Yuan Zongdi outside the city was sweating a little, although only three of the long ladders for the siege were burned down, but his soldiers climbed up to the top of the city one by one, but they were pushed down one by one. Even if they went to the city, they didn't see a place occupied at the top of the city, so that the follow-up troops could continue to climb the city.

Although the losses of his troops were not large, they also made the soldiers under the city less confident. At this time, the soldiers under the city were attacked by the defenders with 10,000 enemies who sprayed flames and poisonous smoke, and he had no support measures here, which made the soldiers have no strength to attack.

Yuan Zongdi instructed his own soldiers: "Go and tell Your Majesty, the remnant Ming defenders are well prepared, and it is difficult to go down in one go." It is requested to withdraw for the time being, and wait for the artillery piers to be erected before attacking. ”

However, his own soldiers had not yet been sent out, and Li Zicheng sent people to strictly order Yuan Zongdi to continue the onslaught and be sure to climb the city before nightfall. In his opinion, the defenders of Nanking were simply a rabble, as could be seen from the indiscriminate firing of artillery and arrows. In the face of such an opponent, he felt that the task given to Yuan Zongdi was not too heavy.

Yuan Zongdi didn't dare to disobey Li Zicheng's order, if Liu Zongmin was attacking the city, he would definitely have withdrawn his subordinates. But he was not Liu Zongmin, so he could only send a few hundred soldiers to the city again to let the generals strengthen the offensive. He didn't have much to do, his soldiers were under the walls, and neither artillery nor bows and arrows could provide any cover for the soldiers under the city, so he could only send some bombs to the soldiers under the city so that they could attack smoothly.

Every time they suffered a loss at Li Yan's hands, they would always immediately imitate Li Yan's tactics and weapons. So much so that now, what Li Yan has, they basically have. Li Yan's tactics, they can basically use them. What is lacking is that their weapons are always worse than Li Yan's, and their soldiers are not as determined as Li Yan's.

At this time, there was also a situation in the city. Although the cooperation between the Beijing soldiers and the people is becoming more and more tacit, and they are still very energetic at the beginning. But after all, this is physical work, and at first I could shout a thirty taels excitedly, but after two quarters of an hour of fierce fighting, my hands and feet, which were already tired, were a little weak.

Wang Sixi saw it in his eyes and suggested to Guo Chengdong: "General, let's burn those ladders as soon as possible, these soldiers and civilians have no strength." ”

Guo Chengdong also saw that the soldiers and civilians were physically exhausted, and nodded helplessly: "Okay, you go and prepare." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a boom, and the soldiers and civilians guarding behind the battlements were staggered. Immediately afterward, one of the intruders jumped onto the battlement, quickly jumped behind the sandbags, and began to kill the suffocated defenders.

"Broken, they have a bomb!" Guo Chengdong shouted in some horror. Then he ordered: "Quick, burn those ladders!" Gather those bird-strapped soldiers and wipe out the enemies who have gone up to the city in no time! ”

Wang Sixi was also scared, as long as the intrusive army threw bombs at the head of the city on the ladder first, those Beijing battalion soldiers and Minzhuang on the head of the city would definitely not be able to hold on. He instructed Ouyang Yun: "Inform our people, go to those places for reinforcements, be quick." ”

This side is tense and there are explosions at several landing sites in the city. Those soldiers and civilians who had never seen a bomb even went to see what the sparkling bomb was, and when the bomb exploded, it was naturally a heavy casualty.

Guo Chengdong rushed over with his own soldiers first, killing and wounding the intruders who had entered the city with handcuffs and crossbow arrows. Wang Sixi, Ouyang Yun and the others, on the other hand, didn't care about anything else, and rushed to the enemy's position in the city first, throwing the oil behind the sandbag into the enemy's long ladder, so that the follow-up enemies could not come up first.

At this time, there was chaos on the head of the city, and the soldiers of the invading army bravely pursued and slashed the soldiers and civilians on the head of the city, not to mention that those people were strong, even those soldiers of the Beijing camp almost did not have a general of the invading soldiers. If it weren't for the battle team under Guo Chengdong to stop it, maybe the defenders on the entire southern city wall would have collapsed.

Although Wang Sixi and the others had tried their best to go as fast as possible, they still hadn't been able to burn all the long ladders, and there were already several intruders coming up from the two positions in the city, and there were more than ten steps to drive out the surrounding Beijing camp soldiers and Minzhuang, and there were soldiers on the long ladders who came up one after another, and they had already begun to form a formation.

At this time, the craftsmen of the craftsman's workshop came up to the city with the people and brought forty bombs that had just been made to the city. This bomb is simpler than a two-kick, just roll up the paper tube, fill the gunpowder and the lead, and don't need to divide the paper tube into two chambers. However, no iron sheets were pasted on the outside, and when the craftsmen heard that the castle was in danger, they sent the bombs they had made first. They felt that General Guo treated them as human beings, so they were also willing to help General Guo who was defending the city.

At this time, Mu Jiuchou and the others didn't care about anything else, and they were going to use the bomb immediately. However, Mu Jiuchou glanced at the lead and immediately ordered: "Cut the lead short." ”

As he spoke, he snatched a waist knife and slashed it on the city bricks, leaving half of the lead.

A craftsman hurriedly persuaded: "Master Jun, don't you dare." This fuse burns quickly, and if you make it so short, I'm afraid you'll hurt your own people. ”

The others didn't care, and also took the bomb and cut the lead a little shorter.

Mu Jiuchou took the fire medium, lit the fuse without saying anything, and then immediately threw it over the heads of the crowd in front of him. The other four did the same, throwing their bombs at the enemy's gathering place.

Rumbling explosions rang out continuously, and the defenders who were slashing and killing the intruders in formation were blown up, and those defenders and people who were even panicked and at a loss were also not spared, and they were also blown to the ground. At the same time, smoke rose from the explosion, enveloping both the intruders and the defenders in this section.

At this time, Mu Jiuchou did not stop, and continued to take the bomb and light it and throw it out, but this time it was thrown outside the city. His men understood and continued to throw bombs in the general direction of the ladder.

Boom, boom, booming explosions came, accompanied by the screams of the enemy, and there were many intruders who wanted to come to the city, and the casualties were equally heavy.

Mu Jiuchou watched the smoke dissipate a little, so he slowly leaned over with his four subordinates. The pikemen in front and the crossbowmen in the back, whenever they see a black uniform, they stab at the vital point. At the same time, beckon the defenders and people in the distance to come over, let them settle near the location where the enemy has landed in the city, and continue to prevent the enemy from ascending the city.

When they were almost cleaned up, Mu Jiuchou asked the soldiers to go to another place with the remaining bombs to support, while they quickly found the oil and burned the long ladder completely.

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