Chapter 130 The Siege of the City

Not long after, a dazzling light suddenly flashed in the eyes of the defenders in the city, and then there was the roar of the mountains. Just a few hundred steps outside the city, dozens of various types of cannons were almost connected. A mass of flames protruded from the muzzle, and the smoke suddenly rose and spread outside the city.

Dozens of shells of various sizes immediately roared and cut through the sky and hit the wall of Ruzhou City heavily. Even if countless officers and soldiers lay on the ground one after another, only a few officers ran hysterically on the city and shouted, ordering to fire back at the officers and soldiers lying next to the cannons of the city wall.

Suddenly, Ruzhou City was like an open pot. Flames kept spitting out from all kinds of turrets under the city, and all kinds of projectiles roared and fell on the enemy's head.

The city bricks on the city wall of Ruzhou continued to turn into powder under the bombardment of shells, and the bursting masonry flew around, and shells kept falling on the wall, bombarding the green bricks into debris. Even the human body hiding behind the piles flew up, and the broken arms were scattered everywhere.

Huang Shengqiang crossed his waist and waved the order flag constantly. Where his arm pointed, there would be an artillery sound immediately. It was really majestic. More artillerymen of Xing Tianjun threw away the thick clothes outside, simply wore thin clothes inside, sweating like rain and operating their artillery, and kept moving towards The city wall was bombarded.

In less than half an hour, each gun fired at least dozens of shells, so that some gun bodies were already hot. As soon as the gunner accidentally touched the barrel, he was immediately scalded off a layer of skin.

This is the first time that Xing Tianjun has concentrated so many artillery on a battlefield and bombarded the enemy. Xiao Tianjian also personally ordered not to spare ammunition and suppress the defenders of Ruzhou City with the strongest firepower.

At the beginning, the defenders in the city at least fired back fire from time to time, but after two quarters of an hour of the shelling, the artillery in the city was basically all dumb.

How have the officers and soldiers ever been abused like this! In the past, they used to bombard the thief army with cannons, but now their cannons can't reach them. They are beaten by other people's cannons, so that they have no power to fight back. This fierce bombardment, many wooden plaques, wolf teeth and even cannons originally arranged on the wall, were scattered by the shells of the thief army. Originally, the neat and beautiful stack was now bombarded by the cannon fire of the Xing Tianjun into the front teeth of the old woman, which was damaged a lot. The whole wall in the south of the city was a mess, and there were many officers and soldiers who were killed. Many officers and soldiers simply escaped from the wall in order to avoid the cannon.

In particular, several newly built eight-pound guns pulled by the Xingtian Army this time. This is the first time they have been used to attack the city, and they have played a huge role. Although the eight-pounder cannon of the Xingtian Army is not as powerful and range as good as the Hongyi cannons used by the Ming army, it can be said that the eight-pound cannon is also a reduced version of the Hongyi cannon.

The overall weight of this newly cast eight-pound gun and the gun rack is more than 1,200 catties, the caliber is more than 100 mm, the barrel length is also close to two meters, and the effective range is more than 600 steps. It can hit four miles away at the ground at the maximum. The weight of the shell alone is close to ten catties. Every shot is a big pit that hits the city wall. At that time, the people in the city can feel a violent vibration under their feet, as well as the huge roar when the fire is fired and the flame smoke, which is spectacular and brings a considerable psychological shock to people.

But this eight-pounder gun does not look too stupid. The cast cannon is placed on a well-designed two-wheel gun rack. If the accompanying ammunition truck is not included, two strong mule horses can be dragged and can travel at a relatively fast speed. Although the mobility is not as good as the lighter three-pound and six-pound guns, it can basically be used for mobile warfare.

Coupled with the cooperation of the six-pound cannon and the three-pound gun in front, such a fierce shelling made the Ruzhou defenders have little power to fight back. They could only lie down and be beaten, and they were beaten to tears.

From time to time, Huang Shengqiang also ordered several eight-pound cannons to fire several flowering grenades into the city. These flowering grenades crossed the wall and hit the city heavily, and immediately blew up a house near the south of the city and collapsed, which caused chaos in the city.

He Zigang is also a big man. The supervisor who ran east and west in the city was actually not bombarded to death. He was just shocked. Seeing that the thief's artillery is so sharp, He Zigang has not had much intention to fight to the end. Looking at the wall that was bombarded in a mess by the thieves' artillery, and more and more The more soldiers who escaped from the city wall, the more they sighed and retreated from the wall under the protection of several family members. As soon as he went down to the wall, he heard a huge roar from the gate tower. A flowering bomb of the thief army hit the inside the gate tower and exploded in the gate tower, and the explosion also triggered the placement. More than a dozen barrels of gunpowder in the gate tower, immediately the whole gate tower was blown into the sky in a violent vibration, turning into a brick rain and falling down. Even if there was an exclamation above and below the wall, many officers and soldiers were smashed on the spot and fell to the ground, and there were many people who died.

