Wu Sangui, who was standing at the top of the city, was shocked when he saw the cannonballs with fire falling towards the top of the city: "No, flowering fire shells!"

The Ming army actually had flowering shells at that time, so Wu Sangui recognized at a glance that the flowering shells fired from the Shun Army's position were flowering shells. But Wu Sangui couldn't understand why the flowering shells could hit so far? The Ming army's flowering shells were fired with sky-surge cannons, but the Ming Dynasty's sky-surge cannon range was very close, usually within 300 steps. If the range was longer, the chamber pressure of the cannon increased, and the flowering shells were likely to explode in the cannon chamber.

In fact, in the late Ming Dynasty, the gap between the East and the West had widened. In 1637, the Battleship of the King of the Sea in England was launched. It was a first-class battleship with 104 artillery guns. The ship was equipped with twenty sixty-four-pound short-barrel cannons. Later, because the 64-pound cannons were loaded slowly, it was replaced with twenty forty-two-pound cannons.

The 64-pound short-barrel cannon cast by the English was originally a direct-fire melee weapon in naval battles. After being changed to a curved sky-shooting cannon by Zhao Peng, it exerted great power in land battles.

Originally, the British Navy's short-barrel cannons of this era did not have the ability to attack land. Until the 18th century, the British built the Caron cannon on the basis of the short-barrel cannon, which is a naval cannon that can be shot directly or bendingly. In fact, it is very simple to change the short-barrel cannon to a sky-surge cannon. You only need to change the gun stand. The elevation angle increases, and the chamber pressure can be reduced. After the chamber pressure is reduced, this kind of cannon cannon cannon cannon cannon.

Of course, short-barrel cannons can only fire flowering bullets because of their low chamber pressure. If the red cannon with high chamber pressure is unable to use flowering bullets. Before the shell leaves the muzzle, it will be detonated by gunpowder gas in the barrel, causing a serious explosion accident.

The two flowering shells were surprisingly accurate, and the two shells each flew towards the cannon position of a red cannon of Guanning Army. The reason for the high accuracy of this flowering shell is because a cork mount is installed at the back, so the shells fired are like badmintons, with heavy fronts and light backs, so that the shells will not roll in the air, which increases the accuracy.

The first shell landed within 1 z. The shell after landing was rolled over and jumped into the air more than ten feet high. When it fell again, it exploded in mid-air.

"Boom" A flash of fire, and the new gunpowder, which was four times stronger than ordinary black [fire] medicine, exploded violently. The bullet body shattered into hundreds of sharp fragments, mixed with the five hundred iron beads loaded in the bullet body, and burst out everywhere. In a blink of an eye, more than a dozen Guanning Army gunners on the edge of the gun position were wiped out.

Another shell fell into the air one meter high above the female wall on the top of the city, exploded. The shell shells shattered, mixed with more than 500 iron beads sprayed out from the shell body, and scattered towards the city like heavy rain, forming a killing surface with a radius of four meters. Within the range of the killing surface, the Guanning soldiers and the strong men who were covered by the bomb rain let out screams, and in the blink of an eye, they were all knocked down in a pool of blood.

The defenders on the top of the city stood in large numbers, and the flowering artillery shell knocked down at least thirty guards.

The Guanning Army gunners nervously loaded the artillery, but their loading work was not yet halfway. In less than two minutes, two dull sounds of gunpowder gas expansion sounded on the opposite side. Two more artillery shells with flames took off, pulling out a fiery red arc and smashing them down at the top of the city.

The first shell hit a 18-pound red cannon. The moment before the shell landed, a violent explosion occurred in the three-foot-high air. A huge fireball suddenly burst out in the air, covering the cannon position of the 18-pound cannon. The shrapnel steel balls swept across like a storm. The Guanning Army gunners on the cannon position fell one after another, and everyone was covered with blood holes, and blood donated rushes up. The dead gunner fell in a pool of blood convulsed, and the undead lay in a pool of blood struggled.

