The Qing army suffered a crushing defeat in the field and fled all the way. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The dragoons and infantry of the Ming army were in hot pursuit, and even the artillery and heavy cavalry were involved in the pursuit, chasing all the way from Longzi Lake to Fengyang City.

At the same time as the Ming army won a complete victory in the field battle, 30,000 Ming soldiers, more than 100,000 railway soldiers and 50,000 auxiliary soldiers launched a final attack on the city of Zhuzhen.

Cai Yumao worked hard to make the stone city wall built by the auxiliary soldiers and the people behind the Tucheng of Zhuzhen could not block the attack of the Ming army, and the railway line of the Qiongzhou army was laid until a hundred steps away from the stone city wall, and the steam locomotive roared, and the ironclad fire dragon crushed this section of the all-iron railroad track, and appeared under the city with a roar.

When the railway line arrived a hundred steps away from the city, it turned in a different direction and turned sideways, and the ironclad fire dragon that drove over happened to be aimed at the city wall on the side, which could give full play to the firepower of all the main guns and half of the secondary guns on the car.

The ironclad fire dragon, known as a land battleship, slowly stopped, and aimed at the stone wall from the side, and the four rifled guns on the roof turret and the sixteen sub-cannons sticking out of the side gun doors were all aimed at the city wall.

The ironclad firepower that stopped on the railway line was like a giant ship, and the flickering firelight flashed from beginning to end, like a lightning bolt, and the whistling cannonballs smashed into the city.

At the same time that the ironclad fire dragon bombarded the head of the city, the various artillery pieces of the artillery of the Ming army also made a deafening roar, hundreds of various artillery pieces spewed fire one after another, and the white smoke billowed up from the artillery position, and the cannonballs were like mountains and seas, and smashed onto the city wall. Although the solid stone wall is not something that can be collapsed at once, the female wall battlements are not so strong, and countless cannonballs keep falling, and the female wall battlements at the head of the city are shattered.

In particular, the four rear-loading rifled guns on the ironclad fire dragon had a fast rate of fire, high accuracy, and great power, and each high-speed rotating solid cannonball smashed on the female wall battlement, beating a large area of the city wall into bareness.

The artillery transferred by the Qing army bombarded the ironclad fire dragon, but it could not penetrate this strong ironclad train at all, but was retaliated by the rifled guns on the car, and the Qing artillery that had just opened fire was immediately destroyed.

The artillery of the army division was replaced with flowering shells, and the shells fell one after another above the city wall, so that the Qing soldiers on it could not stand at all.

The heavy shelling lasted for half an hour, and the Minzhuang and the auxiliary soldiers, under the cover of the fire of the ironclad fire dragon, pushed the shield cart towards the head of the city.

The women's walls and battlements on the city wall used to protect the defenders were destroyed, and the Qing army had just piled up sandbags with them when they were blown away by a series of shells; The Qing soldiers had just launched the women's wall cart to block the damaged battlement, and the women's wall cart was blown apart by the roaring shells.

At the same time as the shield car advanced forward, the Ming army auxiliaries and the people pushed out the watchtower car and the nest car, and the Ming army snipers standing on it fired at the city head with new rifled guns.

The Yongli 24-year-old rifled gun was accurate and fast, the Mini bullet with a smaller caliber than the barrel was loaded quickly, and a new type of propellant was used, and the Ming army sharpshooter who had finished shooting a bullet quickly stuffed a new bullet from the barrel with a whole strip, compacted it, squeezed the primer into the medicine pool, and then picked up the rifled gun, aimed at the city head and pulled the trigger.

The rifled guns had a long range, and the nest cars and watchtower cars that were hiding behind the ironclad fire dragon one hundred and twenty steps away from the city continued to spew out tongues of fire, and the bullets accurately hit the Qing soldiers at the head of the city, but the Qing soldiers had no way to take these nest cars and watchtower cars.

The artillery of the Qing army had been completely lost, and they could only be beaten, but they had no power to fight back.

When the shield cart approached, the Qing soldiers in the city were able to attack with bird guns, bows and arrows, lime bottles and oil cans, knocking down many Ming army auxiliaries and people, and also lit the number of shield carts.

However, under the blows of the Ming army's musketeers, the Qing soldiers defending the city suffered heavy losses.

"As long as the shield cart goes up, it can blow up the city wall!" Wang Yu stood on a high platform behind the ironclad fire dragon, holding a telescope and looking at the stone city wall two hundred paces away.

A number of shield carts had already been set on fire by the Qing soldiers at the head of the city, but fortunately, none of these shield carts carried explosive packs, and after the shield carts were set on fire, the auxiliaries immediately retreated. Then several bottomless carts were pushed up, and by the time they were pushed up, the Qing soldiers at the head of the city had already suffered heavy casualties and were unable to stop them.

The auxiliary soldiers of the cart approached the city and dug in the stone walls with iron drills to remove the excavated stones.

The Qing soldiers at the head of the city braved the rain of bullets from the city, desperately throwing lime bottles, smashing boulders, throwing oil cans, and throwing torches. Although the top of the carts was covered with thick wet felt and smeared with wet river mud, over time, all of them were set on fire.

"Let's go! We've done it! An auxiliary officer shouted.

The auxiliaries working under the car escaped from the blazing fire and ran back desperately. During the evacuation, many of the auxiliaries were killed by the bows and arrows at the head of the city, but most of them escaped safely.

The carts, which had completed their mission, burned under the city and were soon burned into piles of charcoal.

Soon, however, four more wagons of the Qiongzhou Army were pushed up by the auxiliaries, and these wagons were tasked with transporting explosives packets. Under the cover of the artillery and muskets of the Qiongzhou army, the auxiliaries stuffed the explosives into the hole that had been dug, lit the fuse, and then got out of the cart and quickly evacuated.

Cai Yumao saw the cart pushed up by the Ming army, and he had already expected it to be bad. When the cart was pushed to the bottom of the city, Cai Yumao ordered the hot gold juice to be poured down, and poured a large amount of water from the city to try to extinguish the fuse. However, Wang Yu had already prevented the Qing army's move, in addition to the car with a certain waterproof ability, the explosive bag was also made of thick oiled paper, which could prevent it from being soaked in water, and the fuse was a wax-covered fuse that could be burned in water.

There were four loud bangs, and the solid stone wall was blown down in four sections.

"Kill the Tartars!" Wu Zhudan, the general of the Qiongzhou Army, jumped up and rushed towards the gap in the city wall with the sword player who served as the vanguard.

"Plug the gap!" Cai Yumao yelled hoarsely.

The Qing army rushed towards the gap, and the feather arrows were shot at the armor of the sword player, and they were all bounced away. The Qing musketeers opened fire, and in the panic, the musketeers did not shoot accurately, and only a few Ming soldiers fell.

The knife player rushed to the gap and threw a volley of grenades, blowing up the Qing army that blocked the gap. Immediately afterwards, the sword player entered the crowd of the Qing army. The Ming musketeers who followed up climbed up to the top of the city along both sides of the gap and exported fire into the city.

At the same time that the Qiongzhou army launched a fierce attack from the gap, a group of hand-to-hand soldiers adapted from the original green battalion Cantonese army also launched a fierce offensive on the city wall, and a large number of Cantonese soldiers carried simple ladders, set up the city wall, and climbed towards the city. As the attention of the Qing army was drawn to the gap, the number of defenders of the city wall was small, and although their resistance was very stubborn, they were unable to hold back the Cantonese army.