"Boom", the city wall was a huge vibration, and Qian Qi shook and supported the chest wall on the side so that it did not fall. Without waiting for him to stand firm, Qian Qi shouted: "Launch!" Gotta knock this cannon out! ”

When the camp invaded the county seat of Ningling, they were ready to have a carnival, but they were greeted by a fire, and then they found that there was a second city wall in the city, and the soldiers who broke into the camp were all stunned.

For this siege, the camp can be described as a heavy loss. So far, the camp has killed more than 2,000 people and wounded nearly 3,000. Due to the lack of medical care and medicine in the peasant rebels, even half of the wounded may not survive. What made Gao Yingxiang even more painful was that more than 600 veterans from the three sides were killed in the battle.

Originally, according to the nature of the peasant rebel army and bandits, such a small county town could not have much oil and water, and it was absolutely impossible for it to attack regardless of losses.

But it was also because Ningling County was a small county town, and the county seat that broke into the hinterland of Henan was too smooth, so they launched an attack very casually. But attacking and attacking, the anger of both sides will also be played.

However, after all the hard work of attacking the city, he found that there was a city wall behind him, and the feeling of collapse can be imagined. So immediately, a leader proposed to Gao Yingxiang to give up.

But Gao Yingxiang couldn't give up, if he hadn't attacked the city and knew that Ningling County was so difficult to bite, or if the casualties in the camp were not too large, Gao Yingxiang might have retreated. But at such a great cost, they attacked the city, and retreated because there was still a wall. Where is Gao Yingxiang's face going to go? Isn't he, the leader of the rebel alliance in the world, going to be laughed at by other rebel leaders?

However, Gao Yingxiang, who was a little calm, also knew that he couldn't attack like this anymore. To be the leader of the alliance, you must not only have prestige, but more importantly, you must have the strength of the alliance leader. Otherwise, imagine how Chen Youliang killed his leader Xu Shouhui back then.

So what to do? Let's persuade to surrender first. To be honest, the current Gao Yingxiang has some admiration for the Ming general who is defending the city. He thought to himself: "As long as this Ming general surrenders, I will arrange a big boss position for him to sit in the camp." ”

But Gao Yingxiang didn't expect that this persuasion would become a farce. As soon as the caller shouted out to the city, "King Chuang tells you to surrender!" ". Qian Qi in the city replied: "We do not accept your surrender, because Ningling County is too small to hold so many prisoners of the intruder!" ”

Qian Qi's answer immediately attracted the soldiers who were guarding the city to be daxiao. And his witty answer spread like a gust of wind throughout Ningling County, making the morale of all the people in the city high.

This made it a little difficult for Gao Yingxiang to ride a tiger. If you don't attack, you will damage your prestige; Let's attack, look at the high morale in the city, how many people will break into the camp and fill it?

Fortunately, at this time, a discovery by Gao Yingxiang's subordinates solved the problem, and they found that there was still an undestroyed cannon on the city wall. As long as a gap in the inner city wall is opened with artillery, the large number of people can completely capture the county seat.

There were many veterans on three sides of the camp. So it's easy to find a few soldiers who can fire artillery. Although these soldiers could not master the accurate aiming of artillery in a short period of time, such a large city wall, the distance between the inner and outer city walls was not far, and as long as they fired, they would be hit.

And seeing the artillery fired at the camp, Qian Qi in the inner city also became nervous. He concentrated the only two artillery pieces in the inner city. I want to knock out the artillery that broke into the camp.

However, the battle positions of the two sides were very unfavorable to the Runing army. The artillery that broke into the camp only needed to hit the city wall, but the artillery of the Runing army had to accurately hit the artillery that broke into the camp. In addition, the outer city wall is about a zhang higher than the inner city wall. So just the artillery that broke into the camp retreated. The artillery of the Runing Army could not hit.

Of course, the artillerymen who broke into the camp also discovered this, and as soon as he fired it, he quickly pushed the artillery back, so that the artillery bombardment of the Runing army was repeatedly defeated. If it weren't for the fact that the artillery that fell into the hands of the camp was only a pound, and the power was too small, then the inner city, which had only the rudimentary walls, would have been crushed long ago.

This hide-and-seek between the artillery pieces lasted half a day. Under repeated shelling, there were already traces of cracks on the inner city wall.

However, the artillery crews of the Runing Army gradually found the pattern of shelling into the camp. Because the distance between the inner and outer walls is less than a hundred paces. Therefore, the entire open space between the city walls is the firing range of the Runing Arsenal.

In order to prevent casualties, the camp withdrew its troops outside the city gates. They had already removed the bricks and stones that had blocked the gates, and opened them. The section of the city wall facing the city gate is the city wall built by the Runing army in the city, and it is not very strong. Therefore, the key part of the artillery attack of the camp is here.

Since this is the case, there are only a few positions where the artillery of the camp appears, and the artillery of the Runing Army can guess to fire at those positions.

But at this time, the luck was not on the side of the Runing army. Although several shots almost hit the artillery of the camp, they were successfully fired by the guns of the camp, causing this section of the city wall to crumble.

"My lord, this city wall is about to collapse, so you should quickly go down the city wall and take command. Here I am. The gunner, who commanded the two guns, said to Qian Qi.

"Then it's not dangerous for you to stay on the city wall?" Qian Qi asked.

"Knock out that cannon of the thieves. Otherwise, we will be in more trouble if there is a gap in the wall. The gun commander said firmly.

At this time, it was not the time to be hypocritical, Qian Qi said, "Take care!" After that, he took all the soldiers on this section of the wall, except for the gunners, down the wall.

At this time, only more than 50 firecrackers of the Runing Army cooperated with more than 700 young men to defend the city wall, and the remaining 200 Runing soldiers lined up in a phalanx, waiting behind the city wall that was about to collapse, ready to block the charge of the camp.

When the artillery that broke into the camp appeared again, the artillery of the Runing Army, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately fired, and this time it finally hit the artillery that broke into the camp, and the artillery rolled and fell outside the city of Ningling County.

However, the artillery that broke into the camp also fired shells at the same time, and the shells also hit the crumbling city wall, causing the entire city wall to collapse at once, burying the two cannons on the city wall and the gunners of the Runing Army who were just about to cheer.

Immediately, a large gap of about five or six zhang long was revealed in this section of the city wall, and the soldiers who were observing the camp at the gate immediately shouted: "The city wall has fallen!" The walls are falling! (To be continued......)