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"This is a solution, the gate of Tianjin City is brand new, and the original gate was blown up by a large amount of gunpowder. We don't lack gunpowder, and now the redcoat cannon has also been scrapped, so gunpowder can be used. Rest for the night today, and tomorrow morning, the army will continue to attack the city! Min Basi nodded in agreement.

"Why bother waiting until dawn. General Min, in the next day, felt that he could attack again after dark. The rebels are entrenched in the city, and their firearms are powerful, but that is also based on the premise of seeing clearly. If we attack the city by night and cover it by night, we will definitely be able to quickly advance to the city gate. After blowing up the city gate, the army entered the city in one fell swoop, so can't our 50,000 army eat the 20,000 or 30,000 rebels in the city? "Unei is also angry today, and as soon as Min Baxi finished speaking, he interjected.

"What General Uchi said is also reasonable, but it is impossible for the rebels to be unguarded at night, and the general estimates that they will patrol more closely at night. It's no problem to send someone to blow up the door, the key is that only a small army can go to blow up the door so as not to attract the attention of the city, and even if the city gate is blown up at night, it is not easy for the army to cross a long open space and enter the city. The veteran in the city, who had been cultivated and had been on the battlefield for a long time, would inevitably order the rebels to prepare a large number of thunderstorms and wait for them. What will we do then? "Min Baxi also considered, it is definitely not possible for the large army to rush up directly, so that the Mawei army will find out from afar. And the small army goes to blow up the door, and the big army can't be killed immediately, so it's better not to blow it up. So as not to startle the snake.

In fact, he was right. Not to mention this morning's big battle. Even before the Qing army arrived, the Mawei army took precautions. Especially at night, there are also several teams of scouts outside the city to reconnoiter the enemy. As long as the Qing army arrived, or prepared for a sneak attack at night, it was absolutely impossible to escape the eyes of the scouts. The Mawei army also prepared a lot of grenades and explosives bags in the past two days, and during the morning battle, the Qing army approached the city wall, but it was facing a small area of the city gate. The Mawei army kept dropping grenades and explosive packs, and the Qing army's shield car was reimbursed before it could hit it twice, and the nearby Qing army was not directly killed, but was also shocked to death by the aftermath of the explosion.

"Let's wait until tomorrow morning! Tomorrow, the army will use the shield cart as a cover, and after leaning on the city wall, it will immediately blow up the door, hmph, and when the gate is broken, the nearby army will quickly rush into the city gate, and an absolute force will crush the rebels, and the general will not believe it. The rebels can still turn the sky upside down! With anger on his face, Min Baxi officially began to order: "Tuketu, Li Sicheng, Zhang Jizu!" ”

"Mo will be!" The three generals immediately came out and replied.

"Tuketu. Command you to mobilize craftsmen to quickly make gunpowder kits for later use. ”

"Wow!" The lieutenant general in charge of logistics and baggage, Tuketu, was ordered to retreat.

"Li Sicheng, you and your subordinates quickly go to the surrounding towns to recruit a large number of carpenters, and cut down trees from nearby, be sure to make a shield car before dawn tomorrow! The shield cart style you just discussed must be able to withstand the attack of the horsetail army's bullets. ”

"Order!"

"Zhang Jizu, tomorrow your troops, as the vanguard, must enter the city in one go! Have faith? Min Baxi said to a big man with a full beard, who didn't look very strong, but he was really tall, definitely no less than two meters. Such a figure is really rare in this era.

"My subordinates will definitely live up to the expectations of adults." Zhang Jizu didn't say much, he is still very confident in his own pacesetter, and his mark is also the strongest of all the Qing troops brought by Min Baxi, it seems that Min Baxi is also desperate, if he fails to attack the city this time, then there is no need to plot Tianjin City

As soon as the sky was numb and bright, the sun didn't come out, and Zeng Yangxing was woken up.

