Chapter 68: Into the City

The ignition rope prepared by Zhang Xuan was originally connected to the gunpowder box, and there was a special hole in the top of the gunpowder box to thread the ignition rope out of it. But it's not very fixed, only a pull can be pulled out.

When Zhou Fuming was holding the box, he didn't know how to pull it out, and now is not the time to talk about this.

When Zhou Fuming was in a hurry again, he suddenly heard a strange sound, as if there was a sack hitting the ground, he raised his attention, he put his ear on the door panel, and heard behind this door: "Quick, quick, block this door." ”

Zhou Fuming instantly remembered what Zhang Xuan had said before.

"The power of this gunpowder is limited, and if they block the city gate, this amount of gunpowder will not be able to blow up the city gate at all. The reason why he chose the south gate is because this is Liu Guoneng's retreat, and he will not block it unless he has to. ”

Zhou Fuming secretly said in his heart: "It's too late." ”

Death is easier said than remembered. But when it comes to making a final decision, everyone hesitates.

Zhou Fuming suddenly pulled out a rocket, this rocket had just been nailed to the top of the gunpowder box, and it was already burning, but there was still a little bit of Mars, but with this little bit of Mars, it was enough.

He stabbed the rocket into the hole left by the ignition rope.

"Boom." Almost instantly, the sound of an explosion was heard.

Zhang Xuan was stunned, he never thought of it: "Zhou Fuming is like this." ”

In fact, Zhang Xuan does not fully understand the people of this era. Just like many people in later generations can't understand martyrs like Dong Cunrui and Huang Jiguang, that's because all the education seems to be telling you that life is supreme and human life is a matter of heaven.

But, in fact, life is not supreme, and human life is not a matter of heaven.

How can the life and death of a mere person be called supreme and critical?

People in this era have seen too much life and death. Especially in this era of war, most people are born like grass mustard and die like withered grass, which is never a big deal.

"Kill." Cao Zongyu didn't have time to think about Zhou Fuming's death at all, but hurried out of the second city gate, and after passing this gate, he entered Xinyang City.

However, Cao Zongyu had just broken into Xinyang City and was immediately pressed back. Because he saw hundreds of elite armor soldiers rushing over, it was none other than Liu Guoneng's personal guards.

When the first gunpowder truck exploded, Liu Guoneng was informed, and when the first city gate was blown up, he took all his personal guards to the south gate, and when the second city gate was blown up, he finally arrived.

"Kill." Liu Guoneng's personal guards are all Liu Guoneng's old team, although some people are softened by wealth. But it still maintains a fairly strong combat effectiveness.

Cao Zongyu saw that he couldn't rush over, so he immediately retreated to the city gate.

The gate hole is too narrow to accommodate two carriages in parallel, but it can't spread too many troops, only a dozen or so people.

If Zhang Xuan's subordinates and Liu Guoneng's personal guards line up to fight, then it must be Zhang Xuan who loses. But if in such a small place, close to each other, Zhang Xuan's department can hold out for a while.

Deng He, Cao Tie, Cao Zongyu, all three of them are first-class warriors, plus the Zhou family, and the servants of the Cao family, the second city gate was blocked tightly for a while.

However, it is difficult to defeat four hands with both hands, Liu Guoneng has hundreds of avant-garde people, and they can take turns to fight, while most of Zhang Xuan's subordinates are playing soy sauce, after all, in the urn city, they have been subjected to the shooting of rockets on the head of the city. It is simply impossible to queue up.

All the tactics that Zhang Xuan taught them were based on the premise of formation. Now that it is impossible to line up, many of them don't know what to do.

However, the organization of Zhang Xuan's department was not completely dissolved, and from time to time someone rushed to Zhang Xuan with Shiwu as an organization to support Zhang Xuan.

"Master?" Cao Zongyu shouted, Zhang Xuan looked at it, but saw that Cao Tie was stabbed in the chest by countless spears, picked up, and fell heavily on the ground. On the battlefield, the space at the city gate was originally small, and there was no room to fall to the ground at all, and as soon as Cao Tie fell to the ground, countless feet stepped on it, and Cao Tie was immediately drowned.

