Chapter 165: Attack and Defense 4

Genius 3 seconds to remember the website of this site [Pen Maze Pavilion] "Those who dare to turn around will be corrected!" ”

Lin Shanzhi gave a strict order, although the officers of the green battalion wanted to withdraw, this battle was worthy of the top to such an extent, but Lin Shanzhi wanted to carry it to the death, and as subordinates, they could only nail it there. The most unlucky and bitter are those green battalion generals in the counties under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture, whose fathers are not close to their mothers and are not painful, and they have been transferred to fight Xinhui and attack the city as cannon fodder. Enter, can't enter, retreat, can't retreat, it's really his grandmother's life.

The chief soldier gave a strict order, and the officers couldn't do anything, the military law is greater than the sky, if the deserters are allowed to go back, the chief soldier will certainly kill their heads, and the flag soldiers will even pick their skins! Therefore, for those soldiers who dare to turn around and run, they can only cut them without saying a word.

The heads of dozens of deserters shook the Green Battalion soldiers who wanted to escape, they wept and cursed the Taiping troops in the city with sad faces, and at the same time cursed the officers viciously, and then rushed to the city again, climbing up with their hands and feet against the stones, wood, and gold juice that fell from time to time on the city.

The corpses under the city are already so tired, the previous battalion soldiers climbed the city or put the ladder on the ground, which will be directly erected on the people, and some of the ladders climbed more people, and the weight of the ladder was actually pierced by the corpses below. At first glance, it looks like this ladder is growing on people, so it's not scary!

The smell of blood and dung permeated the entire city wall, making people feel sick

While strictly ordering not to retreat, Lin Shanzhi mobilized his own personal soldiers, ordered them to concentrate in one place to suppress the Taiping army above with dense arrows, and then mobilized the dead to climb from here, intending to reach the top in one fell swoop.

The sudden dense pressure of arrows immediately made the Taiping army on the city wall in front of him stagnate, with more than ten dead and wounded, and those young people in the back saw that the Taiping army in front of them had died so many people at once. His legs trembled and his teeth chattered. There was a young man named Fan Si who was even more frightened and drowned, sitting on the ground with his buttocks, allowing yellow and white things to come out of his crotch.

More than a dozen people were killed and wounded, and the Taiping troops on both sides could not brave the arrows of the Qing army. All of a sudden, there was a real gap in the walls.

After the green camp under the city found that there were no stones falling from above. Hurriedly picked up the ladder and set it up again. The dozens of dead soldiers selected were dressed in two or three layers of armor, and climbed up with long knives in their mouths.

Zhou Shixiang, who was standing at the highest point of the city gate tower and observing the entire battle situation, found out the crisis, drew his sword and rushed downstairs. A group of guards hurriedly followed.

On the way to run, Zhou Shixiang casually picked up a waste iron pot and put it on his head, the iron pot was not used to boil gold juice, but was used by the Qing army in the city to make a fire for cooking, which would be used on the head to play the role of a shield. Several arrows landed on the iron pot one after another and were bounced off.

The guards in the back saw that the Lord Qianhu had a mouthful of iron pots, and they also did the same, but how could there be so many prepared iron pots in the city for a while, so they could only find some wooden planks to top them, but fortunately, although they were wooden boards, they also reduced the danger of being hit by arrows a lot. The guards ran all the way over, and the planks on many of their heads became hedgehogs.

The Guards Battalion happened to have a squad of musketeers waiting there. Seeing that the Lord of the Thousand Households risked his life to fight, the general banner of the leader hurriedly led the people to run to that place

The Zhenyu Battalion is the only battalion in the Taiping Army that is equipped with cotton armor, and the officers are covered with iron armor, among which the veterans who have gone through several battles are also the most, and the combat effectiveness is also the strongest. Therefore, he was arranged by Zhou Shixiang to guard at the east gate.

After discovering that the Lord of Qianhu brought people over, the officers of the Zhenzhu Battalion also discovered that something was wrong with this place, and immediately some officers led people to come over at the risk of death.

"Fight down the city, quick!"

Seeing that there were soldiers rushing over, Zhou Shixiang gestured at them while running, and asked them to immediately take the fire guns and hit the city. When the general flag of the Guards Battalion heard the order, he hurriedly rushed to the battlement and pointed the gun down, and ignited the fire without looking.

With the first bang, dozens of bangs soon rang out. Although this gun was not aimed at all, dozens of guns were fired at the city at the same time, which was enough to make the Qing army under the city at a loss.

