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Chapter 518
"Every artilleryman is in place!" Sun Xu stood in the artillery position of the Kyushu Army wearing a navy uniform, looked at the still solid Fuchun City, and slowly raised his right hand, "Get ready!"

Ruan Youyi, the temporary commander of the Ruan family's army, also issued an order to prepare to bombard Fuchun City.Ruan Youyi really felt bad for bombarding his royal city with the artillery of the Kyushu Army, but he had no choice but to take back the royal city as soon as possible to prevent the riots from expanding within the Ruan family.

boom!The artillery positions outside the city wall vibrated, and dozens of iron balls slammed into the two-foot-high city wall of Fuchun City!
"My lord, go down to the city to take refuge!" The moment the artillery fired outside the city wall, the city wall was in chaos, and the rebel general hurriedly protected the core figure Ruan Fu and fled.

It wasn't that they didn't want to leave the dangerous city wall ahead of time, but that they didn't expect that the Kyushu Army and the Ruan Family Army under the city would deploy their artillery so quickly.

The three-foot-wide moat had no effect at all in front of the artillery. The violent shells hit the walls of Fuchun City, blowing away pieces of broken city bricks.

"Fight back, fight back!" Ruan Fuming fled down the city wall in embarrassment, he could feel the shaking of the city wall, and roared at the generals around him.

"My lord, our shooting range is not as good as theirs, so how can we fight back?!" The city guard hid behind the city wall with Ruan Fuming in fear, and said back, ignoring the courtesies of the monarch and his ministers.

"Then go up and look at the city wall, don't let them attack!" Ruan Fumei punched the city guard, making the city guard take two steps back.

"Yes..." The city guard was in pain, covered the place where he was punched, and bravely climbed up the city wall.

After Ruan Phuc became furious, he felt deep fear.The sound of artillery that was still ringing from time to time seemed to fall in his heart, making his heart tremble violently.

The general next to him saw Ruan Fuchen's body trembling slightly, and saw his fear: "Don't worry, my lord, we have a moat to isolate the outside world, even if they bombard our city wall with artillery, they will not be able to enter. "

"That's right, we still have the moat and thousands of soldiers. I don't believe they can fill the moat and kill all our soldiers with enough artillery." Another general tried to comfort himself.

"I hope..." Ruan Fu felt goosebumps all over his body.

Outside Fuchun City, Sun Xu looked at the effect of the shelling with satisfaction.After several rounds of shelling, the south gate of Fuchun City has been severely damaged, several battlements have collapsed, and a corner of the tower has collapsed.

"Commander, Ruan Youyi is asking to see you." When Sun Xu was directing the artillery to launch the next round of strikes, his naval soldiers came to report to him.

"What does he want to do if he doesn't cooperate with us to continue the bombardment?" Sun Xu was a little dissatisfied, but still said to his opponent, "Bring him here."

Soon Ruan Youyi came to Sun Xu, and he took the lead and said: "We have already destroyed the fighting spirit of the enemies in the city with artillery, are you sending soldiers across the moat to attack the city, or our Ruan family troops sent soldiers across the moat to attack the city?"

"Send soldiers to attack the city now? The walls of Fuchun City haven't collapsed yet, so we want to risk the lives of our soldiers?" Sun Xu looked at Ruan Youyi in disbelief.

"The shells of these artillery are very expensive... We have captured Fuchun City, and we have to support Changde, so we need to save some of these ammunition." Ruan Youyi said, "In the past when we fought against the Zheng family's army, the artillery was only To frighten and frighten their horses and elephants, the real battle is to defeat them with muskets, broadswords, bows and arrows."

"The shells of the artillery are expensive, but they are not as precious as the lives of our Kyushu Army soldiers. Just follow my order to shell the designated position. I believe that when we capture Fuchun City, our fleet has successfully wiped out the enemies at sea. We will get supplies in time. Do you know how much ammunition is consumed in a naval battle? It is only a lot more than the ammunition we used to attack the city!" Sun Xu said disdainfully.

"You guys...are really rich..." Ruan Youyi became more envious the more he heard it.He got [-] artillery pieces supported by the Kyushu Army, but the artillery used in each round of firing gave him a pain in the flesh.

When the cannon is fired, ten thousand taels of gold!Ruan Youyi found that even if the Ruan family owed a huge amount of debt to buy a batch of firearms from the Kyushu Army, they might not be able to worry about it, because the follow-up expenses for guns and artillery were even more terrifying.It is estimated that in the entire Far East, only the Kyushu Army can use firearms unscrupulously.

"Then when should we start attacking the city?" Ruan Youyi asked.

"Don't siege the city for the time being, continue shelling, completely destroy the city wall and the hearts of the people inside!" Sun Xu still insisted on using artillery tactics.

The rounds of artillery continued to roar, but after the previous rounds of shelling, the Kyushu Army was gradually adjusting the landing point of the artillery and conducting precise shelling, while the shelling of the Ruan Army was more aimless.

"Although the moat is difficult to break through with manpower, we are using artillery." Sun Xu looked at the suspension bridge at the south gate of Fuchun City.

Although the moat of Fuchun City is a powerful weapon for defending the city, it usually affects the access of residents, and this suspension bridge is a bridge leading to the outside of the city.Even the defenders didn't notice that the iron cables pulling the suspension bridge were hit by shells and fell off with broken pieces of wood, causing the heavy suspension bridge to crumble...

In the waters near Rili Haikou, the sailing battleship Qiwei from the East India Company led two warships and hundreds of large and small Zheng family sailors to chase the Ruan family's ships along the coastline.Compared with the gigantic Qiwei, there are many kinds of ships to increase the navy, and they are small in size. Most of them are single-masted fishing boats or merchant ships. The hull is only more than ten meters long. There are one or two doors on the left and right sides Earth cannons are warships.The slightly stronger Zheng family warship was more than 20 meters long and equipped with five or six cannons purchased from the Netherlands. It was the main battleship of the Zheng family navy.

"This group of cowardly cowards, after losing the battle with our fleet, stopped confronting us head-on, but kept harassing us, making it impossible for us to safely transport our troops back to the rear of the Changde Fortress." A Ned Lan Haijun said dissatisfiedly, looking at the flag of the Ruan Family Navy ahead with a binoculars.

"The Ruan family has always been as timid as a mouse. They have been hiding behind the wall for several years and dare not fight to the death with our Zheng family." Said the general of the Zheng family who came to the deck of the battleship Qiwei.

"This time we must wipe them out completely, even if they want to flee back to their own port, we will hunt them down!" The Dutch officer said dissatisfied.

What they didn't know was that, to the south of the coastline, a fleet was advancing north along the coastline.Although this fleet only has about [-] warships, each of them is a large ship that can go to sea!

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