Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3476 Shelling
"Sail down!"

When the ships sailed more than a hundred feet away from the shore, Xin Mao ordered loudly to let all the ships lower their sails, and then anchored to stop the ships in the water.

In this way, even if rebels come, they cannot attack the ships and affect the bombardment.

"Sign out, each ship adjusts its angle, and observes the impact of the shell at any time!"

"Here!"

When some students wrapped themselves in thick cotton coats, took a jug of spirits into their arms, climbed up the mast, and sat in the bucket, then someone lowered the lighted wind lantern up with a thin rope.The students in charge of the observation got the wind lanterns and issued the unique signal of the navy. The students on each ship removed the gun covers, cleaned the gun chambers, and stuffed propellant and projectiles.

In the dark night, there was heavy wind and snow, and the line of sight was severely blocked. Therefore, the first shot used kerosene bombs, which would ignite a big fire after landing, which was convenient for observation.

"Get ready, fire!"

"dong dong dong"

In the dark night and snowstorm, the cannons on more than a dozen ships fired one after another, and the flames from the muzzles were like orange flowers blooming in the snowy night.

In the distance, cannonballs roared and landed, far away from the foundry, let alone among the rebels.

The students in charge of the observation immediately lit up lights on the bucket on the top of the mast to instruct the students operating the artillery to adjust the angle of the artillery and re-aiming.

"fire!"

"dong dong dong"

"fire i"

"dong dong dong"

After three consecutive rounds of test firing, a shell finally landed in the rebel formation, and a huge flame rose up.

"All of them, ten rapid-fire shots, fire!"

"Dong dong dong..."

The cannons on more than a dozen ships fired one after another, kerosene bombs and flower bombs were fired continuously, and the scorching red shells dragged light and shadows in the night sky, flying over a distance of hundreds of feet, and landed in the rebel formation outside the casting bureau .

……

Tens of thousands of rebel hedgehogs gathered at the main entrance of the foundry bureau. Once they rushed to the door under the wall at the beginning, they would be bombed by thunder and suffered heavy losses. This made the rebels afraid to launch a large-scale charge with scruples .However, with the fighting, the defenders' thunderbolts gradually decreased, and the offensive became more and more fierce. The rebels also calmed down. It turned out that the defenders also had scruples, fearing that too many thunderbolts would explode under the wall. A huge impact will shake the wall down.

In this way, the rebels found out the weakness of the defenders, and began to mobilize their troops, and stormed regardless of casualties. The area in front of the main gate of the foundry was more than a hundred feet away, and there were crowds of people under the heavy snow. at stake.

Seeing that either the rebels knocked down the gate of the wall, or the guards themselves knocked down the wall with a thunderbolt, the victory was close at hand. Suddenly, some bright lights flew from behind and fell on the rebels in the heavy snow. within the army camp.

"boom boom"

The kerosene bomb explodes when it hits the ground, and the flammable material soaked in kerosene inside is ignited and thrown around. Once attached to any object, it will ignite the fire and cannot be extinguished.

"Mother! It's artillery, artillery!"

"Get out, get out!"

However, the shells fell from the sky without giving the rebels a chance to react. They exploded instantly after landing, and sparks were thrown in all directions. After splashing, they caught fire when they saw the wind, enveloping the rebels one by one.

Not only that, besides kerosene bombs, these shells also have many flowering shells.This is not a bomb in the true sense, but a hollow bullet made of cast iron, stuffed with gunpowder, caltrops, iron balls, etc., and there are pre-fabricated lines on the shell shell, and the gunpowder bursts from the inside. The lines exploded, and together with the caltrops and iron beads inside, they were shot in all directions by a huge force. The huge kinetic energy endowed these things with a great initial speed, which could easily break through the iron armor and bring unparalleled damage to the enemy.

It is an upgraded version of Zhentianlei that is bigger, more powerful, and has a sharp increase in lethality...

This kind of artillery shell is unparalleled in terms of lethality to personnel. When a shell falls and explodes, thousands of fragments, caltrops, and iron balls are thrown in all directions, piercing through all objects blocking the flying route, and the rebels are like autumn. Wheat is like a hurricane, sweeping across the area, and no one is spared.

"Boom boom boom!"

The artillery shells kept falling, and the back line where a large number of rebels assembled seemed to be a hell on earth in an instant. Kerosene bombs and flower bombs recklessly harvested lives, countless stumps, broken arms, scalding blood splashed and rushed, and pieces of rebels fell to the ground and wailed. The miserable cry shook the whole field.

