Climbing directly to the top of the city with ladders or other tools, and then engaging in hand-to-hand combat and occupying the head of the city, these are all traditional siege methods, but the reason why it is said to be traditional is because these methods have fallen behind. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

Artillery bombardment, or simply blasting, has been popular for hundreds of years.

Since Yu Shengjun did not have many troops and was not prepared to fight hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, Lin Zhe adopted Shi Langyi's Jianyi, that is, to directly blast the city wall with a large amount of explosives, open a large gap and then attack the city.

That's why we have the kind of scene we have now.

The remnants of the knives at the head of the city saw that Yu Shengjun sent people to rush over, although they didn't know what they wanted to do, but they also knew that this was definitely not a good thing, and immediately many leaders shouted and ordered the soldiers to get up, trying to shoot and shoot arrows at the city, and even prepared to push down fire oil, giant trees, etc.

But it was often the case that they had just emerged, and before they could bend their bows and shoot arrows, they were killed by bullets fired by the soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment on the moving platform and the 1st Infantry Corps below the city.

More than 600 rifles and 12 artillery pieces suppressed this small section of the city, which was only less than 200 meters, and its efficiency was quite high, and any soldier who dared to take the initiative would be shot by Yu Shengjun's bullets in time.

Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters, those tens of meters Yu Shengjun who rushed out were getting closer and closer to the city wall, but at this time, although Yu Shengjun's suppressive fire was very fierce, there were still a small number of rebel soldiers from the knife club who risked their lives to shoot down from the gap in the city wall, and the bullets fired by the arquebus and the arrows fired by the bow began to fall between the dozens of Yu Shengjun.

It also caused the death and wounding of several soldiers of the charging Yu Shengjun.

At this time, Lin Zhe, who was watching the battle in the rear, was also nervous, before this, Yu Shengjun's battle was quite perfect, almost completely suppressing the firepower and resistance of the thief army, but now those thief troops on the opposite side obviously saw their intentions and wanted to resist desperately.

Whether the city can be broken will depend on whether these dozens of soldiers can succeed.

Time passed little by little, and after sacrificing a few people, most of the dozens of Yu Shengjun soldiers who rushed forward still managed to reach the city gate, and then put down the explosive bags they were carrying, and pulled the fire rope that had been prepared, and then began to run backwards in a swarm.

As they ran backwards, the ropes were already lit and quickly burned towards the place where the gunpowder was stacked.

The place where the gunpowder is stacked is not an open space, but a gap in the position of the city gate!

Previously, Yu Shengjun's artillery had intensively bombarded the position of the city gate, not only beating the city gate tower and the city gate, but also making several huge gaps at the city gate.

And these gaps are where Yu Shengjun is ready to blast.

After all, if you want to blow up the gap in the city wall, the difficulty is not small, and it is not useful to put the explosives directly at the foot of the city wall, the best thing is to dig tunnels to attack the city, but Yu Shengjun is short of time and has no time to dig tunnels, so he directly chooses to place explosives in several inherent gaps in the city wall, so that although the effect will be worse, it is not a big problem to blow up the city wall of Shanghai County.

After all, although the status of Shanghai County has become more and more important in recent years, it is still not a big city, just a small county town, but there is no city wall more than ten meters thick.

In addition, Yu Shengjun sent dozens of people to place explosives in multiple gaps to carry out simultaneous blasting at multiple points, which can effectively ensure the blasting effect.

Before the soldiers who had carried out the blasting could run back, several loud noises were heard on the city wall of Shanghai County, hundreds of meters away, accompanied by huge noises and towering smoke and dust.

It worked!

Although there was still a lot of smoke and dust at the blasting site, Lin Zhe had clearly seen that the city wall had been squeezed out of a huge gap!

Now is it: "Order the first corps, immediately launch an attack and capture the breach!" ”

The 1st Regiment moved quickly, and they ran and rushed directly to the gap, while the soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment continued their task of suppressing fire.

But at this time, they found that there seemed to be a huge riot in the enemy army at the head of the city, not to mention the blown up city wall, the enemy troops above must have died, and the soldiers of the Knife Society rebels on the city wall 100 meters away from the perimeter also seemed to be blown up.

And when they saw Yu Shengjun rushing towards the gap, they were immediately confused

Some of them rushed to the breach under the leadership of the leaders, trying to plug it, while others simply turned and ran, trying to get out of the hell on earth.

And if the first person takes the lead, then there will be a second, and if the junior officers of the army do not have this momentum in time, then it will soon spread to the entire front.

So then the soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment saw a very spectacular scene, thousands of knife soldiers on the entire western city wall rushed to escape the city wall, and even many people shouted loudly that the city was broken, fleeing for their lives, and so on.

They did not collapse under the heavy artillery bombardment and musket suppression of Yu Shengjun's heavy bombardment, but after the city wall was blasted, the first regiment launched a charge in less than a minute, and there were signs of collapse.

By the time the first army rushed to the gap that was still filled with gunsmoke, thousands of Knife Society rebel soldiers on the city wall had completely escaped from the city wall and poured into the city.

Liu Lichuan looked at his own soldiers who had completely collapsed and fled, revealing a look of despair!

At this time, the leader of a small knife club on the side spoke: "Dashuai, Shanghai is finished, but we still have tens of thousands of brothers, go back to collect the rout army and immediately go out of the city from the south gate, we can't go there when the world is big!" ”

Liu Lichuan looked at the other leaders, whose eyes were already showing a trace of fear, and they were all waiting for Liu Lichuan to say something to escape.

No way, they're scared!

Today's battle was only more than two hours before and after, but from beginning to end, it was one-sided by the Qing demon on the opposite side, suppressed by artillery and Minnie rifle fire, don't look at the previous two hours There was no major movement, but in fact, the knife at the head of the city will have very heavy casualties.

