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Chapter 556 Taking down Yancheng
In the wilderness, the cannons fired rumblingly, bombarding the enemy platform on Yancheng, the gravel exploded, and the defenders on the city screamed and fell to the top of the city.

At the same time as the bombardment, loud and clear horns sounded in the army formation, and the army formation was lined up neatly, as if a dam had been opened to release the flood, and the soldiers flocked to Yancheng.

Facing the roar of the cannons below the city, clouds of white smoke rising up, and the Wei Wu army rushing over the mountains and plains, the soldiers on the city couldn't help but feel a little timid, but on the battlefield, it's either you die or I die. I'm afraid it will be useless. The defenders can only draw their bows and arrows, nervous looking for the target.

The soldiers of the Qing army went up to defend the city, while cursing inwardly, and they didn't know whether it was Wei Wujun who was attacking the city or who.

At this time, the Wei Wu army under the city had already embraced the equipment, and under the blocking of the artillery and arrows on the city, they pushed to the bottom of the city.

The first to arrive was a row of shield chariots, nearly a thousand musketeers, and thousands of archers.

Wei Wujun attaches great importance to firearms, but due to the limitation of productivity, the output of firecrackers and artillery is relatively limited, which cannot meet the equipment of 20 troops.Therefore, Wei Wujun, with a large number of soldiers, still uses the original weapons and has a large number of bows and arrows.

At this time, the musketeers lined up behind the shield chariot to suppress the top of the city, and the balls hit the Qing army so that they did not dare to raise their heads. Like arrows thrown to the top of the city.

After several times of attacking the city, there were only more than 3000 defenders left in the city. Wei Wujun's side came together with all the troops of the Shun Department, attacking with ten times the force.

Jin Shenghuan was well prepared, the shield chariot formed a wooden wall under the city, and the number of archers and gunmen several times larger than that of the city head firmly suppressed the city head.

This made the defenders at the head of the city only able to hide behind the wall and shoot, and the firepower could not compete with Wei Wujun at all.

At this time, the soldiers carrying the flying bridge laid planks on the moat, and the soldiers with their equipment began to approach the city wall.

The first to arrive at the city were the soldiers of the Shun Department carrying the climbing ladder. The climbing ladder was light and easy to make, and it was the most commonly used weapon in siege.

"Go!" Hao Yaoqi commanded nearly a thousand siege troops and rushed to the city first.

The soldiers raised the climbing ladder high, let the ladder be higher than the top of the city, and then lowered it. The big iron hook at the head of the ladder hooked the city wall so that the defenders could not push it down.

At this time, as soon as the ladder was fixed, the soldiers below the city quickly climbed up, and the soldiers who rushed to the bottom of the city were scattered like ants.

During the siege, once the siege troops approached the city wall or climbed along the wall, they would enter the dead corner of the defenders on the city to attack.

Because the defenders wanted to attack the soldiers in the corner, they had to lean out from the wall, so that they were exposed to the muzzles of the guns below the city.

The key to defending the city is not to let the enemy approach the city wall. Once they approach the city wall, the casualties of the defenders will increase immediately.

The city wall of Yancheng has been rebuilt, and there are many raised enemy towers on the wall. The enemy towers extend from the main body of the city wall, so the defenders on the enemy towers can attack the Wei Wu army who climbed the city from the shooting holes in the wall stacks.

The defenders hid behind the walls of the enemy's platform and shot and killed the soldiers climbing the city without any interruption. The soldiers had no defense on their backs and became living targets. The soldiers swarmed up, screaming and falling .

When Hao Yaoqi saw the soldiers falling on the climbing ladder, he couldn't help being furious, and hurriedly ordered, "Siege tower, go up!"

The speed of large equipment is relatively slow, and dozens of soldiers embrace a siege tower and approach the enemy tower.

The defenders on the city immediately used long poles to withstand it, and the thunder and fire pots hit them. The huge siege tower collapsed in the flames and explosion, and the soldiers below scattered like ants.

The archers under the city bent their bows and set up arrows, and the arrows fell to the top of the city like locusts, and the defenders on the city also suffered heavy casualties.

