Almost at the same time, something was smashing out of large pits near the artillery positions of the Ottoman army, and the soil splashed, making a lot of noise.

There were even many Ottoman artillery operating artillery, which were split into pieces and sprinkled blood all over the ground.

Needless to say, this is the Ming artillery on the top of Baghdad's city.

But why did the Ming Dynasty artillery fire so accurately? Do they don’t need to proofread it?

For the commander of the Ottoman Artillery Battalion, it was even more incredible. Because the artillery position he selected was calculated by him and was beyond the effective range of the Ming Dynasty rifled ship-borne gun.

He originally wanted to deploy heavy artillery here to bombard the city wall with the greatest power. Then other artillery with insufficient range leaned against the city wall under the cover of heavy artillery, and then fired after reaching the effective range.

However, judging from the current situation, it is obvious that the artillery position he chose is still within the effective range of the Ming artillery on the top of Baghdad.

What's going on?

Before he could think too much, he quickly shouted like crazy: "Hurry, retreat, retreat..."

However, the transfer of artillery cannot mean that it can retreat immediately if it retreats.

Just as the Ottoman artillery was in a hurry, a deafening sound rang again.

"Boom boom boom..."

Needless to say, this is the Ming artillery's power again.

This time, the Ming artillery was even more accurate.

In fact, the Ming army had known that the Ottoman army would come to attack Baghdad, so they made various marks outside the city early in the morning, which eliminated prior artillery tests and estimations, and directly adjusted the shelling parameters according to the marked distance.

The first round of artillery was a little dissatisfied with the effect. The experienced Ming army artillery soldiers quickly adjusted the firing parameters and fired again, which was naturally much better than the first time.

Especially the giant siege cannon on the Ottoman artillery position was taken seriously.

The iron bombs fired, with a harsh whistling sound, hit the Ottoman artillery positions, plowing out blood ditches until the kinetic energy contained is exhausted or hit the Ottoman artillery, making a huge sound.

“Bao…”

The Ottoman giant siege cannon was hit by two iron bombs at the same time in the second round of artillery attacks by the Ming army. It also made a huge sound, and was knocked over to the ground. The cannons were scattered. The surrounding Ottoman artillery was affected, and flesh and blood flew everywhere, killing and injured a large area.

Under the attack of the Ming artillery, how could the flesh and blood body withstand the attack of the iron bomb? Even with shields, it can even be said that no protection could stop the attack of the iron bomb. The Ottoman artillery dared to stay within range and fled backwards.

The entire Ottoman army's artillery position was in chaos. In the dust, various artillery could be seen either split or overturned to the ground.

Farcher's teacup had long been thrown away, and the man had already stood up, looking at his own artillery positions that were bombarded by Ming artillery artillery.

The siege cannons that depend on in one battle were destroyed in front of him, which was equivalent to someone slapping him hard and scolding him: "Let you hit Baghdad, let you hit Baghdad..."

"Come, come..." Faqier suddenly roared. He wanted to find the artillery commander in his family. "Didn't you calculate the range? Are you very sure? I want an explanation..."

However, the artillery commander was no longer able to come. He was affected by an iron bomb and split into pieces on the edge of the giant cannon, and he could no longer explain it.

Even though he was still alive, he could never explain it, because they didn't know that the gunpowder used by the Ming army was not the black gunpowder they were familiar with, but the white gunpowder with three times higher performance. And this was the biggest trump card for the Ming army to defend Baghdad!

After hearing the report that the artillery commander had died, Faqil was stunned. Before he could come back to his senses, he suddenly saw that the Ottoman soldiers lined up in chaos amid the rumbling cannons.

Hearing the sound, he turned his head to look, and Fachil's face suddenly became even more ugly.

Although the army had already avoided the Tigris River because there were two Ming warships docked there, at this time, the two Ming warships were blazing black smoke and easily heading against the current, shortening the distance from the Ottoman army and firing artillery to bombard the Ottoman army.

"Boom boom boom..."

Amid the roar of the Ming artillery, Faqier ordered in a very embarrassing manner: "Retreat, retreat quickly!"

In fact, he didn't need to give orders. The troops threatened by the Ming army's artillery fire had already begun to escape.

The Ottoman army, which had been in a row, ran away in shame after arriving in an array. The first siege of the main force ended with the roar of artillery.

When the Ottoman army fled far away, only the corpses of people and horses, as well as the artillery scattered all over the ground.

