Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 251
"Wang Pu, take your men and charge towards the west wall with all your strength. Don't worry about casualties, don't turn around, and keep moving forward until you penetrate behind the captive soldiers and meet the minzhuang behind!"

Without further ado, Wang Pu immediately led his elite soldiers, together with more than 1000 of Li Rui's subordinates, set off quickly and rushed straight to the west city wall, colliding with the captive soldiers who were attacking this way.

"Chen Jiujin immediately went down to the city to send an order to Zheng Yongwang, asking him to lead his troops to step on the city immediately!"

Zheng Yongwang was on duty last night, so he didn't step on the city today, and has been resting in the city, and now he has to be transferred.

"Li Feng immediately went to the east city to send orders to many men, telling him to organize 500 people to come to support! Then he went to the north city and told Sun Changfu to organize 1000 people to support the west wall from the north wall."

Chen Jiujin and Li Feng set off immediately after taking orders. One of them was the son of Chen Kuan, who slaughtered pigs in the camp, and the other was the son of Li Fu, who grew vegetables. After following Yang Chao, his training was also quite satisfactory. Although Yang Chao He did not agree to Chen Kuan and Li Fu's request, and let them directly inherit their banner positions, but they were also carefully cultivated without special treatment.

Moreover, both of them have read some books, and they can barely read and write, which is also worthy of Yang Chao's training.

Then Yang Chao himself stood up.

Said to his own soldiers: "The captive soldiers stepped into the city, we miscalculated, or we never had the correct emergency strategy. This is our mistake, in fact, we have no good way to prevent the captive soldiers from sneaking into the city in the dark The current situation is either to beat them down, or we die together with Haizhou City! There is no choice, I don’t think you will tell me that the son of a daughter can’t sit down now, the whole Haizhou City has died It's going down!"

The subordinates were silent, and everyone knew the current situation.

Only then did Yang Chao shout: "Zhao Kang! Put on the armor for me!"

"Yes!"

Zhao Kang replied loudly, and then quickly helped Yang Chao with Yang Chao's iron armor onto the boat with a few personal soldiers.

Then Yang Chao picked up the spear and walked out of the tower with the last fresh force of personal soldiers.

The current situation can only know that the captive soldiers have successfully stepped up to the west city wall. What is the specific situation of the battle? Song Kun is still leading people to resist, or has been defeated, or even worse, Yang Chao has no idea at all, but there are One point, the captive soldiers must not be allowed to gain a firm foothold, and an immediate counterattack must be launched to drive them into the city.

Without waiting for Zheng Yongwang to wait for reinforcements, Yang Chao immediately set off with his own soldiers.

Running forward, along the way, the torches on the right city wall flickered, and the shouts of fighting in front kept ringing.

The south city wall is only about one mile long, and the tower where Yang Chao is located is in the center. It takes less than one mile to get to the northwest corner of the city, and the running speed is less than a quarter of an hour to reach the corner of the city.

However, the captive soldiers did not attack the corner of the city. The position captured by the captive soldiers was about [-] feet away from the corner of the city. City, and then encircled the southern city wall with the captive soldiers who were attacking the city from the front.

The captive soldiers knew very well that their combat power was higher than that of the Ming army, and as long as they could push the city, they would be sure of victory. However, the main force of the Ming army was on the southern city wall, so their goal was actually the southern city wall.

However, the captive soldiers probably did not expect that the reaction speed of the Ming army would be so fast. Before they could stand on the western wall and attack south, the Ming army would attack instead.

Yang Chao continued to walk forward, and under the light of the torches, he soon saw Wang Pu and his men besieging the captive soldiers.

At this time, although the captive soldiers had no time to attack south, they had already established a solid position. Yang Chao could not see the situation in the captive soldiers' formation, because the captive soldiers actually "built" a wall on the city wall. It is said that a wall was built with thick wooden boards, and the wooden wall was run by one person, running through both sides of the city wall, making people wonder what was going on behind them.

This is a completely defensive formation, because there is such a wall, and the captive soldiers obviously blocked their attack, but it is even more unfavorable to the Ming army, because the captive soldiers are constantly shooting arrows from behind the wall at this time, and the Ming army is breaking through. In front of this wall, it is impossible to hit the captive soldiers.

Yang Chao quickly saw this unfavorable situation. Wang Pu was better, but those unarmored minzhuangs couldn't resist such shootings. Some minzhuangs were injured and howled continuously, and other minzhuangs were distressed. Obviously It is impossible for them to persist for a long time, and it is easy to collapse.

