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Chapter 63 - 5

The sudden appearance of the cavalry made the Han army guarding the city suspicious. Some muttered, "Can cavalry also attack the city?" Some people shouted, "Ammunition, hurry, hurry, put the ammunition!" But at this time, most of the artillery positions had just been fired, and the gun body had just retreated. The deputy gunner did not care that the barrel was still hot, so he stretched out the wet gun brush in. "She la—She la” a white mist rose, and the black ammunition hand stood beside him holding a medicine bag. Jing Chi's upper body was sweating profusely, and the gun captains were constantly shouting and urging: "She la—She la—" There were heavy and rapid breathing sounds on each artillery position.

Almost all the Han army artillery had been replaced with shotguns. Because the range of shotguns was limited, the Liao cavalry did not need to avoid shells at all at a distance of four or five hundred steps. They were extremely fast. While galloping, they lifted a ball of two feet in diameter from the side of the saddle. Almost instantly, the cavalry met the Liao infantry who was retreating. The palace tent army did not make any moves of avoidance, and rushed forward, rushing forward, causing the defeated soldiers to cry and shout for their parents to avoid them. Fortunately, just a few breaths, the cavalry had surpassed the defeated soldiers and chased the advance infantry and military formation.

The Palace Treasure Army's riding skills were extremely good. In such a chaotic and rugged battlefield, they could only control the horse with their legs and swing the balls with their arms, as if they were swinging meteor hammers, and rushed towards the city wall. With the sound of roars from time to time, there were constant roars from the city wall. From time to time, cavalry were hit by shotguns and fell down with their horses. Most of the cavalry took advantage of the gap between most of the artillery still loading and rushed into the city wall within fifty steps.

"Let me go!" Xiao Ping shouted violently, throwing the lit smoke ball out first. In fact, most cavalrymen's minds were blank. They were dry and could only follow the tactics they had already made. Although they did not hear the officer's call, they threw the ball that had already swung the highest speed out, and then tried hard to tighten the reins, so that the horse could slow down at the shortest distance, then turned around and fled back desperately.

Nearly a thousand balls had already lit the leads, drew countless parabolas, and flew over nearly fifty steps at the speed of the horse, and fell under the city wall. The fuse was still burning. Soon, the burning ball emitted thick and pungent smoke, and soon rose to the top of the city of Nanshan.

More than a thousand cavalrymen retreated like a tide. Almost at the same time, the density of fire from the cannons on the city suddenly became dense. The sound of "boom--", "boom--", "boom--" "boom--" "boom---" "boom---" "boom---" "boom---" "boom---" "boom---" "boom---" "boom---" "boom---" "boom---" "boom---" "boom--" "boom--" "boom--" "boom--" "thousands of thousands of shotguns flew from all directions, turning a range of three hundred steps away from the city into a slaughterhouse. After a brief low, this round of artillery attacks seemed particularly fierce, and the shells did not have eyes. There was no difference between high and low on this bloody battlefield.

Under the pursuit of artillery fire, Xiao Ping, the deputy general of Sushi, did not desperately urge the horse to fight the horse like other cavalry, but he was like this running horse, his heart was so congested that he seemed to explode. Shotballs flew past his ears with a whistling sound. His mouth was dry and he didn't care about anything else. He could only lower himself tightly on the horse's back to minimize his goal. Whether the Liao cavalry in the retreat or the infantry that was stagnant, he fell countless deaths in the rain of Shotballs.

"Your grandma!" Zhou Yu cursed viciously. The artillery fired a huge recoil and made the cannon retreat suddenly. He stood beside the cannon, almost passing by the backward cannon, but he was as if nothing had happened. Zhou Yu was wearing thick gloves in his hand. He grabbed the cannon slightly straightened the direction while holding the cannon slightly, and turned around and shouted: "Pure brush, hurry up - hurry up -" As soon as he got on the battlefield, this usually kind of cannon leader became disregarded by relatives. The gunners did not dare to neglect and hurriedly sent the wet brush into the cannon chamber. With a "source" sound, Zhou Yu's smoky face seemed like an evil ghost in hell.

Suddenly, his eyebrows frowned and said strangely: "Damn, what's the matter?" The gunners followed his eyes and saw black smoke rising from under the city wall. I don't know what method the Liao people used. The black smoke was extremely strong, with the smell of sulfur and foul smell, which quickly blocked the view. Looking out from the gun hole of the enemy station, there was only a thick smoke. The Liao soldiers and horses were looming in the smoke and dust, but it was difficult to tell where the scattered soldiers were wandering and where the crowds were concentrated.

"Running—" "Running forward—" "Siege the city"

"Build a ladder--" "Quick! Quick!" "Build a ladder, get on, put it on!"

