Chapter 188: Soldiers Descend on the City

When the second wave of flowering bombs flew over, there were still many cloud ladders piled together, and the flowering bullets exploded in the cloud ladder pile unscrupulously, flying wood chips, and piercing the leather armor of several soldiers.

Flowering bombs are concentrated in this area, not only in the ladder pile, but also many flowering bombs fall directly into the crowd.

Every time the flowering bomb exploded, there were ripples in the surrounding five steps, and in the center of the explosion of the flowering bomb, whether it was a war horse or a soldier, there were very few intact corpses.

Wounded soldiers and wounded horses, comparing the magnitude of their respective voices, rolling, crawling, screaming soldiers, everywhere, some soldiers were not injured, but were frightened by the huge explosion of the flowering bomb, and peed on their pants.

Another soldier, who did not have any wounds on his body, but covered his ears with his hands, plunged off his horse, rolled on the ground, and uttered "Ah...... ...... vomit".

Mang Gurtai didn't look at the wounded soldier, his eyes were always focused on the ladder, after two rounds of flowering bullets, the ladder had been damaged more than half, and Mang Gurtai's heart was dripping blood.

Fortunately, the remaining 20 or so ladders have been removed by the soldiers, and they will no longer be subjected to concentrated shelling.

The speed of the infantry was already slow, and with the heavy ladders they carried, large areas of them were just the target of artillery.

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

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The Tiger Cannon also joined the fire, targeting the soldiers who were already within range and were transporting siege ladders.

The artillery is all in a group of five, focusing on one step of the ladder.

The Jiannu soldiers carried the ladder, the speed was obviously not fast, and they rushed to the city from a thousand paces away, and there was still time for at least three waves of shelling.

"Commander, there are still eight of Jiannu's ladders in good condition, and if there are two more waves of shelling, they will be almost destroyed." Du Wenhuan has been counting the ladders of Jiannu.

Yuan Chonghuan hurriedly stopped: "Wen Huan, you can't aim at the cloud ladder, adjust the muzzle of the cannon, and hit the Jiannu cavalry behind!" In a moment it will be their turn to charge. ”

"What does the commander mean......" Du Wenhuan looked at Yuan Chonghuan in amazement, he really didn't understand what Yuan Chonghuan meant, but he still carried out Yuan Chonghuan's order: "All artillery, adjust the muzzle, the target is the cavalry behind." ”

"Wen Huan really doesn't understand?" Yuan Chonghuan seemed to be smiling.

"The commander is going to give Mang Gurtai a chance to attack the city?" Du Wenhuan tentatively.

"Hmm!" Yuan Chonghuan smiled gloomily: "Without a cloud ladder, what will Mang Gurtai take to attack the city?" Once Mang Gurtai is unable to attack the city, he will definitely withdraw his troops today, and the next time he comes to attack the city, I don't know when he will wait. ”

"Commander, my subordinates understand." Du Wenhuan understood, and he shouted at the gunner: "Give me a hard blow to the cavalry of Mang Gurtai, destroy this cavalry, and Quang Ninh will be stable." ”

"Boom...... Long ......"

The solid bullets fired by the tiger cannon were still fired at the ladder, and the range of the solid bullets was not enough, and they could not hit the Jiannu cavalry thousands of steps away.

The flowering shells were all aimed at the cavalry behind, and these cavalry were gathered together, and each flowering bullet exploded in the crowd, stirring up a bloody flower.

The stumps danced, the flesh foamed everywhere, and the cries rippled.

Mang Gurtai's face was gloomy, he did not dare to look at the wounded soldiers, from the crying and shouting, he could imagine the miserable situation of the soldiers and the suffering they were suffering.

But Mang Gurtai could not help them, in fact, even Mang Gurtai himself was under the threat of flowering bombs at any time.

He moved his horse backwards, hoping to get out of range of the Ming artillery.

Jialae Zhenjita, who had been following Mang Gultai's side, suddenly shouted: "Lord Belle, they have entered the blind spot of the artillery, and they are about to rush to the city. ”

Mang Gurtai followed Geeta's right hand and looked forward, the Ming army's tiger cannon had stopped firing solid shells, and only the flowering shells continued to explode in the crowd of cavalry.

The soldiers carrying the eight ladders were already approaching the city, and if they had a third and fourth hand, they might be able to shoot arrows at the city.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

The flintlock gun rang out, and Mang Gurtai's newly relaxed heart tightened again.

What made him want to cry even more was that the Jiannu soldiers who were carrying the four ladders and walking on the left immediately fell in a pool of blood, and there were no soldiers who even got up and fled, and they were obviously three thousand miles dead.

To Mang Gurtai's relief, the soldier who was walking on the right with four ladders was facing the bullets whistling overhead, and he forced the ladders against the city wall.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

As soon as the ladder reached the city wall, the bullets on the city were much denser, and the soldiers transporting the ladder had finally completed their taskβ€”they could smile at Jiuquan.

"Hey!" Mang Gurtai closed his eyes and turned his head, and he struck the horse fiercely on the horse's back, startling the horse, and its two front legs were violently lifted into the air, almost tearing him off the horse.

"Geeta, the ladder has reached the city wall, immediately bring your soldiers, go to attack the city, when to take Quang Ninh, it's up to you."

"Yes, Lord Belle." Geeta waved her sword in her right hand and pointed forward, "Brothers, go and grab the city." ”

"Da Da Da!"

