The thin crossbow arrow was just as Zhang Yu expected, and it pierced the back of the guard's neck at once. The attendant standing in front of the escort frowned at the sight of the escort, and it felt as if it had been bitten by a gadfly or something. He raised his hand to touch the back of his neck, but when he was halfway up, he fell, and his body went limp, and he was about to fall to the ground. The attendant hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed him, and gently placed him on the ground.

Zhang Yu also pushed open the door and walked out, dragged the guard into the latrine with his entourage, and by the way, pulled out the crossbow arrow stuck in the back of the guard's neck and put it back in a small box. During the whole process, the protector's eyes were wide open, Zhang Yu knew that the protector was not dead, he could still see and hear all this, but he couldn't even turn his eyes - he was awake and slowly suffocated.

"Fortunately, Lao Tzu waited a minute, in case he wanted to die, he didn't use this medicine. I just wish the other medicine they gave me was better than this one. Zhang Yu couldn't help but think.

At this time, the attendant also removed the coat from his body, and took off the wig, and almost instantly, he became a jianzhi.

On the other side, the big protectors had returned to the council chamber. He first knelt down to Huang Taiji and told Zhang Yu about asking for ointment, and then waited for Zhang Yu's bearded entourage to take the medicine out.

The bearded attendant shook his head with a smile, and put his hand into his arms, as if touching the ointment. But in a blink of an eye, he took out a strangely shaped handcuff from his arms, fired two shots at Huang Taiji on the couch, and then turned the muzzle of the gun and continued to fire at other Manchu high-ranking officials.

At the same time, the other entourages also took out their firearms in an instant and opened fire on the surrounding Manchu high-ranking officials. Then they threw palm thunder at the crowd, the explosion power of this palm thunder seemed to be much smaller than what the Qing army had seen before, but after the explosion, it produced an extraordinarily large amount of smoke, and for a while, the hall was filled with smoke, and nothing could be seen clearly.

The mustache threw away the revolver that had run out of bullets in his hand - it was a left-handed team that could fire six shots in a row. Wheel. Hand. Guns, of course, are different from the revolvers that used metal cartridge shells in later generations, at this time their revolvers did not have a full load of bullets, and every bullet was used at the bottom. Fire (this can only be made in the laboratory, not universally), gunpowder, and projectiles are loaded in turn. It was clear that there was no chance of reloading here now - he pulled out a waist knife from the corpse of one of the officers he had knocked down next to him. At the same time, he ripped off his clothes, revealing the flag ding dress inside, and ripped off his wig, revealing the money rat tail......

The sound of explosions coming from the council hall naturally reached Zhang Yu's ears, in fact, the words "ask for ointment" brought back by the escort were the order to attack. Zhang Yu and another entourage who had been dressed as an authentic flag soldier looked at each other, then took out a small rocket, stuck it in the ground and ignited it, and the rocket rushed straight up, and then exploded in mid-air - this was the general attack signal sent to the model army outside the city!

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On the lookout, looking at the rocket that exploded in the air, Gu Jiang sighed to Zheng Sen: "Shizi, I won't be able to sleep in the future, how good would it be if I were the messenger this time...... In the past, Fu Jiezi beheaded Loulan for the Han Dynasty, heroic and heroic, and awe-inspiring for eternity...... Li Taibai, Wang Longbiao's poems...... To be honest, how can this kind of glory be compared to the roll call of Donghuamen? With such miraculous feats, the marquis is naturally not a problem, even if he dies, it is worth it! I think that Loulan is actually just a small country, and the total army of the whole country does not know if there are two thousand, and Jianxuan is not comparable at all, today's heroic deeds of Zhang Yu far exceed Fu Jiezi, ancient and modern Khan Qing's books, Danqing's paintings, how can it be passed...... It's a shame it's not me...... Big wood misunderstands me! ”

Zheng Sen didn't care about responding to Gu Jiang's emotion at this time, there is something more important now, that is, the general attack in front of him.

The soldiers on the sports field had completed the whole team by this time and began to move towards the starting position in an orderly manner. At the same time, the two siege cannons began to roar in unison. They smashed two shells into the Manchu fortress in order to create chaos. At the same time, with a burst of explosions, a series of zigzag-like trenches suddenly appeared in the originally flat open space between the third earthen wall and the moat, and these trenches stretched all the way to the moat. These trenches were the tunnels that the Model Army had quietly dug before.