Such an explosion almost made the officers and soldiers guard the city furious. Many officers and soldiers were so scared that they lost their weapons directly and fled to the city. What bullshit to protect the country? The thief army said it well. Officials don't treat them as human beings. Why do they work hard for them?

He Zigang looked at the officers and soldiers who fled around. He was so angry that he pulled out his waist knife and cut over an indifference. He wanted to escape from him and shouted, "Block them. If anyone dares to escape, kill them!"

Although most of the officers and soldiers were scared and panicked, after all, there were still a few capable officers and soldiers who still had some fighting spirit. Hearing He Zigang's order, they came forward to block the horse roads on the wall, waved knives and guns to stop the defeated soldiers who were about to escape from the city wall. They drove them back to the city wall. For a while, the city wall was in chaos. It's a mess.

At this moment, some people began to feel that the fierce gunfire outside the city gradually began to subside, in exchange for a shocking shout.

So He Zigang quickly climbed up the wall and looked out of the city. He saw a team of Xingtian soldiers shouting loudly. Under the leadership of the flag bearer, the tide poured towards the wall, and all kinds of attack tools were also pushed by them and slowly squirmed in the direction of the city wall.

At the front of the team are rough but strong row cars, pushing towards the city wall in a line. More people are carrying earth and sand bags or logs, like ants, following behind the rowing carts and pushing towards the trenches.

More Xingtian's arms and firemen were lined up in a neat team carrying black birds or self-made fires and then followed up. After approaching dozens of steps to the city wall, they stopped with a row of tall row cars. Under the command of officers, a row of people stepped forward. He put down the fire gun on his shoulder, began to fill the ammunition, and set the fire gun in rows on the row cart, and the dense gun mouth was aimed at the wall.

What He Zigang saw was that his scalp was numb. The thief army had obviously been practicing such a siege for a long time. It was not like other thieves at all. Instead, it was a clear ladder and a clear division of labor. At the same time, he also paid great attention to their protection, so he quickly shouted, "Send arrows, shoot arrows quickly. Fire the cannon, and don't let the thieves get close to the bottom of the wall!"

Although the officers and soldiers were beaten one by one at this time were frightened, there was no way for the supervisors behind them to force them with knives. They had no choice but to return to the broken stack in panic, picked up the bows and crossbows from the ground covered with rubble, and began to pour down the city according to He Zigang's instructions. Xing Tianjun fired an arrow.

The scene of hundreds of people shooting arrows together is also quite considerable. All kinds of arrows and crossbows fell down one after another and fell into the Xingtian army that was close to the trench.

Many crossbows made a sound, shaking and nailed to the front rowing car. There were also a small number of arrows thrown into the crowd behind the rowing car, and suddenly shot over a group of people who accompanied the army to help the battle. However, such a blow did not play any role for the morale Xing Tianjun, even if it was Those civilians who helped the army in the war also seemed to have not seen it. They continued to shout for themselves and continued to run forward with the chariot.

Several cannons in the city, which had been mute for a long time, were resurrected again under the command of He Zigang. After a lot of busy work, they began to ring, and the scattered cannons filled with iron grains. After a bombardment, this time it caused a certain amount of killing and damage to the attacking Xingtian army. After a few shots, the intensive impact A blood mist suddenly rose in the team, and several open spaces appeared in it. Dozens of people were immediately concentrated by cannons and fell to the ground screaming.

"Fire!" An officer who commanded the fireman stood behind the second-line ruckle and waved the small flag in his hand.

Then nearly a hundred firecrackers pulled the trigger. Even if they pulled the trigger, there was an explosion of beans at the second-line car. More than a hundred firecrackers fell on the wall like rain. Some officers and soldiers who were leaning to shoot arrows immediately sprayed out a mass of blood fog on their chests or heads, and fell face to the sky. On the wall.

The battle between the two sides under the city began. A team of helpers finally rushed to the trench with the trench, quickly pouring the earth bag on their shoulders into the trench, or throwing the logs into the trench, and then turned around and ran back quickly without stopping at the city. During this period, there were also some people who paid the price of their lives for this, and were hit by arrows or bullets and rolled into the trenches.