Early the next morning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"The thieves have stopped?"

One of the green worms exclaimed in disbelief.

The Ming army's artillery bombardment really stopped, although since yesterday afternoon, the intensity of the shelling has been greatly reduced, but sporadically continued all night, the tense atmosphere created by the sound of artillery, so that the Qing army hardly slept well all night, at this time they were exhausted with dark circles under their eyes.

But now, the shelling has finally stopped.

"Great, Daqing is saved, cough, cough!"

Yu Chenglong shouted excitedly.

Immediately afterwards, he was choked with his own saliva and coughed, and there was even more jubilation around him, especially those green insects who desperately praised the wisdom and martial arts of Lord Futai, obviously in their opinion, the Ming army was poor in donkey skills, after all, their trick was indeed incomprehensible, and there were more than 30,000 people on the city wall. Just in case they expelled all the young and middle-aged men in the city, and now the city wall is full of old and weak women and children as hostages, and there are more than 5,000 people in the area of Xunmen in the south alone, and as long as the Ming army uses flowering bombs or poisonous fire bombs, then these people can only be buried with them.

How to break this game?

How to break?

"Ha, ha, ha!"

Yu Chenglong smirked.

"Huh?!"

His laughter came to an abrupt end.

Because at this time, in the Ming army camp in the distance, the huge Kong Ming lanterns continued to rise one after another, and soon five behemoths flew into the sky, swaying and drifting towards Hefei City under the southeast wind.

Yu Chenglong and those green insects looked at each other.

"It's not good, the thief army wants to learn from that demon!"

A green worm suddenly exclaimed.

Well, he guessed right.

An infantry brigade of the Ming army is equipped with a reconnaissance balloon, one directly under the military department, He Jin is all transferred, he just wants to learn the tactics of Yang Wangye when he captured Jubaomen, and directly use the hot air balloon to parachute into the city to play in the center of the flower, although he can only equip a total of twenty soldiers for these small hot air balloons, but these twenty are not ordinary soldiers......

"Down!"

Xu Shou, the captain of the second team of the first post of the Fourth Army's life capture battalion, shouted.

At the same time, he pulled out his latest revolver and casually shot it outward, in case the other balloons didn't hear him.

This weapon is the latest to be put into production, but instead of a modern version of the metal cartridge, like the earliest revolvers, the cartridge is loaded with a paper shell, that is, a warhead, and ******, and the fire cap is simply rolled in a nitrated paper roll, but the production is limited, and only a few officers and in fact the special forces survival battalion are just beginning to equip it.

Just as he was re-inserting a bullet for the empty nest, the five hot air balloons had already begun to descend in height.

"Quick, go get rid of the thieves!"

Looking at this scene, Yu Chenglong on the Nanxun Gate anxiously shouted to his own soldiers.

The latter hurriedly waved his hand, and hundreds of Qing soldiers of the most elite Fubiao immediately rushed down the city wall with flintlock pistols, but at this moment, a green insect suddenly pointed outside the city and exclaimed: "Lord Futai, what do you think it is?" ”

Yu Chenglong hurriedly followed his point and looked over.

The green ground looked vaguely strange, and he immediately opened the clairvoyant mirror, only to find that in the dense wheat field outside the city, I don't know when there was a thin line, a thin line that continued to extend forward, because the wheat that had begun to tassel was blocked, and the distance was about one hundred and fifty zhang, and it was impossible to see clearly without the clairhand.

Well, that's actually a trench that's being dug up fast.

A zigzag trench that took a whole night to dig less than two miles from Hefei City has not been discovered until now because it is in a vast wheat field and all the soil dug in the trench is passed away.

can be found and discovered, and the purpose of this trench can be guessed, but how to deal with it made Yu Chenglong and the gang of green worms dumbfounded.

Shelling?

More than a dozen cannons of the Qing army on the city wall were immediately aimed at the target, accompanied by the flames of the muzzle spray, a solid cannonball of cast iron whistled out, splashing the soil in the wheat field, but it could not affect the forward extension of the trench at all, just a trench more than one step wide, from more than a hundred meters away, it was just a line in the wheat seedlings, and if you want to use a smoothbore gun to shoot a smoothbore gun with no accuracy, it is too difficult for the old, weak, sick and disabled who have been eliminated by the Eight Banners.

Out of town to attack?

Uh, don't be funny about this.

Just when the Qing army was bombarding the trenches of the Ming army in vain, Xu Shou and others on the hot air balloon had already landed, because they could not accurately control the direction, the five squads landed at five different points, of course, this is not a big deal, the task of the airborne operation of the capture battalion is to fight guerrilla attacks in this Hefei city, they are to disturb the morale of the Qing army, and to attract the Qing army from the city wall to the greatest extent to reduce the pressure of the Ming army outside the city when attacking, do not care about the location at all.

'Quick!'

Xu Shou looked at the map in his hand and waved and said.

