Chapter VIII: Crisis
In the central block of Fengyang City, the garrison Zhu Guozheng led his troops here, and was suddenly attacked by the enemy. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
As the garrison of Fengyang, Zhu Guozheng is not an idle person, his bearing is calm and not flustered, and he calmly commands the whole army to advance rapidly.
Judging from the number of arrows that came out, the number of enemies who set up ambushes here to sneak attack is obviously not much, presumably they are the meticulous work that sneaked into the city, and their purpose is obviously to prevent reinforcements from going to the west city gate, which strengthens Zhu Guozheng's determination to rush to the west gate of Fengyang at full speed.
"The whole army is advancing quickly with a shield, leave them alone, and quickly rush to the West City Gate at all costs is victory!"
Seeing that the garrison Zhu Guozheng led the officers and troops to rush forward without their lives, a group of Kou troops who received the death order were helpless, and they carried out a tragic street battle with the Ming army based on the alley with their blades in hand.
If the Ming army is allowed to pass, it means that the siege battle will end in a fiasco, and if you want to attack the city under the vigilant defense of the Ming army, for the Kou army that lacks firearms and siege equipment, it is completely suicidal, and for the official army, if it is blocked here, once the west gate of Fengyang City is breached, there will be no room for maneuver.
Just when Zhu Guozheng led his troops to come to the aid and was blocked by the Kou army in the central block, the battle in Fengyang Xicheng continued to heat up.
Under the defenselessness, hundreds of people in the vanguard were slaughtered, and then the Kou army, which was eager to attack Fengyang City and plunder, rushed up and crowded together, and was suddenly bombarded by the dense artillery of the Ming army at the head of the city, and for a time Zhang Xianzhong's Kou army suffered heavy casualties.
Zhang Xianzhong, who fled out of the range of artillery in embarrassment with the support of the guards, saw that his subordinates suffered heavy casualties, and was suddenly aroused to be violent and bloody in his heart, and secretly vowed to personally skin the Ming army defending the city, ignoring the advice of the generals around him, and ordered the whole army to attack the city.
was originally a well-planned sneak attack battle, but after Zhang Xianzhong planted his heels, it turned into a siege war.
The dense Kou army took advantage of the night, holding a small number of ladders, and quickly rushed towards the towering Fengyang City, in fact, the Kou army came this time, bringing a lot of rushing cars that can impact the city gate, but two huge stones blocked the city gate almost tightly, these rushing cars completely became decorations, and captured the city head, which became the only offensive route for the Kou army to capture Fengyang City.
Han Yu, who was standing at the head of the city, had deep eyes, his clothes were hunting in the wind, looking at the scattered fires everywhere under the city in the distance, listening to the dense and heavy footsteps and the sound of attacking and killing that resounded in the sky, and his heart was worried and happy for a while.
The Kou army is heavy, at this time it is to receive a death order to attack the city, the city is only a hundred people, the situation is not optimistic, of course, everything has a bad side and a good side, at this time the Kou army has been a drum and then declined, if it can resist the Kou army siege, then the Ming army can hold Fengyang.
The whistling projectiles blasted in a blinding arc, constantly exploding in the crowd of swarming Kou troops.
With each powerful explosion roar, the broken limbs rose up with flesh and blood, and the scorching flames illuminated the surroundings, and some of the Kou soldiers who were completely filled with fear and knelt on the ground at a loss were quickly cut off by the overseers who followed, and many seriously injured soldiers who had not yet died continued to wail, dragging the intestines that flowed from their stomachs to the ground, and crawled towards the lower body that flew out of the distance...
Although the artillery is huge, but the number of Kou troops is really amazing, as if it is endless, the continuous impact of not fearing death, completely using flesh and blood to resist firearms, the price paid by the Kou army is really unimaginable.
Under the deterrence of the Kou army's supervising team, and under the order of Zhang Xianzhong's capture of Fengyang, the Kou army became more crazy, and the Kou army, which was not afraid of death, knew very well that although firearms were powerful, they also had great shortcomings.
Not only does it have a certain range and dead end, as long as it rushes to the city, it can be protected from bombardment, but also after a long period of continuous cannonballing, the temperature of the cannon chamber rises sharply, and the situation of exploding the chamber occurs from time to time.
