An earth-shattering explosion sounded. With a bang, the explosive packs filled with lead gravel and even iron nails around the gunpowder exploded in an instant. The power of several kilograms of explosives exploding directly in the crowd can be imagined. The lead gravel was blown up by the wind. It rained down on the crowd, and the Annan soldiers at the center of the explosion were directly blown into pieces. A stream of bloody arrows also appeared on the bodies of people a little further away.
The shock wave of the explosion spread outward with the explosion point as the center. Everyone flew backwards while spraying blood on their bodies. The smoke and dust stirred up by the shock wave were several feet high. The Annan people were completely unprepared. They never thought that the enemy could directly throw explosives.
As several black mushroom clouds rose into the sky, a thousand Annanjing soldiers carrying ladders and pushing siege vehicles were killed and injured in an instant. He didn't even touch the edge of the city wall and suffered such huge casualties. Gao Heng took a cursory glance at the battlefield at the top of the city. There were at least two to three hundred people dead and wounded. This was already extraordinary for the thousand Annan soldiers who led the battle. casualties. If an army that has lost one-third of its casualties in an instant still has the courage to continue fighting, it will be the best among the best.
Obviously, the Beijing soldiers who were defeated in Yuanxian County had the courage to come to show their guilt and meritorious service. They thought that the civilians in this city were easy to deal with. Who knew that the other party actually produced such a weapon? They had never seen it before. .
The offensive of the Annan army was completely destroyed by the heartless artillery. The violent explosion took away so many lives. The remaining soldiers no longer had the courage to move forward. Their battalion generals had disappeared in the explosion just now, and even the scum were gone. There was nothing left, and the makeshift siege vehicle lay crooked to the side, with corpses strewn on the ground next to it.
Those who were lucky enough not to be killed on the spot were even more miserable. They vomited black blood, were dizzy, and wanted to get up, but couldn't. This is a typical sign of having your internal organs shattered by shock. The power of the Heartless Cannon is that it doesn't just rely on fragments to hurt people, but the shock wave is what actually kills people invisible.
Boom, there were two more cannon shots. The two Franchise guns at the top of the city were replaced with solid ammunition, and they fired two cannons at the four town soldiers standing two miles away. One of the cannonballs pierced into the crowd, carrying them continuously. Several lives were lost and more than a dozen people were injured.
"Devils! They have the help of devils!" Someone among the soldiers in the four towns shouted. Everyone looked over. Maybe the torn corpses of their comrades who were hit by solid bullets were next to them. The soldier was injured. Excited, or maybe the explosion just now was too overbearing, the soldier seemed to be crazy. He threw away his helmet, grabbed his hair with his hands and shouted, "Magic, it must be magic. These Akito have learned magic, hurry up." Run!"
He turned around and ran away. The remaining battalion generals in the Fourth Town Soldiers never expected that someone would desert on the battlefield. His face turned livid all of a sudden. One person's escape would bring the whole team with him. Sure enough, the man didn't run very far. Some soldiers dropped their weapons and fled with him.
The time seemed to be very long, and it seemed like it was just an instant. The formation of the four town soldiers was completely loosened. Countless soldiers turned around and ran away. The morale of the Beijing soldiers in front collapsed directly. They also ran back desperately, fearing that they would run too slowly. Got bombed by the enemy.
Fortunately, the firing speed of the heartless cannon is very slow. Because the opening of the iron barrel is too large and there is no bore brush that can match the caliber, it takes some time to clean it, but the firing speed is much slower than that of the ordinary Folang machine.
These people turned around and ran away, leaving Wu Rong to beat his chest and feel sorry. If they could stay a little longer, he could seize the opportunity to blast them again, ensuring that they would never come back. But now, he watched helplessly as the enemy Ran away.
The remaining Annan soldiers pushed the artillery and disappeared into the dense forest in the blink of an eye, as if they had never been there. Only the corpses on the ground can prove that there was indeed a fierce battle here, and the Annan people left hundreds of bodies behind. The corpse retreated in defeat.
Fan Yu was obviously not used to this kind of relaxed battle. He thought it would be a bloody battle, but he didn't expect it to end so quickly. "Win? Is this a win?" Fan Yu murmured.
Immediately, he seemed to realize something, suddenly raised his hands and cheered: "Win! We won! The Annan people were defeated!"
"We won! We won!" "We won!" "Great!" cheers came one after another. The soldiers at the top of the city even hugged each other excitedly. They cheered loudly. The Annan people failed in despair. They It only took such a short time to win, and this victory came so easily.
