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"fire!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Following Li Zicheng's order, the cannons of the rebel army resounded.

Driven by the gunpowder, the round iron balls flew out in unison, and smashed violently on the city wall of Jiming Station.

"One, two, three,...eighteen, nineteen, twenty!" The soldiers on the city couldn't help but turn pale with shock, "Twenty, the 'thief' brought another twenty 'Red Barbarian Cannons'!"

It turned out that although Zhang Shun sent three battalions of Li Zicheng, Zhang Fatzi, and Li Shukong this time, most of Li Shukong's men were scattered soldiers and new battalions, so they were not equipped with corresponding artillery.

Only the battalions of Li Zicheng and Fatty Zhang were equipped with cannons, and there were ten field cannons and ten golden cannons in total.

After that, the Jin soldiers, like the Ming army, were unable to distinguish the artillery models of the rebels with the naked eye, and could only calculate from the shells fired by the rebels.

The Rebel Field Cannon fires ten-pound iron bullets, and the Golden Cannon fires twenty-pound iron bullets. Although the muzzle velocity is not as good as that of the Hongyi Cannon, their power is still impressive. How can the watchmen in the city tell the difference?

Soon, the news that the rebel army attacked the city with the "Red Barbarian Cannon" reached the ears of Niu Gulu Turge, the guard of Jiming Post.

Naturge is the son of Niu Hulu Eyidu, one of the five founding ministers of the Later Jin Dynasty, and he is currently holding the post of Gushan Ezhen in Xiangbai Banner.

Since his father Hong Tai came to the throne, he was qualified to share the imperial temple with Fei Yingdong, and his younger brother Ye Bilong was the auxiliary minister of Zhang Shun's previous Kangxi Dynasty, which shows that his status is extraordinary.

When Naturge heard this, he couldn't help but turn pale with fright. He hurriedly went up to the city to have a look, only to see rebel cavalry covering the sky and covering the sun, mountains and valleys, and twenty "red barbarian cannons" lined up, facing the Jiming Station one by one. Shooting on the city.

Not long after, a soldier picked up an iron bullet and brought it up.

Naturge weighed it with his own hands, and it was exactly twenty catties.

"It seems that 'Shun Thief' is jumping over the wall in a hurry!" Turge pretended to avoid seriousness and commented lightly, and quickly ordered the soldiers to guard the city, and then sent envoys to report to Mrs. Hong.

Jiming Post City has a strange thing on Thursday. The city is three feet five feet high, with only two gates on the east and west. It is the standard castle shape in the late Ming Dynasty.

Neither will it be difficult to defend the city, nor will it be too small to accommodate enough troops, people and supplies.

This time, Gushan Erzhen Turg, the Xiangbai Banner, was the vanguard, leading a nearly fully mobilized Gushan.

Dorgon's Xiangbai Banner originally had [-] bull records. This time, for the Southern Expedition, he mobilized more than [-] young men under his banner at one go.

Among them, [-] were taken to Guihua City by him, and now only [-] are left in the city.

In addition to these six thousand, there were four hundred soldiers from the Ming army and three to five hundred men from the Ming army.

Although it is far inferior to Li Zicheng's [-] people and other [-] people, it is not impossible to fight back.

Nagushan Erzhen Turge thought for a moment, and then ordered: "This time we can't sit still and get beaten, and prepare to go out of the city to fight!
As the saying goes: things are dead, people are alive!

Since Houjin's artillery is not as good as human beings, if they hide in the city, the rebels will use artillery to destroy the city wall bit by bit, but they will kill them. …

Therefore, anyone who knows how to fight, as long as conditions permit, generally likes to go out of the city to fight, so as not to fall into a passive situation.

The Hongyi cannons of this era generally weighed from two thousand to tens of thousands of catties and were more than ten feet long.

Although such a cannon is powerful, it also has defects such as difficult loading and difficult adjustment of the firing angle.

That is to say, if the white-armed soldiers in the bloody battle of Hunhe restricted their mobility, otherwise the tactics of bombarding the enemy with red cannons would become miserable as the enemy moved and evaded.

