The walls are falling!

The soldiers who had been waiting to attack under the city wall immediately burst into excitement when they saw a large number of city bricks and rammed earth sliding down, and each of them knew that the collapse of the city wall meant that the biggest obstacle to attacking Nanjing had been lifted. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although it was only partially collapsed now, they believed that soon the impregnable walls would be completely broken. Just as the officers and men expected, the sound of artillery once again sounded on the river, and after the Fenghai ship fired first, the "Zhenbei" opened fire, although the short-barreled 254 mm naval guns used were relatively less powerful, but they were still enough to attack the city walls.

As the heavy artillery of the four Zhenzi-class gunboats joined the bombardment, the city walls around Yifengmen were immediately deformed. Several earth-shattering noises came out of the city wall one after another, and several huge explosions in the city wall almost rushed into the sky to a height of 100 meters, and several 254 mm shells hit the city wall accurately again, and at this time, the rest of the city wall was also shrouded in a cloud of black smoke raised by the explosion, which was the navy's naval guns attacking the Taiping army on the city wall.

"Reload!"

At the roar of the sailors, the bolt was opened, and the gunner immediately carried the water-stained cannon wipe to clean the chamber to extinguish the spark in the chamber and reduce the temperature of the chamber, and then pushed a grenade back with the cart, hung the crane, and began to load. While the gunners were busy, Xu Shanduo was waiting for the data given by the forward observation.

"If you hit high, you can hit the bottom lower!"

After getting the data ahead, Xu Shanduo then re-aimed.

At this moment, he heard a dull sound in the air, looked up into the air, and could clearly see a round iron ball dragging white smoke towards the warship, and the cannonballs "smashed" fiercely on the deck.

In the next moment, the warship was immediately shrouded in smoke and dust, and steel fragments flew in all directions, thanks to the two-inch thick armor protection of the gun room, so that the sailors in the gun room were not affected at all, this was the Taiping army in the counterattack.

"It's just a mosquito bite!"

Zhang Di, who was on the bridge, looked at the traces of the explosion at the bow, and this round cannonball had no effect on the ironclad ship at all.

"Reloaded!"

As a shout sounded in the gun room, Xu Shanduo gave the order again.

"Fire!"

Almost three seconds later, a section of the city wall exploded into a cloud of smoke, and the part of the city wall that was blown down collapsed again, and the original height of the city wall was only five or six meters high, and tons of bricks and soil were dumped into the moat, forming a gentle slope.

Watching the city wall being continuously flattened, the army officers and soldiers on land howled excitedly, whenever the cannonball hit the ear, they would scold the mother angrily, but as the school shooting became more and more accurate, the shooting accuracy became higher and higher, the thick city wall was constantly hit by the cannonball, and every explosion could blow up part of the city wall.

"A row of guns every four minutes and fifteen seconds, maybe a little higher!"

Xu Shanduo put down the timer and said to the cannon commander beside him, all that was left was to flatten the city wall one by one.

"Boom ......"

There was another loud bang, and the doors, windows, and roofs of the houses, which were more than 100 meters away from the city wall, which were already completely covered in flying dust and smoke, trembled, and the soldiers hiding in them had their mouths growing, and their ears were buzzing, and they could not hear anything other than the sound of the explosion.

The flying dust covered everyone with a layer of yellow ash, and there were several half-human-sized holes in the roof, which were smashed by the blow-up bricks as they fell, and a slight and painful groan could be heard in the house, which was the wounded soldier. In front of bricks weighing several pounds, there is no enemy against me. There were even times when the bricks and the shock wave would knock the wall down, so much so that several warriors could be smashed under it.

"What the hell, how does the navy shoot artillery!"

Listening to the whining of the shells flying through the air, there was a burst of shouting and scolding, and in the face of the casualties of their comrades, they couldn't help but hate the gunners of the navy, after all, their shelling brought continuous casualties to everyone.

This time, the shells did not fall on the city wall, but in the city behind the city wall, several 254 mm grenades fell behind the city at the same time, the violent explosion and shock wave instantly leveled the building behind the city wall, and the Taiping army, which was originally blown up on the city wall and used to block the attack of the rebels behind the city wall, was torn to pieces in the explosion. Thousands of Taiping soldiers even died silently under the shelling.

"Attack!"

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Lin Yuqing, who had been observing the battle situation, gave an order, and the city wall had been opened. His orders immediately turned into the sound of a telephone call, into the sound of a military trumpet. The snare drum has been replaced by a military horn, and the trumpeter with the brass horn blows the rapid trumpet.

