Chapter Ninety-Five: The Battle of the Walled Gate
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The place where they rested was still two or three miles away from Tianlong Village, but when they rushed to Tianlong Village together, they didn't have the appearance of procrastination when marching on the road just now, and they all had full strength, spread out and ran towards the front, and after a while, more than 1,000 people squeezed into the entrance to Tianlong Village like a torrent, and looked forward along the road from afar, only to see that the gate of Tianlong Village was really wide open, there was no flag on the wall, and no one was stationed, only to see a few people carrying things in a panic, It seems that they want to escape from the village, as soon as they saw so many officers and soldiers rushing over, these people picked up the packages on their bodies, and then turned around and ran back towards the village, obviously there were still some people in the village who did not have time to escape, and they were blocked in the cottage at this time!
Not far from the gate of the village, there is also a big car that has fallen a wheel, the grain bag on the car has fallen to the ground, some bad shoes have been lost on the road, and even a few rusty iron knives and broken guns, along the way have dropped a lot of scattered copper coins, and there is a cloth bag with a big hole, there are still some copper coins left in it, it seems that this pole entrenched in Tianlong Village is really panicked, and even these things can't be picked up!
After seeing this scene, these people were even more relieved and bold, and rushed towards the Tianlong Village one by one, for fear of being snatched to the front by others. Rush in first to get money, and those who go in later may not even have to eat!
The stewards of each village are afraid that they will be left behind, and they are running and shouting to let their subordinates hurry up, the road to the cottage is relatively narrow, and suddenly there are more than 1,000 people and horses, and it is suddenly crowded.
In the middle is the officers and soldiers headed by Ding Baoquan, they occupy a little organization, squeeze Zhuang Ding Xiangyong aside, squeeze forward, which aggravates the chaos in front of the village, the officers and soldiers and the villagers soon mixed together, you fight for me to pick up the money and things that were thrown on the road by the pole, and they insult each other non-stop, and even some people fist and kick each other for a few copper coins that fell on the ground.
In short, the scene outside the gate of Tianlong Village is as chaotic as it is, and the crowd is not a little crowded, so they push each other and crowd it, crowded, and the crowd rushes into the gate of Tianlong Village like a flood.
At this time, the gate of the village was squeaked and pushed inside, and slowly closed, and at the same time heard the sound of someone shouting loudly against the door.
The officers and soldiers and villagers who had rushed to the gate of the cottage realized that there might be some poles left in the cottage that they had not had time to run away, so they stopped their steps and began to stop outside the gate.
At this time, someone appeared on the wall of the mountain gate, stretched out his head and stretched out his head on the wall to look outside, and the voice of people came out, shouting to summon people to resist here.
Ding Baoquan gasped and squeezed out of the crowd, kicked a villager in front of him to the side, held the edge of the eight-petal iron helmet above his head, and looked at the top of the mountain gate.
There are not many people on the wall, and they all seem to be very panicked, and they don't see any organization, but they can only hear someone in the wall shouting and scolding, shouting and making people resist.
Ding Baoquan suddenly became happy, in his opinion, there must be a small number of people in this pole who are greedy for the property in the cottage and want to get some more, so that they escaped a little slower, and they were actually blocked in this cottage, this time he is even more sure that there are valuable things in the cottage, as long as they attack it, this trip will definitely not come in vain.
So he ordered his officers and soldiers to be quiet, and ordered the stewards of the Zhuangzi to restrain their subordinates to stop arguing, and after waiting for a while, they finally quieted down.
Ding Baoquan tore his throat and shouted at the inside of the mountain gate: "The poles inside have been listened to by Lao Tzu!" Lao Tzu is Feng Xiang Wei Qian, the general manager of Ding is also! I order you to open the door and surrender as soon as possible, I can let you go and not kill! If not, when we invade the cottage, we will kill you chickens and dogs! ”
Ding Baoquan's fat man's voice is not small, the voice is very clear and far away, it is expected that the poles hiding in the mountain gate can be heard clearly, after shouting, Ding Baoquan asked people to bring him a big chair again, and the big horse sat on the chair, waiting for the people inside the mountain gate to answer.
