Chapter 70: The Great Ring of Fortifications

"Boom, boom, boom......"

There was a sound of artillery bombardment, one after another, and one after another red-coated cannons aimed at targets two or three hundred meters away, and fiercely bombarded that section of the city wall. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Almu was also bold enough to know that the muskets could not hit so far, and outside the range of the muskets, it was only two or three hundred meters away, and more than two dozen red-coated cannons, lined up, concentrated their forces on bombarding a section of the city wall less than a hundred meters long in front.

Such a high-density bombardment, even if it is not a modern cannon, just a primitive and backward cannon, but the effect is immediate, that section of the city wall, gradually collapsed, and a gap tens of meters wide is gradually forming.

Almu looked at this section of the city wall from a distance, and was in a good mood, and a loudspeaker next to him said even more loudly: "Banner master, the opportunity for the warriors to take revenge has come." ”

One of Meler said even more: "Banner master, do we gather all the cavalry and rush into the city from that gap?" ”

Almu said: "Wait a little longer, bombard for another half an hour, wait for the collapsed gap to be a little bigger, a little more spacious, and a little more completely collapsed, and then our warriors will rush in, all rush in, and kill all those damned Ming troops." ”

"Yes!"

The few Jiala Ezhen next to him, including Almu's two deputies, Mele Ezhen, everyone responded in unison, and it could be seen that everyone was happy and saw the dawn of victory.

"Look, Banner Master."

A Jia La's eyesight is really very good, even if he is two or three hundred meters away, he can see both ends of the collapsed city wall, and some Ming troops are rushing to repair it.

"Haha, it's no, it's completely futile."

Many people laughed, thinking that Zhang Feng's people were rushing to repair the city wall, but in fact, the soldiers were building fortifications, and at both ends of the collapsed city wall, they used green bricks and large stones to build them to prevent the tartars from climbing up from the collapsed place.

As for the back of the collapsed gap, it was very lively, Zhang Feng was personally commanding, everyone was busy, all the soldiers of the guard company, and hundreds of young people, everyone was building a big fortification.

This is a semicircle with a diameter of more than 100 meters, and everyone uses bricks, stones, even wood and sandbags, everything that can be used, to build a huge semicircle of about 1 meter 4 or 5 meters high and about 1 meter thick.

The semicircular fortifications faced the gap in the crumbling wall, like a giant beast with its mouth open, waiting for the arrival of the Tartar soldiers.

In order to build this fortification, even some houses here were quickly demolished, the place was empty, watching the fortifications gradually take shape and be completed, Zhang Feng looked at the section of the city wall that was collapsed by the Tartars in front of him, the gap of nearly 100 meters formed by the city wall has been formed, no more than one zhang high, and the city wall two or three zhang high is in stark contrast, even if it is a cavalry, can rush in on horseback.

The bombardment of the red-clothed cannons had gradually thinned out, and Zhang Feng knew that the Tartars should soon start a large-scale attack.

Zhang Feng shouted loudly: "Captain Wang, are your people ready?" ”

Wang Chaoyong shouted excitedly: "Chief soldier, all are ready, you give the order!" ”

Zhang Feng waved his hand and said, "All enter the attack position, prepare for battle, and let the Tartars taste the power of our muskets and grenades." ”

Wang Chaoyong drew his saber and shouted murderously: "All of them, enter the attack position and prepare for battle!" ”

The soldiers of the three infantry battalions were almost all withdrawn, leaving only a small number of people with the more than 2,000 young men on the city wall to guard, Zhang Feng was gambling, ready to gamble fiercely.

Zhang Feng bet that the Tartars would rush in through the collapsed gap, and through the gap, they would enter the semicircular circular fortification he had built, and after the Tartars rushed into the circular fortification, they would be greeted by a three-stage shot of a thousand or hundreds of muskets and a large number of grenades.

The soldiers were responsible for shooting, and the two or three hundred young men who cooperated with the battle were responsible for throwing grenades into the ring fortifications, so that even a girl could throw grenades into the ring fortifications.

The one-meter-high, four-and-five-meter-high ring fortifications that were repaired just now could not only prevent the Tartars from rushing in front of the fighters, but also prevent the shrapnel from the grenade explosion from injuring themselves.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the arrival of the Tartars.

Will those Tartars really rush in through the gap formed by the collapse?

Distance.

