At this time, the lookout hand on the mast shouted: "Big boss, a group of people came over Ximen. It seems that they are the Qing army."

Yan Qingshan, who was below, heard the joy and cursed: "I'm called me a leader, what kind of big boss, do you think they are water bandits? We are now an official army." After that, he took out the monocular telescope that the King of Chu bought from the Folang Jiren at a high price and looked at the west gate.

Liu Liangzuo and the others were wearing the Ming army's mandarin duck robe, but the hat on his head was replaced with the Qing army's red hat. After all, Liu Liangzuo's 200,000 troops were all dressed up, which was a considerable expense.

Seeing that cannon fodder came again, Yan Qingshan was overjoyed and shouted: "Put the banner and get the other four ships ready. This time there are more than 50,000 or 60,000 people. Young people, be ready, and another grenade volley will be fired later."

After receiving the order, the sailors on the ship began to go down to the artillery deck to prepare.

Liu Liangzuo saw five large ships on the dock from a distance, and he had never seen such a large ship. The largest ship on the Yangtze River is not half as big as these. Liu Liangzuo just heard that these ships had artillery on them, so he was careful and stayed behind the team.

Yan Qingshan on the ship saw the Qing army on the opposite side lined up in a dense formation, two miles away from here, and the grenades were still a little far away. The first three rounds were ordered to be fully solid.

After all the loading was completed, Yan Qingshan gave the order and fired 150 solid lead bullets.

These 150 lead bullets plowed out 150 blood alleys in the crowd, and all the bones and tendons broke. This time, the volley shot killed more than 500 Liu Liangzuo's troops, but this was just a drizzle for 50,000 people. No matter how their companions were, they rushed to the north gate, trying to rush into the north gate under the fire.

When Liu Liangzuo saw the big ship on the dock launching the first round of artillery fire, he shouted: "Run into the north gate quickly!!" In his understanding, the cannon was extremely slow to launch, so he could take this opportunity to rush in.

But unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Liangzuo finished speaking, the sound of the second shelling came, and there were another 150 blood alleys. Liu Liangzuo was also shocked, and he didn't expect the other party to be so fast.

After three rounds of volleys, Yan Qingshan ordered to replace the shrapnel. Now it is less than one mile away from the North Gate, and the effective range of the shrapnel is.

This time, Liu Liangzuo's team was in trouble, and a large number of projectiles exploded from a distance of five to eight meters above the soldiers' heads. Each explosion would open a blood wave among the crowd below. But at this time, the crowd was stuck at the city gate and could not enter.

When the first shelling just now, seven or eight thousand people were killed at the city gate. Now there are corpses everywhere, bloodstained. When Liu Liangzuo's vanguard troops entered the city gate, several people were slid into the bloodstained. In normal times, this was nothing, and it was over. But now there was something that killed people above his head was exploding, so the people in the back team had to rush into the city to save their lives. As a result, more and more people were tripped, and a wall of people formed at the door, and a large number of soldiers in the back team could not enter.

Liu Liangzuo saw the soldiers in front of him crowded together, and the shells on his head kept exploding. Liu Liangzuo cursed in anger: "Come on, bring my personal soldiers and kill all the people blocking the city gate. Everyone entered the city immediately!"

The captain of the personal soldiers came to the front with Liu Liangzuo's orders, and there was no way to do anything. The people in front had already formed a waist-deep wall, and the people behind could not climb up at all.

The captain of the personal soldiers found a few familiar households beside him, "The general has the order, rush into the city!"

"I can't get in!"

"I know, you can find dozens of people and push open the wall of people. Don't crowd the team behind you and enter the city in an orderly manner!"

The captain of the personal soldiers led more than a hundred people to work at the city gate for half an hour, and finally pushed open a wall of people, and the soldiers behind him were able to enter the city. Then the captain of the personal soldiers led people to guard the gap, and someone came forward without following the rules and let him strike.

In this way, Liu Liangzuo's team finally entered Jiangyin County after half an hour of exposure to naval artillery fire. However, this half hour reduced Liu Liangzuo's staff by one quarter, and more than 10,000 people fell to the open space outside the north city. In addition, more than 7,000 people killed for the first time, nearly 20,000 people died in the narrow north gate. Now there are dead bodies everywhere, and there are sorrow everywhere.

Liu Liangzuoman thought it would be safe after entering the North Gate, but after entering, he realized that it was not the case. The houses in the North Gate area had long been destroyed by Qian Yong and others, and only a few brick-shaped houses were standing upright, but they were already full of holes.

At this time, Qian Yong had cleared the Qing soldiers around the North Gate and divided them into three routes to rush towards the three city gates. The artillery commander Han Shirong, who stayed at the North Gate to guard the artillery regiment.

Han Shirong was originally a pig-killer in Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province. He was big and thick. Later, he couldn't join the bandits and kept wandering in the Central Plains. When he was in Henan, he was caught by Zhu Hongsan and then mixed with Zhu Hongsan. He was considered a professional cannon fodder.

Zhu Hongsan saw that this guy was tall and strong, and he was a force worker carrying artillery shells. He had made him the company commander at the beginning of the artillery company. He didn't need him to come this time, but Han Shirong didn't look at the big and thick guy, and he felt a little beautiful. He knew that if he wanted to break the soil and become a marquis, he had to make military achievements in Zhu Hongsan's place, so he had to follow him if he found Qian Yong.

