Just when Zhang Kezong defeated Qian Biao's army and continued to go south to prepare to rescue Huzhou, the fierce offensive and defensive battles under the city of Huzhou also reached the most critical time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

General Du Jianwei personally led his troops to attack the city, although the defenders in the city fought desperately under the leadership of Li Tao, bows and crossbows, rolling wood, stones, oil oil, shuttle guns, wolf tooth swatters, all kinds of means were exhausted, causing huge losses to the two Zhejiang armies, but still failed to prevent the two Zhejiang armies from climbing the city wall.

This was not the incompetence of the defenders, but the fact that the defenders were too small and too tired by this time, and that the besieging side did not care about casualties.

Different from the siege battle on the previous day, this time Qian Biao was more radical in the allocation of troops, and invested 15,000 troops to attack the city at one time, you must know that in addition to the casualties of these days and the strength responsible for cutting off the enemy's reinforcements on the periphery, Qian Biao had a total of 18,000 people, and this time he invested 15,000 people.

Not only the eastern city, but also the southern city was attacked at the same time, and even the water gate of Huzhou was also attacked.

In the case of this simultaneous attack at multiple points, the weakness of the insufficient strength of the defenders was exposed, and in the end, the east gate was the first to be breached, and a large number of two Zhejiang troops climbed the city wall; Then, people from the south gate side also came to ask for reinforcements.

At this time, the defenders all have a sense of powerlessness, since the battle started in the morning, it is almost noon now, although they fought hard, killed and wounded a large number of enemy troops, but still can't stop the enemy army?

"Brothers, follow me!" Li Tao watched as more and more enemy troops began to climb the city wall, and finally gave the order for the reserves to attack.

With the order given, the last of the five hundred new troops began to ascend the city wall, and at the forefront of them were a dozen tall warriors in heavy armor, all of whom were Li Tao's own bodyguards. On their chests, there were several black clay pots, and a lit fire rope was wrapped around their hands, and their costumes looked a little strange.

After these men climbed the city wall, they did not immediately charge the enemy, but formed a line and slowly advanced forward; When they encounter a small group of enemy troops, they are attacked by men in light armor behind them.

However, when they encountered a large number of enemy troops, they saw that the leading men immediately took a clay pot from their bodies, lit the fuse on the clay pot with a fire rope, and threw it with all their might. Then, both the people who threw the clay pots and those behind them quickly leaned down to dodge.

"Boom!"

As puffs of black smoke rose up, hundreds of fragments splashed out in all directions at an extremely fast speed, pouring a large piece of the two Zhejiang soldiers around them, and even those who were not hit by the fragments were stunned in the explosion.

"Rush!" The reacting reserves took the opportunity to charge, hacking to death one by one the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground and howled.

"The Huainan Army has used demon magic! Run away......"

"It's not good, the Lord of Heaven is angry......"

"It's over, the secret weapon of the Huainan Army......"

In the two Zhejiang armies, all kinds of voices came one after another, some thought that the Huainan army was performing some magic tricks, and some thought that the heavens were angry, and they were extremely flustered for a while. Of course, there are also some people who understand that they have heard about the Battle of Runzhou and the Battle of Xuanzhou, and know that this is the secret weapon of the Huainan Army.

However, at any given time, there are always a few people who understand this, and many times people who understand will die earlier.

"What is there to worry about, it's just the secret weapon of the Huainan Army, there are not many of them, let's just hold on for a while......" A knowledgeable officer shouted.

"Boom!"

Before the officer could finish speaking, another clay pot was thrown over, "Boom! With a loud bang, the man of understanding was blown to pieces.

"Run, ......"

Now, no one dares to face this kind of "heavenly wrath" or "Huainan Army's demon method", no matter how the officers shout, they can't stop the soldiers from fleeing down the ladder of the city.

This is the first time that the two Zhejiang soldiers have faced black powder weapons, and more importantly, although they have heard that the Huainan army has this kind of weapon that can cause a loud noise, but it is used to blow up the city wall, but I didn't expect that it can also be used to deal with the infantry now, so under the panic, the two Zhejiang soldiers can't resist at all.

Under the city wall, Du Jianwei, who had just retreated from the city wall and was about to organize the follow-up troops to go to the city, did not expect that he would only retreat for a while, and the two Zhejiang soldiers were driven off the city wall, and he couldn't help but be furious: "Go back, go back, the first one to capture the city tower will be rewarded!" Whoever continues to flee will be punished as a deserter. ”

He killed several officers who were the first to flee, so as to stop the rout.

"General, the Huainan Army uses demon methods!" There were soldiers wailing.

"It's not the demon law, it's the heavens that are angry!" One of the people next to him was still trying to correct it.