The reason why Yu Shengjun was able to hold on despite heavy casualties was because Yu Shengjun had been unilaterally carrying out long-distance fire suppression strikes before, and did not directly climb the city wall.

However, now that a section of the city wall was directly smashed by the Qing Demon on the opposite side, and when they launched a charge to attack the city, these small knives, which had already suffered heavy casualties and had suffered a great decline in morale, could still hold on to the rebel soldiers.

You must know that these people were just ordinary farmers a month ago or even half a month ago, and they were not soldiers at all, and even the core members of the Little Knife Society were not soldiers, but just members of the Jianghu Sect.

It is already very rare to be able to hold on for more than two hours under such a fierce fire attack by Yu Shengjun, with heavy casualties.

Now that Yu Shengjun has rushed to the gap, and will soon attack the city in an all-out way, they still have the courage to continue fighting, so it is naturally not surprising that they will turn around and run one by one.

"Lin Zhe, I remember today's hatred!" Liu Lichuan finally looked outside the city, although it was more than a thousand meters away, he could still clearly see the group of people riding tall horses outside the city, and there was his enemy: Lin Zhe.

"Let's go, gather the brothers and go through the south gate!" Liu Lichuan said with a ruthless expression.

One of the leaders next to him asked a lot, "Where are we going when we leave the city?" ”

Liu Lichuan snorted: "Let's go out of the city first!" ”

At the same time, the First Battalion also rushed into the gap in the city wall that had been blown open, and engaged in a fierce battle with the hundreds of Knife Society rebel soldiers who rushed to plug the gap.

Due to the relatively narrow terrain, the First Rank Corps could not list a complete formation to meet the battle, so that each company was fighting on its own, and at the same time, due to the relatively fast arrival of the enemy army, terrain restrictions and other reasons, the First Rank Corps could not shoot and intercept the enemy at a long distance.

But even if the distance was only within 100 meters, it was enough for the soldiers of the Yu Shengjun to fire several salvos, and when the enemy rushed over with heavy casualties.

The 1st Infantry launched its second bayonet charge since its formation!

Hundreds of people lined up in a close formation to carry out a bayonet charge, and it was also a modern infantry bayonet charge trained with a modern military system, which was not at all something that ordinary feudal cold-weapon armies could resist.

Not to mention that now the Knife Society rebel army in the city has completely fallen into a rout, most of the Knife Society rebel army in the west city wall has turned around and fled, and only a small number of hundreds of people have rushed to fight in the gap, and these people are all pieced together, and there is no unified command at all.

When the First Infantry forced these men back with a bayonet charge, the Knife Rebels no longer had the courage to launch a second counteroffensive.

Shi Langyi of the First Infantry Corps did not order the troops to continue to pursue with bayonets in hand-to-hand combat, but ordered the troops to immediately form a formation and deploy a defensive formation on the spot.

The first regiment did not carry out a rash pursuit, mainly considering that there were many thieves in the city, which were tens of thousands, and if these hundreds of people rushed into the city, it would be easy for accidents to happen, so Shi Langyi decided to hold on to the gap first and wait for reinforcements from the second infantry regiment.

The first step of the corps was to wait for help, on the other hand, it also gave Liu Lichuan and other small knife rebels time to escape, these small knife rebels swarmed from the city, and then ran directly towards the other three city gates, as for why no one organized people in the city to continue to hold on?

This Liu Lichuan has run away, and the other core members of the Little Knife Club can naturally run away, and most of the rest are ordinary soldiers, ordinary soldiers who were farmers a month ago, and they can be organized there.

At eleven o'clock in the afternoon, the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Infantry Regiment each advanced into the city in companies, encountering many small groups of enemy troops, but they were quickly annihilated.

At this time, the cavalry company that was on guard duty outside the city also discovered the Knife Society rebels who had escaped from the south gate in large numbers!

Qian Niubei looked at these fleeing knives and rebels, and when there were still a large number of baggage, he immediately led the cavalry to gallop away!

"If you want to escape, you can, but leave Lao Tzu's loot behind!" Qian Niubei drew his saber, and then rushed directly with this group of cavalry companies that had not yet experienced the test of real war.

Although their charging formation was not very close, and the coordination between knights and knights was almost zero, when such a cavalry of nearly two hundred people brandished their sabers and rushed towards this Knife Rebel Army, its huge momentum was enough to make every Knife Rebel Soldier collapse.

It is not very difficult for a phalanx of infantry with a full formation to resist a cavalry charge, and the cavalry often does not attack an infantry phalanx with a full formation.

But now, these Knife Society rebels who have just escaped from the South City Gate, not to mention the complete formation, do not even have the most basic organization, and many soldiers are blindly following the large army to flee.

When they were pursued by a large force of cavalry, they made the same choice as all the routers, and that was to scatter and flee!

Yu Shengjun's infantry regiment gradually occupied all the important places in Lin City, clearing the bandits in the city, and the cavalry outside the city was also very busy, they pursued those enemy routs everywhere, killing and wounding the enemy army was not their purpose, just to prevent those routs from taking away a lot of baggage, you must know that these are the trophies of Yu Shengjun.

By five o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Shengjun had completely controlled the entire Shanghai county, and at this time, Lin Zhe and the officers of the military department finally rode high-headed horses on the land of Shanghai county.

Smelling the smell of gunsmoke and blood mixed in the air, Lin Zhe, who felt a little uncomfortable, frowned slightly.

However, he didn't stay on the corpses of the rebels on the street for long, but quickly turned his head and asked Shi Langyi: "Can you find those deposited silver?" ”xh118