The reason why these tunnels were hidden from the eyes of the Manchus was because of several reasons. First of all, the existence of the moat made it impossible to dig tunnels under the city walls, and it became almost impossible to attack the caves, which naturally made the Qing army itself relax its vigilance. Secondly, the Qing army itself was constantly digging underground fortifications during this time, which made it impossible to listen to the sound of the underground by means such as burying water tanks. (Of course, considering that the moat is separating, even without these distractions, they probably won't hear anything.) In addition, the model army's move to raise the earthen wall also covered the excavation of the tunnel. It is also important to note that, in general, in order to ensure the ventilation of the tunnel, a bamboo pole must be driven into the ground at intervals to ventilate. Although this solves the problem of ventilation, it also completely loses the concealment of the tunnel. But when the Model Army excavated these tunnels, they did not do so, but instead used blowers and connected bamboo pipes to provide air to those digging underground. However, this method could not provide enough oxygen to the brigade of men and horses passing underground, so the model army dug the tunnel very shallowly, arranged gunpowder on the top of the tunnel, and blew the roof of the cave through a one-time explosion. Make those impermeable tunnels into open-air traffic trenches.

Almost at the same time, the artillery that had been prepared for a long time began to fire fiercely at the Qing fortress with various artillery, and the Qing army was in chaos for a while.

The barbed wire fence on the side of the model army was also pulled open dozens of exits, and one after another shield carts were pushed out, and these shield carts equipped with rubber wheels were pushed much more quickly than those of the Qing army, and they quickly approached the moat of the Qing army. By this time, the attacking forces were already in place, and they were moving quickly along the communication trenches towards the moat.

At this time, some Qing troops also began to react, and they manipulated the cannons in the city to shoot at the approaching shield carts. Some shield carts were hit. Unlike the small cannons and even wooden cannons on the previous earthen walls, the cannons placed on the walls of the fortress are all serious cannons, even if the Manchu self-made Hongyi cannons are not particularly good, but the solid cannonballs they shoot can easily penetrate the shield car. However, there were only a few people pushing the carts behind these shield carts, and there were no soldiers from the brigade following, so the casualties were limited. Moreover, there were not many cannons that were really capable of firing effectively, because they were suppressed by a kind of artillery that had never been seen before. The shells fired by this artillery always carried a frightening, high-pitched whistling sound, and the accuracy was surprisingly high, almost every cannon accurately hit a Qing gun position. The whistling shells often knocked the heavy cannons of the Qing army directly to the ground, and the flying debris knocked over a large row of the Qing troops next to the cannons.

This terrible artillery was the steel front-loading rifled gun of the Model Army. The bore of this gun has a rotating rifling, and the cannonball it uses resembles an enlarged Mini rifle in the form of a pointed bullet, a cylindrical body, and only a lead apron around the tail. The caliber of this shell is slightly smaller than the barrel, so it can be put into the barrel relatively easily. Shoot. When the powder explodes, the expanded gunpowder gas will make the apron expand, and the soft lead apron will be embedded in the rifling under the pressure of the gunpowder gas, and then rotate with the cannonball at high speed, and make the cannonball still stable after flying out of the muzzle, plus the apron seals the gunpowder gas, which also makes the gunpowder gas propulsion efficiency higher, plus the longer barrel, so that the speed of the cannonball is also greatly improved, all of which makes the accuracy of this artillery much higher than that of the smoothbore gun. If an experienced artillery crew, with a 12-pounder smoothbore gun, can quite accurately hit a house eight thousand steps away; Then when they use a steel rifled gun, they can accurately hit one of the windows of the house.

The firing of five of these guns quickly wiped out the Qing artillery that was still capable of firing back and further exacerbated the confusion of the Qing army.

By this time, the attacking forces had reached the end of the communication trenches. At the end of the original tunnel, now the traffic trench, about three feet from the moat, the Model Army also excavated several underground storage rooms, in which small boats made of balsa wood and about a long gangplank were stored, all of which were used to build temporary pontoon bridges. It's just that the shield cart hasn't followed at this time, and they have to wait for the time being. However, the soldiers were not idle, they leaned against the wall of the trench and fired at the Qing army in the city with the muskets in their hands.

At this time, the shield cart was also pushed up. Although the shield cart could not block the shelling, it could effectively defend against bullets. Moreover, the shape of his baffle can be more reasonable than the wall of a traffic trench, and it is more conducive to shooting. More soldiers jumped out of the trenches and ducked behind the shield carts to shoot at the city.

By this time, the city's artillery had been destroyed, and the model army's artillery had been replaced with shotguns to suppress the city's firepower. For a time, the Qing army in the city was beaten so much that they could barely raise their heads.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the model military engineer unit pulled out the small boats made of balsa wood hidden in the storage room and lowered them down on the river. Then someone threw the anchor down and fixed the hull, and someone handed the gangplank and fixed it to the hull. And then another boat......

The Qing army noticed these actions of the model army, and some people ventured to show their heads and shoot at the riverbank. Their fire also knocked down several sappers, but more return fire came and pushed them down. Soon, pontoon bridges across the moat were erected.

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