I will be the prince at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 143 Bombarding Shengjing
"Fire." Following Cai Jiuyi's order.

"Tom tom tom...."

The 60 cannons spewed out thick gunpowder one by one, firing out shells one after another.

"boom……."

A shell hit the crenel of the city wall, and a violent explosion occurred, which shattered several bricks in the crenel. A tartar standing behind the crenel was hit by shrapnel, and half of his shoulder was cut off.

"what…"

The severely wounded Tartar immediately lay down on the ground and howled loudly.

"Not good, the Ming army is running away, fight back, fight back immediately!"

Gabra (Sony's eldest son) standing on the top of the wall shouted sharply.

As soon as Gabra's words fell, more than a dozen red cannons deployed on the city wall began to fight back, but the maximum range of the red cannons at the top of the city was only [-] feet. This distance is still after the shells hit the ground, and then rolled forward for a while. Taking all the distances into account, they couldn't shoot at the Ming army's position [-] feet away. It seemed like a huge momentum, but in fact it was nowhere near the itch and was useless.

"Hong Chengchou, what about Hong Chengchou, hurry up and ask him to transfer the cannons of the Eight Banners of Han Dynasty." Ye Bilong shouted in the crowd.

Hearing this, Sony couldn't help smiling bitterly and said: "It's useless, no matter how many cannons we deploy, our cannons in red clothes can't hit the Ming army at all, but the Ming army's cannons can easily hit the top of the city, Your Majesty, You'd better go back to the palace! It's too dangerous here."

As soon as he finished speaking, a cannonball hit the gunpowder piled on the tower and exploded. The violent explosion was deafening. Dozens of Tartar soldiers nearby were immediately blown away by the terrifying air waves, and several of them were burned. A big fire broke out, and the firemen ran around screaming and screaming.

As the shells landed on the top of the city one by one, they exploded. In the blink of an eye, corpses littered the city, and the city wall became a mess. The heavy casualties knocked the Tartar soldiers into a daze. After a short period of confusion, the Tartar soldiers ran around like headless chickens.

The little emperor Xuan Ye was also surrounded by Sony, Ye Bilong and a group of big inner guards and fled down the wall in a panic.

Everyone on the Ming army's position burst into laughter when they saw the embarrassed appearance of the Tartars on the city wall.Even Gao Shun, who had always been steady, couldn't help smiling, and said, "It seems that the Tartars are dead. This is the first round of shelling, and they are in such a mess."

The eyes of the soldiers around Gao Shun were brightened, and a thousand households hurried forward and said, "Master Tongzhi, in this case, why don't we challenge His Highness the Crown Prince? If we are the first to attack Shengjing, the one who breaks Shengjing The great merit of splashing the sky fell on us."

Of course Gao Shun knew what it meant to break through Shengjing, and this was a great achievement that would go down in history. Even Gao Shun, who usually doesn't like to fight for power and profit, was a little moved at this moment.

After thinking for a while, Gao Shun finally nodded, and said to the generals around him: "Okay, you wait, I'll go to fight!"

After finishing speaking, Gao strode towards Zhu Cixuan with big strides.

Zhu Cixuan was quite surprised when he saw Gao Shun, who was commanding the riflemen in front, come back suddenly.

Gao Shun came to Zhu Cixuan's horse, clasped his fists and said, "Your Highness, Gao Shun, please give your Highness an order to order my rifle battalion to go out and attack the city."

Zhu Cixuan was taken aback for a moment, but then he understood that the honest man was also tempted by such a great achievement as the invasion of Shengjing City. He smiled at Gao Shun, nodded and said, "Since General Gao has such ambitions, then treat us The Huwei cannon fired for another quarter of an hour, and the general led the rifle battalion to attack the city."

Gao Shun was overjoyed when he heard this, he cupped his fists and saluted, "Your Highness, please rest assured, the final general will live up to His Highness's expectations, and will definitely capture this Shengjing for His Highness."

