At the same time that the Chu army attacked the city gate with artillery, the attack on the city wall had also begun.

The wooden donkey cart that was modified overnight was a little rough, and it made a creaking sound when pushed, and hundreds of wooden donkey carts pushed together, and the sound became extremely harsh, like a group of monsters slowly advancing towards the city wall.

Two hundred cavalry served as a guard, roaming around the perimeter of the wooden donkey cart, and Lu Renqing's Puqi battalion served as the main attacker, sending 1,500 people to divide into three teams, carrying ladders and following behind the wooden donkey cart.

With about two hundred paces to go, the crossbow carts in the city began to block, and a wooden donkey cart in the front row bore the brunt of the attack, being hit by several crossbow arrows one after another. Some of the crossbow arrows are not at the right angle, and they are blocked by the tough bamboo after shooting into the guard, and the half-cut arrow body left outside trembles non-stop, but the last crossbow arrow shoots through the guard, and the auxiliary soldiers of the cart have not even had time to scream, they have been killed by the crossbow arrows, and the corpse has fallen to the ground with the wooden donkey cart.

The surrounding auxiliaries immediately let out a low exclamation, but they were suppressed by the rumbling cannons at the city gate, and the officer leading the team shouted to the auxiliaries to go quickly, this ballista shot far and not close, and it would be useless near the city wall.

"This is a double flying crossbow, defending the city is indeed a good thing, I don't know where the Tartars got the old antiques, fortunately there are only two." Gu Zongfu was holding a telescope to watch the battle.

With the advent of artillery and muskets, crossbows were largely eliminated in the late Ming Dynasty, but in the defense of the city in fixed combat positions, the powerful bed crossbow still had a certain effect.

The two double-flying crossbows posed little threat to the nearly 100 wooden donkey carts, not only did they not cause them to retreat and flee, but instead stimulated the auxiliaries to go faster and faster.

When there were still fifty paces to go. The stone cannons on the city wall began to shoot, and after a dozen stone bullets in a row missed, finally a wooden donkey cart was hit, and immediately shattered into several pieces like a walnut smashed by a hammer, and flew straight to a few feet away, but the auxiliary soldiers of the cart were miraculously not injured, and the fragments of the wooden donkey cart whistled past him, and he had no time to react, and finally looked up and down to make sure that he was unscathed. Hurriedly ran behind another wooden donkey cart and hid.

"Spread out! Spread out a little more! ”

The officer leading the team shouted, but fortunately the distance between the wooden donkey carts was relatively long, so no one else was injured, and Lu Renqing gave him plenty of time, even if it was a little slower. Casualties should also be avoided as much as possible.

The Qing army's double-flying crossbows were the first to take the lead, destroying a wooden donkey cart. It caused a lot of psychological pressure on the Ming army. When the follow-up infantry came into range of the ballista, they all carefully distanced themselves from each other, and at the same time tried to speed up their pace, for fear that the deadly crossbow bolts would suddenly fly.

Luckily, however, the twin crossbows in the city were firing slower and slower, and it took several minutes to fire again. It did not put too much pressure on the Ming army...... Ballistas are all antiques, and the Qing army did not often use this weapon in the past, and they were not skilled in operation, and the first shot was a crossbow arrow that had been loaded a long time ago. After ejaculating, it slowed down.

When the first row of wooden donkey carts came to the moat of Xianning, the bows and arrows on the city were shot together, the arrows were like flying locusts, and the bullets were like rain, so that the more than ten wooden donkey carts trembled again and again, and the auxiliary soldiers of the carts hid behind the guard plate and did not dare to show their heads. According to the pre-war requirements, they should put the sacks on the carts into the moat, and then return to the rear to load the sacks and repeat the attack, but the firepower of the Qing army was too fierce, and they could only hold on hard in front of the battle, and there were more and more wooden donkey carts parked in front of the moat.

"Bang!"

A puff of smoke suddenly erupted from the artillery position of the Chu army, and the six-pounder cannon of the Portuguese soldiers hit the city tower.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the auxiliaries of the Chu army moved together, threw sacks into the moat, and then pulled the wooden donkey cart backwards, and the archers and firecrackers of the Chu army rushed up at the same time, and fired arrows and guns together towards the city.

Only then did the Qing army at the head of the city react, put their guns and arrows, and began to shoot at the Chu army. The commander of the Qing army shouted repeatedly, the green battalion soldiers made a loud noise of guns and guns, bows and arrows flew sideways, the Chu army did not back down, and resolutely counterattacked.

The archers and musketeers of the Chu army shot back at the city, and suffered some small losses, but they were several hundred people, and they were outnumbered. The crossbow carts of the Qing army were placed on the high city wall, and there were shooting blind spots at close range under the city, and the bow and arrows and fire guns could not break the cover of the wooden donkey carts.

The subsequent wooden donkey carts and bridge carts followed in time, and then filled in the moat, while lowering the flying bridge above the bridge carts and building a road leading to the guò moat.

Xianning's moat is nearly two zhang wide, and the river water inside is drawn from the Jinshui River, but it is very turbid with green and shiny, I don't know what materials the Qing army added to it, and what kind of mechanism is arranged at the bottom of the river, the wooden donkey cart is concentrated in the two positions of the moat, and the sacks are constantly thrown, and the river surface is gradually exposed forward.

"Bang! Syllable! ”

The heavy flybridge, laid down by a few bridge carts, was set up on the opposite side of the moat, and they advanced faster than the wooden donkey carts, and in the blink of an eye they had made several passages in the moat.

The sword and axe men and shield soldiers immediately rushed across the moat and cleaned the antlers and plum blossom piles under the city walls, since the Chu army did not use large equipment to attack the city, so these things did not need to be completely cleaned up, as long as the road could be opened for the infantry carrying the ladders to attack under the city walls, so the work was carried out quickly.

At this time, the artillery position of the Chu army roared and the fire flashed, and there was a fierce bombardment towards the Xianning city gate, and the Qing army screamed again and again downstairs, and it was also heard very clearly on the noisy battlefield. The Qing army at the head of the city was obviously disturbed, the speed of shooting arrows and firing guns slowed down, and the stone cannons, which had been shooting desperately, suddenly stopped.

Xu Bin and that Aliha Chao Ha Zhangjing were dispatching troops, preparing to go out of the city to attack the artillery position of the Chu army, although the fierce battle was raging on the city, it was more or less affected, and the Chu army took this opportunity to clear a large piece of the antler barrier under the city wall, and the infantry behind rushed up with a cloud ladder.

Before the ladder reached the city wall, there was a sudden chaos at the city gate, the drawbridge was suddenly lowered, and a group of Qing troops rushed out of the city gate.

At this time, I heard two cannon sounds, a four-pounder cannon and a three-pounder cannon of the Chu army opened fire at the same time, and the shells accurately shot at the city gate, blowing up the Qing army huddled into a group of flesh and blood! (To be continued......)