Chapter 54: Caught off guard
Gao Sui has used the same means to catch a few palace people who came with him, he has clever methods, and they are all spring-hearted-but when it comes to going back with him, they hesitate, Gao Sui looked at it coldly, it seems that these women's soldiers are really under the training of his sister-in-law, and they seem to have a little bit of soldiers.
He himself was slacking off, but the fifteen or sixteen people who came with him were afraid of Zhang Zhaohua's orders, and had been searching for coal mines here in the outer city—Gao Sui got off his horse with a dog's tail in his mouth, lay on the soft and grassy black soil, squinted his eyes, and was about to sleep for a while, but was awakened by a slight vibration under him, and jumped up at once.
This kind of vibration is not from the ground, it is not the collapse of the top of the treasure well, this faint dull and endless sound, only the cavalry in the army can do it - because the horses of Kaiping are not equipped with iron palms, only the horses of the march and battle, the feet will be iron hooves, the sound of iron hooves and the sound of ordinary horses' hooves, Gao Sui can clearly distinguish between them.
He immediately jumped on his horse, climbed high to take a look, only to see that the south was under black pressure, and tens of thousands of elite horsemen were approaching like dark clouds, this was a unit of the southern army, and the goal was to go straight to Kaiping -- a cold sweat broke out from Gao Sui's back, and the southern army did not surround Beiping, but chose to attack Kaiping by surprise! Looking at the number of people, it was impossible to resist!
Gao Sui knew the power of the fine horse, and he also realized that the horses here were not trained, and when the fine horse rushed over, all the troops and horses would be in chaos, and the most likely end for him at that time was to be trampled to death by the horse's hooves.
He felt a deep fear, even if it was one against a hundred, he had never been so afraid. One person could not resist the thousands of horses, and his hand holding the reins of the horse was trembling.
There is no time, there is no time! Gao Sui estimated that in less than a quarter of an hour, the elite cavalry would be killed at his feet, and he would not run long before he would be caught and killed!
How can you hold back, drag these people - Gao Sui looked around, and he saw the treasure shaft of the coal mine not far from him.
He drove forward, took the musket from his bosom, quickly reloaded the ammunition into it, and fired two shots under the treasure well—the gunpowder grazed the edge of the stone wall and exploded with a thud, and he soon heard the exclamations inside.
The power of this ammunition is far worse than that of a swarm of bees, and it will not cause a collapse of the roof, but it will only shake the ground a few times, and the fire will be ignited at once. But enough of a dozen people underground panicked, and there was a puff of smoke and dust in the alleyway, and the poisonous gas was spreading, and they climbed up with their mouths covered, almost choking their lungs out.
"Who and who started the fire?" everyone coughed and cursed, and the smoke and dust from the treasure well rushed up, so that people couldn't open their eyes. There were also those who came up late, their clothes were burned, and several people worked together to extinguish the fire, but suddenly they heard the earth tremble in front of them.
They looked at it and saw the cavalry of the Southern Army.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Several palace people who had participated in the Strong Women's Army immediately realized that the enemy army was coming, but they did not have any way to defend it, because they were on the outer wall, and there was a plain around them.
Hyosung followed the team, mounted his horse, and immediately ran towards the inner city. She felt the wind whistling in her ears, but she thought to herself, she saw the scratches on the stone wall, which were the marks of the fire gun or the pear flower gun ammunition, who fired the two shots?
They couldn't get out of it, and the enemy troops behind them clearly saw them and ran towards them. Although the horses in Kaiping Horse Farm were fat and strong, they were still not as good as the well-trained military horses, and in the panic of running, dozens of horses rushed over and directly collided with their horses, and the legs of several palace people immediately pouted, and they turned people to the ground at once.
Hyosung was one of them, and at that moment she suddenly remembered what the princess had jokingly said to them: "You can't believe anything in a man's words-"
Gao Sui ran smoothly all the way into the inner city, that is, the moment he came in, Zhang Zhaohua also saw the fine horse in the direction of due south.
