The inside of the Shangrao city wall is hard cooked earth, and the outside is bluestone and square bricks, and although it has been shelled for several days, the main structure of this wall is still intact, with only some damage on the outside.

Such a tall and sturdy city wall seemed to be impregnable, as if a strange beast that had been lying there coldly since the birth of heaven and earth watched with contempt the soldiers of the Pingjiang battalion fall in front of it one by one.

"Boom ......"

A strange explosion suddenly came from the ground, like a dull thunder that suddenly exploded on a summer afternoon, and the ordinary soldiers of the Pingjiang battalion were not notified in advance, and suddenly heard the thunder coming from under their feet, and they all looked around in a daze.

In an instant, the ground beneath their feet suddenly shook violently, and several of the soldiers who were caught off guard fell to the ground, still staring dumbfounded at the walls that surrounded the city in front of them.

The city wall, the seemingly impregnable city wall, was shaking violently at a more intense frequency, and the gravel and debris on the city wall fell like rain, and with a huge creaking sound, a crack visible to the naked eye appeared on the city wall, cracking upwards and outwards, and a section of the city wall of more than ten zhang was gradually rising, as if some monster was going to drill out from underground!

"Bang!"

A huge amount of smoke and dust suddenly rose up, and a section of the wall in the smoke and dust collapsed, turning into a pile of rubble. Although the smoke and dust were filled, it was still clear that a section of the city wall about five zhang long had been reduced to ruins, and there was a gap more than two zhang long in the middle, and the two sections of the city wall next to it and the main body had been cracked, and the wall full of cracks and holes was crooked and twisted at a strange angle. Unbelievable, the female walls of these two sections of the city wall have not been damaged, and several Qing soldiers are lying on them with their hands and feet spread out. Motionless, I don't know whether to live or die.

"Drums! Besiege! ”

Wang Jincai ordered loudly, one hand clenched into a fist, and the other hand pressed the handle of the saber at his waist tightly, because the knuckles had turned blue and white because of the excessive force...... His mood was very nervous, and the results of the explosion were not ideal. The gap of more than two zhang is too small, half less than the original goal, but now I can only rush up!

"Kill!"

Lei Gong raised his saber above his head. A loud shout.

"Kill!"

Five hundred daredevils rushed towards the smoke and gaps.

They had to seize the gap at the first time, repel the counterattack of the Qing army, and let the second echelon that followed behind continue to attack the city, constantly expanding the breakthrough. Until the Qing defense line collapsed. It's a race for time. They wore only a layer of protective light armor and held short weapons in their hands to increase the speed of the charge as fast as possible.

Behind them, a thousand armored soldiers of the second echelon were trotting forward, they were all veterans of the Dashun Army, and after more than half a year of strict training, although they could maintain the integrity of the formation while running, they also maintained their combat effectiveness. If they encounter the Qing army head-on, they can immediately enter the battle.

Twelve six-pounder guns concentrated their fire. Fired a volley at the walls on either side of the gap to suppress the enemy's resistance, and two teams of musketeers and archers ran up from the flank, ready to provide short-range fire support, while the other siege troops also launched an attack at the same time, pushing ladders to the bottom of the walls.

"Break the city!"

"Break the city!"

When the daredevils rushed into the gap, a burst of cheers broke out in the Ming army's formation.

Wang Jincai sniffled slightly, as if he smelled something wrong.

It's so smooth!

The 500 daredevils had already rushed in halfway, and there was no sound of fighting in front, could it be said that Zhang Cunren, a famous general on the nine sides, was just a waste of fame, and was blown up by a "cannon battle", and he did not organize the Qing army to counterattack.

In front of the gap in the city wall, Lei Gong also realized that something was wrong with the situation, he suddenly stretched out his arm, stopped the more than two hundred death squad members behind him, looked into the gap again, and then picked out fifty people and crawled towards the broken walls on both sides.

"Follow me!"

Seeing that the fifty people had seized the commanding heights on the left and right, Lei Gong felt a little more steady, stepped on the rubble, and walked towards the gap.

At this moment, several ominous fires suddenly flashed in the smoke and dust in front of him, and Lei Gong's eyes widened instantly, and he let out a hissing shout to the daredevils in front of him.

"Tiger Squat Cannon! Get down! Hurry up ......"

As soon as his shout sounded, he was engulfed in the oncoming rumbling cannons, and directly behind the barricade facing the gap, five tiger squatting cannons lined up, and at the same time fired thousands of scattered bullets, like raindrops to hit the daredevils who rushed into the gap!

The narrow gap, the daredevils lined up in a dense formation, the cold tiger squatting cannons, and the scattered bullets that could not be dodged, the gap immediately became a bloody death alley, and the daredevils who rushed in front fell like crops under the hail.

"Follow me! Fast! ”

Lei Gong, whose eyes were red, turned around, waved his arm forward, and rushed forward with more than 200 daredevils in the rear team.