"Commander-in-chief, the Qing army has come to attack the city early in the morning. According to the scout's report, the Qing army has used the old method and prepared a lot of shield carts to move forward! It seems that this is really what we expected! "Jin Yinghu, the commander of the Fourth Division, got up very early, and he got the report of the scouts early, so he hurried to Zeng Yangxing.

"Come on, come on! I didn't sleep all night last night! There were a lot of mines planted outside the city gate, and it was easy for the Qing army to get close to the city gate. Even if the city gate is broken, they can't get inside, and many of our defense lines are vegetarians. "I don't care about it. He has more than 20,000 troops in hand, and he is very confident. Outside the city of Tianjin, there is an open field, and it is easy for the Qing cavalry to charge in front of the army, but this siege is not good, and a thick wall of the Qing army will block the pace of the Qing army.

"To deal with the shield car, the army has already sorted out a set of systematic methods. In fact, it's very simple to say, just use a grenade or an explosives bag to blow up, and no matter how strong the shield car is, it can't withstand the bombardment of an explosive bag. The speed of the shield cart is slow, when it is not close to the city wall, it will be bombarded with cannons, and when it is close, it will be blown up with grenades or explosives. ”

"The commander is right, we don't have much else, just a lot of gunpowder. The Qing army and the Qing army did not have as much gunpowder as ours when they rose again, and thanks to those Western caravans, they were able to get a large amount of saltpeter from the Americas, but it helped our Mawei army a lot! Jin Yinghu also smiled happily in his heart.

"Okay, go out and have a look, and see what else this Qing army can do."

On the tower of Gongbei Gate, Zhang Wenliang was commanding the gunners at the head of the city, preparing to order them to start shelling the shield carts that were moving up slowly. The shield cart that appeared this time was a little different from the one he had seen a thousand times, and its body was much larger, and it seemed to be more sturdy. Look from afar. The ton car takes on the shape of a triangular pyramid. Is this a fear of a shell or grenade falling directly on it and exploding? That's how it should be. I guess I want to be able to use this slope to slide the grenade to the side when I am attacked by a grenade! “

"Everyone obeyed the order, quickly opened fire, and knocked out those big guys in front of the enemy army!" Zhang Wenliang ordered loudly. It's this kind of "soil tank" again, Zhang Wenliang really hates this thing, this thing is really useful in the field, several times he fought with the Qing army, and the Qing army relied on this thing to advance to the front of the Mawei Army array. At this time, the Qing army was still about 800 meters away from the city wall. The sixty cannons on the head of the city are completely enough, but the accuracy is not certain.

"Fire!" With Zhang Wenliang's order, the flag on the side ordered the official to wave the flag. The gun carriage of each gun shook involuntarily. Loud streams of fire and smoke rose up. Sixty cannonballs about two fists are roaring towards the Qing army's "earth tanks" around, sixty flowering bombs in the sky across an arc and then smashed fiercely in the Qing army's "earth tanks" group, in fact, more than half of the shells flew directly through the position of the "earth tanks" and fell in the military formation of the Qing army's infantry army behind.

The Qing army dropped 100 "earthen tanks" on the side of Gongbei Gate, and lost less than one in this first round of artillery bombardment. But the gunners of the Mawei Army were not discouraged and continued to steadily begin to adjust the angle of fire. Gun again.

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

The accuracy of the second round of shells was much stronger, three "earthen tanks" were blown up, and five "earthen tanks" had bombs exploded next to them, although the other "drivers" were frightened and a little weak under the deterrence of the artillery and did not dare to advance, but after all, they were the elite troops of the Qing army, and they only continued to advance steadily again after a moment of panic. Although the speed of the Qing army was very slow, the 60 cannons at the head of the city could not suppress the large number of "earthen tanks", and slowly, after three minutes, the Qing army troops advanced to a position less than 200 meters in front of the city wall.

"All obey the order, prepare the rifles, fight!"