Seeing the cheers of the soldiers, Gao Heng felt a little solemn. It is true that they defeated the enemy, but on the one hand, they only caused a few hundred casualties to them, and the enemy was not injured. On the other hand, The commander-in-chief of the enemy army is the crown prince of Lord Zheng. If he learns this news and loses face, he will definitely become furious and launch a counterattack. Then will be the real test.
Gao Heng was about to order the soldiers to open the city gate and go out to clean the battlefield. Suddenly, the dense forest outside the south gate suddenly changed. Countless birds seemed to be frightened by something. They fluttered their wings and soared into the sky from the woods. There was a heavy black cloud in the sky. A flock of birds gives people an ominous premonition.
"There are cavalry!" shouted the sharp-eyed soldier. Gao Heng immediately picked up his telescope and observed. A large group of cavalry suddenly appeared on the edge of the jungle, and a large flag with the word Zheng on a yellow background and black characters fluttering in the wind. Ten people, twenty people, fifty people, one hundred people, the number of cavalry continued to increase. After a while, at least more than two hundred cavalry appeared outside Tuoxian City. Gao Heng could see clearly in the telescope, a silver cavalryman. General A was standing at the front of the team, holding a telescope in his hand. He was looking at the city. When the two saw each other, the telescope suddenly froze.
It turned out that Zheng Zuo had been a little uneasy after sending out these two thousand people. He also wanted to see what abilities this group of civilians had, and they could actually capture the county town of Annan. So he ordered two hundred Royal Guards cavalry, led by a group of sentry cavalry, and arrived outside Tuoxian City. He originally wanted to take Tuoxian in person and see the fruits of his own army's victory, but he never expected to encounter him on the official road. The defeated soldiers fled.
Zheng Zuo killed dozens of people to stop the defeated army. After careful questioning, he found that the siege troops failed without even touching the city wall. Zheng Zuo gritted his teeth and insisted on coming to the city despite everyone's dissuasion. However, he saw his own soldiers. Bodies all over the ground.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you really don't blame me, you really don't blame me! They, they all saw it, the enemy has magic, there is magic." The other surviving battalion general was picked up by several imperial guards and thrown to Zheng Zuo in front of.
Zheng Zuo sneered, pulled out the long knife from his waist with a clang, and with a click, the general's head fell to the ground. Gao Heng clearly saw this scene in the telescope. Zheng Zuo pointed the knife at the head on the ground, then raised his hand and pointed at Gao Heng who was observing him with the tip of the knife, and then made a gesture of wiping his neck. Obviously , Zheng Zuo knew that his demonstration had been seen by Gao Heng.
Then Zheng Zuo turned his horse around, and hundreds of cavalry followed him back, disappearing silently into the dense forest.
The coercion of hundreds of cavalry is not comparable to that of ordinary arms, especially the Shenglong Palace Imperial Forest Army. They are all heavy cavalry, and their whole bodies are wrapped in iron armor. Gao Heng understands that if in the field, such a group of hundreds of armored cavalry rushes to kill Come over, the two thousand men of your own will not be able to resist at all, even if they are equipped with firecrackers and artillery. At this time, the firecrackers and artillery do not have the ability to resist cavalry at all.
"General, here." Wu Rong came up.
Gao Heng put down his telescope and said with a serious face: "The whole army must not relax and sleep with their armor on at night. If I guess correctly, the enemy is about to launch a huge offensive. The man just now must be Zheng Zuo. He is the prince. I will definitely not be able to swallow this bad breath."
Just as Gao Heng expected, Zheng Zuo's men returned to Yuan County at a lightning speed. His face was very ugly. His two thousand soldiers and horses were defeated in one battle. What kind of magic power do these mud-legged people have? He is the prince, but he just doesn't believe this. evil.
All subsequent troops arrived at night. Except for the defeated troops who had been withdrawn from Tuo County to defend Yuan County and sent a small number of sentries to monitor the Ming army at Zhennanguan, Zheng Zuo ordered all the remaining troops and horses to join the army just now. The baggage troops who arrived were not allowed to rest or camp, and they set off immediately.
Nine thousand Annan troops and two hundred Royal Forest Army cavalry attacked Tuoxian in a mighty manner. Zheng Zuo vowed to raze Tuoxian to the ground and kill all the people in the city.
Who would have thought that less than two days later, the enemy army would come back again, and the scale would be so huge.
A large flag with the word Zheng fluttering in the wind outside the city, nearly ten thousand enemy troops were densely arrayed two or three miles away from the city. As Gao Heng expected, Zheng Zuo not only wanted to save face, but also wiped Tuo County off the map. go.
