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Wu Biao adopted a very traditional siege tactic of lacking morality.

Hundreds of regimental warriors who had been captured in the battle of Shekeng, carrying heavy straw bags filled with dirt, slowly walked towards the west wall under the custody of his soldiers.

"Don't fire! Don't let the arrows go! It's all my own family! ”

The instinct to survive made these coolies in charge of filling the trenches cry out to the people defending the city.

"That's my brother!"

"My nephew!"

"That's the neighbor next to my house, damn, Lao Tzu and he have cooked the old bean sauce, and the cooked one can't be cooked!"

"Hey! Looking at their footless crabs, I thought they were all going to sell salted duck eggs, and I didn't want to be alive!"

In the midst of this call for brothers, the people in charge of filling the trenches under the city approached the outer trenches.

"What are you doing here? Drink tea?! It's a war! The city is your own son, and now he is also helping the thieves in the south! ”

The leader of the clan in charge of this section of the walled wall jumped to his feet and cursed, and he didn't care about his seniority, and waved the weapon in his hand to threaten his subordinates with force to fire and fire arrows at the city.

Before the words fell, two mortar shells fell from the sky and landed squarely on the grass factory where people were resting and drinking tea, and the dry thatch was quickly ignited, and thick smoke rose from the city.

Not far away, I don't know which timid Tuanding it was, saw this and screamed, "Not good! It's on fire! ”

"Run!"

Dozens of people pushed away the leaders who tried to stop them, and ran wildly against the wall. He shouted and screamed.

Suddenly, the city was plunged into chaos.

Some people ran around and screamed at a loss, and the content of the shouting changed from being on fire to being ruined!

The second master of the Guan family, who was so angry that he was responsible for defending the Xizhai wall, wasted a lot of strength and led hundreds of regiments to the road to encircle it, and then he caught this group of headless flies and tied them in front of the ancestral hall.

"I'll take you banna tofu cubs! The thieves outside are the enemies of us who have taken off the grave and detained the Grey Gold Castle! (The dialect of the Chaozhou area, which means digging graves, breaking the golden pots that put bones, metaphorically having a deep hatred) They came in. Our whole people are going to die! You guys who can't see an inch long! I don't know how many people died. Better than the people who die in the whole village?! ”

"Big details!" Someone in the crowd knelt on the ground and cursed in his heart, "There is no cub of yours outside the city!" ”

This sentence is also in the Teochew dialect, which probably means eccentric eyes, standing and talking without backache and the like.

In the midst of this brief confusion, the people in charge of filling the trenches under the city had already rushed to the edge of the trenches. Throw the straw bag on your back into the trench. I couldn't care about the splash of water, and I couldn't care about it. Several men worked together to tie a thick straw rope to a deer fence that served as a canopy. struggled to pull the deer away.

"Up!"

Wu Biao's command flag waved, and more than 100 firecrackers immediately jumped up and rushed straight into the trench.

On the edge of the trench. The musketeers formed two columns, first firing two volleys into the city, and the dense projectiles sent the villagers flying backwards as they tried to throw the stones.

"Hey, hey! Keep filling in the trenches! ”

Wu Biao ordered the coolies to continue to step forward and fill in the trenches under the cover of artillery fire and firearms. At the very least, the ladder should be able to pass through guò.

"Although the officers and troops fought fiercely in the east, they did not intend to enter the city there. The west and south are where they want to break the city! ”

Seeing more than a dozen long bamboo ladders in Wu Biao's team, Liu Ting'an, the head of the meeting, suddenly realized, and he hurriedly ordered the regimental warriors gathered in front of the ancestral hall to reinforce the Xizhai wall, and not to let the officers and soldiers break the wall from there!

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

More than 100 gunners took turns firing, and the white gunpowder smoke quickly rose and condensed into a white wall of smoke, which could not be dispersed for a long time overhead, and the round shots made up for the lack of accuracy very well, and beat the villagers in the city to the sound of screaming endlessly.

Wu Biao saw that it was cheap, and ordered his own soldiers to go to Ou Dapeng to borrow a sentry gun.

"We don't have enough firecrackers, sue him, I promise to return to him not a single hair of the borrowed person!"

Soon, the whistle gunner rushed to the bottom of the Xizhai wall. The firecrackers of the same party handed over positions and provided fire cover for the coolies filling in the trenches.

