Chapter 276: The Palace City is Broken

readx;??? The surging tide of forbidden soldiers soon approached the city under the city with random arrows, and three or four ladders were immediately erected on the city wall. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Because there is a moat with a width of five meters between the city wall and the outside, the ladders of the soldiers of the forbidden army are long and short, the long ones are barely able to reach the top of the wall, and the short ones cannot be reached. The ladder on the wall is very steep, the guards at the head of the city can not overturn the ladder at all, and the soldiers of the forbidden army below immediately climbed the ladder as quickly as ants on the tree, and the solid ladders were bent down by the dense people above, waving weapons in their hands and shouting to climb on the top, and the forbidden soldiers behind them held torches in their hands, illuminating the bottom of the stairs.

"You can't push it!" The guards above used iron rods to push the part of the ladder on the battlement, but the stairs were covered with Janissory soldiers with shields, and although the stairs were shaking, they did not move at all.

"Below is the green brick one! It's going to slide! Kill the people below who are holding up the stairs! The princess snapped her eyes and commanded loudly. Immediately, a burst of gunfire broke out at the head of the city, and several forbidden soldiers who were against the bottom of the ladder were killed on the spot, and the soldiers around them were so frightened that they dodged one after another, and the smooth bluestone slabs were suddenly covered with blood. "Push! Push down! ”

The guards once again pressed the top of the ladder with iron rods and forks, pushing it horizontally, this time with obvious effect, the ladder could not be inserted into the earth, and slid slightly on the bluestone slab, and the soldiers on it screamed in horror, "It's going to fall!" It's going to fall! As the guards moved swiftly and quickly, the two ladders slid straight to the ground with the men above, and the soldiers above fell like dumplings into the moat below, and the bottom of the ladder shoveled all the way forward, breaking the legs of several soldiers. The soldiers lying on their stomachs at the front end were thrown directly to the ground by the ladder, and then they were smashed on their bodies, all of them bleeding and lying under the city wall.

When the soldiers of the forbidden army saw the blood, they forgot their fear one by one, and continued to rush forward with red eyes holding the ladder. The ladders that were pushed down and lying on the moat were so heavy that the soldiers of the forbidden army could not re-erect the stairs, so they stepped on the stairs as a bridge to cross the river, and those shorter ladders that could not be erected found a way to erect them on the other side of the river.

The noisy battlefield was full of blood, and until now, the guards who were the defenders had not suffered many casualties, but the besieging side below had lost more than a hundred people, and even the descendants of the fake Li clan used as a cover were killed on the spot. However, because it was night, thousands of people were swarming, and the dead soldiers were directly swallowed up by the surging crowd, and they didn't know how many people they had lost. The red-eyed Janissaries only knew how to rush forward, stepping on the overturned ladders one by one to rush across the moat, and then continue to climb up the newly erected ladders.

The guards on the city wall also began to suffer casualties, and the archers below also knew that they should shoot at the people who pushed the ladder, these people were slow to push the heavy ladder, and they were simply the best live targets, and more than 20 of the more than 100 guards on the city wall were soon killed and wounded.

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The tide of battle soon began to turn, and the battering rams carried by dozens of Praetorian soldiers on the bridge over the moat below arrived at the city gates, and with a rhythmic thud, dozens of people began to bang on the door with heavy rams.

Generally speaking, the casualty rate of the people who hit the door at this time is extremely high, and the people on the gatehouse will splash it down with red-hot lead water or boiling hot oil, and the people below are basically either dead or seriously injured. After a few impacts, no one on the upper floor poured hot oil and lead water downward, and they gradually felt much more relieved, and some of them looked up to see that the people in front of the ladder had climbed up the tower and fought with the guards on the tower. The gates of the palace had been cracked, and the soldiers beside them began to cheer, "The city is broken!" The city is broken! ”

Before he finished speaking, he heard a burst of gunfire on the city wall, and the corpses of many of the forbidden soldiers who had just rushed up fell down like rain. Then some sparkling balls of iron were thrown from the gatehouse and landed next to the hammer, "What is this?" Before the soldiers of the forbidden army could react, they heard a "boom" explosion around them. The sound was as loud as a lightning strike, and the huge air wave slapped the people on the bridge into the river, and these people fell into the water motionless, obviously dead. The shrapnel caused heavy casualties to the soldiers of the forbidden army within four or five meters of the side, and two ladders that had just been erected were blown up in the middle, and the people on them were either killed or injured, and fell into the moat one after another.

