The Qing army withdrew very simply, which caught the Taiping army by surprise. However, the crisis was finally overcome, and the Taiping army began to repair the fortifications against time.

Changlu's headquarters withdrew with all the beards and tails, and none of the hairs were injured, and the assault company didn't have this ability. The assault company was facing the enemy head-on, and the main attention of the Taiping army was focused on the assault company, so when Chengtai withdrew with his men, more than a dozen were carried back to the camp.

"Minions are incompetent!" In the face of Guoxing'a, Chengtai only had this one sentence left. The state of the whole person is very bad, the position of company commander has turned into a dream for Nanke, and Chengtai is inevitably depressed.

"How many people have been lost?" The assault company had been fighting in the city for a short time, and Goxinga was very worried about the casualties.

"Back to my lord, no one has been damaged, but more than a dozen of them have been injured, they should be able to be saved, and they will not be disabled." Chengtai was a little wilted.

"Hmmm! The performance is good, this assault company will belong to you in the future, and I will arrange a place for him again. Guo Xinga said with a smile.

"Really!" Chengtai was pleasantly surprised, but immediately reacted to his gaffe.

"Hatan is not suitable for this, this battle has to be fought by him, Lao Tzu has to lose many brothers, or you come!" Goxinga didn't care about it.

Chengtai also wanted to be humble and express his gratitude for Guo Xing'a's promotion, but unfortunately Guoxing didn't give him this opportunity, and let Xiande announce the appointment at the same time, he also drove Chengtai out.

"It's time to see the gods." Guo Xing'a greeted Bi Yuntao, turned around and walked towards the artillery position.

The heat dissipation of the artillery on the artillery position has been completed, the ammunition for the next attack has been prepared, everyone has nothing to do, Kong Zhen is sitting on the ground in a daze with a cigarette pouch in his mouth.

"Kong Er is stunned, the peach blossoms are ready for action!" Goxinga exclaimed excitedly.

"Huh? Yes! My lord! Kong Zhen had obviously wandered into a foreign object, and he didn't notice Guo Xing'a's arrival at all.

"Don't be stunned! Peach blossoms are blooming! Goxinga repeated it again.

"Really coming!" Listening to Guo Xing'a say the pre-agreed code, Kong Zhen couldn't believe it.

"Come on!" Guo Xing's mood suddenly fell again.

The peach blossoms are blooming, which is a code formulated by Guo Xing'a in advance, which is actually the maximum firepower of the artillery to cover. Guo Xing'a didn't want to do any firepower coverage, after all, there were many people in the town in addition to the Taiping army. But if you don't do it, you can't do it, the Taiping Army's superiority in strength forces Guoxing'a to have hand-to-hand combat without firepower coverage. Guo Xing'a couldn't send a company to the city head in an instant, so he could only use artillery fire to collapse the city wall.

"Huh!" Kong Zhen stuck the cigarette pouch in his waist and began to order the artillery to reprepare for the attack. This time it's not just the artillery, the artillery has pushed out the ones that have not been used for a long time. After the launcher and artillery were all in place, Kong Zhen personally calibrated them one by one.

"Your Excellency, the artillery is ready!" Kong Zhen reported seriously.

"Let's start, blow up the city wall to Lao Tzu." Guo Xing'a gritted his teeth a little unbearably.

The sound of the salvo of eight artillery guns was very amazing, and Bi Yuntao only felt that all he was buzzing in his ears was the roar. A moment later, a louder explosion came from the city, and the Taiping Army's city really seemed to be blooming with peach blossoms, and there was a trace of bewitching red in the fire of the explosion.

* Crossing the sky like a fiery dragon and falling cannonballs like meteors, the Qing army saw only a gorgeous and spectacular scene, while the Taiping army could see only the blood of their comrades and themselves. The women's wall had been shattered by artillery fire, and the city wall had literally become a bare wall. Moreover, * kept flying into the town, and the whole town was filled with gunsmoke, and the wailing of the wounded soldiers in the rubble was like a tragic and poignant elegy.

In order to ensure the continuation of the shelling, the artillery did not fire rapidly, but opened fire as unhurriedly as if it were a drill. Although the rate of fire is not high, the persistence is excellent, and it seems that there are always shells flying in the sky. Due to the length of the fuse, it is common to see artillery shells flying over the city and then exploding in the air. Bi Yuntao saw with his own eyes a cannonball hit the city wall, then bounced into the air, and finally exploded in the air.

"Kong Erlengzi, don't save it, it's all oval-changing bombs." Goxinga has been relatively wealthy lately.

After Guoxing'a captured the artillery, there was no ammunition from the original factory, and the captured ammunition was all spherical produced by the Taiping Army*. Although these shells are barely usable, they are far inferior in airtightness and power. In order to reuse the waste, Goxinga added wooden butts to these shells, but at the same time built a batch of oval cannons to eject. Originally, the spherical shells were used for waste use, and they were used during training, but today Kong Zhen was obviously a little reluctant to use the shells, so the spherical shells could be hit first.

After adjusting the shells, the firepower of the Qing army was more powerful, and the charge of the oval shell was much larger than that of the spherical shell. Gaps have been blown out of the city walls, and there are no more stumps flying down, and there are basically no people on the city walls anymore. Unlike spherical shells, the oval cannonball will bounce off and will even be inserted directly into the city wall, which is twice as powerful and more effective.

"Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock......" As the gates of the town were bombarded by a cannon, the Qing army's position sounded the charge of the general attack.