Under the cover of alternating artillery fire and firearms, the filling of trenches and the breaking of barriers proceeded more and more smoothly.

Seeing that the ditch had been filled with straw bags, and the deer on the outside of the ditch had been cleared, there began to be a cry of fear in the city. Suddenly, there was a loud sound of rockets firing from the city. In the sound of falling and falling, a large area of smoke rose up, and countless arrows roared towards the city.

The arrows, propelled by gunpowder, lined up in a dense formation, and with a grim smile of death, they rushed in front of the coolies who were trying to fill the trenches.

This rocket is actually ten rockets in a paper tube, thirty or so on, and after the gunpowder is ignited, it can fly a distance of 200 steps, and it has always been respected by Qi Jiguang in various parts of the border town, believing that its lethality is better than a nest of rockets. These rockets are about six feet long, shaped like swords and knives, or three-edged like arrows, and weigh more than two pounds in the whole body, and are the most lethal within 100 steps. I don't want to have this thing in this village in northern Guangdong! I think it should be that Qi Jiguang was promoted in Guangdong when he was the commander-in-chief of Guangdong, and was mastered by the ancestors of this Taoyuan village!

As the rockets flew around with irregular trajectories, the city was reversed, the city was smiling and morale was boosted, and the city was constantly screaming. Hundreds of coolies who were trying to remove obstacles and soldiers of the Nanzhong Army who were holding fire guns to suppress the defenders at the head of the city were shot to the ground.

All of a sudden, the defenders on the city wall cheered and jumped as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. The offensive of the Nanzhong Army under the Xizhai wall was temporarily blocked.

Hearing the screams coming from outside the city, the group members who were still timid immediately became much more courageous.

"Good! Just hit it like that! ”

Zhang Tingyu, who took over the second child of the Guan family to command the guards here in the Xizhai Wall, loudly encouraged those regiments.

"Third master. It seems that many of the people who died outside were our acquaintances? ”

"Nonsense! It's clear that they are all thieves in the south! ”

Zhang Tingyu glared at the group member who questioned the results of the battle.

"Go and get the stones ready! He has a good plan, I have a wall ladder! ”

Under the rain of arrows in the sky, in the face of the arrows falling from the sky like a raging storm, almost all of the coolies who had neither armor nor shields on their bodies were hit by arrows, and many of them were hit by more than one. From a distance, the ground was littered with corpses and wounds lying there, and bodies were still wriggling, but signs of life had slowly dispersed along the arrows on their bodies.

The rocket is boosted by gunpowder. Powerful and powerful. Far beyond the reach of manpower. The coolies who were shot were shot so deep into their bodies that they couldn't live when they saw it.

"Damn! Use such a vicious thing to deal with Lao Tzu! ”

Wu Biao, who was only one step away from giving the order and rushed up, had a fine cold sweat on his head, and after scolding at the city for a while. Ordered to continue firing cannons and guns at the head of the city!

The muzzle of the twenty-four-pounder mortar spewed fire and smoke. A deafening roar of cannons. Four heavy mortar shells roared towards the city, and fell to the city in an instant.

These big fiery iron balls. Whistling at the head of the city, or smashed in the middle of the wall, or smashed to the edge of the wall, knocked down countless broken bricks and stones, and then rolled down the city, jumping and dancing in the city, hitting everywhere a blur of flesh and blood.

The regiments on standby under the city were constantly being carried by jumping shells, their flesh and blood were blurred, and their hands and legs were broken. There was even a regimental soldier who was directly carried to the head by the cannonball that jumped diagonally after rolling down from the city, and the headless body stood in place for a moment, spewing out blood mist from his chest and neck, and then fell to the ground. There were even cannonballs that jumped all the way towards Zhang Tingyu, beating the family servants who were surrounding him and guarding him with shields and flew out.

"Put the stones!"

Zhang Tingyu didn't care about the casualties beside him, moved his limbs, and found that there was no major problem, so he immediately ordered to start throwing stones.

Beneath the city walls were dozens of small trebuchets that he had transferred. Next to the trebuchet are carved round balls of various sizes. There are several huge oil drums piled up next to the stones, and the vegetable oil in the two huge iron pots next to the oil drums is being quickly heated by the firewood at the bottom of the pot.

