Character determines the result, and Dali City seems to be in a catastrophe.

But what Xu Shouren and Gao Fang didn't expect happened in front of their eyes, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would never believe that there would be such a thing.

The battle began at the South City Gate.

As Xu Shouren expected, Gao Fang really couldn't afford to delay time, and when he learned that Lao Nest was attacked by the Ming and Duan coalition forces, Gao Fang had no choice, unless his son Gao Zhiping's command could play beyond the level, or the defenders could really work hard, Tengchong Mansion might be able to protect itself with the exceptionally strong city defense that he had operated in recent years.

But Gao Fang knew that although his son was smart, he was young and frivolous, and he was by no means the opponent of the Ming army's commander.

It's already good if you don't have to make a stupid move, and the defenders are by no means as loyal and brave as the more than 10,000 regular troops under their command, if they are really attacked by the Ming army, it is already good if they can escape without breaking down.

Therefore, Gao Fang knew that time was not on his side, and he could only capture Dali City before the news of the fall of Tengchong Mansion came.

Only in this way can he win back the hearts of these tribal leaders gathered around him, and can he appease the two towns of Lishui and Yongchang, so that they can continue to work hard for themselves.

The battle began to heat up, and under the strong orders of the high side, 10,000 rebels launched a siege battle.

Gao Fang left only 5,000 crossbowmen at his side.

There was no time to prepare siege engines, except for a small number of ladders carried with the army, there were no siege equipment.

The Guan army used human lives to fill it in, facing the rain of arrows on the city wall. The rebels rushed forward and charged the walls as if they were completely desperate.

Even Gao Fang, who was anxious, had to sigh in his heart, after all, this was his descendant army. After all, the soldiers brought out in the past ten years are incomparable to others.

In the face of such ferocious attacks from the rebels, the defenders on the city walls simply pulled the strings and fired them mechanically, while the six thousand young men were constantly replenishing the arrows for the crossbowmen.

The battle lasted half an hour.

After several rounds of arrows from the defenders, the rebels paid more than a thousand casualties, and finally approached the city walls, and at this time, the situation on the battlefield began to change.

Six thousand crossbowmen could easily cope with the rebel attack outside the city gates. However, once the rebels attacked from the entire wall and reached the base of the wall, the crossbowmen needed a probe to shoot down.

This gave Gao Fang the opportunity to order the crossbowmen to fight back.

The same dense barrage of arrows was fired at the walls, and a large number of casualties among the defenders began to appear.

Thereupon. The defenders can only turn their target to enemy crossbowmen.

As a result, the threat to the rebel soldiers who began to climb the walls was drastically reduced.

The south gate shape shì is critical.

The so-called blessing is incomparable, and the disaster is not a single line, which is in this eye. An urgent report came from the north gate. Another line of rebels has appeared outside the north gate, about 10,000 people, and is organizing a siege.

Xu Shouren was at the south gate, and he knew that if he was really broken through by the rebels, the south gate had the greatest probability, and the north gate had 800 Ming troops as the backbone, and he would never be easily broken by the rebels.

Xu Shouren only said one word to the heralds who came to report - don't be afraid of wasting grenades.

Truly. Xu Shouren hoarded a large number of grenades in Dali Mansion, and eighty percent of them had already been transported to the north gate. And as long as this thing is not too stupid, it can be used in the same way after a few glances.

As long as the 800 Ming Army is not worried about wasting grenades, they can completely teach 4,000 young men how to use grenades in battle.

Therefore, Xu Shouren is not worried, because the city wall has been blocked, and the only way for the enemy to attack the city is to climb the city wall, so throwing grenades down from the battlements is not only less dangerous, but also very "exciting".

And the danger is the South City Gate, from the point of view of momentum, the South Gate should undoubtedly be the main force of the rebels, which can be clearly distinguished from the arrogance of the rebel soldiers.

There were only two percent of the grenades at the south gate, which Xu Shouren had prepared for emergencies, and he asked Qingzhuang to tie the grenades tightly in four bundles with ropes, and then connect the fuses together and place them all the way along the battlements of the city wall.

In the half hour that the battle lasted, Xu Shouren temporarily organized 300 people from the young and strong to explain the operation method of the grenade on the spot, and these 500 people were arranged by Xu Shouren to the area where the cluster grenade rotated.

Xu Shouren comforted them and said that as long as the string was pulled, people could not stand, so they just threw it down to the city.

This is also something that makes the young people feel excited, for the young men who have not seen blood yet, going to the battlefield is undoubtedly something that they can go back to show off to others.

In fact, only five of these 500 young men survived the war, and four of them were seriously injured.

Because Xu Shouren didn't tell them, this method of throwing grenades was only suitable for when the enemy had not yet reached the city wall.

As for what to do when the enemy went to the city wall, Xu Shouren couldn't tell them, because Xu Shouren was afraid of frightening this group of rookies.

And so the war went to a blazing heat.

Countless rebel soldiers clinged to the walls like ants, and the crossbowmen were already fighting back against the enemy crossbowmen.

At this time, Xu Shouren gave an order, and the five hundred rookies began to throw cluster grenades.

From the rustiness at the beginning, to the excitement after losing two, I slowly entered the best situation.

The explosion of the cluster grenade temporarily suppressed the climbing of the rebel soldiers, and several coincidental explosion points landed on the edge of the ladders, causing many ladders to be blown up.

Gao Fang saw that the Ming army's firearms were sharp, and he gave the order to retreat for the first time.

In this attack, more than 1,000 rebels died on the way to the city wall, and nearly 1,000 died under the explosion of the Ming army's firearms.

Gao Fang knew that in the face of the Ming army's firearms, he was powerless for the time being, but this did not mean that he could not deal with it.

In what he watched just now, he probably guessed the current situation of insufficient troops on the city wall.

Moreover, the firearms dropped from the city walls were not dense, which gave Gao Fang a way to deal with it, so he ordered a retreat.

Gao Fang summoned the generals to confess, and asked the soldiers to attack the city wall in a column of one person, trying to keep the distance between the two columns as much as possible, so as to loosely resist the firearms of the Ming army, even if they were thrown into one column, the losses caused were controllable.

After a simple purge, Gao Fang again gave a second siege order.

And Xu Shouren in this short period of time, once again summoned the five hundred young men, because the south gate grenades were not enough to throw endlessly, so Xu Shouren asked people to transport a large number of mines in the library to the city wall, this kind of mine is the cable mine buried outside the east gate, but this kind of mine is not like a grenade with a delay of several seconds, but the interval is very short.

It takes the people who use it to get the hang of it. (To be continued......)