Lu Daqi shouted to the messenger beside him: "Pass the order, attack the city!"
"The Governor has ordered to attack the city! Attack the city!" The herald shouted while directing the flag-bearing soldiers to wave the central army's flag.
"Attack the city!"
The military order issued by flag signals was transmitted from the central army and finally reached the ears of the artillerymen in the first echelon.
The artillery commander stood beside a cannon and commanded, "Aim at the southwest corner of the city wall, use a large solid bullet, and test fire once."
The artillery reloaded ammunition immediately after receiving the order.
Chi——
The gunpowder fuse was lit with a fuse.
After a moment.
There was a loud bang.
The earth shook and the air was filled with smoke.
The large solid bullet in the muzzle, carrying the heat generated by the explosion of gunpowder, rushed towards the city wall.
The Mongols standing on the city wall felt a sudden thunder in the south.
Before they could react, the city wall beneath their feet made a sound and then shook.
"What is that?"
The Mongols, who had never experienced bombardment on the city walls, were stunned.
"Was it an earthquake just now? I felt a shake!"
"It did shake, but it wasn't an earthquake. It was the bullets fired by the Ming army's artillery that hit our city wall!" said a Han herdsman.
"Bullshit, it was clearly an earthquake!" Another Mongolian soldier retorted: "If it was artillery, it would not have shaken the city wall anyway!"
“Believe it or not,” the Han herdsman quietly took a half step back, “The Ming army’s test firing is over, now it’s time for the real thing!”
After being reminded by the Han herdsmen, the expressions of the other Mongolian herdsmen immediately became serious.
The Left General Guluge and the Right General Hanggao were also frightened by this shot.
Holding their telescopes, they carefully hid behind the battlements of the city wall and looked towards the south where the artillery fire came from.
There were more than a hundred cannons placed there, with the black muzzles pointed at the city wall in the southwest corner.
Next to the artillery, countless Ming troops were busy.
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