Hong Chengchou ordered the officers and troops to rush towards the small city from all directions. The town looks strangely shaped, with moats and irregular layers of walls on the outside.

Each floor of the city wall was not very high, and the officers and soldiers saw an opportunity. They cut down the trees outside the city to make many ladders, believing that it would not be a problem to climb the low walls. Under the supervision of the generals behind, a large number of officers and troops rushed to the city wall.

After overturning a few of the officers' artillery, the security artillerymen left a few to continue shelling the officers' artillery, and the rest of the artillery turned to the attacking ranks. The flying shells stirred up a mist of blood in the ranks of the officers and soldiers. The officers and soldiers were outnumbered, and these casualties could still be tolerated.

The attacking team kept advancing, but not very fast. Because the hearts of some officers and soldiers were full of fear, they had heard a rumor before they set out on the expedition, saying that Zhang Chu, the leader of the anti-thieves, was a god and Buddha from the heavens, and he would be able to Qimen Dunjia and scatter beans into soldiers. The most powerful thing is that he is friends with the fire god Zhu Rong, and he can summon the heavenly fire, and the last time in Fugu, Zhang Chu summoned the heavenly fire and burned Wang Jiayin's 10,000 horses to the ground. The officers and soldiers secretly prayed that the thief Zhang Chu would never be in this small city.

Zhang Chu was not in the city, and the life of the official army was not much better. As the distance shortened, they entered the range of the small artillery of the security army, and the shotgun fired by the small artillery was a natural weapon against the officers and soldiers who charged in dense formations. Every cannon shot would open a death strip several meters wide and more than ten meters long in the formation of the officers and soldiers. The officers and soldiers had nothing to defend against, so they could only secretly hope that the muzzles of the security forces would not be pointed at them. As casualties mounted, the officers and troops began to waver, the pace of the offensive became slower, and some soldiers began to look back for an opportunity to retreat.

When the generals of the officers and soldiers found that the situation was not right, they immediately ordered the overseers to step forward with swords, bows and arrows, and scolded the attacking team loudly, and the drums urging the attack became more and more rapid. Only then did they stabilize the ranks and continue to advance towards the city walls.

The officers and soldiers came to the trench outside the city and began to climb over the trench. The defending security guards also received an order from the tower to come out of the cave and stand guard on the city wall with muskets in hand.

The edge of the trench was within the effective range of the muskets, and the company commander of the leading team gave the order, and the gunfire rang out in all directions, and the walls were immediately enveloped in gunpowder smoke. The officers and soldiers in front of the trench were hit hard, and the soldiers in the front row shook their bodies violently, fell to the ground, and fell into the trench along the edge of the ditch. The terrible thing is that the gunfire of the security guards continued after that. The officers and soldiers on the side of the trench were stripped away layer by layer and turned into corpses.

The soldiers in the rear continued to charge forward, and then fell to the ground due to bullets at the edge of the trench, killed or wounded. Fear began to spread in the hearts of the soldiers in the front row, and they slowed down the pace of the charge, but this did not save their lives, and the soldiers in the back kept rushing over, pushing the soldiers in front of them forward, and also to death.

The entire attacking team found that the situation was not good, and the soldiers in front of them were killed and wounded countless times before they approached the city wall, which meant that they would also die if they rushed forward, and the officers and soldiers who charged slowed down.

Seeing that the momentum of the offensive had slowed down, Hong Chengchou decisively ordered the reserve troops in the rear to be thrown into the charging array. And ordered that there should be stagnation, and that there would be no forgiveness for the former. He saw that if the troops were withdrawn at this time, the soldiers would be killed by the artillery on the city, and the casualties would not be avoided if they rushed again next time. In front of the officers and soldiers is a hurdle, just rush over.

The follow-up troops pushed the troops in front of them forward, and the Overseers in the ranks unceremoniously raised their butcher's knives at the sluggish soldiers. The officers and soldiers saw that their unfavorable comrades were killed one by one, and knew that the way back was cut off, so they had to rush forward desperately, and if they could break through the trench, there would still be a chance of survival.