The fierce offensive of the Kou army, which was not afraid of death, shocked the Ming army defending on the city tower.
The reality is that even if you add the cooking squad and the transport team, the Ming soldiers defending the West City Gate at this time are only a hundred people, once the rebels are close to the siege, I am afraid that they will not even be able to do a stalemate, under extreme fear, the movements in their hands are much slower, and the mistakes are greatly increased.
"Either the enemy dies or I die, follow me to meet the enemy!"
Zhang Tanghuai, who was holding a war knife, shouted violently, and the soldiers defending the city couldn't help but shudder, and the morale that had been continuously low also improved a lot.
"Lord Zhang, the thieves rushed to the city!"
As a Wu Chang reported aloud, before the words fell, more than ten cloud ladders were set up at the head of the city in a row.
"Go as planned!" Zhang Tanghuai, who had a solemn face, ordered sharply.
More than 30 carefully selected armor soldiers drew their swords and stood at the head of the city, and more than a dozen Ming soldiers pushed the fierce fire oil tanks that had been prepared to the head of the city, just waiting for Zhang Tanghuai's order.
Just as the dense Kou army had just climbed to the top of the city along the ladder, Zhang Tanghuai ordered loudly: "Set fire to them!" ”
Under the control of the Ming army, the scorching flames of the fierce fire tank burst out along the firing ports under the wall battlements, and in an instant, the rebels on several cloud ladders and the cloud ladders on the wall were suddenly engulfed by the rolling flames.
The scorching Kou army screamed and fell down, and the ladder on the city wall could not withstand the high temperature of the fierce fire oil tank, and soon melted and collapsed.
At the same time, the boiling oil that had been prepared for a long time slanted down, and immediately opened some of the hot skin of the Kou army, and the rolling stone and sassa wood were thrown down continuously, and the bodies of the Kou soldiers who were smashed then collapsed and fell to death under the city wall.
Suddenly, more than 10 Ming troops who were throwing sagiles under the city were hit by arrows one after another, and the number of Ming troops was already small, more than 10 people were killed and wounded at once, and the head of Fengyang City was suddenly vacant, and the rest of the Ming troops were afraid to hide under the wall battlements, and did not dare to lean out to throw the sassal wood rolling stones.
With a sudden loud bang at the head of the city, a Hongyi cannon suddenly exploded when filling the shell because of overheating, and several Ming soldiers in charge of artillery were all black, and they fell to the side and did not know whether they were alive or dead.
The barrel is overheated and explodes, which is the most feared thing for the Ming army, especially on the battlefield at this time, the blow to morale is very huge, and the other frightened gunners immediately stopped their movements, and no one wanted to be killed by their own artillery.
The Kou army, which was miserable by the artillery bombing in the distance, saw the collective dumb fire of the Ming artillery, coupled with a fire that appeared at the head of the city before, and quickly realized that this was the overheating of the Ming army's artillery firing continuously, and this was the best time to attack.
The reinforcements of Zhu Guozheng have not yet arrived, the Ming army defending the city is only a few dozen people, the artillery is overheated and has been collectively dumbed, and it is no longer possible to suppress the Kou army hiding everywhere, although most of the ladders of the Kou army have been burned by the fierce fire oil tank, but even if the Kou army uses the remaining ladders, even the lasso and the Ming army are consumed, this Fengyang West City Gate can not be guarded.
The best way is to let the artillery continue to fire, as long as it can block the advance of the Kou army in the rear, maybe these dozens of people at the head of the city can still stalemate with the Kou army lacking siege ladders for a while.
Just look at the frightened gunners, I am afraid that even if they put a knife to their neck, they will never continue to operate a gun that may explode at any time.
Taking advantage of the archers to suppress the Ming army at the head of the city, looking at the large army of the Kou army that was suppressed by artillery in the distance, they were rushing towards this side quickly, and the morale of the Kou army gathered under the city was greatly boosted, and they all held their blades in their mouths, and quickly climbed up the few ladders towards the city.
No matter how you look at it, it is only a matter of time before the west gate of Fengyang is occupied by the Kou army.