I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

The next day, Liu Liangzuo's department began to attack the city.

"The general should go to the tower. The enemy has many cannons."

Wang Dafu suggested.

Below the city, the Qing army had launched ten cannons, which looked mighty from a distance.

"Get our guns here too."

Wu Changqing did not hide. The artillery of this era basically fired solid rounds. The cannonball is a big iron ball and will not explode. Unless it is hit directly, there is no danger.

The Qing army only had ten cannons, and it was very unlikely that they would be hit on this thousand-meter-long city wall.

Only when the explosive grenades appear, can the shells be able to kill the enemy on a large scale. When the current artillery is attacking the city, its main function is to blast down the city wall and attack the morale of the enemy army. It is not used to kill the enemy army.

With the sound of the Qing army's artillery, the Qing army also began to act. The first step was naturally to fill the moat.

They would not be able to attack the city without filling in the moat that was several meters wide.

More than 3,000 soldiers rushed towards the city wall carrying sacks, and the scene was quite spectacular.

"shooting."

When the soldiers rushed to a distance of about 150 meters from the city wall, the rebels on the wall started shooting.

With the sound of gunfire, many Qing troops fell on the way.

Although this distance is still a bit far away, because the Qing army station is denser, many people have been shot.

The Qing army actually knew that they had to keep a gap if they wanted to reduce their losses, but they couldn't do that.

A moat with a width of several meters is not so easy to fill. They need to throw the sacks in a small section. It is impossible to fill the entire river. It will take too long and it will be extremely difficult.

If it were not for the poor filling of the moat, Liu Liangzuo could attack from all sides of Suzhou at the same time to disperse the Ming army's defensive force.

Because of the moat, Liu Liangzuo could only concentrate on attacking one place.

"The range of this new-style blunderbuss is really long. Order the archer to suppress it."

Before Liu Liangzuo came, he also read a lot of reports about Wu Changqing, and he knew that Wu Changqing had a group of new-style firecrackers, whose firecrackers had a very long range and great power.

Following his order, more than two thousand archers moved forward.

"Shoot the archer first."

Wu Changqing ordered that the number of two thousand archers is already a lot. Shooting those arrows in a volley is just like overwhelming the sky, which can cause a covering blow, and the lethality is good.

In fact, this is similar to the current firecrackers, all of which rely on coverage to kill.

As for the so-called archer, that kind of person is only one in a million, and it is impossible for one to be a small soldier.

Basically, the archer doesn't have any aim at a distance of a hundred meters, only relying on the strength of the arm, and then shooting with others to form an arrow rain.

Following Wu Changqing's order, the firearms pointed their guns at the archers one after another. As for those who fill in the moat, they can't take care of it. There is no other way.

Arrow rain screamed against the barrage, both above and below the city.

Relatively speaking, the archers under the city are much more miserable, they are completely exposed to the muzzle, and the formation is dense. In one round, seventy or eighty people fell.

And because the soldiers on the wall are protected by the wall, most of their bodies are behind the wall, and the attack surface is much smaller.

However, after being washed by a rain of arrows, more than two dozen Ming troops were shot on the wall.

In the first round of the attack, the Qing army suffered more losses, but they could also accept it because they had more troops, with 40,000 troops, five times that of the Ming army.

Moreover, after they suffered this loss, the moat was filled a lot and the goal was achieved.

However, as the shooting continued, Liu Liangzuo discovered a problem, that is, it was a **** disadvantage to use an archer to shoot against a firecracker.

A qualified archer shoots ten arrows in a battle, and his arms will continue to fight because of soreness.

As for the fire fighters, let alone shooting ten shots, even one hundred shots will not be too tiring.

More importantly, it takes at least one or two years to train a qualified archer. And to train a qualified firecracker, ten days is enough.

This also refers to the firecrackers who can conduct field battles. If they are just firecrackers standing on the wall and shooting guns, they can be trained in two days.

The value of an archer is at least several times that of a firecracker.

This kind of shooting, let alone a two-to-one casualty rate, even if it is one-to-one, it is a loss to the grandmother's house.

After a few rounds of shooting, the Qing army’s archers had already lost more than 300 people, and Liu Liangzuo quickly ordered them to retreat.

If three hundred ordinary soldiers died, he would remain indifferent. But it was three hundred archers who died, so he would feel distressed.

In his 40,000 army, there are only 3,000 archers in total, which is an out-and-out noble class.

Liu Liangzuo would rather the soldiers who were in charge of filling the river be shot, but he didn't want to die the archer again.

"Change Fire Guns and go forward to shoot and suppress."

Liu Liangzuo ordered.

There are also firecrackers in his army, and the number is small, only two thousand. Moreover, they all use the old-fashioned firecrackers, and only one shot can be fired in two or three minutes.

And be very careful, a gunpowder bag of a comrade-in-arms can easily be lighted without paying attention.

Moreover, this kind of gun is very easy to explode, and there is no accurate head.

In short, there are many shortcomings of this gun.

The fire blunders shot forward, which was even more miserable than the archer.

Archers can also kill a large number of Ming troops by projecting, but the firecrackers have no projectile function and can only shoot directly.

Two thousand shots were fired, basically hitting the city wall. The momentum was scary, but the damage caused was only in the single digits.

"Fighting our firearms, they are looking for death."

Liu Hansan laughed.

The firecrackers of the Qing army came quickly, and they retreated quickly. They were not opponents of the Ming army at all.

The archers and the fire fighters lost, the soldiers who filled the river completely lost their protection, and the Ming army on the city wall could shoot and kill wantonly.

This situation of only being beaten makes many soldiers responsible for filling the river hesitate and don't want to go anymore.

"Continue to kill me. Those who hold back will kill me without mercy."

A hundred households led several supervising teams and shouted, frightened that the soldiers who were in charge of filling the river could only grit their teeth and continue to do it. The fate of ordinary soldiers is so sad.

"General, it's not a way to go on like this."

Cheng Tianbao looked at the soldiers who had filled the river and had hundreds of people dead, and felt terribly distressed.

They have lost nearly a thousand people before they have formally attacked the city. This loss is really too great, more than the loss in the three days in Jiangyin City.

"Anyway, we must attack today."

Liu Liangzuo said, this has already been filled two-thirds, and it is impossible to give up halfway, otherwise morale will fall sharply.

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