It is very difficult to put arrows from under the city to the head of the city, and you can't see clearly, so you can only shoot things indiscriminately, but you can shoot the arrows up, and there is a word of aiming. I don't know where there are, this power can't be mastered, and most of the arrows are either absorbed by the Taiping army's arrow shields, or they fall directly over the city and fall behind the city. did not cause many casualties to the Tai army, but shot and wounded dozens of young men who were busy under the city. When the Taiping army's guns sounded, more than a dozen archers were immediately hit, wailing and screaming.

After discovering that there were guns in the city, the Qing army was shocked, but soon found that there were not many guns, and they stopped after a round, and immediately knew that the guns above were charging medicine. It takes time to load the medicine, and the Qing army hurriedly seized the time to change the medicine and climbed up desperately, and after the guards on the city hurriedly loaded the medicine, the green battalion soldiers on the four ladders had climbed to the battlement.

Most of those gunners were novices, and many of them had only fought once or twice, and now they suddenly saw the Qing army crawling up, and it was not far from them, and suddenly some people were so frightened that their faces were colorless, and the guns in their hands were also blindly fired. The sound of the horn was stunned that it didn't hit the battalion soldiers who climbed up!

Seeing this scene in the distance, Shang Zhixin clairvoyant mirror was immediately happy, as long as the battalion can gain a foothold in the city, I am afraid that this city can really be broken!

Those green battalion soldiers who climbed the city also thought so, after all, it was not the Manchurian soldiers who defended the city, nor the soldiers of the old thieves, but the miscellaneous soldiers of the Ming army. But if they climbed up to the city, they would be terrified and make a few gaps, where would this Taiping army dare to hold on!

Shang Zhixin was about to give the order to transfer the flag soldiers up, but he found that the battalion soldiers who climbed up to the city suddenly jumped down from the city!

After the battalion soldiers climbed up the battlement, Zhou Shixiang had already rushed to the iron pot, and he could not allow any hesitation, so he rushed forward with a knife, and a knife slashed, and a battalion soldier who had just put his feet up subconsciously dodged backwards, but the center of gravity was unstable and he fell from the city by mistake.

"Kill!"

The guards of Zhou Shi who rushed up threw away the plank, roared and rushed towards the battalion soldiers who were going to the city.

The soldiers of the Shock Battalion who rushed from both sides also rushed forward, ignoring the arrows falling overhead, and took the large poles in their hands to push the ladders that were set up on the wall. The battalion soldiers in mid-air were so frightened that they were afraid of falling and falling and injuring themselves, but fortunately, the battalion soldiers on the escalator below struggled to lean the ladder against the city wall, and the ladder leaned towards the city wall as if it had bounced back. But before the battalion soldiers on the ladder could settle down, the fork pole of the Taiping army stretched out again and continued to push him longing.

The same scene played out everywhere on the city wall—the ladder that suddenly fell backwards and leaned forward, and the exclamations of the battalion soldiers who flew with the ladder. The green battalion soldiers under the ladder struggled to hold the ladder firmly, and the battalion soldiers on the ladder immediately showed their hideous faces, and they began to climb up one step at a time with an escalator and a long knife in the other. The battalion soldiers who climbed up below bit their knives in their mouths, held the ladder with both hands, and climbed up without stopping with the people above their heads.

"Up! Above! Hurry up! ”

There was a fight on the top of the city, and the officers of the green battalion under the city were afraid of missing the opportunity, so they kept shouting and ordering the battalion soldiers to climb up the ladder quickly, and when the ladder was full of people, the fork pole of the Taiping army could no longer push them out, because the ladder was too heavy.

The faces of the Taiping soldiers at the head of the city were clearly visible, and the top battalion soldiers began to wave their swords and prepare to slash and kill those Taiping soldiers. However, as soon as the hand was raised, a forked rod stretched out from the buttress on the other side, and this time instead of pushing the ladder, it swept directly towards them. At the tip of the pole is an extremely sharp horizontal blade, which can not only cut off the ladder at the waist, but also cut off the arm of a person.

"Ahh With a scream, the left arm of a battalion soldier was cut off by the Taiping army's fork pole, and the person fell down like a kite with a broken string. The people below were caught off guard, and they were also carried and fell, one by one, and six or seven battalions fell down together, smashing on the battalions on those escalators, causing a burst of chaos.

The ladder was also cut at once, broken into two and fell down, the battalion soldiers who had just climbed up did not pay attention, and were hit by the broken ladder, but fortunately, the whole person came out of the gap between the ladders. After the Taiping army began to cut the battalion soldiers with fork poles, the ladder of the Qing army was suddenly cut off by dozens of them, and the battalion soldiers on it fell down with the ladder, screaming and undulating with each other. (To be continued.) )