The successful launch of the rocket greatly boosted the morale of the defenders, but the retaliatory mortar artillery of the South Central Army made the defenders' hard-earned courage quickly fall back. Hearing the order of the first Zhang Tingyu, these people immediately had a backbone. Move the stone into the throwing spoon of the stone throwing machine, and take a spoonful of hot oil from the oil pan and pour it on the stone, and there is no need to aim and determine what to shoot Zhu Yuan, no matter what target he is, just throw it to the city.

Not to mention that under the walled walls are the Nanzhong Army preparing to attack the city, there is no need to aim at any target, plus the two sides are in the city and under the city artillery shells, rockets come and go, the smoke from the rockets, the smoke and dust stirred up by the shells, mixed together, everywhere is white and gray, how to carefully observe the target? Just smash it, smash it out of the city!

Just now, the rockets were flying wildly, and now dozens of scorching stones were flying densely through the air, and the dull sound of breaking muscles and bones, the muffled sound of muscles being smashed, and the oozing howls sounded, accompanied by the smell of burnt and rotten human flesh, all silently explained the results of this projectile of stones.

Dozens of pounds of stones fly out from behind the wall, fly over the wall along a parabola, fall at a height of more than ten meters, its momentum is fierce, the huge kinetic energy hits the human body is the end of broken tendons and fractures, and even smashed into rotten meat at once.

In the smoke of gunpowder. Boulders are still flying from behind the wall.

The screams under the city continued, and the flesh and blood blurred and stumps flew. The thick smell of blood, the choking smell of gunpowder, and the disgusting smell of burnt human flesh were like hell.

The smoke gradually cleared, and people's eyes gradually became clearer.

Looking at the scene under the wall, smelling the smell of blood, the smell of burnt human flesh, looking at the pile of body parts, stumps and broken arms, internal organs, large intestine and small intestine from the edge of the trench to the side of the deer, there is hardly a complete corpse in sight. In the middle of the trench, on the moat passage filled with straw bags, there was even more blood, and the pools of dark red blood seeped into the straw bags woven from straw and soon condensed, flashing with a desperate light in the cold wind. With the wind came a desperate howl and moan, which I saw and heard. These feelings are transmitted to the human brain, causing many people to start vomiting, especially those ordinary people, many of whom have experienced this bloody scene for the first time in their lives, and some people have been vomiting until they can't even vomit bile.

Not far from the outside of the trench, Wu Biao hated to watch the people who came from the east gate in fear and snatched the wounded soldiers and coolies with the door panels for treatment.

"Quick! When will your artillery be able to knock those stones off for Lao Tzu? ”

Wu Biao yelled at one of Huang Damu's sentry officers who had rushed to support him from the East Gate position.

"Don't panic! The more panicked, the more confused! Their approximate location has been found! Wait for Lao Tzu to settle the cannon. Just watch! ”

The Sentinel is also a thunderbolt with a fiery temperament. The questioning of Wu Biao was also a thunderous response.

However, although these mortars have a large caliber and heavy shells, their own weight is not very heavy because of the use of ductile iron. Four-wheeled gun carriages were used. It is more convenient for artillery to maneuver.

Soon. The eight mortars were fired.

"Put!"

Eight cannonballs split into two waves, making a high-pitched and piercing sound that tore through the air, and swept behind the wall where stones kept flying!

In an instant, broken wood and stones were splashed under the wall. A burst of smoke and flames rose.

A few shells hit the catapult that was nervously loading the stone for a new round of throwing, how could the trebuchet made of bamboo and wood withstand the huge blow of the twenty-four and forty-eight pound shells? There was a cracking sound, and after a few crisp sounds, the stone thrower broke and fell to the ground, and the wooden shelf knocked over the heating oil pot, and the flames suddenly rose.

A cannonball hit the spoon to death, and the stone in the spoon flew out to the side, and the stone carved into a round shape immediately jumped happily on the ground, and everywhere it went, there was a sound of screaming and groaning.

There was also a stone that had not been cultivated in the previous life and was hit on the head on the spot, and a good head turned into a pile of sundries with indistinguishable flesh and blood, red and white, and people couldn't help but feel sick when they saw it.

"Don't mess around! Don't run! Re-put on the stone and knock out the cannon of the Southern Thieves! ”

Zhang Tingyu waved his sword, his eyes were full of bloodthirsty light, and a pair of bloodshot eyes stared at the people running around and screaming, as if he was a beast that wanted to choose people to devour.

Under the prestige, the people still had the courage to return to the stone throwing machine, braved the smoke and fire, packed up seven or eight usable stone throwing machines and prepared them for launch again.

