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"Boom!" After a roar, a bowl-sized buckshot crossed a distance of about 300 paces and smashed on the city wall of Kunshan County, and after smashing a cyan city brick from a local kiln to pieces, it rebounded in the air for a distance of about a foot and a half and landed on the ground in the shape of a free fall, and smashed out a small dirt pit, and then could no longer move. (The first text is published in the reading room biquge.info)

After about ten breaths of effort, a 1,500-pound Hongyi cannon next to him also fired a cannonball, but the gunner here seemed to be insufficient in gunpowder when loading, so the lead bullet fired did not even touch the city wall, and fell directly into the moat, which was not wide and deep, and stunned several unlucky pond fish.

After another quarter of an hour, the Qing artillery that had been fired at the beginning spoke again, but this time the Qing gunners had too much charge, and the shells fired went straight over the city wall, perhaps destroying several houses in the city or causing some hidden casualties of the Zheng army, but it did not help the Qing army's efforts to demolish the city wall.

Three shots and one hit, the Qing garrison commanding the artillery bombardment saw such an achievement, and his face was extremely gloomy. So he summoned the commander of the artillery, and after a merciless reprimand, the artillery bombardment of the Qing army began to be relatively accurate. However, due to the fact that the number of medium guns brought by 10,000 troops on this trip was only two, and the rest of the Franc machine light artillery and tiger squat artillery were unable to pose a threat to the city wall, the Qing army's improved shooting accuracy did not increase the damage to the city wall

Looking at the leader of the artillery team who braved the Qing army's artillery fire probe to measure the range, Wu Ziming asked with some concern: "Is the range enough?" ”

"It's enough to choke." There are two kinds of artillery belonging to the Zheng army, two inches and three inches, of which the effective range of the three-inch cannon is within three hundred and thirty steps, which can naturally effectively hit the Qing army artillery position under the city, but Zhuang Xing's department is now equipped with a two-inch artillery team, and its effective range is within two hundred and fifty steps, even if the height of the city wall can provide a bonus to the firing range, it is difficult to pose a fatal threat to the two Hongyi cannons owned by the Qing army. "But you can try to force back the artillery of the Qing army."

In that case, what else to say, Wu Ziming immediately ordered to fire. The two Zheng two-inch guns first loaded the ammunition on the inside of the city wall, and then the artillery squad pushed the gun wheels together to send them to the battlements of the city wall, and then after a short quick aiming, the shooter inserted the red-hot iron drill into the gun door

The Zheng army's sudden artillery counterattack really made the Qing army waver. Looking at the very close impact point, the Qing garrison did not need to ask Wan Yongqi to move the gun position backwards immediately. In this way, the Qing army's artillery bombardment of the western city wall of Kunshan was naturally suspended, but more importantly, the Qing artillery team after retreating more than 50 steps and reconstructing the firing position had to add more gunpowder to the artillery in order to make up for the increase in firing range, and the danger of exploding was greatly increased.

"Palace guerrilla." Seeing that the artillery team was forced back by the wolf, Wan Yongqi, who had a gloomy face, immediately gave the order to attack the city. "This official handed over the Songjiang City Garrison Camp, Jinshan Battalion, Zhelin Battalion, Qingcun Battalion and Nanhui Water Division Battalion to you, you should know how to do it, right?"

The palace guerrilla who had suffered at the hands of Zheng Jun secretly complained in his heart, but the military discipline of the Qing court at this time was still strict, and if a defeated general like him could not make meritorious service, it would be light to take office and dismiss the official, so it was not uncommon to lose his head or be assigned to Ningguta, so the palace guerrilla could only make a look of indignation, and hugged his fists to receive the order: "The lower official understands." ”

A quarter of an hour later, the siege team composed of more than 700 remnants of the five battalions was reorganized, and the entire siege team was divided into three parts: the support team with bird guns and bows and arrows, the cloud ladder with ladders and planks, and the advance team with swords, shields and spears.

For fear of accidental injury, the Qing army's Hongyi artillery stopped, but the tiger squat artillery team rushed to the moat with the artillery and the siege team. In fact, only a few of the lead, iron nails, and gravel fired by the tiger squat cannon with a very close range could touch the city, but as soon as the cannon sounded, the smoke of gunpowder quickly spread under the city.

In this regard, the Zheng army's two-inch guns opened fire one after another, and the two-inch guns loaded with shotguns spread a shadow of death, but it was a pity that the Qing army rushed too fast, and the Zheng army only fired two rounds, and its vanguard had already killed the moat. The Qing army, which had rushed to the edge of the moat, began to use ladders and planks to build improvised pontoon bridges in the moat, while the other part waded through the water and advanced to the city wall.

Seeing that the artillery was powerless, Huang Qi, who was standing at the head of the city, ordered: "Immediately counterattack and shoot freely." ”

Rows of lead bullets were ejected, but because the lead bullets had to be wrapped in a layer of linen to prevent the ammunition from slipping out of the chamber during the dive shot, the Zheng army's firing speed was obviously slower than that of conventional warfare.

