Zheng Xi's army had a total of 2,000 sleds, 6,000 officers and soldiers, 8,000 war horses, and all firearms. Follow? Dream?. This army is now strong and well-armed. After the Qiongzhou Army began to replace the metal cartridge casing with reloading guns, some paper cartridge reloading guns and most of the Mini bullet rifled guns were eliminated and gradually equipped into Zheng Xian's army. In addition, Wang Yu also sent 100 new mini sniper rifles to Zheng Xi's department.

The sled team also pulled six twelve-pounder field guns, four twelve-pounder howitzers, twelve six-pounder field guns, eight six-pounder howitzers, twenty-four three-pounder field guns and twelve twenty-four-pounder mortars, these field guns and howitzers are all new top-level front-loading smoothbore guns, smooth breeches, fired by flintlock machines, can be fired instantly, shells take a medicine disc fuse flowering projectile, long range, high precision, great power. Mortars use a new type of shell with a wing, which is also fired by a flintlock machine, which is much more accurate and more powerful.

Zheng Xijun had a total of 3,000 Mini bullet rifles, 100 Mini sniper rifles, 1,000 paper cartridge shells and backloading rifled guns, and 78 artillery pieces of various kinds.

There are only seventy-six smoothbore guns in total, and the extra two cannons are actually double-barreled bangbang guns made by Xue Fengzuo, which is a 25 mm caliber small cannon with a rate of fire of 100 shells per minute, but it can only fire solid shells, not flowering shells. The small cannon consumes ammunition too quickly, increasing the logistical pressure.

In addition, Zheng Xianjun also had four four-barreled bangbang guns, with a caliber of 14.5 mm, four barrels placed side by side, and a rate of fire of 200 rounds per minute, which was not inferior to the hand-cranked Gatling gun in terms of rate of fire. Of course, the four-barreled Bang Bang gun weighed more and was less accurate than the Gatling Rotary Tube Machine Gun.

Ingoda Castle, where Russian officer Podbektov stands on a high place. Suddenly, he saw snowflakes in the distance, and it seemed that thousands of horses were galloping towards his castle.

"Enemy attack!" Bektov shouted.

The alarm bell rang in the castle, and the indigenous slaves who were cutting wood outside the castle dropped their firewood and ran into the castle as fast as they could. More than a dozen slaves had not had time to flee into the castle before the attacking army had already appeared in front of them.

The doors of the castle were closed, and more than a dozen slaves were kept outside.

"Open the door, let's go inside!" The slaves who were locked up cried and banged on the city gates.

No matter how these slaves shouted, the Russian army inside just refused to open the door. At this moment, a row of gunshots rang out on the snow, several sleds that had rushed to the castle two hundred paces away from the castle spewed out flames and green smoke, the new Minnie sniper rifles fired bullets one after another, Zheng Xianjun's sharpshooters did not miss bullets, and more than a dozen slaves fell down one after another with blood mist on their backs.

"How can the guns of the Ming people hit so far?" Bektov was taken aback.

A Russian officer next to him said: "They may have used Swedish rifles, which are too slow to reload even though they are far away." ”

Bektov said: "Rack up the guns and bombard them!" ”

The Russians in the city launched the artillery, and before they could ignite the artillery, the sleigh ridden by the snipers of the Zheng Raid Army outside had already galloped away, exiting the best range of the Russian artillery.

"Boom boom" The Russian artillery roared, and the shells fell in the snow, but because the distance was too far, the speed of the sled car was extremely fast, and all the shells fired by the Russian army smashed on the snow, raising a diffuse snowflake.

Zheng Xi picked up the binoculars and observed the Russian army castle a mile away, only to see that it was a wooden castle, surrounded by wooden walls, and there was a wooden fortress at each of the four corners, and the fortress was densely packed with shooting holes. Although the wooden castle is rudimentary, there are four cannons in the castle.

"No wonder the Tartars can't even deal with this kind of wooden castle! It was the Rakshasa whose cannons were more advanced than the Tartars. Zheng Xi put down the binoculars and muttered to himself.

Xiao Gongchen beside him said: "Dashuai, although this kind of castle of the Rakshasa people is made of wood, it is quite strong. The Tartars did not know how to make flowering shells, so it was naturally difficult to destroy the castle. However, in the face of our new artillery, these castles of the Rakshasas can be said to be vulnerable! ”

Zheng Xi sneered and nodded: "Pass my order, prepare to set up a cannon and smash the castle of the Rakshasa people!" ”

The six twelve-pounder field guns specially used for the siege were carried down from the sled carts, and the gunners of the Zheng Raid Army hurriedly set up their cannons on the snow, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the Russian castle a mile and a half away.

"Damn the barbarians, they're going to bombard us with artillery!" Beketov saw through his telescope a cannon in the snow in the distance and screamed in horror.

"Let our Cossack cavalry rush out and destroy the barbarian artillery, shall we?" A Russian military officer said.

"No way!" Bektov shook his head and said, "There are so many musketeers that we only have more than a hundred cavalry, and we can't rush in front of the enemy at all." ”

"Are we just hiding inside and waiting for the enemy to shell us?" The Russian officer asked.

"Our castle is made of wood, but it is very strong, and it will not be easy for these barbarians to destroy our castle with artillery. If their artillery is powerful, I am afraid it will take two or three days to bombard. When it gets dark, we'll be able to break out with cavalry. If their artillery is not powerful enough, we will not be able to hold out and see how much gunpowder they can consume! ”

Just as the Russian officer was speaking, a roar sounded on the snow a mile and a half away, and two of the cannons spat out tongues of fire in turn, and the shells smashed down on the castle with a piercing whistling sound.

With the sound of two cannonballs crashing into the snow, one of the cannonballs landed in front of the castle, smashed into the snow, and rolled a few more times, raising a flurry of snowflakes. Another cannonball overheaded, over the castle and landed in the snow behind the castle, raising a snow-white mist.

"The enemy is nothing more than this level!" There were Russian soldiers sneering inside the castle.

"Not good!" The Russian artillery officer shouted, "The enemy is testing artillery!" When they get adjusted, they will start shelling right away! ”

After about a minute, two more cannonballs rang out, one after the other, one of which landed accurately on the wall between the two bastions, sending up a flutter of sawdust. Another shell landed in the middle of the castle wall and landed in the courtyard, hitting a pile of firewood and scattering the firewood.

"The test launch has been completed, and it is ready for official fire!" The artillery officer reported to Zheng Xian.

"Good!" Zheng Xun nodded, "Open fire on this domain, hit hard!" Kill these rakshasas! ”