Chapter 210: Civil Officials Abide by the Law of the City (6)
The solid cannonball can no longer be described as unstoppable, Rao is battlement mouth leaked most of the kinetic energy, when it flew into the area of the city ladder mouth, everywhere it went, it was also invincible.
The cannonball flickered, and after rubbing the parapet wall of the city ladder for a while, it completely ran out of kinetic energy and fell into the city. But just for this moment, he took away the left arm of a folk man, and passed through the chest of the man behind him, even if it was a situation of one dead and one wounded!
Solid shells, with no danger of exploding, are perhaps the best news at the moment, or perhaps the only consolation. But at this moment, such casualties broke out, and the follow-up people watched the acquaintance of the same alley screaming through the wound covering his arm, and watching the other acquaintance lose touch with the world forever without even saying goodbye, this movement and silence, even if they were so shocked that they either fell softly on the city ladder, or stared at the lurking, held on to the parapet and walked backwards, or even turned around and fled to the city screaming in horror.
"Death to those who escape!"
The sword flashed, and the source of the screams that were rushing towards the city came to an abrupt end. Lin Dezhong, who was guarding the city and was ready to rush to the wall with the standard camp, shouted angrily, and the people on the city ladder seemed to notice this even more terrifying guy, and even stopped the idea of escaping.
"Go up and rescue the wounded, clean up the bodies, and carry all those rolling logs and stones to Lao Tzu!"
Pointing forward, Lin Dezhong drove the people who had been overwhelmed by his existence and were afraid of cannonballs to continue their duties, and then dragged the subordinate next to him who was swallowing his saliva and dragged him over: "Feng San, take your people and guard this city ladder for Ben General, if anyone dares to escape, no matter who it is, they will be hacked to death here!" ”
"Humble duty, humble obedience!"
Feng San, the brave man who took the lead in encouraging his neighbors to board the boat and fight for his life with the Qing army's sailors, is now a Ming army officer with the rank of general, and the group of standard battalion soldiers he led can be regarded as the most outstanding in the training of the entire patrol standard battalion. But training is training, just now Lin Dezhong slashed and killed the deserters, at this moment, a few standard battalion soldiers who had never seen blood spit out directly, and even the entire officer who led the team swallowed his saliva fiercely before taking the military order.
There is no doubt that this sub-patrol standard battalion still needs more tempering, but this battle is too inopportune, and Lin Dezhong has no choice but to hold on.
In this kung fu, a folk man helped the injured neighbor down, Feng Sanyi's eyes were round, and the two of them almost didn't dare to come down. Fortunately, Feng San was not a dead brain who mechanically executed orders, and after drinking a sentence of sending him to the wounded and sick station, he lined up his subordinates behind him and made way for them.
The bad influence of this cannon was forcibly eliminated by Lin Dezhong, but the battle was still ongoing, and casualties were occurring all the time, whether it was on the side of the Ming army or the Qing army. Death is the same.
"What are you rubbing, hurry up, hurry!"
Zhou Quanbin has been paying attention to a rushing car here for a while, originally this rushing car was pushed over, just those few Qing troops, the strength of the impact was not very large, but as the battle became more and more intense, more and more Qing troops gathered, obviously the city bricks wrapped outside the rammed earth city wall have fallen, and they need more manpower to dig up this section of the city wall.
This location was estimated by Zhou Quanbin earlier, because there are two city bricks below that have been newly added, and the color is different from the other city bricks around, which will definitely attract the attention of the Qing army. The oil pot is here, Zhou Quanbin did not let people boil it, so as not to expose the location, with the order issued, several powerful Ming troops held wooden sticks to set up the oil pot, even if it was splashed on the body, it would not feel anything unusual The oil poured down the city wall, when even if it was poured on the rushing car.
There was no expected high temperature, let alone so much oil poured in such a place, and before the Qing troops under the rushing car could react, they saw a torch thrown from the top of the city, and the flames rose into the sky.
