Because Seng Lingqin personally supervised the battle, starting the next day, the Qing army's attack momentum was still unabated, but there was a more violent trend, which put great pressure on the defense of the outer city.

Because the Qing army had roughly figured out the defense of the outer city of Huai'an during the first day of the attack, the main direction of attack on the second day was no longer the west gate, but the most vulnerable south gate.

The defenders of the South Gate are almost all militiamen, and the guard general Zhu Fugui was just a pig killer before, although he has read for three years, he has not much experience in leading troops, and he only threw the weapons to defend the city outward, and Zheng Kuishi, who was the main attacker, did not kill much, which made them free so far.

But this time, because Monk Greenqin gave a death order, and he also named Zheng Kuishi, he could no longer release water like before, so he could only really attack with all his strength.

Zheng Kuishi is also a fierce general, and has rich combat experience, starting from a small soldier, in the process of fighting the Taiping army, step by step to the position of the current governor of Zhejiang.

He fought bravely, even if he was in a high position, he often came to the front line, so he was given the title of Salamabaturu by the Qing court, and he was given a yellow coat, and his soldiers were also very capable of fighting, and it can be said that he was one of the few fierce generals in the Qing court.

Before he fought Huai'an City, he was also persuaded by his subordinates to hold back his efforts, in fact, he himself was quite uncomfortable, but now that the order is down, he can let it go, and he is naturally a hundred times more energetic.

The next day, Zheng Kuishi ordered his subordinates to cook five watches and start attacking as soon as dawn, and the Qing army had already taken advantage of the evening to transfer a new batch of heavy artillery, that is, the so-called general artillery, so Zheng Kuishi's attack began with a roaring cannon, filled with a more fierce battle atmosphere.

In order to allow this attack to proceed smoothly and let the defenders of Huai'an not see the direction of the Qing army's main attack, although the artillery outside the south gate rumbled, the initial offensive was not large, and no soldiers were sent to rush forward. It is still to let the people build a pontoon bridge in front.

In fact, as early as the first day, three pontoon bridges were built on the moat outside the south gate, and now there is the cover of heavy artillery, Zheng Kuishi asked the people to rush forward, asking them to build three more pontoon bridges, it seems that at least six pontoon bridges will be repaired before he will send troops to attack.

At the same time, the offensive of the north gate and the west gate is also not small, the same is the rumbling of artillery, and it is the impact of the soldiers. Continuing the previous day's siege of the city, its tragic momentum was not weaker than yesterday's, and it was impossible to see that these two gates were secondary attack sites.

Not only that, in order to boost morale, the excited and inexplicable monk Greenqin also personally beat the drum to cheer, and seeing the boss like this, the people below were also very hard-working, shocking the sky when fighting, so that the Huai'an defenders were tired to cope.

The first danger was at the North Gate. Under the frantic onslaught of Kuiyu's department, there were dangerous situations one after another, but fortunately, the guards of each city gate had radio intercoms, and they would ask Wang Sanwu for help when necessary. And Wang Sanwu's observation tower in the inner city can also see the situation in all directions, so at the moment when the north gate is in crisis, he fired artillery in time to help the battle, after a volley of mortars. The crisis at the North Gate was immediately resolved.

However, the most tragic is still Ximen, and this time it is still Yuan Jiasan's soldiers and horses who come to attack. But this time there are not only Miao Peilin's soldiers and horses, but also Ma Xinyi's troops, these soldiers are Anhui peasants, and the fierce Cheng is not far behind, as long as the ladder is on the road, many of them are holding waist knives on their mouths, and they are trying to climb up with both hands, and they don't care about the deaths and injuries of their companions around them.

Feng Zicai was also stubborn, and he was stunned that he did not ask Wang Sanwu for help, but made reasonable use of the soldiers, horses and weapons at hand.

Seeing that there were too many people attacking the city on the other side, and the opponent's artillery was too fierce, and the loss of simply defending the city wall was too great, Feng Zicai asked people to retreat a certain distance on the city wall, and then organized a group of shield soldiers, after the shield soldiers were spearmen and pikemen, and then there were archers, and behind the archers were grenadiers.

After this arrangement, he deliberately put a group of Qing troops on the city, so that the artillery of the Qing army could not bombard the city without scruples.

And because his side retreated a certain distance in advance, coupled with the fact that there were many shields to defend it, and there were long weapons such as spears and spears behind him, it could be said that they were big hedgehogs, and even if the other party climbed up, they were mostly armed with short weapons such as waist knives, and they couldn't attack Feng Zicai's gun and shield array.