"Okay!" Zhu Cixuan sent someone to call Cai Jiuyi, who was commanding the artillery, and said, "Cai Tongzhi, order your artillery battalion to shell for another quarter of an hour, then stop the shelling, and let Gao Tongzhi lead the rifle battalion to attack the city."

Cai Jiuyi immediately cupped her fists and said, "Yes, I would like to obey His Highness's order." After speaking, she turned around and left.

Cai Jiuyi returned to the artillery position, began to adjust the shooting range, and fired a volley at the red-clothed cannons of the Tartars at the top of the city. One after another, black projectiles flew out of the barrel, fell from the sky, and landed on the red-clothed cannons at the top of the city. By the cannons and on the wide ramparts.

"Boom boom boom..."

After each projectile landed, it began to explode. The violent shock wave carried shrapnel flying around, blasting the Tartars on the city wall to pieces.

The red cannons erected on the top of the city were also destroyed by the artillery fire of the Ming army.

Several rounds of shelling caused the Tartars a big loss.

Due to the large number of Tatars stationed in Shengjing, there are more than 5000 people, and there are nearly 2 strong men recruited urgently. The lethality caused is even more terrifying.

Exploding flower bombs blasted the Tartars upside down, and in just five salvos, they caused more than 2000 casualties.

"Not good, quickly order the soldiers to go down the city wall, hurry down the city wall!"

Seeing more and more casualties, Gabra knew that in this situation, the more soldiers on the wall, the greater the casualties, so he gave orders loudly while avoiding the shells in the sky.

When Gabra ordered the Tazi soldiers to go down the city wall, the artillery shells fired from outside the city continued to fly to the top of the city. The continuous explosion of shells made them scurry away one by one, and the entire city wall was in a mess.

A black flowering bullet spewed out from the muzzle of the gun. It carried a large puff of gunpowder smoke and drew a long arc along the sky. Next to Zibing, they screamed in fright.

"boom……"

There was a loud noise and a burst of smoke, and the group of Tartar soldiers was submerged by the rising smoke. Countless iron pieces were blown into fragments by the powerful explosive force and flew around, and the shrapnel swept the group of Tartar soldiers down. On the ground, several Tatars who had not died after being shot screamed and climbed on the ground.

Cai Jiuyi put down the binoculars in front of her eyes, and gave an order loudly, "The target city wall is 750 feet ahead, raise the muzzle for a moment, let it go!"

"Yes, 750 feet, raise the muzzle for a moment." The order was conveyed in the shouts of the soldiers, and the 60 artillery pieces turned the gun mounts in unison, making creaking sounds, and the aimers were nervous Adjust the position of the muzzle.

After a while, left and right came to report: "My lord, the artillery is ready!"

"Ready!" The voices of artillerymen came from around.

Cai Jiuyi nodded, raised her big knife and roared with all her strength, "The target, the city wall, is 750 feet away, let it go!"

"Tom, tom, tom..." Orange-red flames spewed out from each of the Huwei cannons, puffs of white smoke spewed out, and the black shells flew forward with piercing screams.

The 60 cannons let out a thundering roar almost at the same time. At this moment, the whole earth trembled slightly. It seemed that after a long time, it seemed that in a short moment, there was another thunderous sound from the city of Shengjing ahead. bang.

Sparks flashed in Cai Jiuyi's eyes, and he raised his sword again and shouted, "Reload! Shoot again!"

"Boom...boom...boom..."

Two quarters of an hour later, the artillery fire gradually subsided. At this time, the city of Shengjing was in a mess. A section of the city wall near the city gate collapsed with a gap of more than ten feet. The city gate was also blown to pieces under the artillery fire, exposing a black hole of the city gate.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhu Cixuan turned his head and said to the messengers beside him: "Pass my military order to General Gao Shun to lead the rifle battalion into the city."

(End of this chapter)