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"Boom...... Boom ......"

"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......"

The west gate of Xuzhou City.

As the cannon sounded, the "Sasha ......" fell again.

Lying in the city wall, less than a hundred paces away, Wentu in the City God Temple did not move. I didn't open my eyes until I heard a few "bang-bang" sounds. The large hat made of bamboo strips and oiled paper completely covered his head and face, and the dust that shook and fell from time to time on it could not fall on his face at all. After glancing at the outside and seeing that nothing had changed, Wentu patted the dust on his body and shrunk into a ball again.

Since yesterday morning, Chen Jiajun began shelling, and until today, the sound of artillery has not stopped, and Du Si Wentu, the left battalion of Fubiao, who is responsible for defending the Great West Gate, has now adapted to the rumbling and continuous sound of artillery.

It is said that there are cannons in Xuzhou, but the tragedy is that the three cannons on the big west gate were only fired five or six rounds and were bombed by Chen Jiajun's artillery, and Chen Jiajun's kind of explosive cannonballs, after the three cannons on the west city wall were extinguished, they quickly arrived outside the city wall and fired it, one of the shells also ignited the gunpowder on the city, and after a series of violent explosions, the entire west city tower seemed to disappear, and the broken Xuzhou city wall seemed to be gnawed by someone, becoming more dilapidated and broken......

Pang Mingyuan, the general who originally personally supervised the battle of Daximen, became shattered at that moment, and then Du Gui, the garrison of the Huaxian battalion who took over Pang Zhiyuan's supervision, could not support it for long, and was hit by a flying stone and broke his blood, and was directly sent down to recuperate. Wentu was also put on top.

If you want to say whether Wentu is willing to endure this drudgery, he is not willing to do a little, Qin Guangyuan has already received the warrant of Asiha's 'return to the army', and Wentu is more willing to take the team to be the first to grab the east gate of Xuzhou. But Wen Ming is not there, and there is not even a chief official in Xuzhou City who can speak for him, and he can only lead a team of more than 1,000 people composed of Qing soldiers, government officials, village warriors, and ordinary people Ding Zhuang to guard the West Gate.

Today's Xuzhou City was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty from Jiajing to Wanli. At that time, the four corners of the ancient city wall were built with corner towers, there were 34 arrow towers around the city wall, and there was a moat outside the city, five zhang deep and twenty-five zhang wide [this seems to be true, and the remaining moat in Xuchang city is forty or fifty meters wide]. It is definitely a strong city, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, one after another war made Xuzhou City damaged most of it, after the Qing Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, it was repaired again, the whole city is surrounded by sixteen or seven miles, the city is two feet high and seven feet, and the width is one foot and three feet. There are five city gates, which are the Great West Gate, the Great East Gate, the Small East Gate, the North Gate and the South Gate.

The arrow towers at the head of the city have completely disappeared, and four corner towers have risen at the four corners, and then there are three story towers.

Chen Ming's troops were not many, and it was impossible to enclose all the five city gates, so he only stared at the big west gate and worked hard, while the remaining big east gate, north gate, and south gate were only bluffed by small troops, and the outside of the small east gate was simply empty.

The shells kept falling, and the 30 three-pound guns and two-pound guns were divided into three groups and took turns to fight. So there is no need to worry about the barrel overheating and the firepower is not enough.

On the first night, neither side closed their eyes. Chen Ming commanded his subordinates to drive away the Qing prisoners of war, and made every effort to build a pontoon bridge on the moat outside the Daxi Gate, using small boats as 'bridge piers', laying wooden planks on them, and connecting the front and rear ships with iron cables, such a pontoon bridge was not difficult to make. And Wentu is also desperately leading his subordinates to carry bags of earth, stone and sandbags to the city.

Both sides were busy until dawn, and the battlements on both sides of the Daxi Gate, which had been almost swept away by the cannonballs of the Chen family's army, disappeared from the sturdy city bricks, and were replaced by bags of thick soil and sand. Wentu is tired to death now, but the roaring cannon sound echoes in his ears all the time, and he can't sleep even if he wants to, and he doesn't dare to sleep.

The strongest of the buildings in the Great West Gate is this City God Temple. And more importantly, there is a three-storey building towering to the west of this City God Temple, and unless the cannonballs from outside the city can collapse this building, it is impossible to hit the relatively low City God Temple.

Such a good position is naturally Wentu, after arranging a small group of people to stay on the city wall, and then arranging a large group of people to hide behind the city wall, he took his own soldiers to hide in the City God Temple.

In yesterday's artillery battle, the speed of defeat of the Qing soldiers was too fast, which greatly reduced the morale of the city, especially the successive casualties of the generals, and also greatly reduced the morale of the Qing soldiers. Some of the people who had volunteered to help defend the city to the Qing court, Ding Zhuang, had already repented at this time, and many of them sneaked back. As ordinary people, they not only have to carry dirt bags and stones on the city wall in the rumbling of cannons, but also go to the city wall to select people to watch the city wall by lottery like the Qing soldiers and government officials, which is really beyond their psychological capacity!

Moreover, Chen Jiajun has not entered Xuzhou City, Chen Jiajun himself does not harm the common people, does not kill innocents indiscriminately, and does not rape and plunder, these people of Xuzhou City also know. But there were always some people who stood here in the Manchus, although there were not many of them. After the destruction of Xuzhou City, the flight and liquidation of a large number of gentry and large households, as well as the immediate retreat of the Chen army, plunged the entire city into a state of anarchy and disorder, and as a result, the damage suffered by the residents of the city in this state was far greater than the siege of the Chen army.

Until the Qing soldiers entered Xuzhou City again, the number of residents in Xuzhou City had passed day by day. Nowhere else. A large area north of the city has become a no-man's land. Think about the 'undesirable' side, even if the city is broken, it is the Qing soldiers who are unlucky to suffer, not ordinary people. And maybe when Chen Jiajun leaves, a lot of grain will be distributed again, just like last time......

Wentu's head is about to explode, this kind of eyes are red even though he is boiled, but he can't sleep is too uncomfortable.

I want to sleep but can't sleep, my heart is a little nervous, it seems that as soon as I close my eyes, there will be countless 'bandits' swarming to kill...... The roar of the cannon stirred up the head of Ventu.

Moreover, the people who watched the city were often killed because they had no experience in dodging artillery fire, and even the people hiding behind the city walls were killed and injured by jumping stones from time to time. And whenever someone is killed or injured, the first person to report or more accurately disturb is Wentu.

Who made him the number one person in Daximen!

Everyone was in a state of panic, and Wentu, who was calm on the surface, was really uneasy in his heart. The sound of a pounding heartbeat was like a drum. Xuzhou City will fall sooner or later if it goes on like this, and the chief soldier is afraid of the Chen family's thieves, right? Last night, I didn't even dare to send people to the camp.

-- Whether it will succeed or not is one thing, and whether or not to send someone is another! It's a matter of attitude.

Of course, Wentu knows what happened to the more than 100 men at the Bali Bridge, but if he is blindly trapped, he will lose it if he keeps it for a long time.