When Qin Hanqing and Qin Bangyu heard that Luo Fengtang's army was coming again, they subconsciously chose to stay away from the west city wall.

"Let Fei Xingwei go up to the city wall to see in person what Luo Fengtang and the others are doing!" Qin Hanqing wiped the sweat from his forehead. He didn't know whether it was because of the hot weather or because of his guilty conscience.

When Fei Xingwei received the military order, his face was ashen!

His guess was indeed correct, the Han people did not regard him as an individual at all.

He bit the bullet and lay down on the battlement to look at Luo Fengtang's military formation in the distance. When he found that the heavy trebuchet that he was extremely afraid of had not followed, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He still remembered the power of that thing.

new.

Since it's not a thunderstorm, that's fine.

At this time, He Anyi looked at the arranged cannon and said, "This cannon body is only three feet long?"

If the Tribulus Cannon is a squat cannon, then the Shenwei Zhenyuan Cannon in front of it is a mortar cannon.

Its barrel is short and thick, and its shape is a stone mortar.

Luo Fengtang nodded and said with a smile: "Well, so the emperor said that the range of this kind of cannon is relatively short, and the hit rate is slightly better than the caltrop cannon. The emperor said that one day the cannon body will be made longer and thinner, and it will also

Change the front-loading gun into a breech-loading gun, and the power of this artillery will be enough."

"There are already blueprints for the new cannon. It is a long and slender plan. There is also a short pig-nosed cannon body. We can make them all according to the emperor's instructions. We will try it and then say that the firepower is insufficient and the quantity can be made up."

Eunuch Ma Cheng rode a fast horse and rushed to Luo Fengtang's side from a distance. He got off his horse and said, "We have found General Luo."

Luo Fengtang looked at Eunuch Ma Cheng and felt a little strange. Could it be that the emperor had brought another imperial edict?

Eunuch Ma Cheng looked at the powerful cannon and said: "The emperor insisted on coming to the front line to have a look. Wang Yun tried his best to stop the emperor in the carriage, but he couldn't stop him. The emperor insisted on coming."

Luo Fengtang looked at the head of Fangyang City in the distance, thought for a while and said: "Whether the emperor comes or not, we cannot disrupt the rhythm of the attack. The morale of the Han army is still there, and there are still Han soldiers who are not afraid of death, and they are still in the west city.

On top of the city."

"Furthermore, the power of the Shenwei Zhenyuan cannon is still unknown. It will take a few days of test firing before we can attack the city."

Although Luo Fengtang really wanted to capture Fang Yang before the emperor arrived.

But when marching and fighting, you can't do whatever you want. Fang Yang, who seems to be defeated in a single blow, still lacks a little opportunity.

"General Luo, General Jiang, and General He are ready to light the fire and start the artillery." An artilleryman ran over and wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.

Luo Fengtang took out a handful of cotton from his arms and stuffed it into his ears.

He took out his telescope and looked at Fang Yang's west city wall. The tenacity of the Han army exceeded his expectations. Under such circumstances, there were still people who dared to stand on the city wall. They were very courageous.

Of course Luo Fengtang didn't know that the Han people he saw were actually Fei Xingwei who had received military orders and was forced to do so.

Luo Fengtang shouted loudly: "Raise forty-five! Fire!"

Twenty-four mortars were lined up in Fangyang City, and Daqi's army ignited the gunpowder and then quickly moved away from the position of the mortars.

The sound of burning gunpowder sounded in the wind, almost inaudible.

The soldiers present had cotton stuffed in their ears at Luo Fengtang's request.

Eunuch Ma Cheng also got the cotton handed over by Luo Fengtang and stuffed his ears.

This made Eunuch Ma Cheng feel like a child waiting to set off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, covering his ears hard.

There are also expectations for new clothes and delicious food during the New Year.

And this expectation at the moment is the hope that this powerful artillery can reduce the number of casualties when the Qi army attacks the city. There is also the expectation to expand the territory.

In the eyes of ardent expectation, the gunpowder was burned out, and time seemed to pass very slowly. Just when the soldiers were wondering why the explosion had not yet sounded, the rumbling sound of cannon suddenly resounded throughout the world.

This explosive sound turned into a wave of sound. The bracket of the mortar slid back a short distance. The deflagrating air turned into a fire dragon in the barrel, pushing the shell violently out and raising waves.

of smoke.

The smell of gunpowder smoke dispersed, and the solid iron bullets rose into the air, whizzing towards the west city wall.

An elevation angle of forty-five degrees is the maximum range of this mortar. This siege was just a test, so they did not choose the most powerful angle of thirty degrees.

The iron bullets crossed a high parabola, and more than twenty projectiles reflected the sunlight and hit the west wall heavily.

There was no violent burning or explosion this time, because they were all solid iron bullets, but the whizzing iron bullets hit the city wall, making a collision sound like the earth was shaking.

This collision sound seemed to hit their hearts directly!

The city wall actually swayed slightly under the collision of twenty-four iron bullets, creating a huge gap.

Fei Xingwei stared blankly at the half-collapsed city wall, and stared blankly at Luo Fengtang's military camp in the distance.

Where did the Daqi army get so many fancy new equipment?

Is this using Fang Yang as a testing ground?

How can we fight this battle?!

"A mortar has not fired." An artilleryman pointed at a divine cannon that had not moved.

He walked over to the mortar and prepared to see why it didn't explode.

Luo Fengtang saw the figure of the artilleryman walking towards the mortar. Without saying a word, he took a few steps to run and kicked the artilleryman on the waist.

Fortunately, Luo Fengtang was trying to prevent the artillerymen from walking toward the mortar, rather than killing him. Otherwise, Luo Fengtang, who was fully armored, could have kicked him to death.

The full armor of the infantrymen weighs about fifty kilograms, and the plate armor accessories sent by the Emperor of Da Qi also weigh at least ten kilograms. Coupled with Luo Fengtang's eight-foot height and corresponding weight, under the inertia of the run-up, this

My feet really hurt.

But even though Luo Fengtang withdrew some of his strength, he still kicked the artilleryman far away. The artilleryman lay on the ground for a long time, unable to recover!

Luo Fengtang looked at the artilleryman sternly, picked the cotton in his ears, and asked sternly: "In the instructions for the use of the Shenwei Cannon, it is clearly stated that unexploded artillery is not allowed to approach! Why do you not respect the order!"

"It's a good thing you're not one of my soldiers! Otherwise, I'd have to give you a military stick!"

Luo Fengtang had studied the details of the use of the Shenwei Cannon. In the previous war, Luo Fengtang still remembered the soldier who had an arm broken off by a crossbow in the first contact battle.

Since then, non-combat attrition matters have been on his mind, and he also understands the use of various weapons and equipment immediately.

Unexploded artillery is likely to cause accidents, and it is easy to cause non-combat casualties if approached easily.

The situation was critical just now, and many soldiers had cotton stuffed in their ears. He chose to kick the soldiers to stop him, which was completely out of necessity.
Chapter completed!