Chapter Forty-Seven: The First Weapon for Defending the City
When Hu Ding and this Zimo stood on the city wall, they couldn't help but be stunned by the scene in front of them, Hu Ding had not climbed the ancient city wall before, but at this moment standing on the city wall paved with blue bricks, looking at the surging crowd outside the city, but still stunned, the people outside were not Tartars, but the people of this place, and not far from them, a few Tartars rode horses, not with arrows to shoot a few people, driving them towards the city of this city. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Hu Ding looked at it from where he was standing, but at the gate of the city, it was bustling with black heads. Seeing this situation, Hu Ding's heart couldn't help but get worried, this Tartar drove so many people, I don't know if Yangjiazhen has received the raid of the Tartar?
At this time, he only heard a snap, and then Hu Ding felt a pain in his shoulder, he turned around and looked, only to see several soldiers wearing red and fat mandarin duck jackets of the Ming Army behind him, looking at him viciously, and the spear in his hand was slamming on his shoulder. He saw Hu looking at him, but he shouted in a rough voice:
"What are you doing? Don't go over to help carry things, I see that your balloon is just underdrawn! In the delay down, watch your life"
Hu Ding's hand tightened, but a soft hand held his palm, and then Zimo's voice sounded, "Master Hue, let's go, let's go" With that, he pulled Hu and walked to the side.
At this time, Hu Ding found out that they were originally asked to come up, but they were helping the defenders of the city to carry the weapons to defend the city, such as the thing called the poisonous fireball that Hu Ding is carrying now, according to the soldiers next to him, this thing is the first sharp weapon of the Ming Dynasty to defend the city, and in the ranking of defending the city, it is even above the red-clothed cannon used now.
"Siege, siege," shouted the men on the wall, and then a few officers of small banners, waving their scabbards, drove many soldiers with vegetables to the wall.
Hu Ding looked at the surrounding people, and then at these so-called guards, and couldn't help but stick out his tongue, is this still called a soldier? It's just that these people are in good health, even the will to defend the city seems to be very fragile, not to mention these Tartars attacking the city, it is a rain of arrows, and it is estimated that this soldier will have to be dispersed.
The reason why these soldiers did not flee in all directions is estimated to be the bullet pressure of those well-armed soldiers on the city wall, and it is estimated that this is the most unique personal soldier of the ancient army.
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, why did you venture here? The ancients once said that if a gentleman does not stand under the wall, now the Tartars are about to attack the city, and this arrow has no eyes, and it is too dangerous for you to come here. I saw an official dressed in a cyan official mansion, following behind the prefect Yu that Hu Ding had seen before, following in small steps.
"Ridiculous, now this city is in danger, there are eggs under the nest, I don't come, how do the soldiers think of me? As the prefect of Shunde, I have the responsibility to defend the land, no matter what, I have to watch here. Governor Yu looked at the green-robed official and said.
The green-robed official wiped the sweat from his head, "Yes, it was the negligence of the lower officials." Please punish me."
This prefect Yu frowned and glanced at the official, "Xingtai County, you are also a parent, literati need to have backbone, how can you be worthy of your official clothes?" ā
The green-robed official secretly complained bitterly, with backbone, who specially let Shunde County in the same city, he is also a parent in Xingtai County, but when he meets this prefect in this place, how can he, the county magistrate, have backbone? Most of the backbone officials have lost their lives in this officialdom.
Yu Governor listened to the noisy sound under the city, but he walked over, looking at the appearance of this prefect, Hu Ding frowned, this person is really bold, he is not afraid of the arrows of the Tartars.
I only listened to the noise under the city even louder, and saw a wooden ladder leaning against the city wall, and at the top of this ladder, there was a sickle-shaped hook, which was put on the city wall at this moment, but the ladder was hung on the city wall. At this time, the soldier next to him, with the push rod in his hand, wanted to push the wooden ladder away from the city wall, but under this force, the wooden ladder did not move at all.
"Quick, hurry up and use the wood" The officer on the side looked at the surging soldiers, his face turned pale, and he stood next to Hu Ding, screaming and shouting,
Hu Ding and Zimo next to him obviously knew that this was the most critical moment for the city, as long as these cities were broken, as soon as these Tartars entered the city, they would burn, kill and loot, do all kinds of evil, and even the city would be removed from this place.
Therefore, Hu Ding and Zimo struggled to lift the rolling log to the side of the city wall, and threw the rolling wood down the wooden ladder with great force, only to hear a miserable scream from the city, and then the wooden ladder was broken.
The surrounding killing sounds shook the sky, but at this time, the soldiers did not need to be supervised, and they all fought bravely to kill the enemy. Because they knew that the city was broken, and that the families behind the gates were dying.
Yes, although these soldiers were so frightened that their legs were weak, but there were few people who did not have to be guarded, but on the wall of this city with a circumference of more than thirteen miles, the soldiers of this city were thrown on it, but they became sparse and invisible. Once these wooden ladders are erected at the head of the city, and the people below are on the top of the city, the city is broken, and the city is basically decided.
At this time, those who stood behind to Minzhuang took out round and spherical objects from the side to the wooden box.
"Poisonous fireball, release!" As the officer shouted, he saw that the round thing was ignited to the fuse, and then the sergeant was thrown into the distance with such force that it was forced.
Hu Ding was holding a round ball in his hand, he looked at it carefully, it was a ball made of clay tiles, and there was a medicine twist next to it, and the ball was covered with several small holes, and it seemed that the lethality came from this dense hole.
At this time, Zimo next to him ignited the poisonous fireball, Hu Ding looked at the poisonous fireball in his hand to the medicine twist, and slowly burned it, at this moment, he actually had a feeling of firing a cannon in the New Year. But this thing is too dangerous,
Rolling so round that the poisonous fireball was thrown under the city, and the people below immediately let out a scream, because now the Tartar was about to attack the city, but he gave up the arrow to cover. Hu Ding dared to look at the probe curiously, only to see that he still went down to the poisonous fireball just now, rolled a few times in the crowd, but there was no trace, Hu Ding looked at these things with some regret. To tell the truth, he really wanted to see how this so-called "No. 1 weapon to defend the city" in ancient times was defended just now, Hu Ding was a little disappointed and stepped aside,
At this time, he only heard a few rumbling sounds under the city, Hu Ding hurriedly looked, only to see that the poisonous fireball was still going down just now, scattered into the small hole, spraying fireworks outward, and by the way, there were streams of smoke.