"Attack the fortification, cover the attack, and prepare the tail car for blasting!" Xiao Xuan ordered.

At this time, the officers and men of the junior group who were responsible for escorting the demolition tail car finally recovered from the great fear of the battle, and under the cover of the cavalry archers and gunners, they pushed two carefully prepared demolition vehicles to the gap. Hundreds of reloaded turtledoves also took turns firing, making it difficult for the enemy near the gap to show their heads and resist. Occasionally, a few men with heavy shields attempted to resist, but were quickly knocked to the ground under heavy musket fire.

The "Demolition Tail Car" is also a method that Xiao Xuan thought of when he carefully considered the battle process and the situation he might encounter during the more than ten days of preparations: if the opponent relied on the cover of the palace wall, even if the gap was opened, he would inevitably be side-fired and attacked by the prepared enemy when he broke through the gap. For a new battalion that does not have many elites, it is completely impossible to face tough battles and challenge melee assault hand-to-hand combat.

However, when it comes to projection, he does not have a qualified war archer like the Manchu army, and he is sure to threaten the opponent's shield by throwing it. If javelins, stones, etc. are used, it is still possible to face a counterattack by the opposing defenders with equal or even more troops. And the javelins and stones are also easy to dodge during the day, and still don't seem to have a good suppression effect.

In the end, the only way to solve this problem is to use explosives. The superiority of equipment and firepower and firearms is the greatest advantage of one's own side, and hand-to-hand combat with the enemy is obviously the strength of attacking the enemy with one's own shortcomings. Therefore, we can only continue to use explosives to clear the enemy forces on both sides of the gap that may threaten, and as for whether we can stand on our feet in the first assault, it depends on the destiny of heaven.

Different from the blasting trolley used to break the wall before, this "blasting tail car" is still very serious about using lime to carefully link a piece of fast gravel, carefully and carefully made of stone and mud mixed into a "prefabricated fragment" charge The proportion of charge is also larger, and the "large 10,000 enemies" of about 100 catties are enough to have 50 catties of black powder, but for their own safety. However, there are no "prefabricated fragments" at the tail of this trolley, but exposed black powder, and the area of black powder is not small. The purpose is to ignite the fire dozens of meters away by firing red-hot iron sand shotguns, and try to detonate as quickly as possible to avoid accidents.

Of course, Xiao Xuan also designed a triple fuse for this purpose, one is the blasting group responsible for the cart blasting, which ignites the long-term fuse when it is a certain distance from the target, and the other is about to launch a blasting attack near the gap when the short-term fuse is about to be ignited.

At the same time, at this time, Xiao Xuan also suddenly discovered. A spear formation that has invested a lot of time in training does not seem to play much role in a battle of this level and nature. Conflicts of a rotten nature are less practical than firearms. In other words, although a very inefficient firearm, the fire door gun or three-eyed gun is obviously a miracle in giving a new battalion that does not have much combat effectiveness a certain combat effectiveness.

Under the cover of continuous firepower, the defenders of the Inner Court Army could only throw some stones, javelins and other throwables from inside the wall to suppress them, but this kind of thing was easy to dodge after all, and when they did not dare to gather too many people under the pressure of mounted shooting, they could only bring a little delay to the blasting attack under heavy cover.

Under Xiao Xuan's supervision, the crowd of war drummers and followers who were responsible for covering approached forward, relieving the psychological pressure of the young officers and soldiers, and making the assault operation smooth again.

At the moment when the blaster was just pushed into the gap, the firecracker who had already prepared it quickly opened fire, and the gunpowder ignited from the outside also quickly detonated the blaster containing fifty catties of black powder. At both ends, about two hundred paces apart, violent explosions rang out almost simultaneously. Different from the previous blasting attacks, these two explosions produced a huge momentum and at the same time made more than 2,000 pieces of less than one or two pieces of gravel fly sideways in the palace wall, bringing many people's screams, directly making at least twenty core backbones of the Inner Court Army who had already been prepared either dead or injured, of course, it was inevitable that at least four young people in the demolition group who were relatively close to each other were covered all over their bodies, and also with the help of the cover of the palace wall, they were still stunned and taken on the violent explosion.

Although the previous successive projection and demolition battles seemed to be very intense, Lin Lin finally managed to make a team of about 1,000 people on each side only a dozen or so people were wounded or killed, and the only two deaths seemed to have nothing to do with the overall situation, although they were on the side of the defenders.

However, when this blasting attack instantly brought more than 20 casualties to the defenders, the entire makeshift team of the Inner Court Army, which did not have much determination to fight, collapsed almost instantly. Like many mediocre and weak armies in this era, three or four percent of the casualties are the limit of some teams.

In the continuous sound of guns, from the elite selected by the Imperial Horse Supervisor led by Pang Tianshou and others, to Xiao Xuan's recruits who were first responsible for the volunteer assault, finally rushed into the palace with the courage of the sound of guns, taking advantage of the collapse of the enemy's entire line.

"Abandon your weapons and don't kill!" The man who rushed in shouted as requested.

In order to prevent the risk of accidents, Xiao Xuan did not let Tian Xiuying, who planned to go into battle in person, continue to rush inward recklessly, which is also due to Xiao Xuan's resolute appearance and cautious character inside: if there is an accident in the battle situation, things may still be possible, but if he or even Wang Chengen, Tian Xiuying and other core people who rely on him make a mistake, the consequences will be completely different. There is still a clear difference between the importance of human life and human life. Xiao Xuan also frankly admitted that he did not have the consciousness of Manchurian officers, generals and soldiers of this era to bear similar risks of casualties.

In order to avoid accidents, when making operational arrangements before the war, Xiao Xuan also warned all officers and non-commissioned officers to fight steadily and steadily if they reached a breakthrough, and to concentrate rather than disperse, so as to prevent a possible counterattack by the remnants of the enemy who retreated to the palace. Annihilating the enemy or even capturing Wei Zhongxian alive was not the most important thing, re-establishing his authority in the palace and finally controlling the palace and even the entire palace was the fundamental purpose of this battle.

At the same time, Xiao Xuan also had a worry: if Wei Zhongxian's forces were eliminated too quickly, it would be even faster than in history. Will the civil servants or other forces take the opportunity to plug themselves? Only when the remnants of the eunuch party have not been cleared for a while can they have the opportunity to consolidate the fruits of victory and develop their own strength. Then the emperor himself will not be a "quasi-light commander" with real power on the surface.