The gunpowder arrow was a type of arrow that was widely used in the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty. The thick arrows are tied to the gunpowder cartridge to increase the range and greatly increase the lethality of the arrows, which is a jet-propelled firearm.

Tribulus terrestris fireball is a sputtering firearm that uses the energy generated by the explosion of gunpowder to splash the tribulus terrestris to the enemy in all directions, and the advantages are that the process is mature, the production is simple, and the lethality is stable, and it is a firearm that the Great Zhou relies on the most. Tribulus fireballs are usually tied with a small piece of hemp rope to make it easier for soldiers to throw them farther.

The Thunderbolt Fireball is the first airtight explosive firearm independently developed by Da Zhou. Generally, it is a bamboo shell, with gunpowder stuffed in the middle, and the remaining space is stuffed tightly with broken porcelain pieces, rusty iron sheets, iron thistles, small stones, iron nails, etc., and the process is relatively mature but the power is unstable.

There are several more powerful firearms in Da Zhou. However, due to the high cost, inconvenient transportation, easy to cause accidents, and the Yongle puppet dynasty did not have many powerful ordnance, the Great Zhou army did not carry much.

More than 300 arrows were fired from the bed crossbow, more than 600 gunpowder arrows were fired from the bow and vehicle-mounted bed crossbows, and more than 100,000 catties of stones were thrown from trebuchets and catapults. The longest-range seven-sentry cannon and three-bow bed crossbow projected thousands of thistle fireballs and thunderbolt fireballs, accounting for about one-third of the stock of the official and military battalions under the city of Hangzhou.

At such a huge cost, Han Shizhong and Wang Yu finally collapsed the city wall in the northeast corner of Hangzhou. The dozens of craftsmen who participated in the restoration of Hangzhou City contributed a lot, because they knew the weaknesses of the city wall best.

Before the city wall collapsed, the defenders of Fang La saw that the Great Zhou army had gathered hundreds of ordnance, where did they not understand the intentions of the Great Zhou army?

But when the arrows, stones, crossbows, and firearms that obscured the sky broke through the air, there was no one standing on the walls. Fang La's second son ordered everyone to withdraw, and he himself was seriously injured when he broke off.

After the smoke passed, the ground stopped shaking.

The Fangla soldiers near the collapse mouth swallowed and salivated one after another, feeling that some of the strength in their bodies had been drained.

The Yongle soldiers and Qingzhuang inside the collapse looked at the sunlight that penetrated through the fracture, smelled the air that was very fresh compared to the city, and couldn't help but hold their breath.

At a certain moment, the Great Zhou army outside the city blew all the trumpets and beat all the war drums.

The general offensive begins!

More than 60,000 Great Zhou troops went all out to the city, and in less than half an hour, they climbed the city wall from five places. Every time there was a breach, there was a Great Zhou army near the corresponding location that was frantically destroying the city wall to create more collapses.

Tian Dabao's hometown is not far from Fang La's hometown. When Fang La raised the army, Tian Dabao's family was hovering on the verge of starvation.

The old father and mother did not want to drag down their children and grandchildren, so they jumped into the deep well while the family was not paying attention. Tian Dabao buried his parents, burned down the ancestral house, and took a dozen poor men to Fang La.

Tian Dabao stayed by Fang La's side for a period of time, and because of his honesty, he left a deep impression on Fang La.

After capturing Hangzhou, Tian Dabao became a junior colonel with 500 troops, left Fang La's side, and began to guard the city wall for the Yongle Dynasty.

The northern section of the city wall and the northern section of the east city wall of Hangzhou City have been divided into a small section of battle circles, and the Great Zhou army and the Fang La army are fighting to the death. The weapon is gone, bite with teeth, break the arm and hit it with a headbutt, and when he is dying, he has to pull the other party and jump off the city.

When tens of thousands of Yongle Chao Qingzhuang saw the scene of the collapse of the city tower, their hands and feet were a little weak, but they gritted their teeth and picked up their rudimentary weapons, crying and rushing towards the Great Zhou army!

Our wives and children are in the city, and we have no way out. I don't want to return, I can't return......

Tian Dabao was dressed in armor and wore an iron helmet without cherry blossoms. He held a round shield in his left hand, and in his right hand he held a standard hand knife with a short and broad blade, a thick back and a thin blade, and a short and thick handle.

"General He has an order that the Great Zhou army must not be allowed to control the city wall near the collapse mouth. Tian Dabao immediately went to support, and must firmly control the city wall near the collapse mouth! ”

He Conglong, who was responsible for guarding the eastern section of the northern city wall, sent someone to give Tian Dabao an order.

