Chapter 170: A Bloody Victory
"That girl said she would come back, she made me worry a lot more than you......" Uncle Li glanced at Wei Ergou, and sneered at Wei Ergou's worries.
Hearing Uncle Li say that Lu Linger is not dead, Yang Yi's heart feels a little better, but the worries and thoughts in his heart still linger, and even surpasses how he returned to his own era, however, what Uncle Li said is not unreasonable, the six hexagrams are not omnipotent, it is impossible to accurately lock Lu Linger's location like GPS positioning, and can only look for opportunities to go to the Taiping Army to inquire about some available information.
The book is brief, the news of Uncle Li's return to Cangzhou City spread far and wide, and there were countless good men and women who came to the inn that night to take Uncle Li home to be raised, which made Uncle Li speak dryly, so he persuaded those fans to go back.
After such a toss, Li Shu'er, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were all tired, and they fell asleep until the third pole of the sun, when they suddenly heard a series of cannons outside, and the street was also full of people, as if something big had happened.
Uncle Li got up and went out, and when he saw that the guys in the store were about to go out with scimitars and iron axes one by one, he asked, "What are you going to do here?" ”
As soon as those guys saw Uncle Li's question, they quickly turned around and replied respectfully: "Back to the old immortals, those long hairs are attacking the city again, and our brothers are going up to the city tower to help defend it." ”
"Oh......" Uncle Li groaned slightly, waved his hand, and let those guys go.
At this moment, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou also walked out, and when they saw Uncle Li standing there in a daze, they asked, "Uncle, what's wrong, I'm here early in the morning, sleepwalking, hehe"
"Roll the calf," Uncle Li glanced at Wei Ergou, who was not long-hearted, pondered for a while, and said, "Let's go, follow me to the city tower and see the battle situation." ”
Yang Yi and Wei Ergou are both from modern times, and they have played a lot of war online games, but this kind of real, flesh-and-blood cold weapon mixed war scene is the first time they have experienced it, and it is fake to say that they are not curious, so when they heard that Li Shu'er was going to take them to open their eyes, they were immediately overjoyed, and they hurriedly followed Li Shu'er downstairs.
When I got out of the inn, I saw that the street that should have been lively was full of soldiers and brave regiments who were shuttling and running, and everyone with guns and knives was nervous.
Li Shu'er, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou stood on the side of the road, watching those soldiers hurrying by, and after watching for a while, Li Shu'er led Yang Yi and Wei Ergou to the city tower with ease.
As soon as I arrived at the female wall of the city tower, I saw Shen Ruchao, who was covered in gunsmoke, and a man in uniform walked down from the brick ladder of the city tower, and when he looked up, he saw that Uncle Li was also coming, Shen Ruchao hurriedly gave a salute and said: "Why is the old fairy here, the guns and stones are flying sideways here, it is very dangerous, and the old fairy is better to go back." ”
"Hehe, I know that the state pro-risked the arrows and stones, charging forward and not afraid of death, the real person is a half-immortal body, and I am afraid that the iron will not succeed, so it is okay, the Lord Zhizhou is busy with military affairs, just go and be busy, the real person wants to see what kind of characters those long hairs are, so fierce and not afraid of death." When Li Shu'er saw that Shen Ruchao and the man behind him were all anxious, he realized that the battle must be hard, and he didn't want to delay their time, so he took Yang Yi and Wei Ergou to the city tower on the brick ladder.
Seeing that Uncle Li insisted on going, Shen Ruchao didn't dare to stop him, so he looked at the man behind him and said: "General Decheng, then you accompany the old fairy to the city tower to watch the enemy plunder, be careful, don't let the old fairy have a mistake in the golden body, remember to remember!" ”
The man who was called General Decheng hugged his fist at Shen Ruchao: "Decheng leads Jun's life." Immediately, he slapped a thousand on one leg at Uncle Li, and said with a humble expression: "Cangzhou garrison Captain Decheng sees Old Immortal Li." ”
"Oh, it turned out to be General Captain Decheng of Shen Zhizhou, who was disrespectful and disrespectful." Only then did Uncle Li know that this rough-looking man was Cangzhou City Garrison Lieutenant Decheng, so he couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and said polite words in his mouth.
"Old immortal, the military situation is urgent, so I will go back to the yamen to urge the gunpowder lead." Listening to the continuous rumbling sound of cannons in his ears, Shen Ruchao's forehead sweated like rain, and he waved at Uncle Li again, and left in a hurry.
Accompanied by the garrison of Wei Decheng, as soon as Li Shu'er and his entourage went up to the city tower, they were almost hit by countless broken bricks and stones, but fortunately, the garrison of Wei Decheng found three rattan cards from nowhere, and handed them over to Yang Yi and Wei Ergou on both sides to protect themselves, and he held a rattan card to cover the broken bricks and stones for Li Shu'er.
At this time, there were nearly 1,000 green battalion soldiers and regimental training village warriors wrapped in white cloth on the city tower, hiding behind the shooting holes of the arrow stacks of the city tower one by one, setting up bird guns, and fighting back at the city.
