The flood of hungry soldiers rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and long ladders were also set up at the head of the city, and soon the hungry soldiers climbed up the ladder towards the city wall.

A digression here, there are roughly two types of ladders in ancient times.

One is a pure ladder, to put it bluntly, there is not much difference between this ladder and the ladder used by the common people, at best it is a long version of the ladder, but a barb is placed at the head of the ladder, which can hook the uneven places on the city wall, so that it is not easy to be pushed down by the guards on the city wall.

The other one is more technical, this kind of ladder is also known as a ladder truck.

It is equipped with wheels at the bottom, which can move quickly, the ladder body can be tilted up and down, carried by manpower, leaning on the city wall, and the top of the ladder is equipped with a hook to hook the edge of the city, and can protect the head of the ladder from being pushed and destroyed by the defenders, etc.

However, the technical content of the latter is quite high, not something that ordinary people can build, with the level of Li Zicheng's subordinates, if you want to build a ladder truck or a more technical siege vehicle, don't think about it.

Looking at the dense rogues below, the defenders on the city wall looked at the Jiangning Army sergeants standing around them one by one.

It stands to reason that since the enemy army has arrived in the city, all the defenders have to do is to start throwing rolling stones, sassal wood, and even splashing those boiled gold juice, but after these days of consumption, the materials for defending the city are basically exhausted, and they can only rely on the defenders to resist.

Now that the reinforcements are coming, the defenders naturally look at them, not to mention the shadow of the famous tree, the Jiangning army has long been famous, and they also want to see how the world-famous Jiangning army fights.

"Brother, you ...... Why don't you fight yet, the thieves are about to come up! A soldier wearing a tattered mandarin duck jacket said to the Jiangning Army sergeant standing aside, "If you let them go up the city wall, it will be troublesome." ”

The sergeant glanced at the dense rogue below, and just said lightly: "Don't worry, wait for the order." ”

While the two were talking, as the ladders climbed the city wall one after another, the hungry soldiers with red scarves on their heads and thin yellow muscles and the dead soldiers wearing felt hats and holding shields and swords ready to climb up to the city wall crowded each other towards the city wall.

Since it is a siege, Li Zicheng naturally can't just let those hungry soldiers with wooden sticks, hoes, shovels and other objects on it, so that it is not a siege but a death, among these hungry soldiers, there are also a small number of dead soldiers and elite thieves in the old battalion, don't look at them There are not many of them, but these are the real main forces of siege.

Now as far as the eye can see, the city is full of people, those crazy eyes and hideous looks, if you let the timid people see it, they will be directly scared stupid.

Seeing that those hungry soldiers had climbed halfway up the ladder, they heard a sharp whistle on the city wall, which was a swan whistle unique to the Jiangning army, sharp and high-pitched, even in a noisy environment, it still soared into the sky, and it was difficult not to hear it.

With the sound of the whistle, the eyes of the soldiers of Jiang Ning, who had a blank expression, suddenly became sharp, and they saw that those sergeants who were close to the battlement suddenly raised the fire guns in their hands, poked their heads out of the battlement slightly, and pulled the trigger on the rogue who was climbing on the ladder.

"Bang...... Bang bang bang ......"

Puffs of white smoke rose from the city walls, and with the sound of muffled gunfire, a hungry soldier who was desperately trying to climb up either fell down the ladder without saying a word, or rolled down the ladder with a shrill scream.

"Draft Di Niang, hurry up and put up the shield, the officers and soldiers are fighting!"

"Sword and shield hand, hurry up, are you fucking dead?"

With bursts of screams, the thieves who were lucky enough not to win the single also panicked and shouted loudly one by one.

It stands to reason that the most suitable type of troops to climb the city wall and siege is the sword and shield soldiers, but this kind of offensive and defensive troops are out-and-out elite troops among the rogues, only the old battalion and the dead battalion have it.

Those hungry soldiers who serve as cannon fodder are not qualified to be equipped with weapons such as machetes and shields, not to mention armor, shields and machetes, some people even only have a wooden stick in their hands, even many of the sword and shield bearers in the old camp only hold ordinary leather shields or even wooden shields in their hands.

What the...... Iron shields?

Young man, you think too much, this kind of tall thing doesn't even have those leaders, you people can make do with wooden shields.

Seeing that the defenders of the city were using firearms, the dead soldiers holding shields hurriedly erected the shields in their hands, and many people protected the shields above their heads, holding waist knives in their mouths, and grabbed the ladder with their right hands and began to climb quickly.

But before he was halfway up, he heard another sharp swan whistle overhead, accompanied by a deafening sound of fire.

Pushed by the gunpowder, lead bullets roared out of the chamber and shot at the thieves climbing up the ladder, slamming into the shield.

"Smack!"

A lead bullet struck the shield, and the powerful impact instantly pierced the wooden shield, and then the deformed lead bullet in the eye with the remaining kinetic energy slammed into the face of a dead soldier who was rapidly climbing up the ladder.

The long-deformed lead bullet instantly took away half of the dead soldier's cheeks under the impetus of kinetic energy, and under the severe pain, the dead soldier fell down the ladder with a terrible scream, and smashed to the ground like a heavy broken sack, and the whole person convulsed for a while before moving.

There are many others who have the same fate as this bandit, and after being hit by the Jiangning army from top to bottom, the casualties of the bandits have skyrocketed.

"Bang ......"

As soon as the shot was complete, the sergeant who had finished firing the gun stepped back and stood behind, and as soon as he left, another sergeant stood next to him at the battlement, raised his gun and pulled the trigger on the ladder.

The sound of firecrackers continued to sound at the head of the city, and not only did the rogues fall from the ladder, but then more hungry soldiers climbed the ladder and stood on the city wall and looked down, and there were people everywhere in the darkness below.

Although a famous thief fell from the ladder with the sound of Jiang Ningjun's firearms, countless people followed and climbed up, making people feel like they were inexhaustible.

On the tower of the city gate, whether it was Pan Ruzhen or the civil officials who accompanied him, they all looked pale one by one, looking at the black and oppressive rogues below, Pan Ruzhen really couldn't stand it, turned his head and asked Yang Feng: "Grandpa Guo, look at the momentum of the thieves, I'm afraid that if you don't take the Hangzhou Mansion, don't you still have tens of thousands of troops, haven't they arrived yet?" ”

Yang Feng shook his head, "No, they are far away in Huizhou, and I'm afraid they will have to wait a few days if they want to arrive." ”

"How many more days?"

Pan Ruzhen suddenly became a little desperate, and he felt that he might not be able to wait for that time.