This is the new army's version of the grenade, since the last battle for the defense of Champa Port, the grenade was very powerful when the barbarians approached, this powerful weapon was deeply imprinted in the princess's mind because it was easy to carry and easy to use, so she specially purchased the grenade production technology from the Oriental Port. Although Annan could only produce grenades with black powder, which was less powerful than the standard grenades equipped by the Senate army, they adopted the most primitive method - increasing the size of the grenades, and the volume of these "grenades" weighing 1.5 kilograms was almost comparable to that of the legendary "10,000 enemies".

The tremendous power of these more than a dozen grenades made the soldiers of the Forbidden Army who were still moving forward and preparing to attack feel panic - such a powerful weapon had never been seen in the history of war of the Annan army, let alone the rifles that had been fired accurately, and the pace of progress could not help but slow down.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! The commander of the southern battalion of the forbidden army hurriedly waved the big knife in his hand and shouted, "Punish the national thief!" Three days after the occupation of Hue, no knife sealing! ”

The word "not sealing the sword" immediately stimulated the soldiers below, and the meaning of not sealing the knife for three days was to allow them to rob and kill the people of Hue at will, so they continued to rush forward one by one.

"Your Majesty, shall we withdraw first?" The squad leader of the new army asked beside Nguyen Phuc Nguyen, he had arrived only after the battle had begun, and one of his squads had followed. Although the dozen or so people were meaningless in the face of an attack of thousands, the appearance of grenades still stalled the momentum of the attack. "We retreat to the inner city and shoot the enemy in the tunnel from the inner city, which can have a greater lethal effect."

Ruan Fuyuan's shoulder has begun to go numb, and the little eunuch who was sent to pass on the imperial doctor has not returned yet, and the imperial doctor is naturally nowhere to be seen, "Your Majesty, I am a medical soldier, and I treat the wounds of the wounded on the battlefield, let me take a look at it first?" Beside him, a new soldier wearing a white smock and a big red cross on his chest crouched beside the emperor and asked.

Ruan Fuyuan nodded effortlessly, he had already begun to feel a slight numbness in his shoulders, and at the same time a slight tingling. The medic hurriedly knelt down, he didn't salute, but the emperor was now sitting on the ground, and he had to kneel down half-kneeling before he could start the operation.

The medic used a sharp scalpel to deftly make a cross on Nguyen Phuc Yuan's wound, squeezing out the black blood inside, and only by the faint light of the torch next to him did he confirm that all the blood was flowing from below. Then he cleaned the wound with light salt water, carefully wiped it with absorbent cotton, and applied anti-inflammatory powder, the main ingredient was sulfonamides, which were brought by the old plane, and this cheap, fast-acting antibiotic was a panacea for trauma in this plane. However, he couldn't identify what poison was quenched on the arrow that hit the emperor, so he could only wrap the arrow in cloth and wait for the imperial doctor to come to identify it.

Ruan Fuyuan nodded to the squad leader of the new army beside him, and said softly, "Then retreat to the inner city first." ”

There is a path on the castle tower, which can lead all the way to the inner city wall, the inner city wall and the outer city wall are parallel, and the soldiers who break through the outer city gate must travel south for about 800 meters to reach the inner city gate, and they will be shot at the inner city tower and the city wall along the way, but this is the last line of defense, once this place is breached, then the palace is a turtle in the urn.

The group had to carry the emperor and the wounded to the inner city wall through the overpass between the inner and outer cities, and then the guards destroyed the overpass to prevent the enemy from crossing directly into the inner city along the overpass.

With a bang, the gate of the outer city was finally broken, and the soldiers of the forbidden army pushed the gate open with all hands and feet, and the few who took the lead rushed towards the inner city with their weapons raised, and just entered the avenue between the two city walls, they were fired by a burst of arrows. The guards in the city had been waiting for a long time, and the salvo of bows and crossbows instantly killed more than a dozen forbidden soldiers who had just rushed in on the spot.

There was a "boom", and I don't know when the forbidden army dragged in a thick wooden cannon, which was basically a piece of hardwood, which was hollowed out on the inside, and then clamped with an iron hoop on the outside. Due to the material of the barrel, it is filled with very little propellant and can only be used to fire shotguns. This round of shotguns failed to hit the guards on the inner city wall, but was fired at more intensively by arrows, and suddenly more than a dozen forbidden soldiers next to them turned into hedgehogs and fell in a pool of blood.

