Just when the Hunan army rushed out of Wuchang and wanted to break the siege, Jingzhou City, far away in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and 600 miles away from Wuchang, also ushered in a wave of more fierce siege battles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chen Yucheng led the Third Division and was full of spirit.

The previous siege of Jingzhou for a month, taking turns to attack the city, was blocked by the Jingzhou general Taiyong organized the city's full banner people and children to go into battle together.

Chen Yucheng did not have large artillery, and he did not have many siege equipment, so he was weak to attack the city. I wanted to use the old method to dig tunnels and blow up the city wall, but Jingzhou was surrounded by rivers and lakes, and water poured in when I dug a little deeper.

After several successive sieges of the city, they were all blocked by the demons in the city. Chen Yucheng thought of the Qing Demon who was originally panicked in Jingzhou City, but now he slowly became calm and guarded Jingzhou City impenetrable, and he was depressed.

But now, it's different. A batch of firearms was transported from Yuezhou, and I heard that the Holy King specially explained that it took the logistics office of the General Staff Headquarters to transport them from Guangzhou to Yuezhou for more than a month.

Chen Yucheng saw that a batch of foreign guns and cannons had arrived. Dresser M1841 has 1,000 muskets and 100,000 rounds of paper-wrapped ammunition; 40 30-pounder heavy mounted guns with 2,000 guns.

It's all good stuff, and it couldn't have come at a better time!

Chen Yucheng remembered that after the last attack on Changsha, when the General Staff Headquarters brought in the military uniforms from Guangzhou to beg for the army, he himself issued the military uniforms to the officers and men, and for more than half a month, the soldiers were all in high morale and full of fighting spirit. Now, with these new weapons, it is even more worrying that Jingzhou City will not be able to be captured.

Sure enough, Chen Yucheng allocated 1,000 Delaisai needle muskets to 250 for the special operations battalion, 50 for each of the five main battle infantry regiments, and the remaining 500 for the first regiment, which made the regiment commander Shi Huanzhi close his mouth with joy.

Looking at the new guns equipped, the officers and men of the first regiment were extremely excited and high-spirited.

But the most enthusiastic response was from the two artillery regiments.

Originally, two artillery regiments of 600 people, guarding dozens of small artillery pieces, bombarded the Jingzhou city wall painlessly, and there was not much deterrent effect at all. But now, looking at the forty artillery pieces glowing with black and bright blue light, looking at the barrels more than one meter long, and the barrels as thick as the mouth of a bowl, the artillery regiment is a sensation!

Twenty heavy artillery pieces of each regiment lined up under the city of Jingzhou, filling the open space outside the city of Jingzhou.

The banner soldiers at the head of Jingzhou City still looked triumphantly at the begging army outside the city four miles away, and were contemptuous: These Cantonese thieves are looking for death again, why bother? Wait a little closer, and then open fire to make them look good.

As soon as I remembered the thought, I heard a bang on the ground, and a solid cannonball hit the tower, causing the entire tower to shake. The banner soldier next to the city tower turned pale and was frightened: what kind of cannonball is this, so far away and so powerful?

This is just a test artillery of the 1st Artillery Regiment and the 2nd Artillery Regiment of the 1st Division under the city, as the surveyors in the artillery regiment observe with binoculars, measure the distance, and shout: "30 degrees of elevation, start firing!" ”

I only heard a loud bang, and more than 30 solid cannons crashed into the Jingzhou city wall like a roar, and only a few cannons fell close to the ground outside the city wall, jumping up and hitting the foot of the city fiercely.

The entire city wall shook, dented in several places by the cannon as if it were an earthquake.

On the city of Jingzhou, more than ten artillery pieces also exploded with a bang, but because the enemy troops outside the city were outside the reliable firing range, some of the artillery had not yet reached the front, and the one that was separated by a mile and a half of the road fell to the ground, and some of them finally exploded in front of them, but they simply deviated from the target, and none of them hit.

Immediately after, with the sound of the horn of the artillery commander, another round of shelling was renewed. This time the shelling was more accurate, hitting a city wall that shattered the masonry outside and dented it deeper.

In order to save artillery, the artillery commander only let fifteen artillery pieces bombard one place, and bombarded dozens of rounds in a row, until the flag soldiers and regimental warriors on the entire city wall were so shocked that their ears could not hear anything, and when they were shouting, in another round of artillery bombardment, the city wall roared with a loud bang, and a hole several meters wide collapsed.

