Chapter 161: The Siege Fiasco
Outside the city wall of the Ming army, an iron cannon was pushed out, more than 20 Franc machines were lined up, and the black barrels were aimed at the gate of the Japanese camp on the opposite side. 【Excellence Complete .】 .org
The aimer picks the angle of the gun.
The five red-coated cannons on the side, loading is also a lot of trouble, you need to calculate the distance, but also to load the amount of gunpowder, the gunner wearing a red mandarin duck jacket, the thumb of his right hand is spread out, using visual inspection, measuring the distance.
"Fire" The artillery man shouted hoarsely, and the artillery spewed out tongues of fire. Flames erupted.
The earth shook in a series of waves, and Xiao Chuan felt the city wall under his feet tremble a few times.
Whoosh———— projectile flew towards the opposite wall with a heavy cracking sound.
Bang bang、-- wooden gate was beaten to sawdust flying, but it didn't move.
"They blocked the city wall with stones" Yang Yufan beside Xiao Chuan sighed, seeing that he was a little deflated. Xiao Chuan is strange, this gang of robbers seems to have no intention of surviving, and they really have plans to die, I really don't understand, it is a group of looting groups, why do they have the courage to see death as home!
Yang Yufan said again, "Artillery attacks the city wall and opens a gap"
More than twenty pieces of artillery, aimed at a wall at the same time, spewed flames. Attacking a wall at the same time.
Groups of Ming troops dressed in iron-clad armor came out of the city, the sun shining on the brims of their round caps and iron helmets, covering their faces, lined up in neat queues, brandishing long knives and rushing to the city wall like a tide.
It looks like the armor is clearly an elite, but the expression on his face is indeed very panicked, either it just doesn't matter, obviously it's either a veteran oiler or a new soldier.
Zhou Shan was dressed in a bright light, holding a horsewhip, and the sun shone on the heart guard on his chest. A group of family members beside him followed, shouting to a group of soldiers, "Do you see the city wall on the other side, rush up, kill, and those who go to the city first will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."
He personally pressed the formation in the rear, and his heart was hot, the commander of Jining Mansion was already old, and I must get the position of this commander.
He and the rest of the barracks responded sparsely, looking disapproving, obviously because Zhou Shan had no integrity on weekdays, and he was in arrears of rewards, and no one believed him when he said that he would give money now. But they still had a firm face and rushed forward, not for anything else, just because the Japanese in front of them were the executioners of their compatriots. They all howled and rushed forward.
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The wooden city wall shook for a while, Hasegawa pulled out his katana, the snow-white blade reflected his cold face, and said, "Everyone, the city gate has been sealed, we have no way to live, we have no way to live!" Let's let our group of defeated people perish together with the Ming army on the opposite side, and the Yamato nation is half cut off."
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With the sound of seeing death as if they were at home, some of these widows even threw away their helmets and tied a white turban around their heads, which meant death, and after they understood that there was no way to live, they burst out with the belief that they would die.
Originally, it was the Hasegawabe, which was known for cherishing its honor among the five hundred old Japanese bandits, and the two hundred fierce Japanese elites who were mobilized.
Knowing that they had no way to live, they chose to fight hard when their honor was lost.
Hasegawa took out a white cloth with the word "Banzai" on it, tied to the top of his head, his eyes were like torches, and he looked at the Ming army under the city wall.
Under the city wall, the Ming army has begun to fire towards the city wall.
Before they could react, a few of them were hit and fell off the city.
The group of Ming troops, wearing a mandarin duck battle jacket, and like a red cloud, moved towards the city wall in a burst of trumpets.
Behind is a team of supervising the battle, holding a saber, with an indifferent face, constantly drinking, supervising the battle
When the fire-like Ming army approached the city wall, they raised shields and gathered on top of their heads, and a round shield was raised, looking from a distance, it looked like a red cloud had turned into a black cloud.
Shoot the arrows! The Ming army who supervised the battle behind shouted, the shields were separated, and the Ming troops with strong bows were tilting towards the city wall with clusters of arrows.
Hasegawa on the city wall raised his hand, one side of the wooden shield, this side was made by them in advance, some people held large shields, some held iron pots, some even held wooden gates, blocking the arrow clusters, and some hid behind the battlements.
They connected their own defenses to each other, and defended themselves well against the Ming army's arrow clusters.
Arrows rained down, hitting the shield of the wolf, there was an unlucky wolf, he was hit by an arrow in the abdomen, the blood instantly stained his clothes, he did take out a short knife, stabbed himself in the abdomen, and drank the "Yamato national knot"
Hasegawa gritted his teeth and shouted, there were more than 20 iron gunners on the city wall, which had already been loaded, and one got up, and the iron cannon in his hand was a line of fire, and from a distance, there were white mist on the city wall.
Ah———— the Ming army under the city wall was hit, a family member, wearing armor, was hit by a gun, the iron armor was beaten to pieces, a terrible hole in the chest, the intestines were flowing out, he fell to the ground and wailed.
The appearance of the screams made the nearby Ming troops all commotion. The family members who supervised the battle in the back pressed again and shouted without listening.
