To conquer such a heavy garrison as Yangzhou City, and after a year of strengthening and building various fortifications, and at the same time strengthening the city with many artillery, it is naturally impossible to rush up and be able to defeat it.

If there is no preparation work and they rush directly, then the charging troops may be beaten into a hornet's nest by dozens of field guns and hundreds of shotguns of the Ming army at the head of the city.

Therefore, before launching the general attack, Hao Bonian had already made sufficient preparations, and in the nearly 10 days of artillery bombardment, more than 5,000 grenades were fired alone, and tens of thousands of solid shells of more than 5 catties were fired.

Artillery bombardment is only one of the aspects, shelling, mainly to suppress the Ming artillery, kill and injure part of the Ming army, reduce the morale of the Ming army, at the same time the Third Army also carried out a large-scale civil engineering operations, there are trenches extending in all directions, as well as tunnels, and even in order to part of the heavy howitzers to shoot at close range, they also specially dug large trenches, and then specially built howitzer firing positions less than 300 meters away from the city wall.

In the previous preparation time, they had done a lot of civil work, filled in the moat, and dug tunnels to plant a lot of explosives.

The use of explosives to blast the city wall, this is already a common means used by the Tang Army to conquer the city, because it is in the face of a large-scale fortified city, when the artillery cannot directly destroy the city wall, the Tang Army will choose to blast.

And now, the blasting of Yangzhou City is a success, the violent explosion, directly this section of the city wall to blow down, although the city wall is very thick and very high, even after the collapse is like a hill, but even if it is rugged masonry, it is better than the straight city wall to climb!

The soldiers of the assault battalion, who had been prepared in advance, continued to step forward as soon as the blasting was successful, and they had to quickly climb above the ruins and resist the counterattack of the Ming army, opening a passage for the follow-up army!

At the same time, tens of thousands of soldiers who participated in the charge in the rear also followed, so many people, naturally it was impossible to squeeze all of them into the blasting point, but almost launched an attack on the three city walls, this is to share the pressure of the main attack point.

Of course, if you're lucky, these attacking flanks can also climb to the top of the city to open the gap.

But now, the two sides are most concerned not about the ordinary soldiers who are rushing over with a long ladder, but about the Tang Army assault battalion that rushed over in advance and was already less than thirty meters away from the blasting point!

After the soldiers of the assault battalion jumped out of the trench one after another, they quickly rushed to the ruins of the city wall that were still full of smoke and dust, although they were all wearing heavy armor, and more than half of them were even wearing heavy full-body armor, but the soldiers who could be selected for the assault battalion were almost all the most elite sword and shield bearers in the army.

A significant number of them are still soldiers!

With the gradual expansion of the scale of the Tang Army, the Liuzhou Independent Regiment in the Tang Army, which was composed of standing soldiers from various Tusi Divisions, was also abolished, and the most elite soldiers of nearly 1,000 people were redistributed, and after adding the elite sword and shield soldiers selected from the military, they were organized into four independent assault battalions!

Its establishment is different from other units of the Tang Army, adopting an establishment that focuses on melee combat, with heavy armor and shield soldiers as the core, supplemented by a small number of archers, grenadiers, and spearmen.

The number of people is also relatively large, each assault battalion has a size of about 600 people, of which more than half of the soldiers are equipped with full-body armor, and the rest are half-body armor.

The assault battalions that participated in the battle this time were actually the first assault battalion and the second assault battalion, a total of two assault battalions.

The combat mission of these assault battalions, as before, is still centered on storming and landing the city!

When these two assault battalions rushed up, although the Ming army hurriedly fired and opened fire, but in such a short period of time, there were not many who could be fully prepared, and at the same time, in the city walls on both sides of the ruins, the number of soldiers of the Ming army was also limited.

They couldn't have deployed tens of thousands of people in a stretch of wall, and even if they wanted to, they wouldn't be able to put it on the city!

What's more, now the Ming army at the head of the city is suffering the most fierce firepower blow to the Tang Army!

In the Tang Army, almost more than half of the artillery was aimed at the surrounding area, and the musketeers of an infantry regiment of the Fifth Infantry Division followed the rear of the assault battalion, and then lined up at the head of the city at a distance of about 60 meters from the city wall to fire!

Although they would inevitably be killed or wounded by the Ming army, these sacrifices had to be made in order to cover the assault battalion.

To conquer Yangzhou City and defeat the 100,000 Ming troops in the city, it is absolutely impossible to do it without paying a certain price.

