Chapter 507: Bombardment of the City Gate

The Men of the Dead are the strongest warriors in the world, especially when the weapons in their hands are not at a disadvantage, the private soldiers in Zhangzhou City rushed to the city gate, and at first relied on the impact of horses to break through the periphery, but then the 'fishermen' took advantage of the narrow terrain of the city gate to quickly reorganize their formation.

Firmly guarding the vicinity of the city gate, not allowing the other party to rush over, what the private soldiers of the maritime merchants lack is these decisive courage, making money with the knife in their hands, if it is really time to sell their lives, there will be someone there who will really rush up, wouldn't it be better to keep this strength to make money.

After a while, although the private soldiers with long weapons continued to inflict casualties on the fishermen who were guarding the city gate, they were unable to control the city gate.

However, the fishermen who wore single clothes and shorts, or even those with open chests and backs, were also dressed more like a little bit of dress, and in their baskets and baskets for fish, they could not put down too long weapons, only short knives, long thorns and other things. However, the private soldiers of the maritime merchants in Zhangzhou City were all broadswords and spears, although they did not use bows and arrows according to the custom of the south, but they were somewhat protected.

One side is equal to hand-to-hand combat there, and the other side has the advantage of weapons and equipment, but the will to fight is too different. But the side guarding the city gate still kept falling, and after a period of fierce fighting, only a dozen wounded people remained, standing in front of the city gate with short knives, panting and looking at the maritime private soldiers who were approaching, and there was some despair in their hearts.

They are all people who have committed serious crimes in the Yizhou army and regimental training, and the task given to them is to seize this city gate, as long as the mission is successful, the crimes committed can be offset with their own lives, and at the same time, their families can enjoy the treatment of military dependents and are not subject to the involvement.

If it doesn't work, it's easy to say that the original treatment of the family members will be canceled, but if they are demoted to Korean citizens or indigenous people, it will be a situation from which they will never recover, and they will not have the right to enter the official system from now on.

But seeing the smiling and approaching maritime private soldiers in front of them, they knew that their task was indeed unfinishable, so they roared and took the short weapons in their hands, and rushed forward without sparing their lives.

In the distance, the army was rapidly approaching, and at the front was a gun carriage drawn by eight horses, according to the discipline, the artillery should be walking in the middle of the line, protected by the soldiers around it, but this time it was running at the front, and dozens of knights on horseback were guarding on both sides.

The groom of the gun carriage did not care whether the horse's physical strength was overexerted or not, the whip in his hand snapped in mid-air, and the eight mules and horses pulling the cart were running like crazy.

Four or five long knives were inserted into the last "fisherman" who resisted at the city gate, and the army was still some time away, and the leader of the maritime private army was not touched by the screams of the dying man, and he looked at the army outside the gate, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Even the cavalry closest to the city is still nearly two miles away, and it is enough to close the city gate, not to mention that the cavalry at the front has stopped, it seems that at least the captain of the distant army will not be allowed to drive straight into Zhangzhou City, and now even if he gathers the people, he can hold it for a while.

When the Japanese were rampant, several Ming generals in Fujian were still diligent people, and several cities near the sea were renovated with great effort, as long as the city of this size was guarded, even if the Ming army came to attack, it could only come to besiege, and could not be taken quickly, and the lack of heavy weapons of the Japanese had no way.

However, the army outside the city was not a wolf, when it was about two miles away from the city gate, the cavalry following the side of the artillery carriage had already seen the gate of Zhangzhou City slowly closing, and the cavalry officer who led the team was visually measuring the distance while giving orders, although the carriage had not stopped, the artillery on the horses around was ready.

With a few long neighs of the horses, the artillery carriage stopped under the control of Mite, and the surrounding artillerymen on the horses dismounted, some went to move the artillery carriage, and some went to pick up all kinds of tools, these people are all genuine Caucasians, dressed and equipped in the style of the Spanish army, according to the Ming Dynasty people's knowledge, there is really no difference, they have only seen how many Westerners.

Someone was calibrating the position, more people were putting the guns on the official road, nailing wooden pegs, and then loading ammunition, eight-pounder howitzers, medicine packs and shells had long been prepared to be placed on the gun trucks, and everyone was moving quickly, and soon they were completely ready.