After waiting for a while, I saw half of a person's head on the wall, looked out, and then shouted: "I! Fuck you! Lao Tzu is not stupid, you will still chop up Lao Tzu when you open the door! Lao Tzu won't open the door, you fucking have the ability to come in! Lao Tzu's knife is not vegetarian, you try it! Whoever dares to come up, Lao Tzu chopped whom! ”
Ding Baoquan almost turned over on his back after hearing this, and the surrounding officers and soldiers and villagers also scolded one after another, Ding Baoquan angrily pointed to the person who answered the question above the mountain gate and scolded: "Are you that Xiao Yiaxe?" ”
In the chaos, I don't know if the person heard his words, anyway, after the person answered, he shrank his head, and then more than a dozen figures flashed on the wall, and some knives and guns showed the wall, it seems that he really doesn't plan to open the door and surrender.
Seeing the crowd crowded outside the mountain gate, and there were poles on the wall, for a while, these officers and soldiers did not dare to be too presumptuous, standing far away from the mountain gate, waiting for Ding Baoquan to make an idea.
Ding Baoquan has long since stopped taking this pole in the cottage in his eyes at this time, no matter how you look at the number of poles in the gate, the number of poles in the gate will not be much, and it is estimated that there are only twenty or thirty people at most.
So he waved his hand and shouted: "It's really something that doesn't know whether it's dead or alive, it's all for the official to stand back!" Come! Bring up our cannons, fire guns, archers and archers all come forward, blast open the mountain gate for Lao Tzu, and kill them without leaving a chicken and dog! ”
Later, under the command of Ding Baoquan, his officers and soldiers were busy with their work, archers and musketeers stepped forward one after another, lined up outside the mountain gate, and the rattan players also stepped forward with shields to provide cover for these archers and firecrackers, and dozens of officers and soldiers shouted outside the mountain to move a few artillery pieces they brought with the car and some swarms to the mountain pass, and everyone walked to avoid the back to make room for the officers and soldiers to attack the mountain gate.
The stewards of the villages were also prepared for this, and immediately went outside to cut down trees and make long ladders, and also cut down a large tree, and put it on a large cart, ready to be used as a ram to punch the door.
And the walled wall seems to be very busy, some poles are running around the wall, constantly erecting some big shields, and at the same time carrying some rolling wood and stones and other things, it seems that they are also preparing for stubborn resistance.
After tossing for a while, the officers and soldiers outside the mountain gate were finally ready to attack, and the two Furlong machines and tiger squat guns were placed outside the mountain gate, and the muzzles of the guns pointed directly at the mountain gate.
"Call me ......" Ding Baoquan stood at the back of the queue, and after seeing that the arrangement had stopped, he yelled loudly.
When several gunners heard this, they immediately pestled their torches on the fire door of the artillery, only to hear several loud bangs immediately resounding in the col, and then a thick cloud of smoke rose from several guns.
Ding Baoquan's entourage this time is a kind of medium-sized artillery, more than one meter long gun body, weighing about two or three hundred catties, although the range is limited, but such a close range to attack a target like the mountain gate, the power is still considerable, and this is to deal with the mountain gate, the gun is loaded with solid projectiles, after flying out, it smashed heavily on the mountain gate made of thick wood, and the heavy mountain gate shook violently, and there were two holes with large bowl mouths on it.
The tiger squat cannon is a kind of light artillery belonging to the category of mortar artillery, which is not only loaded with a solid bullet, but also contains more than 100 small lead bullets.
Ding Baoquan is very proud, in the end they are still officers and soldiers, although the combat effectiveness is not good, but this equipment is not comparable to ordinary poles, at least the cannon, he has not seen much poles, just with this, he has the confidence to blow up these stubborn poles.
