The city of Homs is a small city, a small place, the whole city is 600 meters long from east to west, 300 meters wide from north to south, the height of the city is not more than six meters, the thickness of the city wall is different, some places are wider and thicker up to four or five meters, and some places are less than two meters wide, just a single city wall, but the southeast army still not

I can take it lightly.

The task of attacking the city was entrusted to Zhou Quanbin of the Seventh Army, and although he had already regarded it as something in his pocket, he was very careful and made careful preparations to ensure that nothing was lost, so as not to lose face in front of the leader and other generals. 、

If you think that his army number is behind and you look down on him, then everyone is wrong.

Zhou Quanbin's qualifications are very old, when Yan Changwu rose up to fight with the Dutch, he came to take refuge and won the Dutchman's silver ship, which became the blood capital of Yan Changwu's family.

Over the years, he has been steadily promoted, he is Yan Changwu's descendant, and he is deeply trusted--- Yan Changwu let him come to guard the grain road, which fully shows his trust in him!

He planned to use four divisions to attack on all sides, and for the sake of safety, he planned to capture the walls on all sides, and then pull the cannons up the walls to support the attack, and then the infantry entered the city, and he carefully arranged for the infantry to prepare their melee weapons, and the guns were even used outside

I also prepared a waist knife + shield for them!

Everyone was full of confidence, what they didn't expect was that the defenders in the city made up their minds to be extremely determined!

"The city is in the people, and the city is dead!"

With more than 10,000 troops left behind, and the people of the city basically left, the chief general, Faisal Pasha, gathered the soldiers and swore in public before the gods:

Hold on to the city of Homs and never surrender!

If you swear to God, you must do what you say, so that you don't break your oath and you won't be able to give an account to God in the future!

They also did their best to prepare, and all the gates outside the city built deer firewood to block the army's attack, and they cut down all the trees on the hill outside the city of Homs to make deer firewood.

In fact, one of the best ways to stop the enemy was to dig a trench, but Faisal Pasha did not do that.

The Chinese have powerful firearms, so everyone should do more protection, do everything possible to add armor to themselves, and hold shields in their hands.

They were scattered and hidden in a mansion, ready to fight back against the infidels.

In the early morning of the next day, under the cover of night, Zhou Quanbin sent an assault force, using the method of sneak attack and blasting, quietly approaching the target under the cover of night, blowing up the deer firewood, and igniting and detonating with 40 catties of explosives to cause the enemy

When people found out, our artillery, muskets, and especially bombs opened fire together, suppressing the enemy's guns and bows and arrows in counterattack.

With a bang, the deer firewood was blown apart, and a hole came out.

More explosions were immediately launched, and the explosions scattered the deer firewood at the four city gates, and the panzergrenadiers of the Southeast Army threw bombs to attack the city gates and walls, and the rumbling continued, but the defenders did not suffer any casualties, they knew the tricks of the Chinese, and did not let too many soldiers go for the time being

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But there were not too many troops, so they were powerless to prevent the Southeast Army from approaching the city gate, piling up explosives on the city gate, lighting it and running away.

With a loud explosion, a gray-black mushroom cloud rose.

The gates were blown apart, and the wooden gates were blown to pieces, revealing the mound of earth behind them.

The defenders blocked the gate hole with a mound of earth!

The first to blast was the east gate, Zhou Quanbin was supervising the battle in the back, looking at it with a telescope, he asked puzzledly: "Since the city gate is blocked, why do they pile so much deer firewood in front of the city gate...... so as to mislead us? Want to see our jokes, laugh at us

？ ”

Left and right speechless!

The Ottomans who seem to be a little strange!

The loud noise continued, and in the remaining three directions, southwest and north, conspicuous mushroom clouds rose, and it seemed that all the city gates had been blasted, but there were no cheers and trumpets of attack, and the city gates should have been blocked, and the southeastern army could not enter the city.

Sure enough, the rider came to report, and it was!

"How's it going?" He asked the messenger of the road.

"The enemy's fire is weak, we are already approaching the city, and we are building ladders to get ready to go up to the city!" The cavalry reported.

In this way, Zhou Quanbin thoughtfully, his eyes fell on the city gate, and he quickly calculated, the city gate is at most five meters long, three meters high, and three meters wide, adding up to 45 cubic meters...... He ordered: "Go to the military industry and dig open the earth of the city gates!" ”

The military workers were the men, who were strong, wearing steel helmets and armour, carrying hoes and shovels and baskets, and working on the mounds of earth at the city gates, digging up the earth and carrying it aside.

They were very bold, and the Gain army promised that in the event of death or wounded, they would be treated as the army!

The dead are the martyrs!

Those who are not dead and disabled will be raised by the country for a lifetime!

The people were convinced, and they dared to sell their lives.

At this time, the southeast army climbed the city wall one after another, and did not encounter much resistance, could it be that the Baotou people had no intention of resisting?

In ancient times, there were few street battles, and once the city walls were lost, most of the defenders gave up resistance and admitted defeat.

The sergeants and military workers dragged and pulled, pulled the cannon up the city wall, and fired a few cannons into the city, and the city was silent.

I tried to send some officers and soldiers down to the city, but there was no response.

When the Southeastern Army was surprised and delighted, it only heard a loud explosion, and groups of Ottomans flocked to attack the few Southeast Army troops who entered the city!

Seeing that the Ottomans were strong, the southeastern army temporarily withdrew, and the officers and soldiers in the city hurriedly opened fire to cover.

The loss was not much, but I was shocked into a cold sweat.

In the next time, the military industry moved the mud of the city gate, and the Southeast Army troops continued to pour into the city.

Artillery commander Bian Yuji stopped him, and when he heard the shouts of killing and gunfire in front, the troops fought together!

Zhou Quanbin went up to the city gate tower, and saw that in the streets and alleys below the city, the Ottomans were advancing and retreating, constantly launching a fierce attack on the troops of the Southeast Army!

Due to the barrier of buildings, the southeast army could not take care of each other, and could not form a dense firepower, and the musket clash was a large number of people, ten against ten, which may not have much advantage.

Repeated tug-of-war battles, some places are obviously occupied by the southeast army, the Ottomans suddenly rushed in, they took back the place, saw that the Chinese counterattack was strong, a whistle, that is, withdrew, until the Chinese were few, and then the generals came out, the way of fighting was very flexible!

Zhou Quanbin saw that the situation was not good, and he woke up quickly, and immediately ordered to blow the trumpet, withdraw the troops to the city and gather at the city gate, and let them cover and go to the military industry!

Why?

"Tear down the whole city!"

He mobilized tens of thousands of military workers to rush up, using heavy bells, hoes, and chariots--- which were originally used to hit the city gates, but now they don't need them, they use them to demolish the houses in the city.

Is it hard?

It's really not that hard!

Such a small city, don't look at who we are, there are so many of us, there is no problem at all.

Zhang Jiayu was ordered to come to check the battle situation, and what he saw was a hot labor scene, he went up to the city wall to meet Zhou Quanbin, and said under his finger: "Commander Zhou, you can leave a name in military history!" ”

"What?" Zhou Quanbin hurriedly asked.

"You're not a general, you're a chengguan!" Zhang Jiayu couldn't help laughing.

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