At this time, the ladder was also erected, and the iron hook on it was firmly hooked on the battlement, and the Ming army began to attack the city with weapons in their mouths.
A famous widow was frantically pushing the ladder, thinking that they pushed it down, but the iron hook was already stuck in, and they lifted the ladder, and there was already a Ming army pressing it below.
In a frenzy, the pirates took some captured spears and threw them down from the top of the city.
A spear fell straight down with a burst of sound breaking through the air.
Poof———— the Ming army who was pressing the ladder was pierced by the spear from his right shoulder blade, taking away a piece of flesh and blood, and he howled to the end, his body was already stained red with blood. He was still holding on to the ladder.
The Ming army on the side looked at the commotion next to them, so they roared and climbed the city wall in person.
With a steel knife in his mouth, he shouted over and over again, and the soldiers behind him followed, climbing up as dexterously as monkeys.
As soon as he climbed the city wall, he quickly took the steel knife in his hand, and a Japanese with a scar on his head rushed in front of him.
The family fought with him, and more than a dozen Japanese robbers in the vicinity rushed over, and more than a dozen katanas came over at the same time, and he fell behind in an instant.
More than a dozen katanas slashed at his body at the same time, and a snow-white chain mail was instantly stained red with blood, and his whole body was covered in blood, and he fell to the ground, trembling like chaff.
The Japanese were already crazy, and kept shouting and charging at the Ming army that rushed up.
Especially the Hasegawa, he wielded a katana impenetrable, and a slash of the katana was to cut through the iron-inlaid cotton armor of the Ming army in front of him, and the Ming army fell to the ground with a blood balance. Near him, more than a dozen Ming soldiers were already lying in pools of blood.
A Japanese soldier on the city wall cut down four Ming soldiers in a row, and he still had more than a dozen wounds on his body, and saw a general wearing armor come up.
The general brandished his sword and card, looking very fierce, but the samurai rushed directly over, holding the general, and the general's long knife stabbed him in the body, and the samurai really didn't decide at all to hold him and swayed far away, and rushed down the city wall in the roar of the samurai. Na Mingjun's face was full of horror.
All the Ming troops collapsed, the Japanese army's combat effectiveness was already stronger than theirs, and there was this kind of fighting style, watching their colleagues and even their families die tragically in the city, they all collapsed.
"No fight, no fight, no fight"
"The pirates on the city walls are crazy"
A group of Ming troops were defeated from the city wall, and some even fell down the ladder. The generals of the Governor's array all collapsed, and it was useless to cut down several soldiers in a row.
Zhou Shan watched the Ming army that retreated like a tide and roared wildly, cutting down several of his subordinates in a row, and those collapsed Ming troops all walked around him. His family members saw that the situation was not right, and they all hurriedly took him away.
The ratio of forces was close to six to one, but the result was still so easily defeated by the Japanese army, which cast a shadow on this siege battle.
Yang Yufan glanced at the retreating Ming army, and roared helplessly, it was not the elite troops who went to this battle, but such a confrontation of forces, such a quick retreat, he couldn't accept it at all, he originally wanted to consume the enemy's sharp energy, but he didn't expect to break his morale, how can he fight?
There were two more Dusi back from Zhou Shan, and Zhou Shan was in a mess at the moment.
Yang Yufan did not punish and comforted, "General Zhou went down to rest, this battle is not your fault"
"General, you must let me go up next time you attack the city" Zhou Shan still didn't give up and wanted to fight, but this defeat made him humiliated.
No one ridiculed him among the generals next to him, and they all saw the fierceness of the Japanese on the city wall this time.
Xiong Dahai on the side still kept comforting him, and when it came to this, his performance was already a model for the Ming army to learn.
Yang Yufan hammered the table with hatred, and the Franc machine attacked this wooden earthen wall, and it was indeed after fighting for so long that it still didn't open the gap, which made him upset.
Xiao Chuan was watching the battle on the city wall just now, and he saw it really, these Ming army troops were polarized, the family was extremely fierce, and they were not afraid of death, and the main barracks were indeed timid, and they had no combat effectiveness, if it were not for the sense of national honor here, they were only afraid of collapse in the morning.
"That's right, what about Wang Dusi" Yang Yufan was angry just now, and then calmed down and found that there was one person missing. There was a crying sound outside, and it was indeed those few family members, carrying a bloody corpse that had been beaten by the fire.
That Ding Dao, "The soldiers were defeated just now, and Wang Dusi killed the rout in the back, and was killed by the rout firecrackers"
"Damn," Yang Yufan immediately roared angrily, and the generals turned even pale. I didn't expect this kind of morale to happen, and now they don't even have the courage to supervise the battle.
I didn't expect that in this small city, 700 broken pirates would be such a difficult bone to gnaw.
"Yang Shuai, let me go to this battle" Xiao Chuan immediately stood up and said.
There were a pair of eyes full of admiration all around.
"The last general is willing to bear the guilt and attack the two wings." Zhou Shan drank and half-knelt on the ground.
"And our old bear," Xiong Dahai immediately laughed.