Chapter 579: Urn City
Time pulled back to the previous moment, Zhao Zhilong led his subordinates to rush into the urn city, but there was a city gate in front of him blocking the way into the city. The length and width of the Sanshanmen urn city are about ten zhang in length, and there is no problem in including hundreds of defeated soldiers, but within the four high walls, no matter how bold you are, you will feel panicked.
"Please also ask Governor Hong to order the inner door to be opened, and let me wait to enter the city to rest." Zhao Zhilong shouted at the city, with a hint of fear in his voice.
"Governor Hong invites Uncle Yicheng to meet at the head of the city." On the city wall, Zhao Yin shouted loudly.
There is a horse road leading directly to the city wall in the urn city, but looking at the steep city road steps, Zhao Zhilong didn't want to go up to see Hong Chengchou at all. But now, I'm afraid it's useless, so he hesitated and got off his horse.
"Uncle, let's attack directly along the horse road!" Zhao Jian, the captain of the family next to him, said in a low voice.
"You take a few martial arts masters to go up with me, and the others wait below first, and rush up after listening to my greeting!" Zhao Zhilong thought for a moment and commanded in a low voice. Now, I'm afraid it's useless, so I can only do it hard.
Even if Hong Chengchou doesn't know that he opened the city gate now, he can't hide much, it is better to take advantage of this time to kill one of them, as long as he can support it for a while, the army of anti-thieves outside the city will kill the urn city, and then attack the city wall along the city road.
"Please go to the city alone, and the others will rest in the urn city first." When Zhao Zhilong was about to enter the city with a dozen or so family members, there were shouts from the city.
Leaving yourself alone in the city? Zhao Zhilong was stunned for a moment, and he already realized that something was wrong, this was clearly the rhythm of separating himself from his subordinates. If you go up to the city wall alone, you can only be slaughtered by others!
"Rush up and take the city!" Now, Zhao Zhilong no longer hesitated, and ordered sharply.
Following his order, Zhao Jian and his family immediately rushed to the city.
"Zhao Zhilong, are you going to rebel?" At the head of the city, Hong Chengchou's voice came coldly.
"Fart, it's not Lao Tzu who rebelled, Lao Tzu was forced to rebel by you traitors!" Zhao Zhilong no longer cared about anything else, and sneered at the city, "Hong Chengchou, since you arrived in Nanjing, you have been squeezing out our noble generals in many ways, and today Lao Tzu will settle accounts with you!" ”
"It's up to you!" Hong Chengchou smiled coldly and gave the order directly:
"Release!"
As soon as the words fell, a platoon of musketeers rushed to the top of the city road and pulled the trigger at the families who had entered the city below.
"Bang bang bang", there was a bang, and the families who were attacking the city wall fell one by one.
"Impossible!" Zhao Zhilong's eyes widened, this is night, and he can't see clearly by torch lighting, how did the firecrackers in the city load gunpowder projectiles?
According to Zhao Zhilong's experience, it is very troublesome to reload gunpowder projectiles, and if the gunpowder is less loaded, it will not work, and if it is loaded too much, there will be a danger of exploding, so the firecracker soldiers at night cannot play much role at all, which is why he dares to send his family to seize the city. Because all of his family members are well-equipped and skilled in martial arts! Hong Chengchou's standard battalion soldiers have strong firepower, but their hand-to-hand combat ability may not be comparable to that of his carefully cultivated family!
Yes, it should be a pre-loaded firecracker, Zhao Zhilong reacted quickly, and hurriedly shouted at his subordinates: "If they let go of the firecracker, it will be gone, and there is no gunpowder in the dark sky, everyone continue to rush!" ”
"Kill!" Zhao Peng shouted and personally led the team to rush to the city.
"Bang bang bang" another row of firebolts rang out, and five or six more family members were shot dead on the road to the city, and the family members' offensive was stalled.
"Rush up, as long as you kill the head of the city, everyone will be rewarded!" Zhao Zhilong shouted loudly.
Zhao Zhilong, who served as a garrison in Nanjing, ate empty salaries and drank the blood of soldiers and greedy countless money and food, and only raised these 200 people, but in terms of combat effectiveness and will to fight, these families are not comparable to ordinary military soldiers. Although more than a dozen were killed by two rounds of firearms, the others were still climbing up the city road under Zhao Zilong's orders.
"Kill it, take the Three Mountain Gate, and reward each person with a hundred taels of silver!" Zhao Zhilong shouted hoarsely, encouraging his subordinates to rush to the city wall.
Maybe it was really as he expected, the soldiers in the city were filled in advance, and the sound of the guns did not sound for a while, until the family members were about to rush to the city wall, and then another round of guns sounded, shooting at close range, and the family members who rushed in front fell down one piece, and the corpses rolled down the city road, but it blocked the way for the follow-up family members to enter the city.
"The Jingnan army has already come, everyone continues to rush, rush up and win!" Zhao Zhilong roared loudly.
Standing in the middle of the urn city, he had already seen through the open city gate, and he had already seen the anti-thieves of the brigade holding torches and rushing to the suspension bridge on the Qinhuai River.
The family members rushed to the death, maybe the defenders on the city wall had really been emptied, and this time they didn't sound again until they were about to rush to the top, which greatly boosted the morale of the family members.
"Kill!" Zhao Peng roared, stepped on the corpse of a companion, and killed on the city wall, but at this moment, more than a dozen spears stabbed him, Zhao Peng desperately blocked with the steel knife in his hand, but was still stabbed by several spears, one of which happened to pierce his abdomen from the crack in the armor, Zhao Peng felt a sharp pain, and the strength in his body disappeared at once.
Two rows of Praetorian Guard gunmen firmly blocked the top of the city road steps, condescending to stab desperately at the family members who ascended the city, including Zhao Peng, five or six family members were quickly stabbed to death, and the other family members hesitated, looking at the city wall close at hand, they didn't dare to attack again.
"Chong, kill the city wall, and each person will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, all of whom will be appointed as a hundred households!" Zhao Zhilong shouted and ordered his subordinates to continue the attack. However, after a few rounds, more than 20 family members have been killed, and one-tenth of the casualties are enough to stop the other family members.
In this case, if Zhao Zhilong personally led the team to rush into battle, he might be able to fight, but Zhao Zhilong is used to being pampered, where is he willing to personally lead the team to fight?
More than 100 families were crowded on the city road, not up or down, and the defenders on the city wall did not even counterattack, and the situation was so stagnant in an instant. However, at this moment, Xu Fuzuo finally led the soldiers to rush into the urn city.
"Why didn't the inner gate come down?" Looking at the routed soldiers crowded in the urn city, Xu Fuyu roared at Zhao Zhilong. Hearing the sound of fighting, he thought that Zhao Zhilong had completely taken the city gate, so he quickly brought troops to support, but he didn't expect the inner city gate to be closed.
"There are not many defenders of Sanshanmen, as long as they can attack the city wall, they can take Sanshanmen!" Zhao Zhilong pointed to the city and shouted.
Xu Fuzuo's face was dark, he would be attacked by the defenders on all sides of the city wall in the urn city, how could it be possible to attack the urn city along the city road?
"Hong Chengchou is on the city, as long as he attacks the city wall, he can kill Hong Chengchou, and Nanjing City can be completely taken!"
Just as Xu Fuzuo was about to give the order to retreat, Zhao Zhilong shouted again, and Xu Fuzuo stopped all of a sudden.