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Chapter 604 Siege Cannon
"Get ready to shoot!" Ruan Youjin personally commanded the Ruan family's army on the wall to defend.

On the side of the Zheng family's army, because Master Zheng went to Changyu Lei to personally command the attack, the morale of their soldiers was high.After the bombardment of the artillery was over, thousands of soldiers of the Zheng family under the leadership of the general tried to attack the Changde base, to see if they could open a gap in the strong Changde base.

The soldiers of the Ruan family on the city wall stared nervously at the soldiers of the Zheng family who were getting closer, their flintlock guns and matchlock guns trembling.Last year, the Kyushu Army supported the Ruan family with a batch of firearms, but the Ruan family could not afford more firearms, and a considerable number of soldiers still used backward matchlock guns.

Boom!I don't know which nervous soldier couldn't help but fired the first shot, and the city wall started to shoot indiscriminately at the bottom in a mess.White smoke from gunpowder lingered over the city.

"Fire!" The cannon on the city wall also began shelling the soldiers of the Zheng family who were attacking the Changde Fortress under the command of the gunner.

The soldiers of the Zheng family were not rushing towards the strong Changde base noisily, but were digging trenches with shovels and shovels and approaching the Changde base.This shoe trench can greatly reduce the damage to them from the muskets and artillery on the city wall, which is more useful than any solid armor in this era.

Ruan Youjin was also very helpless when the soldiers panicked and unintentionally caused the shooting and shelling behavior. Although he emphasized in every possible way during the training, when it came time to face the enemy, someone would still go wrong.

"General, our guns and artillery can only do limited damage to them. If we let them push the trench under our city wall, they will have many ways to collapse our city wall!" Ruan Youjin's soldiers braved stray bullets through the wall Watch the battle below.

I saw a ditch forming around the Zheng family camp, approaching the Changde Fort in a zigzag way, and soil was thrown to both sides of the ditch from time to time.Although the shelling of the cannons defending the city caused considerable obstacles to the soldiers of the Zheng family who were digging the trench, the trench was still approaching.

"Do you think I didn't see it?" Ruan Youjin also didn't know how to deal with the Zheng family's improved tactics, because the Ruan family was at a disadvantage now, and he had little way to stop the Zheng family's attack. Going back to Zheng's house has indeed taught me a lot, and I know how to dig trenches to approach our defense line, but we are still useless."

"I have an idea, I don't know if it's feasible." A soldier rarely suggested, "We can prepare gunpowder and oil, and if they dare to approach the city wall, we will throw the oil and gunpowder down to burn the enemies below." A bright spot!"

"Your idea is not bad, but after a long time, I am afraid that our city walls will be burned down." Ruan Youjin said.

"Look, general, they have a new move!" Suddenly a soldier defending the city shouted.

Ruan Youjin followed the direction the soldiers pointed, and found that in the artillery position of the Zheng family opposite, there were a dozen giant elephants pulling several carts, and the carts were loaded with thick bronze cannons.The muzzles of these bronze cannons are far larger than the caliber of ordinary field cannons, not even the cannons of Changde Base, and they have to be hauled by powerful giant elephants!

"Such a huge cannon, is this a siege cannon?" Ruan Youjin finally changed his color now, he had no idea that the Zheng family had the ability to make a heavy siege cannon.

Although ordinary field artillery can also be used to attack the city, the efficiency of breaking the city is far inferior to that of the specialized siege artillery, but how did the Zheng family manufacture such a few heavy siege artillery? !

"It must be the Dutch who supported them! I heard that the Dutch and the Kyushu Army had an enmity. The two sides fought a war in Yizhou. In the end, the Dutch were defeated. They have been fighting in recent years. Support the Zheng family, if they hadn't brought these heavy artillery from the West to the Zheng family, how could the Zheng family have produced such terrible heavy artillery with their own strength!" A military officer defending the city next to him cursed, "Damn Netherlands! People, they are always behind the scenes!"

"Nederlanders? Looks like it's time to ask the Kyushu Army to teach them a lesson. Well, if it wasn't for us having no choice, we wouldn't want to ask the Kyushu Army for help unless we had to..." Ruan Youjin said, he still had more to come He didn't say a word, that is, once the Kyushu Army is requested to intervene in the war, according to the latest treaty they signed with the Kyushu Army, the Ruan family will have to bear the huge debt and interest of 500 million taels of silver, repaid in 20 years, which is equivalent to A resident under the rule of the Ruan family borrowed 10 taels of silver from the Kyushu Army, which is an incredible figure in Annan, not including the annual interest.

Boom! ! !After the Zheng family's siege cannons were deployed, they began to bombard the city walls violently!Although the siege cannon has serious problems such as bulkiness and insufficient killing efficiency, its damage to the city wall is far more than any other firearm.A huge solid bullet hit the city wall fiercely, and each shell made the solid city wall scream, the bricks and limestone fell off, and cracks like spider webs spread around!
"It's as powerful as thunder!" The soldiers of the Ruan family at the head of the city were frightened by the giant siege cannon, and they pressed their bodies tightly against the wall.

"When do you think they will be able to use up their gunpowder..." A soldier hid behind the city wall and was talking to another soldier when the solid city wall he relied on suddenly burst, and the scattered stones shook the surrounding area. Ruan family soldiers shoot!

This is a solid bullet used by a siege cannon that hit that wall!
With the cover of dozens of field artillery and several siege cannons, the soldiers of the Ruan family who were digging trenches to attack the defense line of the Changde Fortress were not stable, and kept approaching the defense line of the Changde Fortress...

The sound of the siege cannon fell in Ruan Youjin's ears, like a mountain collapsing.As long as the Zheng family has enough ammunition, these artillery pieces are enough to open a gap in the defense line of Changde!Ruan Youjin felt like he was dying, and he hadn't seen him for a year. His old opponent seemed to have improved in terms of tactical awareness and firearms.

"Go ask the regent to lead his troops to help our Changde Fortress. In addition, ask the Nanyang Fleet to go north along the coast to attack Thang Long City. In fact, it will land at Rili Haikou and cut off the enemy's Changyu Fort retreat. Let them have to choose to retreat in a dilemma." Ruan Youjin said to one of his confidantes, and handed him a letter again.

"Yes!" Ruan Youjin's confidants knew that Changde Base was in a critical situation, so they hurriedly threw the letter down the city wall after receiving the letter.

"We tried our best to buy time to wait for the reinforcements to arrive!" Ruan Youjin gritted his teeth.

(End of this chapter)