Chapter Seventy-Four: Xiangyang and Nanjing XV

At the time of the general attack, the first to sound was still artillery, and one artillery cannon fired at Fancheng from all directions.

There are times before and after, but more than 100 cannons were formed to participate in this chorus.

Generally speaking, the Xia army, to be precise, is the artillery of Zhang Xuan's department, which is a little more powerful than the artillery of the Qing army, at least Zhang Xuan has the concept of mathematics in his heart, and Zhang Xuan almost separates the artillery. This kind of attention is not owned by the Qing army.

Zhang Xuan also introduced a lot of Western gunners, especially after Macao, Macao became a window for Zhang Xuan to connect with the West.

A large number of Portuguese artillerymen joined the sequence of the Xia army, some of whom simply became part of the Great Xia army, and some of whom were merely short-term instructors.

Zhang Xuan used a lot of artillery, and he also had some experience, which was mixed with many methods of Westerners, and it was slowly formed, and the unique artillery operation method may still be a prototype now, and it will inevitably form a unique inheritance later.

And at this moment, even if it is only a rudimentary artillery operation, it also reveals that he is different.

Therefore, the accuracy of this cannon is not good. However, almost all the artillery of the Xia army maintained the most basic accuracy---- and they were all smashed on the wall of Fancheng, or inside Fancheng, and did not hit outside.

Even so, there was a great suppression of the artillery of the Qing army.

After the roar of the cannons, a large number of siege equipment was pushed out, and the soldiers hid behind, although the speed was not fast, but they firmly advanced towards Fancheng.

Large siege equipment is almost impossible to use, so the siege equipment prepared by Zhang Xuan is small, but some shield carts and hole carts are just three or five people can push them. Although it can't stop the shells of the Hongyi cannon, there is no way to take them with ordinary scattered bullets, bows and crossbows, etc.

These are the first things they will face in the siege.

At this moment, there is no need to guarantee the formation, but I saw that on the open space outside Fancheng, it was densely packed for a while, I don't know how many cars, whether it is a few thousand, or tens of thousands.

These vehicles are directly from horse-drawn carriages, Taiping cars, of course, some of them are specially built, but more are requisitioned, under Zhang Xuan's strength, several provinces south of Xiangyang have become no longer available.

They could push these vehicles directly under the walls of Fancheng.

Fancheng was built as a fortress, of course, there is a moat. However, the moat has long been filled, and it was not the Xia army that filled the moat, but the Qing army.

Don't forget that this city was taken from the Xia army under the hard fighting of the Qing army. Prior to this, Fancheng had also experienced a brutal siege battle, and if it hadn't been cut off by the Qing army for reinforcements, Fancheng would not have fallen so easily.

Faced with such a situation, Zilharang was extremely angry, grabbed a general and said: "Why can Nanban do it, but you can't do it?" ”

The general is a Han man, originally Kong Youde's subordinates, after being taught artillery by Sun Yuanhua, after Kong Youde's death, the Qing court treated Kong Youde's only daughter well, Kong Youde's daughter Kong Sizhen, became the only Han and Shuo princess. But for Kong Youde's remaining subordinates, he did not hesitate to annex them.

Most of them were included in the Han Army Banner and distributed to the owners of the Eight Banners.

This man has good artillery skills, and he was robbed by a small favor from Zilharangfei. Generally speaking, Zilharang is still more polite to him, and although the Qing army is barbaric, he is still more respectful to those who have the ability.

And this person is more accurate than others, in Zilharang's opinion, it is a skill.

But at this moment, Zilharang could not bear it any longer.

"Lord, lord. The minions don't know either, the minions have done their best. The Nanban cannon is so accurate, it must have been passed on by the Westerners, and there is no way for the small ones. Please give the slave a chance. The man kowtowed like pounding garlic, and his voice was like a cuckoo crying blood, almost with a cry. He was really afraid, afraid that Zilharang would kill him in a fit of rage.

Such things happened from time to time in the Qing court, and they were never a thing.

