"let's start!"
Xing Chaoxi put down the monocular telescope in his hand.
Soon, the artillery array placed outside Jinzhou City began to fire, shooting into Jinzhou City.
In order to ensure the smooth capture of Jinzhou City, more than a hundred cannons were placed outside the south gate of Jinzhou City. At the same time, the only ship cannon was also mixed in the artillery position.
When Lao Nu attacked Ningyuan, he only brought a hundred or so cannons.
Tiger Flag is good at making cannons. It has its own craftsmen, its own iron yard and artillery field.
Cannon casting is not just a matter of the craftsman who casts the cannon, but also has something to do with the materials used to cast the cannon. The Tiger Flag cannon is based on the original, tested again and again, and improved again and again until it is stable and qualified. , will be equipped into the army.
They seem to be both cannons, but they are completely different.
Without Shanxi merchants providing blood transfusions for fake gold, not only would there be insufficient food to feed the fake gold population, but there would also be insufficient iron to build soldiers' armor, not to mention high-quality iron sources such as iron and steel.
You can't make a good cannon without good iron. Even if the craftsmen who cast fake gold cannons can barely make a cannon, the quality is worrying. Either the range is not powerful enough, or the chamber is easy to explode. It is not as good as the cannon stolen from the Ming Dynasty.
Even the Ming Dynasty's cannons began to cut corners, and the quality was better than the cannons cast by pseudo-gold, but compared to Tiger Flag's own cannons, the gap was still huge.
The number of consecutive firings alone is far inferior to the cannons cast with the Tiger Flag.
There are also cannons in Jinzhou City. After the several cannons brought to attack Nanguan Island were abandoned in Nanguan Island, two more cannons were obtained from Fuzhou and placed on the head of Jinzhou City.
The Tiger Flag artillery position outside the city opened fire and bombarded the south city gate. As soon as the several cannons on the city wall used to defend the city counterattacked, they were immediately bombarded by the artillery outside the city.
The city's artillery fired only one or two shots and then went silent.
"Use ship cannon to blow up the star tower on the top of the city." Xing Chaoxi ordered.
The messenger went to the artillery position to deliver the order.
Next to the ship's cannon stood several artillerymen.
It was also their first time to operate large guns like ship guns. Most of the guns they usually used were four-pounders or six-pounders, and even nine-pounders were rarely used.
For artillerymen, being able to use an obviously powerful cannon was both nerve-wracking and exciting.
Some artillerymen loaded the powder into it, tamped it down, and then loaded the heavy cannon.
The direction of the muzzle has been adjusted long ago, and the target is the city wall of Jinzhou City.
"fire!"
The leader of the artillery crew waved the command flag in his hand vigorously.
The artilleryman lit the line of fire with a torch, and then hurriedly covered his ears with his hands to avoid it.
If you want the cannon to hit far and powerfully, you can't use less medicine.
boom!
The cannon flew out from the barrel of the ship's cannon, fell in the direction of Jinzhou City, and accurately hit the two-story star tower on the city wall.
I'm afraid that this shot, even the gunner who fired it didn't expect it to be so accurate, and it hit the target in one shot.
Wow!
After the brick-and-wood star tower was hit by the cannon, it didn't even hold on for a second. It collapsed on the spot, and the two floors became one. Many of the guards hiding inside were killed.
The gunner began to load the ship's cannon again, and at the same time looked for the next target for the ship's cannon.
The towers and corner towers on the city wall were like paper lakes in front of the ship's cannon. A cannon shot passed by and was directly destroyed. Even the city wall was shaken by a cannon, and the bricks and stones outside were shattered.
Not to mention fighting back, the defenders in Jinzhou City could only hide everywhere under the bombardment of more than a hundred cannons. Even the real slave soldiers, who were more fierce and fearless than the Han army, were still hiding tightly.
"Deputy Master, I think it's time to attack." Zhao Wu came to Xing Chaoxi to ask for a fight.
There are no defenders visible on the walls of Jinzhou City. As for knocking down the wall at the city gate, it is not something that can be accomplished in a day or two.
Xing Chaoxi raised the monocular telescope in his hand and looked at the city wall for a while, then nodded.
The order to attack was given to the First Battle Barracks.
The first battle camp, which was already fully armed, received the order to attack the city, and immediately the 1,000-man team began to rush to the front as the first echelon.
Arriving in front of the moat, we began to build a pontoon bridge on the moat.
Because there was no obstruction from the guards on the city wall, the construction of the pontoon bridge went very smoothly. Two pontoon bridges were quickly built on the left and right sides of the city gate.
At this time, the other two thousand-man teams also rushed up, stepped on the pontoon bridge to the bottom of the city wall of Wengcheng, erected a ladder, and began to climb up the ladder.
As the first soldier who climbed onto the city wall appeared, more and more soldiers climbed onto the city wall and began to occupy the walls of Wengcheng. They followed the female walls on both sides of the city wall and rushed towards the main city wall behind the city wall.
Although the defenders in Jinzhou City abandoned Wengcheng, many defenders were deployed on the walls of the main city.
The owner of the Tiger Flag is the south gate of Jinzhou City. Nearly half of the city's defenders are guarding the south gate.
Several people wanted to rush to the main city wall along the female wall. When they were only a few dozen steps away from the defenders on the main city wall, the archers on the main city wall shot and missed the arrow in their hands.
Several soldiers were hit by arrows on the spot and fell on the charging road.
Upon seeing this, the gunman of the Tiger Flag immediately raised his gun to fight back.
The passages in the city wall were narrow, and the fire gunmen could not line up in a long row to maintain their hit rate. However, the archers of the slave thieves had a higher hit rate than the fire gunmen at a distance of thirty or forty steps.
The two sides fired a pair of shots, and the tiger-character flag warriors immediately suffered a loss.
Slave archers like to use heavy arrows, and usually shoot arrows between ten and twenty steps. Not only is the arrow guaranteed to hit, but it is also possible to penetrate two layers of armor.
Therefore, when the slave thieves fought with the Ming army, they liked to put the cart in front and shoot arrows within twenty steps of the Ming army, defeating the Ming army's defense line in one fell swoop.
But this trick doesn't work on Tiger Flag.
Between ten and twenty steps, even if the hit rate of the fire gun is not as good as that of the archer, it is still extremely high. This distance does not bring much advantage to the archer.
Hailancha suffered from this kind of disadvantage, so this time he deliberately chose a longer distance. Even if his archers' accuracy was not as high as within ten or twenty steps, it was better than the Tiger Flag soldiers who used fire blunderbuss. Take advantage.
"Cuirass soldiers, let the cuirass soldiers hold up the front." Wang Dahuang, the captain of the thousand-man team, shouted loudly.
Wang Ju, who was also aware of this problem, understood that he had to rely on his armor and stomach to keep an eye on the enemy's archers and charge forward. Otherwise, if they kept shooting at each other here, even if all the defenders on the main city wall were wiped out, his side would suffer heavy losses.
Cuirassiers are all half-cuirasses, protecting the vital parts of the upper body.
Ordinary fire gun soldiers are mainly made of cotton armor. A thousand-man team can only have one brigade of cuirass soldiers at most. They are also the soldiers who usually appear in the first two rows when forming a gun formation.
A team of cuirass soldiers came up from the rear and took over from the ordinary soldiers in front. They did not rush to fire, but rushed towards the main city wall.
