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Chapter 1295 Authentic
Youdao is hard to buy, I knew it earlier.

The mansion of Earl Charles was transformed into the Puli County Government Office, and the wine cellar became the most important thing for the guards to protect. The soldiers who dug this tunnel had not dug through completely, and when they pushed down a brick, they were hit by the three-eyed gun that went in. Headshot.

Immediately afterwards, the knight who listened to his muttering and stepped forward to investigate was also pierced through the throat by the lead shot. The terrified soldiers tried to fight back with flintlock pistols, but the wall had not yet been pierced and they could not get close. Several kung fu corpses shot in bursts They piled up the entire tunnel.

The other two tunnels leading to the slums were luckier. One of them happened to be dug under the houses. After climbing out, two soldiers led by the knight Miller controlled the citizens in the house. After asking, the street outside had been cleared. Army blockade.

The best solution at this time is to ask for information and go out of the city the same way, but the general attack is imminent, and they have no choice.

After the follow-up sergeants climbed out one after another, the musketeers fired muskets at the Muye Baojia on duty on the second floor of the house, and the infantry immediately filed out to the street to start street fighting with the Baojia soldiers who lacked armor.

For a time, although Miller and the others had the upper hand in force, and there were musketeers suppressing their shots from the commanding heights, the Miao people's crossbow was still as powerful as a ballista. Casualties, the poison on the arrow head made the successful bidders mostly powerless to fight, panic made them miss the best time to break through.

The worst thing is that the soldiers who should have been pouring out of the tunnel are gone. In the end, only about forty people came out of this road. However, more and more armored soldiers gathered near the street, and the big crossbowmen also suppressed the shooting. Slow musketeers, so they don't dare to show their heads.

Then they called people back to the tunnel to urge reinforcements, but only the sound of shouting for killing mixed with the firing of muskets and screams could be heard from the tunnel.

The sailors of the Ming army heard the gunshots outside, smashed through the earth wall from the next door of the tunnel, dragged the follow-up reinforcements, and started fighting in the tunnel with three-eyed guns, hatchets and short knives.

They couldn't get out of the street, they couldn't go back to the tunnel, and they left a few corpses on the street and half of the soldiers were injured. Their injuries were generally not serious, except for those big crossbows that looked like ballistas and had to be pulled apart by multiple people. In addition, small hand crossbows, javelins, and spears will only get stuck on the breastplate, and then be blocked by the armored clothes, which will hurt the flesh but there is no danger of life.

But just this little injury made them all soft-legged shrimps.

Even Miller, when more armor heard the sound of muskets coming to his aid, he was shot in the back of the thigh by a short crossbow from behind. There was no plate armor in that position, only his mail trousers, and the chain ring stopped The crossbow shot deeper, but it did stick to the leg, taking away his inexhaustible strength and gradually destroying his fighting spirit.

The short battle made Sir Miller doubt whether they could win, and now he only hoped that Sir Nice, who was responsible for causing chaos from the tunnel into the city, could open up the situation as soon as possible.

Even if he couldn't come to rescue him, I hope that Nice can open up the situation, so maybe the soldiers of the Ming army gathered outside the downstairs door will temporarily give up on themselves because of his movement?Or stay there, and Earl Charles leads the army to attack the city or the sea fleet to attack the city, no matter which one comes first, it is a possibility for him.

Otherwise, it is very likely that after a while, the well-trained Ming army infantry outside the city will rush in and kill themselves.

Miller dragged his injured leg with the Morning Star Hammer and stood up. Looking around the small room on the second floor, short crossbow bolts were stuck everywhere on the window frame and ceiling, and three blood-stained flintlocks were thrown on the table by the window. A corpse was shot in the face by an arrow and lay on the ground with its face up. There was also an unlucky ghost whose helmet was pierced by a large crossbow arrow as thick as two fingers, and his whole body was nailed to the wall.

There was still the sound of coughing and coughing in the room. On the only bed was a musketeer sitting against the wall. He was strangling his throat with both hands. The hemp scarf wrapped around his neck had already turned red. The chief culprit of this fatal injury was Lying quietly beside the bed - a blood-stained, finger-thick small crossbow bolt.

It didn't look like he would live long.

The only unscathed musketeer didn't seem to have any desire to talk, he looked at Miller with blank eyes, raised his head and asked amidst the despair in the whole room: "Sir, we are all going to die ,Right?"

Miller shook his head. It could be seen that the musketeer was on the verge of collapse after experiencing the deaths of his comrades in battle. He shook his head firmly and said, "As long as Sir Ness climbs out of the ground, he can turn the situation around and support the musketeer." .”

"Where is Sir Nice?"

Yes, where is Sir Nice?
Miller wants to ask this question, his people are dying, where is Sir Ness who should have come out long ago?

In fact, not only they want to ask, Sir Nice also wants to know where he is.

He led his loyal and brave warriors along the tunnel and dug upwards at the end of the tunnel. They were quite sure that they were just below the slums, and there should be a few double-storey wooden and stone houses and more thatched huts above.

When the plague broke out and they withdrew from the city, the thatched hut area was a very severely infected area, and there were probably no people there now, so their breakthrough should be extremely easy.

This is where the problem lies. They thought that the ground of the thatched hut was like a garbage dump, and there might be dirty things underground, which might make them sick.

In the end, anyone can survive the current war.

But when they started digging upwards, they felt strange immediately. The soil above was very soft, like the ground that had been dug up and buried.

Then they dug thick wet mud and wooden boards. When the wooden boards were dug through, the soil above the tunnel caved in, and several soldiers who dug hard were buried alive in it. It took two rounds to kill the soldiers in front, and then stretched out a few wooden pipes.

A large amount of thick smoke was sprayed into the tunnel one by one, and the Daming people above could still be heard shouting something.

The smoke filled the tunnel, scaring Sir Ness to lead his troops back. The people in front ran back, and the people behind walked forward without knowing why. They were crowded in the tunnel without knowing where they were, and they ran away just for their lives .

When Sir Niss came back to his senses, he and the few soldiers who escaped by chance suddenly realized that they had appeared by the river where the waste soil was dug from the dumped tunnel in the eastern outskirts of the city. much closer.

Ying Ming in the city can see clearly that there are no thatched houses in the city for a long time. After the plague, all the houses were redistributed. It was made into an instrument for defending the city, and the soldiers stationed there were burning a big fire.

They dug tunnels in the direction heard by the ground, covered wet mud and wooden boards to prevent the enemy from setting fire in the tunnels, and at the same time used cowhide and wooden frames to drive human-powered blowers to blow into the tunnels from the moment the tunnels collapsed. thick smoke.

Now Yingming could see that there was thick smoke rising from the ground on the river bank in the east of the city, and a few unlucky ghosts jumped out of the thick smoke in embarrassment, and after identifying their direction, they ran towards the north.

"Let the cavalry mount their horses. It won't be long before the enemy knows the news that the tunnel siege has failed. We can attack them."

(End of this chapter)