"Smack..."

A bullet struck the female wall at the head of the city, and the huge momentum caused the originally soft lead bullet to be instantly flattened, and then with a strong sound, it shattered and scattered in all directions.

At this time, Zhong Shengjia happened to be hiding next to the female wall blocking the bullet, and the broken bullet also splashed on the helmet with a high-tech needle on his head, with a "dong dong" sound.

"How do you have to keep this?" Looking at such a scene, Zhong Shengjia couldn't help but roar in his heart

"What is this thief? This is clearly bullying people with muskets, if you are a real hero, you should do it with real knives and guns, not so shameless. ”

Obviously, Zhong Shengjia's problem, Zhang Rui didn't consider his feelings at all.

Sixteen siege towers (1), each about two zhang five (about nine meters) high, two zhang long, two zhang wide, similar to a large erection platform.

The siege towers are most afraid of enemy fire. To this end, Zhang Rui deliberately reinforced all the key parts of the siege tower with steel, and at the same time added thin iron plates to the frontal contact with the enemy.

In order to prevent the siege towers from being attacked by the enemy's flamethrower fire dragon lance, Zhang Rui demanded that all siege towers should not be within 100 zhang of the city wall.

The reason why siege towers in ancient times were rarely used was nothing more than to create trouble and use trouble.

In particular, in the past, it was made of wood, and it was easy to be damaged by enemy fire when approaching the city wall during the siege, but it was useless if it was not close. As a result, there were very few troops using siege towers.

When Zhang Rui proposed to build a siege tower, people who didn't understand it were all against Zhang Rui and felt that it was not cost-effective.

However, what they couldn't imagine was that Zhang Rui didn't think of using the siege tower to fight close to the city wall, but as a platform equal to the city wall, using the long-range of Mini bullets to cause unequal pressure on the Qing army's wall.

I can beat you, but you can't do anything to me.

On top of each siege tower stood a group of musketeers, using a three-section platoon of guns. In order to prevent the musket from firing all the time overheated, except for the first eight platoons of guns, which were fired in a continuous salvo, after the eighth platoon, the segmentation began to be carried out.

That is, after the eighth platoon, a misplaced platoon of guns was fired. The sound of the formed platoon of gunfire still kept coming, creating the illusion that the Qing army had been firing all the time.

At the same time, a bucket of water was prepared on top of each siege tower. If the barrel is still hot, you can use a damp cloth on it to cool down.

All the battle conditions made the Qing army completely incomprehensible. The first eight platoons of guns had already knocked them to their senses, and now none of the defenders were willing to stick their heads out of the women's wall, because most of the Qing troops who had reached out had already been killed.

The moat of Zhaoqing City was not wide, and under the cover of the relative safety of the arrow blocking vehicles, it took many captured green battalion soldiers less than half an hour to fill in the moat and make a road.

At this moment, the siege tower, which was still one hundred and ten zhang away, moved to a short distance from the moat again, and the distance had already reached one hundred zhang of the city wall.

The closer the distance, the clearer the line of sight. At this time, the musketeers on the siege tower could clearly see the bodies of the green battalion soldiers at the head of the city.

Since the siege tower was slightly higher than the city walls, the musketeers on it could shoot downward through the holes in the tower's protective planks. Although each siege tower had only ten muskets extended, sixteen had one hundred and sixty muskets fired at the same time.

The Qing army had no countermeasures in the face of the massacre on this side, so they could only hide on the side of the corner of the female wall at the head of the city and did not dare to show their bodies. Those who really couldn't hide quickly ran down the city, saving themselves from being targets on the city.

The green battalion soldiers on the head of Zhaoqing City have been beaten by the musketeers on the siege tower, and they have no heart to fight back. These people who defend the city have little training, not to mention the presence of a marksman who can reflect a few arrows to strengthen their morale.

Those green battalion soldiers who often receive training were "one pot" by the bandit army in the school field to the west. However, even those green battalion soldiers who were often trained were still beaten by the bandit army and had no resistance, and could only surrender with a sad face.

"General, if we continue to fight like this, we will soon not be able to hold out. Why don't we organize some people to rush out of the city and destroy their things! At this time, Li Guangli, who was already hiding in the tower with Zhong Shengjia, suggested

"Get out? Don't you look at how many anti-thieves are waiting for us to open the city gate, it will be difficult to close the city gate as soon as it is opened. Zhong Shengjia immediately rejected Li Guangli's brainless proposal.

"But this is not a way, the firearms of the anti-thieves are too powerful, and the soldiers dare not show their heads at all. If this continues, they will soon climb to the top of the city. Li Guangli said a little angrily

"I also know that now I can only wait for the thieves to come and drive them down. As long as the thieves come at once, their muskets will not dare to shoot. When the time comes, it will be the real battle, the real battle with real swords and guns. ”

Zhong Shengjia clenched his fist and hammered it a few times against the pillar next to him, gritted his teeth and said fiercely. This battle was so aggrieved that his eyes seemed to be able to breathe fire.

"Report, General. The thieves began to attack and enter the city. At this moment, a Green Battalion sentry, who was watching through the observation hole under the female wall, was lying on the ground at the head of the wall and climbed into the room inside the tower.

At this time, the siege ladder of the bandit army was officially dispatched. Pushed by the soldiers below, the movement passed through the freshly filled moat and leaned against the city walls.

Behind the fifteen siege ladders were the Green Battalion soldiers who had been captured by the bandits.

For these captives, Zhang Rui has already told them that as long as they take Zhaoqing City, they will follow them if they want to leave or stay. And when the time comes, they will also be given ten taels of silver each, and after that, they will be rewarded according to their merits.

Because a lot of silver was seized in Wuzhou City, Zhang Rui didn't care about that bit of silver at this time, he cared more about the lives of his soldiers.

I saw that the captured green battalion soldiers all took the swords, shields and other iron weapons provided by the bandit army and followed the siege ladder.

They can't say much about the requirements of the bandit army, after all, they are prisoners, and they can almost turn over this time.

The siege was no longer something they could oppose.

If they were to fight elsewhere or these captured green battalion soldiers would still be afraid, it would be the defenders of Zhaoqing City who knew the roots. This gave these captives a sense of confidence.

If the bandit army had asked them to join the siege at the beginning, they might have complained and were unhappy.

However, I will see this as it is. This is simply a credit giveaway, even if they don't go to the bandit army, they can easily defeat it.

What are you waiting for if such an opportunity will not be seized?