After some operations, the defenders on the top of the city quickly loaded their gunpowder and cannons.
A soldier held a torch in his hand and stretched it out to light the cotton thread on the tail of the cannon.
boom! boom! boom!
The roar of several cannons came from the city. Several cannons were fired one after another, and the smell of burned gunpowder filled the surrounding air.
The cannonballs flew out from the city wall and fell towards the outside of the city.
The soldiers and horses with the Tiger Flag outside the city were startled when they heard the sound of cannons.
As the captain of the artillery team, Lin Ping hurriedly looked around after hearing the sound of the cannon.
When he found that the artillery fired from the city fell far away, still some distance away from the artillery position, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
I felt a sense of fear in my heart.
The artillery of the government army really hit the artillery position. Just because the artillery position has not been arranged yet, our side will definitely suffer a lot of casualties.
Thinking of this, he immediately shouted to the other people in the artillery position: "Move the hell, don't crowd together, especially you guys, keep the distance between the two cannons, don't be fooled by the officers and soldiers." You're a living target. If I missed it this time, the cannon might fall on your heads next time."
He directed the artillery positions to be arranged quickly.
The people on the city wall saw that their artillery fire failed to achieve any results, and the city guard command made their faces look ugly. He said: "In the past, I told the soldiers who were manning the artillery to add more gunpowder. There is no need to save. I will have plenty of gunpowder for them."
His own artillery failed to hit the artillery position of the Tiger Flag. In his opinion, this was because the gunpowder was insufficient.
Huang Qianhu winked at the subordinates on the side.
"Add more gunpowder, add more gunpowder, I've told you several times, just add more gunpowder." Baihu, who was staring at these gunners, saw that the previous shot was still a little far away from the artillery position of the Tiger Flag, and thought It's because the soldiers in front of us are not serious.
The soldiers operating the cannon had no choice but to clean the barrel and reload the gunpowder.
This time they added more gunpowder, hoping to make the cannon fire farther.
At this time, the people sent by Huang Qianhu also arrived.
"Why is Mr. Shen here? Could it be that Qianhu has something to report?" Baihu, who stayed with the gunnery crew, saw the person coming and greeted him enthusiastically.
The person who came was Huang Qianhu's servant, who held the position of general manager.
"The commander is unhappy. Qianhu ordered me to inform you that no matter what method you use, you must hit the tiger bandit's cannon outside the city." The person said expressionlessly.
The Baihu patted his chest and promised, "Brother Shen will go back and tell the commander and Huang Qianhu that with me here, the next shot will be able to hit the tiger thief's cannon."
"That's good." Mr. Shen nodded, turned and left.
Baihu watched the other party go away, then turned around and shouted to the nearby gunners: "The general sent people over just now. He was very dissatisfied with your failure to destroy the tiger bandit's cannon. If you can't fire it next time, Just wait to be punished!"
The soldiers who fired the cannon originally just wanted to add a little more gunpowder, but after hearing what Baihu said, they were worried that they would be punished, so they added more gunpowder.
….
boom! boom! boom!
Soon another cannon shot rang out from the top of the city.
Unfortunately, we still couldn't hit the artillery position with the Tiger Flag outside the city.
However, this time the cannon fired from the city wall was closer to the artillery position of the Tiger Flag, and it was almost only thirty or forty steps away from hitting the artillery position of the Tiger Flag.
"Damn, it's almost like that, a bunch of bastards, add more gunpowder and kill you bastards." Baihu, who was guarding the gunners on the city wall, cursed.
When the soldiers around him hit the cannon of the Tiger Flag with a cannon, the hundreds of households he commanded on the battlefield would also follow suit, especially under the nose of the commander.
Maybe there will be a chance to be valued by the commander and promoted to Deputy Qianhu.
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The artilleryman said with a grimace: "We really can't add gunpowder anymore. If we add more, it will explode the barrel."
Except for two of the cannons in their hands, which were left over from the Jiajing period, the remaining cannons were requested from the imperial court after the Wenxiang Rebellion.
Even the firecrackers cut corners, so it is impossible not to cut corners when making cannons.
Moreover, cannons have fewer opportunities to be used and require less gunpowder. They are not as easy to explode as firecrackers.
When the gunners heard that Baihu asked them to add more gunpowder, some of them were really frightened.
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and add gunpowder. If you hit one, I will give you five taels of silver. If you don't hit, all of them will be taken away and beaten with twenty army sticks." Baihu urged these soldiers to continue adding gunpowder, and even promised a reward for this.
He didn't care whether there was a final reward or not.
What he cared most about was to hit the cannon on the tiger-shaped flag outside the city, so as to win the welcome of the commander, so that he could have the opportunity to further become deputy qianhu.
With the stimulation of silver, some soldiers began to add gunpowder to the cannons.
They are all soldiers of the garrison. They usually don't get paid. Now that they have the opportunity to get five taels of silver, many soldiers are willing to give it a try.
However, some soldiers were still afraid of the cannon exploding and did not dare to add too much gunpowder, only a little more than last time.
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Just as the city was once again preparing for artillery fire, Lin Ping outside the city also received an order to fight back.
Although some of the cannons had not entered the preset positions, some of them were ready for use. However, because there was no order, Lin Ping could not order the cannons to fire back without permission.
Now that he had received the order from the coach, he was no longer polite and ordered one of the artillery squads to fight back against the Ming army on the city.
An artillery squad consists of three artillery groups, with a total of twelve cannons.
There are already more cannons than the official cannons on the city wall.
After receiving the order, the third artillery team immediately launched an artillery bombardment on the government troops on the city, and the main target of the bombardment was the location of the government cannons.
After some aiming, the first round of shelling started quickly.
More than a dozen cannonballs rose into the air and fell towards the city wall.
Cannonballs fell from the sky one after another.
In the entire Ming Dynasty, only Tiger Banner's artillery had the strongest level, the highest accuracy, and the best accuracy.
After more than a dozen cannons, nearly ten of them jumped onto the top of the city. Except for a few that fell inside and outside the city, the rest all fell on the city wall.
A cannon belonging to the army on the city wall was hit on the spot by the cannon, and the cannon body was knocked crooked. The hot cannon directly ignited the gunpowder behind it, causing an explosion.
The explosion of gunpowder caused the impact of the solid iron balls next to them. Many of the iron balls were directly blown away and hit the nearby soldiers, taking away their lives.
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