"Don't fucking be stunned! Archers and firecrackers give Lao Tzu a fight! Ladies and gentlemen, let us press the pole on it for you, and go up to it! Ding Baoquan was very proud, but he didn't get dizzy, he knew what kind of virtue this group of soldiers under his command was, and he could shoot a few arrows from a distance, if he really asked them to go up and fight with those outlaws inside with real knives and guns, he estimated that his own soldiers would definitely not succeed, and he also knew that he was here to help the surnamed Li, and he couldn't fight with his own lives, so after a few shots, he called the managers of the villages, and let their Zhuang Ding start to carry the long ladder to attack the village gate.
After listening to the stewards of the villages, there was nothing to say, after all, the officers and soldiers came here to help them in the war this time, and everyone secretly understood that even if they could carry the cannon to suppress the pole inside for them, too many officers and soldiers could not be counted on.
So the stewards of each village agreed to come down, and each of them beckoned his men, and began to carry the long ladder forward, ready to attack, while the archers and musketeers of the one hundred and ten officers and soldiers lined up in front, and under the cover of the rattan players, they all fired towards the wall.
There are not many officers and soldiers with firearms, and the range of the three-eyed guns is really limited, so when the guns are put down, there is a crackling sound, and no one directs them to fire a salvo at all, but there are a lot of archers, and they have opened their bows and arrows, and for a time the sound of whizzing bowstrings is one, and the arrows are scattered on the wall.
It's a pity that these archers haven't gone through much training at ordinary times, and because of nutrition, the bow arm strength is limited, and the bow used looks like a hard bow for infantry, but in essence, they are some small bows of poor quality, and the maintenance is also very poor on weekdays, the bow arms are weak and weak, and most of the light arrows shot are some light arrows, which look very majestic, but the arrows are light and fluttering and do not have much strength, and the killing effect is not great, but it can play a symbolic threat!
This is also an important reason why the officers and soldiers were repeatedly defeated in battles before Qi Jiguang organized and trained the Qi family army, and the arrows shot by many officers and soldiers could not cause much damage to the Japanese at all, so the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers can naturally be seen.
After some arrows swished out, they fell on the wall and couldn't even nail the plank, so they fell to the ground with a crackle, and even some arrows did not fly to the wall, but fell to the ground, which was not a big threat to the people on the wall.
But at least they can be regarded as providing a certain degree of fire cover for those who are responsible for attacking the village, under the order of the village stewards, these villagers have carried the long ladder, holding a rattan card in one hand to cover the top of the head and the upper body, let out a shout, and rushed towards the gate of the village.
"Don't be stunned, hurry up and load the bullets, continue to bombard Lao Tzu, and blast the gate open to Lao Tzu!" Ding Baoquan saw that these villagers had begun to attack, so he went up and kicked a gunner's ass and scolded the guys who were watching the excitement with their mouths open.
Then the gunners began to get busy, and the gunners who operated the Furlong cannon knocked down the wedge of the plug gun, took the gun out of the belly of the mother gun, and then cleaned the gun chamber in a hurry, and then stuffed the second gun into the belly of the gun, and busily used the wedge to firmly drive the gun into the mother gun and fix it properly.
They did this step very carefully, because when the Fran machine is loaded, it must be closely docked with the mother, once the loading is not in place, the leakage of gunpowder gas is light, and the flames that often erupt at the interface can also seriously burn the gunner, and the gunner with a little experience will be very careful when loading the gun, and the first thing to do is to burn himself into a roast duck.
But after all, the Furlong machine has a natural advantage, and it is much faster to reload than the front-loading gun, even if the gunners are not trained enough, in a relatively short period of time, they still completed the reloading, and with the order of Ding Baoquan, it roared again, and the projectile hit the heavy wooden gate, and immediately dug two holes in it.
The Tiger Squat Cannon is much more troublesome to reload, a series of procedures such as clearing, charging, and loading go down, and it takes more than two minutes to complete, and I dare not load too much gunpowder, for fear of causing the Tiger Squat Cannon to explode, the procedure is very complicated, and the gunner basically does not train much on weekdays, and the speed of loading is slow to make people desperate.