"Their cannons, they have to be recooled after a few hits, otherwise they can't be loaded with gunpowder! Let's not worry about that! Hit hard! ”

"Third master! Third Master! ”

Just as he was about to launch a new round of stone offensive, a member of Liu Ting'an's family ran from the east gate.

"Third master! The official army is attacking at the east gate in a hurry! Uncle can't stand it anymore! Please bring someone over for reinforcements quickly! ”

"Reinforcement birds!"

Zhang Tingyu roared like a thunderstorm, dragged past the family who asked for help, and pointed to the traces of artillery fire on the wall on the ground, blood and broken flesh and stumps everywhere, "If you want me to reinforce, I have less than 2,000 regiments here, and he has 3,000 regiments there, who will reinforce whom?!" ”

After yelling, he turned around and scolded the group of Tuan Yong who were waiting for his order, "Where to watch the birds? Ducks listen to thunder!? Why don't you throw a stone yet? Waiting for the guns! ”

"Third master! Third Master! "That family is Liu Ting'an's son and slave for several generations, and he is the most loyal.

Seeing more than a dozen stones flying over the wall, the outside of the wall was temporarily quiet, kneeling down and kowtowing like pounding garlic.

"There are only Wu Liuqi's bandit soldiers on your side, and they are all veteran Nanzhong thieves over there! And the artillery fire is several times better than this side! Dozens of large and small mountain cannons, non-stop bombardment, if you don't go over to bring reinforcements, I'm afraid that the wall will not be able to stand it! ”

As if to make a footnote to the words of this family, there was another earth-shattering sound of cannons near the east gate, and dozens of mortars carried out another round of crazy ravages on the already precarious wall.

A thunderous roar and crying came, and a terrifying message quickly spread in Taoyuan Village.

"The east wall was blown down by the artillery of the official army!"

"Haha! It seems that Lao Tzu is going to lose this host! ”

When Wu Biao heard the news, he also smiled, and commanded the troops to continue to storm the city.

For the sores in front of the eyes, strip off the flesh of the heart. This is a portrayal of Zhang Tingyu's heart.

At the beginning, although a large group of men and horses gathered in the east, and the artillery fire was fierce, no one attacked the city. However, in the west and south, there are people constantly filling in the moats and breaking the deer barricades, and it is obvious that they want to enter the city here. Several leaders decided that the South and Central Army wanted to play a plan to attack the west.

Unexpectedly, although the attack on the west side is fierce, the real breakthrough point of the main attack is still the east!

With hundreds of Tuanding across the entire Taoyuan Village, there was already chaos in the village.

The women were busy packing up their soft clothes, and several grandmothers took a plate of ashes from the bottom of the pot and wiped it on the young woman's face, and the mother grabbed the child. Some eleven or twelve-year-olds struggled to lift rocks and block the door.

Under the unremitting efforts of mortar shells, a huge gap appeared in the eastern city wall, and the masonry and earth that collapsed from the gap formed a slow slope between the city wall and the ground, becoming a natural ally of the city breaker.

"Brother District, I'll take someone up!"

Wu Liuqi waved the iron rod in his hand, and his black face turned red, full of excitement.

"Don't panic! Let the artillery fight one more round! ”

"Huang Damu! You shit! Get the Big Franc machine ready! Prepare to blast Lao Tzu at the breach! ”

After scolding Huang Damu's artillery team for a while, Ou Dapeng grabbed Wu Liuqi, "Boss Wu, after this round of artillery fighting, you go up again!" Don't clash too fast, don't overtake the flag bearer too much! ”

In the days when there were no walkie-talkies, the only way to indicate targets for artillery was to rely on flags. The standard-bearers rushed there, and the artillery stretched wherever it went. This is still what the South China Army, which has done the best infantry and artillery coordination tactics at present, can do it.

Finally, I emphasize that after the city is broken, those who resist will be killed, and those who kneel on the ground and abandon their weapons and surrender should not be killed indiscriminately. Thou shalt not plunder, thou shalt not commit adultery! ”

"Don't worry! District brothers! Whoever dares to mess around, I'll finish him with a stick first! ”

It was really a big fight.

Wu Liuqi turned around and went to reorganize his troops, preparing to break into the city.

"Awesome, awesome!"

As everyone knows, the awesome is still to come. (To be continued......)