The collapse mouth is in the northeast corner of Hangzhou City. If the city wall near the collapse mouth is controlled by the Great Zhou army, the soldiers of the Great Zhou army will use bows, bed crossbows, and catapults to shoot condescendingly...... At that time, not only will the collapse mouth be unguarded, but the city wall will also be unkempt!

Tian Dabao is not smart, but he can think of this. He did not dare to slack off, and after quickly handing over the position of the city wall, he led the people to the east.

The Great Zhou army had too many weapons, crossbows and stones did not stop all the time, and from time to time there was a round of firearm projection.

Fang Lajun gradually figured out a few rules. For example, the Great Zhou army never projected to the place where the two sides were fighting, for fear of hurting their own people.

The soldiers of the Yongle Dynasty were in a dilemma. Amplifying the hand-to-hand combat of the Zhou army can reduce casualties, but at the risk of being dug down by the Great Zhou army. Keeping the Great Zhou army under the city walls consumed a lot of arrows and stones, and they were also brutalized by trebuchets and catapults.

The choice will only be left to the side with the advantage of overall strength. Fang Lajun had no choice but to passively follow the rhythm of Han Shizhong and other Great Zhou generals.

Tian Dabao led people through the young men wielding sticks, knives and forks, and the soldiers who fought back under the barrage of Yayu, and helped maintain a battle circle on the way. By the time more than 350 people arrived near the mouth of the collapse, there were less than 300 people.

"Brothers, drive the Great Zhou Army down!"

His brothers tied Tian Dabao's right hand with the handle of the knife with strips of cloth. Tian Dabao looked at the two sides crowded in front of him, gritted his teeth and ordered:

Follow the sides of the city wall and outflank it in two ways. Push directly to the east and squeeze the Great Zhou army down from the collapse!

A crossbow bolt flew behind Tian Dabao's ear. Tian Dabao tightened his helmet, spat at the dozens of god-arm archers under the city, and continued to swing his sword ahead, that is, to slash to the east.

1,800 people were crammed into a long strip about 10 meters wide and less than 130 meters long.

Soon, some soldiers of the Great Zhou Army discovered that something was wrong. There were no more brothers in the city, but there were more and more rebel soldiers. On the west side and on both sides of the city wall are square thieves, is it ......

Looking at the collapse in the east near in front of him, a big Zhou army with a round head and a round face suddenly understood something, and shouted loudly:

"These thieves want to squeeze us off the wall and fall to our deaths. Fight with them, and don't let them be completely separated from us. ”

The round-headed and round-faced people could see it clearly, but they said it too late.

Most of the city walls are still in the hands of the Fangla army, and the Fangla army still has the advantage in the battle on the city. Tian Dabao kept shouting, telling the soldiers of the Yongle Dynasty to retreat to both sides of the city wall, so that not a single Great Zhou army could escape!

There are more and more brothers around and behind Tian Dabao, and the speed of progress is getting faster and faster.

The soldiers of the Great Zhou Army who were surrounded in the middle desperately broke through, except for a few lucky ones who jumped off the city wall and did not fall to their deaths, they were all wrapped up in a ball and walked towards the collapsed place.

Within a few dozen breaths before the first Great Zhou Army soldier fell, near the collapse where Tian Dabao was, the sounds of scolding, crying, and swords and guns were extremely dense and intense.

When the sun was at its strongest, Tian Dabao and nearly 1,000 soldiers of the Fangla Army lined up on a wall, squeezing the soldiers of the Great Zhou Army in their early 700s down the collapse.

After the collapse of the castle towers and walls, the distance between the adjacent walls and the ground was not very high.

However, unable to stand up to the unevenness brought by bricks, stones and earthwork, as well as the killing area formed by sharp objects such as wooden thorns and gun barrels, more than half of the soldiers of the Great Zhou Army who fell down were seriously injured and died on the spot.

More than 700 soldiers of the Great Zhou Army squeezed each other like stones in a pile of stones. The sound of bones breaking one after another is terrifying. The soldiers of the Great Zhou Army fell down with the weapons in their hands, so they ......

More than 700 people were piled up, and after the screams from the inside out, it seemed to lower the temperature within a radius of three miles. This kind of death is unheard of, and it is too tragic to die!

Tian Dabao looked at the pile of people diagonally below, without a trace of pity in his eyes. He lifted the bricks and stones with his scarred arms and threw them at the soldiers of the Great Zhou Army, who were lucky enough to be alive and crying as they crawled, then a throwing spear, then an arrow.

The soldiers of the Fangla Army and the young Zhuang on the city wall used various weapons and continued to attack the "meat pile" composed of more than 700 people, until they could not hear the groans of the soldiers of the Great Zhou Army.

Fang La himself happened to arrive not far from the collapse site, and admired Tian Dabao's tactics as a junior colonel. The distance that the human eye can see clearly is too limited, and he can't see Tian Dabao's face clearly, but he always feels a little familiar.

