The artillery battle continued, the return cannon had been destroyed three, the artillery staff saw the steam cannon on the city wall through the clairvoyant mirror, and hurriedly ordered to concentrate fire on the most threatening target ------ the opponent's cannon, the gunners nervously adjusted the gun mount, put iron bullets in the leather nest, a thousand gunners pulled the cannon cable, five huge iron balls broke through the air, the power was far greater than the stone bullets, but the accuracy of the return cannon was obviously not as good as the steam cannon, none of the five iron bullets hit, three of them crossed the city wall, Several houses in the city were smashed, and two more were smashed on the battlements, knocking down a city wall brick and wounding a dozen or so defenders of the city.

The owner of the Peng factory urgently ordered to load incendiary bombs to counterattack, but there was only one cannon, even if the accuracy was high, it could not withstand the attack of multiple return guns, and it was another round of shelling, and the steam cannon hit and destroyed one return cannon again, but it was also hit by an iron bullet.

The power of the return cannon is also huge, the iron ball is smashing on the cannon body, the steel cannon body suddenly flew up horizontally, and several artillery soldiers who were loading the ammunition next to them were shocked and flew up, and then the round cannon body rolled up on the city wall, pressing more than a dozen soldiers who could not dodge into a meatloaf.

Liu Ziguang's eyes were quick, he lifted the old man's back collar, plucked onions on dry land, and jumped directly, the cannon body continued to churn on the city wall, flattening everything along the way, until the strength decayed, it was already a blur of flesh and blood along the way, the steam pipe was also broken, the white high-temperature steam spewed from the fracture, and the air chamber of the cannon was also damaged, and it was unusable.

The owner of the Peng factory was shocked for a moment, and arched his hand at Liu Ziguang: "The old man owes you three lives, and this favor should be repaid." Liu Ziguang waved his hand: "It's easy, why worry about it." It's better to fix the cannon quickly. ”

The old man didn't say much, and checked the damage to the cannon, fortunately, the steel cannon was not too damaged, the air chamber made of brass was bent, the steam line was broken, and these were all in spare parts. He ordered people to quickly repair the cannon, and as soon as the fire was broken, the return cannon began to exert its power again, and the hollow north gate city wall was not as thick as the ordinary city wall, and several places had collapsed, and the crossbow inside was also buried.

The defensive firepower was weakened, and the small return artillery of the Qing people took the opportunity to shoot at close range, throwing stone bullets onto the city tower, smashing the archers to hide in Tibet, and the owner of the Peng factory hurriedly pulled Liu Ziguang to hide in the enemy tower.

The grain cart with the cover of the quilt approached the moat, and the infantry hiding in the car rushed out with a shout, put their shields on their heads, and threw them into the moat with sacks of soil in both hands, and the corpses that were shot down were also pushed into the river by the way, all for the siege of the city, the Qing Emperor gave a death order, those who retreated, beheaded!

The sack filling the river was too slow, an officer was in a hurry, ordered the soldiers to push the grain cart into the river, under the dense arrow feathers, the tenacious Qing infantry finally filled a section of the moat with the grain cart, crash car, sack, corpse, a tall chess player took out a big flag from the car, and unfolded the three big characters of "Jianrui Battalion" flashed under the dim gas lamp on the city wall.

The Jianrui Battalion is the ladder soldiers, the bravest and the most casualty rate. The soldiers took out the folding ladder from the car, and the sections were knotted to a sufficient length, and then a group of people carried them to the city wall, and some people used bows and arrows to catch the flying tiger and shoot it to the city, and climbed up along the rope, and the guards shot arrows desperately, but there were too many enemies, and several thousand teams were sent up one after another, and the city was densely packed with people, and the archers shot back at the city, and the small return cannons also kept firing shells, and the situation was very critical.

