Chapter 45: The Contest (Part II)

"Woo, woo, woo, woo,,。" The muffled sound of bull's horns, instead of the echoes of explosions, reverberated back and forth over the battlefield.

Dong Luxiao ordered someone to blow the horn of attack, and when he saw the commander Han Er suddenly fall from his horse, he immediately made a decision.

Morale can be boosted, no matter what kind of new firearms are used by the Huai'an red scarf on the city wall, or witchcraft, just killing a small commander is nothing terrible, let alone controlling the battle situation, what I am afraid of is that the other low-level generals on my side are cowering in their hearts, and the battle will be completely unfought, no matter how fierce and vicious he is, it is impossible for him to personally carry the sword to cut people.

"Woo, woo, woo, woo,,。"

"Woo, woo, woo, woo,,。"

"Woo, woo, woo, woo,,。"

The sound of trumpets was overwhelming, suffocating, and the artillery from the city walls became more and more intense, wave after wave, blowing the ground up and down, and between the thick smoke of gunpowder, the gun carriages and ballistas on the Meng Yuan side began to sprint forward, one after the other, like moths to the flames.

They don't dare to retreat, Dong shaves his head and kills decisively, those who retreat will definitely be executed, and they don't dare to stay in place, the longer they stay, the easier it is to become the target of the next round of artillery, at this moment, the safest choice is to continue to move forward, rush, rush forward regardless of a qiē, rush to the best aiming distance of the ballista, attack against attack, and suppress the firepower on the city wall with the quasi-head advantage of the crossbow, so that it is possible to create a miracle.

"Boom, boom, boom." , flowering shells filled with gunpowder and solid bullets with unloaded gunpowder fall to the ground alternately, creating one death trap after another on the way of the ballista and gun carriage.

"Boom." "Boom." "Boom." The sound of martyrdom continued to sound, and the long crossbow filled with a large amount of black powder was extremely unstable, and as long as it was hit, it would cause a disaster in the surrounding area.

However, the superiority in numbers caused about half of the ballistae to rush within a hundred and fifty paces of the city wall, aiming at the nearest battlement, and firing thick arrows.

"Boom." The first bolt collided with the concrete-coated wall, exploding, and smoke billowed out.

"Boom." "Boom." "Boom." Soon, the second, third, and fourth bolts also flew over, crashing beyond the walls, shaking the nearby defenders of the target area, causing their ears to bleed and their heads dizzy.

The artillery on the city wall quickly smashed more ballistae with color, and blew up the Mengyuan soldiers around the ballista to broken tendons.

"Boom." A ballista burst through the air and landed on the city, blasting a four-pound cannon into the air.

"Boom." The surrounding powder kegs exploded, tearing a gap several feet long from the inside to the outside of the cement wall, and black plasma gushed down the gap, and in the blink of an eye, the remaining half of the city wall was dyed red.

"Woo, woo, woo, woo,,。" The trumpet of war sounded again, and there was no room for rejection.

"Ahh Under the city wall, the Mengyuan soldiers who were approaching under the cover of artillery fire let out a series of wolf howls from their mouths, spread their legs, and quickly rushed towards the blood-stained gap.

Opportunity, this is a wonderful opportunity, the number of defenders is limited, as long as they can occupy the gap, Dong Xuanwei will continue to send soldiers and horses forward, kill into the city from here, and wipe out the red turban grass inside.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." Several archers, who were lying on the ground pretending to be dead, also jumped to their feet, put the armor-piercing cone on their bow arms, and shot towards the gap.

Two Huai'an army auxiliaries who rushed forward to block the gap fell from the arrow, the gap appeared to be more and more empty, and dozens of gourd soldiers carrying the ladder quickly approached, and with a "bang", the heavy ladder slapped at the gap in the city wall.

"Ah,,。h Several She warriors howled loudly and jumped up the ladder, with their legs strength, and quickly advanced along the ladder that was inclined to more than 40 degrees, for them who have climbed mountains and mountains since childhood, this slope is equivalent to flat ground, and in the blink of an eye, they have rushed to the gap, and they can step on the city in one step.

However, this step has forever become a moat.

A whole row of Huai'an soldiers wearing iron armor suddenly appeared on their way, the spears in their hands were lined up into a group of sharp fangs, and the She warrior who rushed to the front couldn't catch the momentum, and the whole person collided, and was directly stabbed into a sieve by the spear, and several other She warriors who followed behind quickly slowed down, brandishing dog-legged knives up and down to protect their whole bodies, and stabbed obliquely, but there were several muskets aimed at them, "Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah"

With less than five feet of distance, it was impossible for the recruits to miss their target, and the She warriors stared in amazement, spread their arms, and fell down the ladder like fallen leaves.