However, the use of bows and arrows was a drain on stamina, while the use of crossbows was very slow to reload, and over the next period of time, more Janissary soldiers poured into the avenue from the broken gates, and many climbed directly from the ladders to the outer walls. The distance between the inner and outer city walls is only twelve or thirteen meters, which is the distance at which the bow and arrow exert its power, and the two sides immediately begin to fire, and from time to time someone is hit by an arrow and rolls down from the city wall.

"Build a bridge! Rush over! A colonel shouted as he pointed to the demolished overpass between the inner and outer cities, but before he could finish speaking, he was knocked down by a shot from a distant New Army soldier. Before the forbidden troops around them could react, they were also fired upon by the new army, and all the soldiers who tried to get close to the overpass were given priority, and forty or fifty people fell in a short period of time near the overpass.

As more and more Forbidden soldiers poured in, soon the avenue below the overpass was full of Forbidden soldiers, and the guards had few arrows left in their quivers, so they had to pick up the rolling stone wood prepared next to them and smash them down.

The soldiers of the forbidden army below were beaten to the point of bleeding, so they had to raise their heads and throw arrows upward, and the soldiers of the forbidden army who climbed the outer city wall also shot arrows to cover the friendly troops below. But their enemies, the palace guards were cold in their hearts at this time, they were completely blocked from the news, it was night, they didn't know how many enemies there were, and there were only a few hundred people in the palace, neither knew if there would be reinforcements outside, nor did they know how long the battle would last, and now they were just fighting reflexively.

"Listen to the people inside! Nguyen Phuc Yuan's national thief, stealing the Le Thi Annam Guozuo, perversely, the people's lives are miserable, you are waiting for the unforgivable crime to block the heavenly army at this time, Wang'er and others are lost, and they can get amnesty if they capture the national thief Nguyen Phuc Yuan! A loud voice came from the outer city wall, and the person who spoke hid behind many forbidden soldiers holding shields, "If you continue to block the heavenly army, after breaking the city, you will slaughter the city for three days, and all the palace guards will be slaughtered!" ”

These words obviously frightened the palace guards, and the movements of attacking the forbidden army were slow for a while, but the soldiers of the forbidden army below did not slow at all, and quickly transported the siege equipment to the inner city wall and began to prepare for the siege.

"Surrender quickly! But Paul can't wait! Open the gates of the city quickly! Amid the shouting from the outer city walls, the eyes of the guards began to look left and right, some continued to attack the forbidden army, while others quietly retreated, "Gather fire and shoot!" Shoot him! The princess pointed at the shield array in the distance, "Fire!" ”

The Forces nouvelles soldiers immediately took aim at the shield array, and it was a barrage of rifle fire. The shieldmen at the front were immediately shot and fell to the ground with a thud, but there was a row of shield trees behind them. The princess was about to give an order, when she suddenly heard a commotion downstairs, and looked down to see more than a dozen guards guarding the gate, their rifles pointed at more than forty guards not far away.

"Are you crazy? Kaesong surrendered? If you open the gates, we will all die! Only stubbornly defend! ”

"Defending to death, stubbornness is a dead end! We don't have support, and if we hold on, we will all die in battle, so Kaesong will surrender! ”

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"Rubbish! If you want to surrender and jump from the wall, don't open the door. ”

"If you want to die, you can die, don't stand in our way!" The guard who spoke raised his broadsword and roared at the guard, and the two sides quickly became a battle.

The princess was dumbfounded, she didn't know what to do at all, and the squad leader of the new army next to her hurriedly came over, "Princess, let's withdraw, if we don't withdraw, there will be no chance!" Hurry up and send the emperor down, this place will soon fall! ”

"Open the door! Open the door! "Don't worry, people outside! We have fallen! It's down! ”

With a shout, the gate of the inner city was slowly opened, and more than a dozen guards who were shaking and trembling knelt on the side of the road to indicate to the forbidden army that they had opened the city gate, but the forbidden army who came in didn't mind at all, and the more than ten guards were hacked to death on the side of the road with their knives falling and their heads fell, and not far away were the guards who tried to block them from being killed, and the blood that flowed suddenly stained the doorway of the inner city red. Jay Look:

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