When the action was made on the river, the imperial army at the north gate and the west gate did not even have time to rest, so they rushed to the north and west city walls in a daze.

The newly built forts at the head of the city played a role, and one shell after another bombarded the dense and disorganized crowd of the imperial army, each cannon causing huge casualties; It's a pity that this can't stop the officers and soldiers from rushing to charge, because the number of forts is too small, these Franc cannons are still dismantled from some of the warships, and there are only a few days before and after for them to build the forts, and the four city walls in the southeast, north, west, and south of the city wall in order to prevent the warships on the river from rushing forward as the focus, there are only six sub-cannons, and only three or two on the other three sides have been built. Although such artillery fire is fierce, after all, it cannot form a large-scale bombardment, nor can it play a decisive role.

The imperial army soon attacked under the city wall, and the rebels at the head of the city shot arrows downwards and threw stones and woods, but these caused great casualties to the imperial army, and he suffered a great loss to Ma Ming, who attacked the west gate; Because of the light advance, his more than 20,000 men and horses did not even have a ladder to attack the city, and the focus of their attack at this moment was the city gate. More than 50 people carried a dozen felled trees tied together in a simple crash. Hit the city gate, and the remaining soldiers and horses used more than 30 cloud ladders made of temporary zuò to climb up the city wall, knowing that it was impossible to break through the west gate, but Ma Ming did this to maintain pressure on the west gate, so that the rebels could not send troops and horses to reinforce the north city wall, and Xu Tai's army at the north city wall had everything.

Xu Tai not only has a siege ladder, siege car rush, and even when the division of troops that day, he also asked for more than a dozen cannons and two rocket artillery, when the soldiers stormed the city wall, Xu Tai ordered people to gather all the artillery, pointed to the north city gate and ordered loudly: "Bomb me at the city gate, and see if his city gate is strong or my artillery is strong." ”

After a ferocious bombardment, no matter how thick the city gate was, it could not withstand the intensive fixed-point bombardment of this artillery fire, and half of the city gate and the city tower were collapsed, but Xu Tai was surprised to find that they still couldn't enter the city, because even if the city gate was shattered, the city gate hole under the entire city tower was actually stuffed with sandbags and stones, which was the last trick to defend the city: seal the city gate hole, and the city gate was part of the thickest and strongest city wall.

Xu Tai scolded, since this trick is useless, it is impossible to bombard the city wall, the city wall several zhang wide is not able to be stepped on by the artillery, and now he can only use stupid methods to climb the wall, and these artillery seems to be useless. So Xu Tai put his heart sideways, and ordered all the artillery to raise the muzzle of the cannon to bombard the city, Xu Tai can't control the life and death of the people in the city, he just wants to use this means to make the order in the city chaotic, so that the rebels in the city rush to the threat of falling from the sky, not to continuously transport materials to the city wall and organize reinforcements.

This may seem like a bit of a nonsense, but it does cause panic among the people of the city and the rebel soldiers. A dozen rocket artillery is dozens of shells, falling in the city will suddenly bombard the area within a radius of dozens of paces into scorched earth, although the mouth cannon is slightly inferior, but it is a cannon in the east and a cannon in the west with a sharp whistling sound, like a ghost asking for life everywhere, no one knows if the next moment will fall an iron lump around him, and then burst open, the iron balls and iron pieces inside all the thistle terrestris into their fragile body.

The people under the city who were forced to transport supplies up shrank on the ground one by one and held their heads and refused to move, no matter how the rebel soldiers beat and scolded them, they refused to get up, and a rebel general was furious and drew his knife to cut people, just straightened up, and a cannonball exploded not far away, and the rebel general stiffened and screamed. Everyone looked in horror, and it turned out that there were several bloody holes in the back of his heart, which had been hit by a steel pillar that had been blown open by a cannonball.

As a result, even the rebel soldiers who supervised the transportation of supplies were frightened.

The stones and sasswoods on the north city were quickly used up, but they could not be replenished, and the nearly 10,000 rebel soldiers guarding the city wall suddenly found that they could only watch the officers and soldiers climb above the city wall, and could only greet them with knives and guns at a distance within reach, which was absolutely impossible to prevent them from climbing to the top of the city.

After a short stalemate, the figures of officers and soldiers appeared on the north city wall, one by two, one and two, and when more than a dozen places were broken through, it was like a blowout, and the officers and soldiers who had been suppressed for nearly half an hour appeared on the city. After paying the price of nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses, Xu Tai used brute force to break through the northern city wall.

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The battle on the river soon turned into a pursuit battle, the total number of warships was dominant, the number of firearms on both sides was not proportional, and Mao Shiba's command made up for many deficiencies of officers and soldiers in the water battle, the most important thing was the disparity in morale between the two sides, and the battle situation became a one-sided situation.

The artillery battle between the two sides from a medium and long distance quickly evolved into close bow and arrow shooting and hand-to-hand combat, which was the strength of the troops and horses led by Song Nan. Although Jiang Bin couldn't even swim in the water, he fought as fiercely on the boat as on land, and when he approached, two of his boats were sunk by the concentrated artillery fire of the rebels, and the rest all rushed into the camp of enemy warships.

