The artillery battalion commander had just climbed down the watchtower with a shocked face, and Zhou Yuhong, who was eager to know the answer, opened his mouth and asked, "Battalion Commander Wang... Can the traitors stack so many partition walls with sandbags on the city walls really defend against our blooming shells..."

A hint of helplessness from the heart quickly appeared on the face of the artillery battalion commander. After shaking his head, he replied: "General, those walls can't defend against our flowering bombs, but they can reduce the power of flowering bombs to the lowest level. ”

Seeing the puzzled expression on Zhou Yuhong's face, the artillery battalion commander continued to explain: "If it is on the city wall without any obstacles, a flowering bullet can cause losses to at least more than ten traitors. However, with these partition walls, the lethality of the flowering bullets can only be limited to the squares where the sandbags are piled up..."

"Under the shelling of our army, as long as the traitors scattered in the square are not directly hit by the flowering shells, they can easily fight, and there is no need to worry about the possible damage of the shell fragments to themselves..."

Zhou Yuhong's face finally showed an expression of sudden realization. After taking a deep breath, he continued to ask the artillery battalion commander: "That is to say, under this defense of the traitors, it is impossible for our flowering shells to inflict a devastating blow on the traitors on the city wall, and there is no way to suppress them and cover the musketeers approaching the city wall..."

The artillery battalion commander first nodded, then shook his head again, and finally spoke: "General, the reason is this....However, the last general has an idea here, and I don't know if it is feasible..."

"What thoughts?" With a hint of expectation, Zhou Yuhong hurriedly asked.

"We can increase the number of artillery ....we have a battalion of heavy mortars here, and each round has six to eight flowering shells hitting the walls. If we increase the number of mortars to three battalions. The flowering bullet that hit the city wall. It will increase to about twenty rounds..."

"If we concentrate all twenty rounds of flowering shells around the city gates. Seventy or eighty battles wide on this section of the city wall. The traitors on this section of the city wall may be devastated by the flowering bombs..."

Zhou Yuhong's eyes lit up, and he affirmed loudly: "You can give it a try..."

"Ma Chuan Ben will order all the heavy mortar battalions in the other two directions of Baode County to be transferred here... All aimed at the city gate to bombard, Ben General did not believe that so many artillery pieces would not be able to suppress the traitors on the city wall..."

Half an hour later, more than eighty mortars. All in one place......

The high black hole cannon muzzles, without exception, were all aimed at the city wall with the city gate as the center and the width of exactly eighty battles.

When all the shells are stuffed into the chamber and the arquebus is inserted, the cannon is ready to fire. Zhou Yuhong, who was full of confidence in this attack, climbed directly to the watchtower, raised the monoculars, and ordered loudly.

"Artillery, fire right away..."

The dull sound of shelling had just reached Zhou Yuhong's ears. The sharp whistling of cannonballs across the sky followed in the air.

With the sound of dense explosions resounding on the battlefield two miles away. Zhou Yuhong, who was holding a monocular, clearly saw that at least twenty orange-red fireballs, like mushrooms after a rain, quickly rose on the city wall.

However, these fireballs that rose into the air did not achieve the huge results they imagined.

As the commander of the artillery battalion had said half an hour ago, after the explosion of the flowering shell, in addition to the traitors in the squares who were devastated, the traitors in the surrounding squares were still lying on the battlements with solemn faces, quietly waiting for the appearance of the attacking troops.

What's more, as soon as the first round of flowering shells exploded, hundreds of traitors poured onto the walls and rushed towards the squares that had just been attacked...

In the blink of an eye, the gap blown up by more than 20 flowering shells was refilled.

Round after round, more than 80 mortars fired ten rounds of shells at the city wall in a row, and this section of the city wall, which had been completely covered by the smoke of gunpowder, still did not have any defensive gaps blown by the flowering shells.

As for the chaos on the battlefield that Zhou Yuhong wanted to see, it didn't appear...

Seeing this, Zhou Yuhong could only put down the monocular with a helpless face. Then, facing the anticipating subordinates under the watchtower, he shouted an order: "Stop the shelling... All the attacking forces stopped, moved to the defense on the spot, and rested ...

Just when Zhou Yuhong was thinking about possible solutions with a bitter face. Hearing that the attack had failed, Wei Zheng happened to be surrounded by the pro-guard battalion and came to the forefront of the battlefield.

After listening to Zhou Yuhong's report, Wei Zheng directly opened his mouth and asked rhetorically: "Even if the flowering bomb is under the defense of the traitor, it cannot exert its power to the maximum. However, a single shot can also destroy several traitors..."

"There are only 20,000 traitors in the city, and even if they are blown up with flowering shells, they can all be blown up..."