Under the cover of the officers and soldiers' firepower, the villagers carried the long ladder and ran to the bottom of the wall with relative ease, and the poles above were obviously deterred by the muskets, artillery and bows and arrows of the officers and soldiers.
And it wasn't until the villagers leaned on the wall that they fought back a little more fiercely, pushing stones and rolling logs down the wall, but they really knocked over a few villagers, provoking the villagers to let out an exclamation and scolding under the wall, fortunately, the people above did not dare to show their heads, but just pushed things downward, and the accuracy was very lacking, but they did not create any trouble for these villagers.
In this way, the long ladder was erected one by one, and was erected on the village wall, and some of the brave villagers were encouraged by the reward offered by their stewards, so they put a single knife in their mouths, clenched their teeth, held the rattan card in one hand, and stroked the trembling long ladder with the other, and began to climb up.
At this time, the archers and musketeers of the officers and soldiers were afraid of hurting their own people, so they also stopped firing, and a large group of villagers bravely pushed a cart loaded with a large log, rushed out of the crowd, and rushed straight in the direction of the Zhaimen.
As soon as the archers and musketeers stopped, the guns also stopped firing, and the officers and men shouted like a good show, urging the villagers to move forward with a mocking tone.
And some poles on the wall, at this time finally able to breathe, have shown their heads, not arrows, then throw stones down, the counterattack is also a lot more fierce, a few people who climbed the ladder of the village Yong hit the head down, one by one smashed the head is broken blood, lying under the wall is screaming screaming.
After seeing the blood, the villagers also aroused some morale, and one by one they screamed and then pounced on the long ladder, and climbed quickly along the long ladder towards the wall.
After all, the number of poles on the walled wall is very small, hundreds of villagers repeatedly impacted, in the end there are still people who climbed the wall, but a few townsmen just showed their heads on the wall, they saw a flash of cold light in front of them, more than a dozen poles were each holding spears, quickly poked out of the battlement, several townsmen did not have time to resist, some people did not even have a knife from the mouth, they were immediately stabbed through the chest, one by one let out a terrible scream, the corpse plopped down the wall.
At this point, the battle really saw the death of personnel, which immediately stopped the offensive of the villagers, and some people did not dare to continue climbing on the long ladder.
The people below screamed and urged the people on the ladder to climb up, and the people on the ladder held on to the ladder and refused to move, and the situation was a bit stalemate at this time.
At this time, on the wall, suddenly dropped a few braziers, the brazier was full of charcoal, and the head and face were sprinkled down, after the charcoal flew down, many people's clothes were lit, and the villagers under the walled wall were jumping around one by one, slapping the charcoal fire that fell on the head or body, and then immediately after, a lot of lime was poured down on it, after the lime floated down, even if someone held a rattan card, they couldn't stand being squinted, and the villagers who fell down the long ladder in pain, As a result, a large group of villagers, under such a counterattack, turned around and rushed back, and the offensive that had just been organized was actually disintegrated by the limited pole above, and a group of grizzled villagers ran back and scolded, and hurriedly looked for vegetable oil to wipe their eyes, for fear of being blinded by lime.
Ding Baoquan looked at the chaotic scene, his fat face showed a trace of disdain, he knew his own depth, but he still couldn't look down on the performance of these township warriors, there were one or twenty poles above, at most twenty or thirty poles, these township warriors under his "strong" fire support, they still couldn't attack the wall, and they were beaten by others, a few people died, and more than a dozen were injured, this battle made them aggrieved!
"Don't continue to attack the wall, the archers send arrows, press the pole above, and hit the door for Lao Tzu, as long as you open the wall, these bastards won't be able to run!" Ding Baoquan still has some experience in the end, knowing that with these townsmen, if they want them to attack the wall, it is estimated that many people will die, if so many of them fight this Tianlong Village, there will be dozens of poles inside, but many people will die, Ding Baoquan also felt that this face was dull, so he immediately ordered to change the strategy of attack, and changed the attack on the wall to attack the wall.