Therefore, when Hou Jin went out of the city to meet the battle, he also had the intention of avoiding the superiority of the rebel army's firepower.

Following Turge's order, the gate of the Jiming Station couldn't help but open, and the elite cavalry with the white flag came out in a file.

When Li Zicheng saw the golden soldiers coming out of the "turtle shell", he was not surprised but pleased, so he quickly ordered: "Let the gunner adjust the target and bombard the enemy's formation!"

Ordinary "Red Barbarian Cannons" are indeed difficult to use in field battles, but the Rebel Army's "Field Cannons" and "Golden Cannons" are not.

These two types of artillery are two large-caliber field artillery specially designed by Zhang Shun and tested in practice.

Both guns are short barreled, large in caliber and easy to move, load and fire.

The former has a multiple diameter of about fifteen and is a field cannon capable of firing ten-pound iron bullets, while the latter has a multiple diameter of about ten and is a cannon, howitzer and shotgun that are capable of firing twenty-pound iron bullets. The plus howitzer.

When Turge left the city by his own way, he was out of the attack of the rebel army. Who would have thought that the golden soldiers here would be fired by the rebel artillery as soon as they left the city gate.

A piece of round iron bullets violently smashed into the cavalry who were coming out of the east gate of Jiming Station.

The black iron ball, like a black god of death, shot in from the gate of the city, piercing through the fine iron armor, the handsome horse, and the post-gold elite who are proficient in [-] martial arts on horseback more easily than tearing apart flimsy pieces of paper. .

From the beginning to the end, the largest one penetrated more than [-] riders, and the least one also killed three or five people.

Some more shells hit the wall of the city gate and flew out again, still killing five or seven people.

"Damn it, go back, go back!" Where did he still use Turg to shout, and when the rear golden cavalry saw such a bloody scene, how could they dare to step forward?

Suddenly there was a whistling sound, and he turned around and ran, even forgetting to close the city gate.

Turge was startled, and quickly shouted to his guards to fight back, and then blocked the city gate, and made the rebels laugh out loud.

"Straight mother thief, fell into the trick of the 'dog thief'!" Turge cursed, helpless, had no choice but to stick to it and wait for help.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Fatty, and Li Shukong were overjoyed at the first sight, and quickly ordered the gunners to continue to "knock the turtle's shell hard", while intercepting and killing Houjin scouts and messengers with increasing efforts.

The two sides fought from noon to the afternoon, more precisely, "knocking the turtle's shell" until the afternoon. They only smashed the west gate of the Jiming Station, and razed the city's defensive facilities such as the plate, parapet, and battle shed to the ground.

Only after the beating, Jin Bing couldn't stand on the city wall, and had to hide in towers, turrets, etc., trembling.

With great difficulty, when it was getting late, the forwards of the Rebel Army and the forwards of Houjin arrived at Jiming Station one after another.

Not to mention how the rebel army is, let's say that the leader of the Houjin striker is none other than Rao Yubeile Abatay's third son, Gushan Beizi Boluo.

Regardless of his young age, he is only in his twenties, but he has already made great military exploits and enjoyed a high reputation.

Hearing that his father Abatai had "fell in the hands of thieves", he was eager to take revenge, so he asked Mrs. Hong to take the initiative and led the forward to arrive first.

"How's the battle going?" Nagushan Beizi Boluo couldn't help asking when he saw Turge.

"The situation is not very good!" Xiangbai Banner Gushan Erzhen Turg shook his head, and replied with a heavy face, "The thief carried twenty 'Red Barbarian Cannons', which were so sharp that I couldn't lift my head up. .”

"Nowadays, the facilities such as the boards, female walls, and war sheds in the city are almost completely destroyed, and it will be impossible to defend tomorrow."

That Turge must not defend means, of course, it does not mean that Houjin must not be able to defend the Jiming Station.

It means that the facilities on the city are damaged, and it will be difficult for Houjin to defend against the city in another battle tomorrow, so he can only fight against the city.

"Don't worry, wait until tomorrow, and the army led by His Majesty will arrive!" Na Boluo frowned, and could not help comforting him.