"It's coming!"

Now that there is a collapse opening, the Great Zhou army will definitely attack from here. Fang La personally came here to take charge, just to see what killer features the Great Zhou Army had, so as not to have an irreparable situation.

First of all, there were tens of thousands of Yongle Dynasty prisoners.

The soldiers of the Fangla army gritted their teeth and slaughtered these poor people with bows and arrows, stones, knives and guns, and then broke these poor people.

was forced to attack his own people in the past, and the morale of Fang Lajun's army was inevitably affected.

Fighting remains fierce elsewhere. Han Shizhong and Wang Yu's killer weapon that was kept to the end finally appeared at the mouth of the collapse.

Looking at the shining ironclad army that appeared not far away, Gao Yu shouted in a low voice: "Step Man Armor?!" ”

Fang La was also surprised. He squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head and said:

"It's not a step person. The Great Zhou Dynasty has always guarded against martial artists, but now only the Western Army and the Sanya Forbidden Army have foot armor in their hands, and they can't move lightly. ”

"The helmets, shoulder pads and arm guards of the step armor, the standard iron armor, and the temporary eight-character iron guards...... Han Shizhong and Wang Yu are so powerful that they actually put together such an ironclad army in wartime! ”

More than 2,000 of the most elite in Fang La's army, who had been fighting on the city wall in turn, were finally all gathered at this moment.

A quarter of an hour later, the lite version of the 3,000 ironclad army finished the formation and attacked towards the collapse.

Behind the Great Wednesday Thousand Ironclad Army were thousands of crossbowmen, divine arm archers, and hard archers. On each side there were 1,500 cavalry on each side, as well as 60 bed crossbows of various types, more than 20 catapults, more than a dozen five-sentry guns, and nine seven-sentry cannons.

More than 5,000 armored Fangla elites stepped forward and fought with the Great Zhou Ironclad Army on a garbage heap made of rubble, rubble, rammed earth, wood and weapons, and smoke and dust suddenly poured inside and outside the collapse.

The shouts of killing and screaming were amplified by the special terrain in the northeast of Hangzhou, and the thunder was rolling.

The two sides totaled more than 8,000 armor soldiers, and soon entered the third sword and gun encounter.

Although there are many people, Fangla's elite is at an all-round disadvantage. Only by attacking the parts below the thighs of the Great Zhou ironclad soldiers, or the cracks in the armor, can they successfully achieve the results of the battle, otherwise they can only bear huge casualties and exchange their lives for their lives.

The two methods are easier said than done.

The all-round disparities in armor, weapons, training, and nutrition caused the Fangla elite, who numbered less than 5,000, to retreat step by step. The crossbowmen of the Great Zhou army took advantage of the situation and shot ordinary diamond-shaped arrows, quadrangular pyramid-shaped arrows, and small chisel-like crossbow arrows at Fang La's elite.

Fang La's elite suffered heavy casualties and accelerated the pace of retreat.

The ironclad soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty divided their troops to sweep the city walls on both sides, and unsurprisingly encountered the head-on attack of more than 2,000 of the most elite Fang La's pro-army, so they could only retreat step by step. The improvised trebuchet, three-sentry cannon, and five-sentry cannon that had been prepared for a long time in the city threw two rounds, and hundreds of ironclad soldiers fell to the ground.

The ironclad pro-army, which was most valued by Fang La, was also killed and injured by the strong bows and crossbows of the Great Zhou army.

The ironclad army squeezed the Great Zhou ironclad soldiers outward, and as soon as they showed their heads, they were attacked by the bed crossbows and trebuchets of the Great Zhou army.

Fortunately, at this time, the long-range ordnance accuracy was relatively inferior, and the Great Zhou army could only try its best to throw into the city in order to avoid hurting its own people, but it did not kill or injure many ironclad pro-soldiers.

The temptation is over. The advantage of the Fangla army was that it had a city wall as protection, which weakened the power of the superior ordnance of the Great Zhou army. The advantage of the Great Zhou army is that it has strong bows and crossbows, and the most powerful is of course the ironclad soldiers who are more well-protected.

The ordinary troops and elite troops of both sides took turns to fight, and the collapse mouth fell into a fierce battle.

After the bloody battle at the mouth of the collapse came to a stalemate, the city wall near the mouth of the collapse became the key target of the Great Zhou army, and most of the soldiers of the Fangla army stationed on it suffered casualties. The elite troops of the Yongle Dynasty also suffered heavy casualties at the mouth of the collapse.

Strong bows, crossbows, trebuchets, catapults and firearms are beyond the power of the Fang La army!

In the evening, the Great Zhou ironclad army gradually retreated, as if to stop the army.