Facing the scene in front of him, the general of the rebel army trembled and was stunned.

Everyone knows that firearms are extremely powerful. Fang Jun once led the right guards to use firearms to cross Mobei, directly attacked Longting and sealed the wolf's residence, and defeated Xue Yantuo with a force of guards.I have also seen the power of guns and thunder, but compared with the power of the artillery in front of me, it is a world of difference...

If there are enough artillery and enough shells, so what if there are tens of millions of enemies?

Bombard the motherfucker and it's over!
However, the person being bombarded at this moment is himself, which is a completely different feeling of despair. How can such a power of heaven and earth be resisted with flesh and blood?No matter how elite, no matter how one counts as ten, they can only serve as cannon fodder when facing artillery...

Boom boom boom!
Cannonballs fell from the sky one after another, and when they landed among the crowd, countless people were killed and injured. Even the heavy snow falling rapidly in the air was stirred up and whizzed by the violent bombing airflow, and flew around.

The onslaught of more than [-] people was crushed under a burst of indiscriminate bombardment. If the bombing continues, let alone capture the foundry bureau, it will be a problem how many people can survive...

The generals of the rebel army are not incompetent. The power of the artillery is certainly irresistible, but the person who controls the artillery is not invincible!
He made a decisive decision: "Looking at the direction the artillery is coming from, it must be the ship used by Kunming Chishang for training. Hurry up and send people to the Kunming Chi dock. No matter what, we must kill all the soldiers and burn the ship!"

He still has some knowledge. Kunming Pond is not far from Chang'an City. If the artillery can reach Chang'an directly, the academy students will control the artillery on Kunming Pond to bombard the city gates on the south and west sides of Chang'an, which will cause the rebels to attack. , Supplies were hit hard.

A casting bureau may not matter, but once the south and west sides of Chang'an City are shrouded in the range of artillery, the threat will be too great...

"Here!"

At that moment, more than a thousand people left the battle formation and ran towards Kunming Lake in the south.

When they climbed up the embankment of Kunming Pool, they saw more than a dozen ships lined up in the center of the pool. Cannonballs were shot out of the barrel and flew towards the casting bureau in the distance.

The rebels intended to launch an attack on the ice on the surface of the pool, but found that the ice in the pool had been blown to pieces, and pieces of floating ice were floating and sinking on the water surface. Although the weather was cold, it would not freeze for a while. In fact, it can't bear the weight of a person at all.

The ships were far away from the shore, and the range of the bows and arrows could not reach them. These rebels could only stand on the shore in a daze, blown by the cold wind, watching the ships unscrupulously continue to fire, but they were helpless.

……

The students and guards in the foundry were under tremendous pressure in the face of the onslaught of enemies several times their size, regardless of casualties.There were students who were injured and retreated from the top of the wall. Ouyang Tongbian directed the treatment and ordered the reserve team to go up.

Xu Jingzong was sullen in the house for a while, seeing that the battle was getting more and more intense, and the situation was getting worse, he couldn't sit still, so he asked the clerk to find a set of armor for him to put on, and walked out of the house with a sword in his hand , Braving the heavy snow and walking towards the top of the wall.

At the critical moment, even if he is emptied, he is still the current highest official of the Foundry Bureau.As long as he can come to the front line in person, his morale will definitely be boosted. If he can defeat the rebel army, who can take the credit from him?
However, before he reached the top of the wall, he heard the sound of "boom boom boom" outside the wall, and even the ground under his feet trembled slightly. Xu Jingzong's face turned pale with fright, his legs went limp, and he almost fell to the ground...

He asked in surprise: "What's going on? Could it be that the rebels launched shelling? Where did they get the artillery?"

As the master of the academy, he is very familiar with the usual training subjects of the students. Naturally, he has also participated in artillery drills, and he is very familiar with the sound of artillery.The artillery in the foundry is limited, so it cannot cause large-scale damage to the enemy. The current dense artillery sound requires at least dozens of artillery salvos to achieve this effect...

As soon as the words fell, before the scribes around him had time to go up to ask, they saw the students and soldiers on the wall cheering earth-shatteringly.

"The rebels have retreated!"

"Senior Xin is mighty!"

"Senior Cen, do you want to take advantage of the victory and pursue it?"

……

Xu Jingzong: "..."

motherfucker!

Can't even give Lao Tzu a chance to go to the front line?

I made a lot of determination to go to battle in person, is it easy?
This wave was not only emptied by the students under him, but even the slightest merit was not obtained, it was really a big loss...

(End of this chapter)