The railroad soldiers sweated like rain, and the two parallel rails continued to stretch forward, and the ballast fell on the roadbed, fixing the sleepers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info Looking at the ever-expanding railway line, Wang [Fu] Chen was in a good mood.

The roadbed extended in front of the earthen wall of the Qing army, and the resistance of the Qing army became particularly fierce. On the earth city, feather arrow projectiles splashed down like rain, and lime bottles and oil cans smashed down ping-pong. With the help of the cover of the shield car, the railway soldiers braved the rain of bullets and bullets to carry out the construction. Many railroad soldiers were unfortunately shot by arrows and fell under the city. A raging fire ignited under the earthen castle, making the hot weather drier and the air radiating heat.

Trenches were dug on both sides of the roadbed and towers were erected. The stragglers and sharpshooters stood on the tower and fired continuously at the Qing soldiers on the earth city with rifled guns, and with each gunshot, one of the Qing soldiers fell.

The line infantry stood behind the shield cart and suppressed the Qing army at the head of the city with a platoon of guns.

Under the cover of their comrades-in-arms, the railroad soldiers braved the fierce fire of the city to lay tracks. Two parallel railroad tracks run up from behind and reach the roadbed below the city. Concrete sleepers and pure iron rails are laid on the roadbed near the city, which prevents the railway line from being burned by oil tanks.

The railway line approaching the city wall is not vertically aimed at the city wall, but turns a small bend, forming a certain angle with the city wall, so that the iron armor fire dragon can be aimed at the wall on the side and exert the maximum firepower effect.

"Let's go!" Seeing that the railroad tracks had fallen, Wang [Fu] Chen turned his head and gave an order to the commander Liu Yongfeng.

"Woo-" The steam locomotive roared, and the ironclad fire dragon rumbled over the railroad tracks, slowly driving towards the earthen city in front of it.

"Minggou's land battleship is here!" Seeing the black smoke and the ironclad fire dragon that was coming, the Qing soldiers defending the city were all frightened and heartbroken.

The land battleship, that is an irresistible force, and what is even more terrifying is that it is a steel monster made of pure iron, whether it is a rocket or a fire oil tank, it cannot destroy it, even if the Hongyi cannon bombards it, it will be bounced off by the iron armor, and there is nothing that can destroy this iron beast at all.

The ironclad fire dragon approached the city wall, and the rear-loading rifled gun on the car raised its muzzle and aimed it at the earth city, and the gun muzzle spewed out a ball of fire, and the high-speed rotating cannonball drilled into the earth city.

The solid shells fired from rifled cannons were even more destructive to the city walls, and one of the shells swirled into the dirt, spinning out scattered lumps of dirt, and a hole appeared in the earthen city. Because the cannonball structure itself is hollow at the head and solid at the back, this structure makes the cannonball deform and twist after penetrating a solid object, rolling indiscriminately, and the cannonball is broken and exploded, which has a great destructive effect on the inside of the city wall, especially this kind of earthen city built of mud.

The four rifled guns fired in turn, and the wall in front of the ironclad fire dragon was quickly blasted open a gap. At the same time, the sub-mother cannon sticking out of the cannon door also bombarded the city head violently, suppressing the firepower of the Qing army in the city.

"Kill the Tartars!" The officers and soldiers of Qiongzhou roared and entered through the gap.

The first to kill into the city wall is still hand-to-hand soldiers, after the appearance of the Mini bullet, although the Qiongzhou army has begun to enter the reform of full firearms, but still retains the sword hand wearing strong armor, this kind of army in dealing with the Qing army archers, or in the siege war when the role is great, and the knife player is not the original knife player, but a semi-firearms knife player, they hang a grenade and a double-barreled short gun around their waists, and they can use a short gun and a grenade at a long distance, and then use a knife to kill when they get close.

This time, the sword players who attacked the city did not carry inconvenient shields, and relied entirely on the armor on their bodies to resist the opponent's attacks. The shield of the sword player will only carry the shield when he is in a field battle, and he will not carry a shield when he is fighting a battle.

"Kill!" More than 500 elite sword players entered the gap.

Five hundred sword players, equivalent to the pistol team of later generations, each soldier carried two double-barreled short guns, this weapon was originally the equipment of the cavalry, and after the cavalry was replaced with the breeched Thunderbolt short gun, the eliminated double-barreled short gun was equipped with the knife player. The thick-backed broadsword of the knife player is carried on the back, and a short gun and grenade are hung around the waist.

Five hundred sword players entered the gap, and when they saw the Qing soldiers coming to stop them, the sword players pulled out their double-barreled short guns from their waists, and each fired four shots in a row.

Gunfire roared, and a large number of Qing soldiers in front of them fell.

The knife player who had finished the bullet put the short gun back into his waist, took out the grenade and threw it.

"Boom, boom, boom" A series of explosions sounded, and the flesh and blood of the Qing soldiers in front of them flew sideways. However, the Qing army, which had suffered repeated losses, learned a lesson, and every time it faced the Ming army, the formation was relatively loose, so the losses were not too great.

But with a loose formation and an opponent in formation, it goes without saying what the result will be.

After throwing a grenade, the knife player immediately charged the Qing army in groups of three.

The formation of the Qing soldiers who were dizzy by the grenade was loose, and in the blink of an eye, the Qiongzhou saber players had already rushed to them, slashing with big swords, and each Qing soldier was fighting on their own, and they couldn't resist it at all in the face of three big knives cut down.

Broke through the outer earthen city, and there were moats and earthen cities inside. The defeated Qing army retreated to the second earthen city and continued to resist stubbornly. It turned out that when the Ming army railway soldiers were carrying out civil construction and building roadbeds and railway lines, in order to resist the attack of the Ming army, Cai Yumao ordered the Qing army to dig another trench in the earth city and build an earth city.

Of course, Cai Yumao's small actions can't escape Wang [Fu] Chen who boarded the hot air balloon to take off to observe.

"Another earthen city has been built inside the Tartar, and the movement is quite fast! Lao Tzu just wants to see if we are bombarding fast, or if the Tartar Earth City is repairing fast! Wang [Fu] Chen sneered, "Blow up the outer city wall, so as not to block the cannon muzzle of the iron-armored fire dragon!" Concentrate artillery fire again and bombard the inner earthen city! ”

The Ming army planted gunpowder on a large section of the earthen city on the periphery and then withdrew. After a while, only a loud bang was heard, and a large section of the outer earthen city was blown down, and the earthen city built by the Qing army later was exposed under the cannon of the ironclad fire dragon.

At the same time, the artillery of the Ming army dragged all kinds of cannons, advanced up, and built artillery positions on the periphery of the bombed-out city wall, relying on the railway line.

All this was done, and it was already dark.

The Qiongzhou army attacked the city overnight, and the rifled cannons and sub-mother cannons on the ironclad fire dragon, and the cannons and howitzers on the roadbed smashed rows of shells into the inner city, but after smashing it for a night, the earth city still did not collapse.

"The Tartars are really willing to pay for their blood! The newly built earthen castle is made of stone! Gong Xiaoda said.

Gong Xiaoda didn't know that Cai Yumao didn't know how much he was scolded by the Qing soldiers in order to build the stone city wall inside. On a hot day, the difficulty of building this kind of stone city wall can be imagined.

Wang [Fu] Chen sneered: "What about the stone city wall? Even if it is an iron city wall, Wang can pry it open! ”