The deafening sound of cannons continued, and countless lead bullets, iron sand and stones swept across the west end of Pyongyang from time to time.

The flames soared into the sky. Under the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties on the front of the city. Moreover, the Japanese army did not see any cannons, so they had no experience in dealing with artillery, and they would not avoid artillery shells. They were just stupid and stupid to get bombed, or ran away with their heads in their arms, crying and wondering how to deal with it.

To be honest, the Ming army cannons at this time were similar to a large shotgun. When they were shot out, they would be a piece of iron sand barrage covering the radius. Swept by iron sand, they would be a piece of blood mist flying across the limbs. More than 300 cannons were fired together, and the power could be imagined.

After just one round of artillery attack, the west of Pyongyang City was filled with bloody Japanese corpses. The blood from the dead and wounded Japanese troops was soon frozen by the cold weather, forming a bloody glacier on the top of the city. There were also the various Japanese family-patterned flags that were knocked down and burned.

President Xiaoxi was almost swept by a fist-sized lead shell, which scared him so much that he was frightened and his heart was cold. Unexpectedly, the power of the Tang people was so powerful. Could it be that the Tang people's information he had learned in advance were all fake?

But to be honest, apart from shouting, even Governor Xiaoxi didn't know how to deal with the Ming army artillery outside the city. With the Japanese instincts, the Japanese soldiers of the First Legion were indeed very strong. No matter how many casualties or injuries were, under the command of various flag-based warriors, they howled and rushed to the city to defend everywhere, and continued to become the living targets of Ming army artillery.

Afterwards, the Ming army followed the military doctors to record: "Every time the cannon was fired, there were many Japanese soldiers who were killed and injured, but they didn't care at all, and they still gathered and broke into them until the cannon was stopped."

The Folang machine cannon is equipped with sights, equipped with sights, gates, gun ears, etc. When the cannon is placed in the chariot seat, the gun body can rotate left and right to adjust the shooting angle range. After the first round of artillery attacks by the Ming army under the city, some artillery attacks were deviated. With the adjustment of the gunners, the artillery chariots under the city started the second round of artillery attacks.

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After round after round, all the equipped sub-guns were fired, the Ming army artillery stopped. At the end of the shelling, the Japanese army's corpses were everywhere on the city, and the cries of the Japanese wounded men with missing arms and broken legs were like hell.

At this time, Governor Xiaoxi was even willing to die. The Ming army cannons are so powerful and the launch time is so short, how can his soldiers fight against them?

What he didn't know was that when the Ming army was bombarded, the Japanese general Ototo Yoshito once led an army to reinforce the Governor Konishi. As a result, before he arrived at Pyongyang City, he was frightened by the sound of the Ming army's earth-shaking artillery and retreated without fighting.

Finally, the Ming army's hell-like artillery fire stopped. Governor Xiaoxi briefly counted the casualties at the city and couldn't help but vomit three liters of blood. The Japanese army on the walls of several gates northwest of the city alone suffered hundreds of casualties after several rounds of artillery attacks. How can we fight this battle?

However, Governor Xiaoxi was the commander of the First Legion after all, with rich experience in leading the army. He knew that the Ming army would definitely attack, so he barely calmed down and summoned the Japanese generals to continue defending the gates of each city to boost morale.

Although the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, they soon recovered their defensive formation under the command of senior or intermediate officers such as Governor Konishi. To be fair, both the Japanese army at that time and later generations had extremely strong discipline and obedience, and were indeed a very powerful opponent.

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"Siege!"

In the Ming army camp, Li Ru let go and immediately the sound of war drums at the central army was beating. As the banners flew, the shouts of Ming troops from various routes sounded like the sky and the earth cracked. They followed their prior arrangements and carried the ladders and rushed to the various gates of Pyongyang like a tide. The Ming army artillery outside the city also fired suppressively at the top of the city.

After the attack of each army, Li Rusong also personally led 500 clerks to supervise the formation. Huang Laifu naturally led some clerks to follow him closely. As for his 3,000 men, he still stopped outside the city and was ready to serve as a reserve team for each sect at any time.

The people who attacked the Qixingmen in the west of Pyongyang City were Yang Yuan, the deputy governor of Jizhen, and 20,000 people led by Liaodong Deputy General Zhang Shijue. Seeing these people rushing to the city, they all raised battle ladders. For a moment, hundreds of battle ladders were mounted on the top of Pyongyang City, and the Ming army, like ants, climbed up the city. Many Ming soldiers were full of red eyes. As long as they attacked the city, they would have 5,000 taels of silver.

President Konishi pulled out his samurai sword and shouted at the outside of the city: "Shoot, the iron artillery team shoot."

There were more than a thousand people beside him, short and ingenious, with light Japanese iron cannons, lined up in three neat rows. After hearing the sound of Xiaoxi, a black iron pipe immediately stretched out from the top of the city.

"Bang bang bang bang bang."

The iron pipes emitted dazzling flames and smoke, and the sounds like a burst of beans kept ringing.

Immediately, there was a scream. The Ming soldiers who were climbing on the ladder were shot, bleeding mist on their bodies and fell down.

"Shoot again."

The second row of Japanese iron cannons came forward to shoot again.

"Bang bang bang bang bang." The sound was endless again.

There were another screams of Ming army.

