The Ming Dynasty talker in the box

Chapter 42 Attacking Jiaozhou City (2)

These five red cannons gave Zhang Dayou great confidence.

The red cannon is mostly imitated from the Frankie cannon in Europe. It is 3.3 meters long and has a caliber of 180 millimeters. It has high accuracy and great power. The effective range is about 1.5 kilometers. It is a powerful weapon for attacking cities and demolishing strongholds.

As for the effectiveness of defending the city, you can ask Nurhaci in the Battle of Ningyuan.

If Li Hengqu had narrowed his field of view to the city gate tower, he would probably be able to quickly spot the huge red cannon and then escape.

But the city wall below the city gate tower was the thickest. He had no intention of tearing down the city wall at this location from the beginning. He moved his vision to 50 meters to the left of the city gate tower, exhaled, and pressed his hand down.

"Huh, even the gods can't save you this time."

As soon as Zhang Dayou finished saying this in a cold tone, he felt the city wall shake, and then he heard the frightened sounds from the soldiers.

He followed the sound and saw a big hand that was beyond his understanding, holding the city wall and pulling at it.

Both the soldiers defending the city and the volunteers preparing to attack the city were so shocked by the scene in front of them that they lost the ability to think and almost forgot about each other's missions.

Zhang Dayou is a person who has seen the world after all, so after a brief shock, he immediately ordered a red cannon to be turned around. He wanted to smash this huge-looking but delicate hand into pieces.

Regardless of whether the hand belonged to a god or a demon, he could only offend because if he lost Jiaozhou City, the Manchus would kill his family members who were being held back.

Gods can be offended, but Manchus cannot be offended.

Li Hengqu didn't hit the city wall directly with his fist because it really hurt. He planned to tear down the city wall directly, layer by layer from top to bottom.

He was working hard when he suddenly heard a deafening sound of cannon. At the same time, he felt a heartbreaking pain, as if his thumb was pinched hard by the door.

He reflexively withdrew his hand, and then found that the eldest mother and son's fingernails were filled with blood. He touched them lightly, and felt another heartbreaking pain.

"Ma Jiben, fuck you, didn't you say you don't have a cannon?"

Li Hengqu endured the pain and searched for the location of the cannon on the screen. However, before he had time to adjust his field of vision, four huge cannon roars came out.

Ma Jiben's military formation was immediately covered with blood and flesh.

Zhang Dayou gave up his original plan of moving closer and then attacking, and decided to sacrifice accuracy and strength, increase the elevation of the cannon, and directly blast Ma Jiben's army four miles away.

Only one of the four artillery shells managed to fly into Ma Jiben's military formation, but it was enough to cause huge damage in the dense military formation.

"The entire army retreats ten steps."

Ma Jiben calmly gave the instructions.

From the beginning, he was not sure whether Jiaozhou City had city defense artillery. The reason why he and Li Hengqu were sure that there were no artillery in the city need not be explained.

The most powerful red cannon in the Qing army had a range of about three miles. It was always safe for him to stop the army four miles away in front of the city, and only waited for Li Hengqu to break through the city and take the city in one fell swoop.

Ma Jiben was calm, but Li Hengqu was not calm at all.

A cannonball had just grazed the roof of the carriage and landed three or four meters in front of the carriage, creating a long crater.

The horse was frightened several times and became restless, causing the carriage to shake. The box was also shaken unsteadily, which greatly made it more difficult for Li Hengqu to operate the box.

If this continues, Li Hengqu will probably have to explain himself here before he can find the missing cannon, and Li Hengqu immediately decides to run away.

Shouma also understood Li Hengqu's thoughts very well. Without waiting for Li Hengqu's urging, he ran towards Ma Jiben's army at a speed that was too fast for his body.

After a while, the carriage ran to the front of the army.

When Ma Jiben saw Li Hengqu running back, he was furious and rode forward on his white horse.

"Mr. Li, the city wall hasn't collapsed yet, why did you escape back?"

"If you don't leave, I'm going to show up in front of the city. Didn't you say that there are no cannons in Jiaozhou City? Are you making fun of me?"

Ma Jiben was angry, but Li Hengqu was even more angry than him.

Ma Jiben knew he was in the wrong, but he still couldn't suppress his anger in his tone: "The matter is now at this point, you should destroy the city wall in one go, and escaping like this is simply a waste of opportunity."

"You are so angry, sir. If I die, can you shoulder this responsibility?" Li Hengqu was so angry that he wanted to slap him a few times.

"You are so afraid of death, it is not the behavior of a man."

"You are a man, but you arrest women and threaten me."

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The red cannons in the city have stopped. After all, Ma Jiben is no longer within the effective range, and there are not many cannonballs shipped by Dorgon, so they have to use them sparingly.

The two sides were in a stalemate, and it was impossible for the Qing troops in the city to leave the city to attack.As long as the city wall was not broken, Ma Jiben would not lose his mind and storm the city.

"Mr. Li, remember your promise. You must break down the city wall now, otherwise you will have no chance when the enemy's reinforcements arrive."

Ma Jiben lost his cool temperament at this moment, and Li Hengqu's attitude of being none of my business was really annoying.

If he hadn't been the only hope of breaking the city, Ma Jiben would have been unable to hold back and chopped off his head.

"I didn't make any promises, I was just coerced. And I told you to send people to attack the front and draw all the enemy's attention to the direction of the main entrance. I will go around to the west city to break the wall. What do you have to disagree with me? Method."

"If I do as you say, my men will suffer heavy losses."

"If you don't do what I say, you won't be able to enter the city."

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Although the sun has not risen yet, a ray of red has already appeared in the sky, and it is already bright.

Ma Jiben looked at the increasingly brighter sky and finally gritted his teeth and compromised.

He mobilized [-] old, weak, sick and disabled people, arranged them in scattered formations, and trotted to attack the city.

"Before all three thousand of my men are killed or injured, you must destroy the west wall." Ma Jiben said to Li Hengqu in a commanding tone.

"Remember, only attack this side, don't besiege the city." Li Hengqu reminded, "By the way, help me find a driver with excellent driving skills."

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Li Hengqu sat in the carriage, listening to the sound of cannons gradually receding, and his heart finally calmed down.

"I said, brother, please be busy, we are not in a hurry." He said to the coachman.

The coachman wanted to break his whip and called the skinny horse a lazy man:
"You're not in a hurry? How can you be in a hurry? My brothers are all working hard, but I'm here to accompany you for a ride. I don't know what Master Zhang is thinking."

"Brother, don't feel ashamed. What you have to do later is more important than your thousands of desperate brothers."

"Taking you for a ride is more important than the lives of thousands of my brothers? Are you looking for my happiness?" The groom said at this moment that it was bad luck.

"When the time comes, stretch out your right hand and face it in the direction of the city wall."

"and then?"

"Press."

"Are you out of your mind?"

"You will know later. Slow down the carriage first. It is very dangerous for you to speed like this."

"No, after I send you to your position, I have to rush back to fight."

"Slower."

"no!"

"slow!"

"No!"

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　Thanks to the brothers who keep voting for me every day!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)