that of the Qing army. They will suffer losses from bombing." Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu, shouted, and at the same time, he said to the artillery in front of the cannons on the city wall: "The soldiers are ready, try to bomb at places with many Qing soldiers."

"Yes." Many soldiers nodded.

Su Ding also explained quietly from the side, and He Xuan understood what was going on.

Before becoming a crazy nightmare in the Ming Dynasty, Nurhaci, the founder of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty, had been showing his loyalty for most of his life. Nurhaci did a big thing silently: studying the firearms of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the records in the "Art Chart": As early as the ninth year of Wanli, Nurhaci coaxed and deceived many Han craftsmen, and lured many deserters with the status of firearm soldiers in the Ming army to come over. He also used mink fur to exchange saltpeter sulfur for a long time, so he developed firearms.

Nurhaci, who had been hiding for most of his life, was able to make up his mind in his later years and pluck the flag and resist the Ming Dynasty because he understood one thing: the Ming Dynasty's seemingly powerful firearm advantages had already been flooded!

The entire system of firearms in the Ming Dynasty and the huge bureaucratic group were all in it. In addition, the emperor did not care much about this matter and did not know how to deal with it. Therefore, the firearms they created were a lot of garbage and inferior goods.

On the contrary, in the Qing Dynasty, Fushun Qinghe area, it was a firearm production base in the Ming Dynasty since the Jiajing period. It had sufficient mineral resources and many craftsmen and technicians. Nurhaci and his troops were all picked up ready-made. Then, while the Ming Dynasty was defeated, they sent firearms. What was seized by the Later Jin Dynasty, they could soon learn to build. According to the "Manchu Records", during the Tianqi period, the Later Jin Dynasty could make firearms by themselves.

But in terms of the reason, there are two words: efficiency!

When the Later Jin Dynasty started, although the economy and system were all kinds of barbaric and backward, one of the stronger ones than the Ming Dynasty was the military mobilization system. In terms of firearms, we concentrated our efforts on the development, from fire-making to fire-pushing and then to fire-training, everything was efficient.

Let’s go back to the cannon.

At that time, the firearms in the West were already more advanced than those in the East.

Therefore, the best cannon at that time was the red-clothed cannon from the West, also known as the Red-Bian cannon. Although it was not as good as the top Western goods, it was also considered a replacement product. Its range reached six or seven hundred meters, and its power was even greater, exceeding the local four or five hundred meters of cannons.

In the early days, I went to Macau to buy cannons, but when I went to Beijing, I took half of them and only pulled them to the front line. During the Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty decided to produce red cannons independently, first built a factory in Dengzhou, and planned to introduce the military battles in the capital. Unexpectedly, the court was quarreling again, and Chongzhen changed his original intention and only produced it in Dengzhou.

Therefore, there are actually quite a few red cannons in the Ming army now.

On the other hand, the efficiency of the Qing army and Huang Taiji of the Later Jin Dynasty was astonishingly high: they had been offering a large reward, and finally, in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Han army flag craftsman Wang Tianxiang, built a copy of the Red Armor cannon of the Later Jin Dynasty. Without any slap in the saliva, they immediately built a large number of cannons after they were successfully developed, and forty cannons were immediately put into the Daling River Battle.

The next Ming Dynasty's "Denglai Army Change" gave a big gift to the Later Jin Dynasty: the Ming Dynasty artillery factory in Dengzhou finally successfully developed the Chinese version of the Red Barbarian cannon, and met the local garrison Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming rebelled. The two of them brought a large number of craftsmen to the Later Jin Dynasty with artillery technology that the Ming Dynasty had worked hard to develop, and took a large number of craftsmen to the butt.

According to the pain of Li Yutian, the governor of Liaodong in the late Chongzhen period, he said: The chief (Qing army) casts hundreds of cannons but has more than one, but I (Ming army) casts ten cannons but is unable to do so. The casting cannons is ten times more powerful than my magical artifact.

Did you see it? What are you saying, ten times! ten times!

Everyone is a red cannon, and their ranges are six or seven hundred meters.

But, the number of people is ten times that of yours.

Therefore, every time the Ming army defended the city, it was actually not easy to defend, and the artillery fire could not compare to the enemy's fierceness.

boom!

I saw that more than 30 large black iron balls flew out at the same time and directly hit the western wall of Songshan City, the Ming army, obviously planning to use the western wall as a breakthrough. Most of the artillery shells of this era were such large iron balls. The records were recorded as follows: ammunition is heavy, ranging from several kilograms to even 10 kilograms. The projectiles are mainly spherical solid bullets made of materials such as stone, iron, and lead. They can also launch chain bullets, shotguns and other ammunitions. They have a variety of shapes and usage methods, and are aimed at physical destruction of the shells directly hitting the target.

Of course, because of this, the cannons at that time were evaluated in this way. This thing is good at siege and is not bad at field battles. To put it bluntly, it is used for siege, and it is basically useless at other times.

On the side of the Ming army's western wall, the red-clothed cannon directly blasted out large black iron balls. However, the number was much smaller, and the only ones that were blasted out were five or six black iron balls. Compared with that, the power was much worse.

boom!

More than 30 shells from the other party hit the west wall of Songshan City hard, causing the entire west wall to tremble. He Xuan could not help but tremble.

Next, the process of continuous firing and bombardment.

boom!

boom!

The two sides kept firing at each other, but the Ming army was at a disadvantage overall.

He Xuan was behind the city wall and frowned: "It seems that the situation is not very good."

"Yes, the situation is not good. With such momentum, I am afraid that the city wall will be destroyed by the opponent. Once it collapses, our army will fight against the enemy, and will be blocked in Songshan City at that time, and there will be no exit. It will fight against the enemy in the field. However, our army lacks firepower. It's really fucking. I have applied to the top countless times, asking for more artillery and more artillery. As a result, no one listens at all. I'm not sure how to fight this battle." Yang Guozhu cursed directly.

"If this continues, it's really not possible." He Xuan pondered: "It's not my personality that I have to find a way out."

He pondered repeatedly.

Yang Guozhu, Gao Yongming, and Su Ding did not have much hope for He Xuan.

He Xuan can shoot and kill the enemy's generals, but the other party is not close at all now, and they are all five hundred steps away. What can he do? One step in this era is agreed to be four feet, and one foot in this era is shorter than one foot in the 21st century, and four feet is about one meter. So to put it bluntly, one hundred steps is about one hundred meters.

He Xuan could not rush out of the city wall alone and rushed into the Qing army's camp. If he could rush into the thousands of people, he would have only a dead end.

Not only did Huang Taiji study He Xuan's record, but Yang Guozhu and others also studied it. He knew that He Xuan was not really one to ten thousand, and he had his limits to defeating 10,000 people. It was estimated that he could not do anything by one to one thousand.
Chapter completed!