However, their own casualties could not shake the determination of the generals at all levels of the Qing army to make meritorious contributions, under their supervision, regardless of the casualties, the Qing army still braved the fire net to set up a ladder on the city wall, the Qing soldiers who first boarded the team in the capital, the garrison, and the thousand general scolding, desperately climbing upward, from time to time some people were knocked down by projectiles and shrapnel, and some people slipped off the ladder because they stepped on blood, but in any case, the Qing army was gradually approaching their destination.

"Ahh A frightened scream rang out, and the Qing army who was climbing suddenly found that the heavens and the earth had turned upside down, but it was several Zheng soldiers who pushed the ladder away from the city, and caused the ladder to flip in the process.

Of course, there are only a few phenomena of the ladder flipping, and more of them are pushed away without flipping and then smashing back into the city. However, a small part of the ladder broke off due to weight, center of gravity, impact, and sloppy bandaging when making the zuò. The Qing soldiers on the ladder tried in vain to grab onto the fixed object, but fell heavily under the city wall in a near-free fall

Finally, a few Qing soldiers grabbed the city, but they not only had to face Zheng Jun's platoon but also Zheng Jun's gun array, so they quickly fell before the "success", and even some were forced back to the cloud ladder by Zheng Jun because they couldn't stand, so that they accidentally fell and died.

"The head town is very strong in the face of sea adversity." The so-called rabbit died and the fox was sad, seeing that the rest of the five battalions had paid an extremely heavy price but had not been able to climb to the top of the city, the Songnan Water Division Battalion, who was also a remnant, said to Wan Yongqi. "It is better to attack the city on all other sides at the same time, so as to divide the sea and oppose the trend."

"Zhentai," although the Qibing Battalion is not a superintendent in terms of structure, it is also under the direct command of the Governor of Liangjiang, so General Li, who is in charge of the camp, has a special identity, so he is unwilling to lose his troops, so he strongly advises Wan Yongqi not to accept the opinion of Songnan Dusi, and mentions yì. "It's better to wait for the local people to be strong and the regiment to train before attacking the city."

Although the other party is a general, he is not a subordinate commander after all, so Songnan Duji retorted unceremoniously: "I'm afraid that when the people and the regimental training collection arrive, the reinforcements from the sea rebellion will also arrive." ”

General Li was furious and immediately raised his eyebrows, but Wan Yongqi didn't give him a chance to get angry, only to see the chief soldier stretch out his hand and interrupt the possible argument between the two: "There is some truth in what Songnan Camp said. ”

At this time, the Zheng army artillery team that had not fired a few cannons because the Qing army had broken through too quickly spoke again, although the Qing army's formation had completely dispersed and the effect was not as good as before, but it still left more casualties for the Qing army who were eager to flee for their lives.

"More than 200 people were lost in the city, and more than a dozen injured people were also lost on the way back and could not be answered." Of course, the Zheng army is not undamaged, especially when the probe is shot, there are more than a dozen people who were killed and injured by the Qing army's bird guns, but even if you know the specific casualties of the Zheng army, count them carefully, the exchange ratio is not conducive to the Qing army, not to mention that in the eyes of the Songbei Association, which was already demoralized, the Zheng army almost had no casualties, so the palace guerrillas could not directly describe their results.

"You go down to reorganize the departments, and I will give you the Songnan camp." Wan Yongqi waved away someone from the palace who had been pardoned, and ordered at the same time. "Later, the Qi Battalion will take over the offensive at the west and south gates, and the Qingshan battalion will take over the offensive at the east and north gates, so be sure not to give the sea a breather." The military order is like a mountain, even if General Li of the Qi Battalion is dissatisfied, he still has to carry it out, of course, Wan Yongqi can't blindly force it, so he lures. "After the recovery of Kunshan, this official will definitely ask the court for credit for all of you."

"Brother Xianjin, now the worst has happened." The blatant movement of the Qing army naturally could not hide the observation of the Zheng army in the city, but the Zheng army only had two sentry posts and six infantry teams in Kunshan, and the average was only more than 60 people on each wall, so how could it block the Qing army's attack from all sides. "What are we going to do?"

"Reinforcements are coming in from all over the place, and we have to hold on." Zhuang Xing also had a stern expression. "Since the head of the city can't be defended, let's withdraw to the city." Zhuang Xing ordered. "However, the walls of the county government need to be reinforced, and they can't accommodate a team of more than 600 people, so they need to be dispersed to the Temple of Literature and the City God Temple, before that"

Before Zhuang Xing's words were finished, You Tao swore an oath: "Before this, the lower officials will never let the Qing Lu ascend to the city." ”

"Confused!" Zhuang Xing reprimanded. "If it weren't for the fact that my regiment was divided into four sides, and it was difficult for the enemy to clear the enemy, why would this official retreat to the county office." Zhuang Xing patted You Tao on the shoulder. "You Chengxin, if you really run out of soldiers, can Kunshan City still hold it? So," Zhuang Xing paused. "Remove the soldiers from the walls and set up barriers in the streets and alleys."

Although Kunshan is a county seat, only the main streets of the north and south can pass through cars and horses, and most of the branch roads and alleys can only be three or two people in parallel or one person alone.

You Tao's eyes lit up, and he immediately responded: "Xia Guan knows what to do."

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