Yu Xiaotian shouted twice in a row to keep up, which was an extremely rare thing in front of the army, so the Yu family soldiers did not dare to slack off, and the reserve team screamed wildly, and rushed towards the city wall in an uproar.

The artillerymen immediately heard the order, frantically operated the artillery, aimed the muzzles of the guns at both sides of the place where the fierce battle was taking place on the city wall, and began to fire a rapid fire.

The cannonballs roared like the laughter of death and smashed into the city walls, pouring from both sides towards the rebels who had lost their position, and when they were cut to the ground as if they were mowing grass, the rebels were killed and wounded on the walls.

Li Jiucheng shouted loudly, and led his soldiers to rush to the accident site from the direction of the city gate tower, a cannonball flew over, Li Jiucheng was not defenseless at all, and was hit by a cannonball, this cannonball is not a twelve-pound gun, let alone a twenty-four-pounder gun, but a shell fired by a six-pounder cannon of the smallest caliber equipped in the artillery of the family army.

Li Jiucheng was directly cut off by this whistling cannonball, and his upper body fell to the ground with a thud, and his lower body actually ran forward two steps before he fell softly.

Li Jiucheng was hit by a shell from the waist, and the intestines and internal organs in the entire abdominal cavity immediately flew away from his body, and a piece of intestines was still hanging on the neck of a pro-soldier next to him, causing the pro-soldier to scream in surprise.

This is simply a cannonball version of the waist slash, Li Jiucheng's upper body fell to the ground, he didn't die for a while, and he didn't know where to throw the knife, lying on the ground screaming like a pig, twitching in pain, panicked and pulling all over the ground to find his scattered internal organs, trying to stuff the internal organs back into half of his body, and crawling towards the lower body, leaving a wide scarlet blood road behind him.

His own soldiers were also stunned, and they didn't react for a while, what to do, just looked at Li Jiucheng, who had become half-cut, and crawled towards his lower body, but he didn't know what to do.

Li Jiucheng crawled all the way and screamed, until he crawled in front of his lower body, stretched out a hand, and grabbed one of his legs tremblingly, then lay on his back on the ground, and suddenly shouted: "Retribution!" ……”

Before the retribution was shouted, he opened his eyes and swallowed his last breath.

"All handsome...... Du Shuai...... Don't die! Du Shuai ......" His personal soldiers did not react until this time, rushed to Li Jiucheng's side, and cried and screamed.

As soon as he heard that Li Jiucheng was dead, the rebels' hearts suddenly collapsed, and it was said that Li Jiucheng's status among the rebels was higher than Kong Youde's, in fact, this rebellion was secretly instigated by Li Jiucheng, otherwise Kong Youde would not have finally chosen to rebel.

Moreover, after the rebellion began, Li Jiucheng used his prestige among the rebels to become the actual control of the rebels, while Kong Youde was still under him and had to listen to his orders.

This time in the Denglai Rebellion, the biggest culprit is not Kong Youde, but this Li Jiucheng, and this hero Li Jiucheng, today is the end of his life, his life is also remarkable, before the rebellion, he was the main general of the Dongjiang Army to follow Mao Wenlong, followed Mao Wenlong in the Liaodong Peninsula in the southern and northern wars, and made a lot of great achievements.

But after Mao Wenlong's death, Li Jiucheng was not allowed to be reused by Yuan Chonghuan, and was excluded in the Dongjiang Army, and finally defected to Sun Yuanhua, but this person has a lot of problems, not to mention bad gambling, and lustful, Sun Yuanhua gave him silver, let him go to the horse market to buy horses, and after he took the money, he played with women, gambled, and was deceived and lost the silver.

On the way back to Dengzhou, he didn't know how to explain this matter to Sun Yuanhua, and happened to encounter Kong Youde being persecuted by the Wang Xiangchun family of the Wang clan in Wuqiao County, so he moved Kong Youde's men to force Kong Youde to rebel, trying to launch a mutiny through Guò, and finally forced the imperial court to recruit an and fool this matter through.

This Denglai rebellion caused huge losses to the Ming Dynasty, destroyed the entire Ming Dynasty's layout in the Denglai area, destroyed the entire Denglai army and military system, and also caused the political and economic catastrophe of the entire Denglai area.

But now Li Jiucheng was killed by the Yu family's army, and died on the wall of Dengzhou.

As soon as Li Jiucheng died, the rebels in the south of the city immediately became in chaos, and the rebel general Chen Guangfu learned that Li Jiucheng was dead, so he took over the command and continued to gather the rebels to resist, but Li Jiucheng's death made the rebels collapse, and their morale fell sharply.

Chen Guangfu saw that the situation was not good, he did not dare to retreat, and desperately supervised the battle, forcing the rebels to go up to the city wall to block the offensive of Yu's army, and the two sides continued to fight bloody to the extreme on the city wall.

