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With the swing of Jin Shenghuan's right arm sword, the hundred artillery pieces outside the Kuiguang Gate instantly roared, and tongues of fire erupted one after another, and the huge roar was deafening, and the billowing gunpowder smoke was endless;

Hundreds of solid bullets with a thrilling whistling sound, like a meteor shower, smashed into the Kuiguang Gate.

In particular, the cannonballs fired by the Hongyi cannons, weighing twenty-four catties, hit the city wall fiercely, and for a moment the stone shattered, the strong city wall was shaken, and the broken bricks and stones splashed like rain.

That heavy "Peng! Peng! The sound hit the hearts of the Qing army in the city like thunder, making people's chests ache and blood vessels almost cracking.

Most of the iron bullets crossed the city wall and smashed into the city, and some smashed on the female wall, the female wall collapsed, setting off a large area of yellow dust, and the Qing army hiding under the wall was smashed by the collapsed masonry and split their heads, and the blood flowed like an infusion.

Although the casualties caused by the first salvo to the Qing army were not very large, the momentum of the collapse of the ground that day dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Qing army, and many people hid in the caves of the hidden soldiers, and they shrank their limbs in fright and turned pale.

Several tiger squatting cannons at the head of the Qing army were also dumbfounded, and under such a fierce bombardment by the Qin army, no one wanted to go up and fiddle with the things that could not shoot the enemy.

"Ahem" Chen Xiaoman was choked and coughed, and couldn't help but curse the bad luck, today a hundred artillery pieces were placed outside the south gate, the north wind was blowing, and the gunpowder smoke was blowing in his face, Chen Xiaoman was blackened, "Quick, lower the muzzle of the cannon by a scale, adjust quickly!" He coughed and yelled.

On the artillery position, it was the coach Jin Shenghuan who came. It is also up to Chen Xiaoman to have the final say, in the Battle of Hanyang, the King of Qin once taught a jumping eye ranging method. Chen Xiaoman is one of the people who has been handed down by the prince of Qin;

With his extraordinary talent, he stood out among many "protégés of the Son of Heaven" and became the number one sharpshooter in the Qin army. And his position has also been continuously improved with his artillery skills, from the sentry commander to the general manager to the thousandth general, and now he is in charge of an entire artillery battalion.

Under his shout, the reloaded artillerymen lowered their muzzles slightly, "Put!" Chen Xiaoman's flag waved, and the soldiers lit the fuses one after another. Then run away a dozen or so steps, covering your ears

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! rumble

There was another roar of thunder, and the cannonballs that erupted with the tongue of fire hit the moon like meteors again. Running towards the city, this time most of the shells bombarded the walls, which were trembling and shaking.

Two of the solid bullets hit the city gates. Sawdust flying. The two gates were crumbling. The city gate tower above is not known how many solid bullets have been hit, in the sound of the bombardment of the ground, the city gate tower is unbearable, and it collapses with a bang, the tiles fly sideways, and the smoke and dust roll

"Stop, move forward three hundred steps!"

After the Qing army that bombarded the city, Chen Xiaoman ordered the artillery position to move forward. They reached 500 paces from the city gate and re-set the artillery. Loaded with shotguns, but did not shoot immediately.

Six thousand infantry suddenly shouted in unison, the momentum was like a tide, carrying pontoon bridges, ladders and other siege equipment rushed to the south gate, the Qing army in the city hid in the hiding cave, heard the shouts outside the city, under the shouts of the generals, hurriedly rushed to the head of the city to defend, "Quick, the Qin army is up, go up quickly!" Come on! Mandula's voice was like a ghost's urging.

When the Qing army rushed to the city in a panic, the Qin army outside the city, under the command of the drums, scattered to both sides, Chen Xiaoman's artillery roared again, this time spraying out a terrifying barrage, countless small marbles like a torrential rain towards the city hood.

There was a crackling sound at the head of the city, and the Qing army that had just rushed to the head of the city ushered in a terrible nightmare, the tyrannical marbles either broke the shield, or the head was violent, or the arm was broken, and a puff of blood stained the city red, and the Qing soldiers fell to the ground screaming one by one, and the bones pillowed each other.

"Quickly retreat" Mandula looked at the tragic scene at the head of the city, his eyes were split, and his heart was broken.

In this round of shotgun bombardment, the Qing army suffered more than 200 casualties at once, the blood pooled into a stream, gurgling down the city wall, and the broken corpses were spread all over the city, which made people sad and miserable as far as the eye could see.