Another shell hit the back of a twenty-four-pound red artillery cannon next to it, and an explosion occurred above the powder barrel of the flowering artillery shell. The shell that exploded in the air five feet high above the ground detonated the powder barrel. Only a series of loud noises were heard. The red artillery cannon weighing more than 5,000 pounds was lifted up high like a toy in a child's hand, flying into the air more than 30 meters high, and then hit the city tower heavily. The entire city tower collapsed and the hard gun barrel was twisted into a twist. The location where the powder barrel exploded just now was only a big pit of two meters and three feet deep, and the cannon stand left on the ground. The Guanning Army gunners around the explosion site were gone. Only a pile of broken wood pieces and vague pieces of flesh and blood were left in the craters that were emitting smoke.

"What a great flowering bullet!" Wu Sangui gasped.

"The general, the thief cannons are very sharp. We must shoot them out to destroy the thief cannons, otherwise the thief will continue to bombard them, but we can only stand on the top of the city and wait for death. If this continues, Shanhaiguan may not be able to hold on for a long time. "Wu Sangui's confidant general Wu Guogui volunteered to fight.

However, Wu Sangui was afraid of the Shun Army. He had not many soldiers at hand. He could defend the city of Shanhaiguan and still could block the attack of Shun Army. If he left the city to fight in the field, he would probably not be the opponent of Shun Army. So Wu Sangui said: "If you don't go out to fight, you can't stand it! Shanhaiguan is the most powerful pass in the world. If the bandit army wants to collapse Shanhaiguan, it will probably take more than ten days. If there are five or six days, Dorgon's army will arrive!"

Gao Dejie stepped forward and said, "General, the artillery of the thief army is so sharp, how can we hold on? The thief army targets our red barbarian cannons, and our army has no cannons to assist in defense. The thief army and other light cannons can be attached to shell our army!"

Just as we agreed, another round of artillery bombardment was opposite, and two flowering shells flew up to the top of the city. Three Fran machine cannons and two general cannons mounted on the battlements of the city were blown into the sky. The wolf teeth slapped at the top of the city, Yaksha and other defending weapons were blown into pieces. The shells also smashed a large piece of tinder oil tanks, igniting the outflow of tinder oil, and the city suddenly burned into a sea of ​​fire. Accompanied by a heart-wrenching scream, more than 20 Guanning soldiers and more than ten auxiliary soldiers who assisted in defending the city, Min Zhuang was lit with raging fire, crying and struggling in the sea of ​​fire.

If you continue like this, it won't take long to fight. I'm afraid there will be no one who can still stand on the city. Wu Sangui hesitated for a moment, and felt that it was not a solution to be beaten like this, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Get out of the city! Fight to the death with the thieves! If you don't have the thief's giant cannon, what will you do to me?"

Standing on the tower, Zhao Peng found that something seemed to be moving in Shanhaiguan City. He had already realized that Wu Sangui would definitely not be beaten like this as a turtle with a turtle in vain. When he found that the city gate was opening, he knew that the Guanning Army was about to leave the city. So he immediately waved the small flag and reported to Shunjun with a flag-tongued signal: "The Wu thief is about to leave the city! Pay attention to the battle!"

When the personal soldiers saw the flag-speaking signal, they immediately reported to Li Zicheng.

After receiving the report from his personal soldiers, Li Zicheng laughed: "The Wu thief abandoned the city without using it, and went out of the city to fight? Hahaha, it's just my wish! He ordered the three armies to move forward and prepare to fight to the death with the Wu thief!"

As soon as Li Zicheng finished speaking, he remembered Wu Xiang again, so he ordered his personal soldiers: "Liu Zongmin, bring Wu Xiang up quickly!"

After a while, Liu Zongmin brought Wu Xiang up. When Li Zicheng saw Wu Xiang, his one-eye shot a sharp look, stared at Wu Xiang, and said to him angrily: "Old General Wu, the noble son decided not to surrender to our army, and would leave the city to fight to the death with our army, and hope that General Wu would finally persuade the noble son."

Wu Xiang knelt down quickly: "The king calms down, the old minister is willing to persuade the dog son again!"
Chapter completed!