Chapter 38: The Battle of Longzhou 5

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(No!) I want to do more, but the spinous inflammation on the back is always messing up, and the pain is really unable to sit still, and I have to lie down in pain after sitting down for half a day, and then go to the injection in the afternoon to close it! Sorry! )

With Huang Shengqiang's hoarse roar sounded, the counterattack on the side of the Xingtian Army finally began, this time Huang Shengqiang learned a lot, he ordered several cannons to deal with a general cannon in the city at the same time, after the first round of fire, the effect was immediately apparent, even if the battlements placed in the position of the general cannon were bombed into a pile of rubble, although the accuracy of the artillery in this era was very limited, but under the close bombardment, several guns aimed at a position at the same time, the harm caused was still quite powerful, And the general cannon that was still spraying flames just now, even if it was overturned to the ground in the counterattack under the city, the body of the cannon of hundreds of catties was lifted and pressed heavily on the lower half of a gunner, the gunner screamed again and again, weakly pushing the cannon body on his two thighs, crying, and the defenders standing around the cannon also fell, most of them were injured by the flying masonry, which made the defenders on the city wall scream in surprise. ()

When the smoke of the artillery fire was blown away by the wind, Huang Shengqiang, who saw the success, immediately screamed, laughed loudly, and shouted loudly: "Brothers have done a good job!" Turn the muzzle of the cannon and aim for Lao Tzu to hit the next one hard! Look at what their officers and soldiers are still arrogant! ”

Yang Yulin originally focused on the return cannons that were getting closer and closer to the city wall, but he didn't expect that the thief army outside the city would still have such a hand, when even if he lost a general cannon, seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately waved his hand to the location of those Furlong cannons, and ordered: "Order the general cannon to let go of those return cannons for the time being, focus on those Furlong cannons, and kill them for me!" ”

After suffering a loss, the defenders immediately turned their attention to Huang Shengqiang's side, and the remaining few general cannons began to bombard their positions in turn.

The cannonballs landed on the baskets full of earth and stones, and the bunker was scattered, but it was never able to effectively hit the furlong cannons, and because of the bunker, the shells fell on the bunker, and immediately fell deep into the bunker, unable to jump and continue to hurt people.

Huang Shengqiang, who was taken aback, and his gunners saw that the opponent's artillery could not help them, so they became a little more bold, and they aimed at the position where the general cannon was placed in the city and began to fire fiercely.

After a few volleys, the two general cannons in the city were overturned on the city wall, and at least a dozen of the defenders of the city were put to the ground, which caused the morale of the defenders of the city to be demoralized.

Yang Yulin scolded angrily, beckoned to the soldiers around him and scolded loudly: "What are you still doing? Tune me up a little more, and put it for me where to put it! ”

After a moment's pause, the soldiers hurried down to give the order, and in a short time a few boxes were transferred, and the soldiers aimed the boxes at the location of the Fran cannons outside the city, and immediately lit the fuse behind the boxes.

A whistling sound immediately sounded on the city wall, and one after another ignited rockets flew out of the box with a whistling sound, and hundreds of rockets really flew out like a group of peaks out of their nests, and in the blink of an eye, they fell to the location of the Fran cannon.

Huang Shengqiang looked up and saw that his face suddenly turned a little pale, and he shouted bitterly: "Shield! Hurry up the shield ......"

But they were still a little slower in the end, a batch of rockets that fell first fell in their crowd with a whizz, and a few gunners fell to the ground screaming on the spot, Huang Shengqiang was careless, and he was also hit by two arrows, fortunately, as an officer, he was issued with a pair of iron armor, and finally he was not too seriously injured, at this time the recruits who were responsible for covering them raised their shields and blocked these gunners, only to hear a chaotic sound on the shield, and this group of gunners were all frightened, Immediately they were silenced, and the sound of the cannon fell silent.

As the rebels besieging the city got closer and closer to the moat, Yang Yulin finally gave the order to open fire, and all kinds of cannons, guns, rockets and bowstrings suddenly sounded on the city, and all kinds of artillery arrows suddenly fell like a torrential rain.

But the rebels this time there was a shield car cover, a large number of rebels hid behind the shield car, and held some shields in their hands to cover the top of their heads, although the defenders were very fierce, but most of the bullets hit their shield carts, and the wooden board of the shield cart was also covered with a layer of water-soaked bedding, only to hear a popping sound on the shield cart, most of the bullets failed to penetrate the shield cart, but countless arrows were inserted on the shield cart, making the shield cart like a layer of reeds, a piece of white flowers.

After Li Zicheng saw the battle situation in front of him, he laughed, stretched out his hand and patted Xiao Tianjian's shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother Xiao, our method seems to be really good, there is nothing the official army can do with us!" ”

Xiao Tianjian was also paying attention to the battle situation in front of him, and nodded slightly, so far, the role of the shield car is really good, greatly reducing the casualties of the siege soldiers, only a few shield cars were directly hit by the large projectiles of the tiger squat cannon, and were broken up, injuring a group of soldiers, but compared to the casualties of their siege on the first day, such casualties are already very small.

