He Changbao climbed the city wall out of breath, and couldn't help but shudder when he saw the slaughtering army and the swords and guns outside the south of the city.

Chen Congzhi on the side also turned pale and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Qin ...... Qin Chuan, are you going to rebel? ”

He Changbao reluctantly calmed down and shouted outside.

Outside the city, Qin Chuan rode his horse forward for more than ten steps, and said with a smile: "Lord He, the imperial court is sharpening its knives and Huo Huo is ready to take Qin to slaughter, can Qin not rebel?" ”

"You...... Aren't you afraid of killing your head? ”

"Cough, Lord He, let's stop talking nonsense, open the door and surrender, I can not kill, but if I resist stubbornly, don't blame me for killing after breaking the city."

After saying this, Qin Chuan felt that something seemed to be wrong, he didn't seem to have a killing ring, and he couldn't talk about a killing ring.

"You dare?" He Changbao had the courage to scold.

Qin Chuan ignored him anymore, and only shouted to the officials and villagers in the city: "Listen, I don't kill innocents, if you want to give your life to those old men, don't blame me for dying." ”

With that, he waved his hand back, and the 1,000 Guan Emperor Army slowly moved forward, advancing to a range of one hundred and fifty steps from the city gate.

Immediately afterwards, the cannons advanced a distance one more end, and did not stop until they were a hundred paces from the city gate, and then they nailed their feet and fixed the gun carriages.

According to the news sent by Lao Huang and Bobcat, there is no cannon in Jingle City, not even a tiger squat cannon.

There were a few bird guns and three-eyed guns, each with a dozen or so of them, but these shoddy firearms posed no threat to Emperor Guan's army.

Therefore, Qin Chuan still used the usual method of shelling at close range, and smashed the city gate first.

Word came out yesterday from the lynx that until yesterday evening, the doorways on the north and south sides had not been blocked with bricks and stones, and only some logs had been added to cover the doorway.

The city gate is not thick, only about half a foot, the outside is wrapped with copper nails, and the inside is inlaid horizontally and vertically with eight wrought iron bars, which is not very strong, and the red-clothed general cannon can be completely bombarded at a distance of 100 paces.

Nowadays, all artillery pieces are equipped with a set of rulers specially made by Chen Zhan, equipped with a complete set of comparative data to measure the distance and aiming of the target, and there are also rulers to stipulate different standards for different distances.

This set of data was learned by Chen Zhan when he was in Denglai and the Francophone people invited by Sun Yuanhua.

A skilled gunner can apply it with very high accuracy, that is, a novice who has just trained, and hit a city gate one zhang wide at such a close distance of a hundred paces, not to mention a hundred shots, ninety percent of the hit rate is still there.

After two rounds of test firing, several cannons were fixed at angles and then fired at the city gate in unison.

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Wu Yongqian had just taken the finches that had been stuffy for a winter to the yard to see the sun, and was whistling to tease the birds, when suddenly a steward ran into the yard in a hurry and startled the finches in the cage.

"Master, it's not good, the one surnamed Qin has come to the county seat."

"What?" Wu Yongqian was taken aback.

"The one surnamed Qin has called, and he has already arrived in the south of the city."

Wu Yongqian's face changed greatly, and he subconsciously threw the cage in his hand on the ground, and then rushed outside.

"What about the eldest young master and the fourth young master?"

"The eldest young master took the family to the south gate, and the fourth young master is in the inner courtyard,"

"Quick, let the fourth young master take the old and young in the family to change into cloth clothes, go to the courtyard in the east of the city to hide, pretend to be a little common man, explain them carefully, if the surname Qin comes in, let them not show their stuffing, and bring them a chance to escape again in the future."

"Yes."

"By the way, the second lady took Luo Wentian to that courtyard for a private meeting, that kid knows that the yard is our family, hurry, quickly bring someone to arrest that kid, no, you have to arrest his whole family, as well as the shopkeepers and guys of several shops of the Meng family, all of them are arrested, in case the surnamed Qin comes in and dares to kill our Wu family, Luo Wentian's family and those guys will be killed, and no one will be left."

"Yes."

The steward quickly ordered a dozen family members and hurried away.

Wu Yongqian explained a few words in the gatehouse, and also took dozens of family members and rushed towards the south gate.

The streets were already in a mess, and all the shopkeepers were packing up and running in a panic with valuables, and even the hungry people who were begging for food were fleeing with broken bowls and dirty burdens.