In the gap in the wall ahead, the wounded soldiers wailed and rolled on the ground, and the dead bodies were piled up all over the place, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded in just one shelling, and nearly half of the more than 200 daredevils were killed.

Relying on the layers of human flesh barriers, there were more than a hundred people in the gap who were not seriously injured, but they were already stunned, and when the first person turned around and ran away, many people immediately ran with him. Lei Gong happened to rush in head-on, wielding his knife and cutting down four or five deserters one after another, before he stopped the rout of the whole line.

"Run! Let you run! You are all death squads, and you will be beheaded if you run back, and you won't rush up with Lao Tzu ......"

Lei Gong threw down the saber with the curly blade, picked up another knife from the ground casually, and rushed to the barricade with the daredevils, thirty steps away in front, the muzzle of the five tiger squatting cannons rushed down, and the Qing artillery was cleaning the barrels, and when they saw that the Ming army was rushing up again so quickly, they panicked, turned around and fled backwards.

"Kill!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Lei Gong was crazy, all the daredevils were desperately yelling, the sounds around him became more and more chaotic, and they couldn't see the shape of the entire battlefield in the narrow gap, and their eyes only had the low barricade in front of them, and the five tiger squatting cannons behind the barricade.

Suddenly, a trumpet sounded, and several rows of Qing soldiers stood up behind the barricades, and with the order of the Qing army officer, they put down the bird guns in their hands and aimed at the Ming army inside the gap.

"Aim!"

The voice of the Qing army officer was very loud, and twenty paces away, the daredevils who had nowhere to hide shouted together, raising their swords and rushing desperately towards the Qing army's musketeers. Lei Gong's eyes narrowed slightly, and he shouted loudly to lie down, pounced forward, and lay on the ground.

Crackling, he was trampled under the feet of several people one after another, and then several more bodies smashed heavily on his body, Lei Gong had a sharp pain in his ribs, and he knew in his heart that it might be a broken rib, and he heard in his ears that the Qing army officer was giving orders again.

"Fire!"

Hundreds of birds fired at the same time, and the daredevils were knocked down.

After the Qing soldiers in the first row finished shooting, they immediately retreated and reloaded, and the Qing soldiers in the second row stepped forward to raise their guns to aim.

"Fire!"

With a dense row of gunfire, the daredevils who were still standing were knocked down, Lei Gong raised his head, and just happened to collide with the head of a soldier, the soldier hurriedly bowed up, but was pressed to the ground by Lei Gong.

"I want to die! Don't move on your stomach......"

Lei Gong shook his head a little dizzy, raised his eyes and looked ahead, the soldiers in the third row of the Qing army changed to the front row again, and were raising their guns to aim, several of them were clearly facing him, Lei Gong ignored the severe pain under his ribs, struggled to roll to the side, and lay behind the corpses of his two companions.

"Bang...... Bang...... Bang......"

As soon as he hid his head under the corpse, he felt that he had been hit by several lead bullets, and if it were not for the cover of his companion's corpse, he would have been hit this time. Taking advantage of the interval between the shots of the platoon, he drilled his head out and shouted backwards, causing the daredevils to lie on the ground tightly, trying to find cover......

Behind the barricades of the Qing army, on the roof of a house, Zhang Cunren kept slapping his forehead with his slap, muttering in his mouth.

"These southern thieves really have some doorways, although it is ugly to lie on the ground, they just can't be defeated...... Come on, push two red-coated cannons up and smash them at me. ”

Zhang Cunren had a thousand Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers under the banner of the Han Army, all of whom were Jinzhou veterans who followed him to the Qing Dynasty in the early years, and they had fought countless vicious battles and tough battles back then, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of ordinary Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers. They are especially good at using bird guns and artillery, when the Songjin War, once made Huang Taiji's soldiers and horses suffer a big loss, after the surrender of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been the main force in the Qing army, almost all over the world invincible, I did not expect to meet a small Pingjiang battalion today, it is so difficult.

Zhang Cunren had long heard that the Chu army had a secret technique for attacking the city, and he had made corresponding preparations, but when the city wall was blown down just now, he was still taken aback. The city wall shook so badly that for a moment, he thought that the entire city wall would collapse, and the Shangrao city defense was about to collapse.

Fortunately, the city wall only fell into a gap more than two zhang long, and although there were many cracks of different sizes in other places, it did not have much impact on the defense of the city. Although there is fierce fighting everywhere now, the most important thing is to recapture this gap, and it is necessary to drive out the Ming army that rushed in, and then try to plug the gap, but those guys have been lying on the ground, which makes it a little difficult for him to start......

In the rear of the Ming army, Wang Jincai held a telescope and stared motionlessly at the battle above and below the city wall, although most of his face was blocked, the corners of his exposed mouth kept twitching.

Heartbroken, angry, tangled...... When the war is fought like this, it is no longer possible to achieve a quick victory, and it will turn into a war of attrition with heavy casualties. (To be continued......)