The Jinyang Army had fierce firepower, which made the thieves on the city side of the city injured. However, Ma Shouying's old camp bandits were not good. They fought tenaciously. They braved the Ming army's bullets and desperately shot the shield chariots advancing under the city, killing one shield chariot after another and stopping their advance.

As the shield car array advanced, they arrived fifty steps below the city. The wooden stakes in front of them blocked the way for large siege weapons. The auxiliary soldiers who were pushing the shield car could only leave the protection of the shield car, holding an axe, chopping hatchets, and pickaxes to chop the wooden stakes and Luzhai that blocked the way.

This was within the range of the bird guns and bows of the defenders on the city. The officers of the thief army shouted desperately. The bird guns of the thief army roared and arrows flew everywhere. The wooden stakes were chopping under the city. The Ming army auxiliary soldiers who were digging Luzhai were constantly being shot and fell down screaming.

The auxiliary soldiers of the Jinyang Army were also adapted from refugees, and they were not covered with armor. Some of the auxiliary soldiers were equipped with large wooden shields, which were specially used to protect their comrades. When most of the auxiliary soldiers held various tools to chop wooden stakes and Luzhai, the auxiliary soldiers equipped with large shields rushed to the front and formed a shield formation to help their comrades block arrows and projectiles. However, many arrows passed through the gap between the shield and the shield, and the auxiliary soldiers who were caught in the arrow fell down screaming. Within fifty steps, the shield had a certain defense against the bird guns, especially the inferior bird guns seized by the bandit army from the Ming army, and they did not dare to install enough gunpowder, so these bird guns naturally could not penetrate the shields.

The thief army also had a small number of excellent bird guns and turtle dove-legged guns in their hands. The wooden shield could not stop the excellent bird guns and turtle dove-legged guns. From time to time, shields could be seen being penetrated, and blood mist was filled with behind the shield. The auxiliary soldiers holding the shield screamed and fell down. Some of the shields were even smashed directly by the turtle dove-legged guns. The wooden board turned into sharp fragments, piercing the soldiers' faces and bodies.

Li Guodong cherishes the lives of every soldier very much. He feels a little sad when he looks at the fallen auxiliary soldiers. However, there are always sacrifices in war, and it is impossible to defeat the enemy with zero casualties.

The sharpshooters on the chariot in the tower and the gunners on the well railing were desperately firing guns and firing, constantly overturning the thief army at the top of the city. However, the number of these gunners and gunners who climbed up to shoot were not large, and they could not completely suppress the firepower of the thief army, which led to considerable casualties among the auxiliary soldiers who siege the city.

"Send the order to order the self-grown musketsmen and the turtledove-footed gunmen to all! Torch the Huai Army archers, after all, suppress the thief army!" Li Guodong shouted.

The Ming army's flintlocked riflemen and the turtledove-legged gunmen all advanced, hid behind the shield chariot formation, picked up various muskets, fired at the horses at the top of the city, and fired fiercely. White smoke filled the city at the top of the city, and the soldiers on both sides shot fiercely. Although the thief army shot from a high point, the Ming army had excellent suppression and shield chariot protection, and the advantages of self-generated muskets being fast and powerful, and they overwhelmed the opponent in the number of long-range soldiers. In the fierce attack, the Ming army gained the upper hand, and soon suppressed the defenders on the top of the city so that they could not raise their heads.

"Do work quickly!" Zhang Shiwen, who was in charge of commanding the auxiliary soldiers, shouted, "Clean clean up all the plum blossom stakes and Luzhai! Let our large siege weapons go there early!"

At this moment, a sound of stones breaking through the air was heard in the city wall. Countless stone bullets crossed the city wall and landed among the Ming army auxiliary soldiers working in front of them. Blood was splashed everywhere, screams came one after another, and countless Ming army auxiliary soldiers were hit by the stone bullet and fell down.

"Traitor! Thieves' catapult!" Zhang Shiwen shouted.

"Hahaha!" Ma Shouying, who was adventurously standing on the city tower, laughed, "The catapult is still useful. If it weren't for the catapult, the official dog might have already rushed across the moat!"

