I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

After continuing to march for a few days, Wu Jun finally arrived in Yancheng.

It wasn't until this time that Fan Yuchuan finally became worried, feeling that it was irrational to continue fighting against Wu Jun. So, he took the initiative to send an envoy to the Wu army's camp and asked to see Tang Guozhen.

Fan Yuchuan asked the envoy to speak, and he made some concessions, saying that he did not ask to keep all his troops, but only needed to keep 3,000 troops.

Tang Guozhen ignored this insincere, joking negotiation, and let the messenger be thrown out.

"Go back and tell the surnamed Fan, and immediately open the city gate unconditionally to accept the adaptation, otherwise he won't even have the chance to surrender when we launch an attack."

Tang Guozhen was disgusted by that guy, and he rarely released harsh words.

In fact, from a rational point of view, there is no need to say such harsh words, it will easily anger Fan Yuchuan and strengthen Fan Yuchuan's belief.

This will increase the difficulty of the Wu army's siege and increase some casualties.

However, Tang Guozhen was obviously emotional and did not pay attention to such details.

He was pissed off by Fan Yuchuan's stupidity and arrogance, knowing that even a person stronger than Fan Yuchuan surrendered, he would not dare to negotiate with Wu Jun like this.

After driving away Fan Yuchuan's messenger, Tang Guozhen ordered to build a siege ladder immediately.

In order to reduce the logistical pressure, they did not bring any siege equipment, and the siege equipment could only be manufactured temporarily.

Only some simple siege ladders can be made temporarily, and other slightly more complicated buildings cannot be made by rushing and crashing. These things with a little technical content have to be handled by professional craftsmen, and ordinary people can't handle them.

After a day of preparation, Tang Guozhen launched the attack the next day.

On the city wall, Fan Yuchuan was gnashing his teeth.

He thinks that he has sent an envoy on his own initiative, and it is a sincere performance to lower the requirements. But I didn't expect that Tang Guozhen would be so disrespectful.

It is really unreasonable to directly drive back his messenger without even going through the step of negotiating a price.

He vowed to make Tang Guozhen pay the price.

"Everyone cheered up. Wu Jun is nothing special. They have less than 10,000 people, and we have 12,000. We have the upper hand, and we still have the city wall."

Fan Yuchuan shouted, followed by a group of soldiers shouting.

He was able to be the Emperor of the Earth in Yancheng because he had a group of about 3,000 diehard loyalists under his command, who had been with him for many years and had been a powerful veteran for many years.

Looking at these high morale subordinates, Fan Yuchuan's confidence increased a bit.

As the whistle sounded in the distance, Fan Yuchuan saw the legendary flintlock army.

All kinds of battle reports and gossips made the flintlock spear fascinated, but Fan Yuchuan had never seen it with his own eyes, but he couldn't understand it intuitively.

Looking at the Wu Jun soldiers who walked side by side with long spears, Fan Yuchuan didn't understand.

Wu Jun's people who were resisting the ladder were still behind. What did those people mean when they walked in front?

Moreover, it is not convenient to climb a ladder with such a long spear. How can you attack a city?

Can't figure it out, Fan Yuchuan just thought Wu Jun was funny.

Soon, Wu Jun told him the answer.

The flintlock soldiers walked to a distance of 100 meters from the city wall, then put down their guns, loaded their ammunition, raised their guns, and fired a salvo.

As the gunshots sounded, those soldiers who were watching Wu Jun curiously fell down seven or eight.

Some just died and died. Some were not hit in the vitals, lying on the city walls and wailing.

Fan Yuchuan was taken aback, not that he had never seen a musket, but that he had never seen this kind of fighting.

The gunmen in his army did not use this salvo tactic. At the same time, it won't shoot at such a distance.

Now that Wu Jun came this way, he seemed to be inspired a bit, and ordered: "Order our archers and fire gunmen to fight back."

He has 500 archers and 500 fire gunners under him, which is all his long-range power.

Following the order, the other soldiers lowered their heads to prevent being shot.

The archers and gunnery troops took their places and started to fight back.

What Fan Yuchuan expected was that, relying on his own height advantage, one thousand people could barely tie with the two thousand flintlock soldiers of the Wu army.

However, after the two sides played against each other, the result surprised him.

Wu Jun fired a salvo, directly killing more than 20 people on their side.

In their round of salvos, less than ten Wu Jun fell.

It seems that they are not particularly disadvantaged in a single counterattack, but Wu Jun's fire rate is fast.

Soon Wu Jun completed the new loading, while the Qing army's gunpowder army was still pouring gunpowder into the barrel for compaction. The archers had already set up their arrows to counterattack.

The Qing army suffered even more losses in this round of duels, and they still lost nearly 20 people.

However, Wu Jun only fell six this round.

Many arrows fell into Wu Jun's formation, but unless they hit the torso of the body, they could not hurt Wu Jun.

Those Wu army soldiers all wore very high-quality helmets, and arrows shot on them, which could only make Wu army soldiers dizzy for a moment, but could not hurt them.

The power of the fire gun can break the defense, but the rate of fire is too slow and the hit is low.

After several rounds of shooting, the Qing army's archers and fire guns squatted down in fright, and did not want to carry out such a shooting.

This is only a cup of tea, and more than 100 people have died on their side, and the loss rate exceeds 10%.

At this rate, their effort to hold another cup of tea would collapse.

"These people don't learn their lesson at all."

Wu Jun's officer complained.

"This Fan Yuchuan is not the core army of the Qing army, and the battle report obtained may not be detailed enough."

Another general guessed that the main force of the Qing army they encountered before was much smarter than Fan Yuchuan's soldiers, and they thought of a lot of local methods to make up for the disadvantage of equipment.

Now Fan Yuchuan has not learned the experience of the main forces of the Qing army, which means that Fan Yuchuan has not received detailed battle reports.

Seeing that the Qing army was no longer emerging, the Wu army's sword and shield soldiers carried the ladder forward and began to siege the city.

Following them are the grenadiers. The walls of this city of Yancheng are not high, and their grenadiers are useful.

"The enemy is here, all the motherfuckers get up for me, and personally supervise the battle."

Fan Yuchuan said angrily.

His personal soldiers immediately went to various places to supervise the battle, forcing the archers and gunnery troops to fight back. You can't just watch Wu Jun approach, the city is not guarded like this.

Those archers scolded their mothers in their hearts, and got up reluctantly.

However, when they came together, Wu Jun's gunshot sounded again.

"Damn it."

Fan Yuchuan cursed loudly, and it was only now that he knew the power of this flintlock gun.

With this thing, soldiers can arrive completely unharmed at this stage of the siege close to the city wall.

This is unimaginable in traditional siege battles. In previous siege battles, at least hundreds of corpses were left behind by the siege party through this section of the road.

And now, a flintlock pistol solves that problem.