please make me king

Chapter 1408
"Rush, rush!" Bai Guangen, who had already occupied the northwest corner of the city wall of Jiming Station, saw the golden soldiers huddled in the tower and the city, so he couldn't help attacking the west gate of the city along the city wall.

For the siege side, climbing the city is important, but more important is how to gain a firm foothold on the city and capture the city gate to let the army outside the city enter.

Although the Jiming Post City is not small, but for the purpose of defense, only east and west gates are designed.

Now that they have attacked from the northwest corner, the nearest city gate is naturally the west gate.

"Boom, boom!" Just as the rebels were about to approach the west gate tower, only two cannons were heard, and three or five rebel soldiers immediately splashed blood on the spot.

"Cannon, Tartar's cannon!" Bai Guangen couldn't help being startled when he heard the sound, and quickly ordered, "Don't be afraid, it's already empty!"

"Boom, boom!"

"Nima, where did this bitch get the cannon!" The top of the city wall of Jiming Station is only a few feet wide. Once Houjin fires cannonballs, the rebels cannot avoid it.

How to do?
How to do?
Is it going to fall short?

"Reinforcements, we need reinforcements!" Bai Guangen hastily ordered the messenger to communicate with the people outside the city using semaphore.

"What's going on?" Zhang Shun looked at the semaphore on the city with a binoculars, and couldn't help but wonder, "Where did this Tartar get the cannon?"

It's not that the soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty did not carry artillery when they entered the customs, but most of them carried "gadgets" such as Mielu Cannon, Franji, and Baizi Cannon, which were easy to carry, but not very powerful.

However, judging from the meaning of the semaphore on the city, it is strange that the cannons used by the soldiers who climbed the city were at least five hundred catties to one thousand catties.

"Your Highness, this... this Jiming Station originally also had cannons for defending the city!" Zhang Weishi, the former governor of Xuanfu, couldn't help replying in embarrassment when he heard this.

"How many?" Zhang Shun frowned and asked involuntarily.

"Red... seven or eight red barbarian cannons, thirty western cannons for destroying captives, one or two thousand guns for the Great General, the Second General, Frangji and Yongzhu Guns..." Zhang Weishi wiped the cold sweat off his brow.

"Red Barbarian Cannon? It can fire several catties of iron bullets!" Zhang Shun was taken aback, and couldn't help but ask carefully in view of the chaotic classification methods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

"Wang Junmen supervised the construction of two [-]-jin Hongyi cannons, which can fire [-]-jin iron bullets. There is one weighing [-] jin, which can fire [-]-jin four-liang iron bullets." Zhang Weishi responded quickly.

"Two thousand catties of red barbarian cannons?" Zhang Shun was taken aback when he heard the words, and quickly ordered, "Tell Bai Guangen to be careful and tell him that there are two thousand catties of red barbarian cannons in the city!"

Wang Junmen is Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Previously, when the rebels fought against Wang Pu and Zhang Fengyi in Shanxi, they had seized this kind of artillery, so Zhang Shun was deeply impressed by this.

This kind of Hongyi cannon is about 14 meters long and has a caliber of [-] centimeters. If it is used to fire shotguns to attack the soldiers of the rebels climbing the city, the consequences will be disastrous.

"What should I do, Your Highness?" Gao Qiqian couldn't help but asked, his heart sweating when he heard the words.

"Let Bai Guangen wait for a while, and set up a defensive position on the city." Zhang Shun thought for a while, "Let Li Shi'an concentrate his firepower and bombard the Ximen tower."

"Okay, let's go now, slave!" Gao Qiqian hurriedly responded when he heard the words, and sent orders to the messengers.

"One-two, one-two, let's all work hard together!" Just as Zhang Shun and the others were waiting under the city, Boluo was chanting slogans loudly, commanding his soldiers to carry the two thousand catties Hongyi Cannon.

It turned out that after the cannon was transported to Jiming Station, because it was too heavy, it was placed in the east and west gates respectively and used as a city defense cannon.