Almu laughed happily when he saw that a huge gap had been formed, and that his cavalry could easily rush into it on horseback.

"Banner master, you see, there are a lot fewer Ming troops on the city wall, they won't be ready to escape."

"Banner master, give the order, if you don't give the order to rush into the city, those Ming troops are really gone, and we will bombard the city in vain."

There were only a few warriors and those young men on the city wall, and the number was naturally much smaller, and the Tartars thought that Zhang Feng and they were ready to abandon the city and flee.

Almu also saw that the Ming army on the city wall had decreased significantly, and couldn't help shouting: "Warriors, charge me, all rush into the city, kill all those Ming troops, and avenge our dead warriors." ”

The sound of artillery shelling soon stopped, and the Tartars, whether they were cavalry or infantry, all began to charge, nearly 20,000 people, which was simply a large area of black pressure, and those who rushed to the front were naturally those cavalry, riding their horses and rushing towards the collapsed gap.

Seeing this spectacular scene, Almu couldn't help but be full of joy, the victory was decided, Almu turned over and got on his horse, took his guards, and prepared to enter the city.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

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

The explosion of grenades and the intensive shooting of muskets kept coming, but Armu didn't pay attention to it at all, knowing that this was the last struggle of the Ming army.

Almu is very familiar with the firearms of the Ming army, even if the firearms of the Ming army are a little more powerful, but so what, can they withstand the charge of tens of thousands of people.

"Rush, kill!"

Almu thought so, and those Niu Lu Ezhen and Jia Lae Zhen also thought so, and they didn't pay attention to it at all, holding up their sabers, shouting over and over again, as if they had taken a stimulant, and ordered their subordinates to rush forward.

The collapsed gap was about a foot high, which blocked the view of the Tartars, and no one knew what was going on inside without rushing into the gap, so that the Tartars were simply one after the other.

Behind the gap, next to the huge circular fortifications.

Zhang Feng is not far from the ring fortifications, on the improvised command platform not far from the ring fortifications, condescending, this is the best observation point, but also the best command point.

Just now, Zhang Feng heard that the shelling sound had all stopped, and then, the ground was trembling slightly, and Zhang Feng knew that it was thousands of war horses galloping.

came, the Tartars came, and the Tartars were all dispatched.

Zhang Feng was excited and nervous, although the plan was perfect, but Zhang Feng also knew that there were too many Tartars, and if they rushed into this huge ring fortification with a diameter of more than 100 meters, the soldiers would be able to shoot it.

Soon, the Tartar cavalry showed their figures at the breach, and then, soon after crossing the breach, they rushed into the huge ring of fortifications.

Zhang Feng held his short gun, and it was a shot to the sky, and when Wang Chaoyong saw Zhang Feng's gunshot, he immediately raised his saber and shouted loudly with all his might.

"Shoot, Kill!"

Hearing the gunshots, hearing Wang Chaoyong's shouts, each company, each platoon immediately started the first round of shooting, of course, three-stage shooting, the first round of soldiers finished shooting, immediately stepped back to reload, the second row of soldiers took a few steps forward, leaning on the ring fortifications, holding guns to the ring fortifications for the second round of shooting, the shooting was completed and reloaded, the third row of soldiers shot forward......

The gunfire suddenly intensified.

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

Shooting, reloading backwards, shooting forward, reloading backwards, the movements of the warriors went on and on, and the Tartars rushed in a swarm as if they were crazy, rushing through the gaps in the walls and into the ring of fortifications.

The screams, the screams of the horses, the dense musket shots, the violent explosions of grenades, the corpses gradually increased in the ring fortifications.

The task of the hundreds of young men who assisted the soldiers in their attack was to hide behind the ring fortifications, light grenades, and throw them into the ring fortifications.

The movement was so big, but due to the obstruction of the line of sight and the smoke of black gunpowder, those Tartars who did not rush in didn't know what was going on inside, and thought that this was the dying struggle of the Ming army, and their cavalry was violently slashing the Ming army.

Those Niu Lu Ezhen and Jia Lae Zhen were outside the city wall, excited, exhausted, as if they had been stimulated, commanding their subordinates to rush and charge violently. It seems that as long as you rush into the gap, rush into the city, it is a victory.

In this way, tragedy!

Dense musket fire, dense grenade explosions, rushing through the gap, rushing into the ring of fortifications, it was like rushing into the hell of death.

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