Chapter Ninety-Three: The Third Plan of Deception
Shao Yue took his nine soldiers and rushed into the city gate cave. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoHe is also one of the five hundred surrendered soldiers, originally these Qing soldiers who were captured in Jingzhou not long ago did not even have the opportunity to become auxiliaries, and they needed to be coolies or siege cannon fodder for a period of time before they had the opportunity to become official auxiliaries, and then slowly promoted to war soldiers. Now that there is an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, as long as they can succeed, they can be promoted to soldiers in one step, Shao Yue is naturally unwilling to let go of this opportunity.
After the five hundred people walked through the dark and long city gate and the first step into the city, the first thing Shao Yue did was to look up at the city, for fear that some thousand catties of iron gates would suddenly fall. However, there was no movement at all, and five hundred daredevils entered the urn city and appeared in an open space surrounded by walls on all sides.
"The door inside the urn city is not open?" A soldier who had been at the front came back to report it.
Shao Yue raised his head and asked, "Why hasn't the city gate opened inside?" ”
At the head of the city, a Qing army replied: "The gate inside is blocked by stones!" Everyone, please be calm! ”
At this time, the Ming army had not yet entered the city, and the Qing army ambushed on the wall of the urn city did not move, wanting to lure more Ming troops into the city, and then close the Qianjin gate and start to move. But the Qing soldiers didn't know that after more than a dozen Ming soldiers entered the city gate, they put the new explosives they were carrying on the ground, piled them up, and connected them to the fuse.
"Prepare to ignite, evacuate!" One of the Ming army commanders in charge of the demolition gave the order with sign language.
The fuse was lit, and the Demomen quickly evacuated the gates, exited the city, and jumped into the moat. At the same time, the four Qing soldiers who were responsible for opening the city gate were also subdued by those cannon fodder soldiers in the darkness and all killed.
"It's strange, why did the dog jump into the river?" Seeing more than a dozen Ming soldiers rushing out of the city gate and jumping into the moat, Shen Yongxing felt a little puzzled.
At this moment, a thought suddenly flashed in Shen Yongxing's mind: "It's not good! Minggou must be cheating! ”
Before the Qing army on the city gate tower reacted, they saw a flash of fire in the city gate cave, and more than 200 catties of new explosives piled up in the city gate cave suddenly exploded violently, only to hear an earth-shattering loud noise, scarlet fireballs gushed up from the city gate hole, suddenly expanded, and the entire city gate tower collapsed in the explosion, turning into a ruin.
As soon as Shen Yongxing heard the explosion, he felt that his whole body was flying through the clouds, followed by a pile of broken stones and rammed earth, flying into the sky in the light of fire and gunsmoke, and then he felt that his internal organs were shattered all over his body, and he soon lost consciousness.
More than 200 catties of new explosives, the power of the blasting is quite large, the entire city gate tower immediately turned into ruins, and the intensity of the blasting is quite well controlled, the collapsed city wall, forming a slope, straight to the moat, Shen Yongxing and more than 500 Qing soldiers who were ambushed on the city gate tower were also shattered in an instant.
"Kill!" The follow-up troops, who had not yet approached the moat, rowed rafts and bamboo rafts, and rushed up.
The power of the explosion just now was too great, and it even affected the Qing soldiers on the walls of the urn city. The violent explosions and shaking made the Qing soldiers on the walls of the city of Wengcheng unstable and fell one after another. Many Qing soldiers were even hit by falling stones, and some were shocked to death by bleeding. Of course, some of the 500 death squad members who entered the urn city were also affected, some were stoned to death, some were knocked to the ground, and some were even blown into the sky.
However, because the death squad was in the low-lying urn city, when the explosion sounded, most of them were lying on the ground and were not affected too much. However, the Qing soldiers at the head of the city of Wengcheng, due to their high position, were affected by the shock wave and stone fragments, and suffered a lot of losses.
Before the smoke of the explosion had cleared, the Ming troops rowing rafts and bamboo rafts had rushed up the riverbank, shouting up the slope and launching a fierce attack on the ruins of the city gatehouse.
At the same time, the 500 daredevils who entered the urn city also began to attack, they rushed to the city, and threw a series of smoke-emitting grenades above the city, blowing up the frightened Qing soldiers at the head of the urn city. Some Qing soldiers reacted and counterattacked with birds, flintlock pistols and bows and arrows, shooting and killing many daredevils.
As cannon fodder soldiers who can be quickly promoted to soldiers, Shao Yue certainly knows his mission, they are originally nine deaths, and they will fight for a sunny road with their lives.
"Brethren! Kill! Shao Yue pulled out the steel knife and roared.
The daredevils kept throwing grenades, blowing up the Qing soldiers at the head of the city so that they could not gain a foothold. After that, someone threw the rope. The grappling hook was thrown at the top of the city, and a group of daredevils began to climb upward.
At this time, the Ming army that crossed the river outside the city had already killed the city, Ma Jiuyu personally led the team, and after more than 500 elite Ming troops crossed the river, they rushed up the city wall along the slope that was blasted out, and launched an attack on the head of the urn city on both sides. Some of these Ming soldiers were equipped with Thunderbolt guns, the rest were equipped with double-barreled guns, and every Ming army had a grenade. The Ming army that attacked the city first threw a grenade, which exploded the fire above the urn city.
The Qing soldiers, who originally planned to ambush the Ming army, were blown up by the grenades that smashed their heads and covered their faces, and they fell in pieces. Before they could react, there was another burst of gunfire, and the Ming army, all equipped with short guns, rushed to kill left and right at the head of the city, and the Qing soldiers in front fell in pieces like harvested rice.
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On the other side of the moat in Xiangyang, in the camp of the Ming army, the explosion on the other side was heard, and the torches were lit in the camp of the Ming army, and the lights in the entire camp were brilliant, as if it was day.
"Brethren! Our vanguard has stormed the city! Tonight is the time to break through Xiangyang! Wang Xinyu stood on the point platform, looked around, and pointed to Shen Rui and others who were tied to the pillar and said, "Our army is all attacking!" Cut off all the Tartar spies here and sacrifice the flag! ”
The knife and axe hand stepped forward, the knife fell in hand, and Shen Rui and a group of Qing army spies fell to the ground.
By the moat, the Ming soldiers rowed rafts and bamboo rafts to the direction of Yangchun Gate, which had become a ruin.
Inside the city, ambushed in the city, Sukh Saha, who was originally ready to attack at any time, suddenly heard an explosion from the direction of Yangchun Gate, followed by a series of grenade explosions, which were also mixed with dense gunfire, and he knew that something was wrong.
"It seems that the plan of deception has been seen through by Minggou! Despicable Ming Dog, he gave us a plan! Sukh Saha shouted angrily, "Warriors of Manchuria! The matter has come to this, everyone is ready to fight with Minggou! ”
The Qing army in the city was urgently mobilized, and groups of Qing troops rushed in the direction of Yangchun Gate, preparing to plug the gap, trying to use the numerical advantage to drive out the Ming army that had attacked the city.