At this time, part of the city wall on the east side of the south gate of the city suddenly shook violently, and a section of the city wall was like the back of a giant dragon, suddenly coming to life, arching upward, and the originally solid city wall was suddenly covered with cracks like spider webs.

But this section of the wall only arched slightly upward, and then immediately fell back, and almost instantly, a loud muffled sound came from the ground, and this section of the wall collapsed like a landslide.

In almost a few seconds, a section of the city wall, which was about 50 meters long, turned into a pile of ruins and collapsed, making a huge gap in the originally very complete city wall.

Yu Xiaotian stood in the army outside the city, observed the section of the city wall that was raising a huge amount of dust, so he clenched his fist with one hand, retracted his waist, bent his legs to make a strange posture, and shouted: "Okay! The engineer company has finally achieved something! Ha ha! Pretty! ”

He then let out a wild laugh, and his smug expression was overflowing, and he couldn't hide anything.

It turned out that when the family army launched an attack on the city, the engineer company was also thrown into the battlefield by Yu Xiaotian, and this was the first time that the engineer company cooperated with the infantry to launch an attack on such a strong city.

The engineer company is another trump card in the hands of Yu Xiaotian, and before that, it was rarely conspicuous, and it was never conspicuous in the army.

In normal times, they were mainly responsible for some things such as setting up camps or paving the way for artillery or baggage soldiers, and they seemed to be basically auxiliaries.

However, this army is basically composed of some miners, and the miners are the best at what they do, of course, they dig holes, and they can't do anything else, and digging holes is their job.

During the siege of the city this time, the engineer company went into battle, carried two dongwu cars, and under the cover of other troops, attacked under the city wall of Dengzhou, and reached the cave house car directly on the city wall.

The cave house car is equipped with thick wooden planks on three sides, and a layer of iron sheet is wrapped on the top, which is very strong, almost like an earthen tank, no matter how the rebels throw the rolling wood and stones, it will not work if they are smashed on it, but the sappers can work safely below.

At the foot of the city wall, they used some professional tools to quickly dig into the ground, and then hollowed out the foundation at the foot of the city wall and dug into the city wall.

Although the rebels were aware of the movement under their feet, there was nothing they could do, as the musketeers were always suppressing the rebels on the walls, so that they could not lean in to observe the situation below, let alone do anything about the two cave houses.

The rebels poured some boiling oil, but they did not stop the sappers from continuing to dig the hole, and the rebels threw torches to ignite the hot oil, but the cave house car was still covered with sand, and it could not burn the cave house car for a while.

Later, the fire was extinguished by Yu's army, and the rebels were even more helpless.

After Yujia's army attacked the other side of the city wall, the rebels on this side were transferred to that side, making it impossible for the rebels on this side to take the sappers below.

It took the sappers several hours to dig a large hole at the foot of the city walls.

Immediately afterwards, the sappers carried a large number of explosives bags from behind, and these explosives were of course filled with some black powder, but they were tied very strongly, and the pressure was very solid, compared to the historical peasant army siege of the city, the gunpowder was packed in a coffin or a wooden barrel, such an explosive bag was much more powerful.

Moreover, these sappers have also been professionally trained to know how to place the explosive bag and how to seal it so that the explosive bag can exert its maximum power.

In fact, the weight of the gunpowder they used was not much, only about two or three hundred catties, but when it exploded, it still achieved quite good results.

The strong Dengzhou City was actually blown down by the sappers more than 50 meters wide, which was equivalent to disemboweling the Dengzhou City on the spot.

Including many rebels on the city wall, when the explosion occurred, they were stunned on the spot, some people were so shocked that their legs were broken, and when the city wall collapsed, many rebels were buried alive in the ruins on the spot, and the rebels were even more frightened for a while, and let out an exclamation.

The commander of an infantry battalion waiting outside this section of the city wall saw that the sappers had successfully blasted and the city wall had collapsed, so he immediately shouted wildly, drew his waist knife and shouted: "Brothers, bayonet!" Rush with Lao Tzu! ”

As soon as the roar fell, the battalion commander rushed out in the first place, and more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of Yujia behind him immediately followed, shouting loudly one by one, and rushed towards the gap......

The street fighting in Dengzhou City lasted for two days, and the street fighting was quite cruel, and both the enemy and us paid a very heavy price, because the rebels knew that the imperial court would never spare them lightly, and once Dengzhou was lost, then they would only have one way to flee to Dongjiang Town.

After Kong Youde learned the news of Li Jiucheng's death in battle, he officially took over the entire rebel army and became a veritable marshal of the rebel army, but at this time he was not happy about this matter at all.

(Today, we will continue to thank the three old brothers of the desert laughing west wind, the eagle's martial arts, and the words of the south for their rewards!) ）