4o2 fierce battle

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With such a big movement under the city, the guards on the arrow tower at the south gate also appeared for the first time.

"My lord, cannon...... Thieves' artillery, lots of artillery......"

A recruit looked out of the city in shock, and the artillery pushed up by the chaotic army was a little incomplete in his speech, and he stammered.

At this time, on the city wall, in addition to the more than 100 White Dragon Army musketeers, there were more than 3,000 recruits, and these recruits were all young and strong in the city.

And the hundred musketeers were no longer threes, and everyone could shoot, because the ones behind them who loaded their ammunition and cleaned their guns were replaced by the new recruits.

These recruits are specially trained, and after two weeks of continuous operation, they are already very proficient in their movements.

This alone can liberate thousands of White Dragon Army musketeers.

There were more than 1,300 musketeers left by Li Zixiao in Yiyang City, so that all of these musketeers could come in handy.

Xu Wei had already seen the artillery pushed up by the rebel army outside the city, and he clearly saw that about three hundred steps below the city, there were twelve artillery carriages lined up.

"What kind of artillery is that, haven't you seen it?" Xu Wei frowned and said.

"It's supposed to be a captivator."

At this time, Liu Cannon held a clairvoyant mirror and stood next to Xu Wei, he recognized these cannons for the first time and spoke.

The clairvoyant mirror in Sun Dazhuang's hand is the original telescope, which has been made by the White Dragon Army.

Li Zixiao has always wanted to make glasses, but unfortunately he couldn't make glass at this time, so he had no choice but to send someone to find a crystal instead.

After finding some crystals, Li Zixiao sent craftsmen, and it took half a year to finally create two telescopes and named them 'clairvoyance'.

At this time, the clairloom is still straight.

Because the crystal polishing is a little rough, I can only barely see things within three or four hundred steps.

But it's already powerful, at least much better than the human eye.

Of the two clairvoyant mirrors created, Li Zixiao left the better one himself, and the other one he gave to the artillery battalion general Liu Cannon, which allowed Liu Cannon to observe the enemy's position.

It's a pity that the cost of this kind of clairvoyant mirror is too expensive, and more importantly, the right crystal is too difficult to find, so Li Zixiao has no plans to build it on a large scale for the time being.

Maybe one day, he can solve the problem of producing glass, and then glasses can be popularized.

After listening to Liu Cannon's words, Xu Wei took the clairvoyant mirror in his hand and also looked at the artillery of the chaotic army outside.

"This cannon seems to have been seen before? Cannons, is this artillery powerful? After Xu Wei looked at it for a while, he put down the clairvoyant mirror and asked Liu Dacang.

"It's not as good as the Hongyi cannon and the big Franc machine, but it's much stronger than our Tiger Squat cannon, in order to be bigger than the three-pounder cannon in our hands, but not as good as our six-pounder cannon."

Liu Dacang's words made Xu Wei frown slightly, and a trace of worry arose in his heart.

He didn't expect that Li Zicheng would collect so many artillery pieces in his hands, which greatly weakened the advantage of artillery in their hands.

And more importantly, artillery is a siege weapon, and it is too much of a threat to their defenders, and Xu Wei cannot afford to ignore it.

"Cannon, tell me about the specifics of this exterminator." Xu Wei kept his composure and asked.

"Okay, I took a look just now, and this kind of artillery pushed up by the rebel army, from here, is roughly judged to be an ordinary exterminator.

This kind of exterminator cannon is actually similar to the Tiger Squat Cannon, but it is more powerful. The exterminating cannon weighs 100 catties, is made of fine iron, the pipe is two feet long, there are five iron hoops, and it shoots one pound of lead bullets.

Among the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, they have long been equipped with this cannon, and they are often equipped in the car camp, and they are loaded with exterminating vehicles, which can reach five or six hundred steps, and the momentum is like a huge thunder. ”

"I remember, this kind of exterminating cannon has three guns in one car, three hundred catties, and the gun truck is loaded, which is very convenient, but the reloading degree is not very fast, anyway, it is not as good as the tiger squat cannon and the Furlong machine.

And although the exterminator cannon uses a pound of lead bullet, the most powerful thing about this cannon is that it can shoot scattered bullets.

A single shot of this kind of exterminator cannon can shoot almost 200 small leads, which is equivalent to 200 feather arrows, which is extremely unfavorable to our defense. ”

Xu Wei listened to Liu Dacang's words, and on the surface he seemed very calm, but he was already a little unsettled in his heart.

These rogue bandits have obtained so many exterminators, although for the border army, and even for the White Dragon Army, the exterminators can only be regarded as lightweight support artillery.

But the trouble now is that these thirty-six exterminators, placed in the current small Yiyang County Town, feel a bit like a big killer.

