Chapter 879

The salty taste of the sea comes from the east wind.

Yao Hongtao fixed his eyes on the royal soldiers who were slowly coming. Different from their nervousness, these soldiers seemed to have the chance to win.

Far away, they even heard a loud song, which was impassioned and inspiring.

"Get the guns ready."

Yao Hongtao put down his binoculars. These things were purchased by the merchant Council from western merchants. Almost every general now has one.

"Yes, general." On command, the Deputy immediately put all the artillery in position, loaded the shells and waited.

At the same time, the soldiers with flint guns ran back and forth on the wall, and each one found his own shooting position.

When everything was ready, the deputy general frowned and said, "general, it seems that there are not many soldiers in Dayu, only about 20000. Maybe we can defeat them in the front. "

Yao Hongtao glanced at the deputy general and said," do you think the northern Royal Army is Li Chuyuan's scattered soldiers? When these soldiers defeated the barbarians in Jizhou with flint guns, you didn't know where they were! "

The deputy general's face turned red. After successfully defeating several sieges, he was very confident in the current firearms army. In his opinion, defeating Li Chuyuan was only a matter of time.

Just because of this, they didn't think much of the army in front of them. He said: "the general seems to be a bit long, others' ambition is to destroy his prestige. Now it has been proved that the loyalty of soldiers loyal to the vassal Kings is far less than that of soldiers loyal to the merchant Council. Similarly, I believe that the people must be dissatisfied with the decadent Dynasty in the north, and their soldiers will not work for them."

"Yes? Have you ever been to the north? Have you ever known Qingzhou? "Yao Hongtao is dissatisfied. This deputy general is not his man, but the one appointed by the merchant Council.

He knew very well that the merchant Council was not at ease with him, but he chose to betray the king of Chu. Now he had to follow the merchant Council, and Cao Kun promised to give himself a seat as a member of Parliament.

The deputy general was speechless again, and he argued: "general, it seems that you don't believe enough in the merchant Council. Now the merchant Council, on the proposal of King Qinglong, has decided to adopt the way he used to do in Jizhou to win people's hearts. You can wait and see. Soon people from the south of the Yangtze River will gather around the merchant Council, just like they did in Jizhou. "

" Green Dragon King. " Yao Hongtao frowned. The green dragon king he had seen was a very chilly scholar, and the most terrible thing was that he was very good at bewitching people.

When the king of Chu used him, he succeeded in provoking unrest in Jizhou, but failed. After returning to the state of Chu, he was refrigerated, because the king of Chu was also worried that the king of Qinglong would bring cholera to the state of Chu.

Now that the Green Dragon King has gone to the merchant Council, he can already imagine what will happen when the two geeks are combined.

When the deputy general saw this, he immediately laughed. He said, "the Green Dragon King has a way of wooing the people. Now many people go to the merchant Council in order not to accept food."

When Yao Hongtao heard that Yan suddenly sneered, he suddenly felt sad for the people, because he knew very well that this slogan would eventually become a dead letter.

Since ancient times, there has never been a dynasty that did not accept food. Now the merchant Council just drew a big cake for the people to die for them.

”Pathetic, pathetic. "Yao Hongtao didn't know whether he was talking about the deputy general or himself. Instead of talking, he kept a close eye on the royal soldiers.

Outside the city, Lufei is observing the situation of Songjiang city.

Different from the past, the present Huben army is not arranged in a dense formation as before, but scattered outside the east wall of Songjiang city.

"There are 20 guns on this wall, and the wall is full of soldiers with flint guns. If we attack from the front, there will be a lot of casualties. We only have 20000 people. We need to give full play to the advantage of rifles." Lu Fei said that even with artillery, siege is still a headache.

In particular, the soldiers in the city also use firearms, they can rely on the city wall to use firearms to kill the siege soldiers, which is not cost-effective.

Therefore, he continued: "Guo Ming, you immediately lead the soldiers to dig the trench, until the wall is within 50 meters."

"Yes, general."

Guo Ming answered, and now the shovel has basically become the standard configuration of the army, in order to dig trenches. After getting the order, thousands of soldiers put in.

So Yao Hongtao was surprised to see that the Royal Army stopped at a distance of 300 meters and began to dig.

”General, what are they doing? "The deputy general was in a state of suspense. They had never been in such a situation.

Yao Hongtao shook his head. He was also at a loss now, but he understood that this was definitely not a good sign. He called out to the artillery, "fire!"

At his command, the guns on the wall suddenly roared, and the solid bombs went to the Royal Army like lightning.

But when the gunfire rang out, the Royal Army on the opposite side immediately scattered to look for uneven terrain as a barrier to lie down. At the same time, he saw the royal soldiers lying on the ground began to shoot."Bang Bang..."

A burst of fire, bullets flying on the wall, some soldiers can not dodge to be hit, scream fell down, the wall immediately into chaos.

Yao Hongtao is a layer of cold sweat behind, when the Royal musket can shoot 300 meters?

When he was crazy, Lufei constantly urged the soldiers to dig the trench. In fact, there was not much shooting criterion. After all, the accuracy of 300 meter shooting was not high.

In daily training, he has gained experience. In fact, with the increase of distance, the shooting accuracy of soldiers is declining. Even if the range and accuracy of rifles have been greatly improved, people's vision and operation are limited.

It's very difficult to accurately shoot a person within 500 meters. The best shooting distance is within 200 meters.

Therefore, the purpose of this shooting is to suppress the artillery of the other side, not to kill the enemy.

After a cover of fire, the soldiers dug trenches faster, and none of them wanted to be hit by the artillery on the city wall.

Three hours later, a winding trench extended under Songjiang City, and other soldiers entered the trench to expand the trench project.

After the initial shelling, the parliament troops soon gave up shooting because the royal soldiers who were hiding in the trenches could not be hurt by solid bullets.

At this time, Lufei ordered all the soldiers to enter the trench and surrounded Songjiang city. At the same time, the mortar guns carried by two men entered the trench.

They advanced to a distance of 50 meters from the city wall.

After getting Lu Fei's order, he immediately shot the blossom bullet and lime bullet on the wall of Songjiang city. Soldiers with Falcon rifles also shot at the wall through the edge of the trench.

The battle of Songjiang city officially started.

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