Wang Pu led people close to the wooden wall and was trying to break it. He stabbed it with a long spear, but found that only a shallow mark was left. The wooden wall was very thick, strong and heavy, and it was almost motionless when he stabbed it with a long spear. He also led someone to hold a spear against the wooden wall, trying to push the wooden wall away with all his strength, but the wooden wall only flickered for a moment, like a big tree with roots, and couldn't be pushed away at all.

When Yang Chao arrived, he saw this situation, saw Wang Pu pushing the wooden wall, and there were many folks helping to push, and a group of folks crowded together in front of the wooden wall.

"Don't mess around, everyone back up, back up!"

Yang Chao shouted immediately, and Zhao Kang shouted at the top of his voice.

Among these civilians, there are officers arranged by Yang Chao. Just now, they rushed over and wanted to open the wooden wall at once, but they didn't break through, but were blocked here. At this time, when they heard the order, they started To restore order, under the organization of the officers, retreat slowly.

The rain of arrows from the captive soldiers was quite dense. Yang Chao's men kept swinging their spears to sweep away the incoming arrows, but some of them still hit the soldiers. Fortunately, they were all wearing iron armor, and these fish that escaped the net could not cause any damage.

Min Zhuang was shot again from time to time, or even killed directly.

Soon Min Zhuang retreated and pushed to the corner of the city thirty feet away. At this time, the power of the bow and arrow was much weaker. Even if the thrown bow and arrow hit them, as long as it was not a vital point, it was only a minor injury.

Only Yang Chao's personal soldiers and Wang Pu's hundred corps stayed in front of the wooden wall. The wooden wall became their protection at this time, and the arrows of the captive soldiers could not shoot them for the time being.

Yang Chao ordered everyone to gather and gather their strength to see if they could push the wooden wall away.

But more than 100 people gathered in the very center, chanted and pushed hard for a long time, only to see the wooden wall shaking, but there was no sign of falling down.

Obviously, the captive soldiers were behind them, and their numbers may not be smaller than that of the Ming army, so it was obviously not easy to push them away.

Although he couldn't see the situation behind the wooden wall, Yang Chao could guess that the captive soldiers must be hurrying up to let more people step into the city. As long as they come up with 2000 people, they will probably bring down the wooden wall. rushed over.

Time was on the side of the captive soldiers, but Yang Chao couldn't afford to delay it.

"Bump with wood!"

I don't know which soldier shouted, but there are still a lot of rolling logs on the city wall, and the thick logs are three to five feet long.

"Look for the loading wood!"

Yang Chao's heart moved, and he ordered immediately.

Soon, someone took a few sticks of wood from the base of the city wall, and three or five people packed one together, and slammed it fiercely towards the shield wall.

But the effect is not as good as a group of people pushing it reasonably. After all, most of these rolling logs are too short, not complete rafters, and are used to throw down the city to smash people. It can't be too big or too long, otherwise people can't lift it. drop it.

After trying it for a while, I found that it didn't work. At this time, Zheng Yongwang had come to help.

The wooden wall can't be knocked open at all, at least not for a short time. If the time is too long, the captive soldiers will kick the city, and it will be useless even if they break it, unless it is blasted with explosives!
Thinking of explosives, Yang Chao immediately thought that he had a cannon!

However, as soon as this idea appeared, even I felt a little crazy. On both sides of the narrow city wall, there are one-person-high parapets blocking it, and the width is the width of several horses running side by side. The width of the top is less than five feet, and one can imagine the result of bombarding it with such a width.

This is like putting cannons on the street, and facing a group of young and Dangerous boys with kitchen knives. It is said that the first general to put cannons on the street was Napoleon. Napoleon was only an artillery lieutenant at that time. The action made others feel crazy, but it worked well, and the rioting mob in Paris was massacred by him.

"Zheng Yongwang, go and bring all the tiger crouching guns!"

But Yang Chao wasn't crazy enough to bombard him with the general, because he didn't know what was going on on the other side of the barbarian wooden wall. If Song Kun was fighting with the captive soldiers on the other side of the wall, he would accidentally injure his own soldiers as soon as he shot over.

The tiger squatting cannon is no problem at all. The wooden wall of the captive soldiers is very explainable. When the lead bullet of the tiger squatting cannon hits it, it probably just blasts through the wooden wall, and then it has little power.

Zheng Yongwang, who had just rushed over, immediately ran over to carry the tiger and crouch the cannon.

These tiger crouching guns weigh 36 catties each and are two feet long. A strong man can carry them and walk, even if everyone is wearing armor, two people can carry them with ease.

So Yang Chao soon saw Zheng Yongwang coming with people holding cannons. They were very fast and knew that the situation was urgent.

Instead, the gunners were still running behind them.