The city walls of Yiyang County are already low and dilapidated, and they don't know if they can withstand a few cannons, and what is even more troublesome is that if the exterminators scatter, it will be a very big threat to the White Dragon Army musketeers.

If these thirty-six cannons were allowed to fire, not to mention the threat he posed to the White Dragon Army musketeers.

Just let them shoot a few rounds, it is estimated that the city wall of Yiyang will be blown down, and Yiyang will be defeated at that time, so Xu Wei must not let these artillery of the chaotic army exist.

Fortunately, Liu Cannon talked about the shortcomings of the exterminator again, and the strength of this exterminator cannon is the same as that of the tiger squat cannon, which is used to shoot scattered shells.

This kind of exterminating cannon can shoot 200 lead at a time, which is much stronger than the tiger squat cannon with 100 lead at a time.

However, the exterminator cannon can only shoot a pound of small lead bullets, while the tiger squat cannon can shoot a large lead bullet weighing two pounds.

The weight of a large lead bullet is more than twice that of a captive cannon.

Generally speaking, the two types of artillery, the tiger squat and the exterminator, were not originally used for siege.

For siege artillery, it is better to use the general's cannon and the Hongyi cannon.

It is better to defend the city with a Franc machine, while the exterminator is more suitable for field battles in the car camp, light and convenient for transportation, and scattered bombs are suitable for battles.

The tiger squat cannon is suitable for infantry formation, because the tiger squat is more than 30 catties a door, which is quite easy to move, but it has to dig a pit to fix it before firing the cannon.

The Tiger Squat Cannon has a great advantage in supporting infantry to fight in formation and shoot scattered bullets.

"The rebel army used exterminators to attack the city, and the threat is not too great, but the Yiyang city wall is too dilapidated, and I am afraid that it will not last long.

Artillery, it's up to your artillery battalion later, try not to let the artillery of the chaotic army fire a few rounds to reduce our losses. ”

Xu Wei said in a heavy tone.

"Old general, don't worry, I won't let these chaotic artillerymen exist for long, I'll arrange it."

Liu Cannon ran down in a hurry, commanded his artillery, and prepared for action.

Soon, the rebel army under the city sounded the horn of attack.

"Get down quickly, the thieves are about to fire."

The officers of the White Dragon Army shouted loudly one by one, walking around with their bodies down, pressing down those recruits.

Sure enough, before the words fell, only a loud bang was heard, and then a sharp whistling sound sounded in the air.

"Get down!" Xu Wei shouted while squatting down against the female wall next to him.

With a range of 500 paces, the exterminator cannon fired at a distance of 300 paces, and the head of Yiyang's city was completely within the range of the exterminator.

The gunners of the thieves were also very sophisticated, twelve artillery carriages fired a salvo, and thirty-six exterminators came with a salvo, and the sound of cannons shook the sky.

Thirty-six pounds of heavy lead were the first to smash on the city wall of Yiyang West Gate, and Xu Wei squatted at the head of the city, and he could feel the shaking under his feet.

Fortunately, the exterminator shot only a pound of lead bullets, which smashed on the dilapidated city wall of Yiyang, leaving only some cobweb-like cracks.

After the large lead bullets smashed into the city wall, they were followed by an overwhelming flood of small leads, each cannon was loaded with 200 small lead weights weighing five coins, and the 36 cannons shot more than 7,000 small lead at once.

The entire western city wall of Yiyang, which was nearly 200 steps wide, was almost shrouded in this wave of scattered bullets.

The small lead in the sky was overwhelmingly smashed, and the sound was indeed terrifying.

When the lead rain passed, Xu Wei hurriedly shouted: "Commanders, how about checking the casualties?" ”

Everyone looked left and right, looked at each other, and now after this terrifying round of shelling salvo, everyone actually did not suffer any damage.

Although the Yiyang city wall is dilapidated, it is nearly three zhang high, and everyone hid behind the female wall, effectively avoiding this wave of bullets.

The musketeers of the White Dragon Army were even more well-trained and dodged in time, without any casualties, but more than a dozen recruits were hit by lead bullets because of their slow reactions.

Five people died on the spot, and the remaining nearly ten people were injured but not dead, and the medical soldiers of the White Dragon Army immediately rushed up and dragged the wounded soldiers down.

Seeing that the casualties were not large, Xu Wei breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and looked at the city again.

Xu Wei saw from a distance that the rebel army's exterminating cannon was cleaning its chamber and preparing for a second shot.

At the same time, at the sound of the horn, a large number of rebels were already holding wooden shields and carrying ladders, taking advantage of the cover of the round of artillery bombardment just now, and were rushing towards the west wall of Yiyang.

"Good guys, these rebels will even attack with infantry and artillery, it seems that these rebels have been trained by masters during this time."

