please make me king

Chapter 625

The two sides came and went, the cavalry dragged each other for a long time, but they couldn't break through the defense of the other side, harassing the infantry in the other side's formation, and then they returned to the formation without mentioning it.

Hong Chengchou frowned, seeing that the quality of the opponent's soldiers was obviously beyond his expectations, obviously he had no good way.

It's just that the army is here, Hong Chengchou is somewhat unwilling if he can't try to attack the city.

So, he beat the drums to cheer, and let the front team approach the city wall of Luoyang.

The formations listed by Hong Chengchou are heavy on the front and light on the rear. The three formations on the left, middle and right in the first row are the three general officers of Shaanxi General Soldier Zuo Guangxian, Lintao General Soldier Wang Chengen, and Gansu General Soldier Chai Shihua.

In the second column, the three formations from the left, middle and right are Ai Wannian, the deputy commander-in-chief, Biaoying of the Chinese Army, and Liu Guozhen, the deputy commander-in-chief.The third column is the generals He Renlong and Bai Guangen, and between He Renlong and Bai Guangen are hidden officers and cavalry, which can be released at any time to perform key tactical actions such as support, harassment, and pursuit.

The formation of the rebel army is much simpler. Backed by the camps of the "King of Troubled Times", Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao under the city of Luoyang, the three battalions of "King of Troubled Times", Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao are unfolded in one word.

Behind it, Xiao Qinhu's tiger battalion, and Yulin battalion's Wei Congyi and Zhao Lizi's cavalry were hidden.

In addition, Li Xin, the Gao battalion led by Gao Yigong, and part of the Gao battalion led by Jiang He stayed in the city to defend the city; while Zhang Sanbai was stationed at the "Ziwei Xingbao" in the northeast corner of Luoyang City, ready to go out of the city to attack officers and soldiers at any time. left wing.

Hong Chengchou led more than [-] officers and soldiers, while the number of rebels outside the city was more than [-], more than three times the number of officers and soldiers.

However, Zhang Shun didn't panic at all.When the officers and soldiers reached about two miles from the city wall, Li Shi'an, who had been waiting on the city for a long time, ordered the gunners on the city to start firing cannons at the officers and soldiers outside the city.

The artillery in this city is not the "golden artillery" and "field artillery" used by the rebels in the past, but the serious red artillery.

They are the ten "guarding guns" seized in the Beijing camp and the ten "attacking guns" of Cao Wenzhao's department.

The "guarding blunderbuss" weighed two thousand catties, and the bombs weighed fifteen catties, while the "attacking guns" weighed three thousand six hundred catties, and the bombs weighed fifteen catties.These two kinds of Hongyi cannons can take advantage of the height of the city wall to fire solid bullets up to two or three miles away, which can easily cover the formation of officers and soldiers in front of them.

In fact, although the Hongyi cannon can shoot far, it is hardly accurate at this distance, and can only rely on the gunner's experience to shoot blindly.

Fortunately, in the first round of design, the rebel army was lucky, and three or five of the twenty shells hit the officers and soldiers.

The huge impact instantly smashed the human body blocked in front of him into seven or eight pieces of flesh, piercing through more than twenty people in a row.

The officers and soldiers suddenly became turbulent. Although the Qin soldiers had been in the frontier for a long time, they had fought more with the "Tao Bandits", "Sea Bandits" and "Song Bandits" and their combat effectiveness was stronger, but they had never encountered an opponent with such fierce firepower. !
There was even a shell that unfortunately hit the van outside the formation, immediately smashing the van made of solid wood and covered with cowhide.

Sawdust flew and nailed to the armor of nearby soldiers like arrows.A few unfortunate people were accidentally injured in the face, covered their faces and fell to the ground, screaming incessantly.

Hong Chengchou saw that it was not good, and quickly ordered: "Order the gunners to advance the Hongyi cannon and fight back!"

It turned out that this time Hong Chengchou was also ready to attack the city in order to eliminate the "shun thieves".There were very few heavy-duty Hongyi cannons in the four towns of Shaanxi, so he borrowed cannons, gunners, and craftsmen from other border towns.

These twenty Hongyi cannons can all fire ten catties of iron, and their weights range from four thousand catties to six thousand catties.In order to transport these large firearms, Hong Chengchou ordered his soldiers to equip each gun with twenty oxen for traction.

Don't underestimate the caliber of these "attacking guns" which are smaller than the rebel artillery, but their multiple diameters are between twenty-four and twenty-eight. and "attack gun".

Immediately, the officers and soldiers Hongyi cannons established positions and fired at Luoyang City.Huge cannonballs drew smoke and attacked Luoyang City one after another.

Most of them hit the walls of Luoyang City, making crisp cracking and dull crashing sounds.

The crisp cracking sound was the cladding brick that smashed the Luoyang city wall; and the dull impact sound was the sound made when it crashed into the Luoyang city wall and was absorbed by the rammed earth.

Under the impact of the huge impact, the thick city wall under Zhang Shun's feet seemed to shake.

Zhang Shun asked Dudu Zhang and Han Lin worriedly, "Is the city wall okay? Will it be destroyed by officers and soldiers?"

"It's okay, God will bless us!" Gao Yizhi quickly assured Zhang Shun with his weird accent before the governor Zhang and Han Lin could answer. "These artillery are not afraid of solid stones, but they are afraid of compacted soil, which can absorb their power!"

Zhang Shun felt relieved when he heard this, and quickly ordered Li Shi'an to shoot at the officers and soldiers outside the city.

Due to the long distance, it is actually difficult for the Hongyi Cannon to play a big role.Not only did the rebels often fail to hit a few people in a round of shooting; the counterattacks of the officers and soldiers often fell randomly on various parts of the Luoyang city wall, and apart from scratching a few bricks, there was no great threat.

As time went by, the officers and soldiers gradually approached the rebel army, and the firepower of the Hongyi cannons on the city became more intense, and the Hongyi cannons of the officers and soldiers below the city also began to try to shoot and suppress the rebel army's Hongyi cannon position.

At this time, the rebel army couldn't bear Zao'an and began to approach the officers and soldiers.After walking to more than a hundred steps, the battle between the two sides is about to start.

With an order, both sides unanimously picked up the blunderbuss, drew their bows and arrows, and poured projectiles and arrows at each other.

There were so many Qin soldiers who were good at using bows and arrows, and for a while the arrows rained down like rain, covering the sky and blocking out the sun, and the rebels suffered a lot.Many soldiers were full of arrows, like hedgehogs.Some were shot to the point and fell on their backs on the spot.

Fortunately, after the rebel army defeated Chen Qiyu in the previous round, they captured a lot of blunderbusses. At the same time, the addition of Cao Wenzhao's troops brought in many blunderbussmen.

Zhang Shun organized the selection of these people into one place and divided them into three columns.When the rebel army gave an order, these people took turns to shoot continuously, and all the officers and soldiers were shot down immediately.

Officers and soldiers are different from the rebels who simplify long-range output as much as possible and use blunderbuss, bows and arrows as their main means.After shooting the blunderbuss and bows and arrows, the officers and soldiers hurried forward for twenty or thirty steps again, and then took out quick guns, three-eyed blunderbuss, Francophones and other firearms, and started shooting densely.

A dense rain of projectiles poured down on the formation of the rebels, and immediately many rebels were shot on the spot.Fortunately, the rebel army was fully armored, and these firearms mainly fired shotguns, which were quite weak and did not achieve the expected results.

However, Zhang Shun broke into a cold sweat because of this.If the armor of the rebel army is not complete, I am afraid that only this round of shooting will suffer heavy casualties.

(End of this chapter)