The Ming artillery finally stopped bombarding, and the entire battlefield immediately became much quieter.

But at this moment, I heard deafening cheers sounding from the city of Baghdad: "The Ming Dynasty is a thousand victories..."

Although the Ottomans couldn't understand what it meant, the emotions contained in the cheers could be felt, so naturally it was easy to guess what it meant!

As a result, the Ottomans' emotions became even more depressed, and the influence of morale was very obvious.

In the first battle, the siege weapon was lost, and then the attack on Baghdad would inevitably become difficult.

All ordinary Ottomans understood this point, not to mention Faqil, who was the commander-in-chief of the entire army.

Unlike ordinary Ottoman soldiers, Fachil had to fully consider the entire battle situation. Without the means of artillery attacking the city, the war would become lasting, and the consumption of food and grass for the entire army was a problem that he had to pay great attention to.

No matter what, you must kill Baghdad as soon as possible!

For this reason, Faqier quickly came to his senses and continued to issue military orders, so that the Azap cannon fodder immediately began to continue digging on the basis of the original trenches. However, this time, instead of digging the trenches, it was digging obliquely to the Baghdad walls. In this way, the threat of artillery on the top of the city could be minimized.

The Ottoman army has a lot of combat experience in siege battles and has many means.

The Ottoman army was well-manned, and many trenches were excavated at the same time, and at a very fast speed, slowly advancing under the city of Baghdad.

There was no movement on the Ming army, just watching the Ottomans dig from a distance.

No matter how fast it is, the sky is almost evening when the trench is less than half dug.

However, the Ottomans did not stop working. Judging from that, they should have to dig day and night.

King Mohamed Grey IV of Crimean Khan looked at all this and quickly reminded Faqil: "The Ming army is likely to go out of the city to attack and destroy these trenches!"

If it is dug to the city, the powerful artillery of the Ming army will lose its effect, and Baghdad's defense will inevitably increase. Therefore, in his opinion, the Ming army will definitely not sit still and wait for death.

Muhammad Grey IV had an experience that he knew that the Ming army in Baghdad was all bold and did not care about the number of troops outside the city. It was very likely that he would leave the city and attack on the initiative.

When Fachil heard his words, he remembered the situation that the Crimean pioneer encountered. He looked gloomy, nodded, turned to look at the Persian Emperor Abbas II, and shouted coldly: "Tonight your people will guard the trench and do not let the Ming army destroy it. Cover them to continue digging the trench!"

When Abbas II heard this, he disagreed with it because everyone knew that this was a chore. It was absolutely impossible for Mingjun to sit idly!

However, he also knew that he had no choice at all. Otherwise, the Prime Minister and Commander of the entire army would easily vent his anger from the lost artillery on him.

So Abbas II agreed rationally on the spot without any slightest desire to force it.

As night fell, the Persian army, under the dispatch of troops of Abbas II, rushed to cover the earthwork of Azap cannon fodder.

After a while, the Ming army in Baghdad did not make any noise, which made the Persian army feel a little relieved, thinking that the Ming army probably saw too many troops outside the city and dared not leave the city.

However, Abbas II did not dare to neglect. Instead, as time passed, as the night deepened, he ordered his subordinates to be on guard and not to relax.

I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly, there was another gunshot compared to the quiet night during the day.

“Mush…”

The sudden muskets scared the Persian army and the Azap cannon fodder immediately turned around and ran away.

The Persian army was afraid of being beaten by the Ming army long ago, so what courage would there be to fight the Ming army to death? It was a frightened bird; and the cannon fodder of Azap certainly knew what role he was and did not dare to fight with the Ming army.

As soon as the gunshot sounded, the timid Persians or Azap cannon fodder began to flee back first.

Under the night, the situation was not clear, and people had a herd mentality and had no strong sense of combat, all of them immediately fled back.

For a moment, just looking at their escape posture, those who didn't know thought they had encountered the pursuit of tens of thousands of Ming troops.

The movement here also awakened the vigilant army of the Ottoman camp. They could not see the situation in the distance, but only saw the Persians and Azap cannon fodder running back, and immediately thought that it was the Ming army who came to steal the camp.

Especially the Crimeans, they had encountered it once before. They were so scared that they immediately prepared for war.

It is also thanks to the Ottomans when they camped, they did not set up a large camp, but camped according to their respective sources of troops. Otherwise, under the night, there would be such a big noise, and the camp could be whistled.
Chapter completed!