Chapter 890 Shelling Xicheng
Suke Saha exclaimed, and the Qing troops on the city wall also reacted, and hurriedly scattered, and Duoduo had just left the wall battlement, when a cannonball hit the city wall directly, and the rubble immediately splashed.
"Mother's fight is really accurate!" A Qing general had a little skin on his head, and his face was pale.
Duoduo was escorted and crouched down, and after a shot, he turned his head to see that a battlement had been cut off by the wall where he had just stood.
A group of people in the city slowly stood up, their faces were terrified, and they looked at the high slope outside the west city, all of them were a little frightened.
At this moment, there was another cannon shot outside the city, but the cannonball fell into the moat, splashing up a column of water into the sky, and then falling suddenly, and the head of the city was wet with splashes.
Duoduo didn't expect that early in the morning, the Ming army began to shell, of course, it may be because the Ming army on the stone village found them, so they fired at the city.
"Lord Wang, go down to the city!" Sukh Saha had palpitations, "The Ming army has already paid attention to us!" ”
"Don't panic!" Duoduo pushed Sukh Saha away, glanced at the high slope outside the city, a few white smoke rose from the stone wall, his face tightened, and he turned around and shouted: "Order the artillery team to counteract!" Bombarding Shizhai can't be bombarded by the Ming army! ”
The morale of the Qing army was now low, and Duoduo naturally couldn't run under the shelling, but that being said, he waved his hand to let the many Qing generals disperse and not stand together, and he retreated behind a chest wall made up of sandbags as he spoke.
As soon as his words fell, nearly 100 red-clothed cannons opened fire on the wall on the high slope in turn, "Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The sound of cannons was like a thunderstorm from the sky, the sound was earth-shattering, and the momentum shook the mountains.
In an instant, the stone village was filled with gunsmoke, just like the Yunding Heavenly Palace, a hundred red-clothed cannons vibrated violently, the dark and thick cannon body retreated at the same time, a spectacular scene was presented immediately, a hundred iron bullets weighing more than ten catties rushed out of the gunsmoke, roaring towards the city.
The stone village is condescending, the cannonball is in a straight line, like a meteorite rain in the sky, it shoots down rapidly, smashes on the city wall, the masonry is broken, the road crack suddenly appears on the city wall, the wall is smashed into a deep depression, the broken masonry splashes up, falls into the moat, splashes a piece of white water.
"Beware!"
", squat!"
The officers at the head of the city exclaimed again and again, and before they could speak, the cannonballs whistled and smashed heavily on the wall bricks, splashing the rubble, sweeping through several Qing soldiers around, and because the cannonballs were fired down from a high place, after hitting the masonry at the head of the city, they immediately bounced up and hit the chest of a Qing soldier, the chest of the Qing soldier was instantly dented, and it was dark in front of him, and the huge impact force smashed his chest, pushing his body to fly backwards, hitting several people in a row, and was carried by a huge force until he fell from the city wall to the city.
For a time, the soldiers at the head of the city were even more miserable, the cannonballs fell like hail, smashing deep pits at the head of the city, and some directly overturned the sandbags built up by the Qing army in an instant.
After a round of shelling, the dust cleared, and the walls were littered with Qing troops wounded by rubble, wailing and rolling, and the walls were full of rubble.
Duoduo's heart couldn't help but beat wildly, this was completely different from his feeling of watching the red-clothed cannon bombard the city, only by experiencing it himself, he knew the power and terror of the god of war, and under the bombardment, flesh and blood and personal bravery were not worth mentioning at all.
"The artillery team will counterattack immediately, otherwise the Ming army will bombard the city again!" Duoduo did not focus too much on the wailing soldiers, but looked at the stone village that was filled with gunsmoke, and suddenly shouted urgently.
Many Qing soldiers who were still squatting with their heads in their hands, or with frightened eyes, reacted, and stood up timidly in the wailing and the sound of the collapse of masonry, and then quickly dragged the wounded aside.
In Xicheng and the Ming army, although in an extremely disadvantageous position, but Duoduo could not give up Xicheng, he could only bite the bullet and mobilize most of the artillery in Yangzhou City to Xicheng to counter Shizhai, otherwise the Ming army would be condescending and would destroy all the defenses on Xicheng.
In order to resist the artillery bombardment of the Ming army, the Qing army built a lot of sandbags on the city wall to protect the artillery position, at this time there have been a lot of artillery bombardment by the Ming army, the Qing soldiers obeyed the order, and the gunners also panicked to fill the shells, adjust the gun position, and the city was in chaos.
The interval between the shelling of the redcoat cannons was long, and there was a slight pause after a round of shelling, but everyone knew that the heavy shelling was coming.
At this time, many Qing generals began to persuade Duoduo to go down to the city, but Duoduo remained motionless, not knowing whether he wanted to boost morale or to see the artillery battle between Xicheng and the Ming army.
On the stone wall, the gunner of the Ming army stretched into the barrel with a wooden rod wrapped in a wet cotton cloth, and the sound of "silk" suddenly came out of the barrel, and a burst of water vapor was released from the muzzle, and so on to clean up the barrel, the soldier pulled out the wooden rod, and another gunner immediately put a package of new medicine into the barrel, and at the same time, the gunner at the tail of the gun wiped the fire door with a wet cloth to prevent the spark from igniting the ******.
At this time, the soldier in front of the muzzle had already loaded the iron bullet, and the gunner, who was responsible for cleaning the chamber, used the wooden pole again to compact the shell and complete the loading, and the gunner at the end of the gun, after cleaning the residue of the fire door, had also pierced the charge bag with an awl, and then poured the ignition powder on the fire door to complete the preparation for firing.
Artillery firing, the grab is time, the comparison is the rate of fire, whoever can fire first, fast fire, will occupy a huge advantage.
On the stone village, a bright flag fluttered, Chen Yujie held a clairvoyant mirror, observed the results of the shelling, and found that on the dusty city wall, the Qing soldiers were crowded, and Duoduo had not yet gone down the city, immediately put down the clairvoyant mirror, and shouted: "Quick!" Put it again! ”
After saying that, he picked up the clairvoyant mirror and observed Duoduo's figure, if he could kill this slave chief with one shot, then he would be a great achievement.
The Qing army in the city was still loading artillery in a panic, the second shot of the Ming army had arrived, and white smoke rose up on the stone wall again, and the smoke quickly blurred Chen Yujie's vision, filling his nose with a thick smell of gunsmoke.
On the west city of Yangzhou, a Qing army gun position that was still loading artillery was suddenly hit by the Ming army, and the cannon was smashed with a sound that broke the eardrums, and the cannon body rotated, instantly knocking the surrounding Qing troops into the air.
The head of the city, where the smoke and dust had just dissipated, was suddenly covered by flying rubble and dust again under the impact of iron bullets, and the sound of the collapse of the city wall was mixed with many screams and frightened cries for help.
Of course, in the smoke and dust, you can also see a sudden flash of dark yellow fire, an iron bullet broke through the smoke and dust at the head of the city, roaring towards the stone village, and the sporadic counterattack at the head of the city slowly appeared.
After another round of shelling, the shelling stopped again, Chen Yujie picked up the clairvoyant mirror and hurriedly looked at the city, and the figure of Duoduo was gone.
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