At this point, there is no need for any temperature, but it is not boiling oil that is flammable, even if it is just ordinary liquid oil, a spark can turn it into a disaster. The car was burning, and no one cared about digging down the city wall, and the Qing army fled in a hurry, but it couldn't outrun the speed of the oil ignition.
In an instant, the dozen or so Qing soldiers who were digging the city wall under the rushing car turned into one burning man after another, the flames ignited their clothes and braids, burned their flesh and skin, whipped them to run wildly and roll, but there was no moat in the center and left, they didn't even have a chance to jump in, and even in this self-help that could not do anything at all, they rushed to another rushing car not far away, but they were directly hacked to death by the Qing army there on the spot, so as to avoid this suffering.
The screams in the burning caused a burst of exclamations from the Qing army, but as the war drums sounded again, it seemed to recall the incident of the massacre of the city, and the morale of the Qing army was not affected too much, and the offensive was still as fierce as ever, and even more intense.
Casualties continued to appear, and the Ming army's thin energy gradually began to be unable to fully take care of all the Qing troops. The disturbance of the Qing troops climbing on the ladder inevitably decreased, and it was not long before the Qing army had climbed to the highest point near the battlement, and it was only necessary to climb the city wall to achieve the first climb.
The Qing soldier who had climbed to the top quickly attracted the attention of the Ming army, an experienced veteran who had blocked an arrow from the side with his shield and was waiting to climb up. This was extremely dangerous for the Ming army, but fortunately, at this moment, a Ming army raised a stone high and was about to poke its head out and smash it at him.
At such a height, don't say that it is a good smash, as long as you fall, it will definitely be a dead end. However, at the moment when the Ming army threw the stone forward, on the lookout in the distance, a sharp arrow broke through the air and plunged straight into his neck, taking two steps back, and even the stone could not be thrown.
This Qing army, which was mostly veterans of battle, had now focused more on covering the selection of strikes than on maintaining suppressive shots at the Ming shooters, and their efforts were paying off.
At the moment when the Ming army fell to the ground, the Qing army Xuanfeng, who was supposed to fall down from the ladder and turn into a puddle of flesh, jumped up and jumped directly on the battlement.
The surrounding Ming troops were all archers, and there was also an artillery crew, all of which were non-commissioned soldiers without melee weapons. In the next second, as soon as the Qing army jumped down, they could slash and slash in a big way, and at the same time cover more Qing troops to enter the city. At least, that's what this Qing army thought at the time, and so did Chen Kai, who saw this scene.
It's a pity that this scene is just imagination in the end. Before the Qing army's battlement jumped down, a flash of light that was almost red crossed it, Chen Kai didn't even blink, but saw a spear inserted into the Qing army's chest, penetrated through, and flew out with the Qing army.
At that moment just now, between Lan Deng and the Qing army, there seemed to be several Ming soldiers within the firing range, and his spear passed through the gap between the heads of several Ming soldiers in a daze, and inserted it into the body of the Qing army, and even the red tassel on the head of the gun did not sweep anyone.
"Make it up, if you want to die and go home, the old man on the belly of the dead mother-in-law also said that you are a leader. Die here, and your mother-in-law will be a tartar! ”
In an instant's surprise, Chen Kai quickly turned his head, and Lan Deng, who was shouting and scolding, had already collected his movements, picked up his sword again, and commanded the defenders around him. This martial art really shocked Chen Kai.
Subconsciously touched the flintlock pistol under the official uniform, but Chen Kai quickly put away the idea of loading. At this moment, he is still sitting here, in order to sit here to help Lan Deng and Zhou Quanbin stabilize the morale of the Ming army on the northern city wall. But when the battle has come to this point, it is no longer enough to just calm down.
Thinking of this, Chen Kai stood up, dusted off the dust on his body, strode to the beating war drum, and then snatched the drumstick from the topless Ming army drummer.
The sound of the war drums paused for a moment, and the moment he noticed that the civilian official in the scarlet official robe picked up the drumstick and beat the war drum again and again appeared in the hearts of every Ming army, and then dissipated with fear and tension. The drums of war were beating, and Chen Kai told all the Ming troops defending the city in his way - he, Chen Kai, was with them!