Wuyang City is located in southern Henan and has little war. In recent years, with the rise of bandits, the long-desolution county soldiers training has begun to be gradually arrested.

Whether it is to sharpen the guns at the last minute or something else. In short, compared to ordinary people, these guards in Wuyang City do have a certain combat power. However, they lacked the experience of defending the city. Seeing Yang Si leading his troops to attack, the entire city wall was panicked. Except for a few people who knew how to lead the bow to resist, most of them stood there in a daze and at a loss.

Fortunately, on the first day, the people who came to attack the city were all ordinary people. The soldiers guarding the city performed poorly, while the side who attacked the city performed worse. Both sides were half a dozen, and neither of them was much better than each other. Taking advantage of the tall city walls and weapons and equipment, they finally defended the city and killed each other in large quantities.

On the second day, the situation was much better than the first day. Yuan Chenggang ordered, and more than 200 crossbowmen, either holding bows and arrows or strong crossbows, rushed to the battlement gate as soon as possible and stared at the front. Behind them, spearmen lined up in a row, ready to deal with the bandits climbing up at any time.

At the end of the queue, there was a group of people, about thirty. They were wearing iron armor, red military uniforms, and holding bird guns. The military formation was solemn and orderly, not inferior to the regular Ming army. It was Yuan Cheng's bird gun team. In the Ming Dynasty, bird guns were already very common, but due to the manufacturing technology and the difficulty of extracting fine iron, there are still various defects.

For example, most bird guns have a range of only 150 steps, which is about thirty steps shorter than ordinary bows and arrows. Don’t look at these thirty steps, on the battlefield, life and death can be determined in many cases. Furthermore, it is the rate of fire. A skilled bird gunner can shoot twice in three minutes, which is still inferior to the archers. There is also the problem of blowing up the chamber, which really blames the Ministry of Works of the Ming Dynasty. People are afraid of what they produce and what they use.

However, although there are many problems, the power of the firearm is unquestionable. Especially when it is concentrated and launched together, the damage is far from comparable to that of a bow and arrow. Coupled with the continuous accumulation of experience, through measures such as bulk gunpowder, three-stage shooting methods, the quota of firearms in the Ming army is constantly expanding.

At this moment, Yuan Cheng left this bird gun team at the end, and he also used them to turn the world around.

A loud bang, the earth was shaking, which scared Zhou Xian. He looked at him and saw smoke rising from the middle of the city wall, and several soldiers were hurriedly pushing the cannons to their original position. Two thousand steps below the city, more than a dozen bandits were lying there and screaming loudly, and there were two large pits on the ground.

Zhou Xian was secretly shocked. This cannon actually has such power. He had heard Yuan Cheng say before that there were two cannons from the Hongwu period in the city, which had been more than two hundred years ago, and the range could reach about three thousand steps. There were also two small tiger squat cannons that could shoot 800 steps away. Zhou Xian didn't expect that it would be so earth-shaking with one strike.

But then, it obviously disappointed Zhou Xian again. Because he saw from a distance that the dozen people who were still screaming had stood up again. The two cannons were shot with such extraordinary momentum, but they only injured several people and did not kill one of them. This is a huge joke.

Zhou Xian looked at him speechlessly, his heart was bleeding, thinking that the Red Cannon he had been looking forward to wouldn't be like this!

But it cannot be said that the cannon has no effect. At least the loud noise that shook the sky really scared all the bandits under the city. They were all trembling and eager to leave first. If someone behind hadn't been using swords to supervise the formation, those people who had never experienced war would definitely have escaped. Zhou Xian realized that the function of these two Hongwu cannons was not to kill the enemy, but to shock the enemy.

Two rounds of artillery fired four or five rounds in a row, and the bandits rushed to within 800 steps. The two tiger squat cannons began to show their power. Although they were small in size and weighed only more than 30 kilograms, their lethality was only stronger than those two cannons.

Two tiger squatting cannons, one uses a three-pound lead bullet with a thunderous sound. Once it is shot out, ghosts and wolves howl, it will take several lives. The other one is loaded with a small lead piece weighing five cents, and goes all over the sky, not killing the enemy, but hurting the enemy. Every time it falls, a ball of blood will be instantly rolled up.

There were more than 3,000 people under the city, crowding with me, and it was a mess. Before we arrived, the morale of the bandits lost most of their morale and had no formation to speak of. They gathered together in groups, thinking that they could survive by relying on each other. But the facts told them that the cannons were looking for places with a large number of people to greet them.

When most of them realized that only by rushing forward quickly could they survive, they moved the ladder under the command of the bandit leader and began to run quickly.

Five hundred steps.

Three hundred steps.

Two hundred steps.

"shooting!"

With Yuan Cheng's order, the archer and crossbow archer shot out the arrows in his hand at the same time.

The bandits who were scattered and those who were still holding up their shields were shot one after another. A sudden shot caused nearly 100 casualties. The bandits who were not considered to be in the formation became even more scattered.

The damage caused by the crossbow was limited, and most of them were only injured, but the pain was indeed solid. They cried and screamed loudly.

Under heavy pressure, the ordinary people who had hit the front line of the country were heard, and when they heard this scream, the cohesion accumulated before disappeared in an instant. They threw away the ladder they were carrying and shouted and fled in all directions. The shield hands that still maintained a certain formation behind them also became scattered after they rushed.

The crossbows and arrows were fired at the same time, and the artillery resonated. The soldiers guarding the city continued to attack without hesitation, making the city even more chaotic.

The scattered bandits collided with each other and trampled on each other, and the casualties were no less than those caused by the soldiers guarding the city. The scattered soldiers wrapped the elite soldiers in the back formation and ignored Yang Wu's shouts and all dispersed and fled.

Li Kai looked at the city in shock and said, "This will win?"

Zhou Xian smiled faintly and said, "What do you think? With more than 3,000 troops, he actually used three bandits of bandits of different levels. He used ordinary people as the front line and left the most elite bandits at the end. He thought he protected his elite to the greatest extent and retained his strength for the subsequent siege. But why didn't he think about how the three different combat powers of people who have not been trained and cooperated with each other, can be coordinated?"

Li Kai nodded and said happily: "Second Young Master, then in this way, will we be able to defend the city without any effort?"
Chapter completed!