Qian Yong was so troubled by him that he could only agree to him, but he could only be a battalion commander. In order to make meritorious, Han Shirong gritted his teeth and accepted it. In this way, he became the artillery battalion commander of Qian Yong's advance army to the north.

When Qian Yong first entered the city, he handed over the artillery to Han Shirong. It took him a lot of effort to get the equipment of four artillery companies from the ship. You should know that a cannon is 700 to 800 kilograms, and how much effort it takes to get sixty artillery pieces on a dock without special take-off and landing equipment.

But when he entered the city with sixty cannons, Qian Yong had already repelled the Qing soldiers at the North Gate, and the task assigned to Han Shirong was to guard the North Gate. Han Shirong was so angry that he scolded Qian Sibao behind his back for being unrighteous. At this moment, the sound of cannons began to sound outside the city, and the gunship was bombarding the Qing army outside the city.

When Han Shirong heard the cannons on the ship fired, he knew that there was something and sent a soldier to the city gate to see. The soldier came back and told Han Shirong the truth.

Han Shirong was very happy, but he didn't expect that he could be hit by a pie while lying down. He immediately ordered his men to arrange a semicircular defensive formation outside the city gate, and sixty cannons lined up in sequence waiting for the Qing army to enter the city.

The vanguard of Liu Liangzuo's army avoided the navy's shelling and thought it would be safe to enter the city, but he didn't expect that as soon as he walked out of the inner city gate, he saw the black muzzle outside.

Han Shirong is a professional, with sixty cannons forming a semicircle, covering the city gate in the middle, and each cannon can tilt the maximum firepower towards the city gate.

Han Shirong saw a group of Qing troops rushing out of the inner city gate and shouted: Open fire! For a moment, the city was filled with smoke and dead bodies.

In order to deal with the dense formation at close range, Han Shirong used shotguns. The range of shotguns used by the army was closer than that of the navy, only 300 to 500 meters. However, there were much more sub-munitions inside. Sixty cannons could fire tens of thousands of sub-munitions in each salvo. The hundreds of the Qing army rushed into the first ones were immediately broken into corpses.

There were army artillery blocking in front and navy artillery fire behind. The new army was in trouble, but at this time they also inspired their little courage. Anyway, if they died, they might have a way out. So these guys burst out with their final fighting spirit and shouted and rushed forward desperately.

Han Shirong only has four artillery companies under his command, and there are less than one battalion of musketeers. He was caught off guard just now, but now the Qing army is fighting, so Han Shirong is a little unable to resist it. After all, there are more than 30,000 people on the opposite side.

At this time, Han Shirong's deputy shouted from the side: "Sir, they are going to enter 300 meters, should they use volleyball guns?"

The deputy reminded Han Shirong that he had ten volleyball guns on his side. This thing was so heavy that it was finally unloaded from the ship. Now it is the time to use it.

Han Shirong ordered ten volleyballs to be set up in front of him. This kind of volleyball is a newly developed rapid-fire weapon in the arsenal. The principle is very simple. Twenty barrels are loaded together and fired in turn. Zhu Hongsan asked them to set up a bullet pipe separation system at that time for rapid loading, but he did not expect it to be used for actual combat at this time.

The four operators of the gun queuing were on the battlefield for the first time. When they saw the enemy on the other side, they were about to rush in front of them. They rushed to load the ammunition box and started shooting at Han Shirong's order.

The caliber of the gun ferry is not an ordinary ten mm caliber, but thirty mm. This should have been divided into cannons in later generations, but under the current technology, gunpowder cannot be loaded into thirty mm bullets, so they are all solid bullets.

As soon as the ten volleyball guns were fired, the offensive of the Qing soldiers on the opposite side was slowed down. This primitive machine gun firepower was really fierce, and the key was that it could shoot continuously.

When Han Shirong saw that this thing was useful, he immediately sent ten soldiers to each volleyball volley to help load ammunition.

The volleyball is easy to use, but it is too troublesome to load. Fortunately, the loader was created at Zhu Hongsan's suggestion, but even this could not reach the firing rate of 600 shots per minute by later Maxim machine guns. Zhu Hongsan roughly measured that if this volleyball is sufficient ammunition, it can fire a firing rate of 200 shots per minute. This is already very good. You should know that a skilled soldier can only shoot three shots per minute. One of this thing is equivalent to an infantry company, but it also has many disadvantages. One is heavy, and the other is more fatal, that is, the barrel strength is not enough.

Although Zhu Hongsan can produce a lot of steel that exceeds this era, he can't produce this kind of steel that meets the strength of the machine gun shooting. So after half an hour of firing these ten platoons, the barrel has turned into a red iron bar. At this time, it cannot be loaded. The temperature of the barrel will directly ignite and fire the medicine.

However, it was not easy for the opponent to live. Under the double blow of artillery and guns, the human shield could not withstand the attack of iron and fire. The Qing soldiers on the opposite side saw that they had no hope of rushing in, so they turned around and rushed out of the city. Liu Liangzuo, the back team could not intercept them at all, and the personal soldiers worked hard to kill the defeated soldiers at the city gate.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the captain of the personal soldiers said, "Master General, if not, let's run away!"

Liu Liangzuo sighed and rushed out of the city with the riots.
Chapter completed!