Seeing this, Chen Yucheng gave an order, and the first regiment of the main infantry regiment, under the leadership of Shi Huanzhi, held foreign guns and broadswords, and charged towards the gap with a roar.

Jingzhou general Tai Yong hurriedly summoned thousands of banner soldiers to surround the collapsed city wall, and asked Tang Jisheng, the prefect of Jingzhou, to organize hundreds of brave exercises to demolish the nearest houses in the city, and carry bricks, stones, and wooden sticks to strengthen and block them.

However, how could the gap that the capture army finally spent thousands of rounds of artillery to blow up the gap, how could it be easily plugged by the Qing soldiers? Shi Huan roared angrily, and the soldiers of the first regiment rushed to the gap in the city wall like a tide. Shi Huanzhi, escorted by several Shi family disciples, took the lead in jumping into the gap with a card knife in his hand, and slashed at the flag soldiers who also slashed at him. The captives in the back followed, and the spears in their hands stabbed through the gaps of their companions.

The soldiers holding foreign guns in the back shot at the Qing soldiers and brave soldiers who appeared on the city wall, so that the Qing soldiers could not raise their heads to fight back.

Behind the gap in the city, Guisheng, the deputy commander who was responsible for leading the banner soldiers to block and fight, shouted loudly to urge all the Qing soldiers to be put on the line, and when life and death were at stake, whether it was the Jingzhou general or the deputy commander or even the banner soldiers, they all understood that once the city was broken, they would all die without a place to bury, so they all desperately resisted and fought hard.

Shi Huanzhi and others were stuck in the gap, and they couldn't rush in, but were shot and killed by the Qing army's shotguns. The gap was densely packed with flag soldiers, and the human wall was used to block the passage into the city.

Shi Huanzhi was also slashed in many places on his face, and seeing that the gap was no longer able to be slashed, he flashed sideways and let the musketeer step forward. I saw several neatly lined up soldiers begging for captives, holding foreign guns, coming to the gap, standing still in parallel, and firing inside with foreign guns in their hands.

Bang bang bang, after a few rounds of fried bean-like shooting, a large area lay down in the gap, and more than 100 people wailed in the gap in the city.

The power of the foreign gun's fast rate of fire was suddenly revealed.

The deputy commander Guisheng also ordered the shotgunners to desperately release their guns, but before they could fill the gunpowder and projectiles, they were shot by the captives first.

Guisheng roared angrily, leading more than 100 people to rush over, but he was greeted by a series of sounds like fried beans, crackling, and then twenty or thirty people were shot and fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Shi Huanzhi roared, and more musketeers behind him jumped into the gap.

The Qing soldiers were defeated and retreated, and Guisheng whipped again and again, slashed with a knife, and urged the banner soldiers to come forward, but only in exchange for a volley of the captured army, countless casualties were killed. The soldiers of the first regiment who rushed into the city did not sit idle, but stormed on both sides, trying to open the gap and expand the gap, so that more comrades could rush in.

Taiyong, the general of Jingzhou on the city wall, saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly got down from the city tower, ordered the soldiers and horses, and killed the gap.

But this was a big mistake. Taking advantage of this weak point in defense, the special operations battalion and the death battalion of the 1st Division of the First Division, with the assistance of the engineer battalion, set up wooden ladders and bravely rushed up to the city and fought fiercely.

In this way, more and more gaps in the city walls were opened by the captives. Half an hour later, most of the walls were occupied by the captives.

There was a sound of killing in the city.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Taiyong hurriedly led nearly 2,000 horsemen to the banner people's residential area in the west of Jingzhou, and took more than 10,000 banner soldiers and their families to prepare to flee to the north of the city.

Leaving the deputy capital commander Guisheng to organize a brave battle at the gap, he was surrounded by the soldiers of the captive army who outflanked him and was killed with foreign guns.

Tai Chung led a cadre of flag soldiers and their families, with 2,000 horsemen as the vanguard to open the way, and hundreds of paces behind, not long after rushing out of the north gate, they were surrounded by the 3rd Division of the First Division.

The 2,000 horsemen were not afraid of death, and swarmed to storm the encirclement of the captive army, but they were all mercilessly shot by the soldiers of the captive army armed with foreign guns, leaving corpses everywhere.

The city of Jingzhou is broken.