Ignoring the dissuasion, Fang La approached the collapse to appease the disabled soldiers, and fell into Han Shizhong's design.

More than 80 bed crossbow arrows, thousands of large and small stones, and more than 300 firearms were fired into the collapse mouth at the same time, leaving less than 2,500 Great Zhou ironclad troops to fight again, and the 11,000 Great Zhou troops gathered nearby and seemed to be about to withdraw rushed over. The goal is all one: Fang La's head!

Fang La stayed where he was, seeing that he was about to fall to the fate of the Liao general under the city of Danzhou during the Liao and Zhou Wars.

The whistling of crossbows and arrows on the beds, the hum of stones piercing the air, and the flotting ropes of firearms left hundreds of scratches on the sunset.

More than a dozen young people surnamed Fang recovered slightly from the coldness of their whole bodies, and ran towards Fang La in a trembling manner.

The soldiers behind and beside Fang La's brains were buzzing, their mouths opened wide, and they rushed towards Fang La's side in a desperate manner.

The fastest is Tian Dabao, who has just been rotated. His hair, thick eyebrows, and beard were full of blood, and when he looked up when he heard the voice, his brain suddenly became smarter, and he ran towards Fang La without thinking about it.

Tian Dabao pushed Fang La and fled quickly, hiding behind an unfinished wall of sheep and horses. He lifted the barrel at his feet, poured all the water on Fang La, and then pressed Fang La to the ground.

Tian Dabao smiled honestly:

"Your Majesty, do you remember me? When I first came to you, you said I was too good at eating. ”

"I don't know if you'll survive, so that's all I can do. The smartest decision we have made in our lives is to follow Your Majesty. ”

"In the past, we were treated as muddy little ladies from famous families, but we have slept with them. In the past, we have also killed the officials and gentry who treated us as shit. In the past few years, we have been able to eat and drink enough, all because we are content with Your Majesty. ”

"If Your Majesty survives, can you ......?"

A gun, three swords and arrows, thunderbolt fireballs, thistle fireballs, and stones the size of a human head were densely packed and blasted into ruins near the sheep and horse wall where Fang La was hiding. Fang La didn't hear the words that followed.

Han Shizhong and Wang Yu did not hesitate to destroy two hundred ordnance, but also captured Fang La in one fell swoop.

The earth and stones crumbled, and the iron and stones were splashed everywhere. The earth shook, and the heavens cracked. Poisonous smoke obscures the eyes, and dust obscures the air.

In a trance, Gao Yu, who was hiding under the city wall, saw a scene that he would remember for the rest of his life:

More than a dozen ironclad pro-soldiers pounced on Fang La, and were quickly stoned, shattered, and penetrated.

Several young people of the Fang family pounced on the section of the sheep and horse wall where Fang La was hiding. The sheep and horse wall was quickly shattered, and most of the young people's bodies were incomplete.

Dozens of armored soldiers ran, wounded and crawling, and threw themselves at the low wall. After a dozen breaths, blood splattered all over his limbs.

More soldiers of the Fangla Army, even helping the young men who were defending the city, cried and screamed, and threw themselves towards the low wall. Most of them don't make it there.

Layers of human bodies were covered, and layers of human bodies were blown apart. Layers of human bodies are covered, and layers of bodies are penetrated. Then layers of human bodies were covered, and layers of human bodies were smashed......

Fang La was pressed down by layers of people, and her whole face was flooded with blood and tears, and she lost consciousness.

"Fang La is dead, brothers!"

A commander of the Great Zhou military camp showed his teeth that were missing half of his front teeth, and swung his sword to fight again in the rapid sound of drums and trumpets.

"Take the city of Hangzhou, and the Yongle Dynasty will die. Promotions and rewards will be given tomorrow, and there will be money and rewards for women! ”

Those who are determined to make contributions are infected by the sound of earth-shaking drums and trumpets. He struggled to inspire his brothers and rushed to the city walls under the leadership of the battalion commander.

……

The silvery moonlight illuminated the second half of the night.

To the north of Hangzhou, about a quarter of the city is still burning.

Gao Yu led hundreds of ironclad pro-soldiers to a pile of broken corpses, nodded and said, "It's here, dig carefully!" ”

Fang La, who was severely burned all over his body, had already woken up, but he couldn't move. His eyes were closed, and the slits of his eyes were covered in blood and tears.

When he was dragged out of the pile of broken corpses, His Majesty of the Yongle Dynasty, Fang La, who was seriously injured, muttered:

"I remember, you were attached to Tian Dabao very early."

"Lone knows you, Tian Dabao, who is honest and dares to fight."

"I know you, your name is Tian Dabao."

Seriously injured but not dead, the hero wept.