The prosperous Luoyang fell into the chaos of war, the people in the city were panicked, closed their doors, and the family hugged together, listening to the faint sound of cannons and fighting, and waited for the dawn.

The streets and alleys were full of Mongolian defenders, at this time it was the Han army and the new annexed army, and they all joined the queue, some people took refuge in Guo Dongjia, some people attached themselves to the thousands of households who had the heart to surrender early, and some people chose to take off their damn military uniforms, and fled far away, and they no longer wanted to eat this bowl of head-killing rice.

A simple gibberish word, can no longer describe Luoyang at this time, although Guo Dongjia is a Han Chinese, but in the early years of Liaodong has been working hard, and there is not much cultural literacy, since he wants to create chaos, he asked his brothers to pick those famous buildings to burn, many places of interest and historic sites have been burned, which has to be regretted.

Many generals of the Mongol defenders also reacted, and at this time they also temporarily gave up the fight and chose to fight with the same enemy, so that tens of thousands of defenders surged towards the city gate one after another, converging into a black torrent!

The rebels have completely captured the city, but this also gives the Mongols a chance to fight back!

The Fran cannon was placed outside the city, so it was unlikely that it would be hoisted on the head of the city, and it was not very useful, but many of the Mongol return guns were not carried to the head of the city.

Although Guo Dongjia lit the powder magazine, there are still a lot of reserves in the city!

At this time, the guards decisively abandoned the city, but piled up sandbags and barricades such as the horse deer village behind the city gate, and carried out all the return cannons and erected them to the front, and soon established a new line of defense!

The rebels who landed in the city were too conspicuous, and they instantly became the preferred target of the return artillery!

"Ignition!

Although the return cannon is very likely to blow the city gate to pieces, the guards can no longer care about this, the city gate and the city wall have lost the value and significance of defense, and the real defense line is the one they built at this time!

As the guard gave the order, the herald waved the flag, blew the horn, beat the war drum, and as soon as the drum sounded, the gunners lit the fuse of the tail of the cannon!

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The stone-polished shells exploded out of the barrel, could not withstand the strong pressure, and would explode into fragments in the sky, although the power of the stray bullet was not very large, but the killing range was extremely wide, many of the rebels were blinded on the spot, and some people were shot in key parts, and they fell to the ground and died!

There are even people who were directly hit by shells, and their flesh and blood were blurred, but they were still lingering on the ground, suffering a lot of pain!

The defenders' family background is very deep, even if the powder magazine is blown up, there are dozens of return cannons under the city, and most of the defensive equipment such as artillery and bed crossbows at the other seven or eight city gates are also carried here!

The rebels were simply a live target at the head of the city, and the rebels were desperate, and the flow of people was too dense, so the return cannon and the flying spear assault musket, and even the earth-shaking thunder and other firearms did not need to be aimed at all, and they could create a large-scale and large-scale killing effect!

I thought that breaking through the city gate was equivalent to breaking through Luoyang, but at this time, the rebels found that breaking through the city gate was like opening the cage of the tiger!

Earlier, he thought about taking the initiative to go out of the city to meet the enemy and not accept the siege of the rebels, after all, he was such an arrogant Mongolian general.

But because of the appearance of the Fran cannon, his battle plan was completely disrupted, and later, he was killed by Zong Yun, and the defenders could only nest in Luoyang City, but now it is for the rebels to open a way!

If the city gate is opened, the rebels pour in in large numbers, and there may be a chance of victory, but the defenders are looking at the city gate and arching the city gate with a return cannon, the rebels cannot approach, they can only pass through the city wall, and the outside has begun to arrange a crash, but it has not been able to break the impregnable gate of Luoyang City for a while!

Once the rebels retreat from the city, the defenders will reoccupy it, and all the sacrifices tonight will be in vain!

With the continuous reinforcement of the defenders, the situation became more severe, and the defenders found that the rebels were hitting the city gate, and immediately under the cover of artillery fire, let the Han army and the new annexed army risk death to guard the city gate, carrying sandbags and other heavy objects that could be used, almost blocking the entire city gate!

The city gate is divided into the outer gate and the inner gate, and between the two gates is the gate hole, and above the gate hole is the city wall.

When the rebels hit the outer city gate, the defenders fired cannons frantically, and then covered those cannon fodder Han troops and new annexed troops, let them open the inner city gate, and blocked the entire door hole with sandbags and other objects!

As a result, if the rebels wanted to enter the city, they could only continue to erect a large number of ladders, and even pile up a slope of Yuliang Road with enemy corpses and sand outside the city.

It was only the defenders who had artillery attacks, and the rebels who climbed to the top of the city suffered heavy casualties and had to temporarily slow down the offensive.

The defender generals calmed down from the panic, and one response after another began to be released, the defense line behind the city gate became stronger and stronger, the number of defenders increased, and the possibility of the rebels capturing Luoyang was also decreasing!

In order to build this line of defense, the defenders began to organize manpower to cleanse the rebels and fine work in the city, and then let the Han army and the new annex army mobilize defensive equipment and materials from the other nine city gates on three sides, and build the new defense line of the south city gate airtight!

What should I do? The suzerain is still in the city, and there is a stalemate at this time, if you wait until dawn, the defenders' counterattack will definitely be more fierce, but I am afraid that it will fall short!

Liu Hanchao, Zheng Gongyu and others took the lead, they climbed to the top of the city, braved the enemy's artillery fire, and saw the enemy's layout clearly by the light of the skyrocketing fire, but the means of dealing with it were really limited.