Xu Wei said in a deep voice.

"These are not ordinary bandits, they are all old rogues who follow Li Zicheng and wander around the Central Plains, they have seen a lot in the world, and they have fought a lot of battles, which is difficult to deal with."

Sun Dazhuang, who was next to him, said.

Thundered!

At this time, without giving the rebel gunners a second chance to open fire, Liu Cannon's artillery battalion returned fire.

Dozens of artillery pieces opened fire at the same time, basically covering the 36 exterminators of the rebel army, directly killing a large part of the rebel army's gunners.

And most of the 36 exterminators were also smashed.

As a result, before the rebel army could send up the wounded soldiers and the remaining intact exterminating artillery after the artillery bombardment was over, the second shelling of the White Dragon Army arrived.

The second wave of artillery was slightly weaker, because the second wave only fired three-pounder guns, and the six-pounder guns were not yet reloaded.

The three-pounder cannon on the White Dragon Army's side is extremely fast, belonging to the category of shooting artillery, at least in the current era, there is no faster reloading than this kind of artillery.

"Good!"

Xu Wei also shouted excitedly when he saw that the thirty-six exterminating cannons of the chaotic army were killed.

Next, although the rebels still have some artillery in their hands, they basically do not pose a threat to the White Dragon Army, as long as they fire, they will immediately be counterattacked by the White Dragon Army's six-pounder cannons.

Liu Cannon kept the only dozen or so six-pounder guns in the city, and waited for the artillery of the rebel army to open fire, and immediately returned fire.

He didn't even give the rebel artillery a chance to fire a cannon and change places.

And Liu Cannon kept the dozens of three-pounder guns in his hand, and specially bombarded the chaotic army that had gathered and was ready to charge and attack.

In other words, from the moment the rebel army had just assembled hundreds of paces away, they began to be attacked by the artillery of the White Dragon Army.

This made Li Zicheng very annoyed, but he was helpless.

After all, artillery is not something he wants to have, and even if he has money, he can't buy it, let alone pull it like he pulls young people everywhere.

There was no way, in the end, Li Zicheng had to let his subordinates, withstand the artillery fire of the White Dragon Army, attack all the way, the big deal is to die more!

However, this kind of situation of being bombarded by artillery all the time is too great a blow to the morale of the rebellious army, and this is the most terrible thing.

At noon, a round of scorching sun hung high in the sky, and the two armies of soldiers and horses above and below the city each blew trumpets and beat drums, and the assault was ongoing.

And the western city wall of Yiyang, which is the flattest, has also become the main direction of attack of the rebel army.

The offensive strategy of the rebel army did not change much, and in the face of the first line of defense outside Yiyang City, they did not choose to laboriously fill the trench, but directly used a wooden ladder to cross the trench.

The rebels who carried the ladder in front also raised a wooden shield in their hands, and after the only artillery in the hands of the rebels fired, the charging rebels immediately began to charge.

And after two rounds of artillery bombardment by the White Dragon Army, after paying more than a dozen casualties, they had already rushed to the front of the trench under the city.

The entire Yiyang West City, with a width of more than 200 steps, was built by the White Dragon Army before a three-story arrow tower and two two-story corner towers.

With the Musketeers inside, they can be condescending and even form a crossfire configuration.

On the city wall, there are also a number of forts, on which are arranged more than 20 tiger squat cannons that the White Dragon Army now has, as well as more than a dozen Furlong machines.

This is also because, on the other walls, they also need to place Tiger Squat Cannons and Furlong Machines, otherwise there will be more Tiger Squat Cannons and Furlong Machines here.

At this time, in Xu Wei's hands, there were more than 600 musketeers and feet placed on the western city wall, in addition to more than 500 archers, all of whom were composed of new soldiers.

There are even more than a hundred firecrackers of various types, who hold some bird guns and three-eyed guns, all of which are obtained from some big families and hunters.

"Don't worry, put them close to fight, aim and hit again." Xu Wei shouted loudly.

Xu Wei didn't have to worry, the rebel army could break through the city in one fell swoop, he could completely put the rebel army in front of the trench, put it close to the city, and let the musketeers shoot calmly.

The rebels rushed to the trench, then set up a ladder and prepared to cross the trench that the White Dragon Army had worked so hard to dig.

The musketeers of the White Dragon Army in the city have been waiting very calmly, waiting for Xu Wei's order.

"Da Zhuang, let's start!"

Xu Wei shouted at Sun Dazhuang.

"All of them, fire freely!" After receiving Xu Wei's order, Sun Dazhuang immediately shouted at his musketeers.

Sun Dazhuang personally held a flint gun and aimed at the battlement of the city wall, dozens of steps away, a rebel who was stepping on a ladder to cross the trench.

(End of chapter)

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