Chapter 361: Rush to attack
In a stunned place inside and outside the city wall, the first to wake up was Wu Tao, the opportunity must not be lost and not come again, Wu Tao pushed away and was stunned, shocked by his masterpiece and cheers, the bed crossbowman, pointed to the city wall and shouted; "What are you still doing in a daze, immediately wind up, quickly shoot at the half-blown down wall."
At this time, the deputy captain of the firearms battalion came to his senses, screamed and kicked his own foolish men one by one; "Hurry up, what are you still doing, hurry up, shoot at that section of the wall."
All the soldiers came to their senses and began to frantically stir the levers and pulleys, and in an incredible amount of time, they completed the process of winding up the arrows, and in the hoarse shouts of the vice-captain, shot the arrows of death again.
This time it was much better than the last time, the ten crossbow arrows were tightly tied to the section of the city wall about two zhang square, in the eyes of everyone's expectation, another big explosion sounded, and another mushroom-like cloud flipped and twisted into the sky, and when the dust and smoke fell, the rammed earth of that section of the city wall was peeled off and collapsed again, leaving only a thin one, and the wall tiles of the inner wall, which were crumbling there. Vicious snake-like cracks stretched out on both sides of this section of the wall, and the impregnable city wall would collapse with a single blow at the slightest external force.
All the people began to be eager to try, and some of the people began to move slowly towards the city wall, waiting for the city wall to collapse and be the first to rush into the compound and fight with the Cao family.
When Wu Tao asked everyone to wind up again, the sergeant next to him suddenly lay down next to Wu Tao, whose ears had been shaken and roared, and shouted; "Commander, look."
Wu Tao looked in the direction of the sergeant's finger, and saw that there were a few children of the Cao family who had not been shocked to death in the city gate tower dozens of feet away from the blast opening, and they were hurriedly moving the copper cannons, aiming the muzzles of the cannons to this side, thinking that they were going to bombard their bed crossbow position.
Wu Tao hurriedly summoned the deputy captain of the firearms battalion and said to him loudly; "Look, the enemy wants to bombard our position with artillery, and you immediately divide some elm sprays to knock it down."
The deputy captain hurriedly agreed, ran to the lively elm spray position, summoned five elm spray teams, and followed him to the city gate.
When everyone pushed the elm spray to the city with a chicken cart and began to install it quickly in accordance with the regulations, there were a few elm sprays on the city wall, and a few children of the Cao family who had just run on the city wall instead of the brothers who were shocked to death opened fire in advance.
With a few loud sounds, the lead like a storm swept through the position of the Black Tiger Army's firearms battalion, and immediately, the Black Tiger Army's position was full of flesh and blood, and the five groups of elm spray teams and the deputy captain of the firearms battalion were killed on the spot and turned into a piece of flesh and blood.
When the brothers of the firearms battalion saw that their deputy captain was killed, their eyes were red, and without waiting for Wu Tao's orders, they ran to the five elm sprays without waiting for their orders, and continued the work of the original brothers.
With a few loud noises, the lead like an iron broom swept across the city, but after all, this elm spray shot at a short distance, and the black tiger army's elm spray was still fired from the back, the effect was not very good, but it only caused a certain amount of damage to the children of the Cao family who had already been prepared in the city, so in the interval between the bombardment, the city and the city began to load their elm spray with their lives, hoping to be the first to fire.
At this time, three cannons suddenly rang out in the city, and when I looked over, it was three of the five bronze cannons that opened fire.
The three fiery red beating shells broke away from the cannon chamber and pounced fiercely at the Black Tiger Army's bed crossbow position at high speed, they knew that the current Cao family's life and death depended on whether they could kill the Black Tiger Army's bed crossbow first, so they wanted to destroy this position at all costs.
The high-speed cannonball with a blazing meteor, flying over a distance of a thousand meters and landing at a very far place on the bed crossbow, all the people on the Black Tiger Army breathed a sigh of relief, the range of the cannon is one thousand meters, and the range of the bed crossbow is also one thousand meters, so Wu Tao chose a section of the city wall one thousand meters away from the cannon, in order not to break the attack, and all the city gates are the focus of defense, the city walls are high and thick, not suitable for blasting at all, so Wu Tao chose to leave the city gate.
But one of the three shells bounced a few times, with a whistling whistle, and plunged headlong into the position of the bed crossbow, although there was not much kinetic energy left, but it still smashed a bed crossbow, and broke the thigh of a brother in the aftermath.
Seeing this, Wu Tao looked at the city wall that was about to collapse, looked at the people who were eager to try, and gritted his teeth in order to avoid casualties among the people; "The elm spray team, put on a watered quilt to suppress the enemy's elm spray, the bed crossbow split into two, and began to attack the enemy artillery on the city gate, shoot him down, avenge the father and the old folks, and avenge our brothers."