Whether it is Hao Bonian, the commander of this battle, or Li Xuan in Jinling City in the rear, they already have a certain estimate of the casualties, as long as they can take Yangzhou and defeat the 100,000 Ming troops in the city, even if there are seven or eight thousand or even tens of thousands of casualties, it is worth it.

Because once the Ming army in Yangzhou City is eliminated, further north, it is almost impossible for the Ming Dynasty to gather a new army of such a large scale

The battle continues!

At the head of the city, Zhao Donggang personally opened the cannon, and hit the cannonball directly into the phalanx of a pseudo-Tang thief army outside the city, and watched the cannonball roll in the square array of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and then killed and injured more than ten people before stopping.

But now, he didn't have any joy in killing the enemy, because he found that the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, more and more, and the gun firepower of the puppet Tang thief army was getting more and more fierce.

Again, when a large number of musketeers of the puppet Tang thief army arrived under the city walls, the volley of guns was enough to kill anyone who dared to stand up straight at the head of the city.

However, these are not what he is most concerned about, what he is most concerned about, and what worries him the most is that the assault battalion of the puppet Tang thief army has already broken through its own firepower to intercept and climb to the head of the ruined city!

Although those adults had already dispatched many soldiers to resist, they still couldn't resist the advance of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army's assault battalion!

Moreover, Zhao Dong pessimistically believes that his friendly forces may really not be able to drive these thief assault battalions off the city, and once the puppet Tang thief army is allowed to gain a firm foothold in the city, then they will quickly advance to the city walls on both sides, and then it is enough to occupy the city head dozens or even hundreds of meters wide.

At that time, a large number of infantry of the puppet Tang thief army in the rear will be able to rush in from this gap.

At that time, Yangzhou will be over!

Zhao Dong is just a low-level officer in the Ming army, but he can still see the risks, and other middle and senior generals in the Ming army can naturally see it, even more clearly than Zhao Dong.

"Quick, go up and block it, you must not let them rush up!"

A commander of the Ming army shouted for his soldiers to quickly rush to the ruins to resist the puppet Tang thief army, and although his soldiers were not many, only more than 300 people, they were all armored.

This heavy armored unit under the command of the commander of the Ming army is also one of the many heavy armored troops in the Ming army specially designed to deal with the assault battalion of the puppet Tang thief army, and these heavy armor troops are usually deployed behind various sections of the city wall to avoid artillery attacks, and when the battle breaks out, especially when the assault battalion of the puppet Tang thief army rushes up, they will be the first to climb the city to resist, well, even if the city wall has become a ruin

The commander of the Ming army also climbed the ruins at this time, and the collapsed city wall almost became a hill formed of sand and gravel, rugged and difficult to climb, let alone lining up on it and the like, so what he saw was that the soldiers on both sides were almost fighting on their own at the top of the ruins, at most, there would be a certain amount of small cooperation between three or two soldiers!

Those soldiers were all soldiers who were on the nearby city wall before and then came at the first time, but the fight was extremely hard, no, it can't even be said to be hard, it should be said that there is no power to resist.

Facing the puppet Tang assault battalion thieves who were wearing heavy armor and only showing two eyes on their bodies, these ordinary Ming troops could not resist at all, even if they were border soldiers with good quality in all aspects.

This is the crushing of equipment and physical fitness, and it has nothing to do with the strength of personal martial arts.

And looking out from the top of the ruins, I saw a dense group of pseudo-Tang thief soldiers climbing up, numbering no less than a thousand!

And in the rear, there are many pseudo-Tang thief armies running and rushing over!

A small gap has already attracted thousands of puppet Tang thief troops from thousands ago to flock to it at this time, and the number of troops on their own side as the first batch of support is only three hundred.

Although there are still many friendly troops coming behind, I have to support them until they arrive!

When the commander of the Ming army rushed up with a group of Ming army heavy infantry, the melee hand-to-hand combat between the two sides broke out violently again!

Both sides are wearing heavy armor, which is barely equal, of course, the protective performance of the armor is still there, but in this short period of fierce fighting, it is almost negligible.

After a fierce and bitter battle, they finally killed and wounded half of the dozens of soldiers of the puppet Tang assault battalion who had climbed to the top of the ruins before, and the rest were also expelled.

But soon, they just saw the inside of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and threw out a small black dot with a brush!

Seeing this little black dot, he secretly said no!

As a veteran general who has been in battle for a long time and has fought several times with the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army, he can recognize it at a glance, this is the flowering bullet of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army!

Facing this kind of flowering bullet at close range, even if you are wearing heavy armor, it is useless at all, and there is only one way to not want to die!

So, I heard him shouting urgently: "Get down, lie down, this is a flowering bomb!" ”