Jiang Bin's battle on the ship had a simple routine, when approaching each warship, it was Jiang Bin who jumped across the water between the two ships, taking the lead in disrupting the formation of rebel soldiers with bows and crossbows on the opponent's deck, and then jumping up one after another, until the entire ship of the rebels was slaughtered. Jiang Bin also paid the price for this, the soldiers were killed and wounded hundreds, and he himself was hit by a crossbow arrow on each shoulder, and he didn't care to pull it out, but it was as if there were two flags on one side of his shoulder, which looked majestic and murderous. It was his fierce and fearless tactics of charging into battle on land that made several rebel ships become unmanned ghost ships, because all the rebels on board were killed by him and others.

Wang Yong and Li Daniu's tactics are another way, hundreds of Jinyi guards who followed Wang Yong and Li Daniu sat on two warships, but their battle was not hand-to-hand, when they entered the range of firearms, the guards on both ships fired at the same time, and the rebels on the other deck instantly cut off a stubble like a leek, and then lay on the deck and began to change ammunition. Then he gave the order to get up and fire. Although it was not as fierce as Jiang Bin's tactics, it saved his life to the greatest extent.

Jiang Bin and Wang Yong are like two-stirring sticks, making the rebel warships miserable, and because of this, the frontal Mao 18 warships were able to quickly approach the opponent's formation, and the rebels were defeated at the first touch, and soon turned into a pursuit and killing battle on the river, shortly after the North City Gate was broken, more than 20 rebel ships sank, seven or eight became ghost ships, and the remaining dozens of ships had no intention of fighting, and they pulled up the white flag and surrendered.

Song Nan ordered all the ships to turn their bows and aim at the south city gate, and the artillery fire of the black hole hole was aimed at it in unison.

Upstairs in Nancheng, Zhu Chenhao was still beating the drum vigorously to cheer for the soldiers on the river, but his drum beat became weaker and weaker, and finally he didn't have the heart to beat the drum at all.

"It's over, it's all over." Zhu Chenhao sighed in a trembling voice.

"Your Majesty, we still have the city wall and the fort, they can't attack it." Liu Yangzheng cheered Zhu Chenhao with a white face.

"Report ......! The North City is broken! A soldier rushed forward to report.

"Huh?" Everyone gasped. Liu Yangzheng shouted loudly: "Wang Lun, quickly bring people to reinforcements, recapture Beicheng, recapture Beicheng." ”

Wang Lun licked his lips and said, "Where did the soldiers and horses come from?" More than 10,000 soldiers and horses on the river are gone, more than 10,000 in the north seem to be gone, more than 10,000 in the west, and more than 10,000 here. ”

Liu Yangzheng shouted: "You are the secretary of the military department, no matter what, you must get soldiers and horses, once the northern city is broken, what is the use of the other city walls?" ”

Wang Lun sighed: "Liu Yangzheng, do you think it's still useful?" ”

Liu Yangzheng glared and said, "Why is it useless?" What do you mean? ”

Wang Lun looked at Zhu Chenhao, who was standing dumbly, and said softly: "Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent, he has failed to assist you in completing the great cause, and today's affairs are no longer able to return to the sky, the emperor should take care of himself, the minister will take a step first, and be a monarch and minister in the underworld." ”

Zhu Chenhao was silent, without saying half a point, Wang Lun sighed in a low voice, raised his feet and stepped on the battlements, jumped off the city wall, snapped, fell on the gravel by the river under the city, and fell into a mess of mud.

Liu Yang's face was like ashes, and he cursed again and again in his mouth: "This coward, he actually abandoned the emperor at a critical time, the emperor!" Emperor! You don't have to worry, the minister personally led people to retake the northern city. ”

Zhu Chenhao said in a low voice: "Where are the coffins of the old lady and the concubine parked?" ”

Liu Yangzheng stammered: "Park in the Huiming Temple in the city, your ......, Your Majesty."

Zhu Chenhao raised his feet and left, stepped down from the city tower with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and muttered in his mouth: "I ...... I...... I'm going to see them, I can't stop them, I'm going. ”

Liu Yangzheng wanted to follow, but changed his mind, ordered his guards to follow Zhu Chenhao to protect him, jumped on the top of a fort and said loudly: "Brothers, don't be afraid, it will be fine, the walls of Anqing Mansion are strong, we still have a fort to defend, the soldiers and horses of the eastern city have gone to reinforce the northern city, it is easy to repel their attack, we just need to hold on to the southern city, don't be afraid of the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, they are all paper tigers......"

"Ho-ho-ho." A strange howling sound sounded from the surface of the river, and the heat wave carried by the cannonballs in the air hit the ears and eyes, and the rebel soldiers at the head of the city subconsciously shrank their heads to dodge.

After the smoke and dust, some people were shocked to find that Liu Yangzheng, who was standing on the fort, was gone, and was replaced by a piece of flesh and blood that exploded in mid-air. A large number of heads, arms, legs, minced meat, and intestines rained down like a rain of flowers, and they fell to the head of the city.

History: Zhu Chenhao's rebel army commander Liu Yang was hit by a stray bullet for Mrs. Song's cannon at the head of Anqing City, and there were no bones.