"Shed less blood from our parents, and we'll go up." All the soldiers shouted such a slogan, according to the arrangement of the military division, began to pour the quilt with water, put it on their heads, desperately sprayed the elm wood close to the city wall, under the bombardment of the enemy's continuous elm spray, began to install their own elm spray in accordance with the regulations of the cottage, constantly someone fell, constantly someone rushed up with the quilt, and the brothers who came forward and succeeded on the battlefield desperately suppressed the elm spray on the city wall to buy time for their bed crossbow.
At this time, a strange scene appeared, a dying brother, lying on his back on the battlefield, looking at the blue sky, actually sang a song softly, it was a song that depicted an infinite beautiful prospect for himself, it was a song that King Chuang taught his children, the song was cheerful and fresh, sung in the mouth of a seriously wounded and dying man, originally incompatible with this battlefield, but now it is sung in the mouth of this dying man, but it is so infectious to everyone. Although his singing is not good and intermittent, everyone can see his infinite attachment and infinite yearning for a new life from his singing.
Let's swing the oars,
The boat pushes away the waves.
The sea reflects the beautiful white tower,
Surrounded by green trees and red walls.
The boat floated gently in the water
A cool wind is blowing in your face.
The red scarf greets the sun,
The sun shines on the sea,
The fish in the water looked at us,
Quietly listen to us sing happily.
The boat floated gently in the water
A cool wind is blowing in your face.
After the day's homework,
Let's have fun,
I ask your dear partner,
Who arranges a happy life for us.
The boat floated gently in the water
A cool wind is blowing in your face.
Let's swing the oars,
The boat pushes away the waves.
The sea reflects the beautiful white tower,
Surrounded by green trees and red walls.
The boat floated gently in the water
A cool wind is blowing in your face.
The boat floated gently in the water
A cool wind is blowing in your face.
In the singing, he seemed to see his children in the school in the base area, following the left and right of King Chuang, living happily and peacefully, yes, alive. When you die, you must return the happiness and tranquility of your descendants. So when I was dying, I involuntarily showed this song in my heart, and I sang it subconsciously. But from his eyes, there was no trace of regret for his death, it was so peaceful, it looked like a kind of joy.
The temporary deputy captain did not look at the brother who was still muttering, and with tears in his eyes, he shouted in between each singing, "Aim at the enemy--- release---。 Fill the fixed gunpowder, tamp it, fill it with five pounds of lead, load it and start the fire, brethren - for the fathers and elders behind him, for the dead brothers, put. ”
A soldier struggling to spray elm wood under the city wall with a heavy quilt on his shoulder, humming meaninglessly the children's rhyme that the brother had hummed when he was dying, hoping to find a good angle to open fire on the city.
The arrows shot by the children of the Cao family in the city kept shooting at their own very dangerous people, because they were too close, every arrow was like a muffled drum, and every blow made their heads bear the blow, and the brothers around them were killed by the elm spray on the city wall when they had no time to protect, this elm spray was originally very light, but why is it so heavy now? The heavy one used to be able to carry it alone, but now I can't move half a minute after several efforts? And the body that I originally exercised like King Kong has begun to tremble, and all the muscles have begun to tremble irregularly, why is this? Ah, I know, that is since yesterday noon, there has not been a grain of rice and a mouthful of water in the stomach.
Rice and jerky were distributed to the villagers who were waiting to be fed along the way, those villagers were really pitiful, they should be given to them even if they didn't eat, not why, just for them to live, but now it's broken, the elm spray that used to be like dead wood is now as heavy as Mount Tai in his hands, and he tried hard a few times but couldn't move it anyway, the brother who didn't care about the enemy's lead and just wanted to charge the medicine faster, for this reason he gave up the watered quilt, and his body was beaten into a sieve in just a moment, He vomited blood and tried to reach out to help him, but then a wolf's tooth arrow shot into his rattan armor, which had been shattered by elm spray lead, and the brother smiled apologetically and closed his eyes weakly.
I have to do the rest of the work myself.
Taking a deep breath, he pulled down the elm spray that fell to the ground, but this time it was surprisingly light, and when he looked closely, he knew that it was not his strength that had increased, but that there were two or three until more villagers rushed up to help him, some of them were drenched quilts, and some were simply naked, regardless of the lead feather arrows that rained, and risked their lives for the army in their minds, doing what they thought they should do.
The temporary deputy captain was full of tears, and with the help of the villagers, he pushed the three bed crossbows to the firing range with all his might, facing the muzzle of the black hole of the Cao family, and calmly commanded without hesitation, and another round of cannonballs whistled, and the sergeant of the prison dragged him in the hope that he could dodge, but he shook off his hand and shouted calmly; "Pull the strings, put on the arrows, light the fire, and prepare to release ---"
Five cannonballs fell in front of the position of this small bed crossbow, and the mud splashed by the jumping projectiles hit Wu Tao's face, but Wu Tao was not afraid, and ignored the wailing of his brother who was hit, just calmly raised his hand and said loudly; "Ready? Shoot arrows. ”
He didn't have to look at the situation behind him, the brother who was hit behind him fell, but he firmly believed that there must be a brother who silently filled the vacancy left by that brother, so he didn't have to worry about anything, just complete his command.