"Shoot, shoot!"

Yao Hongtao shouted hoarsely on the city wall, and the council soldiers held flintlock pistols and fired at the trench continuously, but the helpless precision of the smoothbore flintlock pistol made it difficult for them to suppress the royal soldiers who used breech rifles in the trench. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The council soldiers on the city walls were constantly lying in pools of blood, while the soldiers below the city suffered few casualties.

Only this was only the beginning, and during the fire of the royal soldiers, shells rose from the trenches and fell on the walls in a parabolic shape.

There are two main types of shells, one that explodes directly when it falls to the ground, and the other that turns into white powder smoke.

Regardless of the kind of shells, this caused a large number of casualties among the council soldiers on the city walls, and under the heavy fire, the soldiers were simply suppressed and could not raise their heads.

At the same time, the artillery of the royal army began to return fire on the artillery on the city gate, and in a short time, the dozen or so guns on the eastern wall were destroyed by the shells that the royal army could explode.

Yao Hongtao commanded in a panic, and now he had lost his composure.

Outside the city, Lu Fei watched the effect of the attack with satisfaction, and they could only use artillery to bombard things like the city wall on the opposite side until the city wall and city gate were completely destroyed.

"The current war is still an artillery war." Lu Fei sighed with emotion.

Guo Ming said: "Even so, if the other side has a rifle with the same range, our artillery will be in danger." ”

Lu Fei nodded, and he looked at the soldiers who were shooting in the trench.

Soldiers now don't need to use complicated procedures to reload, they only need to take a paper shell bullet from their armor belt and stuff it into the breech, then shoot it closed.

Moreover, their movements did not have to remain rigid as before, and they could flexibly dodge shots in the trenches with rifles.

Although the suppression of artillery turned Songzhou Castle into a sea of fire, it was the rifle that killed and injured the most soldiers.

"Hey, this Falcon rifle is amazing, this is the sixth." A soldier, Lu Fei, couldn't help but shout excitedly when he walked by.

His companion beside him was equally pleasantly surprised: "I'm already the fifth, and I'll be able to catch up with you soon." ”

With that, he raised his rifle and aimed it at an exposed council soldier on the city wall.

The trigger was pulled, and with a single gunshot, the soldier fell.

Lu Fei smiled, and he said loudly: "Yes, young men, if you don't want to spend the night in the trench tonight, let's take Songjiang City." ”

The two didn't notice Lu Fei's arrival, and after realizing that it was their military commander, the two immediately gave a military salute and shouted, "Yes." ”、

Continuing through the trenches, Lu Fei and Guo Ming reached a slightly larger place in the trench, where mortar soldiers were constantly firing at the city gates.

The flames on the walls were mixed with white lime powder like an ink painting, but behind the bewitching beauty were the blown up limbs and blood of parliamentary soldiers.

Just as the two of them were about to stop and rest, there was a sudden "whoosh" sound, and a solid black bullet smashed firmly into the soil above their heads.

The dust was splashing, and Lu Fei and Guo Ming's bodies were splashed with dust.

"These pups!" Lu Fei scolded, and he said to the mortar soldiers: "Fight hard, don't be afraid to waste shells, if you defeat Jiangnan, we will have money!" ”

"Yes, General." The soldiers responded, and they slipped the shell into the mortar, adjusted the angle, and fired a shell at the cannon they had just fired.

Unlike the direct-fire gun, the parabolic fire of the mortar cannon can allow the shells to bypass the obstacles and attack the soldiers behind, and with a violent explosion, several soldiers at the head of the city suddenly took off, and even the clothes on the soldiers were torn apart by the shock wave.

Lu Fei looked at this scene, his eyes flickering.

In fact, for the generals in the army, this war was a war of unification from north to south, after all, the royal influence in Jiangnan was already very weak.

Whether it is the rise of the king of Chu or the merchant council, its fundamental willingness is that the people only know the vassal king and do not know the royal family.

In the face of this situation, they can only unify by force, whether it is the merchant council or the wealthy family, they are a minority, and most of the people still want to live a good life.

At the same time as the war, the propaganda team of the secret guards had entered Jiangnan, and they would describe to the people the prosperity of the north today.

"What are these businessmen trying to do, aren't the merchants very free in Qingzhou? What more could they want! Guo Ming said with some emotion.

"Right!" Lu Fei looked at Songjiang City, "Everything he is doing now is just for his own selfish interests, for this he does not hesitate to sell his interests to the Western countries, if he really makes his conspiracy successful, Jiangnan will completely become a colony of the Western countries in the future." ”

Guo Ming nodded, "Jiangnan belongs to the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and no one can take it away." ”

As the two were talking, there was a sudden "boom", and the front wall collapsed under the onslaught of artillery.

Gray smoke and dust accompanied by the collapsed walls obscured the entire battlefield.

Lu Fei lifted his spirit, and he said, "Blow the trumpet." ”

As soon as his voice fell, the melodious trumpet of the charge sounded.

The soldiers in the trench climbed out of the trench one after another, shouting: "Rush! ”

Suddenly, the dense crowd of soldiers rushed in a skirmish line towards the collapsed city wall.

Under the fierce fire of the Tiger Army, the parliamentary army had long been beaten and could not find the north, and now the high sound of rushing and killing made many soldiers collapse like the sound of demons.

Yao Hongtao's body was covered with dust, his forehead was hit by gravel and was bleeding, but now he couldn't take care of so much, looking at the royal soldiers who were constantly pouring into the city, he shouted: "Formation, formation!" “

Beneath the walls, there were also prepared council soldiers, who quickly rushed to the collapsed walls, stood in three rows behind the walls, and aimed their flintlock pistols at the gap.

Seeing this, the Tiger soldiers immediately crawled among the debris of the collapsed wall, raised their rifles, and fired fiercely at the densely formed parliamentarians.

Because of the sufficient accuracy, the Tiger Ben soldiers armed with falcon rifles could achieve the effect of dense formations even if they did not put on a dense formation, but the parliamentarians obviously did not think of this.

They waited for the royal soldiers to rush over, but they were greeted only by bullets.

In an instant, the soldiers of the council were shot at by the tiger soldiers, and finally, in hysteria, they completely collapsed.

There was a hint of despair in Yao Hongtao's eyes, and now he finally understood the gap between the two armies, from the very beginning, they were doomed to lose.

Looking at the royal soldiers who kept pouring into the city, Yao Hongtao smiled miserably, in his eyes, the bullets fired by the royal soldiers seemed to have eyes, and the soldiers fleeing everywhere were slaughtered like lambs.

He understood that Matsue Castle was lost.