In the early morning of the second day, Zuo Wuwei and his entourage arrived outside the camp of the intruding army, and after reporting to their homes, the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time reported to the army layer by layer, and Li Zicheng and others quickly greeted them. They really wanted to see what the cannons that were said to be godly looked like, and they didn't care about putting them on a show.

"Thief, are you talking about siege artillery?" Liu Zongmin circled around a mortar cannon and asked suspiciously, "Is this a large bucket of rice, but it is made of iron...... Does this really come in handy? ”

Li Zicheng also had a question mark in his stomach, looking at this stupid guy who was black and inconspicuous, he couldn't see what was powerful.

It's better to get a few more Hongyi cannons to be serious, Li Zicheng thought.

Zuo Wuwei replied confidently: "Don't underestimate this guy, it can hit 70 catties of flowering bullets, and Hongyi cannons and the like are completely incomparable." Our Qiong Navy was able to blow up the big city of Guangzhou with more than 1,000 people back then, and now two or three hundred thousand people are besieging Luoyang, and this thing is naturally easy to capture. ”

"70 pounds, it's still a flowering bomb!" Li Zicheng and the generals were stunned. The Hongyi cannon can hit more than ten or twenty catties of cannons is already the limit they can understand, 70 catties of cannons, what is the concept? An adult thin man is just this weight, can he beat a person out with one shot?

Liu Zongmin touched the cannon body, knocked on the outer wall, and then looked into the barrel of the cannon, shook his head again and again, and said, "I don't believe it." Can this bucket be so powerful? ”

"If you don't believe it, just try it." Zuo Wuwei smiled slightly, "Please King Chuang hand over tomorrow's first battle to me, and when the shelling is over, you can attack the city on a large scale, I can guarantee that the resistance encountered today is minimal, and the city is just around the corner." ”

Although he was skeptical of Zuo Wuwei's suggestion, Li Zicheng had no better way to attack the city, so he had to use the dead horse as a live horse doctor. He waved his hand: "It's up to you." But the ugly words are ahead, if the cannon has no effect, don't blame you for being rude. ”

"Please rest assured, look at us."

As the cannon sounded, the siege began again. The defenders, who had slept in their clothes on the walls, woke up from a half-sleep, clutched their weapons tightly, and went to the holes in the battlements to look out to see the movements of the besieging army.

This glance is quite strange. The dense army of rogues did not rush up in a swarm, but slowly moved out of the range of the bows and arrows of the city wall, and then stopped, and then one after another the cannons were pushed up, large and small, and it seemed that they wanted to take the cannon first. The defenders hurriedly retracted their heads and crouched or sat down against the outer wall to avoid the cannonballs. The experience of defending the city yesterday taught them that no matter how powerful the cannon is, they will not bend, and they will be fine as long as they hide behind the battlements - unless the other party can knock down the wall and bury them in the rubble.

Zuo Wuwei said to Li Zicheng: "King Chuang, the artillery array has been arranged, now please send someone to make a feint, and the archers and infantry will go up to lure the defenders out." ”

Li Zicheng glanced at him, suppressed the doubts in his heart, and gave the order to feint.

Thousands of people came out of the ranks, shouting and rushing forward. The moat had already been filled in several dirt roads yesterday, and now there is no need to refill the river, just rush over it. Ladders were erected on the city wall, and people scrambled to climb up.

The shouts alarmed the defenders, who did not know what tactics the other side had for sending such a small number of men to rush up, but they could not let the other side climb the wall under any circumstances. A general who looked like a thousand generals shouted: "Don't be a turtle with a shrunken head, stand up, do it, and drive these people down." "If the other side is allowed to climb the wall, and the reinforcements continue to come up to fight for consumption, with the difference in the number of people on both sides, this section of the wall will soon be lost.

The officers and soldiers and the people did not care that the other side might launch an artillery attack, so they hurriedly stood up, lifted the sassal wood and stones, and threw them down. In this case, they are not very worried about the cannons, with the cover of the battlements, and the personnel are scattered in various sections of the city wall, the lethality of the solid cannonballs is not ideal, on the contrary, the threat is greater for the rogues on the city wall, because they have no shelter, and the crowd is denser, and the target is more obvious. If someone from the other side makes sandbags, they throw a mouse bogey, and they are naturally much safer.

Zuo Wuwei observed the battle situation, and when he saw the dense heads of the defenders appearing on the wall, he ordered loudly: "All mountain artillery preparations: two salvos of shrapnel shells, prepare for ......"

The artillery battalion lined up more than a dozen mountain guns that it had brought with them, and loaded them with cylindrical shrapnel as ordered.

Zuo Wuwei raised his command knife, slashed it hard, and shouted: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Boom, boom", accompanied by a huge cannon sound, the cylindrical cannonball dragged the white smoke out of the cannon chamber, drew a relatively straight arc, and flew towards the city.

Zuo Wuwei closed his eyes, counted twice silently in his heart, then opened his eyes and said softly: "Explosion!" ”

More than a dozen cylinders cracked in mid-air one after another, turning into a cone-shaped rain of bullets and spraying forward, enveloping the entire section of the city wall.

The defenders who were defending the siege with wood and stones stared at the dense rain of bullets in front of them, and almost blurted out: What the hell is this?

But they didn't have a chance to speak, the dense barrage was like a metal rain, sweeping them away, and the wall buttress couldn't stop such a dense projectile. In the "crackling" sound of metal and masonry, the upper body of everyone who stood was beaten into a sieve, and the heads, chests, and abdomen of many people were smashed to pieces, completely inhuman, and blood and flesh scraps splattered back with the projectiles, staining the wall stacks behind them red.

Before the few survivors could react to what was going on, the sound of "boom boom" rang out again, and the cylindrical shells emitting white smoke exploded in front of their eyes again, and the projectiles pierced the bodies of these people with a "woo-woo" sound.

Everywhere the shotgun passes, not a single grass grows.

After two rounds of shrapnel fire, there was not a single defender who could stand on the hundreds of meters long city wall, and the city wall was covered with corpses, severed limbs, scraps of meat, and rags, and blood flowed into a small river, and the miserable situation was like purgatory.

Even the soldiers who were climbing the ladders were affected by the shotguns that spread a wide range, and many people were beaten into sieves and fell off the city wall one after another, and several ladders were smashed by the projectiles, and collapsed with a bang, and a long line of people all fell to the ground, either dead or injured.

The effect of the artillery bombardment shocked everyone, Li Zicheng and the others opened their mouths wide and were speechless, and the tens of thousands of troops responsible for attacking the north gate were also dumbfounded, and the shouts and cheers all disappeared, and the battlefield of Nuoda suddenly became silent, quiet and terrifying.