Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Seeing that Wu Shigong's army is already preparing to attack the cottage, Li Yaozi also knows that the negotiation has broken down.At this time, in Li Yaozi's cottage, there were seven or eight bandits gathered from his own cottage, and after Li Yaozi knew that Wu Shigong was going to attack his own cottage, he asked for reinforcements from the bandits he had befriended. Hundreds of bandits.

In addition, there are more than 600 family members of Li Yaozi's own bandits in the cottage.Therefore, Li Yaozi has an advantage in the number of people.

However, seeing that the soldiers in Wu Shigong's army were physically strong and their weapons were excellent, these bandits did not dare to attack outside the stronghold.It's just that on the wall of the cottage, rolling logs and stones are prepared to passively defend against Wu Shigong's army's attack on the cottage.

Although Wu Shigong was prepared to besiege the cottage for a long time and fight a protracted war.But always try to attack the cottage.

There are only a few siege methods to choose when you attack a fortified city with a small army.It is absolutely impossible to climb the city wall with a ladder to "attach" the ants.Wu Shigong couldn't bear such a big loss of his soldiers.Then the only way is to break through the gate of the cottage and enter through the gate.

Under Xue Yongli's order, a group of soldiers pushed a cart modified from a cart (that is, a large wooden board was erected in front of the cart to act as a shield), followed by the gunners behind the cart, And the pikemen who protect the musketeers to prevent any bandits from coming out of the cottage.

Seeing the approach of the cart, the archers on the city wall of the cottage fired a row of arrows.But with the protection of the large wooden board in front of the cart, it did not cause any damage to the soldiers.Seeing that shooting arrows had no effect, the bandits also stopped shooting arrows under the order of the bandit leader.

The soldiers pushed the cart to the edge of the ditch in front of the cottage, which was only about thirty steps away from the city wall of the cottage.The gunners were behind the rolling cart, loaded the gunpowder and bullets, and under the command of the officer, they leaned out from behind the big wooden board together and shot at the bandits with their heads and bodies exposed on the city wall.

After several intensive shootings, no bandit dared to show his head on the wall of the stronghold.After reloading the bullets again, the gunners watched the city wall vigilantly, preventing the bandit archers from appearing.

At this time, more than a dozen cavalrymen rode their horses to the front of the trench and threw out hooks with thick ropes together.Several hooks hooked the drawbridge, and the cavalrymen dragged the rope behind the hooks to the back and tied them tightly on several horses.

After all the hooks hooked the suspension bridge, all the horses worked hard together under the slogan "one, two, three", and all at once broke the ropes holding the suspension bridge in the cottage.The suspension bridge fell on the ditch, revealing the gate of the cottage.

Seeing the suspension bridge fall, the truck in the middle moved to both sides, revealing a large gap.And the five cannons that had been prepared a long time ago bombarded the gate of the cottage through this gap.

After the five cannons fired successively, only the shells from two of the cannons hit the gate of the cottage, and the other three shells hit the stone wall next to the gate of the cottage.Little stones were splashed.But the stone walls of the cottage are really strong and thick, so for these stone walls, these damages are simply negligible.

Seeing this situation, Wu Shigong shook his head. It seems that although the soldiers in his artillery team have learned how to fire artillery, the accuracy of the artillery is really terrible.

But at this moment, the soldiers in front shouted loudly: "The gate is not blocked! Let's fire!"

In fact, the power of Wu Shigong's five cannons is very small.Even the two shells that hit the gate of the cottage only punched two small holes in the gate of the cottage, and did not cause any fatal damage to the gate of the cottage at all.

But it was the light coming through these two small holes that made the soldiers in front realize that there were no stones or sand blocking the gate of the cottage.

This was also Li Yaozi's negligence.He didn't know Wu Shigong's determination to attack his own stronghold at all, and he didn't know that Wu Shigong had such a sharp weapon as artillery, so he didn't spend any effort to block the door.

You must know that if Li Yaozi blocked the gate of the cottage with stones and sand, Wu Shigong's five cannons, which were not much more powerful than firecrackers, would absolutely not be able to break through the gate of the cottage.Wu Shigong could only besiege the cottage honestly.

But now, Wu Shigong found out about this situation and became excited.After all, if he could take down the cottage earlier, he would spend much less material and energy, and it would also be able to give Lei Ying and other bandits a great deterrent.

Therefore, Wu Shigong immediately ordered the artillery to fire forward to improve the shooting accuracy of the artillery.The artillery was fired in bursts.In the end, almost all the shells brought by Wu Shigong were fired.

Wu Shigong set off this time with thirty rounds of shells.Because although Wu Shigong also built a cannon, his cannonballs were only forty rounds brought out when he left the capital (Xue Lian gave Wu Shigong ten rounds for each cannon at that time) and Yang Goudan made it for him. The cannon with those shells.

