Chapter 290: Death's Meteor Shower
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A number of cannonballs swept through the night sky and fell into the city, like a meteor shower, which was very beautiful, but it was a meteor shower that brought death.
"Boom, boom, boom", shells exploded one after another. This time, only three bombs landed in the crowd, and the rest fell into civilian houses. The houses near the south gate have been bombed, and the people have run away, and all the houses have been bombed.
Although the hit rate was not high, all three shells successfully exploded, and the flow of people, which had been restored, was thrown into chaos again without incident. The people couldn't bear the pressure anymore, shouting and running with their heads in their hands, and Sun Tianbiao's personal soldiers couldn't help no matter how much they pressed them.
Disasters were staged in the long streets: once the people who were crushed down, they could no longer stand up, and countless pairs of feet stepped over them, and they died on the spot; Min Yong, who trampled on someone else's death, tripped over the corpse, and after falling, he repeated the tragic fate. People were like headless flies, bumping around, some fleeing backwards, some running towards the city gate, some smashing open the doors and windows of the houses on the street and hiding in the house, and the whole area near the south gate became a pot of porridge.
The shelling continued, and from time to time explosive shells fell on the crowd, some exploded, some did not, but this no longer matters. Panic spread through the crowd like a plague, and everyone had long since lost the idea of going out of the city to exchange the thief's head for silver, and there was only one thought in their minds: to escape from this place. The more crowded and chaotic the place, the more blind and frightened people became, and the people who were unable to move began to pick up the knives, guns and sticks in their hands and slash at their companions around them, trying to open up a bloody escape route.
The first person to do it, it caused more people to follow suit, in order to survive, nothing can be cared about, even those who do not want to do it, in order to defend themselves, are forced to take up arms and fight desperately. Everyone began to kill each other, and more and more people fell in pools of blood. After passing the sex, even though the shelling has stopped, the fighting continues.
Sun Tianbiao squeezed in the cave of the city gate for a long time, and he was almost suffocated, and he didn't even have the strength to shout. As the crowd slowly squirmed forward, I don't know how long it took, and finally the surroundings were relaxed, and the cool air came to my face, and I was outside the city.
He looked ahead, and in the darkness the opposite thief position was blazing with fire, firing cannons. It's just that the distance is not a few hundred steps seen during the day, and it is a full two miles away. He felt a chill in his back, and couldn't help but scold again: "I'll push your lungs." "When did this gang of thieves move their positions, and the defenders on the city wall didn't find out, or they found out and didn't notify the night raiding team in time, how can they play now?
Whether he wants to or not, Sun Tianbiao can only move forward, not backward. If you retreat, you will not be trampled to death, and you will be beheaded by the governor.
"Kill the thief!"
Sun Tianbiao let out a hoarse shout and rushed forward with his own soldiers. γγThe commander made the adults bare-chested, how dare the rest not follow, the officers and soldiers also rushed forward with shouts, followed by the people who acted as extras.
The defenders on the city walls seemed to react, and the Hongyi cannons began to fire, and the shells flew over the heads of the crowd towards the opposing position. It's just that the distance is a bit far, and it can't be aimed in the dark, and most of these shells hit planes.
When the attacking team rushed to a mile or so, the mountain artillery of the convoy began to open fire. The distance of five or six hundred meters is the best range for the mountain artillery to exert its power, and the solid bullets cut through the dense crowd, plowing out blood grooves, and each cannon will take the lives of more than a dozen people.
However, the crowd was too dense, and the blood groove pierced by the cannonball was quickly filled by the people behind. The people were not so brave, but the chaotic stampede in the city made people feel suffocated and desperate, and they subconsciously decided that it was more dangerous to retreat, and the momentum of the impact was maintained.
The ranks of the night raiders were divided into two parts by the city gates, and those who left the city had begun to storm the positions of the convoys, and the chaos in the city continued, and the infighting did not stop. A team of more than 10,000 people, less than sixty percent rushed to the other side.
Sun Tianbiao, as the commander of the guard, is used to being pampered on weekdays, and there have been few wars in Guangdong in recent years, and there are its own battalions in the war, so it is not his turn, where can he go through such a high-intensity attack. After running for two miles, he was already out of breath, and his right hand with a knife slowly hung down, and what supported him to continue was just a will to survive - he was caught off guard by the other party before the battle, and there were many casualties, and the charge of poor command was that he couldn't escape, and only by rushing into the opponent's position, cutting off one hundred and eighty heads, and returning to the governor, his head could be saved.
Xia Nan looked at the unabated attack team and asked uncertainly: "These people are at most some guards and people, why haven't they broken up after the shelling, it's not scientific?" β
Wei Lianheng was behind him and shook his head: "If you were the guard army in Qiongzhou, such an artillery bombardment would have escaped a long time ago, and today these Cantonese Yankees are afraid that they have taken medicine." β
They didn't know at all that the sudden shelling of the mortar artillery had certainly caused casualties and confusion on the other side, but at the same time, it had also caused great fright and excitement.
The crowd was still rushing forward under artillery fire, and the guards had begun to reload their rifles and prepare to meet the enemy with a platoon of guns. Xia Nan clenched her fists, and her palms began to sweat unconsciously. In addition to facing the team of two or three thousand people in the Qiongzhou Guard, such a large-scale battle was only the time when Bofu's earth fort faced He Rubin's army, but that time there was a fortress to rely on, this time it was in the wilderness, once the other party was not repulsed, it would be flooded by the sea of people, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
The heavens seemed to test the will to fight of the escort team, and in the darkness, a shell from a Hongyi cannon flew over, landed more than ten meters in front of the position, and then bounced up and hit a mortar. There was a loud bang, the mortar and the base were overturned, and the gunner was pressed under the cannon body, making a miserable scream. The people next to him hurriedly raised the mortar cannon and rescued the gunner, only to see him spitting blood from his mouth and his chest sunken, and he didn't know if he would survive or not. This sudden change caused a commotion among the surrounding team members.
Xia Nanda shouted: "Calm down. It was just an accident that the opponent's artillery mount could barely hit so far on the city wall, and besides, they couldn't aim, so don't be afraid. Don't move, the enemy is approaching. β
Lin Weiye visually measured the enemy's distance and reminded: "Prepare to change shotguns." β
Huang Hansheng shouted: "Change the shotgun, keep shooting." β
The gunners took out the cannonballs in the form of cannons and loaded them into the muzzles. At this time, the attacking team had already rushed to a distance of two or three hundred meters.
"Shoot!"
"Boom, boom, boom", the mountain cannon began to spray a torrential rain of metal, and countless iron projectiles made a whining sound and flew towards the dense crowd.
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