Zhang Xiaohu's handsome flag was planted on the flagpole at the head of Dengzhou City by the soldiers in the heavy snow, and a large number of snowflakes fell, and the purple flag snowflakes fell on it, soaking the flag and becoming more colorful. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Zhang Xiaohu, who was sitting in the city tower, had a gloomy face even more gloomy than this snowy weather.

Not only him, but also the officers and men of the left flank fleet, from the captain of the ship to the ordinary men, all stared at the officials and gentry in Dengzhou City who were tied up like zongzi with cloudy faces.

The action of the naval division and land battalion in the west of the city was no less than a hard punch to the flank of the Qing army outside the city. A row of firearms passed, and the chaotic Qing army immediately blew up the camp like a hornet's nest that had been stabbed with bamboo poles tied to torches.

Some people are going to flee to the city, some are planning to escape for their lives around the city, and some are planning to flee to the mountains. Others, in order to embolden themselves, threw muskets and bows and arrows into the ranks of the naval battalion, but few officers were able to control all the men and horses to resist.

The second row of guns sounded, and no one in the entire Qing army had the heart to resist, and with a shout, the team collapsed.

"Grenade, catch up! Make them more chaotic and scattered! On the stab, the whole army chases! ”

The two battalions of the water division and the land battalion chased the heels of the routs all the way to the foot of Dengzhou City. The main force of the Qing army in Dengzhou, which was arrayed on the wharf road, also had no intention of fighting against the Nanyue army in the field. However, after all, they are the elite troops in the Dengzhou defenders, and in the face of the offensive of the Nanyue Army, they can still maintain the formation and basic structure, retreat to the city, and prepare to rely on the city wall, make full use of the snowy time and the location of the city wall, to complete the task of defending the city, and it is good to go to the prince of Abatai to show his merit and receive the reward!

"It's already snowing. This snow has gone down, and it can't stop for three or five days! Let's be in this Dengzhou city, around the fireplace to enjoy the snow. Look at this group of pirates, able to hold out in the ice and snow for a few days! "The gentry touched their freshly shaved heads, and they were very unaccustomed to the feeling of bare under the round-necked gauze hat. However, they are full of confidence to cheer each other up.

With the city walls, horse faces, and forts as fortifications, and the heavy snow falling all over the sky to help, the officials and gentry of Dengzhou are all blind dates. There are also those who are bold, using the index finger and middle finger together, this is called the callouse finger, which has always been a movement to show his momentum. Pointing at the officers and men of the left flank fleet who were silently carrying artillery equipment under the city, they shouted and cursed!

"Pirates! Those who know each other are obedient early, I have the virtue of a good life in the Qing Dynasty, and I am willing to give you a road to self-reform. From then on, we will protect Mingjun and enjoy wealth and prosperity. If you are afraid of death, go to the sea early and run for your life! Look at this Dengzhou City, that was Qi Shaobao's hometown back then, if you don't want to die, hurry up and get out into the sea to escape! Otherwise, my soldiers and civilians in Dengzhou will have a snowy sky and a strong city and a deep ditch below, and the army of Rao Yu Baylor is not far away. At that time, you will have no way to heaven and no way to enter the earth! ”

This is not bad, and the scolding is not particularly ugly. was blown into the ears of the sailors and soldiers by the wind, and everyone just thought that there was some noise in the wind, and they didn't even pay attention to him.

However, there are some voices and actions that cannot leave people indifferent.

"Nanban! Look! This is your fellow party, Xu Yuansong, the commander of the puppet Dengzhou Garrison Brigade! "There's a wooden frame erected at the head of the city." If you dare to attack the city, this is the end! Xu Yuansong on the wooden frame was still wearing a brocade leather robe when he was about to pay homage to his father-in-law, but on the robe, it was densely covered with arrows, and on the robe, there were dark black blood stains.

At the head of the city, someone proudly pulled the rope, making Xu Yuansong's body on the wooden frame sway left and right in the cold wind, as if he still had life.

A clamor and shouts came from the city, and dozens of captured soldiers and officials of the Nanyue Army system were escorted to the head of the city.

