The artillery cannot hit the target several miles away, and it will appear at the front of the array in every battle.
As soon as the Tiger Flag Artillery Team took action, it was immediately seen by the Qing army on the top of the city.
"Go and inform the general, the tiger thieves outside the city have brought up the cannon." A Han soldier guarding the city wall shouted loudly to the people behind him.
The guard of Guang'en Gate is always Chen Xing.
When he heard the shouting, he rushed to the crenel and looked outside the city.
When he noticed a few more cannons under the city, his expression suddenly changed and he said loudly: "Quickly, set up the cannons on the city and bombard the tiger bandits' cannons outside the city. Don't let them have the opportunity to fire on the city. "
While shouting, he arranged for someone to notify his superior.
boom! boom! boom!
The firing speed of the Tiger Flag was faster than the Qing army imagined.
The Qing army's cannons on the city wall were not ready yet, but the cannons of the Tiger Flag had been fired. Several cannons soared into the air, and nearly half of them landed on the city wall.
The bullets bounced and killed several Qing soldiers.
Unfortunately, there were too few cannons. Compared with the Qing troops on the city wall, the number of casualties was not serious.
"Fight back, fight back, what are the gunners doing there to eat? Why don't you fire?" the Qing commander on the city wall shouted loudly, while he squatted behind the female wall, his body pressed against the female wall, afraid of being shot. Hit.
Unfortunately, the gunners of the Qing army became busier and more chaotic. Especially after the gunners of the Tiger Flag fired, the gunners of the Qing army on the city wall were in a panic and hurried about. It took a long time to load the gunners.
And just for a while, the gunners of the Tiger Flag outside the city shelled the city head again.
After this round of shelling, the Qing gunners on the city wall finally opened fire.
Although the Qing army had more artillery, they were scattered in different directions of the city gate, so the number was not too much.
The Qing army's gunners on the city wall fired the first round mainly to find a position to prepare for the second round of firing, so one round of artillery fire did not pose any threat to the several cannons under the Tiger Flag below the city.
"What's going on? Didn't it say that the tiger thieves will not attack the city for the time being?" Yi Bilong, who was wearing armor, quickly climbed up the city wall from the bottom of the city.
Accompanying him were several white-armored soldiers.
Chen Xing, who was hiding by the female wall, hesitated for a moment when he saw Ye Bilong. In the end, he didn't move. He just shouted in his mouth: "My lord, why are you here? Come down quickly, the wall is dangerous."
Fearing that Ye Bilong wouldn't hear, he shouted a few more times.
And Ye Bilong saw him at a glance.
Although he was just a general, the armor he wore was very different from that of ordinary soldiers. Compared with most of the guards on the city wall, it was more conspicuous.
Ye Bilong waved to the white-armored soldiers beside him, then took the lead and ran towards the female wall where Chen Xing was hiding.
"What's going on now?"
Coming to Chen Xing's side, Yi Bilong asked.
Chen Xing moved to the side to make some room for Yan Bilong, and at the same time said in his mouth: "The Tiger Flag suddenly fired, and the younger one has arranged for our gunners to fight back."
"You did a good job." Ye Bilong praised, and then asked, "Apart from shelling, do the tiger thieves have any other actions?"
"No, not really!" Chen Xing said uncertainly.
As soon as the cannon was fired outside the city, he hid behind the parapet and did not dare to look outside the city. He had no idea about the situation outside the city. He could only guess the tiger flag outside the city through the sounds and some words of the guards on the city wall. There was no rush to attack the city.
Seeing that he was hesitant and unhappy, Er Bilong raised his head, exposed his body on the crenellation, and looked outside the city.
After carefully looking left and right outside the city for a while, I found that the Tiger Flag side only used four cannons to fire on the city wall, but other than that there was no action. The tension was relieved a little.
"Let the gunners at the top of the city quickly use their cannons to destroy the cannons of the tiger thieves outside the city." Yi Bilong ordered, then looked at Chen Xing and pulled him with his hand, "Stop hiding, the tiger thieves are not attacking the city. I’m just scaring you with cannons.”
After hearing this, Chen Xing hesitated for a moment, then slowly stood up from behind the female wall under the gaze of Yi Bilong.
However, just when his head was exposed, a cannon hit him directly.
The normal-sized head was directly torn apart by the impact of the cannon, and some white and red stuff sputtered out, and even Yi Bilong on the side was covered with a lot of it.
A headless corpse fell to the ground.
Ye Bilong, who didn't react at all, didn't come to his senses until Chen Xing's body fell on the wall. He suddenly felt sick in his heart, and he leaned down involuntarily, holding the female wall with one hand and vomited.
Although he is not as prolific in killing enemies as his father, he has been on the battlefield since he was a child and has seen a lot of corpses. But the first time he saw this kind of head, it was instantly torn apart, leaving only the broken neck cavity sticking out. Bloody water.
Not only him, but also the few white-armored soldiers around him vomited while holding on to the female wall.
The captain of the Tiger Flag Artillery Team outside the city saw him holding a monocular telescope in his hand and cursing: "If you go astray, you almost kill the armor-piercing guy. When the guy sees it, He is an important figure in the Qing army, and he is protected by personal guards."
After the gunner on the side heard this, he said with a grimace: "Captain, you can't blame us. The time is too short. It is not easy to shoot so accurately."
"Okay, okay, you still don't want to listen to what I said. Let's fight hard. If that guy on the wall dares to show his head, I will kill him directly." The artillery team captain said with a curse.
If he knew that the shot just now almost killed Gaizhou City Guard General Ye Bilong, he would only scold him even more fiercely.
"Don't be idle and think of ways to destroy the Qing army's artillery." The captain of the artillery team looked at the other gunners and said, "Killing a few Qing armies is nothing, even if it means destroying one Qing army cannon, it will be a big blow to us. It will be beneficial to attack the city next."
The gunners guarding several cannons kept firing, shelling the top of Gaizhou City.
However, Ye Bilong, who was almost hit by a cannon before, never showed his head again.
The previous shot had frightened him out of his courage. He had realized the accuracy of the gunner of the Tiger Flag, and he did not dare to do such risky things again.
He wasn't afraid of being killed in close quarters, but this kind of scene where people were killed by cannons without even seeing them made him frightened, especially the brains that exploded. He didn't want to see this kind of scene again in his life.
The shelling lasted for more than half an hour and finally stopped.
Ye Bilong didn't dare to show his head, so he said to the white-armored soldier on the side: "Go and see what's going on with the tiger thieves outside the city?"
Although the white-armored soldier who was called was unwilling to risk showing his head, he did not dare to disobey Ye Bilong's order, so he had to carefully reveal his head and look at the situation outside the city through the gap between the crenellations.
(End of chapter)
