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Xiao Tianjian looked at the battle in front of him very depressed, his artillery team's five Furlong machine guns had just been fired two rounds, and they were attacked by the cold counterattack of the defenders on the city wall, and several battlements on the city head spit out flames at the same time, raising clouds of smoke, and several solid cannonballs suddenly smashed around the artillery array formed by his several Franco, lifting up pieces of earth and stones, and sprinkled down like rain.

In fact, he had already expected that the officers and troops defending the city might not be too weak, otherwise Li Zicheng would have taken advantage of the weakness yesterday to seize Longzhou City, and now after a day of preparation, the defenders in the city should have made sufficient preparations, so what awaits them will not be easy to take Longzhou City.

And he had seen from afar just now that the defenders had launched black artillery in many places on the city wall, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed out of the city, but what he didn't expect was that the defenders' artillery was actually quite sharp, and the guards were not out of order, and they actually found his artillery array for counterattack in the first wave of counterattacks.

Seeing that a tiger squat cannon waiting to be charged forward was blown up by the defenders' shells, the two gunners guarding the tiger squat cannon were caught off guard, and they were blown up on the spot, and they fell to the ground in a blink of an eye, and two gunners were injured by the gravel and fell to the ground screaming loudly.

Huang Shengqiang was also taken aback, he didn't expect the defenders' artillery fire to be so fierce, and he actually killed a tiger squat cannon in one round of artillery fire, and killed and wounded several of his gunners, so he hurriedly beckoned his subordinates and said: "Quickly turn the cannon muzzle and aim at the artillery in the city for Lao Tzu to fire!" If we can't hold them down, we'll be out of luck! ”

So the gunners who operated the five Furlong guns immediately began to adjust the muzzles, and at the same time used the illuminators and crosshairs on the guns to find the position of the guns in the city, and began to counterattack.

Liu Zongmin was wearing a leather armor, roaring and waving a pair of iron hammers, striding at the front of the team, followed by more than 800 of his subordinates, today Li Zicheng let him go first, of course he refused to embarrass Li Zicheng in front of the Xingtian Army, so he made up his mind at the beginning, wanted to show a good face, Li Zicheng ordered, and he took the lead to kill out.

Longzhou City suddenly boiled like a boiling pot, and the sound of war drums, horns, cannons, firecrackers, and shouts of killing became one.

Two trench cars roared on top of the moat, and the other fell into the moat, Liu Zongmin led his subordinates to swarm across the moat and rushed towards the city wall, but the defenders of the city had recovered from the panic of the initial shelling, and in the roar of the officers, the officers and soldiers and the townspeople rushed to the side of the battlement, and used various weapons to put down the city.

For a while, all kinds of weapons were splashed down from the city wall like a torrential rain, and the three-eyed guns, bird guns, and fire guns were successively sounded by the officers and soldiers who defended the city and the village braves, and more of the arrows of the bows and crossbows shot from the city, which can be said to be the end of the arrows, concentrated on the heads of the group of rebels led by Liu Zongmin, and immediately many people were shot or hit by arrows and fell on the sheep and horse wall ten steps away from the city wall, Liu Zongmin rushed several times, but they were all beaten back by the defenders of the city, A large group of rebel soldiers who had broken through the moat were immediately pinned down on the side of the sheep and horse wall.

The five Furlong machines fired repeatedly, leaving one bullet hole after another on the city wall, and finally overturned an iron cannon of the officers and soldiers who fired at them, but then a Furlong cannon on their side jumped violently, and was hit in front of the gun carriage by a straight flying cannonball, and immediately turned the bronze Furlong cannon to the sky, and even a gunner was cut off by the flying cannonballs, torn to pieces, and the flesh and blood splashed far away.

Xiao Tianjian didn't expect that the firepower of the defenders of Longzhou City would be so fierce, and the artillery team, which he was already quite proud of, failed to suppress them at all under their counterattack, but lost two cannons one after another.

Liu Zongmin led his troops to be pressed behind the sheep and horse wall, and he couldn't show his head at all, and the angry Liu Zongmin yelled, and in a hurry, he turned over and stood up again, and yelled: "If you are not afraid of death, you can carry the ladder and go up with Lao Tzu!" After he had called out, he grabbed a pair of long ladders beside him and carried them on his shoulders.

Dozens of Liu Zongmin's subordinates saw that Liu Zongmin was desperate, so they rushed up to carry the long ladder with him, and some people rushed forward and raised their shields to shield them from the arrows.

After a group of people climbed over the sheep and horse wall, they rushed towards the foot of the city wall, but before they could get close to the city wall, a roar sounded from the side of the city wall, and a tiger squat cannon on the city wall jumped violently, spit out a burst of flames, and a hundred and ten lead bullets were immediately splashed down like a torrential rain.

