Although the bandit army also had artillery, they were all small cannons such as 100 pounds of Folang aircraft and tiger squat cannons. The range was far inferior to the twelve-pound red barbarian cannons of Li Guodong's Navy, nor to the twelve-pound field cannons of the Land Division, and even worse than the six-pound field cannons, three-pound field cannons and twelve-pound howitzers.

At the command of Li Guodong, the war drum suddenly sounded, and various siege weapons slowly pushed forward towards the Anlan Gate in the west of the city. These siege weapons were lined up in scattered lines to reduce casualties under the attack of the thief's artillery. There were more than a dozen tall siege vehicles mixed in between.

Ma Shouying, who was standing at the top of the city, looked down at the city, and saw that a mile away from the city, the Ming army, shield cars, ladder cars, trench bridge cars, collision cars, chariots and other large siege weapons were pushing towards their city walls, which were mixed with more than a dozen tall tower cars and six huge and bulky well railing cars.

The well railing is a giant movable arrow tower. It is higher than the city wall and can be shot down from a high place into the city. In the past, when artillery artillery was not invented, to destroy the well railing, to use a bed crossbow to fire rockets to deal with the well railing, or to launch fire bombs with a catapult to attack, or to kill soldiers out of the city to burn the well railing. After having a firearm, artillery can be used to destroy the well railing vehicle. However, Li Guodong's well railing is not a moving arrow tower, but a moving turret!

These six well railings are three or seven feet high, just like one meter high in Jingzhou city walls. Each well railing car has two turrets, two three-pound cannons on the upper floor and two six-pound cannons on the lower floor. They can all be parked outside the range of the artillery on the front of the city and bombard the defenders on the front of the city. Because they attack from a high place, the defenders on the front of the city have nowhere to hide.

The shaft railing truck with two layers of turrets is extremely strong and can withstand the strong recoil of the artillery. It is like a warship on land. This kind of thing is naturally very heavy. A shaft railing truck requires more than 300 people to serve and more than 30 cows to pull it.

There are also red barbarian cannons and field cannons under the city that can attack the city, but directly using cannons to bombard the city wall is both time and ammunition. Therefore, Li Guodong planned to use twelve pounds of carrier-based red barbarian cannons and twelve pounds of field cannons to bomb the female wall at the top of the city, and then launch a feint with infantry carrying simple ladders. Then, use cannons on the well railings and magic gunmen on the watchtower chariot to shoot the city guards to consume the vitality in the city. Finally, he leans on the city wall with a ladder chariot, so that the iron-armored soldiers can climb the city, and at the same time push the carriage upwards and blow up the city wall.

Li Guodong, who was an engineer in his previous life, would definitely not use the method of ants to attack the city, causing significant losses to his army. After entering the age of firearms, siege became much easier.

Ma Shouying stood at the top of the city, looking at the dense siege weapons under the city and the artillery of various calibers behind it with a worried look on his face.

"King, how many cannons are there for the official dog! There are countless weapons to siege, and this battle is not easy to fight." Ma Guangyu said worriedly.

"What are you afraid of!" Ma Shouying glared at her eyes, "Even if the official dog has more weapons and more cannons, will he still need people to climb up in the end? Our army is large, how many people can they climb up? Can't they drive them down after climbing up? We use people to pile them up to death!"

Li Guodong's shield car was a bit shoddy. Anyway, it was a single-use weapon, which made a creaking sound when pushed. Hundreds of shield carriages pushed forward together, and the sound became extremely harsh, like a group of monsters slowly advancing towards the city wall, making the defenders at the city feel depressed and painful. Other large siege weapons were not good. After all, there were no special bearings installed, and they were all siege weapons made by temporary work, which made the defenders at the city feel upset.

"The official dog seems to have stopped." Sun Ang shouted.

The bandits standing at the top of the city saw that the Ming army under the city stopped advancing when they were still one mile away from the city wall, and the infantry behind also stopped advancing.

