Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 229 Oh no, this is the enemy of ten thousand people!

Soon, Jianu was within five hundred steps.

Although Shanyang Xiangyong had dug out more than [-] large and small blunderbuss platforms outside the city, and it was almost impossible to find a good road for the chariot to pass, but this did not cause too much hindrance to Jiannu's progress.

Because Jianu brought a large number of uniforms with the army, he had already filled in the passage.

When Jiannu entered the firing range, Yan Yingyuan gave the order without hesitation: "Fire the tiger crouching cannon freely!"

During the previous training, Yan Yingyuan worried that the barrel of the tiger squatting gun would explode if the number of shots was too high, so he kept controlling the frequency of shots, but now there is no need to control it.

If you still control it at this time, it will become a waste of food because of choking.

After receiving Yan Yingyuan's order, the gunner immediately swung the sledgehammer, fixed the two tiger claws of the tiger squat gun on the city wall with iron brazing, and then began to adjust the shooting angle by raising or lowering the tail of the gun.

After adjusting the shooting angle, the gunpowder lead was loaded.

After the lead is loaded, the muzzle is loaded with a closing bullet.

The Xiangyong gunner's operation was a little clumsy, and it took a long time to get better.

"Let go!" Following Wu Erdan's order, 30 tiger squat cannons fired at the same time.

"Boom boom boom boom..." Immediately there was a continuous and huge roar on the wall of the north gate.

Accompanied by a huge roar, clouds of white smoke rose from behind the battlements.

However, it is very regrettable that none of the combined bullets could hit Jiannu's chariot, and all of them fell in the wilderness without flying, and did not form a ricochet.

Ricochets cannot be formed on uneven ground.

On the contrary, many blunderbuss hit the front of the car.

But lead alone can't hit the car at all.

Jiannu behind the car was also unscathed.

Yan Yingyuan didn't care much about this either.

It is not now that the tiger crouching gun really works.

Now it's just for the gunners to hurry up and train in actual combat.

Don't use them too much, it's embarrassing to use them.

……

"Tiger crouching cannon?!"

Doduo's face collapsed.

Suining, Taoyuan, and Qinghe counties were not attacked by tiger crouching guns before. It seems that Shanyang City is still different as the capital of Huai'an Prefecture.

However, after seeing that the tiger crouching cannon had no effect, Duoduo's hanging heart fell back again.

It seems that the tiger squatting cannon is only effective when used in conjunction with the gun platform. It is used to defend the city. If it is far away, it will not be able to penetrate the chariot, and if it is close, it will not be able to hit the foot of the city wall. It is completely a display.

The next situation was just as Duduo thought.

When the distance was greater than a hundred steps, the tiger squatting gun's closed-mouth bullets hardly hit a single shot. The precision of the closed-mouth bullets was too poor, and the penetration power of the lead was too weak, so there was almost no threat to the car.

Within a hundred steps, the Tiger Crouching Cannon would be out of reach.

Because the tiger squatting gun has no way to shoot with the muzzle facing down.

Therefore, a Jiala (1500 flag Ding) and more than a thousand coated servants who attacked were easily pushed to the north gate with the cover of 60 chariots.

There was originally a moat outside Shanyang City.

But at this time, the moat and the canal passing through the city have already been frozen.

Therefore, the flag Ding with the white flag directly pushed the cart across the moat.

Less than ten steps away from the city wall, the coaters began to assemble the ladder.

Since the city wall of Shanyang is six feet high, four ladders are needed to reach it. Therefore, only 60 aerial ladders were assembled from 15 carts. However, in Duoduo's opinion, 15 aerial ladders are enough.

As long as the banner with the white flag can be sent to the top of the city, the battle will be over.

The only suspense is how many people will die in the end?Maybe more than a hundred people.

After all, in Suining County, Taoyuan County, and Qinghe County, [-] or [-] people would die in battle just to seize one gun platform. Shanyang City is much stronger than the gun platform over there.

So it's normal to die a few more.

A hundred banners are already considered a lot of casualties.

But the two white flags now have more than a hundred cattle records, and this casualty is still affordable.

While Doduo was thinking, the attack coat had erected the ladder and fixed it to the cart through the mortise and rivet structure, and the iron hook at the other end was firmly hooked to the battlement of the city wall.

Xiangyong on the top of the wall also started to fight back.

These village braves actually made a lot of simple bows and arrows.

Seeing thousands of archers suddenly appear on the top of the city, Duoduo and the two white-flag nobles watching the battle were startled. When they saw arrows raining down from the top of the city, everyone's hearts were raised.

But soon, Duduo and the nobles of the two white flags burst out laughing.

Because the rain of arrows pouring down from the top of Shanyang City did not pose any threat to the bannermen bordered with white flags, only those coated slaves who lacked armor protection were shot and injured a lot.

And it didn't last long.

Because the flag Ding with the white flag began to counterattack with a large bow.

The heavy arrows shot by the Dashao bow are much more lethal than Xiangyong's earthen bows and arrows, and Jiannu's archery skills are many times stronger than those of Xiangyong's archers. Niu Lu's archers suppressed them, but they still easily suppressed the Xiangyong archers on the top of the city.

Immediately, more than a hundred banner men held swords and horses in their mouths, divided into fifteen groups and climbed up the ladder.

