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Chapter 52

The Shun Army fired a total of 78 artillery pieces in a round of volleys, and most of the shells accurately hit the walls. The shells fell in arcs and fell on the walls, causing the female wall to collapse and shatter. The shells bounced back and forth on the city bricks, hitting the Guanning army crowd, plowing out a series of crooked blood paths. The crushed stones and city bricks shot like shrapnel. Countless Guanning soldiers screamed and fell down.

A three-pound shell happened to hit a thousand-pound Franchise machine on the wall of Guanning Military Village. The shell hit the body of the Franchise machine gun. Under the huge impact force, the one-pound gun body bounced up like a toy in a child's hand. The wooden gun frame was split into pieces. The gun body rotated several times in the air, landing on the ground and rolling to death several Guanning Army gunners.

Another shell flew past the Guanning Army gunners, sweeping the five gunners around the general guns into the air. One shell even hit the powder barrel behind a large Farang aircraft. The black [fire] was very easy to ignite, and it would burn as long as it encountered Mars or violent impact. The gunpowder sealed in the wooden barrel exploded violently, and the heavy Farang aircraft was directly blown into the sky. The surrounding gunners turned into scattered blood mist in the smoke. After the smoke dissipated, the cannon position was gone, leaving only a large pit on the ground.

"So amazing!" Li Zicheng exclaimed.

"Is the fight too accurate?" Li Guo's eyes widened in shock.

Nonsense, labor and capital have learned artillery from later generations. Although these old antiques are far less accurate than modern artillery in later generations, the principle is similar. It would be great if Dorgon could be killed with one shot, but that would be impossible. With the accuracy of artillery in this era, it would be impossible to complete the task of accurate beheading. The probability of hitting Dorgon is much lower than the probability of air crashes or train accidents in later generations. Even a flowering artillery shell that could explode could not fall next to Dorgon and just blow him to death. It would be more realistic to pray that Dorgon would be killed by stepping on a landmine. Zhao Peng said in his heart.

Based on the data provided by Zhao Peng, the gunners reset the artillery, adjust the azimuth and elevation angle, load gunpowder and shells, and then carry out another round of shooting. However, during the second round of shooting, because the Franco machine cannon is loading fast, forty-four Franco aircraft fire first, followed by the large and small general cannons.

Under the command of Zhao Peng, the Shun Army launched round after round of artillery bombardment, and seventy-eight cannons were fired one after another. Each round of shooting included seventy-eight solid iron balls of different sizes flying to the top of the city.

The shells hit the marble of the female wall. Although they could not destroy the thick female wall at once, the shells hit the outside of the female wall, causing the inner bricks to shatter. The broken bricks shot like shrapnel, killing the defenders hiding behind the female wall. From time to time, one or two shells hit the Guanning Army's artillery position, causing casualties to the Guanning Army gunners.

Some shells drilled into the squadron, landed on the top of the city and bounced and rolled. The touch was killed and the rubbed. The Guanning Army slapped the wolf teeth on the top of the city. The Yaksha slapped by the shells and turned into a pile of debris. One shell hit the turbulent oil tank, and a raging fire immediately ignited the city. Then another shell hit a large pot full of gold juice. The whole iron pot was crushed and the gold juice splattered. The Guanning Army soldiers and Min Zhuang who had no time to run away screamed and fell down.

Although the Guanning Army also launched artillery counterattacks, their shells had no clue at all. Most of the shells were empty. Occasionally, shells hit the Shunjun's artillery position, but were blocked by mounds and sandbags.

"General, there are masters on the thieves who are using artillery. We can't hit them. They can't hit us. We can't just be beaten and fight back. The brothers are all standing on the top of the city and being beaten for nothing. If you continue to hit like this, I'm afraid that all the brothers will die! It's better to let us go out and break the cannon camp of the thief army!" Yang Feng, the general of Yang Kun, knelt in front of Yang Kun and begged.

Yang Kun thought about it and felt that being beaten passively was not a solution. If the thieves continued to bombard the enemy, they would probably not be able to touch a hair from their opponents. In the end, when the opponent launched a siege, their morale would collapse. So he made up his mind and decided to take the cavalry out of the city to take a gamble and take the Shun Army artillery battalion.

When Zhao Peng was commanding the artillery camp to bombard Qixing Village, he suddenly found that there was an abnormal movement in the direction of the village gate. He turned the Qianli Miles Miles and aimed at the direction of the village gate. He found that the suspension bridge on the trench had been lowered. The defenders inside seemed to be preparing to open the village gate. So he urgently ordered the two newly loaded general artillery fired.

"These two cannons are suspended!" Zhao Peng walked to the two general cannons, adjusted the elevation angle of the muzzle with his own hands, and aimed the muzzle at the opening gate.

The suspension bridge was completely lowered, and the gate of the village was wide open. A large group of Guanning cavalry whistled and rushed out of the city. Just as the Guanning cavalry was about to rush out of the village, Zhao Peng personally lit a general cannon, and another gunner also lit a general cannon.

Only two "boom" sounds were heard, and the tongue of flames sprayed on the muzzle, and two shells were dragging white smoke and rolling towards the village gate.

These two shells were shot very accurately, one in front and the other in the back accurately into the village gate.

The Guanning cavalry was passing through the narrow gate, and the shouting slammed into the city gate. A Guanning cavalry who rushed in the front was hit by the horse's neck by the shell. The entire horse's head suddenly disappeared and turned into a blood mist. The shell that smashed the horse's head continued to hit, smashing the upper body of the Guanning soldier. The Guanning soldier, who had broken the front, and the horse, changed direction because of resistance.

On the inner wall of the city gate, it bounced back and hit the side of a Guanning cavalry, and tore off the entire leg of the cavalry. Then the shell hit the ground again and bounced back, breaking the horse's legs of the third Guanning cavalry. The war horse that lost its front hooves rolled forward and overturned the cavalry on the horse's back to the ground. The shell changed one direction and continued to roll and jump in the city gate hole, and knocked down two cavalry in succession before stopping the movement.

The second shell also drilled into the city gate hole and hit the chest of a war horse. The chest of the war horse immediately sunk in. The whole horse was hit by the shell and flew backwards. The shell changed its trajectory and hit a Guanning cavalry next to it, tearing the entire body of the cavalry into pieces, and then landed on the ground and bounced continuously. Every time it bounced, it could take away a Guanning cavalry.

These two shells that penetrated the city gate hole took away the lives of more than a dozen Guanning cavalry, but the loss of just over a dozen cavalry was nothing to Yang Kun, who had more than a thousand cavalry. As long as the Guanning cavalry rushed through the narrow city gate hole and scattered into the open space, the threat of the shells to the cavalry would not be that great.

Yang Kun's confidant general Yang Feng rushed out of the city with nearly a thousand Guanning troops, rushed to the open ground and quickly spread out, slowly jogging towards the Shun Army artillery camp position five hundred steps away.

On the horse's back, the Guanning cavalry was holding the three-eyed gun that had been loaded in advance, and took off the fuse rope hanging around the neck. They held the three-eyed gun with one hand and held the fuse rope with the other. After only twenty steps, they ignited the three-eyed gun.
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