While Sun Long swung his knife to block, he commanded the defenders to defend the city.

"Bring the ram!" Seeing another siege tower approaching the city wall, Sun Long roared anxiously, and a Qing soldier turned around immediately. At this moment, a Wei Wujun jumped down from the top of the city, and slashed directly at the city wall. The Qing soldiers who turned around were turned over and killed on the spot.

Seeing this, Sun Long hastily swiped his sword and knocked down that Wei Wujun again, but at this time another Wei Wujun jumped into the city.

At this time, a siege tower was already close to the city wall. The siege tower was not like a siege ladder. The ladder inside it was surrounded by wooden boards and cowhide, like a moving tower.

The arrows on the enemy platform can't hurt the soldiers inside at all, so the soldiers in the tower don't have to worry about the defenders on the enemy platform shooting arrows and guns from behind.

Seeing this, Hao Yaoqi went directly into the siege tower close to the city wall. As soon as the baffle on the top of the tower was opened, a fire pot was thrown from the top of the city, and the wooden planks connecting the top of the tower and the city wall immediately ignited a fire.

At this time, a defender had just lit a thunderbolt and wanted to throw it into the tower, but a thunderbolt from the tower was thrown first, blowing up the defenders at the top of the city.

Facing the people on fire on the wooden board, Hao Yaoqi was not afraid at all. He roared, "Kill!" Taking advantage of the opportunity of the explosion, he rushed out and jumped onto the top of the wall. The soldiers behind covered the burning wooden board with cowhide , and then rushed out immediately, occupying a section of the city.

At this time, fierce fighting was continuing in all directions of Yancheng. Wei Wujun's siege troops, holding various equipment and carrying shields, launched waves of shocks, like huge waves on the sea, one wave after another. The waves beat against the city wall.

There was no trickery in attacking Yancheng this time, it was all hard work, relying on real strength to attack.

Among the many soldiers and horses in the world, Shun is not bad, but his confidence has collapsed, and he must go through the baptism of war again to rebuild his confidence.

At this time, under the city wall, there were paralyzed weapons on the way of attack everywhere, but the various units of the Shun army launched waves of attacks, and the city must be broken today.

On the top of the city, Sun Long ran back and forth, commanding the Qing soldiers to stop Wei Wu's army from ascending the city. Suddenly, there was chaos on the city wall, and the sound of shouting and killing resounded all over the city.

"The enemy army has occupied a section of the city wall!" The expression of a general of the Qing army changed drastically.

Sun Long's face turned grim for a moment, "Go and call in reinforcements, and I will take the enemy soldiers down the city!"

"The four cities are in a tight situation, so where are the reinforcements!" The generals around him were full of panic.

At this time, the movement of the city wall soon affected other Qing troops, and exclamations were heard everywhere.

Outside the city, Jin Shenghuan has been paying attention to the progress of the Shun Department soldiers attacking the city.He saw that with the passage of time, soldiers climbed up the walls of each broken city wall, and Liu Tichun even occupied the northwest corner of the entire Yancheng, and he was relieved immediately.

"Go and report to the Commander, Yancheng is broken!" A smile appeared on Jin Shenghuan's face.

The defenders of Yancheng were short of troops, and the Shun army climbed up the city wall in a large scale, and the situation was irreversible.

As more and more soldiers climbed the city wall, the defense deteriorated rapidly. Hao Yaoqi slashed and slashed all the way to Sun Long. He led a dense army of soldiers and surrounded more than a dozen Qing troops in front of the tower.

Sun Long leaned his back against the tower, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers formed an array to protect him. In front of them was a semicircle made up of sharp spearheads.

Facing the sharp spearhead, the faces of the remaining Qing army were full of panic, Sun Long's face was gloomy, and he suddenly shouted: "I'm going to see Gao Yihuan!"

"I'll kill you when I see your mother!" In the forest of guns, Hao Yaoqi was so annoyed that he wanted to die, and shouted loudly.

The surrounding soldiers immediately raised their spears and stabbed. In a short while, they stabbed Sun Long and the rest of the Qing army into holes, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

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