"Lord Wang! Rajah! Something is wrong! "Another Goshha stumbled in," Zhenhaimen was blasted open by Minggou's cannon! The towers are all down! The entire wall has collapsed! ”

"So fast?" Yue Le's face changed greatly, "It's just an hour, and the city tower actually collapsed?" ”

Not long after, another Goshha ran in: "Lord Wang! Rajah! Something is wrong! Between Zhenhai Gate and Zongyang Gate, a large section of the city wall collapsed! The brothers who were hiding in the cave behind the city suffered heavy casualties! ”

With the development of various siege weapons, some large cities after the Ming Dynasty were equipped with hidden caves behind the city walls, and when the opponent bombarded the city head with siege weapons, the defenders could hide in the treasure caves to avoid trebuchets, large bed crossbows and artillery bombardment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info But today, the cave has become a tomb where the Qing soldiers are buried! Large sections of the city wall were directly destroyed by the new artillery shells, and more than 500 Qing soldiers hiding in the caves were buried under the rubble.

"Thieves are unusual, usually sending auxiliaries to fill in the moat, and then bombarding a section of the moat with artillery. Today, it was the first to collapse the walls. It seems that the thieves' auxiliaries are coming up soon! We can only fight! Someone! Put armor on Benbezi! Ben Beizi wants to see it for himself! Yue Le ordered loudly.

"Lord Wang! Don't go! Dangerous! Several Goshha tried to persuade each other.

"Shut up! Which slave dares to stop Ben Beizi and will not be spared! Yue Le roared.

A blind-eyed Goshha still hugged Yue Le's thigh and persuaded bitterly: "Lord Wang, let's let the slaves go." ”

Yue Le was furious, pulled out the golden knife, and stabbed it out, the tip of the knife pierced the throat of the goshha. The knife was pulled out, and a stream of blood splattered on Yue Le's face. The loyal Goshha's eyes widened, and he clutched his neck, as if he was about to say something, but he could no longer cry out, struggled a few times, and slowly fell.

The other goshkha did not dare to persuade again, so they had to take the armor.

Yue Le put on red military trousers, put on a white flag armor with red edges and white background, and put on a dark yellow lightning rod helmet, walked out of the mansion gate, and walked in the direction of the city wall that was blasted open.

Walking to the collapsed city wall, Yue Le was stunned: a large section of the city wall had become a ruin, and the width of the gap that had been blasted open was at least more than ten zhang! This section of the once tall and mighty city wall is gone, and only the bricks of the city are left, piled up into a slope less than a foot high.

"Quick, let people plug the gap! Green battalion soldiers go up to the city wall! The thief's shield cart will be here soon! Yue Le gave the order.

The soldiers of the Green Battalion climbed the city walls on both sides of the gap, and as soon as they reached the top of the city, they heard the rumbling of drums in the Ming army's camp, and shield carts full of sandbags pushed out of the camp.

The Qing army under the city was busy, the Qing soldiers used a winch to pull the artillery placed under the city to avoid shelling, and all kinds of siege weapons were also sent to the city, and some auxiliaries were busy at the head of the city, repairing the female wall battlements. In the gap below, a large number of auxiliaries carried bricks, stones, and sandbags, preparing to build a makeshift wall behind the gap.

On the Ming artillery position outside the city, the Ming gunners were carrying buckets of water, pouring water on the hot gun, pouring water into the gun chamber from the muzzle of the gun to cool down the artillery. After that, raise the tail of the gun to let the water flow out, and then use a dry mop to clean the gun chamber and suck the water in the ** chamber. In order to speed up the cooling, there is also a foot-operated bellows to supply air to the gun chamber.

Seeing that many Qing soldiers in the city had climbed to the top of the city, Wang Zihao, who was standing on the nest car, gave an order: "Open the cannon!" ”

The artillery that had just stopped had already cooled down, and the gunners had loaded their shells.

The Qing army was preparing to attack the Ming army auxiliaries who were about to fill the moat, but a large row of flowering shells flew up to the city head. Naturally, these flowering shells are all new flowering shells. I saw a dazzling fire flashing on the artillery position of the Ming army under the city, the white smoke rose up, and the shells smashed into the city.

The Ming army's various artillery firing elements were adjusted in advance, and the processing level of the inner wall of howitzers and cannons was improved, and the hit rate was also greatly improved. The flowering shells dropped by the howitzers and the howitzer shotguns sent to the city exploded one after another, and a large number of Qing soldiers who had just landed in the city fell at once.

The previous heavy cannons had already collapsed the female wall battlements, and at this time, the city wall where the Qing army was standing was bare, and it could not stop the shell bombardment at all.

After the rows of cannonballs fell, the city's women's wall carts, wolf's tooth swatters, yaksha beats, artillery and other city-defending weapons were immediately destroyed, and the wooden city-defending weapons were shattered, and the artillery was blown up.

"Don't quit! The Retreater, Slash! The Minggou auxiliaries are coming up soon! Can't let them fill the moat! Several Goshha shouted, armed with steel knives, standing behind the Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion, letting them brave the heavy artillery fire of the Ming army to hold on to the city.

As the shield cart of the Ming army approached, in order to avoid accidentally injuring their own people, the artillery of the Ming army stopped bombardment.

Just when the Qing army at the head of the city felt relieved, countless musketeers in green military uniforms suddenly walked out from behind the shield car of the Ming army and walked up in the direction of the city wall.

"It's the Ming Dog God Hand again! The deadly Hades are here again! Seeing those Ming musketeers in green uniforms, the Qing soldiers at the head of the city were frightened. They gave the rifled guns a nickname, the Death Bolt, which means that as soon as this weapon is fired, the gun will kill you.

The protective facilities such as sandbags and women's wall carts at the head of the city have been destroyed, and there is no place to provide cover for the Qing soldiers on the bare city wall. Some of the more intelligent Qing soldiers crouched down and defended themselves with bricks and tattered sandbags.

The stragglers of the Ming army under the city walked within one hundred and fifty paces, and rifled guns spewed fire one after another. At the same time, several nest carts were pushed up, and the sharpshooters standing on the nest carts used rifled guns to shoot accurately from a height of 180 paces away, constantly knocking down the Qing soldiers at the head of the city among the rubble.

The Qing army was beaten so that it could not even stand on its feet, and the counterattack against the Ming army auxiliaries under the city appeared weak, and occasionally a few brave Qing army bird gunners fired a few shots indiscriminately, and the archers shot a few arrows. This attack power of the Qing army could hardly hurt the Ming army auxiliaries.

"This city can't be defended! Let's put the dog in the castle! Yue Le saw that the situation was not good, and knew that if he sent people to defend the city, he could only die in vain, so he ordered to ignore the Ming army auxiliaries at all, but put the Ming army into the gap, and prepared to block the Ming army at the gap.

The Ming army auxiliaries quickly filled in several sections of the moat, and the Ming army's ironclad soldiers, sword and shield men, and musketeers, who had long been waiting outside the city, rushed to the gap with shouts.

"Bang Bang Bang" The Qing Army's bird gunners and flintlock musketeers who were guarding the gap opened fire, and rows of bullets flew towards the gap.