Chapter 364: A Threat from Yejiabao
After Sakata escaped death one day, he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, and immediately ordered everyone to extinguish the torches in their hands. In fact, because www.biquge.info of the three shellings just now, there are no people standing at the North City Gate.
The attic that collapsed with a bang directly buried the people within ten meters of the surrounding area. After a long time, I saw soldiers rushing up to the castle tower in a panic, protecting the frightened Sakata in the middle.
Ye Shaolong was very satisfied with the power of the three cannons just now, but he didn't know at the moment that he almost killed Sakata in one day just now. Now look at the castle tower, those torches that were still confused just now have all been extinguished shortly after the cannon sound.
Obviously, the Wako had realized their own mistake, and now it was so dark that they couldn't see it clearly.
Ye Shaolong shook his head very regretfully and said, "This widow's reaction is really fast, it's impossible to give them two more shots." ”
The tower went to light the cannon in person just now, and he could see clearly the situation where the attic on the city tower was hit and collapsed. Seeing Ye Shaolong's pity, he couldn't help but step forward and said: "The handsome man doesn't know, I can see it clearly just now, the attic collapsed directly, and there must be few living people on it." ”
Ye Shaolong smiled, waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't worry about them, the soldiers have been on the road for a day, and now it's a big night, and it's dark and not suitable for fighting." The order was given, except for the people on guard, the rest of them seized the time to rest, and as soon as dawn came, they could start attacking the city according to the plan. ”
"Yes, Dashuai!" When the tower heard that it was going to attack the city, its eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly informed the whole army of Ye Shaolong's order.
After the torches were extinguished, they still couldn't see the situation of the Yejiabao army under the city tower, and they didn't even know who the besieging army was.
Sakata didn't dare to act rashly for a day, so he had to keep people on guard, and then hurried down the castle tower and summoned his generals to come and discuss.
Under the unclear situation, they naturally failed to negotiate anything, and in the end, it was not resolved. Fortunately, since those three cannons, Sakata has not seen the attack of the mysterious army for a day.
Only then did he give the order to keep the whole city on alert, and wait for Tianming to see the situation clearly before making a decision.
The night passed without incident, and when the day first dawned, both sides became nervous. Ye Shaolong even ordered the whole army to prepare for the attack.
One day, Sakata climbed the castle tower again at dawn, and this time he finally saw who the attacker was. When he saw the big banner of leaves flying high, he understood everything.
The person who came was obviously Ye Shaolong from Yejiabao, and he would suddenly attack in a big way, obviously because the people he sent to infiltrate Yejiabao missed.
No wonder two days have passed, but he has not received a reply. However, this Ye Shaolong's movements were too fast, and he actually gathered a large army to attack within two days.
Ye Shaolong had been paying attention to the changes on the city tower since dawn, and suddenly, he saw a familiar figure from the telescope.
It was Sakata who had just gone upstairs for a short time, Ye Shaolong muttered for a moment, suddenly called the iron tower, and then whispered in his ear for a moment.
The tower laughed as he listened, and his head kept nodding. At the end, I saw that he suddenly rode his horse directly out of the position of the army, and stopped in front of the main gate of the north city gate.
The tower took a deep breath, then opened his throat and shouted loudly at the castle tower: "Sakata upstairs listen, quickly open the city gate and come out to die, if not, when the city is broken, it will be the beginning of the slaughter!" ”
The threat of these words is quite strong, Ye Shaolong naturally will not really slaughter the city, let the iron tower come out and shout like this. It was just to put pressure on the 3,000 rebels in the city who originally belonged to the Qing Dynasty.
Sure enough, as soon as the tower's words fell, it was obvious that there was a small commotion on the castle tower. However, it was quickly suppressed, and it seems that Sakata is still quite capable.
"Baga, arrogant child, dare to stir people's hearts here, shoot, shoot Lao Tzu to death!" Sakata was so angry that he almost died last night, and now he is still afraid when he looks back.
Last night was a great dismount, and now it has come to stir people's hearts, wanting to use this to disintegrate the original Qing Dynasty's surrendered officers and soldiers.
The number of Japanese soldiers was small, and if those Qing soldiers rebelled, Sakata would be in danger of being destroyed. Therefore, he didn't dare to let the tower continue to talk at all, but immediately ordered to shoot the tower under the city tower in anger.
With Sakata's order for one day, the sound of gunfire suddenly rang out on the castle tower one after another, and the black smoke unique to black powder continued to rise on the castle tower.
The tower had already ridden back to the army's position when Sakata spoke, so the gunfire behind him did not hurt him at all.
Ye Shaolong saw that Sakata dared to counterattack one day, and without hesitation, he immediately ordered the artillery that had already been waiting for him, and pushed the cannon in front of the army.
As soon as Tie Ta returned to the army, he immediately abandoned his horse and rushed to the artillery array, muttering scoldingly: "You dare to shoot at Lao Tzu, let you grandsons taste the power of cannons." ”
As he spoke, he took the torch that had been lit from the artilleryman beside him, apparently, to fire the cannon himself. Retaliation for Sakata Ichichi's actions just now.
"Target the city gate, open the cannon!"
Ye Shaolong suddenly let out a cold drink, and with his voice, the ten cannons were ignited almost at the same time.
"Boom!"
A cannon sound that made the earth tremble suddenly rose to the ground, and the naked eye could see ten large black iron balls smashing straight towards the closed city gate.
The cannonballs reached the city gate almost in the blink of an eye, and ten black cannonballs whizzed into the city gate hole, smashing on the city gate with unmistakable accuracy.
The gate of Baoding City is made of iron plates, and it was not smashed through in the face of the attack of the cannonballs, but it was directly smashed down by the powerful momentum of the cannonballs.
"Boom!"
A sound comparable to thunder on a sunny day echoed in the sky above the entire Baoding City. In everyone's stunned expressions, they saw the entire city gate collapse with a bang.
Sakata's face turned pale for a day, and he was shocked by the scene in front of him, he had never seen such a powerful cannon that could knock down the city gate in an instant.
The city gate has been opened, and there is no doubt that they will not have any natural danger to rely on next, but will directly meet the 10,000 troops of Yejiabao.
The opponent has 10,000 elite soldiers, but he only has 2,000 trustworthy men, and the remaining 3,000 Qing soldiers are not reliable at all. After Sakata's shock, he had already retreated at this moment, and he didn't have the courage to confront the Yejiabao army head-on.