In the second round, the Qin army acted like this, the Qing army was no longer fooled, and the Qin army did not immediately attack. Jin Shenghuan simply let some of the soldiers go back to the camp, and after eating, drinking, and eating, they let them rest for two hours. At that time, only part of the troops were left to protect the artillery from constant bombardment;

At dusk, when the twilight was four, the Qin army, which had nourished its spirits, set out again.

Night fighting is the strength of the Qin army, the vast night can cover the actions of the Qin army, Jin Shenghuan first sent 200 people to each city gate, in case the Qing army came out of the other city gates to sneak attack, and then did it again as during the day, sending infantry to rush to the south gate with shouts, leading the Qing army to the city, and bombarding it with artillery.

The Qing army could not see the situation outside the city clearly, and did not dare not go to the city to defend, every time they went to the city, they were often bombarded with heavy casualties, and after a few rounds, the Qing army really did not dare to go to the city.

Jin Shenghuan ordered to replace the solid bullets, raise the muzzle, and take turns to shoot in the city, not to hurt the enemy, but to create a momentum of non-stop artillery fire, and some even did not load, directly released the cannon, the Qing army in the city smelled the rumbling cannon sound kept coming, and hid in the hidden soldier cave and did not dare to come out.

At this time, the real siege battle of the Qin army began, and thousands of men and horses carried pontoon bridges, just like Zu Dale crossed the Chu River, pushing pontoon bridges into the moat in the dark.

Yu Xing is a Han army flag soldier, responsible for lookout at the head of the city, the Qin army outside the city has very few torches, can't see anything clearly, he is lying under the battlement, suddenly feels a strange sound on the moat, look down, but the city is full of shadows, he feels that something is wrong and shouts in horror: "The Qin army is attacking the city!" Qin Army Attack"

Syllable! Smack! Yu Xing only shouted twice, and suddenly a series of things fell from the city, rolling around, and sparks were bubbling, "Ah! He screamed, and crawled away;

But before he could run far, boom! Rumble! Rumble! A series of explosions sounded at the head of the city, this is the Qin army's earth-shattering thunder, although the power is far less than that of rockets, but nearly ten sky-shattering thunderbolts exploded at the same time, and the flying shampnel was enough to kill Yu Xing ten times.

At this time, a large number of torches suddenly rose under the city, and a group of Qin soldiers carried the ladder and quickly ran across the pontoon bridge, and the soldiers who crossed the bridge first threw earth-shaking thunder to the city head from time to time, and the city wall of Xuzhou was also two zhang high, and it was not very difficult to throw more than a pound of earth-shaking thunder on the city.

Hearing the shouts of the lookout at the head of the city, the Qing army rushed out of the Tibetan soldier cave, only to see the continuous explosion at the head of the city, coupled with the roar of artillery outside the city, thinking that the Qin army was leading them to the city, these frightened birds actually retracted back into the Tibetan soldier cave.

Even the Qin army besieging the city could not have imagined that such a situation would occur.

Wu Yingfu was the first Qin army to fly up the city along the ladder, and when he turned over and jumped off the city, he was ready to fight hard, however, he was stunned at this moment, because there was no opponent on the city.

At the head of the city, where the torches were extinguished, except for the corpses that had not been collected by the artillery, only a few lookouts who could not call for helpers were running away in the distance amid the rumbling cannons, and he did not find a single gasp.

Wu Yingfu felt a sense of loneliness welling up in his heart, and this loneliness came so suddenly, so unexpectedly, that he was a little overwhelmed.

"It's not good, could it be that there is an ambush in the Tartars?" He exclaimed.

Wu Chang Fangzhou, who followed closely, turned over the city, slapped his palm on the head, and said fiercely: "What are you still doing in a daze, hurry, go and guard the horse road, quickly!" ”

The horse road is generally built in the city gate two, to put it bluntly, it is two slopes leading to the top of the city wall, and the defenders of the hidden soldier cave under the city want to go up to the city, and they generally come up through the horse road.

The artillery outside the city is not all empty cannons, from time to time there are solid bullets whistling through the city, smashing the houses in the city, every projectile falls, always smashing the houses to collapse with an uproar, the sound is amazing.

One of the shells flew over Wu Yingfu, the screaming sound frightened him almost to the ground, he finally understood that there was no Qing army in the city, only a cannonball flew overhead, he was scared like this, the Qing army was bombarded for most of the day, and anyone was scared.

It wasn't until they controlled the horse crossing, raised fire as a trumpet, and the cannon outside the city stopped, that the Qing troops in the hidden soldier cave woke up like a dream, rushed out one after another, and howled and killed the sky

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(To be continued......)