"Zhang Junmen, Li Zhe's cannons were fired too quickly! The number of casualties is probably more than two thousand, right?" Tian Xiong said with a gloomy face.

"No need to worry, no matter how fast their cannons are, I don't believe that there is no need to cool down!" Zhang Huanggai said.

Sure enough, after firing ten rounds of various artillery in the castle, it stopped.

The Huai Army gunner in the basin nervously poured a bucket of cold water into the barrel. After it cooled down, he lifted the tail of the gun, poured out the water, and wiped the remaining water marks in the barrel with a dry mop. This series of actions will take several minutes to complete.

As for the cooling of the 32-pound Red Cannon, it is even slower. You have to use a winch to lift the barrel weighing ten thousand pounds, pour in more than a dozen buckets of water, and wait until it cools down, then use a winch to lift the tail of the cannon, pour out the water inside, and then use a lot of dry mop to wipe the remaining water marks in the chamber. After this series of actions, it takes at least one cup of tea, which is equivalent to fifteen minutes.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Huai Army cooling the gun barrel, the rebels rushed up quickly and approached so that they were only about a hundred steps away from the moat outside the castle.

At this moment, a light Folang machine cannon was extended into the castle shooting hole, and countless turtle dove-legged guns were extended above the solid Triangle Fort.

The sound of cannons continued, and white smoke filled the castle. The projectiles were condescending, and it was raining. Because they were shooting from a high place, the projectiles could cross the head of the shield and directly attack the bandits behind the cannon fodder team, killing and injured Liu Ni.

At the top of the Triangle Fort, a group of Huai Army soldiers were holding a strange weapon with eighteen gun barrels. This weapon was a bit like an enlarged three-eyed gun, with a wooden pole behind it, a shield in front, and an eighteen gun barrels inserted on the shield, a fire rope hanging behind it, and a trigger firing mechanism. This weapon was the eighteen thunder gun invented by Zhao Shizhen.

Although the principle is very similar to the three-eyed gun, the Thunder gun is not a fire gate gun, but a clamping rope gun. It is fired with a trigger. Every time a gun is fired, the gun barrel is rotated and the other gun barrel's medicine pool is aimed at the bullet rope, and you can prepare to fire the second projectile. The Thunder gun has a very fast firing rate, and can shoot out eighteen projectiles in a very short time, but after the shooting, the loading is slower.

The disadvantages of Thunder guns are of course very obvious. Because there are many tubes, each tube is naturally not as long as the length of the bird gun, so the range, power and accuracy of a single-round projectile are not as good as that of the bird gun. Moreover, Thunder guns are too heavy and are not convenient to carry. In addition, Thunder guns are not cheap. After all, it takes eighteen gun barrels, and it takes a lot of manpower to build a gun barrel. However, Thunder guns are a good weapon when defending the city. Therefore, Li Guodong did not vigorously develop Thunder guns and other side-door firearms. For example, Westerners went from a comb rope gun to a flintlock gun, which was the right way.

The defenders who stayed in the Tawau Castle, except for the gunners, were all new recruits selected from the refugees. The bird gunners suitable for field battles were taken away by Wang Quan. The individual firearms of the defenders who stayed in the castle were mainly turtleigh guns, thunder guns, and three-eyed guns, and there were not many bird guns.

The rebels drove the refugees and pushed the shield chariots to the outer trenches. The refugees needed to leave the shield chariots and carry the macao to fill the trenches. As a result, the refugees who left the shield chariots and carried the macao to fill the trenches were shot by light volleys and turtledog-foot guns at the top of the city. They were seriously injured. Three to five ounces of bullets drilled into the crowd, causing a bloody storm. Countless refugees screamed and fell down, and some people fell into the trenches, with the macao.

Because there is an inclined slope outside the base of the basin, neither a simple ladder nor a large ladder truck can be mounted. Only by filling the inner trench first, not only do you have to fill the trench, but you also have to fill the slope to mount the ladder to the top of the city.

You can imagine how many lives it takes to fill the trenches with bullets shot from the top of the city?

After finally filling a section of the outer trench, Liu rebels rushed to the city with the people and found an inner trench outside the castle. The base at the bottom of the castle was a slope. The attacker rushed into the inner trench. Various firearms, arrows, wolf teeth slaps, yasha slaughter, tincture tanks, and lime bottles at the top of the city were hit like rain. In a blink of an eye, the trench was filled with corpses.

