Hearing this, Xu Jingchang couldn't help but turn his head to look at the person who spoke. The man was tall and burly, and at this time he was holding the musket in both hands and looking sideways at him.

Xu Jingchang knew this person, he was a soldier under Sun Bingwen, named Zhu Daizhen, who was transferred from Xingwuwei to Yulin Zuowei last summer, and was quite excluded at first, but with his excellent performance and helpful personality, he was quickly accepted by other soldiers, and he also became a small banner. Sun Bingwen praised him in front of him more than once.

"Then you say, how to break through the opposing defense?" Xu Jingchang asked with an attitude of listening and seeing. He didn't expect that when he heard this, he really heard how to use a few hundred soldiers to break through the two thousand Annan soldiers on the opposite side.

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Congdao looked very strangely at the Ming army who was confronting them not far away. If they were to fight, they had no intention of fighting, and everyone stood where their bows and arrows could not be shot, and although the muskets in their hands were loaded, they had no intention of charging at all, as if they were waiting for something.

"Could it be that they are waiting for the cannon?" Speak to yourself from the Word.

He then said to the people beside him: "If you see the Ming army pushing the cannon over, retreat immediately." In the face of artillery, it is impossible for us to hold it. ”

Everyone said yes. They can be left by Hu Jichen in the palace, of course, it is the army he trusts more, and they are also more loyal to Hu Jichen and are unwilling to surrender to the Ming army. But the reluctance to surrender to the Ming army does not mean that he is willing to die for Hu Jichen. If it is a mortal mission, they will not carry it out, after all, they are not Hu Jichen's most trusted Praetorian Guard, and they are not loyal enough to regard death as home. Facing the artillery seemed to them a mortal task, and of course they had to retreat. Moreover, even if they do not retreat, the minions below are likely to retreat on their own when they see the artillery. It would be better for them to retreat on their own.

They then returned to the place where they were guarded and conveyed the order to the next general.

One of his subordinates was guarding the wall, and he was just about to speak when he heard what seemed to be a voice in the wall on the side.

Somehow, he always felt that this was not a good thing, and hurriedly finished conveying the command from the Tao, and put his ear to the wall to listen to the sound coming from inside.

He had just put his ear on it when he heard someone inside say in Chinese, "Get out of the way!" ”

He was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and was about to dodge; But as soon as his ears left the wall, he heard a loud "bang" and then lost consciousness.

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Zhu Daizhen said: "Lord Qianhu, you see, the defense line of the Annan soldiers on the opposite side is completely arranged at the exit of each street, relying on the houses on both sides as a block. ”

"Isn't that natural? The city gate hole is so big, it can't fit 2,000 people, he can't only arrange it like this. ”

"But this gives our army a chance. Lord Qianhu, the Annan people rely on the houses as a block, we can blow up the walls of the houses, the Annan people are surprised and will inevitably be chaotic, our army can take advantage of their chaos to throw grenades, and then charge with a simple knife, we will definitely be able to defeat them in one fell swoop. ”

"This, this," Xu Jingchang really didn't expect that Zhu Daizhen would propose such a method to him; What's more, it should work!

"It's still like this." Sun Bingwen was also dumbfounded.

"Okay, what a plan!" Xu Jingchang had already reacted at this time, and said to Zhu Daizhen: "This time you completely captured Shenglong City, you should take a credit." ”

"Lord Qianhu, this is just because the whole army has not been equipped with firearms for a long time, so most people can't think of it for a while; If you wait for a long time, everyone can think that your subordinates dare not take credit. Zhu Daizhen said humbly.

"You don't have to push. Even if everyone can think of it later, you will think of it at the right time. I once heard His Majesty say, 'To win a battle is to fight the right enemy at the right time and in the right way.' What you've done is come up with a suitable solution, how can it not be credited? ”

Zhu Daizhen wanted to say more, but Xu Jingchang didn't pay attention to him anymore, and instructed Sun Bingwen: "You immediately lead a few people to go around the side of the house on their left and climb over the wall to enter, be careful not to be discovered by the Annan people; Zhu Daizhen, you go to the back and stop all the musketeers who come over, and say my order, let them give you a few taels of gunpowder each, not projectiles. Then the gunpowder was delivered to Sun Bingwen. Be careful not to let the gunpowder stain even the slightest spark. It's different from what we do on a regular basis. On weekdays, our gunpowder is divided into one by one, wrapped in oiled paper and placed in the strap, which is not easy to catch fire. So saying, he took off his waist card and handed it to him: "Show them this." ”

The two of them immediately took the order, bent over and walked away quickly.

Soon, more and more soldiers came to the south gate, more than a dozen people followed Sun Bingwen to prepare to put the explosive pack, and the rest of the soldiers were waiting from outside the range of bows and arrows in the Taoist department, waiting for the sound of "bang".

Xu Jingchang stood behind a half-collapsed wall, looked at the Annan people opposite, and said to the soldiers beside him: "It's been a quarter of an hour, hasn't he chosen a good place to explode?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud "bang" from dozens of feet away; Xu Jingchang immediately looked up, and saw a large hole in the wall on the left side of the Annan people's defense line, countless bricks and stones flying in the air, and many screams mixed in it.

Seeing this, Xu Jingchang immediately shouted: "Brothers, rush with me!" Then he raised his musket and rushed to the line of the Annamite people; More than 300 soldiers who had already gathered also howled and rushed forward.

On the way to their charge, Sun Bingwen and the others poked their heads out of the cracked gap, threw dozens of grenades, and blew up the nearby Annan people to cry wolves.

At this time, Xu Jingchang had already led the soldiers to run to the range of the muskets, shouted the order, asked all the soldiers to line up in three rows to raise the muskets, fired nine rounds of guns successively, used up all the gunpowder in the strap, carried the musket to the back, and took out the Pu knife from his waist and rushed to the position of the Annamite people.

At this time, the Annan soldiers were first startled by the wall blasted on the side, then covered by dozens of grenades, and fired nine rounds of guns. When they saw the Ming army rushing over with a Pu knife in their hands, they immediately collapsed.

Most of the soldiers threw down their superfluous things and rushed to the south gate with only knives and guns in their hands, intending to flee through the south gate; The soldiers guarding the south gate had already run away.

It was the Ming army that quickly entered the position of the Annamite people, and after eliminating the remaining Annam soldiers who were still resisting, completely captured this position; Xu Jingchang led his troops to occupy the south gate and arranged for the soldiers to be deployed at the head of the city.

At this time, Xu Jingchang breathed a sigh of relief: "Finally occupied the entire Shenglong City!" ”