Although Xu Yuansong went astray and didn't end well after all, he is the son-in-law of the old man after all. How can he be left without blood food offerings? Today, he will use the five organs of these men as his offerings! ”

At the head of the city, with a sound, the executioners rushed up, gouged out their eyes and disemboweled, and even cut off their hands and feet first, and threw them under the city, and then sneered and cut off the hair buns of the captives, cut a cut with a knife from the top of their heads, and forcibly peeled off the scalp and put it on the captive's eyelids.

If other armies saw that the enemy was so ruthless, they would inevitably demoralize the army, or even make a noise for the whole army. However, in the face of such an enemy as the Nanyue Army, the brutal behavior of the Dengzhou rebels aroused the hatred of the Nanyue Army.

"Keep it up! Hurry up and push the cannon up! Take Dengzhou City, Lao Tzu skinned them alive! ”

This is the mind of all the officers and men of the Left Wing Fleet!

Dozens of 12-pounder and 18-pounder guns, as well as eight Clon guns, and more than 100 rocket launchers were deployed below the city.

"Boys! Since the day when we fought with the lord in Ha Jing, our Nanyue Army has never suffered such a big loss, lost such a big face, and our own brothers have been abused and killed like this! Now that the matter has come out, what should we do?! ”

Zhang Xiaohu's rather incendiary voice sounded in front of the formation, and someone led the horse for him and slowly walked in front of the phalanx of each battalion.

"Take Dengzhou! Settle an old score! ”

"Open Dengzhou and kill all the traitors!"

The atmosphere under the city was tense to the extreme.

At the head of the city, hot oil was boiling in a cauldron, and the rolling wood, sheep's head stones, and the righteous nights made of house beams, poles, ramming rods, and wolf's teeth were piled up on the head of the city, on the horse road, and under the feet of the soldiers.

Although the officers at the head of the city kept teaching the soldiers with scabbards, whips, and sticks, they kept issuing rewards to defend Dengzhou City, and each person was rewarded with a certain amount of silver. The slogan of beheading the first level reward is a few silver, but the soldiers can't help but curse in their hearts when they look at the cannon under the city with a black hole and a cannon mouth as dense as a forest.

"If you have silver, you have to have a life flower!"

In the air, the clouds were thick, and large snowflakes fell, as if connecting the heavens and the earth. The murderous aura between heaven and earth was so overwhelming that people couldn't breathe, and they couldn't wait to rush to the front of the battle immediately and shout loudly to be happy.

Looking at the egg-yolk-like sun slowly moving westward in the sky, Zhang Xiaohu looked at the soldiers who had finished lining up on the left and right, sitting on the ground with knives and guns in hand and waiting for orders, Zhang Xiaohu nodded with satisfaction.

"Let's get started!"

He Heilong, the head of the trumpet, blew the copper trumpet in his hand with all his strength, and a sharp horn soared into the sky. Ignite the murderous aura that fills the air until it explodes!

"Gun loading!"

The gunners who operated the Clon cannon stuffed the silk medicine bag containing seven catties and seven taels of gunpowder into the muzzle, pushed the powder bag to the bottom of the gun chamber with a push rod, and the three gunners worked together to lift the lead bullet weighing 60 catties to the muzzle of the gun, and stuffed it hard, under the huge gravity of itself, the lead bullet slowly slid into the gun chamber, and made a muffled sound, and the medicine bag came into contact. The gun commander was still a little uneasy, and pushed hard with the pusher lever to confirm that it had been tamped.

"Fire!"

"Tom!"

With a loud bang, sixty catties of lead bullets flew out of the cannon chamber under the action of huge thrust and crashed straight into the Dengzhou city wall not far away.

The Cron cannon took close and direct aim fire, and the target of the muzzle was the middle of the city wall of Dengzhou.

The city walls of Dengzhou are similar to the city walls in various places, they are only covered with a layer of city bricks on the outside, and the inside is made of rammed earth, which is not as solid as imagined. Moreover, after the devastation of Kong Youde's mutiny, the city wall of Dengzhou was already ruined.