In order to avoid harming their own people, the return cannon has extended its trajectory and began to attack the buildings in the city, and fireballs and stone projectiles kept flying over the city walls, causing small fires and casualties in the city. At such a critical moment, the boiler under the city wall suddenly failed, the pipeline leaked, and the steam could not even use the crossbow, so the crossbowmen had to pick up their weapons and stab the Qing Cloud Ladder soldiers who were climbing the wall outside from the shooting port.

The shouts of killing shook the sky, and every few seconds there was the roar of artillery hitting the city, and locust-like arrows flew all over the sky. It would be nice to have rolling logs and stones, but the owner of the Peng factory despised weapons without technical content the most.

"Fetch the fire dragon." He ordered loudly, he didn't want to use such a cruel weapon. Soon a large copper pipe was pulled up the city wall, behind it was a soft leather pipe, connected to a large jar, there were a few people on the side with a pump like something to pressurize the jar, the soldiers holding the copper pipe in front of the standard below the sea of people, a person holding a torch close to the mouth of the pipe, someone behind pressed the switch, a fire dragon spewed out, it was an alcohol flamethrower, the city suddenly opened the pot, a sea of fire, extremely fierce, there were people in the city who kept pouring fierce fire oil down with a bucket, and smashed down with torches, and the fire spread, Many of the ladder soldiers were burned and jumped into the moat and drowned, and more people were covered in fire and bumped everywhere, which set more people on fire, and the smell of burnt human flesh spread.

Hell is simply hell, the cruelty of war shocked Liu Ziguang, it is simply slaughter, it is torture, but the essence of war is like this, if you want not to be slaughtered by others, you have to slaughter others.

The amount of alcohol was not much, but it was just a rescue and the spraying stopped. Boilers and steam cannons were urgently repaired, and the rickshaw crossbows in the storehouse were pulled up the walls, and this weapon did not rely on the steam engine to operate, but could be temporarily used as the main force.

Two chariots were parked by the city gate, ready to block the infantrymen swarming after the city gate was broken, many of the iron guards defending the city had been wounded or killed in battle, many workers climbed the city wall, continued to operate weapons to resist, this is their home, work and place to live, in case the city is broken, even if they are not slaughtered, the end of becoming a displaced person is very sad.

"It's a fortified city." The Qing Emperor sighed, but under the iron hooves of the Qing army, no matter how strong the city is, it will definitely fall. "They won't be able to hold on for long."

The drums sounded, this time it was five thousand infantry, and without any cover, they carried the ladder towards the city wall, and the road to the moat was clear, and now it was possible to capture the city even by relying on the tactics of the sea of people.

The emperor brought an army of 100,000, of which 20,000 were minfu, and 30,000 cavalry could not be used to attack the city, 5,000 artillery and its support troops, and the remaining 45,000 infantry had lost nearly 10,000 under the city, which was a very large number, and the first pass of the Southern Dynasty was so difficult to attack, even if it was captured, it was temporarily unable to go south.

The people on the city wall didn't know this, and Liu Ziguang didn't know, he only thought of his five hundred brothers, these people had no obligation to bury the iron factory, and they had no obligation to help the iron factory resist, but at this time, he abandoned the city and left, and he always felt a little awkward in his heart. People's hearts are always towards the weak, and looking at the iron factory that is in danger, I still can't help but want to help.

Liu Ziguang struggled fiercely in the enemy building, inadvertently looking at the north, and a strange fire suddenly appeared in the Qing State camp in the distance, not like a fire for lighting, but like someone deliberately set fire, he hurriedly grabbed a clairtelescope to watch, in the lens, there are some figures on horseback moving rapidly, everywhere they go, the fire spreads, and there are military engineering teams behind the enemy line in activities! Liu Ziguang couldn't help but be happy, he attached great importance to special operations, and he didn't know when this group of people was sent out.

The owner of the Peng factory also observed Liu Ziguang's appearance for a while, and his face was full of doubts. It doesn't seem to be the old man's faction.