As a result, I never thought that the rebel army would blow down the northwest corner of the city wall, and the giant cannon facing west at this gate suddenly lost its firing range.

Therefore, when Bai Guangen and his group charged, they were only shot by the five hundred catties of red barbarians, so the loss was relatively small.

Naboluo now also knew that it was difficult to resist the attack of the rebels with only the five hundred catties of red barbarian cannon, so he began to try to move the two thousand catty red barbarian cannon, thinking of it as a "killer".

It's just that the cannon was too heavy, and it couldn't be moved for a while.

Naboluo had no choice but to call twenty people to work together to raise the cannon.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Then, the moment the Hongyi cannon was raised, the rebel artillery resounded again.

The heavy iron bullets crackled on the top of the tower, and there was a burst of sound.

Some hit the wall, making a dull impact, and some flew in directly from the window, only smashing the tables, chairs and benches inside.

Not to mention some unlucky people who just happened to be scraped by the jumping iron bullets, and suddenly either lacked arms or legs.

For a while, flesh and blood flew everywhere, screaming again and again.

It doesn't matter this cry, it immediately startled the soldiers who were carrying the Hongyi cannon.

Only a loud "bang" was heard, and the heavy cannon weighing more than [-] kilograms hit the ground fiercely, and then rolled, pressing down on the feet of several soldiers.

"Ah~" A shrill scream resounded through the entire West Tower again.

"Is it over yet?" Seeing this, Boluo, the son of Gushan, was so angry that he couldn't help stretching his head out of the city and shouted.

It's just that as soon as he finished yelling, he saw countless iron bullets hitting his head and face, which scared him so much that he quickly retreated into the city.

The rebel army fired fiercely for another hour, and when the sun was westward, they finally knocked down the city tower again.

At this time, the Jin soldiers had nothing to defend, so they had to let the city gate open and retreat into the city.

Seeing that the Houjin soldiers had left, Bai Guangen rushed forward and opened the west gate of Jiming Station, letting the rebel soldiers pass by.

However, just as the rebel army was passing through the west gate, Boluo, the beizi of Houjin Gushan, and Erzhen Turge, Gushan of Xiangbai Banner, were leading the main force of Houjin to leave from the east of the city.

You can't fight, you can't defend, if you don't leave now, when will you wait?
It's just that the two of them had just left the Jiming Station, and suddenly saw two teams of cavalry coming over.

Naboluo and Turg's troops have long been discouraged, so where is the fighting spirit?

The two sides fought hastily for a few rounds, and after forcing the rebels back, the two hit horses and walked away.

Li Zicheng and Fatty Zhang had lingering fears about the combat power of the Houjin cavalry, and they didn't dare to pursue them too deeply, so they had to go back to the city on horseback.

The two entered the Jiming Station, and the sound of fighting in the city continued.Most of them were Houjin soldiers who had no time to escape, resisting stubbornly in the corner.

The two didn't care about this, and hurriedly went to see Zhang Shun on business.

When the two met Zhang Shun, Zhang Shun was standing in the hall of the post station, looking at his Xuanfu map densely written in small characters.

The picture was specially made for Zhang Shun by Xu Ziyuan based on the original map of Xuanfu. It marked most of the cities, forts, mountains, rivers and other key points.

"Oh, you're back, how are you?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but greeted the two of them.

"It's not bad, we have captured twenty or thirty heads!" Li Zicheng and Fatty Zhang replied unsatisfied.

"I didn't expect the defeated Tartars to be so hard to deal with!"

"The morale is high and the will is firm!" Zhang Shun nodded and agreed, "If given time, he will definitely be the enemy of China!"

"Then...then what should we do?" Li Zicheng hesitated for a moment and asked involuntarily.

"Without him, we can only destroy it with cannons!" Zhang Shun laughed.

"Today Li Shi'an's cannon battalion performed well, and tomorrow's 'Great General Cannon' and 'Fei Biao' can resist it, and it will be even more unstoppable."

"No matter how many changes he has, I'll just break it with one shot!"

(End of this chapter)