readx; A gunshot completely broke the silence of the long night, and hundreds of "officers and soldiers" under the city made a noise together, and in an instant, sharp arrows shot like locusts at the head of the city!

"It's the rebels! Hide! Apparently hiding behind the women's wall, he shouted loudly as he saw an opportunity to return fire with his pistol at the city. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info⊙ a top novel, but there were not many defenders of the city, and there had been no war for many years, so they were caught off guard by the sudden turn of events, and more than a dozen were shot down in a blink of an eye, and the rest were so frightened that they fled down the city with their heads in their hands, leaving the guards obviously alone at the head of the city!

At this time, the rebels who were ambushed in the woods saw that the plan to make money had been discovered, so they no longer hid and tucked it, and in an instant, the sound of killing was loud and rushed towards the city gate. Fortunately, although the city wall of Zhangde Mansion is not very high, it is more than a zhang, and these rebels do not have siege equipment such as ladders, so they cannot climb to the top of the city for a while, so they can only keep throwing arrows upward.

Just when it was obvious that he was so crushed by countless arrows that he couldn't even lift his head, there was a chaotic sound of horses' hooves in the city, and then someone shouted: "General! Are you still here?! ”

"I'm not dead yet!" Gou was obviously angry and said, "Come up and defend the city!" ”

It turned out that the gatekeeper had already sent the news to the lodging of the grain convoy, and when the five hundred light cavalry heard the news, they immediately got up and rode straight to the city gate, some of them did not even bother to put on their clothes, and were still shirtless in the cold wind.

Behind them, the officers and soldiers of the local guard office also arrived in a sparse manner, including the prefect and Qianhu of Zhangde Mansion. The prefect was already frightened, and said tremblingly: "Long live the Holy Driver has just left Zhangde Mansion for a few days, why did the rebels come over?" Don't... Is it long live already..."

It stands to reason that although he is obviously a third-rank general, his status is still lower than that of the fifth-grade prefect, and it is necessary to meet as a courtesy. However, as soon as he heard the prefect's words, he was anxious, and he broke off and said, "Is it a fart, this rebel army must have come from somewhere else!" If you don't defend the city, get out of the way, Lao Tzu will defend the city for you! ”

In fact, the prefect and the thousand households were eager to defend the city for them, and when they heard the rumors, they were like being amnestied, and after ordering their officers and soldiers to obey the command of the Ming Ming, they immediately slipped away under the pretext of going to other city gates to defend the city.

However, it was obvious that the number of this rebel army was not too many, and there were only three or four thousand people when it was fully fought, so the greatest possibility was to concentrate on the east city gate and attack a little. Therefore, he immediately ordered 300 light cavalry to go up to the city to defend, and sent 100 people to the other three city gates to assist in the defense, leaving 100 people as reserves, and to save which side was in danger.

However, Gou obviously also knew that the garrison of Zhangde Mansion was too small, and the city wall was not strong, so he only relied on his own 500 people to defend the city, and there were not many firearms, and it was very likely to be broken after a long time. So he immediately ordered the Chinese officer to send a message to the flying pigeons of the imperial camp more than 200 miles away, and in the blink of an eye three carrier pigeons fluttered their wings and flew high, and the rebels only cared about firing arrows at the head of the city, and did not pay any attention to these carrier pigeons, and soon the pigeons disappeared into the night sky.

At the same time, fierce battles were raging at the head of the city. The obvious troops were originally cavalry, with no birds, only short bows, and of course the war horses were useless when defending the city, and could only shoot at the rebels at the head of the city. Although there was a city wall to cover, the rebels far outnumbered the officers and soldiers, and thousands of people fired arrows upwards together, which was still in an absolute advantage, and from time to time some soldiers were injured by arrows.

Of course, the casualties of the rebels were far greater than those of the defenders. Because the archery skills of the cavalry under the command of the Gou Ming were obviously superior to them, although the number of troops was small, there were almost no arrows. After a period of fire, the rebels had to retreat twenty paces away, throwing a large mass of corpses on the ground.

But the commander of this rebel force was obviously very vicious, and after a slight adjustment, he ordered hundreds of soldiers to dismount, one with one prisoner on his head, and quickly advanced towards the wall. By this time, the defenders had already guessed that it must be the common people who were captured, and if they had fired the arrows as they had just done, they would all have been killed. Just a moment of hesitation, these hundreds of rebels have already been pasted to the city wall!

Of course, since there were no siege machines, it was impossible for the rebels to climb up the walls. However, the city wall of Zhangdeok Mansion is a pure rammed earth wall, and because it is too long, it has been weathered and eroded very much, and a large piece of soil can be pestled off with a weapon. The rebels dug the city with their own weapons and cut the ropes of the people and told them to dig with their hands. If they didn't comply, they would raise their knives and cut them, and in an instant, dozens of people had been slaughtered, and the rest had to be forced to dig up.

Seeing the rebels digging the city, he was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and finally gritted his teeth and shouted: "Grenade ready!" ”

It turned out that although his light cavalry was not equipped with bird guns, each of them was equipped with five grenades in case of emergency. But the soldiers knew that if the grenade went down, the rebels would not survive, but those ordinary people would also have to be buried with them, so they were a little hesitant.

"What are you stunned about!" Gou was obviously furious and said, "Once the city is broken, won't the thousands of people in the city have to die?" Grenade ready!! ”

The soldiers had to tearfully whip up their grenades and try to target them in places where the rebels were densely populated and the civilians were relatively small. With a loud shout of "throw", hundreds of grenades fell from the sky and exploded into a piece in an instant. After the smoke cleared a little, the city was full of severed arms and stumps, and the rebels and civilians who were lucky enough not to die were like dementia, and only after a while did they let out a shout and ran back desperately.

Suffering this heavy blow, the rebels stopped for a while, and Gou obviously quickly organized people to carry the wounded soldiers down the city for treatment. But it wasn't long before the rebels again clamoured for a siege. The soldiers can see that these rebels are completely forced to attack, and it is likely that the rebel generals killed a group of soldiers who fled from the battle just now, and these people retreated to death, so they could only sacrifice their lives to attack.

Of course, they did not have time to pity these rebels, and their hands were not soft at all, and those who were far away and alone were shot with arrows, and those who were stuck to the city and piled up were waiting for them with grenades. The rebels were also constantly firing arrows into the city, and this tug-of-war lasted from late night until almost dawn, and the rebels suffered heavy casualties, but they did not retreat, and there was a great tendency to never give up until the city was breached.

"General, our grenades are almost finished, and our arrows are almost finished!" The Chinese officer, who had been hit by an arrow in his cheek and whose face was dripping with blood, reported loudly to the man.

"Oops!" Visibly anxious, he muttered to himself, "Reinforcements can't have come so quickly... How much have our people lost? ”

"Fifty-six killed, thirteen seriously wounded, and minor injuries are not counted!"

"It's okay... That's all it can be..."Obviously gritting his teeth, he said to the officer, "Now you take over from me to defend the city, and I will lead fifty brothers out of the city to play field battles with this gang of miscellaneous people!" ”