The launch of this caliber howitzer can be said to be like thunder, the gate of Zhangzhou City was heavy there and the private soldiers who were trying to push it, after hearing this loud noise, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then it was not like the roar of the world across the air, and the city wall that was originally thought to be extremely solid suddenly shook, and at this moment, the ground seemed to tremble.

The people who stayed in the city gate cave, in the semi-enclosed space, the sound and tremor were even stronger, and they felt as if the entire city wall was about to collapse, and the private soldiers who were closing the city gate were frightened, screaming and running outside, gasping for a while before regaining their composure.

The heavy city gate and the fishermen have also done some damage, and they are still half closed, looking at the smoke and dust that is getting closer and closer, the leader of the private army behind is anxious, and he is urging his subordinates to hurry up and close the door, seeing the scene of the earth shaking the mountain just now, and then they are embarrassed to go in, look at each other, even if the leader of the private army urges again, they still do not move their feet.

The leader was in a hurry, whether it was pirates or pirates outside the city, they entered the city with such a fierce momentum, and after entering the city, they didn't know what was going on, if they damaged the families of the maritime merchants, I was afraid that they would really be hunted down for thousands of miles, no matter how to defend this place.

shouted again or no one reacted, the leader gritted his teeth, and the knife in his hand slashed hard, the people around him didn't expect that half of his body was cut off with a knife, and the people around him were scared stupid, looking at the leader's bloody fierce appearance, the leader urged loudly again, but no one heard what to say about this sentence, because another cannonball fell on the city wall, and the bricks and stones were splashed.

With such a loud voice and such an amazing momentum, how could the people of Zhangzhou City not hear it, there were already people who fled into the city who spread the news everywhere, and with this roaring shelling sound, it was as if it was a proof to them, and Zhangzhou City immediately became in chaos.

Although those people did not hear the leader's order, they were forced by the leader's fierce appearance to run into the city gate and push the city gate desperately......

Now the vanguard of the army has only reached the position where the artillery is placed, and it will not be able to rush into the city anyway, because before this, the private soldiers behind the city gate must have been able to close the city gate, to such an extent, they are all open, and a group of people shouted and pushed the city gate hard, and the city gate was closed slightly.

There was another loud bang in the distance, and a deafening scream sounded in mid-air, but after the first two shellings, these people had some ability to adapt, and they were quite calm, still pushing the city gate forward little by little, and someone had already gone to the city to gather Ding Zhuang in the city and plug the city gate hole together.

However, they did not know that the first two guns were only correcting the direction of the muzzles, and the target of the guns was always the city gate, and this gun did not deviate from the target.

All the men behind the gate felt that the heavens and the earth had suddenly collapsed, and they only felt this, because the whole gate had been smashed from the junction of the wall by this cannon, and smashed into the hole in the gate, and all the people who were pushing the gate were crushed into pulp.

And the power of the eight-pounder howitzer is not comparable to the three-pounder and the six-pounder gun, after smashing the city gate, the aftermath is still undiminished, and the people behind are also affected, these private soldiers themselves are crowded near the city gate, one is to help close the gate, and the other is to have some sense of security under the city wall.

This time, the howitzer's eight-pounder shells almost made a bloody way in the crowd, and after three quick shots, the howitzer also needed to cool the chamber, but the surviving pirate soldiers on the edge of the city gate were all stunned to look at the stumps and broken arms on the ground, and the flesh and blood had already dyed the ground purple and black.

When they could already hear the sound of horses' hooves outside the city, these people reacted and wanted to run, but they already felt that there was no strength in their legs, and they were completely paralyzed there.

The horse team of five hundred people swaggered through the city gate, and the knights on the horse team didn't even look at the people on the side of the city gate, and went directly to several other city gates.

A hundred knights flowed at the bombarded gates, and all who saw them entering the city gasped, with whole breastplates, helmets with high feathers, and spears and muskets in their hands. What's even more surprising is that these people are all ghosts, those white people with blue and green eyes, high noses, and miserable white skin, are the things upside down?