The two cannonballs have caused huge cracks in the walls of Dengzhou City, and the soldiers in the city have heard the sound of "Gege", as if it is a painful moan from the city wall, but if you listen carefully, it is the sound of yourself and the people around you, and their teeth involuntarily knocking up and down.

At this moment, the four mortars began to spray fury and shells.

Unlike the direct aiming of the Cron Cannon, the trajectory of the mortar is curved, and the target is the defenders of the castle tower and the head of the city.

The shells of the twenty-four-pounder mortar leaped away, and after flying to the apex, they reflexively turned downward, and went straight to the defenders on the city wall, several of whom could not dodge, and were hit by the cannonballs falling from the sky, and broke their bones and tendons when they landed. There was also the unlucky guy who didn't cultivate in his previous life, his body was smashed into two pieces by the cannonball, and the upper body flew out to the side under the huge impact of the cannonball, and knocked over a hot oil pot straight up, and the soldiers around the oil pot screamed, and the body was already in flames, and the fire suddenly spread in the city!

A forty-eight-pound mortar cannonball shell went straight to the south gate tower of Dengzhou City. The huge cannonball pierced the roof trusses of the castle tower, and the gunpowder combustion brought not only great power to the cannonball, but also a scorching temperature, which was enough to make the wooden castle tower burn.

A group of adults and gentlemen who were commanding Ruoding on the tower of the city were stunned by the huge movement that fell from the sky, and they forgot to turn in, of course, it may be too late to turn in. The mortar shells smashed into the crowd of people who had set up their headquarters in the tower at the South Gate.

Suddenly, flesh and blood flew on the city tower. Only then did the adults and gentlemen realize that in front of the cannonballs, there was no distinction between whether you were a scholar, a rude martial artist, or a lowly person.

"Order all the cannons and fire at Lao Tzu!"

Seeing the effect of the first round of firing of the six artillery, Zhang Xiaohu slammed his thigh proudly, so startled that the war horse under his crotch raised his head and neighed in the air, and the many mules and horses in the Nanyue army formation were also roaring in bursts.

The artillery fire has joined the fire attack range of the city, and the defenders of the city also fired artillery in the rain of bullets, and launched a bombardment of the artillery under the city.

Several artillery pieces under the city were hit by shells, and the huge impact force tore the cannon body apart, and one wheel flew up and beat the gunners who could not dodge to death.

The two Krons were under the intense operation of the gunners to start the second round of fire.

This time, the artillery was aimed with a much more precise aim. "Goal! The impact point of the first shot! Fire! "With optical sighting equipment, a functional foundation, and a coordinate system foundation, plus training investment at no expense, the artillery shooting technology of the Nanyue Army is naturally beyond the reach of the gunners in the mainland.

Two more sixty-pound cannonballs hit the city wall, only about two or three zhang away from the position where they were hit, and the huge impact force caused the masonry on the city wall to fly, and the rammed earth inside the city wall had begun to show signs of collapse.

"Come again!"

The artillery on the side saw that it was cheap, and they all aimed their muzzles at the position where the Cron cannon had just hit, and for a while, dozens of twelve-pound and eighteen-pound guns poured shells here, and finally, the city wall of Dengzhou could no longer hold on.

There was a loud "boom".

A huge cloud of smoke rose into the air, making the people above and below the city forget to fight, and from time to time there were bursts of terrible screams in the smoke, as if a demon beast suddenly appeared in the sky and earth, and wanted to swallow the people above and below the city.

People waited in fear for the smoke to clear, and the scene in front of them stunned those present.

The city wall was repeatedly subjected to shells that had been used to the waist, causing it to collapse, and a huge V-shaped gap appeared in the wall, and, even more frighteningly (exciting), the collapsed earth, stone, bricks, and trees piled up into a slow ramp under the city, and the screams were the screams of the defenders who had been buried on the ramp by the collapsed wall.

A gap more than a foot wide appeared in the wall of Dengzhou, and there was also a ramp that could be climbed to the top of the city on foot, which immediately made the people above and below the city shout loudly!

