Nearly 100,000 peasant troops outside Xinye City were lined up in a very neat queue and slowly advancing towards the city wall. The wooden shield, which was taller than the man, was like a wall, and tens of thousands of archers behind had already pulled out their arrows and placed them on the bowstrings, ready to shoot.

This situation looks really scary. How terrifying is it to shoot tens of thousands of archers?

Not to mention too much, even if you only shoot five rounds of volleys, the city wall on the south side will probably be flooded by arrows.

You know, there are less than 10,000 people on the city wall on the south side at this moment. Each of them eats twenty or thirty arrows, and they will all be shot into hedgehogs!

Of course, this kind of thing is impossible to happen.

Qi Jin held the telescope calmly and glanced for a while, then slowly raised his hand and said, "The front row of tiger squat cannons is 45 degrees above the rear row of tiger squat cannons are 50 degrees above the rear row of tiger squat cannons are loaded with bursting bombs and ready to fire."

Reloading a burst bomb?

Zhu Qizhu was stunned when he heard this.

There is a shield wall ahead of the bandits. If the shield wall is not broken, the muskets and thunder will basically be destroyed!

These days, muskets cannot penetrate five or six inches thick wooden shields, and even more so, thunder bombs, and burst bombs cannot be used. Only solid cast iron bullets or armor-piercing bombs can be used to crush or penetrate such thick wooden shields.

Why did Qi Jin order the reload of a burst bomb?

He couldn't help but remind: "General Qi, is the explosion bomb useless for such thick wooden shield?"

Qi Jin explained calmly: "Prince, if we use pig iron solid bullets or armor-piercing bullets to break the bandit's shield wall, they may not dare to rush over. At that time, if Zhang Xianzhong chooses to detour and stops attacking Xinye or Dengzhou, we will be in trouble."

Zhu Qizhuo couldn't help but realize his enlightenment after hearing this.

Indeed, the bandits rely on the shield wall. If the shield wall is broken, the archers and infantry behind will be exposed to muskets and sky-bombing thunder. If Zhang Xianzhong still bit the bullet and ordered people to rush forward, it would be a problem.

In other words, if the shield wall is broken, Zhang Xianzhong will definitely call the gold and withdraw his troops.

At this moment, Zhang Xianzhong didn't know that there were thousands of tiger squat cannons on the city wall. If he knew that there were so many tiger squat cannons on the city wall, he would definitely choose to retreat.

If Zhang Xianzhong chooses to withdraw, it will be troublesome. Who knows if this guy will do some detours and sneak attacks?

Obviously, they only had one chance to use the tiger squat cannon. After this time, Zhang Xianzhong was about to run away.

Then, loading a burst bomb is the only option.

If it is loading solid cast iron bullets or armor-piercing bullets, it can at most break the shield wall in the front row of the enemy, causing few people to be injured.

It is different if it is loaded with a burst bomb. As long as the enemy enters a mile, the burst bombs fired by the tiger squat cannon can completely cross the shield wall and directly hit the heads of the archers and infantry behind. Thousands of burst bombs can injure tens of thousands of enemies in one round!

Whether to choose to break the Qianlaimian shield or to kill and injure tens of thousands of archers and infantrymen, you don’t have to think about this, you must choose the latter.

There is no mercy on the battlefield. If you don’t find a way to kill the enemy, the enemy will find a way to kill you.

If Zhang Xianzhong was not killed this time, this guy would probably be endless.

Therefore, Qi Jin's choice is completely correct. There is nothing to break in the shield array. If you want to hit it, just hit people directly!

Thinking of this, Zhu Qizhe nodded slightly and did not speak again.

Qi Jin still held the telescope calmly with his face and slowly glanced at the enemy. It was not until all the archers and infantry entered the range of the tiger squat cannon that he put down the telescope and waved decisively: "All tiger squat cannons, exploded bombs fired ten rounds, and fired!"

"Boom boom boom", a shocking loud noise, and the city walls seemed to tremble.

"Boom boom boom", another dense explosion sounded, and a large area of ​​archers and infantry behind the shield wall fell down.

Seeing this, Zhang Xianzhong was stunned.

How many artillery are there on this city wall?

Originally, he wanted to use the range advantage of bows and arrows to suppress others, so that he would not even have the chance to throw thunder.

This is the opposite. The range of the cannons is much further than that of the bow and arrow. At this moment, the archers in the front row are more than a hundred steps away from the city wall. Even if they shoot arrows, they can't shoot them on the city wall. However, their cannons have covered all the archers and infantrymen.

what to do?

Should we continue to attack or withdraw our troops?

He also worked as a border soldier and naturally understood the characteristics of artillery.

This thing is powerful, but it is too troublesome to load ammunition. It would be good to bombard two rounds with a cup of tea.

At this moment, the shield wall in the front row was only more than a hundred steps away from the city wall. A cup of tea was enough to reach the city wall about thirty steps. By then, thousands of arrows were fired at once, and no matter how many cannons were fired, it would be fake, because the fired ones would be shot into sieves. What's the use of no more cannons?

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and did not make the sound of the gold quit.

Two rounds of artillery will kill at most 20,000 people. He doesn't care. As long as he can take Xinye, the portal of Nanyang will be opened. Then he will take Nanyang with the flow. Not to mention 20,000 people, even 200,000 people can easily attract them.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have one common characteristic, that is, they are very cruel, and they don’t care about their deaths and injuries!

You know, they have experienced ups and downs. Every time they get up, they have at least tens of thousands of people in their hands, and at most, there are more than 100,000 people. Every time they fall, they are almost wiped out. They have to care about the casualties and injuries of their subordinates. They probably have followed their subordinates to meet the King of Hell.

Perhaps, it is precisely because they are cruel enough to persevere until the end.

His ruthlessness was reflected at this moment. He did not make the sound of the archers and infantry in front of him dared not retreat even if they were killed or injured by tens of thousands, because they knew that without the sound of the archers, they would definitely cut them mercilessly, and they could only bite the bullet and continue moving forward.

Zhang Xianzhong was staring at the archers and infantry siege with a cruel face. Suddenly, another shocking sound was heard.

"Boom boom boom", the cannons on the city wall actually opened fire again!

How is this possible?

"Boom boom boom", another dense explosion sounded, and a large area of ​​archers and infantry fell down.

This is impossible!

Does it take time for enemies to load ammunition?

He was really a little stunned. Why did the enemy load the ammunition in the blink of an eye?

"Boom boom boom", the cannons on the city wall actually opened fire again!

"Boom boom boom", another dense explosion sounded, and a large area of ​​archers and infantry fell down.

How can I fight this?

The enemy's ammunition was loading too fast, and the archers and infantrymen were about to be bombarded if they could not rush to the city wall!

He quickly ordered: "Hurry up, call the gold, and withdraw the troops!"

"Bangbangbang", a sound of gongs sounded, and the archers and infantry in front seemed to have taken medicine, spread their feet and ran back. The infantry who raised their shields also threw away the giant shield without hesitation and turned around and ran away.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom", the roar of artillery and explosions continued, just like urging death. When the archers and infantry ran back, most of them were missing.

Nearly 100,000 archers and infantrymen, but in just how long it took, most of them were overthrown!

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the archers and infantrymen who fell to the ground in front of him, and a look of horror appeared on his face.
Chapter completed!