Zhang Lexing left his nephew Zhang Yujue and some banner owners of each banner to lead the main force of the twisting crowd, he and the other three general banner owners, led more than ten cronies, followed the horses, pretended to be the smuggler in the township, and rode to four or five miles outside the city of Bozhou, to see the siege of the captive army nearby. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hearing the rumbling of cannons along the way, the closer Zhang Lexing and the others got to Bozhou City, the more they felt the power of the artillery. forced himself to rein in the horse, which reluctantly allowed the war horse to continue to move forward. Five or six miles away from the city, it was found that the entire Bozhou city outside, did not kill as imagined, but only heard the roar of artillery, several rows of flags, motionless red background yellow five-star dragon flag, 2,000 soldiers surrounded the east of Bozhou city more than three miles away, lined up in several columns, Wei Ran did not move.

The outpost saw Zhang Lexing and the others from a distance, and as soon as they unfurled their flags, a group of more than 100 horsemen began to outflank them. Zhang Lexing and others had already prepared, left to unfurl the white flag, indicating that they had no intention of being the enemy, but a group of more than ten people was skilled in riding, quickly detoured to the east, found a small boat to cross the vortex river, came to the other side of the river, and secretly watched the battle across the river.

The sound of artillery was still rumbling, and Zhang Lexing and the others found that it was the sound of the west and south of the city, and there was no artillery attack on the east side of the city.

"It seems that there are not many barbarian artillery from the south. There is artillery shelling on only two sides! Su Tianfu sighed, however, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw two thousand soldiers of the captive army in the east holding the flag, and suddenly dispersed, revealing eight black and faint heavy guns blocked by the flag in the middle, and there were two or three hundred gunners standing next to him, charging and igniting the fire quickly, only to hear a few loud bangs, which shocked people's heartstrings, so that Su Tianfu's ears roared, and the war horse under his buttocks was also frightened, and he almost fell off the horse.

The three shells in the middle of the eight cannons were in the center of the city tower, and the violent impact broke several wooden beams on the city tower, and the small half corner of the city tower collapsed at once. The other five cannons, in addition to the second miss, fell inside and outside the city, and the other three solid bullets larger than a fist slammed into the city wall at the city tower with fierce energy, smashing the masonry of the wall buttress, and more than ten Qing soldiers on the city tower were blurred with blood and flesh at once.

The first round of shelling was as powerful as this!

Su Tianfu's face was pale and he muttered speechless. He suddenly realized that under such a fierce artillery attack, no matter how strong the city was, it would be difficult to resist!

At this time, the second round of artillery began to fire again, this time, the accuracy was higher, five shells were in the center of the city tower, suddenly, the entire city tower clicked, most of it overturned, and dozens of Qing soldiers escaped from it, and it is estimated that many were pressed under the masonry. The remaining three cannons were all hit on the city wall, the masonry was shattered, and a half-man-sized pit appeared in the middle of the city wall.

And Zhang Lexing, who was full of enthusiasm, clamped the saddle, causing the war horse to neigh in pain, and then he came back to his senses and remembered that if he twisted the crowd against such artillery, how could he resist? Thinking about it like this, I can't help but change my face greatly.

Zhang Lexing turned his head to look at Su Tianfu, Hou Shiwei and the others next to him, but found that they were all pale, obviously, they were all shocked by the extremely powerful artillery of this captive army!

"Alliance leader, the artillery of this southern army is too fierce. I'm afraid that this millizhou city won't last long! Su Tianfu saw Zhang Lexing looking over, recovered from the shock, and sighed.

"Yes! Unexpectedly, this captive army is equipped with this kind of artillery, which is much stronger than the artillery in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, could it be that this is the power of Western artillery? Zhang Lexing also said, with envy in his eyes. If he had such artillery, he would not have attacked the city of Haozhou and would have failed miserably. Thinking like this, Zhang Lexing panicked again. He began to think about what he should do with this powerful force from the south.

But if you say that you will take refuge in this, your face will be gone. Ignore it, if it really hits, can you stop your own gang of twisters? Zhang Lexing's heart began to feel uneasy.

At this time, with the sound of dozens of artillery firing outside the city gate in the south, the artillery on that side was obviously even more amazing, only to hear a loud bang, and then a large group of cheers were faintly heard, "City gate...... Rumble...... Collapse...... Rush! I saw that the captives in the south of the city waved their flags and moved quickly, and then the gunfire over there was loud, and the dense gunfire followed, and there were faint screams and killing shouts.

