Chapter 171: Fight to Fame

In response to Xiao Yao's siege, Gao Changgong did carry out targeted defense! Because he knew the power of the artillery, and he was sure that he could not stop the attack of the infantry battalion by relying on the city gate, he ambushed the heavy troops in the urn city!

When the enemy invades the urn city, if the main city gate and the urn city gate are closed, the defenders can form a "turtle in the urn" to the enemy.

Therefore, Gao Changgong's strategy is to wait for the infantry battalion to destroy the outer city gate and break into the urn city, and then wait until the infantry battalion has entered the urn city, and then shoot arrows and throw a large number of jar bombs at them from the city wall, and finally annihilate the infantry battalion in the urn city!

"Lord Wang, the soldiers upstairs in the outer city have all returned! Now that the outer city gate has been smashed by them, the gate is open, but they haven't rushed into the urn city yet, could it be that they have seen through our plan? Wei Xiangyuan wondered.

"Even if you see through it, what? If they want to enter the city, they must first enter the urn city, and we just need to stay here and kill them with bombs when the time comes! Unexpectedly, the power of this kind of artillery is so great, such a thick wall battlement was destroyed in an instant, no wonder our heavy cavalry was so vulnerable in front of them! We've got to get these weapons! Gao Changgong wiped the blood from his face and said fiercely.

And the infantry battalion outside the city, seeing that the defenders on the upper floor of the outer city had withdrawn, withdrew the sub-mother artillery team, and it was time for the projectile artillery team to play!

I saw that the artillerymen stuffed incendiary shells into the projectile barrels that had been adjusted at the angle, yes! It's the kind of incendiary bombs used in the battle to cross the river!

Because Xiao Yao had already guessed that Gao Changgong would definitely use gunpowder as a weapon to attack the infantry battalion, and with Gao Changgong's current knowledge of gunpowder and objective conditions, if he wanted a gun or a gun, he could only make gunpowder into an earth bomb! And even if this kind of earth bomb is thrown by Hercules, it is still not far away, so if you want to maximize the effect of the unearthed bomb, you can only wait for the infantry battalion to attack the urn city, and then drop the bomb from the city wall.

So after smashing the outer city gate, Xiao Yao was not in a hurry to let the infantry battalion rush into the urn city immediately, since Gao Changgong is now covered with heavy soldiers on the city wall, then give them a "rain of fire"!

Bang, bang, bang, thirty "big oil drums" fired a salvo, and thirty incendiary bombs flew over the outer city tower and flew directly over the urn city. Gao Changgong and they also found these thirty unknown objects that were smoking and suddenly appeared on their heads, and when they were wondering what these things were, boom! Rumble! Rumble! These unidentified objects suddenly exploded and turned into a large fireball, and then the fire fell like raindrops, sticking to the soldiers standing on the city wall, and quickly burned, and these soldiers instantly turned into a fire man!

"It's on fire! Put out the fire! ”

"Is this fire a fire? Yes! My hair is on fire! ”

"I'm on fire too, come and save me!"

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The city wall suddenly became extremely chaotic, all kinds of sounds were mixed together, the people on fire were rolling on the ground, and the people who were not on fire avoided one after another, but because Gao Changgong had arranged at least five thousand soldiers here waiting for the infantry battalion to rush in, so now the city wall was crowded with people, but everywhere there was fire that fell, so that these soldiers had nowhere to escape, but they could only be in a mess.

The projectile artillery team did not stop, and fired five rounds in one go, a total of one hundred and fifty incendiary bombs exploded over the urn city, and now the entire west city gate has become a sea of fire! And even more deadly are the earth bombs that Gao Changgong stacked on the city wall in order to facilitate the throwing of bombs! They couldn't have imagined that Xiao Yao would use incendiary bombs, so they directly piled these earth bombs in the exposed position at random, but now it was a long "rain of fire", and as a result, there were a few naughty "fire points" that fell on the fuse of the earth bombs, boom! Rumble! Rumble! There was a violent explosion on the city walls!

Seeing that the defenders on the city wall were in chaos without a fight, Xiao Yao sneered and said, "Want to play with gunpowder in front of me? You're still young! On my order, the artillery team will quickly rush into the city of Weng, break through the main gate, and then let the musket team protect the shotgun team to attack Xuyi City and crush the defenders who are guarding the city! The other troops in charge of the attack rushed into the city with the cavalry, robbing money, food, and women! ”

"Gao Yuan, this Gao Changgong will be handed over to you, and you must save Zhang Dabao back! You also have to be careful, Gao Changgong is not a simple person! Xiao Yao said to Gao Yuan.