Yang Yi and Wei Ergou carefully observed the shotguns of those green battalion soldiers and regimental training villagers, and they were still rough smoothbore fire-type huo guns, and after a shot, they hurriedly stepped back and poured gunpowder and lead into it with a funnel-shaped container along the muzzle, and another soldier who was squatting behind made up for it and fired a shot, replacing it front and back, the rate of fire was extremely slow, and it could not constitute an effective fire suppression for the Taiping soldiers who were obviously superior in numbers below, so they were pressed by the lead swarming from below and couldn't raise their heads.
Seeing that the lead and gravel on the city tower were like meteorites, Li Shu'er didn't dare to hold it up anymore, bent down, and through the shooting hole, he saw that across the moat, the Taiping soldiers on the opposite side set up dozens of iron cannons, and were methodically bombarding the city wall of Cangzhou City with cannons, every solid cannonball hit the city wall, it would cause a terrible tremor, and those broken bricks that were hit in all directions caused secondary damage to the green battalion soldiers and regimental training Xingyong who defended the city, but compared to the Taiping army's artillery deterrence, it was more terrifying. It was still the psychological blow that those green battalion soldiers and regimental training Xingyong inflicted on their psychology after seeing the tragic situation of their comrades bleeding and wailing to death after being hit.
Looking at the tragic picture, Uncle Li really didn't know what method Shen Ruchao used to make these green battalion soldiers and regimental training braves who were originally just ordinary villagers look at death like home, and fight against the tens of thousands of tigers and wolves under the city with an iron will.
With questions, Li Shu'er leaned down and walked in the direction of other arrow stacks, during which Yang Yi and Wei Ergou discovered a very interesting phenomenon, that is, some regimental exercises used the two-meter-long lifting gun in their hands as a sniper rifle, using the characteristics of the length of the gun and the full charge of the gun, specifically shooting the artillery of the Taiping Army on the opposite side, and it was ten rounds of two or three hits, according to the standard of the original firearm that has neither a crosshair nor rifling, the hit rate is already quite high.
Of course, although the green battalion soldiers and regimental training village warriors in the city resisted tenaciously, the Taiping soldiers besieging the city below were numerous, and there were mountain splitting cannons as cover, so with the extension of time, the number of casualties among the green battalion soldiers and regimental training township warriors continued to increase, and the firepower gradually weakened.
When they arrived at the moat, the Taiping soldiers put a bamboo ladder that looked like a long centipede across the moat, and the large group of men and horses climbed across the moat along the bamboo ladder and rushed straight down the city.
Seeing that hundreds of Taiping troops had crossed the moat, the green battalion soldiers and regimental training villagers in the city concentrated their firepower and fired at the Taiping soldiers who had not yet crossed the river.
Li Shu'er, Yang Yi, and Wei Ergou didn't understand what the green battalion soldiers and the regimental training villagers were going to do, and when they turned around, they found that the garrison Decheng was gone, and they were wondering, and they heard the shouting and killing sound downstairs like a heat wave, Li Shu'er They looked down from the gap between the arrow buttress and the arrow buttress, and saw that Wei Decheng was bare-chested, revealing a black piece of tendon meat, holding a powerful nine-ring ghost head knife, leading a group of sturdy men who also exposed their right arms and tied black scarves on their heads, shouting and rushing out of the city gate, Plunge straight at the isolated Taiping soldiers.
As soon as they saw the gate of Cangzhou City open, killing a group of new forces like evil ghosts, those Taiping soldiers shrank their forces after a little hesitation, hundreds of soldiers gathered together, and the soldiers with firearms squatted on the periphery, raised their guns and shot at Wei Decheng and their platoon of guns.
A burst of white smoke flashed, and more than a dozen sturdy men fell to the ground and died, but the other men ignored the fallen companions beside them, and continued to shout and rush towards the Taiping soldiers.
At this time, the Huo spearmen in the Taiping army formation quickly retreated into the ranks, and the Taiping soldiers with swords inside rushed out and began to engage in a white-knuckle battle with the defenders of Cangzhou City who had already rushed in front of them.
I saw two teams of people and horses of the same ancestor and ancestor staggered together, treating each other as enemies who killed their fathers and fathers, competing with the blades in their hands to look at each other's weakest vital parts, and the swords flashed, and the dirty blood was splashed everywhere. The stumps flew sideways, and the snow-capped ground was soon stained with blood into a dazzling scarlet, that kind of bewitching red, and the morning glow that Li Shu'er pointed out to Zhu Xiyan that day, it was so godlike, it made people palpitate.
"The 5,000-year history of China is actually a history of self-slaughter and self-extermination, look at these soldiers, who do not resist those foreign devils who dominate our land and bully our people, but fight with their lives here, why do they come, and what is the value, I think my Chinese vitality is exhausted and collapsed in this kind of internal strife, hey!" Looking at the tragic fighting scene under the city, Uncle Li'er turned pale and sighed.
In the meantime, the white-knuckle battle under the city has come to an end, most of the Taiping army was annihilated, and the remnants of the soldiers began to cover alternately to retreat in the direction of the moat, and the men led by Wei Decheng were also more than half of the casualties, and they didn't even have the ability to pursue, seeing that the Taiping soldiers had fled, they also staggered back to the city gate.