Six twelve-pounder field guns raised their muzzles and aimed at the castle of Ingoda a mile and a half away. The gunner pulled the launch rope, the cannon shook violently, the muzzle of the cannon spit out dazzling fire, the thunderous cannon sounded, the whole gun carriage retreated, and the whistling flowering shells smashed towards the castle of Ingoda like a rain of fire meteors.

The cannonballs fell on the castle, and although they were flowering cannonballs with black [gunpowder], they were not weak, and the fire from the cannonballs flickered into a single field, and waves of air swept through the castle like a storm, and the limbs, wood fragments, dirt, or other fragments of the city's people flew in all directions. The first round of artillery bombardment by the Ming army blew up a few broken gaps in the castle of the Russian army, after all, it was a wooden castle, and it collapsed after just a few more rounds of bombardment.

"Reload the shell!" Someone shouted.

The Ming gunners cleaned the chamber with a wet mop, then stuffed the fixed charge medicine bag, compacted it with a wooden pole, and then stuffed the new metal medicine disc fuse to bloom the shell, and then pierced it through the fire door with an awl, punctured a hole in the medicine bag, and then inserted the flintlock machine connected to the firing rope from the fire door to complete the loading.

It's just that after the reloading, the gun has to be reset, which is an important factor affecting the rate of fire of the recoiled artillery, even if it is a rear-loading rifled gun, before the birth of the tube retractor using a hydraulic reentry machine, Wang Yu did not manufacture a large number of rear-loading guns, because the rear-loading guns are expensive, and the rate of fire has not increased much. As for the bangbang guns and bangbang guns currently in use, because of the small caliber, the bangbang guns can be cushioned with a gun carriage to cushion the recoil, and the bangbang guns are cushioned with a rack with springs.

"Fire!" The artillery officer roared.

The six twelve-pounder field guns again let out a deafening roar, and the whizzing shells fell on the castle, two of which hit the fortress, but the fortress was still strong, and the shells hit the fortress, bounced back, and exploded on the ground, without causing much damage to the fortress. Two more shells hit the wooden wall, the shells pierced the planks and exploded inside the wooden wall, blowing a gap in the wooden wall.

"Beat the clan hard! Bomb the Rakshasa artillery emplacement first! So that our cannons can be pushed up! Zheng Zheng shouted pointing in the direction of the castle gun emplacement in front of him.

The sleigh that the sniper rode just now approached the castle and killed several slaves, which also exposed the Russian artillery position. At this time, as long as the Ming army knocked out the Russian artillery position, other small-caliber artillery could be pushed up to join the shelling.

After more than half an hour of fierce shelling, the six field guns fired more than 100 shells, and finally destroyed all the Russian artillery positions. During this period, the Russian artillery also fired a few shells to counterattack, but because the distance was too far, the Russian artillery could not reach the Ming artillery positions at all, and they could only watch themselves being beaten in vain.

After destroying the Russian artillery position, Zheng Xianjun's howitzers, mortars and small-caliber field guns all pressed up, and the gun emplacements were arranged less than 300 steps from the castle, and groups of musketeers used sleds as cover to arrange the defensive line.

"Fire!" Zheng Raid roared.

All the artillery except for the two bangbang guns all fired, field guns, howitzers and mortars spewed dazzling fire, rolling thunderous cannons echoed in the thousands of miles of snowfield, countless shells hail like a head, smashing heads and heads on the Russian castle, this wooden castle continued to explode a ball of fireballs, the wood burst out, the city gate shattered, the strong fortress also began to shake, several mortar shells smashed into the top of the fortress, fell in the fortress and exploded.

The explosion of the cannonball triggered the explosion of the powder keg inside the fortress, accompanied by a violent explosion, the fortress was like a volcanic eruption, and the top of the fortress erupted with billowing flames, and scarlet flames erupted from the shooting hole.

"Well played! Boys, get ready to charge! Zheng Xi pulled out his sword and pointed forward.

The soldiers around him waved flags and signaled flags. The war drums rumbled in the Ming army's large array, and a low horn sounded. Countless Ming soldiers jumped off the sleigh carts, shouted the slogan "Wan Sheng", and rushed up to the blazing Russian castle in front.

After the Ming artillery bombardment stopped, the Russian commander Bektov came out of the ruins, he looked around, and saw that the wooden castle had been bombarded, the city gate was shattered, the city walls collapsed, the fortress was ablaze, the cannons rolled down from the height were lying across the ruins, and the mutilated corpses of Russian soldiers, Cossack soldiers, indigenous soldiers and indigenous slaves were scattered all over the place.

"Get ready to fight! Stop the enemy! Bektov shouted.

The combat effectiveness of the Russian soldiers is still quite strong, although they did not even have a chance to counterattack just now, and suffered heavy losses, but after the Ming artillery shelling stopped, the Russian troops who did not die came out of the ruins one after another, stood behind the dilapidated broken wall, and stretched out their guns. The local indigenous soldiers either took up muskets or drew bows and arrows.

"Wan Sheng!" The Ming army had already rushed to a hundred paces from the castle.

The Russian army has not yet fired because the smoothbore guns in their hands fire with poor accuracy at this distance. However, the Ming army on the opposite side stopped, and the rows of muskets made a burst of popping sound like fried beans, and dense bullets were splashed like a torrential rain, and some Russian and indigenous soldiers who were relatively slow to react were beaten into a sieve in the blink of an eye. Those who reacted quickly lowered their heads and dodged the whistling bullets through the ruins.

After firing a volley of bullets, the Ming army continued to charge forward.

There were only fifty paces left from the castle, and the Ming rifled gunners stood in a row, the muzzles of the black holes pointed forward.

"Put!" The commander of the musketeers roared.

Almost at the same time, the Russian commander also roared.

The musketeers on both sides pulled the trigger at the same time, and the roaring sound of gunfire echoed over the snowfield, and in the fierce fire, blood mist continued to spray out in the formation of both sides, and people on both sides fell. Although the Russian army has a broken wall to cover, they have few people, the firepower is not dense enough, and the Ming army is a powerful Mini rifle, and the Russian army was killed and wounded by groups of Ming musketeers in a blink of an eye.

This kind of offensive and defensive battle did not require any three-stage strikes at all, and the Ming army immediately picked up the muskets with bayonets loaded and rushed towards the gap in the castle with a shout.

"Ulla!" The sturdy and tall Russians also dropped their muskets and took up their axes, ready to defeat the incoming Ming army with hand-to-hand combat, which they excelled at. But the Ming army did not rush in directly, but stood more than twenty steps outside the castle, raising his hand and throwing iron bumps with green smoke.

"What's that?" The Russian troops, who were ready to come forward for hand-to-hand combat, exclaimed.

Before the words fell, a row of fires flickered in the formation of the Russian army, and a deafening explosion sounded.