Retreating into the inner city in a panic, Liu Zeqing couldn't restrain his team, let alone walk up to the city to see the situation outside, fortunately, these people around him were all veterans, and after the officers smashed them with knives and whips for a while, the team was almost separated.

This time when I went to the city, there were a few personal soldiers with big shields in front of them, and everyone bent down and walked up to the head of the city, almost kneeling to the battlement at the head of the city.

Before going to the city, Liu Zeqing was still cheering up his subordinates, nothing more than "You don't have to worry, these people are light cavalry and attack far away, there must be no heavy equipment, as long as we take the inner city and the reinforcements come, then it will be flowering inside and out, catching turtles in the urn and the like."

I forgot about it through the battlement, and I saw a few cannons, and they looked like they were very powerful, and my head immediately buzzed.

Liu Zeqing was still thinking, this is not a big deal, Li Meng under the city is inevitably too desperate, isn't the Ming Dynasty's royal law ignored? However, he didn't expect that when he sent someone to assassinate Li Meng, he himself thought that there was no royal law in the imperial court, and Liu Zeqing had put the royal law in his eyes, and now he was retribution.

"The official has also accumulated a lot of wealth, and there are also some beautiful women, who are willing to sacrifice these to the adults, and only ask the adults to disperse and surround them."

"Break into the king's righteous army, eliminate harm for the people!!"

"You thieves don't be rampant, the official's fast horse has already gone everywhere to spread the news, I'm afraid that when it's not dark, we will support Caozhou from all sides, and when the time comes, you will be difficult to fly, if you know the stakes, why don't you leave earlier, there are a lot of officials, and they will not be investigated!"

"Break into the king's righteous army, eliminate harm for the people!!"

No matter how Liu Zeqing and his personal soldiers shouted at the top of their voices, those people below were just shouting slogans under the leadership of the officers, and it didn't matter what the people inside and outside the city thought. The common people in Caozhou City all knew that this was a thief who had come to attack Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Caozhou.

Liu Zeqing, who was shouting with a dry mouth, and his cronies and officers suddenly saw that the muzzle of the cannon had been raised, facing the city, and immediately ignored nothing and ran down the city with their lives.

There was a loud "boom", and the shell was not so big. It didn't hit the battlement of Fangcai, but it was smashed on the side of the city wall, and the inner city was originally used to use the masonry and earth tiles after the demolition of nearby houses, and the strength was extremely poor.

Actually, this three-pounder cannon or so. A cannonball that might not have been as powerful could have done decisive damage to such a wall, but the dusty, masonry splatters looked truly remarkable.

Originally, the defenders of the city over there had already begun to prepare, and when the soldiers of Liu Bu, who were carrying oil pots and lime ground, saw this posture, they were immediately reluctant to take another step up the city wall, and the stones and wood piled up at the head of the city and the role of the small tiger squatting cannon were even thrown there, and the military academies of Liu Bu kept scolding and urging. The Warlord's set has been used. Finally drove a dozen people to the city, but they caught up with a bombardment again, smashing a battlement, and the sputtered brick and stone fragments swept down more than half of the dozen people at once, and the rest of the earthlings ran down without hesitation, and even the military academy was silent.

Li Meng had the idea of attacking the main gate here, Liu Zeqing didn't think of running out from the other gates, but the troops outside were all cavalry, and they could get on their horses at any time to pursue and move, and they were three or four hundred soldiers on horseback in their own hands. It's not a dish at all, Liu Zeqing is already deeply regretting it now, how did he poke such a hornet's nest, and how did the other party train his soldiers so strongly.

Li Meng, who was riding a horse under the city and watching the cannons, also wondered in his heart, thinking that this Liu Zeqing was extremely vicious in Shandong, didn't he rely on the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command who claimed to be strong, and now the strongest direct troops among the 20,000 were in this inner city, but it seemed that he couldn't take it.

It should be time to re-estimate the combat power of the Ming army again Li Meng frowned and looked at the gunners in front of him who were operating the artillery carefully and slowly, since the artillery was transported to the city. It took a long time to toss two shots, which made him feel a little angry in his heart, and he couldn't help but shout coldly to a leader standing in front:

"I didn't let you sing here, Guo Liang. How do you train this soldier? Is this virtue for a few months!? ”

Most of the firearms soldiers under Li Meng were apprentices and related personnel in the blacksmith shop, and they were relatively knowledgeable about technology. Relatively proficient in things like firecrackers and cannons.

Guo Liang is Guo Dongdi's brother, he is very honest and honest, he is a good hand in the blacksmith shop, there is less time for artillery hand-to-hand combat, and more is the need to be cautious and know the technology, Guo Liang has been among the firecrackers for a while, and this time he was directly promoted.