At this distance, the guns and bullets of the soldiers of the Mawei Army also took this opportunity to quickly pour out of the city again, causing dozens of Qing troops to fall in more than a dozen gaps. After a while, the cannon rang out again, and the shells fell into the Qing army again. When these flowering bullets fell to the ground, the Qing soldiers who were frightened just now were so frightened that they hurriedly scattered from the side to try to avoid these projectiles, but with an earth-shattering explosion sound again, the Qing soldiers around the projectiles were shocked into the sky one by one, and the violent explosion shock wave easily shredded the fragile bodies of the surrounding Qing soldiers, even if they had the protection of armor, but it was to no avail. Mass of flesh and stumps were tossed into the air. Countless pieces of blood flew in the air, forming patches of blood-colored smoke.

When these explosions sounded, Min Baxi, who was behind him, couldn't help but be shocked, and his mind immediately returned to the scene when their army attacked Tianjin City yesterday morning, it was a nightmare, countless shells were exploding, and the shrapnel they flew out and the loud noise made his elite soldiers fall in large swaths, and this nightmare is now here again.

"Speed up, rush to the front is our victory, rush!"

"Boom!"

One of the "earthen tanks" suddenly exploded at this time, but the shells on the side of the Mawei Army did not directly hit the shield car, but two shells fell on its left side and directly overturned it. The bullets fired by the soldiers of the Mawei Army happened to hit the explosive bag carried by a Qing sergeant in the "earth tank", triggering the explosion of the explosive bag, and instantly blowing up the entire shield car and the Qing soldiers around it.

Many soldiers of the Qing army were killed and injured, and it also stimulated the blood of many Qing soldiers, they advanced faster with red eyes, and at this time they had advanced to a position of about sixty meters, although they were still a little unable to see the outline of the opposite side, but they also estimated that the distance was about the same, and some of the Qing troops behind took off the bows and arrows behind them, bent the bows and arrows, and prepared to suppress the rifles of the Mawei Army at the head of the city, and even suppressed the Mawei soldiers who threw thunder at the head of the city.

"It's almost the distance! Tell the throwing team, grenade ready, blow up these big guys for me! There are also explosive bags for me to use, and there is only one one, that is, the Qing army is absolutely not allowed to run to the city gate! Hear no! At this moment, Zhang Wenliang's face was hideous, he happened to observe the explosion of the Qing army's cool shield car just now, and at this time he also realized that the situation was a little bad, and the Qing army wanted to learn from them to blow up the door with explosives. It's been several years since the southern expedition and the northern war, and today it seems to be very critical!

"Let the soldiers pay attention, the Qing army has prepared explosives bags to get close to the city gate and blow up the city gate, although some mines are placed at the city gate, but we also have to use the rifle grenades in our hands to prevent them from approaching the city gate. Hit me with the spirit, whoever approaches the city gate will be killed first, don't worry about other directions, they can't climb up! ”

"Yes!" In the center of the city gate tower were the soldiers of the second battalion of the second division, and when they heard the order, they immediately burst into action!

The Qing army's "earthen tank" has approached thirty meters to the city gate, such a small distance, in fact, it only takes three breaths to rush into the city gate cave. But the Qing army continued to test a little further, and when it was twenty meters away from the city gate, three Qing soldiers rushed out of the first approaching ton car, all of whom rushed to the city gate with explosive bags on their backs. It's just that the three of them haven't run a few steps before the mine buried here was pulled, and the amount of gunpowder planted by this mine was large enough, not only the three Qing troops who rushed recently, but also the Qing troops who followed behind all fell under this violent explosion. This power is really cool, I don't have to say, after a burst of explosions, everyone in the Qing army dared to rush up again.

But the other shield carts are still approaching, and the closer they get here, the more violently the grenades and explosives bags of the Mawei Army greet, and the shield carts are constantly blown over, and then the Qing troops hiding in them are killed by bullets or directly blown up. For a time, there were more than a dozen shield carts concentrated at the city gate, but none of the Qing troops approached the city gate, and Min Baxi, who was in the distance, saw this scene from the clairvoyant mirror, and his anger immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood (to be continued......