At this time, when they had reached the top of the city, and the front and rear were crowded, and the formation was confused, the shield-bearers opened their shields a little, and the spear-bearers mixed with the pikemen and fired, and the earthen artillerymen fired scattered bullets, and the archers also fired their bows and arrows, and the grenadiers fired bombs at the city.

No matter how fierce you are, you will not be able to stop the bombardment of the guns and earthen cannons at close range, especially the scattered bombardment of the earthen artillery.

Only such a burst of attacks, immediately opened a hole in the crowd attacked by the Qing army, and then took advantage of the other party's morale and confusion, the pikemen shouted, stabbed straight with their guns, and followed by the big knife team, just a burst of killing, and drove the Qing army on the head of the city down.

The Qing army attacked wave after wave like a wave, and the defenders did not give an inch like a reef, breaking the other side's wave after wave.

This attack continued until three o'clock in the afternoon, when both the attackers at the West Gate and the North Gate were a little tired, and the three new pontoon bridges at the South Gate were also built, and Zheng Kuishi, who was recuperating, finally began to move!

Finding that the pontoon bridge was built, Zheng Kuishi took out his waist knife and shouted, and then the cannon roared, and his soldiers did not have a formation, carrying the ladder and carrying the waist knife, and rushed forward with a roar.

At the same time, the artillery that had been arranged in advance began to roar in unison, and the defenders of the bombed city could not raise their heads and could not shoot effectively at all, so that Zheng Kuishi's troops attacked under the city gate without much loss.

Then some of the soldiers used explosives to blow up the city gates, and most of the others directly took the ladder, bit their waist knives and climbed up, and continued to attack the city.

Although Zhu Fugui, the guard of the South Gate, is inexperienced, but his courage is more than enough, seeing this situation, he is also holding a machete, shouting and fighting everywhere, he is like this, the morale of the South Gate defenders is also extremely high.

Although the organization of the defenders of the South Gate is not as good as Feng Zicai's troops, and they will not play the game of layer by layer, their morale is high. Swords, guns, swords, halberds, guns and earth cannons came together, and then with the advantage of being condescending on the head of the city, it was also comparable to Zheng Kui's soldiers and horses who attacked on the back.

War is the best testing ground, even if these militiamen have little experience before, but after fighting for so long, they still have some experience in fighting, coupled with the political agitation of political cadres, just the slogan "one step back is hometown" can make them forget about death.

You must know that the political work cadres in the past said that the Qing army was heinous. And he has repeatedly emphasized that once the city is broken, their families will be extremely miserable, and adultery and plunder are the lightest. And they themselves have thought about these things for a long time, but they are not as intuitive and terrifying as the political work cadres described.

In other words, after being constantly brainwashed by political cadres, especially after constant intimidation, these defenders are no longer just for the sake of justice. They are fighting purely for their families!

People are like this, they may be very timid at ordinary times, but once they are forced to do their part, or once they are angry. Then there is nothing to be afraid of.

Fighting is the memory of human beings rooted in their cells, and it is the instinct of human beings to survive so far, so once it is aroused, the morale of fighting to the death is aroused. After killing the red eye, any martial arts moves, any combat skills and the like are useless. Only the most instinctive desire to fight is the real weight against which to measure the balance of victory.

The Qing army is indeed fierce, but the people on the city are not much worse, and one has the advantage of skill and the other occupies the geographical advantage, so it can be regarded as a level, but although the city is even, because of the carelessness of the guards, no one cares about the city gate anymore.

Taking advantage of the intractable battle at the head of the city, the Qing army's demolition troops had already placed enough powder kegs at the city gate, and then quickly ran away, and then fired rockets from a distance to ignite.

Hearing a loud bang, the city gate of the south gate was blown up by this large amount of black powder, and even the shock wave of the explosion shocked the elite army and the Qing army who were fighting up and down the city.

Seeing this situation, the attacking Qing army was overjoyed, regardless of whether they had accidentally injured their own people before, and rushed towards the gap in the city gate with a roar.

However, at this critical moment, a swishing sound swept by, and then a series of explosions were seen in the ranks of the attacking Qing army, which was the mortar fire of the Qing army.

The dense artillery fire immediately blew up the attacking Qing army, and before they could recover from their senses, they suddenly heard a dull sound of horses' hooves.

Soon, lying on the ground, the Qing army closest to the city gate looked up and saw a group of cavalry inside the city gate, galloping towards this side quickly!