"Quick," Zhang Zhaohua shouted, "close the city gates!"
The inner city of Kaiping is very small, because there is only one official office of the Taifu Temple, but it is built solidly, it is estimated that it is to prevent the impact of the horses that are freed outside, and there are only two gates, one due south and one due north.
Zhang Zhaohua saw that the banner of the Southern Army was "Xu" and "Tao", and she understood it after a little thought. Before, she heard the conversation between King Yan and the generals, saying that now Wu Jie and Ping'an are guarding Dingzhou, Sheng Yong is guarding Dezhou, Xu Kai and Tao Ming are going to Cangzhou to strengthen the city defense, and they want to end up with Dingzhou and Dezhou.
This is the southern army from Cangzhou, Zhang Zhaohua thought as he ordered to put the wooden rolling stones on the table. However, Xiaohong and Handong shouted at the same time: "There is no sasswood!"
Kaiping is just a horse farm, a big place in the inner city, where is there still a city defense equipment? There is not even a wooden girl's head, it is just an empty city.
Xu Kai and Tao Ming came to Kaiping with the southern army from Cangzhou, originally to Kaiping's horse farm, they didn't dare to pursue Yan Wang, but they heard that the horse in Kaiping horse farm was the horse source of the Yan army, so they had a whim to take this place, but they didn't expect to come here but there was an unexpected surprise, and they caught a few people who came to mine, including women.
These women were very fierce, and they did not have a good word in his hands, and finally they were wounded, and they all committed suicide by grabbing knives and guns.
However, the miners seemed to be willing to tell the truth, and this truth made Xu Kai and Tao Ming very excited, because they said that the concubine of the Yan family, Zhang, and the third son of the king of Yan, Zhu Gaosui, were here, leading people to dig coal!
This is amazing! Catch the king of Anyang County, that's a credit!
Zhang Zhaohua saw that the enemy army was approaching, and her heart was also afraid, she handed out the ten firecrackers she carried with her to the women's army, these people have learned how to use firearms, and they have also practiced in the martial arts arena, and it is reassuring to hand them over. However, there was not enough ammunition to carry, so Zhang Zhaohua immediately sent more than a dozen people into the city to search for stones that could be loaded into the firecracker.
When Xu Kaibing approached the city, he did not order an immediate siege of the city, but ordered someone to pass the word: "The king of Anyang County! The princess of the princess! Don't resist stubbornly! You can't hold this city! Surrender quickly to avoid death!"
Zhang Zhaohua ordered Han Ying to scold back, Han Ying's Lao Tzu Niang Yan is not only powerful, but also good at scolding, Han Ying opened her mouth and learned her Lao Tzu Niang's words: "You pickled girl, short-lived ghost, bull nose, straight mother thief, dare to talk to your grandmother like this! You are crooked and piercing, and you are blind and slanted!"
Han Ying scolded happily, but Xu Kai was angry and his nose and mouth were crooked, he immediately ordered to shoot arrows at the city, and suddenly the arrows rained down, and Zhang Zhaohua and the others hid under the pheasants, which could be avoided.
Zhang Zhaohua said: "Don't be afraid, just hide when you see them shooting arrows! They came on light horses and didn't bring heavy artillery!"
However, as soon as she finished speaking, the ammunition like a meteor shower flew over her head, only to hit the bricks and stones at the head of the city, Zhang Zhaohua was shocked, and looked down, only to see that the southern army actually embellished with a leather strip similar to the firearm, and longer and larger than the firearm, with a small iron foot on the ground, she looked down from the city, only to feel that the head of this firearm was slightly three or four inches high, and there was a hook and sharp thing like a bee's tail, and a small wooden tree was fixed to the ground.
The gunpowder was shot out of this firearm, Zhang Zhaohua didn't know what this thing was, but seeing the huge power, her heart shook irrepressibly, there is such a thing, I don't know how long this big city can hold on?