However, his face also relaxed a little, smiled and nodded: "This is very good, I hope that the general's brothers can attack the city wall this time!" ”

Li Zicheng's subordinates, who were hiding behind the shield cart, saw that the official army had no good way to deal with them, so they let go of their hanging hearts a lot, and they all increased their strength and pushed the shield cart towards the moat.

Yang Yulin looked at these thieves who were getting closer and closer to the city wall with a solemn face, today's performance of this group of mutant army was beyond his expectations, the other party was obviously more orderly than the previous two sieges, and at the same time made more preparations, although the firepower of the defenders on their side of the city still overwhelmed the opponent, but because those shield vehicles could not kill and injure the enemy in large numbers, the opponent would soon approach the city wall, and then the cloud ladder would be added, and the attack would begin, once it entered the level of hand-to-hand combat, then they were a little careless, the city wall may be taken away, and Longzhou City will be in danger!

After Yang Yulin observed the situation outside the city, he gave the order to go down and extend the firepower backwards, so the defenders in the city turned to aim at the thieves who followed behind the shield car, and the boxes and swarms were ignited by the defenders, and hundreds of rockets were launched like locusts, these rockets have no tail feathers, and the quasi-head will definitely not be much better, but the number of rockets is really a lot, and the farthest range can reach more than two hundred steps away, although there is not much accuracy, but in a blink of an eye, it flew past the shield car at the forefront, It was sprinkled on the heads of the rebels who followed the shield cart behind.

The number of soldiers on Li Zicheng's side was very small, and in the face of such a dense rain of arrows, a large area fell on the spot, and many of the rebels who were hit by the arrows covered their wounds, lying on the ground and wailing in mourning, but then a pair of big feet stepped over their bodies and continued to rush forward.

After a column of shield carts rushed to the outside of the trench, they were blocked by the trench and could not continue to advance, so the soldiers hiding behind the shield cart immediately unloaded a door of tiger squat cannons from the car, and set them up, and the gunner in charge of the cannon nervously filled the wrapped ammunition into the cannon chamber, this group of soldiers is the artillery of the Xingtian Army under the command of Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian has always attached importance to the equipment of artillery, and their tiger squat guns have all realized the equipment of fixed gunpowder at this time, so loading ammunition is much easier and more convenient than before. After tamping with a cane, the gunners of these tiger squat cannons immediately nailed their claws into the ground, then shook the fire fold in their hands, lit the torches, and in a short time were ready to fire.

Huang Bo is Huang Shengqiang's deputy, because Huang Shengqiang is responsible for commanding those few Furlong cannons, and he can't get out, so this place is handed over to Huang Bo to command, Huang Bo stretched out his head to look at the situation in the city, and immediately squatted down and shouted to those gunners: "Listen to me!" Hit the hell at the head of the city! Shoot! ”

The prepared gunners immediately pressed the torches on the fire door of the tiger squat cannon, and immediately more than a dozen clouds of gunpowder smoke rose from the shield cart, and the defenders who were struggling to release arrows and guns on the city wall did not expect to be bombarded by the thieves under the city at such a close distance.

Each tiger squat cannon is not only equipped with a large projectile, but also contains more than 100 small lead bullets, more than a dozen tiger squat cannons fired, and suddenly the city wall is like a rain of lead bullets, more than 20 defenders who stretched out their bodies and are releasing guns and arrows immediately rose up a cloud of blood mist on their upper bodies, and fell into the city wall with their backs facing the sky, and then saw that their faces and chests became like a sieve, becoming blurred with flesh and blood, and it was almost impossible to recognize who they were, and some of them died on the spot. There were also some people who covered their bloody faces and howled like pigs, and the city wall seemed to have become a human area all of a sudden.

Frightened, many officers and soldiers and strong men quickly retracted their bodies, hiding behind the battlements and not daring to show their heads, which made the firepower of the defenders in the city suddenly suffocated, and immediately attracted the applause of many soldiers of the rebel army under the city.

Yang Yulin found out that the thieves actually used the cover of the shield car to send the tiger squat cannon to the city within the firing range, killing and wounding dozens of his soldiers, he was angry and scolded, and immediately commanded the tiger squat cannon in the city to counterattack at the position of the thief army's tiger squat artillery.

I could only hear the sound of cannons above and below the city, and the flames kept spitting out from the muzzles of one cannon after another, spilling death on the opponent's body.

Several shield cars were torn apart and overturned to the ground by the defenders' tiger squat cannons, after a raid on the defenders of the city, the gunners of the Xingtian Army also realized the strength of the other party, there are at least a dozen tiger squat cannons on the wall of Longzhou City, and the distance of dozens of steps is within the effective range of the tiger squat cannons, although there is a shield car protection, but compared to the officers and soldiers hiding behind the battlements on the city wall, the artillery of the Xingtian Army is still at a disadvantage, after a few rounds of protection between the two sides, the gunners on the side of the Xingtian Army have paid a heavy price, Several gunners were killed on the spot, and several people were wounded, and even their deputy sentry Huang Bo was hit in the right arm by a cannon, which made his right arm bloody and blurred.