The gunners have been fighting for such a long time, and they are also very shrewd. They followed closely behind the armored soldiers who carried cannons and cannon barrels, but avoided the spread of bows and arrows.

When they got within five or six feet of the wooden wall, the captive soldiers' bows and arrows could not attack them, and could only fly over their heads.

Then look at these gunners, put the ten cannons removed from the south city wall on the ground, the two flying claws in front grabbed the city bricks, and nailed them to the gap with nails, and used a U-shaped long nail in the back, Find the gap and stick it in. Tighten it.

Although the ancients liked to use triadic soil or even rice slurry to irrigate in some places, obviously the ground on the city wall would not be treated in this way, otherwise it would be too wasteful, so clumps of weeds will grow in the ground gaps on many ancient city walls .

Now it brings convenience to the placement of the tiger squatting cannon. These gaps in the city walls are obviously better than the soil. The tiger squatting cannon can drive nails into the soil in the wild. Previously, because Yang Chao wanted to set up the cannon, he could only use hemp The rope is placed on the sandbag, and now it doesn't have to be so troublesome to directly attack the captive soldiers on the ground.

I saw the fixed ten cannons, the front iron claws were set on the cannons behind the muzzles, and the iron claws were lying on the ground in an inverted V shape, really like a tiger lying on the ground all the time, ready to rush out at any time.

Then I saw the gunner start loading.

At this time, Yang Chao suddenly shouted: "All the cannons are pretending to be bosses!"

The shells of the Tiger Crouching Cannon are divided into big and small ones. Before that, Yang Chao had only used five-cents. Although the caliber of the Tiger Squatting Cannon was only two inches, the two-inch solid lead bullets obviously weighed more than five cents. In fact, this kind of The big gun weighs 30 taels, and 16 taels is a catty, which is close to two catties!
The gunners quickly took orders, first poured the gunpowder in the powder bag into the muzzle, and pushed it in with a wooden pusher for compaction, and then loaded a cannon the size of a child's fist from the muzzle, which was also compacted!
"Everyone lie down! Fire the two middle ones first! Then fire the last two cannons! Then fire them in sequence!"

After Yang Chao gave an order, he immediately retreated five feet away, leaving only ten gunners in front at a distance of three feet.

But obviously these gunners also knew what Yang Chao meant. They were joking that this was the city wall. If the wooden wall in front couldn't be blasted, the lead would bounce back and kill people.

Yang Chao didn't worry too much, but the direction of his thinking was also wrong.

Because after the two cannons fired, the lead shot straight at the wooden board from a distance of three feet, and the sawdust splashed everywhere, hitting the city wall with tinkling sounds, but the lead bullet was directly stuck on the wooden wall, so it was not the lead bullet that was dangerous , but scattered sawdust.

The good thing is that no one was injured. The bad thing is that the wooden wall was not blown open, but the wooden wall was cracked. From the position of the breach, it can be seen that the captive soldiers used half a foot thick wooden boards to build the wall abnormally!

The last two cannons fired again, this time directly breaking a plank, which flew out and fell into the city. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

But Yang Chao was dumbfounded again, because he saw that behind the gap in a plank, what was exposed was not captive soldiers, but sandbags!

No wonder the wooden wall couldn't be pushed away just now. It turned out that the captive soldiers piled up high sandbags behind the wooden wall!
There is no way but to let two more cannons bombard them.

After the ten cannons were fired one by one, the wooden wall was dilapidated, and sandbags were exposed in many places, and even the sandbags were smashed, but the soil inside was one piece, still supporting the wooden wall.

At this time, the first gun was loaded again, and the bombardment continued.

The tiger squatting cannon was loaded and bombarded one by one like a bird gun. At the end of the second round, the wooden wall was completely smashed, and only a small part of the wooden board remained on it, revealing a five-foot-high sandbag. Moreover, two sandbags on the top fell into the formation of captive soldiers.

This is good news. It shows that the sandbags piled up by the captive soldiers were not thick, but only a single layer.

It's no wonder that the captive soldiers are in a hurry to seize the time to step on the city, so they are not willing to waste time piling up sandbags.

The tiger squatting artillery continued to bombard, and the sandbags were completely smashed one by one. The most favorable thing was that they were knocked down one by one. After the third round of bombardment, the sandbags finally could not withstand the continuous bombardment and collapsed!
It revealed the terrified captive soldiers inside who were trying to pile up the sandbags again, but they obviously didn't have time to repair them. Before they repaired the incomplete, the sandbags collapsed directly and fell to Yang Chao's side, making them unable to repair even if they wanted to.

The tiger squatting guns were still roaring, and the two guns continued to bombard like a row of guns.

The gunner always lies behind the cannon. After firing, he immediately cleans and reloads.

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