When passing by the mouth of an alley, Wu Yongqian heard a sudden scream and a woman's terrible scream in the alley, turned his head to look, and saw a few idle splashes who were pressing a little daughter-in-law to the ground, smiling obscenely and tearing apart a flowery dress.

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Lying there was a man covered in blood and convulsing.

"Master Wu."

After one of them saw Wu Yongqian, he bent his waist and said hello respectfully.

Wu Yongqian didn't bother to pay attention to these splashes who couldn't get on the stage, and only led the family to continue to the south gate.

The screams of the women in the alley became more and more heartbreaking.

Running and running, there was a sudden loud "boom" from the south, which scared Wu Yongqian's legs and paralyzed him to the ground.

With the support of Jiading, Wu Yongqian got up and staggered forward.

Not long after running away, there were a few more screams from a house on the side of the street, and looking in from the door, it was faintly visible that several other splashes were killing people and stealing things inside.

Wu Yongqian still ignored it, and just ran forward.

Finally arrived at the south gate, only to see his eldest son Wu Qizheng and the county master Chen Congzhi were directing a group of village warriors and soap guards to move bricks, stones and wood into the door hole to block the city gate.

"Dad, why are you here?"

After Wu Qizheng saw his father, he hurriedly ran out.

"I'll take a look."

Wu Yongqian gasped as he spoke, climbing up the stairs to the city wall.

At this time, a few cannon shots suddenly sounded outside, and then the heavy city gate also sounded a few loud bangs, shaking the walls of the city wall and falling down.

Wu Yongqian's feet were unstable, and he stumbled on the steps again.

"Daddy!"

Wu Qi was rushing over.

"I'm fine, I'm fine."

Wu Yongqian coughed out a mouthful of mud and dust, and finally got up.

At this time, the steward just now led more than a dozen family members to rush over, and shouted from afar: "Master, it's not good, it's not good, Luo Wentian's kid is gone." ”

"What?"

"Luo Wentian is gone, as well as his family, the shopkeeper and the buddies of the Meng family's two shops, all gone."

Wu Yongqian's face changed greatly: "Quick, go and find it, Jingle City is only so big, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to dig them out, go quickly." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Yongqian's face suddenly changed again, and he hurriedly ran to the side of the doorway, grabbed Chen Congzhi and said: "Master Chen, there must be spies mixed in the city, hurry up and ask Lord He to send more people to search the whole city, and the spies must be found." ”

Chen Congzhi slapped his head: "It's broken, I just cared about defending the city, and I forgot about it." ”

"What about Lord Ho? Where's Master Ho? ”

"The official is here."

As he was talking, He Changbao rolled down the stairs with a rolling belt, and the fat rolled up very smoothly, but when he got to the bottom, several officials couldn't help him.

He Changbao simply lay on the ground, rubbing his buttocks and shuddering: "Master Wu, the strength of this official is insufficient, and the matter of arresting the spy is entrusted to you. ”

"After the Qin thief is repelled, this official must truthfully show the merits of the Wu family to the imperial court, Master Wu, please."

"Lord He, don't be polite, this is Wu's business."

After Wu Yongqian politely said a few words, he hurriedly called Wu Qizheng over to give a few orders.

Wu Qi was just about to take people away, and there were a few "booms" outside the city, and the city gate shook several times, including a "click" crisp sound.

He Changbao, Wu Yongqian and the others' faces changed greatly, and when they looked closely, they saw that an obvious crack had appeared on the door panel.

Before they could come to their senses, a servant on the city wall suddenly shouted: "My lord, it's not good, it's not good, the surname Qin has divided his troops, and it looks like he is going to attack from the west city wall." ”

The faces of the people changed greatly, and they hurriedly climbed up the city wall and looked out.

I saw that the 1,000 rebels surnamed Qin were divided into three groups, one group stayed outside the south gate, and the other two groups moved westward, and finally stopped outside the two sections of the city wall in the west.

Then, the two groups began to build long ladders out of the timber they had brought in, and at a cursory glance there were at least twenty long ladders.

He Changbao, Wu Yongqian and others turned pale.

Chen Congzhi swallowed a dry throat: "Master Wu, now that the troops defending the city are insufficient, let's ignore the spies in the city first, the top priority is to defend the city wall first." ”

"Yes, yes, the top priority is to defend the city wall first, if you give the Qin thief a long ladder to step on the city wall, the consequences will be unimaginable, Master Wu, it is better to transfer the Wu family's courtyard to the city wall first."