Li Guodong, who was standing on the levee outside the city, found that the attack was blocked. He picked up the telescope to watch and found that countless stone bullets flew out above the city, landing in the formation of his auxiliary soldiers. He was sweating profusely to dig Luzhai. The auxiliary soldiers who chopped the wooden stakes fell down. Many shield cars were hit and smashed into pieces, and even a large ladder truck was beaten to pieces.

"Send the order to prepare for bombardment!" Li Guodong ordered.

Sky-rushing cannons are mortar cannons that can hit cows across the mountains, and shells can cross the city wall to attack targets in the city. The problem is that you have to know where the target is before you can hit them.

A light tower looking truck was launched behind the Ming army formation. The auxiliary soldiers pushed the truck and stopped a hundred steps away from the city wall. The light tower looking truck reached five meters in height, supported by two pillars, with a beam above, with wooden pulleys on the beam, and ropes hung. A blond and blue-eyed Folangji officer walked up to the platform, and several auxiliary soldiers pulled the winch. The platform slowly rose and quickly rose to the highest point. Then the auxiliary soldiers tied the rope to a wooden stake.

This Folang Machinery officer was a Portuguese artillery officer invited from Haojing by Li Guodong, who used Sun Yuanhua's two sons and various relationships between Jiangnan sea merchants. This time he was asked to climb high to look for the thief army's catapult position and provide shooting targets for the mortar cannons.

In fact, Li Guodong himself could also climb up to see the high ground. He was an engineer in his previous life and also knew all kinds of artillery data. However, he was the head coach of the battlefield, so he could not take the risk of working as an observer, so he left this matter to the Portuguese.

The Portuguese officer was indeed skilled. He reported the data to the ground and on the mortar position through the flag signal. More than a dozen blonde Portuguese officers were holding paper, quill pens, triangle boards, compass, rulers and other tools in their hands, and intensively calculated the paper. After a while, the Portuguese officer calculated the data.

The mortar gunners began to load gunpowder based on the data calculated by the Portuguese officers and adjust the muzzle angle.

Although it is a fixed-loading package, the amount of medicine can also be controlled. The pot of the mortar is very small, and the fixed-loading package is a small cylinder with a diameter of one and a half inches. When necessary, additional medicine can be added. According to the command of the Portuguese officer, the gunners quickly loaded the gunpowder, then put the flowering shells in from the muzzle, and then cut the length of the fuse according to the data.

After completing the loading, the Portuguese officer ordered: "Fire!"

The gunner standing in front lit the fuse that exposed the muzzle and ran away quickly. The gunner behind extended the torch towards the fire door and lit the induction tube.

"Bang bang bang" The mortar cannon sprayed fire, and balls of white smoke spurted out from the muzzle and the fire door. The black shells rushed out of the muzzle with burning sparks, soared into the air, flew into the sky, crossed the city wall a mile away, and landed accurately on the thief thief scattered positions in the city.

Only a series of violent explosions were heard, the landing mortar shells exploded, fragments and iron beads flew across the board, and the thief soldiers who were pulling the trenchers to fire stone bombs fell down in pieces. The two trenchers were directly blown into pieces by the shells, and broken pillars and wooden boards were spread all over the ground.

This kind of shelling method of fighting cattle across the mountain is longer loading in the first round, but the loading speed is faster. Starting from the second round of shooting, the gunners can only load according to the data just now. As long as the thief thief in the city has not changed the position, the Portuguese officers on the carriage on the tower will not send a new signal.

Soon another second round of artillery shells rose into the air and landed on the thief thief thief thief thief thief thief thief thief thief thief lying all over the ground, and three more thiefs were beaten into piles of broken wooden boards.

After the five rounds of artillery shells passed, the thief army almost completely destroyed, and the remaining two aircraft did not dare to fire again. Even if they were fired, they would not pose much threat to the attacking Ming army.

Without the threat of long-range weapons from the defenders, the auxiliary soldiers sweated profusely and quickly cleaned up all the plum blossom stakes and Luzhai on the attack road, opening up a clean passage for the advancement of large-scale siege weapons. Then the auxiliary soldiers continued to hide behind the shield cart and pushed the cart towards the moat.
Chapter completed!