Hearing Li Meng's reprimand, Guo Liang's face was flushed, and he turned around and knelt down to accept the guilt, the dozen or so gunners were already a little frightened, Li Meng also felt that he was a little heavy, a little anxious, and he couldn't always use modern firearms standards to demand equipment in this era, waved his hand on the horse, and said:

"Don't have a next time, go back to the cannon first, and bombard me at the city gate!"

There are three cannons that are almost tossed, and when they heard Li Meng's order, they hurriedly adjusted the muzzle, at this time, dozens of people hurriedly ran out of the trench, and the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion saw it and thought they were crawling out of the ditch and they were desperate, who thought that as soon as they were ready for battle, those people knelt down on the edge of the trench, kowtowed again and again, and shouted:

"Uncle spares his life."

The soldiers in the trench originally wanted to wait for the outside to be quiet, and then fled along the trench, who would have thought that the two cannons would hit it, and the masonry shells fell in the trench, and there were really some unlucky ghosts killed and wounded, surrounded by Li Meng's cavalry, and no one dared to run out of the trench, and it seemed that they had surrendered.

"Drop your weapons, line up in two columns, run over by yourself with your head in your hands, and count to thirty!"

After getting Li Meng's instructions, Wang Hai began to shout, the prisoners saw the opportunity very quickly, hurriedly lined up in formation and trotted over with their heads in their hands, this action surprised the officers and soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion, thinking that they should have such a degree of change in response to the cavalry charge, and the outcome was really unknown.

The gunners had already loaded all six guns, and with great difficulty aiming at the direction of the inner city gate, they gave an order, and almost at the same time, they exploded and blasted over.

After all, the regular offensive and defensive battle between the Jiaozhou battalion and the officers and soldiers is still the first time, although there are many things that are also done in a decent manner, but they are still a few steps late, for example, if they use a crash car to hit the city gate at the beginning, there are no soldiers behind the city gate who are even hindering, and now there are dozens of people behind them with wooden stakes and sandbags ready to block the city gate hole.

But the advantage of weapons can make up for all this, the artillery roared, several projectiles smashed heavily on the city gate, and the inner city gate also had enough thickness, but the angle of flat fire and such a close distance, the inner city gate was not as strong as the outer city gate was blasted open three openings.

The hot metal projectile roared from the breach into the hole in the city gate, and the soldiers behind who were holding wooden stakes and were preparing to top the gate, a few of them were directly pierced by the projectile, and they died there without even making a sound, which was lucky, the companions behind them were knocked away, and the fate of these people was also death, but they had to die in slow pain.

Even the soldiers who were not affected by the projectile could not stand in the door hole, and the few shells that did not penetrate the city gate, all the kinetic energy was absorbed by the city gate and turned into a violent vibration, and the soldiers who were holding the wooden stake and preparing to support the top gate on the ground were directly shocked to the ground and could not get up.

The miserable howl stopped a little, and the military academy hiding in the distance was just about to urge the soldiers to step forward and continue to block the door, when they heard a shout from everyone outside, and the people inside were shocked, and no one was willing to step forward.

The sound of bones was getting closer and closer, and there were dense footsteps, and finally someone understood, and a military academy shouted:

"Crash, crash, thief wants to hit the door, resist the ......."

Qi Qi's low trumpet became louder and louder, closer and closer, and finally there was a shout, and the soldiers of the Liu Department only felt that there was a thousand catties under their feet, and they did not dare to step forward at all.

After the salvo of six guns, Li Meng didn't bother to let these slow gunners continue, and called the people behind him to push the guns away, and Wang Hai had already loaded the crashing car on his side.

This crash is also very simple, the cart removes the irrelevant parts, and binds the beams provided by several large families in the city, and sharpens the front.

The work of pushing and crashing the car was completely carried out by Li Meng's personal guards, two rows of soldiers were protected by large shields, and more than 20 people in it were pushed forward there, all Li Meng's personal guards were brave men, daring to take the lead, and they always looked down on the firearms soldiers in the rear, especially the other party was still holding high salaries.

At this time, Li Meng took the roll call, and the young men were full of energy to push the crash out of the battle, and one of the generals shouted the number, and the crash slowly moved forward, perhaps because they were frightened by the guns and artillery, and there was no one at the head of the city, but the soldiers with big shields on both sides were useless.

At the beginning was jogging, with the addition of the number, everyone shouted, trotted briskly, hugged the crash car and ran out towards the city gate, knocked down the inner city gate, clicked a few times, the Jiaozhou battalion soldiers retreated more than a dozen steps, on the suspension bridge, and it was pushed hard, and the city gate that was crumbling by the shells and impacts could no longer be supported, and it was knocked open with a bang.