After the second row was set, the third row of Japanese iron cannons came forward again. The Japanese iron cannons, which had been set off in the previous two rows, hurriedly loaded the medicine. The Japanese army's "three-stage shooting method" was indeed very clever. After one row was fired, the other two rows filled the bullets and caused fire. Each shot was only a few seconds apart, and it was shot in turn, which was extremely powerful.

Shigehide Suzuki, the subordinate of the commander Konishi, also invented the "iron cannon sniping method". A musket was used by four people, with one person on the left, right, and behind each shot. After each shot, the person on the left filled the bullets, the person on the right filled the gunpowder, and the person on the back was responsible for igniting the fire. The distance between each strike was shorter. Although there was only one row of people, the power of the shooting was no less than the three rows of Japanese cannons.

In addition, the Japanese work hard, the muskets they used in the army are of good quality, and there is no risk of blowing up the chamber. They can be close to their faces and aim at them with confidence.

More than a thousand muskets were fired continuously, and such a powerful force was huge. The Ming army on the ladder was shot by muskets and fell to the ground screaming.

A general of the Ming army of Yang Yuan's army just cursed: "The soldiers don't have to be afraid. The Japanese muskets can only be fired once. Take this opportunity to climb the city..." Then a Japanese musketeer shot into the helmet and fell under the city. His life and death were unknown.

The Japanese army's muskets were so fierce that it was beyond the expectations of the Ming army climbing the city. Not only these, the Japanese army also had a large number of archers who kept shooting arrows under the city. The Japanese army's dense bamboo spearmen were still beside the arrows, constantly stabbing the Ming army climbing to the city. There were also many Japanese army, pouring boiling pots of hot water under the city, and then throwing huge rocks, rolling wood, etc.

The Ming soldiers who finally rushed to the city were facing the Japanese samurai, especially the flag book, the black-clothed mother, the red-clothed mother and others. These people were small in number, but they were crazy and desperate when fighting. They held sharp samurai swords and screamed, their short and strong bodies jumped, and the samurai swords in their hands were slashed straight down, and few Ming soldiers could reach it.

This is an opponent with a very firm fighting will and several times more fierce than the Mongolians.

The battle was so cruel that even if the elite soldiers drawn from Liaodong and Jizhen towns attacked Qixingmen, they were also shaken and retreated from the battle ladder at the top of the city. At this moment, Li Rusong led his servants and Huang Laifu and others to patrol here, and without saying a word, he killed the two retreating generals.

He said coldly: "If you dare to retreat, you will be killed without any hesitation!"

Seeing all this, the retreating Ming soldiers were frightened. In order not to be killed by Li Rusong, they had to kill the Japanese.

So the battle began again.

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However, the Ming army that attacked the Qixingmen learned a lesson. Yang Yuan and Zhang Shijue discussed it. With Li Rusong's consent, they transferred a group of Fujian rattan soldiers to cover it with high rattan cards. Then the Ming archers in the army used their shields to block the shooting of Japanese muskets. They slowly forced themselves to the city and shot arrows at the top of the city to suppress the Japanese iron cannons.

The Ming army was good at using rockets, but most ordinary bows and arrows were used to boost them with gunpowder. At this time, thousands of Ming army archers bent their bows and arrows to shoot at the head of the city under the cover of the rattan cards. The sound of medicine on the shafts sounded like a piece of chirping, and white smoke was seen in the Ming army's position, and countless sharp arrows flew towards the top of the city with a faint smoke or long flame tail.

The arrows boosted by gunpowder produced a powerful impact force, which could break through heavy armor. Except for avoiding, any obstacle was useless. For a moment, the Japanese soldiers on the top of the city screamed, and many people were shot like hedgehogs.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Ming army outside the Seven Star Gate began to attack again. At this time, they had already figured out a set of rules, that is, archers under the city shoot arrows to cover, and the infantry climbing the city attacked with their licenses and knives. However, under the supervision of Governor Xiaoxi, the Japanese army still resisted desperately, and the rolling stones were hit like rain, and the iron cannons kept firing, and the war became fierce and cruel.

Outside the Seven Star Gate City, Yang Yuan and Zhang Shijue were both yelling and commanding the headquarters to attack. Li Rusong watched quietly without saying a word. Huang Laifu also looked at the top of the city, secretly terrifying the cruelty of the war and the stubbornness of the Japanese army.

He thought to himself that if his Wuzhai Fort army came to attack the city, there would be no good way except for heavy casualties. Only Yang Xiaolu next to him looked excited.

However, Huang Laifu soon realized that the arm strength of the Ming army archers was limited, and they would have no strength after firing a few arrows, and the suppression of the Japanese army at the top of the city was far from enough. Most soldiers from Liaodong and Jizhen towns used three-eyed guns, and the range was insufficient. If they were too close, they would roll stones like rain, and they would be afraid of heavy casualties and injuries. The same was true for the tiger squatting cannons. The general cannons in the distance, because the Japanese Ming army are fighting together now, if they fired, they would hit their own people.

Yang Yuan and Zhang Shijue anxiously said to Li Rusong: "Admiral, the Japanese muskets are too strong, and our soldiers have suffered heavy casualties."

Li Rusong suddenly said to Huang Laifu: "General Huang, quickly adjust your firearm team to suppress the Japanese guns and arrows."

Huang Laifu replied loudly: "The last general will receive the order." (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in to www.qidian.com. There are more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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