Iron Dynasty

Shoot, shoot!

Yao Hongtao shouted hoarsely on the city wall, and the parliamentary soldiers kept firing flintlock guns at the trench, but the helpless accuracy of the musket made it difficult for them to suppress the royal soldiers using breech rifles in the trench.

The parliament soldiers on the city wall kept falling in a pool of blood, while the soldiers below the city suffered few casualties.

But this was just the beginning. In the shooting of the royal soldiers, one after another shells rose from the trenches and fell on the city walls in a parabolic shape.

These shells are mainly divided into two types, one falls directly on the ground and explodes, while the other turns into white powder smoke.

No matter what kind of shells it was, it caused a large number of casualties to the parliament soldiers on the city wall. Under the fierce firepower, the soldiers were simply suppressed and could not lift their heads.

At the same time, the artillery of the Royal Army began to return fire on the artillery on the city gate. In just a moment, the dozen or so artillery pieces on the eastern city wall were all destroyed by the shells that the Royal Army could explode.

Yao Hongtao commanded in a panic, and now he has lost his composure.

Outside the city, Lu Fei watched the effect of the attack with satisfaction. They could only use artillery to bombard the city wall indiscriminately until the city wall and city gate were completely destroyed.

The current war is still about artillery. Lu Fei sighed.

Guo Ming said: Nevertheless, if the opponent has a rifle with the same range, our artillery will be in danger.

Lu Fei nodded, and he looked at the soldiers who were shooting in the trench.

Today's soldiers don't need to use complicated procedures to reload at all, they just need to take a cardboard bullet from their armed belt, insert it into the breech, and then close the fire.

Moreover, their movements do not have to remain as rigid as before, and they can nimbly dodge fire in the trenches with their rifles.

Although the suppression of the artillery made Songzhou City a sea of ​​fire, the rifles killed the most soldiers.

Hey, this falcon rifle is really powerful, this is the sixth one. A soldier Lu Fei couldn't help shouting excitedly as he walked by.

The companion beside him was also pleasantly surprised: I'm already the fifth one, and I'll catch up with you soon.

Having said that, he raised his rifle and aimed at a parliamentary soldier with a bare body on the city wall.

Pulling the trigger, with a gunshot, the soldier fell down.

Lu Fei smiled, and he said loudly: Yes, boys, if you don't want to spend the night in the trench tonight, just shoot down Songjiang City.

The two of them didn't notice Lu Fei's arrival. After realizing it was their army commander, the two immediately gave a military salute and shouted Yes.

The dwarf continued to walk through the trench, and Lu Fei and Guo Ming arrived at a slightly spacious place in the trench, where the mortar soldiers were constantly firing at the city gate.

The flames on the city wall are mixed with white lime powder like an ink painting, but behind the flirtatious beauty are the stumps and blood donations of parliament soldiers who were blown away.

Just when the two were about to stop and rest, suddenly a whoosh sounded, and a black solid bullet slammed into the soil above the two of them.

Dust splashed, and Lu Fei and Guo Ming were covered with dust.

These bastards! Lu Fei scolded, and he said to the mortar soldiers: Hit hard, don't be afraid of wasting artillery shells, hit Jiangnan, and we will have money!

Yes, General. The soldiers responded, they stuffed the cannonball into the mortar, adjusted the angle, and a cannonball shot towards the cannon that had just fired.

Different from the direct-fire gun, the parabolic firing of the mortar allows the shell to bypass the obstacles and attack the soldiers behind. With a violent explosion, several soldiers at the head of the city suddenly vacated, and even the soldiers' clothes were torn by the shock wave. .

Lu Fei looked at this scene, his eyes flickering.

In fact, for the generals in the army, this war is a unification war from north to south. After all, the influence of the royal family in Jiangnan is already very weak.

Whether it was the rise of the King of Chu or the Merchant Council, the fundamental intention was that the common people only knew the vassal king but not the royal family.

In the face of this situation, they can only unite by force. Both the merchant council and the wealthy are a minority, and most of the people still want to live a good life.

At the same time as the war, the propaganda team of the Secret Guards had entered the south of the Yangtze River, and they would describe the current prosperity of the north to the common people.

What are these businessmen looking for, aren't businessmen in Qingzhou very free? What else do they want! Guo Ming said with some emotion.

Right! Lu Fei looked at Songjiang City, Everything he does now is just for his own selfish interests, and for this reason, he is willing to sell his interests to Western countries. If his conspiracy is really realized, Jiangnan will be completely reduced to a state in the future. Colonies of Western countries.

Guo Ming nodded, Jiangnan belongs to the Great Yu Kingdom, and no one can take it away.

When the two were talking, there was a sudden boom, and the front city wall collapsed under the onslaught of artillery.

Gray smoke obscured the entire battlefield along with the collapsed city walls.

Lu Fei lifted his spirits and said, Blow the trumpet.

As soon as his voice fell, a melodious charge horn sounded.

At this moment, the soldiers in the trench climbed out of the trench one after another and shouted, Come on!

Immediately, the densely packed soldiers rushed towards the collapsed city wall in a skirmish line.

Under the fierce firepower of the Hu Ben army, the parliamentary army had long been beaten and could not find the north, and now the high rushing sound like the sound of the devil made many soldiers collapse.

Yao Hongtao was covered in dust. His forehead was hit by gravel and was bleeding, but he couldn't take care of it anymore. Looking at the royal soldiers pouring into the city, he shouted, Let's form, form a battle!

Under the city wall, there were also prepared parliamentary soldiers. They quickly rushed to the collapsed city wall, stood in three rows behind the city wall, and aimed their flintlock guns at the gap.

When the Huben soldiers saw this scene, they immediately crawled among the debris of the collapsed city wall, raised their rifles, and shot violently at the dense formation of the parliamentary army.

Because of the sufficient accuracy, the Hu Ben soldiers holding falcon rifles can achieve the effect of dense formation even if they do not form a dense formation, but the parliamentary army obviously did not think of this.

They waited for the royal soldiers to charge, but only bullets greeted them.

In an instant, the densely formed parliament soldiers were shot down by the tiger ben soldiers, and finally, in hysteria, they completely collapsed.

There was a hint of despair in Yao Hongtao's eyes. Now he finally understood the gap between the two armies. From the very beginning, they were doomed to lose.

Looking at the royal soldiers pouring into the city, Yao Hongtao smiled miserably. In his eyes, the bullets fired by the royal soldiers seemed to have eyes, and the soldiers fleeing everywhere were slaughtered like lambs.

He understood that Songjiang City was lost.