Several heavy artillery were erected directly in front of the team. These were Ming army heavy artillery imitated by the Annan Army. Others may not know it very well, but Wu Rong recognized these heavy artillery almost at a glance, "General's artillery!" Wu Rong cried out loudly.
The General Cannon is the traditional heavy artillery of the Ming Army. This weapon was first developed during the Jiajing period. The original range was about two miles. With the continuous advancement of firearm technology in the Ming Dynasty, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was an improved General Cannon. Cannon, with a range of more than three miles. Since Annan was a former vassal of the Ming Dynasty, he learned from the strengths of others. In terms of firearms, he absorbed not only the advantages of the Westerners, but also the advantages of the Ming army.
Although the Fo Lang machine heavy artillery is good, it is expensive and uses the breech loading method. It should be said that it was the most technologically advanced artillery in the world at that time. Even the Ordnance Bureau of the Ming Dynasty capital changed many general cannons to the Fo Lang machine loading method. , but in this way, the cost will be greatly increased.
The Annamites used a mixture of Western artillery and Ming-style artillery. For light artillery, they used Folang machines or double-jet cannons, and for heavy artillery, they directly used general cannons. The combination of high and low was quite effective on the battlefield.
As soon as the general's artillery appeared, the situation became somewhat passive. At a distance of two miles away, the Survival Brigade had no artillery that could deal with it, and could only be beaten without being able to fight back.
The nine thousand Annan army was divided into several square formations and arranged neatly outside the range of Fo Langji. Two hundred cavalry were guarding Zheng Zuo. Zheng Zuo's tactics were very simple. He used the general's cannon to blast open the city wall, and then the whole army attacked to end the battle. He didn't believe that these civilians guarding the city were capable of dealing with him from such a distance.
Originally, killing chickens with a sledgehammer and using heavy artillery to deal with these civilians was just a fuss, but Zheng Zuo was extremely resentful. These expats came to the land of Annan and did not listen to the instructions of the Annan court. They dared to gather people to rebel. They were simply tired of living. If If we can't kill them as a warning to others, what prestige will the Zheng's court have in the future?
"Fire!" Boom boom boom, the Annan army's general cannon fired one after another, and three kilograms of solid bullets came out of the chamber at high speed and flew towards the city wall.
Rumbling, booming, and several loud noises, the entire city wall seemed to be shaking. The soldiers on the top of the city were unsteady and their bodies were shaking.
"The fire gun soldiers are coming to the city! All the people on the streets should go back, stay at home and don't go out. Find a safe place to hide! Quick!" Gao Heng ordered loudly. He is well aware of the power of this heavy artillery. The denser the people, the more dangerous it is. The right way to avoid it now is to avoid it immediately.
Boom, a cannonball hit the crenel at the top of the city, smashing it into pieces and scattering bricks and stones. It knocked down the nearby Survival Brigade soldiers like cannonballs. They were all archers and The fire gun hand made Gao Heng feel so distressed that he was bleeding.
"Withdraw! Get down to the city quickly!" Wang Qi and Wu Rong urged the soldiers to go down to the city.
Boom, another cannonball hit, directly making a big hole in the city wall. A sneer appeared on the corner of Zheng Zuo's mouth, and he commanded the artillery: "Concentrate firepower and bombard the city gate!"
The general's cannon fired non-stop, and the city wall was scarred and scarred, as if it was about to collapse in the next moment. Zheng Zuo ordered the artillery to focus on firing at the city gate. Finally, a shell directly hit the Tuoxian city gate. The wooden city gate could not withstand the fatal blow of the general's cannon and was shattered in an instant.
"General! The city gate has been blown open!" The spearmen in the city gate cave were killed and injured, and even if someone came to the city to report to Gao Heng.
Gao Heng's heart was already in his throat. The ancient battle model was completely different from the later generations. Now that the door is wide open, the enemy will definitely attack the city immediately.
"Soldiers, kill! Go up and kill them all!" Zheng Zuo waved his sword, and his silver armor reflected the frightening cold light in the sun. The three battalions in front suddenly launched, and a thousand people rushed towards the city gate. The empty city gate. Another two thousand people carried ladders and attacked the walls on both sides of the city gate.
Gao Heng immediately shouted: "Prepare fire oil, prepare the camp, use everything you can collect to block the city gate hole, we can't let them rush in so easily! Prepare explosive packs!"
At the moment of life and death, the soldiers took action quickly, the shouts became closer and closer, and the murderous Annan Army quickly approached the city.