However, he underestimated Zilharang, although Zilharang was angry, he took a few deep breaths, forcibly suppressed his anger, and said, "You go down on an errand." ”

"Wow." The man was pardoned and immediately left.

Although he wanted to kill this man, he knew that it would be useless to kill him now. After killing him, I'm afraid I won't find a better gunner than him.

But the thought of the present artillery battle made Zilharan furious.

This is not the first time.

In the midst of the Xia army's artillery firing at each other, the victory rate of the Xia army's artillery was too high, and several guns had been scrapped, and several artillery groups had been injured. You must know that the gunner, in this era, no, even in later generations it is a technical arm.

With such losses not replenished, the artillery strength of the Qing army became weaker and weaker.

Seeing that the accuracy of the Xia army's artillery was good, Zilharang ordered a counterattack like the Xia army. But the effect of the counteroffensive did not satisfy Zilharan at all, and after wasting a lot of gunpowder, he did not achieve any results, as if he was firing empty artillery.

And today, the density of artillery for the general offensive of the Xia army is terrifyingly amazing. Many of the officers and men of the Qing army standing at the head of the city were hit by cannonballs, and their bones were gone.

Zilharang asked him to suppress the artillery of the Xia army, and what had just happened.

"This minion doesn't have the guts to lie to me." Zilharang secretly said in his heart: "Is there really no way? Maybe I'm looking for a Westerner in the Qing Dynasty. ”

In the Qing court, it was not without Westerners, such as John Tang.

Zilharang also knew that this was far from the water and not the near thirst, and he had already put his mind in front of him.

Even in the face of the artillery bombardment of the Xia army, the Qing army still occupied the city, and worked hard to design under the city, with the approach of the Xia army, some large and small artillery, have come in handy, for a time the sound of explosions between heaven and earth was several times denser.

It's like a symphony.

The roar of the Hongyi cannon is a heavy drum, and the frequency is relatively low, and all kinds of tiger squat cannons and Franc cannons are all kinds of orchestral instruments, and people's shouts and screams are chorus.

And in the case of the proximity of the desire, the accuracy of all the guns has increased considerably. For a while, I don't know how many shield cars were overturned, and the hole cars were penetrated.

It's just that the soldiers and soldiers of Xia have already advanced one after another, turning a blind eye to the blood and corpses on the ground.

After these soldiers, some more vehicles were pushed forward.

It's nothing else, it's a gun carriage.

It was loaded not with Hongyi cannons, but with various small cannons.

These cannons have a tool for adjusting the height, and there is something that looks like a shield at the front of the cannon. Cover the gunners in the back. They look inconspicuous with a variety of vehicles. But it is shouldering the heavy responsibility of counterattacking the city.

With the Xia soldiers, they came under the city wall.

The city wall had long since ceased to look good under the bombardment of artillery for several days. The walls of the city wall have long been pitted. Fancheng was built as a fortress, so the specifications are extremely high, although it is a rammed earth city wall, but the outside is also covered with bricks.

However, under the bombardment of the cannons, large swaths fell off, as if they were psoriasis.

Moreover, the rammed earth city wall, the soil on the periphery, is also somewhat loose. The soldiers of the Xia army pulled over the cave cart and immediately began to dig.

As mentioned earlier, the car has a certain roof structure that can block attacks from above. It's just that it's not absolute. The Qing army smashed it down with a sassalo.

Iron chains were tied to the sides of the tree, and the giant wood was also inlaid with iron tips, and it looked like a giant mace, and it fell hard. With a "boom", the hole car was smashed over, and sometimes even people and cars were smashed into meat paste.

Something just smashed the car and exposed people.

Naturally, some people used bows and arrows to shoot down from above and teach them to be human beings again.

It is ridiculous to say that most of the defensive equipment on the head of this city is arranged by the Xia army. At the moment, it is used to enlarge his own people.

But fortunately, with all kinds of artillery trucks, close to the city wall, use artillery to suppress the Qing army. After all, the Qing army was flesh and blood, and they did not dare to show their heads for a while, and the impact on the progress of the city excavation was relatively small.