Bai Wang's astonishing behavior made Chang Yu and the others very puzzled, and they hurriedly went to the city to watch, and the firelight was winding a few miles to the south, and it was roughly estimated that it would be about three thousand at most.

"It's a joke to besiege the city with such a small number of troops, and it is estimated that it is just to follow the actions of the day before yesterday to attack and disturb us, and I want to toss a chicken and dog in the city again to disturb the hearts of the army, which is what the overseer called psychological warfare," Li Muxian said in a low voice.

Chang Yu frowned and said nothing, while Wu Weiying took over and said, "It's unlikely, the Shenji Battalion is here, and it is difficult for them to get close to two miles of land, so they can't attack it!" ”

"Wu Houye, I don't understand," Li Muxian stroked his beard and smiled: "This is called psychological warfare, as long as he has someone coming, even if he doesn't do anything, it will cause a kind of psychological pressure on the guards in the city."

Wu Weiying frowned, but she didn't understand: "Dao Chief, this is all copied from Grandpa Chang."

Li Muxian laughed: "Now learn and sell now" Chang Yu turned his head and glanced at him: "Your courage to talk and laugh freely before this battle is really admirable."

"Really" Li Muxian hurriedly looked away with his hands behind his back: "Is there any feeling like Mr. Zhuge has?"

"Yes, if you go out of the city at this time to talk and laugh in front of the thief army, it will be more like" Chang Yu pouted, Li Muxian smiled awkwardly, and Wu Sangui didn't have the heart to listen to their amusement: "The thief army may have other tricks after a few days of preparation."

"What tricks can there be, is it possible that they all have wings" Tu Yuan snorted, turned his head to Chang Yu and said: "Lord Duke, give an order, please mention the Black Tiger Battalion to go out of the city and kill him......"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud bang, and sparks flew on the city wall to the west of the city gate, and a mouth the size of a tabletop was blasted out!

The thieves turned out to have artillery, and it was heavy artillery!

Everyone was shocked, Qiao Sanxiu and other guards hurriedly hugged Chang Yu and were about to take refuge under the city, but Chang Yu struggled away: "It's okay, and see clearly it's ......" Before he finished speaking, there was a loud bang, which fell in the same position just now, causing panic among the guards in the city.

"This is a red-coated cannon" Ma Ke saw a lot of knowledge and broke out, raised his hand and pointed due south: "Look at this cannon with a destructive power of at least five miles away, the first shot is a hollow explosive bomb, the second is a solid shell, this is not fired by a cannon, the interval is too short to be so fast!" That is, the thief army has at least two cannons! Fuck, they actually pulled the heavy artillery over, it looks like they're really going to attack the city! ”

Chang Yu's face was a little solemn, he knew a little about the red-clothed cannon, the body of the cannon weighed hundreds of kilograms to one ton, and the firing range could reach five or six miles, but one mile in the Ming Dynasty was 554 meters, so the firing range was equivalent to six or seven miles now, and it could barely hit nearly ten miles at the head of the city.

This kind of heavy artillery reload takes as fast as two minutes per shot, and it can't be opened (it can only be used in Kangxi) to attack and defend the city, and it is not of much use in field battles.

Bai Wang worked tirelessly to bring such a heavy thing, what does that mean?

It goes without saying that his heart to attack the city is immortal!

He didn't just want to stop the officers and soldiers from going south, but also counterattacked north!

"Lord Overseer, go down to the city and hide, this cannonball will be crippled if it collapses without eyes" Li Muxian looked frightened, he saw that the power of the artillery was so big, and he wanted to go down to the city early, but Chang Yu was embarrassed to slip away, so he said this, and wanted to persuade Chang Yu to go down, and at this moment, another shot fell near the city gate, the ground shook the mountain, and the sound was quite powerful, and everyone changed color.

Chang Yu is not a capable person, and he also knows that the cannonball is a mush without an eye, but at this time, the army is a little panicked, if he leads everyone down to the city, it will have a very bad impact on the army's heart, so he said: "This little scene can't scare the governor."

"The thieves know that there are artillery in our city and dare not get in, so they bombard the city with heavy artillery outside the firing range, which can cause both real damage and chaos against the army, which is really hateful, this kind of provocation is unbearable for us, please order the overseer to send troops to attack it" Ma Ke said angrily.

