Because Feng Zicai deliberately released water, the moat of the West City Gate was the first to fall.

However, because the moat of Huai'an City at this time is deep and wide, it is still living water, so the moat outside the west city gate is not fully filled, and it is not possible to do it in the short term, so the so-called filling operation is just to fill out a few sand mounds and build two relatively wide temporary pontoon bridges.

Of course, this is also related to Feng Zicai's intention to control zhì, otherwise it would not be two pontoon bridges, but five or six, in other words, Feng Zicai deliberately let the other party only fill in two offensive channels, so that it is convenient for him to concentrate fire and attack.

Originally, Miao Peilin wanted to continue to urge the people and continue to let them build more pontoon bridges, but Yuan Jiasan gave an order to immediately lead his troops to attack, and the Inspector was behind, so he had no choice but not to attack.

In this way, Miao Peilin asked people to carry the ladder, and let the firearms battalion open artillery to cover, and then in the roar of artillery, he shouted and quickly attacked Huai'an City through the pontoon bridge.

Finding that the other party began to send soldiers, Feng Zicai waved his hand, and the archers who had been prepared long ago drew their bows and arrows, and then ignited the ignition on the arrows, and threw the rockets in their hands to the tops of the two pontoon bridges at an oblique upward angle of forty degrees.

Since the target of the fire had already been set and the opponent's offensive formation was relatively dense, this rain of rockets caused considerable damage and chaos, but soon another wave of attacks suppressed the chaos and continued to rush towards the city.

Miao Peilin's Miao army is basically a peasant in northern Anhui, most of these people are poor, illiterate, and poorly equipped, but they are fierce and abnormal, once they are aroused, they are not afraid of life and death at all, and a brother falls. The other man followed, howling louder and rushing at the gates in a rage.

However, their wrath was greeted by another, another rain of arrows!

Since archery requires a lot of physical consumption, the group of archers selected by Feng Zicai are all the militia left behind in the city, although they have little experience, but in this case. You don't need much accuracy, you just need to go in the right direction, make a little bit of a difference, and just let go and shoot.

In the first wave of archery, because it was a rocket to launch and calibrate the target, a salvo was also made for safety, but later in pursuit of speed. They are asked to play free fire, which means that they shoot arrows as fast as they can.

In defensive battles, the range of bows and arrows is farther than that of ordinary spears, and the power is not small. However, the consumption of the body lì is too great, so after only six or seven rounds of shooting, many people can't shoot.

At this point, the person who shoots the first round of archery will retreat. Go down to the gate and rest, and another group of people will come up, and after they have lowered their bows and arrows. Naturally, there will be someone behind to take over.

That is to say, Feng Zicai made a three-stage shot, or a three-row shot, that is to say, the people in the first row shot hard, and when they were tired of shooting, they went down, let the people in the second row continue to shoot, and the second row continued to shoot, and when they were tired of shooting, they let the people in the third row pick up, and at this time, the people in the first row also came up, and it was just right to continue this cycle.

The reason why this is so is also because Feng Zi knows that the first wave of charges are often not the real elite, they are still cannon fodder, but they are slightly stronger than ordinary cannon fodder, so for these people, there is no need to dispatch their own elite, just let those militia shoot arrows, anyway, Huai'an City does not say anything else, there are still a lot of bows and arrows, and the number is much more than carrying guns.

This kind of situation of arrows raining down quickly caused heavy losses to the Miao army, but at this time, under the compulsion of the supervising team, Miao Peilin had no choice but to let the second wave of troops continue to keep up.

In an instant, the shouting of killing shook the sky, and by this time, the number of human heads had exceeded the number of arrows, and the second wave of people were sword and shield soldiers, and they were generally equipped with shields, so in the face of bow and arrow shooting, the loss was much smaller.

But soon, the guns and earth cannons at the head of the city also began to be launched.

The guns in Huai'an City are basically made by themselves, although they are very bulky, but the caliber is large enough, although because the weights and measures are not uniform, the caliber is slightly different, but the average is about 16 mm, the total weight is more than 14 kilograms, that is, lead ammunition, one is more than 50 grams.

Although this kind of gun is clumsy and fatal, it is not bad, and if it is used to defend the city, it is quite good, no less than a small cannon.

As for the artillery on the head of the city, although most of them are some old-fashioned cast iron or bronze front-loading guns, the caliber is not small, many of them have a caliber of more than 200 mm, and most of them are Qing Dynasty mortars imitating the cannon of General Weiyuan.

Although this kind of artillery is heavy and clumsy, but today, there are many more types of ammunition, such as in addition to solid bullets, there are also a large number of grape bullets and scattered bullets, field combat may not be very convenient, but used to defend the city wall, the power is still quite large.

This batch of guns and artillery was originally to be sent to Shengbao and Yuan Jiasan, but who knew that after Huai'an was occupied by the Jingwu army, it became the spoils of the Jingwu army. It's a pity that the Jingwu army didn't look down on these things at all, so they sealed them, and after the Qing army besieged the city, Wang Sanwu reused these things for the outer wall.

However, because Wang Sanwu had already made up his mind to abandon the outer city, there were not many artillery pieces for the outer city, and there was even less ammunition, and the place where the artillery was placed had already been determined, and if it was lost, it would immediately be attacked by accurate mortars.