Several of Liu Zongmin's subordinates around him rose up in a blood mist one after another, and they fell to the ground one after another, and the long ladder they were carrying was instantly thrown to the ground.

A group of rebel archers stood on the side of the trench and raised their bows to shoot arrows at the wall, but their firepower was obviously unable to suppress the fire of the defenders of the city, and in a short time a dozen archers were put to the ground, and the rest of the archers had to find a place to hide from the defenders' bullets.

Liu Zongmin saw that things were not good, so he roared, and retreated behind the sheep and horse wall with the rest of the people, and the defenders on the city released a swarm of bees, and hundreds of rockets fell under the city with a whistling sound and flying locusts, and the righteous soldiers who blocked behind the sheep and horse wall were cut to the ground by such fierce fire like cutting rice, and almost every moment someone was injured to the end, and more than 100 people died under the city of Longzhou in a short time.

Liu Zongmin did not give up, and once again organized his subordinates to launch a charge, but then was hit back by the defenders, and only set up a long ladder on the city wall, but paid the lives of more than 20 generals, and Liu Zongmin also suffered two arrows, fortunately he was protected by leather armor, although he suffered two arrows, but did not fall.

Seeing that Xiao Tianjian's side could not suppress the firepower of the defenders in the city, Liu Zongmin turned his head to look at these brothers around him, only to see that they all showed frightened expressions, Liu Zongmin knew that today's attack was invalid.

Li Zicheng saw the blazing firepower of the defenders in Longzhou City, and saw that Liu Zongmin's troops suffered heavy casualties under the city, so he sighed in his heart, and had to order Ming Jin to recall Liu Zongmin and his party from the front.

Liu Zongmin took his iron shovel, led his troops to retreat, spit heavily on the ground, strode in front of Li Zicheng, knelt down on one knee and pleaded guilty to Li Zicheng: "General, your subordinates are incompetent and have failed to make meritorious contributions!" Please also punish the general! ”

Li Zicheng stepped forward to hold up Liu Zongmin, patted him on the shoulder and asked, "How is the injury?" ”

Liu Zongmin looked at his shoulder blade and the two broken arrows on his right chest, shook his head and said, "Don't get in the way!" Skin trauma only! The firepower of the officers and soldiers defending the city is too fierce, and we still can't rely on it! ”

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "You go down and wrap up your wounds!" I can't blame you for this! It's just that we didn't expect that the defenders of Longzhou City would be so strong! ”

Liu Zongmin sighed hatefully, turned his head to look at the defenders who were cheering in the city, and was helped to the rear team and bandaged the wounds on his body.

The people of the Xingtian Army are also a little discouraged, and at the same time they are all a little shocked, like today's tragic siege battle, they can be said to be the first time to see, although only the artillery team fights, they did not come to the city in person, but they also have a general experience.

Seeing that one after another of the rebel generals fell under the powerful firepower of the defenders, and the counterattack of their rebels seemed so weak, they didn't dare to imagine that if they were allowed to go up, they could do better than the people on Li Zicheng's side, and the momentum in the army would decline a little, and they all looked at the retreating artillery team silently.

Xiao Tianjian has also been paying attention to the development of the battle in front of him, and when he saw that the soldiers under Li Zicheng's command would attack the city in such a way, he was first shocked by such a tragic scene, and then he secretly shook his head in his heart and smiled bitterly.

In the end, the righteous army is still a peasant army, although Li Zicheng and they have rebelled for several years, but so far they have not formed an effective ability to attack the city, at best, they can only be called a rogue Kou, today began to attack the city, they showed the disadvantages of the peasant army, in addition to relying on this almost crowd tactics in general, basically such a siege method, it is really a little short of breath, if you only want to attack Longzhou City with this method, Not to mention that Longzhou City still has two or three thousand defensive troops and a large number of firearms and crossbows to defend the city, even if there are only 1,800 people, Li Zicheng wants to use this method to capture Longzhou City, I am afraid that it will be difficult to attack the city without killing 1,800 people.

Looking at Huang Shengqiang, who was withdrawn by the disgraced face, he immediately said without waiting for Huang Shengqiang to ask for guilt: "Huang Whistle doesn't need to say more, retire and recuperate for the time being, this matter has nothing to do with you!" Quickly send the wounded to the medical camp for treatment! Go down! Zhao Er Donkey! ”

Huang Shengqiang was slightly moved, originally he wanted to show a brush in front of the two armies today, but he didn't think that not only could he show his face, but he was beaten by the artillery of the officers and soldiers defending the city, and he also lost a Franc machine bronze cannon, although he also achieved some achievements, but compared to the expected results, the results he achieved were really nothing, which made him not know how to explain to Xiao Tianjian, but after coming back, Xiao Tianjian didn't blame him at all, which made Huang Shengqiang feel better. So he hurriedly gave the order and led the team to retreat to the formation.