"That's the cavalry regiment of the Jingwu Army!" Zhu Fugui also saw this scene, and he immediately opened his throat and yelled, "Brothers! The main force of the Jingwu Army is coming to support us, let's work harder and kill the Qinggou for me! ”

"Kill!" All the militia at the head of the city also plucked up their courage again and fought back against the frightened Qing army at the head of the city.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for a group of cavalry to jump out of the broken city gate, and then these cavalry did not stop, and continued to rush forward, while rushing, they also took out their revolvers, and fired a burst of crackling fire at the surroundings, which soon disrupted the attacking Qing army.

After finishing the bullets in the revolver, these cavalrymen did not slow down, continued to maintain their speed, and then drew their sabers, shouted, and slashed wildly at the Qing army that was already chaotic around them!

Before the militia at the head of the city could shout, he suddenly found a group of elite infantry of the elite army driving from the rear, and they were driving out of the inner city and heading towards the city head at the south gate, obviously coming to reinforce the troops.

After seeing this, the defenders on the city gate were completely relieved, and the shouts were endless.

It was at this time that Lin Yongsi, who was in the inner city, suddenly hurriedly found Wang Sanwu, and said angrily as soon as they met: "Who asked you to send troops to attack?" Didn't we say okay? To put ......"

Speaking of this, Lin Yong sighed and came to his senses, looked at Situ He beside Wang Sanwu, and changed his words: "What are you going to do now?" ”

"Rescue." Wang Sanwu said quietly, "If you don't send troops, the south gate will not be able to be defended." ”

"But ......," Lin Yong sighed and stopped.

"You go down first." Wang Sanwu suddenly said to Situ He, "I have something to say to the deputy chief of staff. ”

"Yes!" Situ He saluted Wang Sanwu, and then left without looking back, and closed the door when he left, it seems that he is also a master who can look at the eyes.

"Proprietor, what are you doing here?" Seeing Situ He gone, Lin Yongyan no longer had scruples, "Why did you change our established strategy?" Is it sympathy for the people of Huai'an City? Confused! It is necessary to know that those who achieve great things are not informal, and the kindness of women is the most important! ”

"I know." Wang Sanwu closed his eyes, "I'm not just for those people, but also for the orders of the commander." ”

"The commander's order?" Lin Yong was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, "Why, you didn't tell us about deliberately letting the Qing army into the outer city, right?" ”

"Yes." Wang Sanwu nodded.

"This ......," Lin sighed, and continued, "When did you say that?" Last night? ”

"No, this morning." Wang Sanwu shook his head, "To be exact, it's just now." ”

"Huh? You! ”

"I'm sorry, I can't seem to do that." Wang Sanwu sighed, "Although I told Dashuai last night according to your words, but I couldn't sleep well all night." If nothing else, but for the people of the city! I kept thinking, what did we rebel for in the first place? Isn't it just to give the people a peaceful birthday? It's good now, but for our own selfishness, we want the people of the city to accompany us, and I can't bear it...... So in the end, I talked to the marshal on the phone, told the truth about the matter of letting the Qing army enter the outer city, and asked the marshal to make the decision for me. ”

"So, what did the big marshal say?" Lin Yong asked.

"Dashuai didn't blame me, he just told me that he would speed up the rescue and strive to arrive within ten days, as for what I should do before this, let me see it myself, he will not interfere."

"Then you're going to send troops to help?"

"Yes." Wang Sanwu stood up suddenly, "I've thought about it, our elite army doesn't need to use the people as meat shields, and we don't need to take the lives of the people to send us a future!" Even if you can't annihilate the Qing army here, what if you can't wipe it out here? My elite army is invincible in the world, and I want to defeat them with dignity! Therefore, I decided to defend the city with all my strength and not let a single Qing soldier enter again! When the commander's soldiers and horses arrive, I will lead the army out of the city and fight to the death with the Qing soldiers! ”

Speaking of this, Wang Sanwu looked at Lin Yong and smiled lightly: "Sir, I know that you are for my good, but I have already decided on this matter, don't say more!" ”

"Well, that's fine." Lin Yong sighed and nodded, "Since you have made up your mind, I won't say anything more, but just in case, you still have to leave a soldier and horse in the inner city, and besides, you must not take the initiative to attack, if you have a good one, we will be all finished." ”

"Don't worry." Wang Sanwu smiled, "Before the commander brings the troops here, I won't go out in person, but when Yongji comes, I will personally lead the troops to kill him!" (To be continued......)