In the city, hundreds of Chu Yong drove a group of people and strong people, carrying buckets of water and pouring water into the tunnel. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 However, the tunnel is too big, and the soil is not too wet, after pouring thousands of buckets of water, the tunnel is wet in front of you, but the water is not enough to flood the tunnel.

Just when Jiang Zhongyuan, who was anxious, wanted to continue to call more people to come to irrigate the water, his own soldiers came to report that there were Cantonese thieves on the southwest, southeast and east sides outside the city, setting up thirty or forty artillery pieces and firing at the head of the city.

Jiang Zhongyuan was helpless, although he knew that this artillery was just an attack, but he still had to send people to deal with it, and he himself went down the city wall, came to the south of the city, and commanded in the center.

However, Jiang Zhongyuan suddenly thought that since the Cantonese thieves had opened artillery attacks in two places, they must have to attack on a large scale. He couldn't help but order the defenders of Nanchang City to step up patrols again and strictly guard against death.

I just wanted to ask how the water in the tunnel was, but at this time, three huge explosions sounded in the two sections of the city wall on the southeast side of the city and the city wall on the south side, and the entire Nanchang City shook twice, as if there was a vicious beast rushing out of the ground.

"It's bad, this damn Yue thief, there are branches in the tunnel, they have already drilled under the city wall to plant explosives, and most of them have blown up the city wall again." Jiang Zhongyuan's heart was stunned, but when he looked up, he saw Zhang Fu, the panicked governor of Xixi, running towards him briskly.

"Lord Jiang, did the Cantonese thieves blow up the city wall? How that should be! Zhang Fu was anxious.

"Lord Futai, don't panic, with Jiang's Chu Yong brothers here, even if there are many thieves, Nanchang will be safe and sound!"

As soon as Jiang Zhongyuan finished speaking, several Qing soldiers ran from the direction of the city wall in a panic and reported: "Lord Futai, the Cantonese thieves have blown up three city walls in a row, two of which are seriously damaged and completely collapsed, and now the brothers are closing the gap, but the Cantonese thieves are much more fierce than the Taiping army a few days ago, and the fire of the muskets is very fierce. ”

"What? Was it really blown up? Zhang Fu's face turned pale, and he hurriedly grabbed Jiang Zhongyuan's arm and shook it, asking Jiang Zhongyuan to find a way.

Jiang Zhongyuan was relieved and said to the Qing soldiers: "Don't panic, tell my brothers to resist me to the death." The shotgunners in the back were all aimed at the gap, how many rushed in, and how many were killed. ”

After speaking, he asked people to lead and lead a team of Chu Yong's own soldiers, striding towards the gap in the city wall.

Soon, we came to a gap in the wall in the southeast corner. I saw that the Qing army at the gap was sparse, and hundreds of Qing troops were hiding behind the city wall and did not dare to show up.

Jiang Zhongyuan couldn't help but be furious: "It's all for Lao Tzu to plug the gap." After speaking, he led Chu Yong's personal troops to force the Qing army behind the gap to rush forward.

After cutting down several Qing soldiers one after another, dozens of Qing soldiers had no choice but to rush into the gap, while indiscriminately firing with bird guns outside the city. As soon as they flashed out of the city wall, they heard a crackling burst of gunfire like firecrackers, and these dozens of Qing soldiers fell to the ground one after another, a large number of people cried wolves and rolled on the ground, and some people groaned a few times and then lost their voice.

Only then did Jiang Zhongyuan understand the meaning of the fierce firepower of the Cantonese thieves said by the previous Qing soldier messenger, did these Cantonese thieves all use foreign guns? As fierce as a foreigner?

Jiang Zhongyuan's face couldn't help but change color! He is familiar with military books, especially the war with foreigners more than ten years ago. The foreign guns and foreign artillery of the foreigners were sharp, and the shotguns and earth cannons of the Qing Dynasty were far from the same.

You can't plug the gap!

Therefore, he immediately ordered to gather more shotgunners, ambush behind the bunkers of the city wall, and use shotguns to block the Cantonese thieves from rushing into the city. At the same time, he forced the people of the city to bring earth and put it in sacks, and put it in the gap to seal the city wall.

However, the people were also afraid of death, and they threw bricks and mud sacks from behind the bunkers in fear, how could they quickly seal the huge gap in the city wall for a while?

Jiang Zhongyuan asked Chu Yong and the shotgunners of the Green Battalion Qing soldiers to prepare, and they were waiting for the Cantonese thieves to rush into the city from the gap and shoot and snipe, but they didn't expect that after waiting for a while, no one rushed in.