"Rattan, rattan player come over and cover." A Khitan centurion raised a broadsword with a thick door panel and roared.

A small group of gourd soldiers rushed forward with rattan cards, aimed at the position of the gap, forming a shield wall, several archers quickly approached, and the armor-breaking cone in their hands pressed the bowstring without hesitation, as long as one breath, they could draw the strong bow to the full, giving the gap defender a fatal blow, and suddenly, behind the gun array, a half-foot-thick muzzle appeared.

"Boom." The tiger squat cannon, nicknamed a troll by the Huai'an army, shot hundreds of projectiles, and was pushed back quickly by gunpowder.

"Bang bang bang." The iron bullet the size of a finger belly smashed on the rattan card, like rain hitting the plantain, and in the blink of an eye, the rattan card, which was known for its tenacity, was riddled with holes, and the subsequent flying projectiles crossed the obstacle and smashed on the body of Meng Yuan's shooter mercilessly, beating them one by one to the point that their bodies were covered with bullet holes.

"Bah, bah, bah, bah." Ten musketeers appeared behind the pikemen, resting their barrels on the shoulders of the robes and firing lead bullets.

The number of Yuan troops near the gap suddenly sparsed, and four or five of the most fierce soldiers were hit by bullets at the same time, and fell to the ground, bleeding profusely.

"Bah, bah, bah, bah." Another musketeer arrived, stood behind the first wave of musketeers, and poked the barrel of the gun out of the gap, and more Meng Yuan soldiers were shot to death, and the rest of them let out a miserable scream, turned around and fled.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." A rain of arrows fell from mid-air, killing all the fleeing people to the ground, and in the next moment, hail of feathered arrows covered the entire gap.

The Huai'an soldiers, who couldn't dodge, hid their necks and shrank their heads, and tried their best to use the edge of their helmets and front breastplate to face the direction of the falling feather arrows according to the emergency method that they had trained many times.

The sound of "clanging" metal impact was endless, most of the feather arrows were bounced out by the iron helmet and plate armor, and they were nowhere to be found, only one or two of them received miraculous results because of the angle and position, the wounded Huai'an warriors quickly put down their weapons, struggling to get out of the way, and the brothers behind quickly blocked the gap he left, picked up spears or muskets from the ground with both hands, and aimed them at the enemies who were about to pounce.

"Boom, boom." "Boom, boom." Approaching the section of the city wall, several tiger squat cannons turned around and fired at the enemy troops at the gap in the city wall.

At a distance of less than twenty paces, this kind of small cannon weighing only sixty or seventy catties, specially used to shoot scattered shells, is simply an artifact, each muzzle, can spray hundreds of finger-sized projectiles, four or five tiger squat cannons aimed at the same target, immediately can completely cover the area near the target within a radius of half a zhang, after a round of blows, there are no longer any living Mengyuan soldiers near the gap in the city wall, some of them are in a hurry to send them to death, they also immediately stopped, turned around and fled.

"Boom." "Boom." "Boom." Another round of ballistas came and smashed inside and outside a certain section of the wall, and the smoke completely engulfed this section of the wall.

"Boom." "Boom." "Boom." Near the fort, the rifled six-pound and four-pound guns were also colored, and under the unified command of the artillery regiment commander Sun Liang, concentrated their firepower and pulled out the opponent's ballistas one by one.

The distance of one hundred and fifty paces greatly increased the accuracy of both sides, and when the density of shells also increased to a certain distance, almost every round of counterattack could reduce a ballista cart to parts, however, the remaining rest of the ballista carts did not retreat, and when the artillery of the Huai'an army did not find their heads, they desperately poured crossbow arrows on the city.

The front part of each crossbow is filled with a large amount of black powder, through guò espionage, bribery and repeated practical means, the current gunpowder formula in the Mengyuan army, and the Huai'an army itself has been basically the same, the huge explosive power, so that the entire Jiangwan New City is constantly trembling, trembling, crumbling, however, as long as the city wall has not collapsed, there are Huai'an warriors, from the battlements poked out of the muskets, aimed at the enemy outside, a fatal blow.

"Woohoo." A row of bullets flew by, knocking down the seven or eight soldiers who had just run across the pontoon bridge one by one.

"Boom." A crossbow arrow hit the city wall, exploded suddenly, a huge mushroom-shaped cloud, enveloping the nearby half-zhang wide city, the surrounding Yuan army roared loudly, brandished weapons, carried the ladder, ready to harvest the results, the smoke was blown away by the wind, more than a dozen Huai'an warriors who were smoked black, from behind the city wall again poked out muskets, "Woo Woo." ”

"Woohoo."

"Woohoo."

"Boom."

"Woohoo."