Cao Zongyu said angrily: "Kill." ”

Cao Zongyu snatched a spear, and the shadow of the spear floated in an instant, and he didn't know how many shots he stabbed, forcing Liu Guoneng's personal guards back from the city gate.

Cao Zongyu went to see Cao Tie again, Cao Tie's eyes were straight, and he was already out of breath.

When Zhang Xuan disengaged from the two sides, he immediately placed the door panel horizontally, using it as a shield in front of him, lest the other party shoot arrows indiscriminately.

Zhang Xuan patted Cao Zongyu's shoulder and said, "The festival mourns and changes." ”

But how can the four words of mourning and change comfort a person who has lost a loved one.

"Not good," Deng He said.

Zhang Xuan said: "What's wrong? ”

Deng He pointed and said, "Look at the Saimen knife car." ”

Zhang Xuan looked around, but saw a strange wooden cart being pushed over by dozens of soldiers. This car has a front that looks like a baffle, and there are an unknown number of gun heads on it, each of which is half a meter long, with blades on both sides, as if it were a long sword, and there is no place to start. And this baffle seems to have been measured, just a circle smaller than the city gate, and it is more than enough to block the city gate.

"Why didn't I think about it?" Zhang Xuan broke out in a cold sweat.

At this moment, he realized that what he thought was too beautiful. Yes, the city gate is easy to bomb, but why did the later gunpowder break the city tactic was to dig a tunnel from the ground and bury explosives, instead of blowing up the city gate?

It is because for thousands of years, with the city gate as the key point of attack and defense, there are too many mature tactics that can be used. Not to mention anything else, this door jam knife car alone makes you have no choice, you blow up a door, I stuff a car, see what you do?

Zhang Xuan was able to fight here, not because Zhang Xuan's tactics were perfect, but because the people defending the city were negligent.

"Bang bang." The sound of countless horses hitting the ground sounded, and Zhang Xuan was immediately overjoyed and said, "My reinforcements are here." ”

Zhang Xuan was about to let go of the city gate and make way for the reinforcements, but he heard Deng He say, "No, all squat down." ”

Zhang Xuan and the others all squatted behind the door panel they had just placed horizontally.

saw that Yang Shan took the lead and did not slow down at all. As soon as he pulled the reins and jumped over the door panel, Zhang Xuan could even see the fluffy thing under the horse's belly. Yang Shan's martial arts were very high, and he rushed into Liu Guoneng's personal guards non-stop.

Liu Guoneng's rhythm of personal defense was disrupted all of a sudden.

Originally, Liu Guoneng's personal guards were all cavalry, but in such a narrow place as the city gate, the cavalry rushed in, they were simply looking for death, they dismounted one after another, and the other soldiers who couldn't go into battle also dismounted and waited for orders.

But he didn't want to come out of nowhere and a cavalry rushed up from here.

No, not one, but dozens of cavalrymen rushed over in an endless stream.

Deng He was a member of the Chinese army, and he knew the Chinese army's style very well, so he immediately said: "Rush out." ”

Zhang Xuan's department was only in the city gate hole, thirty people up and down, under the command of Deng He, rushed out and let go of the city gate, and suddenly Zhang Xuan heard the deafening sound of horses' hooves, and the cavalry passing through the city gate was endless.

"Go up to the city at once, and drive out the soldiers at the head of the city." Wang Lung rushed over, rode around Zhang Xuan's side, and didn't wait for Zhang Xuan to agree, so he rushed straight to Liu Guoneng's pro-army.

After Zhang Xuan received the order, he summoned the daring soldiers around him, but there were only more than 100 people, and the others did not know where to run for a long time, so they did not dare to delay, and found the steps to climb the city next to them, and immediately went to the city.

He had thought there was going to be a hard fight. But I never expected that when the soldiers at the head of the city saw that the city was broken, the morale suddenly dissipated, and the people who saw Zhang Xuan rushed up, either surrendering or fleeing, and there were few people who completely resisted.

Zhang Xuan almost occupied the head of Nancheng without blood.

However, when Zhang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief at the head of the city, the battle in Xinyang City was fierce. Liu Guoneng fought his old foundation to make the last struggle. The two sides were at a stalemate for a while. Along the central axis of Xinyang City, there are shouts of killing everywhere.