Hong Chengchou's desperate ruthlessness worked. After filling the trenches with the corpses of a large number of officers and soldiers, they finally rushed to the strangely shaped walls of the security army.

There was no way to climb the protruding sharp corners, and the officers and soldiers could only enter between the sharp corners and rush towards the city wall.

The officers and soldiers who rushed in immediately felt even more pressure. Not only did the bullets come from the front, but the security guards at the sharp corners were now in the rear of the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers were fired at from crossfire from three directions, and there were more casualties. The officers and soldiers kept filling it in, and then they were killed in front of the city wall.

Hong Chengchou was also very anxious in the back, the officers and soldiers had already rushed to the front of the city wall, so long time passed, I saw the officers and soldiers constantly moving forward, but none of the soldiers climbed to the top of the city.

Yang Peng continued to issue orders on the top of the tower, adjusting the strength of the defense, the battlefield has become a one-sided slaughter, the official army can not attack the city wall, as long as the archers are assembled, they will be given special care by the city's artillery, after a burst of heavy bombardment, the archers immediately dispersed, and the occasional cold arrow shot at the head of the city could not cause any damage to the security soldiers wearing iron helmets and iron armor.

Now the battlefield is only testing the will of the officers and soldiers, and the more resolute the will of the officers and soldiers, the more ruthless they will rush forward, and the more they will be killed or injured by the security forces. It was an attack with no hope of victory.

The soldiers of the security army were completely enveloped in the smoke of their muskets, and they could not see the scene on the battlefield clearly, and did not have time to see it, so they only mechanically loaded and fired the bullets in the designated direction under the captain's command. Whether the shot hit the target or not is no longer in consideration.

The officers and soldiers were even more numb, and they witnessed their comrades falling to the ground after being hit by bullets, and themselves being pushed forward by the team behind them to approach the denser bullets.

The shouting of the officers and soldiers has stopped, but the mechanical charge forward, except for the guns of the security army on the battlefield, is the wailing of the wounded officers and soldiers.

Stepping on the corpses of his companions, a ladder of the officers and soldiers finally set up the city wall. This cloud ladder suddenly attracted the attention of many people, including Hong Chengchou, and the officers and soldiers who were supervising the battle on the inner battlefield were all watching it nervously.

The ladder on the city wall gave the officers and soldiers the hope of victory again, and the morale was greatly boosted for a while, and many soldiers climbed up the ladder.

The security guards guarding the sharp corners of the city wall also noticed the threat of this ladder, and immediately bullets came at the ladder from the side and back. Officers and soldiers fell from the ladder one after another. The officers and soldiers did not give up, and more soldiers rushed up, rushed over and were knocked down, and then rushed up, forming a huge pile of corpses at the bottom of the ladder. The huge casualties were rewarded, and several officers and soldiers climbed to the top of the ladder and were about to climb to the top of the city, and the officers and officers in the back stared at the figures of several people, secretly cheering for them, as long as they climbed to the top of the city.

A pipe stretched out from the top of the city, and from the pipe spat out a fiery serpent, which swept over the ladder, turning the officers and soldiers on it into a fireball, and at the same time igniting the ladder. A tall flame erupted from the ladder, which was quickly burned out.

The burned ladder cut off the last hope of victory for the officers and troops. It became the last straw that crushed the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers shouted and turned around and fled backwards.

Hong Chengchou closed his eyes in pain: "Defeated, defeated like this." ”

The situation on the battlefield could not afford to be delayed, and Hong Chengchou immediately ordered the officers to immediately gather the ranks and not let the soldiers escape. At this critical moment, the sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground was heard behind the officers and soldiers, and it seemed that thousands of troops and horses were running.

A junior colonel of the official army ran over and knelt in front of Hong Chengchou and said loudly: "Report to your lordship, there are a large number of anti-thief cavalry rushing from behind. ”