"The subordinates are here!" As soon as Zhao Erdonkey heard Xiao Tianjian call his name, he immediately ran over and responded.

"You bring someone to haul back that broken cannon!" Xiao Tianjian pointed to the Furlong cannon that was overturned by the defenders' artillery fire in front of the battle with a horsewhip and instructed Zhao Erdonkey, at the moment when they were about to attack the city, a Furlong cannon was still quite important to them, and this Furlong cannon was only overturned by the defenders' shells, and it may not have been completely scrapped, so Xiao Tianjian was reluctant to throw away this cannon like this, so he sent Zhao Erdonkey to take people to snatch back the scattered Furlong cannon.

"Yes!" Zhao Erdonkey turned his head and looked at the scattered Furlong cannon in front of the formation, didn't dare to say no, immediately agreed, turned around and ordered dozens of capable soldiers under his command, took the rope and flew out of the big formation, rushed to the front of the formation, tied the rope to the scattered cannon, and picked up the scattered guns on the ground, shouting and dragging back.

When the defenders saw that they wanted to snatch the broken Furlong cannon, how could they let them succeed so easily, Yang Yulin sneered, and immediately ordered the two general cannons in the city to open fire and kill these dozens of mutant soldiers who grabbed the artillery.

After two roars, two cannonballs flew over, smashing heavily on the ground outside the city, after the heavy iron bullet fell to the ground, it was immediately bounced up by the ground, and continued to fly forward, after repeatedly rising and falling on the ground twice, a projectile crashed into the crowd led by Zhao Erdonkey, first passed through the waist and abdomen of a soldier, tore the soldier's waist, and then flew forward over the thigh of a soldier, directly cut off one of the soldier's legs, and then fell to the ground, and rolled a few meters away, only to stop its murder.

Zhao Erdonkey was shocked, and immediately beckoned his subordinates to rob the two casualties, and dragged the scattered Fran cannon back to the main formation, but at this time, the soldier with the broken leg was unable to do it because of excessive blood loss and severe pain, and the angry Xiao Tianjian pinched the horse whip in his hand hard.

Xiao Tianjian asked Huang Shengqiang to check the Furlong machine, and Huang Shengqiang reported back: "General Qiyu, this cannon can still be used, but the gun carriage has been broken up, and another gun carriage can still be used!" ”

Xiao Tianjian was a little more comfortable, in order to snatch back this cannon, he paid the lives of two more subordinates, if this cannon was scrapped again, then he would lose a lot this time.

The first battle was unfavorable, so that Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian's generals on both sides were a little discouraged, Xiao Tianjian ordered his subordinates to rest on the spot, and after summoning his generals to discuss, he turned over and rode his horse alone to Li Zicheng's army formation, and said to Li Zicheng: "General Li, we didn't expect the defenders to be so fierce in firepower, I am afraid it will be difficult to attack the city in such a way of fighting, and the casualties of the brothers are too great!" Even our artillery can't suppress the artillery of the defenders, so it seems that we have to do it differently! ”

Li Zicheng was also discussing with several of his generals how to deal with the firepower of the defenders in the city, and after seeing Xiao Tianjian coming, he stopped the discussion and bowed to Xiao Tianjian.

"General Xiao came just in time, and I'm also discussing with the brothers how to change the way of playing, so we might as well discuss it together!" Li Zicheng nodded, and said to Xiao Tianjian with a gloomy look on his face.

Xiao Tianjian turned over and dismounted, and got together with Li Zicheng and others, you and I discussed it one by one, after Xiao Tianjian told them like and this way, Li Zicheng and several of his generals all nodded, and they all came up with some ideas, and the expressions on everyone's faces relaxed.

After Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian gave the order, the two armies collected their troops and returned to their camps and evacuated the battlefield.

Yang Yulin held the battlement with his hand, and after seeing the two rebel armies outside the city retreating, he sneered and said, "Li Thief and the Xingtian Army are no more than Er'er!" If they dare to come again, then they will be beaten back to Lao Tzu like this, and see what they can do to capture this Longzhou City! ”

After hearing this, the officers and soldiers defending the city and the villagers raised their arms and shouted, and many people let out a burst of wild laughter, and some even stood on the battlement, unbuttoned their pants, and took out the guy in the crotch of the city to pee.

Xiao Tianjian looked back at the arrogant defenders in the city, sneered, turned his head and led the army back to the camp.