"Kill the dog! Capture Ao Worship Alive! "The roar under the city of Wuchang shook the sky. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Ming army concentrated thousands of artillery pieces of various calibers, including its own army artillery, captured Qing artillery, and artillery disassembled from the naval warships, concentrating the fiercest artillery fire of this era and violently bombarding Wuchang City.

Most of the captured Qing artillery is of good quality, these cannons are all new artillery cast by Xue Fengzuo or Nan Huairen, which were captured by the Ming army and immediately used as siege artillery. There are also a few old artillery, which are the old guns cast by the Qing army to imitate the old artillery of the Ming army, and those cannon Wang Xinyu can't look down on them at all, so they are all treated as scrap metal and sent to the Dongfan Gun Factory to return to the furnace.

Although Wuchang is one of the strongest cities in the world, the city wall defense is extremely strong, but it can't withstand so many cannon bombardments, not to mention that the Ming army's cannon is also mixed with sixty-four pounder mortar cannons, using flowering shells to violently bombard the head of Wuchang City.

However, Wang Xinyu was a little reluctant to use more advanced rifled guns, which were too expensive, with a barrel life of only about 200 rounds, and shells were extremely expensive. Before the advent of the steam engine, this delicate and extravagant weapon could only be used in small quantities and could not have served as the main weapon.

The technology of smoothbore guns has improved rapidly, and the barrels polished by hydraulic boring machines are very smooth, and the accuracy has improved a lot, and the technology of these cannons has reached the technology of later Napoleonic artillery in real history.

The overwhelming shells bombarded the city walls, the battlements were shattered, and the flying bricks and rubble beat the Qing troops hiding behind the city to the flesh and blood.

The siege of the Ming army began, and many more prisoners were captured in the Battle of Huguang, and these prisoners came in handy.

Armed with steel swords, Ming soldiers followed behind the captive-turned-auxiliaries, who pushed shield carts and carried axes to destroy the wooden stakes under the city.

When the Ming army auxiliaries arrived at the fortifications in front of the moat and began to destroy wooden stakes, deer barricades and other obstacles, the artillery of the Qing army at the head of Wuchang City roared. More than a dozen concentrated artillery pieces opened fire at the same time, and the shells fell on the crowd of auxiliaries and bounced and rolled, knocking over many auxiliaries.

Aobai's tactics were still relatively flexible, he had people build a pulley winch behind the city wall, and when the Ming army opened artillery bombardment, the Qing army's artillery was sent to the city with a winch to avoid the shelling. Wait until the Ming army auxiliaries come up, and the Qing soldiers will use winches to send the cannons to the city. Moreover, those winches were all with wheels, which could be moved, so as to avoid the destruction of the winches by flowering shells fired by the Ming army's mortars and howitzers.

The auxiliary soldiers who died in battle were all prisoners of the Qing army who were captured before, and those auxiliary soldiers were killed by the artillery of the Qing army, Wang Xinyu did not feel distressed at all. The artillery bombardment of the Qing army was immediately counterattacked by the Ming army.

Rows of shells smashed into the city, destroying several more of the remaining artillery pieces of the Qing army.

The artillery fire of the Qing army weakened, and the auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army took advantage of the situation to begin to speed up, swinging axes, and desperately chopping down wooden stakes and deer barricades and other obstacles under the city, so that the siege weapons could get close to the moat.

The Qing army at the head of the city used bows and arrows, bird guns and flintlock pistols to shoot fiercely at the Ming army auxiliaries who were operating under the city. However, the Ming army under the city also organized firepower, relying on the advantage of numbers, and rifled gunners with hundreds of shots boarded the nest car and shot, and soon suppressed the firepower of the Qing army at the head of the city.

After clearing the obstacles under the city, the Ming army auxiliaries pushed shield carts and carried sandbags and dirt bags to the moat.

The sluices of the moat outside the city have been occupied by the Ming army, who cut the sluice and emptied the river water in the moat. The auxiliaries pushed the shield cart and rushed to the dry moat, throwing sandbags and dirt bags one after another.

When the moat was about to be filled, the battle entered the white heat, and the Qing army at the head of the city braved the bullets of the Ming army's torrential rain, desperately showed their heads, shot arrows at the city, threw lime bottles, smashed down the oil cans, and the Qing soldiers set up the tiger squat cannon and shot shotguns at the city.

However, the Qing army could not stop the pace of the Ming army's attack at all, and soon, the Ming army auxiliary troops filled in many sections of the moat.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Seeing that the passage for advance had been filled, the morale of the Ming army was like a rainbow, and they cheered all day long.

After filling in the passage of advance, the next attack of the Ming army was to use mortar cannons to fire high-explosive shells on the one hand, aiming at the part of the city wall where the bricks were blasted open, so that the shells would fall into the rammed earth and explode, and finally collapse a section of the city wall; Another way to attack is to use a large ladder cart to get close to the walls.

Wang [Fu] Chen walked into the camp of the Chinese army and asked Wang Xinyu to fight: "Handsome! I have heard for a long time that Ao Bai is the first warrior in Manchuria, and the last general wants to be the first to attack the city, and Ao Bai is alone! ”

"Single-handedly?" Wang Xinyu shook his head, "General Wang is the first fierce general of our army, if there is any mistake and the first fierce general of our army is broken, wouldn't it be a great loss of morale?" It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate! ”

However, a group of masters such as Hong Xiguan, Ma Chaoxing, Cai Dezhong, Miao Xian, and Fang Xiaoyu were eager to try, saying that they wanted to fight with Aobai and wanted to see how powerful this Manchurian No. 1 warrior was. Even Fang Chonggong, the head of the spies, and the Japanese samurai Sakai Tadanao also stood up and wanted to compete with Aobai.

Wang Xinyu said: "I don't agree to worship alone!" This manpower is infinite! As the saying goes, one force will drop ten, if any of you make a mistake, it will be a loss for my Ming! If you want to fight, let's go together! Strive to capture Ao Baisheng! ”

After filling in a section of the moat, the Ming army began the battle to break the city.

The long-barreled cannon, dismantled from the naval warship, was aimed at the city wall, and the heavy shells knocked the bricks and stones of the city outside off the wall, revealing the rammed earth inside. Then the mortars and howitzers loaded with flowering shells roared, and the shells exploded in the rammed earth exposed by the city walls, sending the earth flying everywhere. A cannonball went down, and the rammed earth was blown out of a large crater. After several rounds of shelling, a large part of the wall collapsed.

"Minggou is coming! Get ready to attack! Ao Bai brandished his sword and went into battle himself.

The Ming army relied on heavy artillery fire to collapse a large part of the city wall, and the next thing was to rush up with infantry to attack. Because the part of the wall that was blasted open was narrow, it was not conducive to the musketeers forming a volley, and to deal with such a small gap, they could only rely on hand-to-hand combat soldiers to go up and use cold weapons to attack.

However, the Ming army had powerful grenades in their hands, as well as invulnerable ironclad soldiers, and it was impossible for the Qing army to block them with ironclad soldiers carrying grenades.

Ao Bai also knew the strength of the Ming army's grenades, and he gave an order to let the Qing soldiers arrange artillery behind the blown up gap, and only wait for the Ming army to attack the gap, and then bombard it with artillery, so that it can cause great losses to the Ming army. After that, they will use hand-to-hand soldiers to plug the gap, and then build a brick wall inside the city to fill the gap.