Although the rebels were attacking Anping fiercely under the city, in Zheng Zhilong's opinion, it was not so easy to break Anping.

The city wall of Anping is extremely strong, it was built by Zheng Zhilong at great expense, and the officers and soldiers in the city are also his cronies, who have been fed with silver, and they will never betray him.

There are more than 10,000 defenders in the city, and there are hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of sailors on the sea, and the force controlled by Zheng Zhilong is still huge.

On the other hand, the rebels are not too numerous than themselves, and they have not seen a siege cannon, so it is not so easy to break the Anping city wall.

Perhaps, relying on the city walls can wear down the strength of the rebels, and wait until the rebels are demoralized before launching a counterattack, and maybe there is a possibility of defeating the rebels.

At this moment, Zheng Zhilong still has this kind of luck mentality. Once he reached the city walls, he began to deploy defenses, inspecting the city's masonry and lime bottle defenses.

At noon, the rebels, who had filled in a large section of the trench, finally retreated, and standing on the city wall, you could see the smoke of the rebel positions everywhere, and the rebels were eating lunch.

Perhaps, while the rebels are resting, they can launch a surprise attack and maybe win the battle! A thought arose in Zheng Zhilong's heart, but it was quickly suppressed.

Sneak attack out of the city is not a simple matter, the rebels are the elite of the East, and their combat power is much higher than their own, if the sneak attack fails and then the rebels take the opportunity to kill into the city, it is really a stealing of chickens and rice!

In the rebel position outside the city, the rebels were in good spirits after lunch, and under the command of Chen Mo, they gathered again to prepare for the siege in the afternoon.

The soldiers were fast, and Chen Mo didn't want to give Zheng Zhilong time to breathe. Chen Mo is very sure about breaking through Anping, because he has the big killing weapon to break the city!

The first to be sent to the battlefield were the captured cannon fodder troops, and there were still more than 3,000 cannon fodder soldiers who did not participate in the trench filling in the morning. Each of them was sent to the battlefield with a shovel or a hammer, and the task was to dig the city and dig a large hole in the wall of Anping.

In order to cover them from digging the city, Chen Mo sent people to collect a large number of vehicles from the surrounding villages and transform them into simple shield carts, which were covered with soaked quilts, and even arrows in the city could not penetrate them.

It was still the old rule, blocking the city wall with firearms, and the cannon fodder army took the opportunity to push the gun cart close to the city wall, and began to dig the city one by one with axes and chisels.

The walls of Anping City are no different from other city walls, they are all rammed earth inside and breaded with bricks and stones outside. However, it is not easy to dig with an axe, and it takes a lot of time. However, Chen Mo did not plan to dig through the city wall, but just dug a few big holes, then filled with gunpowder, and blew the city wall open.

"Damn, it's stupid that the rebels want to dig up the walls!" On the city wall, the waiting rebel ants did not attack the city, but from under the city wall, there was a clanging sound of chiseling the wall, and the defenders on the city were surprised and laughed at the same time.

Anping City is several feet thick, and it is so easy to dig up the city wall! If you have the kung fu to dig up the city wall, it is better to attack along the ladder ant!

For the blasting and bombing of the city, I'm sorry, the army of this era basically didn't know about this means of breaking the city. In another time and space, it was not until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period at the end of the Qing Dynasty that gunpowder bombing cities became popular.

Zheng Zhilong also didn't know the purpose of the rebels, but no matter what the rebels wanted to do, they had to stop it. So under their orders, the defenders at the head of the city desperately threw brick and lime bottles under the city to prevent the rebels from digging the city. However, the cannon fodder army has a shield cart quilt defense, and the masonry at the head of the city does not hurt them much.

Seeing that an hour had passed, and the city wall had only dug some small holes, far from digging out enough gunpowder, Chen Mo was a little anxious.

"My lord, the ladder has built a hundred, do you think it will launch a general attack?" At this time, Wang Qinglai said.

Fujian zone, bamboo forests everywhere, bamboo poles to make ladders is simple and convenient, just a few hours of time, Wang Qing led people to make hundreds of frames.

As a last resort, Chen Mo didn't want to rely on the ladder ants to attack the city, then the casualties would be very large. However, looking at the progress of digging the city, it is really slow, I am afraid that I will not be able to dig enough gaps today, and if I want to blow up the city, I am afraid that I will have to wait until tomorrow.

Anping is Zheng Zhilong's lair, and the city has a huge amount of wealth accumulated by the Zheng family for more than ten years, and this wealth has a great effect on the next actions of the army and even the great cause of the prince. Thinking about Qian Fenglin's entrustment before leaving, Chen Mo had to give the order for a general attack.

"Attack, you're in charge, bring some grenades, this thing will be very useful in clearing the defenders of the city." Chen Mo said to Wang Qing.

"Yes!" Wang Qing agreed and immediately began to prepare for the siege.

An hour's digging of the city, although it did not dig through the city wall, really consumed a lot of masonry and wood of the defenders. In fact, for the attack on Anping, from Zheng Zhilong to ordinary Zheng family soldiers, they were not fully psychologically prepared, and their preparations were not very sufficient.

For a long time, the rebels were just digging the city silently, which also made the defenders of the city very lax, and they just casually threw bricks and stones down.

So, when thousands of rebels rushed over with ladders, the defenders of the city panicked.

The sound of gongs and drums sounded, Zheng Zhilong, who had just gone down the city to rest, was shocked, and rushed to the head of the city with a swift pace, and looked out with the battlements, and saw countless rebels carrying ladders and swarming towards the city wall.

"Fire, shoot!" Zheng Zhilong shouted hoarsely.

The sound of "bang, bang, bang" sounded, and the sparks from the battlements of the city wall were rising, and the debris was flying, Zheng Zhilong retracted his head sharply, so as to avoid being shot by the projectile. The rebels under the city have already opened fire first.

Under Zheng Zhilong's strong order, the defenders of the city had to brave the projectiles to shoot arrows with bows and arrows, and fired at the attacking rebels.

For a time, the city was full of arrows like locusts, and from time to time some of the running rebels fell to the ground.

However, the losses of the defenders on the city are also very large, the rebel musketeers under the city are too hateful, often a dozen or so firecrackers are responsible for a battlement, as long as there are guards who show their heads and open their bows to the outside world, the city will immediately shoot four or five projectiles, although the accuracy of the firecrackers is not high, but it can not stand several firearms volleys, and the defenders of the city head from time to time someone falls to the ground on their backs without saying a word.

In a short period of time, a hundred and ten archers were killed by the fire guns under the city, and the others were so frightened that they did not dare to show their heads.

Zheng Zhilong's guards whipped fiercely with leather whips, forcing his archers and firecrackers to shoot, and these people had to fight against the city.

Finally, the rebels' ladder was put up on the battlement, and one rebel after another climbed up the ladder. The battle has finally reached its most intense moment.

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