The three rebels of Liu's rebels, Tian Xiong and Ma Degong's three rebels attacked all day and only achieved the results of filling a small section of outer trenches, but lost more than 5,000 people who were captured, and the three rebels also lost more than 2,000 soldiers. In just one day, more than 7,000 people were lost under this castle.

The rebels desperately urged the people to push the shield cart over the filled outer trenches and attempted to fill the inner trenches. As a result, the bullets on the top of the city were raining and the shells fell like hail. The attacks were broken shield cart fragments and dead bodies all over the ground.

"What are the people? What are the people?" Chongzhen shed tears as he looked at the corpses of the people lying out of the city and the injured people screaming in a pool of blood.

"Wuwu" Standing on the top of the city, Princess Kunxing burst into tears.

"Your Highness Princess, go down, this scene is not suitable for you." Zhang Shiwen advised.

The rebels attacked again, and the captured people carried sandbags in front of them to fill the trenches. The crossbows on the city, the turtleigh guns, the three-eyed guns, and the tiger-winged guns shot densely of bullet arrows, and corpses fell from the inner trenches. The Huai army's artillery was aimed at the rebels' rear formation and violently bombarded, causing blood mist to rise from the crowd.

A captured couple followed the shield convoy to the city, and his wife with children on her back stayed by the shield carriage. The husband was forced by the rebels with a steel knife to carry the macao to fill the trench. As a result, the man had just left the shield carriage and was caught with an arrow, and fell to the edge of the trench with the mancao. Then another round of bullet rains on the top of the city was covered, and the injured man fell to the ground immediately turned into a trench body.

"Husband!" the woman screamed miserably, rushed out from behind the shield car and rushed towards her husband.

"Bang bang" There was another row of dense guns at the top of the city wall, and blood mist was sprayed on the bodies of the people beside the woman, and they fell down screaming one after another.

"Swoosh" a crossbow arrow shot and hit the woman's body. The powerful crossbow arrow penetrated through the woman's abdomen and the arrow came out from her back. The woman staggered to kneel on the ground, but she still stumbled towards her husband, grabbed her husband's hand, and then she died.

"Wow—" The baby's cry sounded on the battlefield, which seemed particularly harsh.

"That woman has a child on her back!" Princess Kunxing screamed, "Who will save the poor child?"

"Your Highness Princess, how can you go down now? The enemy is still attacking the city under the city, and if you go down, you will die in vain." Zhang Shiwen said.

"General Zhang is so ruthless! Why is the child? He is so young, just watching him die under the city?" Princess Kunxing cried.

At this moment, a wolf teeth slap fell from the solid basin and smashed into the crowd under the city, splashing a row of blood. Just as the auxiliary soldiers were about to pull the winch and put away the wolf teeth slap, they heard someone shouting: "Slow down!"

I saw a soldier about sixteen and seven years old. The soldier was a Thunder gunman. In today's battle, he had killed at least ten rebels. He threw the Thunder gun that had been shot aside after the projectile, and suddenly grabbed the rope tied to the wolf's teeth with both hands, jumped and slid down the city.

"Come up! What are you doing, you guy?" Zhang Shiwen shouted anxiously.

The soldier’s purpose is not just to save the child. In his mind, the beautiful princess is the most beautiful goddess in his heart. Seeing that his goddess cried so hard that the pear blossoms were raining, he wanted to save the child so that the goddess could be happy.

The soldier was very fast and slid to the city in a blink of an eye. He ran across the inner trench, quickly climbed out of the trench, ran to the woman's body, picked up the child and ran back.

"Swoosh swish swish swish" several feather arrows roared, and the soldier was hit by three arrows on his back. As a guard guard stationed in the castle, he was not wearing armor and the arrowhead pierced into his back. The soldier endured the severe pain, hugged the child tightly, jumped off the trench, and ran towards the direction of the wolf's teeth.

The soldier jumped onto the wolf teeth patted and sat on the wolf teeth patted.

"Come on!" Zhang Shiwen shouted.

The auxiliary soldiers on the front of the city tried their best to pull the winch, and slapped the wolf teeth and the soldiers sitting on it to the front of the city.

"Your Highness Princess, stop crying, child, child, child is saved..." Xiaobing stopped breathing before he finished speaking, closed his eyes with relief, and his hands were still holding the child tightly.

Princess Kunxing cried, "This little brother, wake up, wake up quickly."

"Your Highness, Princess, he has left." Zhang Shiwen walked to Xiaobing and picked up the child in Xiaobing's arms. The baby in the cradle was obviously frightened and waved his little hands and cried loudly.
Chapter completed!