It is precisely because of this that at the beginning, Feng Zicai did not use these firearms to attack the people, and it was not until now that the opponent's soldiers were dispatched and the number was enough, he used them.

With the addition of the gun-raising artillery, the losses of the Miao army immediately increased a lot, because no shield could block the attack of the gun-raising artillery.

So, the second wave of attacks quickly failed.

But don't worry, when the second wave of attacks has not retreated, the third wave of attack teams will soon come up, they will be more fierce, and in the face of anyone who retreats, whether they are colleagues or not, they will be slashed over!

"No retreat!" One of them always brandished his waist knife and shouted, "There is an order from the military gate!" Those who advance live, and those who retreat die! Break the gates of the city and plunder for three days! Meritorious people will not be stingy with rewards! Brothers, the addition of officials and knights is today, give me a rush! ”

The thrill of being able to plunder for three days really made this group of soldiers whose morale had declined red again, and they rushed forward with a roar in the face of the rain of arrows and bullets.

In this momentum of not being afraid of death, the other party really rushed to the head of the city and put the first ladder up.

However. Just when the Miao army was not cheering for this, the ladder at the head of the city was pushed out by the pusher, and some of the anxious soldiers who climbed the ladder also fell down with the shouting, and they didn't see it alive.

However, since there have been cases where ladders have been put up at the city gates, it means that the number of soldiers under the city head is sufficient, and with their efforts, more and more ladders have been erected again.

At that moment, streams of hot oil fell down the ladder. At the same time as the people in the hot neighborhood screamed, one by one the torches were also thrown down.

With a whew, a sea of fire immediately turned under the city gate, and all the soldiers caught in it became humanoid torches.

"Damn it!" Finding this situation, Miao Peilin bit his lip at once.

"The chief master, you can't go on like this!" Wang Jinkui hissed, "Withdraw, if you continue like this, the brothers will be exhausted!" ”

"No, I can't. Can't be withdrawn! At this moment, a Qing army general with a gloomy face next to him suddenly said, "Lord Yuan has an order, Xu Jin is not allowed to retreat." Anyone who dares to retreat, no matter who it is, will be forgiven! ”

"What are you!" Wang Jinkui jumped up with red eyes, "I'll talk to the chief village master." What do you plug in? We've already lost a thousand people, how do you want to drop? ”

"No matter how many you die, you can't withdraw!" The one put his hand on the waist knife. "If Lord Wang has any dissatisfaction with Wu, when this fight is over, I can personally apologize to you, but before that, your people can't withdraw!"

"Bastard!" Wang Jinkui pulled out his waist knife at once, "Lao Tzu ...... today"

"Stop!" Seeing that the situation was a little out of control, Miao Peilin suddenly stepped over and glared at Wang Jinkui angrily, "What do you want to do, put down the knife!" ”

"But he ......"

"Put it down!" Miao Peilin squinted, "You didn't listen to what I said?" ”

"I ...... Hi! Wang Jinkui put down his knife, "Chief village master, we, do we want to continue?" ”

"Keep fighting." Miao Peilin looked at the city again, "The matter has come to this, there is no other way to go!" Go and take 5,000 men up yourself, and this time, you must take down the city for me!" ”

"Yes, the chief master!" Wang Jinkui gritted his teeth, and then glared at the general manager with a gloomy face, "Wait for me!" ”

After speaking, Wang Jinkui turned around, raised his waist knife and shouted: "Sons, the time has come, follow me!" The chief owner of the village said, broke the city gate, and did not seal the knife for three days! ”

"Woo Roll!" Many generals of the Miao army were also aroused by desire, raised their broadswords and spears and shouted loudly, and their morale rose all of a sudden!

After seeing the morale up, Wang Jinkui put the knife on the sand and the skura skeleton case

After speaking, Wang Jinkui walked forward first, and the other soldiers quickly followed, and a fierce and tragic momentum immediately spread.

Seeing this situation, the general, who claimed to be surnamed Wu, immediately praised Miao Peilin: "Your Excellency's soldiers are really brave, and it must be a trivial matter to break through the short-haired city gate." ”

"Hmph." Miao Peilin pursed his lips, "What about the heavy artillery of your Shenji Battalion?" Didn't you say that they would fully support us? Why are there only three or four small cannons firing? What about heavy artillery? Why haven't you fired a cannon until now? ”

"Master Miao is less safe and not impatient." The general said with a smile, "The general cannon of the Shenji Battalion is too bulky and inconvenient to move, and it is being intensively equipped, so it must be installed soon, you can wait a while." ”

Suddenly, I heard a loud bang behind me, and then I soon saw a cloud of smoke and dust rising from the opposite wall, which seemed to be under heavy artillery attack.

"Look, the general's cannon is mighty!" Seeing this, the general was immediately overjoyed, "My lord, hurry up and send troops to attack, there is a general cannon of the Shenji Battalion here, and the day of breaking the city is at this time!" ”

As soon as he said this, there was a louder bang behind him, and before the general continued to pat himself, he heard a ghost crying wolf howl behind him: "It's exploded, it's not good, come on, the general's cannon is blown up!" (To be continued......)