However, Xiangyong on the top of the city was not afraid, and immediately pushed down the rolling log and smashed down the stone ring. The rolling log or ring stone weighing hundreds of catties fell down the ladder, and the sound was terrifying.

It's just that Jian Nu was clearly prepared.

The fifteen bannermen who climbed to the front were all selected Hercules, and carried a large shield.

Seeing the rolling wood and stone falling from the top of the city, these strong men hurriedly put their bodies close to the ladder, and at the same time carried the big shield on their shoulders obliquely. It must be impossible to carry it head-on, and they can only carry it obliquely. Use the angle to unload the force, and turn the rolling wood and rocks weighing hundreds or even hundreds of kilograms to one side.

This is physical work, but also technical work.

If you don't have more than ten years of relevant work experience, you can't do this job.

The dozen or so leaders of Xiangbaiqi obviously had a lot of work experience, and they actually withstood the impact of rolling wood and rocks, and even went against the current to continue climbing!

"Master, it looks like Shanyang City will be taken down soon." He Luohui said flatteringly.

"Hey, don't get too excited." Duoduo waved his hand and said, "From the battles in Suining County, Taoyuan County, and Qinghe County, we can know that the real battle is after our warriors ascend the city."

"Yes." Zhengbai Banner Gushan Ezhen'ashan also said, "After our warriors ascend the city, Xiangyong will definitely use fishing nets, gold juice and even lime to launch a crazy counterattack. That will be the real test."

"The test of fart." He would not be polite to Ashan Heluo, and said with a curl of his lips, "It's just a dying struggle, no matter how hard you struggle, you will die. Shanyang City has actually been taken by me with a white flag..."

However, before the last word "down" was finished, a sudden change occurred.

I saw spoonfuls of steaming yellow-green liquid suddenly splashed down from the top of the city.

In addition, a large number of paper bags, cloth bags, pottery bottles and even porcelain bottles were thrown from the top of the city.

These "things" fell on the ladder, the big shield, and even the armor of the flag Ding and shattered in an instant, and then white powder splashed out from inside.

In the next instant, the bannermen who were crowded on the ladder immediately wailed incomparably tragically.

Because the shield can't protect it at all, gold juice, lime and so on are all hit from the side.

The elite bannermen who withstood wave after wave of attacks from rolling trees and rocks finally couldn't hold on any longer, and fell down from the ladder one by one, some even jumped off on their own initiative.

"Ah? This..." He Luohui was stunned.

Duoduo, Ashan and the nobles of the two white flags were also there in a daze.

This is not the same ah?How did Xiangyong from Shanyang change his routine with Xiangyong from Suining, Taoyuan and Qinghe counties?Didn't we agree to use gold juice and lime after our warriors go up?

How come our warriors are only halfway through the climb, and you used gold juice and lime in advance?
The bannermen inlaid with the white flag suffered heavy casualties. Most of the bannermen could not bear the pouring of gold juice and the attack of quicklime, and they fell down passively or actively. The few remaining bannermen were soon caught by the rolling logs The ring stone fell to the ground, and a few unlucky ones were even directly crushed by the rolling wooden ring stone weighing hundreds of catties.

"These idiots!" He Luohui roared angrily, "Hurry up and shoot the dog!"

He Luo would scold the two Niulu archers who were in charge of the cover, but in fact, this really wronged them.

The [-] archers who were in charge of covering the attack were not idle, but continued to shoot arrows all the time, but Shanyang City was much higher than the blunderbuss platforms in Suining, Taoyuan and Qinghe counties.

If it was a blunderbuss platform, Xiangyong could only shrink completely behind the protective wall, and be shot to death as soon as he showed his head.

But there is no such thing on the top of the six-foot-high city of Shanyang City. With the cover of the battlements, Xiangyong on the top of the city can throw, splash, or carry rolling wood and rocks with ease. Because the head is not too high above the battlements, the archers with white flags on the ground outside the city can't see it at all.

Seeing this clearly, Dodo frowned instantly.

A bit troublesome?It seems that Shanyang City is not easy to fight.

After pondering for a while, Duoduo said to He Luohui: "He Luohui, send the flying cavalry to inform Shitu, don't try it out, just go directly to Ba Yala and launch a strong attack, killing the Ming army by surprise!"

"Hey!" He Luohui swung a thousand times, and quickly dispatched flying cavalry.

After receiving He Luohui's order, Xiangbaiqi launched an offensive again.

More than a hundred bannermen held sabers in their mouths and climbed up the ladder.

However, this time the Xiangyong on the top of the city was even more ruthless. The bannermen inlaid with white flags had just started to climb up, and the hot golden juice poured down like a rainstorm.

Not to mention rolling wood and beating stones, it never stopped.

There are also cloth bags, paper bags, ceramic vases and porcelain vases filled with quicklime, which are also thrown down for free.

But Ba Yala with the white flag is really strong, he insisted on climbing up against these, and in a blink of an eye he had climbed to a height of about four feet, thirteen meters!

But at this moment, more than a dozen huge black shadows suddenly fell from the top of Shanyang City.

"This is a quilt?" Duoduo, He Luohui, and Ashan were stunned for a moment, and then roared in unison in horror, "Oh no, this is the enemy of ten thousand people!"

(End of this chapter)