"The eight-pounder comes forward! Change the shotgun! The infantry is ready to take the city! ”

The commanders of the people in the city shouted loudly, and the trumpeters either communicated with each other with the sound of their horns or waved the signal flags in their hands. Under the orders of the commander, the troops of each battalion and each post began to slowly adjust their formation, and the artillerymen quickly put their horses on the artillery carriages, and dragged the artillery closer to the city wall with a whip, they wanted to provide better artillery cover for the infantry brothers!

Two Cloon cannons are also among them.

The artillery was pushed to a position about two hundred paces from the city walls, and the gunners were loaded with shotguns, and they had to clear the city of any enemies who dared to stand in their way for their brothers!

"Fire!"

The Caron cannon opened fire first, and forty thumb-sized shotguns formed a metal storm and swooped down on the city! This was followed by a ballround of shotgun fire from eight-pounder guns. These shotguns sealed the roads on both sides of the gap, killing any object or life that dared to stand in their way.

The smoke from the Cron cannon fire had not yet cleared, and the eight-pounder and twelve-pounder guns also joined in the fun, and the shotgun projectiles fired by the two rounds of artillery almost enveloped the space within a range of 100 meters long and 20 meters wide, and people seemed to see the projectiles colliding in the air, pushing each other and rushing into various objects that stood in front of their trajectory.

When the smoke cleared, people could see clearly the effect of this round of shooting.

Starting from a hundred meters away from the artillery position of the Nanyue Army, to the distance of 100 meters from the Dengzhou city wall, the corpses of people are like chopping wood, stacked together horizontally and vertically, blood, human bodies, parts that can't be seen as internal organs, people who have been beaten into minced flesh by projectiles, broken hands and feet can be seen everywhere, it seems that this is no longer the world, but the flesh and blood mill described in the Buddhist scriptures, a Shura hell!

On the outermost side, there are no neat parts of the human body anymore, and there are pieces of minced flesh and miserable white bone residues everywhere. The dense rain of bullets and powerful penetrating power completely shattered the outermost lifeform into pieces.

In the inner line, a relatively complete corpse can be found, and the more complete is also relative to the people on the outside, and it is possible to distinguish where the head, where the torso, and where the limbs are. No body is complete.

Only in the innermost part of the pile, people will stumble upon one or two wounded people who are still moaning lowly in the pile of corpses, they are the last lucky ones, the shotgun has passed through the bodies of countless people, and when it reaches them, it is already the last strength, so they are lucky to be one of the few survivors. But life is worse than death, the impact of the shotgun broke their bones, ligaments, and blood vessels, and even if they could survive, they would lose the most basic ability to work, and they would not even have the strength to reach out and beg for money.

"Brethren! Listen! Our old men killed Xu Yuansong, the brigade commander of the Southern Thieves, and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty! Washed the inside and outside of Dengzhou City, this group of pirates, when they enter Dengzhou City, will definitely slaughter the city! Just like we do to them! If you don't want to die, keep it for Lao Tzu! ”

"If you don't want your money to become someone else's, and if you don't want your woman to become someone else's, just give Lao Tzu a desperate effort!"

"We've all shaved our heads now, and in the eyes of this group of southern thieves, we're all traitors! Once the city is broken, will there still be us?! If you don't want to die, follow Lao Tzu! ”

The rebel officers at the head of the city, while bowing their heads to avoid the baptism of the rain of bullets in the city, shouted and shouted loudly on the city, encouraging their soldiers to come forward and fight hard.

"Boom! Knock knock! ”

"Knock knock!"

A burst of drums, passionate and strong, came from the Nanzhong army formation. With the sound of these drums, the formation of the Nanzhong Army began to move rapidly towards the city.

"Kill!"

Under the guidance of officers at all levels to recognize the flag, the formation of the Nanyue army soon hit the ramp formed by the collapsed city wall, and thousands of people rushed here almost at the same time, swarming up.

"I only know that the Southern Barbarians are fierce in the field, and I don't want to attack the city so fiercely?!" Looking at their own horses and horses who were chased and killed by the Nanyue army in the heavy snow like a tiger driving a flock of sheep in the city, several officials and gentry were dumbfounded.

Several gates were opened, and a large group of people swarmed in.

At this time, it was snowing heavily.