"Not good!" Ma Guangyu shouted, "They may be shooting at us! The handsome man will go down quickly, it's dangerous!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw white smoke rising from the back of the Ming army. Then he heard the roaring sound of cannons. Rows of black shells roared towards the city at a speed visible to the naked eye. Before the defenders could understand, many shells had already hit the city wall. Twelve pounds of iron bombs hit the city wall. Mars splashed, the city bricks shattered, and the city walls that were hit by the shells appeared one by one. Many shells hit the female wall, causing the female wall to collapse. The stones and bricks behind the female wall flew everywhere like shrapnel. Many soldiers of the guards were caught in pieces and fell down screaming.

More than 300 red cannons moved from the warships and twenty-four twelve-pound field cannons equipped with the army were fired in turn, firing in staggered fire. The sound of artillery did not stop for a moment, and the shells kept hitting the city walls, making the defenders at the city unstable.

The Red-Art Cannons of the Huai Army Navy were originally installed on four-wheel gun mounts and moved to the ground for use. Li Guodong asked someone to lay wooden boards under the gun position so that after the Red-Art Cannon fired shells, the gun mount could automatically retreat, alleviate recoil, and reduce damage to the artillery. Moreover, the Red-Art Cannon, which used fixed-loading packages and cork-stack shells, was loading much faster than the Red-Art Cannon used by the Ming and Qing armies of this era. Each loading only takes about one minute. However, after each gun fired ten rounds, the barrel was so hot that it could not be reloaded again. At this time, cold water had to be poured into the barrel chamber and then used again after cooling.

Each red cannon fires one round per minute, and it takes three minutes to cool down after firing ten minutes. In this way, within half an hour, one cannon can fire more than 40 shells, a total of more than 300 cannons, and more than 10,000 shells were smashed into the city wall in half an hour!

So many shells and such fast firing speeds were something Ma Shouying and others had never seen before. The officers and soldiers of the thief army who were hit by the shells so hard that they dared not climb to the city could only lament: "The firearm of Guan Gouzi is so powerful!"

Half an hour of shelling destroyed the female walls of this section of the city wall, and the city wall became bare, causing the defenders to lose their defense. When the Ming army's shield car approached, if the defenders climbed up to the city wall to block the Ming army's auxiliary soldiers, they would become living targets for the Ming army.

The cannon sound stopped, and Li Guodong ordered: "Continue to advance and prepare to let the auxiliary soldiers clean up the wooden stakes and deer forts on the periphery."

Groups of shield chariots and various siege weapons slowly advanced. When they were still a hundred steps away from the city wall, only a few cannons sounded at the top of the city. The thief's Folang machine and the tiger squat cannon fired. Accompanied by the roaring cannon, one shell was stabbed over. The shield chariot was hit by the shells. The shield plate in front was broken into several pieces like walnuts smashed by a hammer, and flew several feet away. However, the auxiliary soldiers of the cart were unscathed because the sandbags accumulated behind the wooden shield absorbed the kinetic energy of the shells and blocked the broken wooden pieces.

"Scatter a little, spread a little!" Zhang Shiwen, who was responsible for commanding the auxiliary soldiers to clear the obstacles and landing the moat, shouted anxiously.

The auxiliary soldiers pushed the shield chariots and spread the formation a little further, further reducing the accuracy of the artillery attack of the bandit army. However, the bandit army tried hard to prevent the Ming army from approaching, and many shield chariots were still broken. The sandbags on the chariots fell to the ground one after another, and the destroyed shield chariots stopped moving forward.

Just as the defenders on the front of the city wall used artillery to bombard the Ming army, the large well railing and the tower guard car behind the shield formation stopped.

"Fire the cannon!" Wu Biao, who was standing on a well railing, roared.

Only the roaring cannon sounded, and white smoke came from the two-story turrets above the turret truck, and the shells shot from a high point hit the city. Standing on the tall turret truck, the movements and stillness of the defenders at the city were all visible. As long as they aimed at the gun positions of the defenders, the six-pound cannon with higher accuracy could clean up all the artillery of the defenders.
Chapter completed!