The north gate was under fire, but not a single soldier was dispatched, and the south gate was huge, but it was also dry and thundering and not raining, and even the atmosphere in the city was extremely depressing, very abnormal. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Report to the captain! The brother sent to monitor King Fu came with the news that King Fu and the three cabinet ministers were gathering to resist the Qing Dynasty, and it was unknown what they were going to do. A new army from Suzhou, dressed the same as Guo Sheng, came to Guo Sheng and reported.

Since last night, King Fu Zhu Yousong invited Guo Sheng to a banquet and vaguely mentioned that Guo Sheng would lead him to break through, Guo Sheng didn't think about it, so he sternly refused.

Today's war is imminent, Guo Sheng expected that this Fuwang gang would definitely cause some incidents, so he sent people to monitor, and now sure enough, Fuwang began to make small moves behind his back in the name of "gathering to resist the Qing Dynasty".

Guo Sheng thought for a moment and then said: "Monitor closely, and report immediately if there is any abnormality." ”

King Fu is only gathering the villagers now, and he has not done anything out of the ordinary, he has a small place to guard, and he has no right to interfere at all, plus the big war is imminent, it is not good to distract Shi Kefa.

If King Fu is just to protect himself and leave Xiangyong near the mansion, Guo Sheng is too lazy to meddle in things, if he dares to take the opportunity to make trouble, then it doesn't matter if you are a prince or not, you can kill it!

The atmosphere inside the city is strange, but the situation outside the city is gradually becoming clearer.

After Duoduo ordered the bombardment of the north gate for half a day, he finally received a letter from Bolo at the south gate: "The south gate will be broken before the hour (before 7 o'clock in the evening) today, I hope the prince will prepare in advance!" ”

Bolo knew that Dordor was secretly taking care of himself, so he wrote back assuring that he would break through the South Gate before dark.

"Kind of interesting! Order the artillery team to fire alternately, all leisurely, don't scrap the artillery. After reading the letter, Dodor turned to command.

After three hours of shelling, the Qing army finally stopped a lot, and although the shelling continued, the frequency was obviously at least one-third weaker.

And the artillery of the Ming army, after counterattacking for a period of time, also ceased fire, and the purpose of returning fire has been achieved, after all, these cannons still have to be kept, to deal with the infantry of the Qing army besieging the city, there is no need to continue to waste shells and wear out the barrels.

Although the Qing army was a lot quieter for a period of time in the afternoon, Guo Sheng understood that the other party was making final preparations for the decisive battle.

"Pass the order, gather the team, and be ready to force a breakthrough at any time!" Guo Sheng finished his last cigarette and began to give orders.

King Fu's side just gathered Xiangyong and did not make other moves, Guo Sheng only thought that he was thinking too much, and now that it was the most critical moment, it was necessary to gather the team.

Fifty soldiers dressed in "strange costumes" were quickly assembled, and these strangely dressed soldiers have been in Yangzhou City for more than two months, except for the initial curiosity, the soldiers and civilians in the city are now no longer strange, and this group of soldiers has not been on the battlefield, so no one knows what the combat effectiveness is.

"General Guo, is this going to gather a team to support us? Please rest assured General Guo, not to mention that the Tartars have not yet attacked the city in a big way, even if they launch an attack, we will still be on top of it! If we really have to fight it out, it won't be too late for General Guo to go up. Liu Zhaoji said with a smile.

In Liu Zhaoji's opinion, Guo Sheng's subordinates are all a group of recruits, and the number is very small, there are not many of them, it doesn't matter if there are a few of them, it is better to stay below, and the tension of the province for a while disturbs the morale of the army that has finally stabilized on the city wall.

"It's okay, we'll wait below, when the general needs reinforcements, we'll go up again." Guo Sheng was also reluctant to explain too much.

It was more than five o'clock in the afternoon, the artillery fire of the Qing army was dense again, and a small number of troops began to launch a tentative charge towards the north gate.

"Everyone listen to the order, check the weapons and equipment!"

As Guo Sheng's order was given, a group of soldiers began to check the weapons and ammunition.

Li Hongfei also spent enough money for this special combat team, each soldier hung four grenades on his chest and abdomen, two revolvers straddled left and right around his waist, and his feet wore special pigskin boots (cattle were forbidden to be slaughtered in the Ming Dynasty), and a tactical dagger was hung on his leggings, which can be said to be armed to the teeth.

Needless to say, the battle of Chongming Island has already well illustrated its role.

Revolvers were used as a repeating melee weapon, and due to the trouble of charging, two were issued to each person, so that one person had the firepower of twelve flintlock pistols.

Speaking of the charge of this revolver, Guo Sheng was also speechless for a while, because the fixed ammunition could not be loaded with the ignition powder, so before each shot, the revolver had to use a sting needle equipped with the handle to puncture the cartridge shell that needed to be fired, so that the gunpowder at the tail of the gun flowed into the ignition powder pool.

And this gunpowder is not a liquid, if you want to quickly flow into the medicine pool, you have to find another way, after all, once the revolver is used, it is enough to prove that it is already a close combat, and every second you fight, the chance of survival will increase by one point.

So when the revolver is firing rapidly, you will see the soldier holding the pistol, after turning the gun to the firing position, he will cover the medicine pool with one hand (to prevent the leakage of gunpowder), and hold the handle of the gun with the other, as if shaking the dice, shaking up and down violently, until the gunpowder in the medicine pool hits the palm of the hand, then he stops shaking and shoots........

For this reason, Guo Sheng and other special combat team members also gave this revolver an apt name, "Shake the gun".

Don't look at the trouble of using the "rocking gun", but because of the reason of reloading and rubble fire, a trained skilled hand can fire all six bullets in 40 seconds, and the two revolvers can fire alternately, which can continue to block the area of 40 meters in front of it within a minute and a half.

As for the tactical dagger, it is specially equipped with revolver units that cannot be equipped with bayonets, and is used to supplement the equipment for close combat after firing bullets.

With this batch of equipment, in close assault, sabotage, and other battles, the special combat personnel have no problem in taking one to ten...........

Not long after Guo Sheng and the others finished checking the equipment, a shocking noise suddenly sounded near the south gate.

"What's going on? The Qing army at the south gate also has cannons? Shi Kefa, who was supervising the battle on the city wall, was a little worried when he heard this loud noise.

The voice......... How does it sound familiar? Not good! It's a dynamite pack! Guo Sheng suddenly reacted.

When Li Hongfei used the explosives bag to blow up the Anding Gate, although Guo Sheng was not present, he still remembered the loud noise.

Later, when chatting, Guo Sheng asked Li Hongfei and others how to break through, and Li Hongfei naturally told Guo Sheng about blowing up the city gate with explosives.

The loud noise produced by the South Gate today is the same as what was heard at night, but what is it if it is not an explosive pack?

"What is an explosives pack?" Shi Kefa had already come to the city, and when he saw Guo Sheng talking about the explosives package, he couldn't help but ask.

"A sharp weapon that can break through the city gate, as I expected, this south gate is about to be breached." Guo Sheng could only explain like this.

As soon as his words fell, a red firework burst into the sky from the direction of the south gate.

"Overseer, it's General Dulwich's emergency signal, the south gate is broken!" One soldier explained.