At this moment, a surprising scene happened.

A large amount of smoke came out of the gap in the city wall, and it spread continuously, and the smoke had a spicy smell that made people cry as soon as they entered the eyes. This smoke is poisonous!

The poisonous smoke seemed to be blown by a strong and favorable wind, and it continued to spread around the city walls and inside the city. Not long after, Chu Yong and the Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion, who were guarding the gap, were completely surrounded by poisonous smoke, and even Jiang Zhongyuan was surrounded by poisonous smoke!

"Bastard! It's Feng Yunshan's dog thief's handiwork again! Jiang Zhongyuan scolded angrily, but he suddenly choked on the smoke, coughed violently, his eyes were filled with tears, and his head seemed to be a little dizzy.

He couldn't help but think that more than a year ago, at the Xiangjiang River Lingyi Ferry in the north of Quanzhou City, he was also poisoned by poisonous smoke, trapped on the mountain, and was almost captured. Unexpectedly, now it is this kind of poisonous smoke again! Could it be that Lao Tzu is really destined to be poisoned to death by poisonous smoke in this life?

The first two long-haired thieves also blew up the city wall, and they also attacked with thick smoke, but the result was: once the smoke turned, it blew towards the long-haired thief, causing the long-haired thief to return to the camp in defeat; On another occasion, the hairy thief lit the smoke, but could not enter the city through the gap in the wall.

What he couldn't figure out was why the Cantonese thieves attacked the city this time, using the same method, how the poisonous smoke was like the Cantonese thieves' family, and let it go.

What Jiang Zhongyuan didn't expect was that the two steam engines outside the city that roared non-stop drove four blowers to blow wind into the tunnel leading to the blasted city wall, and the poisonous oleander, wet straw, dung, sulfur, dried pepper arsenic and other things that had been prepared in the tunnel were ignited and smoked, and a steady stream of poisonous smoke was born, and then the strong and favorable wind blew out, through the tunnel for nearly two miles, and came out from the blasted city wall.

No, I can't stay here any longer, otherwise I and my brothers will be fainted.

But I can't help but stay here! Retreat, that is, inside the city, let go of the gap in the city wall, let the Yue thieves enter the city, and Nanchang City is about to be breached. It's better for Jiang Zhongyuan to grit his teeth and be ruthless!

He held back the smoke and choked uncomfortably, and ordered Chu Yong to take the lead, followed by Xiang Yong and the green battalion soldiers, rushed out from the two city gates of the east city gate and the south city gate, went around to the two gaps in the city wall, and attacked from both sides, defeating the Yue thieves.

Jiang Zhongyuan was also born after death. There are not many troops in the city, and if it is lost, it will have a great impact on the defense of Nanchang City.

Today, however, there is no other way.

3,000 Chu Yong, plus 1,000 Xiangyong and 2,000 Green Battalion soldiers, the 6,000 Qing army, as soon as they left the city from the east and south gates, they were intercepted by the captive army that had been waiting for a long time. In particular, the 3,000 Qing troops at the south gate were met by the well-equipped officers and soldiers of the 3rd Division A, only to hear a burst of gunfire like fried beans, and rows of Qing soldiers fell.

At this time, the Qing soldiers also hurriedly shot at the other party, but there was still a distance of nearly a hundred paces, and the Qing soldiers' shotguns could not hurt the captured soldiers at all. Fortunately, the Qing army on the tower of the city kept firing with artillery, and finally killed more than a dozen Cantonese thieves, so that the Cantonese thieves did not dare to approach the city wall again.

Jiang Zhongyuan saw that the Cantonese thieves outside the city had already prepared, and he couldn't help but feel bitter for a while. It seems that the plan to go around the back of the gap is simply not realized. He had to order the Qing army out of the city, close to the city wall, and confront the Cantonese thieves outside the city.

And just when the Qing soldiers in the city went out of the city, at the gap on the southeast side, a few voices ran backwards, and several rows of begging soldiers lined up, calling one, two, one, and one, stepping on the pace with a beat, holding foreign guns, and attacking the city.

Although there was thick smoke in front of him, one of the commanders at the head completely ignored these and shouted: "The first two rows, stop, prepare, shoot!" ”

"The first two rows crouch down to load, the third and fourth rows, stop, prepare, shoot!"

As the captives fired a volley in an organized manner, the Qing troops behind the gap in the smoke were shot one after another. The Qing army, who was not shot, hurriedly returned fire in panic, although they also killed and injured a few people, but it was not clear how effective the shotgun could be if the range was short. (To be continued.) )