All the companies jumped out of their fortifications and rushed to the ruined city, and there were no Taiping troops in front of them. If it weren't for the fact that the Qing army had done drills before storming the city gate, and all the departments knew the position they should occupy, the scene in the city gate was enough for the Qing army to stop attacking.

If the fragmented stumps and severed arms of the Qing army had been prepared, those uninjured but bruised corpses must have been unexpected by everyone. There is not a trace of scarring, and if it is not for the bruising, the face is almost indistinguishable from a living person. Many people think of Wu Dalang in the Water Margin, and this is probably what it looks like to die after eating arsenic!

"Did you say that the shells that came in from the artillery just now were poisonous?" Li Genzi, who is now also a soldier with a rifle, asked his comrades-in-arms in a low voice.

"Perhaps! It looks like he was poisoned. The comrades-in-arms pulled Li Genzi to occupy a bunker, and replied in a low voice while covering the advance of the follow-up comrades.

Similar conversations were repeated in the companies, until much later, when the infantrymen looked at the artillerymen in strange eyes, and the infantry had a bad habit of not eating with the artillerymen. Even the officers have a bit of a sense of keeping a distance from Kong Zhen, the young man still knows medicine! When the medical officer Wu Xiuming met a soldier who had ingested poison by mistake, he always came to Kong Zhen to ask for advice or two, which made Kong Zhen, who could only shoot artillery, confused. He couldn't explain to anyone that those people were shocked to death, because the concept of shockwaves would not be popularized until a long time later.

Kong Zhen, of course, did not know the trouble he and his subordinates caused by the saturation of the shelling, and was ordering the artillery platoon to gather up the three twelve-pounder guns and the * launcher, and at the same time prepare shotguns for the six-pounder guns. He, Kong Zhen, the platoon commander in charge of two artillery platoons, was going to charge with his five cannons.

Artillery charge is the ultimate move prepared by Guo Xing'a for Kong Zhen, it is quite mysterious to say, in fact, there is nothing special, the infantry and artillery of light artillery are just working together. Fighting this kind of tough battle, once you enter the street battle, the casualties that Guo Xing'a fears the most are inevitable. Fortunately, there were not many Taiping troops* left, and if they wanted to form a combat force, they had to form a formation, and the musketeers could only rely on strong fortifications for defense. At this time, it was the time for Kong Zhen's artillery to charge and exert its power, and only a six-pounder gun of about 800 catties could pass freely in a small environment, and the power was nothing to say. Guo Xing'a tried it once, and the six-pounder cannon was a little sunk and bigger, and the power was no worse than that of a bazooka.

After completely occupying the city gate, the first company stayed outside the city to take care of the wounded and heavy troops, the second company was stationed at the city gate, and the assault company, under the cover of Kong Zhen, began to search and advance into the town. However, Chengtai led the people to walk cautiously for a long time, and they were almost touching the center of the town, but they still did not encounter a single enemy, and the people who fled into the town yesterday were all gone.

"Send a signal to Mu Shun, Huang Daping must have slipped away in the crowd." Guo Xing'a, who received a first-line return, his first reaction was that Huang Daping coerced the people to take advantage of the chaos.

The flag language has been popularized among the various departments of the Qing army, and now it occupies the head of the city, and the flag language is more convenient to convey. With the waving of the red and green flags in the hands of the soldiers at the head of the city, the sound of horses' hooves shaking the earth in the distance came from Guoxing's ears. But the sound of horses' hooves circled the town without stopping, and there was not the slightest shout of battle.

"Where the are all the people?" Not only Chengtai on the front line, but even Guoxing'a, who commanded in the middle, was also rude.

The soldiers of the assault company kicked open the gates of several courtyards in succession, and after some searching, there was no one inside. It was as if all the people in the town had crossed over, leaving Goxinga with a ghostly empty city. In the end, the assault company resorted to the most stupid method of finding people, and everyone did not speak, and searched there if there was a voice. Although there was some gain, I only found a few Chinese pastoral dogs and some chickens and ducks.

"It's evil, and even the big animals are gone." Duosan and Chengtai looked at each other, and the new pair was a little speechless for a while.

"The wounded, artillery and baggage are stationed at the city gate, and the first company and special operations team all enter the city, and Lao Tzu doesn't believe that Huang Daping will be invisible." Guo Xing'a, who had no choice, could only order all the main forces to enter the town, Huang Daping was invisible, and Guo Xing'a had no way at all.

After the special operations team entered the town, they quickly occupied several high points, and first eliminated the hidden danger of being attacked by the Taiping army. Then the first company and the assault company began to search house by house, but still found nothing.

Guo Xing'a has already considered whether to give the order to start digging the ground, there is no ground, and Huang Daping will not be invisible, eighty percent of Huang Daping has also been a marmot, and there may be tunnels in this town. While Goxinga was hesitating, a commotion suddenly came from the east side of the town, as if a large number of men and horses were gathering.

Without waiting for Guo Xing's order, Bi Yuntao and Chengtai, who were eager to make contributions, had already rushed over with their respective subordinates. Goxinga was also escorted by the guard squad and went to the front line to direct the battle. When he was running wildly on the road, Guo Xing'a was secretly glad that he didn't bring Saishan'a out this time. Xiande will only run with himself, and he can't keep up when he's older, and most of the time he is with his baggage. Of course, it will not be like Cezana, who pulls Goxinga's sleeve and yells "danger" at every turn. I know that Guoxing, where the price of freedom is higher, is extraordinarily easy and comfortable.

"Fight to the death with the Qing Demon!" Guo Xing'a, who ran to the place, was not comfortable at all, and there were more than a thousand men, women, and children in front of him, holding flat kitchen knives and roaring in unison.