As black smoke enveloped the city wall, Liao army officers more than a hundred outside the city wall disbanded the formation and yelled and commanded the soldiers and ants to attack the city. In front of the formation, the commander of the thousand men, centurion, and ten men, pressed one level at a time. Whoever dared to turn and retreat was immediately on the ground. Behind the formation, about four or five hundred steps away, there were countless palace tent troops who were executing military law monitoring. Liao army soldiers rushed to the city wall like a tide, first put down the earth bags on their backs, then gathered under the cloud ladder, propped up shields to the top and four sides, and climbed up along the cloud ladder. Some Liao army continued to light smoke-producing medicine balls under the city wall, making the rolling black smoke thicker and thicker. Some more than a hundred men bent their bows and arrows with shields, and shot arrows upwards dozens of steps away from the city wall. As the smoke filled the smoke, clusters of arrows shot towards the city head like locusts.

All the cannon positions on the top of the city were filled with smoke and dust. The gunners covered their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs. At this time, everyone's nerves were tense to the tightest, and the ammunition loading movements reached the fastest. However, the gunners were shouting: "His grandma!" "I can't see anything clearly!"

"Go up!" "Go up quickly-" Because of the unclear vision, Zhang Liu did not dare to hold back and greeted the people in the corridor. At this time, more than a dozen ladders were already on the pillow. The musketeers worked together to lift the fork rod and pushed the ladder outward, but they didn't know what the Liao army did under the pillow. More than a dozen people could not push a ladder. The arrows on the top of the city were like rain. Although the musketeers were wearing thick armor, there were always some inadequate protection. Several people fell to the ground. Zhang Liu gritted his teeth, rushed to the pillow, and set the ignited muskete along the ladder. With a "boom", it seemed that someone had fallen from the ladder, but he couldn't see clearly through the thick black smoke.

"What can't be seen clearly, sir, what should I do?"

The gun hole was not spacious, and the thick smoke rising underground on the city wall was already extremely poor. For the gunner, it was impossible to aim and shoot. Zhao Xingde took the iron tube that was transmitting the sound and ordered in a deep voice: "Don't aim! In the order of advance, the nearest firing distance, the enemy stations fired in sequence!" The general's order buried deep in the city wall was sent to various enemy stations, and the commanders who had been guarding the side repeated loudly: "General Zhao's order, don't aim! Close to the city wall, fire in sequence!" With the issuance of this military order, the gunmen did not have to personally proofread the correct head of the cannon, but turned the cannon to the innermost direction of the city wall, fixed it, and then guarded the next to the sound tube.

"Zhenyuantai, open fire in sequence!" Tong Yunjie said loudly. One of the six most important enemy platforms in Nainanshan City, he commanded, was arranged in total twenty heavy iron barrel cannons on the upper and lower floors. With his order, these twenty iron barrel cannons opened fire in sequence. "Ping Liaotai, open fire in sequence!" Liu Zhijian said in a deep voice. "Bao Lutai, open fire in sequence at full speed!" Gao Su ordered. Accompanied by the sound of "boombo" and "boombo", countless shotguns pierced through the smoke and flew forward

.Because when building a city, all the artillery positions are arranged with the key point of exerting side firepower. Therefore, when the gun body turned to the closest to the city wall, the shells fired almost swept forward along the track parallel to the city wall, and the shots scattered inwards even hit the city wall directly. The Liao army, who were climbing the ladder, was the first to be hit and fell down one after another. In the smoke, the Liao army under the city wall fell like weeds swept by the autumn wind.

There are six enemy platforms and six forts in Nanshan City. In addition, there are gun positions on the concave city walls, which are specially cleaned up the inner gun positions at the city heads, and reserved for the future for the placement of central giant cannons. There are more than 300 large and small iron barrel cannons. The design of these gun positions takes great pains to design them. All of them are based on the principle of exerting side fire fire, so that each gun position can cover other sections of the city walls when firing on the front. If each cannon fires in sequence at the same time, each section of the city wall will be covered by side fire fire. More than 300 iron barrel cannons fire shotguns in sequence, which is almost equivalent to nearly 10,000, and even tens of thousands of crossbowmen shoot arrows with all their strength. The narrow area of ​​the city walls of Nanshan City is filled with the rain of bullets and blood mist of shotguns.

The smoke and fired fire deliberately released by the Liao army caused gun smoke to spread. Only screams could be heard from time to time in the smoke. The gunners were sweating profusely, only caring for loading ammunition at the fastest speed, and then - fired!

At this time, the commanders of the enemy stations were idle. Tong Yunjie stared at the smoke and remembered a question that Zhao De asked, "If each gun position fires at full speed, how long will it take to kill all the people under the city wall?" Just as he was a little distracted, he suddenly "boomed", and the huge impact force knocked him to the ground. "Damn it, it's exploded!" Tong Yunjie's head buzzed, and he stood up with his wooden legs. Seeing several gunners lying on the ground with blood on their bodies, the nearby gunners were looking at them. Tong Yunjie frowned, looked at the stunned people, and shouted viciously: "What are you looking at! If you don't want to die, work quickly and fire in sequence!"
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