"How is that possible?!"

Xu Bin stood there stupidly, with a blank expression on his face, the Chu army actually blew up the city tower, which was completely beyond his comprehension.

Sun Bai'an reacted very quickly, and before the top wall tiles had landed, he had already shouted an order to send the Qing army to the city to intercept it. Although there is an urn city behind the city tower, it is still connected with the city walls on both sides, and since the Ming army bombed the city tower was premeditated, it would definitely launch a rush attack at the first time.

Under his command, hundreds of Qing army reserves rushed up the city wall, lit fires to light lanterns, blocked the passage with debris on the city's head, and brought the only two bronze cannons aimed in the direction of the city tower.

After a short time, with a burst of shouts, the figures of Ming soldiers appeared next to the fire by the moat, and they rushed up the collapsed city tower like a gust of wind, and started a fierce battle with the Qing army......

Next to the Chinese army, Wang Kefan held a telescope in his hand and looked in the direction of the city gate, with a satisfied smile on the corner of his mouth.

The hard training of the demolition team a few days ago was not in vain, and the effect of this blasting was very good, not only blowing up the city tower, but also accurately controlling the direction of the collapse of the city tower, creating a slope for the attacking troops of the Chu army to climb the city.

The only fly in the ointment is that the two ends of the city tower are tilted, and there is a gap of four or five feet wide between the adjacent city walls, which is lower than the opposite side, after the Chu soldiers rushed there, although they all jumped up, the Qing army on the opposite side took the opportunity to attack, and in a blink of an eye, they injured more than a dozen Chu soldiers, and suppressed the offensive momentum of the Chu army.

Looking at Sun Bai'an's figure at the head of the city, Wang Kefan's heart swelled with a strong killing intent, this guy is really a fierce enemy, but under this sudden blow, he is not in danger. has caused a lot of trouble to the Chu army, we must find a way to get rid of him!

This is your life-and-death national war, Wang Kefan will never have a feeling of sympathy for a Qing general, only a dead Tartar is a good Tartar, the better Sun Bai'an is good, the more Wang Kefan wants to kill him......

It was the Ji'an camp that had just finished resting that launched the attack on the city tower, and Gu Zongfu patted his chest in front of Wang Kefan before snatching this task from the Gongyi battalion.

According to common sense, after the bombing of the castle tower. The Qing army will definitely be in chaos, and at this time, take the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, and it is very likely that the city will be broken in one fell swoop.

In order to increase the pressure on the Qing army, the Ji'an battalion launched an attack on the city tower and the urn city at the same time, and the direction of the city tower was commanded by Wang Ding. Gu Zongfu personally led the team and rushed into the urn city from the city gate hole.

Originally, the city gate hole was more than three zhang long. After half of the castle tower was blown up. Only more than a zhang long, the ground is still covered with broken bricks and stones, from the city gate hole to the inside of the urn city, the city head of the torch lantern is innumerable, the urn city inside the snow bright.

Twenty paces away from the city gate is a long high wall. Blocking Gu Zongfu's sight, there must be some traps and roadblocks behind this door protection wall, but the soldiers of the Chu army have no way of knowing. The gate wall is flanked by narrow passages with several antlers and repellents.

Gu Zongfu waved his hand, and a team of soldiers rushed forward, struggling to remove the antlers and rejecting the horse pistol, but suddenly heard a bang, and a dense row of Qing troops appeared on the head of the city, shooting arrows, throwing down flying lime bottles, and in a blink of an eye, they knocked down more than a dozen soldiers of the Ji'an battalion.

The remaining soldiers of the Ji'an battalion turned around to run, but a stone slab was suddenly opened under the city wall, and a group of Qing soldiers rushed out of the Tibetan soldier cave, wielding knives and axes to slash and kill, killing all the remaining Ji'an camp soldiers, Gu Zongfu rushed up with the soldiers to support, but the group of Qing troops turned around and drilled into the Tibetan soldier cave, and the city immediately rained down arrows again, Gu Zongfu couldn't resist it, so he had to retreat to the city gate hole.

"Fuck, that's amazing!" Gu Zongfu scolded viciously in his heart.

Tactically speaking, he undoubtedly fought a small defeat, losing more than 20 soldiers but gaining nothing, and he didn't even see the reality behind the protective wall, but strategically speaking, this was originally a feint, which had already played a role in containing the Qing army.

However, the attack on the castle tower did not go well.

Unexpectedly, there would be a gap in the city wall, and the soldiers of the Ji'an battalion were not prepared enough and were repelled by the Qing army.

But it was stronger than Gu Zongfu's side, they occupied the dilapidated city tower, and had a foothold on the city wall, Wang Ding mobilized archers and firecrackers to climb the city tower and shoot at the Qing army, the Chu army was in the dark, the Qing army was in the light, and they also took some advantage in the shooting, but every three or five minutes, the copper cannon of the Qing army would fire, which caused a lot of pressure on the Chu army on the city tower.

After Gu Zongfu checked the battle situation, he immediately ordered people to return to the camp to ask for support, and transported dozens of sets of rope net bamboo ladders, the gap was only four or five feet wide, and it could be overcome with simple equipment.

As soon as he was ready, he was about to launch a second attack, but there was an order from the direction of the Chinese army, ordering the Ji'an battalion to suspend the attack......

Under the Chinese army, a dusty scout was hurriedly saying something, and Wang Kefan looked solemn.