Du Jian was slightly stunned, and then remembered the few loud noises he heard just now, he didn't pay attention to it at first, but now that he thought about it, he finally understood what it was, and couldn't help but feel a chill.

"The secret weapon of the Huainan Army!"

Then he thought that even if the Huainan Army had secret weapons, they didn't use them before, and they only used them now, which must be due to the small number; And at this time, no matter what secret weapon the enemy has, he has to charge forward, if he can't capture Huzhou today, I'm afraid there will be no more chance.

"Bastard, what demon law, what heavenly wrath, and those who dare to talk nonsense and disturb the hearts of our army will not be spared! The Huainan army has few soldiers, and our army has many soldiers, and no matter what means they use, it will be difficult to defeat us. If you don't take advantage of this opportunity to storm the city in one go, how long will you wait? ”

He waved the long knife in his hand, and immediately prepared to go up the city wall along a ladder, "Brothers, follow me!" ”

As soon as he finished shouting, several earth-colored guards next to him grabbed him and said, "General, you can't go up!" The enemy army has it, there is ......" He originally wanted to say "The enemy army has a demon law", but remembering Du Jianwei's words just now, he hurriedly stopped.

Du Jian was slightly furious, and with a wave of the big knife in his hand, the guard who opened his mouth just now was killed by him, "At this time, there is no advance or retreat!" Whoever dares to say goodbye will not be spared! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a dozen black and extremely inconspicuous things were suddenly thrown down from the city wall, and there was a fuse burning on it.

"It's not good, the Huainan army is going to use demon magic again...... "A soldier exclaimed loudly.

Before he finished speaking, explosions sounded one after another, and after the black smoke cleared, I saw a large number of soldiers falling to the ground and howling miserably because of the explosion, and Du Jianwei, who was still shouting loudly just now, had also fallen under the city wall and was seriously injured.

Du Jianwei felt that his consciousness began to be confused, as if he was being eaten by a large group of insects, he turned his head to look at everyone with difficulty, and saw that everyone's faces were panicked, obviously the slightest sense of war was gone, and it was good that it did not collapse immediately.

"Retreat, retreat quickly......" Du Jianwei barely finished speaking, and then closed his eyes.

As soon as the master died, the soldiers were in an uproar, and they immediately fled, and several guards hurriedly stepped forward to pick up Du Jianwei's body and retreated with his fate.

In the rear, looking at the sudden chaos on the city wall and the rout of the besieging soldiers, although Qian Biao didn't know what was going on, as a veteran of the battlefield, he still knew that today's battle had failed again.

"Could it be that God wants to destroy Lone, so that Lone will not be allowed to get Huzhou?" He couldn't help but sigh.

Soon, a soldier from the front came to report, and Qian Biao only then knew what happened on the city wall, especially the news of the death of his general Du Jianwei.

"Alas!" After hearing the news, Qian Biao couldn't help but sigh at the sky, didn't say anything, but felt a burst of grief in his heart.

Du Jianwei is his henchman, although he is young, less than 30 years old, but he has outstanding ability, and more importantly, he is loyal to him, last year when the Wuyong Capital Rebellion, he was the first foreign general to lead troops to help, and made great contributions in the war against Tian Yan and others.

Qian Biao also hoped that this Du Jianwei could become the next famous general like Gu Quanwu, but he didn't expect to die in the battle of Huzhou, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"Mingjin retreats!" Qian Biao decisively ordered to prepare to make plans after reorganizing the soldiers and horses.

By this time, the defender's 500 reserves had cleared out the enemy forces who had not been able to retreat from the wall in time and regained control of this section of the wall.

"Wan Sheng!"

Seeing that the enemy troops under the city began to retreat, the defenders were all overjoyed, and suddenly cheers rang out in the city, and everyone breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Finally repelled the enemy ......"

Li Tao also took a breath of air, looking at the corpses all over the city wall, many of them were caused by the assault just now, and many enemy soldiers were not actually killed, but were only injured by the explosion, and were later mended.

But no matter what, the grenade was put into battle for the first time, and the effect was still very amazing, the enemy army was temporarily repulsed, and the Dongcheng side was temporarily safe.

However, this time such a great result was also achieved because the grenade was thrown for the first time, and the enemy army was defeated by a measure that was not achieved; But the enemy army will definitely not give up, the land of Huzhou is too important to Qian Biao, and when he is ready, he will definitely make a comeback.

"Fetch the fire oil and burn these ladders quickly......"

"Take the wounded down for treatment, and give him a good time if he can't be saved!"

……

Li Tao was giving orders, and he was anxiously thinking about when the reinforcements would arrive.

Just when he was anxious, suddenly a soldier galloped on horseback: "Our reinforcements have arrived......"