Not long after, a scout horse galloped to report: "Alliance leader, general flag master, those southerners opened the south gate of Maozhou City with artillery, swarmed in, and began to attack the city!" ”

Zhang Lexing was taken aback! How did you break through the city gates so quickly? The city gate, as a native of Maozhou, Zhang Lexing knows best, although it is not as strong and thick as the Yingzhou capital city, but it is also made of the best Northeast red pine, with iron leaves on the bread and chiseled with large copper nails, which is extremely strong, and it is hidden in a three-zhang deep place behind the door, how can it be breached?

And at this time, the artillery in the east also began to wield its might. After only eight dense cannon shots, the east gate of the city suddenly slammed, and the door hole could no longer withstand the bombardment of artillery, and began to collapse a small piece.

It seems that as long as there are more than ten rounds of shelling, the city gate will be completely collapsed.

It turned out that it was like this, and even the city gate could be blown up? Thinking about it, it is not strange that the thick pine gate was breached like an ordinary courtyard gate in the face of such artillery fire. It's just that this cannon is too powerful!

Zhang Lexing and the others had straight eyes.

At the same time, there were earth-shattering cheers from the south side of the city, as if the battle had already come to an end.

After another round of shelling, only the sound of squeaking was heard, and it turned out that the Qing army had opened the east gate from the city, and a large group of Qing troops rushed out of the city.

"The demons are running away, intercept them!" The two groups of soldiers of the captive army, who were originally scattered next to the artillery, let out another shocking shout: "Kill the Qing demon!" ”

I saw nearly 2,000 soldiers of the captive army, quickly spreading out into a line, surrounding the entire eastern part of the city.

About more than 1,000 Qing troops, led by more than 300 cavalry, rushed to the northeast of the city gate, brandishing sabers and preparing to fight a way out and break out. Seeing that the Qing soldiers were getting closer and closer, the originally agitated captives suddenly fell silent, and the artillery had already stopped, and the eyes became strange.

Seeing that there were only more than 100 steps, the captive army still did not react at all.

Hou Shiwei, who could see the gods, couldn't help but be anxious to please the army, and blurted out: "Oh, these people from the south are stupid, meet them, kill them!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the Qing soldiers were already within eighty paces. I saw a flag unfurled, and the gunfire was loud. Then the begging army kept shouting: "Kill! "Dense gunfire kept ringing out.

I saw the Qing soldiers who were approaching, and as the dense gunfire rang out, they were constantly shot and fell to the ground. Of the more than 300 cavalry at the front, there are only a few dozen cavalry left, and there are only more than 600 people left in the more than 1,000 Qing troops.

At this time, a horn sounded, and in the distance, another group of soldiers appeared on the bank of the river in the northeast, but it was the captive army in the north of the city who saw the Qing army fleeing here and sent people to intercept it.

"Surrender or die!"

As the soldiers of the captured army shouted one after another, the 600 Qing soldiers saw that they could not escape, and ignored the orders of several Qing army generals, abandoned their weapons one after another, and knelt on the ground.

In the earth-shaking killing shouts, more than 1,000 captive soldiers rushed out from the east gate of the city, but the entire city of Maozhou had been penetrated by them.

And those Qing army generals rushed left and right to rush out, but they fell to the ground one after another in a row of gunfire. The entire battlefield was filled with gunsmoke.

Zhang Lexing and the others, who were across the river, were stunned with fright. This way of fighting completely subverts their cognition. Thousands of Qing troops rushed over, and in the end half were killed, and most of the remaining half completely collapsed and fell to their knees. And at this time, they were still twenty or thirty paces away from the enemy soldiers!

When you touch the enemy, you are completely defeated!

For a while, everyone gasped and couldn't speak! The Qing army in this city of Mizhou, they have already fought, they are very fierce, and like them, they dare to fight, which is also the main reason for their failure to attack the city.

But I didn't expect that when I encountered this begging army from the south, it would be like a child fighting an adult, and it would be defeated in a battle! But there is no chance to fight!

This, this, this barbarian of the South, how on earth did it? How could the foreign guns in their hands shoot such a long distance, and they opened fire in seventy or eighty steps, and they also hit a large area!

Thinking about the hundreds of dry shotguns under his command, they had to be twenty or thirty paces closer to shoot and hurt people, and these twisted army banner owners felt a pang of bitterness in their hearts.