"Yes! Takato will definitely complete the task! Bring Gao Changgong and Zhang Dabao to the young master! "Over, Gao Yuan took the commando team composed of more than a hundred elites and rushed towards Xuyi City.

As the artillery team used the sub-mother cannon to smash the main city gate again, more than a dozen shotguns were quickly pushed into Xuyi City under the protection of more than a hundred musketeers, and then shot at the group of defenders who were guarding behind the city gate, setting up a formation and preparing to fight! The shotgun shot down a large area, and immediately the defenders who were ready to win by numbers dropped their weapons and fled in all directions!

Although the defenders in Xuyi City have a numerical advantage, in front of the artillery, they can't form a formation to resist at all, because the denser they stand, the more they die! But if the formation is not formed, then when the cavalry rushes in, these defenders who only have broadswords and spears in their hands, and who fight alone, will only have to give away their heads!

So when they saw that the infantry battalion had already entered the city, more than a dozen artillery pieces and hundreds of muskets bombarded every horse, and they shot at people, these had already been defeated once before, and the psychological defense line of the Xuyi defenders, who had already been frightened by Xiao Yao's artillery, collapsed instantly, and immediately lost the courage to fight, so they could only drop their weapons and kneel on the ground and surrender before the other party killed them!

If there is a neighbor who surrenders, there will be a second, a third, and then the Qi army will surrender to the infantry battalion in pieces! There was even a member of the cavalry team who rushed too fast, single-handedly rushed in front of a detachment of hundreds of defenders, shouting in his heart that it was not good, but suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and shouted: "Surrender or kill!" All the rebels are beheaded! ”

Sure enough, these hundreds of defender detachments were so frightened that they all dropped their weapons, raised their hands and knelt down to this cavalry in surrender! Because the overall situation has been decided, they only have one thought of survival now, even if there is only one Chen Bing in front of them now, they can easily kill him, but just killing him alone will not change the result of defeat at all, and if they anger Chen Jun because of their own resistance, and finally provoke the slaughter of the city, it will be too wronged! You must know that in the past few months of Chen's Northern Expedition, there have been several cases of killing the defenders!

The defenders of Xuyi City have all been in a mess, don't surrender to the soldiers, even the generals took the initiative to lay down their weapons and surrender to the soldiers of the infantry battalion without any resistance. Some of the defenders who were lucky enough to take advantage of the fact that the infantry battalion was attacking the city from the west gate, so they wanted to escape from the other city gates, but as soon as they rushed out of the city gate, they were shelled by the artillery detachment of the infantry battalion that had already been guarding outside the city gate, and they were so frightened that they knelt down and surrendered on the spot!

In the face of a large number of defenders, Huang Wenyuan, who is now taking the initiative to find Chen's army to surrender, rushed into the city with a cavalry team and was ready to fight the enemy for 300 rounds, a little overwhelmed! Because the cavalry was only 300 men, but now there were tens of thousands of people who surrendered to them! Seeing thousands of Qi troops kneeling densely in front of him, Huang Wenyuan suddenly thought of a solution that could be easily solved, so he shouted loudly: "Surrender or kill!" If you want to stay alive, take the initiative to go outside the West City Gate and find Captain Xiao Yao Xiao of the infantry battalion to surrender! Half an hour for a limited time! When the hour comes, our infantry battalion will search the whole city, and if you find any soldiers still in the city, you will be beheaded on the spot! ”

Sure enough, when these kneeling defenders heard that they could live, they ran outside the west city gate one after another to find Xiao Yao to surrender, and those Qi troops who were hiding in various parts of the city were also so frightened that they ran out of the city and surrendered voluntarily after hearing that they would surrender within a limited time, otherwise they would be beheaded on the spot!

At this time, Xiao Yao outside the city was a little confused, why did so many Qi soldiers take the initiative to run out, and shouted loudly: "Captain Xiao!" We surrender to you! Then he raised his hands and knelt on the ground in unison, waiting for Chen Jun to take him into custody. When he knew that it was Huang Wenyuan who asked them to take the initiative to come out and surrender to him, Xiao Yao couldn't cry or laugh: Presumably you want to go into battle easily to grab money, food, and women, and leave the hard work of taking care of the captives to me!

From Xiao Yao's attack on the city to the surrender of a large number of Qi troops out of the city, it took less than two hours! This garrison, led by the famous general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, with a strength of more than 20,000, was completely defeated by only a thousand Rao infantry battalions without even launching a counterattack!

So this battle of Xuyi City made Xiao Yao famous, and since then everyone knows Xiao Shilang's name!