The generals around him asked for battle, especially Tu Yuan, Jia Waixiong and Lao Jiu's foaming stars all sprayed Chang Yu's face: "The overseer ordered, fuck it!" ”

Chang Yu silently raised his hand to wipe his face and spit at Xingzi, looking outside the city: "In addition to what Mr. Ma said, the thief army is actually like us to show muscles!" Ya is showing off her own cannon! ”

"The position of the thief army is more than ten miles away from here, far beyond the range of the red-clothed cannon, that is to say, this heavy artillery is not in the position, the overseer, you see that the thief army over there is only more than 3,000, we only need to send 2,000 cavalry to defeat it, if the thief army retreats in time, we may be able to capture its artillery" Tu Yuan's voice was the loudest, Chang Yu looked at Wu Sangui with a smile: "What does General Wu think?" ”

Wu Sangui frowned: "Maybe, but there is a risk, looking at the firelight thief army, there are only two or three thousand, but who knows the specific strength of the firelight ......" Before he finished speaking, Tu Yuan snatched him again: "What about ten two or three thousand, can you withstand the battle iron cavalry steel knife!" ”

Tut-tut, Chang Yu shook his head with a wry smile, and swept his eyes over everyone: "Why don't you want to think about it, if Bai Wang wants to attack the city, he must gather a large army to come, first besiege the city and then suppress it with artillery, and then the soldiers rush to attack the city, but you see, at the moment, he has only sent thousands of troops, and there is no siege of the city, and there are no soldiers to attack the city after the shelling, why?" ”

Everyone was stunned, and Wu Sangui was the first to react: "He just wants to lead us out of the city!" After the rest of the realization, Chang Yu sighed: "Dig a pit outside and wait for us, under this dark night, you don't know where he sent troops to gather, and you don't know where the ambush is, and you don't know other hidden tricks, but watching him try his best to lead us out, you know that the pit he dug must be very deep, so stay in the city, he doesn't need to go out of the city if he doesn't attack us."

"Then let him bombard the city like this?" Wang Tizhong finally interjected a sentence.

"If we don't go out all the time, he won't keep bombing, the governor doesn't believe him so many shells, if he continues, he will extinguish the fire at the head of the city, let him be blind and cannonball, he can't see anything at a distance of five miles, if he gets close to Erli, let the Shenji battalion shine to death!"

On the mountain ridge south of the city, Bai Wang listened to the intermittent cannon sound, his face was extremely solemn, he waited for so long that there was no movement in the city, the little eunuch was not fooled, he didn't come to the pit he dug up, this is too damn too cowardly, the rumor is not that he is very warlike in fighting, once in Taiyuan, he only led hundreds of people to dare to go out of the city at night to fight around the city, and he was not afraid of the king's more than 100,000 troops outside the city, it seems that either the little eunuch saw through, or the rumors were too much, he did not dare to fight at night.

Fortunately, this pit can also be used during the day, although it is not as powerful as at night, but it is still enough for it to drink a pot, and when he saw that the lights in the city were extinguished, Bai Wang knew that the officers and soldiers were not in the city, so he ordered the shelling to stop and withdraw the troops back to the camp.

Bai Wang's toss had a slight impact on the morale of the army in the city, but the most affected by it was the Nanjing soldiers and horses on the shore of Tianjing Lake in the north of the city.

Yesterday, a heavy rain made them suffer so much that they complained that the army was unstable, fortunately, Chang Yu led the three battalions of Dongchang to pacify, one hand candy and one hand iron rod, which made the military heart gradually calm down, and this afternoon, Xu Hongji and others moved from the city to the garrison to announce that they had entered a state of combat readiness, and the soldiers knew that they were finally coming.

Panicking and uneasy, seeing that it was about to fall into the night, and was thinking that he could breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly heard the sound of cannons coming from the south, and then the city was lit on fire to warn, and then a fast horse came to report that the thief army wanted to besiege the city and immediately prepare for battle!

Not only were the soldiers panicked, but Xu Hongji and the others were also so nervous that they couldn't do it, if they started fighting...... If you are not defeated...... Where to flee, among the few people, Lu Daqi and Chang Yanling can still calm down, if the thief army wants to attack, it is impossible to bypass Tongling City and directly kill them, so it is easy to be attacked from the inside and outside, if the siege is also from the south, it is impossible to leave the back to yourself from the north, so don't worry too much, the sky is falling, and the one in the city will stand up first. just ordered the officers and soldiers of all departments to be in place, and even sent 20 teams of scouts to keep an eye on the movements of the thief army and report in time.