The three soldiers behind him quickly followed, and almost as soon as they turned the street in front, dozens of Qing cavalry appeared on the opposite side, and the soldiers of the agile capture battalion rushed into a house next to them at great speed, and then threw out four grenades from the partition wall, and the Qing troops who had just arrived outside the wall and dismounted and were about to chase in were blown up in mourning. At the same time, the two soldiers who climbed a big tree at the same time pulled out their revolvers, and emptied all the bullets with great speed like western cowboys, and the two jumped down immediately when the remnants of the Qing army raised their guns to aim.

At this time, less than half of the Qing troops outside could still participate in the battle.

"Rush in!"

Mr. Qian, who led the team, shouted anxiously.

But at this moment, the gunfire behind him suddenly rang out, and then he screamed as if he had been punched and fell to the ground, at the same time, the Qing army next to him continued to fall in the dense gunfire, behind them, another group of Ming soldiers were constantly pulling the trigger of the revolver, and in front of the Qing army, Xu Shou and others also rushed out, and the remaining dozen Qing soldiers fell under the front and rear pinching.

The two groups of Ming armies quickly converged.

At this time, the five hot air balloons have flown out of the city and fell, and then the special transport carriage arrived, and after carrying this thing into the car, it went straight to the camp on the other side, and after arriving at the camp, the five hot air balloons were loaded with twenty soldiers from the capture battalion and flew up from the camp, and then flew down to Hefei City with the wind, and the soldiers inside came out and joined the battle with the Qing army. The hot air balloon continued to fly outside the city to repeat the next airdrop process, and just when Yu Chenglong was heartbroken for the ever-extending trench outside the city, these five hot air balloons repeated the same process over and over again, sending batch after batch of survival battalion soldiers into the city.

The more and more fierce gunfire in the city made the Qing army on the city wall frightened one by one, in their opinion, it would not take long to do so, Hefei City was full of Ming troops, Yu Chenglong had to continue to draw more valuable troops from the city wall, to the city to search for these Ming troops into their stomachs.

But the Qing army defending the city was actually selected from the Eight Banners and Baoyi refugees who fled in the early stage, and these people were originally the leftover scum, and the real young and middle-aged people all died on the battlefield or went as slaves in Yangfeng's coal mines. There were even twelve or thirteen-year-old children and old men in their sixties in these Qing troops, and they hid on the city wall and took the common people hostage to open fire, and let them fight guerrilla warfare with the Ming special forces with two of the latest revolvers, a rear-loading rifle of the same latest type, grenades and a large amount of spare ammunition......

It was an absolute tragedy.

Although Hefei is not a giant castle like Nanjing and Beijing, but it is also the capital of Anhui Province, the circumference of the city wall is nearly 20 miles, in such a big city, among the countless alleys and alleys of the people, a group of old, weak, sick and disabled militia against a group of professional killers who wear through the house and cross the ridge like walking on the ground, the result is not any suspense at all.

"Ma, this tartar is really exhausted!"

Xu Shou was lying on the window of the embroidery building of a large family, looking at the Qing soldiers not far away, who were not yet high in the gun, and said very speechlessly.

Immediately after he pulled the trigger without hesitation, the officer on horseback in the Qing army who was searching fell in response, and then he loaded a paper shell bullet as fast as possible, and then aimed at the next target, this latest rear-loading rifle and revolver are the same as the Ming army's next-generation standard equipment, but because it is completely produced by himself, Yang Wangye did not provide any parts, so the output is not high.

Well, it's actually a Dryes.

Beside Xu Shou, there was a girl who was looking at him with adoring eyes, and handed him a cup of hot tea with a face full of shyness.

Yu Chenglong drove all the young and middle-aged people in the city out of the city, leaving only the old and weak women and children as hostages for him, but how could this kind of cleanup be complete, many people hid, even including some young and middle-aged people. Anyway, as long as you avoid the first round of search, the Qing army will have no time to take care of anything else after the Ming army arrives, in fact, there are still a large number of ordinary people hiding in the city, and now these people are coming out of hiding to act as guides for the Ming army. Just when the girl watched with affection Xu Shou take the rear-loading rifle and name the Qing army one by one, her brother was sneaking out of the back door with seven other soldiers, and then touched the back of the chaotic Qing army, each with a revolver, like a duel cowboy in the west, quickly repeating the action of pulling the trigger from the hammer.

"This trick is good, and I will do it again in the future."

On a high ground outside the city, He Jin listened to the faint gunfire in Hefei City, and said with great satisfaction that above his head, the hot air balloon that took off for the fourth time was flying with soldiers.

"It's just that this balloon is too small."

His chief of staff said, looking overhead.

"Indeed, in the future, we should recruit a group of people who specialize in this."

He Jin said approvingly.

"Where did the trench go?"

Then he asked.

"We're almost close to the moat."

said the chief of staff.

"Well, order the assault team to take position and prepare for the siege."

He Jin said immediately. (To be continued.) )