The sound of musket shooting, mixed with the roar of the tiger squatting cannon, resounded throughout the battlefield, under the blue-gray Jiangwan city wall, Meng Yuan's soldiers came like a tide, and retreated like a tide, each round of ups and downs, leaving dozens of bloody corpses.

But they refused to admit defeat, and under the urging of the sound of the trumpet, they attacked the city one after another.

One hundred and fifty paces away, fewer and fewer ballistae seized the last chance to continue firing gunpowder-filled crossbow arrows at the head of the city.

Farther away, more than a dozen artillery pieces that Dong Junxiao had spent a lot of money to collect secretly raised their muzzles, and suddenly, shot out a whole row of black projectiles, "Boom, boom, boom, boom"

Most of the projectiles hit the ground in the middle of the projectile, smashing deep craters one after another.

However, as soon as a projectile lands near a turret, it can cause a huge vibration, harassing the gunners and loaders.

"Four-pound cannon, continue to take care of the ballista, six-catty cannon, all change the target for me, knock out the opponent's artillery first." Sun Liang, the commander of the artillery battalion, was furious and quickly adjusted his tactics.

"Yes." The gunners promised to change the target of the attack, and in a hurry, it was difficult to see the effect immediately.

Above and below the city, cannonballs flew around, countless lives were taken away in an instant, and countless fresh faces were buried in the dust in an instant.

The sun overhead seemed unwilling to see such a tragic scene, and quietly hid behind the clouds.

The wind was blowing, and the autumn wind with the smell of blood blew from the extremely far north, blowing away the black gunpowder smoke and dark red blood mist, making the killing scene in the world clearer and clearer.

However, such a tragic scenery could not shake the determination of the generals in the slightest, and the Zhedong Xuan made Dong Xiaoxiao frown and glanced at the battlefield a few times, drew his sword, and ordered loudly: "Daniel Zhang, it's your turn, you take the gourd soldiers." ”

"Yes." Daniel Zhang, the deputy of Wanhu of the Mao Hulu soldiers, who bore the hopes of the gentry of the two Zhejiang, agreed loudly and took the order.

"Muhammad, bring thirty more ballista wagons to create an opportunity for General Zhang." Dong Xiaoxiao didn't think about it, and quickly issued another order.

"Yes." Muhammad also agreed loudly, walked out of the ranks, ordered more than 300 pale-faced ballistae, hurried up the ballistas, and rushed to the front line of the battle between the two armies.

"Uh-huh,,。" Dong Junxiao nodded with satisfaction, tried to straighten his body on horseback, and once again turned his gaze to Jiangwan New Town in the distance, the city wall wrapped in gunsmoke, which looked different and attractive in his eyes at this moment.

That small city was just built by Zhu Butcher this spring, with a radius of only five or six miles, and a population of only one or two hundred thousand, however, in this small projectile city, there are a series of key departments such as Zhu Butcher's Hundred Workshops, Artillery Field, Ice Jade Field, Great Craftsman Academy, and Lecture Martial Arts Hall, so to speak, as long as this small city is pinched, it is equivalent to pinching the heart of the Huai'an Army, and even if the other cities are well defended, they are only surviving.

If one day, in a trance, the distant cannon sound has turned into a cheerful gong and drum, and someone straddles the horse and crosses the sword, pointing the country

"My lord, if we continue like this, if we can't break the city today, our army won't be able to restore its morale for at least a few days." But someone didn't open his eyes and stepped forward to interrupt his dream loudly.

"Hmm." Dong Xiaoxiao frowned, turned his head, and just saw the worried face of his friend, Cheng Mingzhong, the envoy of Zhedong Xuanxuan, "In terms of artillery fire, our army is not superior, and the ballistae sent before have lost more than half, and the adults are constantly adding fuel to it, and they are committing a taboo in the army."

"I know, thank you Brother Cheng for reminding me." Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, Dong Shuxiao interrupted with a smile and waved his hand, and on his blue-gray face, there was a faint hint of pride, "Dong is also a person who has led the army for many years, of course he knows that adding fuel tactics is a taboo for soldiers, but Dong does this not just for a mere Jiangwan City."

"This" Cheng Mingzhong couldn't guess Dong Luxiao's true thoughts, and looked around, confused.

The battle near the city wall has entered a scorching state, every moment, countless people are dead, and so many brothers have been sacrificed, Dong Xuanwei also said that he is not planning a mere river, is he crazy, or he really still has some strange tricks hidden.

"Whether you and I can go into the city to drink today, Dong's goal has been achieved." Seeing that the other party had a blank look on his face, Dong Junxiao smiled, and the more mysterious his face became, "The so-called battlefield is like a chess game, Brother Cheng, I don't know if you are interested in being the one who breaks the game with Dong Moudao." ”

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