Chapter 115: A New Siege
Perhaps because the gunpowder in their hands was no longer in short supply, dozens of gunners did not take any care when they started their guns. Solid iron cannonballs flew towards the city walls with a whistling sound as if they didn't want money.
It wasn't until the dark barrel of the Fran machine was red because of the continuous firing that the nine guns stopped roaring.
At this moment, more than 150 cannonballs had been smashed on the city wall in front of him, which was no longer than 30 battles.
As far as the eye can see, the city wall was flat half an hour ago, but at this moment, dozens of potholes of three feet square have appeared. Not only that, but the dozens of cities facing the side of the Tiger and Par Army, except for a few still standing alone on the city wall, the rest have been smashed to pieces by cannonballs. In the midst of the debris scattered all over the ground, dozens of Tartar corpses affected by shells and fragments of battlements lay scattered.
After taking a serious look at the dilapidated city wall in front of him, Wang Feng, who led the team, decisively ordered: "The musket battalion, take the army as a unit, and fire at the Tartars on the city wall to provide fire cover for the attacking troops. The pikes battalion immediately attacked the city walls, and according to the method that the general had just taught us, destroyed the walls with explosives packs and opened a breach. ”
As soon as Wang Feng's order was issued, the sound ......of bean-like gunfire began to sound around Wang Feng.
A puff of white smoke erupted from the wound of the arquebus, covering the musketeer in his hand. Three hundred fiery red lead bullets flew out of the barrel of the gun together, and with a faint whistling sound of breaking through the air, they flew towards the city wall from different directions.
Compared with the accuracy rate of the artillery, which is exactly 50 or 60 percent, the new arquebus with a firing distance of less than 100 paces is more than 80 percent.
So, at least half of the three hundred buckshot bolts clung to the edge of the city walls and flew towards the targets hiding on the walls.
Heart-rending screams rang out on the battlefield, and all the outcropping Tartars on the mutilated city walls, without exception, were hit by lead bullets and fell covered in blood on the ruined walls.
In the blink of an eye, seven or eight Tartars were beaten into a hornet's nest by this round of buckshot.
In the blink of an eye, the Grim Reaper, which had been modified and used fixed ammunition, had fired a second round of lead bullet at the walls.
After three rounds of lead bullets in a row, there was not a single outcropping Tartar on the city wall that stretched for thirty battles.
"Spear battalion demolition team, attack immediately......" Wang Feng, who had been paying attention to every move on the battlefield, decisively opened his mouth and ordered.
In the sound of round after round of musket fire, more than a dozen long souvenirs wearing two layers of iron armor leaned close together, using outer iron shields to form a small offensive phalanx that was harder than a turtle's shell, and slowly walked out of the camp and advanced towards the location of the city gate.
The remnants of the Tartars cowering on the city wall were of course impossible to watch the Tiger and Par Army attack the base of the city wall.
As soon as the phalanx of more than a dozen tigers and leopards came into range of their bows and arrows, the remaining Tartars on the city walls began to throw arrows out of the city. However, in order to kill the Tiger and Par Army, the arrows falling from the sky must be lucky enough to penetrate two layers of protection.
The wooden shield covered with iron sheets, and the double iron armor worn by the soldiers......
Obviously, the arrows thrown by the Tartars were not as powerful and did not have such good luck.
Watching the tortoise shell phalanx formed by the tiger and leopard army get closer and closer to the city wall. Some of the Tartars began to get anxious, and in order to increase the power and accuracy of their arrows, they poked themselves out of the city wall and prepared to shoot directly at the tigers and leopards with their bows and arrows......
However, the hundreds of musketeers who had been standing a hundred paces outside the city walls, in a state of firing, were not vegetarians.
As soon as the longbow was exposed, the sound of musket shots began to ring out on the battlefield.
Subsequently, at least thirty buckshots, with a whistling sound, at the same time flew towards the tartar who exposed his body.
Thirty buckshots, even if the blind cat kills the mouse, a few lead bullets can hit the target and shoot into the body of the tartar.
So, before the arrows of the Tartar on the string of the longbow could be shot, his upper body had been beaten into a hornet's nest, and then, with a face full of unwillingness, under the inertia of lead bullets, he fell heavily on the city wall.
After paying for the lives of several Tartars in a row, no Tartar saw himself as brave and dared to peek out of his body from the city wall.
In this way, in the face of the Haw Par Army, which was getting closer and closer to the city wall, all the remaining Tartars could do was to hide on the city wall and throw meaningless arrows at the Haw Par Army formation.
Thirty steps...... When the Haw Par Army was only thirty paces away from the city wall, the army formation, which had just been slowly advancing, immediately picked up speed.
Soon, the distance of thirty paces was reduced to ten.
Facing the Tiger and Leopard Army that was close at hand, the Tartars, who had less than fifty people left, were completely anxious.
At the urging of Niu Lu Zhangjing, he didn't care about dodging the lead bullets fired by the tiger and leopard army, so he picked up the rolling stones that were piled up next to him and threw them at the foot of the city wall.
For a time, all kinds of rolling stones were thrown down from the city gate tower by the tartars as if it were raining.
At this moment, if more than a dozen Haw Par troops continue to form a military formation to move forward, the huge military formation is undoubtedly the best target for Rolling Stone. And the tiger and leopard army hiding under the shield, even if they are protected by double layers of iron armor, will be roared down, and the rolling stones weighing dozens of catties will be smashed to death and injured.
The Haw Par Musketeers, with their fastest rate of fire, seized the opportunity for the Tartar to expose their bodies, and desperately fired lead bullets at the city walls. A dozen Demomen were not idle, either, and began a new way of attacking.
With a loud roar resounding on the battlefield, the tortoiseshell-like military formation quickly dispersed. More than a dozen long scramblers, carrying their shields, rushed to the city gate cave with a roar, as if they were tigers descending from the mountain, ignoring the rolling stones falling like raindrops overhead.
More than a dozen people, after paying more than half of the casualties, the remaining seven soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army rushed into the city gate hole.
Stack explosives packets and light the arquebus......
The Seven Haw Par soldiers trained themselves in a method that they don't know how many times, and quickly completed all the preparations before the blasting.
The seven soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army, with their shields on their heads, rushed out of the city gate hole, and when they rushed towards their own position regardless of a single qiē, an explosion that shook the ground suddenly sounded in the city gate hole.
Wang Feng, who was standing on the battlefield, saw with his own eyes that a ball of white light suddenly burst out in the pitch-black city gate cave, and after the white light, a fireball mixed with a large amount of black smoke rose from the city gate hole.
The city wall, which was still strong just now, was instantly blown into a pile of ruins as if it were papier-mâché.
As for the remnants of the Tartars hiding above the city gates, they were all buried in the rubble.
Such a good opportunity to attack the fortress, of course Wang Feng will not let it go.
Under the stunned gaze of hundreds of soldiers, a loud roar quickly shouted from Wang Feng's mouth: "Spearman, start attacking..."