Even if you go out to check the enemy's situation, it's not an easy thing.

Because the defenders were too numerous, they fired their bows and crossbows in unison, and the whole city was baptized by artillery fire and arrow rain, but all the rebels who came up were shot and killed, and could only cower behind the battlements.

The battlements of the inner wall are shorter than the outer wall, and they are not as strong as the outer wall, and under the bombardment of artillery fire, there are fewer and fewer things that can be used as shelters.

"How is it good?" Zheng Gongyu and the others couldn't help but ask Liu Hanchao, because when Zong Yun left, he had already handed over the command to Liu Hanchao.

Liu Hanchao was originally a general, with a deep family history, familiar with the art of war, and followed Song Ci for more than ten years, and then followed Yang Jing to the southwest and Dali to win a few battles.

Later, in the battles with An Fengjun and others, as well as dozens of battles of Zongyun's righteous army, Liu Hanchao had great military exploits, both had enough ability and prestige, but he was tired of winning the army, and they all obeyed Liu Hanchao.

When Liu Hanchao joined the army, he was like a fish in water, he couldn't be at ease, and the woodenness and silence in Pingsuli were gone, but he became more calm and steady.

He scanned the battlefield, his eyes focused on the defenders' return cannons and archers' phalanx, long-range strikes were now the most important and only means of the defenders, and they could never give up long-range shooting and rush up to hand-to-hand combat.

Furlong cannons and other large ordnance could not be transported to the city, and the crossbowmen who had been mobilized earlier could not withstand the cleaning of artillery fire and arrows.

Because the crossbowman needs to use a three-stage attack to ensure the frequency of the attack, and the archer arm strength is also limited, it is impossible to stand and shoot arrows constantly, and also need to dodge the attacks of the defenders.

It was the crossbowmen who worked for a while, but instead of shooting the gunners and archers of the defenders, they broke a lot of people.

Liu Hanchao also asked the amazing wrestlers to ignite and throw bombs such as earth-shattering thunder into the city, wanting to blow up those return cannons and disperse the defenders' archer phalanx.

But the defender is not a fool, when setting up the second line of defense, the range has already been calculated, under this range, ordinary hard bows can not cause effective damage at all, but the opponent's return cannon can do it!

If you want to throw explosives such as sky-shaking thunder into the enemy formation, only people with natural divine power such as Liu Hanchao and Chang Shenyue, or martial arts masters such as Zong Yun and Dong Shangzhi, can do it.

Just relying on Liu Hanchao alone, how many earth-shattering thunders can be thrown?

With the cover of the return artillery, the defenders' phalanx of archers could safely fire at the head of the city within range.

And the crossbowmen of the rebel army made it impossible to lift their heads under the pressure of the artillery, and it was impossible to clean up the archers of the defenders.

Faced with such a stalemate, Liu Hanchao finally gritted his teeth and ordered Yu Cheng: "Transfer the dozen or so snipers from the Shenhuo Battalion, and then let the big shield phalanx protect them!"

"Snipers, but the deputy sect master instructed Lin Jue to steal a dozen shotgunners from the Imperial Court Divine Fire Camp?"

Zheng Gongyu and others also hesitated, those gunners, known as the sniper gunner sect leader in the rebel army, came to train musketeers for the rebel army.

It's just that at present, the musket battalion of the rebel army has not yet been established, and the manufacture of muskets has just started, and there is no finished product, so naturally it is not equipped in the hands of the rebels.

The dozen or so shotgun sect leaders were stolen from the imperial court by the deputy sect leader Yang Benchu, and they were treated with courtesy among the rebels, and the guns on their bodies were also brought by themselves, but were they willing to die for the rebels?

In the face of the enemy's artillery and arrow rain, what did these dozen snipers do?

Although I am very skeptical in my heart, but the current situation is deadlocked, if the deadlock cannot be broken as soon as possible, the defeat can only be the righteous army!

So Yu Cheng no longer hesitated, and immediately let people arrange it.

After a while, the dozen or so snipers did indeed reach the top of the city, hiding behind the phalanx of large shields, each carrying a sleek, sturdy iron pipe and wooden-handled musket.

It is said that this is the master craftsman group of the deputy sect master, and the self-fired musket presented to the imperial court, what is the old sleeve.

At this time, all the muskets are front-filled arquebuses, the probability of dumb fire and explosion is extremely high, the accuracy is very low, the power is not large, the deterrent effect is greater than the lethal effect, of course, if it is a close-range bombardment, the lethality is still very considerable.

But at this time, the musket was just in its infancy, and no one knew how to install a bayonet on the musket, and the concept of installing a bayonet would not appear until many, many years later.

Therefore, in hand-to-hand combat, the gunners had no chance of winning at all, which is why the imperial court would be so reluctant to see muskets.

But because of the new musket offered by the deputy sect master, the imperial court has begun to form a divine fire battalion, mass-produce this kind of musket, and train a large number of musketeers, which shows that this new musket of the deputy sect master is definitely a good thing!

The tap musket is a flintlock pistol, and it does not need to be ignited with a fire rope, of course, they did not expect that Yang Jing's old sleeve, not with flint, but with a primer, is a more advanced thing, which is simply an epoch-making product!

Zheng Gongyu and the others still questioned, but the dozen or so sniper gunners were calm and relaxed, and soon they were in place.

"Brothers, kill all those gunners!" Liu Hanchao pointed to the defenders who operated the return cannon and ordered the snipers!