At this time, small artillery fired on each arrow tower one after another.
Lu Xiaobei's arrow tower is more than three meters higher than the south city wall, about a hundred meters away.
As soon as the shot was fired, the scaffolding shook and dust rose from the ground. However, the entire arrow tower is very stable. No problems occurred. This made people who were worried about collapse finally feel relieved.
The shot put roared across a distance of one hundred meters, and the distance was reached in an instant.
Although the small French cannon has the problem of air leakage in the barrel. But at this distance, the cannonball almost travels in a straight line. It accurately hit the centurion and a dozen people around him.
boom! There was a loud bang. The lead ball flew at high speed, scattering pieces that directly reached the limbs of the three people. Then it fell on the ground of the city wall, shattering the city bricks, creating a ditch, and finally hit the female wall on the inside of the city wall. The remaining momentum directly collapsed a large piece of the parapet.
The flying broken city bricks were flying in all directions like meteorites causing shock waves on the ground. The Mongolians around them all wore leather armor. Except for captains of ten and above, they had no iron armor at all.
These broken city bricks and some stones caused huge damage to the people around them. The centurion simply disappeared, probably beaten to pieces.
"Well done, change your gun quickly. Attack the next target." Lu Xiaobei waved his fist excitedly.
"Boss, be careful." Qi Pengfei quickly pulled Lu Xiaobei.
The withered feather arrow flew past Lu Xiaobei's right shoulder with a whizzing sound.
Although it is easy to aim at this distance, if the Mongolian opposite uses a hard bow, it can still be shot.
Although in this era, the Mongols have also moved forward. Long gone was the era of Genghis Khan when heroes emerged in large numbers. They basically gave up their big bows and switched to small cavalry bows. Generally, it only has about seven or eight strengths, which is a little stronger than Ming Dynasty.
However, there are many masters of archery among the Mongols. There can still be a few tiger-powered archers in their 100-man team. The direct shooting distance of a normal bow and arrow is about seventy meters. But there is no problem with the Tiger Force Bow shooting directly for more than a hundred meters.
The front and left and right sides of the watchtower are covered by steel plates. But some of them must be fired in order to fire the cannon. As a result, a Mongolian archer missed his arrow and came in.
The Beijing camp did not have stab-proof clothing or bird-beak helmets. What they were equipped with were Yuanyang war jackets, and the helmets were also in the Ming Dynasty style. Chongzhen moved out all the warehouses of the Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion. Try to equip them as well as possible.
Later, he also bought the cheapest stamped plate armor from Yang Fan. This kind of plate armor is two millimeters thick at its thickest and one millimeter at its thinnest. The lower body only reaches the knees. Like clothes, they come in small and large sizes. Not tailor-made.
But these artillerymen did not have plate armor. If they wore plate armor, they wouldn't have to fight. After all, the cannon is heavy enough.
Lu Xiaobei cursed. Look over your shoulders. The newly issued mandarin duck war jacket was torn open by an arrow. Expose the cotton sheet inside. He felt distressed in his heart.
The entire capital is in dire straits. The old Yuanyang battle jacket was passed down to him by his father for more than 40 years. It was already in disrepair.
It was not until after going to Nanyuan for reorganization that migrant workers were first issued camouflage uniforms. Before departure, new Yuanyang war jackets were issued. Everyone cherishes this new outfit. Unexpectedly, after wearing it for less than two months, a hole was damaged.
"Quickly change the gun, damn, hit me hard." Lu Xiaobei said angrily.
The Folan cannon fires very quickly. Gametes and guns. When firing, the sub-gun is loaded into the mother cannon and taken out after firing. Reload the second sub-cannon. According to actual use, the total time spent firing the first three guns is less than 20 seconds.
Yang Fan added muskets to each Franco machine, and each gun had ten muskets. They are all installed in advance. Among them were five spherical solid bullets and five shotshells.
The Fran cannon also has a second advantage, which is good heat dissipation. Since the breech-loaded gun is connected from front to back, air can circulate, and the gun barrel is thin, making it easy to dissipate heat. Fast heat dissipation can increase the artillery's ability to continue firing and also reduce the possibility of self-ignition of gunpowder.
At this time, hundreds of small artillery pieces were firing from all directions. A small lead ball weighing more than one pound came whistling. Keep ricocheting on the city wall. Flying around. Wherever they passed, the defenders were covered in blood and flesh.
Because the rate of fire is so fast, there is no reaction time at all. Until within twenty seconds, three rounds of sub-guns were fired.
As no new orders were received, the bombardment ceased.
However, the artillery squad did not stop. They took the empty muskets to the back to cool down and prepare to reload. Install the new musket into the barrel and secure it.
At this time, the city wall was in a mess. A large piece of some of the crenels was blown away. Some of the floors paved with city tiles had been dug into ditches or holes as big as washbasins. The walls were full of writhing and wailing soldiers.
Especially the four towers received special attention. All were beaten to pieces.
Ogier was dragged out from the collapsed tower by the soldiers, covered in ashes.
"Everyone hide under the crenellations. Their arrow towers are higher than ours. Hurry up." Ogier shouted loudly even though he was seriously injured.
These Mongolian soldiers suddenly woke up. Only hiding under the battlements is safe. The Ming army's arrow tower cannot be seen.
Yang Fan looked at the railing and looked at the city wall in the distance, and said: "The reaction is quite fast. I learned to be smart after one strike. Until I hid under the wall."
Zhang Shize was holding a cigarette in his mouth, puffing away smoke, and said: "Let the heavy artillery on the ground bombard the battlements immediately."
Following the message from the messenger. After a moment of silence, the sound of cannons sounded again.
However, this time, it is not the Franco machine cannon on the arrow tower. But heavy artillery on the ground.
Ten large Luzon bronze cannons and twelve red cannons were placed in sequence under the southern city wall. When you siege a city, you don't need to bombard it from all sides, you just need to open a gap on one side.
With an order, the heavy artillery opened fire. These artillery pieces are all heavy cannons weighing more than twenty pounds. Aiming at the crenellations of the city wall, the bombardment began.
The city wall is only three hundred meters long in total. 22 heavy guns were concentrated. On average, there is a heavy cannon less than fifteen meters away. This firepower density exceeds the firepower density on the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II.
boom! boom! boom!
The heavy artillery began to roar, and the sound of the heavy artillery was not comparable to that of the Folang machine gun. The sound was like thunder. It was deafening. The earth was shaking.
The twenty-four-pound cannonball hit the crenellations of the city wall, causing the crenellations to collapse piece by piece. When the Folan cannon hits the crenel, it can only make a hole like the basin, or collapse the crenel about one square meter.
But once these heavy cannons hit the crenellations, they collapsed piece by piece.
The Mongols hiding behind the crenellations were beaten and smashed together with the crenellations and city bricks.
After the shooting stopped, there were no crenellations on the south wall. The city bricks cracked and collapsed in large areas. The rammed earth wall inside was exposed.
Yang Fan looked at it and said: "Okay, stop fighting. It will be a waste of ammunition to fight again. Let the trebuchet fire."