Thinking about it, I saw that the ladder soldiers of the Qing Kingdom had appeared on the city wall, after these people climbed the city wall, they quickly took off the shield on their heads, brandished the machete, and slashed the defenders fiercely, Liu Ziguang secretly shouted badly, dropped the clairnel mirror and picked up the long knife and rushed out, there was a fierce battle at the head of the city, the ladder soldiers were all tough guys who were not afraid of death, and the iron guards and workers who defended the city did not dare to take half a step back, the two sides fought hand-to-hand together, no one shot arrows, the ladder soldiers under the city accelerated the speed of climbing the city, and gradually the Qing army on the head of the city increased, The banner of the Jianrui battalion also appeared on the city.

Liu Ziguang specially selected the fierce cloud ladder soldiers to start, and cut down more than a dozen people under the city in a company, but his speed of cutting people was not as fast as the speed of soldiers climbing cloud ladders, and the Qing army was more and more, which had formed a local advantage.

There was a chaotic footsteps under the city, reinforcements came, the slave army that had rested for a long time rushed up to the city from the horse road, the addition of five hundred fresh troops quickly changed the situation of the war, these brothers were full of food and drink, and also changed into a new new plate armor in the warehouse, holding the best military swords and guns produced by Lianfeng, the color changed greatly, as if it was an elite, the ladder soldiers were suppressed again, either hacked to death in the city, or fell under the city and fell into meatloaf, the banner of the Jianrui battalion was not planted in the city for a moment, it was thrown down. The ladder was also set on fire.

The addition of 500 fresh troops is also a palliative rather than a cure, the weapons to defend the city are consumed too quickly, many technical weapons have also failed one after another, and the new round of attacks of the Qing State continues to be launched almost without stopping, and the ant-like infantry numbly climbs the ladder, not caring about the companions who keep falling next to them.

The fire in the camp of the Qing Kingdom did not seem to cause any trouble, and the attack in front was not affected, but His Majesty the Emperor was extremely annoyed, and was actually mixed in and burned grain and grass.

The boiler pipes were finally repaired, the steam repeaters, which had been silent for a long time, once again exerted their power, the sharp whistle of the Katyusha sounded in the night sky, and in the face of the tide of infantry, there was only non-stop shooting and shooting, steam repeaters, bicycle crossbows, and hand-drawn bows and crossbows, harvesting life together.

The five Qing State thousand-man teams were disabled, and the moat is now really a river of blood, turning into red river water, not the dark red of the washing water, but the real blood red.

The steam cannons had not yet been repaired, so they had to be left to the reflex cannon to rage, the city was full of cries, many houses were destroyed, sporadic fires were countless, and the ironworks were in full force. There are more than 100,000 factory people, there are tens of thousands of people distributed in other businesses and branches, there are only 100,000 people here, half of them are family members, and there are 10,000 official iron guards, and the rebellion during the day killed 3,000 people, and the slaves also killed 300 people, and the backbone of the rebellion was imprisoned several hundred people, and only five or six thousand people can go into battle.

The retreating Qing ladder soldiers were shot by the supervision team, and the remaining thousands of people hid in the broken building car, dodging the bow and arrow behind the crash, the cloud ladder was gone, and they couldn't attack, and they were afraid of being killed by their own people when they retreated, so they were in a dilemma for a while.

The emperor was furious, he swore that after the city was broken, the whole city would be washed in blood, and five thousand people pressed up, and the technical weapons were almost exhausted, only relying on the tactics of cloud ladders and crowds, and the return artillery contracted the trajectory and continued to attack the city wall, and the five thousand infantry rushed up with a shout of the ladder, and the remnants of the soldiers gathered together, repeating the offensive of climbing the city.

The commander of the Peng factory continued to supply the fire oil and crossbow arrows, and the city had begun to demolish the houses, preparing to use the beams and bricks as rolling wood and stones. Anyway, it's going to be a bloody battle to the end.

The old man was directing the rolling logs to be sent to the city wall, when a soldier ran over and said, "Report to the ---- factory owner, a brigade of cavalry has been found outside the south gate!" ”