More than 1,200 Jurchen cavalry fought bravely to take the lead, and the chaotic and dense sound of horses' hooves temporarily overshadowed the roar of artillery, and the momentum was very terrifying.

"Boom...... Long ......"

All the flowering shells were aimed at this cavalry, and the gunners were far away, and they could not feel the deterrence of the Jurchen cavalry.

The bravery of the Jurchen cavalry is not blown, in the screams of their companions, in the roar of artillery, these cavalry without any protective ability are just going forward, and when they encounter the flowering bullet landing, because of the fetters of the corpses of people and horses, they will have a little hesitation.

One by one, the flowering bullets, along the trajectory of the parabola, fell in turn in the crowd of Jurchen cavalry.

There were no flowering bullets in the eyes of the Jurchen cavalry.

No matter where the flowering shells landed, and no matter what kind of damage the flowering shells caused, as long as it did not affect the advance, the cavalry would never squint, and their eyes would always be ahead.

The gunners of the Ming army kept lowering the muzzle of the guns and reducing the firing range, although when the flowering shells exploded, the speed of the cavalry was slowed down, but the flowering shells only fired three waves, and they entered the blind spot of the artillery.

There were not many Jurchen cavalrymen who died directly from artillery fire, but only a hundred and ten people, and many more casualties were not due to the explosion of flowering shells, but because of the trampling of horses.

Once a cavalry is injured or falls from a collision, it is rarely spared. The cavalry galloping at high speed, when encountering wounded soldiers and war horses in front, in order to prevent new collisions, will avoid the war horses, and they directly ignore the wounded soldiers on the ground.

In the eyes of the cavalry, the soldiers who fell from their horses were not wounded, they had lost the ability to fight and were already dead.

Having entered the blind zone of the artillery, Geeta adjusted the formation slightly. There was no explosion of the flowering shells, they were safe for the time being, and he visually inspected the cavalry on horseback, which was already less than a thousand.

Coupled with the soldiers who transported the ladder, could it be that in such a short time, the cavalry suffered more than five hundred casualties?

Geeta looked back and saw that there were only broken corpses and no wounded soldiers who had screamed - and even if there were wounded soldiers, they were powerless to call.

Gita didn't know the exact number of casualties, his soldiers had passed through the artillery blockade and were now under the city, and he had no reason to retreat except to wait for the other Ejins to laugh at him.

There are four ladders in front of you, all of which are against the city wall, and you can use them to attack the castle if you adjust the height of the upper edge slightly.

Geeta lined up his soldiers in four groups and pounced on the four ladders.

The Jurchen cavalry did not raise their heads, and before entering the range of the bow and arrow, they had to increase their speed and try to keep the time as short as possible.

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

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The flintlock pistol rang out again, and the dense network of fire was thrilling.

The Jurchen cavalry was a four-column column, and the soldiers who entered the range of the flintlock pistols were only a hundred people, while the gunners of the Ming army at the head of the city fired a thousand bullets, and the gunners in the first row all shot.

Soldiers with several bullets abounded, and one by one they were upside down from their horses.

Some of the war horses were also wounded and fell directly on the path of the soldiers' advance, and the uninjured war horses were disturbed by the sound of gunfire, and from time to time they were frightened and scurried, because they lost the command of their masters, they wandered around the battlefield in a daze.

The horses blocked the cavalry behind, and these ownerless horses collided with the cavalry rushing behind.

The cavalry suddenly fell into confusion, and Geeta, who followed at the back of the team, was also stunned.

There were more than 100 cavalrymen who fell directly under the flintlock muskets, and dozens of people fell from their horses with the collision.

"Get around the horses, quick." Geeta finally came to her senses, and he called out from behind.

The four columns of cavalry changed direction, avoiding the horses and various corpses in front of them, but the scurrying horses still held them back slightly.

The slower the cavalry, the easier it was to be a target for flintlock muskets.

Now there are three rows of gunners in the city, each row of thousands of people, a row of gunners firing a salvo, will shoot a thousand bullets, and the more than 100 cavalrymen who gradually enter the firing range have no chance to avoid the bullets at all.

Another cycle, more than 100 cavalrymen were shot, and dozens of cavalrymen were knocked over by the messy horses.

The road leading to the ladder was again clogged by frightened horses.

Their favorite war horses have now become a burden to their siege, and Geeta is furious: "Dismount them all, drive away the horses in front of them, and run to the ladder." ”

The remaining six or seven hundred Jurchen cavalry immediately rolled their saddles and dismounted, and they raised their whips and slammed the ownerless war horses in front. The war horses were in pain, and they all avoided the sides of the road, completely giving way to the middle road.

Du Wenhuan at the head of the city was overjoyed, Jiannu dismounted and became an infantryman, and he had lost the speed advantage of the cavalry, not only the flintlock pistol was easier to aim, but even when Jiannu found that the situation was wrong, it was difficult to break through the fire blockade of the flintlock pistol when he wanted to escape.

He immediately ordered the gunners on the head of the city: "Now that the Jiannu are all infantry, don't worry, put it at seventy paces and fight again." ”

The gunners who had not fired before, all with flintlock muskets, aimed at the chaotic Jiannu soldiers below the city, and they waited quietly for orders; The gunners who had already fired were busy reloading their ammunition and preparing to re-aim and shoot.