The trumpet sounded from the yellow smoke cloud, although he didn't know what the trumpet meant, but at the moment when the city wall collapsed, Lu Shunde knew very well that everything would have a result today.

And around him, explosions, screams, and desperate shouts were endless. When the Han army shelled the city wall, their gunners also did not forget to "take care" of the Taiping army on the city wall. Many of the Taiping soldiers died uncovered in the fragments of the shells.

"General,"

The dusty official ran to Lu Shunde and knelt down.

"The city wall was blown up by the Han Demon,"

"Han Demon" This is the name that the Han army just received, and at this time, the sound of trumpets in the air made Lu Shunde yell at the surrounding Taiping army.

"Brothers, it's time to ascend to little heaven!"

Little Heaven, this is the promise of the King of Heaven, all the Taiping soldiers who died for the Kingdom of Heaven can ascend to the Little Heaven after their deaths, but it is a pity that he did not promise that Heaven will give them 70 virgins, 70 wives and eternal happiness.

In Lu Shunde's shouting, except for some Taiping Army veterans and teenagers who were brainwashed by "Little Heaven", more people did not respond to the cry of "ascending to heaven", after all, they were just captured soldiers. Only a handful of Taiping troops, shouting the slogan of "kill traitors, ascend to heaven", rushed towards the gap in the city wall.

As they rushed with their swords and guns, they were greeted by a dense rain of bullets, and the warriors with revolvers rushed through the moat paved with earth and stones, and rushed up the gentle slope of the rammed earth and bricks of the bombed wall.

These soldiers, whose bodies had been dyed with dust, were like ghosts rushing to the earth from hell, and the whole charge was apart from the trumpets in the rear and the whistles of the officers' commands, and there was only the sound of heavy breathing and the sound of hurried footsteps. Although their vision is blurred, when they see a figure, they immediately attack it with a pistol. Each of them, as commandos, carried at least three revolvers.

The blur of vision, the piercing sound of the charge, and the rapid shouting of killing were mixed in the smoke and dust, and when the soldiers pulled the trigger from the Taiping army that was constantly rushing towards the smoke and dust with pistols, they continued to rush up the city wall, and when the soldiers rushed up the city wall, after the revolver was empty, they immediately took off their rifles from their backs and launched a charge against the enemy on the city wall with bayonets.

For many of the Taiping soldiers on the city walls, they saw a shiny bayonet before they heard a roar, and then they saw a roar and roar rushing towards them.

They are not people, full of sweat and dust, and with the hideousness on the face, they only make people become devils, and become the "demons" in their mouths, the sharp bayonets instantly pierced the bodies of the Taiping soldiers in the front row, and the violent impact even pushed their bodies backwards, after the two-foot-long bayonet pierced a person, it was pushed backwards with blood, and even pierced the body of the Taiping army behind him. I had never seen such a fierce fight.

In their panic, only this group of "demons" rushed out of hell was left in their sight, howling and assassinating, and the Taiping troops standing in front were completely vulnerable, and they were reduced to the souls of the swords.

"Kill!"

With the roar of assassination, the soldiers picked up the corpses of the spearheads and rushed towards the Taiping army with bloody bayonets.

"Kill them, kill these demons......"

In the shouts of the commander and other officials, some Taiping soldiers hurriedly picked up their muskets and fired, but the sparse bullets could not stop the charging soldiers at all, after a burst of green smoke, these Taiping soldiers who had been killed did not see anyone fall under the muzzle, they only saw that this group of people seemed to be like immortal demons, rushing towards them, and the bayonet was still piercing into people's bodies.

At this moment, almost everyone thought that they were a group of demons that could not be killed, and they didn't notice at all that in the charging crowd, the moment someone fell, the people behind followed and rushed up.

Fear on the battlefield is like a contagion, it spreads, and once it spreads, it may even be irretrievable, and the previously dull and silent charge has made their hairs hardened, and this demonic enemy has added to their fear.

"Mom!"

I don't know who shouted first, turned around and ran backwards, first one person, then several people, and finally dozens of people, hundreds of people, while they were running, the shouting and killing behind them became louder and louder, and the officers and soldiers of the rebel commando team who rushed to the head of the city along the collapsed city wall just turned the siege into a chasing enemy in an instant.

And just as the assault team was on the top of the city, with the sound of hurried horses' hooves, the cavalry jumped over the collapsed city wall from the dirt slope and rushed towards the city of Nanjing.

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