Xu Yong's reinforcements are coming!

Xu Yong led his Green Battalion soldiers to set off by boat from Wuchang Mansion and landed at the pier fifteen miles away from Huanggang City. The Yangtze River is bounded by Wuchang Mansion, and the lower reaches are under the control of the Qing army, so it is impossible for the Ming army's sailors to intercept Xu Yong, and the scouts found it a little late, which adds a few variables to the battle of Huanggang.

It was inconvenient to explore in the night, and the scouts could only roughly estimate that Xu Yong's strength was around four or five thousand people. Judging from the movements of the Qing army, Xu Yong had a certain understanding of the deployment of the Chu army, he carefully avoided the nearest pier, landed fifteen miles away, evaded the main force of the cavalry battalion of the Chu army, and sent the troops ashore safely.

The enemy situation is unknown, the terrain is unfamiliar, the Chu army has lost the opportunity to besiege the city and send reinforcements, if it is during the day, it can send a cavalry battalion to intercept Xu Yong, but not at night.

Under some specific conditions, night battles can be carried out, such as stealing camps and robbing villages, the enemy's position is fixed, and for example, siege warfare, the positions of both the enemy and us are fixed, but the conditions in the field are completely different, if you force a field battle at night, both sides will collapse, and there will be no winner.

Wang Kefan didn't want to fight hard with the green battalion soldiers, so of course he wouldn't provoke a night battle.

After the bombing of the city tower, the Chu army was preparing to launch a general attack on the whole line and take Huanggang City in one fell swoop, Xu Yong suddenly arrived with reinforcements, Wang Kefan had to readjust the deployment, in order to prevent accidents, he postponed the general attack time.

A sheep is a drive, a group of sheep is also a boom, since Xu Yong threw himself into the net, he simply stewed him with a spoonful, but the strength of the Qing army has increased, and it is not suitable to attack hard, and some preparations have to be made......

Xu Yong set off from Wuchang Mansion at noon the first day and arrived at Huanggang in the early morning of the next day, and the speed was amazingly fast. Huanggang is the old nest of the green camp in Huangzhou, the family members of the old camp are here, although the whole army is very tired, but there is no complaint, as soon as they go ashore, they forcibly march straight to the north gate of Huanggang, and after entering the city, they see a qiē normal, everyone is relieved.

"It's really confusing." Xu Yong disagreed, he had confidence in the walls of Huanggang and Sun Bai'an, but in just one day, no matter how powerful the Chu army was, it was impossible to make any breakthroughs.

What I didn't expect was that the tower at the south gate was lost!

Facing the love general Sun Bai'an and his younger brother Xu Bin, Xu Yong couldn't help but be angry. What are these two guys doing for food? As soon as the city tower was lost, a nail was laid on the defense line of the city wall, and the difficulty of defense increased several times!

He hurried to the south gate to check, and also pulled up the reinforcements who had just arrived, and asked the specific details of the lost city tower as he walked, the city tower is the strongest link on the city wall, it really makes no sense to lose it so quickly, if it wasn't for Sun Bai'an's ability, he simply thought that the Qing army had made some low-level mistake.

Sun Bai'an replied guiltily: "Nanban used the secret method of gunpowder to blow up the city tower, and the last general was incompetent, and he did not see through it in advance, and there was no way to crack it afterwards. ”

"This is not a gunpowder secret method, it is a demon method! Nanban must have used the demon method! Xu Yong was stunned for a moment, and said very resolutely: "I have used gunpowder, which is almost the same as destroying the stove, and don't even think about blowing up ......the city wall."

Xu Yong has no background, and he will not be able to slap a horse, from an ordinary soldier to the current position, all by his own ability, he has a paranoid enthusiasm for all military issues, once carefully studied gunpowder, and humbly consulted the master craftsmen of the Ministry of War, and also consulted Franco, and personally repeated the practice, and finally came to a conclusion that gunpowder is impossible to use to blow up the city wall.

The layman pats his head to make a decision, and the insider understands the difficulties and knows what can be done and what can't be done even if he tries his best...... Xu Yong is one such expert.

Blowing up the walls with gunpowder? Joke! This kind of nonsense can only deceive Jin Shenghuan's fool.

Sun Bai'an still insisted: "Qiyu Marshal, I watched the city tower collapse with my own eyes, Nanban must have used gunpowder, it's true!" ”

Xu Yong thought for a while and said, "Even if that's the case, it's gunpowder that has been demonic!" ”

Niu Yan interjected and asked, "In that case, does the handsome have a way to crack it?" ”

"Nope." Xu Yong shook his head: "But you don't have to worry, this spell is too ferocious, since the demon of Nangou has cast a spell once, he can't ...... it again in the past few days."

A few people climbed the city wall while talking, found a dark place and stepped forward carefully, looking at the city from the gap in the battlement, Xu Yong was suddenly speechless.

Under the city walls, four half-cut boats were divided into two groups, close to the junction of the castle tower and the city wall, the bow of the ship had sunk into the hollow in the wall, and occasionally earth was thrown from under the half-cut boat, and the city wall was in full swing.

The Ming army's bows, arrows, firearms and cannons were so powerful that the soldiers of the Qing army did not dare to lean out, so they hid under the city wall and pushed the stones through the battlements, smashing on the half-cut ship with a bang, but they were never able to break the baffle. (To be continued......)