Wei Lianheng looked at the wall and felt that the silence was a little abnormal. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 According to the resolute attitude of the Changhua County Order, it is impossible to give up the defense like this.

The soldiers at the front were already on the verge of reaching the top of the wall, and were about to take over it. At this moment, a dense crowd suddenly appeared from behind the wall, shouting loudly and reaching out to push the ladder at the head of the wall.

A company of soldiers in the rear raised their rifles but did not dare to shoot, for fear of accidentally injuring their own people.

The equipment of ordinary soldiers in the Qiongzhou battalion is only Qionghai-style rifles, which are hung diagonally behind their backs in order to climb ladders, and now they want to fight back when they encounter resistance, and they have no weapons to take advantage of for a while. Some soldiers didn't know what to do for a while, they wanted to retreat too late, they wanted to attack the guys, they wanted to jump off the ladder, and when they looked down, they were too high and hesitated.

In the moment of their hesitation, two or three ladders were pushed off the wall by the people in concert. The ladder was full of soldiers, bearing great weight, making a "squeak" sound, and toppling backwards. Some soldiers gritted their teeth and jumped down, and the soldiers who did not jump fell heavily to the ground, and then were pressed by the ladder and fainted.

The soldiers of the other two ladders were nimble and climbed up the wall before the ladders fell. The first soldier to jump onto the city was poked over by a dozen forked poles, and then several waist knives were thrown together and hacked to death. The soldier who jumped from behind took advantage of the chaos to gain a foothold, removed his rifle, and put on an assassination posture to defend.

With a bayonet in hand, it was not a problem for a soldier to resist the undisciplined attacks of three or five people. The soldier stumbled left and right, set up a cross-pole attack, and stabbed an opponent in the middle of the chest, bleeding everywhere, and he was not alive.

Seeing that the other party's bayonet was so ferocious, the momentum was half of the momentum, and several times the number of people did not dare to come forward. At this time, several more soldiers jumped up before the ladder fell, and together with the soldiers who came up first, they formed a small defensive formation.

When the two sides were at a stalemate, Lu Gengyu stood up at the right time and shouted: "There are few of them, everyone will go up together, and if you kill one person, you will be rewarded with one or two silvers and one stone of brown rice!" If there are dead or wounded, two taels of money will be paid. ”

In Changhua, such a reward is considered very high, as soon as they heard the county magistrate's speech, the people mustered up their courage again, surrounded each other, shouted loudly to give themselves courage, and rushed forward with sticks and forks.

Several soldiers fended off attacks from all sides, back to back, and from time to time stabbed one of them. However, the difference in numbers between the two sides was too great, and every time a knife was stabbed, it would take several sticks, even if they were wearing rattan armor, they couldn't stop the sticks, and some people were hit in the arms, blood flowed, and the hands holding the guns were trembling.

A few soldiers at the head of the city were caught in a bitter battle, and the offensive outside the city had been dismantled, all the ladders had been knocked down, and the soldiers who had been injured in the fall were carried back.

Wei Lianheng frowned, pacing back and forth, thinking about countermeasures.

Tan Li suggested: "Battalion commander, just use the mortar cannon to open the flower shell, blow him upside down, and it will naturally fall." We're not good at attacking a city like this. ”

Wei Lianheng hesitated, Tan Li was telling the truth. Ant-attached siege is to fill in with human life, which is the most primitive and most direct and effective way to siege the city. But this time there were only two companies in Changhua, and no matter how small Changhua City was, there were thousands of people, and it was extremely stupid to fight for the lives of the other party.

However, bombarding the city with mortars deviated from Xia Nan's original intention - he wanted to take Changhua as an iron ore mining and smelting base. Changhua is not as large as Guangzhou, the city is small, the population is concentrated, if the killing is too heavy and the people's resentment boils, how to explain when you go back?

Just as he hesitated, several soldiers on the city wall could not resist the siege and jumped down in desperation. Although the city wall of the county town is not as good as that of a big city like Guangzhou, jumping off may not necessarily die, but it will also be injured, two soldiers broke their legs alive, wailing loudly, and the soldiers under the city hurried over to save people.

There was a cheer from the wall, and then the corpse of a soldier was thrown down and fell to the ground, and a hole in the head could be seen from afar, and the black rattan armor was soaked in blood, and he died a terrible death.

Since the formation of the Qiongzhou battalion, the casualties have been very small, and they have not suffered such insults and provocations, everyone is angry, holding the gun in their hands tightly, looking at Wei Lianheng, waiting for him to give an order.

At the moment when the soldier's corpse was thrown down, Wei Lianheng made a decision in an instant to attack the city with mortar artillery! If you hesitate any longer, there will only be more soldiers killed, and it is not easy for the Qiongzhou battalion to train these soldiers, and it is not used to consume them in this senseless ant siege city.

"Open the shell with a mortar cannon! I will bear the consequences of the bombing until the city gates are opened. ”

On the city wall, Lu Gengyu is quite complacent, as long as the top and bottom are united, the rewards and punishments are clear, and the people are brave enough to defend the city, not necessarily inferior to the military households in the guard. He encouraged: "Well done everyone! As long as you keep the city, you won't be less than a penny! ”

The people cheered and said, "Thank you, sir!" ”

While they were rejoicing, the sound of cannons rang out outside the city. Lu Gengyu smiled coldly, what is the use of smashing with that kind of iron ball? No matter how small Changhua is, it is also a county seat, depending on how much iron you have to spend.

Unlike the solid iron ball he had seen before, after the iron ball hit the ground this time, there was a violent explosion, and a private house was blown up, and the explosion was mixed with screams. Lu Gengyu couldn't believe his ears and was stunned for a while.

The development of the situation turned around, and the defender, who had just pulled back a game, was stunned by the explosion. Mortars fired flowering shells at a dense rate of one or two minutes, explosions occurred one after another in the city, collapsing houses were seen everywhere, and wounded civilians scurried around in a panic to find safe shelter.

Lu Gengyu watched in a daze as the flowering bullets crossed his head and fell into the city to harvest his life, but he couldn't do anything, despair permeated his whole body, and then he began to tremble. A voice sounded in his heart: I was wrong, I was very wrong, I forgot that this army had let the entire city of Guangzhou lie at its feet before it was appeased, how could a mere Changhua city be a mantis arm as a car?

The people looked at this tragic scene, worried that their families would also suffer, and they had the heart to go to the city, but they were worried that the county magistrate would blame them, and they were afraid that they would be hit by shells, so they hesitated.

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There are a lot of things at the end of the year.,There's no time code word during the day.,Three more can't be guaranteed.,Temporarily changed to two more around the Spring Festival.,Sorry.。

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