The Qing army at the head of the city quickly noticed the movement of the Ming army.The soldiers sounded the alarm, and everyone's attention was attracted to the outside of the city, and the Qing soldiers rushed to the city wall to look out.Doni squinted as the Ming soldiers dragged the huge object covered with a red cloth and slowly walked out of the camp."
Clairvoyance!"
Dhoni reached out and drank.From the hands of the guards, taking the clairvoyant mirror, Doni took out the mirror barrel, put it in front of him, only to see that the giant thing was several zhang long, more than one zhang high, under the traction of many mules, horses and healthy cattle, and nearly 100 soldiers, slowly moving forward.The giant moved slowly, and you could see his heaviness, which made Doni's heart tighten.What is this, it takes so much manpower and cattle and horses to drag it?
Doni couldn't help but feel a little flustered, although he was Prince Yu, but compared with his father Duoduo, the gap was too far, and he did not inherit his father's courage and skill, and he was decisive in killing.Although over the years, he has also followed Azig to fight in the north, but when he faced Zhao Ming and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, his heart was actually full of fear.Doni looked at the approaching giant, and couldn't help but panic, and hurriedly turned around and shouted: "Herald artillery team, prepare to fire!"
”When the Qing army at the head of the city heard the order, they immediately hurriedly manipulated, and the red-coated cannon on the platform quickly loaded, adjusted the angle, and aimed at the moving giant.The Qing soldiers, holding torches, waited for the huge thing to enter the firing range, and immediately launched artillery bombardment."
So bulky, and covered with a red cloth, could it be artillery?"
Huang Ting frowned and asked.Many Qing generals are in their hearts, the Ming army firearms are powerful, in recent years, new firearms emerge in an endless stream.From the explosive bags thrown by trebuchets, to the thunder thrown by hand, to the flintlock muskets, and finally to the siege mortars and flowering shells, it can be said that the Qing army was defeated by the firearms of the Ming army.For a while, the unrest in the city began to spread.Doni didn't have time to appease his subordinates, so he stared at the moving giant, but when he saw that the giant was three miles away from the city, he stopped.This distance is just outside the effective range of the red-coated cannon at the head of the city, and it is basically difficult to shoot."
Lord Wang!
At this distance, you can't hit it!
”Hu Maozhen, the commander of the Qing army's artillery team, said loudly, with a hint of panic in his tone.The faces of the Qing troops in the city sank, because they realized that if this giant object was artillery, then it meant that it would be difficult for the city's artillery to hit it, and it could bombard the city walls at will.At this time, after the giant stopped, the Ming soldiers began to build fortifications, using sandbags and mounds to build a position, and put sacrifices on them, lighting firecrackers for sacrifice."
What artillery!"
Seeing this, Huang Ting exclaimed.As if to verify the general, after the sacrifice, the red cloth was pulled down by the Ming soldiers, revealing an incomparably huge cannon.Looking at the huge cannon, the Qing army in the city was stunned.The red-coated cannon was already scary enough, and the Qing soldiers never thought that there was such a huge artillery in the world.Doni roared with a gloomy face, "Don't panic!
It's just a cannon, and it can't threaten Xuzhou's city defense!
”When the generals heard this, they barely calmed down, and at this time, nearly 100 Ming soldiers began to use pulleys and levers to load gunpowder and shells, and adjust the gun positions, aiming the huge cannon at Xuzhou City.Nearly half an hour later, the cannon was loaded, and the cannon suddenly erupted a cannon flame as long as a kilometer, raising a thick cloud of white smoke, and then an earth-shattering sound came.Everyone in the city exclaimed, and saw a huge black cannonball, flying close to the ground, smashing rapidly towards the city wall.In an instant, the shell changed from small to large, and it was in front of me."
Protect the prince!"
The guards roared wildly, blocking Doni's side.There was a loud "boom", like a dry thunder exploding in the ears, and everyone felt that the city under their feet was smashed backwards, and they were shocked to the ground and fell to the ground, or squatted on the city head in horror.Thick smoke and dust rose from the city walls, and countless splashes of rubble rose into the sky, and then fell like hailstones, and in the moat, white flowers splashed, crackling on the soldiers and Doni.The power of one shot is terrifying.Huang Ting and the others squatted on the ground for a while before shaking off the dust on their bodies and standing up, but they were horrified to find that the entire section of the city wall was actually smashed inward by a cannon, and the wall was tilted and cracked, and there was already a threat of collapse.The four or five hundred pounds of cannonballs had smashed the front city wall into a huge gentry pit, and the cannonballs were embedded in the city body, and the broken wall tiles were still peeling off from time to time, rolling into the moat, stirring up a turbid wave.Dhoni got up from the ground with a pale face, and looked at the city wall in horror, and the two couldn't help but tremble slightly.At this time, outside the city wall, a group of Ming cavalry, galloping, under the city wall, restrained the war horse, looked at the defenders on the city, and shouted loudly: "The regent has decreed that Guide and Haizhou will be captured by heavenly soldiers."
Xuzhou is already an isolated city, and it is advisable to wait for three days to surrender Kaicheng.If not, the city will be bombarded by huge cannons, and on the day the city will be broken, those who stubbornly resist the heavenly soldiers will be killed!
”When the cavalry had finished shouting, they pulled their horses and left.At the head of the city, Doni's face turned pale, and Huang Ting exclaimed, "What should the prince do?
”Dhoni had already lost his bearings, and was frightened by the power of the cannon.At this time, he had no strategy at all, and fortunately, the Ming army outside the city only fired one cannon and did not continue the bombardment, and it seemed that he only fired a cannon to warn the defenders in the city.Dhoni said in a deep voice: "Repair the city walls!"
”He led the guards and hurried down the city as if he had fled, leaving Huang Ting and other generals standing at the head of the city.That night, at the north gate of Xuzhou City, there was a bull record with a white flag, and he wanted to lead his troops to escape, but was caught by the Han soldiers guarding the door.The next day, early in the morning, just after dawn, a large number of Ming troops appeared under the city wall, and the Qing army defending the city hurriedly went to report to the city, and when Doni went to the city, he saw the Ming cavalry, and a large number of Qing troops carried flags and threw them on the ground.A Ming general, with a spear, picked up a pigtailed human head, galloped back and forth under the city, and shouted loudly: "Haizhou guard general Nishar has been killed by the heavenly soldiers, and the Ming Dynasty has recovered Haizhou!"
”The Ming general was under the city, showing off his might for a while, and then withdrew his troops and returned to the camp.Jin Shenghuan led 50,000 soldiers, the soldiers were near Haizhou, and the defenders in the city wanted to resist stubbornly, but at this time, Zheng Chenggong and Guo Zhong led the naval division to Haizhou, and the ships bombarded the city.The warships of the Ming Army's naval division, on the sea outside Haizhou City, lined up, hundreds of red-clothed cannons, salvo fire to bombard the city.Before the shelling of the naval division ended, the Qing army in the city, under the leadership of the deputy general Wang Jiaping, beheaded the Qing Belenishar and surrendered the city because of fear.At the head of the city, the Qing soldiers looked at the scene in front of them, all silent, Doni stood on the city, saw many soldiers, and looked at him.This made Doni feel a creepy sense of fear in his heart, pushed away Huang Ting, who was about to ask again, and hurriedly fled down the city.
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