"General Zhou, continue to bombard the city wall, Ben Shuai wants to see if the flesh and blood of the traitor is powerful, or our flowering shells are more powerful..."

Zhou Yuhong did not receive the order immediately, but replied with an embarrassed face: "The commander....the last general also wants to use cannonballs to blow up....but, we don't have so many flowering shells at all..."

"In the shelling just now, at most a third of the shells fell on the city walls. In just a few artillery strikes, we consumed thousands of flowering shells. Because the production of flowering shells is too difficult, we only brought 5,000 of them with us in this sortie... Of the 5,000 flowering shells, there are only more than 1,000 that can really fall on the city wall, and the results that can be achieved are as many as 4,000 or 5,000 people....Therefore, with our artillery shell reserves, it is impossible to take Baode County in front of us...."

"In addition, if we run out of shells here, we will lose artillery support in future battles..."

At this time, Wei Zheng immediately remembered the limited production of flowering bombs by the Equipment Division....

Because of the difficulty in casting the flowering projectile body, coupled with the large shortage of excellent craftsmen in the Equipment Division. Even if Wei Zheng has invested a lot of silver in the production of flowering bombs, the output of flowering bombs can only reach about 100 pieces per day....

Therefore, excluding training shells and small- and medium-caliber mortar shells, after a full half a year of accumulation, the Armament Division has accumulated less than 8,000 rounds of large-caliber mortar shells...

Except for the more than 2,000 rounds brought to Wang Feng, the remaining flowering bombs are all here.

Thinking of this, Wei Zheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The production capacity of the Equipment Division is still too poor... When the craftsmen given by the imperial court arrived, they must further increase their production capacity and come up with a simpler production process for flowering bombs. ”

However, there is a good saying, far water cannot quench the thirst of the near, besides, these ideas are still things without shadows, and they cannot solve the difficulties they face.

Therefore, this kind of thought was only put in the back of Wei Zheng's mind after a flash.

Then, under the watchful eyes of his subordinates, he raised his monoculars and began to observe the battlefield two miles away...

At this time, Zhou Yuhong, who had gone through two rounds of bloody battles, also began to explain to Wei Zheng what he had learned about the enemy.

Before Zhou Yuhong finished his speech, he was interrupted by Wei Zheng's words.

"Wait....General Zhou...... You just said that the traitors on the walls began to shell only after the attacking troops had entered two hundred paces......"

"Yes, handsome... The range of the medium Franc cannon was up to 400 paces. However, in the case of firing scattered bombs, the range can only reach 200 steps in the sky...."Zhou Yuhong replied with an affirmative face.

"And if the traitors want to kill us in large numbers through the guò artillery, they can only shoot scattered bullets at us..."

Wei Zheng nodded, and replied thoughtfully: "If that's the case, Ben Shuai already has a specific way to attack Baode County in his heart..."

Seeing the expectant expressions on his subordinates' faces, Wei Zheng followed up and said, "If you launch an attack on Baode County, the soldiers will definitely be exposed to the firepower of the traitors, and they will suffer heavy losses, and they will not even be able to enter the city wall. “

"Since we can't attack the city wall of Baode County openly, then we will attack secretly...."

"All attacking troops, under mortar cover, advance directly to a distance of two hundred paces from the city wall, that is, to the end of the range of the traitor's medium or wolf artillery firing scattered projectiles."

"After advancing to the predetermined position, the trench began directly...... Until you can hide all the soldiers in the position. ”

Speaking of this, Wei Zheng directly picked up a wooden stick and drew a straight line on the ground.

Then, on the vertical line of defense of the straight line, draw a few curves. And under the gaze of a pair of eyes full of incomprehension, he opened his mouth to explain.

"After the first trench is completed, several communication trenches are dug in the direction of the city wall....A very important reason why we have to dig so bent is to guard against the lead bullets that the traitors may shoot at us, and to ensure that the lead bullets cannot be fired directly into the trench and kill us."

"In addition, just in case, we can also find some planks, and the soldiers dug a traffic trench and covered it with planks. In this case, the lead bullets fired at us by the traitor artillery will be blocked by the planks, and we will not be able to do anything at all..."

"Several communication trenches were stretched forward to a hundred paces from the wall, and a trench parallel to the wall was dug again. This trench was the trench where the musketeers concealed and fired at the walls. ”

"As long as there is a deposit of this trench, the soldiers can hide in the trench and shoot lead bullets at the traitors on the city walls, killing and suppressing them as much as possible..."

"As for how to attack Baode County, blow up a gap in the wall of Baode County with explosives packs, relying on the trench we are about to excavate....and it is also a trench covered with wooden planks........."