But this time when they bombarded the gate of the cottage, Wu Shigong's five cannons fired a total of more than twenty shells.These shells hit the gate of the cottage like a pockmarked face.But the gate of the cottage was not knocked down.It can be seen that the power of Wu Shigong's artillery is indeed too small.

However, these shells did enough damage to the gate of the cottage.The soldiers in the back had bundled together the small trees felled nearby and fixed them on the cart. Holding a knife in front, they cut the bundled trees into tips and made a simple battering ram.

More than a dozen people pushed the cart and walked slowly to the road in front of the gate of the cottage. Everyone yelled in unison and pushed forward. The other soldiers lined up and followed behind.

These soldiers pushing the cart ran faster and faster, and soon they were on the suspension bridge, shouting in unison, and the bundled trees slammed into the wooden door heavily. With a sound of "bang", the already fragile gate of the cottage was knocked open simply and swiftly.

The soldiers pushing the cart were all guards brought out by Wu Shigong from the capital, and they all saw blood when they wiped out the rioters of the Holy Spirit Society.Therefore, without hesitation, they pulled out their knives and axes from the car and rushed into the cottage to seize the gate of the cottage.

The bandits under Li Yaozi did have some brave bandits.Seeing that the gate of the cottage was broken, several bandit leaders led dozens of bandits and rushed towards the gate of the cottage, trying to snatch it back.

But at this time, the gunners behind also rushed into the gate of the cottage.They raised the firecrackers in their hands, and a salvo came.After the first batch of gunners finished shooting, the second batch of gunners also arrived.They followed with a Qishe.

With just these two simultaneous shots, those dozens of bandits who wanted to recapture the gate of the cottage were maimed at once.Even those bandits who were not knocked down by the firecrackers also shouted and turned around to run away, and there was an open space in the gate of the cottage.

At Wu Shigong's place, more and more soldiers rushed into the gate of the cottage, and they were not in a hurry to enter the cottage, so they lined up on the open space in the gate, forming a small square formation of nearly 300 people.

Seeing that his soldiers had completely grasped the gate of the cottage, Wu Shigong also led the rest of the cavalry and soldiers into the cottage.Under Xue Yongli's order, except for the cavalry guarding Wu Shigong, the other soldiers began to divide into small groups, entered the cottage, searched and wiped out the bandits.

Everything happened so neatly, Lei Ying and the bandits who were watching the battle were all stunned.They never thought that Wu Shigong's soldiers were so powerful.Lei Ying still thought in his heart: If Wu Shigong's soldiers attacked his stronghold, it must be like now, the autumn wind sweeps the fallen leaves.

After all, the bandits are not a regular army. They follow the principle: fight if you can beat them, and flee if you can't.When Wu Shigong's army rushed into the stronghold, those bandits fled towards the other three directions of the stronghold.

Therefore, those teams that searched for the remnants basically did not encounter any resistance, and quickly advanced to the cottage, in front of the house where Li Yaozi lived.

Now many bandits who have not escaped are gathered in this house, preparing for the last stubborn resistance.When Wu Shigong got off his horse and came to the front of the house surrounded by guards, his soldiers had already surrounded the house.

The previous attack was also too smooth, so Wu Shigong ordered his soldiers to attack again, and wanted to take this house in one go.

However, when the soldiers charged, they shot a row of arrows from the courtyard, and shot the soldiers in front to the ground at once.I don't know which sharp archer among the bandits aimed at Wu Shigong and shot an arrow.

Of course Wu Shigong was standing outside the range of the bow and arrow, so when this arrow was shot towards him, the flight of that arrow was already a bit floating.But under carelessness, Wu Shigong didn't notice the arrow at all.Seeing that the situation was not good, the guards around jumped on Wu Shigong's body and pressed Wu Shigong to the ground.

That arrow came back in vain.But Wu Shigong was crushed by his own guards, his whole body was in pain, and his body was covered with mud, which made him look very embarrassed.

Wu Shigong became angry all of a sudden, he simply stopped attacking the house, and went outside to bring in two cannons to blast open the gate of the house.

Seeing that the artillery was pushed in, the bandits in the courtyard suddenly became chaotic.A bandit shouted loudly: "Master Li, whether to fight or surrender, please send a message to the brothers!"

But suddenly another bandit shouted: "Fucking Li Yaozi who should light up the sky lantern, he has already run away. Let the brothers work hard here. Come down!"

The bandits in the house suddenly became chaotic.Without much effort, the bandits on the wall of the house waved the white flag.After asking Wu Shigong for instructions, Xue Yongli began to arrange for soldiers to accept the surrender of the bandits.